I know I should be asleep now, but I just wanted to pop in to mentioned the following:
I like Salem so far. Initially I had my doubts cuz I didn't like the idea of a last minute greater scope villain that essentially makes Cinder seem like small potatoes, but Episode 1 really makes me think more positively of her (For an homicidal maniac anyways). Grateful for Cinder's success and has her back from Mr. Mustache Face and instead of going all "You have failed me Cinder", she does the sensible thing and is like "Yeah I wasn't expecting the silver eye thing either, just rest up here for now and I'll tell you about phase two". But outside of Cinder, her company, and Salem, the other three seems... Bland. We got a giggling madman, a morally questionable doctor figure, and a burly man who is probably one of those straight forward brute types. Compared to the black girl with gun scythes and her kicking friend, they don't really have that interesting of a design or characterization.
As for the Geist,
@harinezumikouken, you probally forgot. I'm sure ALL OF YOU have forgotten.
But I called it. I CALLED IT SO LONG AGO!
I made that a long time ago in a contest where we had to draw stuff our team was doing! This was back before NarayanK was more active, otherwise I probably would have lost if he entered literally anything.
But I also like it since it also proves the existence of my own Grimm, the Black Beast (Also known as B.B., he looks like
this) since that means not all Grimm have to be based off animals. We could say that the Geist was created after the dragon's awakening, but it's not as if the dragon has only awoken the first time. Not only that but I vaguely remember something about the Schnee corperation making an artificial Grimm, which B.B. technically is. Technically because I never really fleshed out his backstory, but it's possible!
Also ever since I saw Ren's new shoes, I keep thinking he's from a ninja village. That footprint he saw on the group most likely has something to do with either it's destruction, or potentially a creature/grimm/summon that his maybe ninja village uses.
Glad to see that Ironwood is back btw, looks like he's been taking up Crow's hobby. As in, not being sober. I'm somewhat questioning his decision to make the Schnee company stop exporting Dust, as my inner conspiracy theorist is telling me it's not just so dust doesn't get intercepted by White Fang or other baddies. After all, with the fall of Vale, Atlus needs to get ready for war too. And war needs Dust. As for Papa Schnee, I swore he looked fatter in season three. But I'm also not surprised that he's kinda a dick. Of course it's the mercantile empire dad who only sees his children as tools for his business. Speaking of children, Weiss's brother is extremely shifty. Like, the kind of shifty who says he's on your side, but at best is simply on his side, or at worse is on the "Good Intention" side, which typically involves some Lawful Evil "I am the Ubermech" type of nonsense. Butler seems legit though. Maybe
@Ryonara's character should have Yue know him in some way. My brother tells me that the butler, in continuing the fairtale mofits, is suppose to represent the seven dwarves from Snow White's story, since he has separate personalities like angry, scared, etc. This is probs already confirmed and I'm just too slow on the update.
Blake's mom is cute, and her dad is huge. At least I think that's Blake's mom. Blake is at the age where she is a young woman herself, so it'd make sense for her to be as tall if not taller then her mother. Though due to the art style, Blake's mom looks really young, so she may actually be her sister. Who knows. Cute anyways.
Don't got much to say about Yang. I hope she gets back into the swing of things, but frankly I just don't know how. Maybe she'll go after Blake, or look for Ruby, or more likely trying to contact Weiss since at least Weiss is stuck at Atlus and not roaming the wilderness like the other two.
Kinda curious about what happened to the others back at Beacon though, like Team CFVY and the rest of Team SSSN. I think Sun himself is with Blake, but who knows about the other two. That and the Beacon staff like Glynda and the rest. I'd imagine that they're doing damage control in the ruins of Beacon, but who really knows?