Thread by @CJ_Black0

#CJs2Cents: Poking my nose around and I saw that quite a few people were upset that Unicorn of War removed the Qrow jail speech-because Clover's alive-& the Ruby and Yang conversation/tearjerker from his V8 rewrite. And all I have to say is why? Those scenes are pointless. #RWBY

First, let's tackle Qrow. So this scene is supposed to "show how much Qrow's semblance has negatively affected his life" and give him something to bond with Robyn over.

Right off the bat, there are several problems here. First of all, Qrow you semblance wasn't the reason for>

Clover's death. No, it was your dumbass deciding to team up with Tyrian to fight him that doomed his life. Not only that, but Qrow literally tried to even blame the victim himself for getting killed. Oh yes Qrow, it was Clover's fault you and Tyrian jumped him and broke his aura.

Clover was being a good soldier and following his commander's orders to arrest Qrow. But you see he's also wanting to know what's going on and wants to speak with James directly to understand the situation. Clover was doing good, follow orders and try understand the situation.

But no, Clover shouldn't have listened to his superior's reasonable order and should've just let Qrow go. I swear, so many fans have no idea how a functioning military actually works...and apparently neither do the writers.

But moving on from the first point, we get the nonsense

of it also being a scene where Qrow and Robyn could bond. Ignoring the nonsense of having Qrow bond with the bitch who started the altercation-James had no idea where Clover was when he sent out the arrest order-that later led to Clover's death, Robyn's sob story makes no sense.

Robyn tells this story of how her semblance has also made her life difficult, as a sort of bonding experience. But if you take 2 seconds to think about it you'll realize the bitch is full of shit. First of all, her semblance is nothing like Qrow's. Qrow's Misfortune affects>

EVERYONE within a certain range of Qrow constantly so long as his aura isn't broken. Qrow has no control over who his semblance fucks over or when it'll happen. Robyn's semblance requires you to hold her right hand and for her to turn it on. The only way that semblance could>

negatively impact her life would be if Robyn was actively using it on people without their consent and trying to pry the truth out of them. Not only that, but her semblance hasn't affected her too badly as she and her crew are respected & trusted heroes of Mantle. Hell, if Watts>

didn't rig the election, Robyn would've won. Now I don't know about you, but all this doesn't sound like the "tortured soul" that is Qrow who saw himself as a cursed human because of how much pain his uncontrollable semblance brought to those around him. This shit makes no sense.

Moving on from the idiocy of Qrow, we have Ruby & Yang's little "tearjerker". Apparently people say this scene was, "a good sisterly moment between the two, it shows Ruby finally breaking down from the strain of everything".

While I will agree that it was a good sisterly moment>

for the two, that's not saying much since the last time the story gave the only siblings on the team any kind of moment to feel like family, was all the way back in V5 when Yang reunited with Ruby. Yes, it took the writers 3 whole years to give the sisters another family moment.

And onto the point of Ruby breaking down, that actually would've been good...if it actually went somewhere. Ruby doesn't learn anything, those feelings don't carry over into the final stretch of the volume, and the narrative still frames Ruby as being in the right. So again I>

must ask, "what was the point of the scene" if it doesn't go anywhere? And I know there are also some who say that scene also gave us information on how Salem changed her tactics on how to deal with the SEWs and it was due to something that happened when she met Summer. But>

that's just Ruby and Yang's leaps in logic, as we could see the change in stratagem on Salem's side when the Hound's indentity was revealed. But there's nothing to support that she got this idea from her confrontation with Summer.

So the only thing this scene ultimately has>

going for it, is that it's a nice sisterly moment...that's it. So we could craf a completely different sisterly moment and it would've mattered just as much as the canon one. You guys now see what I mean, both of these scenes are pointless & you gain nothing by keeping them.