#also qrow just

[one-real-wrimonkey]

Do you think it ever hits Yang and Weiss that Qrow, their mentor Qrow, grew up in that Bandit Camp?

Qrow, loving uncle, Huntsman, hero, gruff but kind, protective and determined, grew up in that camp of killers and thieves, and became a protector and Huntsman anyway.

That Qrow lived, until he went to beacon, in a makeshift camp in the woods of Anima outside of the kingdoms and their laws, probably not even legally registered as existing. Little to no technology, no reliable access to food or water or heating or anything.

Do you think they ever really connect the camp they saw and the man they look up to?

That Qrow was raised like that, and became the man they know anyway.

[artbyfuji]

insert crazy bass riff here 🐦

[squeakadeeks]

i saw this and thought why not

I like women. and bisexual catholic harlots

[coinjarred]

messin around with the lasso fill and used the middle aged blorbo as a doodle

[strqyr]

an underappreciated qrow fact is whenever he sees one of his nieces sitting alone and feeling down, he activates his Supportive Uncle Mode™.

he's also pretty darn good at it, too.

[chaikachi]

Have you been tempted at all to draw rosegarden as dandadan? If you’ll allow the spin I think it’s fun to have the parallel be Ruby as Okarun and Oscar as Momo. Ruby having a “Oscar is…cute? I never even considered it. I was just happy I made a friend but now that I think about it. Yeah…he is kinda…cute. What Am I THINKING??” moment.

I have definitely been tempted, yes. 😆 Also that idea is cute! I've found with crossover-type AUs for rosegarden that it often works well - if not better - if they take the place of the character "opposite" their canon gender. That being said AUs also don't have to be a 1-to-1 parallel though. So I think even if Ruby is in Momo's position, she could still definitely have that kind of realization.

[sracha]

does anyone know where i can buy these amiibo cards

[rwby-confess]

Aight you want Rare Pairs? Death's WhiteRose. My ot3. Ruby/Weiss/Young Maria Calavera. I have people refuse to draw art of them because it's 'problematic' ignoring that it's almost always a Maria was born later au.

Maria gets two people who don't care about her name she can trust to watch her back (cause clearly silver eye warriors have to worry about salem trying to kill them so in that they can be united).

Ruby gets a slightly older S.eves mentor, Weiss gets people who care about her for her, and Whiterose get a more battle hardened battle bae who will teach them how to fight to survive.

Ruby and Maria are gremlins off the field and help Weiss relax as Weiss helps keep the two of them on track.

Weiss supports, and fights at range. Ruby can do either, but Maria is the close combat master between them.

Their songs are all counterpoints of each other (using Grimm Reaper as Maria's songs), they have complimentary colors, and Maria is absolutely the type to make them talk things out when the going gets tough.

Each of them is missing a parent, at least one rather, and they're all very very lonely people, and the idea of them finding companionship in each other is great.

If maria was young in canon I do have to admit I don't know if I'd ship Ruby with Weiss, or Maria more, but thankfully with fanfic I don't have to make such a choice.

#2 jailbirds

I feel like this gets slept on because it's a m/f ship. I have no honest idea why people ship Robyn with winter instead because Qrow outside of Ruby and Yang is the only person to show interest in who Qrow is as a person.

Clover usually just ignored Qrow's semblance or feelings because he didn't HAVE to deal with the side effects of Qrow's semblance, but Robyn, did, and does.

She stays regardless. On the plane when Clover got up and was about to arrest Qrow, Robyn literally goes straight to the nuclear option of 'i will murder you if you try to arrest this man'.

She, and Qrow are both headstrong people, but Qrow has shown he's willing to listen to her, and she to him. She talked him down from wanting to murder Ironwood, he clearly values and listens to her.

She built him a monument to his niece, and they have complimentary fighting styles (she can fight out of range of his semblance ala Ruby in the Tyrian fight). They're both the sort of fighter who learns the same way.

When the chance to escape happens the first thing they do is make sure the other is alright.

Time, and time again she has had to deal with his semblance (hey plane crash, tyrian escaping, getting arrested and so on), and the bad luck it brings, and time and time again she has consistently chosen to be there for Qrow, and treat him like a person and not his semblance.

Imagine Qrow having a bad day, and then Robyn just gently takes his hand, and tells him he is more than his semblance, and he's a great person worth getting to know, and she's not leaving, and then her hands glow green.

Just god man, but not let's ship Robyn and Winter because it's two women who never interact but are both from Atlas. Gag me.

I have more, but eh flooding your ask enough as is.

Confession #110

[hiraganasakura]

[ID: Three images of pairs of sibling characters across various pieces of fiction. The first image shows Miles Edgeworth and Franziska von Karma from Ace Attorney, both smiling, but Edgeworth's is softer while Franziska's is more cocky. The second shows Qrow and Raven Branwen from RWBY, scowling at each other on opposite sides of a table. The third image shows Zuko and Azula from Avatar: The Last Airbender, and whereas Zuko looks nervous, Azula looks calm and composed. End ID.]

If I had a nickel for every time I got strangely emotionally invested in a pair of fictional siblings that grew up in toxic environments; in which the brother struggles with self-esteem issues, unhealthy coping mechanisms, self-destructive trauma responses, and problems with how some unjust system or another is upheld; and the sister is very aggressive, violent, and perfectionistic, refers to her brother condescendingly to feel some degree of power over him, and hides what are likely self-esteem issues of her own behind masks of what she falsely perceives as "strength"; I'd have three nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened three times.

[almea]

Please, I just want to know who I need to fistfight to get volume 10 greenlit.

Especially because RAVEN, MY BELOVED. I am thriving on the knowledge that she really must have felt Something when Yang fell into the Ever After and she was the first one to know when they came back.

And I've gathered that it's a scrapped epilogue for volume 9 and having Raven portal them to Qrow, which was very "Raven portaling Yang and Weiss to Qrow in volume 5," without showing Raven portaling to RWBY and Jaune first is better for the Mood, but I will simply die if I don't get to see Yang's reaction to Raven showing her face in front of her. Like, you cannot rob me of this.

[greentrickster]

WIP game

Rules: You will be given a word. Share one sentence/excerpt from your wip(s) that start with each letter of that word.

@shadow-pixelle tagged me with ECHO, so congrats - have some 'Got a Light?' (my RWBY fic) snippets! And, to have some extra fun, since they're all from the same fic, I'll get one snippet from each of the first two books I've written this fic in and two from the current book (because it's the biggest), and you'll get the sentences in the order I wrote them... but not necessarily in the order they'll come in the fic, because I'm writing non-chronologically. ;D Enjoy!

E

"Easy for you to say," Jaune gives up on meditating (because he's weak) to glare at Roman, "You're probably just saying that because you had a stupid one, like- like bad luck or making your pockets bigger or something!"

...Branwen had flinched at the first suggestion. Interesting. Neo'll have to look into that. More importantly, however, Roman has frozen in place, dust crystal fallen to the ground beside him. He stares straight up into the sky unmoving for a good twenty seconds before he lets his arm fall across his eyes with a distraught groan.

"Dangit, that second one actually sounds like an amazing- that would have been so useful for shoplifting or, hells, just storing extra ammo without ruining the lines of my suit- dammit, now I'm sad, thanks a lot."

C

"Consider: would any of you say you are quite the same people now that you were at the beginning of the school year? How about ten years ago?" he smiles at the range of reactions this elicits. "To me, it is much the same, albeit on a far larger scale. It seems as though we each carry a certain amount of... ourselves, for lack of a better word, with us to each new life.

"For example, it may surprise you to know that, in regards to myself, while I have heard many times that I seem to have gained a certain level of maturity overnight when my memories and powers are unlocked, oddly little in my personality or mindset of my new life seem to change beyond that. I will confess, it inspires a certain amount of curiosity these days, whenever the end of a current life draws near, as to what new myself I will have become the next time my memories return."

H

"Hey, what about all the nice things you were gonna say to Pyrrha?!"

"They will be formatted as an extremely flattering eulogy!!!"

Qrow is drawn away from this amusing interaction by Neo, who has removed a glove and stolen a fistful of bacon with her bare hand, wiggling it enticingly at Qrow with a big smile.

"I feel like I'm being mocked," he states, examining it with each eye suspiciously.

"You're not," Torchwick says, finally calm again and theatrically wiping his eye, "She just likes watching birds eat. Used to sneak into kitchens at restaurants so she could get table scraps for it."

...eh, fair enough. Qrow obliges and daintily tugs a strip of bacon free with his beak, holding it with one claw to peck at. Neo beams.

O

"Oh, um- yes! He says... 'Thinking of mew.'"

Ruby glances up from skimming her texts to see Weiss staring blankly ahead.

"...he's a dork," she says, voice dazed, "He's an enormous dork."

"Weiss-" Uncle Qrow groans, only for Jaune to hold his hand up.

"Don't bother, Mr. Branwen, I've got this."

"Kid, it's Qrow."

Jaune ignores him, going to put a steadying hand on Weiss's shoulder. "Look, I'm sorry you have to find out this way, but the thing about guys is... we're all dorks. And Neptune is our king."

"...I see." Weiss nods, and Ruby goes back to her own texts, "Is it a bad sign that I still like him, even though he's flawed?"

"I mean, he didn't realize you wanted to keep seeing him after the dance until you cried at him for flirting with other girls," Nora comments, "You kinda already knew that he wasn't perfect."

"I suppose that's true... In that case, I'm going to respond in kind! Nora, I require your assistance!"

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(Told you guys it's not as dire as my research subject list makes it sound!)

I'll be tagging @fullbattleregalia and @elektricangel, along with anyone else who wants to play - your word is LIFE (because my fic's about Roman coming back as a ghost and I'm funny).

[constantvariations]

It would've been hilarious if ShawLuna had tried to cover their asses from the early volume transphobic jokes around Jaune by making him a trans woman. It can't be transphobia if it's ☆~foreshadowing~☆

[r0semultiverse]

The Summer Maiden is Ruby & Yang's Long Lost Sister

Hear me out, what if Summer was pregnant, but didn't know it yet when she went off on that "mystery" mission?

Perhaps Ozpin's mission wasn't the only mystery at that time.

There's literally so much we don't know about the timeline of Summer Rose & we know she had her secrets too.

Next thing you know, some young girl shows up looking like the spitting image of Summer Rose!

It's possible that Summer Rose went off on this mission without knowing she was pregnant when she went MIA. Raven would have been with her too. Maybe she even died during child birth.

Let's assume she (Summer Rose) is the summer maiden for a moment here. Why isn't Ruby the current summer maiden? Well, Summer knew Taiyang & everyone else in her family would be in danger if she thought of them as she was giving birth. A baby summer maiden of a well known family? That's an easy target for those after the maiden powers & could get her entire family killed.

Raven knows how Summer really died, but is sworn to secrecy because she helped deliver the third sister, our current summer maiden. Summer asked her to protect the child, but Raven is not about that life.

Raven takes Sumer Jr. to Vacuo in secret & essentially just drops the baby on the doorstep, telling them to keep the child a secret & protect her. Summer Jr. becomes the hooded secret protector of Vacuo, being one of the youngest & most experienced maidens still alive. She is raised in secrecy by Theodore or some others in Vacuo. Imagine her surprise seeing someone who looks a lot like her popping up all over remnant.

Summer Jr. is probably shocked & very interested, but is maybe raised very sheltered as a means to keep her out of the public eye.

Summer Jr. could also be the middle child of a previous partner before Taiyang & part of her secret, when she left, was going to check up on that previous partner & her third child.

Another albeit less likely situation is Summer adopted a child on her journeys. Maybe this is also the previous summer maiden's kid & Summer ran into the previous maiden as she was passing on her powers to her child. Summer being very maternal, takes Summer Jr. under her wing for a while.

Regardless of what the actual answer will be, we have a young girl that looks like Summer Rose & Summer Rose is dead as far as we know! Whoever this is will be our smooth tie-in to put Summer Rose lore in the episodes without it cutting away too much from the main plot. She will be our Summer Rose lore segue! We will finally have answers!

How do you all make sense of this? Let me know your thoughts!

[cosmokyrin]

like mother, like daughter

[strqyr]

harbinger has gears. def something qrow picked up from ozpin, so if he already had harbinger before attending beacon, it would have had to look different.

thinking about younger qrow, hearing stories about the grimm reaper and wanting a weapon similar to hers. maybe he had a sword similar to omen at first ( hence the hidden red blade that is only seen in harbinger's scythe form, cut into parts to account for the curved blade ), but after scavenging enough parts, he starts to build up from it. with lots of trial and error, he finally succeeds in creating something... workable, though the mechanism he has in place still jams more often than not.

just... the thought of harbinger that looks more like scrap put together that still works but isn't quite what he expected it to be, just because qrow wanted a scythe and that's not something you just find laying around, so he did himself with what little he had.

and then he gets to beacon and can upgrade harbinger to his heart content, taking inspiration from around him; harbinger finally becoming how he always imagined it to be.

[fandomflotilla]

Things Beacon Students are No Longer Allowed To Do: Rule 55

55. The situation with Mr Pine is…unusual…and classified. What you need to know is that Headmaster Ozpin will occasionally have to undergo treatment for an injury he received protecting the school. Due to Mr Pine’s semblance, when this occurs, he can connect with the Headmaster and relay any relevant instructions. However, Mr Pine is still a student, regardless of his role in Beacon’s administration. To clarify, unless Ozpin manifests himself, Mr Pine doesn’t have any authority over students or faculty and is banned from ordering people around. (Glynda, is this really necessary? I know it’s a strange situation, but I think you all have the sense to deal with this appropriately. - Ozpin) (…you need to spend more time on campus, sir. - Prof. Goodwitch)

55 a. Mr Pine is not allowed to do Ozpin impressions to get himself or students out of punishments. (…I stand corrected. In my defense, I assumed you’d be able to tell the difference between me and Oscar. - Ozpin) (Told you so. Sir. - Prof. Goodwitch) (Look, it’s not our fault he perfectly mimicked you, the little shit is a natural actor! - Prof. Branwen) (Qrow, you’ve known me for decades. Weren’t you the least bit suspicious why I was getting Ms Rose out of detention for completely unspecified reasons after she committed some serious property damage? - Ozpin) (… - Prof. Branwen) (… - Prof. Goodwitch) (…I suppose I deserve that. Fine, we’ll work out some kind of codeword system so you know it’s me. - Ozpin) (Thank you. - Prof. Goodwitch)

Post based on a submission by @tired1mmortal

Submitter’s note: Besides these, go nuts. Have fun

Submitted April 16th 2021 because I am very bad at responding to submissions. 😭