Uh... uh hi! Hi we're back! I mean I guess, yeah
I'm back I was here yesterday I was talking to some of you guys and now we're going to
watch... we're going to watch the Volume Four finale it's been a long freaking time
coming. How long have we been watching Volume Four at this point? Like 2 years?
Jesus Christ. But we're- we're doing it! It's happening.
"We started in 2022" Jesus. Look. Look I've been I've been doing
my best okay? We're- We're- It's gonna- It's gonna be done now, we're
goi
ng to be done Volume 4 . This... this absolute journey of a volume it's
going to be done. Yeah hi, hello everyone. "Just five more to go." Yeah. Yeah it's
going to take me freaking decades. Well hopefully not if we're doing it this way
hopefully it'll take shorter time cuz it was taking me so long because of the way I
was doing it so hopefully doing it this way, we'll do it faster yeah hopefully
with this method we'll get through it faster. That'll- T hat's the goal
at least and we'll see
how it goes. "It'll only take centuries
now." Yeah. Yeah I'm aware that it was taking way too long to watch anything. Before I start I guess I'll do a little- little
summary of where we where we left off. Uh... Yang and Blake and Weiss have finished
their little plot lines. Yang is on her way to... Well it's not clear actually she- it's- I
think she's going to Ruby, but it's also very possible she's gonna go look for Raven.
So Yang is on her way away from her house, to I think Ruby but also
possibly Raven I
mean whenever- whatever chance is she gonna... Is she ever going to get another chance
to look for Raven? So I guess that would this would be a good time to do it
but personally I think she's going to prioritize going to Ruby than her own
stuff cuz... I mean she already sped up her healing process because she wanted to go
help Ruby so this wouldn't be the first time. Weiss is leaving the manor and going to... She's
also on her way to Mistral because Winter is there and she
's going to go meet up with her
sister and honestly good for her cuz it means cuz she's finally getting out of that goddamn
house and that's going to be great news. Blake is still in Menagerie but she's going to
work on the whole White Fang liberation nonsense front, going to try to make the White Fang not a
terrorist group anymore which is freaking rad good for her honestly and then then we're back with
uh Sad Kids In The Forest who are being extra sad and there's a giant freaking Grimm ab
out to
attack them and Ren's going to probably have to go through and work through his trauma in the
most visceral hands on way anyone has ever done Cuz like this thing that killed all of his- I do
love the sad kids in the forest a big fan of the sad kids in the forest- Uh cuz he's going to have
to like freaking fight the thing that killed his whole family and- Well not his whole family, but
you you guys know what I mean he's going to have to fight the thing that destroyed his life and is
now putting the people he loves in danger again cuz everything is a cycle so... Uh and Qrow is
still poisoned so hopefully he becomes... I hope he doesn't die out of all of them... somebody
asked me yesterday if I think anyone's going to die uh, and I don't think anyone is going to die
but if anyone does Qrow is the most likely one. I really hope nobody dies cuz I love all of these
characters and also it- and also honestly I don't think it would be very good writing to have people
die in ev
ery finale from here on out that's just- it would become too predictable and would make
the deaths... So uh yeah I'm going to going to get this episode started. It's called "No Safe
Haven" which I assume is a reference to the the school the school's named Haven, right? They keep
mentioning that they're going to Haven Academy so I- I assume that's a nice little pun reference to
to the fact the academy is called Haven and also the fact that well quite obviously they're in the
place that Ren u
sed to live and it's not a safe haven for him anymore cuz it was all destroyed,
and I guess Nora lived there too I don't know how long Nora lived there, but um yeah! We're
going to we're going to get this started so let's Go! How do I get rid of this little... You.
You go away little... thingy. Get out of here. I probably uh... It's- it's been a while so I
don't know if I've mentioned this actually, but I really love this intro song. It's... Out of the
ones that there are this is my... I lik
e the... In order my favorite one is probably Volume Two,
and then this one. I really love this song. But yeah, I really like this intro song. I'm excited to be able to... I'm excited to
be able to listen to the lyrics uh... fully and get to hear the whole song so... But
let's uh... let's get into this episode! Or chapter I guess, cuz they're called chapters.
Okay so the the the fight's already started. Oh dang the fight's really started. Oh heck I just realized they wouldn't have been
able to
get Qrow to safety before starting this I don't know if I'm ready for a full
actual look at this this thing cuz... Oh no Ren! I think that's the most emotion
I've... We've ever seen from Ren, honestly. Oh... Okay I mentioned- I mentioned
before... I mentioned before that I like... I really love body horror stuff but
the twitching the twitching of the fingers. I don't like the twitching.
And what- Okay you gotta understand when I say I don't like
something it means I- I- I- really like it,
but like I don't like- I don't like the
twitching fingers. I don't like the- It's the it's not so much the the twitching
itself it's the sound effect. It's the it's the the crunchy bone clicking
sound effect that they put with it. Oh all the bones! All the bone
cracking from the thing, I hate it! Oh my boy! My boy going and- and
wanting to help wanting to help Qrow immediately Come on come on come on come on come on Wait... I always thought Grimm can see. Can Grimm
not see? Can they only s
ee emotions? Can they only see emotions? I always thought that they could
see things not just... So like I assumed that Ren's power made it useful cuz like if they're
not looking at you, you can sneak past but like I didn't realize that Grimm just... they don't
actually have functioning eyes Or just or is it just like this one doesn't have functioning eyes?
Also I love that after getting smacked around for a little bit their first thought... My boy,
my boy, his first thought was "Okay I don
't actually need to fight I need to get Qrow to
safety, someone needs to take care of this." Okay so it hasn't... Even at this point? It hasn't
been explained whether they can see? I like that explanation that... they that they can see you
but they don't register that you're a living thing. That's interest that's an interesting
take on it honestly I- I like that take. But I- I really wasn't expecting it to just... for
him to go... for Ren to use his semblance and for it to just immediately s
top dead and be like
"Oh where did you go" hen his then his semblance might be more it might be more complicated than
what I originally thought it might not just be emotions it might be like cloaking your whole
Aura or whatever. I'll have to think about that Yeah don't- don't dawdle Jaune. Okay Qrow- Qrow's not entirely invalid, he can He at least walk a little bit. I bet Qrow freaking hates this, that he has to sit out while the kids
defend him. I- I would hate this. Oh! Oh they had a littl
e moment. They
had a little moment together! That was like... that was like Qrow being
like "It's... I can't do it so it's your... I'm charging you with keeping...
making sure everyone keeps safe." Oh strategist! Man this really is like a video game boss fight. Stay out of range of the attacks, just keep circling so it doesn't... so that
when it tries to hit you it's behind... Man it would really... it must really suck
to not have a ranged weapon at this moment. No no no, what are you- you
need that! Hold on a sec. Wait wait wait. Wait. So... so I've
been wondering off screen- I haven't mentioned it in a while while cuz nothing happened with it, but
I've been wondering for a while cuz he said he got his weapon upgraded. Did he upgrade it to be a
bigger sword instead of getting a ranged weapon?! I'm sorry- I'm... Honestly this is the most
in-character thing he ever could have done To be like "No I don't need a ranged weapon!
What if my sword was bigger?" Oh but actually now tha
t I'm think- oh... I mentioned yesterday that- Somebody asked what
my favorite symbolism is and I like that I like the- the way the weapon symbolism is and... God
he just... it's his sheath it's the- the sheath that turns into the bigger sword. Let me- let
me go back and look it's his... it's the... Yeah, it's the- it's the sheath that
turns into the bigger sword. So like... He doesn't... but his sheath is also the shield! So he doesn't get to have the shield when
he's doing it this way rig
ht Is that... is that what I'm... is that the point? That he
doesn't get to have his shield while he's... Sacrificial ass idiot you need that you need that! You need that to fight prop-
Most- 90% of your fighting experience has been fighting
with a sword and a shield, you can't just switch to having a bigger
sword and expect that to go well! No you need- You can't just
sacrifice all of your defense to get to hit thing- to get to have
a bigger sword! No no no that's not- [sigh] I'm going to
talk about this more, but for now we're gonna continue.
For now we're gonna continue. Aw, she looks so excited to see the
weapon upgrade it's nice to see her still get excited excited about that. Oh well- Nucky didn't like that, didn't like that hit Oh what in sweet hell- What
the- what in the fresh hell is this?! What is this non- with
the pin wheel arms?! uh-uh uh-uh I don't like that its arms can get longer... I don't like that its arms can get
longer and shorter that that's not fun Oh
we reached the second phase.
Second phase of the boss fight Oh it ripped the tendrily things!
The tendrily things on it- Oh it's interesting to me that Ren and Nora
didn't react to the scream only Jaune and Ruby did. It really shows it I like that
Ren and Nora react didn't react to it because it shows how they've had
to... they've had to fight... Honestly they've had toight fight more Grimm than Ruby and
Jaune have cuz they grew up in the wilderness as opposed to in a town or whatever but I
like
that when it did its big scream it like... I you can't see this I don't have a- I don't
have a video on but it's a it like ripped its little tendril things that was keeping its
mouth shut so that it could scream louder. Is it trying to like summon allies or whatever, or
is it just screaming for the joy of screaming? Yeah it's not... yeah don't mention that
they don't have bones that doesn't... that no. That's- that's I don't like that, I don't
like that uh-uh it's not better that the
y don't have bones that's worse, in fact. Well they do
have bones they just they aren't structural, they're there for literally just intimidation
purposes. Ren also keeps just running in and not thinking things through and I hate it he's usually
such a like and I realize now that it's probably mostly because of reliance his Semblance but it's
not... I don't like seeing him get like... I don't like seeing him get overwhelmed by his emotions it
hurts. Cuz it shows how much this is affecting h
im No no no no no don't get- don't get
him he's- he's stuck don't get him- don't get him all these kids all these kids
are so self-sacrificial I need them to care about themselves as much as they care about
other people God I was so scared that just it like grabbed her at the torso I was so
scared she got like claws in her chest Pfft. It's fun to have little moment of
comedy little moments of comedy I don't like the twitching the whole torso moving a oh
no no no her Aura she needs that no
no no no no Ren focus on getting out of the thing not on shooting it you'll be able to do so
much more if you can get out of the thing no don't just keep running in God his
expressions here the animators really they they really just didn't- Oh it's good to good
to know that I'm not the only one who thinks this is fucked. My boy Ren you need to calm
down you need to think with I know this is like all the trauma for you I know this is
like I know this is like all the trauma for you all at onc
e and that this is probably the
first time in I don't know how many years you were like it's unclear how old you were when when
this happened at first I'm going you looked like seven or eight so it's been like it's been
like a decade since this happened but like I it I hate it so much how much you're not
acting like yourself it's- it's disturbing on a level that I was not expecting to see you
acting like this acting just so much unlike Ren But also I guess it's sort of refreshing to see
th
at the other people around him the Ruby and and Jaune and Nora are looking at this and
being like "Oh actually he's this is this is something is not going right something is
this is bad this is not going correctly" and they immediately clocked that he's acting out
of the ordinary I love that they know him well enough to clock that like this isn't normal Ren
anger he is being being unnecessarily reckless and putting himself in danger because he wants
to kill this thing regardless of if it ki
lls him he just wants it dead because it hurt him in
the past and I hate that they that he's that he is acting this way because it shows how much
he never processed any of this trauma at all Oh Nora you can see how much this is
hurting her look at that face look at his face oh man you guys got to move you
can't just thank you fucking Christ thank you Nora wait it didn't hit the house though Why
didn't it hit out the house though damn bitch you stopped that?! Okay so now it's just Jaune
and
Ruby cuz Ren and Nora's Auras are both gone Nora let go Nora I don't let go he's
going to he's going to run in an almost oh Oh Nora... Oh... Oh kiddo! Okay that really hit me Ren just seeing her as... as she was when they first met oh
is this it it would it would really oh God Nora... she cares about him so much and they and
they all care about him they're all friends but but it's different for Nora and Ren like the
reason Nora is Nora is because he came and comforted her under back when his
house his world
was falling apart and I love Nora being like "No no no I'm not going to let you kill yourself like
this I'm not going to let you get so consumed by your anger and your hatred that you stop being
the person I love" like that that really that really hit me man! And him seeing her as the way
that she was when they first met the... which is so different than how she is now she's not that
scared little girl anymore but she's still she is still scared. She is honestly she is stil
l a
little girl neither none of these people are old enough to be going through this nonsense not that
you're ever not that there's like once you hit 40 you're allowed to go through trauma but like
no it's she's she's scared but this time she's not scared of the monster she's scared for him
she's scared of she's scared of losing somebody she loves in the same way that he lost someone
he loves to this same monster she doesn't want it to lose him cuz she for the longest time he
was all that
she had and God God ow literally smacking some sense into him to get him to stop
running in and almost dying because he doesn't care about himself and just wants the thing to
die God that that one hurts that one hurts me Oh and he finally gets it you finally get it Ren he gets it but yeah yeah he gets it but he still
wants the thing to die and I agree it should die but you got to do this smart you can't just keep
running in and it's his dad's knife he still has it dang yeah like what Nora sa
id we you guys can
do this you just got to you got to do this smart you can't just keep running in and trying to do
it by yourself the point of teams of Huntsman is that you can you're stronger when you work
together that's the point of this whole show Aw all these kids! Imme- oh! These kids
immediately figuring out a way that's like yes we can we can take this down if we're if
we work together but letting Ren have the final blow because it means something personally to
him and not even ne
eding to talk about it not Ruby and Jaune weren't there for that little
conversation under the house they were they were just immediately saw them come out from
underneath it and were like okay we need to make sure that Ren is the one to kill this thing
cuz he deserves to have that closure and God! God these kids! Thor with her mighty hammer I always love it's used so often but it
it always gets me when Ren- when uses when Ruby uses the momentum of her scythe
to blast around it's done so wel
l okay so that's one arm down I guess we're
trying to immobilize the thing? So that Oh Ren using Jaune's shield! I love it always
gets me when they use their other weapons YES!! Yes Nora!!! Yes yes yes!! Can they- can Grimm feel pain? this
it see it certainly seems like it can feel at least an approximation pain oh
him not flinching in the scream yes!! Okay so both arms gone
Oh baby! dang man dang man saying all the the people that he's killing it for his family everyone that that it's hurt
and then also for him cuz it it didn't kill him but it it hurt him in a way that so
personal and and he's never going to be that little carefree kid again because this
thing took his whole childhood away from him and yeah and he only said that bit out
loud that's the only bit he said out loud it's like that I feel like he that's the
only bit he said out loud cuz like until this moment he hadn't allowed himself to process
that this thing didn't just hurt other people it hurt him it hurt him
you know it didn't just
kill his mom or kill his or kill his dad I mean it didn't kill his mom but it was at fault for
killing his mom it didn't just hurt other people it hurt him you know and I feel like him saying
that out loud was him finally acknowledging that yes this thing this this Grimm that destroyed my
life destroyed my life it didn't just hurt other people it hurt me and that's just that's that's
just really good writing that's I really like that that's what that's really well d
one also
I've mentioned it before but God it must help with cleanup to just be like okay the Grimm's
killed and it will just evaporate back into smoke and them all just standing there
watching him it's just it's really good okay now you guys go take a freaking nap cuz Jesus Christ oh oh and he he hugs her in return okay good okay good I was worried cuz
if they were going to kill him having him die offscreen while they were doing all
of that that would have been the moment oh immediately say
ing that she
did a good job think I hear something ooh these they look different than the
ones from from Vale does each kingdom have like a different design for how their airships look
I like that these ones have wings it's a nice touch oh they're fin- they're finally
going to get him to get some freaking medical attention Jesus it's taken
them long enough I mean I don't know how long it's taken them but it's
been too long shock mans is still alive Yeah that'll do it Oh oh it's so pretty l
ike Vale just looked like
a city city look at this thing it's all dang they really took their Asian they really took their
freaking Asian influences didn't they look at that goddamn pagoda on the top of the mountain but the
the terraced the terraces oh that's really cool I always love uh fantasy and real world cities like
this that are built into the the mountains and have layers it's they're so cool to me probably
because I live in New Jersey which is the flattest place in the world and th
ere aren't hills
let alone mountains but like godamn that's so pretty also they finally made it
it's taken them a whole volume and who knows how many months of
travel but they're finally here oh these two oh the look he gives her oh oh the hand oh my oh also isn't this wait a second wait a second
I recognize this song Hold on hold on hold on I got I got to think I got to think I recognize
this this is one of the songs that we listen to already I can't remember what it's called because
I'm r
eally bad at names I can't remember what it's called is there is wasn't there a song in like
volume one or two from Nora's point of point of view talking about how she feels about Ren
isn't that it sounds like that is it that song oh I got it I is it's called Boop oh
of course it's called Boop but but I got it yes but him being the one to reach
out this time instead of Nora because it's always been Nora up until this point but
Ren reaching out to her and holding her hand oh it's like holdin
g people's hands in RWBY is
like such a thing it's like such a thing cuz it seems to be more indicative of being in a loving
somebody else and being in a relationship than actually kissing or any or saying that or anything
cuz like that's how that's how Ruby was with Penny they she as soon as Penny was doubting Ruby was
immediately like no I have to hold your hands and reassure you that you're okay when Pyrrha
was doubting herself Jaune was like no I have to hold your hand and reassure you
that I'm here
for you and uh I don't remember it happening but it it freaking must have but I mean Blake and Yang
have their own thing going on like they're clearly they don't need to hold hands at this point it's
not subtext it's just text at this point but okay yeah yeah yeah I knew I knew it must have happened
the the way that and then Ren and Nora here it's just like it's like these characters are saying
it it's not about overt explanations of love it's about how the things that seem pl
atonic can mean
so much more if you just can mean so much more to them because they already understand what's
going on but it's also I love how like how touchy feely these characters are they're not afraid
to show their love for the other for each people for each of them you know they're constantly being
like holding the other characters or putting their hands on their shoulders or holding their hands
I love that they're like no I care about this person and I need to show them that I care a
bout
them I need to hold them in my arms and show them that I'm that I'm I'm want to protect them from
danger and I want them to be safe and I love how much yeah unashamed love and joy in an unashamed
open display yeah yeah yeah yeah I love how how clear it is that these kids care about each
other so much it's it's done it's done so well okay freaking finally we've made it oh thank freaking God he's getting medical
attention it's only taken what a week it's been a while since
we've seen Ru
by inside a house it's been a while since Ruby has felt
safe enough that she can put her own weapon down oh he looks peaceful instead of in
pain like he has for the longest time I've got I've got I've got bad news Ruby I've
got bad fucking news I don't think any of your letters have reached home they don't know how
you're doing at all cuz I think they mentioned that actually that they haven't heard from Ruby
at all since she left but she's been writing them letters she's been writing them l
etters she's
been writing them letters updating them oh sweetie It's not your fault Ruby It was reckless but it was necessary,
someone had to do something Oh it's Weiss time I can tell I can- her music's playing, yeah there she is oh she's she's like bribing a guy to
get out of this to get out of Atlas okay I got to pause I'm getting like a million who
the fuck is pilot boy what do you mean it's the boy do you is this guy like a
character does he come I just met pilot but I met p- who's who
the fuckis pilot boy I get that it's this guy this guy
who's g- to smuggle white out of the what but what's the significance do she
is he just "ask pilot" okay hold on hold on I'm texting her she's not in the room with me oh I are you fucking serious
are you fucking serious is that why she's called pilot is that why
pilot is called is are you fucking serious I thought it was just a fun nickname
that she came up no no no no that can't no no you you're fucking with me that no she just
she j
ust fucking confirmed it are you telling me that her her username cuz I know she's
called pilot boi but I thought that was just no no that can't I'm fucking furious I'm fucking fur- I hate I hate this I hate
it here this is I'm fucking no "search your feelings you know-" I don't
have to be happy about it being true I'm going to focus on Weiss getting out of the getting
out of the kingdom and not on this fucking nonsense I have to move on I have to move on no
no no I'm continuing I'm continu
ing God damn it I liked Weiss's I'm moving on I
liked Weiss's little musical sting coming in oh and Blake her her theme
from her trailer is playing she's on the freak the boat is called
Pride are you serious gay ass boat for this dang y'all ain't subtle at all there's
no this ain't subtle this is just text this isn't subtext oh I didn't even notice hold
on she had a new outfit I just oh what the what's this like this like collar thing
she's got going on what is this I like her her jacket b
ut I don't know I don't
understand this collar thing that she has oh yeah well who needs biker
safety when you have a force field when you have a magic force field
who needs who needs biker safety Yeah I'm seeing those parallels between
I got to pause before we get to sad boy Jaune hours I got to pause um I I was seeing
those parallels between what are they called Tai- Qrow's old team what's what's their team
called STRQ STRQ that's right I'm I'm seeing the parallels between STRQ being lik
e the
failed first attempt and RWBY being the one that's succeeding because they're STRQ broke
apart and they never came back together but RWBY broke apart and they're they're on their
they're finding their ways back to each other so like I'm I'm seeing the parallels CRWBY I'm
seeing what you're putting down I'm picking it up I'm I'm not emotionally ready for sad
boy Jaune hours I mean that's been that's been every scene he's been in this volume
but I'm I'm not emotionally prepared for it
The sword and the shield with the Pyrrha metal oh and the knife his dad's knife This is the shit I'm talking about the
physical comfort look at these kids Look at these kids immediately
coming in and being like "Oh my friend is sad I have to I have to
comfort them I have to be there" God oh oh that's not necessary no no that edit isn't necess oh I don't remember
who Miles Luna is I don't remember who that is but God that edit of the it's the it's the
shot of Pyrrha from oh you're all tellin
g me who Miles is oh it's it's the- oh it's one
of the he's one of the writers and he's Jaune okay okay okay I- I now remember when you guys
have told me that multiple times I keep for- I don't I'm not good at names I can only take
so much uh but freaking the freaking Pyrrha ghost leaning on Jaune's shoulder team JNPR oh
Miles Luna you're right to tear up I'm doing it oh and oh now that now that I'm paused
I might as well talk about it the freaking the the the sword and the shield leaning o
n
each other each with Pyrrha's metal embedded in them and him just sitting there looking
at them and being having his sad boy hours and then Ren coming in and leaning his father's
knife against them the the people that they've ah "what's in the box pain" don't you Dune
me you're right though what's in this box pain pain and sadness the the the people
that they've lost still being with them in some form but also still being gone
and them comforting each other in their loss also I recognize
d this song I think it was in the credits beautiful things I think
it was in the credits of volume three but I haven't listened to it yet never this
song feels familiar I have I listened to this song it's been so long since
I've done a soundtrack reaction I've heard this somewhere I know it's in the credits somebody who is don't you mock
the pain in my voice oh I didn't even I was I was too busy thinking about the
song uh I I didn't notice she's still she still has the banner from
the orig
inal White Fang Sun over here looking like a pinup
girl my boy but she's going to Oscar wanted to be someone that could
make a difference approaching city of But not like this I wonder if eventually
I wonder If eventually Oscar would have wanted to become a hero wanted to would have
wanted to become a Huntsman but but not like this he he's been introduced
just this first volume but I already love him I love Oscar he's just a little guy I don't remember these guys
names I remember her name
because she was in like she was here recently
her name is Ilia but I don't remember these guys name they're I remember they're
shady as fuck but I remember their names y'all aren't subtle there are plenty of
people who are still lost and people who will gain everything from their sorrow
while looking at while looking at Ilia I'm picking up what you're putting down
I don't know what's going on with Ilia there's stuff happening with her clearly you saying that
she's still lost and and the fa
ct that she knows Blake there's something going on there I'm going to have I'm going to think
about it and come back to it but there's the the not they they
deliberately they covered that bit deliberately they they put that line of
dialogue over I'm bad at I mentioned this at the beginning that you guys are going to
find out that I'm a lot less verbose when I can't edit what I'm saying that I'm better at
typing things out because then I can be like "okay that sounds like shit" let's type th
is
out and actually make it sound better but now with the the rambling you guys are going to hear
"oh wait actually she's an idiot" uh but the the they did it delib- I got to slow down
they didn't it wasn't a coincidence that they put that line of people
being lost and other people taking advantage of their pain it wasn't a
coincidence that they put that line of dialogue over Ilia kneeling in front
of the the two brothers that's not a coincidence I'm doing my best on the fly I'm trying I
got to see what's happening with the bad guys now oh Cinder certainly seems to be oh but we have to try I don't like that
smile Salem I don't like that smile Salem I don't like her being like "Ah yes give
in to your hate" Cinder only being able to control her powers and let them loose
properly because she's doing she's trying to she's killing an illusion of Ruby I
don't like that I'm sure this is going to help Cinder get over her trauma I'm sure
this is good therapy Salem's never heard of t
he word therapy she sees this girl having a
traumatic episode and was like "yes I can use this" I don't like I don't like Emerald making
it I mean obviously she was asked to do this that's what the snap was about I don't like
Cinder being like "I know what I can use to make me feel the emotions I need to be able to use
the maiden powers I need to to pretend that I'm killing Ruby Rose over and over and over again"
I don't like that that doesn't bode well for the future "Salem knows what thera
py is
so she-" yeah yeah yeah yeah that's exactly right I don't like that
grin miss queen of the Grimm uh-uh oh Ruby Ruby oh oh kiddo I desperately
need someone to give Ruby a hug they're on their way you'll
be together soon enough Yeah you ran into Uncle Qrow he definitely
wasn't following you the whole fucking time Oh he's okay Oh yeah I forgot I totally
forgot he's got Ozpin's cane okay so so that's establishing that that's
establishing that Ruby- that Yang does not know about the maide
n Powers cuz it's sensitive
information Ruby's not telling her in the letter okay literally the the choice laid out
in front of her and that doesn't Yang I need you to be less vague don't you pronoun game
me I need to know who you're talking about don't you say just don't Yang don't you
just be like you are in so much trouble specify specify who you're talking about
I need to know whether you're like you as in Ruby you're going to be in so much trouble
haha or you Raven are legitimately go
ing to be in trouble because you're a terrible mother I
need don't you pronoun game me I need to know it's a nice library I don't know where the fuck
we are She's Ruby I've got bad news she's
already gone she's never going to get this letter oh it's his office Oh the tea set! yo Ozpin you literally couldn't resist being like
if I'm giving him a tea set it needs to follow my aesthetic" wait wait no wait no why is this guy here no you
I don't remember your name you're one of the bad guy- don't
you I can't believe it's
gotten worse uh-uh why is one of the bad guys here we can't have another freaking
another freaking Academy be infiltrated and he's just he this isn't even infiltration
my man's is casually having tea with somebody from Ozpin's inner circle this is not this
isn't better than you understand this is worse right this is worse than being
infiltrated this is betrayal from the inside okay so it's not just it's not
just he's it's not just Lionheart doesn't know who this g
uy is cuz he
just said Salem said that you were always hospitable this guy knows
that he's a bad guy and there're still the the fuck?! uh-uh the fucking chapter
name you're right it's No Safe Haven because it's not safe because they've
already been there's a there's a there's a rat there's a rat inside they've already been
not not corrupted uh compromised the the the situation's already been compromised
it's not safe here because Salem already has a man inside and the man inside is
Ozpin'
s on man on the inside there is a imposter I freaking hope obviously RNJR oh yeah
and he said Ruby said that they were that Qrow is going to take them to see Lionheart I can only
hope that Qrow knows Lionheart well enough that he will be able to somehow pick up that something
is wrong with the guy that's the only thing I can hope it's going to get way worse yeah I believe
you this that's what this show is everything gets things get better marginally and then they get
way worse I can only ho
pe that that happens but like come on man this was supposed to be a the the
good place to end up after traveling for so long and it's not even safe this place isn't even safe
are any of the Academies safe cuz at this point the only one that's okay is I was gonna I was
going to say that Atlas is okay but Ironwood's getting real fascist over there so I don't know
if that one's okay so far the only one that's okay is the one that's in Vacuo and it's only
because we don't know anything about it
cuz I bet you as soon as we learn anything about Vacuo
it's going to be like oh yeah actually I've been growing Grimm in the basement of the Academy
this whole time and I've been letting building an army and blah blah blah and like it's going to
be there's going to be some nonsense that's going to be like yeah actually nowhere is safe have you
considered nowhere is safe but like come on man I was looking forward to them getting to Haven cuz I
was looking forward to them since they can't ta
lk to Ozpin well I mean I guess they will eventually
because Oscar's on his way here and he can be a telephone and be like yeah Ozpin says this if they
believe him but like uh I was looking forward to them being able to talk to someone in the know
to verify that what Qrow is saying is the truth cuz like I know that Ruby trusts him but I can
understand why people who aren't why the rest of RNJR wouldn't I was looking forward to them
being able to confirm that what he's saying is true and als
o be like finally we have some a
person of authority who can help us with this but but apparently not apparently fucking not cuz I can't ever be happy I'm going to skip ahead I'm gonna skip
ahead to the freaking after credit scene now there we go it's after credit
scene I'll skip I'll skip a freaking head look I still have faith that
people want I if it's not look okay I got to pause now it's not because
they're an authority it's because I believe that people want to help each
other that's
the point of this show I believe in the the good hearts of the people
who live in this world that they're not all evil I'm just shut up about the heart
of the cards don't you Yu-Gi-Oh at me Qrow in a bar what else is new Is boy And Qrow's just like
you are a child get out of the bar I wonder how crazy Oscar
must look to like everyone oh that must be like a code word oh that's a good way to end that that's a good
way to end that with the with uh Oscar finding the group or at least finding Q
row and Qrow can lead
him to the rest of the group did hold on a sec how did Ozpin cuz Oscar would have no idea how did
Ozpin know that Qrow was going to be in that bar did they did he just have Oscar wandering through
every bar in this freaking city until they found Qrow this poor kid going into so many bars after
living on a farm and seeing so many strange people and just being like huh where's this one Shady guy
I'm looking for and Ozpin just looks around he's like "uhuh not here next ba
r kid" how long has
Oscar been wandering around this city looking for Qrow go up to the strange heavily
armed drunk man and ask to see his cane yeah Aragorn ass bitch you
are incredibly shady looking Qrow but I do like that the way that that Qrow knows
that it's Ozpin or that it's the next that Oscar has Ozpin's soul Ozpin's... I guess his Aura
yeah that is because he asked for his cane back cuz that's a thing that is so iconic of
Ozpin is that he constantly has this cane with him "hey Ozp
in I think your man must have left
there's just this weird drunk guy" oh yeah that is good proof see that's the sort of thing that
I was hoping for with that's the sort of thing I was hoping for with uh with RNJR getting to talk
to Lionheart is confirmation that Qrow isn't just fucking with them but it's at least good that
Oscar is getting that he's not going crazy uh the the confirmation in the form of somebody
unless he is crazy and Qrow is just feeding into his delusion but like that's a
pretty good
confirmation that he's doing that he's not crazy that this isn't all in his head that I mean
that the situation is fucked but at least he's sane "Oscar is a very small 30-year-old"
oh someone said where is it somebody said the the shipping game thing "today is a double
feature because it's the finale okay and the two ships are Martial Arcs and Solar Flare" well
Martial Arc I can assume one of the people is Jaune cuz like Arc that one's pretty obvious
but who would the other pe
rson be um Martial Artc is clearly a play on Martial Arcs so
who would it be if it's martial if it's if it's Martial Artc then I would guess it's either
it's either Blake or Ren cuz they both have the sort of ninja ninja aesthetic going on I think
someone said what Blake and Jaune is already and it's not that so I'm going to say that one
is I'm going to say that one's Ren and Jaune hey I can't remember what what Jaune and Blake
is I think somebody mentioned it before but I can't remember wh
at it is at this point I know
it wasn't I knew it wasn't martial arts cuz that didn't sound familiar Knightshade Knightshade
of course leaning more into the darkness thing than the I bet a lot of Blake's ones have like
cat puns in them don't they okay Solar Flare Solar Flare well again because Solar I'm
going to guess that one of the people is Sun because Solar but who would the other
person be this is a lot less obvious Solar Flare Solar Flare see I'm I'm trying not to get
into my space n
erd side of really knowing what a solar flare is but "oh yeah the belladona
flower is a night shade" yeah yeah yeah but they're all puns it's not just Blake's ones
that are puns they're all puns that's the point I Now understand why pilot is constantly
complaining about not being able to come up with ship names she is so bad at coming
up with puns um it's also a pun ha it's a double entendre very nice uh okay so Solar
Flare is definitely Sun and someone else are any of these ones that you'r
e giving me
like are they are are any of them yeah fine there's also Arkos and I guess Renora the ones
that are normal and then all the fucking pun ones are there I was going to ask though
are there are any of the ones on these more than two people cuz if they're more
than two people then I'm going to have real trouble it's the Titanic now don't you
start with me don't you fucking start with me okay so this one is just two
people okay so you'll thanks uh it's just two people so one of them
is
definitely Sun because Solar and for again I'm trying not to get in my
space nerd shit of what a solar flare actually is because it's probably not that deep I really God I feel like it either has something to
do with with I feel like it has something to do with like fire but I don't know I know
some of these are real crack shippy but I really can't see it being Sun and Cinder that
would be a real that would be a real out there one so I I don't know I know that one I'm going
to say it t
hat I don't know I would I know that one of them is I know that one one of them has
to be Sun but I don't know who the other one is oh right I forgot about I forgot that Suns that
Yang's name literally means sunny dragon so it's not it it's it's about how they're both related
to the sun okay okay okay that makes sense you said fire oh and she does have fucking Christ
she does have fire as her sort of thing doesn't she Ruby Jaune Nora and ren is
called Power Rangers that's really good that's
really Power Rangers is really
good oh now that you've mentioned now that you've mentioned haha Blake's fantasies there's
got to be a a poly ship for there's got to be a like Blake has two hands thing for for her
and Sun and Yang right there's got to be a poly ship for them is it if it's part
of the if it's part of the game don't tell me what it is but the you guys I think
is there somewhere where they like collect all of these ship names cuz my God I
would not be able to remember all of
these you have a fucking spreadsheet of
course you do of course there's a fucking spreadsheet "ask pilot" does pilot
have a spreadsheet I mean why am I asking if pilot has a spreadsheet
pilot has spreadsheets for fucking everything "the most complete one
is cour-" oh that's nice good for her so I guess it's now it's
time to do the the wrap up stuff it has basically everyone oh so it's
more it's not so much this is a some this is what someone ships so we're going to put it
on the list it's
literally just like this is every character in the fucking show and godamn
it's just an excuse to come up with puns isn't it you just you just were like hey I don't
actually care if these characters have ever interacted let's come up with a pun name for
them that's kind of funny actually I believe that I bet it wasn't that hard there's got
to be from the I mean this the show has so many characters in it there's got to be
so many freaking over there's so many combinations I need the
charac
ters to interact to ship them but yeah I guess I should do the wrap
up stuff so I know it's been a really long time coming but we're finally done volume
four volume four is done I'm free I can finally listen to the music from this
volume I can finally move on to volume five maybe someday I'll get to see Yang
on screen with Ruby again someday they'll reunite um I really liked this volume actually
I liked how first and foremost I really liked that the writers didn't gloss over any of the
pai
n and trauma that going through the fall of Beacon would have caused these characters
I love that they actually went into it in depth in multiple different ways to show how
it's affecting the characters differently that some of them are dealing with it better
than others some of them are dealing with it really badly looking at you Ruby and Jaune you
guys aren't dealing with it at all uh but and that they're even when they're dealing with it
badly they're doing it in different ways or if the
y're dealing with it well they're doing it in
different ways like like Weiss is seemed to be dealing with the trauma of the fall of Beacon
okay or at least better than better than Ruby and Jaune and Blake honestly Blake did not
deal with the trauma of the fall of Beacon well but to be fair there's there's reasons
for there's compounding reasons for why for that but I I really loved that they didn't shy
away from showing these characters going through trauma I'm not saying that Weiss went th
rough
the least because it's all comparing trauma is not it's it's just not useful everyone deals with
things differently you could go through something that's not that you could say is comparably worse
better than what someone else went through but it you deal with it worse so I'm not going to I'm
not going to get into that how many times do I think Jaune watched that video too many times
I'm going to leave it at that the fact that he my boy um he listened to it too many times it was all t
he video itself was only like
a minute and a half long 2 minutes long and then he looped and listened to it again he to our
knowledge he had already listened to it several times just that night and they were on the road
for months so presum- he listened to it hundreds maybe thousands of times cuz "be kind everyone
is fighting a battle you know nothing about" yeah exactly I can believe I can fully believe that
Jaune has listened to it enough times to quote it word for word which is which is
too many
times he was tor-he's torturing himself with the knowledge of how of the relationship they
could have had if in in his mind he had been better he had been faster all that nonsense but
my God how many times did I watch that did you watch that video of Jaune watching that video
again probably too many times I can see that for for the people who love Jaune me and I'm
aware Pilot uh I bet that I haven't rewatched it because I I don't have time I don't have time
to rewatch any of this
shit but I bet that that yall angst lovers rewatch that shit all the
fucking time who was my favorite character that I've met this volume definitely Oscar I love
even all the the Ozpen stuff aside I it's nice to have an Everyman character I've always loved
the characters that get dropped into a world that they don't that they're not prepared for I've
always loved those characters but yeah I mentioned that I love that the the now that we've
now that the episode is finished I can talk more in
depth about how freaking upset
I am about his his his upgrade I'm putting upgrade in very generous quotes because it's
not an upgrade it's a downgrade even from a the from various standpoints from a mechanical
standpoint he has literally never fought with only a sword he has only ever fought with a
sword and a shield and the two things there is overlap obviously but the two things are
not comparable you can't you can't go from being relatively competent with fighting with a
sword and a sh
ield and then only go to fighting with a sword and expect to do just as well
you just can't that's the it it's it's just not comparable they're two completely different
skill sets and then then there's the symbolism of him literally sacrificing his defenses to
be able to hit things harder of him wanting to not defend himself so that he can hurt things
more cuz that's what he thinks and he's wrong that's what he thinks caused Pyrrha to leave
him behind is that he wasn't good enough to be abl
e to go and fight with her on the tower of
course Pyrrha left him behind because she cares about him too much to put him in danger but
in Jaune's head he became the the damsel in distress in the tree who can't defend himself
or is and isn't strong enough to fight at his friend's side so he literally is like "well fine
then if it's strength they need then I'll stop defending myself and become as strong as I can"
but but in doing so he can't defend himself he's literally it's the self-sacrifi
cial stuff
that he's been getting into that now that this has happened I'm sure is going to come
up a lot more in the next season which is yay yeah okay I will acknowledge that it is
an upgrade he has more options now which he didn't before but it like you said it's
up to him to know when to use which and I know he's the strategist but he is also
extremely extremely guided by his emotions I do not trust him to be able to make the
decision for himself to know what is the correct choice to m
ake I don't trust him to
know that I need to defend myself more than I need to kill this thing I don't trust
him to know that he needs to make that decision yeah well it's about it's a big
recurring thing in RWBY that you need to that there's strength and number numbers and
that working together is always going to be stronger it's why it was made so clear that
Pyrrha sending Jaune away was a bad decision even if it had gotten them both hurt uh or
that Ozpin keeping everything to himself wa
s bad decision because if he had told people then
they if he had told people then they could have like they could have worked together to come
up with a better a better thing to do it's why Ironwood blocking off Atlas from the world
was framed as a bad decision because if Atlas isn't going to be able to defend itself against
Salem if it's just by itself it's a big recurring thing in this show that you need other people to
be at your your best you you can't be no man is an island you can't j
ust work with yourself to
be able to to do it that's true that it's been made more clear in this volume that Jaune feels
like he can only be useful if he is able to to fight things not he doesn't feel useful in that
he can protect his friends he doesn't feel use when all he has is the shield to to stand in the
way of other things he feels like he can only be useful if he's doing what honestly most Huntsmen
do which is killing Grimm he doesn't he wants to be able to be like other people and
he isn't
able to accept the strengths that he has which freaking sucks and I wish that he understood that
he has value in his own way and that he doesn't have have to be other people yeah for one thing
just strategically it's not a good idea to have everyone be to have everyone be so offensively
focused it's a good idea to spread out what your team does but also from just like a meta point
of view him literally sacrificing the defense of himself because he wants to hit things harder
it's l
ike my God man we just say that you want to die just it would be less subtle if you
just said it out loud than what you're doing here where do I think the show is going from here
okay let's start with just volume five cuz like you said this is going to be a long question
just volume five everyone's going to meet up in Mistral that's being telegraphed so clearly
uh everyone is going to meet up in Mistral I think I think it's going to take Blake a little
longer cuz she's got stuff to do in Me
nagerie still whereas everyone else is on their way uh
there's clearly going to be Iron uh I don't think Ironwood's going to be involved in this at all
cuz we're not in Atlas anymore but Lionheart Li- the Lionheart's betrayal is going to be made clear
to everyone and there's going to be some serious fallout from that "Apollo get your dodgeball
ready" H you asked me to do this don't you um they mentioned in Qrow's little in Qrow's
little uh exposition dump he mentioned that sort of the point
of the Academies is that they
are there to protect the Relics so I think since we are going to an Academy and we now know about
the Relics that we are going to actually get one of them I don't know if we'll see what they do
cuz I think they do things right but I think we're going to get one of the Relics it'll probably
be at the end of the volume cuz that won't be the focus but I think that they'll have one of
the Relics by the end I don't remember I don't remember which if they said which
ones go with
which Academy cuz there's four of them there's a Creation Destruction Knowledge there's another one
I don't remember what the last one is but I don't remember if they said which ones go with which
Academies but they're going to have have one of them by the time they get to the end of the volume
that's a that's a prediction number one I don't even know what the Relics look like they could be
they could be coffee mugs for all I fucking know um so prediction number one they are g
oing to have
one of the Relics before the end of the volume it might be in the last fucking 15 minutes of the
volume but they're going to have one of them um okay what else they mentioned that there
are there's troop movements there's there there's Ironwood mentioned that there's nonsense
going on in Mistral so it seems likely that there that Salem is planning an attack of some kind in
Mistral I don't know if it's going to be as bold not bold because they're all it's bold regardless
of wha
t they do I don't know if it's going to be as publicized as the one in veil was cuz the point
of the one in Vale was to basically put her on the world stage well not her cuz she's still working
the shadows but to like put the the attack on the world stage and show people fighting each other
people from different kingdoms fighting each other to sew dissent so the point uh so I don't
know if she's going to do that again because the dissent is already there or if she's just going
to if she's g
oing to try to be more subtle with this one cuz because she can be more subtle with
this one because the Headmaster of this Academy is working with her to some extent "it lets him
choose what kind of beverage is in the cup at any time" Relic of Choice here we go that's all
it does the other ones do like fantastical stuff in the Relic of Choice just as like "do you want
cream soda or do you want hot chocolate" here we go um but so prediction number two there's they're
either going to there's
either going to be an an attack on the academy or there's going to be some
significant strides towards towards an attack on the academy that seems to be where this is going
I don't fucking know what's happening with the White Fang they said that they're he's they said
that Adam is planning a coup of some kind but I don't know what that entails at all I have we
haven't even met the leader of the White Fang currently I I don't remember her name haha DBZ
abridged reference very nice uh okay w
hat else is happening I don't know what's going to happen
with Weiss Yang seems like she I can guess what's happening with Yang she's either going to go and
bike straight to Ruby and again I don't know how she will find Ruby because she's not going to get
that letter with their address Weiss is hanging out with pilot not the character the person in
real life why is real now that's her that's what her character arc can be Weiss is she's real now
she's in the real world um but yeah I don't kn
ow how Yang is going to find Ruby cuz she wasn't
the letter is not going to make it to her home even if she was there to read it so I don't know
how she's going to find that or she could go see Raven and personally I think she's going to go
see Ruby but this would also be probably her one and only opportunity to go see Raven before she
gets back into the nonsense of the plot um what is Weiss going to do obviously she's flying to
Mistral with pilot again the real person not the character she
's flying to Mistral and she's
going to go meet up with Winter I don't know where Winter is I guess she's probably in the
capital but yeah that's as far as I know that's that's all I've got for what Weiss is doing
"Weiss finds the rooster-" she would fucking fight them to avenge Pyrrha because again these
kids all care about each other so fucking much um and Blake is going to do she's trying to reform
the White Fang which I guess means she- it's not a good idea to try taking it right to the
source
especially since the source seem seems to be where Adam is going and that would be a bad idea cuz she
even though she's doing better she still doesn't seem emotionally prepared to confront him but so
I guess she's going to stay on Menagerie for a while and try to start a grassroots movement
I don't know but what else predictions do I have uh I don't know maybe another Maiden I
don't know which one we're on I don't know which season it's supposed to be that we're
seeing now if it's
if it's spring or winter or summer I don't know which season it is but I
but we're probably going to start getting hints at a new Maiden cuz I assume it just makes sense
everything in RWBY is divided into four there's four people on each team there's four Relics
there's four Maidens there's four Kingdoms blah blah blah it makes sense if it's divided
evenly that there's a that there would be um just like there's a that there's four Kingdoms
so if they're trying to space things out well that
there would be a Maiden in each Kingdom
even if there's no reason for her to be there that would be a good way to make sure that they're
spaced out evenly so I don't know which Maiden it is Menagerie is its own kingdom but nobody in the world counts Menagerie as
its own kingdom because of racism um but so yeah I think there's going to
be another there's going to we're going to start getting hints at a new Maiden in the next volume
again I don't know which season she's going to be nobody non
e of them have kings well they all
used presumably they all used to have kings but so yeah those are my those are my predictions I'm
excited to so yeah I'm going to going to head out thank you all for for joining me it was really
good thank you all for for joining me it was you guys are so supportive and I love that you
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much to me that you guys are willing to invest money and me doing this nonsense
but I'll be back
on Friday with the character shorts so yeah bye!
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