You just made me think: "I hope Velvet's weapon is an oversized mallet"Originally Posted by Renko
.... Yes please!
You just made me think: "I hope Velvet's weapon is an oversized mallet"
.... Yes please!
Mochi made from brains?
I would say Cardin's brains, but no one would eat that.
Penny's blade reminded me of a girl in Dead fantasy, which is way to cool.
And I knew Roman was cool, but never thought he would be also fighting-cool, judging how sissy he may look.
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White Fang Secret Planning Meeting Audio Log: Declassified
TOP SECRET
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This explains so much.
The truth revealed at last.
Team JNPR Reviews the Secret Declassified Audio Log Over Breakfast
Also, on a completely different note: After Blake takes her bow off while holding Torchwick hostage...why does she put it back on in the middle of the fight? (Okay, I know the answer, it's "because we didn't have the time to design a fighting-motion model for her with the kitty-ears head," but really...)
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Inspired by Moczo:
White Fang audio log, #214
Underneath the Stars
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Thoughts.
Blake's infodump explanation at the start could have been handled better. Maybe vary between Sun and Blake talking about the White Fang, each with a different perspective.
Weiss' VA seems a bit off this episode.
Roman gets all the best lines. I am going to be extremely disappointed if there's no AMVs of him set to Smooth Criminal. Smooth moves too. Pity he's a disgusting racist.
Weiss really just shifts like this? Without even one of those twelve hours really shown? Sorry, but she and Sun feel like the weakest parts. And unlike Sun, it's her anger that helps drive these events.
And we've finally got her name. Cinder. And she definitely seems to have the upper hand in the relationship.
And the budding political scientist in me is wondering how WF started having more success after they shifted to terrorism, especially after just five years, and how they're getting respect instead of major crackdowns. I know, Monty's not a political scientist, it's just a show and we don't have all the details. Still feels like telling a fighter pilot that the enemy endured a bombing raid by gathering their supplies into one building and put a target symbol on it.
I'm guessing this refers to how when they were mere protesters before no one payed any attention to them, now that they're resorting to violence people fear them and therefore leave them alone, which is kind of what they wanted anyways.
Now as far as getting them arrested, there's terrorist groups out there out in the open that don't even get a slap in the wrist, why? they got the people on their side. The White Fang could very well be running operations from a completely different nation where a mayor part of people in the place are faunas, who think the White Fang is working for them.
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It seems pretty clear that around Beacon they aren't regarded well by the majority of the population and Faunus in general seem to still be facing discrimination. If we're going to look at this from real life eyes looking at data on terrorism (and by terrorism I'm using the loose rule of a group primarily targeting civilians) and the reactions to it then the area should be more of a police state.
The ties between the WF and Torchwick actually make more sense. Guerrillas and terrorists generally have close ties to organized crime. They need weapons, food, transportation etc.
All part of the "Be the best teammate ever" thing she is trying to do. She is still angry at WF and Sun, she is just holding back for Blake's sake.
Also Penny = Murakumo, should have seen that one coming.
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I think it's more of a case of "peaceful demonstrations were largely ignored, while violent outbursts were noticed." The White Fang went from "powerless irrelevancy" to "on people's radar." The fact that they showed up on that radar as being hated and feared is kind of secondary--the point is that they were noticed, while before they were just brushed off.
I'm probably vastly oversimplifying, but I can't help but see parallels to the African-American civil rights movement in the U.S. (something the "Black" and "White" references kind of ping on as well), with regard to the shift from nonviolent protest under Martin Luther King Jr., etc., to more radical groups like the Black Panthers. (It's clearly treading on dangerous turf to start drawing parallels between the death of a fictitious leader of a racial-rights movement in an animated fantasy series and the death of MLK, but, well...). Of course, the civil rights movement didn't get hijacked by capital-E Evil, so the parallels start falling apart as Cinder and Torchy hit the stage (and nonviolent protest wasn't ineffectual, either...though it was slow, painstaking, and not in any means a magical panacea for racism, but let's face it, Faunus rights in Vytal is clearly a hyper-simplified version of the theme). But I do think that the metaphor works better than comparing White Fang to modern-day terrorist groups, in terms of understanding what they are and what they've done.
As for Weiss, well, yeah, she actually does shift like that. Honestly, I think that what happened here, her mention of the twelve hours searching, was actually a shout-out to what happened in Ep. 10 where in the next scene after Port talks to her, she's suddenly acting like somebody else. At least here, she specifically states that she's been chewing over the problem for hours to bring her to a change of heart, rather than it just happening and us being left to infer the existence of what's been going on in her head. The flaw is that we're only told about the change, not shown. (It's pretty obvious that she'd like to direct more invective at Sun and bites it off for Blake's sake. For now, I'm going to file her under still mildly racist, in that she's got a fundamental predisposition to see Faunus as criminals, bad-guys, unless proven otherwise, and likewise, that she's more likely to assume that criminals in general are bad people capable of much worse--that she's got very little sliding scale of criminal morality--which is quite realistic for her princess-in-the-tower character background--so that when she saw "Faunus committing crime" she immediately filed Sun in the same slot with the White Fang until proven otherwise.
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It seems that the whole Faunus thing mirrors the current events of the real world.
Rights and Revolutions for the Masses!
CHARGE!!!
"......"
Miscellaneous Info
God Damn, that fight. Gun-chucks and, puppet sword lasers. I loved it. The reconciliation seemed a little off, I just can't pinpoint why.
Binged All Of Gundam In 4 Years, 1 Week and All I Got Was This Stupid Mask
FF XIV: Walked to the End
Started Legend of the Galactic Heroes (14/07/23), pray for me.
Her shift is really not as big as it seems. If you notice, she specifically clarifies that she's fine with this because Blake isn't a part of White Fang anymore, and her opinion on Sun is still undecided (if perhaps a mix of hostility towards the fact that Blake ran off with him, and maybe a hint of gratitude because he did stay with her for two days). She hasn't really changed her opinion on the fact that "White Fang is horrible and faunus who associate with it are horrible," she's simply adjusted her world view to a point of "Blake is no longer a part of White Fang, therefore she is not horrible like the faunus who associate with it."
Honestly, I won't be shocked if this comes up again once White Fang becomes an even bigger part of the plot.
Which it's almost certain to do, because of the anonymity of its new leader who changed their direction. When the identity of a significant figure is kept a secret, it's a virtual lock it'll be revisited to explore the mystery. Also, since Cinder is requiring Torchwick to keep working with the Fang, and since we still haven't gotten an answer to Blake's question of "why the heck are you working with this despicable human rapscallion" there's plenty of other reasons to revisit it.
Hopefully they will. I loved the way she bit off whatever she was going to call Sun in the "instead of going to...some people," indicating that Monkey Boy is still on her crap list. I hope they don't gloss that over. Just because Weiss and Blake are friends and teammates doesn't mean that Weiss has to get along with all of Blake's friends. It would be a nice piece of reality to have Sun and Weiss just plain dislike each other.
Or end up kissing. That could work, too.
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...How princess and the pauper that would be.
Lancer x Archer OTPSpoiler:
No one else sees the potential for Ruby x Penny?
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Penny becomes jealous of Crescent Rose when Ruby spends time maintaining it.
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