RWBY Fairy Tales: The Indecisive King 

honestly same

It tends to be a 50/50 between cautionary tale and hopeful ending. "Funny, isn’t it, how so many of our stories start the same way, but have opposing endings? In half, the child ignores her parents, wanders out into the woods, and gets eaten. In the other half she discovers great wonders. There aren’t many stories about the kids who say, ‘Yes, I shall not go into the forest. I’m glad my parents explained that is where the monsters live.'"

I was expecting him to go insane

Yeah, no backstabbing, lying, or fighting friends. Just good love.

@@draconicdemigod9696 Its more if James was finally able to listen to someone

@@erickamakeeaina1649 Listen to people who he didn't know long enough to trust and lied to him or listen to the people who he knew long enough and trusted but never said anything till he was over the edge of listening to anyone but himself?

@@erickamakeeaina1649 That is also part of the reason.

I'm laughing way too hard at this.

I think that is essentially the point of the relic of choice, nothing is certain.

@@jcmahrt5100 "Dying is no way to take responsibility. Stay alive, stay alive and feel the shame. No matter how humiliating it may be; live through it anyway! All Humans are weak, we're Fallible, we all make Mistakes. I say 'so what? We're not Machines!' Machines feel no shame. Our inevitable missteps, and the resulting guilt: those are the *privileges'* of being Human!" - Ryu Hijikata, _Space Battleship Yamato 2202_

Agreed, though there's something else to point out: these are canononically fairy tales from Remnant's perspective, so it's likely that some of these details are highly exaggerated or altered, making them non-canon hints as a result. Food for thought, if nothing else

Heres an even bigger question, Why did it not affect the lady as badly as the King?

@@striderreborn1467 According to the book, the major moment is selected at random. Basically, she got lucky it chose something good

That very cloaked individual has very similar characteristics to Tyrian. What if who we saw was his ancestor? As for the king and queen, maybe they are the ancestor to Hazel?

@@blazeorbitmoon1068 I assume it's meant to associate the figure with 'don't trust this person!' for the audience.

I mean, if the relic of choice exists, then that would have already existed, so I don't think that's what he saw. He probably saw some incoming tradegy that would befall either him or his people, or something of that nature.

@@stars_and_lattes3078 or he saw it happen a second time

I think he was thinking that a massive war/disater was coming and that if she wasn't prepared (i.e. having food and shelter and money) it would end badly for her to be in love but starving

Every character ever.

To be fair he does follow it up with letting her live in his palace for free with no strings attached. That's a pretty sweet deal.

lmao when i heard him say that I was really about to close the video but then i saw the rest of the lesson

Sometimes what sounds silly to others is exactly what someone going through hard times needs to hear.

“The greatest act of courage is living”

If you think that's weird wait till you see The Emperor's New Clothes.

He was a Fuaness is though

I understood that reference.

Mysterious stranger with horns!

sus from our perspective but this kinda stuff is the norm back then and pre tech what's a crown going to do?

Didn't notice that the first time. Had to go back and check when I read this and it was SO CUTE!

They probably will explain it in the same depth as the other relics to make sure we, the viewers, understand how RWBY know about it.

The queen is a relic!!!!?! 0:

@@DarrianYates XD, no the crown.

Imo they will be in a situtation which they have little time to explain so they will give us summary instead and later fully explanation

if i remember correctly the crown is in that desert place and the sword was supposed to bee in vale but ospin hid it somewhere else

That was par for the course in medieval times. Kings were thought to be lifelines to God, and similarly to how people will go to priests to ask them what they should do, they would go to the King and ask him what to do

@@ZekromAndYugiAndDrago123 might be a bit of a romantic depiction of history, but if you couldn't convince your family to accept a marriage you could go to someone higher up to act on your behalf i.e. a priest or a noble

And imagine getting advice, and the king pulls out the "But idk" in case he ruins your life with that advice XD

In very old times, obeying your father (especially as a daughter) was actually a religious law. In the bible, if a rebellious child did not obey their parents, the citizens could legally stone them to death. Marrying outside of your class and free love was also greatly looked down upon.

naruto motivational speech

that was unintentionally hilarious

To be fair he also takes responsibility for that by giving her a place to keep living in.

And she pays back the major favor in return. Maximum wholesomeness

Also, time to keep a crown from a stranger that attracts Grimm and only brings me suffering.

😂😂😂😂😂😂

*shamed Belladonna family noises*

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

Lmao!!!

More than that. These fairytales give us all spoilers of the next volume or so: A new type of Grimm, The Decedents of the Hunter’s Children or themselves, the “god” of the Fonis, and now one of the powers of the Relic “Crown” of Choice.

we already knew that the relic of choice was a crown and the relic of destruction is a sword

@@laurenoptified1701 i know that, but now we can see what it does

Let's all keep in mind that these are essentially kid's stories from Remnant's pov. RWBY's good at foreshadowing, but for now these tales are debatable as canon. Still a nice little detour. 🙂

@@MegaJohntom It's 'faunus'.

Or at least give some hints. On Remnant, these fairy tales are exactly that: fairy tales. As such, some of the details are bound to be altered or exaggerated over the years. That being said, so were the maidens and Brother Gods, so who knows. 🤷‍♂️

These fairy tales are quite cool

To be fair, the good guys did win in Volume 5. But yes, a true win is sorely needed after Volume 8 happened. 0.0

@@Tyrantlizard874 eyup and volume 5 was a victory but a week later the Argus limited and the lost fable happened so

What do you mean? There hasn't been an ending to the story yet, we are only up to chapter 8. There is still hope for a good ending, as long as there we remember Ozpin's words from the intro of Chapter 1 Episode 1.

@@JarieSuicune Exactly. We should save our FULL judgment for when the series ends. There's still a place for criticism (Vol. 6 blowing Vol. 5 away being a prime example), but RT still has time to address all of it

@@JarieSuicune I mean the end of a volume not the story

I'm a bit afraid that series is put on ice for a long time or Indeffinetly

Too soon to say either way, but here's hoping for the better.👍

It would probably be an Esoteric Happy Ending.

I think there should be. A major theme in the series is hope, the inherent good in humanity, and the power of "a simple soul" with the drive to make the world a better place and the will to see it through. It would be very disappointing, especially for me, if the the writers were to abandon that for a downer ending and say that hope is pointless.

There's no evidence that there is no happy end. The king simply said he saw a crossroads with an impossible choice. But he also didn't see everything that might be involved, as is the curse of seeing only part of a problem/solution.

There'll be a happy ending, but I think it'll get a lot darker before that.

but why would Salem give the crown away when she wants the relics?

@@notquiteallison good question. To sow distrust and disorder? My reason for this is due to Ozma telling her about the relics. She probably wanted to test the crown out on someone. I'll admit the only flaw here is how she came to learn about the relics abilities, since Ozma only learned about their powers himself after asking Jinn.

What a great idea... Hmmmmmmm... Was she setting the stage for the end of his Kingdom?...

Pretty sure he was

@@notquiteallison causing the king to go crazy? Have afterwards a reason to invade and destroy the king and his kingdom to get the relic back? Sounds legit to me if you're a cruel, undead master of Grimm

In an illustration in the fairytale book itself. It does. And it hints the tale had different endings depending on who tells it.

That's what I expected based on the thumbnail

Oh, so Ironwood.

No fictional character deserves to see THIS kind of horror.....except for Cinder. 😆

Either a mistake. Or part of her faunus heritage.

Faunus heritage/trait probably

I say it's cool

@@Da_caffeinated_insomniac how is three fingers a Faunus trait

@@ceooforcasupremacy8012 a lot of animals have 3 fingers so that could be apart of it since certain Faunus can have more than one animals trait and a goat Faunus which is what she was has 3 fingers on there feet’s

From the implication. It is possible that it was a former follower of Salem trying to sow misfortune on the king because his kingdom was making too much progress.

And one he saved before too. Only for her to return the favor

I really appreciate that reference.

Yeah remember Ice King from Adventure Time

@@xprojectsa3627 oh yea. Give the power of Ice But Lose humanity . The longer where that crown. The worse it get

Also how many Curse crown are there this time .

What a great point! So... does the relic of knowledge make you, deceitful...?

The sour note would be Ironwood's story.

XD

and the sword of destruction.

@@stevenkurtz2730 To be fair, animations aren't an easy thing to make. Drawing each frame, coloring the frames, lip syncing to any audio that's used... It can be a difficult process. Especially if you're making a smooth animation! That's not even mentioning the writing and storyboarding...

@@rebeccaboyer2444Exactly. And that's just these side stories. Things get FAR more complicated for the main series. Now, if only more people understood this.....

And this is why Glynda needed to haul a$$ over to Atlas back in v7 🤧 someone needed a wiser female to knock this General straight

If only this happened. Could've saved everyone a LOT of trouble!

You would be too if you put on a crown that showed you every possible choice and result leading to indecisive decisions and sleepless nights wondering if you made the right choice as all the people of your kingdom look to your once infallible wisdom.

He looks like me these past few weeks LOL...... i need a bed... 😭

Maybe Glynda is the Summer maiden.... that way she IS indeed the key to the vault

@@cherrydragon3120 But only the Fall Maiden can open the vault.

I kinda thought (and been thinking that for a while now) Glynda herself is the relic or spirit of the relic. Like Jinn is the relic of knowledge, Glynda is the relic of choice and that is why her emble is a crown and the relic is hard to find. Noone would know to look for ot in a teacher. Just need annexplanation for why she isn"t blue

@@IISheireenII that’s really interesting.

😨🤔I don't think I wanna know😬considering it's called the sword of destruction and the crown of choice bearing a lighter name even though it's a heavy burden...either the sword is a whole death trap or it's reversed and is actually better somehow than the crown.

So far the Crown seems the weakest. Staff is the strongest, Lamp in the middle. Sword is probably either slightly better or worse than Staff.

I like it better when the crown allows its user to take the free will of anyone it stares at.

@@Lightspeeds The thing is mind control is a semblance. It belongs to Jax from the Before the dawn novel. so if the relic gave it that means that semblances can copy the power of the gods.

These fairytales give us all spoilers of the next volume or so: A new type of Grimm, The Decedents of the Hunter’s Children or themselves, the “god” of the Fonis, and now one of the powers of the Relic “Crown” of Choice.

@@MegaJohntom Really? So the hunter and his children did have names?

@@epsyblue7714 they didn't specify the names in the credits.

@@MegaJohntom I doubt that these tales are 100% canon (these are fairy tales for Remnant, much like our OWN fairy tales on Earth) but RWBY's good at foreshadowing. Anyone's guess, really

Same

@Eren what do you mean?

@@JoshioE110 the RWBY fanbase tends to fall into 2 camps. On one side, you have legitimate fans who act like any other fanbase would: enjoying it while acknowledging it's issues. On the other hand, we have what Eren's refering to: "critics" who are more interested in roasting every aspect of the show, while often conveniently ignoring any positives brought forward, while ALSO praising the first 2 volumes for being better than they really are. See where we're coming from here? Not trying to start a flame war here, btw. Just lamenting the loss of civil criticism......

@@Tyrantlizard874 exactly

@@Tyrantlizard874 personally, I enjoy RWBY despite it’s issues from time to time. In my opinion, I feel like RWBY is getting a bit overhated in recent years.

Seriously! The Queen didn't see or experience what the King saw! The Horrors and Pain! She only saw a good vision! If she had seen the same vision and maybe come to the conclusion that they should still continue living and then convinced the King to do the same it would make more sense!

Yeah, I enjoyed the last 3 volumes, but BOY do the good guys need some wins after......Atlas happened.😬

@@Tyrantlizard874 They have none else to blame but themselves for how that turned out.

@@Vigriff- they saved as many people as they could and kept the maidens power away from Salem. They sacrifice themselves to protect the people as best as they could.

@@justynhill4814 Exactly

"Funny, isn’t it, how so many of our stories start the same way, but have opposing endings? In half, the child ignores her parents, wanders out into the woods, and gets eaten. In the other half she discovers great wonders. There aren’t many stories about the kids who say, ‘Yes, I shall not go into the forest. I’m glad my parents explained that is where the monsters live.'"

It's a fairy tale, so not to be taken purely literally. Elements of truth, with a core theme, but not word for word historically accurate.

The book was like that too actually. It was actually worse in the book. It showed the thrown the King was sitting on and there was nothing left but a skeletal corpse with the crown left on his head.

It was implied in the book that there is versions of the tale where the ending is more dark. Like the illustration of the king as a skeleton still in agony and the crown still firmly in place.