RWBY V5 C14

## Plot

The volume 5 finale! I'm so excited! Various White Fang members are being arrested after being easily taken down or giving up. It seems like Blake is still a little scared of Adam, but now she has the police, an army, Huntsmen, and friends like Sun to help fight with her. Adam claims to have made powerful friends, but Sun asks where they are now. Adam briefly fights them both and runs off. Sun wants to go after him, but Blake tells him that he's trying to lure them away and pick them off one at a time. Besides, she has more important things to deal with. Inside Haven, everyone seems exhausted. Hazel can force his Aura to recharge faster than normal through sheer willpower. He even gets rid of the Queen Lancer summon. And then Blake joins the fight and kicks him in the face. Lionheart runs off after Ruby snipes him. In the vault, Yang has realized that Raven is the Spring Maiden. She realizes that Raven killed the previous Spring Maiden to get the power. Raven claims that it was mercy, because she wasn't improving and would've been hunted down her whole life. Yang asks her if she's merciful or a survivor. She only knows the Raven that Tai told her about, and asks her if she killed her too. She tells her to shut up, saying that she doesn't know anything about strength. Being powerful doesn't make someone strong. They're both afraid of Salem, but unlike Raven, Yang won't run. Having Maiden powers already puts a target on Raven's back, and taking a relic will only make things worse for her. Or she could let Yang take it, even though that would put her in danger. Yang doesn't want to do this, but she'll do it anyways. They both say they're sorry, and Raven leaves through a portal in bird form. Yang enters the desert dimension and takes the relic, which is a lamp. She collapses and cries over everything she's been through. Anna Hullum and Barbara Dunkelman's voice work is *perfect*. Leo tries to get his things and bolt, but the Seer Grimm shows up. Salem calmly has it kill him, calling him a coward. Ruby asks the bad guys to give up. Emerald is convinced that Cinder will return with the relic and save them. And then Yang comes back with the relic. Emerald loses it, and uses her Semblance on everyone in the room. It's a horrifying illusion of Salem. When it's gone, so are Emerald, Mercury, and Hazel. Emerald passed out from using her Semblance like that. Using it on two people gives her a headache. I'm honestly surprised that using it on *nine* people didn't kill her. Ghira, Kali, Sun, and Ilia enter. Haven is safe from the White Fang, but Adam escaped. The rest of the White Fang won't listen to someone who abandons his followers though, and the organization is more divided now than ever before. It's time for a new brotherhood for the Faunus to join, this time truly working for a better future, with a new leader. Yang gives the lantern to Qrow and tells him that Cinder was gone, Vernal was dead, and Raven left. Blake finally speaks to her teammates again, who have all collapsed from exhaustion. They accept her back, and they all have a much needed group hug, set to the beautiful new song, All That Matters. It is somehow even more beautiful than Home. *You're lost You're found You're hard to pin down I'll never know if you'll come through Then you appear Together, we're here And that's all that matters Somehow* Qrow asks Ozpin if he's okay. Oscar is back in control again. He's exhausted, and seems pretty shaken up by what happened. He gives Qrow a message from Ozpin: They have to get the lamp to Atlas. Then he passes out from exhaustion. Just like at the beginning of the volume, Qrow ends it with a black screen and sighs. And that's where the episode ends. During the credits, the new song This Time plays, also referred to as From Shadows Part 2, the same way The Path to Isolation is also referred to as Mirror Mirror Part 0.5. In the stinger, Raven arrives in Patch, where Taiyang is. He doesn't seem happy to see her though. Also, my prediction that things would resolve themselves in a similar manner to chapter 9, at least between Yang and Raven, was correct. Yay!

## Review

However, from what I can tell, a lot of people *hated* this volume, and a number of toxic and idiotic people, mostly guys, have made a name for themselves on social media sites by solely bashing the show and the people who work on it at every opportunity, calling Miles and Kerry hacks that can't write, calling one of the female animators ugly, etc. First of all, to those people, f––k off right now. Nobody likes you, and nobody with even an ounce of common sense or empathy wants you here. The CRWBY lost their friend, and that will always be tragic, but we didn't know Monty personally. He wasn't our coworker or close personal friend, and the moment someone tries to hide behind his name to defend their criticisms is the moment they lose any sense of credibility, decency, and respect, assuming they ever had any to begin with. The reason this show is still around is because the CRWBY know that Monty would want them to keep working on it and keep getting better. That being said, this episode reached #1 on Trending on YouTube the day it was uploaded, and got lots of new people into the show, so that's good. I only got into this show because I was bored and starting spying on what my sister was watching. Look, I get that this volume was probably the worst one overall so far, but I still liked it, at least the first time through. Yes, I would've liked better animation in places, and I would've liked to have seen more of Mistral, and more character interactions and growth, etc. But we can't always get everything we want. We demand a lot, maybe even too much, from a show that started as a small niche indie project that had episode run times of only a few minutes. Now we think 12 minutes is way too short. I wonder if people ever think that fanbases can become spoiled. I've seen only a fraction of the creativity in this FNDM, and most of it is absolutely astounding. I could only dream of being that talented when it comes to fan art, fan animations, fan films, fan AMVs, cosplay, etc.