Remembering How RT Pushed This Team Hard And Then They Were Forgotten About
I remember how much merch and promotional material these ladies got. They got more stuff than Salem, Ironwood, Ilia, Tyrian and Oscar did lol.
Then when the game came out they had one animated cutscene where they each said one line then left. They also don't show up again in the game until the end of Chapter 4 and no where else. They're not even part of the finale of the game.
It reminds of team ABRN (the team SSSN faced in Volume 3) but at least in the Volume 3 trailer they don't tease that those characters are going to be important. They're just fan made characters who got to be in the show. Meanwhile Team BRIR aren't even in the V9 epilogue. They definitely just promoted them as 'Hey guys we have cool new hot ladies who are badasses! Buy our game!'. But that's really all they are.
Which is crazy cause they do have neat semblances and weapons. I also wish they were mercenaries. Which would be neat to see, how would those who don't have huntsmen and huntresses licenses handle a world where they don't have authority? Is there a reason these ladies didn't go to the academy? But then later we find out they're guardians of Arrowfell. Not gonna lie made them underwhelming. Them being mercenaries sounds way more interesting than guardians who protect this random military base.
They kind of have parallels to the other members of Team RWBY. Ruda can move very fast and go through objects. She also seems to have a chipper spirit who likes taking down Grimm. Just like Ruby. Bianca can borrow semblances from her team and is more stern. Similar to Weiss. Ivy uses her semblance and whip to move around and even help out her team. Like Blake does. And Roanne has lit up hair when she uses her semblance but she does seem to be able to use flames with her weapons. So a Yang. Maybe since this is Team RWBY's first mission as licensed huntresses Team BRIR makes them question why they're doing this. Showing them just because they got their licenses doesn't mean they're suddenly ready to take on the world. I'm coming up with things for them off the top of my head and yet the story itself never did anything with them.
TLDR: I feel like there's so many cool things that could have been done with them but they were tossed to the side and forgotten about. And what little they did get wasn't fleshed out.