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Oh… that girl.

You know… I once experimented on live and captured grimm and used all their essence into a weapon by the use of a dust powered machine.

Pulls out a greatsword made out of the grimm's sanity, the sword's colour scheme would be the same as the common grimm. Red, white, and black.

It's also a gun.

I wonder now…. drifting away from Weapons, as I'm either too lazy to produce an image of a sword that looks like a Grimm, or just simply doesn't exist……

Anyway the wondering is about, what kind of Video games can exist within the RWBYverse? I'm pretty sure there's a Military FPS that Ciel likes a much. Dustfield. Multiplayer First Person Shooter, against Human, Faunus and Human like Grimm opponents. With awesome game modes like Control point, Capture the Flag, Search & Destroy, and Team Deathmatch!
Actualy….. to be honest, I would like to see an FPS like this……

Can you customize your Atlesian Soldier?

Sure! It's actually should be more like PlanetSide 2 with Battlefield's hitbox. (Cause PS2's is a crap…)

I just imagine the most goofiest thing in RWBY.

An atlesian soldier wielding a Dust-Powered Minigun.

TF2's Heavy sends his regards.

OMG Hype.
Also, that Ruby outfit looks cool.

So, speaking of outfits, we have a few new things to talk about.

We've got Ruby's new design

I find it interesting that her cloak is now tattered. I also like how she's starting to look more mature after this time-skip, but she doesn't look like a full grown adult yet.

Then we have Blake, who ditched the female-butler fetish outfit and has picked up some lovely boots to go with her new clothes

Then we have Yang. Her clothes make me think that she's still at home, since it doesn't really look like the type of outfit you would go on a long journey in

(Also, bumblebee patch GET HYPE)

And finally, the best for last: Me. I seem to have ditched the red in my outfit for blue, and I'm using grey a lot more. Maybe it's symbolic of my changed worldview, since I now know the world isn't black and white?

I've heard something about a time skip, and from what I understand it's a three year time skip.

I forgot my meds and wrote a short essay on RWBY. Here you go:

Alright, everybody. Team RWBY is getting a costume redesign. Apparently, there’s going to be a time jump. How long, I don’t know. Could be anywhere from a couple months to a couple years. And of course, the new costumes come with lots of new visual cues to pick apart. Time to play the internet’s favorite game: Speculation!

Wait, wait. Three years? I'm not sure how I feel about that. A lot can happen in three years and I'm concerned it might disrupt the flow of character development. Just imagine how pissed off viewers will be if we jump back into the story and it turns out Ren and Nora are a couple now and we missed the confession. Can we still see Team JNPR mourn after three years? Did it take three years to make it to Mistral? Did they already go? I've mentioned before that I want Ruby to get more development, but I hope we don't miss her transition from kid to seasoned warrior. If anyone can make it work, it's RWBY's writers, but I kind of hope it's just a rumor and the jump is just a couple months.

Edit: I just trolled around Reddit and they are voicing skepticism that the time skip will be more than a few months. Might just be a rumor.

Oh god, I hope it's shorter than three years. That's way too long a time to just be like "Oh, well no real character development happened in that time. Everything is going to start right now!

Plus, at that point, Ruby will have know Team JNR for longer than she knows the rest of Team RWBY (Except Yang), so it would be weird when she eventually gets her team back together and we're suddenly kicking ass better than Team RNJR with way better teamwork and such.

also, how long does it take to get to Haven? Seriously, have they just been taking month-long vacations at every small town they passed, or are they just going to say "Our enemies have led us all across the world!" without telling us what the hell that means and what they've been doing?

And doesn't that mean that Ruby has basically abandoned Yang for three entire years? That really sounds like a bitch move…

Anyways, I'm hoping that it's only a few months or a single year maybe.

Oh, also, kind of spoiler ahead? I guess, if you count static images that don't show anything to do with what's going on as spoiler-ey:

Does Crescent Rose look different to anyone else? Do you think we all have upgraded weapons now?

OH MY GOD NORA IS ADORABLE!

Ren looks pretty cool too, and I can't really see Jaune, but from what I can make out he sorta looks like Taiyang now.

Also, sorry for spamming the thread and all, but I have an idea for what Yang might do to fight now: Notice that you can't actually see her legs through her clothes?

What if she modified her Ember Cecilia to be used for kicks, rather than punches, and the golden bands are hidden under her pants? You know, like she took a page out of Mercury's book and decided to keep punching to a minimum. It would be better than her trying to use only one arm the entire time.

I hope to god not. That would be a dumb move for the writers to make.

Also, I kinda wanted the show to introduce MY family as well. I have a ton of sisters and likely a mom and dad who could easily be both great characters and a chance to work on my back story/character development as well. Not forgetting to mention Nora's and Ran's own back stories/past as well.

So what I can see from this…. Crescent is indeed different. Wouldn't be surprising if Ruby after all these loosing it and whatnot, decided to upgrade it a tad.

As for the new outfits, boy I'm glad they have a new look!

Time skip huh? Sure that would be good to see. Cause that can mean I can return, however probably that will not be like in the happy tales. I mean if I return I'll have a new outfit aswell probably and a different personality, even if my memories and knowledge stays the same, probably I won't be like when I meet Ruby again "Salutations friend!" But more like "What the fuck are you looking at, bitch?"

Anyway I think it must be a year time skip, how do I know? Nora's and Ren's hair, hair takes time grow, at least minimally a year to that lenght.

Oh man, bitchy Penny would be quite something. I kinda wanna see that. Or maybe cynical Penny, as dying kinda has that effect on people.

Crescent Rose just seems thinner than usual, but that isn't saying much. I'm also a little disappointed that Blake doesn't appear to have a new weapon. Maybe they purposefully put Gambol Shroud in the concept art to keep a new weapon secret? I can only dream…

Love the new outfits though. Maybe they'll actually keep these ones this time.

A time skip of 3 years is crazy. I hope it's just someone trolling. I can see a skip of a few months or even a year.

Lastly, October? Awesome!~

Edit:Also, that collar on Ren. Damn, it's impressive.

Hmmm… well, perhaps she has something new that we haven't seen yet. She may have recovered it while leaping through Vale at the end of Volume 3, so maybe there's just a small modification on it that we don't know about. I mean, she probably doesn't have that many materials to work with, considering the fact she's probably trying to avoid all contact with other people.

I hate to be repetitive, but…well, that's never stopped me before. The reason I'm concerned about a lengthy time skip, even one as short as a year, is because I'm afraid it will interfere with two things I really wanted to see. One is the remains of JNPR mourning. I know grief can last many years after the death of a loved one, but we never got to see them react to the bad news and the more time that passes from Pyrrha's death, the less likely we are to see how it directly affected them. Just having Nora yell "For Pyrrha" before clobbering an enemy won't be enough. I want to see them genuinely haunted by what happened, at least for a while.

Two is Ruby starting to develop into a warrior. True, after a single year of battle, she may still be wet behind the ears and there will be more improvements to witness, but I'm concerned they will start the season with Ruby already the world's best huntress, making her even more of a Mary Sue. I want to see her struggle to make herself better.

Okay, speculation time, cause it's fun and cause this is getting annoying inside my head.

Qrow's design:

Ruby's new outfit:

They look quite similiar to me, now the speculation: What if Ruby finally gets some worthy traits? I mean so far she was the naive, cute little kid, which let's say, something I hate, especially if you also handle one of the world's most dangerous weapon types! Hopefully she will be a bit cynical at least……

Anyway on other topic's, time-skip stuffs, yeah we probably gonna skip JNR mourning, but honestly? I could care less. While it may pop-up sometime in the show, not the mourning is the stuff I care about, but that how will affect them. Miles and Kerry said that Jaune will be the mostly affected, so much he will finally get some seriousness, cause so far Jaune's character is one the few I consider useless and unneccessary. So in short: What I want to see is how team JNR will change because of their mourn, not that they sit down on a bench and cry while occassionally letting out a "Pyyyyrrrha! Bwaa!".

Qrow hasn't change abit. Can they like… give him a leather garb and a left-sided pauldron?

No, that isn't Qrow's Volume 4 design. She was just posing his old design in reference to Ruby's new one.

Anyway on other topic’s, time-skip stuffs, yeah we probably gonna skip JNR mourning, but honestly? I could care less. While it may pop-up sometime in the show, not the mourning is the stuff I care about, but that how will affect them. Miles and Kerry said that Jaune will be the mostly affected, so much he will finally get some seriousness, cause so far Jaune’s character is one the few I consider useless and unneccessary. So in short: What I want to see is how team JNR will change because of their mourn, not that they sit down on a bench and cry while occassionally letting out a “Pyyyyrrrha! Bwaa!”.

I'm not suggesting long, drawn out crying sessions, but there does need to be some kind of acknowledgement that they lost someone and this has affected them. Think about it: we never saw their reaction to Pyrrha's death. Okay. Story reasons made that understandable. But it would be a strange omission if we just cut to the future and nobody ever says, "Hey, didn't there used to be another one of us?" I can't imagine this won't be explored with Jaune, how he misses her and changes as a result, but Nora and Ren's sense of loss should come up a little. These are the best friends Pyrrha ever had. Be sad, dammit! Considering how all three will likely play a bigger role next season, I'm hopeful we will see more emotional range from them, occasional sadness included.

Also, after doing a bit of searching, it's starting to look like the time skip won't go into the years. Apparently, that was based on a misunderstanding of something Blake's VA said. And looking at the hair in the above pic, it doesn't look that much longer. Nora gained an inch or two and Ren just undid his ponytail.

So I don't like to change topics… Too often at least, but let's see that new Grimm!

Harambe Beringel! Now this, this is why I have nightmares! Fucking gorilla Grimm! I have a crippling fear of gorillas….. Ugly mega worm Grimm? No problem! Tiny creepy insect Grimm? Lemme swat it! Big fucking dragon Grimm? Bring it on! But apes?! HELL. FUCKING. NOPE. (Also -1 point RT, for not naming it Sasquatch.)

Anyway what do you think? How many new Grimms we will see in this volume?

Wait 'til you have a chibi/plushie of it. Now you won't be scared at it ever again.

Eugh no! Anyway now I'm wondering about…. I always wanted to be a Monster Hunter! The problem.. there are no monsters…… So does anyone know a good Monster Hunting game? I'm thinking about Monster Hunter Online, but not sure…….. we really need a RWBY MMORPG…..

Tera Online is an option.

I meant above a certain quality…. Let's say Tera isn't my favourite….

Hm… Well, I ran out of mmorpgs
I'm an avid FPS, Third-Person game, Turn-Based game, and a sandbox fan by the way.

Okay I think I just figured out why we are going to have a bit of bigger time-skip….

How the heck JNR calls Ruby in the middle of Nowhere (or whatever where she is) if the CCTS doesn't work?

Short range transmissions, like walkie-talkies. Also, someone said that the three year time skip was just a misunderstanding about something one of the voice actors said. It's much more likely to be just a few months.

Also, Monster Hunter Online is only for China… weird, right? A Japanese made game that's only for China?

While it's not an MMO, and it's on the older side, have you heard of Dragon's Dogma? It's a last-gen RPG about fighting monsters. It's kinda like Dragon Age mashed with Monster Hunter. It's a lot of fun.

I'm not convinced about the walkie-talkie, I suspect maybe within the cities the Towers still can provide comms but still, Broadcasting isn't something related to walkie-talkie, not even mention, the scroll shows the speakers, walkie-talkies aren't capable of identifying the participants, I know cause I used to have a Sony Ericsson Walkman mobile which had walkie-talkie function and it couldn't id the listener/talker.

And yes I know about Dragon's Dogma….. but I'm a PC player….

I just realised why the new artstyle looks so familiar to me! It looks almost exactly like a Tales Of… game!

Also, I'm pretty sure Dragons Dogma is also on PC, Penny. It's pretty fun, I absolutely loved playing through it multiple times (Although that was when I till had a 360, so I'm not sure how good it is on PC).

Again I think someone pointed it out already. RT just changed from Poser (which they used so far) to Maya. Which is cooler cause it's shadowing works differently, instead of static, after-counting, the shadows being calculated and applied during rendering, which makes it more dynamic! Also different shader sets.

Okay dokey peeps! Thanks to this Reddit thread now we know the time-skip is 6-8 months, as announced on the Panel at RTX. So sorry guys, probably we see nothing of the griefing JNR.

Grieving goes on for longer than six months. I would be totally surprised if JNPR's sense of loss is never addressed. I doubt it will be in the form of full on breakdowns, but a character occasionally speaking sadly of Pyrrha would be enough to convey that they miss her. Pyrrha's death is going to affect the characters for the rest of the series. For none of JNPR to even acknowledge what happened would be a bizarre omission. Shit, even Ruby got to shed a few tears over Pyrrha and they barely interacted. Jaune lost the potential love of his life. Yes, we should see him brood a little.

Ugh, are we going to debate this grieving for Pyrrha thing from now until October? We've talked about it on and off since she died. Let's just wait and see if it actually happens or not, and talk about something else, like new characters.

Any new henchmen for Cinder? What are the people like at Wiess' home? Are there any other higher ups in the White Fang or does Adam run the entire show by him self? That sort of thing.

Well, as I said previously, I could care less wether JNR will be like crying for Pyrrha in every second or "Pyrrha who?"

Anyway as for new henchmen for Cinder, yes please, Shit eating Mercury and Miss Cleptomania are boring, actually they are since they made their actual debut…. I want to see some of those Hunters who chose the thug lyf! Unlike me who chose the hug lyf!
Also I believe no matter how leader like Adam is, in my opinion he's at the rank of a Captain. So we still need to see the actual leaders, who seems more fun and more cruel, imo.
As for people at Weiss' home… Guards (human only though, the Schnees are rather stay careful after the Battle of Beacon, who wants to be killed by their own guards?), maids, buttlers, other servicemen. The only important characters could be the Chief Buttler (or it's called Head Buttler? Hehe…), and the Chef, cause viewers like Chefs! Of course there will be Winter, and Papa Schnee, but for some reason I do believe Mama Schnee is dead…. dunno why though, but I just like to think that poor Papa Schnee has to raise his kids all alone!

I like to imagine Papa Schnee is really lazy. The maids also double as guards, butlers, gardeners, chefs, and mothers.

I like to imagine Papa Schnee is really lazy. The maids also double as guards, butlers, gardeners, chefs, and mothers.

I don't…. I rather imagine him as busy business man than a lazy "I'll do it tomorrow! Maybe…." type of person. Sure he doesn't have enough time for his kids, but I wouldn't call him lazy. Also why would you use maids that are also guards when you can have both cause you are rich! Besides as important and influental the Schnees are, I believe they have their own mercenary army if not the Atlesian Military itself lends troops for the Schnees.

Because Maids that are also Guards are kind of hot.

Useless!

I could pay myself to hire a plated armoured maid that holds a glaive polearm that shoots Dust-Powered Rays whenever I go out in the wilderness.

To be fair, it's Remnant. If anywhere had fighter maids, it would be here. I mean, imagine if you want to retire as a hunter but you still want good money, where do you work? For the Schnees, who will just get you to clean stuff and only defend me in the rare case we get attacked at home.

Although I wouldn't be surprised if they were about as effective as Juniors henchmen except for one or two people, like my head butler and head maid.

In fact, I have pictures of the two right here!

Since when Felicia works for you?! Besides I thought I am your head maid! Oh well don't say a bad thing if all of sudden the Roombas will appear with knives strapped on them!

Didn't you threaten to throw me into a fire when you thought you were being worked too hard?

Anyway, I meant the last part as a joke, but it got me thinking about bloodlines and stuff: The Schnees have the ability to summon Grimm, which is weird since they don't have a soul or anything for us to keep (Just in case you don't know, the Knight I fought in my trailer is a possession-type Grimm according to the manga).

You know who else can summon Grimm? Cinder.

Presumably, she got it from Salem. Now, what's this on the back of her glove there? Looks to me like some sort of Glyph… kind of like the ones the Schnee's use…

Now… don't you think that Salem and I look rather similar?

I believe Salem may be my great-great-great-X100 grandmother, based on this evidence.

I… also have a second theory, that may go with the first. First of all, I have white hair. Plus, one of my Glyphs allows me to increase my speed, right?

And another allows me to shield myself…

yet another one allows me to defy gravity

Well, you know who else can increase his speed:

Create a shield:

and defy gravity:

While also having white hair, knowing Salem (possibly) and possibly being incredibly old?

Ozzy, the big man himself. Perhaps he and Salem had a bit of a fling in the past, creating the Schnee family. Eventually, he cut off ties with my ancestors, due to our barbaric practices, until he found out about a young girl who MIGHT restore his descendants name to honour.

Hmmmm…… While I have to point out your Glyphs can take on full advantage via Dust. But even without Dust you can do few nice things…. I need to think…….