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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The funny thing is outside of Vale and Atlas we don't know much about the other Kingdoms or there political relationships to one another so for all we know Cinder and crew were actually part of the academy at Mistral but in a different capacity, Cinders rants during the chaos seem to indicate something really bad happened there in the past which could have led to certain groups wanting to sow similar chaos in the other kingdoms, further more someone had to write that software that allowed all the chaos to take place. That being said if this were true we also don't know if Mistral is aware of Cinders apparent ties to Salem.
 
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Ah, thanks. So it basically boils down to them not having that much of a budget and having to make the best of what they have, aye? Hm, what hardware did they use before the new one anyway?

Also, I got a question: In Season 3, when Yang and Weiss fought Neon and Flynt, they knew that they came from Atlas. Which means that the other participants should be able to know where the other participants came from as well (most likely by searching their names on the internet or something, if there aren't any team/participant profile set up on the tournament's sites or something). The question is that, if that is true, then how was Cinder and her team (do they even have a real team name? I kinda just call them Team CEMN and that's just kinda awkward because... well, innuendo) able to pose as Mistral (IIRC) students? Shouldn't the other Mistral students or any of the other teams that are researching them be confused because for the former they don't know her or there are no data on them?

And I don't think they had the time to enroll on the school because we've seen Cinder since the start of Season 1 and at the end of Season 1 as well...

Edit: No, wait, I guess it's possible that they enrolled during the time between the first episode's heist (since there was time for Ruby to get enrolled then and the exact time was not specified) and then pulled a Sun after becoming a representative team of Mistral. Unless there was anything else I missed?
I generally assume that they registered as students, but much like at Beacon Mercury and Emerald were the one's who actually attended classes, because its a Uni Cinder could probably get away with only a minimum of appearances if she did well enough on tests and or had good connections which I'd assume she does given some of the stuff she knows/has access to which may be why she was also in Vale early despite likely needing to be in Mistral soon.
 
But in the end it still comes down to budget since if they had a larger budget for computer tech they could have gotten 26 Titan X's
Well, they still have the money to buy 26 of those monsters, which are around 800-850€ each (895-951$), which make a total of 20800-22100€ (23270-24726$), that's a big investment, and that's not even taking into account the power supply units, cases and the electricity bill that goes with it.
 
Just a reminder, RWBY Chibi Episodes are the same length as most of those from season one, once you remove the intro and outro.
Really? Then what are the times in the Wikipedia episode guide using?

Volume 1: 12:21 06:15 06:39 07:36 04:30 07:14 04:47 13:45 05:31 06:58 04:50 07:25 06:09 06:08 10:41 15:30

Chibi: 03:37 03:10 03:11 03:03 03:37 03:20 03:11 03:42 03:39 04:21 05:09 06:03 03:27 04:31 04:38 04:23
 
Also, I got a question: In Season 3, when Yang and Weiss fought Neon and Flynt, they knew that they came from Atlas. Which means that the other participants should be able to know where the other participants came from as well (most likely by searching their names on the internet or something, if there aren't any team/participant profile set up on the tournament's sites or something). The question is that, if that is true, then how was Cinder and her team (do they even have a real team name? I kinda just call them Team CEMN and that's just kinda awkward because... well, innuendo) able to pose as Mistral (IIRC) students? Shouldn't the other Mistral students or any of the other teams that are researching them be confused because for the former they don't know her or there are no data on them?

And I don't think they had the time to enroll on the school because we've seen Cinder since the start of Season 1 and at the end of Season 1 as well...

Edit: No, wait, I guess it's possible that they enrolled during the time between the first episode's heist (since there was time for Ruby to get enrolled then and the exact time was not specified) and then pulled a Sun after becoming a representative team of Mistral. Unless there was anything else I missed?

Aside from Cinder's appearance in the first episode (which might be because she had something important to check on and decided to help with the start of Roman's crime wave while she was at it, and since she has easy access to aircraft she could get back to Mistral relatively quickly), none of team CMSN appears until the students from other schools are already coming in to Beacon. Students from Shade were arriving at the beginning of episode 15, remember, and Cinder's second appearance and Emerald and Mercury's first is in the stinger for the season finale. Neo doesn't appear until Volume 2.

So most likely they actually did become students at Haven so their cover could actually work.

Really? Then what are the times in the Wikipedia episode guide using?

Volume 1: 12:21 06:15 06:39 07:36 04:30 07:14 04:47 13:45 05:31 06:58 04:50 07:25 06:09 06:08 10:41 15:30

Chibi: 03:37 03:10 03:11 03:03 03:37 03:20 03:11 03:42 03:39 04:21 05:09 06:03 03:27 04:31 04:38 04:23

Every episode of RWBY proper has an intro and outro that takes up... let's be generous and say about a minute. So if you shave a minute off all of these, then two episodes are actually as short as RWBY Chibi episodes and a few others are only about a minute longer. So it's indeed an inaccurate statement, but not completely so.
 
Well you pretty much answered your own question,RT does have a budget for everything and while yes RWBY could be considered a "cash cow franchise", after season 3 especially the ending and all the grumblings it resulted in there were threats of not watching it on youtube and subscribers cancelling there subscriptions and thus loss of revenue. So not enough Revenue means a not so large budget.
Without knowing RT's real financial figures, I would be wary of any speculation based on anecdotal reports.

But in the end it still comes down to budget since if they had a larger budget for computer tech they could have gotten 26 Titan X's
However, if they had a larger budget then they could still buy even more GTX 1080 graphics cards instead of a smaller number of Titan X Pascal cards, so the situation doesn't really change.
 
Also, been rewatching Volume 3 and I noticed that on Cinder's tablet running the Black Queen control program, there is a letter "W" at the top right corner of the tablet (left from our perspective). Combined with her line saying "The last of the heavy lifting is being taken care of thanks to our clever little friend," and the timing... it made me suspicious of Winter. Which I didn't want to because Winter is just great as a sister and character but they do seem to have a mole in Atlas so...
 
Also, been rewatching Volume 3 and I noticed that on Cinder's tablet running the Black Queen control program, there is a letter "W" at the top right corner of the tablet (left from our perspective). Combined with her line saying "The last of the heavy lifting is being taken care of thanks to our clever little friend," and the timing... it made me suspicious of Winter. Which I didn't want to because Winter is just great as a sister and character but they do seem to have a mole in Atlas so...
I've actually seen a writer, Zatroopa if I recall, make not of that before with their theory being that Papa Schnee and Winter are connected to Salem and either trying to play her, or being played, or a mix of both and possible personal connections. One of the side benefits they came up with to letting the White Fang have a few victories being that they, the SDC, will soon be able to crush them all either just by using them as proxies against other people without their knowledge, or just by making them that hated and wounded.
 
RWBY Chibi:
Oh yeah Sun 'real man' haha that's what machismo gets ya XD

Yang has big sister sense and overwhelming fury should you make Ruby unhappy!

Emerald is the most sane member of team evil, also their plan needs puppies.

Nora and Ruby are BFFs we are all doomed, also Weiss, poor Weiss :(

Mercury you are the worst!

Cake Butler!

Ouch, though comeo n Weiss, stop messing with her you went to town with the vacum cleaner Blake and Zwei still fear you!
 
I can almost see Weiss playing up the "I'm a rich girl with no practical skills" to get out of doing chores.
 
Penny is becoming conspicuous in her absence in the RWBY chibi shorts. I wonder if this is a sign they're going to bring her back and are keeping her out of the shorts to maximize the impact when she does come back.
 
Penny is becoming conspicuous in her absence in the RWBY chibi shorts. I wonder if this is a sign they're going to bring her back and are keeping her out of the shorts to maximize the impact when she does come back.
Well considering it took them about 17 episodes before we got Chibi Emerald/Mercury they might just be waiting for the right moment for her.
 
Penny is becoming conspicuous in her absence in the RWBY chibi shorts. I wonder if this is a sign they're going to bring her back and are keeping her out of the shorts to maximize the impact when she does come back.
I don't see why they wouldn't bring her in Chibi, it's not as if something bad happened to her, after all nothing bad happens in Chibi. EVER.

Still, Ruby's reaction promises to be interesting, and probably diabete-inducing.
 
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I've actually seen a writer, Zatroopa if I recall, make not of that before with their theory being that Papa Schnee and Winter are connected to Salem and either trying to play her, or being played, or a mix of both and possible personal connections. One of the side benefits they came up with to letting the White Fang have a few victories being that they, the SDC, will soon be able to crush them all either just by using them as proxies against other people without their knowledge, or just by making them that hated and wounded.
Winter doesn't seem very...approving of her father. Her conversations with Weiss suggests that she went to Atlas and stayed a commissioned officer to get away from Papa Schnee the same way Weiss did. If that W does indicate a Schnee, it probably is Papa.

...Now I need a W word in any language that makes you think of the color white.
 
Winter doesn't seem very...approving of her father. Her conversations with Weiss suggests that she went to Atlas and stayed a commissioned officer to get away from Papa Schnee the same way Weiss did. If that W does indicate a Schnee, it probably is Papa.

...Now I need a W word in any language that makes you think of the color white.
True, true, though they do still seem to talk to some degree given she witnessed his face when Weiss said she was going to Beacon. Though I confess I like the idea, even if it is a tad sad for Weiss and Winter, that Weiss had to call up Winter to ensure she had something resembling back up when she went against her fathers wishes and by virtue of Winter being scary, compared to him, all Papa Schnee could do was express impotent rage.

I've heard people using Willow, though that may no be what you were looking for.
 
True, true, though they do still seem to talk to some degree given she witnessed his face when Weiss said she was going to Beacon. Though I confess I like the idea, even if it is a tad sad for Weiss and Winter, that Weiss had to call up Winter to ensure she had something resembling back up when she went against her fathers wishes and by virtue of Winter being scary, compared to him, all Papa Schnee could do was express impotent rage.

I've heard people using Willow, though that may no be what you were looking for.
Willow isn't a masculine first name, also doesn't match his daughters' theme.
 
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