What a long strange journey Volume Two has been. We started with murder and a food fight, and from there we got a board game, surprise sisters, ice cream, Pyrrha beating up everything, the elusive Yang and Ruby backstory, dance numbers, a corgi in a tube, an abandoned apocalyptic city, character development by the fireside, and a fuck train. But this is the end, my hiatus-fearing friends, and now it’s time to say goodbye. On the final chapter recap for Volume Two, Beacon’s finest unite to clean up the streets of rampaging monsters, the gang call back on times past, and P-Money faces her destiny. All previous recaps, including last week’s, can be found at the Recap Masterpost. Ready? Set? Go click the Read More. Let’s do it.

Well here we are. Twelve down, none to go. My eternal thanks to all those that have been with me, from those that’ve been around since last year or those that are only just now for the first time reading the actual text-y parts of the recap, presumably out of hiatus-fuelled boredom. It’s been a thing and a half, both this volume and the recaps. Sometimes a bit frustrating, sometimes a bit what even, but most of the time just plain awesome fun. And hey, at the end of the day, if you had fun, it wasn’t a waste. Anyways. Recap time. All right ramblers, let’s get ramblin’.

PREVIOUSLY ON RWBY :: Ruby escapes Roman’s hilariously douchebaggy clutches with the help of WBYZO, and they board a speeding train to stop the evil plans afoot. There’s bombs in each carriage, released into the tunnel to bring out the big bad Grimm residing within. While Ruby lets Oobleck casually abuse Zwei in combat, Yang, Weiss and Blake head down below. There, Yang runs amok with #Neo, Weiss goes up against a chainsaw-wielding Bane cosplayer, and Blake comes face to hilariously douchebaggy face with Torchwick. Blake obliterates him because duh she’s the queen, but opts to save Weiss instead of finish him off. Yang, meanwhile, gets humiliated and almost perforated, only to be saved by a mysterious teleporting woman who I’m sure won’t show up again. The girls converge on top of the train just before it hits the end of the tunnel, surviving only to wake in Vale… which comes under attack from Grimm. Well damn. That’s dark, bro.

And now, on the Volume Two finale of RWBY… We begin on a sleeping beauty: Jaune. I felt a disturbance in some fans’s forces. If the finale had been an all JNPR adventure I would’ve laughed through to the next year.

He’s awoken by someone calling in on his scroll, the ringtone being a remix of “That’s A Big Ursa” of course.

It’s Ruby calling in, hoping the two of them can make plans to slam their decoder rings together to form and shape into plot resolvers. Conspiracy forever.

Shame the signal’s been spotty lately. Cinder’s CCT shenanigans probably caused it amirite.

Regardless, it’s rather foreboding to Jaune, who’s worried about his Wonder Twin.

Pyrrha, Ren and Nora are all reassuring. Could be a butt dial. Could be Ruby meant to call her friend Jane instead. Could just be Nora doesn’t care for RWBY’s shenanigans, because they’re about to go on their own adventure out to a village yonder. And they’ll be deputies!

Before Jaune can explain that the feeling he’s got is the Star Wars kind, alarms sound out and smoke rises in the distance of the city.

Instantly, priorities change. Go Go Gadget Leader Jaune.

They hijack the Bullhead meant for their mission, but before they can go, there’s somedat intrigue when Jaune takes Ren aside.

In the V2 DVD commentary, it’s confirmed that Ren and Nora have some kind of investment in that village. Maybe they chose the mission specifically ‘cause of it. Why? No idea! But it’s a damn fine tease, possibly for an arc in Volume Three. (EDIT: Also, another one of the DVD commentaries notes that their backstory is sad and that, in hindsight, this mention here will be also sad. !!!?!) And it also doubles as a great leader-y moment for Jaune. Earlier this volume he said he didn’t know much about Ren. He knows enough now to apologise. D'aww.

JNPR goes to play Big Damn Heroes, while some Big Damn Villains wonder what’s going on.

Last week it was implied that Roman starting the train early was a problem, and now we get confirmation. It’s still days away, their little plan.

But hey, improvisation is vital for all evil masterminds. Cindy Cind’s up for it.

Across town, our favourite rock band RWBY takes to the stage with a mosh pit of monsters cheering and holding up their lighters.

The crowd just wants them to play Free Bird, of course.

You can guess what happens next. There’s Beowolves, Ursas, a King Taijitu, some Creeps (They’re the lizard-y dog things, by the by. Not based on any one animal. Thank you DVD commentary!), and then there’s some teenage girls with big weapons. Two plus two equals…

Murder!

They got dis.

Ruby plants her Crescent Rose and does her best tetherball impersonation, kicking many-a-face. Yang just shoots at things, flies up into the air, and gets got by some nearby Nevermores.

Were the Nevermores… in the tunnel? Like, just roosting underground? These questions and more…

Maybe they actually were outside the town, just hanging out, eating a meat pie. Then the alarms happen, they see the party, they want to join in. They want to be with the cool kids.

It’s the Nevermore version of Superbad. Still starring Michael Cera. He liked the challenge of playing a giant bird version of himself.

Oh right, the recap. Blake kills with both sword form and gun form, Weiss kills with slices and dices and swords made of ices, Yang shoots cars at people. Then the boss battle music starts up, and Ruby turns to behold that giant goddamn snake.

The basilisk is about to go toe to toe with Ruby Potter, when a war cry interrupts them.

BEHOLD: THE GOD OF LIGHTNING. THE SON OF ODIN. THE SLAYER OF PANCAKES. NORA.

Team JNPR has arrived, errybody. Big Damn Heroes ain’t they just.

Annnnnnd of course Pyrrha can’t show up without pulling off a patented Tex pose.

She orders the team into battle, stealing poor Jaune’s thunder and lightning, very very frightening. Nora goes in, and Ren too. Hey, Ren’s kicking some ass! Go Ren.

Jaune decides to join the fray, hoping to win back some of the angry side of the fandom by dying horrifically. Only if it takes place over less than three episodes.

An Ursa Major arrives, looking to avenge the brother Jaune murdered last year.

And hey, we even get a callback to that! Also, you know those boss battles you fight and then later you fight the boss as a random mook? This is kinda like that.

Meanwhile, P-Money’s busy racking up her killcount when she sees her leader in trouble.

I’m glad she didn’t step in here. Gotta feel like Jaune’s progressed some. Next step is probably him saving her at one point, but Volume Twelve is a while away…

Also, your technique needs work, buddy. Just slashing and slicing ain’t sexy. If you’re gonna Omnislash, go full Cloud or go home.

No Semblance reveal in this fight, either. Unless time froze when he started slashing and stuff. Time Wizard Jaune?!

Or that. The Ursa goes down.

And P-Money brings out the sunny proud mama smile. D'aww.

So we’ve gotten RWBY action, we’ve gotten JNPR action. Next on the list is Team SSSN!

Two out of four ain’t bad. They have badges now. Badges are cool.

Maybe the absentee Sage and Scarlet are in the Pokeball. Is it actually the GS Ball from the anime and we never find out what’s inside after three seasons? YEAH I REMEMBER.

Also, I gotta have a moment here to laugh over something. Because when we saw the V2 opening a lot of people had to comment, “Hey I don’t want new characters if it means not developing the ones we got.” Which is fair enough, sure. Yet, as we’ve gone on this volume, the demand for Sage and Scarlet to appear has increased, to the point of them not appearing in the finale being an unforgivable sin. Take the moment. It is kinda funny. Would’ve been neat, but we’ll live, everybody! I was ready for it, too; we were told they didn’t have full models yet earlier in the volume, and also that they might not appear at all around the same time, soooo no shock. Worth a trade to get the CFVY fight scene coming up, too.

But before that goes down, the gang are showed up by Ironwood. He’s sent out his grand fleet, the pride of the Atlesian Military. To bomb everyone!

Okay no not today. It’s to debut his new androids that were foreshadowed earlier in the season. They’re pretty handy, not gonna lie. More sturdy than the Paladins, weirdly.

No Penny, though. Ironwood’s saving her for later, prolly. But I do miss that chick. Got less action this year than I’d expected. I’m combat ready for you, Penny baby. So no Penny, no Sage, no Scarlet, but there’s these nerds!

I laughed so hard because I got what was going to happen right away. They weren’t there to do evil. They were there to have everyone gain their trust all the more by being good guys. Wile E. Coyote. Suppppppper genius.

Little advice for Cindy Cind, though? Don’t wear the fiery dress that Glynda might be able to identify you with when she shows up later. No wonder Cinder just nope’d away as Emmy Rald and Merc do their killing. Must’ve realised.

We get a bit of Emmy fight scene action, including the proper debut of her weapons. They have a gun form, 'course, just to start.

And then they transform into two mini-sickle-y things. And then the sickle part can detach from the handle part on a chain, and wreck shop. It’s neat. I barely noticed the chain on the first run through, though!

A one-armed Paladin emerges from the wreckage now, and out come Zwei and Oobleck. Oh hey they survived. Good for them.

Zwei does do some killing. The revolution will not be televised. But the following revolution will. The one when Team CFVY arrives.

My babies. Coco, Fox, Velv and Yats. Welcome to the jungle. Rested up from their return the day before, here to kick some ass. Let’s meet 'em!

Yatsuhashi. His name is a reference to a Japanese confectionary - the whole team’s sweets blah blah et cetera said it a million times - and double as a shoutout to a blind musician and composer from the 1600s. No voice actor yet. Not much to him other than he’s probably Velvet’s partner and is an ass kicking ass kicker.

Givin’ me Ward from FF8 flashbacks. Loved that guy.

We know Velv well enough by now, no need to go into her. She goes hand to hand against Grimm with some bunny-y kicks, which is adorable as it is deadly. Hey wasn’t there something involving her and her weapon being in a box? Hmm…

Fox, name coming from Fox Hunter pie so if his last name’s Hunter that’ll be pretty hilarious. Fox’s design gives him the appearance of a battle-hardened history. He’s scarred up the wazoo. And dem eyes. His general movements also seem to indicate that he’s blind, with some kind of echolocation Semblance maybe? I don’t know. I want him to be blind, that’d be neat. Just something quinnteresting. And cool. Just like what he does next: he blows up an Ursa.

Like makes it go boom with a well-timed hit. Maybe the Semblance, maybe the Dust, maybe the Rule Of Awesome. Because it was. The Ursa goes boom and for bonus points, the spikes impale everything else! Made an Ursa grenade and there goes the shrapnel. Ouch.

So Yats was cool, Velv was adorable as always, and Fox rocked it. First thing Coco did was walk up and slap Fox on the ass. Then she opened her mouth, I heard the lovely Ashley Jenkins’s voice, and I knew it was over. Dissolve the duelling monarchies of Queen Blake and Queen Neo. We have to set up a democratic voting system and decide who’ll be President of our hearts. I can’t be trusted anymore, not with my wayward loyalties.

And oh my god look at Yats shielding Velv like that’s adorable. Amazing how one shot kinda gives the entire team dynamic. They’re like JNPR on crack and a year in the future. But with Coco. Always with Coco. Can every team have a Coco.

Chanel being her last name, though unlikely, would be funny, but meh! She’s the team’s leader for sure, especially with that much swag. Fashionable, too. For example, she wears a similar necklace to our mysterious terminator we later learn is named Raven and Neo. Well then. Must be in vogue then! The real question is this: who got the necklace first? I like to think Raven - as a seemingly very plot important character - was given it first, then Coco second, and Neo got it third because she was a late addition anyway. But we’ll leave that for the hiatus to decide…

Coco goes toe to toe with a big ol’ Beowolf, and if looks could kill it’d still be alive, because COCO HATH WILLED IT. That beastie is dying under her terms after she’s had her fun. Like a cat would.

She kicks it in the balls too. Like a cat would.

Then beats it to death with that handbag. Like a cattttttttttt! Also, there’s a bunny.

And here comes the biggest tease ever, but I loved it. Because we’ve been told that Velvet’s got something neat in that box. All the world’s plagues and only hope left inside? Maybe. A gun? More likely.

It’s cool, we’ll see it next volume. Or Twelve. Man, I’m looking forward to Twelve. But for now, we get Coco’s weapon reveal. Those bullets on her belt weren’t for show. They’re for the giant goddamn turret. EDIT: Gatling gun. Not a turret. I’m very tired. EDIT EDIT: Minigun, I’ve also been told. Conflicting reports. I say let’s let 'em fight to the death.

A turret gatling gun minigun jfc who knows Mabel loaded with the most effective bullets seen yet in this series, as they shred the monsters approaching. Might be a Semblance boost or there’s a high Dust cost, otherwise we’ll need a million of those things surrounding the kingdom walls. That’ll stop 'em.

This much asskickery has made us all think that Team CFVY’s mission earlier must’ve been hella hard mode in comparison. They were gone for a week and there were so many Grimm… Does that mean like thousands? And the big bad tunnel-dwelling Grimm that destroyed Mountain Glenn and unleashed on Vale now are like the Ratatas and Pidgeys? More likely it’s just a “let’s give them a cool fight moment instead of consider that logic” thing, but I can’t complain about it at all. So awesome. The entire sequence secured MVP award to them. And a new Jeff Williams song! Caffieeeeeeeeeene. OST pls be here yesterday. I need it in my life.

Actually I was going to have a joke of Fox going, “Actually it’s Friday” or whatever, but I think it actually is a Tuesday in the show. Dance was on the weekend, mission started on Monday, this is the next day. Dammit. Sniped by actual canon. Anyways, with CFVY done, it’s time to tie things up. Port goes to join his buddy Doctor Whoobleck.

In the DVD commentary they talk about Port and Oobleck probably going on many safaris together. Port murders stuff, Oobleck studies things. They also fight crime! And Glynda’s probably their snarky contact that never leaves Beacon because she’s not a moron.

She shows up now to slap Grimm out of the way and fix the hole made… Which is rather OP, but hey she’s had practice earlier this year after the food fight. Going full McGonagall and full circle. Sexy.

And that’s the end of that misadventure. Everyone gathers to high five and fist bump and compare killcounts. Coco won. Coco always wins.

In other news, Roman Torchwick is taken in by the military. Well that happened.

Do his taxes buddy, that usually helps. Side note: my theory is that Cinder disappeared during the battle to retrieve Roman. Maybe explain to him the plan for him to get arrested. Get herself, Emmy and Merc some points with Ironwood. Bet he took that well!

Sneaky, errybody.

It certainly seems like the ruse worked enough for Ruby to consider giving the evil trio a friendship bracelet.

For the record, Merc’d keep his bracelet totally unironically. Speaking of friends, everybody’s happy and alive and yay!

Sun and Neptune you did nothing but look pretty, so carry on. Poor Glynda, though, doesn’t have someone to fist bump but her whip. And good ol’ JNPR. Love those kids.

Everybody was strangely silent in their celebration'ing. I’d be screaming about how awesome that whole thing just was and demanding they put up a goddamn statue in the town square in my honour. But anyways, the action’s over, so it’s time to start wrapping stuff up. RWBY first, 'cause they’ve got less plot stuff left to do. Time to just unwind.

Now. There’s been some concern with folk about this wrap-up. 'Cause at first blush there is kinda an iffyness to the tone here. For one, Ruby says a lot of people in the attack got “hurt”. Just hurt. As in, no deaths. At all? Really?

Yeah yeah I get it, it’s not a grimmdark show. But with the emphasis on Mountain Glenn’s destruction and the less optimistic tone in last week’s episode… All that’s lost to a big Grimm attack is a bakery? We sure Glynda didn’t just put it all back together afterwards if it’s that easy? Not only that, but the tonal set-up of innocence lost or whatever for the entire volume hits a peak in No Brakes and could’ve at least kept slightly dark instead of pulling back that quickly in the finale. There’s some undertone that it’s not just a straight victory, but not, like, enough?

It does sorta feel like the kind of ending a TV network would demand their shows to have. But. And here’s the but! Three buts, actually. One: things just need to wrap up. It’s a finale. That’s what they do. And it does. Shocker! I get it though, from a writer’s point of view.

Two: in a plot sense, I’m totally fine with how it all turned out. Everyone gathers in one place, does some ass-kicking, and the long plot con that’s about to show up in the next scene of Ironwood getting control of Vytal Festival’s security comes to fruition. It’s a good set-up for things to happen in the Vytal Festival and less character introduction will have to be done for the tournament. There’s unanswered questions and the gang knows it, but that’s cool. That happens.

Three: I imagine history will repeat itself. Last volume’s finale was similar in that it wrapped up a bit easily, remember? But also remember what happened early this volume: we saw Blake having residual angst over the White Fang reveal. So in Volume Three I’m guessing there’ll be some character drama. Yang’s the easiest set-up what with losing badly to Neo and the mysterious woman we’ll get to later. Or plot drama. This attack wasn’t Vale’s 9/11, but it was a message. Emotional impact can come later to anchor the easy ending. We can live with that. Okay?

For now, everyone needs sleep. Not just our characters, but the team making the show. Hence, finale.

Because goddamn, they’ve delivered a lot of content for such a small team in a small time frame. I'mma proud. I had fun.

And so, Team RWBYZ heads off to sleep. They’ll need it. They’ve got a tournament to prepare for, after all.

Meanwhile, the big important people have big important things to discuss.

We find Ozpin being roasted by this lot:

There’s always a shadowy council, let’s be real. Someone reports to someone else. And when events go squirrelly, someone needs to be blamed by someone else. We get a namedrop of an Atlas Council, so this is probably the Vale Council. They have council luncheons.

The end result of this volume is that Ironwood and his army is now given security priority to the Vytal Festival. Because Oz had his chance to act on all things Cinder, but chose to wait and see.

Again, I really dig this. There was a lot of subtle set-up for things to go this way. And it’s a genuinely complicated situation overall. Because Ozpin and Ironwood are both the good guys. But they believe in their own good. Ironwood is presented as someone working very hard, building new models of battlebots and making Penny to save the world. Ozpin is giving speeches and hoping for the best in his own way. One’s taking action and one’s not as much, so no wonder the Council wants the action-y one.

Overall, Ozpin takes the news rather… ambigiously. Then again this is Ozpin, who takes poops that are ambiguous. Did he? Didn’t he? Nobody knows!

And also, Ozzy and Woody were close friends, too. But no doubt Ironwood gave a full honest report of everything, enough for the Council to consider even discussing Ozpin’s role as Headmaster at Beacon after the Festival’s done, soooo… Yeah. Oz gonna be salty in the long run. Throwin’ away the friendship bracelet.

Ironwood, for his part, looks conflicted over it but resolved, which is great.

'Cause I really dig the big good guys who start going hardcore when faced with evil. Makes for great tragedies. Ironwood hath risen, but the fall’s-a-comin’.

After the Vytal Fetival screws up, maybe? Because let’s be real it’s gonna. There’ll be egg on his face. One of the elements of his destruction now has a room in his airship. That’ll end well.

Yep. Roman’s probably staying close by, isn’t he. Hopefully so he can appear a bunch next year just to screw with our favourite general.

He’s not cooperating with the fuzz - biggest plot twist of the night tbh - and Ironwood’s attempts to show off his own dick size aren’t fazing him either.

And there’s that other element. Cinder gets ahold of his Paladins early. And infiltrates the CCT that he’s got some investment in. Sooooo… She has a line on someone in his organisation, maybe in his military, maybe on the Schnee Corp side of things. So how hard would it be for her to remove Ironwood’s control?

Bonus points, she breaks Roman out - he’s looking pretty comfortable and not trying to save his own skin, so that’s what he’s waiting for - and he goes on a killing spree. Maybe another distraction ensues. Cinder gets her android army or whatever, Roman gets out, the Vytal Festival…

Imagine for a moment. Vytal Festival has people coming in from all over. Best idea ever would be to cause a little chaos. Civil war stuff. Assassinate one ambassador from Mistral, blame Vacuo. Bomb some delegates from Vale, use Atlas tech. It’s a boiling pot and the noodles have just been thrown in. Two minutes or less, everyone’s screwed.

For now, Ironwood leaves his prisoner alone. He ain’t going nowhere. And Ironwood thinks he has time. He thinks everything’s coming up Milhouse. Thing is…

So does Roman.

Fun times. Meanwhile, across town…

Cinder calls the day a success. Gee, seems like the entire plan of the Grimm attack was just to get Ironwood to show off what he’s got so he gets his new job, doesn’t it. Sneaky sneaky

We also learn that a bunch of Faunus were killed in the tunnels. Wait wait timeout. Because apparently no one died in the big Grimm invasion (Side note: I know I’m harping on that point, but I know the best argument against it is that it’s Ruby that says “people got hurt”, which could just be her child-y way of talking about a bunch of deaths, so!), but White Fang died in the tunnels… Are literally the only characters that died this season Faunus characters? Tukson and then these White Fang mooks with names like Phineasberg and Phineasberg and Deery? That's… Boy I hope that’s something intentional that’ll become a plot point for Blake to convince the other White Fang people to stahp being bad guys and not an unhappy writing accident. Regardless, it’s a good segue.

Because will the White Fang follow a bunch of human leaders who sent them to their deaths? Nope, but they’ll follow this guy:

Adam Taurus. First met in the Black Trailer - and oh my god the people who have never seen it must be so confused - as Blake’s partner/mentor who was going full terrorist and not caring for the lives lost. Blake dumped his ass and he disappeared to the moon. Now he’s back and meaner than ever. Chip on his shoulder so big it appeared in the Nikos Book Of Remnant Records. He’s got the trifecta of being masked, mysterious and badass going for him. He is a reference to Beauty And The Beast’s Beast, whose name in the Disney film is commonly thought to be Adam. He’s also got a rose-y emblem that means “wilt”, which is all kind of foreboding. And Taurus refers to the bull Faunus thing. Adam is voiced by Mega 64’s Garrett Hunter, who is just the coolest guy ever don’t even get me started I’ll get all flushed.

So hey, Adam’s back! Very circular. Lots of set-up for it. The opening was there and the writers went for it. Because Blake’s at a good peak having beaten up Torchwick, so why not bring back her bigger shadow? It’s a shame the moon logs are gone, though… OR ARE THEY.

Boom. Turns out the moon’s like the Island Of Misfit Toys. Bow in that plot twist.

And so, on that note of “can it please be next volume already” the episode comes to an end. And as it’s a finale, there’s credits. With another new song! V2 OST get inside me.

I also remember last year having a credit to Cinder Fall despite not meeting her officially yet, so when I saw this…

What we were about to see in an after credits stinger became pretty clear. And there was one, because hell yeah. It goes a little like this.

There is a dreamlike quality to this sequence. The trees, the lighting, the fact that it’s happening at all. And hey, Raven can teleport and stuff. She can probably project herself into Yang’s dreams. And do remember that Yang’s last line earlier was about her going to sleep. If things are going sequentially, she’s dreaming this. If it’s not a dream, it’s a future scene. It’s not just happening now in reality. I’d wager.

Yang asks aloud who this woman is, and I gotta say that it’s nice to pick up on this plot thread right away. No need to wait 'til next volume for a Penny-like reveal. Right to it.

Raven Branwen. That last name is Welsh for “blessed white raven” basically, so meet Raven Raven. Voiced by Anna Hullum, CEO Matt Hullum’s amazingly kind and awesome wife. I imagine Raven’s identity is something we’ll be debating all year. I’m just going to plant myself in the “Yang’s mom” camp. 'Cause of what we’ve got it’s the most obvious one. The set-up was there with Yang’s story, she could’ve been designed to match closely to Transient Princess aka the picture Yang showed off in her trailer, and I’d rather this than evil twin or something? Then again, the Yin/Yang thing makes evil twin a possibility by name alone… I like Yang’s mom for it. What might help is that some super interwebs sleuths discovered that there was an edit made to Qrow’s wiki page on the RWBY wikia that changed his last name to be the same as Raven’s. Done like, months back, and apparently by Monty himself. So it may just be that Raven could be Qrow’s sister. Making Qrow literally Uncle Qrow. And yes. Another sister. What even.

I’m onto you. Volume Three: Invasion Of The Sisters. If a sister of Qrow’s, then that mirrors Ruby and Yang being on a team together. Qrow, Raven, Taiyang and Summer. I’m for that. And hey, if she’s an evil twin sister, then it’s still another sister. Because I am tormented by them.

And so ends the stinger, and with it, Volume Two of RWBY.

Well. That was a thing. A damn fine fun thing. And I’m soooo pumped for Volume Three! Lots set up, lots of opportunity ahead. Roads we can see that might be travelled, roads that won’t, roads that’ll come out of nowhere to surprise and entertain us. I’ll get into actual volume predictions when we get some more information or like, a trailer, but here’s one now: it’ll be great. RWBY has been around for two years, which is crazy to think, but I can see it hanging around for another decade of amazing action, hilarious hijinks and memorable characters that’ll start dying around Volume Six or so. If you haven’t already, do go out and send a thank you to the RWBY cast and crew. Even if you have issues with the show, you have to at least acknowledge all the hard work put in by talented and dedicated and sleep-deprived people. And things will only get better and crazier. Love dem Roosterteeths.

And speaking of things, the recap series is done for this year! Wow. FREEDOM! Nah, it’s been cool. Made myself laugh, which is cool yeah sure, and made a lot of others laugh, which is the best thing ever. So I’m pretty satisfied. I wouldn’t have gotten this far without the continued support and love of those who read this. We had bells, moon logs, surprise sisters, greater goods, Roman image songs, competing Queens, P-Money dying jokes, and who knows what else. Seriously, it’s all a blur. What did I… I said WHAT?! Well damn, me. But still. And you all did the best thing of all by liking, reblogging, sharing, following, shoutout'ing, everythang'ing. Even just sitting there and not regretting the time wasted 'cause you had fun reading is more than enough. Know that I’m grateful. And a sap. Group hug? GROUP HUG!

I’m going to work on being a bit less quiet this hiatus. Won’t go overboard and spam y'all with my hiatus craziness, but I’ll make some stuff. Could try my hand at proper RWBY fanfiction, that’d be fun! And there are some RWBY Recap-style ideas in the works, not to mention all kinds of possible Roosterteeth stuff. I’m so psyched for more Ten Little Roosters and X-Ray and Vav… Something could happen! Dun dun dun.

But I will be always available if you want to chat about anything really. I can be found all over these here internet parts, like the Roosteteeth forums (General discussion and the RWBY Vol. 2 thread), the RWBYForums, RWBY Wiki, the r/RWBY subreddit, the RWBY TVTropes page (And hey this recap even has a lil’ page of its own, which is much amaze), and the main tumblr tag. Oh, and also check out the Afterbuzz podcast archive for episode recaps with bonus cast and crew interviews too! And I have a Twitter that I only really use to post updates or things, but may get into posting insights into my whacky hijinks! Today I stubbed my toe on a coffee table and called it a treacherous hellbeast before kicking it with the other foot. Stuff like that.

So cheers! I’ve been Matt, and occasionally drunk Matt, and this has been the RWBY Volume Two’s Recap. Rest assured, the RWBY Recap will return in… Volume Three: Sisterpocalypse2k15. Bet on it.

P.S.: Time To Say Goodbye.