However, the color red also says something about Weiss herself. It is symbolic of her partnership with Ruby, which plays into the allusion of Snow-White and Rose-Red (Weiss’s secondary allusion). This is why this color can be found pretty often in Weiss’s designs. However, she can’t do it alone, but she needs friends and a new family to succeed. The whole short is Weiss’s losing fight to melt the ice that covers her home and heart: This is why frozen roses appear in her character short for volume 5, while the song Path to Isolation plays in the background. They represent a difficult legacy she must deal with and make her own if she wants to grow.Īt the same time, both the Schnee family crest and her glyphs convey pretty clearly Weiss’s most important motif, which is snow.ġ) Snow and ice are symbolic of Weiss’s loneliness: Weiss’s design is similar to Ruby in how her power:Īnd her emblem are traits she shares with other members of her family. Interestingly, these are challenges Ruby shares with her partner. In any case, Ruby’s main challenge is to overcome her mother’s shadow and this is pretty much summed up by her emblem, which is the same as Summer’s and that Ruby must make her own. Speaking of which, it is fun how her hood, which clearly plays tribute to her allusion loosely connects her also to super-hero imagery, since she flies in it and uses it to cover and protect others with her semblance. As for now, I think she will use them to save Cinder aka the Wolf and the Victim in Ruby’s plot-line, where she plays both the Hood and the Hunter. What Ruby chooses to do with her silver eyes, aka her mother’s legacy, will probably be her self-actualizing choice. Not only that, but Ruby activating them is linked to her witnessing Pyrrha’s death and being unable to save her friend. She receives knowledge about them from Maria, who plays the role of the Grandmother in Ruby’s Little Red Riding Hood allusion:Īnd they are linked to both creation in how they protect life, but also to destruction in how they kill Grimm. So far they are at the centre of Ruby’s story-line.
#The cinders on venus destiny series#
This is why the eyes Ruby inherited from Summer are so pivotal not only in the series itself, but in Ruby’s personal arc too. To Ruby Summer is both hope and despair, creation and destruction since she gave life to Ruby, but is also the girl’s first experience with death and loss. It is a powerful juxtaposition that fits Ruby’s character and her complicated feelings over Summer: Ruby embodies purity also because of her young age that lets her be hopeful. I was like that as a girl, but time and… a lot of other things, took their toll on me. They are associated to life in how they are linked to a young life blooming:īlake: I know you don’t always know what to do, but that’s never stopped you from doing something. Similarly, red roses are symbols of both life and death in the story. In her struggle to move forward Ruby might spread herself too thin and her petals might get lost. Maria: You know, you don’t give yourself enough credit.
On one hand Ruby scatters because she is flexible, has an original approach to things and can’t be restrained by gravity or any kind of obstacle. Both imageries are linked to contradictive ideas.
They are clearly conveyed in Ruby’s Petal Burst, which appears as a rose scattering. Not only that, but as gatheringkeepsakes notices in this post, the moon itself is like a “scattering rose”:īoth scattering and roses are two recurring motifs in Ruby’s design. What is more, both the Silver Eyes and Crescent Rose are linked to the moon. Once again, we have the dychotomy Soul (the eyes) = Creation and Body (the weapon) = Destruction. Still, her weapon is a scythe, which is symbolically linked to death aka Destruction: Preservation is an extension of creation, or, at the very least, an enemy of destruction. Maria: Precisely! It is the desire to preserve life which fuels the light inside you. Ruby’s design is interesting because it combines elements of both Creation and Destruction.Īfter all, her silver eyes are linked to Creation: Here are some of my favourite designs in no particular order!
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