RWBY V6 C6

## Plot

The snowstorm has cleared up for now, and Team RWBY, Qrow, Maria, and Oscar should be able to leave Brunswick Farms by morning. Ruby sees that Qrow has found a bottle of alcohol, and he has a bad feeling about this place, especially with his Semblance. He tells Ruby to tell the others to get some sleep, and he'll wake them up just before dawn. The books Maria has been reading are the diaries of the head of the estate, Bartleby. By morning, the fire has gone out. Qrow found more bottles of alcohol, and drops one, which startles Ruby awake. She tells him that they overslept, but he tells her to leave him alone. She gets angry and throws the bottle at the wall, shattering it, which finally wakes Qrow up, who remembers what he said about sunrise. Ruby hugs him and says he can talk to her about stuff, but he just wants to leave. Everyone else is tired, and you may notice that their pupils seem dilated, and they've lost their highlights, making their eyes look lifeless. Before they can hook the flatbed trailer up to Bumblebee, Qrow's Semblance causes one of the tires to pop. Maria unintentionally rubs salt in the wound by saying they're beacons for bad luck. Yang, Blake, and Oscar tell Ruby that it feels like the universe doesn't want them to get to Atlas, like they're always having to fight to get by, and that they signed up to save the world, not just delay the inevitable. The other girls tell Ruby that if she just throws the lamp down the well, they can be done with it now. Ruby admits that she's really tired, and holds it over the well. However, her hand starts shaking, and she sighs. However, she drops it anyways when she gets scared, due to seeing a pair of red eyes staring back at her. The others want to leave, but Ruby says she's not leaving without the lamp. The other girls go with her. While they're doing that, Oscar fixes the tire, Maria reads the diaries, and Qrow heads back inside to keep drinking. They find the relic… right as Maria finds out about the Apathy Grimm horde under the house. Ruby sees them and screams, which snaps the other girls out of it. They get out their weapons, but the Grimm scream, causing them to feel heavy. Maria shows up and tells them to run. Before they can make it back to the well, more show up. They run through tunnels, until they finally wind up in the wine cellar from the previous episode. The screams prevent them from moving. Ruby urges the others to get up, and sees Blake just laying down and waiting to die. Before an Apathy Grimm can kill her, Ruby unleashes some of her silver eye power again, which is enough to stun the Grimm and snap the others out of it. Maria asks what just happened. Weiss says that the door is locked. Before Yang can bust through them, the Grimm scream again. We see from Maria's point of view, and she seems to see everything in shades of cyan. She asks Ruby what color her eyes are, and she says they're silver. Maria tells her to focus on the people that love her and the way they make her feel. Life is beautiful and precious, and it must be protected. Ruby's eyes gleam, and she finally uses her power intentionally for the first time in the series. It completely vaporizes the room full of Grimm. Cool. Yang punches through the cellar door, and they find Qrow drunk in the bar. Blake, Yang, and Maria hightail it outside, where Oscar has replaced the flat tire. Weiss breaks bottles of alcohol over the cellar door, and sets the horde on fire. She and Ruby drag Qrow away, who finally shuts up when he notices the Apathy Grimm. They finally leave Brunswick Farms, which is starting to burn down. Maria explains that the Apathy Grimm drain your will to go on. The estate was hemorrhaging money towards the end, and Bartleby wanted to cut costs on Huntsman protection. In order to do that though, he needed everyone to be calm all the time. He was able to capture two Apathy Grimm and put them in the cellar. However, the rest of their pack followed them back, and then Bartleby sealed up the waterway entrance the next morning, so they couldn't leave even if they wanted to. Weiss apologizes for what she said about giving up. Yang agrees, and says they can't quit until the lamp is safe. Maria says she should've known. The signs were all there, but she had never seen an entire settlement withered away like that. Her mind isn't what it used to be. Ruby asks her how she knew exactly what to say to her to make her eyes do what they did. Maria tells her that she had silver eyes.

## Review

I liked this episode. I'm normally not a horror fan, but this episode felt like it had just the right amount to make me scared, but not too much, you know what I mean? Like if you showed a little kid a scary movie, and then they had nightmares about it, because they can't separate fiction from reality yet. Plus, it's not super gory, characters aren't dropping like flies left and right with little to no development, and everyone lives. So far, CRWBY has been amazing this volume. The music, the Grimm designs, the backgrounds and settings, the performances, etc. This episode in particular had lots of interesting camera angles, and Ruby and Maria POV shots, which makes sense, because both have silver eyes and are the least affected by the Apathy Grimm.