GraveyardShift
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Not our choice.
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Look carefully. Cinder took her in the right leg.
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[RWBY] RWBY Shorts
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Look carefully. Cinder took her in the right leg.
AJ_Talon
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If by some miracle I could reboot RWBY... I'm ditching most of the old VAs for new ones. One, they're too old, and two, most of them are liabilities. Ren, Nora, and Ruby's didn't cause any drama so they could come back in cameos. Weiss' was okay. Glynda and Sun's I might bring back. Winter and Qrow's are too good for a reboot. Everyone else? Recast, especially Jaune. I want him to sound like a farmboy, not a sniveling little pussy.
Sift Green
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If we're changing something so big as Pyrrha surviving the fight then changing which leg was injured isn't a big deal.
GraveyardShift
The Cutest of all Chiss!
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Ugh... I'm hungry and it's time for lunch... I want to get a sub but the burger skit makes me want a burger too now.
Wat do Chat?
UPDATE: I used a spinner. Burger it is.
I can already feel Arturia staring at me....
Wat do Chat?
UPDATE: I used a spinner. Burger it is.
I can already feel Arturia staring at me....
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Leo 123
Getting out there.
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Yeah, exactly that lol. He probably wouldn't be so paranoid about it if he married Jaune's sister Tanya or any woman who can keep him in line herself. But a shy, quiet girl is one he had to change for by himself. He'd be very worried that any boy looking at his daughter wouldn't change the way he made himself change.Probably wasn't his best idea to go harassing Jaune and Weiss' kid though, especially in front of them.
Just rewrite the fight so Cinder hits her left instead.
Badly injuring Pyrrha and her having to spend months healing and retraining sounds like a great idea. I'd have her come back but she's spent the time training with her semblance. She uses Polarity a lot more now since hiding it isn't worth it. She spent a long time alone hoping Jaune and everyone would be OK, so she is super happy to see him again. Also means Jaune doesn't have to go without a partner.
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No Fall timeline RWBY
Blake main character syndrome infected the rest of the teams legitimate reasons to be huntresses into... this
Jaune is a golden retriever
From the Official Manga Anthology for those wondering
Yang from the official game
the game that has Bram Throrn coup and the traitor in Ironwood ranks along side the fighters of Mantle trying to change Atlas, you know everything interesting missing from the Atlas Arc!
between the video and board games alongside the V.A. behind the scenes head canons added as after thoughts by the writers i feel for bad for the characters
i honestly hope they do a time skip ending just to wrap up everything because the idea of what every bs they have for a working together or the magic comes back ending because the idea of leave Remnant after all the BS happened to rebuild is just a fever dream at this point
final battle then time skip because these mf can't give us satisfying world build let along believable ray of hope ending
i miss these outfits
i know 3d models forces hard limits to designs and outfits but they could have sold merch like figures or key chains
if you've seen the background art references the art book or just the end credits they could have done so much more
Jaune is a golden retriever
Yang from the official game
i miss these outfits
CountvonBarnOwl
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Count on the clock again.
It has been a week or two of nonstop Malfoid and while I do intend to continue writing those stories at least for a while, I figured a visit to the threads was long overdue.
I wholly agree with the second conclusion here.
Velvet is in a trade school for mercenaries. Let us be under no illusion, that is what they are. If Cardin had a year to two of seniority on her, then fear would be understandable. But she is already imperiling her own life and wellbeing in the ordinary course of financial transactions. She has seen action. She has definitely watched people die violently and has almost definitely taken the lives of other anthropoids. And we can be certain that all of these instances occurred in circumstances where her life and safety were not guaranteed. She says as much herself in V2.
In V2, she is introduced returning from a mission with her team & professor. She is exhausted because the threat assessors most likely got it wrong, and sent Team CFVY into the jaws of an unplanned-for and overwhelming catastrophe. Her first, and only, words on the matter were: "There were so many of them."
Then The Breach happens and for Team CFVY, the Breach is light work. So you have to wonder just how bad "bad" is when they say it is bad.
Certainly worse off than what Velvet goes through in the Beacon cafeteria at the hands of a weaker student.
So if we know what she thinks is not bad, and we can reasonably infer towards what she thinks is bad, and both of those things are far, far worse than anything Cardin can do, that Velvet is getting off on it is the only logical explanation that we are left with.
In other news, Cyber Whitley 3 is in the final stretch and I should be done sometime this weekend. That is the tidy theory.
I've gotten the major recurring side characters just about done and now I've got to write the shakedown sequence for Whitley's new body.
Next two chapters after that should be the fight scenes that I had been wanting to write since the start.
I must admit, Summer being a high-functioning narcissistic sociopath is a plot beat that I personally have a love-hate relationship with.
Mostly because it crept into my head early on, while everyone else was theorizing that Qrow was Ruby's biological father, I hit on the idea that Summer solely married Taiyang out of some desire to save him after Raven left and never felt anything for him.
Because frankly, that sounds like something I can see Ruby doing; trapping herself in an empty marriage so that the other person doesn't feel bad.
I think her hero complex would inspire her to make that kind of a self-sacrifice.
And because in her head, she would be able to frame it as a selfless act of heroism, she'd really feel fulfilled by it (or something similar to fulfillment), so the fake would be pretty darn good.
Especially if the only people that she has to fool are an emotionally wrecked husband, an even more emotionally wrecked (and emotionally stunted on top of that) alcoholic brother in law, a toddler, and latterly, an infant.
If there were ever a pack of pigeons for a con like that, the Xiao Longs fit the bill.
But then V9 handed this to us. Summer pulling a Raven because, as it is stated above; Ruby needs to be perfect for for the lesson V9 is supposed to teach (that Team RWBY is infallible and has no need to grow or improve and it is morally wrong to suggest otherwise) to land. So they have to tear down the goal that she has been striving for (at least impliedly) this whole time because if she can grow, because if Ruby can make mistakes, or you think that Ruby can make mistakes, then she still has growing to do and V9 is a load of rubbish.
Remember when Ruby says that letting Atlas and Mantle die was Team RWBY's fault and they needed to improve before Yang shuts her down because that is something that Ironwood would think?
All that means is that Ironwood is a good person.
If he's willing to learn from his mistakes that is a good thing, I'll take him over anyone who says that they don't make mistakes and everyone else is at fault somehow.
I'll spare you all the personal anecdotes.
Of course, the message behind V9 is that the opposite case is true, so that is going right in the trash.
Point is, I see faking your way through a marriage just to make another person happy as something that Ruby, and therefore Summer would do. Because Summer ended up being a nonentity to me.
CRWBY of course, botched it in the way that they botched everything else. Which is why I detest the idea as it was given to us.
But what would be a worse kick in the pants?
For Qrow - had he and Summer been a thing as the early theories state - losing out on his girl to his brother in law not because of anything he did wrong, but because she decided that being a hero was what mattered? How is that for bad luck?
For Taiyang - not only did his first wife leave him, but #2 was motivated to enter that relationship solely by a hero complex and pity?
For Yang - for the mother that she did have, for what moments that she had in her young life before she had to grow up, for her 'super-mom,' to learn that it was a complete crock?
Or for Ruby - her hero, her idol, the woman whose literal mantle she has been trying to fit into since she could talk, whose face she sees every time she looks in the mirror, and who she never got the chance to meet. Everything that she was building toward, everything that she is, and that she wanted to be was just a facade? And for reasons that she is entirely aware of, can understand, can articulate, and can see in herself.
I mean, here we have a fault, inherited from the person who she basically is, and who she is trying to be.
For Ruby's arc, that is a thing she can grow above. It is a challenge for her to overcome. This works because for all of her life she has very firmly held a destination, and a pathway, for her life's journey in mind. She knows what she wants and how she wants to get there.
At some point she's going to have to put down her childish notions of being a hero if she wants to become anything like it in real life.
You know how I am always parroting Lao Tzu, "Virtue is not conscious of itself, therefore virtue that is conscious of itself is not virtue." It usually comes out when I dismiss whatever Blake does as being solely motivated by an urge to reaffirm her own moral superiority to herself, but I think it applies in Ruby's case a bit too.
Ergo, Summer can be useful as an external model that Ruby can see her own faults reflected through and better understand what those failings will cost both her and those around her.
But that only works if Ruby knows and understands that she is in no place to criticize Summer on that account- being because she's just as bad.
Ruby is, in a certain way, Summer's do-over. But she is a do-over from scratch who doesn't have the benefit of hindsight.
Meaning that if she wants to grow into Summer's cape and Summer's boots, then she has to learn from Summer's mistakes as well as her own. That should be easy, seeing that one is a copy-paste of the other.
Of course, V9 serves us rubbish and tells us that Ruby is perfect and infallible (therefore, Summer is likewise by logical extension) and that her journey is about realizing that she is perfect and anybody who says or thinks otherwise is evil for doing so…
By tearing down Summer (and by logical extension, Ruby - see the above).
Now, something understood since ancient times is that if a position or opinion cannot be explained or justified without contradicting itself is that it is wrong.
Socrates made a career clowning on the Sophists (the dominant political force in Ancient Athens at the time) by asking them questions about their beliefs and trying to elicit a contradiction out of them.
That he succeeded so prolifically and profusely as to delegitimize their entire school of thought is why all of the public officials in Athens who had come up under the Sophists wanted to get rid of him.
As such, V9 doesn't just shoot itself in the foot, it cuts its own throat.
But not on account of anything in particular that Ruby and/or Summer did, but because the message and moral that CRWBY so desperately tried to pass on was so nonsensical and categorically wrong that it couldn't help but fall apart on itself.
Therefore the trick isn't to explain or justify V9. And I do not think that can be done. V9 was a mistake because it was V9 and they made it. All I have done here is point to Ruby's - character arc would not be the right word to use - in V9 and illustrate how I think it shows that Ruby's plot thread and course of conduct - again, I will not call it a character arc - in V9 did not work out at all, let alone how the writers intended. And I think that is readily apparent.
It is for this reason that part of me thinks that Ruby would mishandle or fail some way at parenthood. If only with one of her children. Not for lack of love, she'd definitely love her kids. But she never had her own mother to learn from, neither in-person as a child, nor as a source of advice in later life. So Ruby is in the unenviable position of not knowing how to handle her kids beyond pure instinct and guesswork, especially if they end up with personalities too different from her own or if the circumstances of their childhoods are too different from those of the Xiao Long cabin. Miscommunication, and miscommunication compounded by prior miscommunication likely leading to child maladjustment are for this reason, I think, likely.
Because there is a disconnect between Ruby and Summer per Red Like Roses II.
Summer didn't want for Ruby to die like she did, but the song seems to bend in the direction that she didn't want for Ruby to live like she did either. If I had to place a guess. So I can see Ruby not wanting her kids to turn out like her either. Especially if she lets something like V9 happen to her. She would do everything she could to prevent that outcome. I guess that is why I became so set on the idea of having the main source of strife and anxiety in post-Salem Ruby's life be a teenage daughter who idolizes her the way she idolizes Summer, having to live through that, having to try to push her daughter into being her own person while also being gnawed by the fear that if she handles it wrong that she'll end up pushing her kid away from her. How would she say "You don't want to be like me, and there is a whole side of the story that nobody has the heart to tell you. I'm not the person that I used to be, and I am glad I'm nothing like the person that I used to be. There are a lot of things wrong with the person that I used to be, things nobody is interested in talking about. " without taking away so much of her child's childhood, taking away her hero, and shattering her image? If Ruby were to have some great personal struggle in later life, I think that would be a good one for her to have.
#2 is the best followed by #4.
The off-white/light gray shirts just suck so much definition and personality out of her design. The black and red, with the poofy sleeves hold that frilly, goth girl look together so much better. They keep it uniform and don't suddenly jar you with dead, soulless space on her arms and upper chest. 4's boots are better than 2's shoes, though.
It has been a week or two of nonstop Malfoid and while I do intend to continue writing those stories at least for a while, I figured a visit to the threads was long overdue.
I wholly agree with the second conclusion here.
Velvet is in a trade school for mercenaries. Let us be under no illusion, that is what they are. If Cardin had a year to two of seniority on her, then fear would be understandable. But she is already imperiling her own life and wellbeing in the ordinary course of financial transactions. She has seen action. She has definitely watched people die violently and has almost definitely taken the lives of other anthropoids. And we can be certain that all of these instances occurred in circumstances where her life and safety were not guaranteed. She says as much herself in V2.
In V2, she is introduced returning from a mission with her team & professor. She is exhausted because the threat assessors most likely got it wrong, and sent Team CFVY into the jaws of an unplanned-for and overwhelming catastrophe. Her first, and only, words on the matter were: "There were so many of them."
Then The Breach happens and for Team CFVY, the Breach is light work. So you have to wonder just how bad "bad" is when they say it is bad.
Certainly worse off than what Velvet goes through in the Beacon cafeteria at the hands of a weaker student.
So if we know what she thinks is not bad, and we can reasonably infer towards what she thinks is bad, and both of those things are far, far worse than anything Cardin can do, that Velvet is getting off on it is the only logical explanation that we are left with.
In other news, Cyber Whitley 3 is in the final stretch and I should be done sometime this weekend. That is the tidy theory.
I've gotten the major recurring side characters just about done and now I've got to write the shakedown sequence for Whitley's new body.
Next two chapters after that should be the fight scenes that I had been wanting to write since the start.
I must admit, Summer being a high-functioning narcissistic sociopath is a plot beat that I personally have a love-hate relationship with.
Mostly because it crept into my head early on, while everyone else was theorizing that Qrow was Ruby's biological father, I hit on the idea that Summer solely married Taiyang out of some desire to save him after Raven left and never felt anything for him.
Because frankly, that sounds like something I can see Ruby doing; trapping herself in an empty marriage so that the other person doesn't feel bad.
I think her hero complex would inspire her to make that kind of a self-sacrifice.
And because in her head, she would be able to frame it as a selfless act of heroism, she'd really feel fulfilled by it (or something similar to fulfillment), so the fake would be pretty darn good.
Especially if the only people that she has to fool are an emotionally wrecked husband, an even more emotionally wrecked (and emotionally stunted on top of that) alcoholic brother in law, a toddler, and latterly, an infant.
If there were ever a pack of pigeons for a con like that, the Xiao Longs fit the bill.
But then V9 handed this to us. Summer pulling a Raven because, as it is stated above; Ruby needs to be perfect for for the lesson V9 is supposed to teach (that Team RWBY is infallible and has no need to grow or improve and it is morally wrong to suggest otherwise) to land. So they have to tear down the goal that she has been striving for (at least impliedly) this whole time because if she can grow, because if Ruby can make mistakes, or you think that Ruby can make mistakes, then she still has growing to do and V9 is a load of rubbish.
Remember when Ruby says that letting Atlas and Mantle die was Team RWBY's fault and they needed to improve before Yang shuts her down because that is something that Ironwood would think?
All that means is that Ironwood is a good person.
If he's willing to learn from his mistakes that is a good thing, I'll take him over anyone who says that they don't make mistakes and everyone else is at fault somehow.
I'll spare you all the personal anecdotes.
Of course, the message behind V9 is that the opposite case is true, so that is going right in the trash.
Point is, I see faking your way through a marriage just to make another person happy as something that Ruby, and therefore Summer would do. Because Summer ended up being a nonentity to me.
CRWBY of course, botched it in the way that they botched everything else. Which is why I detest the idea as it was given to us.
But what would be a worse kick in the pants?
For Qrow - had he and Summer been a thing as the early theories state - losing out on his girl to his brother in law not because of anything he did wrong, but because she decided that being a hero was what mattered? How is that for bad luck?
For Taiyang - not only did his first wife leave him, but #2 was motivated to enter that relationship solely by a hero complex and pity?
For Yang - for the mother that she did have, for what moments that she had in her young life before she had to grow up, for her 'super-mom,' to learn that it was a complete crock?
Or for Ruby - her hero, her idol, the woman whose literal mantle she has been trying to fit into since she could talk, whose face she sees every time she looks in the mirror, and who she never got the chance to meet. Everything that she was building toward, everything that she is, and that she wanted to be was just a facade? And for reasons that she is entirely aware of, can understand, can articulate, and can see in herself.
I mean, here we have a fault, inherited from the person who she basically is, and who she is trying to be.
For Ruby's arc, that is a thing she can grow above. It is a challenge for her to overcome. This works because for all of her life she has very firmly held a destination, and a pathway, for her life's journey in mind. She knows what she wants and how she wants to get there.
At some point she's going to have to put down her childish notions of being a hero if she wants to become anything like it in real life.
You know how I am always parroting Lao Tzu, "Virtue is not conscious of itself, therefore virtue that is conscious of itself is not virtue." It usually comes out when I dismiss whatever Blake does as being solely motivated by an urge to reaffirm her own moral superiority to herself, but I think it applies in Ruby's case a bit too.
Ergo, Summer can be useful as an external model that Ruby can see her own faults reflected through and better understand what those failings will cost both her and those around her.
But that only works if Ruby knows and understands that she is in no place to criticize Summer on that account- being because she's just as bad.
Ruby is, in a certain way, Summer's do-over. But she is a do-over from scratch who doesn't have the benefit of hindsight.
Meaning that if she wants to grow into Summer's cape and Summer's boots, then she has to learn from Summer's mistakes as well as her own. That should be easy, seeing that one is a copy-paste of the other.
Of course, V9 serves us rubbish and tells us that Ruby is perfect and infallible (therefore, Summer is likewise by logical extension) and that her journey is about realizing that she is perfect and anybody who says or thinks otherwise is evil for doing so…
By tearing down Summer (and by logical extension, Ruby - see the above).
Now, something understood since ancient times is that if a position or opinion cannot be explained or justified without contradicting itself is that it is wrong.
Socrates made a career clowning on the Sophists (the dominant political force in Ancient Athens at the time) by asking them questions about their beliefs and trying to elicit a contradiction out of them.
That he succeeded so prolifically and profusely as to delegitimize their entire school of thought is why all of the public officials in Athens who had come up under the Sophists wanted to get rid of him.
As such, V9 doesn't just shoot itself in the foot, it cuts its own throat.
But not on account of anything in particular that Ruby and/or Summer did, but because the message and moral that CRWBY so desperately tried to pass on was so nonsensical and categorically wrong that it couldn't help but fall apart on itself.
Therefore the trick isn't to explain or justify V9. And I do not think that can be done. V9 was a mistake because it was V9 and they made it. All I have done here is point to Ruby's - character arc would not be the right word to use - in V9 and illustrate how I think it shows that Ruby's plot thread and course of conduct - again, I will not call it a character arc - in V9 did not work out at all, let alone how the writers intended. And I think that is readily apparent.
It is for this reason that part of me thinks that Ruby would mishandle or fail some way at parenthood. If only with one of her children. Not for lack of love, she'd definitely love her kids. But she never had her own mother to learn from, neither in-person as a child, nor as a source of advice in later life. So Ruby is in the unenviable position of not knowing how to handle her kids beyond pure instinct and guesswork, especially if they end up with personalities too different from her own or if the circumstances of their childhoods are too different from those of the Xiao Long cabin. Miscommunication, and miscommunication compounded by prior miscommunication likely leading to child maladjustment are for this reason, I think, likely.
Because there is a disconnect between Ruby and Summer per Red Like Roses II.
Summer didn't want for Ruby to die like she did, but the song seems to bend in the direction that she didn't want for Ruby to live like she did either. If I had to place a guess. So I can see Ruby not wanting her kids to turn out like her either. Especially if she lets something like V9 happen to her. She would do everything she could to prevent that outcome. I guess that is why I became so set on the idea of having the main source of strife and anxiety in post-Salem Ruby's life be a teenage daughter who idolizes her the way she idolizes Summer, having to live through that, having to try to push her daughter into being her own person while also being gnawed by the fear that if she handles it wrong that she'll end up pushing her kid away from her. How would she say "You don't want to be like me, and there is a whole side of the story that nobody has the heart to tell you. I'm not the person that I used to be, and I am glad I'm nothing like the person that I used to be. There are a lot of things wrong with the person that I used to be, things nobody is interested in talking about. " without taking away so much of her child's childhood, taking away her hero, and shattering her image? If Ruby were to have some great personal struggle in later life, I think that would be a good one for her to have.
if you've seen the background art references the art book or just the end credits they could have done so much more
#2 is the best followed by #4.
The off-white/light gray shirts just suck so much definition and personality out of her design. The black and red, with the poofy sleeves hold that frilly, goth girl look together so much better. They keep it uniform and don't suddenly jar you with dead, soulless space on her arms and upper chest. 4's boots are better than 2's shoes, though.
David Alvarex
Getting some practice in, huh?
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While I did consider an injury instead of a coma, the problem is that this would give Pyrrha a fate similar to Yang's, which would feel repetitive.
So, I opted for a coma instead, as it's something different. We could also have Pyrrha wake up from that coma at some point during Volume 6—while the protagonists are on their way to Atlas, Pyrrha wakes up in Vale and decides to assist Glynda in her efforts to repair the kingdom.
I would add that there would also be more emphasis placed on certain qualities of Jaune—such as his guitar playing, and even the fact that he's a sort of impostor who got into Beacon with forged documents.
GraveyardShift
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Don't lean too heavily into the "One Steve Limit". The idea that everything and everyone must be unique to stand out can start to cause breaking of the suspension of disbelief.
Yang is likely not the only person wounded and missing a limb from the Fall of Beacon. She's also not the only one with an artificial limb.
By limiting yourself in that fashion, you are making the statement that no one else can suffer that kind of injury among the cast. Therefore everyone else is safe from a limb amputation. That is dumb plot armor.
An arm and a leg are two different limbs with two different functions. Therefore recovery for both is going to be different. So already if you NEED to make them stand out, there's your angle.
But then consider, the reason why everyone balked at Ruby's eyes activating on Pyrrha's death is because it's a 'Show don't tell' that Ruby considered Pyrrha a close enough friend to activate them.
Except, Plot Hole, Ruby and Pyrrha have BARELY interacted throughout the series. In the same way that Jaune and Blake have said almost no lines to each other but Knightshade exists anyway. As well as Milk and Cereal.
So yes, Pyrrha and Yang are both injured and in this particular timeline, both are dealing with cybernetic limbs. Holy shit an actual point of bonding for the two.
AJ_Talon
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Again, this is why I just reject that entire bucket of nonsense and rewrite it. Ruby should see Summer, Taiyang, Raven and Qrow making an attack on Salem in the hopes of ending her threat once and for all. And they nearly beat her but Salem rallies and kicks their asses. And Summer sacrifices herself to save the others. It should be made clear that even in this darkest moment, Summer was thinking of her family, of the ones she loved, and of Remnant. She dies with a smile knowing she has wounded Salem, and that means she can be defeated. In her darkest hour, she fails to kill Salem, but the possibility of beating her is real.
This would make the entire Ever After arc actually MEAN SOMETHING. The Tree can kill anything, so getting Salem to the Ever After is their surefire way of beating her. Jaune's loneliness, falling into the Ever After, the loss of Atlas: All of it actually MEANS SOMETHING. It was a great and terrible loss, but IT WASN'T FOR NOTHING. Because it means that THEY CAN WIN. And by seeing her mother face her end with a smile, knowing she has saved her family and that there is hope, gives Ruby HOPE that SHE CAN FINISH THE JOB.
This is literally the easiest thing you can do, writing wise. Character is at their darkest, lowest level. They failed. They learn their idol did fail... But didn't give up. And these losses do not mean you've lost the war. Indeed, this loss gives you the means to WIN.
And yet CRWBY could not put this together, because they can't let their female characters ever be imperfect. Which in turn, makes them both boring and horrifically evil.
Dragon Bob
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So idea about the prosthetic leg. What if it's that Pyrrha doesn't trust prosthetics to match her own abilities. Her semblance is metal manipulation, which means every time she's fought anyone who relied on prosthetics she had a major advantage from the start. And because of this she might have developed the idea that prosthetics are always a liability. It doesn't matter that it's objectively false, someone reeling from a major loss is going to have issues when without pre-existing biases.
It also gives her a big conflict point with Yang and by extension the rest of team RWBY. Yang will feel attacked since she now relies on a prosthetic. And gives Maria something more to do than teach Ruby to use the power of love to fuel her eyes. Maria lost both her sight and her best weapon when she was injured. Her replacements were objectively worse than the originals in every way. And she could show how to keep on living.
Grammar is Sexy
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Pyrrha: "Prosthetics are a liability."
Yang: Offended dragon noises.
Pyrrha: "I control metal. Prosthetics are a liability."
Yang: ". . . Okay, fair."
. . .
"Still gonna beat your face in, though."
Pyrrha: "You can try."
AJ_Talon
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Urgh. With the Malfoid craze and my job and money woes and other things, I haven't written nearly as much as I would like for Ruby's birthday! I do have a fun Whiter Rose short and a Lancaster lemon. But nothing really spooky, urgh.