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razorblade180 · 10 months ago
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Streamer AU 6
Number 5 <-
Weiss:*rolls into view*….I’ve returned.
Yang:The bitch is back.
Weiss:Wow! Okay, rude. It’s not like I really left. I was in your streams all the time. I just don’t feel like doing my own after missions.
Yang:And yet somehow you still have more subscribers than me.
Photo Bunny gifted 30 subs
Weiss:Oh my gods! Velvet, thank you so much!
Yang:And the rich get richer!!!
Weiss:She says, knowing I’m not rich anymore.
Yang:And yet the money still pours in. Chat, make her play a horror game for being gone for so long.
“Yes!”
“PLEASE!”
“Alien Isolation.”
Weiss:Absolutely not. We have plans already. I’m just waiting for my co-host.
Yang:What am I then?
Weiss:A person who saw me hit the “live” button and immediately hopped into call to call me a bitch.
Yang:It’s in all in good love.
The Reaper: “Ayo! Look who’s back!”
Yang:Ruby, call Weiss a bitch.
Weiss:I’ll un-mod you. I’ve learned to do that recently.
Ruby: *enters call* Oh gods, chat, she’s learning computers. Tech savvy Weiss is dangerous. Who taught her such power?
Weiss:Your girlfriend.
Ruby:Oh, sorry chat. My girl can do no wrong.
Protector of Friendship: “💚”
Ruby:What’s the gameplan today? “Just chatting?” We can play Uno again.
Weiss:You hate teamwork. I swear you do.
Yang:Sends us on a life threatening mission where trust is needed, just to ruin it a day later.
Thunder Thighs: “How was mission? Everyone okay?”
Weiss:It was just bandits. Lots and lots of them. Unfortunately they ruined a village so most of the expenses went to rebuilding the town.
Yang:Chat, this woman is only on camera right now because her power bill is scaring her. This cute face has a price tag.
Weiss:Hey! I actually missed gaming. It’s oddly relaxing when I don’t listen to Ruby’s suggestions. Or Blake’s.
Ninja of Love: “League actually isn’t that bad.”
Ruby:That’s what I’m saaaaaying!
Yang:Don’t listen to them. They’re ill and can’t be cured.
Weiss:*looks at scroll*…Oh, I’ll be right back. Yang, you’re in charge. *gets up*
Ruby:Why not me?
Weiss:Because Yang doesn’t play League!
Ruby:You two lack vision. The four of us could be our own team! We could grab a few more friends and train for tournaments.
Ren: *enters call* Ruby, you are way too toxic for that. *leaves call*
Yang:Hahahahaha!
Ruby:You can’t just show up to say that!?
Weiss walks back into view rolling a second chair next to her. She’s then handed a coffee cup she gladly sips as she sits back down, all nice and cozy. Sitting next to her is Jaune, chilling in her merch hoodie as he waves.
Jaune:Hello…
“Whaaaat?”
“Oh it’s the guy.”
“Hi Jaaaaaaune!”
“Nerd alert”
“Co-host?”
Yang:I can’t believe you chose the other blonde over me. How cruel. What does he have I don’t?
Jaune:*holds up Kingdom Hearts*
Ninjas of Love: “FINALLY!”
Yang:..I would’ve bought it.
Ruby:Alright, maybe you chose better than Uno.
Weiss:Okay everyone, you can guess tonight’s game. It’s not like it hasn’t won several polls.
Ruby:Oh! Oh! Weiss, sub goal idea! 80 subs and you have to do a cover of the opening!
Weiss:I haven’t even heard it yet!
Jaune:You might like it more than the song from FFX.
Weiss:….
Yang:She’s setting you up for success.
Weiss:…We will circle back to that. Speaking of FFX, same rules apply. I don’t need back-seating from chat. My wonderful co-host here will help manage the stream and aid me with anything I ask.
Blake: *enters call* Jaune, what version is that?
Jaune:It’s from the 1.5 collection, so final mix. Post the patch.
Blake:You’re a good man.
Weiss:Do you want the camera on you or is that uncomfortable?
Jaune:I’m okay. This setup is nice.
Ruby:Questions like these wouldn’t be an issue if you got a VTube model. Penny could hook you up.
Weiss:I only recently learned how to fix normal PC problems. Don’t put that burden on me.
Yang:What does OBS stand for?
Weiss:I saved your life yesterday. What’s your damage with me?
Big Bags & Miniguns: “Is this the mystery boyfriend we’ve been searching for?”
Weiss:Cocoa, you’ve known Jaune forever. He’s always been around as a mod.
Thunder Thighs: “That wasn’t a no.”
Jaune:I literally showed my copy of the game. You all know why I’m here.
Cardinal Pride: “As if she’d date someone as lame as-
Message Deleted
Photo Bunny: “Please remember the chat guidelines before typing”
Ruby:I would’ve blocked him.
Weiss:He gets one more chance. I’m in a good mood.
Jaune:That’s the Kingdom Hearts spirit. *puts disc in*
Weiss:This won’t make me cry like Final Fantasy did, will it?
Blake:Oh….sweetie….
Weiss:*inhales* Great.
Yang:I already made a crude layout for the singing goal. I swear graphic designers should be thankful I like cars and fighting Grimm more.
Jaune:Don’t have any lower goals?
Weiss:I’m 20 away from having to cosplay a character from a game I’ve played. They also get to vote on an emote.
BB&MG: “How many subs for a boyfriend reveal?”
Weiss:…*rubs chin*
Ruby:You’re thinking about it!?
Weiss:I mean I’d have to talk it over with him to see if he’s comfortable with others knowing, but also that goal has to be high enough for Cocoa to be scared.
Jaune:….This game isn’t terribly long, and you have new followers. Personally I’d shoot for no less than 300.
The Monkey King: “Bleed her dry. 350”
BB&MG: “I thought we were friends Sun?”
Weiss:350 it is! After I discuss it of course.
“You’re on!”
“You underestimate our power!”
“I swear if it’s Neptune.”
“Just wait until payday!”
Yang:Like I said, the rich get richer.
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anthurak · 10 months ago
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Ruby's and Yang's Family Reckoning
Has anyone else noticed how each of the post-Beacon arcs thus far have featured a member of Team RWBY returning home and reconciling/repairing issues with their family? Volumes 4 and 5 had Blake returning to Menagerie and reconciling with her parents, while Volumes 7 and 8 had Weiss returning to Atlas and helping repair the broken relationships with her siblings and mother.
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With that in mind, I think it’s easy to imagine that Volumes 10 and 11 will be Ruby’s and Yang’s turn to sort out their long-standing family baggage. I mean, they’ve got two of their parents/parent-figures already in Vacuo, the third and their childhood home is just a quick bird-mom-portal away, and it turns out they ALSO recently got information that their fourth parent might not be as dead as they thought.
And here’s the other thing: we’ve also seen an escalation in just how complicated, dysfunctional and overall ‘fucked-up’ the family issues faced by our heroines have gotten over the last two arcs.
As many have noted, Blake has the only unambiguously good parents among her team, with the worst of the ‘issues’ they had to deal with being some simple estrangement. Instead, the real family ‘issues’ Blake had to deal with Volume 4 and 5 was reclaiming her family’s legacy, ie; the White Fang, from Adam and the Albain brothers.
Then we went from that, to the long-abused mess that is the Schnee family.
So going off that trend, as well as several other factors…
Yeah, I have NO doubt at this point that the STRQ family is going to find a way to be an even BIGGER fucked-up, messy, dysfunctional train wreck that Ruby and Yang are going to have to sift through and repair.
Now I know some people are probably wondering how Team STRQ could possibly be worse than the Schnees? After all, they had actual Worst-Dad™, Jacques Gele. How could Summer, Taiyang, Qrow and Raven be worse than that?
Here’s the thing though: The Schnee family may have been a wreck, but it was also a fairly uncomplicated wreck with a singular, easy-to-understand root cause; one utter shitbag who was making life terrible for everyone else. And the solution to the family problems (or at least the START of the solution) wound up being likewise simple and straightforward; just kick out the aforementioned utter shitbag and the family can start healing. I mean, it took less than a day after Jacques was given the boot for Weiss, Willow, Whitley and even Winter to make major steps in patching things up between them.
The STRQ family on the other hand aren’t going to be anywhere NEAR that simple. They are ACTUALLY messy and dysfunctional and complicated and ambiguous and all the other things fandom claims to love yet more often seems to just break their black-and-white-morality-loving brains when they actually see it.
Because unlike the Schnees, Team STRQ DOESN’T actually have just one terrible person who can easily be pointed to as the root cause of their problems (No, not even Raven)*. Instead, I think it’s becoming more and more apparent that Summer, Raven, Qrow and Tai are simultaneously good people who all love their daughters and genuinely want the best for them, and are also all MASSIVE dysfunctional fuck-ups in each their own way who have FAILED Ruby and Yang as parents in one way or another.
Summer the ‘supermom’ who also obsessively chased her hero-complex into martyrdom.
Raven the ‘daddy had a good reason for leaving you’ who actually didn’t have a good reason.
Qrow the ‘cool uncle’ who’s actually spent the last 15+ years wallowing in alcoholic depression.
Taiyang the at-first seeming ‘reliable’ father who turns out to actually be a MASSIVELY dysfunctional wreck.
All while Ruby AND Yang can both state openly and matter-of-factly that YANG was the one to RAISE RUBY. The kind of sibling relationship we might generally expect to see in two orphans. Which does NOT, in any context, speak highly of the parenting they received.
And I think Volumes 10 and 11 are going to be when the story finally shines a light on all those problems and forces Ruby and Yang to finally confront them.
Simply put, I think this is going to be when the story effectively yanks the rug out from under us and flips the script on basically everything we, plus Ruby and Yang, long assumed about Team STRQ has been wrong. Or alternatively for Ruby and Yang, everything that’s been right in front of them, yet have been refusing to confront all this time.
Things like just about everything Yang thought she knew about her family when she explained her backstory to Blake in Volume 2 (and which has served as the basis for nearly ALL of our assumptions about Team STRQ) turning out to be wrong in one way or another.
Or things like Taiyang being shown to be just as big a dysfunctional fuck-up parent as Qrow and Raven.
Or things like Qrow being called out for ditching the family pretty much just as much as Raven did to join Ozpin’s secret society.
Or Raven turning out to be Ruby’s dad.
Or Summer turning out to NOT actually be dead and is basically Salem’s Darth Vader via horrific grimm-hybridization.
And ultimately, just how much Summer, Raven, Qrow and Taiyang all FAILED Ruby and Yang as their parents, as illustrated, once again, by the fact that Ruby considers her primary parent-figure to be none of them, but rather YANG.
Ever since Volume 1 featured songs like Red Like Roses Part 2 and Gold, the fact that Yang raised Ruby has been a proverbial Sword of Damocles hanging over Team STRQ. Representing the fact that that ALL of them, Summer, Raven, Qrow and Tai, FUCKED UP as parents.
And I think in the next couple volumes, that sword is finally going to fall.
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*Okay, maybe Ozpin.
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pilot-boi · 1 month ago
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Since Jaune seems to be the only alive member of the two teams, what about Yang. Probably should of waited until info about Yang was revealed before sending the ask about ruby, but eh. I have a feeling Yang was probably alive when Ruby was born, cause it would be really traumatic for Ruby to have to reap her own sister.
Yang was indeed alive when Ruby was born! She wasn’t allowed in the delivery room, of course, but she met her newly risen baby sister shortly after the birth
Ruby is so cold. Yang can keep her warm then, her dad says, as her sister wraps a meaty skeletal hand around Yang’s index finger and gurgles happily up at her. Yang decides then and there that she would die for her sister
When Yang dies, it’s not until much later. Ruby is a toddler, she’s a little girl, and Summer is dead. More than anything she wants to know about her mother. About Raven. About why she’s so alone and why she wasn’t enough and why she never came back
She gets a tip that Raven is in an abandoned cabin in the forests of Patch, and Yang wastes no time bundling Ruby in layers and plopping her in a wagon. She doesn’t even tell her dad where they’re going
Yang walks for hours, maybe days, and all the way she only gets more cold and more hungry and more desperate. Ruby doesn’t even shiver, just stares into the darkness, her silver eyes like twin moons set into her skull
When they reach the cabin, Yang realizes too late that she’s just a silly little girl and her baby sister in a wagon a long long way from anyone who could help them
The tip is a lie, or a trap, or a trick. Or maybe just a horrible mistake. Whatever the case, the Grimm are on them instantly. Ruby is shaken from her stupor by the howls while Yang’s exhaustion finally catches up to her. But even with sleep pulling at her bones, she won’t let them touch her sister
Ruby is shoved in the closet, protesting that she can help, that Yang is going to die. But it’s worth it, because Ruby is safe. And Yang has her last stand
When Qrow reaches them, wings beating faster than the air can pass them, the Grimm and most of the cabin are fire turning quickly to ash. Ruby is curled in the blackened remains of a cupboard, heedless of the dwindling flames around her. She’s sobbing hysterically, and Yang is nowhere in sight. Only a few singed locks of golden hair and a splattering of blood
The only words Qrow gets from his baby niece are that Yang burned the monsters and then Ruby couldn’t protect it. She dissolves back into tears
It. Not she. He doesn’t understand what she’s talking about until he returns to their house and finds Raven there beside Tai staring at what is unmistakably Yang
But also not Yang
Her hair is flickering in flames, her limbs dissolve into smoke when she moves them too quickly, and Qrow can see right through her to his teammates shattered expressions. Yang is yelling at them, panicking about Ruby, and Qrow can see right through her
This is wrong. This is all wrong
Eventually Yang catches sight of Qrow and her sister and swoops over, relieved that Ruby is okay. In response Ruby only sobs more desperately
Qrow understands now. Ruby couldn’t protect Yang’s soul. Both of his nieces are now worse than dead
((TLDR; Yang is now a Ghost, her body was eaten by the Grimm. The fire in the cabin is from her Semblance awakening, and the flames in her ghost form are because her Semblance was actively in use when she died, so her Aura sort of captured a snapshot of that))
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strqyr · 1 year ago
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the fact that qrow calls it an "assignment" is what gets me. this is the point of time that glynda should have already arrived to vacuo with help she went looking for—by the time team rwby + jaune return, the ships from all the kingdoms are there already—so it can't be that, and if it was somehow related to this search for help... why not just say so? "tai's still looking for help" is all it needs.
but no. he has his own assignment that keeps him away from vacuo. he left patch for a mystery mission after beacon's cct tower had been broken into, and once again sometime after the breach had happened. he's got to look after "some things", an explanation why he can't go after ruby even when he wants to, why he didn't leave when yang did.
what could be more important? what requires such secrecy that it's an assignment with no further explanations?
all the maidens are accounted for with the mystery girl in the secret meeting likely being the summer maiden—and if she isn't, she's still in vacuo, not in vale or patch.
all that is left is the mystery of where the crown is, and when beacon, the place their enemy excepts to find the relic at is compromised, tai starts going on missions again; when everyone is in vacuo, tai is still in vale / patch.
he is the dragon guarding the treasure. there's no other reason to point his absence if it wasn't an important plot point.
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ruins-of-tragedy · 3 months ago
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Volume 8 of RWBY has finished me. Tried to sleep off the emotional fragility, but it still won't budge. The devastation is haunting me, myself and I.
- Space bun girl scrubbing floors. Is this the Cinder backstory? The art here looks freaking incredible!!!
- Regular movements of cleaning turning into Cinder's Grimm hand scratching at a seat... Good GODS. How long was she stuck doing that? Enough to classify as a default, almost soothing maneuver.
- Emerald and Mercury got makeovers too. Good for them!
- Cinder didn't want Emerald's big reunion. Oooof.
- "Without you, I am nothing." Whoa. This Fall lady was either brainwashed well, or something happened. Either way, Salem has one relic. Atlas is surrounded by Grimm. Neopolitan will be working with Cinder and her cause. FUCKITY fucking fuck.
- What's left of Mantle is suffering from the Grimm-pocalypse. Ironwood. Just. Die already.
- You know it's bad when Nora doesn't give crushing hugs.
- I like Joanna. She is tall and looks butch and her hair seems nice.
- People in small places vs big picture. Break-up imminent?
- GODS. Yang being reluctant to follow Ruby's lead must have hurt. Not only her sister but herself too. The fuck. This volume is going to end me.
- Weiss' reaction to Yang's remark is so relatable. Hand over her mouth. Even she didn't expect that.
- Yang vs Ruby. Ren vs Nora. At least they are all still trying towards the same goal. Keeping folks safe.
- The transition from being beside the person leading an idea to supporting their point when they are talking it over... I love it.
- Thank you Jaune and Oscar!!! Both the new factions emerging within the team wants to help. Both are good reasonings to go forward and work towards. Both should be done. No more conflicts within. Pwease.
- RWB with Nora. JR with Oscar and Yang. Holy hell. These are kids. FUCKKKKK. I hope they all make up soon over their differences. All of their hearts are in the right place.
- IRONWOOD. BLAMING EVERYTHING THAT MAY OR MAY NOT FOLLOW ON THESE LITTLE CHILDREN. ON PENNY. YOU INCOMPETENT BULLHEADED FUCK UP. TALK TO SOMEONE YOUR OWN SIZE!!!!
- Is Penny okie?
- Clover is alive! YAYYYYYY!!! ...Wait. He is, right? The way they are talking...
- "No matter the cost." And then shoots an Atlas councillor. Ironwood. You fuckwad.
- Salem be hunting Ozcar. Shite.
- OH MY GODS. The opening has throwbacks to the initial beginnings of RWBY. AGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
- White Rose and Bumbleby weapons are showing up together. I know who my endgames are. 💖
- Will Renora be alright?
- Penny is definitely not okie. Her father is worried too.
- Schnee family in smithereens. Ironwood is alone. Our heroes are fighting alongside one another. I hope everything will be alright in the end.
- Emerald waved. Cinder didn't see it 'cause she has a blind side. Though am pretty sure she won't return the gesture even if she saw it. Neo can't care enough about the lady.
- "Happy? Ever Never After Again." Um. Oh no.
- The hideout our good guys were using. There was a portrait, I think. Who are the people in the painting? Robyn's parents? One of them had an eye-patch.
- Qrow and Robyn and Jacques and Watts. Now neighbours. Huh.
- Yang is on a bike again!!!! All is almost right.
- The Faunus live in the slums. And they are offering up their place to humans who probably secluded them there to begin with. And yet some of these folks have the audacity to act like entitled little kids. YASSSSSSSS!!! You tell them Yang!!!!
- Ren is not okie. I am scared for him. Oscar and Ozpin's talk has me somewhat cautiously optimistic.
- Ruby being there for Penny, and their hugs!!! Have my heart. ✨
- So many people in one place. Can become a hotspot for Grimm attacks. Shite. I hope the conflicts don't get too out of hand in the slums.
- Mutating Grimm has got Oscar. Must be Salem's special pet on a retrieval mission. Is this when Ozpin and his divorced wife begin talking about mankind and simple souls?
- Grimm can speak now. Mother dearest has been teaching them new tricks?
- YASSSSSSSS!!! Robo-girl has a name!!!!! ❤️‍🔥
- Ruby's proud little knowing smirk in the back was so funny. And sweet.
- Blake and Nora's hands on the hips is such a classic fruity pose to me. ✨
- Penny is giving science and semblance lessons. Ruby is being teased. I needed this.
- "Apologies for the delay. Today has been... busy." Yup. Having to hide evidence of murder and coordinating martial law, with a side of complacency for mass genocide, must keep Ironwood's schedule hectic.
- Wait. Watts is going through Penny's plans. Oh no. FUCK.
- Grimm JAWS handmade poster?!?!? 🤌🏻😂👏🏻
- Blake is having a bad day going on rides here. Wonder how she handles amusement parks...
- Weiss has a soft proud smile. Nora is in awe. Penny is ready to propose and squeeing too? Ruby is doing a hero pose. Group travel via rose missile. 🎊
- Pietro is Penny now. Weiss has sisterly insights. Nora doesn't know who she is without Ren. Time to find out, perhaps.
- I really don't like the Ace Ops anymore. How dare you all blame Penny for Winter's condition?!?!?
- Ruby knows where Qrow is now.
- Fucking Harriet. YOU will become a tin can when I am done with you.
- Nora still has electricity marks left over. But holy WoWie. ✨
- Watts has a message for Ironwood's operatives. No. I am terrified. Penny.
- The Ace Ops ran away with one of Penny's swords. Watts will use it. I need to get some air.
- The fuck. Penny will be MADE to work with Ironwood?!???! This fucker will murder everyone but the folks who should be killed. Fucking Watts. And extrafucker Ironwood. Match made in the deepest corners of rotting trash.
- Getting to see Zwei in the opening heals me a little.
- Robyn and Qrow are bonding. Yang and Jaune and Ren are following mutating Grimm with Ozcar.
- What gliding is Ren doing right now?
- Yang saving Jaune and riding almost in tune with the song. 🌟❤️‍🔥
- From Grimmgliding to rescuing his friends, Lie is going through it.
- Honestly, he is right. There are better ways to discuss this, but they are all kids. Ruby, even more so. Someone give these children a warm bed and a good life's rest. They are trying so hard. Have already done so much. UGHHHHHHHHHHHH.
- In such dire situations you just gotta keep on keeping on, I guess. Especially considering the circumstances. I hope they get loads and Loads and LOADS of therapy soon.
- Oscar is being tortured. First by Salem. And now by Hazel. Someone please bring his sister in to tell him how much of a bad brother he is being not only to her but to the ideals she lived by. Even if she wasn't old enough to take major decisions initially, the way he is acting would still bother her forever. This fucker. Deluded by his own emotions.
- Cinder keeps saying without Salem she is nothing. The irony is, with Salem she is nothing as well. Especially now.
- Emerald wants her mentor back so bad.
- Oh no. Cinder will intervene with Amity. For once I want her to listen to Salem. Fuck.
- Awwww. Jaune trying with Ren is good of him. Reminds me a little of what Pyrrha attempted, way back when. Feels like a million years have gone by since.
- Yang wanted to know if Blake thought less of her for not helping out with Amity. Jaune assumed she meant Ruby. GODS. 💖
- I think the sisters are secure enough in their relationship to understand this won't tear them apart. Yang and Blake however, have a new budding thing on the way. Of course Yang is worried. Plus, the missing piece for the motorcycle is purple.
- I agree with Maria. Penny should be able to make her own decisions. Calavera is the mother Penny needs.
- Neo vs Maria. Could never have thought that up actually.
- Fighting in the skies, Penny vs Cinder.
- I love Maria. She has still got it!!!! ✨
- That interaction between Pietro and Penny will never not leave me in tears.
- What did Watts do. Fuck.
- If something happens to Penny, I will kill everyone. And then myself. In conclusion, she is alright.
- What is Watts going to do now. He has that scroll thing Ironwood threw at him. FUCKKKKKKK.
- Grimm birthing juice. On its way. Oh no.
- Cinder's backstory is just TRAUMA. With mechanical torture and capital Ts.
- "Without you, I am nothing." GODS.
- A past so horrific, you cannot see yourself in the children you keep hurting now. This is what a person's history can do to them.
- Cinder got so good, she could somewhat keep up with Rhodes.
- She wanted to be a huntsman. That's the true tragedy here.
- Also, the song that plays during it all. FUCK. It didn't have to go as hard, but helps driving in the point across better.
- Oscar and Ozpin. Ozcar. Ospin. Infiltrating Salem's allies to make them their own. NOICE!!!
- It's the step-guardian situation all over again. Cinder. Fuck. Please leave. Salem ain't it.
- Why is there a Ruby statue in the evil lair in the end credits?
- Is this a Grimm whale? Spouting rivers of its kind...
- Yang, Jaune and Ren are under Winter's custody. Fuck.
- Delivering a bomb on foot into the whale Grimm. While Oscar is there still. Plus, this could essentially be a suicide mission. I hope you die Ironwood.
- Emerald is up to something. I love where this could be going.
- Ospin is landing some great mental hits. And has been hit so bad physically.
- Nora is bedridden. And she is asking what she is good for?!?!!?? GODS. What toxic productivity mindset is this. She literally saved Penny. Who is definitely okie. I cannot accept a different answer.
- May is trans?! NOICE!!!!! ⚜️
- Whitley heard the points made between RWB and May and a resting Nora. I hope he is able to help. Everyone could use it.
- Salem wants release from her curse. Hazel's sister is named Gretchen. Hansel and Gretel. Sometimes I forget the allusions are a thing.
- Ozpin revealed Salem's backstory. Oscar told Hazel the password. Emerald heard everything. Shared it with Mercury. Who left for Vacuo with Tyrian anyway. Fuck. I hope she still leaves. Please. 🙏🏻
- Ren spoke up!!! And exactly when they needed him. YAYYYYYY!!!! Best boy is back!!!!!!! Oh shite. He doesn't know what happened with Nora. Fuck.
- Lie levelled up his semblance! That pink petal. His emotions. Nora misses a pink petal in the opening. AGHHHHHHHH!!!
- Suppressing your feelings must be an occupational hazard of working under Ironwood.
- Winter said "I outrank you." 🤯. Gods. Am so gay.
- Jaune proposed a good plan. Which is actually working. Hopefully they are able to get Ospin out, with one another intact.
- Ren is giving out bitesize therapy before leaving. Winter and Marrow. Abandon Ironwood. Please. 🙏🏻
- Ruby wants to go free Qrow and Robyn. May wants them to choose. Klein is here!!!!! And he is a doctor? Whitley must have called him.
- Awwwwwwwww. Whitley did call him. Sibling hugs!!!!
- Penny. Landed in front of the manor. Fuck. At least she is still in one piece.
- The mid-season trailer does not inspire a lot of confidence; "You are too late." Late for what?!?!!?
- "We said goodbye..."
- Just realised Ironwood's bit in the opening has Atlas within him. He is a product of his kingdom. GODS. I have sympathy for him, but nothing else anymore. Even that seems extreme now.
- Holy WoWie. Only now noticing the divide of the forces our heroes are fighting in the opening. Yang's end has Mantle and Atlas plagued with Grimm. Ruby's side has Salem's forces, also with Grimm. Penny flies to the Amity Colosseum in between. 👏🏻
- Big blast at Qrow's holding cell area.
- "One step at a time." One second, one minute, one hour, one day... Finally. An adult with good advice who is helping too. Klein. You da best. 🫶🏻
- Weiss and Whitely working together to use Schnee resources for good. YAYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!! ✨
- Awwww! Blake looks up to Ruby. She reminds her of her own self. CUTE!!!
- Mutating Grimm is here. Oh shite. That's why Penny apologised after crash landing. Salem's pet is after the maiden powers. FUCKKKKKKK.
- Nora saved Penny from the corrupt bit in her, courtesy of Watts. This thunder girl is more than her power and hammer too. More than parts of others. Just like Penny. 🥹. I love this throwback to the girls' talk.
- Glad to know Willow chose her scroll over her spirits.
- Whitley stumbling back to approve the process while his life is in danger... The Schnees are really trying so hard. Jacques should never be allowed to take up that name again.
- Penny is in Watts' control. Going after the relic. AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
- The talking Grimm has a living being inside?!?!???! What.
- So the blast was Cinder. Qrow is living up to his name.
- The Hound Human's face sketch reminds me of Obito from Naruto.
- Ren and Jaune will be okie. Not sure about Yang's eyeballs though. Rolling them around the blonde guy must be a regular practice. 😂
- Oscar's arc is WoW. He wants to stay himself. And a person like him definitely should. I wish there was a way to retain both Ozpin and this little guy.
- Team FNKI refusing to wear helmets is so on-brand!!! Also, they look tiny between the adult soldiers. Marrow is right. Kids. AGHHHHHHHHHH.
- Hazel is turning over a new leaf. Emerald will be leaving alongside Ospin. YAYYYYYY!!!!
- Oh fuck. Neo saw everything.
- Ren giving out another therapy session. Yang needed it too. Jaune believes. His friends trust his belief.
- Did Marrow call Jaune, Juan? True fondness for your juniors is never using the person's given name. Apparently. 😆🤌🏻🥹
- Emerald really tried to banter when they met again. LoLL!
- Shite. Salem... I wonder if she thought Summer Rose worked at an orphanage or something. 'Cause to her, two random kids called that lady their mum. One did look like her, I guess. Yang doesn't share any physical traits with mama Rose though.
- "No more Gretchens, boy." Hazel is doing a double cross. YASSSSSSSS!!!!!!
- He ain't making it out of there alive, is he.
- What did Ospin do? Big white blast.
- Marrow has a good heart. Take him and run to your sister Winter!!!
- Watts implanted a virus in Penny?!?!?? AGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
- Of all the people, the scientist got to Cinder. Fuck. Hope she is okie. And that she changes sides.
- Second chances for Emerald and Ozpin. Oscar lays a worthy proponent for trusting those who are trying now.
- Kids were his last chance at blackmail. Ironwood has truly gone nuts with insecurity.
- AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! IT'S BEEN TOO LONG SINCE THEY WERE TOGETHER!!!!!! ALL OF THEM!!!!!!!!
- Ironwood. You. I. Have no words.
- Using an entire freaking populace as a bargaining chip. When your own population is safe now. No thanks to you. You. UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. 🤬
- I want to tear Ironwood apart. Limb from limb. What's left of them anyway.
- Winter has to be acting. Now way is she going to put Marrow in jail.
- Ruby is not okay. At all. Where are the fucking years of therapy?!?!!!???
- Ren is trying so hard. Jaune can read a room now. He has left the chat.
- Renora may not be together yet, but they will be someday. And I shall definitely be there celebrating. Plans of the future aside, they handled it quite maturely. I loved that. Am glad Lie was understanding. His semblance reading powers helped, but still. This is a guy just beginning to learn how to be open about his emotions again. He showed a lot of grace during this scene.
- The person in the Grimm had silver eyes?! I totally missed that. Fuck. Ruby. Yang. Summer.
- Give them at least ONE MORE MINUTE. PLEASE. THEY BOTH NEED THAT HUG. IT'S ALWAYS ONE THING AFTER THE OTHER. AGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
- Penny is asking them to kill her. That's. Um. That's not happening. Right? No. They. They wouldn't go that far. Fuck.
- Oh thank Gods. Aura amp. She is more than a robot. YAYYYYYY!!!! I was really terrified for a second there.
- Awww! Emerald is trying to be optimistic for them!!! In her own way. CUTE!!!
- Penny is now shown with Jaune, Nora and Ren. I remember telling my friend she could be the next member of Team JNR. 'Casue she has a genderbent allusion. Was this right? 🤯🙏🏻
- Oscar is starting to walk and somehow look a little like Ozpin? Probably the way he carried himself. Yeah. Huh.
- "Trust, is a risk." 💯
- Ren's petal loses its cold exterior. But Nora cannot catch hers because she hasn't figured out who she is yet. OOOOOOooooooooh!!! This opening is so GOOOOOOOOD.
- OH MY GODS. THAT WAS EMERALD!!! YASSSSSSSSSDSDD!!!! No Penny for you James.
- Wait. Did Winter really put Marrow in jail?
- Only Oscar and JNR are there. Where's RWBY? And Penny?
- Ayyyyyyy!!! That kick. Go Emerald!!!
- OOOOOOooooooooh!!!! Winter ain't doing anything to protect Ironwood. YAYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!
- And Marrow isn't in a cell. AGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
- It all came together so beautifully. Love this.
- Phase two. Oh wow.
- Ambrosious looks like a Dragon Ball Z character. I love his hair.
- CCT went out. So did the broadcast. Um. All the people heard was Atlas is falling. The fuck.
- Jacques will be saved too. Ugh.
- Penny is a real girl!!!!!!!! YAYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- I am too sleep deprived for the mumbo jumbo of the portals and the souls. Shall re-watch this later. But the dire warning... It's only episode twelve. Still have two more left. They will definitely be falling. That's where volume nine takes place. Thank Gods for some spoilers. Hopefully things don't get any more traumatic till then.
- Does Vacuo know of the amount of people they are going to get soon?
- Oh shite. Cinder is amongst the Atlas folks. Fuck.
- Sandstorm galore in Sun's area. Ooooof. And no signal.
- Some people fell. Shite. No. Cinder... Jinn. No questions left. Watts interrupted the broadcast. Cinder understands the importance of emotions. Her own breakdown must have helped. She is turning into a Machiavellian villain. FUCKKKKKKK.
- Things are going wrong. So bad. Harriet and Vine are fleeing on ships. Marrow's aura broke. Ironwood's cell just gave way. I am STRESSED.
- Jacques is dead. Sad that happened at James' hands.
- Yang falls saving Ruby. What a way to go down.
- Blake trying and failing to save her. Truly WLW. Women losing women. 😭
- Oh wow. I severely misjudged Harriet's motivations. She still wants to blow up Mantle. Thank you Vine.
- And she still went ahead with it. Fuck. Can ONE thing go right. Please.
- Ironwood vs Winter. No coming back from Vacuo. One way ticket. And that place has flying Grimm now. What the FUCKKKKKKK.
- Themes of death warning in the last episode. There's not a word that can describe my condition right now. Who is dying?!?????
- Salem is coming back. Ironwood is still ordering around Winter. Cinder vs Penny and Weiss. Blake has joined in too. Qrow wished on Clover's charm. No detonation. Yet.
- Vine took the blast. I didn't even know him well. But FUCK.
- Blake and Ruby have fallen too. Cinder. Why. AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
- Nora is in Vacuo. She can't return. No more back up. Oh Gods.
- No. No. No. She just. No. She just became a girl. This is not really happening. No. No. Please.
- It's done.
- Penny is greeting Winter in the white world. I am crying and still smiling because all of it's just so her. I can't. WHY.
- Is Jaune okay. Will he ever be.
- Oh I am so happy about the non-ceremonial manner Ironwood died.
- Winter has the gift of Penny in her. It's now a part of her. The tears are making it difficult to see everything.
- I just. She thought of Winter and got to say goodbye. She passed away on her own terms. But. FUCCCCCCCKKKKKKK. IT HURTS.
- She. Penny. Was already more human than most people around her. Had a life within all that metal. So much so, she became flesh and blood. Human in every possible sense of the word. And. I CANNNOT.
- You take away her robotic shell and what's left behind is a warm soul. Forever trying to be a great friend. I will never look at green the same way again.
- Weiss has fallen as well. Winter saw it happen. Couldn't do anything to prevent it. What is this volume. Just trauma for everyone.
- Down goes Jaune now.
- The fuck. Ironwood is still alive.
- Some scenes in the show look almost realistic here and there. Especially the landscapes and the elements. Yes, this is an attempt at disassociation.
- Qrow. Fuck.
- "Face of a friend that won't leave..." The end credits music is making me bawl.
- "Do hugs always make you feel this warm?" STOP. It's Penny's song. Of course they titled it Friend.
- "Lucky and Beef Jerky!" Part of the security team.
- Ended on Crescent Rose near a beach with a colourful tree.
- Wait. Did Penny's body also land wherever RWBY and Jaune fell off to?
- Also, are there any other red-headed ladies whose names start with P? I need to start preparing.
- Anywho, if anyone needs me, I shall be busy drowning myself in RWBY Chibi. The laughs from that should help.
(You spoil me, I send you to Spain with a one-way ticket. And the 's' will be silent. You can greet me with salutations when you get here. Not combat-ready anymore.)
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Farmer Au prompt
Weiss in an effort to expand her horizons stays with Jaune on his family’s farm over break. She comes to deeply enjoy a variety of aspects of farm life; especially ‘rolling’ in the hay.
A small, relaxed sigh escaped Weiss Schnee's lips, as she reached out towards the leaves of a turnip. Using both hands, the white-haired girl pulls the vegetable from the soil, placing it in a basket filled with others. The Team RWBY Lieutenant has been staying at Jaune Arc's childhood home/family farm over the break. It was either spend her Summer with Jaune, who admittedly from the both of them, started off on the wrong foot, or return to her father. Evidently, Weiss chose the former, since Ruby returned to Patch, Blake decided to take a boat to Menagerie, and Yang was doing community service back in Vale. That last part was something Weiss made a mental note of not dwelling over.
As for Jaune's team, Nora and Ren, due to their home being long destroyed by a Grimm attack decided to stay at Beacon, while Pyrrha returned to Argus to visit her mother. Weiss made a lot of assumptions about Jaune's home life, but the people seemed more welcoming. But, the current climate in the Summer was unbearable for her. That fact is evident as her face is covered in beads of sweat. As she plucked the last turnip, shaking the basket lightly.
"That should be that," the singer said with a relieved smile, "I suppose this isn't too bad."
THA-THOOM!!!
Then, she became soaked by an instant downpour of rain after a crack of thunder. Her relieved, victorious smile turned into an annoyed frown. "Dammit," she sprints towards the barn, the closes building to avoid the elements.
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"There," Jaune drapes a blanket onto the middle Schnee child, "you good?" He exhaled, plopping down onto a stack of hay next to her.
"Yeah," she nodded, leaning her head against the lone Arc son. "I have to say, this place, it does have its benefits." She gives him a warm smile with a quick wink.
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bssaz97 · 5 months ago
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Day Out In The City
Rowan: Mooooom, I’m going to be going out!
Ruby: Okay! Just be home before it gets too late! *she shouts from the kitchen*
Rowan: Okay! Love you! *leaves the cottage*
Rowan makes his way through the forest to his destination. He makes it to Patch’s town, space walking through the dirt streets and buildings to arrive at the pier where most trade and transportation are located on the island. Rowan gets on one of the ferries and then pays the toll to ride it to the mainland. The ride from Patch to Vale only took about an hour at most, a long ride but one that was going to be worth it.
Once the ferry is boarding onto the mainland, Rowan makes his way through the docks, walks into the city streets until he finds the destination of which his new friend has chosen for them to meet. He sent a message saying that he is there, then finds someplace to go sit while he waits for his friend to find him.
???: Hey Rowan!
Rowan: *looking up, smiling* Hi Ivy.
Ivy: Kept you waiting didn’t I?
Rowan: Nah, I’m just sitting here, it was a bit of a hike to get here.
Ivy: Hope you’re not too tired, because there’s a lot of places I want to show you today!
Rowan: Can’t wait. *giving a big smile.*
Ivy: First, let’s get something to eat. We can hit the pizzeria next to the Arcade. Hit some games, go explore the city a bit, quick and easy!
Rowan: If you say so. Lead on, city girl.
Ivy: This is at small town boy!
The next following hours, the two friends ate pizza, played games consisting of shooting, racing, and dancing (Ivy was the winner of that one), and then watched the latest action movie Ivy had been begging him to come watch all month. After the film, the two spent talking and rambling on about their thoughts of the film while they walked to the docks. Once arriving, the two friends awaited until it was time for the ferry to depart.
Ivy: I still stand by the fact that the space battle was the most accurate depiction of a Super Wukong that we’ll be seeing for a long time.
Rowan: You mean for a live action film?
Ivy: Yeah, of course. Can’t beat the 2D with live action.
Rowan: *laughs* Well… I guess I got to go now.
Ivy: Yeah, looks like. Well hope you make it home before dark. Don’t want your mom to make you deaf in one ear, ya know?
Rowan: I’ll still be good. But, thanks for today. It’s been fun.
Ivy: *throwing a peace sign* Ditto, now, you better catch your boat, small town.
Rowan: Right! Later, city girl! *waving as he ran to catch his ride*
The two waved each other goodbye until Rowan was far from the pier to open waters. The ride back to Patch didn’t take long, once back to the island port, Rowan made his way back home. Walking through the port, the town, through the trees and forest, until he finds his way back home. Once there he enters home, there he sees his mom, aunt and sister all gathered in the living room. His mother is the first to notice his return and smiles at her son.
Ruby: Well, took you long enough, mister. How did it go.
Rowan: It was good, had a lot of fun. Ivy says hi by the way.
Summer: So, how did your date go bro?~
Rowan: *frowns and then roll his eyes* Sum, it was just us hanging out. No romance was involved here.
Yang: *grabs at her chest and gasps mockingly hurt* My brother’s nephew, you’ve got a heart cold as ice. Playing with the hearts of young maidens.
Ruby: Okay you two, leave the poor boy alone. He’s tired and I’m sure he would like to lie down.
Rowan: Thank you mom, I will do just that. Good night everyone.
Ruby/Yang/Summer: Goodnight/Night twin!
Ruby: Oh, sweetie one more thing!
Rowan: Yeah mom?
Ruby: Hope you had fun with your girlfriend today~ *grinning*
Rowan: *flustered* Ugh! Goodnight everyone!
Ruby/Yang: *laughing*
Rowan drops onto his bed and groans from the teasing of his family that had just inflicted on him. Being the only male in the house subjected him to cruel and unusual punishment in the form of their teasing since he started having girls in his friend group. His attention then went to his scroll after it had sent a notification. He reached for the device, opening the screen, and he sees a message sent to him by the girl he had spent the day with.
“Hope you made it home okay, thanks for coming out to hang. Rest up, small town <3”
Rowan: *smiles, then messages back*
“Had a blast, hope we can hang out again later on! Hit me up whenever, you know where to find me. :]”
A/N: Introducing OC and
Rowan’s friend, Ivy Sustrai-Black (Emercury Kid)
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last-knight-who-was · 9 months ago
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I found this in my notes app and realized I never reposted this on my current blog! I wrote this while RWBY V9 was airing, between episode 7 and 8 in response to this post by @actualbampot. I like it, so I figured I'd go ahead an post it again!
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It was strange being back at Beacon after three years. Even stranger to think about how, if the Fall had never happened, they'd be ending their final year of school within the next month or so. It'd been some time since Weiss had imagined that particular scenario though. And yet here they were; the four of them, back in their old dorm room.
It was exactly as they'd left it that last morning, before the final match of the Vytal Tournament. Before they'd lost Penny and Pyrrha. Before the First Battle of Beacon. Before everything went wrong.
Everything was covered in a thick layer of dust. All of their old things exactly where they'd been; Blake's books still on the shelf, Yang's posters plastered across the walls, Ruby's game controllers discarded on the floor, several of Weiss' text books laid out on the desk.
Weiss glanced over at Blake and Yang, sitting together on the faunus' old bed. Ruby had opened the window, sitting down on the sill, one leg lifted up with her arm propped on her knee, the other leg dangling outside as she stared off at Vale in the distance. The fires had been put out days ago, and already people were coming together to rebuild the kingdom.
With Salem put to rest at last, the Creatures of Grimm eradicated, and the Gods of Light and Darkness gone for good, there was finally hope for a future. Humans and Faunus were moving forward together, rebuilding everything that had been lost. And beyond that, with no Grimm, new settlements could be established. No more hiding behind walls. Unfortunately for Team RWBY, today was also the last time they'd all be together for quite some time.
With reconstruction underway, all of the Heroes of Remnant (as they were apparently being called now) would be going to different parts of the world to offer aid. Ren, Nora, and Oscar had left earlier in the week, headed east to Anima. They'd taken Jaune's armor and weapon with them, to return to his family. Emerald and Neo had elected to stay in Vale and help out there, while Yang and Blake were leaving later that evening to go to Menagerie. Meanwhile, Weiss would be going to Vacuo to reunite with her family and help establish an actual settlement for the refugees from Atlas and Mantle.
Ruby hadn't told them where she was going yet; Weiss suspected she wasn't sure what she wanted to do yet. Which was fine, honestly the younger girl deserved to have a break. Maybe she'd stay on Patch with her father for awhile. It would be good for her.
A beep from Yang's scroll roused Weiss from her musing. Glancing at the blonde brawler, she found her reading a text, Blake leaning against her side. "Dad's waiting down at the docks to see us off," Yang announced. As the BY duo stood up, Weiss noticed from the corner of her eye how Ruby ducked her head.
She didn't have much time to think on it as she found herself pulled between the newly married couple, into a tight hug. Weiss wrapped her arms around both of them, burying her head into their shoulders. "I'm gonna miss you guys," she murmured.
"Don't worry, it'll only be a few months before we're together again," Blake replied, giving the former heiress a squeeze as she butted their heads together affectionately.
"Yeah, cheer up Weisscream! You'll see us again before you have time to miss us," Yang added, pressing a gentle kiss to her forehead.
"I doubt that," Weiss said, giving them a watery smile as the three of them separated.
Yang turned as Ruby approached, pulling her little sister into a crushing hug that Ruby returned just as tight. "I'll miss you little sis," Yang whispered, kissing the side of Ruby's head.
"I love you Yang," Ruby replied, voice muffled against her sister's shoulder.
"I love you too." Pulling away, Yang cupped Ruby's cheek briefly before she moved over for Blake, who immediately pulled Ruby into another hug.
Ruby laughed softly, curling her arms around the older girl's waist. "Look after Yang for me, will you? We both know what a disaster she is," the leader joked, shooting her sister a teasing look over Blake's shoulder.
Yang very maturely poked her tongue out at her as the other three giggled. "Of course I will," Blake replied, leaning away.
"Good," Ruby said, looking away briefly before meeting Blake's eyes. "I love you Blake. I'm happy to call you my sister."
Blake's lip wobbled, tears gathering at the corners of her eyes. "I love you too sis."
Yang smiled, taking Blake's hand in her own and tugging her toward the door. "C'mon ya softie," she teased, stopping briefly to shoot a look back at the other two. "Bye guys, we'll see ya later." For a moment, her eyes locked with silver, a sadness that Weiss didn't understand appearing in those lilac eyes.
As the Bumbleby duo left, Weiss turned to her partner. "I know it'll only be a few months, but... a part of me can't help thinking of the last time we were separated at this school. About how I thought I'd never see you three again."
A frown tugged at Ruby's lips as she crossed her arms, turning to Weiss. "You'll see them again Weiss," she said with conviction, absolutely certain of that fact.
The ex-heiress looked up into those silver eyes, still not used to how much taller than her the younger girl was now. "I know."
Ducking her head, Ruby's tongue darted out to wet her lips. Almost as if she were steeling herself to say something important. After a moment, a soft sigh escaped her. "But you won't be seeing me again."
Weiss stiffened, eyes narrowing. "What do you mean? Where are you going?" As she took a step closer, Ruby took one back.
"I don't know. I just know that... I'm done here." Finally, she raised her head, meeting Weiss' gaze with a small, content smile. "I've fulfilled my purpose, finished my journey." Her smile widened, eyes glossy with unshed tears. "And it feels good!"
Weiss stared back at her, mind running a thousand miles a second as realization settled in. After Ruby had run away in the Ever After she had been gone for days. Days that WBY and Jaune had spent looking for her everywhere. Until finally she came back, Neo with her, no longer trying to kill them.
There had been something different about Ruby after that. A sort of calm focus, as if she was certain of who she was and what she was meant to do for the first time since Beacon fell. Weiss should have realized that Ruby had experienced the same sort of Rebirth that the Afterans did, but she'd just been so happy to have her best friend back that she'd ignored the signs.
But now she understood. Ruby Rose had died and been reborn in the Ever After. Reborn with the purpose of saving Remnant. A purpose that she'd finally fulfilled.
Inhaling shakily, Weiss gave her partner a teary smile before pulling her into a hug. "I'm... I'm happy for you," she whispered, taking comfort in the warm embrace of her first friend, her best friend, for what she knew would be the final time.
As they pulled apart, Weiss subtly wiped a tear from her face, clearing her throat. Ruby laughed softly, shaking her head. "So what will you do next? Today's the first day of the rest of your life Weiss."
Weiss took a step back, fidgeting with her hands as she took a moment to think it over. "Well, you know I always imagined that I'd one day take over the Schnee Dust Company, turn it back into the company my grandfather wanted it to be." She paused, considering that old dream, knowing that wasn't the future she wanted anymore.
Ruby seemed to understand, her head tilting curiously, a knowing smile on her face. "And now?"
A smile slowly curled Weiss' lips as she bounced on her heels. "Now... I think I wanna keep moving. Go anywhere, everywhere!" There was an excitement to her voice as she began to pace back and forth under Ruby's watchful gaze. "There's so many people who need help and I want to help as many as I can!" She let out a laugh, running a hand through her freshly cut hair. "Brothers, I can't believe I'm saying this! It sounds so exhausting but-" Turning back to face Ruby, she froze, the smile dropping from her face.
Her partner was gone. As if she'd never been there at all.
Weiss looked around, whirling in place to look at every corner of the room. There was no sign of her.
Slowly, Weiss' shoulders slumped. With a sigh, she moved to leave, pausing in the doorway. Giving one last glance over her shoulder, she took in their old dorm room for the last time, her eyes landing on Ruby's dangling bed last.
"Goodbye Ruby," she murmured softly, reaching over to flick off the light switch. "You won't be forgotten." Gently, Weiss Schnee closed the door and walked away.
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novankenn · 11 months ago
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Spirits of Vengeance...
(1)- the Rider (Yang)
"YOU FUCKING BASTARD!!!!" Yang screamed at the shadows inside the garage at her family home on Patch. "WE HAD A DEAL!"
"We did..." came a sinister almost hissing voice from all about her. "and I kept up my end."
"How? How did you? Mom is gone! She's gone!" Yang wailed tears flowing down her cheeks.
"I brought her back, like you asked..." the voice informed the distraught young woman. "We never agreed on how long she would stay..."
"So it was you!" Yang pushed down her sorrow and latched on to the burning rage with in her heart. "You did that to her and Ruby!"
"I did not." the voice replied. "I do not HURT my investments."
"I'm not an investment!"
"Oh my dear, dear Yang... yes you are."
"Bring them both back! I'll make another deal! Just bring them back!"
"I'm sorry my little sun-dragon... but you only get one deal."
"You can do it!" Yang wailed "You did it once you can do it again!"
"I'm sorry Yang... but without a deal... I can't..."
"But..." Yang collapsed to her knees , wrapping her arms around herself in a vain attempt to stop her shaking. "Why... why..."
"I wish I could tell you why..." the voice answered. "I truly do, but I have no answers for you... at least not yet."
"Yet?" Yang looked up to see a set of ominous and sinister glowing eyes in the deepest shadows of the garage. "What... what?"
"I have a job for you... and while you work to complete it... I'll find out the why and who of what happened to your mother and sister... deal?"
"Wait... you said no more..."
"This is not the same type of deal you made with me ten years ago..." the voice replied, "This is more of a verbal agreement. You do something for me... I'll do something for you."
"I... I..."
"Yang, my little sun-dragon... you really have no choice. I made an investment in you. I nurtured you strength, and wellness. I empowered you... now I aim to collect..."
"I won't..."
"You will. You have no choice... though if you... willingly choose to complete this task... I can do things in return... like find your mom and sister... so... what is your choice?"
"You swear?" Yang choked out as she forced herself to her feet. "You swear if I do this you will find them?"
"Have I EVER broken a promise to you?" the voice asked in response. "Will you be my rider?"
"Yes..." Yang answered with a shaking voice.
"Say it!"
"Yes, I will be your Rid.... ARGH!!!!!" Yang twisted about, pain shredding through her body. She staggered and fell to her knees as smoke began to flicker about her body. Wispy tongues of orange flame licked about her flesh, and she shrieked in agony.
"The change gets easier... with time." the voice commented as Yang's pale flesh melted and then was charred away. Floating into the air as specks of ash.
The sounds of her screams had never left the garage. The shadows having deadened them into complete silence... so there was no one but it to witness as the once vibrant beauty rose to her feet. All her exposed flesh was gone, leaving nothing but gleaming bone wreathed in flickering flames. Her once long golden locks now nothing but a cascade of rolling flames.
"Go. Vale. Her name is Trivia Vanille, though she goes more by Neo nowadays." the Rider turned it blazing eyes towards the origin of the sinister voice. "She is not wat she appears to be. Send her home."
"Send. Her. Home." the Rider hissed out in a guttural voice, before it moved forward towards her alternate body's pride and joy. As soon as its flaming fingers touched the motorcycle, flames leap forward and coiled about it. Slowly the formerly sleek street bike twisted taking a shape more inline with its new owner.
With a hissing snarl the Rider gunned the engine and tore out of the garage and down the short driveway, leaving a trail of flickering flames as it went.
The red eyes watched the Rider leave, before they too faded away.
(Master List)
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writingrapscallion · 1 year ago
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Avatar Ruby AU
Idea for Avatar AU inspired by this great fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/50903554/chapters/128597659
So after reading this fic, I've been having an ATLA Whiterose AU in my head for days. The setting I've been thinking of is much like the regular show— the Fire Nation's at war with the rest of the world, and Ruby must act before Sozin's Comet returns. The Air Nomad Genocide was closer to 20 years ago than 100, and was done after capturing the previous Avatar rather than to kill the next Avatar. The Fire Nation believed that, by killing the entire Air Nation then killing the Avatar, they would forever break the cycle of reincarnation since there would be no Air Nomads to inherit the Avatar Spirit. This plot was only barely stopped by the survival of one Air Nomad: Summer Rose.
Team RWBY:
Ruby Rose:
Daughter of the last surviving Air Nomad, Summer Rose, and a Fire Nation soldier, Taiyang Xiao Long.
Taiyang, who had joined up in the Fire Nation army before he truly understood what they were, had done his best to save people from the Air Nomad Genocide. However, he ended up only being able to save Summer, whom he eventually fell in love with.
When Ruby was very little, she was identified as the Avatar. However, the Fire Nation found out and attempted to kill her, leading to her mother's death and her family hiding out on Patch, a small Fire Nation Island.
One of Ruby's oldest memories is her childhood home going up in flames as Firebenders attack— this leads to her repressing her ability to bend fire before she knows that she's the Avatar and, later on, a reluctance to use fire (much like Aang in the show).
Ruby fully believes that she's an Airbender, like her mother, since Taiyang and her Uncle Qrow didn't tell her she's the Avatar
Much like in the show, Ruby's a cheerful, mischievous kid. She uses her Airbender speed to rush everywhere, although she's been reprimanded for risking her identity enough times that she doesn't use it around people.
She works as a blacksmith's apprentice to her father, and is still obsessed with weapons— Crescent Rose very much exists in this AU, although it's unfortunately not a gun.
She hopes to be a freedom fighter like her Uncle Qrow. However, for all her hatred of Fire nation imperialism, she's not got the blinding hatred of someone like Jet (or in this universe Adam). She truly hopes she can bring about a peaceful resolution to the conflict (even if she's not as violence adverse as Aang).
When she's 15 years old, she accidentally unleashes her Avatar powers to save Yang and has to flee her home to avoid discovery.
Yang Xiao Long:
After Taiyang left the army but before he and Summer got together, Taiyang had a relationship with a pirate named Raven. Although she's Fire Nation by birth, Raven's Raiders are really a scourge on all four nations, preying on whoever has something they can take.
Although Taiyang initially believed Raven to be someone like him, Fire Nation by birth but taking a stand against their Nation's evils, he leaves when he realizes that she's just motivated by greed and doesn't care who she hurts.
Yang remembers a bit more about Summer than Ruby does, and hates the Fire Nation government as much as her sister. She's not quite as idealistic as her sister, and is a lot more suspicous of people they meet (especially Weiss).
Taiyang taught her his own, very physical style of Firebending, and Yang took to it like a duck to water. Her flames are even fiercer than her father's, but she lacks some of his control— nothing that would be a serious issue against an unskilled opponent, but maybe down the road...
Does several missions with her Uncle Qrow to sabotage the Fire Nation war effort (she keeps her actions secret due to her father's fears). She's just as surprised as her little sister when, after a botched missions leads to her being almost killed, Ruby enters the Avatar State to save her.
Weiss Schnee:
Although a lot of people put Weiss in the Water Tribe due to ice being her thing, it only made narrative sense to me for her to be Fire Nation (also I love Zuko and she's now basically Zuko)
She's the second of three children of the Fire Lord Jacques Schnee and Willow Schnee. Although Willow is the actual heir to the throne since her father was the Fire Lord, Jacques Schnee, a powerful merchant, managed to orchestrate a subtle palace coup after Willow's parents death to take power.
Although the Schnees are Fire Nation royalty, blue is still the main color of their outfits, since blue is the color of very hot fire. As Jacques Schnee would put it: "common flames burn red, but Schnee flames burn blue."
Weiss' parents are much like in the show, with her controlling father orchestrating her childhood while her mother became an alcoholic to deal with her loss of power.
Her older sister, Winter, ran away years ago, and although Weiss doesn't know what happened, she's told that her sister betrayed the Schnee Family and the Fire Nation. Weiss has grown resentful of her older sister, pubicly because she's a traitor but secrelty she's more mad that her sister abandoned her.
The one person Weiss has found she can truly rely on is her butler, a retired Fire Nation soldier named Klein. Although Klein was a decorated warrior, he retired from the military (partially due to his disagreement with the military's new priorities). He was chosen to be Weiss' attendant, and pretends to be simply a servant in public, although he is in truth her closest confidant, a sharp-minded old man who's unshakably loyal to Weiss (AKA ripoff Uncle Iroh).
Much like Zuko, Weiss challenges a plan that would have led to the slaughter of innocent Fire nation Troops (as well as massive civilian deaths) and is forced into an Agni Kai, realizing only too late that she's facing her father.
I think it would be interesting for Jacques to be a non-bender in this, just because ATLA villains are always mighty benders and I think it would be cool to have a non-Bending villain. For this reason, Jacques either physically beats Weiss since she refuses to fight (with some kind of monologue about how all the Firebending in the world and she's still too weak to fight him) or a proxy like Cinder fights for Jacques. This is where Weiss gets her eye scar, as well as a lot of other, less visible scars.
Although Weiss was previously a Firebending prodigy, after months of recuperation due to her injuries in the Agni Kai she's become rusty, struggling to be as good as she once was. She's continually upset by her failure to live up to, in her eyes, "basic standards," unable to even conjure her family's signature blue flame.
Once she's healed, Weiss is sent into exile until she, you guessed it, captures the Avatar. She's accompanied by Klein and an old ship she'd commandeered on what seems like a wild goose chase, until, suddenly, she sees a pillar of light.
Blake Belladonna:
I feel like Blake should have cat ears, but I don't want to figure out how the Faunus into this universe, so everyone who is a Faunus in the original show will continue to be one but it will just never be commented on.
The White Fang are a radical anti-Fire Nation group (much like Jet's Freedom Fighters in the original). Although motivated by the very real misdeeds of the Fire Nation, the White Fang has lately begun indiscriminate attacks on Fire Nation citizens and even Earth Kingdom groups it views as collaborators due to their leniency.
Blake was a member of the group until Adam, the group's leader and her lover, plotted to collapse a mine that was being used to fuel the Fire Nation war effort. When Blake realized that most of the workers who would die in the mine collapse were Earth Nation and only working there out of fear for their families, she tried to stop Adam from but he merely stated that they were collaborators who deserved what they got. Blake realized how twisted he and the group had become and decided to leave.
When Blake encounters Ruby and Yang, she suspects that they may be Fire Nation spies and joins their group, attempting to deduce their purpose (imagine how Jet thinks of Iroh & Zuko except a lot subtler). Upon realizing who they truly are, she enthusiastically volunteers to join them, believing this to be a way to truly help defeat the Fire nation.
Blake is incredibly cynical and, while not as blinded by rage as Adam, still has a deepset hatred of the Fire Nation. Meeting Yang and Ruby, friendly people raised in the Fire Nation, caused her to rethink some of her assumptions about the Fire Nation, assumptions further challenged by Weiss.
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bestworstcase · 1 year ago
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Why didn't Salem recognize Yang as Summers daughter? Summers, not Yangs bio-mom, so Yang doesn't physically look like her. But there's no reason that Summer couldn't just show Salem a picture of Yang and say, "That's my other daughter." Even if Summer didn't have any pictures to show, she could have pointed Yang out during vol.3 while she was on camera.
I don't think Summer approved of Yang being framed by Emerald or of her being maimed by Adam(assuming that Summer knows it's him who did it).
But this begs the question of why wouldn't Summer tell Salem? Salem doesn't know that Raven is the spring maiden, so she shouldn't know that there's a possibility of Yang being next in line for the powers. But even if Salem knew about Raven, Summer withholding the fact that Yang's her daughter doesn't do anything to protect Yang.
(Or Summer doesn't consider Yang her daughter/doesn't value her as much as she does Ruby, which is a whole other can of worms that i don't think is the case).
well, when the story begins it's been twelve years since the last time summer either of her daughters and, having faked her own death, summer wouldn't have access to more recent photos necessarily. add to this that evernight—being hidden away in the recesses of an uninhabited continent—obviously wouldn't have been hooked into the CCTS even before the fall of beacon knocked out global communications.
summer could have described what yang looked like, sure, but no one is going to immediately recognize a nineteen year old on the basis of a verbal description of what she looked like when she was five, you know?
during V3, summer was probably on the ground at beacon academy (she's the only one of salem's circle with a motive to leave ruby alive when she pulled a grievously injured cinder off the tower) while salem remained at evernight; at this point she might have received reports from summer that both ruby and yang were enrolled at the school, but those would have again been verbal, over seer, because evernight is too far from the CCTS for summer to be transmitting video or pictures.
and after beacon falls, summer remains on campus while cinder et al return to evernight. at that point, salem would certainly know that ruby's glare injured cinder, seems to have been informed when ruby left home months later, and she might also have heard from summer that yang lost an arm and is still safe at home in patch.
<- that accounts for the disparity between salem's overt insistence on leaving ruby alive versus never mentioning yang at all; ruby was the one who hurt cinder (thus the one cinder had a motive to harm), and ruby was the one gallivanting across anima with only a few classmates and her alcoholic uncle to protect her. depending on how closely summer has actually been able to monitor what's going on in the xiao long cabin, there might be a significant gap between yang leaving and summer being able to confirm that yang has left or why. it's not like she can sit around spying on the cabin all the time—she has the academy to hold and a vault to find.
basically, the answer is fog of war. salem doesn't even know who neopolitan is when cinder brings her home in V8—and neo was one of the key infiltrators responsible for bringing beacon to its knees!
i do think there's a possibility that cinder targeted yang in the tournament specifically because yang is summer's daughter (<- nest parasitism), but from summer's point of view… like, getting yang disqualified and kicked out of the tournament isn't the worst thing in the world? because it means yang definitely will not be in the arena when the grimm hit it, and depending on how severe the disciplinary action is she might be removed from the campus altogether. it's unpleasant but there you go.
and then adam was one of cinder's pawns, not someone who answered to salem or summer, and "the rogue white fang lieutenant cinder recruited is the vindictive ex of summer's daughter's teammate and he decides to dismember summer's daughter to emotionally torture the teammate" is frankly not a scenario that anyone in salem's circle could have predicted, not is it something that summer could reasonably fault salem for. cutting off yang's arm wasn't exactly part of the plan.
i do, however, think that salem suspected that this girl was probably summer's other daughter—about the right age, blonde, violet eyes, and she's the girl who rushed to ruby's side when salem "your mother"-ed ruby yesterday. she might not have known for sure, but… this:
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is an extraordinarily calm reaction to yang's deliberately provocative "all this endless death, just because something bad happened to you once upon a time?!" and if salem had even the faintest shred of suspicion that this girl is summer's eldest then that's all the more incentive to sharply rein in her temper. "and who is it i've taken from you, girl?" is a sly way of getting yang to identify herself.
sidebar. i also don't think summer knew that raven is the spring maiden—i think she fled from that confrontation before gretchen died and guessed that the power would have gone to someone unknown (remember how qrow specifically throws in "unless it's a dude" when they're explaining how the powers are transferred? remember how gretchen had a twin brother? assuming that her last thoughts would have been of hazel isn't a huge leap), hence why salem's people are also trying to find the spring maiden and hence why cinder doesn't walk into that camp forewarned that raven is the actual maiden. fog of war!
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anthurak · 11 months ago
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Random Old Theories/Headcannons: Wyrd RWBY
So those who have been following me for the last few years might recall that prior to us actually knowing anything about Volume 9, some of my theory posts touched on Team RWBY returning to Remnant changed by their time in this mystical realm beyond their own, wielding weird and strange powers.
Anyway, this is a WIP from a couple years back that went into some fun ideas for these changes for ‘Wyrd RWBY’ that I thought I’d touch up and finally post.
Enjoy XD
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Yang doesn’t seem much different at first. Just that her hair seems to be a bit wavier than before, like she’s using her semblance all the time now. And the air around her always seems to be at least a few degrees warmer. But then you start noticing other things. Like how sometimes her right arm isn’t made of metal and circuits but instead wreathed in some kind of tangible flame. Or how the fingernails on Yang’s left arm now look more like claws. Or how when Yang’s eyes turn red, they now also become slitted like the eyes of a lizard. Or the golden flakes that now dot Yang’s exposed skin. Flakes that will sometimes spread. Sometimes they spread so much they look more like golden scales. Yang always laughs this off. Which is also when you can see that her teeth are quite a bit larger, and sharper than you remember.
Blake herself isn’t the one who seems different at first. It’s her shadow. Like how it often moves independent of Blake. Or is somehow able to grab things for Blake. Sometimes you’ll see Blake’s shadow moving along a wall with Blake herself nowhere in sight. Sometimes Blake’s shadow won’t look like Blake at all, but rather some manner of very large cat. And sometimes you’ll see a large black cat wandering the back allies with the shadow of a person.
Weiss… where to begin with Weiss? First off, you wouldn’t expect a girl like Weiss to be into tattoos, but now Weiss seems to be covered in them. On almost every bit of visible skin, Weiss has these strange, arcane symbols, glyphs and runes. They tend to glow whenever Weiss uses her semblance. Speaking of which, you know that the Schnee semblance is versatile to say the least, but you’re pretty sure they at least needed to dust to do some of their crazier feats.
What Weiss is doing feels less like a semblance and more like actual magic.
Then there’s Weiss’s Grimm. Not Grimm like everyone knows. No one would mistake these creatures for the Grimm that humanity fears. With their bodies and fur the color of freshly fallen snow and icy blue eyes. You’ve seen Winter and Willow Schnee summon ‘white’ Grimm before, but the creatures that Weiss calls to her side seem so much more tangible. Not some construct of aura that will vanish as soon as its mistress stops focusing on it, but something REAL. And there’s always at least one or two with Weiss wherever she goes, sometimes more.
And Ruby? Well, let’s just say the fact that she somehow has wolf ears and an eye-patch are probably the least weird things about her now.
Like how her silver eyes were always unique, but now it seems they often glint and shimmer and otherwise catch the light in ways eyes don’t. Even when there isn’t any light for them to catch…
Ruby also uses her semblance more. A lot more. As in, unless she’s accompanying someone else, you can expect her to enter a room not through a door, but via a trickle of rose-petals blowing in through an open window. Or a vent. Or just appearing out of basically nowhere.
In fact, it seems like there are always a few petals flaking off of Ruby’s cloak, only to vanish before they even hit the ground.
And it feels like any time Ruby might be struck or otherwise injured, her semblance will activate.
You remember one time when Nora tried to give Ruby an affectionate punch to the arm, only for her fist to travel through the arm as it suddenly burst into petals before reforming a moment later.
Come to think of it, you’re pretty sure you haven’t seen anyone actually TOUCH Ruby. Aside from her teammates…
Speaking of which, Team RWBY together brings even more strangeness.
Like how they��ll sometimes speak amongst themselves in a strange language that sounds more like a whistling breeze or a crackling flame than anything someone might actually speak with.
Or how they will sometimes move and act together without need for words at all. And that’s just the least of it…
Like you’re pretty sure you’ve seen Blake’s golden eyes flash just a bit when Yang uses her semblance. Or Yang’s violet eyes shimmer when Blake uses hers. Or how Yang’s semblance now creates a fiery, shadow-like afterimage of herself that looks a bit more like Blake than her. Or times when Blake will gain some sudden burst of strength while fighting that causes her hair to start flickering like a flame.
Meanwhile you’re pretty sure you’ve seen some of Weiss’s runic tattoos briefly appear on Ruby’s skin, or the edges of Weiss’s hair briefly turn red. And there was that one time Ruby and Weiss went out to save a group of incoming refugees being attacked by a horde of grimm, yet those same refugees swear they were saved by a mysterious woman in red and white.
Oh, and there’s also Ruby’s new pet mouse who actually seems pretty normal. Aside from the fact that some people are saying the mouse talks.
But that’s just silly!
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asmallermorehonestsoul · 1 year ago
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RWBY Beyond: Boba
Yang plans a surprise outing for Ruby.
I love sister content lets go!
I love them so much TT.TT also return of chibi Ruby from Vol1 lol
She's a celebrity now! Awwww our poor awkward Rubes sdsdfgdsfg
Normal knees! Another Vol1 callback! And Yang once again being a proud big sis
HELP THE IRL PHOTOS TOOK ME BY SURPRISE SDAFFGDFG
but its cute to see Ruby so excited again! Confession, I never had boba, not sure how i'd feel abt it
Oh it was a shop from Patch that they used to go to with Tai, awwwww
OK so Tai is on assignment? But i guess it's bringing up old feelings for Yang
Awww Yang trying to talk abt Ruby ascending and letting her know how much she cares abt her
Awwwww 'boba' is their 'i need help code word'!
Again I love sister content so this was very good! I liked hearing abt the boba shop, and Ruby being so happy. And Yang having that hard conversation... has she learned abt asking for help either? I wonder what Tai's assignment is though... well it was nice they got this moment.
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strqyr · 1 year ago
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i just can't get over the fact that yang expected tai to be there.
after returning to remnant and getting to shade, yang and ruby have probably witnessed weiss and maybe even blake reunite with their own families. and qrow is there. raven is there. people who made it out of vale are there, the fucking bubba bubba boba shop is there, having relocated to vacuo from patch.
but tai isn't, and it's weird. unexpected, so uncharacteristic that yang has to wonder why, the answer she has been given unsatisfying because what could be more important than being there? what could possibly keep their father, who they know to be someone who worries a lot and at times is a bit overprotective, away from vacuo where everyone is preparing for the final stand?
and it's pulling at my heartstrings like they miss their dad so much and it's just so 🥺
(and ya know also slightly worried for tai's state of mind like does this man know his daughters are alive and back on remnant has anyone kept him updated like please tell me he's not super depressed somewhere thinking his daughters are dead preparing for his own final stand against the impossible just to keep the crown safe bc what does he have left anymore the last time we saw him was alone with zwei in a dark room like hello??? health check????)
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okay as someone else with a bandit wiess ivew got to know yours
Haha I’m glad you liked her! Cuervo absolutely killed it! And I must say im sorry to disappoint, because it’s not actually bandit!Weiss. In fact she’s pretty staunchly anti bandit. Unfortunately for you though, I’m now going to rant about my ‘Of swords and Scythes’ AU.
Basically this is a completely self indulgent, spit-in-the-face-of-canon, dark comedy au. A major departure from canon being that in this bandit clans are an as big, if not bigger, threat to life in the kingdoms than the Grimm. Salem is around but she’s more of an evil part-time soccer mom than bent on world destruction. She’s just kinda vibing at evernight, sipping her martinis and taking bubble baths (While her daughter cinder causes chaos at Beacon). She and Oz are even on *somewhat* speaking terms.
Anyway, Qrow split from the bandit life and cut ties with Raven after “The Incident” (Dun Dun Dun)! Basically, Raven hid her bandit ties from Tai and Summer (This was a Summer/Tai/Raven situation before the incident) until Yang was born. After Yang was born she told them about her ties as well as saying she was taking Yang to be raised with the clans. Summer and Tai refused and it was a pretty violent break, but in the end Raven returned to her clan bruised and childless. For the next two years Qrow was torn between Tai & Summer and Raven, desperately trying to patch things up. But in that time Raven was only gathering strength/resources, bolstering and unifying the clans around Vale.
Then the incident happened. Ruby was born. To get revenge on Tai and Summer, Raven stole her away in the night. Despite having no evidence Summer damn knew it was Raven and bum rushed her compound. It was a brutal and violent clash that ended with Raven taking a gnarly hit to the gut from sundered rose aura-less and Raven blinding Summer. In the end Qrow had to drag summer out kicking and screaming. After that is when he broke ties with his old bandit life.
Fast forward another two years and Qrow is doing a mission for oz in Mistral when he sees the darndest thing. I little girl with stark white hair running for her life in the woods from a beowolf. TLDR” The Schnee’s were on a business trip, Weiss saw some of the more fucked up aspects of the family, and ran away. Qrow initially tried bringing the kid to the cops but she screamed absolute bloody murder and he caved. When she fell asleep he dropped her off at an orphanage but an hour later she found him again. They did that song and dance 3 times until Qrow finally said fuck it and brought her along. (He had to get his mission done eventually, right?)
Cue “Adorable kid and old drunkard hijinks.” He keeps his new pseudo adopted kid secret for a few years, until another incident happens where weiss gets kidnapped by, you guessed it, bandits. Tai and Summer happen to be with him and see him go absolutely apeshit. Semblance goes so out of control harbinger breaks and hes still putting bandits in the ground with a broken hunk of metal. Weiss, learning from Qrow lmao, back talks the bandits a lot and that’s how she gets her scar. Anyway, Qrow rescues her and has his “Oh shit, this is my daughter” moment and then starts training her. Hence why she uses a scythe. Oh also tai and Summer are pretty surprised to find out he has a kid, but given the whole Raven situation, they aren’t offended he hid her.
A few years later, the “main events” (Although very different cause of the bandit deviation, and all the character deviations) of RWBY happen.
I could honestly ramble on about this au for hours but I will spare you. I will say though, Weiss is very much her father’s daughter. Absolute cocky shit starter.
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RWBY X Transformers Partnerships 4: Optimus Prime and Mercury Black - Peacemakers
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"It's just....after everything I've done, it's still hard to believe a chance to change exists for a guy like me."
"There is always hope for redemption, Mercury. However, I believe you are missing one crucial factor regarding your past."
"Man, you talk in the most ancient way. Alright Boss Man, I've told you about myself, no lies. I was trained to be an assassin, made to kill others, and steal, then killed my own father. What 'crucial factor' am I missing?"
"The fact that you were an innocent child born into a hard life. I do not deny that you were forced into committing vile acts, or that, in some aspects, you perhaps enjoyed it. However, I know that you had no say in the matter, and that until you befriended young Ruby, you felt you had been caged in the occupation of an assassin. But by choosing to escape that life, and proving your reliability since then, you have shown to be capable of changing for the better. I believe you were meant for more, Mercury Black, and if you are willing, I would be grateful to help guide you on your new path."
".....You mean it? Even though we just met like, what, a month ago?"
"I refuse to lie to you on such matters, Mercury. In my spark, I am certain that you will achieve more than you could dream is possible."
"I...well, Ruby believes in me, but I - I never had an adult give me a chance like that. Until Tai and the others, but even then, they're..."
"Cautious?"
"Heh, to put it mildly."
"I assure you, Mercury, that such caution will not be exercised by myself. Should you need anything, you can always speak to me."
"....Thanks, Optimus."
Mercury is used to adapting. As an assassin, you have to be ready to switch tactics on a dime, or create a new plan on the fly when your old one goes up in flames. It'd been drilled into him (he had the scars to prove it), and even when his perspective on life had been shattered and reconstructed by Ruby, Mercury was able to pull himself together and adapt to the change in time for the Fall of Beacon.
However, living in his sort of/definite girlfriend's house with her family and now having to deal with the revelation of giant alien robots bringing their war to Remnant is more than probably even Marcus could handle.
In order to process this curveball, Mercury decides to keep by Ruby's room, detach himself from the world, and analyze the residents of Patch while this new pattern settles in his brain.
Tai is a kind man, and though he's surprisingly tame, Mercury has caught glimpses of the senior Xiao Long's fire that has been passed on to Yang. Speaking of Yang, the fiery blond is returning to her old self, albeit more restrained than before. To be completely honest, Mercury is grateful for that progress; seeing Yang in a shell-shocked, blank state had actually hurt him. Her boyfriend Neptune has perked up on account of this, and although he gets along with him, Mercury is still confused about how he's so accepting of the existence of literal alien robots. Then again, this guy's dating the Sun Dragon, so he shouldn't be surprised that Neptune was actually excited to hear that Qrow had brought home over-sized guests.
Oh, right. Qrow Branwen.
Although the Huntsman's reputation precedes him by a wide margin, and though the hairs on the back of his neck still tingle when Qrow's eyes land on him, Mercury's initial fear of the man has morphed into suspicion and a deal of resentment. Tai can claim he was adopted into the family all he wants to, but Mercury had been taught to look for patterns and anything unusual. And the uncanny facial resemblance between Qrow and his "honorary niece" is blatantly obvious. And the scythe weapon? Please, it takes a genius to build something like that, never mind maintaining and operating it with the ease he and Ruby exercise. So yeah, the chances of two unrelated individuals having the same genius to build an intricately designed scythe weapon are a million to one - and those odds have already been stolen by the 'Cybertronians' who'd fallen through some portal onto Remnant.
Mercury is still trying to understand that, but between monitoring Ruby and the house, he's getting there.
Wheeljack is similar to Qrow, which Mercury automatically associates with the words "dangerous" and "unpredictable". He's a good engineer, judging by the doo-hickey he's cooked up on the island, but the scars and sparky look in his eyes tells Mercury that the...'Wrecker-scientist', is just as capable of destroying as he is of creating. Ironhide is what every drill sergeant wishes he could be; the giant 'Autobot' barks orders and gives assignments at great speed, usually practiced as he takes over a task from one of the others when they move too slowly. Despite that, he's surprisingly careful when dealing with Miko - and Mercury does his best to avoid her and her explosions. She's innocent, he knows that, but by Remnant, she has too much energy for his liking.
Sideswipe is...loose. Mercury can't quite put his finger on it, but he knows that Sideswipe, in spite of his bravado and snark that rivals Yang's, is fast. If he had to bet, the younger Autobot is used to moving at speeds that allow him to dish out pain with little detriment to himself. Good qualities for sure, but the way he acts like a twenty year old and carries himself like that hits a little too close to home for Mercury's comfort. As for Smokescreen, it's obvious he's the team baby - the short Autobot has the same kind of energy for justice as Ruby, as well as the excitableness and easygoing nature. Because of that similarity, Mercury's willing to spend some of his free time with him, though there are moments of eerie silence from Smokescreen, as well as a distant gaze, that makes him wonder about the guy's inner thoughts. However, the kid brushes it off with swagger, and Mercury's too deep in his own concerns to bother trying to coax an admission out of him.
However, the one he can't seem to pin down is their leader: Optimus Prime.
The Autobot commander towers over them all, with only Ironhide standing even remotely close to Optimus' height. Optimus walks steadily, with a silent strength and confidence that Mercury has never seen in anyone else's stride. Moreover, he can feel the guy's power when he enters a room, almost as if it were a supernatural sensation. Heck, even when he's standing still, Mercury can sense that power at rest, waiting to be used and capable of unleashing itself in a breath if Optimus wanted to cut loose.
But that's not what boggles his mind the most about the Autobots' superior.
It's the way he speaks.
Optimus' voice is deep and carries far, easily putting every other male's baritone and bass to shame. And yet, despite that, despite the sheer force in his voice, Optimus always speaks in a calm tone. He always uses full sentences, never utilizes slang or contractions (That's wild), and not once - ONCE - has Mercury heard his voice rise beyond an octave. It should be intimidating, should make him question this guy's status among the Cybertronian race.
And yet...the absolute warmth in Optimus' voice reaches something inside of Mercury. It reaches in and stirs something, something like a small child, to consciousness, and makes the child want to reach out to Optimus for something like comfort, and safety.
The only time Mercury can actually remember doing that is a time when he was eight, shortly after his mother had died. And his plea for consolation had been answered with a severe punishment from Marcus.
That memory makes all of his instincts scream to stay away from Optimus emotionally. Ruby understands him, accepts him, and so far her opinion outweighs the realistic worries of her family, which has given Mercury more time to continue improving himself and showing that he has changed from his upbringing. But since he's gotten to know her, he's become friendly with the other people in her life, although he can't help but keep some of them at arm's length for a while yet. Tai lets him roam the house free, Yang's willing to spar with him while Neptune cheers and mediates on the side, while Mercury and Qrow keep their distance based off a mutual, silent understanding of Ruby's true parentage between them.
So finding himself almost unconsciously following after Optimus whenever a meeting ends is more than a shock for Mercury.
It happens to him three times. The first time is when they meet, and Mercury had still been processing the Autobots' arrival. He'd all but locked himself in the guest room, and stayed in Ruby's room for a week to figure things out. The second time was when Wheeljack had finished half of the doo-hickey out in the woods, and required new equipment that required everyone's presence. Mercury had all but run back to the cabin from the shock of that lapse, and seeing that Ruby had woken up had kept him occupied for the next five days, and given him a reasonable excuse for avoiding the Cybertronians, their leader especially. However, his time with Ruby, while relieving and rejuvenating for them both, came to a head when Wheeljack stuck his metal foot in his mouth and openly identified Ruby as Qrow's daughter when they were working on Branwen's scythe.
He knew she was going to run, knew she was going to be too fast for him. But Mercury still tried going after her, mildly surprised that Smokescreen shifted into a sporty racecar to take after her as well. It seemed that he reacted instinctively too, as the short Autobot drove off without thinking to offer him a ride, and Mercury found himself chasing air and dirt before logic made him stop.
As he stood there, Optimus entered the area from the side, and Mercury's whirling thoughts consisted of one realization that the Autobot had been nearby when the fiasco began. To his surprise, Optimus asked him what had happened, and with a quick scan of the place around him, Mercury saw that Qrow and Wheeljack had disappeared - whether to chase down Ruby or not, he had no idea.
Resisting all his better instincts, Mercury summed up Ruby's real parentage and how he and Qrow had been trying to avoid it until Wheeljack ruined it. To his immense surprise, Optimus listened with keen interest, and once he'd finished, the leader thanked him and advised they let Smokescreen find her, as (apparently) the kid had ways of bonding with "human youth". Mercury quietly scoffed at the phrasing, then mumbled about the strangeness of this alien leader.
That dour sarcasm evaporated when he looked up and saw that he was trailing Optimus' moving feet.
Certain he was losing his mind, Mercury froze and tried to think of a way to leave without being spotted. However, Optimus paused and spoke his name, the patient, quiet underlying command of "stay put" rooting him to the ground. Turning around, Optimus revealed that he was aware of not only Mercury's unconscious tailing of him, but how he'd been avoiding him for the past two weeks as well. Optimus told him that while he respected his privacy and actions, he wished to know why Mercury fears him, as he only wants to be a friend to him.
The words make everything that's been building up inside of Mercury snap, and he can't help it. He yells at Optimus, blurts out that no one can be as good as he is, that adults aren't as inherently kind like him and that anything like those qualities are destroyed somehow in short order. He lashes out that he can't figure Optimus out because he's so different, so good, and honest-to-Remnant heroic, and that no one can - can...
"...Make me feel like a kid. A defenseless kid, who never....never had what Yang has with Tai."
Mercury stuffs his hands in his pockets, then stares at the ground and hopes against all reason that the world will just go back to making sense. Optimus takes two careful steps forward, bends down, and to Mercury's shock, picks him up. His hold is gentle, and he brings the hand holding him to his chest, where Mercury notices a pale glow emanating from somewhere behind the glass before the comforting warmth of his metal body distracts him and makes Mercury relax. As Mercury processes this, Optimus quietly speaks, telling him that many people are too weak to be either good or heroic, and that yes, many can be good, but will have their better qualities destroyed. Oftentimes, the latter is a personal choice, such as the Decepticons' leader Megatron, who Optimus once considered a brother before their war broke out. As Mercury detects a faint humming inside of the Autobot's chest, Optimus adds that many can and do choose to be good, and that while some possess those qualities to greater degrees than others, it does not make the entire adult world cruel.
"Life itself is cruel, and I feel you know that better than many your age do. However, if you will allow me to, I would be pleased to help you heal and learn to trust others again, Mercury."
Mercury's not sure if this is how it feels to have a father, but even if it isn't, he's gonna fight to keep it the same way he'll fight to keep Ruby safe.
Optimus and Mercury form a close bond after this, with Optimus often making sure Mercury is both safe and emotionally well after a long day. He knows when Mercury needs a push to go to bed or otherwise take care of himself, but more times than not, Optimus can tell when he should speak sternly to the boy over his sleep schedule, as well as when to put his foot down over Mercury's regular time of training, reconnaissance, and other habits. Similarly, Mercury has learned tricks of getting Optimus to take a much needed break, usually by asking for some alone time that he's reluctant to admit he needs. They make a strong team on and off the battlefield, with Optimus helping to refine Mercury's techniques while Mercury tells him about Remnant's stars and history. The Autobot leader's fascination with learning their culture softens Mercury a tiny bit, and - perhaps - leads him to learn of Optimus' past on Cybertron....
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Lord Almighty, last year drained me more than I realized! Sheesh, I thought for sure I'd get them done sooner than this!
Anyway, I had this team up in my head almost from the get-go. Mercury needs a real father, and Optimus is the manifestation of Team Dad, so it only made sense to buddy them up. For their name, I chose Peacemakers because Optimus wishes and fights for peace, while Mercury needs to find peace - though I admit, I was partly inspired by the weapon of the same name.
Pray I get more done sooner than this, folks! I love these two franchises, and I want to get back on track for this series I started so long ago. See you around, and remember the wisdom of the greatest Prime in history:
"Hold on to your dreams. The future is built on dreams."
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