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drac0blade Since: Jan, 2015
#39676: Oct 3rd 2016 at 2:26:28 PM

The "Beauty" part is interesting, especially since Yang is cannonly supposed to be Goldilocks.

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#39677: Oct 3rd 2016 at 2:34:00 PM

...I guess I can see it but it's pretty paper-thin. Like, she has blonde hair and in season three they established that she ran away to a house full of Grimm that one time and nearly got gobbled up for her trouble.

Ruby's Little Red Riding Hood, Weiss's Snow White, and Blake's Beauty & the Beast motifs are a bit clearer. This might be because Yang doesn't get a lot of development. She doesn't really have a plot of her own. I mean, she sorta does with her missing mom but that gets very little narrative focus. She mostly just shows up to be awesome and win fights.

Which shouldn't be a surprise, given that her theme, "I Burn" outright calls her a Super Saiyan. tongue

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#39678: Oct 3rd 2016 at 2:43:04 PM

Surprisingly the comments aren't full to bursting with Harambe memes.

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#39679: Oct 3rd 2016 at 2:52:48 PM

clearly this must be changed

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#39680: Oct 3rd 2016 at 2:58:54 PM

There are some, actually. You just to need to look closer.

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#39681: Oct 3rd 2016 at 2:59:52 PM

War of the Planet of the Grimm.

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drac0blade Since: Jan, 2015
#39682: Oct 3rd 2016 at 3:04:38 PM

[up][up]Yang's got gold hair, Goldilocks has gold hair. And her first shown fight in the show was against bear Grim, and the DJ from the Yellow trailer had a bear mask.

And I'd say Yang got a lot more attention in the tail end of Vol. 3 — or at least a lot of shit happened to her that hopefully will be explored in Volume 4.

edited 3rd Oct '16 3:05:07 PM by drac0blade

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#39683: Oct 3rd 2016 at 3:17:52 PM

Yang trying new cyborg arms:

"This one fits too loose."

"This one fits too tight."

"This one is just right!"

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#39684: Oct 3rd 2016 at 3:22:44 PM

Yang got a lot of potential in the tail end of season 3. Losing her arm has potential for some interesting development. Qrow's offer to help her find her mum has potential for development. Being bitter at Blake for leaving her has potential for development. etc.

However, they also dropped the ball on some potential from the last season, which is her actual meeting with her mum. That gets quickly glossed over before Qrow offers to help give her some interesting story direction at a later date.

What she does get this season is the drama surrounding her crippling Mercury, but that drama is undercut by the fact that she didn't do it on purpose and she knows it. Instead, the narrative impetus is put on everyone else: will they believe her or won't they? She doesn't develop much; instead, the other characters develop around her.

Especially Blake, who gets an opportunity to explore her history with Adam and how it has and has not influenced her ability to process Yang's mistake. She gets more development out of Yang v. Mercury than anyone.

edited 3rd Oct '16 3:23:15 PM by TobiasDrake

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#39685: Oct 3rd 2016 at 3:32:05 PM

"Red Like Roses" is the only thing that puts Yang and Blake as the Beauty and the Beast. Whatever little nods there are put them squarely as Goldilocks and Belle, respectively. For instance, Yang fights Hei "Junior" Xiong, aka Black Bear, aka the little bear (and I'm fully expecting her to fight Grizzly Big Sister and Polar Big Brother at some point). Blake, of course, has Adam.

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#39686: Oct 3rd 2016 at 3:34:11 PM

About Yang as Goldilocks...

When we first see her in Yellow Trailer, she enters the club belonging to Hei Xiong, aka Junior. Hei Xiong means Black Bear, and Junior draws comparison to the little bear from the Goldilocks story.

Also, there's a running theory that Yang's Semblance and character will evolve in the way similiar to the one in the fairy tale. She starts out temperamental, easy to anger, always rushing into the battle without thinking- she's too hot. Now that she was so definitely crippled and seemingly abandoned, she's grew distant to others, locked in herself with her depression- she's too cold. Only after striking a balance between being able to connects with others but also being able to cool off when it matters, she'll be able to become just right.

AJSthe2nd Since: Jan, 2015
#39687: Oct 3rd 2016 at 3:39:20 PM

Characters double up on refrences.

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#39688: Oct 3rd 2016 at 4:07:13 PM

"He's so beautiful." *sobs* -VutherA looking at new Ren, or just every time he looks at his own profile picture

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#39689: Oct 3rd 2016 at 4:18:43 PM

Ren always was like the third prettiest character in the show.

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#39690: Oct 3rd 2016 at 4:37:27 PM

Who are the first two?

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#39692: Oct 3rd 2016 at 4:46:10 PM

[up][up]Who are you?

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#39693: Oct 3rd 2016 at 4:51:36 PM

[up] Who am I?

Just Makima.
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#39694: Oct 3rd 2016 at 4:52:28 PM

I dunno, you are you I guess?

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#39696: Oct 3rd 2016 at 5:23:09 PM

God damn it, I'm surrounded by Asshole.

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#39698: Oct 3rd 2016 at 6:54:37 PM

So I just got into the series, and I gotta say, I'm probably gonna skip watching Volume 3.

The show's good and all, but with Volume 4 around the corner and me already knowing what happens in 3, I'm going to keep away from it. Mainly because for the plot to happen the way it will, it requires ever-intelligent Ozpin and literal-military-general Ironwood to completely overlook the fact that, not only does a partial 3-member team manage to somehow join the school in the middle of the year, but to also ignore how it was only a 3-member team up until the tournament when a 4th member joins out of the blue. Especially with all the shit that's going down.

I dunno if it's all explained in the actual season, but if I go any further into this Idiot Plot, the whole show is gonna be spoiled for me.

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#39699: Oct 3rd 2016 at 7:01:24 PM

Um...they addressed that as soon as they showed up, they were posing as students from another school who were there for the festival. And as for how they could do that, their influence and ability to fudge things should already be apparent.

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#39700: Oct 3rd 2016 at 7:12:08 PM

Mmm, yeah, I guess I didn't catch that part. Whups.

I mean, it still is a bit weird how nobody asked about a fourth team member, like, at all. In a place where each and every student was part of a four-man team. Not even in a Hand Wave sense. But, whatever. It's not like I'm condemning the show for it.


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