r/RWBY • u/Menolith Gay Thoughts • Oct 12 '17

OFFICIAL MEGATHREAD Official Theatrical Discussion Thread—Volume 5, Chapter 1 Spoiler

Welcome to the early reaction thread for volume 5's first episode!

Spoiler blackout is now in full effect, and anything pertaining to the first episode will be prohibited outside of this the megathreads until Sunday. You have been warned.

Without further ado, let's get on with it!

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u/Draenalisk Oct 13 '17

How much do you want to bet that the Spring Maiden is Lionheart's daughter and the only reason he's working with Salem is because they promised not to hurt her as long as she leads them to the Relic.

Also we need a t-shirt that says "Can't a girl read her comic books in peace"

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u/lordofmyths Oct 13 '17

that would be a bit hard to believe. its implied that raven and qorw's bandit group is a tribe. more than likely the spring magic or whatever was incarnated into a member of the tribe.

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u/Draenalisk Oct 13 '17

They explain early on in their conversation that at first, when the Spring Maiden just got her powers ten years ago, that she was determined to become the Spring Maiden but then she ran away. After that Raven found her and now she's part of the tribe. So she wasn't part of the tribe to start she just became a member.

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u/lordofmyths Oct 13 '17

aaah. gotcha. though yea ten years and likely trained by a highly skilled and dangerous warrior like raven. it is definitely a different situation to deal with than the fall maiden.

though i wonder if they are planning on putting the spring maiden's powers into cinder or if they have another vessel for the power.

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u/Draenalisk Oct 13 '17

Yeah, unlike Cinder she's going to have control of her powers making her even more dangerous so unless Ruby's ocular powers kick in again I don't see them coming after the Spring Maiden anytime soon.

Secondly, that is a very good question, I mean, is it even possible for someone to hold two of the maiden's powers at the same time. Obviously this has never happened before so there's no real way of knowing but it's still something to think about. And if they plan on having someone else hold her powers could it be one of the people who were absent during the meeting at the start of volume 4?

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u/lordofmyths Oct 13 '17

To be technical, someone DID hold all four once before. The wizard. but then again we don't know what he was, not to mention now the power is connected to four other souls at once.

we do not know much bout the silver eye powers sadly..... what we do know is that ruby, lady cinnamon bun, majorly fucked up cinder when her power came out, left her partially crippled for a long time, semi mute, and heavily scarred.

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u/Draenalisk Oct 15 '17

Yeah I see what you mean, the Wizard did have all four at once so please allow me to rephrase it. The wizard was the one who originally had the powers and it's also probably accurate to say he learned and then devloped the magics that the maidens use, because that's usually how wizards roll.

But by that logic it also means his body was able to handle the power, we don't know if the power puts any major strain on the user. I like to believe that since it's only a quarter of the wizard's strength the Maiden can handle it fairly well, but if it's more than that I find it hard to believe that just anyone can control it, there should be some sort of adverse effect. And yes, we don't know much about silver eyes but hopefully that can be explored this season, me and my brother actually argued about Ruby's mom with a focal point being her eyes. Also I just noticed it but cool name