okay, so, to start off, this is based on this idea: percygodofbluefood tumblr com/post/139567995545

i've actually been thinking of writing a rosewick youtube au and so this gave me some inspiration to actually start it

this is just a drabble in some part of the timeline cause idk if i'm gonna write out a whole fic; this particular one isn't too shippy so i'm not tagging it such, but future ones in this (potential) series might be

a note concerning the nyc fic: i am still working on it, school has just gotten in the way of me actually finishing the drabbles i've started, and some are just way too short for me to actually want to post

Opening the stream, Ruby gave the camera a salute as viewers joined in the Twitch. She clicked her mouse a bit, setting up the screen and making sure the microphone was working properly before finally beginning.

"Hey guys! It's Ruby here, time for a regular collab stream with our favorite MelodicCudgel!" She chirped, adjusting the headphones on her ears.

"Yo," her partner's silky voice greeted, a little louder than intended. She adjusted his volume once more as he fooled around on his end.

"Okay, can everyone hear us well?"

Those in the chat sent out affirmations and she recognized a few regulars in the box.

"Alright! Well, Roman do you wanna start things off?"

"Sure thing, Red," the slight laugh in his voice was unmistakable and Ruby held herself back from rolling her eyes. "Well, we don't actually have much for tonight as far as collaborations, but we can watch Red scream angrily at poor Leslie Withers."

"Hey, hey! Shut up!" Ruby laughed, cutting off Roman to defend herself. "I love Leslie, but he needs to stop running away when I'm trying to help him!"

"Aw, should I feel jealous?"

"Psh, in your dreams, Torchwick!"

Ruby loaded up the home screen for The Evil Within, her current Let's Play, and selected the "continue" option. The screen transitioned into the location she ended on and she mentally switched herself into her "game mode".

"So, when we left off we had some practice with stabbing the zombies, or Haunted, in the brain and accidentally setting off tripwires! Burned a few bodies, found a Map Fragment, and found our save room and the lovely nurse again before beginning Chapter Three.

"So, let's leave this room and move on with the story!"

The main character, Sebastian Castellanos, stood in the misty hospital of the save room and was soon navigated to the main desk. Ruby did some fiddling around to get the feel of the controls once more before warping back into the decrepit house of the main gameplay.

While The Evil Within wasn't normally what the two would play on their collaboration streams, it was still entertaining for both them and the viewers. Ruby was used to playing games in the mystery and survival horror genre but she wasn't used to scavenging around for clues, which was where Roman came in use. As opposed to Ruby, Roman was used to playing RPGs and exploration games, and that made him good at being able to spot minute details and items. So the two would occasionally team up in Ruby's games; most viewers enjoyed the banter they had while doing so.

"…so what I'm basically saying is: where the heck is Joseph?" Ruby exclaimed, throwing a hand up in mock exasperation. "I don't care where Kidman is, but where's Joseph?"

"Why do you care so much?" Roman laughed. Ruby huffed in response, though it was mostly because of the Haunted attacking her. "I get that he's the partner, but I'm more curious about that nurse."

"Because I feel like I'm being deprived of important character interactions! Joseph and Sebastian have apparently been partners for a good amount of time before, and I would like to know more about their compatibility!"

"You are really making a big deal about this, Red."

"I just think they're cute together!" The girl snipped before narrowing her eyes in focus as she snuck up on a Haunted. She cheered when she successfully stabbed the monster in the head, Roman laughing lightly on his end.

"So you're saying you ship them?"

"Woah, woah, you know what shipping is?"

"I just found out. I didn't know you knew about it."

"Duh, I'm a twenty year old girl who's been on the internet for, like, six years! Of course I know what shipping is! How do you know what shipping is?"

"What, don't expect me to know? Well, apparently some people ship us."

Ruby laughed, navigating Sebastian around as she searched for a medical kit. "I'm not surprised, really."

"Oh? Tell me why."

"Well, people have been shipping me with my friends since they showed up."

"Really? Did they make a cool name for you? We're called 'Rosewick'."

"Rosewick? Psh," Ruby laughed, a soft "yes" under her breath when she finally found what she had been searching for. "You know the team names I use? Well those are the ship names we've been given. Me and Weiss is 'Ice Flower', Blake and Yang are 'Bumblebee'…compared to those, Rosewick is, like, pedestrian!"

"Well excuse me, Red, for thinking that our ship name is pretty damn cool. I've never been shipped before, so I think it's neat."

"Not even with Neo? That's surprising, I would've thought people would ship you two."

"I think some people did early on, but I haven't seen many people talk about it since I said that we're basically like siblings."

"Well that didn't stop people from shipping me with Yang! And we're actually related by blood!" Roman burst out laughing, Ruby giggling along. She looked over at the chat and rolled her eyes. "Yeah, I'm talking about you guys, I know you're out there! Enabler will never be canon!"

"Canon?"

"Yeah, means that it's basically considered real or fact. A ship would be canon if the two involved were actually dating, and I don't think I'll be dating Yang anytime soon so…"

Roman laughed, stopping briefly to point out the location of where another map fragment might be.

"So, if I've gotten this right, you use the ship names your fans have given you as your team names?"

"Yep!" Ruby drew out the vowel, popping the 'p', with a pleased smile.

"You should use Rosewick as our collab name, Red."

"What? Why?"

"'Cause it's neat!"

Ruby laughed, fumbling around with the controller. "Jeez, it's like you've got an obsession with it or something."

"Maybe I do," Roman curtly replied, making Ruby laugh more. On screen, Sebastian ran into another Haunted, Ruby narrowly escaping. "Man, Red, having trouble focusing today?"

"Oh shut up!" The girl sighed, the slight frustration on her face covering a slight blush. "You've just got some weird fixation with our ship name and it's making me lose concentration!"

"Am I making you that flustered?"

"Uhg!" Ruby groaned, backtracking Sebastian. "Hey, where was the save place again?"

Roman laughed and there was a faint sound of banging on his end. Ruby glared at the webcam, only hoping he'd be seeing. "Oh, man, Red, and you play these how often?"

"Oh, oh! I see how it is! Think I can't find it on my own? Huh? Well, I'll show you!"

There was more laughing, and viewers in the chat were throwing back and forth their comments on Ruby's quirks. Sebastian stumbled around as Ruby searched for the mirror, her tongue poking out in concentration. Roman threw in dumb comments to try to distract the girl, her grunting in response as she tried to block him out.

Eventually Ruby located the mirror, dancing as she rubbed it in Roman's face.

"You gonna start singing that song from Dora the Explorer or something, Red?"

Ruby glared again before a smirk took over. She could hear Roman groaning on his end, the chat bursting with half the viewers begging for her not to sing and the other half encouraging her. Of course, Ruby just took in a deep breath and began loudly singing the ending theme to the children's show.

"Dear God, Red," Roman complained when she had finished. "You know, if you're going to sing, at least sing properly."

"Heh, maybe one day, Torchwick!" Ruby snickered, moving Sebastian to the Upgrade Chair. Sitting the character down, she hummed as she looked through her possible upgrades. "You know, I really like the music for this place, it's surprisingly relaxing for the type of game."

"I believe it's Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy. It's a really nice piece written in," Roman began, before being cut off by another laugh from the girl.

"Oh look at me, I'm Roman, I'm a nerd who knows music stuff and french words." She light-heartedly mocked, deepening her voice.

"Don't make fun of me for knowing simple classical music facts, Red!"

"'Simple music facts'? Who just knows these kinds of things off the top of their head?"

"Says the girl who can name off the names of the top 'riot grrrl' bands from the 90s."

"Yeah, well, at least my music has lyrics that you can sing to!"

"Alright, alright, I fold, Red."

"Good," Ruby huffed, selecting her upgrades. "Right, well, I think the others are going to be back soon. So! We're probably going to be ending this stream shortly so I can get the RWBY stream set up!"

"Sounds fine with me," Roman said, a slight pause in his voice that was soon followed up with a laugh. "So are we going to be calling our streams the 'Rosewick streams' now?"

"Oh my god, Torchwick!"

"What? 'RWBY' is an acronym for your names and colors, and that's been your stream name. While we've been doing collaboration streams for quite awhile and still have no name! So, I am just proposing that we use our ship name to finally have a neat and tidy label!"

Ruby laughed, doubling over in her chair, trying to get enough breath to respond. "I, I'll think about it!"

"Well, that sounds great!" Roman's voice had a hint of a smirk as he barely caught the sight of Ruby's cheeks turning red. "Then I'm signing off, Red!"