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Felt like Ironwood trained Watts at some point in time.
Watts uses his pistol the same way James does in melee.
Watts could time James's movements to lure him into traps.
Watts knew James would be counting his shots. Counting bullets may be something James taught Watts.
Which begs the question; Does James teach everyone in Atlas who uses pistols? Specifically revolvers?
Ironwood is not a good marksman
Amongst Ozpin's inner circle, Ironwood is the weakest Huntsman.
His marksmanship is average.
He is not skilled enough to use complex weapons like Qrow.
He can't use Dust like Glynda.
He doesn't have Ozpin's experience.
But he has determination, he never gives up, and he can make the decisions other people can't.
Ironwood is essentially Batman.
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.
Tyrian's deafness
Carries over from his fight with Qrow to his fight with Clover, Qrow, and Robin.
During that fight, Qrow landed the most hits on Tyrian because he uses mostly punches and kicks. Which Tyrian has problems picking out due to the lack of sound.
Robyn lands the fewest hits because her arrows are like her. Annoying and loud.
And Clover's weapon makes noise, but its a rope so Tyrian can't predict the weapon's flight path. Which is why Clover can constantly off-balance Tyrian.
Funnily enough, Clover's weapon manages to capture Tyrian in their final fight.
This started as a Tyrian Post but ended up with me recognizing Clover as the badass who handed Tyrian his ass.
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.
Port to Ozpin's inner circle: Everyone! One of us is having relations with General Ironwood!
Qrow: You mean 'Daddy'?
Port: Exactly ...
RWBY is probably gonna heist the two relics from Salem Ocean's Eleven style. Meanwhile, the Side-Characters locate the Sword Relic and the Crown Relic. Ruby summons the Gods. Ruby uses the power of friendship with the Gods' power. Redeems Salem.
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.
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.
Was Ironwood right? Part 2 -
It's difficult to say if Ironwood's plan was the right plan during v8 like it was during v3. v8's theme was about how plans could get ruined due to no fault of anyone's, or perhaps the fault of everyone, and you can't do anything about it.
As it is said; "Man devises, but Heaven decides." Everyone was going to fail in v7 and v8. If RT had not intended it, then the fan outcry ensured it. After Ironwood proved himself more sympathetic than the main characters due to some freak of writing.
Perhaps it is better when discussing whether Ironwood was right in v8, to ask if Ironwood was the villain? Or was he the Hero of the story, in a 'Superman dying to stop Doomsday' kind of way and not 'a Villain is the Hero of his story' kind of way?
Heroism in fiction is selfless action, but must that action be morally right? Our heroes have historically committed acts which we wouldn't consider morally right. Yet fantasy is meant to be unrealistic, and our heroes in our stories should be held to a higher standard.
But ultimately, our Heroes should not be condemned for actions that are immoral. The legends of our historical Heroes are just as fantastic as our comic heroes, and they taught lessons that are as valuable as they are timeless.
So was Ironwood the Hero of v7 and v8? Well since this is a Pro-Ironwood blog ... But to be fair, let's address the two main incidents of Ironwood's 'villainy'.
Ironwood arresting RWBY seems to be a moment that was caused by RWBY. Not in a negative sense, but more in that RWBY were the ones who took the initiative to break the stalemate. There was no right course of action in that situation, and Ruby should have offered to go and evacuate Mantle's citizens to Atlas if Ironwood delayed the launch by an hour. Like any action hero worth his salt would do.
Ironwood would then have said; 'you have ONE Hour, not a second more. Ruby would then reply with a one-liner and shot off to save the world.
But what about Ironwood shooting down the SDC ships heading to save Mantle refugees, and threatening to nuke Mantle if RWBY did not hand Penny over?
First; Ironwood kept his word when RWBY 'kept' theirs, and RWBY followed up the backstabbing streak with a 2-0 score against Ironwood.
Second; Even if Ironwood nuked Mantle, would he be a villain if he did it to save another island city's worth of civilians? Boudica killed three cities worth of innocent Romans for the Iceni Tribe of Britons, and she is still considered a bally heroine today. Ironwood would also have destroyed Mantle for pretty good reasons, as he would have destroyed the key to opening the Vault and would have thus prevented Salem from taking the Staff.
In any case, we won't really know if Ironwood was playing a particularly brutal bluff. I'd say he was bluffing but I like Ironwood so that's a nut and a half. The more important question is whether such a bluff made Ironwood a villain.
I say, no. If Heroism is defined by Selfless, Ironwood in v8 more than fits the bill. Ironwood unironically puts himself on the line to keep Atlas, and in the process Remnant, safe. He is willing to literally tear himself apart to stop Salem. Ironwood is selfless if nothing else.
But if Ironwood is the hero, what does that make RWBY?
"So where you headed, cowboy?" "Nowhere Special."
"Nowhere Special? I've always wanted to go there."
Finding James in Vacuo.
James: "I guess all I can do now is find a new purpose. I've lost mine when Atlas fell, and the people followed the others. It's strange... proceeding with life without a real purpose."
Qrow: "You know what that's like now, huh?"
James: "Hmm." Smiles at Qrow. "We all find a new purpose. It can't always be one thing in life. I guess it's my time to find something else to strive for."
Qrow: "Yeah, sure... but, if you're going to move on... do you mind if I come along? I think you could use a hand."
James: "I was just about to ask you the same thing."
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
Halloween in Atlas -
The Ace-Ops dress up as various fictional teams. Last Halloween they dressed up as the Bad Batch from Star Wars. Marrow wants the team to dress up as the Tatooine Cantina Band one day.
Penny's costumes are extremely well done. But her costume choices are various variations of the Witch from Kiki's delivery service.
Winter must be *dared* to wear a costume for Halloween, and one has to have a costume set for her or Winter would just wear a cheap plastic mask. Last Halloween, she was dressed as Lucifer from Helltaker. But no one managed to get her to do the Helltaker dance.
Hello yes I am currently imagining Penny somehow convincing James to dress up as some random villain from a show and to let her be his body guard for Halloween. On Halloween day anyone who walks into his office James sits in his chair facing away from the door and when they enter his office menacingly turns to face them with Major Leaf in his arms stroking him like a cat trying to look menacing while Penny is giggling hysterically in the background.
Pietro is the guy who does all the special effects for the costumes. He does it because he can't wear costumes and he wants the kids to enjoy Halloween.
One day, Ironwood and the staff chip in to get Pietro an outfit. A miniature Atlesian Paladin built around his wheelchair that has a candy dispenser for an arm.
Everyone fondly remembers the Candy Shooting Paladin making the sickest trick shots into the kids' candy bags.
Hello yes I am currently imagining Penny somehow convincing James to dress up as some random villain from a show and to let her be his body guard for Halloween. On Halloween day anyone who walks into his office James sits in his chair facing away from the door and when they enter his office menacingly turns to face them with Major Leaf in his arms stroking him like a cat trying to look menacing while Penny is giggling hysterically in the background.
After Jacques insulted Ironwood one day, Major Leaf started appearing around the Schnee Manor.
Nothing Jacques does could stop the turtle, and in the weirdest places and during his most vulnerable moments, the turtle would be there. Staring impassively at Jacques the way all turtles do.
It only stops when Jacques apologizes to Ironwood. 24 hours later.
You can insult James all you want and he will not care. He knows he’s hated but he accepts that as the cost of protecting everyone. But insult Major Leaf and he will make your life living hell.
Was Ironwood right? Part 2 -
It's difficult to say if Ironwood's plan was the right plan during v8 like it was during v3. v8's theme was about how plans could get ruined due to no fault of anyone's, or perhaps the fault of everyone, and you can't do anything about it.
As it is said; "Man devises, but Heaven decides." Everyone was going to fail in v7 and v8. If RT had not intended it, then the fan outcry ensured it. After Ironwood proved himself more sympathetic than the main characters due to some freak of writing.
Perhaps it is better when discussing whether Ironwood was right in v8, to ask if Ironwood was the villain? Or was he the Hero of the story, in a 'Superman dying to stop Doomsday' kind of way and not 'a Villain is the Hero of his story' kind of way?
Heroism in fiction is selfless action, but must that action be morally right? Our heroes have historically committed acts which we wouldn't consider morally right. Yet fantasy is meant to be unrealistic, and our heroes in our stories should be held to a higher standard.
But ultimately, our Heroes should not be condemned for actions that are immoral. The legends of our historical Heroes are just as fantastic as our comic heroes, and they taught lessons that are as valuable as they are timeless.
So was Ironwood the Hero of v7 and v8? Well since this is a Pro-Ironwood blog ... But to be fair, let's address the two main incidents of Ironwood's 'villainy'.
Ironwood arresting RWBY seems to be a moment that was caused by RWBY. Not in a negative sense, but more in that RWBY were the ones who took the initiative to break the stalemate. There was no right course of action in that situation, and Ruby should have offered to go and evacuate Mantle's citizens to Atlas if Ironwood delayed the launch by an hour. Like any action hero worth his salt would do.
Ironwood would then have said; 'you have ONE Hour, not a second more. Ruby would then reply with a one-liner and shot off to save the world.
But what about Ironwood shooting down the SDC ships heading to save Mantle refugees, and threatening to nuke Mantle if RWBY did not hand Penny over?
First; Ironwood kept his word when RWBY 'kept' theirs, and RWBY followed up the backstabbing streak with a 2-0 score against Ironwood.
Second; Even if Ironwood nuked Mantle, would he be a villain if he did it to save another island city's worth of civilians? Boudica killed three cities worth of innocent Romans for the Iceni Tribe of Britons, and she is still considered a bally heroine today. Ironwood would also have destroyed Mantle for pretty good reasons, as he would have destroyed the key to opening the Vault and would have thus prevented Salem from taking the Staff.
In any case, we won't really know if Ironwood was playing a particularly brutal bluff. I'd say he was bluffing but I like Ironwood so that's a nut and a half. The more important question is whether such a bluff made Ironwood a villain.
I say, no. If Heroism is defined by Selfless, Ironwood in v8 more than fits the bill. Ironwood unironically puts himself on the line to keep Atlas, and in the process Remnant, safe. He is willing to literally tear himself apart to stop Salem. Ironwood is selfless if nothing else.
But if Ironwood is the hero, what does that make RWBY?
When the Council Members are being stupid Ironwood stands, does his Dad Pose to assert dominance, and everyone falls in line because they don't want to disappoint Dadmiral.
BEHOLD
It is the IronDad stance, used exclusively when his child brings home their partner to introduce to him.
I have the same view. If V7 did not have the election story arc more time could be spent developing Ironwood and his power trip.
But because of the election arc, Ironwood's actions were reactions to problems caused by everyone else's shenanigans during that story arc. Which made Ironwood more of an underdog instead of a dictator. Or a villain.
RT also very definitely rewrote the ending of V8. People must have been complaining about RWBY getting away with too much and decided to sweep the board to spite the haters.
The reason a lot of people don’t give a shit about Ironwood being a dictator is that in the show, him being in a highly corruptable position of power (running the academy, running the only military force on the planet, and having 2 seats on the council) with authoritarian tendencies did not matter whatsoever.
Like… nobody in the show actually cared about the disproportionate power Ironwood had, only that Mantle sucked. Hell, the only person working to remove some of Ironwood’s power was fucking Jacques. And no one actually acknowledges the point that Ironwood probably has a bit too much power.
According to the show, Ironwood’s actual flaw is that he didn’t want to Trust Love (tm). Because apparently fascism is fine provided the fascist in power is just making ‘good’ decisions.
I’ll be honest: I did not expect him to go full dictator, but it wasn’t a thing that I ruled out automatically.
The show did a poor job at saying that the disproportionate power was a problem. Hell! Jacques only wanted some of that power to boost his own power of having a near-monopoly on the Dust market. The only “good” person who wanted to redistribute power was Robyn, and the audience hates her because… I guess it was her decision to take commercial transport to take on Tyrian instead of prisoner transport that we know that Atlas has?
And they didn’t want to acknowledge that Ironwood was acting dictatorial and stuff? I… Kinda didn’t see that. Wasn’t that rich person who Ironwood shot getting on his case about his dictatorial tendencies? The overall problem is that this volume tried to shove too many things in it at once. On top of which, it really feels like they rewrote the finale because someone guessed what was going to happen on twitter or reddit and they didn’t want to be “predictable” or something.
Personally, I think that they could have had some more time dedicated to the characters talking about Ironwood and his actions rather than having Blake give praise to Ruby’s leadership that feels like it came out of nowhere. I would have liked that that squad would have had discussions about what to do. It would make it feel more fulfilling if they were doing that on top of having tea, rather than them just doing half-assed patrols to keep Nora and eventually Penny safe. Like, in-between them walking the perimeter to keep Grimm and Atlas soldiers, they should be talking about what to do about Ironwood. It makes no sense that they wouldn’t be talking about it.
I kinda think Ironwood managed to find spaces within Atlas that was not flooded during the crash. He then found Watts and they're now doing their best impression of Subnautica as they try to find supplies, and survivors, and rebuild.
*very quietly* can james actually swim safely? even if the metal is water proof its probably really heavy....
Uhhh that is a good question that I honestly don’t have the answer to. I would like to THINK they would find a way to make it so James could safely swim and in a serious au I pretend they figure something out this is a world with magic after all I don’t have to always obey the laws of physics. But now I’m imagining James with a bunch of floaties to stay above the water while swimming.
The 'Final' Definition of Mary Sue
The commonly held concept of the Mary Sue is that of a poorly designed character. A poor character archetype comprising a person, usually a girl, who is perfect.
Not much else to say for this definition of a Mary Sue. Perfection defies any attempt to describe it. Which is what makes the Mary Sue the bane of good story-telling.
However, I believe that the Mary Sue is a problem with story-telling rather than character development.
More specifically - A Mary Sue is what happens when the Main Character's story pushes out the story of the other characters over the course of the narrative.
The narrative of a tale is like a river, through which the stories of the narrative's characters cross like the tributaries to the main channel. There is one main narrative within which are a multitude of stories. The stories that the audience focuses on become the main characters whom the audience follows through the narrative.
A narrative with a perfect character, the smartest man or the strongest warrior, works because the story is not entirely about the perfect character. A good example of this is Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock is the smartest man in the room and the narrative never lets the audience forget it. But the story is not about Sherlock. The story is about the clients who brings their mysteries to 221B Baker Street. So while we are reading about a perfect character, namely Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock is a narrative device which frames the real story. Whether it is about a Red-Headed League, or a missing Silver-Headed Horse.
Harry Potter is an example of a Mary Sue. Under my definition, and only in every book after the Goblet of Fire. In the first three books, Harry is like Sherlock Holmes. He is the narrative device through which the audience explores the Wizarding World. By following Harry's adventures solving the mystery of the Philosopher's Stone or the Chamber of Secrets. Harry's title of 'the Boy who Lived' was merely a justification for Harry getting involved in these mysteries.
But once Voldemort returns, Harry's story overshadows everyone else's as the narrative progresses. Everything becomes centered around Harry and the fact that he is destined to kill Voldemort. So much so that previous adventures are retconned into Dumbledore essentially 'fattening' Harry up for the slaughter. Something no amount of apologies in a deserted train station could really gloss over.
If a Mary Sue was simply the 'Perfect character', Superman would not be one of the world's most beloved heroes to date. However, even the most relatable character can become a Mary Sue if the author buys into his or her own hype.
RWBY Review - Start to Finish -
RWBY VOL 1; CHAPTER 3 -
So ... We meet Nora.
Mother, Mary of God, grant me strength.
The only thing balancing out the horror that is Nora is Pyrrha Nikos. SHE is now my favorite character instead of Jaune.
This is impressive because I generally do not like female main characters, and Pyrrha is obviously the main character of the show now because the title character still hasn't done anything to really impress three episodes in.
Chapter 3; The First Step -
An interesting title since the episode only had enough time for the plot to progress exactly one step.
It is the morning after the 'slumber party' in Beacon Academy's great hall. Now, the aspiring Huntsmen are going through their morning routines in Beacon's locker rooms. Preparing for whatever the Academy is going to throw at them next.
We start with Nora and Ren. But that's a jazz tune I ain't playing until I have to, so let's talk about Ruby.
Ruby and her sister, Yang, have a brief discussion about socializing. Here, we see a little more about Ruby's fixation with her weapon and how her weapon makes it less awkward for Ruby to deal with life in general. Yang tries to convince Ruby that breaking out of her shell would do Ruby a world of good, but Jaune interrupts that conversation, and I suddenly hate him.
Jaune then starts blowing his trombone in an attempt to bone Weiss. Interrupting a perfectly civil conversation between Weiss and a new girl, Pyrrha Nikos. Despite Jaune's hot air initially, Weiss manages to deflate him a little and Pyrrha sweeps him off his feet.
From Beacon's lockers, the Huntsmen find themselves standing on a cliff overlooking the Emerald Forest. After a blatant case of Negligence on the part of Ozpin, the Huntsmen are launched off the cliff, thus taking their 'first step' on their journey to become Huntsmen.
Building on from Chapter 2 -
After the attempt of Chapter 2 to progress the Huntsman storyline, Chapter 3 takes an immediate sharp left off the beaten path to introduce Ren and Nora. Or Nora and Ren, to be precise, because we get far too much of Nora in this Chapter.
Out of a 7-minute episode and a 30-second opening, Nora takes up a minute and a half of the remaining 6 minutes of the Chapter with pointless rambling about sloths, and an attempt by the writers to start a ship between Nora and Ren.
The ship isn't the problem, the inefficiency is the problem. Just keep the part about Sloths and the noises they allegedly make. 19 seconds would have been enough to get across that Nora is thirsty for Ren.
The Chapter attempts to address Ruby Rose's character development. Seemingly, this time, to focus on Ruby's love of weapons. Expressed by the girl in the first half of Chapter 2. Whether the writers would stick to this particular trait would be a bridge to cross when we come to it. This is because Jaune interrupts the conversation between Ruby and Yang so the writers could set up something as equally irrelevant as Nora's ramblings earlier.
Funnily enough, Pyrrha being irrelevant to the story is what makes her such a likable character in this Chapter. There is no attempt by the writers to do too much with Pyrrha at this stage, so Pyrrha is just a polite girl who is endearingly attractive because of it.
Her weapon is also a spear. How elegantly simple!
Jaune is an ass in this chapter though, which is a 180 turn when compared to his character in Chapter 2. I get it, Jaune likes Weiss, but why is he so dismissive of Pyrrha during his conversation with her and Weiss? Jaune wasn't interested in Ruby, but he was perfectly pleasant with Ruby when he first met her.
All in all, Chapter 3 is the first step onto the narrative of Ruby Rose. However, Ruby is not the focus, and we as the audience are taking the first step with the wrong foot forward, it seems.
What I liked -
Pyrrha Nikos. A little simple, but you get more out of a simple dish, I believe.
What I did not like -
Ruby Rose is not the main focus of her own show.
I don't know what noise a Sloth makes, but I'm sure it would come up with its own noise to tell Nora to leave it in peace. Say it with me everyone, "Nora, no talking!"
I do not approve of Jaune being mean to Pyrrha.