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RWBY Thread III: Time To Say Goodbye

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Stop: So gotta few things that need to be said real quick.
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    • 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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    • Mahrac said:
    I think you have that backwards. In worlds with Not Magic We Totally Swear, no one is dead until it's confirmed they're dead.
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    I'm just not getting my hopes up, it's my way of coping. Everyone is DED until confirmed otherwise. Pyrrha is in Redhead Heaven with Penny (Roman's in Redhead Hell). Nora may join them next, unless death has moved on to another hair colour (probably blond).

    Carrnage said:
    We saw her body disintegrate, let it go.
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    He's speculating/coping, let him be.
     
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    Mahrac said:
    I do believe I already addressed that.
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    Look at it.

    first off pyrrha's seizing up and sputtering before cinder even reaches her and by the time cinder reaches her she's stopped breathing entirely and collapsed, second cinder has absolutely no reason to not kill Pyrrha, she didn't spare amber, she didn't spare penny, she didn't spare anyone else so why Pyrrha?
     
    Carrnage said:
    first off pyrrha's seizing up and sputtering before cinder even reaches her and by the time cinder reaches her she's stopped breathing entirely and collapsed
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    I'm aware of what I saw. It still doesn't rule out my theory. She's certainly got a mortal wound, but that's not proof of death (yet).

    second cinder has absolutely no reason to not kill Pyrrha, she didn't spare amber, she didn't spare penny, she didn't spare anyone else so why Pyrrha?
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    Might as well ask why she apologized to Pyrrah, she certainly didn't apologize to Amber or Penny.

    Her plans needed Amber and Penny to die, one for her power the other for shock value. Pyrrah she and Salem can still use alive, but almost dead, to taunt Ozpin. Either as 'we have (one of) your champions, what you gonna do' if he managed to escape somehow or as 'look at what you caused' if they're being kept in the same place.
     
    Mahrac said:
    Her plans needed Amber and Penny to die, one for her power the other for shock value. Pyrrah she and Salem can still use alive, but almost dead, to taunt Ozpin. Either as 'we have (one of) your champions, what you gonna do' if he managed to escape somehow or as 'look at what you caused' if they're being kept in the same place.
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    Alternatively the 'Pyrrha gets taken over by a Possession Grimm type thing and turns into a palette swapped terminator Huntress going after RNJR' theory.

    I will assume she is dead, but I leave the possibility of her being alive open just in case.
     
    Azecreth said:
    Alternatively the 'Pyrrha gets taken over by a Possession Grimm type thing and turns into a palette swapped terminator Huntress going after RNJR' theory.

    I will assume she is dead, but I leave the possibility of her being alive open just in case.
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    Also a distinct possibility.

    I'm gonna go the other way though, because like I said, it feels fishy to me.
     
    Happy fucking Valentine's Day,RWBY fans. FUCK,I wasn't ready for that. And now,I have to ask... How will Rooster Teeth top that for next year? Monty left enough notes for them to make it through to at least a fifth Volume.

    Ozpin MIA. Pyrrha and Penny KIA. RWBY functionally disbanded. Yang suffered a career killing injury.

    The days of Zwei in mail tubes are gone. RWBY,at least to me,is following a tonal structure similar to Puella Magi Madoka Magicka. Just stretched out. This will be interesting to follow up on,to say the very least.
     
    Azecreth said:
    Err, the robot limbs Ironwood had suggest otherwise on this particular detail, just felt like I should add that.
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    Except Ironwood's a general and headmaster, and for all we know Mercury's legs are some kind of stolen black market stuff that would otherwise be prohibitively expensive. Taiyang doesn't really seem like he has the money to fork over for stuff like that, though I guess Qrow might be able to ask his, *ahem* "buddy" Ironwood for a favor.
     
    Yang would have to go through physiotherapy to adapt to the new limb. At her current stage in life,her combat education,and thus her entire career,are on ice until that concluded,which can easily take a year or two. And that's excluding the fact that Beacon is now an active warzone,the ENTIRE CCT network across all of Remnant is offline,as one of the primary relay towers was destroyed,and the fact that the entire world order is just one bad day from utterly imploding.

    Her career's dead. Cyberarm or no,she's not going to recover and continue her training soon enough to get back on the cart and stay competitive.
     
    Leingod said:
    Except Ironwood's a general and headmaster, and for all we know Mercury's legs are some kind of stolen black market stuff that would otherwise be prohibitively expensive. Taiyang doesn't really seem like he has the money to fork over for stuff like that, though I guess Qrow might be able to ask his, *ahem* "buddy" Ironwood for a favor.
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    Given that her name is a part of the show title, I doubt they'll let Yang walk around as a one handed hobo or whatever for six more volumes.
     
    *Watches RWBY*
    ...Well it's official. We've hit Space Mexico.
    I mean, I was JOKING when i said Miles, Kerry, and posthumously Monty had become healing type writers, but this?
    I mean... I just.
    ...I think I'm grief spiraling, and this isn't even the right series.

    EDIT: WHY DO YOU ASSHOLES RATE THIS FUNNY ?!? ;_;
     
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    1. Sustainable pain is always preferable to empty nothingness.
    2. Many of us are not completely ready to hate Cinder.
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    So, if I am recalling season 1's opening narration right Salem said somehting like "we are remnants" to me that says that she and Ozpin probably aren't the 'source' of everything, and chances are the wizard wasn't either, but that they are close to whatever came before and still remember it in some form.

    Xkeizer said:
    Beyond being a smug "chessmaster" who thinks she can account for everything.
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    Like when she frowns and looks concerned about the Breach going off early? Or looks irate at Roman? Or looks angry at Ozpin and Pyrrha? And when did she say/think she could account for everything? Her plan works because its broad and adaptable and she uses minions to do the leg work not because she's got a personalty profile on every character determining what they'll eat for brunch three weeks away.
     
    I don't hate Cinder either. I like Pyrrha, but looking at it, her death was pretty much inevitable. Now that doesn't mean I particularly like Cinder, to be honest, I've never really liked her, I was more interested in whoever her superior was (who I assumed to be the character voiced by Jen Taylor, I was right) because she always seemed more like a middle management villain, and heavy, than outright main antagonist.
     
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    Leingod said:
    Except Ironwood's a general and headmaster, and for all we know Mercury's legs are some kind of stolen black market stuff that would otherwise be prohibitively expensive.
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    Don't think so. Unless Ironwood's prosthetic's are priced in multiples of Atlesian Knights, doubtful, then Yang getting back on her feet isn't that unlikely. And people are really harping about the price of a prosthetic limb when every single combi-weapon in RWBY is an exercise in ludicrous over engineering.

    Riddle78 said:
    Her career's dead. Cyberarm or no,she's not going to recover and continue her training soon enough to get back on the cart and stay competitive.
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    Uh yeah, a two year gap is hardly going to make her non-competitive considering the combat value that hunstmen and huntresses possess.

    Real world athletes who have suffered seemingly career ending injuries and then responded well to therapy have come back from worse with, likewise, a multi-year gap. It's rare, but it happens.

    And that's assuming Remnant hasn't developed therapies to help speed the process along. Or that the cybernetics themselves won't make the process faster by learning to mesh with Yang as much as she learns to mesh with them.

    Also, Yang might seek out crow-mom for some training from hell.
     
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    The3rdCorinthian said:
    So what, the Grim are familliars and Salem is a meguca gone Homucifer style witchout that leaves her sane but evil as fuck?
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    DEAR GOD THAT ACTUALLY MAKES SENSE.
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    Tonal structure,not plot structure.

    Things start happy joy and bliss,with only minor issues bubbling underneath. Then the rug's pulled,revealing those minor issues to be something fucking apocalyptic. PMMM made it happen in twelve episodes. RWBY's just stretching that schedule out a fair bit.
     
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