Important timeline stuff: we know for a fact that Ruby's birthday is on Halloween in our world. I have no clue how calendars work in Remnant – for all we know, they could have the strangest fucking calendar with like 69 days in a month and 42(0) months in a year or whatever. Occam's razor suggests it's the same as ours, but one can never be too careful… Which is to say that I placed Ruby's birthday around the second semester. (Once again, because I'm cruel: I like to imagine Ruby celebrated her sweet sixteenth while in her silver-eyes coma.) That's important because of the… main plot thread of this chapter.
So how about that volume 8 preview, huh? That trailer gave me LIFE. Literally the goal of this fic is have the cast interact with each other outside their teammates, and Yang and the boys go biking is like a chapter I'd write, right down to the potential angst of Yang having a fight with someone over trust issues. That convinced me to finish this chapter. Anyway, have some Yang! Real best girl! Weiss? Who's that?
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Volume 1.5 (Saturday): mr. arc's a bit of a bottom bitch for all of RWBY
Welcome to Team RRAYNNBW!
Snow Angel: This channel you recommended is simply divine, Blake.
Big Kitty Goth GF: im glad you enjoyed it weiss
Snow Angel: I did not know about the beauty of these… ASMR channels until you recommended them to me.
Snow Angel: Very relaxing to listen to. I have not had such a good night's sleep in weeks. Whoever runs this "Arc-en-Ciel" channel is a genius with the most wondrous voice. Extremely soothing. And even the way he clips his nails is divine!
Big Kitty Goth GF: pft
Big Kitty Goth GF: dont thank me, thank Cereal Girl
Cereal Girl: Just spreading good word of mouth about him!
Snow Angel: How did you find out about this channel, Pyrrha?
Cereal Girl: Well, when Jaune encouraged me to make my own DusTube account, he also told me to research what the popular videos were. We spend a lot of training breaks just watching videos on our scrolls.
Big Kitty Goth GF: pyr was mr. arc-en-ciel's first subscriber, and she dutifully leaves comments on each video.
Big Kitty Goth GF: now it's a relatively successful ASMR channel and pyrrha always gets shout-outs on his videos
Cereal Girl: It's good for the algorithm, Jaune says! I'm not sure what that means, but I trust his judgment. I hope I can achieve the same level of success with my own channel.
Cereal Girl: As soon as I'm confident in the training videos I've recorded, I will upload them and hopefully find a following of my own.
Big Kitty Goth GF: your pyrrha freakin nikos id be worried if you didnt have a following
Cereal Girl: Well, I was hoping to wear a mask and hide my identity for a bit. A face reveal video would be a good, um, subscriber goal? Jaune suggested it anyway.
Cereal Girl: Perhaps I'll preserve my anonymity like how Jaune does with his channel.
Snow Angel: Wait, that dunce has a channel too? What does he even upload?
Cereal Girl: Um.
Cereal Girl: Weiss? Did Blake not tell you?
Snow Angel: Tell me what?
Cereal Girl is muted for one hour!
Someone is typing…
Snow Angel: Pyrrha?
Big Kitty Goth GF: whew.
Big Kitty Goth GF: good thing I convinced jaune and ruby to let me mod the chat when they're not around
Snow Angel: Blake!
Snow Angel: Why is Pyrrha muted?
Big Kitty Goth GF: oh uh
Big Kitty Goth GF: pyr said sth rly rude in our chat. this is her punishment
Snow Angel: Really?
Snow Angel: How immature of you.
Snow Angel: Wait, but aren't you with Pyrrha at the library right now? Why are you even chatting on your scrolls!
Snow Angel: Plus, it's like eight in the morning! Why are you up so early!
Big Kitty Goth GF: well, you know, it's the library! gotta keep quiet
Big Kitty Goth GF: plus pyr and i have a, uh, project we need to finish soon. deadline's coming up
Snow Angel: Well, I can't say I disapprove of that mentality.
Big Kitty Goth GF: nvm pyr says she's heading back to the dorms to prepare for jnpr's… uh… training session
Someone is typing…
Queen of the Castle: OwO What's this? Are the Ice Queen and Blake finally getting along?
Snow Angel: Hush, Nora!
Big Kitty Goth GF: we talked stuff out yes
Ren-sensei: Good for you two. I hope things are fine now for your team?
Snow Angel: It's a… work in progress? Thank you for asking, however.
Queen of the Castle: Also
Queen of the Castle: How come you can mod the chat Blake?
Big Kitty Goth GF: perks of being second in command I guess?
Queen of the Castle: WAIT
Queen of the Castle: WE CAN MOD IF WE'RE SECOND IN COMMAND?
Snow Angel: It's in the official Terms of Service of this app, Nora!
Queen of the Castle: WHO EVEN READS THAT
Snow Angel: I do.
Ren-sensei: I as well.
Big Kitty Goth GF: pyr made me read it
Snow Angel: Our leaders are also made to read it. It's part of leadership class if I remember correctly.
Queen of the Castle: Okay, first things first.
Queen of the Castle: How come Pyrrha doesn't have mod powers in our chat? Isn't she our second in command?
Big Kitty Goth GF: bc jaune only just managed to teach her the basic Valean scroll controls
Big Kitty Goth GF: also in the leader meeting ozpin and glynda told jaune, in no uncertain terms, to not let any of you be his second
Big Kitty Goth GF: no offense meant, i think
Queen of the Castle: Really? Not even Pyrrha? I mean, I get me, I wouldn't trust myself to lead in Fearless Leader's absence, but Pyrrha?
Big Kitty Goth GF: actually, you were jaune's first choice
Big Kitty Goth GF: or at least his only possible choice
Big Kitty Goth GF: pyr's more of a follower and she's explicitly told jaune shes uncomfortable taking command of you. plus ozpin said sth abt pyrrha being suited for a different role
Big Kitty Goth GF: and ren is, and i quote ozpin, "a bit of a bottom bitch for ms. valkyrie."
Snow Angel: …are you gonna take that, Ren?
Ren-sensei: He's not wrong.
Big Kitty Goth GF: On official Team JNPR documentation, Ruby is listed as second-in-command. Pyrrha didn't tell you this?
Ren-sensei: Nora probably wasn't paying attention. Most of these things get announced at the weekly meetings and confirmed in the minutes Jaune uploads in our chat, but those documents tend to be fifty pages long.
Big Kitty Goth GF: well, Ruby's your second-in-command, as weird as that sounds. she's already decided on a team name and everything
Queen of the Castle: Is that why she insists on calling our chat "team rnnjr"?
Ren-sensei: That was my suggestion.
Queen of the Castle: Oh, okay, that makes sense.
Queen of the Castle: ALSO
Queen of the Castle: Why isn't Weissy your second in command?
Ren-sensei: I assume it's because Ozpin doesn't want all that power to go to Weiss' head.
Big Kitty Goth GF: yes, and ruby tricked me into agreeing since there wasnt anyone else
Big Kitty Goth: ozpin suggested jaune be our second as well, but glynda just laughed really hard
Big Kitty Goth GF: glynda said, and I quote: "mr. arc's a bit of a bottom bitch for all of RWBY."
Queen of the Castle: But not for me or Pyrrha?
Snow Angel: No offense, Nora, but you and Pyrrha immediately deferred to the dolt during Initiation, plus he's the only person you take orders from that isn't Ren.
Big Kitty Goth GF: and we all know pyr's preferences
Queen of the Castle: There's one specific place I can imagine her taking charge.
Big Kitty Goth GF: yes and it's not in the battlefield
Snow Angel: Well, I for one am glad I'm not the official second in command.
Snow Angel: My younger self was absolutely insane when she thought she could handle Yang Xiao Long.
Queen of the Castle: NO WAY
Queen of the Castle: You don't want to lead? Who are you and what did you do to our Weiss?
Snow Angel: I'm not your Weiss, Nora! I am my own woman and I resent the implication that anyone could 'own' me.
Queen of the Castle: Oh, okay. So you're a bottom pretending to be a top.
Big Kitty Goth GF: pfft
Ren-sensei: Nora
Ren-sensei: Let's not make assumptions about the preferences of our friends.
Ren-sensei: For the record, Weiss, I respect you regardless of your… inclinations.
Snow Angel: EXCUSE ME
Someone is typing…
Queen of the Castle: Speaking of inclinations, Weiss, I heard you were into ASMR now! Did you listen to the Vacuoan plague one yet?
Snow Angel: No, I only started listening last night.
Queen of the Castle: You totally should. Most of the stuff Ren listens to is so boring! They put me to sleep! But the plague one is DOPE!
Queen of the Castle played a video over the chat!
Big Kitty Goth GF: well, at least we can mute the videos now
Ren-sensei: Nora, you know the purpose of ASMR is relaxation, right?
Queen of the Castle: Less whining, more plaguing!
Snow Angel: This is… interesting.
Snow Angel: I'm afraid such advanced… performances may not work for me yet. "Arc-en-ciel" is good enough for me. Also, he's supposed to upload a new recording this weekend! I'm looking forward to it!
Snow Angel: A shame about his upload schedule, though. And did you notice how he was filling out that hoodie of his in the recent uploads? He's been working out!
Queen of the Castle: Oh man, Jaune's going be real happy with that one.
Snow Angel: Huh? Why? What does that lying dunce have to do with any of this?
Big Kitty Goth GF: OH YOU KNOW
Big Kitty Goth GF: HES JUST A REALLY BIG FAN OF ARC-EN-CIEL
BIG KITTY GOTH GF: RIGHT NORA
Queen of the Castle: Uhhhhhhhhh
Queen of the Castle: Yeah, totally!
Ren-sensei: Yes, he was the first person to ever watch Arc-en-Ciel videos and recommended the channel to the rest of us.
Snow Angel: Wait, but I thought Pyrrha was that channel's first subscriber and biggest fan
Big Kitty Goth GF: ummmmmmm
Ren-sensei: They discovered the channel together.
Big Kitty Goth GF: right!
Snow Angel: …Ok?
Ren-sensei: Anyway.
Ren-sensei: Queen of the Castle, Cereal Girl, SunnyLittleDragon, are you ready?
Ren-sensei: Jaune and I will be waiting at the usual spot. Yang, just follow Nora since this is your first time.
Queen of the Castle: Pyrrha's almost done with her bath!
Queen of the Castle: Oh, and bring plenty of water and energy drinks, Yang!
Snow Angel: Yang's still asleep. Should I wake her up?
Queen of the Castle: Is she hungover? I'm shocked she went out without inviting us!
Snow Angel: No, she went out to Vale late last night, but I don't think she went partying. She was pretty sober and didn't reek of vomit when she came back.
Big Kitty Goth GF: I'm pretty sure the only time Yang goes clubbing is when she convinces at least one of us to go with her.
Queen of the Castle: Can you blame her? She needs a designated driver.
Queen of the Castle: I remember the last time we went with her she got tipsy off that first Strawberry Sunrise she ordered
Ren-sensei: The non-alcoholic one?
Queen of the Castle: Exactly!
Ren-sensei: Also, I'm pretty sure she still owes us money for the last round of drinks.
Queen of the Castle: No, Ren, the last round was on you. Remind me never to let you handle money for alcohol ever again.
Snow Angel: In any case, Ruby isn't in our room to wake Yang up, and Ms. Snorezilla over here is terrifying when we try to rouse her. Any suggestions?
Queen of the Castle: Oh! Oh! Let her listen to this!
Queen of the Castle played a video over the chat!
Someone is typing…
SunnyLittleDragon: fuck off im trying to sleep
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Yang hated mornings.
She hated all the daily rituals that girls had to go through every morning just to look beautiful. Puberty hit her hard, and almost as a survival mechanism, Yang had to show everyone she was strong and beautiful – otherwise, she and Ruby were going to be targets at Signal. It was bad enough that their father and uncle were teachers (and hence the two girls were automatically teacher's pets) but Ruby was just so vulnerable and defenseless as a kid (at least until she learned how to use a scythe and became Signal's biggest weapon nerd) that Yang felt the need to step up and be the guardian dragon her namesake suggested. Yang's early life consisted of her beating off lechers and perverts who only saw her for her chest and saw her sister as a way to get to her, or worst, someone to bully. She also had to be strong and powerful to prove wrong all the naysayers who saw her and Ruby as riding off daddy's coattails, so she was determined to prove herself utterly untouchable, both physically and emotionally.
But being untouchable was a lot of work. She was proud of who she was, but it was a lot of work to maintain that – she had spent much of her youth training hard and growing stronger, ensuring her body was in tip-top shape (she would never let anything like that one time she took Ruby out on her wagon happen ever again) even if her instincts were to lay around in bed, play video games, and pig out on strawberry cake and chocolate cookies with her sister. No, she couldn't afford to do anything that would jeopardize the tough-as-anils image that other people had of her. Wasn't that why she learned how to ride and maintain a bike like Bumblebee? Because it was useful for travelling and it fit the image she wanted to project?
And that image took a lot of work to cultivate. As a child, Yang never really understood the point of makeup, growing up with two adult males as her role models, until an unfortunate incident with her, Ruby, and the local mean girls posse forced her to learn for both her and Ruby. (Ruby, bless her, still didn't see the point but had begrudgingly learned the basics, at least.) She never even gave much thought to fashion until it was clear that most people only cared about your projected image, and so she learned how to dress up. Besides, you needed to look a certain way to gain access to the clubs she needed to enter if she wanted to find information on Raven, especially considering she was underage when she started looking for information. She wasn't much of a partygoer at first either until it became clear that she had developed a reputation for hitting up bars and shady clubs, so she decided that she might as well cultivate the image. Oh, she enjoyed them now, but part of her wondered if it was just the thrill seeker side she claimed she had, or perhaps habits cultivated from years of telling other people that was why she went partying every weekend. If she was honest, she only really enjoyed clubbing if she was with close friends.
Of which she had blessedly few, growing up. Ruby didn't count – she was young and there was no way in hell Yang would take her underage sister anywhere within speaking distance of drunk and lecherous men and women. Her friends from Signal were really just acquaintances (and most of them failed Initiation at Beacon anyway!) and a lifetime of being the strong, badass, beautiful woman meant she had made just as many enemies as allies at Signal, most of whom were jealous of her or angry she never gave them the time of day. So she didn't really have any close friends. Big deal.
Not that she cared much for getting close to most of her acquaintances anyway – most of them would leave, eventually. That was just how her life went.
Her one rebellion against this image scathing eyes forced on her was her hair. Don't get her wrong, she loved her hair, and took loving care of it, using only the best hair products and putting in the work to maintain it each and every night, but otherwise she refused to tame her majestic, glorious locks. It was a lot of work, taking care of her hair so that it looked amazing while still retaining the wild, unruly look that it did, but it was worth it. It was her own way of asserting her individuality, of reclaiming a part of her personality from the image that people had essentially forced on her. It was hers and hers only! She never even allowed people to touch her besides her dad and Ruby, at least until recently!
(These days she had found that she and Blake had common ground in unruly bed hair, and some days if she woke up early then Blake would acquiesce to combing her hair and fixing it for the day. Most of their early conversations came about thanks to this hair ritual, and before the whole fiasco at the docks, their main way of bonding, since Yang wasn't exactly a book person and their hobbies didn't exactly mesh.
She'd also discovered that Jaune was pretty good with hair, no doubt thanks to his seven (seven!) sisters forcing him to, so on a random day she decided that they would mess with each other's hair for fun. That was probably the first time she saw Blake crack a smile at her, observing her pigtails and Jaune's self-proclaimed "warrior's wolf tail". A better strategy than her puns, at least.)
The point was, Yang hated mornings because it took a lot of work just to make Yang Xiao Long look like Yang Xiao Long. Before coming to Beacon, it took her almost half an hour to get ready for the day, from choosing her outfit to the simple act of rinsing her hair in the shower and making sure not a single strand of hair was astray even if it was supposed to look messy. Thankfully, a lot of it changed when they came to Beacon – for as much as Weiss liked to fuss about appearances, she was shockingly slovenly inside their dorm room (she assumed that Weiss was used to having people fuss over her appearance as well back at Atlas, and enjoyed the freedom to not look like a princess all the time) and the rest of their team was no better. Sure, Blake looked amazing even without all the prettying up expected of girls, and Yang was jealous of how Blake could look immaculate even if she just woke up, and Ruby was Ruby and therefore cute no matter what, but none of them cast judgment if one of them didn't feel like looking pretty that day. (The only time anyone had gotten annoyed at her for not acting ladylike and proper was when Weiss finally snapped and told Yang off for her incessant snoring, but that wasn't her fault now, wasn't it!)
She was glad, too, that their neighboring sister team was just as nonchalant if they saw her at breakfast or at the common room looking less than perfect. She was initially wary of the two boys over at their sister team, but it was clear that both were used to dealing with women, unlike most of the boys at Beacon. Ren was the perfect gentleman, keeping to himself and not judging her if she knocked on Team JNPR's dorm room, just wearing her sleeping attire, to borrow shampoo from Pyrrha, and Jaune, despite being the dorkiest of dorks, never ogled her or made suggestive comments about her appearance. Nora honestly never cared about appearances and instead was always more eager to have fun with Yang, and Pyrrha, despite being the most prim and proper girl Yang had ever met, was just as bad with mornings as her. (She would never forget encountering "morning Pyrrha" one fateful early morning, when Yang made the decision to get up at the ungodly hour of five in the morning to do some training, only to overhear Jaune and Nora trying to calm a furious Pyrrha, whose alarms went off too early. For someone who trained religiously, Pyrrha was so bad with getting up early!)
So she wasn't a morning person. Big deal. Beacon had a way of changing people for the better, Yang thought, because just a year ago she wouldn't be forcing herself to get up at an ungodly hour, at a weekend no less, to get ready and participate in Team JNPR's weekly dance/training sessions. (She still needed to beat Jaune at DDR, dammit! Plus, it promised to be a good workout! Never mind her other goal for meeting with Team JNPR…)
Steeling herself for a long day, Yang rushed out RWBY's dorm room, her hair still damp, and knocked on JNPR's room to meet with Nora. At the same time, she began messaging Jaune.
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Welcome to Dragonslayer!
Sunshine: yo VB
Sunshine: sup
Ladykiller: yang ren's getting impatient, please tell me you're otw
Sunshine: we are nora's just getting an uh
Sunshine: "pick me up"
Ladykiller: …right
Sunshine: so yeah im just waiting for her to finish eating
Sunshine: so
Sunshine: sup
Ladykiller: look if this is about what we talked about the other night im fine
Ladykiller: i dont mind weiss giving me the cold shoulder for the transcripts thing
Ladykiller: you didnt need to tag along with me for a food run just to talk abt it
Sunshine: pssh lets not get ahead of ourselves VB
Sunshine: i just wanted to get free pizza
Sunshine: plus we dont get to hang much
Ladykiller: we see each other every day
Sunshine: yea but that doesnt count as hanging out
Ladykiller: yeah i get it
Ladykiller: your just salty you and blake dont hang out more often
Sunshine: ….
Sunshine: you're a dead man jaune arc
Ladykiller: ooh look at me im jealous my partner hangs out with vomit boy's partner more than me
Sunshine: o ho i see you're developing a backbone now
Ladykiller: you'd be surprised how easy it is to talk shit online
Ladykiller: esp when i know you're not gonna make it here for at least twenty minutes
Ladykiller: enough time for me to hide
Ladykiller: (please don't kill me)
Sunshine: …
Sunshine: look if weiss is still bothering you i can talk to her
Sunshine: ruby already had a talk w her abt it but you know how stubborn she is
Ladykiller: yang
Ladykiller: i dont need you to go big sis on me. you don't need to be big sis all the time
Ladykiller: i already have a bunch of sisters for that
Sunshine: fine
Someone is typing…
Sunshine: look i need a favor
Ladykiller: what is it
Sunshine: its for ruby
Sunshine: is JNPR free tonight?.
Sunshine: i need all your help for a lil sth. im gonna ask at your training sesh later
Ladykiller: well, i was supposed to do some recording tonight
Ladykiller: did you know beacon has a dedicated recording studio? it's next to the music room
Ladykiller: its so weird not more students use em. place is empty most of the time, especially on weekends
Ladykiller: but yeah, i can push that back, not a lot of people use the recording room anw
Sunshine: you sure?
Ladykiller: yeah. its for ruby, right?
Sunshine: …thanks, VB.
Ladykiller: yeah yeah now hurry up here before ren gets really pissed. you'll regret pissing him off when he's in charge, trust me
Sunshine: pssh whats the worst ren can do? besides, i don't do regretting.
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Yang regretted every single moment of it.
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Welcome to juniper berries!
Daughter: And that's why we're keeping it secret for now, Pyrrha.
Dad: I understand. Although you would think Weiss would figure it out sooner…
Daughter: Well, it's funnier this way.
Dad: Well, Blake did say she was going to take responsibility if Weiss gets angry.
Mom: guys
Mom: just like we talked about earlier
Mom added Yang Xiao Long to the chat!
Daughter changed Yang Xiao Long's name to Aunt Yang!
Aunt Yang: nice nicknames
Daughter: Welcome to the chat, auntie!
Son: Yang.
Son: How are the legs?
Aunt Yang: less sore now
Son: Good.
Son: because you need to fix your two left feet
Aunt Yang: gimme a break ren! how was i supposed to memorize the entire routine!
Son: Jaune and Nora learned quickly.
Son: Pyrrha I've accepted is abysmal at dancing. You, however? How are you supposed to beat Jaune at DDR if you can't even keep up with the basics?
Son: Honestly. Professor Ozpin has a saying that fighting and dancing are similar. You and Pyrrha are the best in combat for our year, and I believe you can defeat even our upperclassmen.
Son: so why are you two so bad at dancing?
Aunt Yang: where did you even get that quote!
Daughter: Oh, Professor Ozpin published a book about dance battling, apparently. We found an entire row of his books at the library!
Dad: Velvet says they didn't sell well.
Mom: Velvet? Oh, the library assistant?
Mom: Also, Ren, please be nice to Yang. It's her first time doing this.
Son: …fine. But for the record, they won't improve if we coddle them.
Aunt Yang: lmao you guys are fun. can i stay here? our group chat is mostly just weiss being weiss
Daughter: Sorry, this chat is for team ears only!
Son: If Ruby couldn't convince Jaune to let her stay here despite technically being our second-in-command, I doubt you'll succeed.
Dad: And as much as Blake would like it here, I can't allow her to stay here either.
Mom: guys focus
Mom: we need to prep for the party. yang, did you tell blake and weiss already?
Aunt Yang: hang on, they're not at the dorms. im messaging them now.
Mom: right. we'll start planning. Ren?
Son: I'll prepare a list of ingredients.
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Why is it so hard to message Blake?!
Yang prided herself on her confidence. It took a lot of courage, she felt, to walk into some of the shadiest bars in Patch and later Vale to gather information, especially at such a young age. Even if most of the shady bars didn't check for IDs, Yang stood out for her youth, despite her best attempts to dress up and fit in. So instead of trying to pretend she was older, she leaned into the image expected of her, which was why most of the flirting techniques she knew were from lecherous old men trying to hit on the easy-looking young girl. And if they ever got too handsy? Well, she did develop Ember Celica, albeit with lots of help from Ruby, and she had two deadly weapons with her at all times. It wasn't her fault people always stared at them! And if they wanted to look at them so badly, Yang was glad to introduce their faces to them!
(That was why Yang always ended up punching people in the face. Stop staring at my gauntlets, you creeps!)
Yang sat down on her bed and sighed. On her scroll, the chat head for Blake was open, and Yang had already drafted a short message (yo blake i need a favor) but she stopped herself before sending it. It wasn't a problem of confidence, Yang swore to herself, that stopped her from messaging Blake, but things were still so awkward after the last weekend. Sure, they had talked, and they had given their apologies, and Weiss and Blake seemed to have had another talk last night, but a part of Yang still hesitated to talk to Blake. A part of her reasoned that it was the revelation that Blake somehow got along with Team JNPR better than the rest of her team, but it wasn't like Blake making other friends got to her, really.
No, the problem was that Blake was her partner and she was just discovering all of this now.
Yang knew she did her part as a partner to reach out to Blake. They trained together every now and then, chatted in between bouts of combing and fixing each other's hair, ate together, tried to hang out together (Yang, bless her, just could not get into the whole book reading thing), all that jazz. At one point, Yang even tried asking Blake to go with her to party, but the cat faunus was, unsurprisingly, not fond of large gatherings with all the noise pollution and alcohol that entailed. Yang had ended up cancelling her plans for the night and hung around the dorms, trying to start a conversation with her.
Yang couldn't even fault her partner – she understood that Blake preferred keeping to herself, but she wasn't averse to communicating with her team. Yang noticed the telltale signs: Blake's eyes shifted warily, expecting something, when a new person approached her, but they would loosen up once she realized the person could be trusted; she tended to avoided physical touch, which proved a small problem with the notoriously touchy-feely Ruby (who loved giving hugs), until they had a talk to confirm that, no, she didn't hate Ruby, she was just uncomfortable with people touching her; she rarely, if ever, contributed to a conversation unless prompted, but was passionate about a topic once she got going; she spent a lot of time reading her books, but would close them and participate in whatever harebrained scheme their team would come up with if invited. Honestly, she acted so much like a cat that Yang felt she ought to have seen it coming.
But all of this meant that Yang felt she understood Blake, understood that Blake was slow to trust others, even if she clearly wished to be closer to them. So Yang took her time and kept her distance, even as she wanted to get to know more about her partner. She was someone who respected her partner's boundaries, after all. Blake, she believed, was the type of person who would come to you if she were ready.
Which was why the fact that Blake had, somehow, decided to become good friends with Pyrrha Nikos of all people was the thing that frustrated Yang the most. She didn't have anything against Pyrrha, no; if anything, she liked the celebrity, admired her strength, looked forward to sparring against her, even if Pyrrha tended to win their fights. She liked to think she got along well with Pyrrha, even if Pyrrha tended to hold back a lot of her feelings and was so overwhelmingly polite to the point of insincerity at times. And yet Blake, Blake, felt she could trust in Pyrrha more than her own partner?
Okay, so Blake did get to Yang.
(Yang feared, sometimes, that the image she had projected unto others, of the fearless girl who laughed out loud and threatened anyone who meant her and her sister harm scared off not just the bad people but even the ones she liked.)
Things got worse when Blake revealed her identity that weekend and Yang realized just how little she knew about her own partner. Not even Ren engaging her with his semblance that weekend was enough to completely calm her down, and it took Ren explaining to Yang the nature of how Pyrrha and Blake met for Yang to understand things a bit more. That was probably an eye-opening experience to Yang, who never really thought much of the entire weirdness that surrounded team JNPR before the field trip to Forever Fall. A part of her even promised to ease up on teasing Jaune after finding out about Cardin's actions.
(In retrospect, Blake and Pyrrha sharing a mutual love for Mistralian cartoons probably shouldn't have surprised Yang.)
Yang blinked, realizing that she had spent almost ten minutes staring at her scroll, lost in thought. I don't have time for this! she panicked, realizing that she had to focus on Ruby right now, considering how yesterday turned out.
Just talk to Blake. It's not so hard, right?
Yang sighed. Gods, if only she had as much confidence as she projected. Instead, she started a new group chat.
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Welcome to the beginning of the Blake Belladonna, Weiss Schnee, and Yang Xiao Long group.
Yang Xiao Long changed the name of the group to Bee's Schnees!
Yang Xiao Long: yo guys we have an emergency
Yang Xiao Long booped Blake Belladonna!
Yang Xiao Long booped Weiss Schnee!
Yang Xiao Long: Blake Belladonna Weiss Schnee
Blake Belladonna: what
Weiss Schnee: What in the world is it, Yang? Why not just message our group chat?
Yang Xiao Long: oh uh
Yang Xiao Long: its about ruby so
Yang Xiao Long: we need to keep it on the down low
Blake Belladonna: …ok?
Yang Xiao Long: any of you seen her today?
Weiss Schnee: I saw her leaving the cafeteria. It seems she wasn't in a good mood. Did you have a fight with her or something?
Blake Belladonna: shes been silent in chat the whole morning too
Yang Xiao Long: right so uh
Yang Xiao Long: i may or may not have forgotten that it's ruby's birthday today
Weiss Schnee: You what?
Weiss Schnee: Is that why Ruby's in a bad mood all morning? She thinks we forgot her birthday?
Blake Belladonna: wtf yang
Yang Xiao Long: it completely slipped my mind!
Yang Xiao Long: i got team jnpr to agree to help plan a surprise party for her and i think i can get us a place by tonight
Weiss Schnee: Of all the irresponsible things to do…
Blake Belladonna: i kinda have to agree yang, you should have told us earlier
Blake Belladonna: we dont even have presents
Yang Xiao Long: that's fine! ruby would rather have a party with us anyway. she didn't exactly have a lot of friends back at Signal to celebrate with
Blake Belladonna: well, if you say so
Weiss Schnee: What do you need us for, then?
Yang Xiao Long: ill have you added temporarily to team jnpr's chat and we can coordinate from there
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Welcome to juniper berries!
Mom: nora, i dont think pancakes are appropriate party food
Daughter: Not with that attitude!
Son: Pyrrha, are you sure we can cover everything with your card for now?
Dad: If it doesn't, have Jaune withdraw some money from my bank. We can figure out how to split the costs with Team RWBY later.
Daughter: Oh man I'm so excited! I didn't know today was Ruby's birthday!
Daughter: I could have sworn it was some other day!
Mom: yeah, I thought so too.
Mom: wait yang says weiss and blake are in. hang on.
Mom added Weiss Schnee to the chat!
Mom added Blake Belladonna to the chat!
Mom: hey guys
Weiss Schnee: Alright, Yang briefed us on the details. What do we have right now?
Mom: ren and i ran down to vale to get food. we'll get started on cooking once we get back.
Dad: Nora and I are looking for Ruby to distract her for the entire day.
Weiss Schnee: Right, and Yang said she had an idea of where we could hold the party.
Weiss Schnee: Who's in charge of decorations? Arranging the venue once Yang finds one? Planning out the program?
Mom: …program? It's just a birthday party, Weiss.
Weiss Schnee: Ugh.
Weiss Schnee: This is why you're such a dust-damned dolt! "Just a birthday party." Good grief. No wonder Ruby's so upset if even her supposed best friend doesn't take this seriously!
Weiss Schnee: I'll take over the planning from here since your fearless leader isn't up to the task!
Son: Weiss.
Daughter: Don't be mean, Weiss!
Aunt Yang: guys, focus!
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Yang cringed as she made her way down the halls of Beacon. She knew Weiss didn't mean to be so dismissive, but did Weiss have to be so… Weiss? What made it worse was Jaune being in the chat, which meant Weiss was certainly less inclined to be mindful of her words around him. She probably should have seen this coming, considering Weiss was still testy over the whole transcript thing… granted, this whole plan Yang was putting together was slap-dash at best. That was why she asked for help, after all.
Why is Glynda's office so hidden away?!
Gods, she needed to rush if she wanted to secure the place.
At the very least, Weiss immediately took charge of the planning and had started renting out the things she requested. The power of the Schnee name certainly helped ensure they could get everything they needed. But for the entire thing to work, she needed to make sure Jaune and Weiss could work together…
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Welcome to Dragonslayer!
Sunshine: yo VB
Sunshine: how are things over there
Ladykiller: ren's at the checkout counter
Ladykiller: we'll get to the airbus back to beacon asap
Ladykiller: you got the place?
Sunshine: glynda's got a meeting atm. i might go to ozpin directly.
Ladykiller: you sure?
Sunshine: positive
Sunshine: look
Sunshine: uh, VB
Sunshine: sorry bout weiss bein a bitch to you
Ladykiller: nah its cool. she doesn't mean it
Sunshine: doesnt mean she has the right to be!
Ladykiller: i was a dick to her the first day of initiation too.
Ladykiller: plus shes right, i shouldn't be here at beacon
Ladykiller: all i can do is prove i have a place here
Sunshine: …
Sunshine: sorry, jaune
Ladykiller: its alright yang.
Someone is typing…
Ladykiller: so when are you gonna tell em
Sunshine: huh?
Ladykiller: that it isn't actually Ruby's birthday.
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Dammit, Yang thought, why does Ruby and Jaune know so much about each other? Oh, right, those two dorks share everything!
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Welcome to Dragonslayer!
Ladykiller: i didn't realize at first but then i remembered
Sunshine: …
Ladykiller: is this one of those family things ruby isn't fond of talking about?
Sunshine: …jaune, can you keep a secret.
Ladykiller: …yang, c'mon
Sunshine: right, right, arc's word.
Sunshine: right so
Sunshine: yesterday ruby blake and I decided to prank Weiss. just for fun, really, plus Weiss was being mean to you the past few days and ruby wanted to get back at her for it
Sunshine: Ruby woke up early and hid that huge binder Weiss uses for stuff, then snuck back to bed and pretended to sleep.
Sunshine: we figured, hey, we'll give it back to Weiss at lunch or something, but then Weiss goes and throws a fit about losing her binder
Sunshine: blake felt guilty and got her binder back but didn't tell her it was a prank since she figured ruby would wanna apologize
Sunshine: and ruby did want to apologize, but the guilt of the whole thing made her feel like weiss would get so mad at her she'd leave
Sunshine: when ruby gets worried abt stuff like this she just… spirals. last night i tried to talk to her and she started thinking about Summer.
Ladykiller: oh, your mom?
Sunshine: yeah. every now and then Ruby just has these bad episodes where she thinks of summer. ruby usually visits her grave to feel better, but patch is a bit of a long ride away atm.
Sunshine: we never really… commemorated summer's death properly, so when she was younger and was down when she'd remember summer id throw little parties to distract her so i figured, hey, lets throw one right now
Ladykiller: so you were out all night looking for a place to reserve for a party?
Sunshine: yeah, but i couldn't find any place that wasn't a bar
Ladykiller: …
Ladykiller: what did you figure you were gonna tell the others
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(Yang could admit to herself that she played along with Ruby's prank mostly so she and Blake could have something to laugh about that day. It was hard finding things to talk to Blake about! And they did have a bit of fun at what they saw as a harmless prank until Blake cottoned on to the fact that Weiss was genuinely bothered by the whole thing and had run off. That had set Yang off.)
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Welcome to Dragonslayer!
Sunshine: iunno
Sunshine: i was just gonna claim i didn't get to party last night so this is me trying to do something fun this weekend
Ladykiller: and this is fine with you? you're gonna annoy weiss and blake at the very least
Sunshine: nobody needs to know about me n ruby's sob story. i'll be fine
Ladykiller: …
Ladykiller: yang we all know your bad at plans
Sunshine: hey!
Ladykiller: but this is prolly the dumbest thing ive seen you do all semester
Ladykiller: considering you jumped into the mouth of a giant nevermore thats saying something
Sunshine: rude
Ladykiller: you're not afraid everyone'll be pissed with you?
Sunshine: i mean what else is new right
Sunshine: this is totally something id do
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At some point, Yang feared, she had lost the distinction between who she thought she was and who she projected herself as. At some point, the parties had to be a part of her life, even if she hated alcohol and the crowds got too handsy so she always ended up in some fight, even when all she wanted to do was ask about Raven Branwen. At some point, she became the untouchable Yang Xiao Long, who could beat up anyone who looked at her funny that everyone in Signal started avoiding her besides a few hangers-on and desperate guys. At some point, what started as utter chores to do, like making herself look pretty enough to intimidate everyone away became second nature, like a habit cultivated through many years. She did her best to ignore her own instincts to be lazy and just spend time with her sister and focused on improving herself, making herself better, stronger, more unapproachable, if only to make sure people stayed away from her and Ruby. She had to be strong for the two of them, after all. After her father collapsed mentally and Qrow retreated further into alcoholism, she was all Ruby had…
At some point, she feared, she had started driving even her sister away. She meant well, but she abandoned her during the first day of classes, didn't she? All to spend time with 'friends' she never saw again after Initiation, because she had an image to uphold. If Jaune, Weiss, and Blake weren't there… would Ruby have talked to anyone?
Sometimes, Yang feared that for all she did to protect Ruby, she may have left her isolated as well. Sure, Ruby had her 'gang', but how often did Ruby spend time with them? She buried herself in training and weapon-making instead of socializing and had grown into the socially awkward dork she was today. It was a miracle she even made friends, considering how much Yang felt she had screwed up raising Ruby. All because she had changed herself so much to match the image that she felt she started to forget who she was as a result.
Gods, what if Ruby realizes this? Will she leave me too?
Finally, at some point, Yang realized that she started buying into her own hype, started thinking herself that confident, strong woman who turned all the heads and attracted all that attention. She never actively tried to be the center of attention, but it had happened, so she had to be that good, right?
Yeah, right! I couldn't even talk to Blake the first night without it being an awkward mess!
At the time she needed confidence the most, her persona failed her. What even was she at this point? Surely not the symmetrical image that scathing eyes had forced her to be, one-sided and easily processed. But what did she have left after that? Some misshapen spark that she feared would be judged by all?
At some point, Yang started to lose track of who she was.
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Welcome to Dragonslayer!
Ladykiller: gods dammit yang
Ladykiller: i told you you didn't need to play big sis all the time
Ladykiller: in fact, if you could be less of a big sis, id really appreciate it
Sunshine: oh shut up VB, as if you arent the same
Ladykiller: yeah well the difference is i have older siblings too so i know what its like on both ends
Ladykiller: we talked about this the other night
Sunshine: …yeah
Ladykiller: we're all ruby's friends too. you don't need to do this on your own
Ladykiller: im sure if you explained this to everyone they'd understand.
Ladykiller: ill support you whatever you wanna do. ill keep quiet if that's what you want
Ladykiller: but i don't think ruby's gonna be happy you're making yourself look dumb and irresponsible to our friends
Sunshine: like you're one to talk, mr. i faked my transcripts and told everyone about it in the middle of blake's dramatic reveal!
Ladykiller: i never claimed i was better! we're both dumbasses!
Ladykiller: that's why im trying to help you now before you do something stupid!
Someone is typing…
Ladykiller: hey, from one sibling to another
Ladykiller: nobody likes it when their siblings are acting stupid
Ladykiller: anw, the stuff weiss rented out is here, and ozpin just told us we could start decorating the music room. Good job there yang
Ladykiller: got to go too, i gotta post a notice on my channel. no uploads today! im so gonna disappoint that new fan who discovered me last night. who was it? white_angel_of_snow?
Ladykiller: you there, yang?
Sunshine: …yeah. thanks, jaune. i really owe you one now
Ladykiller: you owe me for the pizza and the place you wrecked the other night
Sunshine: i already said sorry!
Ladykiller: sorry doesn't make up for the lien that cost me
Sunshine: look how about this
Sunshine: ill make sure to put a good word in for you and weiss later. maybe you two can talk. also i know a guy who can get us some alcohol as long as you all keep quiet…
Ladykiller: not sure that's a good idea. esp the alcohol bit. plus you're gonna let ruby drink?
Sunshine: i trust you and everyone else will be responsible for her today
Sunshine: you DID say i didn't need to be big sis all the time
Ladykiller: …fine. but ill get you back for this
Sunshine: oh yeah? i didnt think you had it in you to get back at me, VB
Ladykiller: ill distract pyr so she doesn't talk with blake about their fanfiction and cartoons all night. that should give you a chance to talk to her.
Sunshine: dammit jaune! i said i wasn't serious about that!
Ladykiller: my sister saph said the same thing about her wife
Sunshine: well im not your older sister! i can handle talking to my partner on my own!
Sunshine: besides, im yang xiao long! Baddest bitch in beacon! i don't need your help!
Ladykiller: and you don't need to pretend around us. we all know you're a dork by now. and we all know how awkward you can be at times
Ladykiller: let your big bro help you out
Sunshine: oh, screw you VB! im not calling you that! pyrrha and blake are corrupting you with their perversions!
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The talk with Ozpin, much to Yang's surprise, went well, despite Glynda grumbling after Ozpin called her to his office. Yang had long suspected that Ozpin was the more… playful of the teachers, considering the kind of things the headmaster was willing to allow his students to get away with (like how Ozpin managed to reduce their punishment for the whole docks fiasco to one week). By the time she got out of the elevator leading up to Ozpin's office, having secured the music room for Ruby's party, her legs felt like jelly and betrayed her body. She collapsed to the floor in a sigh of relief, the pressures of the entire day weighing down on her like a dozen Ursas had dogpiled her at the same time.
The messages started pouring in: Pyrrha and Nora found Ruby by the flower gardens and the farms (Ruby apparently spent the entire morning feeding the chickens and just… staring at the roses in the garden), and were now trying to distract Ruby until the food was cooked and Weiss and Blake finished decorating the music room; Jaune was desperately trying to fix the sound systems and the other miscellaneous machines Weiss had called in; Ren was heroically grappling with almost a dozen dishes fit for a birthday party. Weiss was busy issuing orders in the JNPR chat, coordinating everyone and ensuring the schedule she drafted (in almost five minutes; it scared Yang how good Weiss was at preparing these detailed and organized timetables in such quick fashion) was being followed to the minute. Yang was thankful for that; her own attempts at throwing parties for Ruby usually just consisted of getting as many cookies as possible and eating as much as they could while playing video games, hoping their dad or Uncle Qrow wouldn't catch them.
Gods, what would I do without them? Yang asked, not realizing that she was smiling as she checked the chat. At some point, Yang realized, she was finding it easier and easier to open with everyone, and there was less pressure on her to live up some stranger's image of her. It was easier with RWBY and JNPR because, as much as she didn't see it until Jaune had to point it out, nobody really saw her as anything else besides Yang Xiao Long, their comrade and friend. Why would they? None of them knew her before Beacon, but more importantly, none of them cared about this dumb image Yang felt she had to live up to.
Why would they care? Pyrrha certainly wouldn't, not when she so clearly wanted people to see her for show was instead of what her fame made her ought to be. Ren and Nora wouldn't care – they had spent most of their lives as orphans, didn't care much for hiding it, and didn't really care how other people saw them. Weiss certainly wouldn't when all she struggled for was to assert who she was. Jaune certainly didn't care about his reputation, about how others saw him, only his dreams and his goals. So what did Yang's self-image problems matter to him? And there was Blake, of course…
All they saw was Yang Xiao Long.
Well, Yang concluded, I might as well let them see me for who I am.
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Welcome to juniper berries!
Mom: Weiss Schnee i met the delivery guys at the air docks
Weiss Schnee: Then bring them here, you dolt! Gods, do I have to tell you how to do everything?!
Mom: yeah, yeah. if anyone needs me, my scroll's running out of power so ill shut it off for a bit
Weiss Schnee: just hurry up with the karaoke machine!
Son: Weiss, I'm almost done with the food. I'll need some help to ferry it over to the music room, however.
Weiss Schnee: I'll send over Blake to help. I can handle the rest myself!
Weiss Schnee: …maybe I'll send Blake over to help Jaune first so the two of them can help you out there instead.
Son: Understood.
Cereal Girl: Weiss, Ruby is starting to suspect we're doing something. I think Nora might have accidentally… let some things slip.
Cereal Girl: Nora is currently regaling her right now with one of her stories, but I'm afraid I can't stall her anymore with cookies, if only because I don't want to spoil her meal.
Weiss Schnee: Oh Gods
Weiss Schnee: Pyrrha, there is a magazine in my room that I keep hidden from Ruby because there is… confidential SDC information in it. I trust all of you can keep a secret?
Son: Yes.
Cereal Girl: Of course.
Weiss Schnee: I want you to head to our dorm, retrieve the magazine, and show it to Ruby. All the experimental weapon technology listed there should tide her over until we're ready.
Cereal Girl: On it.
Weiss Schnee: Unbelievable. I certainly hope nothing else goes wrong.
Weiss Schnee: What a terrible day. My new favorite DusTuber even put up a notice saying he wasn't going to update tonight! I was looking forward to the new video!
Aunt Yang: hey guys
Aunt Yang: big sis yang has an announcement to make
Weiss Schnee: What is it now, Yang? Yet another bombshell to drop?
Aunt Yang: …kinda?
Weiss Schnee: …fine. What is it?
Aunt Yang: right. so, I haven't been entirely honest about today…
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Well, that went well.
So Weiss got angry, a little bit, when Yang revealed everything, but was thankfully more understanding by the time Yang got to the party venue, only warning Yang not to pull something like this ever again and giving Yang the same speech Blake got at the docks (the next time something like this happens you tell the entire team. Got it?) Ren, Nora, and Pyrrha didn't say anything, and Yang suspected that Jaune, that dust-damned meddling dork, had already warned them beforehand. (That, or they all knew the truth already and just willingly played along to Yang's lies. Honestly, Team JNPR was turning out to be more and more sneaky and shady as the weeks passed… maybe that was why Blake was drawn to them?)
It was Blake that Yang was most worried about, but to her relief, she only gave her an enigmatic smile before proceeding to help Weiss with the rest of the decorations. Gods, why did Blake insist on being mysterious all the time?
At least Weiss transformed the music room into something good. The room was fairly spacious, considering there was a piano in the middle and various instruments kept in their cases around the room. Around the piano were various couches and seats for people to lounge around in and relax, and surrounding the walls were various glass cases with old, probably expensive instruments that Beacon decided was safe to display to hormonal, superpowered teenagers. There was a television off to the corner to the room, where Jaune had set up most of the sound system Weiss rented out, connecting it to the equipment in the recording room to provide better sound and ambiance. The karaoke machine was hooked up to a holo-screen which they set up against the wall at the far end of the room, and they moved the piano away and the couches closer so they could sit nearer to the holo-screen and set up a table where Ren's food was located. Yang wasn't sure what Weiss did, but she had dimmed the lights and had some fancy light effects in the room that made it feel like one of her favorite karaoke places (did Weiss ever go to one of those things before? She had to be to capture this level of realism. Oh gods, Yang worried, was Weiss the type to go to karaoke places on her own? A question for another time. She didn't want to think of Weiss, singing in a booth, alone.)
When Ruby arrived, still engrossed in the advance copy of the SDC weapons and dust magazine (meant primarily for military contractors both working for the Kingdoms and privately-owned) that Weiss owned, the rest had gotten into position. Blake and Weiss had party poppers and had hung up a banner on the wall opposite the doorway, with a large "HAVE A GREAT DAY RUBY" (Weiss had hastily blotted out the beautifully hand-written "happy birthday ruby" sign she worked on the whole afternoon for the messy banner that was up right now) greeting anyone who entered the room. Jaune was in charge of the karaoke machine and had started playing a relatively low-key pop song to set the mood. Ren was watching over the food, looking over everything to make sure it was all perfect. The cake, which Jaune and Ren worked on first, regrettably also had 'happy birthday' written on it with icing, but Blake found an easy solution by getting all the 'birth' icing out with her fingers. Pyrrha and Nora gingerly brought in the girl of the hour, wearing a blindfold that Nora insisted she wear to 'make the surprise better'.
Yang, for her part, sat by the karaoke machine, micropone in hand. By unanimous decision, everyone looked to her to welcome Ruby to this little party, and she had asked Jaune to queue up a song she used to sing often to Ruby when they were children. She wasn't looking forward to all the jokes about how she couldn't sing well, especially from Weiss, the classically-trained singer, but that was fine. She was among friends. She could let her hair down a little.
She looked at Jaune, who had nodded to her, before pointing to a small box hidden off to the side of the room. Well, there was alcohol, at least. Jaune had suggested they invite some of Ruby's other friends, alluding to a leader the two had befriended in leadership class (someone named… Cocoa? Yang wasn't sure) but Yang disagreed, suggesting they keep things between the two teams for now. Maybe in the future, when Ruby actually celebrated her sixteenth. She deserved a memorable sweet sixteenth, anyway.
As Pyrrha and Nora undid Ruby's blindfold and she gasped at surprise, Yang began laughing at the absurdity of the entire day, how she had started the day in a mess and a panic, how much she worried about ultimately pointless things, how it felt so difficult imagining how to pull off this entire thing on her own. The answer was simple: she didn't have to. She had everyone helping her out, after all. She supposed she was so used to doing things on her own, living up to the image of the untouchable Yang Xiao Long, party girl extraordinaire, that it never occurred to her that she now had friends with her. She glanced at the short message she had sent to Blake, something she finally found the courage to send after she abandoned all the doubt and fear holding her back, the concern that she would look silly trying to have a heart-to-heart with Blake…
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Welcome to bumblebee!
queen bee: hey blake
queen bee: after I welcome everyone and do the first song you like
queen bee: wanna hang?
queen bee: feels like we havent hung out in forever
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Ruby, having recovered from her surprise, now looked at Yang with those wide, questioning silver eyes of hers. Yang threw a smile of her own that was somewhat uneasy at first, but as the notes of her requested song started playing, they grew in confidence, until Yang felt that she was smiling like she wanted to now.
(Everyone beamed at Yang, whose smile was like the sun's, positively infectious, with a warmth and kindness that made everyone feel safe and secure. Yang, for all her bluster, never realized how much everyone respected her and all she did for their little group, as their unofficial big sister, despite the pain she sometimes caused.)
Yang threw one last glance at her scroll before the song could start.
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Welcome to bumblebee!
dream bee: sure, yang. id love to.
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Somehow, Yang's smile grew wider. Well, now or never. She wasn't confident about her singing abilities, but what the hell, might as well set the tone for this karaoke party, right? She may not be all that confident about who she was anymore, now that Ruby seemed to be growing up quickly and she was asking herself what she wanted to be, but she had time now. She could afford to experiment with herself, experiment with the image she had so carefully built up, thanks to all their new friends who wouldn't judge her too hard.
She took a deep breath and began to sing.
"Dream of anything… I'll make it all come true…"
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Let's play spot the Yellow trailer references in the chapter! Did you spot any?
Anyway, you decide what song Yang is singing at the end. I'm not saying it's Gold or Gold (acoustic), but…
Also, Yang and Jaune totally wingman for each other, and you cannot convince me otherwise.
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