It told us about as much as you'd expect.
Well, I think it also launched the "Ozluminati" suspicions. But Narrator-Cortana makes everything in these videos sound ominous. I'm kind of glad they switched over to Qrow.
Got to wonder who will narrate next.
edited 4th Jan '17 4:43:23 PM by Soble
I'M MR. MEESEEKS, LOOK AT ME!The fairy tale titles discussed by Pyrrha and Ozpin:
- The Story of the Seasons — The four Maidens and the one we know the most about
- The Tale of the Two Brothers — There's a good chance this could be the tale of the Gods of Darkness and Light that we've just learned about
- The Shallow Sea — In the Kingdoms WoR, the Vale one, Qrow mentions that the body of water that backs onto Beacon Academy is too shallow for any real threats to pop out of (but he has heard some crazy fish stories). So, that's a contender for this fairy tale.
- The Girl in the Tower - we haven't seen exactly what Salem's place looks like from the outside but, let's face it, Salem could be an option.
edited 4th Jan '17 5:45:59 PM by Wyldchyld
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.Going back to Wiess and her conversation with her dad, they're really doing something I wished they hadn't. She basically just said "You're not a 'real' Schnee and so don't count" to him, and that was something I really didn't want them to do.
Only it's even worse than I had thought, because I figured that would be the fandom reaction to him marrying into the family, not the show actually endorsing it. Problems with Jacques aside, I feel like it should be really obvious why that has some Unfortunate Implications.
Oh, yeah, and does anyone else watch reaction videos on You Tube? It can be entertaining but also kind of grating, seeing people caw and go "I new it!" over things that were either obvious or established in previous episodes.
edited 4th Jan '17 11:05:19 PM by LSBK
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Only one I can think of off the top of my head is Paul Landers of Rammstein (birth name Heiko Paul Hiersche).
I've seen it often with Germans, but its usually dependent on the couple. Most of the time its the wife taking her husband's last name, but sometimes its the reverse. I'd heck the Real Life tab for The Maiden Name Debate.
Edit: Actually, the first entry in the Real Life tab is very interesting, since the Schnee family was introduced as being German-inspired:
- Germany has changed laws multiple times in attempts to figure out the issue. Currently parents have to settle on one "family name" for all their children (which can be either the name of the mother or the father, but not a combination of both to avoid overly long family names), while the parents themselves might (depending on the current ruling at the time of marriage) either stick both to their names, or one of them having to use a combination. In general, the husband taking the family name of the wife has become more common.
Additionally this one is interesting:
- In Japan, it's not unheard of for the husband to take the wife's name if she's the last of the family line to bear the name (and it helps if her family is well-off).
Seeing as how we never hear about Weiss' mother having any siblings, one could assume to keep the Schnee name going Jacques went with her name instead.
edited 4th Jan '17 11:42:30 PM by BlackSunNocturne
My (now disowned for reasons I am unsure of) cousin took his wife's last name. So there is that.
As far as the possible semblance of Raven, I hope they do not make it good luck, although they are a sign of danger passing, and they do bring good luck.... And her bringing good luck to those around her also means she brings good luck to her enemies as well, much like how Qrow brings bad luck to his. Ninja edit:spelling Maybe that could be why she left Yang and Taiyang, because, despite bringing good luck to them, her enemies get good luck when nearby.
edited 5th Jan '17 7:20:31 AM by FRZNHeir
bro im literally a girlI watch reaction videos. Blindwave has hit the rising action of volume 3 and I am so excited. Also I might be a bad person because I enjoyed watching everyone’s reaction to v3s12 and their delicious tears so much.
Only reactor other than Blindwave that I watch is Murder of Birds cuz that guy is super invested and emotional and has interesting speculation. might follow Puns of Damage cuz she has some good attention to detail on the trope side of things.
edited 5th Jan '17 6:20:51 AM by ch00beh
"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story." TwitterI can't listen to Murderof Birdz, I get being invested but him going "OH MY GOD!" at almost every line anyone says is just too much for me.
Yes, it has historical precedence where wealthy or aristocratic people needed a male heir and had only daughters. A son-in-law wouldn't be viewed so much as taking his wife's name as taking his father-in-law's name. It's like an adoption by marriage, if you like.
It's quite common in Japanese culture as well (for similar 'need male heir' reasons, although there can be different cultural responsibilities that go along with it, such as needing a male heir to ensure caretaking the family ancestors can continue). Since RWBY does use a lot of anime inspiration, it's going to fit right in.
The question is whether or not Atlas has such a patriarchal culture that it's normal for Nicholas to pass the inheritance to Jacques rather than his daughter (especially given that Jacques himself apparently didn't have any problem initially regarding his daughters as potential heiresses).
The thing I find weird is that a company has 100% single-offspring inheritance, rather than the kids being given a range of stakes in the company. Based on what little we know, that actually seems to be something Nicholas and Jacques had in common. And if Nicholas viewed sons as heirs rather than daughters, Jacques actually got one over on him there.
We need more information.
We're talking about cherry-picking. To define crows as 'bad luck' in the first place you have to cherry-pick folklore and mythology to exclude anything positive about the crow - and there's plenty of folklore that's positive about the crow, even if you stick with Celtic or British or European or American folklore. As a result, it's easy to cherry-pick the other side of folklore to give that bit to Raven.
That's actually the problem here. Because the creators have cherry-picked to go with the 'bad luck' association for Qrow, we don't know for certain what they'll cherry-pick for Raven. I'm speculating 'good luck' purely on the grounds that the twins have identical but reversed symbols.
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.We need to more about the Schnee situation. For all we know Old Nick could have only had the one daughter and she had no interest in running the company.
Furthermore, considering how Jacques phrased it, I wouldn't be surprised if making Whitley the heir only lasts for as long as Weiss and him are at odds.
edited 5th Jan '17 2:48:28 PM by LSBK
Completely unrelated, but I was looking at my friend's artbook of Drakengard 3 and noticed something:
Yang looks a lot like Five.
You know what that is actually right, she does look like Yang and they have similar personalities.
She's what would happen if Dark Lord Taro Yoko wrote Yang.
Answer: It would not be pretty.
A corpse should be left well enough alone...

Also, speaking of Semblances we want to see: Someone who's a Technopath
edited 4th Jan '17 3:50:33 PM by BlackSunNocturne