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Author's Discussion 2

Genre: Metahumor/Commentary

Tags: Questions will be raised for the viewers to answer, Retrospective, A bit of an Author's Words

(A/N: The reason why this is numbered 2 is because this is to replace Island Hell. As for why it was removed, this is a bit of a personal issue and delivering that some of the kinks in it are apparently heavily offensive. I had no idea until recently, and I decided to remove Island Hell. I just could not keep it up….without inwardly cringing.)

Mirai looks tried and groaned looking a bit pale.

Sorry for my appearance. New information came up and it's thrown me for a loop. So, I'll be replacing them with some RWDE posts I did for Tumblr recently. So, for all the blows I give RWBY for its characters, yes, I do have characters I like. So, I'll be giving you a list of my top 5 characters I don't completely hate. There's just one rule, they had to appear in more than one episode.

The marquee flashes #5 on the screen.

Emerald Sustrai and Mercury Black

Those two may not be my favorite villains, but they have something over most. Backstory! Mercury's is lined of tragedy leaving him a jaded assassin for hire. Emerald was a mere thief. I enjoy their designs as well even if the outfit for Emerald is a bit…silly. For weapons, Mercury's got some of the better ones, and I do like the anti-Yang motif. He's a scumbag you can hate, but enjoy. (Not like Cinder) It's depressing they got shafted in favor of Cinder, and it's why they are at the bottom of the list.

The marquee flashes #4 on the screen and the number explodes.

Yang Xiao Long

She was the first RWBY character I saw, and she got me hooked. Yang was a fun character, and I grew to relate to her being I'm an older sibling. She was my favorite of Team RWBY. I don't really hate her now, but I'm more rolling my eyes at the writing for her. She does crush an innocent man's balls and wreck his club for simply not having information she needed. I had ignored it back then, but I don't know. Yang's character was all over the place in Vol 1 before grounding it in the next. Still, she's a fun character that I do enjoy her deep moments to let her mask slip. However, she would be number 5 on this list, but her prevalence on the show justified being over Merc and Em. I really do like Yang's designs, but the one thing that I could get is…for a person who is strong enough to be thrown into a pillar and uses a close-combat style…why isn't she built...kind of like Tifa?

Logically, she should be as jacked as Sun. It's my like for Yang's character and desire for her to get a better hand then what she was give which is why I detest Bumblebee as a ship (plus it's reeks of lowkey Oedipus to me.) Let Yang be jacked, dang it!

The marquee shows #3 on screen with cat ears.

Kali and Ghira Belladonna

If it's one strike against Blake for me in the early seasons is she acts as if she has no one to back her up. Yet somehow, she has the most supportive and loving parents. That alone was enough to get them on the list. Considering most parents in writing are either dead (Ruby and Ren's), never seen and will never be important to bring into the spotlight (Nora's and Weiss's mother), abusive shits of garbage (Yang's mother and Weiss's father), or written poorly (Ruby and Yang's father). Kali and Ghira are a breath of fresh air! Helps, they are both have good designs, great VAs, and somehow are not messed up by the writing. T-T' We need more of that kind of writing…

The marquee shows #2 that's completely frozen.

Weiss Schnee and Winter Schnee

It's funny that I used to think Qrow was better than her. As stated before, I hated Weiss at first, but she grew to be what I was looking for in Blake. Unlike Blake, Weiss has to suffer to come out a better person. She lost everything, where Blake did not have to lose anything. Weiss is a bit overrated, but at least she gets development even if it's rushed beyond all belief. Her and Winter's family semblance was personally interesting to me and I really wanted its origins to be explored. Too bad, the writers royally suck at that. Weiss is my example of "underdog" (with better motivations this the show's underdog, "Joke Arc") as the odds are stacked against her in combat and even with the writers. (They literally have Jaune harass her and people wonder why people hate Jaune and the White Knight ship.) And then there's Winter…

After the recent episodes with Qrow, I've come to appreciate Winter. She may be uptight, but given the crap world that is Remnant, you'd trust her to protect you better than Qrow. (Look at Amber for example. Bet you if Winter was guarding Amber, Cinder would have failed in her plan.) I also like her relationship with Weiss as you understand why she's hard with her. Once again, Remnant's a crappy place to live in and Winter knows this. She wants Weiss to be strong and survive. Huh…as I write this, I realize something, she's similar to Raven in a contextual way. Similar means of how they view strength, strong fanbases for them, and sword-wielders. But there's one difference, Winter has much better writing and isn't a spineless twit.

Of course, both the Schnee sisters sport great designs. ^w^ Let's hope they don't ruin Winter like Qrow in Volume 6.

The marquee flashes the words, "Honorable Mentions", as Mirai flips his hair before taking a quick sip of water to clear his throat.

Before I give Number 1, some honorable mentions.

Sienna Khan as I loved her design and voice. Her personality was also very interesting, but sadly unexplored. She's introduced and soundly killed with ease by…Adam. Sure, the Adam character short counts and I could put her on the list, but it's pointless. What a waste of a character. The voice actor did Bulma, and they barely use her.

Amber has Same problem as Sienna Khan except it's worse. They had episodes to develop her and they did nothing but waste her. You have Laura Bailey, the voice of Chun-Li, and you under-use her too! What? Did all your money to go to Vic Mignogna, RT? I know he voices Broly, but he's overrated for a reason and so's Qrow.

Miltiades and Melanie Malachite are two character that I enjoy and adore this two in concept, but I just could not put them on this list. Potential rivals for Yang but were shoved aside. I don't even know why they're in the Vol. 2 intro when they don't really get involved in the main point.

Lie Ren is rather underrated, but he's been dancing between this and my worst list sadly. I do like him, but not enough to get him on his list.

The marquee shone a golden #1 with a familiar bowler cap.

So now for Number 1!

Roman Torchwick and Neo

The rest of the villains should take notes from these two. I don't think I have to go into why these two are my favorites considering most agree they are the best villains. I'm so hoping Neo axes Cinder….even if it'll Ruby's silver eyes and Raven look like chump change. Too bad, they decided to have Neo TEAM UP with Cinder instead?! WHY?!

(A/N: If you care to see my worse list, that's soon to come.)