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As the name implies, the entire episode takes place at an onsen. Personally, I don't have an inherent issue with these types of scenes. The problem is that CRWBY does, and the episode's execution has some....problems to put it lightly. CRWBY has gone on record that they won't sexualize their characters to the point of a beach episode let alone an onsen, in part due to Ruby's age. Celtic said fuck that shit

All the Ilia stuff doesn't happen because Blake's entire canon menagerie plotline already happened in FRWBYV4. And the FRWBY equivalent of that scene never has Ilia admit her romantic feelings for Blake

The stuff about Yang and Weiss is mostly unchanged outside of the location they're in, only that they're naked for half the episode due to being in the onsen

While this is happening, the guy's side of things is just a bunch of bad comedy. Roman makes a joke about Weiss being flat up top, to which he questions if she's actually a woman. And he seriously thought that Ren was a girl the entire time until just now. Is he stupid? What happened to "smarter" characters Celtic? They get into an argument about this based on Ren's appearance and voice. Keep in mind that Roman's a man nearly twice their age

Where's Neo in all this you may ask? She disguised herself as Jaune to sneak into the guy half of the onsen, which Roman sees right through since he knows her so well. All for a "WoAh JaUnE lOoKs ToTaLlY gAy HerE rIgHt As ThE rEaL oNe WaLks In" type of joke

FRWBY Maria though is significantly worse

First of all, in FRWBY she doesn't appear until after The Lost Fable. Nearly two hours into the six hour video. This is also stupid because in FRWBY Jinn's story didn't freeze time, when she's done it's almost sunset. Were the main cast just frozen in place? Did they vanish? What was Maria doing while this was happening? Why didn't she move on from the crashed train in all that time? None of this is addressed

Second, Maria's mystique was completely destroyed. In canon there's obviously more to her than meets the eye, but we learn about her over the course of Volume 6's runtime. In FRWBY her first scene has her kill a bunch of Beowolves surrounding the main cast, and Qrow immediately says that she's the Grimm Reaper. In a rewrite that deleted almost all of Salem's scenes to up her mystery factor, completely removing Maria's is definitely a choice

We're shown Maria doing more investigative work into Brunswick, which makes her dumber than canon because she still doesn't piece it together that they're dealing with Apathy with more evidence to work with

Her fight with Tock was almost entirely cut. We only see her have a brief flash of her eyes getting slashed with Tock's clock ticking in the background. I'll dabble in a bit of author fanfiction here because I think it's funny at Celtic's expense. I believe THIS change happened because Celtic thought it would be too hard to narrate their fight and keep it to exactly sixty seconds. If you pay attention, the time between Tock starting her clock to its ringing lasted exactly one minute, the time she set it to. Not so easy to work under limitations is it Celtic?

She still serves as a mentor teaching Ruby how Silver Eyes work, but with the caveat that Silver Eyes in this universe erase the user's memories. I'll get into THAT can of worms when I get to the post about Ruby given how they're tied to her so deeply. But to give a brief opinion, I hate this change. A lot

Basically Maria's only addition in FRWBY is her talking things out with Qrow to get his shit together because she can tell he's on the verge of breaking his relationship with Ruby and Yang

Maria's petty grudge with Cordovin was completely removed, because she doesn't play any real role in Volume 6's climax. She just fights off some of the grimm that invade Argus, she isn't involved with the main cast's plans, and by the end they leave Argus without her. Meaning she's been completely written out of the Atlas arc

Before his son died, Iroh was a pretty bad dude. He had redeeming qualities, like sparing the last dragons and loving his family. But he was still a general leading a campaign of conquest.

His redemption started after his son died. He clearly had a lot of self reflection as well as a spiritual awakening in the following years.

But he was still conflicted, trying to remain loyal to his nation and family while also practicing the principles he learned from his travels. But those things were incompatible.

Even after he had to actively fight against the Fire Nation when Zhao threatened the moon spirit, he still thought he could return to living in the Fire Nation.

It's only after Azula tried to imprison him and Zuko and forced them on the run that he gave up on the idea.

I think it's sometime around their time staying in Ba Sing Se that he finally decided to oppose the Fire Nation. At the price of his own freedom, eventually.

He sure did!

A lot of people raised the matter of the White Lotus, which they claim means he was working against the Fire Nation earlier.

FRWBY Cordovin is a very different story. She's even more unreasonable than in canon, and she's outright villainous toward the end of her screen time to make DEE AND DUDLEY into heroes. One of Cordo's final lines in FRWBY? "Argus could use some thinning out"

Similar to canon Cordovin completely blocks off the main cast from going to Atlas. Ruby uses the lamp of knowledge as a bargaining chip (what?), which Cordovin only agrees to if she's allowed to hold onto it in The Boot until the main cast essentially "prove" themselves by working under her. Ruby agrees

After spending a month in Argus doing odd jobs, Adam arrives attacking the city guard (yes he spent a month walking to Argus in the freezing cold). Team RWBY run on sight since they know how dangerous he is. Right before Adam is about to kill Weiss, Cordo zaps him with a cattle prod from behind knocking him out. I said it before in my Adam post but imagine if Jacque killed Cinder by shooting her from behind. That would be unbelievably lame right

Due to team RWBY running from Adam and not throwing their lives away against a known and dangerous international terrorist, Cordo uses this as proof that they've lied to her about everything they've done in the series. She calls off the deal while keeping the lamp to herself because "life's not fair."

The main cast plan on stealing an airship, but before they can enact it an army of ocean dwelling grimm attack Argus. Cordovin instantly orders everyone in The Boot's staff to evacuate the city. Due to her nationalism being way stronger than canon, Cordo sees no reason to risk her life for Argus and is leaving them to die. Dee and Dudley turn on the comms while Cordo is giving this speech to Ruby turning the Argus fleet against her. Our last scene of her is being tied up and gagged by Dee and Dudley

Cardin and Russel replace their roles at the train to Argus, while Dee and Dudley replace the two goofy guys that were with Cordovin at The Boot. With their comedic elements completely stripped at that

During Volume 6's climax an army of ocean dwelling grimm attack Argus due to the lamp of knowledge being a MUCH stronger grimm magnet than in canon. Cordovin immediately orders The Boot's staff to retreat to Atlas and they comply

While Cordo is giving a villain speech about how she has no obligations to protect Argus and that the city "could use some thinning out," Dee and Dudley turn on their comms so the rest of Argus' fleet can hear this turning them against her.

RWBYJNRQRN are getting overwhelmed by the grimm army. Right before Ruby is about to use her silver eyes, the Argus army arrives to save the day completely dealing with the threat and robbing Ruby her Silver Eyes moment. Keep in mind this is meant to be a good thing because Silver Eyes in this universe erase the user's memories. Nice pro-military propaganda you got there Celtic

In canon Glynda protects Ruby from the dust crystal Roman throws at her and has a back and forth with Half Maiden Cinder. Ruby by comparison gets her shots blocked by Cinder simply holding out her hand and would have gotten blasted by Cinder's ground explosion if Glynda didn't save her again. In FRWBY, all Gylnda does is block Roman's dust crystal because Cinder was completely written out of the first volume outside of the end credits

In canon Oobleck destroys multiple Paladins mostly on his own. Yeah he has Ruby and Zwei helping out but let's be real he's doing the heavy lifting. By comparison it took all of team RWBY working together to beat the Paladin Roman piloted, and we later see about ten students struggling to take out two Paladins in Volume 3

This doesn't happen at all in FRWBY. Instead the Paladins on the train get destroyed by blast doors between Mt Glenn and Vale while everyone jumps inside the train. Instead Oobleck just fights some White Fang fodder inside the train cars. I assume because in Celtic Phoenix's mind it's not "realistic" for a single human to take out a giant mech unless you're his special boy Vergil-I mean Adam

On top of THIS, Oobleck Port and four students try to fight Banesaw at once and he's beating them on his own. That's just pathetic

Dee and Dudley are losers that are clearly meant to be weak for fully licensed huntsmen. One of them quickly dies on the train ride to Argus when dealing with the same stuff our main cast are, showing that at the minimum RWBYJNR are at the level of your average huntsmen by this point of the series. Dee Dudley and Rhodes are the closest we ever get to an "average" huntsmen in the series. In FRWBY they were replaced with Cardin and Russel, removing our comparison point for average huntsmen

In canon and FRWBY Tyrian is taking on all of team RNJR by himself and winning pretty easily, you can tell he isn't taking them very seriously. Meanwhile Qrow takes him on solo and is having a close back and forth. The problem in FRWBY is that this is our ONLY real reference point between student and adult huntsman. On top of that Qrow is explicitly stated to be a legendary huntsman that's far superior to Glynda Port and Oobleck in FRWBY

XV:13: “Dispel the Dark Endings!”

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