I forgot, what or where this pose challange comes from but i’ve seen alot in pinterest so why not draw these three bbys doing the exact same pose, hope you like it!!
Okay I’m making this it’s own post cause I’m fucking losing my mind, but mostly over one thing and that’s Roman Torchwick and how he’s characterized in this single moment
Now keep in mind I haven’t watched the full episode, nor have I gotten the chance to read Roman Holiday (a damn shame I know), but I don’t think I need to rn to ramble about this point cause it just hit me like a train.
CRWBY never forgot about Roman. They didn’t just kill him off and make Neo go solo.
They set this up from the start.
The fact that Neo is silent means we can never truly know what’s going on in her head. We don’t know her thoughts. We don’t know her feelings. All we knew was she was mad for Roman and went to get Cinder for it, then Ruby herself. But never the full extent of it all.
Neo’s muteness made US, the audience, almost forget about Roman to watch her perform as a side piece to a lot of the villains. Never truly forgetting, but assuming he wouldn’t be brought up again. The hat and scarf would be reminders but never would they actually mention Roman because they killed him off in such an unceremonious way.
So to actually see THIS
To see just how deep these two went, to get full in show confirmation that they were partners in every sense of the word (romantic or platonic take it how u will but I love some Gelato so this fed me well), only to have him SPEAK? It throws you off.
Not only is it confirmation that Roman was never forgotten, but it also proves one thing about Neo that I think is so important.
She had nothing beyond Roman. “One Thing” was right. She had Roman, and he was taken away from her. And for the rest of the series, through every adventure, every appearance, every moment she was and wasn’t on screen-
She was thinking of him. Remembering him. Keeping him in her thoughts.
I understand that Neo talking through Roman makes sense and that’s why he’s got the most speaking lines, but I do find it interesting that everyone else from the “dead people lineup” is so quiet. Such a caricature of themselves.
Neo never met them personally, she doesn’t even know Leo or Clover, and Penny, Pyrrha, Ironwood, and Ozpin are all based on Ruby’s own memories Wonderland is probably pulling from her. But even they’re barebones. The only ones who have speaking lines are Penny, Pyrrha, and Ozpin and they are extremely generic.
Meanwhile, Roman is fully fleshed out. A whole person. He has his attitude, his emotions, his reactions, Neo never forgot him. She never forgot his exact self.
She uses him as her mic because he was always her voice. He was the one who made things make sense.
The line “That’s what I offered her back on Remnant.” just proves how long Neo’s thought of him. Never forgetting their promises, never forgetting his words, never forgetting him.
How many nights did Neo stay up thinking of him? How many times did she create his illusion just to play pretend for a little longer?
Everyone forgot Roman. After his death, he practically never existed. Left everyone’s minds. He wasn’t important by that point because he wasn’t an immediate threat.
But Neo never forgot.
And somehow that’s more terrifying then I thought it would be… The idea of her constantly thinking about him, trying to keep him alive in her mind. It’s no longer just about Ruby killing Roman, it’s that she forgot. That’s what ticked Neo off even more, that Ruby didn’t even view what she did as important enough to remember.
“That’s what this is about?! You still blame me for What happened to Torchwick!”
As if to say “Really? That’s all this is? Just him?”
To her, it’s mockery. As if he wasn’t even worth her time when Roman meant everything to Neo. He was her whole world, judging by, once again-
“Always loved the idea of a place to run away from it all… Do whatever you want! I offered that to her back on Remnant.”
Roman took care of reality, while Neo was able to live in her fantasy world. He handled the world. She just had to live in it, perform for it, and enjoy whatever popped up next. He brought her the escape she’s always wanted. A world where no one could hurt her, no one could catch her… Just Roman and Neo. Partners in crime. In everything.
Roman was Neo’s whole world, her One Thing…and that was stolen from her.
She didn’t have the power to make that known before. But with Wonderland…she can do anything she wants.
This doesn’t apply to RWBY alone. But to fanfics and AUs and rewrites in general for any media.
The problem these days with everyone’s idea of a rewrite is that they have it in their heads that their version is somehow automatically superior to the content its based off of.
A fanfic is a fanfic. Yet Couer Al’Alaran constantly insults the show he makes his living off of while straightwashing every female character and woobifying every male villain.
An AU is an AU, its not the real thing. Yet look at the people who try to “Fix” Adam or Raven or ironwood. Look at the people obsessed with making Qrow into Ruby’s father and claiming that they know the characters better than the writers?
A rewrite? is still a fanfic. Yet people claim that their “Reimagining” of a show makes it superior than the writers who came up with it. This obsession with making straight white male villain characters into poor little meow meows while the (often lgbt) woman who fought said men are now somehow evil or unlikable?
None of their little fan creations could be possible without the original show that these people make their money, clout, and fanbase on.
And yet so many of these people insult the show, and the writers, and everything in between.
Its incredibly disappointing, these people have lost sight of what they are and what they’re doing.
These people think they’re “Saving RWBY”…from what? Its creators? Then they’re not saving RWBY at all. They’re just intellectual property thieves then, who delude themselves into thinking that somebody’s else’s franchise belongs to them.
And they know it! They just don’t care, and they don’t want you to care either.
Remind you of anyone?
Look. You wanna ship Jaune with his “harem” whatever? I’m not stopping you. You wanna ship blacksun? ok.
But the moment people claim that their idea is somehow superior to what the actual creators came up with and that they somehow know these characters and the ships better than the writers?
Then the shippers and fanfic writers who demand the right to an opinion have nobody to blame but themselves when we criticize them with contempt.
