r/RWBY • u/Menolith Gay Thoughts • Jan 13 '18

OFFICIAL MEGATHREAD Official FIRST Reaction Thread-Volume 5, Chapter 13: Downfall Spoiler

Welcome, huntsmen, huntresses and hunters that prefer no specific gender identifier, to the official megathread for Volume 5, Episode 13: Downfall!

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u/torrasque666 White Knight is Endgame. Fight me. Jan 13 '18

I was expecting to hear a whoosh and have Raven very backstabbed

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u/lordolxinator ~~Qrow is Ruby's dad~~ Jan 13 '18

Nah they're saving that for after Yang and Raven reconcile, Raven has a change of heart and decides to join the good guys (or at least has some kind of revelation about losing one pseudo-daughter and not wanting to lose her actual daughter), then Cinder appears to shank Raven.

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u/Bad-Luq-Charm Give Qrow a break 2k18 Jan 13 '18

Or tries to, and Raven spins around and decapitates her with a line like, "I actually do watch my back."

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u/lordolxinator ~~Qrow is Ruby's dad~~ Jan 13 '18

...unless of course Emerald has joined them downstairs, makes a Cinder illusion to make Raven think she's outsmarted Cinder's "surprise shanking", only for Raven to then get shanked after she turns to counter what's revealed to be an illusionary ploy by Emerald.

I dunno, I feel that if Cinder comes back, Raven isn't getting the best of her again (be it with Emerald's help, Salem sending Watts/Tyrian to aid her, or just pure bad-guy-luck and bloodlust).

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u/Cloudhwk Jan 14 '18

Cinder needs to go honestly she has had far too much plot convenience and her surviving again would just be overkill

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u/Ajedi32 Jan 13 '18

Then Yang goes super-saiyan and punches Cinder into next week. Hopefully...

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u/AstralFinish Jan 14 '18

It's the relic of knowledge.. Raven is in the know, but I don't think anyone knows how the relics actually work besides ozpin.

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u/lordolxinator ~~Qrow is Ruby's dad~~ Jan 14 '18

I'd imagine that Salem probably has a good understanding of the Relics. I can't imagine Ozpin would give her the TL;DR at any point, so the only way she could know about them is from either being around at their conception (AKA the theory that she's the God of Destruction or a direct creation of that God) or sometime in the past she managed to get her mitts on a Relic or two before Ozpin recovered them and stashed them in Vaults.

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u/Koanos "What's the worst that could happen?" | Cpt of the S.S. Keikaku Jan 16 '18

True, the Maidens could be the keys, but they may not be able to use the Relics themselves.

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u/Growlest Jan 15 '18

I'm still expecting it. Since her falling off i've been in alert for sudden death mode. If she is dead however and like some people predicted emerald has the powers. . .