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.

In addition, users should refrain from talking about off-site users in the thread. Bear in mind that this does not mean that you cannot continue to post tumblr posts, for example, that add onto the discussion in the thread, with the caveat that it's related to RWBY of course. But any objections to offsite users in the thread should be handled via PM, or they'll be treated as thread violations and infracted as such.
 
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Question
How old was Professor Ozpin?

Not stated. He was the youngest person to ever be made headmaster, he was already headmaster back when Team STRQ first became Beacon students, and that's about all we know. Pyrrha notes that he's "not that old" when he makes a self-deprecating comment about it, if that helps.

I'd guess he was somewhere in his 50s maybe.
 
thinking on Death Battle

As of the current story, I don't think Ruby would be able to beat Maka from Soul Eater.
Sure the Silver Eyes could take care of the Black Blood that Maka and Soul have, but it's still a 2 v 1 and Maka and Soul are anime/manga characters so they have some crazy feats. There is also the question of if Death Battle would use Maka's Weapon Blood mode that was only in the anime.
 
would the Silver Eyes even Effect the Black Blood?

since if i remember right, its not actually evil.

It sort of depends on why you think the Silver Eyes hurt something in the first place, since canon doesn't really feel the need to explore that question. Does it hurt Grimm because they're "evil," because they're a "corruption," or some other qualifier?
 
silver eyes reflect and focus the power of creation inherent in the world , when applied to a creature of Grimm, beings composed of destruction they are canceled out and lessened to varying degrees/neutralized

Silver was used in mirrors , Eyes are windows to the soul, sliver eyes reflects the world's soul back at what wants to unmake the world

at a guess the visualizing Ruby seems to need could be seen as strengthening the "backing" of her soul/light mirrors to increase the concentration of the creation flash that washes over the Grimm
 
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thinking on Death Battle

As of the current story, I don't think Ruby would be able to beat Maka from Soul Eater.
Sure the Silver Eyes could take care of the Black Blood that Maka and Soul have, but it's still a 2 v 1 and Maka and Soul are anime/manga characters so they have some crazy feats. There is also the question of if Death Battle would use Maka's Weapon Blood mode that was only in the anime.

Ruby will never have a chance to beat Maka in a fair fight unless the final act of the series gives her some impossible feats or the Death Battle team do a Dio vs Alucard/Yang vs Tifa/Aizen vs Madara and hyper-wank her to give her a fair shot. Maka even without Black Blood can dodge bullets so she's fast enough to keep up with Ruby's Semblance, said Black Blood makes her basically invincinble, and the amount of soul hax manga Soul brings to the battle involves things like "entering someone's soul to attack them from within" and "Full on calm someone down to the point of making them stop fighting and enter a trance state, which would likely cause Ruby to drop her Aura." Like, she even flies at the end of the series using Soul. Durability is really the only thing Ruby might have thanks to Aura, and even then Ruby's durability feats since the shift to Maya have been very rocky.

Looking at it now, Ruby can only win if they cheat and say "Silver Eyes destroys Black Blood," or they really overexaggerate her fight feats from the Monty era (as post-Volume 3 Ruby doesn't get a lot of solo fights and thus doesn't have a lot of new feats to track) Maka will otherwise always take this. The question of "Could Ruby ever beat Maka" has been asked before on Versus forums over the years, and the answer has always been "Maka will always beat Ruby unless Ruby is given a huge end-of-series buff or Death Battle hyper-wank Ruby to let her win."
 
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what do we think of the idea of Cinder's "Destined Battle" to be not against anyone from RWBYJNR or Winter,
but instead Emerald and Mercury?

the idea being that Ruby and the others are Huntsmen, so in a way it would just be another Rhodes trying to take her down,
however neither Emerald nor Mercury are Huntsmen.
instead Emerald and Mercury (Emerald especially) were Cinder's abused minions/lackies. pretty much in the same place Cinder was under The Madam.
 
That would be more resonant, as it is, I do feel like only Emerald has a major investment in Cinder's character though as Mercury always seemed to just view her as an employer, but that might just be me.
 
Cinder: You dare betray me?!
Mercury: Big assumption that A: I was ever loyal, and B: That this is at all about you to me.
Something like that?

Basically.
For me my read on Mercury, especially by the end of V8, is that Tyrian was right. Mercury is to afraid to leave his current way of life of his own volition because it's all he knows. As for how he feels about others well the only one outside of himself he ever seemed to care about has been Emerald. He was clearly worried about her at Haven when she was starting to have her mental breakdown, he stood up for her against Tyrian, and he is shown trying to get her to realize that Cinder does not give a shit about them. If Mercury is going to switched sides it is going to be because of her, no matter how he might try to play it off.
 
now imagine

Mercury - "We're all gonna die when Salem gets here, BUT AT LEAST I'LL DIE FREE!"

dumb and won't happen, but I found amusement in the thought.
 
Basically.
For me my read on Mercury, especially by the end of V8, is that Tyrian was right. Mercury is to afraid to leave his current way of life of his own volition because it's all he knows. As for how he feels about others well the only one outside of himself he ever seemed to care about has been Emerald. He was clearly worried about her at Haven when she was starting to have her mental breakdown, he stood up for her against Tyrian, and he is shown trying to get her to realize that Cinder does not give a shit about them. If Mercury is going to switched sides it is going to be because of her, no matter how he might try to play it off.

He's gonna be sulking about it the entire time. Pout and all.
 
Now I am imagining a re-united Emerald/Mercury working alongside Ren/Nora.
Emerald and Ren hold the target (insert Tyrian and his smug face) with their cables, while Mercury and Nora charge in for the SMASH.
 
Delightful, but also, I just saw your avatar and made a very happy noise. Do you have a larger version of that image?
Oh yeah, I got it free off the RT store, there are multiple versions in multiple sizes :rofl:
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EDIT: Fuck, I missed this reply

I believe that image is free on the Rooster Teeth store.

Yep, just checked, here it is
 
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