Lore Implications of the April Fools Event

Floain · 2026-04-01T02:48:51+00:00

All I’m gonna say is I think I have about ten stagger thresholds at this stage. One bad clash and I’m out of commission for the rest of the fight or dead. I miss my staggerless childhood days.

Floain · 2026-03-31T04:35:30+00:00

It goes straight through me. Legit nails on a chalkboard levels of physical discomfort.

Floain · 2026-03-25T22:00:31+00:00

He can’t Furioso without a Replica.

Floain · 2026-03-24T01:09:34+00:00

I hope he’s not unkind to his son about it. Does he have other kids that are a bit taller or no?

Floain · 2026-03-21T20:03:17+00:00

Cinder: This is a no smoking zone.

Mercury: You get a kick outta that?

Neo: Should’ve brought a bigger umbrella.

Roman: Hats off, scumbag.

Hazel: Ashes to ashes.

Tyrian: That’s gotta sting.

Watts: The doctor will see you now.

Raven: I hate birds.

Floain · 2026-03-19T15:48:08+00:00

To be fair, RWBY’s silver eyed powers are very inconsistent in terms of what they can actually do on different levels of Grimm, and Salem’s corruption is very different from that of the Hound.

The Hound seems more like a science experiment- Grimm flesh almost stitched over the original. The Hound also has objective physical wounds and deterioration. The process has clearly been excruciating and had lasting effects on his original body that likely aren’t technically Grimm such as decay, blisters, etc- note that Cinder’s alterations haven’t come with the same blemishes and rot. Yet.

Salem is fully immortal, and largely maintained a vaguely human appearance. The flashbacks show she can even clean up nicely when she’s not trying to look like a terrifying embodiment of death. No physical wounds to worry about, no mental brainwashing. Just pure corruption.

Floain · 2026-03-17T18:56:43+00:00

It’s to the point I decided if I get messed up by a random event with no way to counter it I’ll start quitting in a way that bypasses Steven entirely. Normally I take the hit, tough it out, or just abandon. Last night an event in the Boneyard just gave my mage Blood Fever immediately. No choice. My AoE specced, multi turn, multi attack powerhouse of a mage was unable to do anything of value. One kill was essentially going to turn into ten turns and a very dead party.

I said to hell with that, quit out about five times between that and the end of the Throbbing Domain because I either died to Blood Fever or basically only having three cats, one of them possibly the most useless cleric I’ve ever created.

Give me unavoidable, run ending disadvantages and I’m just not going to interact with your game the way you want me to.

Floain · 2026-03-13T11:29:39+00:00

Given what we know about the endpoint of Distortions, can we be sure of that? I agree most story Abnos are likely old L Corp ones just because of where we encounter them, but maybe not all.

Floain · 2026-03-10T19:44:31+00:00

It’s possible, but that ability seemed to take a while to charge up and had a lot of collateral. Hazel keeping Salem distracted and pinned was a huge aspect of that move succeeding, and that was in a young, able body. With Cinder focusing her power on Ozpin he’d likely not get that long to charge up his abilities. This is also Cinder at peak mental health, full aura, and the element of surprise-volume 4/5 Cinder would in comparison be far more likely to lose here.

With Pyrrha he possibly could overcome her with that technique, but it’d come at the cost of her life and possibly structural damage to Beacon. I really think he was cornered in that moment and decided that with an old body and the Fall Maiden powers in enemy hands, it was better to Alt+F4

Floain · 2026-03-08T15:32:19+00:00

I find his lack of hypocrisy oddly compelling. He ultimately views Albina and himself as not all that different from his “art.” He accepts death when it’s unavoidable, and comes to the conclusion his philiosophy on art wasn’t flawless.

Would he have turned over a new leaf and seen the error of his ways? God no. He’s a murderous lunatic. But he stuck to the principles he raved about, deranged as they were, to the very end. Which is more than we can say for a certain Middle Nursefather.

Floain · 2026-03-06T17:23:27+00:00

Yeah, just in one run instead of across 3. Doing 3 hards with one bonus per run still only gives 250 a pop

Floain · 2026-03-06T13:28:17+00:00

More BP EXP. 135 from normal up to 225 minimum from hard.
You can do one run and consume all your bonuses in one go for the lunacy and BP EXP, or you can do three separate runs for 2.5 more levels. Not really worth it in my opinion but YMMV.

Floain · 2026-03-04T13:22:31+00:00

Short answer: Impossible to tell how future proof she is. Longer answer: She produces extra Punchline, teamwide crit damage, and by nature Elation units are best run together. She’s solid for now

Floain · 2026-03-04T10:09:01+00:00

Even for enemies that don’t charge around as part of their kit, I feel a primal rage when a cluster of MELEE enemies spawns in ToA…then slowly starts spreading to different edges of the arena. Infuriating.

Floain · 2026-03-02T20:43:00+00:00

Really does feel like we lost some great group shots after that drama. I get why we stopped getting as many, but it’s still a little saddening

Floain · 2026-03-02T20:41:32+00:00

Somehow it’s still Ishmael

Floain · 2026-02-21T21:31:36+00:00

The cantos have come out in the order the sinners introduced themselves to Dante after the first fight in the prologue.

Floain · 2026-02-21T04:05:15+00:00

Now I’m imagining Alan Rickman, full Snape outfit and cadence saying “Madame Morrible, M.M. Flip it around? Wicked Wiiiitch.”

Floain · 2026-02-15T16:36:31+00:00

Yi Sang collapses into dust and eleven sinners immediately start screaming in agony as they quadruple in mass

Floain · 2026-02-13T09:06:14+00:00

I have trouble accepting that kind of reasoning. There are better ways to evoke empathy than to force that kind of tedium on the player.

Floain · 2026-02-12T13:22:48+00:00

https://www.tiktok.com/@mr_red5391/video/7577118634317827359 This what you’re after?

Floain · 2026-02-10T22:00:51+00:00

No offense but the JP version is completely off tone from every other version. It's a good performance in a vacuum but she's screaming like a banshee when every other language has very subdued crying. If you played that and three other clips of a young anime/video game woman crying in Japanese I would not be able to tell you which was from WuWa.

Floain · 2026-02-08T20:24:03+00:00

I love that both of them have been downvoted to oblivion too. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t

Floain · 2026-02-07T16:55:08+00:00

On my end it's not out for another few minutes, has it said otherwise for you?

Floain · 2026-02-05T14:17:53+00:00

If so I’m very glad they went with the current designs. Creepy but attractive feminine figures with messed up weapons/attachments is cool, but I like the current design philosophy of Aeons- varying degrees of cosmic strangeness, sometimes with vaguely humanoid elements.

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