RWBY Years Later

by Shake N. Bake Mormon

A retrospective on each volume of RWBY by the standards of today. Inspired by Raycevick's "Halo... years later" series. Please Read & Review. Sorry if the title made you expect some sort of 'main characters all grown up' kind of story. Updates when I feel like it. Goodbye, RWBY Fanbase. See you starside. (Made a better finale)

4. Volume 3: One More Thing

I just remembered something I neglected to mention in the volume 3 chapter, so here I go.

So, in volume three, we start the season with a tournament arc, and everyone from Penny to Pyrrha to Sun to Jaune to RWBY is competing. We get a few fight scenes, which once again STILL let the trailers keep the #1 spot in choreography, and then we get a big twist. Now, after I wrote the volume three chapter, I realized something, and I went back to a few episodes to look for something in particular, something very important.

And I never found it.

And that sucks, because it's the ONE THING that could've made the tournament arc worth it:

Character motivation.

I never found any implied or outright stated motivation from any member of teams RWBY, JNPR, SSSN, whatever Penny's team is, or any other team except for CMNE (Carmine; Cinder, Emerald, Neo, and Mercury). Why does Weiss want to compete in the tournament? For glory? For fun? For some sort of prize that was never mentioned, even in the WoR? It's especially confusing once you consider Blake's situation. "Yeah, I'm trying to not get noticed by people who remember me despite the fact that my only change in appearance was a bow that Adam sees right through later. Hows about I go on live television in front of at least half of Remnant's population, likely including Adam himself?" I mean, is Blake SUPPOSED to be the biggest idiot her side of galactic center? Ruby has no motivation. Penny... okay, Penny might have been using the tournament as a test run, but what about anyone on team JNPR? Yang, maybe it was fun, but we can't be too sure.

If we as the audience have absolutely no clue what's at stake or why the MAIN CHARACTERS are doing the things they're doing, that's bad writing. Period.

RWBY always seems to have had this problem, but the series is also known for getting better with time.

The plot is good as of V3C6.

The soundtrack is good as of V1C7.

The choreography is good as of V4C6.

The theme is good as of Volume 2, and hasn't been as good since.

The animation is good as of V3C1.

Yeah, I just wanted to include this bit that I missed in the last chapter. Volume 4's chapter should come out soon. Thanks for waiting!