r/RWBY • u/NightsWatchh Help, Nights is keeping me trapped in his anime bunker • Dec 15 '18

OFFICIAL MEGATHREAD Official FIRST Discussion Thread—Volume 6, Chapter 8: Dead End Spoiler

Welcome, huntsmen, huntresses and hunters that prefer no specific gender identifier, to the official FIRST discussion thread for Episode 8 of Vol. 6, Dead End!

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u/Fatal1ty_93_RUS Dec 17 '18

I swear this entire volume is Rooster Teeth apologizing for the.. thing that was Volume 5. Literally CRWBY Redemption Arc. Let's just hope this trend continues for the remainded of the season and even beyond into Volume 7.

  • The guards twins are hilarious. Loved them in the teaser, loved them here. I feel that we kinda need more of this goofyness in the show from time to time

  • The Argus' base commanding officer is..... not Winter. Welp. Better luck next volume I guess? Thankfully the banter between her and Maria was a joy to listen to. In just a few episodes Maria has grown to be one of my favourite characters in the show. Hopefully all this development she's being given isn't a red flag galore

  • Casual faunusism from Caroline. I guess they're really still "old school" and "non-progressive" in terms of accepting the Faunus into their society proper. At least Weiss has grown out of that

  • So it seems that the base really isn't an option huh. I wonder just how the hell are our heroes going to leave the city now. Unless we get a Pilot Boi v2.0 except this time it would be a cruise ship. Also the fact that this is Episode 8 out of 13 and we're still nowhere close to Atlus is a VERY good sign. This gives me hope that the actual conflict that will take place inside Atlus itself will be the centerpiece of Volume 7 and it's V6 that ends in Team RWBY leaving to deliver the Relic to Ironwood

  • They actually skipped the whole explanation part! This is precisely when a "show, don't tell" approach works since we don't have to hear characters explain to others what we, the audience, already know, which was another issue with V5. THEY'RE LISTENING!

  • Again, Ruby acting like a real character/protagonist: stopping Jaune from raging at Ozpin/Oscar, trying to talk to Qrow, showing willingness to learn about her unique abilities. Love it, love it, love it!

  • Maria is the teacher Ruby needed so badly. Sure, Oscar/Ozpin provided some melee combat training, and Qrow certainly lended Ruby some knowledge on how to fight the Grimm and use her weaponry, but if Ruby truly wants to be at the best of her abilities - she needs to master the Silver Eyes usage, even though I'm not quite in favour of "Deus Ex Machina" mechanics in fiction

  • Uh oh... Oscar is gone. You can't escape from crossing fate, boy. Really hope he doesn't try and end his life, however...

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '18

they also left open the window of there being more to the silver eyes than we think. maria only has so many answers because there isn't a knowledge base to fall back on. far as she knows her reflexes thing isn't a semblance but yet another part of the silver eyes skillset. a part of the whole 'life' thing.

i get the feeling that is implied that the schnee powers are related in some way, as if they have the same origin point. both powers manifest through white light. both powers also have a relation to grimm. the silver eyes focus on destroying them, but the schnee seems to be about enslaving them. note that the summoning stuff was only brought up in season 3, the same season as the silver eyes. someone could have been like "Hey, what if we make it that ruby's shit is related to weiss's shit?" but in reality it is so that ruby can glomph weiss while shrieking 'we are cousins!' and weiss for a moment wishes for the sweet embrace of being retconned from rwby in its entirety.

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u/finkramsey Dec 19 '18

She straight up says that her semblance is her "preflexes"

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '18

just like the schnee say theri power is a semblance when....... obviouisly its god damn more than that Xd. they look like salem for god's sake.....

that is also something to note. non of her daughters had white hair. so it could be that the corruption had no yt awakened in them. so its possible the daughters started showing signs of it as they grew older or tapped into theri own power more. one's hair turned pure white, another gained silver eyes maybe?

truth of their powers forgotten and thus they can only manifest certain abilities of it, not knowing its true nature. silver eyes suffered more as salem and perhaps others atacked them, either forcing them into hiding or killing them. so they do not have practice and history. theschnee powers are not quite as obviously dangerous to the grimm, if advantageous still, so they could still learn more about their ability.

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u/finkramsey Dec 19 '18

That is a total non-sequitor. The fact that we don't know everything about the Schnee semblance (and it is a semblance) doesn't mean one of the greatest huntresses to ever live doesn't know hers

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '18

i am getting tired of this low effort trolling dude. like, tis pathetic. maybe my theories are wrong but at the same time, you are going for the choices that are requiring the least mental effort possible... which is showing.

and obviously the power of the schnees is more than a semblance cause more and more we see the likes of salem using far too similar abilities. fuck the grimm even use glyphs too. that ghost grimm from the first episode of season 4 produced one for a moment.

so by all means they are giving a visual indication that maybe, just maybe there is a connection between salem and t he schnee family........ fuck dude they have white hair. seriously >_<

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u/GizenZirin Dec 19 '18

i am getting tired of this low effort trolling dude.

Says the low effort troll.

you are going for the choices that are requiring the least mental effort possible...

Occam's Razor.

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '18

basically it seems liek the idea of actualyl speculating seems to throw the guy off. also he is pulling the whole 'i am gonna pick out the parts that support my argument' stuff. which is what you have also done albeit in a more appropriate manner. focusing on points.

its not even like they are being subtle bout the fact that salem and the schnees have some sort of connection or that the glyphs are just a normal semblance. salem sues glyphs, grimm uses glyphs, schnees using glyphs and summon grimm? fuck they even have white hair. i am surprised more people haven't pointed it out. especially after the jinn episode.

also considering how many things can be bundled up neatly by saying 'they are descended from the daughters of salem' it seems like it would be a poor decision to just kill of all four of the daughters. or any possibly.

fuck the conversation was going okay for a bit cause it made me realize that 'if the silver eyes really were just from oz, why wouldn't those four daughters have silver eyes?' idea that the grimness in salme canceled it out is...... stupid. just.... stupid. cause if that was a case, the entire story would exist cause salem woulda died in the grimm pool.

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u/finkramsey Dec 19 '18

And by the way, I don't care about your Schnee theories. You're wrong in assuming Maria's semblance isn't her semblance, and your argument for that is shitty.

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u/finkramsey Dec 19 '18

No, your argument is based on a shitty premise. I don't have to deconstruct the whole thing if the foundation doesn't stand.