#bunbunsophy au

[konnoiseur]

cinder bourgeois: OMG BLAKEY-KINS!!!!!

blake agreste: I Am This Close To Jumping

OMG YOU’RE DOING A MIRACULOUS LADYBUG RUBY/BLAKE TOO OMG *bursts into happy sparkles

TELL ME ABOUT IT, PLEASE (if you’re comfortable, of course)

Hiiii!! I really don’t have much on paper at the moment for the au, I’m trying to work out the setting (the rwby cast in paris), though I’d say that so far the set-up is closer to the original anime concept of Marinette and Felix than Marinette and Adrien’s dynamic at the moment!

The big thing I’m excited for with this au is creating the miraculous holder alter egos of Ruby and Blake, because I have a theory that Ladybug and Chat Noir in the ML show are fusions of the holders and the kwamis, which results in their change of personality and aptitude- so when making the alter egos for Ruby and Blake I want to incorporate this theory! The kwamis are the same characters from the show, though the rest of the cast is changed to rwby cast; for example, I’m thinking Ozpin as both the headmaster/principal and Master Wang Fu (the previous turtle holder), Salem as Hawkmoth (no relation to Blake in this au[unless…]), and Cinder as Chloe.

[randombook4idk]

modern AU fanfic writer!Blake & fanfic reader!Ruby who's a fan of Blake's work?👀

@bunbunsophy

[the-path-to-redemption]

Team STRQ ships please:

Hummingbird (Qrow x Summer)

Phoenix (Raven x Taiyang)

Snapdragon (?) (Summer x Taiyang)

Rosebird (Raven x Summer)

Taiqrow (Taiyang x Qrow)

ask meme

Long post ahead

Hummingbird (Qrow x Summer)

God damn, if I sound disinterest in any of these ships, I am sorry. But fucking Qrow and Raven makes the already lackluster dynamic of STRQ worse, on so many levels. We already have shit with Tai and Summer, and Qrow is fucking bloating the cast up with his whiny ass. I'll get to Raven later.

Back to the ship, I just do not like Qrow at all, and Summer's latest information dump makes her so weird as an entity. Did she straight up LIED to her husband, who she knows was emotionally destroyed by the same bitch she's about to team up with? Or did she truly not know about her demise because she was overconfident in her own abilities against Salem?

And the emblem never fucking made sense, because before V9, there's nothing much that can tell us about Summer as a person or even an active force in Ruby's life aside from some "tell, not show" from Yang and Qrow. None of that alluded to the rose emblem or how it affected Ruby as person when her mother disappeared.

These two characters literally have nothing that makes me care about them as individuals, let alone fucking partners in a relationship. Not to mention, rabid Hummingbird stans are just as annoying as Bee/s when it comes to Tai. Guys, Qrow doesn't need to be Ruby's bio parent for them to have a strong bond, stop diminishing Tai's already tiny role from her life to push your ship. I cannot stand Qrow's whiny ass as it is right now, having him be an active absentee parent like his twin will make me hate him more.

Phoenix (Taiyang x Raven)

Same reasoning here for these two, with Tai as Summer and Raven as Qrow. Raven need to stay the fuck away from Tai, and this is coming from a person who eat up toxic dynamics for lunch.

Raven is just insufferable, and fans can make her more complex than canon ever can. But because we never know why she canonically abandoned her family, including her infant daughter, Raven just comes off as a shallow, selfish bitch who would hang with criminals who hit on her child than be with the people who love her despite her past.

If that was the case, FINE. Whatever, but then the show goes on to villainize Ozpin and blaming him for her reasons to leave. If Raven was scared of Ozpin, why did she team up with someone directly working for his antithesis, Salem? Then Lost Fables comes out, and it turns out Ozpin didn't even curse her and Qrow with magic, because they kept transforming willy-nilly with no consequences at all. Blame Salem for your issues if you want to avoid your responsibilities, you bitch.

And Tai...poor Tai. He's not a perfect parent, but goddamn he is the BEST when you use the likes of Jacques, Raven or even Ghira as comparisons. Yet he was villainized by the FNDM and Qrow is heralded as a good adult figure for Ruby when it was TAI who raised them for most of their lives. No one has to like Tai and his parenting can be criticize, but he is not the worse parent ever when fucking Salem is still around.

So yeah. Not my fav. Like, at all. And I deadass can make a better storyline for them as individuals and as a dynamic.

Snapdragon (Taiyang x Summer)

Oh man...again, the fucking reveal for Summer in V9 truly diminished a good majority of my enjoyment of this ship. Again, if Summer KNEW about her demise, she willingly left her husband with their children to go with someone who betrayed them both, not even thinking about how he would take losing ANOTHER person he love.

I just enjoy fanon so much more for them, because there Summer and Tai are actually treated with respect. For example, my moot @bunbunsophy made an amazing art piece of evil!Summer inspired by Makima from Chainsaw Man, and it was an amazing foundation for an AU where Summer manipulated everyone around her to her desires, especially Tai. It create this angsty goodness where he has become her toy, heartbroken but broken as well to do her biddings with no will to fight back because he loves her. This is his wife, mother of his daughters, and without her Taiyang will be alone.

Literally ANYTHING would've made this ship interesting, but canonically, they're bland as fuck.

Rosebird (Raven x Summer)

Fuck Rosebird shippers who refuse to include trans!Raven or trans!Summer into the dynamic in order to make Yang and Ruby. Do not fucking breathe near me.

Other than that; same shit as Hummingbird, but so much worse. Raven is a bitch, and it was clear in V9 that Summer cannot stand her ass. Not to mention that stupid ass panel in the DC crossover comic where bird Raven shat on Summer to Ruby. Like bitch, that is mad rich for you to judge Summer as a person WHEN YOU ABANDONED YOUR OWN CHILD. Fuck her.

Personally, I like the take where they were partners in Beacon instead of being Tai or Qrow's, because the betrayal between them will feel more personal like the boys' instead of "we were in the same team and she hurt the two men we both care about and I'm just here." I'm not saying that they can't be friends outside of partnership, but the partnership creates this unique bond that neither shares with Tai and Qrow; Summer trusted Raven to watch her back in battle, Raven grew close to her as a friends and someone she will die for, they know each other's fighting style to a detailed level and played off of each other so well that it's almost tragic when Raven left.

And when that scene in V9 happened, you feel that bitterness from Summer so much more because this was her partner who preferred something bad more than her. Maybe then I'll lean into this ship more, but right now it doesn't spark the least bit of joy.

TaiQrow/Mourning Dove (Taiyang x Qrow)

Same sentiment here; I just don't care about Qrow because he's a terrible character, and Tai barely got anything to himself.

But holy hell, going off of the partnership AU between them, the fallout between these two would've been tragically beautiful; they understand each other in ways neither Summer or Raven could, and at the end of it all they were the only ones left behind. But because of the pain left behind for them, they grow apart even though it kills them everytime they raised their voice, every time Qrow pick up another bottle after Tai begged him to stop, every time Qrow had to snap Tai out of his depression for his girls and yet Tai cannot shine as brightly as he could anymore.

All that was left was resentment, burying a layer of hope that will always yearn for the THEM of before, or at least something close enough because they still love each other.

But canon hates them and they hate us more. So you know.

Thanks for the ask!

[konnoiseur]

@bunbunsophy's ladybug au rn was the og basis for the remnant rewrite back when it was supposed to be canon compliant lol then we went monochrome and then we said fuck it we'll build it all from the ground up and now it's essentially just an original piece of fiction about belief and faith and power and hearts and darknes and oh god its just kingdom hearts

[sophyophy]

For the Evil Summer AU, I was thinking of really utilizing and making that scene in volume 9 where Summer is going on that secret mission into a scene that is the catalyst for Summer’s big shift… Raven reaches out for the first time in years after her abandonment of her family and friends, revealing her new status as the Spring Maiden to Summer and telling her there’s an artifact of unimaginable power within Haven’s school that Ozpin has hidden away. Summer is first more upset that Raven would dare to bring her into this spiteful mission, but the idea that Ozpin has a weapon against the Grimm that he isn’t using gets Summer to want to verify this herself.

They infiltrate Haven academy using Raven’s semblance to portal to Qrow within the building, whom already snatched the keys to the vault’s elevator and the three descend to open the vault door, retrieving the Relic of Knowledge and discover the relic has 3 questions. Summer only needs 1. 👀

[sophyophy]

I know it's relatively new so there might not be much lore to it at the moment. But I would LOVE to hear about Evil Summer. Is it just Summer that's evil? Or is it the entirety of STRQ? Is she a Salem agent or her own brand of evil? I'm very interested!

👀 OOOOO Thank you for the ask, I’ve actually been thinking about it nonstop and have a lot so far for a couple characters in it!

Summer Rose’s allusion is both Medusa and Athena in this alternate universe. Summer’s semblance is Neo’s of making physical illusions, and this Neo is not in this alternate universe. Summer’s secret mission all those years ago was to kill Salem and she succeeded with her silver eyes, before masquerading as Salem using her semblance. She’s doing this to eliminate the threat of both Salem or Ozma from using silver eyed warriors as their pawns.

She doesn’t inderstand why they can’t use thw relics to STOP Salem at all, rather than just not using them at all. She finds Ozpin’s choice to remain stagnant while knowing that Salem still desires to end the world and has the means to do so at any point, and finds them both despicable.

However she knows Ozpin would never allow Summer to do this as herself or as a maiden that she was almost a candidate for, so she fucked off to pose as Salem and terrorize Ozpin in the process. Training Cinder about Oz’s arrogance, and being the one who radicalized Raven (and maybe Qrow too bc i like evil Qrow, and plus Summer being intelligent enough to convince the bad luck charm to purposely align himself with foolish Ozpin)

Summer sees her mission as a burden and a sacrifice to ensure a world her daughter is safe from being made a pawn. She and Raven discussed the best course of action for how their daughters should be raised, Raven advocated for raising them both in the Branwen tribe but Summer shut that down, emphasizing that while it pains her to let her daughter see huntsmen as heroes knowing of Ozpin’s iron clutch, she *knows* the only way they can truly and deeply learn the failures of Ozpin is to experience his shortcomings first hand. You can not be disillusioned and learn from the threat of deception unless you are lied too, as they once were. Their resolve to pursue the truth will be stronger if they understand the pain of the lie themselves… thus Raven’s speech to Yang in volume 5 is a desperate plea to get through that conditional love Summer placed in order to have that connection with Yang, not just Raven pointlessly monologuing to a captive audience. Raven is the only other person that knows Summer is posing as Salem, no one else in canon!Salem’s following knows that it’s Summer Rose.

Cinder is actually a private investigator who Tai hired years ago to find Summer when she went missing, and Cinder is putting on her own front to get to the bottom of this cold case, unaware that Salem **IS** Summer and thinking she’s in SO deep.

Cinder’s natural voice is with a British accent, she chose her seductive american accent on a whim because she was approached by Hazel spontaneously and she didnt realize it would lead to this long of an undercover mission. she hates the character she plays so badly 😭 she hates her on the nose name so fucking much— it was her first job taken at 21, she’s almost 28 now on this one job to find Summer.

Her constant dibs on fighting and killing Ruby is actually her ensuring no one else is targeting the daughter of her true employer, therefore being a cringefail villain is protecting Ruby… Summer is absolutely outraged to hear from Raven that Cinder asked to kill Ruby in exchange for their help, and Raven is given the clear to kill Cinder when she tries to access the vault. Cinder lives, and with valuable information about “Salem’s” plan from blabbermouth Raven. Rather than grab Neo (who no longer exists in this worldstate) and continue with “Salem”, Cinder thinks she’s actually freed from the fall maiden identity and commits to touching base with Tai, as her own true identity again, of what Raven spilled to her of “Salem’s” plan. They then head to Atlas independent of the other group to inform Ironwood all about what Cinder learned undercover all these years.

It’s a Summer/Raven (Rosebirds) and Taiyang/Cinder (SpicyDragon)

This alternate universe is absolutely so indulgent to me.