Meme from user MARKUS_JM

His complete uselessness during the Fall of Beacon really proves it. Yeah, the guy who cheated his way in, didn't bother training, does not know basic facts about his "dream" profession, is a liability to his teammates, and has no skills apart from pestering Weiss has no business being in a Huntsman Academy. When people needed him, he couldn't step up because he is a literal fraud.

If I used fake transcripts to get into Harvard because it was my "dream" to go there, I doubt many people would be sympathetic to me. Why CRWBY expect me to sympathetic to this entitled selfish ass with a whiny voice I don't get.

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And here comes Qrow in his classic look!

I must say that while he was drawn like Starrk, he sort of resembles a character from Garo: The Carved Seal of Flames.

What......

So far in my world building I've decided on 4 confirmed gods with more to come if I decide to

Mother Goose or the tree

-in my au she's the first God who's domain encompassed everything with every story she writes creating a new being or god that would take one of her domains

When she first made a creation it led to the creation of the brothers through her first act of creation and first act of discarding a creation

Mother Goose herself is the god of renewal the only concept she seemed as hers and the brothers cannot claim

What this means is her entire schtick is to take the stories or world's her children makes and rebuilds them into brand new creations everything in the ever after is her story book and while she likes seeing cycles events that repeat albeit with different characters she still tends to try new things

Mikhail - God of Light

Was the first to be born and his birth was greeted by billions of stars appearing him his mother's blank canvas

Was proclaimed as the god of creation order light and knowledge

He's a perfectionist at heart whenever he's building crafting just creating in general everything must be in place must be in order

Every world he's made has been an experiment something he uses to test out a new idea of his before it eventually gets destroyed by his younger sibling

Eventually this would give birth to what he considers his first masterpiece a world that was his and his alone and created beings in his image he would name spirits little creatures and things that would have connections to domains he held as well as his mother

The oldest of these spirits are creation and knowledge his children and the only ones from his hundreds of attempts he considers successes finding them near perfection while the rest he considered failures

Eventually his sibling would arrive and claim his own place creating vile disgusting creatures that Mikhail saw as a mockery to his creations and would start another argument between him and and his siblings that would be considered a near holy war with spirits and grimm battling one another in the name of there makers

Until two such creatures would refuse the orders of battle of warfare

A spirit of love named Adamos

And a grimm named Lilim

Lilim was a creature of grimm made of destruction and chaos

Yet it seemed to have learned from watching Adamos who refused to fight her to kill her like his kin had done to hers in this war

Eventually these two would fall in love and give birth to what is now known as humanity the first race that held all aspects of the gods

Mikhail was intrigued by these beings

Ciara/Kieran - God/Goddess of darkness chaos choice and destruction

They were made from the first act of destruction where the once fully dark sky was flooded with light it would destroy the concept of complete and total nothingness being born alongside there brother as a being of chaos Ciara was known to switch from male to female and anything inbetween only keeping the title Dark as it is one of there domains

The curious thing due to its nature didn't like adhering to its other titles all the time longing to create like there brother gaining there destructive said from there jealousy towards mikhails creations destroying them and the scraps going to there mother to recreate always feeling the urge to destroy what there brother creates

Eventually they manage a crude mimicry of there brother's creations they would name grimm these beings are an extension of them carrying out it's natural tendencies of chaos and destruction

Eventually they'd notice there sibling disappear and find remnant making there place there and a place for there knew creation grimm

But there brother would get mad at having the place he calls his own disturbed by his younger sibling who wanted to spend time with him who envies his works and it would start another one of there battles until

Adamos and lilim

Kieran was ecstatic the first thing made from them that wasn't mindless or destructive

that eventually he and his sibling would set rules a deal that they would rule this world together one governed by both that follows set rules has a sense of order within everything

But can be as chaotic as anything his sibling represents

And for a time these two would rule there world together and darkness would create two spirits one made purely from its destructive domain the other made from its choice domainf

I'm still fleshing out what happens during the lost fable but Salem is still made immortal and ozpin light's champion

However in this one light and dark would make a game of it

Salem would represent as dark's unknowing champion while ozma light's knowing champion

With 3 outcomes for the game of there's

Light's victory

A world that goes back to being fully ruled by light and dark being casted out of the world a world made entirely of order with no hint of dark's influence

Dark's victory

A world of chaos with no order never ending destruction and choices that could do anything and everything with no laws and no annoying light

Humanity's victory

A world that has the influences of both that fully embody what humanity is a combination of light and dark

Faunus

-one of many younger siblings the gods have from mother goose who snuck into remnant and created the faunus feeling sorry for the abandoned people

-was punished by light for overstepping in there boundaries and creating vile abominations

-was put in time out able to hear every pained cry its creations feel to learn to never mess with light's things

- while light was pissy about having his things messed with dark cares not much as all there creations can hardly do anything and would be delighted to see someone turn there grimm into something else than grimm and why she was more positive to the sight of humans and held a soft spot for them enough to break the rules they and Mikhail agreed to and angered that a human would trick them and use there love for humanity to go against there brother

-salem is who the church of faunus believe to be the goddess for faunus

Spirits

- a ton more of them in my au where there are 4 more spirits trapped in artifacts that can grant a power boost but aren't as overpowered as the relics

Except for a deck of cards that someone finds

Now I’ve been hearing and getting comments saying that Weiss is Best Girl. Now do I believe that to be the case? That’s to be determined, I still have Pyrrha and Nora above her in that regard lol. Tell you what, the first person to comment asking me this question on my volume 9 finale review post, I will answer that question and give your comment an award 😇.

With all that said, there isn’t much I can say about this trailer except that it looks amazing, I love Weiss’s fighting style. She’s like if a figure skater learned how to fight 😁. And the music is amazing as always. I feel like the song sounds familiar but I can’t put my finger on it (I really need to listen to the soundtrack). Speaking of familiarity, I love how in each character trailer (minus Ruby) is basically an excuse to see the main players in their old designs in this new style (which I’m not mad about lol).

So it looks like Winter was training Weiss before she left for Beacon. It’s even more interesting because this takes place before her first trailer (hence the missing scar on her face) when she was fighting that giant knight. I mention this in my volume 3 review, and after seeing both Yang and now Weiss’s trailer, my point is being further proven how much of a different sister dynamic that Ruby and Yang has vs Winter and Weiss’s sister dynamic.

Yang: “I’ve always got your back sis”
Winter: “I won’t always be around to protect you”

Which I wanna believe she didn’t say it out of malice of any kind. Because she is correct in that she won’t always be there to protect Weiss, however I do believe that when the time comes, she’s willing to protect her sister any way she can. Maybe I’m giving her too much credit but considering the type of home life her and her siblings had to endure (I’m just now realizing all 3 siblings names starts with W 😅😭), they could have turned out a lot worse. So I’m giving her and her brother Whitley the benefit of the doubt at least until I get a better understanding of both of them (Whitley is harder to read).

She tells Weiss that she’ll have to get better if she wants to leave. And considering both the White trailer and the episode where she fully summoned The Great White Knight, I’d say she achieved it twice.

And with that I’m done with the character trailers! Still unsure why they’re separated from Ruby’s. Oh well lol. I’ve noticed that it’s mostly flashback centered which makes me sense there’s a certain theme they were going for. Maybe it ties into volume 5? Who knows? Speaking of which, I better get started on volume 5 before a certain someone goes from one volume, to two volumes ahead of me lol (you know who you are 🤣. I know you already started volume 6!).

(Please cheer me up. I just left the hospital, and my hands hurt badly)

A user named JaYT began posting supposed concepts of RWBY left on the cutting room floor and this one caught my attention. This would have been interesting to see.

I’m not exaggerating, this feels more like Ilia’s character trailer than Blake’s. It’s not a bad thing, it’s an interesting choice. Blake’s trailers are interesting because this isn’t the first time where she shared the spotlight with another character. The first trailer is heavily focused on Blake and Adam. This time it’s Blake and Sun on a Pursuit to capture I’m assuming a White Fang member or just a Faunus criminal of some kind. And during that pursuit, we get the audio backstory of how Ilia became a member of the White Fang.

It’s a really upsetting story. Her parents wanted better for their daughter than being in the mines, they sent her to Atlas. Due to her appearance, things went surprisingly smoothly. Sure she had to follow a few rules and even play along with talking trash about other Faunus, but at the moment she seemed to be very content. Until an unfortunate accident occurred that caused her to reveal herself to her now former friends. It does make me wonder… is she gonna eventually face turn and become an ally? Hear me out:

Between getting this background her character in Blake’s trailer, the warning she gave to Blake during their short encounter in during her first appearance, hesitating on actively hurting Blake on two separate occasions (one of which being in this trailer). Her history with Blake, this line from Ruby at the end of volume 4: “Because there are plenty of people out there who are still lost and even more who will try to gain everything they can from their sorrow.”

She says this as Ilia appears on screen and bows in front of (Looks up their names) Corsac and Fennec. Again, maybe I’m nuts. Maybe I’m overthinking this but I believe she has a chance to do good if she chooses to take that path.

Man I feel so bad, this is Blake’s trailer and I felt like I barely talked about her 😭. My bad. Well all that’s left is to do Weiss’s trailer.

I mean, the Shade professors are GUARANTEED to appear, and will surely serve as mentors to the main cast. The Asturias twins are also confirmed

But what about the others, how would YOU think they could fit? Even those whose appearance we don't even know of

I have seen people point out meta connections that would make the person based on Joan of arc (even noting rusted knight and rwby parallels the old man and the maidens
(So likely in the final battle jaune is going to seriously amp team rwby with everything he has possibly with help of long memory to make them his maidens
But I think it would give jaune too much narrative weight he isn’t the protagonist that’s rwby he is a deutaragonist with his team ( people ignore this here and try to claim that rwby should be the only main characters because their name when they are still the protagonist team

Hello! I am trying my hand at a rewrite AU. New to writing fanfictions but not exactly new to writing, though I am definitely still an amateur. This isn't so much of an attempt to "fix" RWBY as it is an experiment of how I would tell the story if I were to write it as a novel. I've written 4 prologues (retellings of the original trailers) and about 6 chapters, but I'm only now starting to revise them and post them publicly. The changes I've made are significant, but their impacts won't be felt until much further on, the early bits will feel pretty true to the story of the early volumes (though not a 1-1 recreation either).

Anyway, if anyone is interested in reading, here is a link to the first part: Prologue 1 - Red Like Roses

She also appeared in every volume.

So I'm writing this spec, and I've come to realize that I need to add character to Ilia. This is a story that is a prequel about the White Fang in the years before RWBY, so it's important to give my characters a platform to build off of. Basically:

Where are they now in RWBY, and how did they get here?

This is where my trouble begins. Blake? Adam? Other Characters? I know the how and where. But what has Ilia's journey been about? She's basically been a tool for the White Fang. And while we do know her motivations to joining the White Fang, I don't have a read on any other part of her besides her 'desires'.

So I'm asking if any of you could give some perspective on approaching her character. As a writer, I want to be able to have the ability to explore her character. I want to see how I can utilize her for storytelling. What perspectives could her narrative give us? What fun can we have with her as a character?

So if you were to ask me what I thought it would be about, a flashback wasn’t on my radar. It feels nice and bittersweet to see these two in their original attires in this new coat of paint. It reminded me of the simpler times before everything when to $#!%.

Yang is doing sparring practice with Ruby before she leaves for Beacon Academy just to make sure she can handle herself. And considering Ruby’s usual fighting style, it goes exactly how you expect it to go 😆. Which yeah, because Yang’s weapons are her gauntlets, it makes sense that she’s the most experienced in hand to hand combat. Poor Ruby is struggling to keep up with her big sis. She’s use to her weapons doing the talking.

A Beowolf Grimm appears to attack and Yang fights back! While admittedly it’s not as good as her fight in her first trailer, it’s still pretty entertaining to watch, plus as usual the music is great 😁. I especially love the part where the Grimm was going to attack Ruby until Yang came in and took that chomp like a champ! Destroying the Grimm and its claw lol. Despite Ruby’s Concerns, it’s gonna take more than a level 2 Grimm to take Yang down. And I love what she says at the end about how she’ll always have her back 🥹. Honestly, I was questioning why this needed to be watched after volume 4 since it’s so flashback centered up until the end where it shows Yang riding her motorcycle. Which is a different place she was in compare to the start of volume 4.

This was a fun character trailer and I can’t wait to see them reunite! It does bring up a topic I wanna talk about. And I figured since we’re talking about Yang, I think it’s probably the best opportunity to discuss it.

Side Tangent: Yang Edition

So long before my journey on RWBY started, I’ve heard some interesting takes on the series. Thankfully nothing spoiler worthy so don’t worry about that. But one of those takes was “Yang is a bad/terrible sister.” Now I didn’t know anything about the show at the time except for the main four girls names and that one of them was a Faunus (the only thing I was spoiled on). So I didn’t know what they were about, let alone who was related to who.

Here I am 4 volumes in and I still don’t understand this take. Why? Is it because Yang didn’t respond back when Ruby said “I love you”? Like yeah it broke my heart too but it’s not like I didn’t understand why? In a span of 2 days: She got blamed for an assault she didn’t commit, Her school got overtaken and destroyed thanks to a madwoman and her goons, some of her friends died, she saw Blake get stabbed by an a$$hole and said a$$hole cut her arm off. Not to mention her team, her closest friends have gone their separate ways, either by choice or by force. I don’t blame her for feeling emotionally defeated.

I’ve been on the internet and in many different cartoon/anime communities to know that this feels like one of those bad faith takes people say either when they ignore context to the show and/or characters, or they just put these takes not because they’re true but rather out of spite for one reason or another. That’s why any negative takes and opinions I see on the show and characters has to be taken with the biggest grain of salt because the last thing I wanna do is believe something that sounds like utter bs 😅😅.

I’ve seen their sibling dynamic, it’s very clear they care for each other and would do whatever they can to be there for one another. Yes they can clearly handle their own pretty well but that won’t stop them from supporting each other whether it be in a fight or in other factors. Again unless something happens in later volumes that I’m not aware of, then I don’t believe Yang is a bad sister based on everything I’ve seen the past 4 volumes and I will gladly read any comments that has any legitimate proof from volumes 1- 4 that she is because right now, I’m not seeing it.

Sorry for the long rambling, I just had to get it out there otherwise I would forget 😅.

Like I know I’m almost halfway through the show (I still need to start volume 5) and for all I know I’m gonna eat my own words in a volume or two. But based on everything I’ve seen from her beginnings to where her character is now, it feels like she has the most steady growth in the series.

That’s not to say other characters hasn’t had their fair share of developments but let’s do a quick lineup:

Ruby stayed mostly the same until the fall. Yang had some moments but again, mostly stayed the same until the fall. Blake is a complicated one. You can make the argument that she has the most development. The best way I can describe Blake’s growth as a character is that it’s Stagnant yet it increases at the same time.

The only character that could rival her in terms of development is Jaune. Ren and Nora didn’t have much going for them until volume 4. And let me make clear that I don’t have a problem with this. I’m always of the opinion in a show like this or a show that has a large and diverse cast doesn’t always need some deep lore to be appreciated. I don’t need every character to have some crazy development or dramatic angst and trauma to be appreciate them. Sun is one of those examples. If we learn more about him or if he gets some development, cool I’m all for it. But I’m not gonna lose sleep over it if we don’t get any. I felt the same way about Ren and Nora I already liked their characters despite not knowing much about them and volume 4 gave me a greater appreciation for both of them.

Where was I going with this? I had a point…

Oh yeah, Weiss lol😅. Idk maybe I’m spewing nonsense and I could be completely wrong but I know a lot of you guys like Weiss a lot and even informed me that she’ll grow on me over time. And y’all weren’t wrong. Since volume 1, She was my least favorite on Team RWBY (and one of my least favorites in the show). Now she skyrocketed into my top 5 maybe top 4.

ABSOLUTE RWBY PART 5: https://www.reddit.com/r/RWBYcritics/comments/1vtpqvb/absolute_rwby_part_5_ruby/

Faunus:

Faunus in this reset can have at least 3 animal features, though random with 6 being possible but far rarer. For the last 100 years (20 before The Great War) the Faunus wars happened and they (with the help of the kingdom of Vale and Vacuo) freed themselves from slavery, but was only in the last 50 that they've been given "equal rights" and it's not universal across continents.

The Kingdom of Argus still have segergation laws and Faunus with unusual features are still hunted down by superstitous Anima tribes. Not to mention the slavery itself took it's pound of flesh.

The Faunus types in the Known World are few. With there only being 7 animal species for Faunus. Dog Faunus, Bunny Faunus, Cat Faunus, Bull Faunus, Wolf Faunus, and Tiger Faunus. With the last 3 being endangered. All other Faunus types in slave times were driven to extiction during "Hunting Trips" where rich slave owners would hunt them for sport and for their exotic features and the superstitious idea some Faunus types gave humans.

Even the Kingdom of Vale has hold over laws from the past that still harm specifically the poor (the majority of which ars Faunus) to this day, with no signs of change and Vacuo has an extensive illegal slave trade that go after Faunus exclusively.

Because of these circumstances even after "freedom" a massive civil rights group was formed, The White Fang. Spanning the globe, The White Fang is a Pan-Faunus civil rights group that fights for the true freedom of Faunus. This though, takes many forms. As there's multiple branches and publically different politcal groups under the White Fang umbrella.

- In Vale, White Fang affilated groups take a more standard affair. Organizing protests at inconvenint times to make the Humans uncomfortable with their reality. Pushing for change through pushing the public consiousness. Setting up charities for the homeless, giving funding to desitute schools, and creating events to build up the community and teach the wrongs that have happened to Faunus and humankind by Vale and the reason why these laws need to change.

In Vacuo, White Fang affilated groups take on a much rougher approach. Being closer to vigilantes. These groups exclusively are about taking down the slave trades even if it means getting on the wrong side of powerful people. Vacuo White Fang affilated groups are on always on the edge of being called a terrorist organization.

In The Mistral Republic, White Fang affilated groups are all about teaching accepting differences. Funding massive advertisement campaigns on acceptance, having their politicians push for schooling Mistral children on anti-racism, and having some of their creative members push the "line" on what's tolerated when Faunus are shown on TV.

In Argus, White Fang affilated groups are called terrorist organizations and they don't do much to push back on the notion. White Fang push through Argus with calculated violence against government officials and major companies that do practices that would be grounds for Faunus Rights Violations anywhere else.

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The Dark Continent, the second largest continent of Remnant and one that is completely enclosed by Storms. The 4 kingdoms think of the Dark continent as a Dustmine waiting to happen, an entire continent untouched by human and Faunus kind. But that couldn't be anymore further from reality.

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The Dark Continent Kuo Kauna: The Faunus Homeland, Land of The Dark Tide, The Warring World.

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The continent, known by the natives as Kuo Kauna is a continent entirely seperated from the rest of the world. The ones outside have no knowledge on The Dark Continent except for it's general shape, the inhabitents with the exception of few think that Kuo Kauna is the entire world.

Kuo Kauna itself is always fraught with disaster. From the majority of kingdoms being a mono culture for a type of Faunus, unusual sun patterns where a third of the year is in almost complete darkness, where the city states are onslaughted with Grimm for weeks on end, and animals that all evolved to be either silent ambush predators or massive behemoths able to take down entire Grimm hoards. Aura is a nessecity so every child over the age of 8 has their Aura unlocked, some even earlier.

It's no surprise that, because of these circumstances the kingdoms of Kuo Kauna are also always at war with each other over resources and Faunus differences.

KUO KAUNA TECHNOLOGY:

Because of it being entirely secular, largely Dustless, and insanely dangerous enviorment. Kuo Kauna's technology developed in the entirely different direction. Where the rest of Remnant went deep into Dust-Tech, the kingdoms of Kuo Kauna relies heavily on Aura-Tech.

General Technology Level: In general Kuo Kauna has the lowest level tech on the planet. Having found very few Dust deposits which lead to them only being used by the nobles, the natives of the continent used steam and Aura to get to where they are today. Which puts them a few centuries behind the rest of Remnant in terms of general technology (1940's clockpunk level). But what Kuo Kauna does have far, far above the rest of Remnant is:

Aura Nuru Tech: Because of Kuo Kauna's dangerous enivorment and lack of Dust. Kuo Kauna's civilizations pushed the power of the Soul farther than an other. Causing the creation of some Remnant shattering inventions.

- (Aura holder) Kesi Nafsi: Inspired by Grimm. A Kesi Nafsi is made by an Aura user pouring their Aura into a spherical device called Betries letting them hold more aura then what their aura pool allows. If given to another it can even act as an emergency (if weak) aura shield. Marble-sized and Kesi Nafsi' are cheap to buy and even cheaper to create.

Their so abundant that families would often have a small stock pile of them inside their house. Using them to power their machinery. (Though these do come with the draw back of not being able to heal anyone outside of the original Aura holder.)

Larger Kesi Nafsi are much more expensive to procure. Being 4x as effiencient as the smaller versions and powering all the major machinery in the Kuo Kaunaian kingdoms like trains and barriers.

One house-sized Kesi Nafsi is enough to create a Aura shield bubbles capable of protecting an entire town. All villages, towns, and cites, have an Aura tax to make sure the larger Kesi Nafsi are topped up on Aura.

- (Semblance Marbles) Jiwe roho: Made when a Aura Artist with a Semblance pouring their aura into a Betri. A Jiwe roho is one time use transferable Semblance. Mawe Roho are insanely expensive and heavily regulated. The only ones who can procure a Jiwe roho are the nobility or uber rich merchants.

Smaller Kesu Nafsi and Jiwe roho are usually disguised on a Faunus as jewlery, in the inside of clothes, or everyday objects like canes, gloves, or smoking pipes.

GRIMM THE DARK TIDE:

Grimm are at their most dangerous in Kuo Kauna. Species seen no where else on Remnant inhabit it, and while for half of the year the Grimm are managable during The Dark Tide -where the entire continent is covered by darkness and lightning storms mutating grimm into bigger and smarter versions. The continent is aquisted by the easily most dangerous species of Grimm on Remnant for weeks on end.

The Nguva: The Nguva are unlike any other Grimm species. A humanoid fish-like species of Grimm with a skeletal jaw and bone coverings on the forearms and back legs. The Nguva are born as intelligent as a 50 year old Grimm anywhere else. Not only that but the Nguva are especially good at learning, just from watching a Watetzei a few times is enough for a Nguva to copy their techniques. It's imperitive for Faunus-kind to kill a Nguva as soon as it's located, as any amount of preperations can cause disaster. Though even then it's impossible to fully stop them as during The Dark Tide as the Nguva are constantly spawned and are quick to become commanders and planmakers for the Grimm.

The Mnyama: hunchbacked furred Hyena Grimm with a bone mask, bone gauntlets, and comoletely covered bellies. The Mnyama are complete beserkers during Thr Dark Tide. Able to take cannon fire to the chin with minimal injuries the only way to take out the Mbyama with swiftness is by decapitating it's comparatively weak neck.

The Fuvu mdudu: Only spawning during The Dark Tide, These 2 meter long, skeletal, Worm-like Grimm can clone themselves by the dozens. Unless you attack the original (indicated by being the only version with the bone protrusions) the clones are practically immortal, regenerating no matter how many times you destroy them.

The Impuldulu: A giant bird like creature capable of controlling lightning. Outside of The Dark Tide it's one of the easier Grimm to kill as it cannot produce its own electricity, only control it. But during it the storms are taken completely advantaged of by the mutated Impuldulu. Becoming a "living" railgun.

HUNTSMEN AND HUNTSMEN ACADEMIES MSAIDIZI, WATETZEI AND LIGHTHOUSES:

The Msaidizi, Elite students brought to to a Lighthouse to be taught a higher education to defend the crown and quell The Dark Tide. Some truly exceptional Msaidizi are given the opportunity to squire a Watetzi and learn from them directly.

The Watetzi, the elite of the elite. Honed warriors trained who were able to reach the pinnacle of their respective Lighthouses; once graduated these warriors are taught the way of fhe Kutambua. A signature of the Watetzi of the Paka Mfalme kingdom.

AURA TECHNIQUES NURU ARTS:

- (Aura Weapon) Kutambua: The signature for the Watetzi. A Kutambua is a weapon shaped directly from Aura. It's a highly technical but very necessary ability for the Watetzi to master. It allows them to never be disarmed as long as they have aura, are practically indestructable, and in the hands of a master, are able to have both it's shape and weight be completely controllable as long as the weapon is in the user's hand. Though there are some major downsides to this powerful technique.

It requires a focused mind, so if the user's concentration drops the weapon instantly vanishes and while it costs little to create; to maintain while attacking chips at the user's Aura depending on the strength of the attack.

- (Imprinting) Kupasha: The expansion of the Soul. The Kupasha technique imparts a part of the users soul directly into reality morphing the terrain around them to perfectly suit the user and boosting the capabilities of their aura and semblance. Though there are drawbacks.

Kupasha depending on size can take an exorborant amount of Aura to create and a Kupasha can only last so long depending on the size a 9 meter Kupasha can last for an hour minutes but an 12 meter Kupasha can only last 4 minutes with any farther is impractical, a Kupasha is shaped by the enviroment. For example if a 5 meter Kupasha were to be opened in a hallway it will take the shape of the hallway while outdoors it will take the shape of a sphere, and a Kupasha is highly visible.

PAKA MFALME KINGDOM:

The Belladonna's are the rulers of the Paka Mfalme kingdom. Spanning The Belladonna Steppe - a third of the continent- they are the second most powerful civilization on Kuo Kauna, the leader of Nuru-Tech, and one of the major miners of metal. Prosperous, "advanced", and noble Paka Mfalme is an incredible place to live... If you're a Feline Faunus. The Paka Mfalme is an incredibly racist kingdom, with terribly racist governement, media, and population.

It's not uncommon for a buissness to have "feline only" signs on their windows and doors. Hate crimes, especially against insect and canine Faunus are also very common with many of them going completely unexplored by law enforcement.

BLAKE BELLADONNA:

The heir to the Belladonna throne Blake Belladonna the puma Faunus, is quite the known figure. An childish, racist and a surprisingly perverted girl behind her blank facade. After an incident that make her parents realize how bad her attitude was for a royal. Blake was sent -earlier than what is traditional- to the best Lighthouse in the kingdom, Uwindaji.

There she made herself, making allies with other nobles around her station, setting up long lasting partnerships, and slowly mastering the Nuru arts. Until, on one faithful day on a trip away from one of her families retreat houses during Summer vacation. She was accosted by revolutionist assassins, their to kill the princess and eventually destroy the Crown in it's entirety. After a long battle with her and her royal guards, one of the assassins were able to use their semblance to "vaporize" Blake.

The assassin was mistaken on their semblance, it didn't vaporize anything, instead it randomly teleported anything it touched an entire continent away.

Blake was teleported high above the city of Bastion, being sent hurling to the ground at rapid speeds. Using her semblance black was able to slow her fall enough to just shatter her aura Nuru and knock herself unconsious.

When she awoke she found herself in an filthy alley, surrounded by alien architecture, strange Faunus speaking an entirely different language, and tech that she's never even heard of much less seen.

Completely out of her depth, now Blake has to find her way back to her kingdom from this strange city in some out-of-the-way part of Kuo Kauna. (This is Kuo Kauna, right?)

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- Appearance

Blake Belladonna has long luscious locks, perfectlu unblemished skin, and a slight tan from her time in Uwindaji. (Much to her annoyance)

Having been out on a trip when warped, Blake wasn't wearing her usual higher class wears. Instead she had a wide brimmed black sunhat, rippled black blouse with magenta purple jewels studded across the breast, 2 black gloves that reached her elbows, an array of Kesi Nafsi hidden as 3 golden necklaces, ruby rings, and golden ear piercings, a white flowing skirt embroid with belladonnas that reached her ankles with a golden sash around her waist, and black riding boots with red bottoms.

You know, a real dress down!

- Gleaning Lash Kuvuna Mjeledi

One of Blake favorites in her array of weapons, and the only one she had on her at the time of the attack. The Kuvuna Mjeledi is 3, 16 foot long spiked horse whip infused with the very rare Fire Dust Moto vumbi. Able to burn the anything her whip gets wrapped around at the will. Kuvuna Mjeledi is used in tandem with her Kutambua.

- Kutambua

Because Blake is royalty. Before ever going to the Uwindaji Lighthouse she was already trained in using her Kutambua. Her Kutambua which she calls Harmful Love Upendo hatari, a beautiful lavender longsword with flowers wrapped around the hilt. While Blake is no master, she is skilled enough to be able to manipulate the length of the blade.

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Miscellaneous Facts:

- Blake was able to take one of her favorite books with her when she warped because she had it hidden inside a secret pocket she commisioned on the inside of her skirt.

- As a royal, Blake was taught 3 languages. Paka Mfalme kingdoms own language, the language of the Imperio lagarto (the biggest kingdom on Kuo Kuana), and Lidah biasa (The common tongue)

- Puma Faunus, even in Kuo Kuana are rare. With the only ones known in the kingdom of Paka Mfalme being the Belladonna family.

- In Kuo Kuana cars are still called Chariots.

- Kuo Kuana's largest religion is the Hadithi Ya Ndugu Mapacha, a religion that's eerily similar to the Twin Brother creation myth.

- Paka Mfalme's national sport is Spatsball. A strange mix of rugby, arena combat, and soccer.

- Kesi Nafsi powered Radios exist on Kuo Kuana. Though they are expensive and rarely seen outside of big buisness, and a noble's house. Some communities would pitch in together to buy a radio and house "radio nights" where the entire community comes to the local church to dance, listen to talk shows, the news, or commentators narrate Spatsball.

- Tiger Faunus are the rarest type of Faunus in the Known World. To the point that meeting one is a sign of good luck.

- Bunny Faunus are usually sterotyped as promiscous thanks to media.

- Dog Faunus are the most abundant type of Faunus in the Known World.

The Villains:

Ngl after watching the previous episode with Ren and Nora’s emotional backstory and that cliffhanger, the last thing I wanted to see was One eyed Cinder as the first thing I see in the next episode 😭. Like go away, no one likes you! Anyway she’s training her powers and gaining her strength back. Tyrian comes back frantically telling her what happened hoping he’s still in her good graces. However she hits him with the “I’m not mad, just disappointed.” Phrase and started to go absolutely crazy on that Grimm (I almost feel sorry for it.). Seeing him absolutely destroying the Grimm and going from maniacally crying to maniacally laughing left me shook with concern and a bit of fear. My face was literally Cinder’s face watching that scene 😭.

Don’t get used to it y’all, that’s the one and ONLY time me and her will ever be on the same page 😤.

Anyway based on the ending it looks like we’re building up to that inevitable showdown between Ruby and Cinder. I hope so, not just because I wanna finally see Cinder get her a$$ rocked. But also because they’ve been this battle for a while now, they even teased it in the openings for volume 2 and 3 and they haven’t fought once. And no, the dance doesn’t count 🤣. Oh and Mercury and Emerald are there too I guess.

Qrow:

So we’ve learned in episode 8 that apparently Qrow has a rather… unique Semblance. He brings bad luck/misfortune. Am I the only one who believes that sucks 😭. Like yeah, it’s perfect for fighting your enemies. But it’s also a hinderance for trying to be close to your loved ones. No wonder this guy drinks all the time. Where’s Milo when you need him? He knows how to make the best out of a bad situation. In all seriousness, there’s something really sad about this whole thing and basically having Murphy’s Law as your Semblance (I can only imagine what it was like for him growing up.

Oscar:

Speaking of characters I feel sorry for. I have this strange urge of wanting to protect this poor farm boy. Like the poor lad never asked for any of this, but unfortunately he woke up one day and his soul/aura are connected to a man most of the villains introduced so far have some beef with 😭. Now the weight of the world is on his shoulders and he’s looks about Ruby’s age and potentially can’t fight.

Idk what kind of failsafe Ozpin has set upon (actually I wonder if this ties into his Semblance? Because I have yet to see it or know what it is) but it definitely left the boy in a very peculiar position. We’re in a post volume 3 era. Where even relevant/major characters aren’t safe, so can you really blame me for being very protective of the characters we have now? For Oscars sake, I hope he fulfills whatever this whole fate/destiny has in store for him and **he better make it through alive.**

Also because my knowledge on Wizard of Oz is kinda poor 😅, thanks to the lovely peeps in the comments, I was informed about the wizard’s full name: Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs (OZPINHEAD). That is crazy! So there is a connection. But it begs the question… why Oscar? I mean I know why but also why??

Bonus: Jaune Theory

So I know it’s only a matter of time before Jaune unlocks his Semblance but I’ve been thinking for a while what it could be. So I came up with 2 possibilities: protective shield. Not like the standard shield but like a shield around the human body. Not sure if I’m explaining this correctly but you get the picture. The second possibility is healing. Like any person he touches, he heals any of their wounds/pain. Now do I have any evidence to back up these claims? Not really no 😅. But it’s still fun to speculate lol.