Alyx. Alyx.

What the frickle frack did you do?

Did she like...kill their king for shiggles?

That is never a good sign when you introduce yourself as a "human" and everybody goes Dead Silent.

And then freaks out.

Anyway, we are now officially in Team Rwby territory. As in Big!Ruby and little!wby.

Er, well, it's actually more like Regular-Sized Ruby and tiny!wby.

And their new friend Prompto the Cat.

BECAUSE HELLOOOOO ROBBIE DAYMOND.

Legit thought that was Miles doing the voice of the Red Prince tho, I'm not familiar with the VA that is but kudos on a perfect petulant child performance.

I love whenever Weiss sees another Spoiled Rich Kid and has that moment of, "Omigod, no really is that what I sounded like?"

I hope somebody gif'd her eye twitching at the Red Prince though, so glad Weiss finally got to stabby stab something because I'm pretty sure she was about 2 seconds from murdering a child.

Yang Xiao Long - Try not to embarrass your not!GF by hyping her skills Challenge: IMPOSSIBLE

Also Rwby and the cat leaving likeFuck This Shit I'm Out - Animation Music Video

Massive applause to the animators for a fantastically trippy set piece though holy crap.

No wonder they were so excited and said it was one of their biggest challenges, good grief that was both beautiful and mind-screwing.

Love the continued proof that any problem in RWBY can ultimately be solved by throwing a Yang at it.

sasageyo HAH

Yang with a freaking zanbatou though, yes please.

Also idk wtf is going on with Neo tho and I'm not sure she really does either other than the fact that she's like "sweet more ways I can take out my misplaced aggression and more things to take it out on" on touchdown.

Also interesting that people seem to be dropping...out of sync with each other.

Like, on all accounts, Neo should have landed about the same time as Ruby did...but she definitely landed in Ever After later than her.

Unless this was a flashback, but I don't think so given the Jabberwalker's dialogue.

Plus they'd already hinted at people falling out of sync because Weiss fell second to last and like waaaaay after RBY did but there didn't seem to be much of any delay in Blake finding her.

ALL THE MORE REASON TO SUSPECT JAUNE MAY HAVE BEEN HERE A BIT EVEN THOUGH HE FELL LAST.

Also one of Penny's swords being there which still has some Very Interesting potentials to it and also effing excuse you for having a character throw it away like trash. A+ though my reaction was exactly the same as Ruby's because How Dare

Weiss tho, continuing to kill it with the dialogue: "Oh great. We're not stuck in the book. We're stuck in its stupid sequel." YES YOU ARE BBY.

Like that's so great though. You think you're stuck in a book with a story you're familiar with and then it's like, Lol you thought. It's like Kingdom Hearts!ish rules and I love it.

What a dork.

Also Yang's freaking jazz hands here i'm crying

Coming back to this on a re-watch and I cannot believe this Dead Fantasy-esque BS

Also noticing on re-watch, while it's obvious Ruby was not happy about being put in a default Commander/Leader position in what was basically a war game I think it's fascinating that, even when she's at a low point, she (and wby) are still able to inspire Hope in others?

Like the White Pieces are all broken and busted from constantly having to lose to Red, not just physically, but mentally. And yet, when they see Ruby (and wby) being confident and trying to win fairly, it inspires the other pieces to want to Try as well.

To the point that they're able to not only hold their own but best Red in a full out assault.

This is Very Interesting to me.

Also the chess game itself is interesting because it's decidedly not any variation of chess I know and legit comes off as the Red Prince like...sort of knowing that chess involves moving pieces on a board and taking other pieces but literally nothing else.

Which makes total sense because he's a literal Child.

He's inherited a position he's unfit/not ready for because something happened to the Red King who would know how to play chess properly as well as be a more mature ruler.

Conveniently this works out for Ruby though because I don't think she'd know how to play chess either. So instead of like an elegant game of Wizard's Chess, we get a game that comes off more like two kids mashing action figures against each other until one kid inevitably gets fed up and calls Cheating.

...I have no idea where I was going with that train of thought, I just think it's funny that we had a "Chess game" between two people who have probably never played actual chess in their life.