@Prince of Seraphs Since I always forget my notifications, Oswald and Diamond have entered the scene!

You know what is hard? Writing a character who is anti-gay... I can't find any reason to be against lesbianism... <.< >.>
especially with certain religious books missing from this world.
And especially when you are lesbian yourself... trying to channel all the hate you got for it so far... bleh...

Why is this relevant? Contest. Gonna write how Skyra got her scars. At least some of them, the most prominent ones.

@PyroDash888

You don't need to be religious to be stupid and ignorant. If ya want, I can give you tips about how to be a homophobic shithead.

@Lucius Cypher How about I PM you what I have when I am more or less done with that segment and you tell me what I can improve?

@PyroDash888

Fo sho. Let's do deez.

To the remaining people watching the show: thoughts on volume 4?

To the remaining people watching the show: thoughts on volume 4?

It was meh.

To the remaining people watching the show: thoughts on volume 4?

It's like nothing fucking happened. Shiny animation, no story. How did they manage to take the amount of plot for one or two chapters and spread it aceoss an entire volume is beyond me, but Kerry and Miles managed somehow T.T

Yeah I think it's safe to say volume 4 sucked.

I wouldn't say that the animation was all that shiny either. It has some cool showpieces, like all the new Grimm, but everything felt slow and predictable. Practically nothing was cool, not even the Nuckelavee, which should have been the most badass monster to grace the series. The only exception for me was the Qrow/Tyrian fight, but even that wasn't good all the time.

The way characters interacted, all stiff and slow with so many pauses, filled a lot of time while accomplishing very little. Plus, there were some things that just didn't make sense. For instance, having Ruby and Jaune carry Qrow around the long way while the other two took the 'shortcut' to try and get help faster. Why not have the two physically strongest characters (Jaune and Nora) carry the dead weight, while the one with the actual speed semblance goes on ahead? And the chameleon girl's tiny lance has the same semblance-piercing effect as Adam's blade? And so on and so forth.

I think that Ilya was able to hit Sun because he drained his aura making too many clones...

The problem with the volume was that it just had too many characters and plot threads for a show with twelve episodes per season that are usually around ten minutes long. I enjoyed it regardless of quality anyway.

Unmarked Spoilers ahead, proceed at your own risk.

@Lugubrious

Actually it seems like Sun used all his aura to maintaining his semblance. You can tell because shortly before he fell there was that shattering break thing around his body, and then he got stabbed. The same thing happens to Qrow and Tyrian which was why Qrow was able to get poisoned and Tyrian got his tail cut off.

And yeah as for the story telling it felt incredibly slow pace. I get that RWBY doesn't have the tradition 30/22 minute episodes most shows have, but goddamn like Qrow these guys take way too fucking long to explain shit before everything goes to hell. I get that with his semblance being bad luck and the cell towers going down he can't stick around long or just give Ruby a text, but if he's going to shadow them and take all the action he may as well be more fourth coming with it. It just feels like uneasisary drama for the sake of adding more obstacles in the plot.

As for the rest of former band mates if Team RWBY, it's aight I guess. Yang still kinda feels meh to me, I get the angst and I did like the whole "your power is a temper tantrum" deconstruction talk her dad gave, but like dealing with actual depressed people there wasn't really anything anyone could do but keep babysitting her until she got out of her rut.

I do like how Weiss developed, but I'm disappointed in the Schnee family as a whole since they ended up being an almost comically stereotypical corrupt airstocrats everyone turns into bad guys. Mom is useless, dad is evil, younger brother is a annoying twat, and the only useful person around is the butler/replacement father figure. Did like Ironwood a bit more though. I feel like he wound be a lot like what Gren could be if he was more reasonable and human.

Blake's story is a definate love/hate. Obviously because I play Gren, I am very much interested in how Faunus life is and the origins of the White Fang. That being said when it turns out she's the daughter of the former leader of Them White Fang and pretty much the leader of the community, kinda felt like Blake turned into Naruto. I had hopes that she was something like an orphan or was actually abused by humans but still wanted to live in peace, joined the Fang to defend herself and try to achieve her dream, only for that to break during the Black Trailer. But seeing that her parents are alive and well now I just think she is like a spoiled but politically active rich girl who, while willing to slum it with the lower class and gangsters, had a bit of a rose tinted view of what they're actually all about.

Yet despite that I actually do like this "taking over the White Fang" approach she wants to do in the end. Pretty much what Gren would want to do too, and assuming she actually has made character development and is willing to stop fucking fleeing when shit goes south, Gren may even be inclined to work with her.

What I am most disappointed in though was the lack of information about the other characters. I get it that some like the teams fighting from outside of Vale likely wouldn't get much screen time for at all, I wanna know what happened to Team CFVY. Like shit, isn't the Fall of Beacon more or less like that one mission they came back too? I wanna see what they've been up too. That being said what's up with Oscar? I mean I get it, he has tone the new Oz and whatever but you'd think they would have used this chance to give one of the other characters screen time. Hell, give it to Jaune so someone can give him a stern talking to when he starts bitching out.

Though I do like his upgrade. Train sword and shield for a bigger sword is right up my alley, and I'm pretty sure that's pretty much what Shiro does. Once bit by bit, official RWBY canon makes this rp more legit.

@Lucius Cypher

I agree, it sucks not knowing things we want to about other characters, but the volume was already so stretched thin that Yang got a total of like 15 minutes of screentime.

To the remaining people watching the show: thoughts on volume 4?

What is this thing you call "pacing"?

You know what is hard? Writing a character who is anti-gay... I can't find any reason to be against lesbianism... <.< >.>
especially with certain religious books missing from this world.
And especially when you are lesbian yourself... trying to channel all the hate you got for it so far... bleh...

Why is this relevant? Contest. Gonna write how Skyra got her scars. At least some of them, the most prominent ones.

It's remarkably simple. Just take what could be considered a disadvantage of lesbianism (say, doesn't produce babies), then give that opinion to someone zealous enough to follow it to the very end (homosexuals are essentially traitors to humanity in that they aren't producing babies that will keep our population alive against the endless Grimm menace, so we should kill them and get rid of a resource drain).

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It's remarkably simple. Just take what could be considered a disadvantage of lesbianism (say, doesn't produce babies), then give that opinion to someone zealous enough to follow it to the very end (homosexuals are essentially traitors to humanity in that they aren't producing babies that will keep our population alive against the endless Grimm menace, so we should kill them and get rid of a resource drain).

I think I have done exactly that.

That award is a lofty and hard to obtain thing. But you know what at thats prob at least top 10 XD

To the remaining people watching the show: thoughts on volume 4?

I felt like it was all build up and not much else. I get the feeling this is one of those seasons in a show where even hardcore fans will tell people to just skip and they'll tell the cliff notes to when they get to it.

@Guess Who

Unless you like Ren and Nora, that is.

dude so fucked up lmao is only good if you actually use it to inform your present character traits

if it's just there and bad to be there and bad it's just like "yeah whatever"

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I think I have done exactly that.

Spoilers [+]

At the beginning of my story, Skyra is 8 years old and is being punished by a White Fang dude for kissing a girl, which is even more cruel since the main reason Skyra is held and subsequently punished for inappropriate behaviour is because she is being raised as a "breeding girl". More or less.
With this, I think I might get the award for most fucked up backstory in this RP :D

For how long was she raised in such a condition and for such a purpose? How has this affected her development? Has it done anything to stunt her emotional or physical growth? Was this an institutional thing within the cell or the actions of a single individual? How has this lifestyle affected her views of today?