Volume 10 Team RWBY fanart! ❤️🤍🖤💛

Proverbially speaking. Specifically, I refer to the string of posts I have often seen regarding Sheena, Monty’s wife, and Shane by proxy. So often going on about “what could’ve been” with loose concepts that Monty tossed out about Raven in V3 or Ren‘s backstory or… pirates.

And it’s like… how does this apply to now?

We’re well past when those story beats could be implemented unless they use the pirate idea for Vacuo in a Mad Max sort of way. Maaaaybe a flashback could do it as a kind of twist but that’s just the operative word: “maybe.”

These all sound like first draft ideas, throwing things at the wall to see what sticks. Which is what drafts are for but often times what seems cool in your head will turn out vastly different when put to paper in applying it to a narrative.

Lest we forget how Monty would animate a lot of fights before we see how the final draft implements them. Miles and Kerry often had to write around it like Power Rangers adapting Super Sentai footage.

Yes, Monty likely spitballed ideas with his wife and other friends but trusted Miles and Kerry to implement the ideas as they saw fit. Monty might be a writer but knew that where his weaknesses laid, believing in the collaboration of art like in the CRWBY.

and after all of that, i genuinely cannot wrap my head around the fact that no writer has sat down and written a story about how raven found out yang had died and what happened afterward while living in vacuo, considering she's most likely staying there with qrow.

i've only ever found one fic where raven arrives in vacuo and finds yang's grave, but the author stopped after chapter one in 2024 and never updated it again.

like, guys??

that conversation yang had with raven in the vault—the last time we ever saw raven in the show—probably changed her in so many ways. especially considering that in the volume 5 post-credit scene, we see her in bird form visiting the family cabin. after that, yang was probably the biggest reason raven started changing at all.

and it's not just raven. qrow finding out that the only two things left in his life that he still thought were worth fighting for had died, and somehow nobody has written a long, complex character-driven story about any of this?

i'm not even going to mention taiyang because considering the cct tower went down again after ruby's warning, and he probably wasn't staying at home with everything that was going on, nobody really had any way of knowing where he was to at least send him a letter updating him on everything.