So I've noticed that Ruby hasn't really been getting a lot of attention in the main story lately due to her focus arc coming late. So here's three omakes all with her as the focus. The first one leans into her relationship with Jaune constantly getting fucked with, the second one can be considered canon to the main story outside of a few details, and the third is a Calebcity skit/a sort of sequel to the worse timeline omake where Ruby is the world's worst superhero.

Omake 1: A suffering Rose

Ruby Rose had a problem. What was that problem, you may ask? Was it the Grimm? Perhaps scheming politicians trying to take advantage of her and her team? Oh no, if only it was that simple.

Her problem was every woman in Vale!

That sounded like an exagerration, one might say. Surely she didn't mean that? And yes, maybe. Children and those who didn't like guys were safe, but the rest of them? Oh ho, they were on her ever expanding list!

It all started just a few days after they stopped Adam Taurus' attack. Jaune was credited with stopping the mad terrorist, and honestly Ruby was super happy for him. He was one of her closest friends and the best boyfriend on Remnant, he deserved to have people know just how awesome of a person he was. She wasn't mad about that.

It was what came after that really grinded her gears.

The flirting. The constant, non-stop freaking flirting. She wasn't imagining it! She wasn't! Ever since people found out how great Jaune was, they wouldn't stop throwing themselves at him those...those hussies! Yeah, she said it, and she didn't feel bad!

It hit a peak a week in after days of trying to pretend it wasn't there. The two of them were wandering around Beacon just trying to relax after everything that had happened. And then she arrived.

"Hey, Jaune," Velvet said with that indecipherable accent of hers. Seriously, where was she from, "Say cheese!"

Jaune was just as surprised as she was and looked silly when the picture came out. She would've giggled at that if not for the way Velvet looked at him like a piece of meat. Weren't rabbits supposed to be herbivores? And yes, Blake, she knew that Faunus and animals were two different things, but she was making a point! The point being that Velvet Scarlatina was a thief!

"Come on, Velvet, give a guy a little warning next time." Jaune laughed.

"Sorry, just a bit excited, I guess." Velvet giggled. Ruby didn't miss how Velvet didn't greet her at all or take any notice of her presence, "So...would you mind coming over to my room later? Yats and Fox are going shopping with Coco and we can have a...private photoshoot." The bunny Faunus fluttered her eyelashes up at him and Ruby seethed. Jaune, her lovable dork, didn't see it for what it was, but she did! Social anxiety didn't mean she was an idiot!

But she had to be careful about this. Jaune had brushed off her earlier concerns by saying that there was no chance girls were flirting with him. And even if they were, he only had eyes for her. She knew that, and it wasn't him she was worried about.

Now to subtly tug Jaune away so she could-

"You could take your shirt off. For the photos, I mean. All the better for me to see your...fighting style."

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Nope!

Without even trying to be subtle, she grabbed Jaune's arm and practically yanked him outta there. Velvet seemed to take notice of her for the first time and was about to protest when Ruby looked back and glared, eyes alight with red fire. That seemed to scare the attempted boyfriend thief and was enough to make her back off, at least for now. Good.

"What was that about?" Jaune asked, "We were talking with Velvet."

"No, she was talking to you." Ruby crossed her arms, "And I knew exactly what she wanted."

"This again? Come on, Rubes." Her face flushed an indignant red at his sigh, "This again?"

"I'm not imagining it, Jaune!" She stamped her foot. A few people turned to look at her and quickly looked away when she glared back. Yeah, don't mess with this Rose! "She wanted to take you back to her room for private photos when you were half-naked!"

"You know how her Semblance works. She just wants a copy of Voix Duciel to copy."

"And you being half naked?!"

"To get a better idea of my fighting style, like she said."

Ruby really loved how sweet Jaune was and how he wanted to see the best in people, but sometimes it made her wanna bang her head on the wall. She shouldn't have been surprised. It took her telling him about how she felt point blank for him to get it, and even then it took him a few seconds she didn't mean she liked him as just her best friend. He was never the most popular guy, or so he said, so he just never expected to get confessed to.

The rest of the team wasn't any help at all.

"I don't see what the big deal is," Weiss said when they got back to the dorm. Jaune was off training with Uncle Qrow, and as much as she wanted to be there to keep him safe, Uncle Qrow pretty much kicked her out. Maiden or not, she wasn't gonna risk that fight, "Jaune is very much a loyal boyfriend and celebrity crushes are very commonplace. It's nothing to worry about."

"Yeah. I mean, I get guys and gals asking me out all the time, and you don't see me whining about it," Yang said.

"That's because you're a degenerate," said Blake, not looking up from her BDSM handbook. Ruby was pretty sure she was gonna use it on Yang later, "I wouldn't worry about Jaune. I mean...he's Jaune. He's not exactly a giant catch or anything." Ruby's eyes narrowed and Blake's ears stood on end, "Hey, I like the guy, but he's not exactly what I'd call someone on the level of Weiss."

"...Are you implying you're attracted to me?" Weiss raised a brow.

"Maybe."

No one got the chance to respond to that little bombshell before Jaune walked in. Ruby smiled and moved to greet him before she looked at his state. Messy hair, collar ruffled, and perfume that smelled way too different from the cologne he usually wore.

"What happened to you?" Yang asked.

"Qrow finished our training early and figured he could use a drink. I went with him cause, well, do you wanna see Qrow Branwen drunk by himself?" Ruby winced. Yeah, that wasn't a good sight, "We went to Junior's place - apparently they're old friends? - and then these two twin bouncers got kinda touchy. Pretty sure they were drunk, so I carried them to their bedrooms and let them get some sleep."

...

The very air around Ruby seemed to shake and the other Maidens took a noticeable step away. Thankfully, she remembered that Jaune wasn't to blame for those hussies and calmed down. It was fine, there wasn't anything to-

"Oh, and I ran into this group of moms on the way back. They were super grateful about me helping to stop the attack." He rubbed the back of his head in embarassment, "One of them gave me a casserole, but I handed it over to team PRMN cause they looked super hungry. She give me her number too." He showed them a slip of paper with her digits listed...along with a lipstick mark in the corner.

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"Ruby, don't you think you're going too far?"

"No I'm not, Jaune!" Ruby shouted, not taking her eyes off the scope.

Ever since the appropriately titled 'Thirsty Moms Incident', Ruby realized that it wasn't safe to stay in Vale. There were too many people going after Jaune and she couldn't be there all the time to ward (or shoot...) them off. Patch wasn't safe either. She knew from experience that a lot of women went after her dad after mom died and she wasn't gonna take another good-natured blonde where he'd be

So, she the did the reasonable course of action of grabbing Jaune and, with barely a goodbye to their friends, taking him to the wild forests of Anima.

...

What? It was the only way she could make sure he was safe from all those thieves! And it wasn't like she decided to camp out in sleeping bags or anything. She was good enough with her Maiden powers that she made a house out of wood and stone. It even had furniture and a fireplace in it! The closest town was a couple of hours away, but with her Semblance they had no trouble getting the supplies they needed. It was perfect.

Ruby spent most of the days on watch with Crescent Rose leveled across the horizon. This place was supposed to be safe, but she couldn't be too careless. The second she got lazy someone was just gonna swoop in and steal Jaune away from her.

"Hey, hey..." Jaune rubbed her shoulders and she bit her lower lip, "Everything's gonna be fine, alright?" He kissed the top of her head and she hummed, "We can stay here another week then come back to Beacon when the break is over."

"But..."

"I'll be careful. Besides, you know you're the only one I'd ever want to be with."

"...Promise."

"Promise."

Ruby beamed and turned around to hug Jaune in a bonecrushing embrace...and completely missed the black and red figure who stumbled the length of their front yard and kicked the door down.

Ruby shrieked and almost shot the intruder till she realized exactly who it was. Raven Branwen...and she looked absolutely drunk off her butt. She was swaying in place and held a bottle of liqour in hand with a smell that reminded her of a brewery...or Uncle Qrow on his really bad days. Her eyes were glassy and unfocused, and yet despite that she was laser focused on the both of them.

"Uh...aren't you supposed to be dead?" Ruby asked.

"Dead? The fuck are you talking about, Summer?" Wait, what? "You know what, doesn't matter. I came here to get my man back." Her unfocused eyes shifted to Jaune, "There you are, Tai. Take those pants off."

Ruby's scream could be heard all across Remnant.

Omake 2: Ruby's shame revealed

Ruby Rose had a problem, one that could destroy one of her most cherished relationships.

With the Vytal Tournament over with the team found themselves in a bit of a lull. Sure, they still had to train as both Huntresses and Maidens, but after terrorist attacks and having to save Vale twice, it was pretty routine.

It left Ruby feeling restless and antsy. She needed to do something, and seeing Sun and Weiss going on dates every night made her more than a little jealous. Jaune had to train even harder than the rest of them because of how late he started and it wasn't rare to see him stumbling into the room utterly exhausted and then having to leave bright and early.

She wanted to do something for him, something to make his day better, but what? His weapons were already customized and she was banned from the kitchen ever since she tried to teach Weiss how to bake and her partner somehow managed to burn the entire place down. She was only gone for two minutes and Weiss had ice powers! It should've been impossible.

So she did something she'd quickly regret: she looked at Jaune's scroll.

...

It wasn't her fault! She blamed Yang! Her older sister was a horrible influence and she was totally responsible for all of this. It was a total invasion of privacy, but it was for a good cause! She just wanted to get an idea of a present he wanted to maybe a specific place he wanted to go to. She also wanted it to be a surprise, so she couldn't just ask him. It should've been harmless.

Except it wasn't. It wasn't just harmless stuff she found on his scroll, it was...the kind of stuff that wasn't safe for class. She should've stopped right then and there, but she got curious and kept looking. How was she supposed to react to finding out her boyfriend liked whips and collars? Did...Did that mean he wanted her to do that to him? C-Cause she didn't know how to!

Before she knew it, hours had passed and she knew everything about what Jaune liked. He never found out about her crime, but that only made her feel worse. She didn't deserve his smiles and kisses and cookies when she was a liar who broke his trust. The guilt was eating her up until, finally, she was forced to go to Yang for advice. Since it was her fault, the least she could do was help her make up for it.

"You fucked up."

"Wha-?!" Ruby gaped at the unusually serious look on her older sister's face. She expected some teasing about how this wasn't like her, but insteaad the blonde's arms were crossed and she looked absolutely disappointed in her.

"You fucked up," Yang said again.

"B-But you read my diary all the time! You even read Blake and Weiss'! I learned this from you!"

"This and that are two different things." Yang shook her head, "Reading your friends' deepest, darkest secrets that they wanna hide from the world? That's just part of being the lovable big sister of the group. But what you did..." She shuddered, "Ruby, you looked at someone's porn. In all the years you've known me, did I ever do that to you or any of our other friends that just stopped existing when we got to Beacon?"

"N-No..."

"Exactly. There are some lines you just don't cross, and you went careening past it. I...I honestly wouldn't be surprised if you two broke up over this."

"Wh-What?!" Ruby shrieked, "B-But there has to be something I can do! I don't wanna break up with Jaune, I don't!"

"Then maybe you shouldn't have done what you did!" Yang's eyes briefly turned red, "...But fine, there's one way that I think you can make up for it, but even then I'm not sure. This might not work."

"I'll do anything! Anything!"

"Alright, so here's what you do..."

Hours later, Jaune returned from training with Peter to find his girlfriend on all fours on the ground. It was a dogeza, an old Mistralian bow that he'd only seen once in his life, and that was when Saphron ruined an entire harvest. It was something you did to show absolute penitence and shame.

"R-Ruby?" He looked around the room to see if the others were waiting to jump out about how it was all a joke, but there was no one there, "Wh-What are you-"

"I'm so sorry, Jaune!" she shouted, looking up at him with tears in her eyes, "I...I betrayed you! I broke your trust!" His heart beat loudly against his chest and he stepped back. What was going on? "I looked at your scroll while you weren't here and I saw your porn!" Ruby shouted, voice filled with anguish.

...

"...That's it?" He almost laughed. Okay, so it was kind of embarassing, but they were going out! It wasn't a big deal.

Unfortunately, Ruby took his response the wrong way, "N-No! This isn't just it! I know an apology isn't enough, so..." She shuddered and offered him her own scroll with both hands like it was a sacred relic, "You can...look at my scroll to see what I've been looking at too!"

"Ruby, you really don't need to-"

"Yes, I do!" Suddenly she was standing and practically face-to-face with him with a determined fire in her silver eyes, "I can't take the guilt, Jaune! I can't! If we're ever going to move past this as a couple, we need to be honest with each other! So...do it! Do it and make me pay for what I did!"

"O...Okay?" He reluctantly took the scroll from her. He still didn't see what the big deal was, but if it would help her out then...

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"Uh, Ruby?"

"Y-Yeah?"

"All I'm seeing here are Funder exclusive Forgotten Weapons Podcasts, some videos of weapon maintenance, and...M1 Garand ping ASMR?"

"Now you know..." Ruby sniffled, acting like her shame had been revealed to all, "You probably hate me now, don't you?"

"Uh..." He could only come to two conclusions. Either Ruby was so innocent that she never looked at a single porn site or...this is what she used to get her rocks off. She also could've been lying and this was all one big practical joke, but he doubted that, "I...don't. Hate you, I mean. I don't hate you."

"Y-You don't?" She looked so relieved at the answer that his heart ached, "Y-You're not just saying that, right?"

"Of course not." He pulled her into a gentle hug, "I love you, Rubes. If this is what you like then it's what I like too."

Jaune wondered if he'd made a mistake saying that when he woke up the next day to Ruby grinning down at him with Voix Duciel in her arms along with a tin of sword polish and a fresh rag. The rest of the team was gone, which he couldn't help but think was deliberate.

"Morning, Jaune!" she chirped without a sign of yesterday's grief, "C-Could I ask you to do me a favor?"

"Sure...?"

"Great! So, uh, could take these and...polish your sword?" It wasn't an innuendo, but her red face and unsteady breath might as well have made it one, "I'll...I'll just be right next to you watching. Th-That's not weird, right?"

It kind of was, but he didn't want a repeat of yesterday's confession, so he just shook his head and accepted the stuff. A quick change of clothes later and the two of them were on the floor with Jaune slowly running the rag up the sword's blade while Ruby watched.

"Oh yeah..." Ruby whispered, voice throaty and hoarse, "That's right, Jaune. Clean that sword. Make it shine..."

"Uh..."

Ruby's face turned red and she let out a squeak when the rag reached the tip, "Ha...now that's a longsword," she giggled, sounding almost drunk. This...felt dirty for some reason, and it wasn't cause of the smudges on his shirt.

He'd finished with the cleaning and frowned when he saw some of the internals. They needed some maintenance too, "Hey, you don't mind if I perform sonce maintenance, right?"

"Y...You'd let me watch you perform maintenance?!" Ruby covered her mouth with both hands, face going from pink to blazing inferno, "A-Are you sure? We're moving so fast! I-I'm not sure I'm ready!"

"I...don't mind?" Why was she acting like this was something new? She was the one who taught him how!

"Jaune, you're the best!" Ruby tackled him in a hug that left him lying with his back on the floor. Jaune just sighed and rubbed the top of her head. Ruby Rose was definitely a weirdo, but he wouldn't have her any other way.

Omake 3: When your (self-proclaimed) girlfriend is a misguided Superhero

Jaune Arc had a problem.

To be more precise, he had many problems that came in the form of one specific person. Ruby Rose, Hero of Vale and Savior of Remnant. Both self-proclaimed titles, just like when she'd declared that the two of them were boyfriend and girlfriend by virtue of the fact that she was his closest (read: only) male friend, and thus it was only natural that the two of them got together.

Jaune didn't disagree by virtue of not wanting to die.

Ruby was an odd one. She'd grown up with stories about Huntsmen and Superheroes and decided that she wanted to be one too when she grew up. It was a harmless enough dream, and something shared by a lot of people her age, himself included. That wasn't the issue.

The problems started when, by some cosmic occurence that no one could really explain, she inherited all four of the powers of the Maidens. Ozpin had no idea how it happened or why, but it did and they all had to deal with it. Or rather, he got Jaune to deal with it because he was a lazy bastard who was terminally depressed about not being able to kill his ex-wife. Jaune, being desperate to stay in Beacon, had accepted.

That was the beginning of the end for him.

Ruby didn't have a team. The official reason was that her abilities required her being given a special curriculum, but in truth it was because most people wouldn't be able to retain their sanity if they were forced into a group with her. They tried, of course. Alongside him they'd put in Yang, her own sister, Weiss Schnee, and Blake Belladonna. People to help keep her grounded.

It only took a month in before Yang had ran screaming to Mistral, Blake decided running away from the White Fang was a mistake, and Weiss was taken to a mental hospital. He still visited her when he could, and she was slowly but surely regaining the capacity for language.

He would've ran away too, but he knew for a fact that Ruby would find wherever he hid and just drag him back. The only reason he didn't do the same for the rest was that he managed to convince her that they were giving the two of them space to be a couple.

For you see, Ruby Rose was a walking contradiction. She desired to be a hero, and yet she couldn't see when her actions had harmed others. She stopped Roman Torchwick's spree of crime...by levelling a five block radius so badly that he'd given up for fear of his life. She wanted to kill the Nevermore at Initiation...and upturned the entire Emerald Forest.

The point was that she had good intentions and horrible execution. Any attempts to explain the consequences of her actions led to either confusion or, in some cases, her accusing the lecturer of being a villain in disguise who was trying to enact some evil plot. That was what happened to poor Professor Goodwitch and now she was in the same mental hospital as Weiss. He visited her too.

That wasnt to say she didn't do good, it just...came with a lot of buts. She did (somehow) manage to kill Salem...but she also destroyed most of western Remnant in the fight. Worse, killing Salem had also given Ruby her powers somehow, which only added even more to how everyone feared her. Ruby's joyous declarations that Remnant was now safe were heralded by the cries of people begging to be spared her well-meaning devastation.

On the bright side, she did manage to cull the Grimm to a manageable state...but that wasn't saying much considering most of the landmass was now uninhabitable.

Ozpin, the coward, killed himself rather than dealing with the consequences of his magic inheritance, leaving him as the only thing keeping his (self-proclaimed) girlfriend from accidentally burning people alive because she wanted to help them keep warm. And yes, that was a thing that actually happened!

Jaune leaned away from his desk just before Ruby appeared next to him in a storm of rose petals, "Hey, Jaune!" She beamed, and it would've looked so sweet on anyone else. All he felt when he saw her bright smile was a rising sense of dread, "I finished killing all the Grimm again!"

"G-Good job, Ruby..." He wondered how many people she left homeless and destitute.

"By the way, while I was coming back I saw that talk show. The one about issues Remnant's facing?" Yeah, the one that was expressly forbidden from ever even implying Ruby was one of those issues, "And apparently there's not a lot of space now and people are having trouble on where to put prisoners." Yeah, because she wouldn't stop destroying livable land.

"Yeah...?"

"Well, I wanted to help." Oh Gods, she always said that before something horrible happened, "So I gathered up all the prisoners all across the kingdoms and then I shot them up into space! They popped like balloons."

"...You what?" Jaune choked.

"I went to every prison on Remnant and shot them up into space," she said, the very picture of cheerful innocence. He felt sick, "Now people are gonna have a lot more room! That's awesome, right?"

"N-No, that's not awesome! You've killed so many people!"

"Yeah, but people are gonna have space now!" Ruby harrumphed, "Besides, they were bad guys anyway!"

"Not all of them were! Some people might've been wrongfully convicted or-or maybe their crimes were something like picking pockets! Not all of them deserve to die!"

"...Oh." She disappeared in a storm of rose petals then came back a second later, "Alright, they're back."

"...What? Y-You shot them into space, you said they were dead!"

"Well, yeah, but I'm basically a god. I fixed them up." Jaune could only shudder at how casually she'd said that. So now Ruby literally had power over life and death. That...didn't make him feel good, "And hey, I figured out another way to help!"

"Please, no..."

"I was checking out Mantle and I heard all about how Atlas takes advantage of them. They make them do all the work and the people there suffer while Atlas sits back and relaxes. That's not fair, right?"

"Ruby, please tell me you didn't-"

"So I took Atlas and shot it into space!" Jaune broke down crying. Of course she did that, "Now the people of Mantle are free! That's awesome, right?"

"Ruby, there were innocent people up in Atlas!" Ruby blinked, looking honestly confused at the idea that an entire city may have innocent people in it, "Just...put it back! Put it back, please!"

"Alright, fine, but only because you're my boyfriend." Another second passed as she came and went, "Alright, everying's back to where it was."

"...Everyone's alive? Are you sure?"

"Yeah, but that means the problems are still there." She pouted.

"Let's just...take it slow, alright? H-How about we go on a date? Doesn't that sound fun?"

"Mmm...alright! But I want strawberry ice cream!"

The next day, she decided to stop the White Fang by shooting Menagerie into space. He had to bake her strawberry snickerdoodles to convince her to put it back.

Three omakes. One where Ruby suffers, one where Jaune suffers, and one where they more or less work it out. The last one is probably the worst timeline I've ever written. Even All-Maiden Blake wasn't as bad as 'superhero' Ruby.

Still not sure what the next omake will be. I really wanna do team YANDERE, but my lack of skill on that front is really hampering me. I could also do Zettai RWBY Teenagers. That one is easier and people seemed to like the previous chapter.

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Question:

1. Something for the main story, but how do you think Ruby would react to people confessing to her or trying to ask her out? She's probably going to get a least a few of those and I'm not sure how she'd take it being that she's socially awkward and doesn't like being the center of attention.

Review Answers:

Chuck B. Winanaki - Yeah, Jaune really has turned into Ozpin. Also, I doubt Jacques thinks that far ahead. He doesn't care about his family or see the value of the powers in his own business.

AstromechDroid A5-Z5 - Sounds fun, though it just feels like a role reversal on who suffers between RWBY and Jaune. The Weiss segment with the ice sculpture is really interesting to me, though.