#ruby and yang are sisters

[iamafanofcartoons]

All I wanted is a Happy Xiao Long Rose Family AU in RWBY.

Instead, all I see are fanfics trying to tear the family apart.

Why can't there be a happy fanfic of the family?

Artist is AlessiaDettaAlex

www.deviantart.com/alessiadettaalex/art/STRQ-family-834342666

[chittychittyyangyang]

[set-wingedwarrior]

The BEST sisters

[greenteaandtattoos]

xiao long-rose sister hugs are the best hugs

[aingeal98]

The new rwby short reminded me of one of my favourite aspects of team rwby. Which is that it starts with Weiss and Blake being two traumatised teens with dark backstories who meet Ruby and Yang who are like wow! You guys seem to have a lot of baggage and we'd like to help with that. We're just normal sisters but we'll do our best :D

And then cut to 9 seasons later when Weiss and Blake have conquered their demons, reconnected with their families and are slowly healing meanwhile every small drip of lore we get about Ruby and Yang's family feels like this

[chantaldraw]

Sisters

[yang-png]

i love you

[zeropsworld]

Some cute and funny bumbleby moments with Yang and Ruby talking about Blake on Ruby’s stream @rwby_vt on twitch. Link

[redheartedtramp]

Little Sister Club

Yang: Yeah, and then I punched the last guy so hard, he coughed up his lunch from yesterday!

Blake: *Nodding along, listening intensely*

Weiss: *rolling eyes as Yang continues to boast*

As Yang continues to talk about how cool and sexy she is, Weiss notices Ruby beckoning her closer

Weiss: ... *scoots over to Ruby and whispers* What?

Ruby: *pulls out her scroll* Check this.

Weiss: ?!!?!?!? *covers her mouth as she looks at a picture that looks like a younger yang, but her hair is in pigtails and she has braces* No. Way. When?

Ruby: 8th Grade.

Weiss: Talk about a glow up.

Ruby: Mmm-hmm~

Weiss: Oh, wait! *pulls out her own scroll* Lookie.

Ruby: *gasps and giggles quietly as she sees a photo of Winter wearing thick glasses* Chess Club Captain?

Weiss: The 'White Queen' they called her.

*Ruby and Weiss snicker to themselves, all while Yang and Blake are just too into each other*

[lovingdabeessss]

I’m never not gonna think about Ruby and yangs relationship during beacon,,,

They’re sisters, they’re super close, they love each other, they already know everything about living with each other, they’re NOT partners, they have breakfast worked out already, they know their work out routines, Ruby is the team leader there’s no way Yang respects that as much as she might try and pretend to, they’re making friends, they’re all yangs age not Ruby’s, they’re going to be fighting monsters together (good coordination!! They can be together!! They can protect each other!!), they’re going to be fighting monsters together(they could watch the other die, they will watch each other get hurt), Yang will never talk to Ruby as a friend before a sister she will never truly be yangs peer

I love them SOOOOO much sibling relationships are my favorite thing

They love each other so muchhhhh they’re a sweet little family and there’s so many emotionssss

[but-a-humble-goon]

When Ruby gets lost in her own head the only thing that helps is tinkering. She could spend hours hunched over a table just working away at Crescent Rose, brow furrowed and tongue poking out the corner of her mouth in concentration, in a total world of her own. She's found less and less time for it after Beacon though. Since the Ever After whenever Yang notices her off by herself in a corner being uncharacteristically quiet she goes over and says something like "I think my arm joints are getting stiff, probably all this sand. Wanna take a look at it for me?" She's pretty sure Ruby knows what she's doing but it doesn't seem to matter. Yang watches her work away for a while and when she sees the telltale tongue poke she can't help but grin quietly to herself.

[iamafanofcartoons]

Ruby and Yang RWBY Sibling bonding by NepAttorney

www.reddit.com/r/RWBY/comments/17w2sn2/ruby_and_yang_nepattorney/

[chittychittyyangyang]

Yang checking in with/comforting Ruby through V9 so far.

[drenosa]

Ruby: I'm going to regret this, aren't I?

Ruby: Hey, Yang... do you have minute?

Yang: I've got seconds, minutes and even some moments too Rubyroo.

Ruby: Definitely going to regret it. Okay, so... have you ever done something and get a song that matches the thing stuck in your head?

Yang: Oh, you know... *Gets flashes of "Party Party Party by Andrew WK" and "Rip & Tear by Mick Gordon" almost every time she gets to throw hands* ... maybe once or twice.

Ruby: Right so... I don't know how to say this, so just give this a listen? *pulls out her scroll and presses play on her music app*

Yang: I... I see.

Yang: Now, pray tell, who do I need to give the talk to?

Ruby: And there's the regret.

[greenteaandtattoos]

crushed. destroyed. devastated. deCEASED after suddenly realizing their boba was the color of each other's SOUL

[tumblingxelian]

Crossposting from SV:

https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/iwiw-rwby.125050/post-32676154

Regarding the expectation of perfection, yeah, I don't think the team expected it. The one who could be arguably said to have put the most "pressure" on Ruby is Blake as we saw in V8, but having faith in someone isn't the same as demanding perfection. & Blake showed she was fine stepping up and trying to help or support Ruby when she needed it.

The others applied even less pressure, at least knowingly, but none of them are aware of how Ruby had internalized Ozpin's lesson (& from what I know of Coco Second Semester does not make his lessons better)

But Ruby definitely took a lot of these things to heart in a way likely never intended. & more to the point that likely wouldn't be nearly as bad if not for the trauma conga-line the last volumes have been.

For instance in V8 Ruby does seem briefly hurt by Yang noting that following her lead hasn't worked out, but Yang's language is still rather casual, this isn't her trying to deliver some cutting barb to wound Ruby's pride. & given their reunion in V8 it didn't have a lasting impact... Up until V9 landed because with everything that went wrong, suddenly those words pack a lot more sting.

In regards to Yang & Ruby in particular, one thing I find interesting is that in early volumes, even after Ozpin's leader talk Ruby was more comfortable showing uncertainty, discomfort, fragility and the like.

Especially around Yang. She was sulking in V2 about Blake not coming to the dance and feeling overtly helpless, she was fine with being uncertain about her decision to reveal the WF's location to Ozpin & co, also in V2.

But more integrally, in Volume 3, after everything had gone to hell what is the first thing Ruby did once she could move under her own power?

Was it go to her dad for comfort? Seek Qrow for advice? nope, those two came to her, with Tai mostly being used for an intel update and Qrow being prodded for info, and only seeing a flash of vulnerability.

The person Ruby went to was Yang, Yang who she was surprised to find wasn't in a good head-space, and who when Ruby asked what to do couldn't answer her, seemingly leaving Ruby unsure of what to do. In essence, there have been periods where Ruby also expected others to be more sturdy than they could otherwise be expected to be. This isn't a jab, just an observation.

More integrally however, in V4 we see Ruby really hit hard on the repressing.

Oh she did it before, the fact she's modelled her entire persona after her missing mother and was raised by a girl two years her senior should already make it clear she's gonna have some issues. But it becomes a lot more overt with her being all smiles around JNPR but sad when unseen until she's hitting a breaking point. One that is... Sort of countered though of questionable help by being told she's inspiring.

The time we really see it break in in Volume 5 when Yang & Ruby reunited, she cries, she fumbles her words, she gets a damn hug.

But then, the next day, she sees that Yang is not nearly as recovered as she's trying to act. When Yang is upset & removes herself from the situation to calm down and mourn silently, its Weiss who has to help her out of it, because Ruby has no idea what to do.

That's not just her sister in there, its the girl who raised her, & this stuff is not Ruby's forte, but more integrally, Yang is the one who has always been 'all right', the one who Ruby could turn to whenever she needed and who she never had to worry about in combat.

But she's not OK the one person Ruby could always rely on is more fragile than Ruby ever realized, and so clearly, Ruby can't go to Yang with her problems either.

& thus closes her final person to really, properly, well and truly reach out to.

& the thing is Yang would have no idea this is happening!

She didn't hear Ozpin's speech, or Ruby re-phrasing it. She wasn't present when Ruby was really building her walls in V4, and any that existed before that will have been interwoven with Yang's own issues and thus be something she deemed as normal the same way Ruby deemed Yang's self sacrificing penchant as normal.

Put simply, Yang isn't aware that Ruby's mental image of her has shifted and so is not aware that Ruby no longer sees her as someone viable to reach out to.

None of which is helped by the fact Yang canonically admires Ruby and so is prone to see the best, strongest, most idealized side of her, and so like Ruby would need to be told Ruby needs help before keying into it.

Both these girls are very traumatized and damaged and they care about each other so god damn much, but also just cannot wholly see one another.

Its agony, I love it.