Disclaimer: I don't own RWBY or FFXIV. I'm just playing with them in this sandbox. I make no money or profit from this.

The female Highlander Warrior jumped in the air while flinging her axe at mobs; overpowering and gaining the mobs' aggression as she ran ahead of the party through the dungeon. Each time she passed a group of mobs, she would cast flash to gain enmity over them.

"Pulling all the way to the wall ladies," Pyrrha commented. "Remember to let me get agro on them before you throw a Regen at me Weiss."

A scoff came over their voice communications, Weiss giving a retort, "Deal with it, Pyrrha. Why don't you just get good?"

Everyone chuckled, having had this conversation a few times. The banter was light hearted and fun. Pyrrha rolled her eyes as she pulled the mobs so that she stood with her back at the wall while Nora's Dragoon and Yang's Monk started to wail their buffed area of effect (AOE) damage attacks on them. Weiss's White Mage cast a regen on Pyrrha before going into cleric stance and casting the spell Holy on all of the mobs, stunning them and dealing massive damage so that the mobs would die before Yang and Nora would run out of juice.

"Diiiieee!" Nora giggled, as her Dragoon slammed its lance into the ground and spun up into the air, very reminiscent of some pole dancing moves. Yang chuckled as her Monk slammed its aura into the ground and finishing off the mobs.

The dungeon continued as normal; the party of four making quick work of the mobs before arriving at the first boss. It was going well… well enough anyway until-

"WOOOHOOO!"

Yang.

"Goddamnit Yang, don't fucking pull for the tank!" Weiss cursed her housemate as the boss swung around, cleaving her and Nora before Pyrrha provoked the boss and got things under control.

"Gotta keep up my stacks!" Yang cackled, wailing on the boss before unleashing the level 1 limit break.

"Next time we should just let her die," said Pyrrha. "Her and Nora."

The only response from the two DPS was a variety of amused laughter before the boss died.

"Eh, it's not like you all couldn't handle it. Besides, whenever Rubes decides to tank for me she just runs in right after the mobs die so I never have to worry about my stacks dropping anyway," replied Yang, speaking of her sister and other fellow housemate with Weiss.

"She do speedruns often?" Pyrrha asked the group, not having partied with the other dark-haired girl.

Pyrrha was studying biological sciences at Mistral University, across an ocean from the entire raid. The timezone difference was an inconvenience for her and Ruby to do anything especially since she was told Ruby was majoring in some engineering while also participating in track and field while Pyrrha also played basketball for the MisU. She was hoping to transfer to a better university… and Beacon University was actually one of the top schools for Biological Sciences. It would be nice to have another friend if she were to be able to transfer as she planned.

"Oh Red loves to just make runs 'efficient'," Nora chimed in.

"What?"

"Nora just means that Ruby doesn't do things like pulling a whole room up to the boss when it's new content. She just doesn't stop and wait after things die and just moves on," Weiss supplied. "Ruby calls it her 'efficient' runs."

"Yeah! She just wants us to have a warrin' good time!" Yang tried, to a chorus of light-hearted boos.

"Yang, didn't Ruby say she was going to find a way to throttle your usage if you kept making such bad puns?" Weiss asked. Nora started to laugh and cut her mic so that it wouldn't start to grate on their ears while Pyrrha gave a short, soft chuckle.

Yang grumbled, "What Ruby doesn't hear, Ruby doesn't know."

Weiss retorted, "Maybe you just need to stop making puns after being a shitty DPS."

Nora cut in, turning her mic back on, "Hey hey, stop it you two! Ruby hates it when you act like this. Break it up before I tell her that you were the ones that pranked her last month!"

Yang and Weiss cursed, giving feeble apologies while Pyrrha had chosen to let them figure it out. She mused aloud, "Wait, Ruby… seems to be really quiet. Ruby acts like a leader when you guys do content together?"

Nora hummed positively. "Yep! Ruby usually is the one who's party leader whenever we do stuff. Even when some of us decide to do easy farms for those tank mounts or the pony mounts. Hell sometimes she gets us into chocobo racing."

Weiss snarled, "Yeah and you need to stop using meteor on all of us."

"All's fair in love and racing~" sang Nora in reply. "You're just mad cause you actually want that racing mask and we've all got it but you."

"FUCK YOU ALL!" Weiss shouted to the amusement to Yang and Nora judging by their laughter.

Pyrrha cut in, hoping to calm her friends down. "All right, easy there. Let's chill down a bit. So Ruby's quite a talker then?"

Yang cleared her throat answering for her sister, "Yeah it's sorta odd actually cause she's quiet in our raids but I've heard her get pretty vocal when we just random content or she's pugging and they want voice."

Pyrrha wondered about this. Why did Ruby not act like she normally would, according to her own sister? Was Ruby uncomfortable with her? It would make sense; Pyrrha didn't know Ruby all that well at all. Red Reaper was a sub for their raid because of her being Yang's sister and being available. Red Reaper wasn't someone Pyrrha had personally gotten to know before making the static like she had others.

Somehow or another, Ruby was able to play or interact with the others in the static by nature of them being housemates or because they met at a LAN event. Being local to each other was a major plus… but it could be a major disadvantage, as it was in Pyrrha's case.

Weiss spoke, her voice breaking up Pyrrha's internal musing. "Maybe you and Ruby can get to know each other sometime. You two are really the only ones who don't play much. Even Jaune has played with Ruby before."

"Yeah! Ruby found him in a random expert roulette queue! Something about how Jaune had hit sprint accidentally and kept losing hate because he forgot shield oath?" Nora supplied.

Yang chuckled and answered, "Ruby yelled at me to tell Jaune to get on Discord and then proceeded to give him shit for a bit, teasing him about forgetting shield oath like he just learned to Paladin."

"So that's what that shield oath macro was for?" Weiss asked. "I didn't understand that last week when I needed to cap and he helped us run some things."

"Yeah, Rubes loves those ascii macros. She's been looking for a new fat cat one," Yang replied, yawning at the same time.

Pyrrha glanced at the clock, noting the practically -early wake up- call she would have and what would translate into a late night for the others. It was time to go to bed for most of them. "Ok everyone, I'm going to call it a night. Good night everyone."

"Good night," chorused the other ladies. The sounds of everyone muting or exiting the voice channel ended as everyone started to head for bed.

Pyrrha checked the chat channels and typed her own good night to her free company.

[04:20.][FC]Akouo Milo Good night everyone.
[04:20.][FC]Thunder Valkyrie Ni ni!
[04:21.][FC]Thunder Valkyrie has logged off.
[04:21.][FC]Oum Dynasty Farewell Pyrrha.
[04:21.][FC] Oum Dynasty has logged off.

Ruby stared at the friend request that greeted her after she had stood up to get a small plate of strawberries. She blinked again before deciding that what was on her screen was real. Pyrrha had sent her a friend request.

[15:20.] Akouo Milo Hey, were you interested in joining the FC? I noticed you've been going at it solo for awhile. I thought it might interest you.
[15:21.] Akouo Milo: tbh Idk yet.
[15:22.] Akouo Milo Ok I thought you might like it as everyone in the static is in it. You're not required to join. Thought it'd make chatting easier.

Ruby stared at the words for a bit, mulling the thought over. FC buffs would be nice though unnecessary. What did she have to lose? Nothing really. Maybe she could get to know them all better, especially Pyrrha?

[15:24.] Akouo Milo: I'd love to join your FC.
[15:24.] Akouo Milo Great! Sending an invite now.
[15:24.] Akouo Milo: ty

When the prompt appeared, Ruby took about five seconds before she accepted it.

[15:24.][FC]Akouo Milo Welcome to the fc Ruby!
[15:24.][FC]Ember Celica Welcome Rubes!
[15:24.][FC]Thunder Valkyrie Yay it's Ruby!
[15:24.][FC]Thunder Valkyrie HIIIII
[15:24.][FC]Oum Dynasty Welcome to the FC Ruby.
[15:25.][FC]Schnee Heals Welcome Ruby.
[15:25.][FC]Ember Celica About time!
[15:25.][FC]Black Fang Hi Ruby
[15:25.][FC]Jarc Tankmaster hi ruby
[15:25.][FC]Red Reaper hi everyone! Thanks for having me!

Author's Note: Thanks to all those interested in this! You might have gathered already but I've played FFXIV since Dec 2013. I used to raid pretty heavily but with Heavensward I just burned out. I've tried to keep the raids and dungeons I talk about in the fic as general as possible for those who aren't familiar with the game. I hope that worked.

I think I'm just going to go with "for raid reasons Blake is a Machinist but she prefers Ninja".

FC is Free Company. Free Companies are guilds.