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Pearl Darkness.
(Two updates in a day? I tried!)
As you can guess from the title, my birthday is coming soon! Hooray!
And this year, it's different. I actually get to celebrate it with my family and my uncle!
Okay enough about me, let's get into the story.
I do not own RWBY.
Note: This chapter contains minor spoiler for HeroAca Season 3 EP22 and 23. If you haven't watched it, skip the last question.
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Dear RWBY: Sponsor's Birthday Special (Shameless Author)
Start.
"Well as the title says, this is a special!" Yang Xiao Long threw both her arms in the air and grinned, "Hello Remnant!"
"I'm surprised that the author herself is aware of how shameless she is."
"Aww Weiss! She sponsors our videos! Don't be so harsh on her!" Ruby patted her partner's head. Ever since they started making vlogs, little red had grown much taller - to the point that it actually surpassed Weiss. It might seemed like they were at the same height usually, but after the princess took off her heels, the difference became very obvious.
"Had it not for her, with your father cutting you off you won't even be able to eat, let alone eating some pretty decent meals." Blake said nonchalantly.
"Ouch." Yang made a strange expression.
"Shush you! It's not like she sponsors every single video!"
"Actually she does." Blake smirked.
"Yeah. And since I'm the one in charge of handling the liens, I simply put most of them into production." Yang shrugged.
"You what?! Why have I never heard of this?"
"Duh! How do you think we can keep on posting our vlogs?" Ruby exclaimed.
"Because we keep filming them?" Weiss crossed her arms.
"Princess, the editing software costs quite an amount, and our total income is divided into four parts for each of us. Did you really think we earn a lot from the ad revenue? It's YewTube, the platform that keeps demonetizing people for no apparent reason." The Faunus said, her tone slightly heavy.
"Will we get a strike for that?" Yang looked at her partner.
"They'll demonetize us anyway for swearing on screen. And even for the slightest sexual content. Or when we use anime related pictures."
"EwTube."
The heiress face-palmed before speaking, "If I recall correctly, at the very beginning we all agreed on using a free editing software."
"We did, until recently."
"Huh?"
"Yeah." Ruby backed her sister up, "C'mon Weiss, we've talked to IBurn about this!"
"Wha- since when?!"
"Deja vu…" Little red whispered.
"In Professor Port's class, again." Their black haired teammate said.
"..."
The brawler put her strong, muscular arm around her girlfriend and smiled, "Aww babe! Relax! It'll be IBurn's birthday soon! Let's make this a happy vlog and that will be the best present for her!"
At this very moment, Ruby's scroll rang, once again startling everyone with its maximized volume.
"There she is…" Yang grabbed said scroll from the leader, "She types so fast."
A text messaging interface that all residents in Remnant was familiar with appeared on screen:
IBurn: The best present for me isn't just a happy vlog, but also a happy and healthy Team RWBY - and all of the viewers of course!
P.S. Money isn't a bad option. In fact money would be the second best present for me at the moment. Desk jobs are torturing when you do the things you hate every working day :(
"Aww how sweet-"
"How shameless!" Weiss interrupted her partner.
"Do you guys recall me mentioning in the last vlog that Weiss reminds me of Sonoda Umi? This is one of the reason."
The screen then immediately turned into a clip from Love Live second season, with Sonoda Umi yelling "shameless" after witnessing a kiss (almost) on the TV.
"Wha-"
"Guys, can we just get to the question? We have five of them to be answered and I don't want to make this a thirty minute vlog." Blake raised an eyebrow.
"Heh why not? I'm pretty sure our viewers like lengthy videos." Yang nodded.
A sentence then appeared at the upper part of the screen: When it's a special, it's always five questions. It has this amount because it's a 'special' episode, and not because the author wants to clear the piled questions up.
"Yeah whatever. Just start answering." The Faunus yawned.
"And it's my turn to read!" The blonde squinted at her sister's scroll and read the question aloud, "OBSERVER01 asked...Dear RWBY, to Ruby Rose, just how fast are you when you use your semblance? And do you use it to eat all the cookies you want? Smiley face."
"I am very fast. Really effing fast. And yes I use it to eat all the cookies I want. Including Weiss'."
"Hey-"
-beep-
"LastOrder asked, Dear RWBY, if you're given a chance, would you like to change the color of your eyes?" Blake spoke in her usual monotone. She gave her partner a look before continuing, "And yes Yang sir, I know you had two already. Just pick one color then...I think. P.S. C'mon guys! The puns are awesome! You just gotta need to let loose a little. You've got wrinkles all over your faces. Yesh Weissy, just you had lots of it. Oh see?"
The sisters tried to suppress their laughs.
"P.P.S And hey Yang, did you forgot...forget that one OC guy named Welkins? He's supposed to be your boyfriend in a certain AU (though I think you two never been confirmed yet). Smiley face."
"Hey! No spoilers!" Yang pretended to be angry.
"The 'Oh, see' pun...was from at least a century ago."
"Yeah…"
"I don't have wrinkles all over my face!"
"Weiss' reactions are probably the main reason people watch our vlogs. Aside from the occasional overflowing gayness." Blake smirked.
"Agreed." The red and the yellow nodded simultaneously.
"Grr…"
"There we go."
"Hmph!"
"I don't want to change the color of my eyes even if I was given a chance. I think silver has a special meaning to it."
"I said no spoilers!"
"Huh?"
"Yang, now is not the time yet."
"Right. Um...I personally think that lavender suits me the best, though I don't mind blue or green. I think blonde hair is pretty universal; it matches with a lot of eye colors. I can't possibly just pink one!"
Aside from the one with a shit-eating grin on her face, the other members of Team RWBY face-palmed in unison.
"Aww c'mon guys that was a good one!"
Blake ignored the hyper dragon and just proceeded to answer the question, "I think yellow is fine, but I don't mind red."
A pause.
"Actually red is better than yellow. Red is the best."
Ruby blushed; brilliant silvers moved to look at the other side, trying their best not to make any form of contact with the sexy golds.
"Gay."
"Yang!"
"Bae, it's your turn."
"Can you not use that term in front of...our viewers?"
"Not a chance."
"Gay."
"Blakey! How dare you!"
The heiress sighed before speaking, "I'm pretty content with my current eye color."
-beep-
"MilodicMellodil asked, Dear Team RWBY, if- without sacrificing your Semblances - you were given the choice between being able to control gravity, light, or another person's willpower, which would you choose and why?" Weiss read the question aloud.
"I would choose gravity!" Little red was the first to yell out her answer without any hesitant, "It goes well with my semblance! And I can utilize it to eat all the cookies I want. Including Weiss'."
"Hey!"
"I would choose light. It I can blend it with my semblance it could become very useful. Maybe I can bend light to make myself invisible. Or my clones."
"And I would go for willpower." The heiress crossed her arms and said, "If I can do that, I can revert SDC back to being a business with an owner that is actually a decent human being."
"Ouch." Yang smirked, looking proud for her beloved girlfriend's courage to speak against her father, "A certain ice king just got froasted!"
"That pun seems familiar." Blake commented.
"What about you, sis?" Ruby asked.
"I would go for willpower control. I mean, in volume one when I fired my gauntlets and flew, that's pretty much already defying gravity, and not to mention that my semblance lights me up on fire, so I kind of already have light. So...willpower that is."
"Volume...one?"
"With willpower control, I can get Ozpin to create a rule that forbids anyone from giving us any homework from now on!"
"Nice!" Ruby clapped her hands and cheered.
"Not nice." Weiss scowled.
"You haven't finished your homework have you?"
-beep-
"Dragoncraftertex asked, Dear RWBY, who is stronger without semblance usage, Yang or Nora?" Ruby read aloud.
"Let's vote!"
-camera switch-
"Hello again!" Pyrrha Nikos waved at the screen. (I'm sure a lot of you are fangirling/fanboying when you see this.)
"Hey! It's been a while since we make an appearance on your vlogs!" Jaune Arc tried to put on his best smile.
Team RWBY was in Team JNPR's dorm filming for the vote; aside from Jaune who had purposely put on nice clothes to be on screen, the rest just wore their casual clothes and Ren had put his hair down.
"Who would win? It's meeeeeee of course!"
"Nora, stop." Ren tried to calm his...seemingly drugged teammates down.
"Ren, did you feed her coffee?" Ruby asked.
"Just pancakes."
"I...may have doubled the amount of maple syrup she usually put on her pancakes." Jaune smiled nervously, "My hand kind of...slipped."
A pause.
"Anyway let's just vote!" The boy continued.
The word 'loading' with a fancy font appeared on screen, and just a moment after it showed Team RWBY back at their dorm with their usual setting.
"So now we have...the votes from eight different people." Yang said, "And I hereby, with a heavy heart, announce that Nora Valkyrie has officially-
"-won the game!"
"You have one vote." The heiress scowled, "And I bet that's from yourself as well."
"Aww Weissy why didn't you vote for me?" The blonde put on a ':(' face as she nudged against the snow princess' shoulder.
Said princess blushed as she pushed her away, coughed for a few times and spoke, "I saw you training with Nora. You were tired during the warm up. The warm up."
"That is no warm up!" The fearless dragon shivered in fear, ironically, "No warm up…"
"It's Nooooooora the winner!"
"I'm sorry." Ren apologized as he pulled the Nora who suddenly barged in out of Team RWBY's dorm.
...
"They're definitely together-together."
-beep-
"Alright it's me again girls!" Yang grinned, "Timrocks99 asked...Dear RWBY, if you all could be one anime character who would you be?"
"What kind of absurd question is that? I don't watch anime." Weiss crossed her arms and closed her eyes, trying her best to deny.
"She totally does." Ruby imitated Blake's way of talking.
"Shush you!"
"Yang made all of us watch My Hero Academia." The real Blake spoke right after, "IBurn probably has something to do with that since she's crazily in love with that show."
"You bet!" Yang did All Might's signature move by smiling and showing a peace sign with her left hand near her forehead (Please imagine Yang with All Might's face at this very moment, preferably with his theme as well), "That's literally the best thing she's ever done to me - introducing this masterpiece to me! We watched it in sub by the way."
"Weiss might be too proud to admit it, but she's totally in love with that show." Ruby shrugged smugly, "I saw her streaming episode twenty-three last Saturday. And cried watching (spoilers) the blonde guy confessing his feelings."
"Weiss, there's nothing wrong with loving anime." The blonde's face was still the same as just now - with a different drawing style, "No one is going to laugh at you for liking it, Weiss shoujo!"
"..."
"In fact, we might be anime characters ourselves!"
"Yang."
"Too soon?"
Blake gave her the exact same glare she gave Sun when they were at the docks trying to figure out what Roman Torchwick was up to.
"Well, I mean…" Yang's drawing style went back to normal, "Yeah, this will trigger a lot of people. Sorry guys, let's just call us 'animated show' instead of anime."
"I don't get a single thing of what you two just said, but if I can become an anime character, I'm going to be Saitama! I don't want to be bald, but I love its world, and I want to be powerful enough to defeat people with just one punch!" Ruby made a fist with her right hand, "My Hero Academia has a nice world setting for heroes, but I really hate the laws! How do I help people without activating my semblance? And I even need a license for that!"
"Ruby, if everyone can use their Quirks without restrictions, then the world is going to-" The heiress started muttering as she explained the system ran by the government in the anime setting.
"Thank you for the explanation, but we need to stop you right here, Short Might." Blake smirked.
"Hey!"
"She should be named Snow Might, since her name literally means Snow White and it rhymes with Snow Might." Ruby suggested.
"Hey!"
The sisters then laughed hysterically; not even the Faunus could fully suppress her grin.
"Hmph!"
After a series of laughter, the red and the yellow had finally calmed down. The red then proceeded to ask the black about her answer to this question, in which the latter replied with a genuine smile, "This might (the sisters laughed again) sound weird, but I want to become any of the Digidestined. I love all the series from the franchise; Adventure, Tamers, Frontiers, Savers and even Tri, although nothing beats the Adventure Digital World. In my opinion that is. Please don't start a war."
"It's nice to be able to partner up with a Digimon right?" Their leader smiled as well, "Ah the nostalgia…"
"Indeed." The Faunus chuckled, "I want to be partnered with Tailmon, so I guess I'll pick Hikari as my answer."
"And yes we watched the Japanese version." Yang interrupted, "We recently just finished re-watching together with IBurn. She also wants to become a Digidestined, but her favorite series is the Frontier."
"Frontier gets a lot of hate." Blake scowled.
"I know right! It takes on a totally different world - and theme as well, but people just keep on bashing it and comparing it to the original. How can you compare apples and oranges? It just boils down to everyone's preferences."
"I...didn't quite enjoy Frontier." Ruby whispered.
"Ditto."
"And that's fine! But we don't go up to the fandom and spread hate. I wonder why eh?" Yang's eyes turned red, "It's probably because we're actually decent human beings. And not just Frontier, there are other anime as well, since there are so many toxic people around."
"Calm down, Yang." The Faunus' tone was a little heavy; she knew that Yang was pissed off for real.
"I'm sorry." The blonde said after her eyes returned to lavender, "Pisses me off when the community became toxic and how a lot of non-anime watchers has bad impressions on us because of that."
"It's fine. Answer the question, sis."
"Right...hmm...there's a lot of characters that I want to be...alright! I will pick-"
A line appeared in the middle of the screen, completely blocking the four girls:
Spoilers for those who haven't watched Boku no Hero Academia episode twenty-two. If you don't want to be spoiled, simply skip to the last 'beep' and continue there. Or skip thirty seconds ahead for video viewers.
Here we go.
"I will pick Toga Himiko."
"Toga...Himiko?" Ruby tilted her head.
"That crazy bitch from the Vanguard Action Squad."
"Ah!"
"So that I can become anyone I want to be!"
-beep-
"Well that's it for this special!" Yang said.
"We filmed a vlog this long just for our shameless sponsor, IBurn." Weiss looked at her own nails with an annoyed face.
"Weiss!" Ruby smacked her partner on the back lightly, resulting a 'hey!' from said partner.
"Since she has no friends, she doesn't really celebrate her birthday, so she has us doing it for her this year." Blake said.
"Ouch Blake." The blonde chuckled, "C'mon, she's our friend!"
"Is she socially awkward like m-" Ruby was interrupted before she could finish her sentence - her scroll had a notification from the messaging app.
"Yeah she sent something." Yang said.
The message once again had appeared on screen with the magic of editing:
IBurn: I do have friends, just not a lot. I mean I have a best friend and...well...three...or four other friends who I don't contact at all? But in the digital realm though, I have more friends!
"I do not think it is necessary to have a lot of friends." The heiress spoke all of a sudden while crossing her arms, looking at the screen with a serious face, "I mean what's the point? This is just my personal preference, but I would rather have three friends that genuinely care about me, and not three hundred friends that only befriended me for benefits."
"Aww Weissy!"
"Weiss!"
And the black just smirked at our dear little snowflake.
"W-What?" Weiss blushed intensely, "I'm only telling the truth."
"Group hug!"
"Yang wai-"
End.
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That escalated so fast. Anyway, thanks for reading until the end!
And yes, everything they said about me was real - from the shamelessness in promoting myself in my own story - to not having a lot of friends.
In all seriousness, I don't really want to waste my time on the people whom I decided they're not worth it, so I cut them out almost immediately and this resulted in me not having a lot of friends. Mind you, by 'not worth it' I don't mean that I can't get any benefit from them; it just meant that they're either toxic or I somehow knew that they don't really see me as a friend as well. I also dislike going out and prefer to stay home forever.
Well enough about me, it's too shameless to keep telling people about my life lol.
Alright, until next chapter I guess.
Stay strong and PLUS ULTRA everyone!
P.S. Midoriya VS Bakugou is best episode. Though I dare not say that after episode twenty-four is out (Tomorrow!) because a certain someone and another someone is finally showing up!
FB: IBurn 'Tank' RWBY Fanfic Author, : Freelancer Tank.
Special thanks to:
Pearl Darkness.