 Today we're talking volume six chapter seven we are going to interview the voice of Maria Melissa Sternenberg And we have that exclusive clip for you And of course we have community questions that you have submitted using hashtag ruby-rew. This is ruby rewind Welcome out to another episode of ruby rewind. This is your first time watching. Well, I hope you like ruby Because what we do here is talk about the latest episode that just released And we just hang out and chat with you guys We source questions and comments from that little hashtag right there and talk about what happened recently What you guys won't know about and we have a whole fun time. We get pretty hyped. Yeah, it's a fun time I know I love it that when we watch it together and we're like, oh my gosh and like just the genuine reactions from all three of us It's pretty it's a pretty good time. I know that's why I love that we watch it together. That's great So also we if you guys are first members you can participate along with the show by using our fun little megaphone tool And head to roosterteeth.com forward slash play we always ask you a question sometimes to you never know And then we get your live responses here on the show and we'll be doing that in here in just a second But man, let's get into it. Let's talk about that fight the opening So cool that there kind of there was a reveal that Maria is the grim reaper. Yes, that's her character So cool. Oh there I mean skull I mean Because of the theme like everywhere skull skull skull skull skull skull. Can I just say that she has like the coolest weapon? Oh, it's so cool. Like it can be dual wield size Which are humongous like I first thought it looks like she's like a wow character, right? You know, like they're just humongous weapons But then they can combine into the cool dual wield sight and they got the gravity dust coming in Oh, that was awesome. Oh, and we just what I mean a moment slash like an answer of a question of how she lost her eyes Dude, oh, that was rough. That was such a moment like it was like Horrific. Do you think that that person is related to Ilya? I I immediately thought Ilya really when I saw Yeah, little like scaly spots Well, it's the crocodile isn't it? It's the crocodile from Peter Pan. She's got a clock Oh, that's what it was. I was sitting there, and I'm like what? The teeth Oh, man, I didn't know that at all. Yeah, and so her semblance is that she becomes invincible for 60 seconds So she clicks the clock and you see the green like boom over her, which is why she's got you got 60 seconds It's gonna be the worst 60 seconds of your life. I just thought she got a power boost I didn't know she was invincible for 60 seconds. Yeah, dude. This is bad ass. That's really cool I knew it I was like this is it's screaming at me that this is a really important part of what this character is referencing and I just didn't get it There's you bass had teeth and it's like like proper nashes. That was amazing. Oh Creepy that fight was just super not really good, and I love it too like when Back on the weapons because they're really cool. When she first threw it out and she was like steering the grim bird And I was just like, oh does it have a chain and then you know it flashes and then I'm like, oh, of course gravity does Cool new science or whatever like us I just want them. So there's got to be some relation between I mean so crow says that he modeled his weapon after right You're a legend. You're amazing right then like obviously ruby's weapon is like a you know Like an homage to the scythe of the Grim Reaper as well. Surely true But didn't she model her weapon? Yeah, she modeled after Because crows the one who taught her how to use the side very cool. So like They just happen to find the best random stranger to be look at you have influenced our lives Well, now we have ruby also silver eyes also scythe weapon. Mm-hmm. I'm seeing some handing down of responsibilities What if they modify the crescent rose? What if she like gives her another piece? Oh I mean, it's about time that they upgraded their weapons. Anyways, yeah, we haven't done that yet other than like, you know yang upgrading her arm I've talked about this before everything's better if you have robot parts like Mm-hmm. I really enjoyed the monologue where she was like, you don't want to be like me I think that was a really nice kind of like nice a foil moment to all the action that we just saw that was like Yeah, I I ran out. I ran off after that like that kind of stopped me in my tracks and don't don't don't do that Well, I was like dunking on crow a little bit. Yeah, you know, he's just like No, well, I am a disappointment. So you're you're really walking in the footsteps Oh, we also don't know why she earned the title of Grim Reaper or Why she had the reputation of being hunted down. Mm-hmm as well. So yeah, what was hers? I want to know more about her. You know, she's an or if it's bequeathed or if it's inherited Mm-hmm. We don't know much about that yet Yeah, and I will say like I know we got another thing to talk about but We were wrong. We're all like speculating. Maybe if you use your silver eyes too much Removed them forcefully, but it was just like no, they were just fighting and she just cut her straight in the eyes Straight up removed. Yeah, I was rough with the blood leaking down her face and then that oh that screams I'm we're gonna get into that when when we have Melissa join us. Yeah, that was just an epic moment Well, let's move on to the cute and cuddly happy moment the reunion of a team juniper I'm gonna keep calling that even though it said And oh, yeah, though the happy little John everybody's back together and Nora just like tackles Oscar I know that was very rude. I'm meeting some of John's family. Oh, yeah, speak to John's John's family Michelin hearts. Sure. We get to see John's older sister who happens to have a wife and a son. I Love their cute sibling banter. It really lived up to the recent events from the past episodes. Also young Maria was nice I feel like they've laid laid some cute foundation work for John's sisters when he's like, yeah Of all these sisters, it was like awesome to see a couple of them Oh, I get to know his family a little bit Definitely and I loved the picture that they threw it to you because his face I want to know who drew that because it's so perfect. He's just like mm-hmm And he's got the big tails No, it's great So we actually have a little megaphone pole. It's gonna go along with John's, you know John's family And so head to roosty.com forward slash play and answer this question. Which one is a baby? John or baby Just want to say one of them one of them cried during this episode Oh baby Baby was very cute have they reached out to me did that kid have a name or did they just it was a baby And they'd never name you baby, baby So head to that pole make sure you guys do that while we're still talking But no, it was nice. It was nice contrast We had the really cool action fight in the beginning and then it was like the happy You know wacky little like antics because we're all back together moment. Yeah A little sweet moment eating sandwiches and slaying of arms around Mm-hmm. I really loved the design of that city. It looked like San Francisco meets the future meets Ruby It was so cool. Yeah, and when I saw that they're like taking their little trolley ride I was just like how long did it take him to build this? Well physically to draw it like to build it if it was real to build no No, no, no isn't like our animation department to build that environment crazy Yeah, so so so cool What a cool design like what a cool thing to model it off is such a unique place to see that in like a fantasy dimension It was super awesome, right? I felt sad at first because when we left the snow hill and we found the hill that divides snow from town And I was like, oh man the snow aesthetic was so cool And then I saw that I was like, oh, it's great. And then there's still some snow in there So like we're gonna we've got some a great one here at the colors of the Argus skyline though Yeah, it was so beautiful the animators really outdid themselves and all the scenery to really did those as we were saying I loved that shot where Yeah, I can see the city, you know, they just they got to the top of the hill and you see how steep that hill Physically impossible to drive a motorbike trailer down there, but right with the trailer I was like she can't get down They were like and here we are at the top of the hill. Oh, we're in there now I also wonder like what because iron woods there in In our case. Yeah, or at least the military presence is there So I kind of wonder if the base things are gonna be decimated Like if they make us fall in love with the city and then all of a sudden the next couple episodes or something and then things are just It was a little bit of foreshadowing that wasn't there when they were like, oh We've already tried we've already tried to go to talk to the military base and it didn't go great So I'm interested to see how our team how our team tries that out Yeah, and we really felt like Team Ruby because when the door shut so did the episode I was like Also ironwood doesn't know anything about us been either or Oscar, right like no, no, no, we know. Yeah, so how's that conversation gonna go? More half-truths. Yeah, that's what I do here. All right. Let's check check in on that megaphone pole and see which is baby Which is baby? Come on guys, I love that they went along with it like I was like they're just gonna choose baby But no they really he's such a sweet innocent kind sensitive loving soul. Come on We love him so much. Oh my sensitive boy, but he is baby Now cannon so we'll just relay that to miles. Yeah You know Jean is baby Eddie you'll have to update the tomes. Yes. Yes update the tomes is the brand archivist Sliding down that life. So I picture every time now that you said that with his tiny glasses on his nose The whole world's building for me. I don't know I'm just like I'm seeing Eddie in this library every time can we see if we can convince them to Write Eddie in as a character. Oh Like that's like the archivist for a library. Yeah We'll work on that later. Hey Jackie let you want to throw it ever to a community quest. Yes, please Bring it in. Let's go. Here we go now after revealing her past You think Marie and Ruby are going to be form a very close relationship. I can't get into you. I really hope so I I want Ruby to have more of like a parental figure in her life. Yes. She's a leader Yes, she's responsible for a lot, but I think she kind of needs that guiding that guiding light So much I need positive you know the relationship to begin. Yes. I need to see it I want to see like old Maria fight super amazingly and then like Ruby like what I want to see Maria nowadays That's what I'm saying Yes, I think she's still got it in her even though she seemed to shrink quite substantially What if it's all an act she's just been like hunching over and then she's like just stands up She's like basically Roshi's this thing Like her semblance is like well, no, we already know the semblance is but I'm gonna say what if she like when she starts fighting like she Becomes like her young self again. That would be so time. Yeah Red Talon book says I love Maria's backstory, but did she also lose like three feet of height? We know we're just talking about this Okay, so teeny tiny. I wasn't sure if I wanted to bring up this little meme But there's like this Asian meme of like when you're 2030-40 and you're like really tall and young and pretty and then you have kids and then when you hit 60 You're just like boom. He needs all the way down here I I constantly think about that whenever I saw Maria like she's just like tiny tiny little But I think she can kick all sorts of butt even though she's imploded We still haven't had the question on sort of like how she was on the train how she got out of a crash What she's doing hanging out with them. Mm-hmm. So hopefully maybe we're gonna now that we know like who she is We're gonna get a little bit more of like why she's there. I'm still slightly worried about a betrayal You are mm-hmm like I think I don't know. I mean she's the grim reaper. I mean That that's a lot of like What am I thinking it has like a lot of ties to not so happy fun times. It's Is Wonderful zero X alpha asks so how do you think the others are gonna react when Ruby crow and Maria tell them about what they've learned and found While separated I didn't think about that. I didn't either. They don't know the story Oh, remember in the intro when Jean is like and shoves Oscar Also, maybe that's his initial reaction Yeah, how does it's not gonna go it's like like they didn't even bring it up right away You think it'd be important but like they're like ha ha ha sandwiches. Yeah Oh by the way. Oh also lamp is a genie. You know how the the world works. We're on yeah We're on go number two for humanity and We need to fix it forever and Gods will come home. Just a little bit of backstory for you. No big deal. No big deal. Oh, I think you might be right I think that's probably why he gets mad. Yeah. Oh That's not Oscar's fault. He's doing his best. I know he's just first crow then John Yeah, and remember on spins like locked up inside Oscar's brain right now So we already felt bad when crow punched him when he had the persona. So now it's gonna be like a poor kid Yeah, ooh, maybe mmm. Maybe he's like trying to get all spin to come out He's like come back Just to see if he can That works You read the next one my pleasure. Do you think we will meet winter at that military? I was just wondering that I almost brought it up But we're moving on. Yeah, I'm hoping so. I mean she's hanging out there, right? Last time we saw her she was flying off on the military jet thingy off to hang out man Yeah, the last time that we heard was winter had left Atlas when Weiss was captured by Raven. I think that's the last time that we actually heard anything about her We've got already a brother sister reunion now when we get the sister sister reunion She's so cool. I love her And why is this summoning has come in a long way it's come along Show off some stuff, but look check out those golem Vash the stampede awesome What's new my only wish for this volume is for the baby to see Jean fight and say that's Sweet too sweet we need more wholesome, but we've already identified that John is baby on his baby now, so He got he teared up because he saw his loving friends. I'm like that too But I see you guys for like months and months and months and I'd be like your tears So right now Jackie is love and Joan very mad at Crow. Yeah, I'm still okay So personal best for Crow. He did not drink this episode that so you're coming back around no no I just that was an observation On camera so very furious on camera. He still seemed a little drunk in the car Yeah, oh guys check this out. Y'all wanted to see a G-Rex. Oh, here's the completed G-Rex Now that we have the concept if an animator wants to hop on that and have the A little baby push-ups Love it. That's amazing. I appreciate that. He really dropped the color palette and like that to scale size You know just in case you want to use it. That's a six per person. Here's the G-Rex. I love the name I love how creative the community is. So we just talk about something and then boom. It's right. It's right there Speaking of which maybe we can get some fan art of Eddie Please send us a picture of Eddie as the brand archivist That would make me so happy if you don't know what we're talking about We had Eddie Rivas on a couple weeks ago, and he is the brand archivist for Ruby Which to me just sounds like this amazing fantasy librarian. Yes And so we would love to see a man to the show. So maybe we get some fan art We can make it happen. Please love you. I'll make you make it his like Twitter profile if we get it That's how you send it in it will be awesome All right guys well, you know what in case you guys missed it We are a little more than halfway through our 12 days of roosterteeth holiday promotions on the RT store And today is actually one of the best deals because we are offering 20% off everything site-wide We got a bunch of great merch you guys know we wear it on the show all the time. Yeah Everything is 20% off if you guys are watching this live right now If you're watching the archive might have missed that opportunity, but there's still a bunch of great stuff there So go check it out. We got you know like this long sleeve. I'm wearing right now. We got some hoodies We got a million different things for my personal favorite. We get these slippers back here We're wearing them the other episode. 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Yes My first role with roosterteeth was the Adela elder on nomads of nowhere Oh cool, and that was actually my first foray into voicing older women Oh, I didn't know I had it in me, but apparently they liked what they heard They asked me to come back for mrs. Campwell for the season finale of camp camp and then Here I am as Maria. That's great. That's so unbelievable. So do you enjoy voicing old characters? I enjoy voicing all different kinds of characters, but old characters have a special Have a special something to them a special sass Because they've got that age behind them that uh, you know, they feel like they can say whatever they want and get away with it For the most part kind of tell the people to shut up And they're just fun like they're old people are like my absolute favorite voice to do and so like yeah Like I have like a bit part and let me hear it. Let me hear I want to hear it, which one Creep it like this one. Oh, I love it. There's this one, and I don't know why so that's the one that was the nomad one So I feel like a bit part of it. It's like it's so much fun. I don't know. I loved voicing old people So I wanted to have that moment where you can talk. Yeah, no, it's great It's great, and I've only started doing old people kind of around this year I mean I've kind of done it for fun here and there but nothing nothing that's actually seen the light of day Well, you've been nailing it We've got to talk about we've got to talk about that scream. Oh, yeah I did but I was so excited to see this episode because when I I did not expect to be able to do a Younger Maria at all. I came in fully expecting to you know, I've come in two times before Doing the older voice and I was like, okay. Well business as usual. Hey, you guys know that I'm not an old lady, right? I can't Let me do other things and they surprised me one day game. Well, hey Melissa. Guess what? We're gonna do a flashback. I'm like And I was just so excited to do it and I love doing fighting sounds, you know And all those really getting getting your butt kicked And then they're like, okay. Well, you know, you're gonna this is where you lose your eyes And I had to kind of prepare myself as a note. I was one week away from giving birth to my daughter During that when they had to do the screen. Yeah We have you sign a waiver or something like we're not responsible Okay, and um I've I've wanted for the longest time to do some sort of like really blood curdling screen So when they told me, you know, we needed to have a few takes of you losing your eyes I just went for it. It was so great. It was visceral. Oh, yeah, I felt it Thank you. I was so happy I was I have not been as excited to hear myself on anything As I did for this episode scene. I was so happy with how it turned out. It was so cool Great, you want to give us a quick example of a old Maria versus young Maria? Oh, sure. Mm-hmm. Now you listen here young man I Don't want any guff from many of you. You need to respect your elders. You understand that Made jackets Young lady Young Maria is a little bit closer to my real voice I tend to go a little bit husky or kind of channel my my paladin or my You know my fighter warrior spirit. I don't think you know who I am And now Ellie's excited Are you sure? It's a little demure And so I I think Maria only had one speaking line Younger Maria only had one speaking line And so it's like, okay, we got to get perfect. What do you want from me guys because you know I had to make it count. This is like her one is that in the screen Yeah, the screen man. So a great job. We got a bunch of questions from the community for you. Awesome Let's hear him. Let's get right into it. Jackie want to be the first one Here we go Melissa How does it feel knowing you are playing a Jedi master that dual-wield sides and uses gravity does like the force and a Yoda-like advice that you would give Ruby about using her silver eyes powers Alicia Meyers. Oh, it feels awesome I'm a big Star Wars fan, and so I'm wearing my Ray boots today And when I first came into the studio, I was told okay, this is like a Yoda type character or Iroh from Avatar I was like, yes, this is the best character I had no idea coming in that she was going to be such an integral part of the ruby story And so it's just been really exciting and I just really got to put a lot of my heart into it and really invest into in their success As for any Yoda-like advice that I would give Ruby two pieces of advice first of all Don't isolate yourself rely on your friends to keep you strong Because there are there they're going to be the ones that see you through all of the hard the hard trials and tribulations The other on a somewhat lighter note Go a little easy on crow because I'm not gonna go Yes, there you go. No more later self don't that's good advice. All right next one comes from Ale the Jedi all just lots of Star Wars theme today strong. Hi. I freaking love Maria. She is Best Abolita. What is your reaction to finding out what happened to Maria's eyes? What was your reaction when you first found out that's that's what happened? I mean, I knew something had to have happened for her to lose her eyes because we rely on our eyes for so much and When I found out how I mean, I mean you heard the scream that I that I made me I mean I I did those screams just as they told me, you know, they they walked me through the scene bit by bit I didn't go through the scene ahead of time and then think about it. They're like, okay for this This is what happens for this. This is what happens. Give us this and they're like, okay here. This is what happens She slices across your eyes and I just went Oh, and so they're like, okay good go with that and then I just did it You know, I just imagined that feeling and you know, I did the I did the motions in the studio I was like, ah, you know, yeah while I was screaming and so Oh man, I would love to be a fly in the wall for that recording I was just talking to someone today about like we really should set up a camera in there because we do it when we voice for Screams I think we should do that. It would be great for like the D D Blu-ray extras for sure Mm-hmm. See if we can make that happen. Yeah, who knows? I'm maybe I'll get to scream again. Who knows? Yeah Do you think that the Maria blames her silver eyes or blames other silver-eyed warriors for her being attacked and losing her eyes? absolutely not She knows who is behind she knows what caused this if anything she blames herself for getting too cocky being too arrogant and Confident that she didn't you know that she allowed it to happen I don't think she blames any of the other silver-eyed warriors at all. Yeah, we don't know how many I don't know that for a fact That's what I think yeah, I don't know I just from what I know of Maria I think she's more down on herself about it than she seems that it seems very humble in that way when she was like Don't be like me like yeah, she wasn't always that way. Mm-hmm, but yeah, yeah She's pretty confident there even with her eyes gone. She still was like it's like classic like how you miss me And it's like did I click And then she did the head cut too, which we cut away from that was sick Yes, Winston ruler asked Melissa, what about Maria's character stands out for you the most and why? Usually when we get older characters, they are very Sure in their beliefs and their past and we don't get we don't delve into their regrets a great deal And so I think that's something that really stands stands out when with the role of Maria is that she Knows her mistakes and she's doing everything in her power to atone for those and I think and You know, it's not every day we see in a cartoon an older character plays such a big part and Her sass and what also she's multifaceted, you know We see a lot of her kookiness and her silliness and her sass But this last episode we got to see a bit more of a somber Maria and having those dimensions She's a really well fleshed out fully realized character, and that's a lot of fun to play It's awesome. Yeah. All right. Well, I think that was our last question But so thank you so much for joining us on the show. Yeah, I appreciate it. Happy to be here I hope to see you guys again. Yeah, definitely make it happen Chad. Yes We just need it. I'm like I hope I get to scream again. I'm like oh me too, but I'm like, but no I mean, I don't want Maria to suffer but Yeah But as a voice actor man Beat her up I guess no no It's she's such a cool character that she's not like hey look at me and learn like by my example She's like look at me and learn from the things that I did that I did wrong Yeah, I think that's such a must be such a fun character to play Yeah, of like this humble kind of like that. Yeah, they're to a tone and to like help the girls by being like I I've done these things and I and I wish I hadn't so let me let me teach you. Oh, that's like that must be so fun I just hope they listen I think Ruby will I think definitely I have faith in her Well, let us know what you guys think use that hashtag Ruby Roos and is your questions comments that fan art of Eddie Anything like that for next week's episode, but before we go speaking of my episode. Yeah, you want to do it? Do it. You got it. We're about to show you the exclusive clip of next week's episode On you didn't even hear us out. Our orders are clear. The Mistral Atlas border is closed. Please have a good day Hey, if you don't want to believe that I'm friends with Ironwood general Yeah general ironwood then fine, but look we have white Schnee with us and we're trying to get her home safely Approach you may speak with our commanding officer. We will fetch her at once They were kind of super weird, huh? Yeah Wait, but then I thought that with the two train guards from the first episode we're supposed to be twiddle dumb and twiddle D But it's gotta be these guys. It's gotta be I love it. Yeah, I just love everyone's just Okay, then like we've seen weird things on this show, but whoa Looks like we're in for a ride next week, so thank you wait to see two people cosplay as those guys. Yes and speak in unison Yes, that'll be amazing crazy. Well, cool. 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