When Ruby was a child, she didn't think it was weird to have Gaster as a friend, he seemed imaginary, since none of her family or friends were able to see or hear or touch him. When she would lose something, it would always appear the next day on her desk, and she would know that Gaster had found it for her so she wouldn't be upset. The slightly goopy, and staticy friend she had was almost like an imaginary second father. Which to her was a little odd, since he would argue with her and tell her she needed to eat her vegetables, do her chores, and study. When he said this she would always huff and puff and stomp her foot, sometimes screaming loud enough to bring Yang and Qrow to her room, only to find her, at least to them, screaming at nothing but air.
Eventually, she learned to not talk about Gaster to anyone, if no one knew he was there but her, what was the fun in it? She drew him when she was alone, drawings that were shaky and scriggly because she didn't know how to draw goopy and staticy, his hands were long and pointy, with holes in them too, instead of mitten hands, since she knew he used them to talk to her and she felt drawing them as mittens would take away that in the drawing. She got them taken away eventually of course, and with the way Gaster looked, he was rather creepy looking, with a dark body and stark white face, like a Grimm would have, but he wasn't a Grimm, he was her friend!
She grew older, and older, and still Gaster stayed by her side...until the Beowolf incident. She had been playing in the forests just outside of her houses yard when a beowolf had jumped at her, intent on ripping out her throat and killing her. Gaster had gone rigid, and with a snap of his fingers, the beowolf and others lurking in the shadows, were gone. Obliterated in an instant by these giant skull like things that fired rays of intense light. When she had gone to look at him, and thank him, Gaster had disappeared, eyes wide, or as wide as fathomless holes with pinpricks of light could get. It had been then, that Ruby had thought her friend might not be so imaginary as she had originally thought. The Beowolves had of course brought Qrow and Yang running, but when she told them Gaster had destroyed them all, she knew by the way they just smiled and nodded at her that they didn't believe her, and it was proven when she later heard them talking in hushed voices about Semblances. Gaster wasn't a Semblance or a power though, he was her friend, and she wanted him back. During the time he had disappeared, Ruby would sign his name out with her hands, over and over, as if the motion of doing so would bring him back to her side again. Eventually she stopped, sullen and quiet. And a couple days later, he appeared again, hands close together and avoiding her eyes as if he thought he might have scared her by destroying all those Grimm, but she had eventually gotten him to open up again after signing to him that it was okay, and showing him one of the pictures she had drawn of him, with the strange scriggly looking skulls blasting the outline of a Grimm away. He'd signed an apology, for leaving. And they became close again, him staying by her side once more.
Now, as both Ruby and Gaster stood on the airship to beacon, the skeleton made a promise to himself.
?￢ﾚﾐ?￢ﾘﾹ? ?￢ﾘﾼ ❄ ?￢ﾝﾄ ? ﾟﾑﾌ✡? ?￢ﾜﾌ❄❄ ?￢ﾘﾟ✌❄? ﾟﾑﾌ?￢ﾝﾄ? ﾟﾓﾬ?￢ﾘﾟ ?￢ﾚﾐ?￢ﾘﾹ? ✌ ?￢ﾚﾐ ❄ ✌?￢ﾘﾜ ?￢ﾘﾠ ?￢ﾘﾟ✌ ? ﾟﾓﾪ ✌ ? ✋ ✋❄ ?￢ﾜﾌ? ❄ ✌ ? ﾟﾓﾬ? ﾟﾓﾬ ?￢ﾚﾐ?￢ﾘﾹ? ? ✋ ✌ ✡?￢ﾜﾌ✡ ?￢ﾚﾐ?￢ﾘﾹ? ﾟﾓﾬ ?￢ﾚﾐ?￢ﾘﾹ? ?￢ﾚﾐ ✌? ﾟﾒﾧ ?￢ﾝﾄ ✡ ✌ ✡❄ ✋ ? ﾟﾑﾌ✡?
✌ ✡ ❄ ✋ ?
(HE WOULD PROTECT RUBY, NO MATTER WHAT. BUT... HE WOULD ALSO LET HER FACE HER OWN CHALLENGES, AND IF IT WAS TO HARD...HE WOULD HELP HER IN ANYWAY HE COULD. HE WOULD DO ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING FOR RUBY.
A...N...Y...T...H...I...N...G...)
Urgh! StupidStoryWriter6 wasn't kidding when they said that would hate formatting to space the characters out too far. FF get your act together! Anyways, I basically remade the first chapter of their story in my style, adding some things, taking some things out...such and such. Sans may or may not be introduced later, it may be AfterTale AU Sans, or it may not be, I'm still deciding whether or not I want to even add him to the story. So if his name comes off in the info beneath the story, you know why.