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does it ever occur to u that bumbleby is literally like. the ship of rwby. like they arent a side pairing. theyre the main romantic pairing of the entire show. over half their arcs both together and individually have been leading them here. renora is cute and canon but they don’t get their relationship focused on. pyrrha and jaune did but they only had so much focus bc pyrrha was going to die. but bumbleby. an f/f ship. the b and y of RWBY, the show’s literal title, are the main pairing of the entire show. im so god damn emotional i can count on one hand all the times wlw have gotten rep like this and it’s fucking never. because it’s not in a finale, and one of them isn’t gonna die at the end. bumbleby gets to be canon now and have at least 7 more volumes to exist together in. thats storytelling bitch. thats how you actually represent people
This is something I’ve been thinking about for awhile now but this most recent episode really just illustrates it perfectly: Blake is highkey the most cerebral fighter of the cast. Ruby’s no pushover either, and she and Jaune are both great at overarching strategy and shit, but Blake just straight up outsmarts people.
Like, in terms of pure skill, she was keeping up with Adam mostly, but was also constantly on the back foot because he’s just straight up physically stronger than her. That’s why he moved to grapple her so much, because then he could overpower her. On the flip side, both times she got the advantage, it was because she outsmarted him:
The coat - So this scene definitely confused me when I first saw it. Rewatched it a few times frame-by-frame, and what I think is happening is, Blake has Gambol Shroud stuck to a tree or something after Adam hits it with Wilt, so right before she meets up with Adam in mid-air, the ribbon goes taut and her momentum stops, causing Adam to misjudge where she’d be and miss his strike (it hits right under her), which is how her coat - not her - gets slashed and how there’s an opening for her to kick him.
The sheathing of his sword - just straight up outplayed.
And we can see this intelligence pervade in pretty much every prior 1v1 fight of hers:
Last week Adam has her in a really bad chokehold, so she trips him and sends them both over the edge to re-even the playing field.
She finds a way to save Ghira from a really shitty situation within like two seconds while simultaneously killing Fennec.
Against Ilia, she immediately finds a way to even the playing field when Ilia turns the lights off, and then defeats her by outsmarting her with the ice dust to disarm her.
With Reese, the fire dust overwhelmed her, so she laid a trap to beat her immediately.
With Roman, the dust clones disoriented and off-set him enough that she easily controlled the pace of the fight and beat him with ease.
She immediately comes up with a way to escape the White Fang meeting.
And probably some other stuff as well. Point is, Blake’s super quick thinking and resourceful, and while Blake is definitely capable so far as her sword-play goes, her most impressive strength is being so quick on her feet when it comes to fighting.
It’s only when she gets overwhelmed with emotion that this intelligence doesn’t show itself as clearly, like with Roman in V1 and Adam in V3.
So yeah Blake is a super smart fighter and while her strength may not be the best of the show, you should put some respect on her name.
P.S.: Way back right after V1, Monty told us we’d be getting a Gambol Shroud upgrade in “Season 3”. Everyone assumed he meant V3 and was thus confused when that didn’t happen… but Seasons ≠ Volumes, and this Volume is either the first of Season 3 or the last of Season 2 (depending on whether you consider V4-5 one Season or consider V6 a part of it too since it’s still in Mistral). What I’m getting at is, Monty may’ve planned for this scenario all along.
