#vaucotaiyang

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Parenting problems, team STRQ addition.

(Yang has done something bad and team STRQ who between all of them have enough CPTSD to put a therapist into retirement early in America have to figure out how to parent)

Summer: Alright, we have to figure out how to discipline a child.

Raven: We could leave her outside for the night?

summer: NO! Brothers! No! That’s not a normal healthy thing for her development!

Qrow: We could not give her dinner?

Summer: No! Again! Bad she needs to eat.

summer:okay uh, we could force her to do runs all day?

Qrow: that doesn’t sound healthy either

Summer: Brothers, Tai, you’ve been weirdly quite any ideas?

Taiyang: my dad used to lock me in the fireplace while it was still burning when I was bad to train my aura?

(everyone stares at him Beacsue he’s supposed to be the one with the healthy happy childhood)

Raven: What the fuck.

Qrow:I second that, what the fuck.

Summer: uh, thirding that what the fuck.

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Okay so I’m back on my Vauco Taiyang theory.

okay so some extra things, tais colour pallet isn’t something we really see often

(Photo for reference)

His colour scheme is rare and his clothing looks like it would fit right in Vauco. we don’t see it on anyone else apart from his daughter. Yellow isn’t a big colour but where do we see it?

yeah that’s right the Vauco emblem! And if we look at tais emblem (Something that is like a signature)

it’s a incredibly similar yellow, now My next point is that we don’t have a lot of characters with that bright blond hair apart from.

YEAH THATS RIGHT SUN WUKONG, one of the few confirmed Vauco natives. Who even has the same ish blue eyes. Another thing, it’s canonical that people don’t really do emotions apart from snark in Vauco, which actually lines up with Tais actions pretty well.

now Vaucos name in Latin translates to “in a vacuum” or “In isolation” which fits in with tai pretty well considering his retirement and him ending up alone and stagnating in Patch.

Anyways that’s it for today on my silly little crack theory thanks for visiting :3

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so I heard the demand (there is no demand I’m just insane) and I’m going to yell into the void about how I think Taiyang Xiao long is from Vauco.

Let’s start with the colour scheme now in my last screaming into the void session I said that this man doesn’t exactly fit in, colour scheme wise. He’s browns and yellows and oranges well the rest of his team dresses like a group of emos.

Now tai also looks out of place in vale in general with everyone else’s fashion being mostly fancy and kinda un functional he dresses for function above all else. He’s also the only tan one, now I don’t think he’s fully Vacuan I think he’s also part whatever the hell the demonym for vale is.

listen I may be overthinking it but Vauco rouge Taiyang Xiao long brain rot is real.

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Raven: a badass bandit girl with skill, Confidence and brains. An amazing swords person.

Summer: A sliver eyed warrior who wields an incredibly dangerous weapon and semblance. An incredible leader

Vauco! Taiyang: Kinda buff cowboy looking guy who’s best skill is punching hard who only knows approximately 20 words in common: Howdy.

Both Summer and Raven for some reason: SMASH.

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Vauco! Tai speaking in Vaucan to his wives: Te amo

Summer and Raven terrified and confused: WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU SAYING YOU BANNA LOOKING BASTARD

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My Vauco tai AU is definitely not me trying to influence the internet into giving me art of Tai in a cowboy outfit I swear.

it’s definitely not a reason for me to draw cowboy Tai, I promise I swear.

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(Vauco Tai AU, Headcannoning Vauco has spicy food and qrow has like zero spice tolerance)

Theo walking into a kitchen/Common room idk: Something Smells good.

Tai: Thank you, I’m making Chilli

Theo passing tai spices and eyeing the pot: smells pretty spicy.

tai currently going through some form of depression Beacsue his kids are dead: I need to feel alive Theo, if it isn’t spicy enough to kill me it isn’t spicy enough.

Theo spooning the chili into bowls: Dramatic bastard.

Qrow walking in, face red and holding a bag of chips: Theo why the fuck are these so fucking spicy.

Theo and tai look at each other

Tai feeling devious: Qrow if you’re still hungry you can have some of this?

(they end up being chased by Qrow across the entirety of shade academy later)

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weapon ideas for tai.

Shield: A weapon made for protection, could tie in nicely with his themes of being a dragon waiting/protecting his treasure. I’m thinking it would be called total eclipse

whip: It would slow nicely with his fitting style as it’s a very fluid thing, also he could use fire dust to light it up and set fire to shit. Could be called dragons breath

Bow: Bows are a symbol of change and moving forward, they also need a lot of skill and calm to use. Something that works with Tai quite well I think, He needs to keep moving forward and he hasn’t used his weapon in ages-showing his stagnation. Also he’s built like most archers I know. I’m reusing total eclipse for the name.

then knuckle dusters/blades: Makes sense for how he fights idk what else to tell you.

His fists and a Revolver: Revolver because I’m a Vauco tai believer (cowboys are cool) and his fists would work well with the characters he’s based off of. Also Punch hard hit stuff.

ZWEI

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If I wrote Vauco taiyang would you read.

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team STRQ shenanigans, Accidental marriage proposal edition.

Accidental Marriage proposal where Raven gives Tai a Vauco proposal knife not knowing that it’s an incredibly romantic gesture and they are by all accounts proposed to each other in Vauco culture (and in Tais eyes) Summer finds this incredibly comical and pushes the two of them closer so they actually get married.

Tai is panicking because he has to either find or make a knife of equal worth.

Raven panicking Beacsue she’s scarred of commitment and she has to go back to the tribe. But also she’d look like a coward if she backed out.

Qrow suffering.

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THE VAUCO TAIYANG XIAO LONG BRAINROT IS STILL GOING STRONG

(This is how I’m coping with restoration)

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wrote y’all a little smth smth. It ain’t the best but I had fun <3

Ruby’s face stares at him, looking up towards the fading light. She stands with her arms out like she’s waiting for a hug, remember her message scrawled across her lower body. Yang smiles, slightly turned from him. Bright Colors and two faces he didn’t know wash across the sandstone of the wall. Taiyang stands there, too late again. He wishes his daughters see this, see what they had done. What they had started, he wished they could see where he was born and raised, where the sands never ended and rickety streets brought forth memories of bad nights. Where an old lady had offered him a Tamle for the first time, where people still danced and singed dresses a flurry of colors and smiles. He sighs hands clutching the old fabric in his hand, red like ruby, red like her mother. The marigolds that rest bellow his young daughter yellow like Yang burning too bright too fast. Just like him. A soft melody fills the alleyway, whispers of a song he hadn’t heard in years, voices join in each one a heart beating with the music. The melody flutters and flits like sand or the first flowers he had seen, like dances he had never taught. Like memories so fleeting.

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me to myself: Stop projecting on tai, fight your daddy issues

also me: HES HALF WHAT EVER RWBYS VERSION OF ROMANI IS

(Context I’m part Romani and gods I love projecting on my favs, yes this and my cowboy special interests are some of the main reasons behind my Vauco Tai headcannon/AU)

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everyone making jokes and judging Qrow for his choice in alcohol

Vauco! Tai in the background sipping his tea pretending that his first drink wasn’t stolen room temperature whisky mixed with blood and what might have been grimm goop.

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honestly if we do see a young tai I really want him to have a country accent, I want him to greet his new teammates with a “Howdy” I want him to slowly grow out of it trying to fit in.

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The sun will always rise again.

(A/N another little ficlet about young Vauco Tai because he deserves more plot relevance, is he out of character? Eh maybe but he’s like ten here)

The sun will always rise again.

That is what he has always been told, one simple truth in a world of lies. Sand buffers against the canvas of the caravan, whipping it back and forth. Tai curls into himself, he never liked the wasting winds. Well No one did but they scared him more than most, a force of nature outside of a normal persons control. The only thing protecting him the canvas sides of the caravan cart. His eyes clenched closed, trying to hide from the darkness blanketed over the inside of his safety net. He never liked the darkness either, so much could hide in it, horrors he couldn’t perceive. Grimm and people and animals and what ever else hide in the shadows.

“Tai” his mother calls, her voice a rusty thing. Not used to being used in such a soft sense, he curls inwards more. 

“Tai.” She calls in the language of the desert voice curling like smoke within the small space, he sniffles slightly, he isn’t supposed to be afraid. Or sad bad things happen when he is.

“Tai, steel yourself” she says again, and he can hear her move across the small space and sit next to him. 

“Open your eyes little dragon” she says. Tai pulls his head from his knees and looks up at his mother, barely visible in the low light. Her curved horns frame her in the shadows as a beast not to be trifled with.

“Why are you scared?” She asks, hand resting in his shoulder, “I can’t see’ n the dark, it’s scary. I don’t know what’s out there-“ he replies sniffling “An’ the winds are scary.” he hugs his knee closer to his chest.

His mother chuckles at his plight “The shadows will hide you and the sands will cloak you” she says opening her arm and letting him shuffle into her side. “Hide in the darkness and no one will see you, move with the sands and they are sure to guide you” she wraps a arm around him and he allows himself a moment to exist and breath with all his emotions.

“Steel yourself little dragon, one day you must protect us. Protect your treasure”