I’ll admit, when we received a viewer discretion warning about things getting darker, I didn’t expect we’d get such a lighthearted episode, you know? I mean, I don’t mind that this week Cinder took two troubled kids on a road trip and helped them heal from their abusive pasts, and I was cool with the heartwarming tale of Fall Maiden Amber helping a lost child reunite with her parents and nothing bad happening to her at all. But, gotta admit, kinda shocked when Yang and Mercury cleared up their recent misunderstanding over two frosty chocolate milkshakes… Ahh well, maybe we’ll get darker stuff next week. To learn all about how this episode was the lightest and whackiest thing I’ve seen since Attack On Titan, click on the Keep Reading below, or head to the Recap Masterpost to find the recaps of the much more serious and dark episodes, like that one time Yang and Weiss fought two memes!

In case you haven’t figured it out, that opening paragraph was wish-fulfilment and some sarcasm because, like the rest of you, I am well and properly traumatised by this episode. Hoo boy, what a fun one! Before we get to it, my usual round of thanks to all those who read, laughed, liked, reblogged, shared, commented, absorbed via osmosis, snorted, sauteed with a side of mushrooms, took a magic carpet ride with, defeated seven evil exes for, or suffered through Battle Before Dawn on Hector Hard Mode for last week’s recap. Supporting artistic-y content in any form is always a joy to the creators of stuff, and only takes twenty seconds out of your day - twenty-five if you do it right! - so know that they all appreciate it. I appreciate it the most, but don’t tell anyone. Onto the recap for our darkest episode yet, yeah? Expect a lot of me doing some, to quote Tyler Durden, “flashback humour”, and long-term recap readers to have some fun.

We begin with darkness. How apt.

Dialogue begins to play in the black, but no, your video isn’t broken. These transitionary black screens are a central narrative technique for this episode, a smart and quick way to convey the passage of time, as well as some bonus insight into our lovely and mysterious Cinder Fall. If you had trouble following what these scenes were saying, I got your back. This first one is two scene-y things. One is Cinder monologuing about what she wants - strength, to be feared, power, burritos for lunch - and the other is the set-up to the scene to follow, where a jeweller has a very pretty ring stolen from him. By this young ragamuffin:

It’s Emerald, and she’s cornered in an alleyway by an individual carrying an impressive arsenal of weaponry on her back.

Cinder and Emmy are both looking younger - like, “anime younger” I mean - so, y'know, if you didn’t figure out we’re in flashback territory, boy the rest of this episode must’ve been confusing.

So basically, Cinder spotted Emerald stealing a ring right from under a store owner’s nose while under his nose his mouth was smiling happily, and wants to know how it was done. Given that this is Cinder, it’s probably best assumed she heard tell of a thief with some mental manipulation skill and came looking, or else she got really lucky while she was visiting that jewellery store trawling for some new bling.

Keen listeners may have noticed in the blackness/jewellery store before we heard a sharp sound that was actually picked up by folk as one also heard in Merc and Emmy’s fight with Coco and Yatsuhashi, not to mention right before Yang was “I came out to have a good time and I feel so attacked right now” by Mercury… We’ll get to that. For now, Cinder’s making more friends than Mark Zuckerberg.

Fade to black…

In this time things get properly strange, the kind that makes us know we’re in for a ride. Cinder says Emerald will question everything she knows, and there’s some suspicious growling going on… Funnn. Next, she and Emerald are out and about, on the hunt for a man who lives in the mountains. Throw in some Cinder promising Emmy will never go hungry again - she didn’t say anything about feeling mildly peckish, though. Loophole! Emmy you could’ve negotiated up! - and then we cut to another Black:

Mercury Black seems to be having a very not good, terrible, bad day. His house is on fire, there’s blood everywhere…

His hair looks awful…

… Oh, and he just killed his dad. Apparently it was a hell of a fight that Cinder and Emmy got to watch front-row while power went out in the stadium so no one at home got to see it on pay per view, but hey. The father is killed by the son, it’s all very biblical. Burning home part reminds me of Justin Dumore’s death from Dresden Files, though I doubt there was that much demonic summoning involved here because there’s no way RWBY would do something like that! Especially not later this episode!

We can kinda figure out from the whole “I just killed him” thing, not to mention the mention of him being a drunk, that Marcus Black was not a particularly nice assassin guy, and had it comin’ to him. But still, his death can be used to kickstart a new recap tradition!

And so, Marcus Black joins his distant cousin Sirius in the afterlife, while Cinder brings out the recruitment documents for his killer. Luckily, there’s some blood nearby for when he signs the contract.

Quick thing I’d like to say before we move on, and it’s that Mercury now has the highest confirmed human K/D ratio in the series, thanks to Team RWBY having yet to log their multiple White Fang goon kills from the Mountain Glenn train tunnels, the scrubs. Between Marcus and Tukson, Mercury is really living up to being The Butcher to Emmy’s The Thief. Butchering more memes than people, but still. Way to be, Merc.

And also way to be for you too, Cindy Cind. She comes to the mountain looking for an assassin and comes down with an assassin’s assassin. That’s like, three times as cool. Cut to my favourite piece of black, and y'all probably can guess why.

The Three Evilsketeers face some initial conflict, as you’d expect from most road trip buddies. Emmy doesn’t want any of Merc’s angst, and Cinder doesn’t want any of Emmy’s backtalk, and even goes all out with a slap. Yeesh, Cinder, we thought you were the cool kind of evil, not the occasionally mean kind of evil. It’s interesting how differently she treats the two, actually. With Mercury she compliments and preens, makes him know he’s valued right before she points him at another person to kill; it never feels like she’d slap him, that’s for sure. With Emerald, she feels the need to reign her in, to discipline her in those moments she forgets just what she owes Cinder. It all builds into a strange sort-of worship from the two teens in present day, maybe because Cinder saved them, maybe because they’re scared witless of her, maybe both. It’d certainly be fascinating to find out which of the two, if either, try and break free, what the final straw could be…

All right, enough of that, Roman time. Well, like half a second, three words, and a chuckle a laughter conjured up from pure sin that’s totally my MVP this week, but still, Roman time! Mercury is the one to suggest they go after him, use him as a contact in Vale and so on. Torchwick no doubt goes for it ‘cause he’s Torchwick, but Cinder is also really really hot. Regardless, we unfortunately don’t get an actual scene with mai boi Torchy, and, after we’re done mourning this fact for the requisite nine hours, we cut to:

Cinder’s recruitment tour hits the Forest Of Forever Fall, where some familiar masked faces with some familiar animal appendages are camped out, singing campfire songs about murdering humans, and they are led by… Drumroll…

Adam Taurus, the glorious return of. Voiced by Mega64’s Garrett Hunter, Adam here was the first screentime thief of the series, and whose debut in the Black Trailer also created one of the early controversies in the RWBY fandom because of it. Yes kids, he was the OG Jaune, the first hatesink for stealing time from the main four, and don’t let anyone ever tell you different. I like to think his complete absence from Volume One and relegation to a stinger scene in Volume Two made up for it, however. And he comes back into Volume Three swinging for the idealistic fences, watched over by another familiar masked face…

Aka Chainsaw Guy/Bane Cosplayer/Is Not Yatsuhashi In Disguise Stop Freakin’ Saying That, last seen in Volume Two nearly sawing Weiss in half but not in the fun magician’s performance way. Not gonna lie, I’m still pulling for Phineasberg to become his canon name one day. He’ll also need a colour-y thing for his first name, and Rosemary can be gender neutral… Oh, and Phineasberg is voiced by RWBY Co-Director Gray Haddock, who also does Roman, so I’m happy Gray got to go wild this episode after such an absence.

Viewers are quickly caught up to the fact that Adam is a mite incredulous that Cinder’s come Jehovah’s Witnessing to his door. She could’ve picked up a gang leader - two steps ahead of you, Adam buddy - or some rogue Huntsmen - knowing Cinder, probably has one or two in her pocket - but instead she came for the White Fang.

Cinder’s honeyed words are ineffective on a man who clearly prefers maple syrup, for Adam sets the record straight with gusto: the White Fang is not an organisation for hire. It does not do weddings. It does not do functions. It does not do children’s birthday parties. It does revolution. And children’s birthday parties.

Still, bless her little evil heart, Cinder pushes on.

The bottom line for Adam, however, is that he’s not going to entertain the notion of his Faunus die for a human’s petty revolution. This moment is instrumental for painting a clearer picture of Adam Taurus’s character. When we first meet this guy he’s a hardcore terrorist type more than willing to take lives, yes, but the jump from that to a guy whose men help Cinder blow stuff up requires maybe thinking that he’s entirely cool with his White Fang being cannon fodder if it means getting back at humans. And now we know that no, he is not. He still has some Faunusanity, some complexity, some fascinating grey area with potential to be further explored. Yay Adam!

Again, bless her little evil heart, Cinder takes this no for an answer without ever seeming like she was taking no for an answer, and leaves without protest.

Adam watches them go, pensive, and then all creators of the Official RWBY Timeline gently fist pump the air as we get an idea of just when this flashback is taking place.

The idea comes in the form of Blake Belladonna - the lost love, the dethroned queen, the ninja cat who’s been way too ninja this year - and is helped along something fierce by Adam mentioning a certain train job that’s going to happen at dawn.

Dun dun dun. I think we were all hoping for some glimpse of Blake in these flashbacks, so it was nice to get a bit of that, and, y'know, some Blake. Also gives plenty of fanfiction writers some fun material to play with given how Blake was like days away from ending up working for Cinder, that’s for sure.

We now fade into yet another black screen, as Cinder and pals set out on another quest.

And no, it’s not to find the Holy Grail, but it’s serious enough to involve Cinder having a plan, and so we get her first vague-sounding plan chronologically! Yay! This episode is just a treat. Especially visually - I don’t mention the visual sexiness of this show lately enough - what with the varied environments and such, and the following scene’s atmosphere is instantly set as something out of an Edgar Allen Poe novel as we find a girl on a horse enjoying the scenery…

The moment we figure out who this is, we all know what’s going to happen next. There’s that familiar sharp sound in the background, just before Amber sees a scared little girl cowering on the road, and jumps off her horse to go help her.

Way to be amazing after like ten seconds of screentime, Amber, you nerd. Way to make it worse when we know what happens to you, you jerk. Oh joy. So before we go on I’d like to bring up happier things, such as the fact that Amber is voiced by prolific video game and anime voice actress Laura Bailey. Well, grunted and has like one line, but Laura was only in the RT office for a quick visit anyway, so! Still, kind of a cool thing! Seriously, she’s in the Troy Baker/Nolan North pantheon when it comes to how much stuff she’s been in. She’s Lust from Full Metal Alchemist, Lucina from Fire Emblem, and, most importantly - to my fragile fanboy heart anyway - is that she played Serah Farron in the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy. Now, I didn’t know Amber was played by Laura until I saw her name in the credits, but if I did this whole upcoming scene would’ve just been hell. Hell, it was hell to rewatch! And to recap. I don’t need flashbacks to what FFXIII-2 did to Serah, thanks, my aforementioned fragile fanboy heart can’t take it. Way to actually make me actively hate you, Cinder, by bringing Laura Bailey’s voice into your evil plan.

The picture of what Emerald is doing is clear. Later on she’ll mention her semblance involves being in people’s minds, so it’s not that she uses blanket illusions, it’s that she just makes people see what she wants them to see. Tada, another semblance for the spreadsheet, finally. The speculation on her semblance begun after the fake Yatsuhashi’s appearance in the ME V CY fight, which got drowned out by - like everything else this volume - the cries that Neo was behind it. A fair assumption in all non-Neo-is-Pyrrha cases, sure, and I’ve seen more than a few people say that Neo still could’ve been involved in the Yang V Merc framejob, but for now I think we can safely say the following:

Emerald made Coco see Yatsuhashi, she made Yang see that Merc was attacking her, and now she’s making Amber see a helpless little girl. Canon. But wait! Emerald is not Neo, but since everyone was Neo all along, then it turned out everyone was Emerald all along, then that means… NEO WAS EMERALD ALL ALONG? AND THAT MEANS… EMERALD WAS ALSO NEO IS ALSO EVERYONE IS ALSO NEO IS ALSO EMERALD ALL ALONG?! OH MY GOD. THE MATRIX IS BREAKING APART. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. LAURA BAILEY SAVE US!

(That’s what we call a callback joke to the whole Pyrrha misspelling jokes. Geddit, 'cause their souls are about to share a body and it’s funny. If they merge successfully without, y'know, killing P-Money’s soul or whatever Miles and Kerry have planned, I have plans to call her Ambyrrha. Catchy, huh?)

So anyways, Amber’s on amber alert, under attack by forces unknown. She’s quick to jump into it, spinning a staff like a pro and blasting Emerald and Mercury, but unfortunately not to Team Rocket levels. Cue Mercury’s revenge.

Which gets him basically set on fire. But, like, a dramatically-conscious fire that only burns pants and reveals what actually may be the biggest plot twist in RWBY so far.

Like, straight up, I said, “What the actual hell,” when I saw this! The Million Dollar Mercury has robot legs! His legs earlier weren’t just bandaged and bloodied for kicks (heh). This reveal got the reaction out of me reveals like Blake’s and Penny’s could only dream of, it was great. Of course, this opens up a whole new can of worm-shaped questions, and has been part of two hot discussion topics.

The first is fans wondering where he got those things. My immediate go-to is that Mercury’s asshole father chopped his own son’s legs off to make an amazing assassin out of him, and Mercury turned around and killed him as soon as possible - hence the bloody bandages. The other schools of thought in the community speculate that Merc Vader did it to himself in order to defeat his father, or that the battle with Black Senior got him so injured that Cinder had to take off his legs and get him shinier ones. The latter doesn’t really work for me on account of Mercury probably not having the time to bandage his wounds after killing his dad, on account of his house being on fire and all, so. RoboMercCop having just woken up with his legs replaced because his dad was a fan of Inspector Gadget and then turning around to kill the bastard gives some great Frankenstein-esque mental image, so I’m sticking with that.

Second train of thought this reveal has given birth to is Mercury 2.0’s fight with Pyrrha last volume. The purpose of that fight was to test her, figure out her game before they put her on Cinder’s mysterious list. When the Bicentennial Black figured out that P-Money was basically Magneto, he backed off, no big. Now, folk are assuming that Pyrrha’s semblance allows her to know that she was moving robot legs, and as such, she can come in handy with Yang’s current situation. Again, doesn’t super jive for me, because Pyrrha just pointed her hand at his rocket-boot to move it. No fuss, it moved, nothing more to think about. Besides, if she did sense he’s got whole secret robot legs, then she’s slacking on the job by not also uncovering Ironwood’s secret robot arm.

All right, where were we? Emmy and Merc get some temporary advantage on Amber thanks to the power of teamwork, and now, all bets are off. Amber ain’t the Fall Maiden so she can’t occasionally go biblical on some fools, that’s for sure.

Fierce winds pick up, buffeting Emmy and Merc, and Jeff Williams’s most epic orchestral effort kicks it to high gear…

This sequence is such an intensely haunting and beautiful thing to watch, for real. This is power like we’ve never seen, scaling up every known trick in the playbook, escalating things beyond the realm of physics-defying we’re used to into a whole new level. This is chaos, this is order, this is magic. Learning of a things existence and then seeing that thing in action less than an episode later is also magic, of the less lightning bolt kind.

Amber is an immortal in that storm, a physical god composed of pure power, of vengeance, of wrath, blocking every bullet - a trick we saw Cinder do in the very first episode - with barely a thought, conjuring tornadoes of leaves and freezing them with nary a hand wave. She is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, and she is righteousness personified.

For one glorious minute, she is the goddess that looks down upon all the worlds she let worship her for centuries, let build statues in her name and have armies kill all those who opposed her divine existence, and then ravages the worlds into destruction, smiting even her most devout without a cae. And the last man left alive, he looks up to her and asks, “Why?” to which she can only reply, “Because I can.”

But the moment cannot last. Not when Cinder uses her decoder ring to take all the projectiles headed her way and strikes right back.

The Fall Maiden is down, but not out. She fights through Emerald trying to mess with her mind again, and beats back Cinder. While all Amber’s attention stays on Merc and Emmy, Cinder prepares her bow and arrows.

Cinder, the greatest archer since the fabled 3-13 Archer, fires three arrows that go all explode-y and take out Amber’s Aura, an effect we notice thanks to seeing it happen to Mercury last week. And oh god, Cinder you’re using a bowsword against Serah Farron stop that it’s mean.

And to her damn credit, Amber does not. Despite having no Aura and it still being three-on-one, despite probably being barely old enough to be out of a Huntsmen academy and fighting the son of a professional assassin who was strong enough to kill his father, a life-long trickster, and a mysterious woman who could yet be older than all of them, Amber fights the hell back. She takes down Cinder with an Aeroga, Mercury with a Thundaga, and Emerald with a Firaga. She is now nothing but vengeance and the personification of “looks like a cinnamon roll, can actually kill you” as she plays it smart and goes after Emerald first. Her face is not the face of mercy. Not after everything. I do not blame her at all. Neither would Cinder, since it gives her the perfect opening…

And she takes it. Ugh. Look, I’m totally cool with these three becoming more evil-y so as to fuel the dream of Torchwick looking like such an angel in comparison that he can become the reluctant trash anti-hero type who joins the good guys but is still a marvellous ass, but they don’t have to be so mean about it. Ugh.

Emmy and Merc hold Amber down, while Cinder abandons her weapons and puts on a white glove with a mysterious white symbol on the back of it. Fashionable AND functional.

Okay, I kinda lied earlier. The robot legs reveal wasn’t my biggest What The Frell moment of the episode. It was this. This thing that was, again, set up earlier in the darkness after Emmy’s segment, but stillllll. C'mon, who saw this freakin’ thing coming.

Cinder summons a goddamn Grimm. Out of a crimson portal-y thing that we’ve been seeing up and down the season openings, as well as Raven Branwen’s preferred method of travel to get as far away from her parental responsibility as possible. Summons. Grimm. Grimm. GRIMM. And the thing spits out a black ichor that apparently can transfer magic powers! How. Even.

Everything has just been flipped and turned upside down more than the Fresh Prince Of Bel Air ever could. It seemed a remote possibility there was some sort of way for people in the RWBY world to work with the Grimm in some capacity, or, like, there could be Grimm worshippers, but it’s one thing thinking, “Might be a cool plot point for this fic I’m writing” and then it’s another seeing it being responsible for Cinder getting her flame on. Wild.

Her eyes going all on fire-y? Yeah, just like Pyrrha’s trail of fall leaves, we saw those burn-y eyes in the V2 Opening. Aww snap. Shame the opening didn’t have Qrow showing up to interrupt things in it, else Cinder would’ve seen it coming.

Qrow swoops in, severing the connection but not in time; Cinder is a wizard now. Joy.

There is the minor question of how Qrow knew Amber was under attack or why he was nearby or whatever, but I’m sure that explanation’s coming. One interesting interpretation I read was that Qrow and Amber were travelling together but Amber gave him the slip so she could go out on her own for, like, a day. A day after from being the Fall Maiden with a drunken guardian… If that’s what he was. Kinda unclear, but guardian type who has to have his charge die in his arms hurts most, so why not. Oh god. What if Qrow is the Noel Kreiss to Amber’s Serah. This is too much, don’t wanna relive this at all.

And of course, many people wondered why Qrow hasn’t identified the trio to Ozpin and rooted them out of Beacon. Assuming it’s not just 'cause he was drunk, we see that Cinder blurred her face, and it’s not a huge stretch to assume that she changed her outfit into her V3 one to help things out in that regard too. As for Merc and Emmy, in the heat of the moment, desperately trying to get to Amber… It makes sense Qrow wouldn’t truly remember every detail. Witness testimonies are crap enough even without magic and mind-alerting semblances being involved, yeah? Also, let’s recall that when Merc first saw Qrow weeks back he freaked out and thought they were compromised, so they do fear he does know, at least. In hindsight, that moment was a great set-up that got this pay-off, similar to the set-up for Emmy’s powers and stuff like Merc’s dad namedrop et cetera. Good stuff.

After dodging another fire-y attack, Qrow desperately looks around for his unknown enemy and finds no one… Or does he?

Nah, he doesn’t. He’s left there in the mud with a girl in his arms, an indescribable history writ large on his face.

Fade to black. The creepiest black of all.

It’s Cinder. Just Cinder. Talking to someone. Something. She has a boss, no big shock. I’m expecting full-on Lovecraftian Grimm that she’s in a committed evil relationship with or something. Something… big. And she describes to this thing her hunger, her emptiness, and her desire to claim what’s rightfully theirs. Yeeeeesh. Let’s cut to something happier.

Something like Phineasberg offering to hunt down the deserter Blake! Yay! Adam declines it, says they need to get back to Mistral, but there’s a commotion outside that interrupts him. Quick thing, before we go: there’s jars filled with red stuff in this tent. Could be Dust, sure, but you know what I see? It’s red sap, harvested from trees in the Forest Of Forever Fall, last seen being introduced as something that attracts Grimm. You gotta admit, having a Grimm diversion or two at the right moment could certainly be advantageous to a terrorist organisation. Who knew something from the Volume One Jaune arc could actually become a serious plot point later on, huh? Collecting sap is also a great explanation for why Adam’s hanging out in that forest, too!

Oh yeah, and Cinder’s back, much like The Terminator, and she’s there to kill things, much like Hollywood are trying to kill The Terminator franchise.

You gotta love how Cinder goes about this, too. She chose Adam, she says. She’ll do anything for his service. Even murder his friends. How very yandere.

Those swords are no longer necessary when you have magic swords! What a show-off. She even came with Dust and Lien to sweeten the deal.

And there we have it. The story of how a man like Adam, not willing to lend his race to a human affair, chooses to bend before he breaks. What else could he say but yes, in the face of that? “Nah, kill Phineasberg and then maybe we’ll consider it”? No. You do what you have to do.

Which just sets up all kinds of interesting story opportunities when Adam inevitably collides with Blake later on and the truth comes out. Might be nice if all this madness eventually leads to Adam pulling back the White Fang’s more extreme ways, including his own, and tries to use it as a force for positive change instead of terrorist-y revolution… One day. Until then, speaking of interesting stories…

We’re back in the scene of a crime, though all sympathy some souls had for Mercury is evaporated like rain in a scorching desert because we know about his robot legs now. Just gone.

Two medics appear on the spot (Da da da da daaaaaaaa), taking a quick look-over and Mercury away, with Emerald trailing beside.

As they go, Yang desperately tries to explain to the armed cops that she’s innocent, as if that excuse ever works.



Notice that her eyes are all grey instead of purple? Poor punchy banana girl. Not as poor as poor kicky quicksilver guy, stowed away in a medical airship under the control of a suspicious-looking cosplaying medic.

The ship flies off into the night, and Mercury bemoans his fate as only a true comedian could.

Emerald’s not having it, shooting off a throwaway line about having a headache building on account of using her semblance on two minds. And boy, for a throwaway, it sure caused more confusion than a Confuse Ray ever could.

Tada! Mystery solved, it’s not Coco or Qrow or some mysterious-to-be-revealed thing. And the mystery of the getaway driver is also solved to much more acclaim, this being a mystery that’s been haunting us ever since the Yellow Trailer. And yes, for the first time ever, someone was actually Neo.

In the end, Cinder’s plan worked perfectly. The world is in uproar over the incident, and another Throwback Thursday moment comes in the form of who’s reporting on it.

Sup Lisa (voiced by Pyrrha’s VA Jen Brown, in case you didn’t know!), how ya been? Me? I’m cool. That Haven tourist said something about Ozpin being a terrible headmaster. Public opinion is getting sour on that guy, no wonder Ironwood is trying to step up, huh? Public opinion is also kinda sour on these other things too, by and by.

Vale’s about to receive another Grimm reminder barely months after the Breach, and this time they’ve got Goliaths moving and Atlas reinforcements won’t be enough. Y'know, some folk wondered why Cinder’s plan involved kicking up such a fuss that Grimm get involved instead of just attacking with her White Fang army, but since it seems this chick is freakin’ working with the bloody creatures in some capacity, it’s no wonder she’d have them play a big part in her plan. Things are about to get messy.

Back at a secret warehouse - this was one of Torchwick’s favourite secret warehouses; it’s just not the same without him - Cinder congratulates the team and goes back into vague plan mode in order to secure the next match-up’s result. Meanwhile, Mercury is going to lay low and catch up on his soap operas.

Everyone wins. If you’re evil. That’s the life lesson I think we’re supposed to take away here.

So what’s next? Yang will have to fight for her friends and the like to believe her, that much is certain. We’ve had a bit of a dark streak ever seen the halcyon days of fighting memes, so I fully expect RWB to rally behind her in an inspirational friendship is magic moment before we double back down on whatever’s planned for Pyrrha. We’re about due for the annual mid-to-late season Pyrrha and Jaune angst parade, so fingers crossed for those kids, I’m actually super rooting for them now that P-Money’s about three episodes away from getting her soul eaten… What else? Might go a week without Team Evil, probably wouldn’t shock me if Ozpin and Ironwood get into another argument, and we may finally get a little bit of information on Yang’s hunt for her mother. Good times. I also expect tears. And not the fun kind.

That’s it from me, folks. So ends up another meeting of the Laura Bailey Appreciation Society, we’ll be back next week and there’ll be glazed donuts and coffee for all. Sound good? Until then, stay out of trouble by avoiding and ignoring every small child that looks in need of assistance. Or puppies. Risk it for kittens, but not puppies or children. Just to be on the safe side. Laters!

Also, song for the week? Since we’re in a Final Fantasy XIII-2 mood, and that OST is amazing, let’s go with New Bodhum.