#Yang Xiao Long my beloved

[kaelidascope]

"Well, what'll it be?"

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[pyrrhicpoison]

I already posted a rough version of this on my twitter but with the way things are going on that hellsite I wanted to put it here too. I was thinking about Yang and two of her most important relationships (Ruby and Blake) and how they both could be related to things that oppose each other. The sun and the moon, and the moon and the ocean. How one needs the other but in two very different ways. Then I wrote this 🤷🏻

Ruby and Yang are the sun and moon.

Yang is the sun. she’s golden and fiery, boisterous sometimes but kind and caring. She gave up her own childhood for Ruby, raising her when no one else was around to. Her light is nurturing, and it envelopes Ruby, allowing for her to flourish. Yang’s the one who brightened up Ruby’s life, told her bedtime stories with silly character voices, fought off the nightmares that plagued her little sister’s mind almost every night, fought off school bullies for her, and, once admitted to Beacon, tried her best to have her little sister’s back.

Yang is Ruby’s protector, biggest cheerleader, biggest believer and best sister ever. that’s how it’s always been and how it always will be. Without Yang’s light illuminating her in dazzling rays of warmth, Ruby never would have been able to shine herself.

However, get too close to the sun and the wax wings you flew there with will melt, or, that’s what Yang thinks will happen anyway. Every person who has ever been close to her has left in some way, at some point. Two people left at no fault of her own, those people being her mothers. One biological, the other not. They both left her behind without second thought, and Yang never got a reason why.

Three people left her when she was at her lowest. When her sunny personality and charm dwindled and became dark, gloomy depression no one was there to comfort her like she’d done with so many others. No one helped when her nightmares showed her shadowy figures and flashes of red and white hot pain. Even if they were there, though, she still would not have let them close enough to try.

Ruby is the moon. Her light reflects off of her and onto others underneath her, shielding them from harm with her silver eyes and brightened smile, even on the darkest of nights. She’s the symbol of hope that says the sun will rise again. Although, she is always in the shadow of the sun, always being shielded and lifted up and never given the opportunity to ever feel the consequences of her failures until the sun goes dark (Yang gets injured. Atlas falls. etc etc)

In that way, she’s also like Remnant’s moon, shattered by blasts of darkness to her core. The failed Atlas plan. The fall of Beacon. The events at Haven. Those shattered her, and try as she might to keep herself pulled together, to put a brave face on for the sake of her sister and team, to lead like her own feelings don’t matter, the Ever After could not force her to pretend anymore.

Her hope? The girl who flew to the moon to keep it company, who saw the world through better eyes. The hope she had could fill that blasted jar.

Ruby’s hope was taken from her long before she washed up on that beach.

That place took piece after piece of her until there was nothing left, and she had no choice but to give into Neo and the tree. To come back as someone better. To look inside and be more than the infallible hero that Yang had made her believe she could be, because Yang always believed in her but all her protection and shielding had held her back from what she needed to become.

The sisters are like the sun and moon. They need each other, they benefit from each other, but they’ll always be worlds apart.

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In contrast, Blake and Yang are the moon and the ocean.

They could be either/or, really. Blake and Yang’s lives are intertwined, each other’s souls so important to the other that separating them causes disaster (or at least brutal heartache). Without either of them working in harmony, the planet would be engulfed in the ocean’s wrath or be an arid, rocky wasteland, both uninhabitable to intelligent life. The balance and equilibrium the moon and the ocean have is unlike anything, much like Blake and Yang’s bond is deeper than just romantic connection. Without the other, nothing could thrive.

Also, do not get me started on how perfect the moon and ocean analogy is for them when you take the ‘reincarnated soulmates’ into account. The moon and the ocean have been locked in an eternal dance for longer than any human has walked the surface of the Earth, much like how Yang and Blake’s very souls have loved each other for centuries. Even their aura colours, golden light and darkened purple shadows, have complimented each other for eons starting with the fucking Gods.

They are yin and yang, moon and ocean, push and pull. They were just meant to BE.

[amelia-yap]

happy birthday weiss! we’re taking you to the nearest mcdonalds to celebrate!!

[baltharino]

RWBY | 1x15 "The Stray"

[magicpotatomaster101]

wanted to try to be more lose with line work and sketches, tried some brushes and of course it’s all rwby

[astraskylark]

First episode of volume 10 is the team trying to give Blake a piercing themselves. It's just Weiss and Ruby panicking their heads off getting ready with first aid kits and youtube videos (they spend 5 minutes deliberating if toothpick myrtenaster will work) while Blake just quietly does it herself in the background with Yang

[bumblebybelladonna]

"I’m just going to…fall"

Also Yang:

[jayquinnwhit3]

"I had to pick up the pieces. I had to keep things together. Alone."

[bisexual-coala]

Bumbleby bisexual icons

[scham-wcan]

Offspring Nonsense

Cinder: You know they say if you smoke a cigarette its like you never ate

Winter: I am learning that

All of the siblings, angry yelling:

Weiss: Nicotine is twice as bad for you as coffee

Ruby: I MADE food for you, just EAT the FOOD

Yang: You’ll have no energy if you die

Cinder: Woah jeez a lot of squawking from the peanut gallery

Weiss: You talk like you’re forty

Winter, grabbing Cinder in caution:

[kaelidascope]

'Tell Me About it, Stud*

MM!Bees always match for Halloween. This year was Blake's turn to choose and she chose Grease!

If it were up to Yang she would've put them both in bee outfits

[phuezo]

Redraw that one screenshot Ofc if it's Yang I want to redraw always hehe

[amelia-yap]

yipee

[spicxybread]

Some ideas and redraws with @sirazaroff and @timbrejack :D!

Taking the babies out💅

[magicpotatomaster101]

protective yang + lighting practice 

[devoidaffectu]

Erin Winn's new Yang Xiao Long art 💛💛