#rubydeku

[queen-ofsunflowers]

Since you asked so nicely haha! I'm such a sucker for a romance so do you have any head canons for like ruby ships in your au? Do you have a favorite idea for a ship? RWBY is very depressing in canon right now I need my comfort character to hold a hand 🥺

Are we talking RWBY ships or ships for Ruby? Because considering how depressing canon is on both ends i'm assuming this is the rwby in my hero au we all kinda need that good comfort.

Hmm... 🤔

I'm still not sure if I will have Ruby in a relationship in RWBY In My Hero. Like with other relationships, it will usually take a backseat to the plot while being present in the story. I've been thinking about it, though, as I've been trying to get myself to work on Day By Day.

The main three that I've seen readers talk about are Grenades n' Roses/RubyBaku, Osiria Rose*/TodoRose, and RubyDeku. damn midoriya needs a cool ship name... Anyway, if I end up going for a ship, it'll probably be one of these three or involve one of these three because Ruby has two hands.

A lot of this stuff has come up in past volumes (with Bakugo anyway) and will come up in later volumes, too. A lot of the RubyDeku stuff actually comes from V4! There's uh... There's gonna be quite a bit of content there that I didn't realize until I got everything I need from My Hero down.

I'm gonna put the headcanons under a cut because they do contain spoilers for the series!

Grenades n' Roses:

Bakugo will never say it out loud, but he was surprised that Ruby learned JSL for him. He was happy about it and the fact that she didn't mock him for his disability.

When Ruby suggests that Bakugo talk to someone about his problems and what he keeps bottled up, she did not expect him to start talking to Zwei. He refuses to admit this, but several of their classmates have it on video thanks to Mina.

Ruby swears that Bakugo likes her only because of her dog. Bakugo ends up treating Zwei like his own dog to the point where at one point, his name in the class's group chat was "Dog Dad".

Ruby finds his softer side really endearing. In contrast, Bakugo's favorite side of her is how intense and focused she gets when training or in the middle of a fight.

The whole reason Bakugo refuses to fight Ruby after the Sports Festival is because of how badly he burned her. He had expected her to be able to escape his blasts, but that didn't happen. She needs to get faster and better at dodging before they fight again. That is what he meant by "there won't be a next time" at the end of it.

Kirishima is the first to point out how soft Bakugo gets around Ruby over time. He nearly gets blown up for it.

Osiria Rose:

Ruby huddles close to Shouto during Joint Training while watching everyone else. Though, this is mostly because she's cold and his left side is warm.

Shouto is the first person in Class 1-A (aside from Midoriya and Bakugo, who were there when Ruby learned so it doesn't count) that learns about Silver Eyes. This is because Ruby tells him herself.

Shouto loves doing the Ice Slip'n'Slide with Ruby. Initially, he has no idea why but after talking about it, he realizes that it's because Ruby is always hugging him from behind when they do it. he's a touch-starved boy and one of ruby's love languages is physical affection.

During the culture festival, Ruby makes batches of cookies for Eri, Oscar and her class while Midoriya worked on the candy apple. While a few of the boys helped him, it was Todoroki that helped Ruby with her cookie dough. It was his first time, and he enjoyed getting to do it since he had never done so before. Whenever Ruby makes her mother's cookies for whatever reason after, Shouto is always in the kitchen or nearby to help.

It was Shouto's idea to use Ruby's rose petals during the concert in the Culture Festival Arc. He had remembered how they intermingled with his ice on the first day of school.

Ruby is the first in the class to have met Rei, and this only happened because Ruby accidentally followed him on the train while he was going to meet her. In conjunction with this, that meeting was also when Fuyumi met Ruby, mistaking her for Shouto's girlfriend at first before both jump to correct her.

RubyDeku:

Midoriya is the first one in the class to take an active role in helping Ruby with her nightmares. This ends up with both of them falling asleep in a pillow fort that they make in the dorms' common room.

Within their class, these two are almost always the first to realize that there's something going on with the other. This comes up in Day By Day a lot.

Neither of them seems to realize on their own that every time Ruby involuntarily actives her Silver Eyes (at least until the PLW), it's because she's unconsciously trying to protect Midoriya from getting hurt.

Silver Eyes and One for All Users are usually seen as having a protector/protectee sort of relationship where Silver Eyes always puts their lives on the line for OFA. However, Ruby and Izuku break this cycle by seeing each other as equal partners. This is best exhibited after PLW and in the beginning of the Villain Hunt arc until Midoriya fucks off.

SPEAKING OF WHICH. He ends up leaving Ruby with All Might after the incident with All for One so she doesn't get hurt. Ruby responds by getting the class together to drag his ass back to campus.

These two end up easing into given names for each other and don't even realize it until someone points it out to them.

When beginning to train with Silver Eyes over winter break, Midoriya uses some of his free time to dig around online to find clips of Summer in action for Ruby to use as reference. She is really grateful for this, not only because it helps her with training but because she gets to see what her mother was like as a hero. It makes her feel closer to Summer.

Ruby will probably never tell him this, but she's really glad that he knocked her over in the hallway on the first day of school. If he hadn't, then she's almost certain that they wouldn't have become each other's first friend in their class.

*osiria rose comes from this fanfic by maxiemumdamage!

[queen-ofsunflowers]

Okay so... how we feeling if I start to ease Ruby and Midoriya into a first/given name basis during the events of Day by Day?

[queen-ofsunflowers]

LET 👏 THESE 👏 KIDS 👏 CRY

After all the bullshit, i put them they get put through, they deserve a good cry.

[queen-ofsunflowers]

In your Ruby in BNHA AU, at the current moment, whats your fav brotp to write for????

And Fav character???

At the current moment? Speed Buddies is always a classical favorite, but lately I find that RubyDeku is becoming one of my favorite BrOTPs. I dunno why, but every since I’ve continued writing their interactions post-Act 5 of I-Island Vacation, I’ve been getting all excited. And the plans I have for Shie Hassaikai and the Culture Festival only boost it.

And it’s primarily off-screen until we get to Shie Hassaikai, but for Yang, it’s her and Tamaki (who have no BrOTP name yet)

For the most part, the story is told from Ruby’s perspective. I think I’ve gotten better at writing her character since I started (I think binging RWBY in the background and reading the wiki page religiously before I go into the scripting process helps). I’m not sure if her deadpan sass moments are in character though (for example, most of her riffs at Bakugo), but I do enjoy writing those.

However, Ruby is not my favorite character to write for. I love when I get a chance to write for someone else. My top three so far with F&R are Ozpin, Qrow and Bakugo (yes, Bakugo’s going to get a POV scene and the end of it will hurt all of you).

Ozpin because of certain reasons. I think it’s because we never got to see a whole lot of him in RWBY canon, so I’ve had to extend on that a bit. And by extend, I mean I think I subconsciously absorbed a bit of RWBY Thoughts’ version of him. Hence the underlying sass and being done with several shenanigans in a lot of his interactions with All Might... and maybe how I wrote him during his fight with Ruby during final exams? I have to go back and check that one.

side note, i will be going back sometime during spring break and updating V1 and V2 to fix spelling mistakes, grammar errors. etcetcra. i never realized how many i missed until i was rereading v1 a while ago.

Qrow and Bakugo are mostly the same reason. I get to be a bit of an asshole when it comes to how they see things. Qrow also knows more than Ruby does, so it allows me to show a bit more lore without revealing anything to big yet. I’ve also been having to write him a bit for Vigilantes when it’s required of me, so that’s fun too. And for Bakugo, it’s because I love getting into his head and seeing how he ticks. 

...that, and I get to swear with both of them. Which I can’t do with Ruby. Because Ruby is not allowed to swear. Lindsay said so.

[queen-ofsunflowers]

Do u have any other names for your Ruby's relationships in your crossover??

I do. I tend to shorthand my words/notes and combining names together helps me when I’m talking to someone about the AU and I’m on a roll with it sometimes.

There are the basic ones that I haven’t come up with clever codenames for and are basically just combinations of names, and are temporary because I do want to give them better names in the future:

RubyShin (Ruby + Shinsou)

TodoRose (Todoroki + Ruby)

RubyDeku (Ruby + Midoriya)

RoChako (Ruby + Uraraka)

KamiRose (Kaminari + Ruby)

And then there are the clever ones that I came up with over the course of things.

Rosy Pop Rocks (Ruby + Bakugo + Kirishima)

Team Red (Ruby + Kirishima + Mina)

Speed Buddies (Ruby + Iida)

Rocky Rose (Kirishima + Ruby)

Problem Children (Ruby + Bakugo + Midoriya)