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[howlingday]

Insect-Grimm Repellent often depict Creatures of Grimm on the can, resulting in many to avoid its use. To resolve this issue, some manufacturers have launched new products featuring Insect Faunus celebrities. As a result, complaints have fallen while sales have soared~!

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Penny: (Insect!Faunus) New limited edition spray cans! Come and purchase yours before they are gone~!

Blake: I have to ask... Does it bother you at all that we're using insect faunus to promote products to destroy insect Grimm? It almost feels like a bad joke.

Pyrrha: Well, humans already sell and manufacture weapons to kill each other. It's completely normal, right?

Penny: Correct~!

Blake: Uh...

[luccie-eclair]

Focus (Renora Week: Childhood Memories)

The afternoon sun shined through Team JNPR’s dorm as each member, but one, sat at their desk attempting to complete the calculus homework that their professor had given them that day. 

The team’s leader, Jaune Arc, sat at his desk completely lost. Math was never his forte and he’d occasionally ask his partner, Pyrrha Nikos, for help. She sat at a neighboring desk getting through the book work much quicker than he. Lie Ren, commonly known as Ren, resided on the other side of the room stuck on a problem that he simply couldn’t wrap his head around. The last member, Nora Valkyrie, wasn’t doing any calculus work. She all but abandoned the history work she attempted to read in favor of a mobile game. 

Jaune looked up and noticed Nora on her bed playing what looked like Grimm Crush. They had all been given the same assignment during class today. Where was her’s? “Nora,” he started, grabbing her attention away from her scroll. “Where’s the work Professor Hatter gave us?”

She shrugged. “I turned it in already.” Her attention immediately went back to her game.

Jaune was surprised, shocked even. “When?”

“At the end of class. It didn’t take long.” Nora began to get frustrated with the lack of matches she could make without losing.

The team’s leader looked down at his work. Professor Hatter and his stupid hat assigned problems one through ten. The only problem is that one through ten was also split into problems A through D, and sometimes E. They were really doing forty-three questions instead of 10. He got stuck on number five, part C. Bullshit she finished in class. “How? I’m only halfway done!”

Ren then spoke up from his corner having moved onto the next part a while ago, he’d ask Nora about it later. “Nora’s always been very good at math. She tends to finish before most people even start,” he said evenly. It looked like this next section would be an issue as well.

“Yep! Math is easy. Half the time, I don’t even take notes. It just kind of clicks. Like, riding a bike,” she said excitedly. It seemed like she moved onto a more entertaining game.

Jaune’s mouth looked at those it could attract insects. Pyrrha giggled and closed it for him. “That is so unfair,” he grumbled.

“It’s okay, Jaune,” his partner laughed. “Some people just understand numbers and equations better than most.”

Ren soon turned around to see Nora scrolling through her ChatSnap. It looked like Yang was recording one of her puns whilst annoying Weiss again. Her shoulders shuddered as she laughed at Weiss’s annoyed look. He spotted her history book, open and the reading still incomplete. “Nora,” he said. “You should finish Doctor Oobleck’s work soon.”

“But I’m taking a break,” she whined. “This chapter is boring anyway. I’d rather read one of my books.” Her books told of tales, quests, magic, fights, and some romance. Not facts. Never facts.

“Finish your reading and I’ll take you out for ice cream later,” he bribed.

Nora seemed to be weighing her options. She wanted to see Neon’s Chat story next, but ice cream… She sighed and put her scroll into sleep mode,  placing it on her nightstand. “Can I have sprinkles,” she asked.

Ren nodded. She went back to finishing the reading in preparation for the next lecture. He exhaled seeing the light from the window bounce off of her. She glowed. Her copper strands almost looked like they sparkled. Her face was scrunched and focused. He briefly recalled the last time her saw her like this: on her bed with a book in front of her. Hell-bent on completing her work.

~*~

The two children had been living in the orphanage on the outskirts Mistral for about a month now. They finally had a place to live with better clothes on their backs and edible food, but it was not a home. It didn’t feel like one with the lack of family and loved ones. In fact, the two largely kept to each other. The other children in the orphanage were… rather malicious for people who lost everything much like themselves. 

Nora would say that the best thing about the orphanage was their matron Alice, a pine marten faunus with ears and a bushy tail that others liked to pull on, she was the sweetest person on Remnant. Ren, however, would say that the best part about the orphanage was a new routine that was less hunger and fear inducing when asked. But in reality, the best part, was seeing Nora open up and speak more. He was getting used to sitting back and hearing her thoughts instead of always filling the silence.

That day, however, they did work in the book room with the others in their age group and Miss Alice. Ren had tried to teach Nora the bare basics of reading, writing, and math before being brought to the orphanage, but with so little materials and still learning a few things himself, it proved to be a challenge. Here, there were books, pens, and papers everywhere, along with someone much older and well versed at teaching children. She picked up on reading and writing fairly fast, but math and numbers… It was like she understood instantly. 

They were going over basic addition and subtraction before moving onto a harder subject. The class recited numbers and answers to the problems Miss Alice wrote on the board until she gave them problems in the workbooks she handed out. The tiny redhead quickly opened the book and got to work on the assigned page. 

After a few minutes, Ren looked over at his friend and laughed. Her brows were furrowed and her tongue poked out just slightly. Her face screamed concentration and determination. He looked over her shoulder to see that she was on a completely different page from what Miss Alice wrote on the board. “Nora,” he poked her. Her head snapped up and she blinked a few times as if being in a trance.

“Yes, Renny,” she replied with a small smile on her face.

He chuckled at his new nickname. “You’re on the wrong page.” Ren gently pulled the book towards him and began to go backwards in the book. She worked quite a ways away… All of the answers on the pages he passed were filled in. Gee, how far did she go? He was confused.  Did she do all of these? 

He heard a giggle and looked at his friend. Her face immediately snapped back to that innocent look that she seemed to have mastered. Ren knew better. She was up to something. He gave her a suspicious look and flipped one more page to where she should have been. The questions were completed.

Ren’s brows furrowed. “Did you do all of these, Nora?” He was flipping through the other pages she finished.

She nodded, a bright smile on her face. Soon enough, Miss Alice came to check their progress. She nodded at Ren’s and said “Good job, little fella” with a pat on his shoulder. She turned to Nora’s book. She was on page 10. The board said pages 1-5. “Nora, this isn’t the right page. Did you have any trouble?”

The little girl shook her head, but didn’t miss the snickers from the other orphans when they saw her being admonished. Miss Alice was intrigued and looked through each page carefully.  They were all correct. The faunus was surprised. She looked at the child, a hopeful glint in her eyes. “You did very well,” the faunus praised. “I’m very proud of you. Would you like to take the book back to your room?" 

Ren carefully watched the two, but more importantly, his best friend. He was hoping that she wouldn’t be punished for moving so far ahead. Her face looked indifferent, but her eyes screamed hope and a hint of fear. The hope for pride from someone who mattered. The fear of disappointment as well. But he saw her face break into the biggest smile he’d seen since their arrival and he instantly smiled as well. She eagerly nodded her head and kept the workbook instead of having it taken up like the rest. 

That evening, after dinner, Ren quietly went to the girl’s bedroom to play once more before bed. The room had six beds, hers being the one just to the left of the centered window. Nora was the only one in the room; the other girls left to play dolls without inviting her. She lay stomach down on the bed, the math book in front of her with a pencil in her hand rapidly scribbling numbers on the page before turning it. The sun set in the horizon, the last moments of day pouring through the window. 

Ren leaned against the doorway and smiled. She glowed. Her copper strands almost looked like they sparkled. Her face was scrunched and focused. She looked adorable like this, he decided.

~*~

Adorable turned to pretty turned to lovely turned to beautiful turned to gorgeous over the time he’d spent with her. His arm lay poised on the back of his chair and his head rested on his hand. Ren stared at her intently with nothing but admiration in his eyes. He allowed a soft sigh escape from his lips. He stared in an endless trance and he knew it, but he certainly didn’t want to leave it behind.

The sound of a camera shuttering shattered his concentration. Ren looked to the other side of the room to see Jaune attempting to hide his scroll and Pyrrha trying hard to keep from laughing at her partner’s clumsiness. "Get you a man that looks at you like this,” the blonde muttered while typing. At that point, the champion couldn’t hold in her laughter.

Everyone in the room heard the familiar sound of a ChatSnap notification. “Jaune Arc added to their story!” It was a picture of Ren staring adoringly at Nora from across the room, but she remained intently focused on her history reading and unaware with the caption Jaune uttered earlier. 

The two who’d looked at their scroll blushed, but they had no time to react before Yang popped into their dorm holding her scroll and asked “So, are you two finally together or what?” She was ran out by a pillow thrown by “someone” with quite the arm. 

The two pink faces turned scarlet and looked to their leader. A few wads of crumpled paper came flying at his head but moments later.

A/N: Okay, a doozy. I like to think that once they found a somewhat permanent place to stay, things got a little better for them. I could have gotten rid of a few more to be verbs, but… ehhhh. I forgot to mention that any jumps in setting or time will be marked with a ~*~. If you don’t know what a Pine Marten is, do look it up. They are incredibly adorable.