The following chapter contains spoilers for the Volume 5 finale of RWBY. If you read this and the only way you choose to watch the show is through youtube, then it's your own fault.

"So, Yang…"

Yang looked up from her book, "Yeah?"

"I heard you met up with Raven."

"So?"

Tifa fumbled with her hands a bit, "On a scale of Gambino to Uncle Ben, how good or bad of a parent was she?"

Yang sighed, "It… it's complicated. She's just kinda… I don't know how to exactly describe it. I mean, she's a killer, but when you think about it, I'm not exactly in a position to judge…" Yang trailed off.

"Is this about our fight or something?"

"More like the 'or something' part. I didn't object to my school professor possessing a fourteen-year old kid, so I don't really think I have any right in calling her out on-"

"Wait, your professor pulled an Enchantress?"

"Just subtract the new magically-infused body capable of giving Superman a run for his money, and yeah. That's basically what happened."

"… Okay," Tifa stated, "I know that we're in the same building as Venom, and we're probably going to end up seeing Dr. Fate sometime soon, but isn't that incredibly shady and morally questionable?"

"T, I live in a world where there are monsters that will hone in on stuff like sadness, fear, and anger but Child Protective Services is about as effective as they are in the real world."

"Your dad left you and your baby sister in a house alone without a sitter, Sunshine." Tifa pointed out, "I'm starting to think that your world's CPS are worse."

"Eh, I'm over it anyways." Yang shrugged, "I'm a bit more focused on the fact that my partner actually came back."

"Are you a hundred percent that she came back for you though?"

"Hell no." Yang replied, "But I'm counting that she'll at least stay for me. Heaven knows that I'd probably need antidepressants if she ups and leaves again."

"Speaking of, have you been to your therapy sessions?" Tifa pressed.

Yang looked away for a moment, a guilty look on her face.

"Yang!"

"Well it's not like I can use those therapeutic techniques back in my own world!"

"You live in a world where negative emotions literally bring monsters to your front door! Can you for once focus on yourself?"

Yang looked guilty, "I… I don't think I remember how." She finally relented, "I had to take up the mother role for Ruby for a long time, that I don't think that…"

"Yang…" Tifa comforted, "Just remember that you can be as selfish as you want here. Nobody will blame you."

"It's hard for me though. I've been at this self-sacrificing thing for so long that I…" Yang teared up, "I think I have a problem…"

"Admitting it is the first step." Tifa offered, "Now come on, you want to grab something to eat before we catch the next fight?"

Yang dried her tears surprisingly fast, "Yeah! Who's fighting again? - I kinda forgot what with my mom turning out to be a demigod or whatever."

"Black Panther is fighting Batman."

"Batman again? - Ugh, was Vixen busy?"

"You know, classic Spidey said the same thing." Tifa laughed.

"You know, I think this is the first time I've actually made it for a season premiere." Yang mentioned, staring at her drink.

"Yeah, now that you mention it, you were always busy back in your own world. What was your uncle's reaction to finding out you mother is a super powerful demigod, anyways?"

"I have no plans to tell him." Yang answered, taking a sip, "Call it payback for telling people after only knowing three-fourths of them for a few weeks while I've been asking for nearly a decade."

"Well, that seems petty." Tifa mentioned.

"Weren't you just going on about how I should take care of myself more often? - Besides, I still don't trust my uncle and Ozpin. I don't care what anyone says, reincarnation doesn't involve forcibly taking over a fourteen-year-old kid's body, and shoving him into a war that he wants no part in."

"Your school teacher's inside a fourteen-year-old kid?"

"When you word it like that, you make him sound so…" Yang tried to find the word.

"Creepy?" Tifa offered.

"I was going to go with something way worse sounding, but yeah. Let's go with 'creepy.'" Yang answered.

"Why do I have the feeling that what you were going to go with would have required the people in your world to call the police?"

"Ozpin's inside a fourteen-year-old kid." Yang deadpanned.

"Yeah, he's definitely being kicked to the villain's place if he ever shows up."

"I might be a bit biased here," Yang mentioned, "The only way anyone here really knows about my world is through me. The series isn't over yet, and unlike guys like Vegeta and Naruto, we didn't have proper filler."

"Hey Cloud?"

"Yeah?"

"Do you ever wonder why Yang always shoots the breeze with Tifa rather than anyone else?" Dante asked.

"Probably has something to do with the fact that they have a genuine friendship going on. And don't forget that Yang was still aware of her status as a fictional character when the stakes got raised. She's literally the only one who can point out the logical failings in her own world."

"Why doesn't she do it in her own world though?"

"And cause a panic?" Cloud rhetorically asked, "Yeah, that's going to go well."

"Still, can we all agree that she hasn't gotten any closure on anything?"

"Totally. If I were able to, I'd take both her and her sister in as my own kids." Cloud replied.

"Dibs on being the fun uncle."

Wade: So… How was volume 5?

X: As a whole, waaayyyyy better than volume 4. Which is good enough for me.

Alexis: Tweet tweet chirp?

X: Still want him to lose. Brutally.