trainsinanime:

I’m so annoyed with myself right now, because in the latest RWBY episode (volume 6 episode 6) it took me two viewings to get the actually very obvious metaphor at the end: Barnaby, the guy who thought, “let’s abduct some Grimm to manage my family’s emotion” is not just a little crazy. The point is that sometimes it’s healthier to let anger and negative emotions out, even if that means a fight (in the analogy: Huntsman protection), than try and bury it all. Repression is really dangerous.

And that of course applies directly to what team RWBY is going through right now. Yang is angry but unwilling to talk about it; Qrow drowns everything in alcohol; Ruby puts moving the plot forward over everything else, which makes her both effective (here) but also unable to relate to Weiss in the last episode; and Blake is in love with Yang but scared to say so (yes at this point that’s technically still only a headcanon, but I mean, come on).

The end contains both that metaphor, and the team reassuring each other that they totally didn’t mean anything that happened in the farm and that it was all just the Grimm. (Notably, Blake immediately tells Yang that Yang isn’t responsible, which is arguably the more important Bumbleby moment here even over the hand-holding.) Obviously that doesn’t really mesh. So I expect we’ll see the conflicts come back; and I hope that they’ll learn Barnaby’s lesson and actually start talking and, where necessary, fighting about stuff that they’re currently all trying to ignore.