Which, on the other side of the fence I'm....pretty sure the Ace-Ops are all supposed to refer to assorted Aesops but I haven't yet figured out which ones.
Buff Girl's name was Elm and the pale guy's name was Vine, I think? So...something dealing with trees and vines. Was there an Aesop about acorns? I feel like there was.
(Also can I just detour to laugh at Maria just, "Meh"-ing out of that particular mess, like "Lol, I don't know these people/they'll be able to get themselves out of this. We'll catch up later." )
But YEAH, now...I love Ironwood, and I totally get where he's coming from. Because not telling people stuff is what got us into this mess in the first place.
Now, the real problem is, is that Ironwood's plan to deal with the fallout through the Amity Arena satellite is great? BUT A HUGE PROBLEM WHEN YOU HAVE A VILLAIN THAT'S ALREADY HAXXED YOU ONCE.
It'll be funny if 2 of the things people thought were going to happen in Volume 3 (Amity Arena dropping out of the sky and Penny going rogue) happen in Volume 7.
The real shame is that all of Ironwood's ideas are completely sound. Heck, the Amity Arena satellite is brilliant! It's just...we, the audience also know Salem's got an ace here so it's a race to see who figures out what first.
Because, "Yeah, Ozpin lied to all of us and it turns out he's just been stalling for time and now he's sulking inside Oscar and won't talk to us," sounds terrible. XD
IDK if she was relaly coveirng for Oscar/Oz aside form worrying it might lead to another 'Oscar gets manhandled' situaiton, or if she just made a split seocnd decision
To be fair though, thinking about it the Relic of Knowledge, unless it has some sort of hidden additional power? Is sort of a non-player in this. There's only one question left, and unless Ironwood knows like...THE perfect question to ask Jinn, there's not much use in telling him there's a question left other than it getting used on something dumb.
I mean, we all know Ironwood's question would be like, "How do we destroy Salem?" and he'd get the same answer Oz did and then Jinn's out for 100 years. XDXD
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Yeah, Nora's grandma seems more likely if this Maiden is at all related to any of the group but it could just as easily be someone totally uninvolved.
Qrow stated that Amber was "young and inexperienced" which...yeah, I'd say she was probably fresh out of school at the oldest, assuming she went to any of the Huntress academies (she may not have which would...also explain some things).
Because that Snow Queen had existed for like...eons and, if I remember correctly, was living only because of an enchanted piece of ice mirror that had frozen her heart so like...yeah.
THe only thing that makes me hesitat about that si I'm almost positive that Mama Schnee is probably gonna be the Snow Queen character. But I could be wron
(Basically, the devil made a mirror made of hate vision, it ended up breaking and shards being scattered across the world, with two shards ending up in one boy's eye and heart, so he stopped listening to warnings about the unaffiliated Snow Queen, so she kidnapped for her latest pet.)
The Snow Queen actually doesn't end up defeated. The boy's friend ends up curing him and whisking him away when the Snow Queen leaves him in her palace and she goes out to spread winter.
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Ah! Okay. I had a version of that story where the girl goes to the palace and the Snow Queen is there (and her friend is kinda just...freezing to death at her feet lol) and she pleads with the Snow Queen or something and that melts the shard in her heart and she...melts away or something. Wow, I will need to find that adaptation.
I remember it was animated but like...storybook style animated. Where the motion was limited and there were a lot of cross-fades from one pose to the next.
I think in a way Ruby's protecting Ironwood too. The man's dealing with enough already and obviously still respects Ozpin a great deal. Crushing all that on top of telling him that Salem is immortal?
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Oh gosh, yeah, that's a good point. I also think this is absolutely a case of Ruby just...giving herself a chance to really get a feel for what's going on?
Like it's all well and good that Ironwood was straight-forward with them (so far as they know) but there's obviously a Lot going on in Atlas/Mantle and it seems really unfair to just expect Ruby to put all her cards on the table while under duress.
There's also nothing preventing Ruby from telling him the truth about Salem/Oz/the Relic of Knowledge later or if the situation calls for it, and that's no doubt what she'd do that if it was necessary.
It's not like...just because she with-held it here she can't tell him later and be like, "Hey, I'm sorry I didn't mention this earlier but I was kinda over-whelmed and wanted to check things out for myself."
I thinkt hat's the problem though. If RUby DES do the right ting and tell the truth... si that the best thing? Or is that going to cause Ironwood to go uttery nuts and cause even MORE problems? Caus ein his state, IDT hes going to jus tbe okay with evne a lie of omisison
ROFL oh no, yeah, I think in this case, this was safest for a ton of reasons. XD It's just that she can tell him later if need be and Ironwood "should" be able to understand why a 17 year old would do that. XDXD not whether he actually will
I really love the dynamic of showing how Yang and Ruby are siblings who love each other and Weiss and Winter are also siblings who love each other and they both show each other that in different ways and understand that and it's Okay.
Rofl yeah. I will say though that, when push comes to shove, I think Winter would side with Weiss over Ironwood. Or at least, not side with something that would put Weiss in danger/harm's way.
So even if they end up on different sides of any oncoming conflict in an idealistic sense? The minute Weiss is in danger, Winter'd help her because like...she does love her??
Rofl, yeah, definitely. But I also think that'll be a good conflict to look at. A conflict of ideals but with two people who genuinely love each other. That's a pretty contemporary issue. /nods
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not whether he actually willPenny for Winter Maiden.V7: Kiss! Kiss!
Lets hope that Ironwood didn't bug him hereTHAT WOULD BE SO MEAN, but also kinda funny XDXD