which of the 4 was your favorite
V1-3 for Ruby. This is going to sound kind of heretical, but V7-9, well really V8-9 Weiss, V7 Weiss, that braid looked like it just wasn't coded in properly. But I like the braid and the fact that she kind of looks like a short, color inverted Lulu (Final Fantasy X) with all of the belts. The braid shows the elaborate/extravagant over-the-top nature of what you would expect from a scion of one of the richest families on Remnant. Plus it brings back her original side-ponytail look that V4-6 did away with for no discernable reason. V1-3 Blake is best Blake. The black vest with coattails looks classy-yet-seductive (possibly an early hint to her family's true wealth). And the bow, on top of looking cute helps me forget that I'm looking at the least sexy catgirl on the internet every time she's on screen. V1-3 was also before they gave her boobs the outboard eggs look. So it also gets my vote. Yang is V2 Alt. The use of browns and oranges throughout her ensemble makes it feel like CRWBY was ashamed of giving her that amazing head of long luscious blonde locks and they're constantly straining themselves to keep it covered up from the audience. Here the use of a white top and limited (though bright and vibrant) accessories properly allow Yang to flaunt her beauty (which again, I am positive that allowing her to do it emotionally wounded CRWBY). As opposed to looking like she's wearing a potato sack that they stole from Cordovin along with the Bullhead.
Something that randomly came to me.
The nature of a huntsman's semblance should change, as they grow.
And I don't mean just in power or usage techniques, I am saying that somebody like Ruby who spreads read rose petals as she runs should leave a trail of withered black roses after V8 cause of the soul deep trauma.
It could be amazing visual story telling if nothing else. Or, you could also show that such deep events(not necessarily negative only) can change in how a semblance functions.
post V8 Ruby moves more sluggish in her petal form, as if wading through a world of molasses yet, you would loose track of her even if she started to move in front of you, as though she is a ghost just drifting by.
Yang's fire is no longer that fiery gold like her hair, a bit more orange like a setting sun, it doesn't flare around with her emotions and movements, it now is a slow constant burn, no longer an inferno of passion but yet it lingers on the enemy far longer, a slow but constant burn as if the dying sigh of a faded star.
Weiss's Glyphs were rigid but noticeably fragile before she came to Beacon, when she became part of it her Glyphs glowed brighter, their movement more dynamic, yes they lost some of that crystalline rigidity but they sculpted into an oh so prettier thing nonetheless.
Then when she had to leave her friends behind, her Glyphs didn't become rigid like before, they started to become droopy, misshaped as if a crucial support was missing from them. Her summons didn't come from glowing platforms of snowflakes, now they formed from melted puddles, eerily similar to the natural formation of the Grimm, as if her grief given form.
Blake's clones somehow at their core don't change, those clones remain the same façade, an approximation of reality.
I think you're on the right track, in principle, but it forces us to ask: How mutable is the Soul? What does it take to change not just a person's body or mind, but the unquantifiable quantity at the center that individuates the Self? Yang, I agree with. The idea that Adam mutilated not just her body, but her soul. The shining vibrant vivacious Yang died at Beacon and such a change would be proof-positive that we're left with a shambling carcass that goes by the same name.
The whole moral of V9 was
apparently supposed to say that Ruby does not need to change, if Count understands it correctly, which in the estimation of many I do. But if you ask me, what Volume 9 really says is that if the characters had any brains they'd blow them out.
Blake it would be funnier if after V5 her Semblance changed into simply fading away like her relevance to the story.
Weiss, I personally don't think she went through enough to fundamentally alter the core of her personality so as to justify the change between V3-V4-V5. Which brings me back to the initial question. What does it take to change a person's soul? Because I want to explore this line of thought, but I don't want it to reduce to bad mood and bad experience Semblance debuffs and using narcotics to keep you happy enough to buff the Semblance efficacy.
For example: I had an idea for a character a while ago, whose everything, and I mean everything, was erased and replaced by another OC's Semblance. But that character hacks up flickering, magenta Schnee glyphs on Semblance activation now, and I would have it that this would be the big reveal of that character being a secret (once) member of the Schnee family.
In other news, now that I've gotten The Dragon, the Witch, and the Himbo sorted out. I can get to writing another episode of Ruby getting tormented by incorrect weapon design.
So, I was toying with the idea of having it as a Whiter Rose Dragonslayer double date because Ruby wants Jaune and Yang to pick up some secondary weapons that will work at greater-than-lunging distance. But I think that could be a second storyline in and of its own. Because Jaune... Actually, Jaune and Yang having a minor adventure with the OCs during some kind of terrorist or bandit attack on the convention. Scratch that, nobody in their right mind would attack a gun convention. Scratch that, it could just be that Yang and Jaune wandered away from Ruby and Whitley and started trusting the weapons conglomerate CEO wolf-girl and the very stereotypical German mad scientist that the Atlas army trusts with a whole division for some reason for weapon advice. I think I'm going to have Penny show up, and maybe Neon too so I can start telling Whitley harem jokes too (this is not a Bumblebee timeline, so Ruby is not opposed to sharing her man).
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