Adam's Views On Derek Chauvin

Adam's views on Derek Chauvin

I don't think you, or most Humans who have already decided to hate on Chauvin, do get it. Chauvin was innocent. He did his job, and it went wrong. Like all jobs do.

George Floyd was a criminal, he brought it on himself, now everyone wants to find a way to justify the fact that they were carried away on a wave of emotion, and rioted for NOTHING.

Kneeling on the neck won't kill a reasonable Human. I should know. I have killed enough Humans to know how resilient they are. Kinda like cockroaches. Derek Chauvin had not intended to kneel on George throughout the arrest. Derek Chauvin is innocent and EVERYONE jumped on the bandwagon of police brutality before the evidence came out.

Even then, Derek is still on the railroad to hell because the jury is rigged against him.

This was a watershed moment. I have heard Humans say; ' Oh if I were in Atlas I wouldn't side with Ironwood, no siree!" Well, the George Floyd incident shows that Humans WOULD. Humans would jump on Ironwood's Iron Carousel and ride it all the way to the ground where the island of Atlas currently rests. Drowned and buried beneath a sea of regrets and bad decisions.

That's what they did when George Floyd died.

Roman Torchwick's Semblance

I believe Roman has a semblance, an undiscovered one, but a semblance nevertheless.

That semblance involves technology. Namely, Roman has the ability to innately understand and use advanced technology without prior training or knowledge.

But because it's undiscovered, Roman's semblance is unpredictable and circumstantial.

Therefore, the more advanced the piece of technology, the faster Roman can master it. But less complex pieces of technology escape his understanding.

Firstly, Roman manages to pilot a Paladin, without any prior experience with the machine.

Roman also manages to fight very well against Sun Wukong and Ruby Rose. Both of them use very advanced and complex weapons.

He loses to Blake, however, who uses a simple sword.

This is why Roman could operate Ironwood's ship and jettison the Knights during the Fall of Beacon. Roman had an instinctive grasp of how Ironwood's tech worked, and this is due to his semblance.

But because this Semblance is untrained, it only works on very advanced technology, which is why Roman's fight record against the Huntsmen is hit and miss.

Therefore, it is possible that Roman may have a tech-based semblance that wasn't developed.

Dad Ironwood

Once, Ironwood was invited to a wedding as a joke and he attended. This has started a tradition amongst couples in the Atlas Military to leave a seat empty for the General in case he was ever invited to one of their weddings.

Ironwood's attendance has also started a tradition where families, who had lost Fathers under Ironwood's direct command, could request that Ironwood give the daughters away during weddings. As a favor that Ironwood tries his best to personally fulfill when he can.

I think the main thing is how politics are in Remnant. Projecting real world politics into a fantasy world may make the critique of a show ... weird. Of course, RWBY does reflect real world politics to some degree, and we can't tell someone to entirely NOT compare real world politics to RWBY politics. The trick is finding the right balance.

In any case, the rightness of Ironwood's choice is really dependent on how one interprets the show's narrative at any point in time. So yeah, perhaps you could do everything right and still lose.

Ironwood's Army was the right choice

In RWBY, Grimm are attracted to negative emotions. So it stands to reason that Grimm are either repelled or uninterested in positive emotions like contentment and security.

Which is why huge cities could thrive alongside Grimm. The concentrated feeling of safety and security that comes from being protected in a city like Vale overpowers the concentrated negative emotion that one would expect where large numbers of people gather.

This is why the pageantry of the Huntsmen is so important. It gives people confidence, and generates more positive emption to deter Grimm.

Therefore, Ironwood coming to Vale with his fleet is the best solution at that point in time because: Ironwood is playing to his strengths to help Ozpin.

The presence of the fleet would inspire confidence in people during the Vytal Festival.

Vale's government would be confident that Atlas is showing their support in Vale's favor. Which would further boost the feeling of security to counter any potential negative emotion due to uncertainty or mistrust.

Additionally, Ironwood made the right decision to put his forces in control after the breach because:

People are panicking.

The ability of the Huntsmen to safeguard Vale's citizens is put into doubt.

Ironwood's fleet was essential in restoring order to the city, hence the citizens would have more confidence in Ironwood's fleet.

Therefore, Ironwood made all the right moves during V3.

The death of Apollonia was a good thing.

This point is better established in the novel instead of the movie.

In the novel, it is made more explicit that the idea of the Mafia was a system that would cause more harm than good and that Michael, during his sojourn in Sicily, was aware of the negative impact of the Mafia lifestyle.

However, Michael meeting Apollonia kept Michael within the status quo of the Mafia system despite him knowing the dangers of that life. Apollonia's family had connections with the Mafia, and Michael's courtship of her was done within the context of the Sicilian traditions which are strongly connected to the concept of Mafia.

More importantly, Apollonia clouded Michael's reasoning and logic. His possessive desire of Apollonia replaced the logical reasoning that was Michael's strongest trait and made him comfortable in the lifestyle that he knew was harmful in the long run.

Thus, Apollonia's death broke Michael from the fantasy and galvanized him to take over the family Corleone. So he could make the family legitimate and break away from the Mafia lifestyle that would doom him in the future.

This was a good thing in the Novel as the story ended on a triumphant note. Michael succeeded in going legitimate, his family was secure, and he took revenge on all fronts for all debts incurred. All this was because Apollonia dying broke the dream of the Mafia life. The movies ended more ambiguously and made the story about Michael's fall from grace as it ended with Michael becoming Don, but not with Michael going legitimate. In that context, Apollonia became the straw that broke Michael.

Instead of the hammer that broke Michael from his chains, and freed him to take the right actions and to break away from the Mafia once and for all.

Salem would very likely be redeemed. She can't be destroyed unless she willingly allows herself to be. "Learns the value of life and death," so to speak. The only way Salem learns that is if Ruby friendships Salem and talks to her.

A Thought: So. The Lamp only has three questions per "era" and his just used the last one? What is to say the next "era" isn't starting right next volume? So for all we know, Salem has both the Staff which can create pretty much anything, and the Lamp which can answer almost any question, How, exactly is anyone supposed to win against her again?

Anon, that is an excellent question and how bad things are depend on how the "era's" work as far as the lamp is concerned. (No matter what they're screwed since Salem is immortal and can just wait out the lamps question but depending it just gives RWBY more time). Unfortunately, CRWBY doesn't tell us how the question countdown works

Option 1: Each question has their own 100 year countdown. This is the version my discord group thought was the most likely for how it worked but again we don't have anything to really prove or disprove any particular theory so it's a lot of just what you think works best. This idea suggest that each time you use a question you have to wait 100 years to get that. So for example, you use question number 1, then 25 years later you use another question. Question 1 still has 75 years to use again and question 2 has the full 100 years left. With how things are currently set up, I can kind of agree with my group on why this is the most likely version of how it works. In this scenario you wouldn't want to ever have three questions just sitting around because you would want to always have the "countdown" so to speak going for at least one question so you are not accidentally wasting a question potential by having all three questions sitting in the lamp for 100 years effectively wasting the countdown. This version to me has to lowest stakes so to speak because the potential of wasting a question is lowest.

Option 2: All questions reset at the beginning of the era regardless of if all questions where used. This is one that I really like personally but again we don't know for sure. To better explain this one, let's say the year is 100 (just roll with it I am using simple numbers to make it easy. You have three questions, say you use 2 of the three questions by year 199. Before you can use the third question, the year is 200, the moment the year turns to 200, you are back to having three questions again. I like this version because it has a little complexity to it all in juggling saving the questions vs losing them forever. This version has much higher stakes because if the holder of the lamp doesn't pay attention, they could let the century pass without using a single question and losing all three questions forever.

Option 3: This is by far my least favorite but this option is the idea that the countdown for all three wishes don't start until all three questions are used. To put it another way. Say you use questions one and two and wait to use question 3 until about 5 years later. Since the third question has now been used, all three questions have 100 years until they can be used again. This one for me is the least like and would be the most frustrating because their wouldn't be any reason to not use all three wishes as quickly as possible because waiting a long time between wishes means a long time between using the next three wishes. once the last wish is used.

Of the three, option one is most logical, option 2 (which seems to be the one you're implying?) is to me the most fun, option 3 is just kind of terrible. Despite my personal opinions all three options are viable and none of been proven technically to be more correct then the others so it wouldn't be retconning to pick one over another. What I am waiting for and will lose my literal shit if CRWBY does is if they pick one of the options, establish that their are no questions left for sometime but THEN Jinn decides because she likes Ruby so much she will give her a question to help her stop Salem because Ruby is just so damn special and important OR lie to Salem and say their are no questions left when their is because Salem is just so terrible and horrible and she won't help her.

Basically as of right now, the universe has to bend over backwards to ensure Salem doesn't win and it will because that's what the universe does for her rather then let her work and fight for what she wants.