 So what's it like you know taking your characters from this larger storyline We've seen for a while and now having this radically different kind of unique storyline How do you handle that as an actor? It's very interesting being separated from everything that's going on especially at the end of volume 8 everything was so intense You had no idea what was gonna happen and for all of our characters all of a sudden be away from that well I hope everything's okay up there. I don't really know what's going on The moment I really loved too was when the rest of Team RWBY finally finds Yang and she's like you guys aren't supposed to be here This is bad if we're all down here. It's a little heartbreaking, but she's trying to be strong and she's like dang I love that that's happening and from my standpoint to like RWBY at the end of volume 4 We had her go off on her own in an attempt to I think take on the mantle leader Decide what needs to happen and really not put anyone else in harm's way So that happened to you is even more heartbreaking not only is RWBY not exactly aware What has happened after she had had her fall? It's like her sister now is kind of in all this danger too from my standpoint It is awesome to explore this really unique and fun world But like RWBY's still dealing with a lot and now on her own by force not by choice So we'll we'll see how she pairs. Yeah, it sounds like your characters are kind of coming into this with a lot of baggage They're taking into a whole different unique story as an actor. How do you portray that? How do you carry that weight from something but have to react to something wild? I can answer this Hang on their backs Yeah In my mind, it's really I think the biggest deal for Weiss in this situation because it was her home She hasn't probably had time to process all of that and then all of a sudden She's now in this new place dealing with whatever this is Weiss is very no-nonsense in general From my perspective acting wise I feel like Ruby's taken a little bit of Weiss's like attitude there even in front of all this whimsy and wonder like She's annoyed really like I have to deal with this now as all this imminent danger is befalling my friends and my home Like why am I dealing with this talking cat? Love them by the way, very cute, but a problem in the moment It's always a challenge I think when us as actors get put into these scenarios where you have to deal with so much trauma essentially and to figure out how our characters are managing that Emotionally mentally and everything but I think that's part of the fun of voice acting is is trying to put yourself into these scenarios in these Situations and understand how your character would perceive it I know yang uses comedy a lot too kind of deal and I think that really comes out this volume which has been really fun high-five High-five characters in a bad place. It doesn't mean they're just gonna be mopey right the whole time I'm sure we've all been a situation where something really hard was going on our life or you know Maybe a family member passed away or whatever and you still crack a joke with you know your friend or you know Like it's not just all or nothing. So I think you take the baggage and you put it in a bottle And then you just slowly release the bottle a little bit of gallows humor. Yeah, even exactly you sit on your suitcase to zip it Yes, it's a bit of sweetness instead of just a joke. Yeah, exactly when I think you're saying that with Ruby specifically I mean for the whole team, but then Ruby herself like they've all been trying to just move forward through these intense conflicts And for her now to actually have a moment where it's kind of catching up to her. I think is some of the more fun Interesting things about this volume now on the writing side of things though You guys had a pretty significantly large cast and this volume that you really kind of shrunk it down sort of concentrated What was it like making that jump amazing? Yeah, I focus a little bit easier. It was it was nice Yeah, I mean we're constantly trying to make sure that we we can balance everybody and like get enough of everybody in So being able to like get really step back and say that here's who we're focusing on There's a lot of really great exciting fun characters But to make sure that they all get their do is is really challenging a lot of times You have to lump characters together and they sort of have the same very small stair-step stories and this was nice I mean this one of the things I really like about chapter 2 specifically Is you just get these a chance to tell smaller stories within a chapter, which is harder to do When there's a lot of characters personal this season. Yeah, I know from a voice acting perspective. It was great I was like a three-hour session We were telling me that volume 10 is gonna have about a hundred characters Yeah, that is gonna be very interesting. Yeah, they each have one line What the heck's an arrow fell? 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