RWBY Thread III: Time To Say Goodbye

Stop: So gotta few things that need to be said real quick.
so gotta few things that need to be said real quick.
We get a lot of reports from this thread. A lot of it is just a series of people yelling at each other over arguments that have been rehashed hundreds of times since the end of the recent Volume. And I get that the last Volume - and RWBY in general, really - has some controversial moments that people will want to discuss, argue about, debate, etc.

That's fine. We're not going to stop people from doing that, because that's literally what the point of the thread is. However, there's just a point where it gets to be a bit too much, and arguments about whether or not Ironwood was morally justified in his actions in the recent Volume, or if RWBY and her team were in the right for withholding information from Ironwood out of distrust, or whatever flavor of argument of the day descend into insulting other posters, expressing a demeaning attitude towards other's opinions, and just being overall unpleasant. That tends to happen a lot in this thread. We want it to stop happening in this thread.

So! As of now the thread is in a higher state of moderation. What that means is that any future infractions will result in a weeklong boot from the thread, and repeated offenders will likely be permanently removed. So please, everyone endeavor to actually respect the other's arguments, and even if you strongly disagree with them please stay civil and mindful when it comes to responding to others.

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Velvet and Qrow both have reasons to be sympathetic toward Yang, and Ironwood seems pretty fair-minded in general. There could be plenty of others that assume Yang is a dangerous loose cannon.
The important thing is that Yang's friends and allies generally believe or at least understand her, which is nice. I'm really tired of works where no one believes the hero when situations like Yang's happen, especially in the form popularized by betrayal fics.
 
So Nora had problems lifting what I assume was a 1-ton dumbbell. I wonder how that's going to affect all the debates about feats.
 
So Nora had problems lifting what I assume was a 1-ton dumbbell. I wonder how that's going to affect all the debates about feats.
We don't know what the unit of measurement was (it just said "1000"), so it could be a 1 kiloton weight for all we know.

Also, not familiar with weightlifting, but weren't there two "1000" weights (one for each end of the dumbbell)?

Plus, it didn't seem like Nora had any trouble lifting them. She just tipped over because she was unbalanced.
 
We don't know what the unit of measurement was (it just said "1000"), so it could be a 1 kiloton weight for all we know.

Also, not familiar with weightlifting, but weren't there two "1000" weights (one for each end of the dumbbell)?

Plus, it didn't seem like Nora had any trouble lifting them. She just tipped over because she was unbalanced.

Yeah sure, technically it could be something else, but let's be honest, Rooster Teeth is going with pounds here if they actually had a measurement system in mind at all and didn't just slap "1000" there to get across "Nora's lifting a lot of weight."

And there were two "1000" weights.

You might have a point about not balancing, but I'd find it really weird if Nora didn't know how to lift weights properly.
 
Velvet and Qrow both have reasons to be sympathetic toward Yang, and Ironwood seems pretty fair-minded in general. There could be plenty of others that assume Yang is a dangerous loose cannon.
This is true and I could be totally wrong about all of this, it was mostly just a guess based on what we observed, I mean, heck, even Blake wasn't so much as bothered about the attack as Yang's reasoning behind it. Though yes I could still be wrong.
 
Anyone else increasingly hoping for Mercury getting the smug smacked out of him?

Oh, absolutely. As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of introducing a character like Mercury is for the satisfaction the audience will feel when he finally gets smacked down.

Or subverting that horribly by making his backstory and death something that makes you feel sympathy and/or pity for him in the end and feel bad for wanting him to suffer the end he eventually got, but I'll settle for the first one.
 
Anyone else increasingly hoping for Mercury getting the smug smacked out of him?
One thing that would really throw a wrench into Cinder's plans is if Ruby somehow manages to move the fight somewhere where enough people or a camera can see that Mercury is perfectly fine.

Also i'm worried about Ruby since last we saw she can't even defeat a White Fang Mook without Crescent Rose.
 
One thing that would really throw a wrench into Cinder's plans is if Ruby somehow manages to move the fight somewhere where enough people or a camera can see that Mercury is perfectly fine.

Also i'm worried about Ruby since last we saw she can't even defeat a White Fang Mook without Crescent Rose.
Run fast.
 
Ruby wasn't able to run away from Torchwick's grappling hook. Granted, she's properly rested now, but we haven't even seen Mercury's Semblance yet, and even at his baseline he's fast enough to practically disappear from the sight of second-year students like Coco and Yatsuhashi.

We don't even know if he was going all-out, especially if he wasn't trying his hardest against Yang.
 
Man's probably a trained assassin....and Ruby's just a wide eyed idealist with no advanced combat training like his.
She's outclassed, plain and simple.
 
Man's probably a trained assassin....and Ruby's just a wide eyed idealist with no advanced combat training like his.
She's outclassed, plain and simple.
Considering if the food fight is an accurate indication of Ruby's abilities, Ruby can move fast enough to make a gust strong enough to at least push Mercury back, hoping to buy some time for her to escape. However, that would involve moving towards Mercury, which is a very bad idea.
 
Considering if the food fight is an accurate indication of Ruby's abilities, Ruby can move fast enough to make a gust strong enough to at least push Mercury back, hoping to buy some time for her to escape. However, that would involve moving towards Mercury, which is a very bad idea.
Or running past him, and for some reason I don't think he'd expect that.
 
She's unarmed, and can easily blow the plan by letting anyone know he's there.

Running is EXACTLY what he expects her to do. Either turning her back on him to try getting out the door, or trying to get past him to run down the tunnel.
Let me rephrase: I know he expects her to run. I think he expects her to run away from him rather than towards him. I also don't think he knows exactly how freakishly fast she can go, or at least what her Semblance is.

So if she just blows past him as fast as her semblance lets her, and literally blows him away in the process...
 
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Anyone else catch Qrow saying that Raven had given him a tip for his "most recent assignment"?

Raven apparently lent him some help with the whole Maidens/Cinder business. That's a point against her being a part of the White Fang... maybe?

Depends on how highly placed Adam is in the White Fang. Raven might represent a different faction that doesn't agree with him working with Cinder?
 
To be honest, if Mercury is this close to the action, Cinder is just about ready to drop the act anyways.

Maybe, maybe not.

The first time we saw Emerald and Mercury, they were acting on their own initiative to take care of Tukson even though Cinder gave them explicit orders to keep their heads down.

Could be more of the same, or it could be shit's about to hit the fan.
 
Let me rephrase: I know he expects her to run. I think he expects her to run away from him rather than towards him. I also don't think he knows exactly how freakishly fast she can go, or at least what her Semblance is.

So if she just blows past him as fast as her semblance lets her, and literally blows him away in the process...
Again, moving toward him. She can move really, really, really fast, yes indeed, but he's probably anticipating her moving towards him as well. It's a narrow corridor with only one way out, and that involves turning her back to him, which will likely get her killed. He knows that the only chance that offers a fraction of survival possibility is to try and go around him (He was watching the fights, so I'm pretty sure he know of her semblance), and will probably clothesline her with his pimp as fuck metal leg.
 
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