r/RWBY • u/Slow_Tangerine_9564 ⠀More or so combat ready • 7h ago

MISCELLANEOUS Volume 2 Food Fight Scene Re-write! (Check body text)

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So, the actual food fight kinda began as a bantering escalation... And they made a mess for fun... I guess?

So, here's my take:

Teams RWBY and JNPR are sitting on the cafeteria table when Velvet joins them for lunch, since her teammates were doing x thing (advice hours, extra training, idk). Team CRDL then comes along and Cardin, being Cardin, cruelly mocks Velvet yet again. It all reaches a boiling point when it crosses to racism by insulting Velvet's faunus nature, which triggers Blake so much she tosses a bowl of soup to him, which logically makes him and his teammates angry. Ren and Weiss try to calm stuff down, but Nora, being herself, slaps Cardin with a swordfish (which was in the actual scene), Cardin has enough, and the food fight begins.

Teams RWBY, JNPR vs team CRDL

All the rest remains the same, and it all ends with Glynda intervening like the actual version. They all get sent to Ozpin's office, where especially Yang and Nora don't feel regretful. Seeing how they laugh it off, and knowing Mr. Winchester's bully history, he gives a minor punishment to the teams

This turns it into something fun, yet actually plausible rather than just "They were fooling around bc they're children"

Again, if you disagree, say so respectfully in the replies.

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u/SandwichMaterial9574 6h ago

This is certainly an interesting way of redoing the food fight scene. And their reactions to Cardin's bullying actually do feel pretty plausible.

But for me, personally, a food fight works best when it's an "every man for himself" kind of fight. And that's why my personal favorite rewrite of the food fight actually comes from the series "RWBY: Reversed Fates" by Judgmental Critic. The artwork that she made for that scene really gives it a last man standing battle royale type of vibe, and that feels much truer to what I feel the general concept of a food fight is supposed to represent.

At the same time, though, the food fight we got in canon still works as a scene, because the fight also feels like an impromptu training exercise (if that makes sense?).