Weiss: What Do You Think A Drug Is?

Weiss: What do you think a drug is?

Jaune: A substance ingested for the purpose of physically or mentally altering one's state of being.

Weiss: That's...a fair description.

Jaune: And did you not provide me tea with the intention of calming me down?

Weiss:

Jaune: It's not working, by the way. Weak shit.

Weiss: I don't know why I bother.

Jaune: Hey, thanks for trying.

Weiss: You're not welcome.

Jaune: Thanks for bringing me drugs, even if it is the weak shit.

Weiss: It's herbal tea!

Jaune: And it's the weakest drug I've ever had.

Day 1 Gamers

What will our favorite couple be like as gamers? Show us all what you think!

Yang: Shadow the Hedgehog was a garbage game, and you only like him because your colors match.

Ruby: You watch your mouth! Shadow is a deeply flawed and misunderstood character.

Yang: I bet you styled your hair after him.

Ruby: And what if I did!

Ruby: The way I see it, some people just don't like playing as the bad guy in video games, and I get that.

Ruby: Some of us also don't like spicy food, and are condemned to a life of bland tastes.

Katara finding Ozai's baby picture and expressing disbelief at how innocent he looks was a nice little touch of humanity without going the redemption path. No, he wasn't born a psycho set on genociding an entire nation. But he is now, and trying to figure out what went wrong won't magically cure him of evil before the comet. Iroh - to his credit or detriment - probably felt Azula was too much like his younger brother in that sense when he told Zuko to take her down.

I know that redeeming villains is sometimes good for stories and its interesting to see what steps an antagonist takes to redeem themselves but there's stories that work better with a consistant bad guy.

Ruby: If it doesn't exist, why do you watch that video of Pyrrha every night?

Jaune: Because - just like you with Santa Clause - I want it to be real.

Ruby: He IS real! Why would you say that??

Jaune: Tit for tat.

Jaune: Oh really? The past exists? Have you ever been there?

Weiss: Ignore her, Jaune. She's trying to cope and seethe, as Yang would say.

Ilia: You don't know what you're talking about.

Weiss: Our feline friend rejected 3 faunus for a blonde, pale-skinned human girl, and you're picking on the only other blonde, pale-skinned member of our group. Subtle.

Ilia: Seeing things that aren't there.

Weiss: I imagine it was quite a shock, that the one person you ever pined after didn't reject you for your sex but for your race.

Ilia: Watch your mouth, filthy Schnee. Or I'll-

Weiss: You watch your mouth, you spiteful peasant. Jaune might let it slide, but I won't. Apologize to him, or this gets back to Blake.

Ilia: Is that supposed to scare me?

Weiss: Who do you think she'll side with? Sweet, loveable Jaune Arc who she's looked up to since childhood?

Ilia: Now you're definitely making shit up.

Weiss: Or the psycho who almost got her parents murdered?

Ilia: She forgave me!

Weiss: Forgiveness does not beget friendship.

Ilia: I thought you were one of the good ones!

Weiss: And I always knew you were one of the bad.

Just ignore this one. I needed to vent and this was pretty much the only constructive way I can do this. Just move along.

Ilia: Racist.

Jaune: Huh?

Ilia: Yeah. You. Fucking bigot.

Jaune: What- What did I do?

Ilia: You're alive. That's enough.

Jaune: I- What are you talking about? What is going on?

Ilia: First, you're pale-skinned with blond hair and blue eyes. Failure at birth.

Jaune: Wh-

Ilia: Second, you're a human male. No diversity at all, and just garbage as a concept.

Jaune: I-

Ilia: And last, the only thing you've ever accomplished was done because of others. You never had to struggle or work hard to get where you are, because you are a walking waste of air long overdue for retirement AND extinction.

Jaune: ...You do realize how terrible you look, right? Like, you're racially profiling and acting awfully bigoted.

Ilia: I have no idea what you're talking about. You're human. You can't be racist to humans.

Was Jaune ever real? Was Ilia really herself? Who knows? Who cares? Like I said, just ignore this one.