So first shot at rwby FAIR WARNING I wrote this at 3 am so it's probably full of mistakes

This is a homeless rwby au because I read one years ago and cant remember waht it was called

It had been years since Ruby had slept in a proper bed or ate a warm meal. Such things were luxuries she wasn't afforded, her food would be canned to last not the tastiest and definitely worse at room temperature. The "bed" she did have was what ever she could scrape together to keep her of the cold ground, usually newspapers or cardboard and a single thin blanket that she stole from a clothesline years ago. Stealing always sat wrong with her and as such she had tried to stick to legal means of obtaining what she needed, but as her current situation would show Ruby and luck didn't meet very often. With reluctance Ruby learnt how to steal and pickpocket one winter, when people had been less generous with beggars preferring to spend that spare cash on ways to get themselves though the winter.

Ruby had learnt to run incredibly fast as the older she got the less forgiving people became when she got caught in the act, as not even the best of thieves were successful one hundred percent of the time. What hurt rwby was the people she had to steal from were people not much better off than her as the rich and wealthy definitely didn't come to this part of town. No this area was populated by the poor minimum wage workers and the homeless, as the better parts of Vale had regular patrols moving beggars and the homeless away. Claiming this affected the town's image going as far as to put metal studs on the ground near important buildings and fencing of alleyways, in hope to deter people from sleeping where the public could see them

Which she supposed it was better being around people she could understand, she knew like her they were more concerned with food, water and a place to sleep than causing trouble. The only people she really needed to avoid was the street gangs getting involved with them only led to a worse life than being homeless already was. This wasn't easy though seeing they were really the only ones around with money, see even those lucky enough to have a roof weren't doing to well being swallowed by debt and with earning as little as they did they were not able to help out as much as the really did want to. This caused many to join up with gangs like the white fang just to get that next meal only to end up dead a few days later, Ruby truly felt sorry for those people as even she had thought about it when facing the harsh winter once. Before deciding breaking into abandoned buildings was a safer approach.

This life had stated at eleven for Ruby now she is fifteen having faced this for five yeas had toughened her up but that innocence still showed itself occasionally, like the childish excitement she had when she was able to save up enough food or money to last the day so she could go to the library. Learning was always a special thing for rwby as having no home or money meant school was an impossibility but the world always fascinated her making knowledge addicting to her. Ruby had tried for years to get a job doing anything really just to ease the burden and free her from having to commit daily thefts or 18 hour begging shift just to eat that night. Unfortunately the same problems showed themselves no address work history or education made a job impossible, unless it was really shady and Ruby wanted to avoid that kind of work. After all they wouldn't pay that much better than begging and what's the point of putting in that much work just to loose it when caught by some other group or god forbid the police. Being homeless sucked but it had to be better than prison right? Ruby decided she didn't want to find out. Instead studying thinking she tried hard enough maybe someone would notice that even without schooling she was smart and obviously hard working if she had decided to teach herself. So she dreamed of one day escaping this life.

The liabary was the logical choice to chase these dreams as it was. one free . and two open to everyone if you didn't cause trouble, weirdly even the white fang left it alone. Ruby was on her way to this place today after shoplifting a cans of soup putting her in somewhat of a bitter mood. She decided to go and read until it was time to return to her miserable reality.

You see even with all the time she spent studying even she had her guilty pleasures, escaping into a world of fantasy with knights and princesses, magic and adventure was probably her favourite thing to do, after all in the books someone like her would not have been in such a bad place for so long powerless to change her fate. No in the stories she read she would never give up always picking herself up and trying till she beat everything that faced her. Se meet someone amazing and fall in love secretly dating spending her young years in love until it was announced to the world and they would run away together. Another story would have her encounter some great treasure and all her problems would be fixed and she could live happily ever after.

Funnily enough her version of happily ever after was never as grand as the stories were, no her fairy tail wouldn't need some complicated plot of twists and turns no hers would end with just someone to talk to. Someone to share life with the good times as well as the bad no she didn't need money or some grand romance or even a bed to be happy no she needed a friend.

so i didn't really edit this before posting i would also accept any offers to help edit as that's not my thing as I've said before grammar and spelling not my greatest i really only write cause it helps me think and i just thought why not see what people have to say so any criticism is welcomed review and tell me what you think should i continue? or just drop this…

side note those stud things exist i saw them outside of a hospital and just felt disgusted.

remember when I said I'd do weird things in my sleep deprived mind every single time i wrote ruby i wrote it as rwby and had to fix it EVERY TIME! now obviously this is just to set the scene from now on it will mostly be ruby's pov

random question time… you have ten seconds… best cookie. [there is no correct answer D:]