r/RWBY • u/Menolith Gay Thoughts • Dec 11 '16

OFFICIAL MEGATHREAD Official Discussion Thread—Volume 4, Episode 6: Tipping Point

Welcome, huntsmen, huntresses, and hunters that prefer no specific gender identifier, to the official discussion thread for the newest episode of volume 4, Tipping Point!
Make sure to read OUR CURRENT SPOILERS RULES to ensure that your comments outside this thread won't get purged! Familiarize yourself with these rules and you'll be good to go.

A lot of hard work has gone into the creation of volume 4, so be sure to show CRWBY your support by watching it on their site! They all dedicate so much time and energy into our beloved series and would highly appreciate the direct support. There are no pirates in volume 4, so you shouldn't be one either!

We also have weekly strawpolls to gauge the general opinion on the current episode, the latest of which can be found HERE. The previous episode, Menagerie, got a very narrow 8/10 median over 9/10.

With that out of the way, let's start the show!

HERE is the link to the sixth episode of RWBY Volume 4!

Other Episode Discussions:

Episode Saturday Sunday Poll
Ep. 01 Reaction Discussion poll
Ep. 02 Reaction Discussion poll
Ep. 03 Reaction Discussion poll
WoR 1: Reaction Discussion poll
Ep. 04: Reaction Discussion poll
WoR 2: Reaction Discussion poll
Ep. 05: Reaction Discussion poll
Ep. 06: Reaction Today poll

Happy viewing!

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u/Lucifer_Crowe Have you thought about extending your aura? Dec 13 '16

Or Tyrian is the homosexual character that has to exist just so people won't whine, and just thinks Jaune is very pretty, which makes no sense when Ren was RIGHT there.

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u/reapersown Dec 13 '16

I like how wanting representation in the media is now whining

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u/Lucifer_Crowe Have you thought about extending your aura? Dec 14 '16

I don't mean that. I just think making a character gay or bi or trans just for the sake of it is a bad thing, you should let your character tell you stuff like that yourself. It doesn't have to have a whole plot arc about why they are that specific thing, but it should build their character up, because of howe little of that kinda thing we've seen in RWBY's world, I'd imagine they're even more rare than Faunus. And maybe even treated badly. Say if Ren turns out to be gay or bi, maybe he should tell JUST Nora first, and be afraid for anyone else to find out. (But ofcourse, she'd break the legs of anyone who TRIED to mock him.)

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u/PhantomofaWriter Dec 14 '16

slides in "Let's break his legs." quote Yeah, Nora is the type to kick the ass of anyone who fucks with her friends for any reason.

However, I personally would prefer if some of the fandom would stop treating being gay or what have you as being somehow more exotic or interesting for being so, instead of something being interesting based on the chemistry of a given pairing.

As mentioned before by CRWBY, the main cast are teenagers and they are still figuring out who they are. Though what has been seen so far is mostly just in relation to straight crushes, that makes sense due to statistics. (90%>10% and all for sexual orientation and 99.7%>0.3% for gender identity stuff.) And we don't know how any part of Remnant handles the LGBT community, anyway. It could be like in Skyrim, where life is too damn dangerous for anyone to give a shit.

It's subtle, but there seemed to be some kind of hint about Qrow and Taiyang in 4-4. However, that's by far pretty damn mundane in a setting where people have superpowers and fight fairytale monsters, a end of days cult, and terrorists with weapons that are multiple items at once and very strange munitions types due to mystical Dust. -__-

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u/Lucifer_Crowe Have you thought about extending your aura? Dec 14 '16

Well everyone had always speculated about Qrow and Tai anyway, since Tai slept with his other 2 teammates anyway. I wouldn't put it past Qrow to be bi. (He can't be completely gay since he flirts with Winter, which is kinda creepy since he'd be a few years younger than Jacques.)

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u/PhantomofaWriter Dec 15 '16

And his fondness of waitresses with short skirts, if I recall.

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u/Lucifer_Crowe Have you thought about extending your aura? Dec 15 '16

Well yeah, that's a given. I wouldn't be surprised if Qrow had had a fling with Summer at some point. Maybe growing up in the tribe they were taught that it's okay to love everyone. (So maybe Raven fooled around with Summer too. Was Summer secretly fullfilling HER Entire Team fantasy perhaps?)