Blake Reacts to We Were Close, Part 1!

A/N: Welcome, one and all, to Weiss Reacts! Yes! We still react to fanfiction! Although we just happen to have very long hilarious filler arcs with giant mecha and yuri! Which apparently makes up 90% of all anime! I don't know! Things! Also, I'd like to announce that for anyone who cares, we will be embarking upon a very interesting Reaction chapter fairly soon; Weiss Reacts to Puella Magi, as I have decided to revisit the series after getting myself addicted to Rinne no Lagrange.

So, today, we're going to start a two-parter about the absolutely amazing fic 'We Were Close' by my fellow author and partner-in-awesomeness Half-Blind Otaku- go read We Were Close instead of reading my chapters on it, seriously, it's just far better in quality and writing than this crap- and instead of focusing on Weiss, we're going to have more manly Blake! Which makes sense, Blake is the main character! Did I mention I like writing Blake as a manly fangirl? I did.

Well, let's get this chapter on the road, and a huge thank you to Half-Blind Otaku for letting me write about his fic!

DISCLAIMER: RWBY belongs to Rooster Teeth, otherwise team JNPR would be running a host club (come on, guys, Pyrrha in a suit. *drools*)

All mentioned franchises and characters belong to their respective owners.

We Were Close belongs to Half-Blind Otaku.


"Weeeeeeiss!" Ruby called out. "I need a huuuuuuug!"

"I'm already hugging you, y-you dolt!" Weiss responded, her hands firmly around the reaper's body. "Y-you can be such a dunce sometimes..."

"I'm just so used to you hugging me~"

"D-don't be." Weiss sputtered out, blushing slightly. "Maybe I'll withhold hugs one day-"
"NO WEISS YOU CAN'T DO THAT PLEASE I BEG YOU I CAN'T GO WITHOUT HUGS FOR ONE HOUR LET ALONE ONE DAY"

Yang chuckled, kicking back on her bed and playing Fire Emblem on her SchneeDS. "Heheheheheh...obvious fanboying is obvious, Elf."

Blake pushed the door to the dorm open, sighing. In place of her normal attire, she was wearing a fairly tight white tank top, stained slightly pink and brown, with the large Team Dai-Gurren symbol embossed onto the front and a pair of short khaki shorts. Yang whistled appreciatively, her eyes scanning her partner's torso.

"Whoa, kitty~ Nice dress~"

"D-don't say it like that..." Blake uttered, blushing, before shaking her head and sighing. "Man, I'm tired."
"Huh?"

"Sakuradite is surprisingly hard to work with." The catgirl said, moving over to the dorm's computer, booting it up and logging on to her account. "Hence the stains."

"Y-you're making Knightmare Frames?!" Ruby perked up, her eyes widening in amazement.

"Trying to." Blake corrected her quickly. "I might need a couple more days to work out the kinks. Which, actually, reminds me.

Yang, do you mind asking Professor Faust if we can set up the Mecha Club already?"
Weiss chuckled. "A Mecha Club? Good Dust, Blake."

"What? I've got a petition!" Blake held up a sheet of paper, complete with signatures from various students from the school. Apart from the obvious two at the bottom, "B. Belladonna" and "Yang X. L.", a dozen others could be seen, including "N. Valkyrie", "Ren L.", "M. Arisato", "S. Ikari" and "R. Ayanami".

"We got about five guaranteed members!" Yang noted happily.

"Glynda's never going to approve that." Weiss stated.

Blake shrugged. "Eh, don't worry. We're not going to let Glynda know until we have three teachers approve us."
"And the Student Council. Of which, may we be reminded-" Yang tapped the side of her bed to make a fake drumroll.

"Of which a certain Lie Ren is the President of, a certain Minako Arisato is the treasurer of, and a certain Cinder Fall its supervisor..."
The brawler giggled. "And there's no way Professor Fall will say no to a chance to show off her Paladins. No matter HOW much they suck!"

"Oh dear Oum, I can already smell the antics." The heiress sighed, relinquishing Ruby to facepalm. "Miss Lupin and Glynda are going to have a heart attack when they see the damage you'll cause..."

"Eh, Gretchen'll fix it." Blake shrugged. "Now, to see whether or not people have taken my challenge up..."

"What challenge?" Ruby inquired.

Yang went back to her game, chortling. "Apparently Blake put up a challenge on her DustFiction account challenging people to write a fic using her real self, that being 'being manlier than she is in RWBY' the day we got back from camp. She wants to see if anyone responded to it."

"Bah, it's just that crappy Weiss Reacts fic Elf writes!" Blake scoffed. "Well, that's boring, nobody wants to make me as manly as I really am. Figures.

People can't handle my awesomeness. Maybe I'll have to post that selfie me and Kamina-sama took when I visited Jaune's house..."
"Blake, just because Jaune's dad looks like Kamina and sounds like Kamina doesn't make him Kamina!" Weiss groaned. "Do I have to explain this to you people?! Honestly, it's like every person of worth here is famous or something. I know we have a web animation about us, but honestly..."

Yang and Blake merely shared a meaningful look. Weiss took note, and stayed silent for a few moments, before sighing irritably.

"What now?!"

"Nothing~" The brawler said teasingly, as Blake browsed through the fanfiction archives.

"Hm...come on, can't I have ONE fic that shows my true manlness?!" The catgirl complained."Hm...wait, oh? This might be one. And it's by that guy who uploaded Glynda's diary, too."

"We Were Close?" Yang said, suddenly by Blake's side. "Huh. That sounds interesting. An old flame of yours? And it isn't Adam?"
"Adam wasn't manly enough." Blake scoffed. "Too much of a wimp. And I don't mean the Simon, 'cute with potential' kind of wimp. I mean the kind of wimp that makes you want to punch them in the face for being useless.

Or maybe I just hated him for being too serious. I dunno. I don't dwell on it, honestly." Blake shrugged casually. "Eh, well. I've got nothing else to do. Let's read this thing."

"Yay! Fanfic!" Ruby cheered, grabbing a cookie-themed beanbag and sitting next to Blake. Weiss sighed and sat on the bed next to her, with Yang sitting opposite on her bed.


All four girls had only one thing to say after reading the first chapter.

"Mina's totally a vampire. And there's probably going to be a 'blind as a bat' pun somewhere."

"I'm loving the Dracula shoutout, though." Blake chuckled. "Also, that's pretty clever, making her a bat Faunus."

"The bad thing is that the only thing I haven't seen pop up in this Dustforsaken pit of insanity is a vampire." Weiss remarked drily. "That says a lot about how insane Beacon is."
"Personally, I'd be looking at that Saya girl, if you were looking for vampires." Yang whistled. "She's thinner than sticks, but damn she hurts when she punches you..."

"And she even sounds badass, too." Blake sniffed. "Finally...an author who understands my need for manly companionship!"

Yang cleared her throat loudly. If Blake heard her, she didn't say anything.

Blake went onto the next chapter, reading it.

"Heheheh...our Cardin would be so steamed to see himself being so racist..." The catgirl mused. "Aaaaand I can imagine just how that fight would go over here. Also, I CALLED Mina being a vampire."

"They'd both be out. Cardin from being drained, Mina from being punched in the face by a guy who's knocked out Sues." Yang chuckled. "And, if I recall, has that stupid lightning Semblance that makes him even more of a Kanji expy."

Blake continued reading. "Dammit, not another dark and troubled past me! Why can't I have a nice past with kittens?! And manly things?!"

"Dammit, I'm angsting again!" Weiss protested. "I'm not THAT angsty!"

Yang giggled. "Gentle Velvet my backside...we need to show this guy our Velvet."

Weiss nodded. "Show him my dad. Somehow, I don't think he'd be too appreciative of being reminded of his dad..."

Blake moved onto the next chapter, reading it carefully. "...aaaaand what do you know, a blind as a bat pun. And since that puts her in the same category as Zatoichi and Lee Sin, that makes her even more badass.

O-ELF SAMA WHY CAN'T YOU GIVE ME A LOVE INTEREST THIS BADASS?!"

Yang crossed her arms and glared at Blake, clearing her throat slightly louder this time.

"Wait, aren't there Braille books?" Weiss commented. "I'm pretty sure that stupid smut series Blake loves so much got a Braille translation. Mina being a pervert would make sense, considering she associates with a bunch of perverts..."

"It's art, Weiss. Just like your yaoi doujinshi is, which, by the way, contains this exact quote," Blake shot back, clearing her throat and lowering her voice.

"Oh, Suzaku..."

"S-shut up! Those were PRIVATE!" Weiss blushed in embarrassment, shaking her head.

"Hah! As if I'd ever consider going back to the White Fang. I think this is about the only thing me and wimpy crappy canon-me can agree on." Blake chuckled, before sighing.

"Well. This fic's going to get very interesting. Mina's there to drag me back to Adam?"

Yang scoffed, harrumphing. "I hope she does."

Blake frowned. "H-hey! What did I do?"

"Nothing." The brawler brusquely stated. "I'm just saying, if you like her so much, go with her."

"Okaaaay..." The catgirl looked slightly confused as she moved onto the next chapter.

"...and she's hot, too..." Blake drooled slightly. The brawler slapped her on the back of the head, causing Blake to glare at her.
"Hey! What gives?!"

"What am I, chopped liver? I'm, like, the local Ms. Fanservice!"

Weiss rolled her eyes. "Yang, don't be jealous of a fictional character-"
"J-Jealous?! I'm not jealous! There's no way Mina could ever compete with me!"

"Awwww..." Ruby giggled. "Yang's getting protective~"
"Hey! I'm the one who does the teasing around here!" Yang snapped at her sister.

"A date with Mina, Yang?" Blake chuckled. "That sounds perfec-"
"No." Yang calmly shut her down. "Just read the stupid fic already, idiot."

"Jeaaaaaalous!" Ruby teased her sister, giggling.

"...oh, finally, someone who's Yang's match." Blake mused. "For once, someone gets Yang drunk instead of the other way around."

"Impossible." Yang waved her hand dismissively. "I've got a tolerance."

"Oh dear Dust this sounds incredibly wrong." Weiss shuddered, reading the end part. "W-why did she have to do that?!"

"Vampire. Or bat thing. I dunno." Blake shrugged. "I'll have to actually meet a bat Faunus to figure out if that's actually a thing."


"This fic is so PERVERTED!" Weiss cried, reading the end of chapter six. "Why is EVERY LAST AUTHOR HERE PERVERTED?!"

"It's just a makeout scene, Weiss." Ruby shrugged. "We do that all the time, Weiss~"
"N-not with blood a-and weird things like that! I mean, really?!"

Yang only sulked more with the scene's end, looking away from Blake.

Blake shrugged. "Eh. I've seen worse. At least we made a good showing of being badass, right? Anyway, to the next chapter!"

"Woo!" Ruby cheered.

"...such sad history..." Blake muttered. "...and WHY AM I STILL NOT MANLY?! If that was REALLY me, I would've gone RIGHT up to Mina and said 'You bit him? That's cool! Let's kick ass! That's the way Team Gurren does things'!

I hate being such a pansy in fanfics."

"That backstory sounds terrible." Weiss noted. "And not in the quality sense. The 'that's actually pretty sad' way."

"We're pretty lucky we grew up in a lighter and softer fanfic world." Blake whistled, reading through her and Mina's shared backstory. "If only I could show all my other selves Gurren Lagann..."

"Torchwick's going to get bitten before this fic ends..." Weiss predicted. "If he's treating a super-strong badass vampire person like that, there's only one way that's going to go."

"Well, I predict that she's going to end up being the mole or something." Yang raised her finger. "Probably. That's how these usually go."

"We'll see about that..." Blake waited as she went over to the next chapter. She chuckled.

"This girl loves her black lingerie."
"No kidding." Weiss nodded.

"Is her Semblance attracting people or something?" Ruby noted. "She and Jaune need to talk about things."

"That...would probably doom the world. Somehow." Weiss shuddered. "Seriously, his stupid Semblance is too strong as it is..."

"We're such idiots in this fic." Blake facepalmed. "Seriously, I decided NOT to tell you guys about the dangerous ex-terrorist who MIGHT be trying to recruit me back to the White Fang and left Weiss, a KNOWN enemy of the White Fang, alone with her?

We must have been seriously grasping the idiot ball there."

Yang muttered a "Yep" as she clenched her fist. Blake looked concernedly at her.

"Is there something wro-"
"I'm completely fine." The brawler sighed, giving her a small smile. "I'm just...a bit miffed. Come on, am I not hot and manly enough for you?"

"Of course." Blake chuckled. "You're Yang Xiao Long, why wouldn't you be?"
"Hm." Yang breathed in deeply. "Very well. I'll stop sulking. But you owe me a hug."
Blake obliged, wrapping her arms around her tightly. Yang returned the gesture, sighing happily.

Suddenly, the catgirl's eyes widened in embarrassment, as she blushed.

"D-did you j-just-"
"Nope~"

"But your hands just-"
"Nope~"

Weiss sighed irritably. "And we're back to having perverted Yang. Just when I thought she would be sane."

"Blake, you're so soft~"

"Q-quit that!"

"Okay, well..." Weiss sighed as she read the next chapter. "Let's just hope that-

Oh come on, REALLY?! Yep, that's the idiot ball grasped tightly, alright! Getting kidnapped by Mina...I am SUCH a fool!"

Blake whistled. "This just got serious. And Mina...has some serious issues. Someone needs to show that girl a therapist.

Or her Shadow."
"I still remember facing mine." Yang chuckled.

'I still can't believe you only ever used me as pyrotechnics,' remarked Kyuubi-no-Kitsune, Yang's latent Persona.

'Sssssshh, you're a Chekhov's Gun!'

'A what?'

'Never mind.'

"Velvet was never this bad..." Weiss mused. "And I chafe at being depicted as a victim."

"You and me both." Yang chuckled. "Hey, another thing we agree on!"

Ruby laughed. "Yeah! You actually agreed!"

"At least I know she has common sense somewhere in her perversion-addled mind."


"Aaaaaand...that ended surprisingly peacefully." Blake nodded, rubbing her chin. The girls had managed to read the last couple of chapters relatively quickly.

"Firstly, damn straight she has a psyche more shattered than Shinji's and Yuno's combined! Dust, girl, at least my life didn't revolve around Kamina!"

"Yaaaaay! She's on our side now!" Ruby cheered, before faltering slightly. "I think. I dunno. Hazy feels and all."

"And secondly, if she tried that on the real me, I would Giga Drill Break the f-"

"Ahem, Blake-" Weiss interrupted her. Blake sighed irritably.

"Fine. I would beat her face in. With a giant drill made from Aura. Without cursing. Are you happy, Bossyboots?"

"Very." Weiss responded shortly.

"And that's the end of that arc." Yang shrugged. "Okay, onto the next arc!" Changing the chapter, the girls read the chapter from top to bottom.

"...a maid cafe?" Blake mused. "Hm. I think I RECOGNIZE this one, as well."
Yang snorted, giggling. "Moe vampire maids...now I've seen everything."

Weiss glared at her. "At least this author depicts you as the pervert you are."

"Aaaaand proud of it!"

"Straight as a board..." Blake laughed, sighing. "I still remember when we made jokes about Weiss being 'straight as a board'..."
"In fairness, in a world that's apparently populated by ninety percent girls, yuri ships abound." Yang shrugged. "It's just the reality of things."

"Mina's such a troll..." The catgirl chuckled. "That settles it. When I can, I am going to find this Mina girl and invite her over for tea with us.

This needs to happen."

"Take care not to drop crap in other universes like you did LAST time, Blake." Yang sighed. "Word on the street's that apparently a certain Exalt's daughter's found that tome..."

"Bollocks, I totally forgot about that thing." Blake slapped her forehead with her palm, before shrugging.

"Eh. It's probably fine."

"The one who told me this was this charming redhead with the habit of placing her finger on her lip, like she was planning something..." Yang giggled. "Man, I love Anna."

"Annas are operating here?!" Blake looked at her in surprise. "Okay...I'd better find her. This is going to be good.

But first, fic reading!"

"Awww...poor Russell." Ruby said, having already started the chapter. "And he seems kinda nice, too. He's kinda like our Sky."

Weiss whistled. "And their Cardin just gave ours even more reason to beat his face in."

"Right. At least we dropped the White Fang thing." Blake shrugged. "Eh. This is kinda fluffy now. I like it."

"Pfft. I'm a better cuddler than her. And a kisser." Yang remarked. "WAAAAAAY better."

Ruby smiled. "Yang, you don't have to get so defensive."

"I'm not!"
"Dust dammit, Mina's SUCH a pervert!" Weiss complained. "Swimsuit days, innuendos...she's worse than Yang. YANG."

"Ahahahahahah!" Yang shook her head, laughing and sighing, wiping a tear from her eye. "The only reason I'm not that bad is this fic's rated T and THAT one's an M rated fic."

"You mean you can get worse?!" Weiss stared at her in disbelief. Yang smiled mischievously.

"Would you like to see how bad~"
"NO!"

"You've got a point there." Blake laughed. "Definitely. And the fact that she's not even caring about that, or..." She pointed at the screen. "Her measurements being publicly printed..."
"She's obsessed with Blake, I'll give you that." Yang stated. "I think she's probably worse than Velvet."

"Nachtshatten, hm?" Weiss chuckled. "Almost as she was made for you, too. And it almost sounds like her life's a Rammstein song."

"That WOULD make a lot of sense." Yang nodded in agreement, before sighing.

"Oh, Cardin...your douchey counterparts make me laugh.

Seriously, there's bullying a dragon, and then there's taunting an ex-terrorist- no offense, Blake."

Blake shrugged. "Hey, I called her an ex-terrorist. Do you think I really think that the White Fang are anything? Heck, considering they're reduced to a flopping metal band called, I think, At The Train, or something- Adam's crappy at anything that doesn't involve swordfighting- I don't think ex-terrorist is even accurate anymore."

"Okay." Weiss breathed in. "Well, at least we know next chapter's going to be very, very awkward for him."
"Indeed." Blake noted.


END


Chapters covered: 16/70

A/N: And yes, I will now have a chapter timer anytime I do a fanfic reaction. This is to make sure I can keep track and so you guys know where I'm at- being that we don't use too much of the actual story's quotes for several good reasons, it'll be hard to keep up, I decided to implement that.

And I just realised I have...about 54 chapters to go. Crap.

Well, at least next time should get them all out of the way. Right? Right?

I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter, leave your suggestions, comments, reviews, criticisms, thoughts and ideas and I hope you have a GREAT day! Until next time!