My Favorite Part About RWBY Right Now Is How Literally Everyone Stuck In The Ever After Is Experiencing

My favorite part about RWBY right now is how literally everyone stuck in the Ever After is experiencing the absolute Most on opposite ends of the spectrum.

Ruby is going through it. She’s jaded and traumatized. Hasn’t smiled in weeks. Lost her purpose. Doesn’t have a will to live. Etc.

Weiss? Just so fucking over it all. Everything keeps happening and it’s SO DUMB and SO INCONVENIENT. Why does nothing make sense here?

Yang and Blake? Thriving. Making out. Honest with their emotions and living their best lives kissing in a field of magic lilies.

Jaune? Homeboy just lived several years alone on an island suffering as his belief in all things good evaporates. He has gray hairs.

And like. We still don’t even know what’s going on in Remnant. Nora and Ren think two of their teammates are dead now? Penny got juiced. Winter is the Maiden. Is Qrow ok???

I miss Pyrrha.

Marrow’s never going to live this one down. 

Thank you op for pointing this out because... I've been there too. I didn't notice it until now.

I knew there was a reason I was so in tune to Ruby's break down. I was at the same place. A couple of years ago I was stumbling into depression. BIG time. And no matter how I seemed to reach out to my friends (I was at college far away from home) none of them seemed to hear me.

So I did the only thing I hadn't tried yet. I snaped. I yelled at them in their own room, swearing (I NEVER swear, and it's a fun personal reason) but I did because I knew it would grab their attention. And it did.

How did they respond? They got mad at me. Pointed everything at me. How dare I yell at them? How DARE I? It was after this that I cut them out of my life for good. Granted it wasn't the best thing for me to do, but I was deep in depression with no support system. I didn't know what else to do.

And while I don't think Ruby should do that for her team obviously, there are differences between my old friends and her team, I have come to a connection with how Ruby is feeling at this moment, and I literally feel her pain. And I now understand why I do.

Some additional thoughts on Ruby’s breakdown.

I’ve been where she is, I’ve done what she did, and make no mistake: it’s a cry for help. It’s being pushed to the point where lashing out is the only way you can think to get people to recognize that something’s wrong, that you’re not okay, and it’s carried by the anger of “why didn’t you notice? don’t you care?”.

No, it isn’t all that fair to WBY and Jaune. It’s not supposed to be. Ruby isn’t right and she isn’t wrong, and the way she expressed herself definitely wasn’t healthy, but every single other time outside of Chapter 1 where she’s had moments where she’s clearly not okay, she’s been brushed off, interrupted by something going wrong, or the group has already moved on, and she is painfully valid in reaching her breaking point.

What makes it worse? She was met with hostility. She was met with surprise, and wariness, because she’s never been allowed to not be okay. From the moment she was told that she always had to be at her best back at Beacon, she has not had the reprieve of being a person. She’s the leader, she’s the support, she has all the answers, she knows what to do.

“It’s all about you”? It’s never been about her. It’s been about a Huntress, the leader of Team RWBY, a Silver-Eyed Warrior, the daughter of Summer Rose, the way others—the way the rest of the world—perceive her.

It has never, ever been about Ruby Rose, because that’s not who she’s been allowed to be.

What Ruby did in her outburst was a cumulation of everything that's been sitting on her. It has nothing truly to do with those around her, and none of them should hold it against her.

She needed this snap. This one final push, where everyone there could see her ptsd, and how broken she really is.

I'm excited to see her break, and for it to be long and tiresome, because the longer and deeper it is, the stronger she will bounce back. I truly believe so.

I mean... we've seen it happen before with other characters

Look, I'm happy for Bumbleby but let's not call Ruby a homophobe for her outburst.

Her behaviour has been borderline suicidal throughout the volume. I hate to break it to you but contemplating wiping her current self out of mistakes because she feels like a failure is . . . very much a suicidal mindset. That ep4 scene was a huge red flag.

She was extremely valid in how she felt, having to be the one taking care of everyone else while her own mental health fell apart over the years. I can't even fault her for lashing out the way she did.

She's a struggling 17 year old, not an evil homophobe. And besides, homophobia doesn't even exist on Remnant.

LMAO

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