#when u add Barty in it just becomes an extra sprinkling of very similar things and adds even more flavor :>

[flightofaqrow]

Briar x Qrow

grade the ship ** accepting

DSKJLFDLKJ you come into this house and make me face my self indulgence? ( You can find Briar over at @hopeandharmonizing )

  A: I love it

Wanna know the silly thing???? I MADE her for him, and yet after developing Briar into her own person, watching qrow grow on his own lately, Robyn filling a lot of the gaps in canon that were meant to be Briar’s own storyline....... it’s actually dropped from OTP to just something I still really like to play with. 

qrow deserves good things and those things come wrapped in the form of Briar. A hardass hottie with an arguably equal tragic past that has taught her to roll with the punches. Yes, she has a semblance that is capable of negating Misfortune. Yes, he has a semblance that actually lets her be close to someone and make hers be a good feeling for a change, but only for as long as what gives them both a breather. It’s going to wear off eventually as she calibrates, and if they over rely on that, they’re going to pay the price. It was never meant to be a cure-all. I digress, she’s faced loss and danger her whole life and the only thing Misfortune could possibly take away from her that she wouldn’t be able to recover from is qrow himself. that security does help him feel wanted and safe and allows him to open up and negates a lot of his common excuses to cut and run.

they help each other heal, they help each other grow. Briar is rooted in her past but it keeps her from being her biggest influence on the world. qrow runs from his past into the rest of the world. she can teach him to slow down and find himself again at a time he’s ready for it and needs it, he can reach out a hand to keep her from falling into a rut of comfort and to extend her voice. 

he has all the edginess she loves and is needed to handle her own and keep them sharp, she has all the softness qrow never got to have before wrapped in a pretty picture and pretty words and sounds to soothe a very tired, angry soul. they’re both rebels and caretakers and teachers and a little bit on the fringes and that’s okay. they can do it together. because at their core, togetherness is what they both fight for. qrow is someone who wants to find a place to belong, and Briar is someone who lost her place to belong and is perpetually trying to create a new one around her. they both have a deep seated loneliness which recognizes itself in the other, and it makes it worth the terrifying ordeal of being known to reach out. (see what I mean about Robyn ending up running with that theme instead?)

they approach their meetings as a hit-and-run because it’s fun and hot and easy, and they can, and then both get hit real hard and real fast with a whirlwind romance while the world is ending and there’s just so much passion which turns into a fight to find themselves and be themselves and then be themselves as a pair, until it simmers into burning embers that can really, really last.

this went all over the place because i have too many feelings, but thank you for humoring me my friend, <3