theseerasures:theseerasures:Winter Schnee and facelessness, from It’s Brawl in the Family (3.3) to W
theseerasures:theseerasures:Winter Schnee and facelessness, from It’s Brawl in the Family (3.3) to Witch (8.9)i’ve been chewing on interiority/privacy in RWBY for a while, mostly with regard to defections, and who is afforded displays of inner conflict; that broader issue is the subject of a different post (also forthcoming, since i already have it drafted), but Winter is an exemplary case study. she has (with the sole exception of Weiss–even Penny doesn’t seem to count) no one she trusts enough to confide in, so her discomfort has to be conveyed either through vocal nuance (hats off again to Elizabeth Maxwell), or visually.this is coming to a bit of crisis in season 8, where Winter–despite not actually appearing as often as she did in the last season–is bearing more of the burden of POV character. this is mostly due to process of elimination: neither Weiss nor Penny are around to share scenes with her anymore, and Ironwood, by virtue of jumping off the slippery slope last season, no longer needs the subject position he had in spades before. Winter (and Marrow of course) are our sympathetic windows into what’s going on in the Atlas military right now, but at the same time scenes in which ONLY the audience are privy to her personal feelings are also increasing, because she still can’t let her guard down. the tension between Winter-as-person and Winter-as-performance is hitting its breaking point, and her facelessness is simultaneously an encapsulation of how much she feels and how much she feels she has to hide–from whoever she’s talking to, from the world at large.thoughts on the individual screencaps under the cut: Keep reading -- source link
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