Weiss Reacts to Stages!

A/N: Welcome, one and all, to Weiss Reacts! A couple of things; firstly, about Blake's comment on SAO…..look at SAO, and look at Blake, and think very carefully about why she'd make a comment. Her reasons for not liking it and mine are…..very, very different. Also, I spent an entire chapter or two ragging on Code Geass and you guys noticed the SAO riff? It seems I'll be having to try harder to hide actually important information in dialogue then.

Anyway, a huge thanks to The Layman for today's chapter content, and let's get on with it.

DISCLAIMER: RWBY belongs to Rooster Teeth, otherwise we would have replicas of the weapons in the show. (Come on, who WOULDN'T want a legit Crescent Rose replica to hang on the wall?)

Stages belongs to The Layman.

All mentioned franchises and characters belong to their respective owners.

"You know what I get tired of?" Ruby inquired casually, throwing a ball against the wall of the dorm while lying on her bed. Weiss shook her head, calmly looking up a guide to get past a certain level of a certain game.

"I was of the assumption you were basically indefatigable. Enlighten me."
"People killing me off in fanfics." The reaper explained, frowning. "I mean, I feel all victimised now. I mean, I've had my eye shot out, my arm blown off, killed repeatedly…..why do you think people like killing me off?"

"You're basically the embodiment of cute adorableness and people seem to be obsessed with killing cute adorable things?" The heiress responded, offering her suggestion. "Madoka Magica being enough proof as it is."
"Yeah, but it seems like I'm always killed off." Ruby complained. "I mean, at least give me a cool robot arm or something if you'll blow my limbs off! Or give me a cool death scene!"
"That would defeat the purpose of killing you off." Weiss reminded her. "Not that I want to kill you off. That would be counterproductive."
"I'd be very worried if my own girlfriend wanted to kill me…." Ruby feigned a sigh of relief.
"And what, be robbed of an adorable dunce and the only sane person in all of Beacon?" The heiress scoffed. "I'd probably lose itif you died."
"Awww!" Ruby giggled. "You're so sweet~ I love you~"
"D-don't say it like that!" Weiss cried, blushing and looking away from her. "…..t-tch. You can be so embarrassing at times, you know?"

"I'm just appreciating your niceness~ Can't a girl appreciate her girlfriend's niceness?"

"….I suppose I'm just getting used to being a girlfriend to begin with." The heiress admitted, shrugging. "You are still ridiculously embarrassing, though."
"That's how love goes, Weiss~" The reaper commented, giggling.
"You're too young to know what love is!" The heiress reminded her, chuckling.

Ruby smiled. "Anyway….so…do you wanna do something? I'm booooored."

"…..what is this?" Weiss looked up at her screen, scratching her head at her DustFiction profile, where someone had sent her a message.

"…..oh, how convenient. Someone's just sent us a fanfic to read because they're such big fans of us." Weiss commented. "…..I already don't like this, for various reasons. I know that whatever I've just been talking about, it'll probably contain it in copious detail."

"So you're genre-savvy about that, but not about seeing Euphemia's death coming?" Ruby remarked, smirking.

"No, I saw that coming, but-no, no, I won't talk about it, talking about that stupid show already makes me want to break something." Weiss muttered angrily, clenching her fist and breathing heavily to calm down. "…..fine. Let's….let's read this fic. It shouldn't be too bad."

The reaper frowned, clambering down from her bed. "I seriously hope you're wrong about me getting killed off again. I hate that! Like, at least give me a cool death scene or turn me into, like, an Aura ghost or something!"

Epicentre

"I can already tell, from the fact that I'm not in the character list in the description, that I'm dead. Again." Ruby sighed, exasperated. "Come on, dammit! At least give me a cool death scene like Kamina or Captain Falcon or someone badass!"
"You certainly are Yang's sister." Weiss remarked. "…well, we'd better give this a look. Don't want the poor man to be disappointed, and I don't feel like yelling at him."
"…..you're right." The reaper conceded, before crossing her arms and puffing her cheeks out. "I'm still not happy I'm always killed off in fanfics, though."

"As usual, you manage to lose a giant scythe. Somehow." Weiss remarked, herself exasperated with Ruby's tendency to lose things. "Seriously? How does one lose something that large?!"
"I find it hard to keep track of stuff, okay?!" Ruby responded defensively. "I have issues!"
"….oh, of course. The Grimm survives and spawns a super-intelligent baby to rip your throat out." Weiss rolled her eyes. "…..points for originality, at least. I don't think I've ever seen anything rip your throat out."

Ruby pouted. "I still think that's survivable. Just, y'know, give me a cybernetic windpipe and voicebox! Oooh, and I should have a cool, deep girl voice! You know, like….uhh…..I dunno…..Cornelia?"
"…..for some reason, I doubt anyone would believe you'd have a voice that deep." The heiress commented, scoffing. "Just look at you. You're far too cute to pull off contralto."

"I don't know what that is! Oh, this is unfair." The reaper groaned. "Can I, like, survive being killed once? Pleaaaase? Like, come on!"
Weiss rubbed her chin, thinking carefully. "Well, judging by the name of the fic, it's about the rest of the team dealing with the stages of grief and you being dead. Well, that's…at least not exactly original, but points for approaching the matter in a way that isn't sappy trash or overt gore and blood everywhere like that one fic we read, thank Dust for that.

Fine. Let's read this."
Ruby exhaled deeply. "….fiiiine, but I still want to do something awesome and I'm still not happy with being killed again, but fine."

First Aftermath

Ruby frowned. "…..you know if I actually died, I wouldn't mind if you cried, right?"
"You wouldn't dare die on me. And if you did, I'd drag you screaming and kicking from the afterlife if I had to." Weiss retorted. "And then tell you off for being enough of an idiot for dying in the first place."

"…you know, I'm not sure if you're complimenting me-"
"Just take the compliment!" Weiss responded snappily. "And of course, of course Nora responds to your death by holding a party!

No doubt our Nora would likely petition the sloth gods for you back."
"Hey, don't diss the sloth gods." Ruby responded. "That's not nice."
"They don't exist. Don't tell me you're buying into them like she is." Weiss remarked. "…..and, well….um….that's…."
"Come on, my death's news material?! And it wasn't even awesome." Ruby looked a little indignant. "Dammit. I'm upset now!"

"I don't think you'd care too much if it actually happened to you."

"…..you have a point there." The reaper admitted. "….and dammit, Yang! Well….I can't say beating up a gang to let your rage go isn't a bad thing, but…..ouch."

"A smiley face. Of course, Yang uses a smiley face as her tag even when her sister's dead." The heiress facepalmed. "Some things will never change, it seems."

Aftershock 1

Weiss rolled her eyes. "…I chafe at being portrayed like this. Come on, I'd be a little bit more emotional than that! I wouldn't exactly break down, but why should I?"
"Atta girl." Ruby smiled. "You're strong. Nothing'd break you."
"As a Schnee, I'm proud to say that I'm hard to shake. It's in the blood." The heiress declared proudly, before-

"NORA! Come on! Seriously?! A food fight is what you suggest to cheer me up?! A food fight?! That's even worse than a party!

Go, me, yell at her! Then again, it's Nora. Why was I even surprised? The girl's about as easy to shake as solid granite…..and I made myself look like a jerk. Again."

Ruby shrugged. "You had it hard on you. You're badly hurt. It's….well, not justified, but we can see why you'd lash out."
"Dammit….I feel bad now. I just hope I never have to find out what I'd really do in this situation." Weiss commented, exhaling. "I really hope I don't."

"It's okay." The reaper patted her on the back. "Please. I don't plan on dying until you've figured out the secret to Dust-based immortality. Or making my entire body robotic so I can be a cool badass robot. Whatever comes first."
"…you know that sounds stupid, right?"
"A robot body's cool!"

Aftershock 2

"COME ON!" The heiress roared. "Are you legitimately serious?! A girl just died and all you care about is that you didn't get to sleep with her?! Dammit, I hope this Cardin gets found by our Cardin and beaten badly. And then hung by his ankles. And then whipped.

That's just plain disgusting. That…..no."

Ruby cringed. "…good Dust. That's just…..gross. No."

"…well, that's a side of Yang I really would wish she'd show more." The heiress admitted. "I mean, she's a big sister, so she should act like one."

The reaper shrugged. "She'll act like one when she needs to."
"For some reason, knowing our Yang, I don't think she'll do that, although she could possibly prove me wrong."

Second Aftermath

"Oh, I'd probably get punched in the face by Blake and told to grit my teeth if this happened." Weiss remarked. "Seeing Blake give me a warm hug is almost shocking.

At least I know my team's always going to have my back. Not that I don't trust ours to, even if we're a bunch of insane weirdos."

"…..you know, if I do end up like this, you guys aren't burying me." Ruby declared. "You're cremating me and shooting my remains out of a cannon."

"What, seriously?" The heiress raised an eyebrow. "That sounds like Nora's plans to die by funeral pyre if she does."

"Well, I mean…..go out with a bang, right?" The reaper remarked, trying to suppress a smirk.

"That was a terrible, terrible pun." The heiress slapped her face with her palm. "Please tell me you didn't get that from Yang."

"I couldn't help it! And it's a bit hard not to make jokes like this when this isn't even the first time someone's killed me off in a fanfic!" Ruby protested. "I mean, it feels bad the first time, weird the second time and after the fifth, you start making jokes about it."

"…..if you actually died, it wouldn't be a joke and you know that." Weiss reminded her. "…..and good Dust, this topic's morbid. Can we finish this fic so we can stop talking about this?"

"Sounds like it. I feel like I'm being a little disrespectful." Ruby frowned.

Epilogue

Weiss frowned. "….I'm never going to drink. And….oh, well, you got your wish. You're now a ghost."

Ruby cheered. "Cool! Now I can possess giant mecha and stuff! Oooh, maybe you should stop me from leaving and turn me into a robot girl? Go all 'we can rebuild her' and stuff!"

The heiress stared at her. "Are you serious or-"

"Of course I'm serious! That'd be so cool! Okay, not cool, I'd be dead, but you know, make me shoot lasers and get Blake to give me something like Norn's body and I should be good, right?"

"And who's this…kindly gentleman?" Weiss raised an eyebrow.

"I dunno." Ruby shrugged. "He sounds…..awesome. For some reason, he reminds me of the legend of the Bard from the Cockerel Festival."

"…that's what you thought about first?"
"It's just what came to mind, I guess. I dunno." The reaper shrugged. "It just seems….fitting.

I could imagine that, him just waiting to tell stories to the spirits of the dead as they wait to go to the afterlife- you know, of all his badass battles and stuff. That wouldn't be so bad."
"Yeah." Weiss nodded in agreement. "I can agree to that."

"I'll leave a review." Ruby offered.

"You do that."

From: DaLittleRougeFightingHood

gud job i luv it

but nxt tim

dun kil me pls i dnt like reding abut my deaths

-luv, ruby

ps: weiss says hi

And as if on cue, Yang opened the door. "I'm baaaaack! What did I miss?"
"…..absolutely nothing." Weiss shrugged. "…..wait, where'd you even go, anyway?"
"That….." Yang held up a finger, before a massive explosion in the distance sounded, followed by the now-expected shrieking from someone- maybe Elsa, maybe Coco. "…..is a story for another time."

"….why do I even ask?!"

END

A/N: Before you review, I mean absolutely no respect to a fic as a memorial to a great man. That, in itself, is a motivation I can respect. More power to you all, and I cannot disrespect it. Great men deserve it, and only from good writers- and there is no way this fic would even have gotten into Weiss Reacts if I didn't trust The Layman was a good writer.

But, on the topic of Ruby getting killed in fanfics…..well, you should check out my fic This Is The Part Where Ruby Dies to see my feelings on people killing her off. Like, seriously, guys. There are other ways of getting tragedy done.

With that being said, another big thank you to our lovely guest - and I do again apologise for taking the piss! Next time, Weiss Reacts to Civilization V, Part 2!

So, I hope you enjoyed that, leave your ideas, comments, criticisms, thoughts, reviews and suggestions, and I hope you have a GREAT day! Until next time!