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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That's like... the opposite of what you want. You definitely need an in-universe explanation for things. Build it from the ground up: your people came here, why did they build a settlement here? What hardships did they face living here? What impact did that have on their society?

I can see lesbians and gays and bi's and whatnot being a 'sure, whatever makes you happy' sort of thing rather than actively discriminated against like faunus, but not actively encouraged, maybe? (to expand, I mean more in a there's no issue with it, but there's no like 'hey you should lesbian' pushing or 'hey you should be straight' stuff) I know a lot of trans people face a lot of difficulty with the disphoria and stuff, but I'm not sure how much of that is societal pressure over just feeling like you're in the wrong body all the time.
Actually, the fact that is a death world might discourage homophobia, you see in biology there exists something called the Gay Uncle Hypothesis that basically say that the presence of non-reproductive members in a group, aka the Gay Uncle, increases the odds of the group survival as they would provide for the group with burdening with extra childrens.
 
I'm not sure what you mean by actually, because it looks like you're agreeing with me?
 
I'm not sure what you mean by actually, because it looks like you're agreeing with me?
Agreeing.

Mostly because I have run into a couple of "Remnant is a Death World it shouldn't have GAYYSS!!!" comments lately.

But they tend to be from the kind of people that believe that the societies of Remnant should be the Empire of Man with it's Grimmdark levels of repression while completely ignoring the fact that Grimm are attracted to negativity.
 
completely ignoring the fact that Grimm are attracted to negativity.
To be fair, that's only come up like... once or twice in the entirety of RWBY.

A few more times if you accept headcanon explanations like "Nora attracted the Nucklavee" or "Blake attracted the Sea Dragon".

Hell, there are more times that a Grimm is attracted to something as mundane as being present in their general vicinity or even bloody honey than actual negativity.
 
The thing about Grimm negativity it's that people heard about it and assumed that Grimm were attracted to ANY negative thought. So by the time RT got around to showing the sort of scale needed to draw in the Grimm in V3, people were stuck in the 'any bad thoughts bring Grimm' mindset.

To me, I'm sort of in the middle- if your isolated alone in the wilderness, negativity can attract nearby Grimm. But only ones that were within say a mile of you. But if your the only one in a group of people, the Grimm won't be as drawn in.

If a small village has a large portion of its inhabitants who are panicking (like if bandits attack) or something like the plague hitting them, I can see that drawing the Grimm.
 
The thing about Grimm negativity it's that people heard about it and assumed that Grimm were attracted to ANY negative thought.

The scale was never what bothered me.

It was always how ill-defined "negative" was. Whether you're looking at it from a psychological, spiritual, or philosophical standpoint, that's a wildly loaded statement and they don't really seem interested in exploring that. Which, fine, but if they aren't interested in paying off what they've set up, I really think the grimm would have been just as effective as an antagonistic force without that.
 
If Aura didn't provide at least some degree of insulation, then everyone would be throwing away their guns and grabbing flamethrowers, since their targets would be basically defenseless against convection. Not to mention the lack of horrific burns whenever Yang uses Dragon's Breath Fire Dust ammo in her shotgauntlets. And Flynt being able to shrug off getting dragged into a lava geyser by Weiss.
 
If Aura didn't provide at least some degree of insulation, then everyone would be throwing away their guns and grabbing flamethrowers, since their targets would be basically defenseless against convection. Not to mention the lack of horrific burns whenever Yang uses Dragon's Breath Fire Dust ammo in her shotgauntlets. And Flynt being able to shrug off getting dragged into a lava geyser by Weiss.

And Nadir not getting frostbite despite spending the entire fight getting stuck in ice.
 
Basically, aura can do whatever the plot needs it to.
I don't see how protection from cold is somehow a huge departure from its well established ability to protect against basically any kind of damage while it's active. Also it's basically ki/chakra/spirit energy so a large degree of versatility if you train enough is to be expected.
 
I don't see how protection from cold is somehow a huge departure from its well established ability to protect against basically any kind of damage while it's active. Also it's basically ki/chakra/spirit energy so a large degree of versatility if you train enough is to be expected.

Eh, I don't think you're wrong here, but I really feel like aura and what exactly it can do and what its limits are could be much better defined.
 
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