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Cinder being comforted by Winter after a nightmare for @scham-wcan. Thank you!!!
Fun Headcanon: If Cinder did find someone she loved and got over her fear of affection leading to more abuse and mistrust, she would probably wholeheartedly devote her love to them. With Rhodes, she styled her hair after him as well as her weapons and brooch colors. The way she takes after her abusers implies a level of gratefulness shown by her emulation and adding their traits to her. So if she were to find someone loving and caring, she would more than likely try and emulate them or make her love for them known in her design.
This is just a self-indulgent sketch from a few months ago that I wasn’t planning on posting at first. But some very kind people encouraged me a lot and after thinking for a while, I have decided to post it.
Enjoy some more happy Cinder 🌻
Cinder shouldn't use a bow. Her whole thing is glass/obsidian, which for those of you who've never had a window break, is famously inflexible. Everything to do with bows depends on flexibility — the arms have to bend to store energy, the string has to bend to draw back, even the arrow bends around the bowstaff when it's loosed and wobbles in flight.
Instead, Cinder should use throwing knives. It makes way more sense and fits her aesthetic better.
I honestly really love the weapon symbolism in RWBY. Ruby says in the second episode that their weapons are extensions of themselves, and it’s absolutely true.
Like, take Crescent Rose for example: in Volume 4-6, it’s scarred, it’s cracked, it’s beaten up, but it’s still working. Much like it’s owner. And in Volume 7, it’s upgrade isn’t in firepower or something new and fancy, it adds adaptability.
Crocea Mors is also a fantastic example. In the beginning, it is literally not Jaune’s weapon. It’s his great-grandfather’s. It’s a manifestation of the legacy Jaune is desperately trying to live up to.
Come Volume 4, and Jaune adds Pyrrha’s diadem to the shield, symbolising that he’s now attempting to live up to Pyrrha’s example as well. Plus, it gains a mode where Jaune sacrifices his defense for offense, foreshadowing his suicidally reckless belief that he doesn’t matter.
(It’s not a coincidence that this form is first revealed when Ren is going through a bit suicidal recklessness.)
Come Volume 7, and he now focuses on the Shield, symbolizing how Jaune has switched his focus to supporting and defending those around him.
We’ve also all noticed that Gambol Shroud now intergrates Kintsugi into the design: the idea that something that has been repaired, healed can be more beautiful than before it was broken.
But I really love Cinder’s weapon symbolism.
Chronologically, the first appearance of Midnight is in Beginning of the End. Where it’s an actual metal weapon that Cinder carries around with her. But once she gains half of the Maiden powers, she tosses it to the ground and burns it.
Symbolically, Cinder has sacrificed a part of herself in her quest for power.
Throughout Volume 2 and 3, the Midnight we see is a facsimile, a fake created with the Maiden Powers. Cinder is trying to use the powers to replace a part of herself she’s lost.
But that Midnight is made of glass. It’s fragile, easily broken.
And after Volume 3, she hasn’t used Midnight at all. She’s trying to distance herself from what Midnight represents, what she’s left behind in her search for power. There’s nothing actually stopping her from reclaiming it, reforging it, creating it anew… except herself.
And if you’ll notice, when Cinder creates obsidian blades now, it’s never the same blade. The RWBY Wiki lists nine different sword designs she uses just in last few episodes of Volume 5. Even in Volume 6, when she’s making daggers down in the Vault, there’s five different dagger designs. And in the fight with Winter and Penny, she uses three of those swords, and one of the knives.
Combine that with her incredibly frequent outfit changes, and it paints a picture of a young woman who doesn’t really know who she is, only who she doesn’t want to be.
I just noticed...
It's the exact same sword!!!!
Cinder still cherishes that memory....this kid suffered a lot
Me and @psychicbluebirdmiracle had an argument about snow and sleet lol, but we realized we could turn it into a Kaider argument. So here it is, enjoy my fellow TLC fans:
Redesigned my first Sonic Oc for the billionth time. She had a lot of emotional baggage tied to her, so I changed her design.
If you're interested, you can find her bio on my Toyhouse under the same name.
Tried replicating the Sonic Channel style from 2018, I think I pulled it off✨
A personal vent piece from about a week ago. Also an excuse for some background practice, since I don't really do those often.
Their first Halloween.
Cinder has never actually celebrated Halloween since her village had their own sort of holidays, so when Rouge explains it she's beyond excited and tries to get Shadow to dress up too. Of course at first he rejects the offer and calls it foolish, but really he's reluctant because it reminds him of Maria since they'd celebrate Halloween on the ark.
He gives in eventually, and actually enjoys himself.
Bonus: Her full costume
It's a sleepy conga.
This is a pretty regular occurrence every morning.
Cinder always wakes up first and pretty early, so usually she's in charge of waking everyone else up. Rouge, of course being a bat, hates mornings because of how bright it is, so she'll hold on to Cinder as a guide. Sometimes she's rambling nonsense in her post sleep haze.
Meanwhile, if Shadow hasn't had his coffee he's completely out of it, and also using everyone to walk for him. Other times he's got a vice grip while being dragged around.
Cinder lovingly dubs it the "sleepy conga".
I've been a bit busy lately, but here's Cinder's new reference sheet! Mostly inspired by Even Stanley's IDW character sheets for Kit and Belle. Her bio is pretty much the same, but I'm working on a new headcanon voice for her.
“….that little shit….I oughta…”
“…oh this is a BOOTY CALL…well that changes everything….”
Cinder doodle
Cinder belongs to @dreamsb0u
Cinder and Kai goals
Cinder: I did not pick her up early from preschool.
Kai: Peony, did mommy pick you up early from preschool?
Peony: No.
Cinder: See? Case closed.
Peony: We didn't go.
Kai: Case open.
Peony: We went shopping.
Cinder: All right, Peony...
Peony: We bought matchy wire cutters.
Cinder: You're going to your room.
Kai: You're both going to her room.