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I'll split this by character arc

1) Blake

At first we see her in a ship full of faunus, most passengers are confirmed faunus although all the crew we see is human, looking at the horizon much like in the opening. Captain comes to say hi and reveals that Blake is traveling "alone" and paranoid (startled by running children). At the end of the scene she throws her bow away. She is not going to hide being a faunus anymore. It's later reveled that she is going to Menagerie so it might not be that huge, but if she remains bowless when she returns to the other kingdoms it would be a huge step for her. She told Ozpin she wanted people to know her for who she was not what she was, maybe she decided to stop hiding.

In her next scene, she discovers a hooded stalker and when she confronts him the Grimm appears. Nice new Grimm but as the Captain said this is a rare Grimm. We don't know if size species or both but this seasoned Captain says he's never seen anything that big. Between this and Geist and hinted by dialogue by Sun later, maybe Salem/lack of fall maiden has "activated" new Grimm. If that is the case we might see lots of new Grimm from now on.

Back to the fight though, Blake engages the sea serpent. She pulls out a new move using her semblance to interact with herself giving her a boost, ultimately shefinds little success before the sailors get the cannons to start firing on the serpent (whith a little bit of friendly fire on Blake BTW harming her left arm/shoulder in the fall). Then the Grimm boss gets to stage 2 showing his wings and dodging the shots from the heavy cannon. Then Sun **jumps** in showing of how he can now use his semblance while moving and fighting himself with up to 3 clones. After some comic relief, the Captain gets a plan to harm the wings of the monster and kill it with the hevy cannon. Sun and Blake make the flashiest less physicaly accurate combo I've ever seen and Blake manages to tear the Grimm's right wing. Going into stage 3 of the boss fight, Sun and Blake have to dodge and run guiding the beast towards the prow of the ship. There we get a "firing main cannon" moment and the Grimm goes down. Impressive firepower btw. Then Sun asks for a high five and Blake happily obliges with a side 5 to the face.

Later that night, they discuss what happened. The fact that Sun has been following her for 6-8 months is brushed aside, and the ship going to Menagerie you would think Sun knew about that from his ticke... oh right. So yeah, Blake is going "home" to "sort things out" before going for the white fang. And Sun decides to go with her which she accepts with a chuckle.

Since the "parents" in the opening are in the boat, barring some huge coincidence they won't actually be her family at all. They might be old friends or white fang deserters but we will see next time. Sun and Captain are likely to have a moment since he is a ~~no good~~ great stowaway. Seems like next Blake chapter will be in the ocean but might arrive to Menagerie at any moment since they already played the Grimm attack card and the boat might get dull.

2) Yang(st)

Yang is sitting on the sofa depressed, getting enough life to watch 2 minutes of TV before Adam shows up in the news and she loses her will. Glynda and other "local hunters and huntreses" are **still** trying to fix Beacon with little succes. Atlas is repairing the CCT but seems to be a long thing (I thought this would be mentioned by Ironwood though). All **air** transportation not related to evacuation is resricted. And finally Adam is lose. Then dad comes in and Yang seems a bit cheered up for a couple seconds. Taiyang has brought Yang a "brand new, state of the art, Atlas tech" arm. ~~WHY? this is to early WTF~~ But Yang actually refuses to put it on right now. We then see her doing some random chores reinforcing that she doesn't wear it after that either. Then we get the glass scene. She is just washing dishes (which is pretty hard to do with your non-dominant hand btw) and a glass slips and falls. She freaks out taking a step back and looks really scared. Then she punches the table while Tai looks sad, like this kind of thing happened before

First things first, Ironwood apparently is somewhat cozy tith Tai. Ironwood and Yang haven't spoken to each other to my knowledge, but it's likely they exchanged some words after her fight with Mercury and he probably knew about her from Qrow or Tai. Since it's been 6-8 months, it's reasonable this happened. Yang though is acting differently of most potatoes I've seen. She is not constantly depressed sitting in bed all day, she was doing chores and stuff, not the crippling depression most people expected. But her reaction to that glass (and Tai's reaction) seem to indicate she has issues. I'll probably make a full post potato on Yang later though.

3) Cinder

Very short scene. Salem is interrogating Cinder about Ozpin's death. Not even she believes it apparently.