Mythical (RWBY Pyrrha Quest)
- Thread starter Jemnite
- Start date
- Fantasy
- Location
- Ohio
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Shifting my vote to:
[X] Burst past him. You're confident enough in your skills that you can find the relic before him, no matter how odd his start was. You just couldn't afford to let him get the upper hand.
- Location
- Wörms, the half continent
[X] Burst past him. You're confident enough in your skills that you can find the relic before him, no matter how odd his start was. You just couldn't afford to let him get the upper hand.
No longer punching.
No longer punching.
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X] Burst past him. You're confident enough in your skills that you can find the relic before him, no matter how odd his start was. You just couldn't afford to let him get the upper hand.
No punch?
No punch?
Hyacinthium
Writing about sad cannibals as we speak.
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- Bedroom
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- He/Him
I will not be cockblocked from Joan of arc twice you bastards
[X] Claim the boy as your "partner". Ozpin said something about teams and you're not going to come back first only to find out that you "needed to do it as a team" or some nonsense like that.
[X] Claim the boy as your "partner". Ozpin said something about teams and you're not going to come back first only to find out that you "needed to do it as a team" or some nonsense like that.
Jemnite
CVN-69 Fella
- Location
- 清源书院
Most votes are valid but will be interpreted through Pyrrha's personality and thus modified. This generally means it's best to specify why you're voting for a given option and justify why it falls in line with Pyrrha's IC motivations so I can understand what angle you're coming from and why you want to vote x.
I'll generally read all the votes in the thread instead of relying on the votecounter because I actually like to read discussion.
- Location
- Earth
[X] Claim the boy as your "partner". Ozpin said something about teams and you're not going to come back first only to find out that you "needed to do it as a team" or some nonsense like that.
With the justification that he's heading in the right direction, and pretty.
With the justification that he's heading in the right direction, and pretty.
Oh wow, I read 1/5th of the first update and was already snickering. Overly narcassistic Pyrrha is absolutely hilarious.
[X] Burst past him. You're confident enough in your skills that you can find the relic before him, no matter how odd his start was. You just couldn't afford to let him get the upper hand.
TBH, I don't care to partner with Jaune at all. Literally anyone, even Cardin, would be better. Jaune's currently on my mental blacklist of characters who are tainted by the level of wank in the fanfic community.
[X] Burst past him. You're confident enough in your skills that you can find the relic before him, no matter how odd his start was. You just couldn't afford to let him get the upper hand.
TBH, I don't care to partner with Jaune at all. Literally anyone, even Cardin, would be better. Jaune's currently on my mental blacklist of characters who are tainted by the level of wank in the fanfic community.
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- Location
- USA
Awesome.
Admittedly a large part of my personal reasoning is to have a vote is to claim the potentially interesting Jaune* here, while also adding a bit of nuance to Pyrrha's thoughts here. It holds the underlying confidence that she knows she will beat him, but adds an aversion to potentially losing because there was a hidden portion to the test. I'd expect something like that would have been pulled on Pyrrha at least once in the past, although the lesson she took away from it would be to carry the least objectionable
*which is admittedly, not that hard to do
So I've seen a good chunk of voters swap to burst past him, anyone want to share why they don't like the write-in to (hopefully) spark some discussion? People claiming tactical voting usually means they hold enough distaste for an option to bother changing their vote.
- The insistence that Pyrrha should chase after Jaune sits very badly with me and reminds me of why I tend to stop liking RWBY quests, despite liking them. A focus on shipping that excludes most other parts of the quest. Everything about that write in and the reasoning warns me that is to come.
- The complete pointlessness of it. Any of the options have a very good chance of Pyrrha becoming Jaune's partner as he uses his BS semblance to out maneuver her and her pride will at the very least force her to confront him on a constant basis. So there will be interactions between the two.
- The complete murdering of a series of interesting interactions as we get to see Pyrrha get her face rubbed into losing.
I'd change my vote too if it wasn't my initial choice.
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Hyacinthium
Writing about sad cannibals as we speak.
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That's horrible reasoning/logic even if I understand the feeling behind it. Fuck the fanfic community, it's stupid. People that turn characters into grotesquely twitching organic blobs of ultimately meaningless power ups should be the ones blacklisted, not the characters.Oh wow, I read 1/5th of the first update and was already snickering. Overly narcassistic Pyrrha is absolutely hilarious.
[X] Burst past him. You're confident enough in your skills that you can find the relic before him, no matter how odd his start was. You just couldn't afford to let him get the upper hand.
TBH, I don't care to partner with Jaune at all. Literally anyone, even Cardin, would be better. Jaune's currently on my mental blacklist of characters who are tainted by the level of wank in the fanfic community.
Never let the wankers win. Stand against them and let not their foul ink stain your eyes.
Although full disclosure Jeanne D Arc is my historyfu and uh so I'm bias as fuck in favor of actual Jeanne Jaune. Jaunne.
But also the principle of things demands I must disagree with you. Even though I utterly understand that feel.
Jeanne though. Maiden of Orleans.
I have to know what he's like.
You
What
So you basically think that Jemnite is a shitty writer? Because that's what you're saying.
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Vindictus
XENO
- Location
- Texas
Wouldn't this one be the Maidman of Orleans?
... Okay that's a bad pun. I'm not sure if it's worse as a 'Madman' pun or a 'Made Man' pun. I guess it depends on whether you prefer Lecter, or Scarface?
Hyacinthium
Writing about sad cannibals as we speak.
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Tfw Jaunne is the actual shounenmaiden of Orleans.
You're going to explain to me how me complaining the attitude of someone wanting to immediately partner with Jaune and say that's going to happen anyways, let's make it interesting with the default options is me insulting the author.
Crow
Falling is a Pleasure. Regardless of its Fate
Hmm i don't like thr claim as partner yet cux it feels kinda metagamey and the justifications are kinda weak . On the other Pyrrahs interest is certainly piqued about this madman so. .
[X] Trail the boy. You can afford to watch him from a distance, and put on a last burst of speed at the end to outtake him and take a relic before him. From then on it's only a matter to making it back before him.
[X] Trail the boy. You can afford to watch him from a distance, and put on a last burst of speed at the end to outtake him and take a relic before him. From then on it's only a matter to making it back before him.
Hyacinthium
Writing about sad cannibals as we speak.
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- Bedroom
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- He/Him
How about your entire post being the assumption that, based on other people's works, everything in this quest will magically become utter shit if we interact with Jaunne? In other words everything you wrote.
Because we all know that despite this quest being pretty cool so far, the next update will have it be shit if we interact with Jaunne. Because that's how RWBY quests work and the gm could not possibly have any other plans or ideas. If we get near enough to talk to Jaune then he'll spontaneously sprout wings and female Achilles will spend the rest of her life being shown up by him bc wewlad
That's not insulting to the author in the leeeeaaaaast.
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- USA
Yeah, no way to deny that shipping is a large enough part of RWBY quests that it can overshadow other parts. Currently in a quest where we've basically been in a Cold [Waifu] War since the start of Beacon because any side that made a move would get backstabbed by the rest of the shippers banding together to sink the ship.
That being said, shipping only overshadows the rest of the quest if the GM allows it to since it's ultimately up to them to write. If they only fan the flames of shipping its gonna overshadow things. If they show more than just shipping -- hell, all they need to do is dangle a shinny in front of the questers -- the very short collective attention span of a quest will pass on to something else.
Also, I haven't seen many quests where there's an "insistence" that Pyrrha needs to chase after Jaune. Granted, Pyrrha being attracted to him pops up in a lot, but its canon, and I tend to have trouble in saying canon details should be changed even if the PC didn't effect the events by changing things from canon. Now as for this quest, we're the PC and we can alter that as we want, but I've only seen one other Pyrrha quest and I don't remember it lasting long enough to even get with Jaune -- that's little enough that anything we do will be novel.
Edit: And there's like half a dozen posts since I last looked. Damn, I really need to refresh the page more.
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Then, for whatever reason, you've massively misinterpreted my points. Considering my rebuttal, admittedly sardonically, pointed out the overall sense of the points that my problem is 100% with the write in and the mind set behind it and not the author, and you responded with this, I guess I wasn't direct enough.
Let's look over my points.
The first one can be surmised as me viewing the vote as an intense dislike for the vote because the way it's worded reeks of shipping. Whether true or not, I can't get past that.
The second one is, I really don't see this Pyrrha not becoming Jaune's partner anyways, given that Jaune is likely rocking a semblance that gives him guidance to the best path meaning he is going to show Pyrrha up a lot. She will either partner up with him at the end or constantly challenging him to prove she's better, and then probably be angry at him if he loses because 'the person who showed me up can't be this weak!' is a mindset I can easily see her taking. We're rather set on seeing a lot of Jaune either way, so the argument of 'I want to see more Jaune', makes me think 'we're going to do that anyways, so what's the point?'
The third is me saying 'oh hey, we could have some hilarious interactions between Jaune and Pyrrha as she tries to one up him, but inevitably fails because his Semblance would allow him to find ways to overcome her, since it's pretty insane if it is indeed Joan of Arc's, like most of us think. But the write in robs us of that interesting dynamic.
To surmise, I see people taking what could be an interesting plot development and story, skipping it to achieve something I see as incredibly likely to happen anyways, and all because they really like the character not the one we are playing as.
In no way does this reflect my opinion of the QM.
I've seen enough quests where the focus is not shipping to know this is not always true. Everyone just becomes incredibly passive aggressive about it and it ruins the fun of a quest for me instantly to try and participate in that environment. Don't get me wrong, there are numerous quests out there that buck the trend.
So far, without even meeting the full cast or seeing Pyrrha interact with Jaune, we already have close to half the voters saying 'partner with Jaune now' though. Even if not everyone intends it, it's not painting a pretty picture.
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Jemnite
CVN-69 Fella
- Location
- 清源书院
At the risk of spoiling things, I'll just go ahead and say that Jaune doesn't know how to use his semblance yet, and Semblances work a bit differently here. Pyrrha's semblance for example, is not polarity but is a thematic panoply of abilities loosely defined by the keyword 'Unrivaled'. Steel turns away from her flesh for no weapon of mortal craft may strike her low. She stands on equal footing with the gods, supreme in the eyes of Selene.
(As my GMPC Pyrrha must be more overpowered than any other character in this quest
)So Pyrrha isn't destined to be shown up by Jaune. Then people's desire to get Jaune to join her as a teammate now as opposed to just relying on it happening is well founded.At the risk of spoiling things, I'll just go ahead and say that Jaune doesn't know how to use his semblance yet, and Semblances work a bit differently here. Pyrrha's semblance for example, is not polarity but is a thematic panoply of abilities loosely defined by the keyword 'Unrivaled'. Steel turns away from her flesh for no weapon of mortal craft may strike her low. She stands on equal footing with the gods, supreme in the eyes of Selene.
(As my GMPC Pyrrha must be more overpowered than any other character in this quest
I still am far more enjoying Jerk Pyrrha and have yet to see her interact with enough cast to want to immediately pick a partner yet.