So yeah this is a thing

Saw your post from a couple days ago about that person who couldn't let early RWBY go and was fixated on Dust being more important than it ended up being. And while I do agree with what you said in that post, to be a bit of a Devil's Advocate I do think the show was initially planning on making Dust more important than it ended up being. Early on it is a weirdly focused on bit of world building for something that mainly just allows characters to shoot ice bullets and such, and you have stuff like the WoR with Salem making foreboding comments about how Humanity doesn't understand the origin and true consequences of stuff. I think it was gonna get more focus, but was left behind as they decided how Capital M Magic was gonna work in the show. Kind of like the Ozpin tease in the Aura WoR about how mastering your Aura can make you "much more than just a man".

Also, it’s very important to note that the Dust Robberies were all extremely high profile stuff, which ended overnight once Roman Torchwick was captured. Qrow directly speaks to this, noting that the fact that the criminal underworld collectively got out of dodge was a massive red flag for him personally, and presumably Ozpin and company in general.

Nor is she a seductress in any kind of negative or manipulative sense - she has a mutual relationship with a powerful man who then breaks up with her, and afterwards she keeps protection against him in the form of evidence that the relationship existed. She HAS blackmail material, she even waves it at him threateningly because he treated her like shit, but she never even uses it.

She's also -- and I cannot stress this enough -- from New Jersey. IMO this is the single most important detail missing from all the adaptations -- IRENE ADLER IS FROM NEW JERSEY.

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