Hey, boils and ghouls, let's play a game - without using Google, can you identify every song that Weiss and Ruby listen to? And as always, if you like what you're reading, please leave a review!
"We need a song." Ruby blurted out. It was after classes on a random school day, the two girls had finished their Advanced Weapons Handling with Professor Port. They were back in the Team RWBY dorm, casually lounging around while still in their uniforms, though Ruby had taken her jacket off. The RWBY Team Leader was resting her head in Weiss' lap, while the Heiress was reading a new article on her Scroll about a potential new use of Fire Dust for surgical purposes.
"Huh? I'm sorry, Ruby, I wasn't paying attention." Weiss said, closing her Scroll.
"I said, we need a song!" Ruby appealed. "All cute couples have a special song, right? We're cute, we're a couple, but we don't have a song! We have to fix that, Weiss."
"Ruby, you just can't go and randomly pick a song. Couples who have a special song have it because it was playing during a special time like their first kiss, their first date, their first, um, time." Weiss said, blushing at that last part. But Ruby was undeterred.
"And we've had all of those moments, but we still don't have a song! We gotta fix that," she said, grabbing her Scroll and loading up her Splotify music player. "I'm sure we can find something together." Weiss just sighed.
"You're such a hopeless romantic, but in this weird way that's entirely based on cheesy romantic comedies." Ruby giggled and gave a supportive thumbs up.
"You know it, Snowflake!" she said, grinning. She thumbed a bit through the app, first browsing her own playlists and then searching for other people's custom mixes, looking for just the right song to express her relationship with Weiss. Finally, she found a massive one hundred song playlist simply called "Love" and Ruby felt like she hit the jackpot. "Ah-ha! Here we go!" she said triumphantly. "There has to be a song here we can find. Let's see...lemme trrryyyyy...this one!" and she hit play.
I want to stand with you on a mountain.
I want to bathe with you in the sea.
I want to lay like this forever.
Until the sky falls down on me
"What about this one?" Ruby asked eagerly, hitting PAUSE after the song played for a bit. Weiss merely shook her head.
"Who bathes in the sea? All the fish are swimming past your nether regions and the salt dries out your skin horribly. No thank you, I'll have to pass on this one." Weiss said disapprovingly.
"Okay, okay, no problem," Ruby said, trying to remain optimistic. "Plenty more songs where that came from. How about...this one?" she said and played the next song on the list.
Don't wanna close my eyes
I don't wanna fall asleep
'Cause I'd miss you, baby
And I don't wanna miss a thing
"Sooooooo?" Ruby inquired, pausing this song. But once again, Weiss was not impressed.
"What is this, Junior High prom? I feel like we should both be wearing uncomfortable puffy dresses and slow dancing at least a foot apart. No Ruby, I'm going to have to pass on this one too."
"You're not going to make this easy, are you?" Ruby grunted, her silver eyes narrowing. Weiss just casually shrugged.
"I told you, special songs have to be special because of a reason, not just a random tune picked out of a playlist library," Weiss replied. But Ruby was not about to give up so easily.
"Nope, not going to throw in the towel. I will find us a song and it is going to be so romantic that you'll, uh, never hear such a romantic song before again!" Ruby said and flipped through the playlist again to find another song. "Okay, this one looks like a winner.."
I've been alone with you inside my mind
And in my dreams, I've kissed your lips a thousand times
I sometimes see you pass outside my door
Hello, is it me you're looking for?
"Well?" Ruby queried, her eyes pleading for a positive answer after she paused this song.
"I don't get it, is he blind? Is the object of his affection blind? Why is he asking her this?" Weiss complained, rubbing the bridge of her nose.
"You're lucky you're so hot, Weiss," Ruby growled in frustration. "because you're not making this easy for me!"
"I'm not trying to make anything easy or anything hard! I'm trying to tell you that not everything in life is a simple romantic comedy. I'm sure something will happen with us where just the right song plays at just the right time, but sitting here in our bed listening to Splotify is not that moment!"
"Uh, hey, is something wrong?" Yang said, slowly entering the room. "I just came in to get my shades and I didn't want to walk into a lover's quarrel."
"No, no, it's fine." Weiss sighed. "Ruby is just insistent on finding us a special song, so she's going through every song in Remnant."
"Any luck?" Yang asked, but the look on Weiss' face said enough. "Well, here, maybe I can help. Here's one I like," she said, taking her own Scroll and playing a song from her personal playlist.
Tonight I want to see it in your eyes
Feel the magic
There's something that drives me wild
And tonight we're gonna make it all come true
'Cause girl, you were made for me
And girl I was made for you
"Now that's a love song!" Yang said with full confidence, pausing the tune. "I've had a few rendezvous with this little number if you catch my drift."
"Yang, we're looking for a special song, not an anthem to have a heavy petting quickie in the back seat in a DustMart parking lot." Weiss shot back. Ruby giggled at this, but Yang was not amused.
"Wow, Ice Queen, gonna be like that, huh? Here, try this one on for size..."
I got pictures of naked ladies
Lying on their beds
I whiff that smell and sweet convulsion
Starts a-Swelling inside my head
I'm making artificial lovers for free
I start to howl I'm in heat
I moan and growl and the hunt drives me crazy
I fuck like a Beast
"Turned on yet?" Yang crowed. Weiss blushed five shades of red and hurled a pillow at Yang.
"Get out! You are not helping this situation at all with your lewd one-night stand anthems!" the Heiress yelled. Yang stuck her tongue out in childish defiance, grabbed her aviator shades and left. "I can't believe she calls that...that noise music!"
"Yeah, she gets her musical taste from Uncle Qrow..." Ruby said with a defeated sigh. She was about ready to call it quits when a brilliant idea suddenly slipped in her head. Weiss had made it very clear that a special song needs to occur during a special moment and what could be more special than a kiss? As Weiss was still ranting about Yang's choices in music, Ruby found just the perfect love song and hovered her thumb over the play button.
"...and what does she take me for? Some two-bit hussy barmaid with loose morals and an even looser skirt? I swear, it's like she doesn't even know me! I want a song about love, about devotion, aboutHmmppphhh!"
Ruby cut her off with a sweet, passionate kiss, her tongue silently asking for entrance and Weiss eagerly parted her lips, more than happy to oblige. Phase Two was about to begin, as Ruby fumbled with her phone a bit to hit the play button, but since her eyes were closed, she misjudged where the button was and wound up playing an entirely different song from an entirely different playlist.
Who let the dogs out
Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof
Who let the dogs out
Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof
Who let the dogs out
Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof
Who let the dogs out
"Ahhhh! No, that's not the song I wanted!" Ruby wailed, frantically shutting off her music. "Okay, I give up. You're right, Weiss. This whole thing was stupid." Weiss could see the hurt and disappointment in Ruby's face when a song she had all but forgotten about suddenly came back to her.
"Actually, Ruby, there was a song I heard a few weeks ago while cleaning our dorm room, which by the way I seem to be the only person capable of doing such a thing. I meant to play it for you but with everything going on with the finals and tests and Grimm outbreaks, I had completely forgotten. But here, I think you might like this." Weiss said, taking her own Scroll and loading up her own music. The soft sounds began to play, the only musical accompaniment being an acoustic guitar and an old piano as the male singer sang an honest love song, his voice worn and ragged, but still soulful and expressing a lifetime of weariness but gratitude for the object of his affection.
We're the best partners this world's ever seen,
Together as close as can be.
Sometimes it's hard to find time in between,
To tell you what you are to me.
You are the rose of my heart,
You are the love of my life.
A flower not fading nor falling apart,
If you're tired, rest your head on my arm.
Rose of my heart.
"Weiss..." Ruby whispered, her silver pools starting to fill with tears.
"Shhh," Weiss replied, pressing her finger to Ruby's lips. "Just listen."
So hard times or easy times, what do I care,
There's nothing I'd change if I could.
The tears and the laughter are things that we share,
Your hand in mine makes all times good.
You are the rose of my heart,
You are the love of my life.
A flower not fading nor falling apart,
You're my harbor in life's restless storm.
Rose of my heart.
"Weiss!" Ruby exclaimed, diving forward and pinning her platinum-haired love to her bed, furiously kissing her with the passion and devotion one can only muster when they've met their soul-mate. Their tongues wrestled with one another, their fingers intertwined in each other's hair. It was sexy and beautiful and the music only made it that much more incredible. "I don't deserve you," Ruby said, breaking the kiss for a gasp of air.
"Probably not, but I'll make an exception," Weiss replied with a grin. Ruby snickered and stuck her tongue out.
"And you're so humble too!"
"Of course I'm humble, Ruby! Do you know how much effort it takes to refrain from reminding you how lucky you are? How you have the most beautiful and sophisticated and talented girlfriend in all of Beacon Academy? Hmm?"
Ruby laughed and gave Weiss a chaste kiss on the cheek.
"Never change, Snowflake. Never change."