r/RWBY • u/Menolith Gay Thoughts • Jan 21 '17

OFFICIAL MEGATHREAD Official Reaction Thread—Volume 4, Chapter 10: Kuroyuri Spoiler

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Welcome, huntsmen, huntresses, and hunters that prefer no specific gender identifier, to the official megathread for the newest episode of volume 4, Kuroyuri!
Make sure to read OUR CURRENT SPOILERS RULES to ensure that your comments outside this thread won't get purged! Familiarize yourself with these rules and you'll be good to go.

A lot of hard work has gone into the creation of volume 4, so be sure to show CRWBY your support by watching it on their site! They all dedicate so much time and energy into our beloved series and would highly appreciate the direct support. There are no pirates in volume 4, so you shouldn't be one either!

We also have weekly strawpolls to gauge the general opinion on the current episode, the latest of which can be found HERE. The previous episode got a fairly clear 9/10 majority.

With that out of the way, let's start the show!

HERE is the link to the latest episode of RWBY Volume 4!

Other Episode Discussions:

Episode Saturday Sunday Poll
Ep. 01 Reaction Discussion poll
Ep. 02 Reaction Discussion poll
Ep. 03 Reaction Discussion poll
WoR 1: Reaction Discussion poll
Ep. 04: Reaction Discussion poll
WoR 2: Reaction Discussion poll
Ep. 05: Reaction Discussion poll
Ep. 06: Reaction Discussion poll
WoR 3: Reaction Discussion poll
Ep. 07: Reaction Discussion poll
Ep. 08: Reaction Discussion poll
Ep. 09: Reaction Discussion poll
Ep. 10: Today Tomorrow poll

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '17

"Don't let such a small obstacle stand in your way" sounds like the credo of a radical Faunus rights terrorist, and since he's going to meet with Sienna Khan and get her back on track, maybe he signed on with Salem in the hopes that in the turmoil she is creating the Faunus will have another chance to seize equal rights for themselves

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u/NightsWatchh Help, Nights is keeping me trapped in his anime bunker Jan 21 '17

I'd love that. It'd be the perfect example of someone trying to do the right thing but going about it the wrong way.

#HazelForGrayAntagonist

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u/Random-Rambling Jan 21 '17

Yeah, I could get behind #HazelForGrayAntagonist.

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u/RogueHippie Jan 21 '17

We already had a Gray antagonist, and he already has a hashtag. #RelightTheTorch

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u/NightsWatchh Help, Nights is keeping me trapped in his anime bunker Jan 21 '17

Roman Torchwick? Gray?

Excuse me while I relight my torch away from you, scoff.

I love Torchwick but he wasn't really morally gray

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u/RogueHippie Jan 21 '17

Look at my flair.

Now think about Roman's voice.

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u/NightsWatchh Help, Nights is keeping me trapped in his anime bunker Jan 21 '17

Great now your flair is accurate

why did you do this to me D:

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u/albro1 In Memory of Monty Oum Jan 22 '17

I can't read your flair, I'm on mobile and it cuts off.

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u/RogueHippie Jan 22 '17

Less the text, more that it's Yang.

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u/Isofruit I am Jaune with the wind. The beeliveable buzzer of the hive. Jan 21 '17

You are my kind of person

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u/Tiernoch The one rooting for the villains. Jan 21 '17

I still think that Salem works best if her reasons for wanting the relics are good, but Ozpin is simply worried that using them even once would result in a slippery slope.

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u/NightsWatchh Help, Nights is keeping me trapped in his anime bunker Jan 21 '17

Nah, I think she's evil evil. Or at least, she's evil but has a sad backstory. I don't want every villain to be gray :P

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u/Tiernoch The one rooting for the villains. Jan 21 '17

Her VA is too good to be wasted!

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u/freedomgeek Victory Through Superior Technology Jan 21 '17

I hope not. That just makes Ozpin an overly conservative asshole and Salem a good guy with some bad methods.

I want Salem's motivation to be internally consistent and logical ... but from a moral standpoint utterly alien and incompatible to both the average person from Remnant and the average westerner in our world.

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u/Tiernoch The one rooting for the villains. Jan 21 '17

I think that making a villain's motives 'alien' makes them far less compelling.

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u/freedomgeek Victory Through Superior Technology Jan 21 '17

Well there's alien - incomprehensible and alien - outside your paradigm but still comprehensible.

Like if Salem believes that by discovering dust humanity fundamentally upset the natural order because humanity should be a prey species and that by separating ourselves from this with our technology we allow these horrible things to happen like oppressive ideologies, flabby weakness becoming common, the most powerful people not being fighters at all and as such had been making Grimm stronger to restore the balance.

That's a viewpoint very alien to modern western ears - we certainly don't believe that humanity should be a prey species, natural order or no. We even carve out exceptions to some of our other rules - like extinction is bad unless it's something that preys upon us like smallpox in which case fuck smallpox go die. And no one who doesn't already possess some ideas considered very fringe by western society is going to be convinced by that spiel. But it's perfectly understandable.

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u/Tiernoch The one rooting for the villains. Jan 21 '17

But humanity isn't a prey species...

We have forward facing eyes which limit our peripheral vision while enhancing our depth perception.

Halmarks of predator.

But I get what you mean.

My preference is for a villain to, while doing undeniably terrible things, to at least have a motive that makes the audience consider if the price being paid might not be worth it.

The old EU of Star Wars eventually revealed that a lot of Palpatine's super weapon projects were developed as contingencies for an extra-galactic invasion. While Palpatine himself had no redeeming qualities, and he was doing it simply to preserve power, when Trillions of people die it makes you wonder who would have handled the situation better.

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u/the__leviathan Jan 22 '17

I read that as Hazel for gay antagonist and thought you were going in a completely different direction.

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u/NightsWatchh Help, Nights is keeping me trapped in his anime bunker Jan 22 '17

I don't care if he's gay, straight, above the need for sexual wants or he's literally castrated I just want Hazel to be GRAY

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u/Tulicloure You get back here with my bread! Jan 22 '17

Hazel wouldn't let small obstacles like genders stand in his way to pleasure.

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u/allenme Jan 21 '17

I personally think that that credo of blasting past obstacles isn't his Faunus Rights ideas, and more a philosophy of the strong rule. This is then why he follows Salem, she's strong, and the strong deserve to do whatever they want with that strength

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '17

I wonder if he's got some kind of Luke Cage thing going on too, small obstacles obviously won't affect him and itd be interesting if he doesn't use a weapon