[OOC] Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

[SuperCustodiam]

OK, the show got a little bit more confusing: something about relics, and older brother and a younger brother that act as deities of creation and destruction, and how the bad people somehow fit into all of it including the 4 maidens.

Pretty much Qrow gave us a bunch of exposition that is hard to follow.

This show is starting to become really confusing.

[LokiLeo789]

OK, the show got a little bit more confusing: something about relics, and older brother and a younger brother that act as deities of creation and destruction, and how the bad people somehow fit into all of it including the 4 maidens.

Pretty much Qrow gave us a bunch of exposition that is hard to follow.

This show is starting to become really confusing.

@SuperCustodiam

They are trying to cram so much world-building into one little segment, it can't help but be confusing.

Spoiler

I mean no disrespect but the whole deites thing kinds sucks. Like some egdy dude decided to scream fuck you and create supermonsters only to work with his brother to create Humans who are constantly wrecked by 'em.

Then there Salem who can control them or something, or breeds them maybe? I don't know.

I remember the simpler days.

Edit: Has the skip happened already @Lugubrious?

[Ookawa]

I have no fucking clue what Skyra is gonna do on this Monday xD

[SevenStormStyle]

I think Monday has arrived for everyone not choosing to move on for one reason or another.

[Abillioncats]

I have no fucking clue what Skyra is gonna do on this Monday xD

@PyroDash888

Party!

[LokiLeo789]

I think Monday has arrived for everyone not choosing to move on for one reason or another.

@SevenStormStyle

That...confuses things a bit. Thanks though.

[Lucius Cypher]

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They are trying to cram so much world-building into one little segment, it can't help but be confusing.

Spoiler

I mean no disrespect but the whole deites thing kinds sucks. Like some egdy dude decided to scream fuck you and create supermonsters only to work with his brother to create Humans who are constantly wrecked by 'em.

Then there Salem who can control them or something, or breeds them maybe? I don't know.

I remember the simpler days.

Edit: Has the skip happened already @Lugubrious?

@LokiLeo789

Yeah, as much as I try to stay on the RWBY side of things, even this revelation seems pretty eeeeh. Normally I don't mind the origin stories of a verse since I feel they're important, but two entities in constant divine conflict just doesn't really seem all that interesting.

That is to say, the storyboard isn't as good as the fight scenes, and we've had a bit too much exposition dumps and not enough fighting, me thinks. This shit feels like stuff that should be revealed in the World of Remnant bits.

[Awesomoman64]

Awesomorant: Too many Legendaries

So far my biggest problem is with how many super powerful things that have been introduced.

First we had the maidens. They were a bit out there but at least they spent a good part of season three explaining what they were and how they fit in. From here we can guess the main villains want these powers and by getting them they could take over the world. Done. Plot established.

Then, we got the silver eyes. Ummm… what? Where did that come from? We had no mention of it (well, we had an off hand comment by Ozpin in THE FIRST EPISODE!) And because of that we were all thinking Ruby would be a maiden since that was the thing the season had been building and not Deus Eye machine.
But since then they've played it down as more a super form rather than something like the maiden powers. Alright, good guys have an advantage now without altering the evil plot too much, I can live with that.

And now, we have the relics. Four items of power that could change the world by whoever has them...WHY!?! Why add these triforce rip offs when we already had the maidens? Beacon still could have fallen. Eliminate Ozpin and throw the world into such discord they don't see what's happening. You don't have to say there's treasure below it! Just make it the bad guys new base while they search for the maidens. Want them to attack the other schools? Easy, have the maidens hide in them and bunker down until the good guys have a plan.

I do still like the show, but they keep throwing powerful legendary shit into the mix that it's getting hard to follow. Just pick something and build upon that rather than trying to wow us with new artifacts and what not.

[NaraK]

@Lucius Cypher@Awesomoman64

Hider

With how many "important plot" things are thrown around in the story, though, that makes us making up our own important plot things less awkward. So I guess that part's pretty okay for us. xD

[Lucius Cypher]

Yeah, to be fair a lot of stuff we made up here exists in canon! Robot arms, misfortune semblances, magic, Luke, it's only a matter of time before we're practically so in-line with actual RWBY lore we may as well we co-authors or something. At the very least we have yet to do anything that contradicts the RWBYverse, which is a plus in my book.

[Lady Seraphina]

@Lucius Cypher Magic?

[Crimson Raven]

Watch the most recent episode, I'm fine with the developments. They aren't perfect, not by a long shot, but then again, what is?

Its entertaining, and thats all that matters.

[Lady Seraphina]

@Crimson Raven He put magic in the list of things that we made use of that were then introduced in the show. I'm aware they are in the show, I'm asking when we introduced magic.

[Crimson Raven]

@Crimson Raven He put magic in the list of things that we made use of that were then introduced in the show. I'm aware they are in the show, I'm asking when we introduced magic.

@Prince of Seraphs

I don't understand what you mean. 🤔

[Lucius Cypher]

I vaguely remember a conversation a long time ago about someone wanting to use magic (I think it was a RP hopeful but they bounced) but some people here said that magic doesn't exist in the RWBYverse, it's just people using dust. TO which I had replied that true, Dust is not Magic, and neither does Magic involve Dust, but that doesn't mean magic can't exist.

RWBY Spoilers

Episode 8 had Ruby question Qrow about how magic exists alongside the likes of the Maidens and such, and while it wasn't entirely elaborated on, it would at least imply that magic exists in the RWBYverse, even if there are very few practitioners of it. Cinder and her associates obviously have some sort of magic powers, and I'd hazard to guess that Glynda Goodwitch would too. I mean, it's in the name, and last I checked she isn't blasting people away with a revolver and I doubt she's the type who rely solely on her semblance, assuming that her semblance is telekinesis. Ozpin is obviously doing something pretty magical too with that Oscar kid.

Anyways way back when the hammer was dropped that magic doesn't exist, but now it does. It opens up many, many doors.

[Ryonara]

That was me again. I wanted Ebon to use his credits to train with Glynda to improve his semblance and use magic, but it wasn't approved. Though with magic existing and other strangeness going on, maybe Yue isn't so crazy to believe in all those fairy tales. With any luck she might just discover one of them in the RP.

[Krayzikk]

Anyways way back when the hammer was dropped that magic doesn't exist, but now it does. It opens up many, many doors.

@Lucius Cypher

Doors, honestly, that should have stayed closed.

There's a reason I dropped RWBY Vol 4.

[Crimmy]

OK, the show got a little bit more confusing: something about relics, and older brother and a younger brother that act as deities of creation and destruction, and how the bad people somehow fit into all of it including the 4 maidens.

Pretty much Qrow gave us a bunch of exposition that is hard to follow.

This show is starting to become really confusing.

@SuperCustodiam

Spoilers

Brother deities repping creation and destruction aren't too rare in fiction, and the Grimm pretty much fit the bill as children of the latter. It actually would work as a solid creation myth for the setting, except this execution starts turning the series into more of a kitchen sink than it already was.

This type of stuff usually goes a bit slower, you know? You don't need too many MacGuffins.

[Lady Seraphina]

Anyways way back when the hammer was dropped that magic doesn't exist, but now it does. It opens up many, many doors.

@Lucius Cypher

I feel like bad ideas introduced by the show shouldn't be a justification for using those bad ideas in the RP.

[Abillioncats]

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I feel like bad ideas introduced by the show shouldn't be a justification for using those bad ideas in the RP.

@Prince of Seraphs

I agree, we can make up our own shit and it will be better and shinier and include way more cats than they ever could!