RWBY V6 C3

## Plot

Oh my gosh you guys! This is the longest episode of RWBY *ever*, not counting credits of season finales. *The Girl in the Tower* is the story of Salem. She was locked away in a tower by her cruel father. Speaking of which, the tower looks a lot like Beacon. That's not a coincidence. During this time, everyone could use magic, which was a gift from the gods. Salem was finally rescued by the most courageous, noble, and pure hearted warrior in the land: Ozma, Ozpin's first life. The two fell in love. The End. Well, that's it guys, RWBY's over, everything else was a dream. I'm kidding, obviously. Sadly, instead of living happily ever after and averting all the terrible times to come, tragedy struck. Ozma fell ill and died. Salem was devastated, and because of the life she had lived, couldn't cope with the loss. She went to the Domain of Light, and begged the God of Light to bring Ozma back to her. He refused, saying that he can't disrupt the balance of life and death. Salem says that's not fair, and goes to the God of Darkness. She's the first visitor he's had in some time, probably due to the Creatures of Grimm spawning from his pools. She asks him to bring her love back, and makes sure not to mention going to his older brother first. He brings Ozma back, but the God of Light appears and kills him again. The God of Darkness brings him back again, and he and his brother transform into dragons. The God of Darkness learns that Salem lied to him, and he kills Ozma once again. Salem is furious, and demands that they bring him back. Instead, she's teleported back to the Domain of Light, where she falls into the pool of the God of Light. The gods think her selfishness and arrogance have led her astray, and explain that she's immortal now. She can't die. She can't be with Ozma in the afterlife. As long as this world turns, she will walk its face, until she understands the importance of life and death. She tried killing herself, but it obviously didn't work. She realized that the gods weren't as powerful as they seemed. She had lied to them and turned them against each other. They were fallible. She decided to turn humanity against them to get rid of her curse, or at least make them suffer. She lied to the human rulers, claiming that she had stolen immortality from the gods. She's learned that the hearts of men are easily swayed. An army attacks the gods at the Domain of Light, but all of their magic attacks are absorbed by the God of Darkness, who proceeds to *wipe out all of humanity*. The gods say that this world was a beautiful experiment, but now it's only a *remnant* of its former self. They'll learn from this failure, and they hope Salem will learn from hers. They leave, and the God of Darkness *shatters the moon.* Excuse me for a second while my mind processes all of this. OH MY GOD!!! Salem blamed everyone and everything but herself for what had happened to her. She assumed that if the pool of the God of Light cursed her with immortality, then the God of Darkness's pool could take it away. She was wrong. Instead, it gave her the desire for pure destruction, the power to control the Grimm, and gave her white skin and hair, red eyes, etc. Ozma wakes up in a blank white space, with the same distortion effect that the desert dimension had. Also, I didn't notice this until I watched the episode again on YouTube a year later, but the God of Light has the same distortion effect around him. Speaking of which, he appears, and tells Ozma that they're between realms. He and his brother are leaving Remnant, but he offers Ozma the chance to return to it. Mankind is gone, but their world remains, and in time, people will walk its face again. But in the absence of magic and the gods, they'll be a fraction of what they once were. He creates the relics, and it's revealed that they match the emblems of the four kingdoms. Mistral had the Lamp of Knowledge, Vale has the Crown of Choice, Atlas has the Staff of Creation, and Vacuo has the Sword of Destruction. The God of Light leaves them behind with the hope that humanity will learn to remake itself. If all four relics are brought together, they will summon him and his brother back to judge humanity. If they've learned to set aside their differences and live in harmony, then the gods will live among them, and humanity will be made whole again. However, if they're still fighting among themselves, then mankind will be found irredeemable, and their world will be wiped from existence. That probably explains why Salem acts through agents instead of doing everything herself, in order to divide humanity so they can fail the gods' judgement. It's probably also how she intends to finally end her curse, since then there will be no world for her to walk on. Or she wants to use the power of the relics to make herself a real god. Until Ozma's task is complete, he will reincarnate, but in a manner that ensures that he's never alone. However, Ozma refuses, and asks to return to the afterlife to see Salem. He learns that she's still alive, but the God of Light warns him that where he sees happiness, he will only find pain. Ozma accepts the offer, and reincarnates in the middle of a Grimm attack. He takes over his second form's body to save a villager from a Beowolf. The villager asks for his name, but he suddenly drops the sword and runs away. Oscar is watching, and sadly remarks that he couldn't give one, because he didn't know who he was. Ozma is in a changed world. Creatures called the Faunus were locked in cages, and no one could perform magic, but they used Dust, which might've come from the pieces of the shattered moon that fell onto the world, or the fossilized remains of the humans who had magic powers. Which doesn't make any sense, because they were all *vaporized*. I personally just think of Dust as anti-kryptonite, which is why it doesn't work in space. It just returns to being normal space rocks when it returns to space. Ozma heard rumors of a woman called the witch, who could use magic, and commanded the Creatures of Grimm. He knew this woman had to be Salem, and decided to see what she had become. Despite their changes in appearance, they instantly knew who it was that stood in front of them. Aw! Salem feared that Ozma would reject her, so she blamed the end of the world on the gods. Ozma wasn't sure what the truth was, so he kept his task and the relics a secret. He thought about the God of Light's warning. He had found happiness, but humanity seemed more divided than ever. Welcome to the U.S., early 21st century. Salem isn't surprised, and suggests that they guide humanity forward and become the new gods of this world. After all, they still have magic, and they're both immortal now. They can shape the world however they want, and create the paradise the old gods couldn't. Ozma agrees, and they get people to bow down to them. They gained a large following, which grew into a kingdom. And they also had four daughters. Aw! So cute! Salem watches people fight through her crystal ball. Ozma questions whether or not they're doing the right thing. Salem tells him that in order to bring humanity together, they need to spread their word, and destroy those who deny it. Ozma looks at his reflection, and it asks him what they're doing. Suddenly, the oldest daughter comes in, and reveals that she can use magic. Ozma told Salem everything, but she didn't want to redeem humanity or bring them together anymore. Instead, she wants to wipe them out and replace them with magic users. Ozma had finally had enough, and tried to sneak himself and his daughters out of the castle. However, they were caught by Salem. She and Ozma fight each other, and from the brief bits we see of it, it was *brutal.* Also, the design of the windows is just like Salem's current lair. Their daughters were presumably killed in the crossfire. Ozma was able to incinerate Salem. However, Salem was able to reform herself, and killed Ozma. He spent many lifetimes in mourning, trying to forget everything, but his mind eventually turned back to his task, and we see another one of his forms create his cane. He learned how important it was to live with the souls he had been paired with. No matter where he ended up though, her presence was always there, in the form of the Grimm. In order to unite humanity, he had to destroy Salem. He sought out the relic of knowledge. He asked where the other relics were, what powers they had, etc. Finally, he asked Jinn how he could destroy Salem. However, she says he can't. As the girls take in this information, the episode ends. Doesn't mean that someone else can't kill Salem though, or that they even have to kill her. They could always try to redeem her and end her curse, or turn her followers against her.

## Review

I loved this episode! It was easily the most impressive episode so far. The character designs, the voice acting, the scenery, the score. It's all so beautiful! I loved Jen Taylor's portrayal of young Salem, and I liked how Ozma's first life was voiced by Aaron Dismuke, and his second was voiced by Shannon McCormick.