You face the greatest dilemma of your life, or at least the time you remember.

Do you allow possibly several of your ribs to be fractured, or do you lose one of your best (and one of critically few) shirts?

Seeing as you enjoy walking without suffering, and you need to keep up with training, you focus your Aura and pray. Yang lands a messy, too-late-to-dodge-completely blow that thankfully provides no damage, but shreds a good half of your shirt. Thankfully, ignoring flowing your Aura through your clothes means you have enough to tank the blow and not have it broken entirely, but you hit the ropes of the training ring and slump down, exhausted.

"Aw, crap, sorry sorry sorry!" Yang babbles, regaining her balance. "I'd already fired and I couldn't stop in time- OH GOD YOUR SHIRT!"

You raise a hand to stop Ruby from tackling you. "I'm fine, I'm fine! I blocked it at the last second."

"I didn't realize you were so low! I guess you actually started pushing me this time!" Yang holds out her hand to pull you up, which you gladly accept. "Only been a few weeks and you and Jaune are halfway decent!"

"That's a comfort at least," you breathe, climbing up. You nod at Ruby and Weiss and then a bit more specifically to Blake to eat them know you're alright. "I was tired of getting my ass kicked." You look down at where a flaming fist blasted through your shirt and see the charred hole and the (thankfully) undamaged skin underneath. "Though… damnit."

"Yeah… sorry about that…" Yang's hair fades in color a bit as she surveys her damage.

"Aw… I liked that shirt on you," Blake says, in that infuriatingly cute way where you don't know if she's flirting or not.

"It WAS my best…" you say, dejected and a little embarrassed. Yeah, you've grown some muscle since you started at Beacon, but it's still pretty weird having a bunch of girls focus on your exposed body.

"I'm sorry, what?" Weiss asks, with an odd disdain in her voice. Though you've been hanging around her lately and seen her better side, this line reminded you of her bitchy side.

"What? My shirt?"

"That… that was your best shirt?"

You look down at your so-called best shirt. It was a decent collared shirt you've taken to wearing; it went with your beanie, and it was the classiest one you found for cheap. Ozpin was still employing you, but you've got money, not spending money.

"Uh… yeah. Why?"

"Oh, nothing," Weiss says in a very, "Oh, something," manner.

"She's saying she's rich and she doesn't approve of your clothes."

"Yang! I did NOT say that!"

"You can say plenty without words, Weiss."

"But I didn't say anything!"

"If you think it's bad, then why don't you buy him a new shirt?"

"You're the one that ruined this one!"

"And you're the one that's on her way to owning the world."

"UGH!"

"Both of you," Blake says, effectively ending the bickering between Yang and Weiss. She hops up onto the ring and looks at your shirt. "When you say it's your best, you really mean you don't have like, a proper dress shirt?"

"Nothing super fancy," you say trying to avoid too much detail. You still haven't told anyone save Oz and Glynda about your predicament, so you don't want to mention the fact that you only have a few sets of cheap clothes is because you're from another world. Thinking about the excuse you've thought up for this particular moment, you say, "Uh, my house got major flooded and we got screwed out of insurance. Lost most of my clothes and it took everything to bring things back to normal."

"Oh, my gosh!" Ruby interjects. "When! You never said anything!"

"I didn't want it to be a big deal, but it was right before I got here." Replace flood with, "unexplainably appearing in another world," and you aren't really lying that bad…

"Now don't you feel like an ass, Weiss~" Yang teases. "Making fun of his outfit when he got screwed over."

"I wouldn't say something so crude! But I do apologize, I had no idea." Instantly, Weiss was by your side, doting over your clothes. She'd changed from rich bitch to generous benefactor after hearing of your plight. "I suppose it wouldn't hurt to help you dress better." You'd feel better about her attention if you didn't know she wants hard judging your clothing choices.

Though you still are a little annoyed that Weiss and Weiss alone thinks lowly of your clothes, you aren't in the position to say no to free clothes. Your pride was already at the point where it didn't matter with RWBY after you lost to Jaune, so you don't feel too bad about handouts. You'll have to work hard to make it up to them, though; thankfully, you're already a much better fighter, so there was nowhere to go but up.

"So you're strapped for cash, too? Is that why you've been working for Oz?" Blake asks, worried.

"Yeah, he's been a great help. Finally started getting things in order, but it's just some survival cash."

"It's decided then!" Ruby cheers, jumping in the air triumphantly. "We're going on a shopping trip! My birthday's coming up, so I'll have plenty of money to waste, so I can spot you now!"

"I guess I owe you after smoking your shirt, so…" Yang snickers. "I WAS gonna use my money to buy a new bra, but I guess I can just go without~"

"Oh, my gosh, Yang!"

"What? Never heard of #freethenipple?"

"Unless you plan on skipping your top and jacket as well, that's not the same thing, Yang."

"Wouldn't you like to see that~"

"You wouldn't. You're too much of a tease."

"Don't tempt me. You know I love a challenge."

"I challenge you to behave yourself!" Ruby shouts.

"Challenge failed."

"I'll be able to spare some lien, but only because I'll miss that shirt on you," Blake says before Ruby and Yang could keep bickering and teasing.

Thankful for the distraction, Weiss says, "And I suppose I can use my family's money for a cause that ISN'T a front for a lobbyist."

"Wow, your dad really sucks."

"I'll tell you now I don't share his taste in business partners. Especially not after he told one in so many words that he'd be fine letting his son marry me once we were of a more proper age."

"Wow, your dad REALLY–"

"When I was 12."

"Shopping trip!" Ruby said, trying her hardest to break through the awkward. "Shopping trip time!"

"Eh, prolly best if we go tomorrow, Rubes. We won't have the time to Queer Sight this dude properly this late," Yang says at 4 in the afternoon, not at all late.

Well. This might take a minute. But you can't really say no…

The next day, you slump out of bed at a reasonable 11:15 as Yang bangs on your door. Weekends were supposed to be for sleeping, but it seems your shopping trip was going to take all day. Sure, you NEEDED it, but still…

Nonetheless, you wake up and throw on a shirt that wasn't recently torn to shreds. You realize you still lack proper pajamas… Yeah, you needed this.

Soon enough, you follow RWBY, sporting their own unique outfits you've yet to see, not realizing that they were rubbing it in a little. Ruby had in an overall skirt combo, Weiss a fancy trench coat dress, Blake a more basic but cute white top, and Yang was wearing something out of a fanservicey video game and you were ALL for it, while you had on a t-shirt and the same pants you wear almost every day. You have a little money and not TOO much to spend it on, so you think it best to grab some more stylish clothes so you can diversify a little.

You remember that you still only have two beanies. You've gone this far wearing the same two every day, making sure to only wash them when you had absolutely no intention of going anywhere and when you had a hoodie to cover your ears so you didn't risk exposing that you were a Faunus. Blake already knew, and while you feel Yang and Ruby wouldn't mind, Weiss sorta reinforced the reasons why you didn't want to go public. She'd said some not-great stuff, plus she already judged you hard for having decent-but-not-great clothes.

So, clothes, pajamas, and at least one other beanie. Luckily, Remnant was full of people that wore their signature most days, but it's been a few months and you can't get away with saying you have three of the same two beanies.

Following Yang's fashionable footstep and miniskirt, you follow her to a place called Coal's, one of those big department places with a floor dedicated only to makeup. Thankfully, the second floor was more bearable on your Faunus-enhanced nose, being clothes. RWB disperses, leaving you to pick out a few things yourself before you get swarmed with women trying to dress you. Yang, however, stays by your side, likely because she figured you'd want some of your own input.

"Why don't we start over there?" Yang suggests, pointing at a discount rack. You're thankful she's the one that stuck around; Ruby was always nervous when she was alone with you, Weiss was… Weiss and Blake would be… well, you still want to get a little more comfortable before you try asking her out or anything. Yang was the easiest to hang with by far, and you aren't about to say no to her bending over to inspect shirts, knowing you're enjoying the view. You were more interested in Blake, but Yang was still incredibly attractive and she likes you well enough to shake around a little, so you continue to eye the rack.

"AHA!" Yang shouts, triumphantly holding up a deep red collared shirt. "Only $5.99! Score!" She shows it off to you with a wide smile.

"Oh, that does look nice," you say, imagining yourself wearing the red shirt. Maroon was kind of your color that you've adopted, being Redfield and all, so you reach out to add it to a growing pile.

Without noticing you reach out, Yang holds it over her chest and says, "Yeah, I know! It'd look great when I go clubbing!" She also fails to notice your blank stare, brought on by her getting distracted by shopping for herself. "Just imagine: some cute earrings, a necklace, like, 60% of the buttons undone, I'd look hot as dicks!"

"Uhh… yeah," you say, now imagine Yang wearing a button-down with only a few buttons done up. She WOULD show off a good deal of her chest, much like her current outfit is doing right now. "Red works for you."

Snickering, Yang says, "You think?" She closes her eyes, then opens them to reveal they changed color to a strong crimson, then blinks to change back.

"That's still awesome."

"Yeah, it is. Also, yeah, totally, this would work super good on you." Yang laughs at your confusion. "Like, don't get me wrong, I could ROCK men's shirts, but what, I'm gonna steal a rose red collared shirt for this cheap? Dude, this was made for you."

You huff, smiling at Yang's antics. Yeah, this is why she was easiest to hang out with. You grab the shirt from her and add it to your try ons. The blonde sets you up with some (hopefully) good shirts that won't break the bank, plus a new pair of pants to try on. Soon after, Ruby, Blake, and Weiss return with their own styles and picks for you. Now to play a little fashion star and rock the runway that was the area immediately outside the changing rooms!