RWBY Reacting To: /zMPSQu8FSpQ?si=WggL7N0EmVTU47PX
Title of Link: [Arknights If] You raise me up — by Ziyin Zhange
"There there, you're okay now." Patting Weiss' back, still sniffling from the unexpected assault. "Geez, this is the second time you cried in a week. Kinda forcing me to act like a responsible big-sis know~?"
Weiss glared at the blonde comforting her, "You are far from being a— sniffle— a responsible teenager, Yang... But thank you anyway."
"No probs, we all have our moments," Yang shrugged, then turned to the two responsible and crossed her arms. "Now then, can you two explain to me what possessed you to make advances to our innocent little princess? If I didn't know better, I'd say I'm not the only bisexual on the team anymore."
"Did you have to be blunt about that Yang?" Ruby asked her big sis, which prompted Blake to pat her shoulder.
"It's one of her charms, Ruby" Blake supplied with Ruby paying attention. "Don't discourage it, in fact, her eccentricity taught me how to tease Weiss the 'right' way. Yang is a great influence."
That shocked Ruby, in which she looked at Weiss who raised a brow, then to Yang, who looked... flabbergasted?
"W-wow sis, you taught Blake to do that? The prince charming thing?" Ruby with sparkling eyes asked.
"Don't even start, Ruby," Weiss glared, having Ruby behave. Her glare navigated to Blake and to Yang, who was sweating bullets. "And we'll talk about this. Later."
"Uh- uhm— yeah, stop changing subjects!" Yang flustered, first time someone told her she was a good influence. Especially to someone like Blake. But what did Ruby mean by prince-charming? Anyway, she totally didn't feel 'threatened' by Weiss' promise... "As the eldest on these team, I'm confiscating your video games and smutty books if you refuse to talk. You got Weiss traumatize for Yang's sake~ now speak!"
"Nevermind Ruby... She's a bad role model." Blake changed her stance, probably because Yang meant it. By 'confiscating', she'll probably hide it in the most unorthodox places without telling them. "And you're the second youngest of the team, I should be embarrassed at seeing someone younger as a role model."
Also, her puns were bad.
"Hey!"
"I agree." Ruby agreed, in which Yang looked aghast.
How many times did her sis hide and cookies when she's angry? She will never know. She's better off coming clean than having her console stolen, never to return.
"Well..." Ruby began, fiddling her fingers. "It started with...
—
Minutes of explanation had past. Some small metaphorical tumbleweed tumbled inside the dorm to indicate the time she took to finish.
"That's it... So yeah, we're sorry Weiss."
"Yes, our teasing went a little too far... We sincerely apologize." Blake bowed in Minstralian culture, to which Ruby followed.
"Hmph, so long as you learned your lessons..." Weiss playing with her strand of hair, sighed as she crossed her arms. "Then I guess your forgiven, for now that is."
"Bestieee...!"
"I'll ensure to do it when it's appropriate." Blake nonchalantly teased, making Weiss into a shade of red again.
"You...! Have you not learned?!"
"Ah, That was a joke—"
They bickered, but It was a heartwarming atmosphere. Not that it wasn't all too friendly to begin with.
"Hey Rubes, are you for real?" Yang whispered, seeking some clarification while Weiss is distracted by Blake.
"For real... what?"
"The part where Weiss' bad childhood and stuff."
"Oh, yeah, it's for real... real." Ruby nodded her head reluctantly.
It seemed all insignificant at first, then realize that Weiss had to put up with her CEO father confiscating all the fun stuff meant for her youth.
Maybe Yang can empathize with Weiss, because her dad, Tai, became drunk fron grief so they had to take care of Ruby at the time. She didn't have time for fun, while Weiss never got that chance.
Yeah, serious stuff. But she's getting way too sidetracked. Related, but not that related the current comical situation that Weiss went through.
She'll reflect on it later.
Yang hovered to Weiss and pat her shoulder, scaring her a little. She gave a sympathetic look that confused Weiss at her sudden attitude.
"Your dad must be a horrible person."
Weiss rolled her eyes, that came out of nowhere. "Thanks."
"Don't worry, I'll even nudge Neptune, or even Ruby for a 'date'. Heh, you'd fit thematically."
"N-not necessary, Yang!" She blushed.
"Suit yourself." Yang stood up, stretched her limbs, leisurely stroll to the table and carried a big box towards them. It even covered the her head due to the size.
"Now that's all resolved. Can you girls guess what's inside this box?"
"Technology?" Ruby guessed.
"Novels." Blake didn't care.
"Obviously, our Dust provisions we've recently commissioned. If you hadn't noticed, our necessary supplies for our mission operations are next to empty right now." Weiss groaned, knowing the teams has been using her Dust stocks with her consent. Not knowing the ramifications of their excessive squandering of Dust usage. "I'm not paying just so you're aware."
"Ehh... aren't Beacon supposed to provide us with munitions, Blake?" Ruby groaned.
"They do, but they hardly cover-up for our usual consumptions..." Recalls every fights which required her Semblance, to which drained her ammunitions immensely. "Yeah..."
However, no matter how logical and factual her points are, she was still incorrect. To which Yang shook her head, waved her index finger at Weiss.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk," Ignoring Weiss glare of totally false accusations of her's just now, she continued. "Unfortunately for you, those answers are wrong! And don't worry about that Weiss, that Headmaster got us covered~!"
"That explains the retractions from other Dust stores..." Weiss rubbed her chin, and then scrutinize at Yang. "I was assuming because they found out my status as a Schnee... But then, how would you know that?"
"I've got my ways." Yang means 'connections', particularly from the Xiong family, but she wouldn't say that. Those guys were busy in finding important info regarding her... "Anyway, inside these box are apparently our fanbox!" Yang patted the box, waiting and holding in her eagerness. "It's true, I can't believe too—but we actually got fans. Like, real fans! Girl fans! Not some creepy neck-beard pretending to our fans or what-not."
"Yang, that's not nice." Ruby scolded, arms crossed. While she's excited about the news, she doesn't like it when Yang badmouths a potential fan that has actual neck-beards but is actually a decent guy. "Didn't dad teach you to never judge a book by its cover?"
"Yeah, but what's good with personally knowing some randoms when you could just tell they're like from the state of their Aura." She bemoaned, while observing Aura is not exactly full-on emotional reading, seeing it or rather, feeling it basically nudges them to know the state of an individual's Aura, which reflects on the person, like how Grimm senses negative emotions from people. "And I'm mostly right with my judgement, so reading them like a book just takes too much time and energy."
"Ugh, stay off from Dustnet, big sis. Not everyone with a negative feel is like that... take uncle Qrow for example. He's a great uncle."
"I still think he's an exception."
"What does this "neck-beard" even imply?" Blake asked, tilting her head. Her father has one, she doesn't find him creepy. "Also, I think you should stop identifying people by their Aura, for privacy reasons."
"Noted," Yang cringes, "And you wouldn't get it. At least, not immediately."
"I do." Weiss coughed, to which Yang looked shock. Making her flustered. "Wh-what? I do opera... and sing on a stadium occasionally. I need to know my fans if I wanted to be successful. Even amongst the weird ones." She pondered for a moment, then clicked her fingers. "If I have to say about those so-called "neck-beards" you're referring to, they admittedly get me on edge, sometimes— I wouldn't go so far as to call them 'pretenders' or 'creepy'... Just very 'extreme' in their passion, I guess."
In the background, Ruby was admired Weiss' background and a little bit unnerved that her partner had fans like that. In Blake's case, she was interested in her celebrity life. It was first time for both of them being close to a celebrity, so hearing it from a friend made them speechless, just not in a shocking way. More like, they had a gut feeling but couldn't quite place it—and when the pieces do fall in place by itself, it leaves them dumbfounded.
"Oh, oh damn, that's scratching the surface of the iceberg, snow-princess." Yang sighs in relief, she waved her hands to erase her thoughts. "I'll show you later what they're like in the Dustnet, and trust me you won't like them, but let's do this unboxing first. I feel like we'll go in circles if we kept going like this. Mind if I, the responsible one, open the fanbox?"
"Sure!" Ruby both thumbs up, excitedly bumbling on her bed.
"Go ahead." Blake lazily swaying her legs while watching with interest.
"Alright." Weiss nodded, elegantly sitting. "It's been a while since I had these kinds of gifts. I'm Looking forward to it."
They all gave their blessings. Making Yang proceed to open the overly taped fanbox, as she tore off all the tapes securing it... What they found are—
A bunch of videotapes?
Of course, there's figurines of themselves... And a bunch of more... videotapes. Actually, those figurines were the only ones they found eye-catching.
"Uhh, I guess they really want to watch them, huh?" Ruby inquired, hoping to cheer the slightly disappointed group. "But hey, at least we got these toy figures of ourselves! Oh, oh! I can even retract my toy-scythe like my original one! See...!"
"Well, it's the thought that matters." Blake said, although clearly disappointed.
"Whoa-hoh... Our fans are pretty old-fashion, eh?" Yang scrutinized the videotapes and shrugged, immediately inserting in on the console to which put Ruby on dismay. "Glad your console can support these kind of old stuff, Rubes. Would've been trouble looking for one"
"Ah-Ahh-AHH-AHHH! Noo! Not my DS-5! Ya-Yang... I- I know it's our fan and all bu- but, what if it has a virus?! Ma-maybe it's not compatible with my DuStation? Or something even worse, hehe?" Ruby reaching to the eject button, but Yang was stopped her her pointed finger by a wrist grab. "Pleasssseee Yaaang, you're going to destroy my stuff again!"
"Daaaww, no need to be dramatic little sis, I can always pay you back later!" Yang just had to steal dad's money to repay her little Rubes later.
"Dad will get mad—"
Just when Ruby was about to refute, all lights went out. Only the hardlight screen was bright and on. Clearly, this was some kind of trap set-up that scammed Yang.
"Were you really sure she was a 'fan' you spoke highly of?" Weiss interrogated, making Yang sweat a little. "Because this 'fans' of ours is pretty obstrusive with their pranks, Yang."
"I have the agree with Weiss on this one. It was pretty careless of you to get easily tricked like this." Blake readied her stance, in case something or someone jumps on them. She tsked in annoyance, "Dammit, I should've kept my Scroll close."
She also has no idea where she had put it, but she's not going to say that. Her partner would tease her for it.
Having said that, it would be best not to do the same. After all, her partner was glowing.
"Yeah, I'm pretty pissed off myself!" Yang growled, with red eyes flickering to purple, and yellow hair shining in fury.
"Gu-guys, wait, let's calm down a bit first... And I think it's a bit harmless?" Ruby questioned, with cautiousness as she watched the screen unfolding. "Umm, I think this isn't a supervillain reveal like how Dr. Merlot would do. Uhhm, I really think it is a movie... Judging by the logo that appeared. Ah, don't worry about me spoiling, I reversed it back to the beginning so i wouldn't see most of it."
"How can you be—" Weiss paused, and mulled over her options. Then sighed as she sat next to Ruby. "Normally, I wouldn't agree to this sort of thing. However, we could get information from this 'movie' Ruby has claimed instead of dawdling around being worried about the implications we know nothing about. So how about it?"
"Sure... it would be immature of me breaking everything here out of spite." Yang slowly sat with them, and stretch. "Besides, they're in our territory, if something bad happens, all hunters will come pouring in. Whooping their asses, and a long detention from professor Glynda..."
"You guys have no caution, at all." Blake sighed, as she also followed. "If something goes wrong, I choose what mission for to go next, alright?"
"The White Fang?" Blake nodded, Yang sighed and slumped. "Fiiiiine~ we haven't been on one for ages, so I'll guess we'll take a shot at it. No offense and all, just don't make it too personal, okay Blake?"
Blake rolled her eyes, "I'm already passed that stage, Yang. Don't worry about it."
"Like always, I'll place my trust in you, kitty—" Yang cheered, to which Blake glared at her. "O-oh, I forgot it's kinda offensive... Uhh, how about you Rubes?"
"Shhh, it's starting!" Ruby excited, as it showed a buildings that were the designs of Mantle.
[Then, it showed a man rushing out of the building from a machine malfunction of sorts. Frustrated, he threw a wrench at the stack of paper of importance.
The man placed in hands on the table, tired, as he looked in the mirror at his messy hair and face in despair. His tear pours out. And then transition to him wearing a hoodie.]
"Is this... Horror?" Weiss unsettled, the introduction already made her gulped. Though not her first time in movies, it's certainly her first time feeling tension from the beginning. "It's interesting... But I have history in avoiding these kinds of genre."
"Whaaat?!" Yang exclaimed, "Where's the thrill in that, Weiss? You're missing out the appeal if you haven't watched a single one of them."
"I agree." Blake said. Glancing at Ruby who was focused. She wondered, what made her leader focus like this?
Ruby simply watches. She doesn't know why, but she has a feeling. A feeling she doesn't want describe.
Premonition?
Maybe...
It doesn't explain why she could sense the person's aura — who was clouded in so much despair.
'what the heck...' Was only in Ruby's thoughts.
[He left his research, having a roach crawl on it. He walked downstairs inconspicuously, as he glanced above - he saw Bullheads flying over a holographic billboard. Focused at the Bullheads, he reminisces.
He reminisces himselfs as a child playing with a remote controlled toy Bullhead, at his side was his mother. He reminisces again, but this time with his childhood friends admiring his toy Bullhead—his mother watching him. He reminisces once again, with his teenage childhood friend's chasing an bigger toy Bullhead—with his mother on a wheelchair, watching with her android assistant.]
"His life must've been quite ideal early on to get flashbacks from a single failure." Blake quipped, granted she doesn't know the gravity of the situation—but often times, she's seen characters bounce right back if they set their mind for it. "It's not the end of the world. He could just man up and try again."
"That's harsh, Blake." Ruby said, Blake raised a brow. "Maybe he's just taking a breather from the stress? I don't know, but anyone is far from a failure."
"Based on how he's dressed, I'd say he's already given up on the idea." Weiss interjected, she continued before Ruby replied. "Before you interrupt me, let me just say I've seen all kinds of ambitious individuals trying to impress my father. Some of them end well, while most of them became miserable. And if this movie is going to be realistic, then it's natural to expect this protagonist to fall on the latter."
That made Ruby quiet, then she pouted at Weiss. She only patted Ruby's head as if it was an everyday occurrence.
"Are you guys seriously judging the movie already?" Yang nudges Blake, making her sigh. "It barely even started yet, and Blakey, that would hurt anyone's self-esteem if they heard that."
"I didn't say HE in particular is a failure." Blake said, kinda annoyed by her partner's irony of judging a person. "I'm just saying he should put up with one screw-up and attempt another way. Constant debacle makes you stronger, after all."
Not that she's any different, but seeing that from another person makes her cringe for some reason. It's immature, so she'll be sure to work on that.
"Tough crowd Rubes, but they're kinda right." Yang slouched, having nothing to say. "Like Blake said, just gotta push through. Sure that isn't always the case in reality, but movies in general suck at showing realism, and that's what makes movies fun."
Yang paused, making everyone listen.
"I'd rather watch an idealistic main character, unrealistic even, prevail at anything than become sour over a frustrating character that everyone deems realistic. It leaves me a trail of negativity for Grimm to find whenever I go outside Vale, so I get where Blake is coming from, right Blake?"
"... Y-Yeah. Totally." Blake stuttered, not expecting her partner to say something insightful.
"Anyways, superheroes for example always push through which inspires us, makes us motivated." Yang said, "It'd be upsetting seeing a character pathetic all the time, it makes us feel gloomy and leaves a sour taste in my mouth. The opposite of motivation, get it?"
"I guess..." Ruby's eyebrows knitted, not seemingly satisfied with her sister's answer.
"That's..." Weiss paused, she didn't know Yang was capable at evaluating movies, or anything at all, "actually an interesting opinion, Yang. I can't say agree, nevertheless, you gave me something to think about."
'Bestie!' Ruby squealed inside, becoming happier at her partner's disagreement. Having someone voice out your opinion is much harder than you think, so she has to thank Weiss for that
"Thanks..." Yang felt bashful.
Ruby, having nothing to say, just stared at the screen of the scene. The protagonist's Aura looked murky from depression... It was uncomfortable.
[The reminiscing continues. Three childhood friends were researching the Bullhead, perhaps upgrading it, one by one his friends moved on. This time, he was researching on a colleague. However, instead of testing the Bullhead, he was instead researching the sample his mini-Bullhead bought.
The memory continues, having him manhandled by an Atlas android, including his team. The commander and a fellow scientist watch in indifference. The final memory, was him in misery as a Bullhead hologram pass by him.]
If what Yang said was true, then she could understand she would avoid these kinds of movies. The negativity feels contagious just by seeing him like this, almost like seeing a real person going through...
'Like how Dad was.'
Suddenly, Ruby shivered.
"That's depressing... Also, we are lacking some context, but I guess he was doing with something illegal?" Blake inquired. "Something related to that mini-Bullhead that was carrying a sample, I assume..." She scrutinized the commander. "However, I don't think any substance should warrant a high-superior of a chain command to appear personally, what kind of research called for that kind of reaction I wonder?"
"Eh, movies have plot-holes sometimes, or maybe it's some cliché Grimm-goo that scientist in movies always get in trouble of." Yang dismisses, "Either way, don't think too hard about it. We'll probably miss out some hidden messages from our perpetrator or something."
Blake gave her a stink eye as if she said something offensive, to which Yang wince. Immersion in fiction really wasn't a thing for her partner, it seems.
Weiss was engrossed at the background effects, while unnerving, it certainly fits the aesthetics of the movie.
"He had great past then started going downhill." Weiss stated, she gulped. "If i didn't know better, I'd claim it was quite an unrealistic situation, however, that would be ignoring Dr. Arthur Watt's fall from grace that happened years ago."
"Wait, seriously? That actually happened at your place?" Yang asked in surprised.
"Yes, in fact, I would even say General Ironwood arrested that man personally. Like it is showed in the movie." Weiss said, and then furrowed as she looked at Yang. "How do you not know this? There's even a documentary broadcast at every CCTS about his History. There's even a study about him in Beacon."
"Are you seriously saying I would glance to that sort of thing?" Yang asked incredulously. "No way, that's just not my style Queenie."
"Of course." Weiss groaned.
"If it's any better, I've heard of him to an extent." Blake quipped in. "He crossed the line by trying to impress the General, we don't know what it is, however, he was rather loud at claiming he's better than Polendina, or any of his scientific team."
"Heh, sounds gay. I like it." Yang said, to which Weiss gave a disapproval frown. "Rubes, what do you think?"
"Ruby...?"
"I... I don't know why, but I find him pitiful." Ruby said, then realizing they were looking at her. "Ah, uh, the movie 'him' I mean..."
"Right..." The team, except for Ruby, all looked at each other. Something was going on, and their leader was clearly taking this seriously. However, it's just weird how serious she was at the movie... as if they were real.
[With flashbacks ending, she simply gazes. His research materials crawled with few cockroaches. Then back to him, staring at the suppose horizon. Then, people ran pass him, a mechanical sound came behind him — showing futuristic military Atlasian Knight.
The former scientist glanced behind, with his work now swarmed with cockroaches. Then, he uncloaked his hoody, facing the android.
It scanned him immediately, then shot him in full-auto on both of its mechanical shoulders.]
To say the teams were in surprised was an understatement, they had there mouths wide open from shock.
"Wha-what the hell?" Yang muttered. It was the first time seeing a first-person perspective at being shot. However, the implications were very clear. "Isn't he supposed to be the main character?"
However, he just died right there.
"He's... dead? Just like that? Is this why he was so much in despair?" Blake spoke, maybe he was given a death-threat deadline for his research and stuff. She certainly knew the White Fang would do that for any Atlasian STTC towers associated with the SDC...
But then, why would the people run pass him, as if fearing they would get killed too? It makes her wonder if it's a common occurrence in the movie background.
"That is... a horrible end." Blake simply said.
"I certainly didn't expect that." Weiss in surprised, she crossed her legs elegantly on the sofa and tapping her chin with her finger, pondering. "I admit, the cockroaches were creepy—but the impeding dread of what was about to come was well done. So this is horror, huh?"
Weiss should watch more next time, it's almost as better as soap opera.
"Mhm, horror is quite a fun take of playing with emotions. It almost made me feel bad for the protagonist. However, there's too little screen time to make me feel anything for him." Weiss squirmed, a bit uncomfortable that eyes are on her but continues nevertheless. "Hmm, yes, it almost feel like the main character we're viewing isn't a protagonist... Perhaps, this is a supporting character's past, or an interlude of the protagonist's future of sorts?"
Weiss clasp her hands, and smiled at them looking at her.
"Either way, I'm looking forward to this."
Yang and Blake looked at her incredulously.
"Really Weiss?" They both said.
"What?" Weiss asked, only to be stared at. "What?! Did i say something wrong? I'm only complimenting AND analyzing the movie!"
To which immediately becomes defensive about it.
Ruby meanwhile, forgot to breath.
Because for the first time, Ruby saw someone's aura vanished painfully. Sure, she was taught to be ready in her previous combat school for casualties—but brutality was not one of them.
Movies in Remnant normally doesn't depict this much foreboding and cruelty. For example, Spruce Willis' genre favorites; Action and Adventure, are the highest peak of dark tone in this kind of world where Monsters stalks negativity like trails of blood.
Genres such as Noblebright, Gray-neutral, and Dystopian, have yet to exist in this world's entertainment industry due to lawsuits of spreading negativity inside the Kingdom. It would also leave a damaging name to their reputation, harming their financial performance from their usual marketing.
(A/N: If Ruby's literally playing a pixelated fighting game on a hardlight-supported holographic console, then there's no way their movies are any better.)
In short, they are corporate cowards that never take risk. Squandering any form of imagination from their loyal employees. Therefore, creativity is sparse nowadays.
For that reason, You could say this was a first for team RWBY to experienced something so...
Grimm.
And currently, for Ruby who can't decide if the person inside the movie were real— no, alive.
'This is just movie. Just a movie. Just a movie...' Ruby tried to repeat these thoughts in her head.
An attempt to separate fiction from reality.
It was akin to seeing an deer die from a Hunter right in front of her silver eyes, persuading herself killing a prey alive like any hunter would is alright, so long as it's an animal to be 'eaten', not a person to be 'murdered'.
Combat school steeled her for that.
She felt sick imagining hunters killing Zwei in that situation, however, she couldn't deny her performance from fighting the bandits without worrying about their life. So if Ruby were to wound her enemy, she wouldn't stop fighting until they're defeated.
Hesitation is defeat.
Compared to animals, crime were more durable in regards to her scythe.
For this movie right now, she convinced herself that all of it is just fiction. Anything happening is probably a Semblance created from their supposed 'fan' to catch them off guard...
'That's a load of baloney! Semblance doesn't work like that, that's too specific to be a expression of oneself! And even if it does, what would they accomplish from this?!'
Ruby's thoughts went to a spiral.
The sensation of being hit on the chest, Aura shattered from three piercing bullets... When the screen went blank, she could tell it felt agonizing rather than 'assume' it, and the sensation in front of her is apparently fiction?
Once this is over, she's going to see Ren. Why? Because she could only 'sense' what happened, like any other Huntsman-in-training, not 'feel' what happened.
Only someone like Ren can do that, and they only talk a few times to get to know that he's Aura 'tips' are unorthodox for any of them to learn.
'Ren is probably undergoing a Semblance awakening without realizing it...' While having these thoughts, Ruby immediately felt horrible for her stray thought.
Because life was still clinging. She could just sense it.
"Why..." She murmured, her Aura flared a little, not enough for the team to notice however. "Why did it do that to hi—"
[It showed a clip of the Atlesian Knight, who shot the character, dragging the body. It lifted the body up in bridal, then thrown from the floating Island of Atlas.]
It only made Ruby angry on the inside.
"You okay, Ruby?" Yang ask, worryingly. Others staring at her in concern.
"I'm fine." Ruby settled, which deeply unsettled the rest.
[He was falling, into the ravine full of ominous darkness. And splash, he's clinging aura protected him from the impact. Giving him a chance to exhaustingly open his eyes. Staring as some sort of unbloom flower.]
"Sooo, he's still alive." Yang felt kind of relieved, not expecting to feel that way to a fictional character. She scowled. "Still depressing though, I mean, what the fuck did he do to deserve that? Experiments? Wow, It makes me mad on behalf of that guy, even if he is a bad guy—everyone doesn't deserve to go out like t—"
"Trash..." Blake interjected, Yang glanced at her and she continued. "Those Knights thrown him like something to dispose of. That's... cruel. I don't even think the Atlesian army would do that to the White Fang, but robots probably can without hesitation."
"This... Is maybe not cruelty Blake—but ruthlessness." Weiss corrected, Blake gave a tired sigh and Weiss 'ahemed' at her. "Cruelty implies deliberate suffering to others without feeling bad about it yourself... Ruthless, is having no pity, no consideration, nor compassion—just pure merciless force." She shook her head.
While cruelty is common among fighters, soldiers of Atlas were trained to discipline that tendency. Therefore, they wouldn't be so trigger happy at firing bandits.
And they were trained by her sister, Winter Schnee. Of course she would be oppose to machines replacing mankind's soldiers.
"It's one of my disagreement regarding replacing men with these androids, to see it here in a movie affirms my stance against machines, even if I... Ugh, go against my beloved sister."
No, it's not like she doesn't understand. They were efficient and more sustainable at producing troops. But they could never replace the quality and teamwork that a machine posses, she knows that now after studying with Beacon.
What she doesn't understand her sister is her sheer loyalty to Mr. James Ironwood. Even if she respects him in a high degree, she still doesn't agree with this process. The fact that her sister is willing to replace her subordinates due to Ironwood request doesn't sit right with her.
Of course, she knew her sister had a crush on him, but she just doesn't see the appeal in him. In fact, it just made him lose more points just to go through with this machine army agenda.
"You had a sister?" Yang questioned.
"Yes." Weiss answered, clearly not in the mood.
"Quite a strange mood swing, Weiss." Blake stated, then glanced at their leader of the team, who looked in fear at the... Flower. 'Ruby's even stranger right now. Should we stop this movie?'
Blake thought, as she slowly turned to the flower on the screen.
'Wait a minute... I think I recognize this flower.'
It was the time when her instinct, her faunus instinct, that went on haywire just to immediately exterminate it. It was when she was at Menagerie, attending to one of the White Fang's meeting when Corsac and Fennec wearing religious robes presented their so-called key to Victory.
Suddenly she felt a chilling trepidation.
The memory of that flower turning a human into a monster flashes through her mind. The screams of agony still lingers as it's one the reason she left the White Fang.
'Ruby might be on to something.'
Blake clenched her teeth, hands, and tail, she shuddered. Not on anger, self-righteousness, nor obsession to save the White Fang.
There was only one single emotion going through the Faunus' cat-girl.
Primal Fear.
A/N: You know, I was thinking if I was yapping too much in the narration, but then I realized if I was about to add Arknights lore to Remnant with every videos they watch, might as well make extra lore in Remnant to make it more realistic. Like Ruby's days in her Combat School, or the Entertainment Culture of Remnant.
In Ruby's case, she was literally training to be a child-soldier. What huntsman-teacher doesn't prepare them for every encounter? It's basically their sex-education in terms of when or not to use violence. Therefore, she wouldn't be so out of touch with killing a person if necessary. Mostly, she prefers to quickly cripple them since there's a bunch of Doctors specialized in full-on healing cripples.
Keep in mind that they're not our Modern Earth standards, so their ethics are going to be slightly different, alright? My headcannon is Ruby was basically taught to break their legs, literally, since her scythe isn't really the subduing material when it comes to man. Her fighting style is highly-specialized in Grimm, not people.
For the Entertainment Culture... Well, I think I've already explained it somewhere in the story... So yeah, let's just say they're just a greedy and cowardly bunch already comfortable with their money.
Alrighty, let's answer some comments from Chapter 1!:
triscythe59:
Sure, I'll get back on that fic once I'm done with part 2 of this Seaborne reaction fic. I need to watch RWBY again if I'm to make Kal'tsit fit into Remnant lore and stuff, which I haven't planned yet...
faturandi37:
Oh yeah, I'm totally making them to react to those stuff. Hehehe.
vkerha:
On it.
NoSeriesRanger34:
It would definitely be a wake-up call to Blake, and the rest of the White Fang. Which I'm planning to make them react in the future. Hehehehe
Welp, I'll only answer four comments for now.
Anyhow, I've been busy with my exams and stuff so I didn't have time for writing. Just know that I'll be making another reaction fic next update, one where Team RWBY actually watches the video seriously. So there will be little dialogue between them and more focused on the Seaborn video from now on.
So yeah, sayonara...? Byebye
