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Ironwood has the majority of votes on the Council because Major Leaf is an official Council Member. The first time Jacques Schnee tried to become a Council Member, Ironwood refused by making Major Leaf a Council Member just to veto the decision.
The Council got the message and denied Jacques a seat, but Ironwood forgot to remove Major Leaf from the roll.
Congrats anon, “councilmen turtle” is going in the next thing on my writing blog.
OMG YESSSS. Please @ me with any writing that comes from this please! Councilmen Major Leaf rules all XD
That's a fair point, but you could also see it as Ironwood's semblance driving him to be as hardhearted as possible to SELL the Bluff.
Was he about to shoot Marrow? Maybe. But comparing Ironwood's off-handed shooting of the Politician, and the delay of Ironwood shooting Marrow, I wonder if Ironwood was going to kill Marrow. Or was Ironwood going to make a big show about it, then order Marrow to be arrested instead.
We won't know because Winter intervened before anything could happen. But if Ironwood had shot first and missed Marrow, before Winter arrested Marrow though, who knows?
Even if Ironwood did kill Marrow, he did it to save Atlas from Salem.
Jaune onscreen killed Penny to stop Cinder taking the Maiden Power.
We literally see the bomb go off, we see Harriet doing her damndest to drop said bomb, we see the ace ops discuss if it’s a bluff and agree it fuming wasn’t,
If you think it’s a bluff you’d need to disregard literally everything the show tells us or shows us,
If you think its not a bluff you'd need to disregard that Ironwood did not order the detonation of the bomb the moment he got Penny in his hands.
You'd also have to disregard the fact that Harriet was about to not detonate the nuke thanks to Vine's advice, and Qrow and Robyn were responsible for escalating the tensions into a brawl that set off the bomb.
In any case, you should not be going off on me, or RWDE in general, for something that is entirely RT's fault.
The writers managed to cement Adam Taurus's villainy back in V5 when they SHOWED him detonating the Haven Academy bombs, but was only stopped by Ilia disarming those bombs.
RT dropped the ball (or bomb) on Ironwood because they had Trump Derangement Syndrome and were so eager to write a story about Political Power gone crazy they forgot to do for Ironwood what they did to Adam.
As it is, RT was so eager to have RWBY 'stop' Ironwood they forgot to actually write Ironwood as a definitive villain.
At this point, based on the writing, Ironwood can be interpreted as either a Hero or a Villain. I, and most of RWDE, choose Hero. Now you have to choose if you are willing to agree to disagree on this point.
The thing isn't just that we think Ironwood could be written better or the story could be done in a different way.
The thing is that some of us like Ironwood unironically, and we are not allowed to do so.
In my case, I consider Ironwood a Hero compared to RWBY as the villains. This is not just a headcanon, but logical inference from the plot and plot context. Read my posts and you would see. However, RWBY fans don't like that and jump on that wagon like bears in heat.
Mine is an extreme case, but other Ironwood fans are also attacked because they like Ironwood.
Ultimately, we are not allowed to interpret Ironwood the way we want to and these attacks against unironic Ironwood fans is getting a little over the top.
That's what we have issue with.
What hurts the most about Ironwood in the end is that Miles and Kerry did this to the character they created.
I hate to bring him into this, but Monty stated that Ironwood was mostly Miles and Kerry's creation.
So Miles and Kerry took the character they created and did that to him.
Out of the entire cast that could have been an author's pet, you'd think it'd be the character created by the two writers who was there from the start.
Honestly….I didn’t know this before but knowing it now….it makes the whole damn hurt even more. Just….how could you do something so fucking awful to a character you created and seemingly liked at one point? I mean I can’t imagine how you could write that kind of story for any character really but….one that you created? It makes even less sense.
Like these guys made this character, and with the kind of people they are….why didn’t they do more projecting onto him? Why didn’t they want and push for a better ending for him? I just cannot comprehend what their thought process is on anything anymore.
Every time I think I’m as sad as I could physically get about James something like this pops up to make me sadder. What possibly could a fictional character you created do to make you hate them so much to do what they did to him?
Now there are two of them!
"General," Amonico Glass said as he leaned forward and placed his corpulent elbows on the table, "the Audit you are asking for is inconceivable. The overtime alone I would have to authorize would be downright criminal! What you want from my company is out of the board's range!"
Through the holoimage, General James Ironwood leaned back in his chair and said.
"Not ... for a Schnee."
Two figures flickered into view behind Ironwood. Behind Ironwood Weiss Schnee, dressed in a white blouse with its sleeves rolled up her forearms and buttons loose at her throat and chest, placed a hand on Ironwood's left shoulder and struck Amonico a glare over her thin, wire-rimmed glasses.
Whitley Schnee, his plain white business suit making the young man sharper than his age would imply, hovered by Ironwood's right shoulder and stared sharply at his older sister's intimacy with Ironwood while Ironwood said.
"May I present my auditors, Weiss and Whitley Schnee, they will audit your firm's sheets."
The holoimage then faded out and shut off.
Across from Amonico, Bram Thornmane smashed a white-gloved fist onto the table and said.
"This is getting out of hand! Now there are two of them!"
Amonico sighed and fell back against his chair, he then took off his glasses and polished them before he said.
"Jacques should not have agreed to that arrangement."
