#let rouge and jewel take a fucking break please 😂

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Jewel and Rouge being mom friend's headcanons?

Because Jewel is a disaster pan, Rouge intimidates her a bit (well, a lot), so I imagine it takes a bit for a friendship to really get going between these two. 😂

Rouge appreciates her company though, as it is a massive breath of fresh air for Rouge to get to spend time with another "older" (we'll get back to that) woman who:

Has multiple jobs AND is pretty career driven (Rouge works for GUN, runs Club Rouge, and may or may not do jewel thieving on the side ;), and Jewel runs the Mineral Museum AND the Restoration)

Is the voice of reason of their regular circles (Rouge is the one thing keeping Team Dark from going completely off the rails, plus also sometimes has to wrangle Knuckles. Jewel has to deal with Tangle, and by this point in my Canon Bark and Bean live with her. Although in all fairness Bark is usually on the same page as her, it's pretty much just Bean being the crazy one.)

They get together for drinks usually, but sometimes Rouge can talk Jewel into taking a day off and joining her for a spa day, and they just commiserate together about the bullshit they have to deal with at the hands of their friends.

Rouge was absolutely stunned to learn Jewel's two years younger than her. (Rouge is 18 in the games/comics, Jewel is 16. In my Canon they're older now, but I haven't determined how much older LOL) She had assumed based on how Jewel acts and dresses she was the same age as her, or maybe even a year older. (I have a whole "projecting onto Jewel again" headcanon involving the ages people perceive her to be, but I'll put it on another post 😂)

So Rouge doesn't quite treat Jewel like a little sister, even after learning Jewel's two years younger, but she does like to try to teach Jewel some fashion/beauty tips and try to subject the beetle to makeovers. Emphasis on try. Rouge will, and has, try any fashion style at least once (so she's not doing this because she hates Jewel's fashion, she LOVES Jewel's historically influenced office girlboss look. She just wants to see the beetle mix it up every now and then), but Jewel's a little harder to talk into stepping out of her comfort zone. Especially when you're trying to convince her to don a more provocative look. But, Rouge is persistent. She really wants to give Jewel a "Sandy at the end of Grease" esque makeover sometime, and she WILL succeed dammit! (Especially since she can tell Jewel does want to try out a look more like hers, but just lacks the confidence to really commit to it.)

In my Canon, the idea of double dating has been tossed around, but both girls are worried Knuckles will just try to challenge Bark to a sparring match the whole time (not out of aggression, just "hey we don't get to see each other very often, let's punch each other for old time's sake" energy), so they've never actually done it.