RWBY V6 C11

## Plot

This episode's title, as well as a new song, confirms that Caroline's fairy tale/nursery rhyme inspiration is the little old woman who lived in a shoe. Picking up where we last left off, Cordovin tries to fire a missile at the airship, but it explodes prematurely when it's sniped by Ruby. She tries firing an ice blast at them, but it's blocked by Weiss, who wields Earth Dust for the first time in the series. Oscar goes with Maria to try and spot a weakness, and Qrow seems to have finally snapped out of it, saying that he can also grab a bird's eye view. Jaune says that they can give her smaller targets to focus on, since the mech is probably designed for giant Grimm that come in from deeper waters. Three things happen at once: Jaune, Nora, and Ren run to the left, the airship flies off to the right, and Ruby and Qrow fly straight up. Cordovin launches a barrage of giant missiles, but Ruby uses her Semblance to dodge and run on them. *Check you out in your big metal shoe Fighting so many kids don't know what to do You've got some heavy metal but big ain't bad This little Riding Hood's just way too rad Mirror mirror, who will lose it all? Soundly whip those children or your cradle's gonna fall Cuz I'm alive Like a puppet with a heartbeat I'm on fire And I'm flying off the dope sheet You're gonna wind Up like that robin at your last tweet You're heading for a fall And you're nearing the end Like a house made of straw No one's putting you together again* Weiss creates tiny patches of ice for her and Ruby to get closer to the robot. Nora launches grenades at it, but Cordo blocks them with her shield, and launches Earth Dust at the trio on the cliff. Oscar tells them to look for whatever's generating the hard light shield. Ruby says that in video games, the weak spot is usually on the back of the giant boss. Qrow says that until the shields are down, they'll have to get close to do any damage. Oscar finds a weakness, but before he can tell the others, he yells at Ruby to move, having noticed Cordovin preparing to launch more missiles at her and Weiss. So… Rose Garden? No, looking for shipping subtext or liking a ship that you don't or vice versa *doesn't* make me weird or evil or delusional. I'm not Adam Taurus, but we'll get back to that later. Besides, Oscar has interacted the most with Ruby out of anyone else on the team. Anyways, Weiss summons a Queen Lancer to save them from the missiles, and Ruby uses her scythe to hang onto the robot, causing it to fall onto the cliffside, allowing the others to finally start doing some damage. Ren latches onto the mech with his blades. The robot stands back up, and Cordovin notices Ruby on her. She's forced to let go to avoid being grabbed or smushed, and Weiss catches her with the Lancer. Ren gets to the back, and pries off a panel with a humming noise coming from it. He almost falls off, but Qrow catches him. They've found the shield generator, and shoot it, allowing Nora to launch more grenades. Cordovin decides to just slap her. Jaune amplifies her Aura and takes the hit as well, but it looks like both of their Auras break. Cordovin uses air Dust to destroy the Lancer summon that the others are on. Luckily, they make it back to the cliff… except for Ruby, who falls short, even when using her Semblance, forcing her to dig her scythe into the rock face to avoid falling into the ocean. Is Qrow's Semblance to blame? Is that why he's so worried about her throughout the fight? Ruby is helpless as Cordovin prepares to fire at her with the cannon. Oscar tells Maria that they have to do something, and she fires a missile at the mech, which Cordo somehow catches without it detonating, and throws it back at the airship. The screen cuts to black, and we head back to the Blake vs. Adam fight. Adam cuts her white coat off, and they take their fight to a bridge like area with a waterfall. Both of them use their Semblances expertly, and Blake actually manages to snag his sword for a bit… until he gets it back and disarms her of her sheath, and he takes control of the fight. She tries to defend herself, but he *cuts Gambol Shroud in half!* No! That was my favorite weapon! Seriously guys, look how smoothly it switches from its sword to gun/kusarigama form! He says that long before they met, all sorts of people hurt him in all sorts of ways, but no one hurt him quite like her. She didn't leave scars. She just left him alone. He takes off his blindfold, revealing… that his right eye is a normal blue… and the upper left side of his face, eye included, is scarred and branded with the letters SDC. Oh… This doesn't excuse all of his heinous actions though, it just puts them in a different light. I wanted to kill him myself after I saw him point his sword at the physical scar that he left, and that's ignoring all the mental scars and trauma he gave to Blake and Yang. And those are just what he's personally done to the main characters, what about all the murders and terrorist actions? Seriously, how can any sane person defend this guy and claim that he was supposed to be a morally grey character? He wasn't. End of discussion. He asks Blake how it feels to be alone, and stabs her in the same spot as before. However, it was a shadow clone. The real Blake retrieves her sheath, and says she's not alone. Thanks to her cat ears, she heard Yang coming. Who drives off a cliff and slams Bumblebee the bike into Adam. It goes into the water. Aw man, the bike too? Why? Do you have any idea how far they'll have to walk back now? Miles and Kerry are just pouring salt on the wound. Lots and lots of salt and lemon juice and alcohol and hydrogen peroxide. It hurts so much! Adam recognizes Yang. The two fight while Blake catches her breath. It's an amazing fight. The contrast between here and Beacon couldn't be clearer. Now Yang is the calm one who got the drop on the angry Adam, who is overusing his Semblance, whereas Yang's eyes don't even turn red. Also, Yang lost her right arm, but her left one is fine, aside from shaking occasionally, and she has a replacement from Atlas. Adam's right eye is fine, but his left one is so heavily scarred and branded that he prefers to hide it, or he refused or couldn't get the cybernetic ones that Maria has, possibly due to Atlas's heavily implied racism when it comes to Faunus. Those two really are foils to each other. Blake explains that Adam's Semblance is like Yang's, except he absorbs the energy through his sword. Yang continues using her new style, incorporating more kicks, and using propulsion and redirection to get in close, but she's blasted back when she punches his sword. She and Blake look at each other, which causes Adam to get even angrier. He uses his Semblance on Yang again, but this time she blocks the move with her prosthetic arm, though she did almost fall off the cliff. She tells him to leave them alone, but he notices her left hand shaking, and asks her if she's just trying to scare him away so she won't have to die trying to protect Blake. However, Blake holds her left hand, and says that they're protecting each other.

## Review

I personally really liked both fights throughout this episode. I've always perused Rose Garden stuff, but something finally hit me as I watched this episode and the next, and other people's reactions to it: Let's say that Oscar *does* have a crush on Ruby. Does he even realize that he does? And if so, won't he have to come to terms with it, or decide whether or not to pursue a romantic relationship with Ruby, given that he's accepted that he doesn't know how much longer he's even going to stay himself? That's a surprisingly deep line of thinking for a fourteen year old with a crush to go through. Even if Rose Garden doesn't happen, Oscar could get some character development out of it, and maybe Ruby too. Plus, I know literally almost everyone sees episodes 11 and 12 and all they can think is: Bumblebee is canon! I've gone from not caring to getting sick of it though. You shouldn't watch a show just to see if a ship you like becomes canon. Even if it does, there's no guarantee that it'll *stay* canon, because that's not how real relationships work. And these episodes are about *so much more* than romance. They're about fighting, not giving up, and moving on from trauma.