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[strqyr]

The big ongoing detail with Raven and Spring is why the secrecy? The implication is that Raven killed Spring, either to get rid of her because target drawing Salem on the clan, or for power (not really if it happened post finding out about Salem because she wanted out). A self serving "Mercy" when not asked for by Spring just isn't that far from option 1. Complex shenanigans on the Summer mission makes Summer a more complex character than the Paragon with secondary benefit of answering

Why the question of Raven is being treated as left open and not treated narratively as Yang's birth mother being revealed to be a bandit, ending the search for answers on an answer, though one unwanted. Much too much weight with a certain bird showing up to look in on Yang honestly. There's a reason why Gretchen is being speculated to be possibly Spring. There's untied tethers snapping in the wind and ones that have some heft in investure from the show in time and repetition

the thing with secrecy is, it's a separate thing from lying. you can keep secrets without lying—team strq (barring summer) is a perfect example of this—, and you can lie to keep your secrets safe, e.g. ozma.

when it comes to raven, the only thing she has lied about is the spring maiden's identity by having vernal act as a decoy, and even then... i can't remember raven ever directly claiming vernal's the spring maiden (implied with plausible deniability, yes, but it's never direct), nor did anyone ever directly ask her if she's the spring maiden. she's definitely skirting the line between just keeping secrets and lying about it, but known by its song refers to the idiom for a reason, me thinks, and for that reason alone i'm more inclined to believe that raven is telling the truth about what happened with spring.

so. let's assume for simplicity's sake that the spring maiden was gretchen (and frankly, considering that hazel blames ozpin for her death while his amity arena bio heavily implies ozpin personally talked to gretchen to get her to attend beacon, i think it's a safe assumption to make). at the moment, i think there's two options what happened to her:

gretchen becomes overwhelmed with the responsibility and wants to get out, as is helped by raven. she takes part in summer's mission in some capacity, and tragically loses her life.

gretchen is trained by raven, who doesn't consider her up to the task and "mercy" kills her. this would happen before raven finds the whole truth, hence why the spring maiden was "determined at first when she inherited the powers", but upon learning the truth, she changes her mind bc hey. unwinnable war and she's forever stuck with a target on her back. mistakes have been made lol

both of these track based on the information we have, question is how much does ozpin know, bc if he knows what really happened and is blatantly lying about it, jinn likely would have revealed it. that's why think they don't say spring's name: because ozpin has obscured it for a reason. the exact identity of the maiden doesn't matter as much as knowing the powers are in the inner circle's control, so, for example, if option 2 is what went down, ozpin wouldn't need to tell anyone how the powers of spring have changed hosts bc it's not relevant.

as for summer, i think it's important to note that she's not happy with raven to begin with—but why? is it just because raven left and abandoned everyone? is it bc summer put two and two together and figured out that either raven helped gretchen leave (and thus is a problem for the inner circle; raven "wants" qrow dead bc qrow knows she has spring and he's going to become a problem. did the opposite apply to summer and raven?) or that raven killed gretchen during training and is now, possibly, the spring maiden? is it bc raven went back to the tribe who had sent her to beacon to learn how to kill huntsmen in the first place, and summer thinks raven was fooling everyone and never really changed?

in short, there are many roads to take here. and if war does allude to potential summer vs raven fight, then obviously, there was a fight that was triggered by something, and summer's attitude towards raven in the flashback tells me that it isn't solely bc of something that happened during the mission. perhaps it was even personal, and like. qrow knows raven went back to the tribe and he's trying to get her to come back; in contrast, if summer decided raven needs to die, then that already makes her a more complex character than the paragon, "she would have forgiven raven immediately and welcomed her back with open arms" that parts of the fandom thought her to be. it puts her neatly into the "the judge, the jury, the executioner" category with her axe and all, too, if that's what they're going for.

honestly, between the two options, i'm pretty much 50/50. like, raven helping gretchen escape, abandoning her team doing so is compelling, and definitely makes her complicated... but she was also troubled, someone who fought for whatever she believed in, be it her team or her tribe.

and i think about what qrow said about raven having a way of looking at the world that he doesn't particularly agree with. how spring wasn't cut out for this world; the weak die, the strong live, those are the rules... and spring was weak. i think about tai talking about raven, how she had her faults but those faults are what tore their team apart, and did a real number on their family, then goes on to talk about how she thought strength is all that matters in a fight; raven killed spring under unknown circumstances, you turned yourself into a monster just for power, look who's talking, the grimm mask raven wears... there's something here, too, ya know?

and that's without going into what went down between summer and raven, who shot first, both summer and yang brush past raven; how far do the parallels go? yang (allegedly) figured out what happened to spring, got raven to talk about it in vague manner, did summer figure it out too, just without raven's input?

that's what makes this so difficult cos i'm pinballing between two options like yeah it makes sense. this makes sense, too. are there any other things making sense that i should be aware of? idk.

#rwby #raven branwen #summer rose #grundpfeiler #ask.strqyr

[anthurak]

So I’ve recently seen some talk/gotten some asks about the ‘Rosebird parents’/’Raven is Ruby’s dad’ theory regarding the actual... ‘mechanics’ of how Summer and Raven could have conceived Ruby.

Now while there are some simple answers to this question such as some form of advanced medical procedure or Raven simply turning out to be intersex, I think there is one particularly ‘weird’ option that is both much more interesting and actually fits the story and tone of RWBY quite a bit better.

That being, Summer and Raven used some form of magic to conceive Ruby.

When we consider how extremely common the whole ‘Mystical Pregnancy’ trope is across fairy-tales, folklore and mythology, I’d say it only makes sense that a show so fixated on exploring these classical tropes like RWBY do their own spin on it at some point. Plus, given that it’s very often the big, important, heroic, protagonisty types that are born to these weird magical conceptions, I think it would be all too fitting for RWBY’s main heroine to have been born in such a way as well. On top of that, we already know that Summer and Raven both have strong connections to the weird, mystical elements of RWBY via Silver Eyes and magic, plus whatever else they may have been in contact with while working for Ozpin.

Additionally, there is a related trope to the ‘Mystical Pregnancy’ that I think makes the dynamics of Team STRQ in relation to Ruby and Yang quite fitting. In folklore and mythology, we often see heroes and gods have weird cases of multiple fathers and/or mothers via weird magical shenanigans, and that’s only if our sources bother to even try explaining (looking at you, Heimdall). So if we imagine that Summer and Raven conceived Ruby, then both her and Yang can basically be said to have two mother and two fathers:

Summer is mother by blood to Ruby and a surrogate mother to Yang. Tai is father by blood to Yang and a surrogate father to Ruby. Qrow is an uncle by blood and a surrogate father to both girls. And Raven is mother/’father’ to both girls by blood but has never done anything to raise them.

I don’t know about you, but that setup is exactly the kind of wacky, headscratching family situation I’d expect from the heroine(s) of a folktale.

#rwby #rwby theory #rwby ramblings #rosebird #rosebird parents #rosebird parents theory #Summer Rose #Raven Branwen #Ruby Rose #Team STRQ #ruby is a rosebird magical lesbian lovechild #ruby and yang have two moms and two dads

[onewomancitadel]

Given the theme of controlling magical powers and the control of magical lineage (the whole thing with Ozpin priming a Maiden successor, Ironwood imitating this) effectively subverting 'the point' of the powers (organic gifts, self-determining, non-gameified) both in-universe and narratively, I think it is an organic conclusion to assume that this was true of the silver eyes. Effectively 'breeding' more warriors (which... gets borderline eugenicist quickly, but that's not really the thing R/WBY would be interested in; it's more the gameification of the power against its actual intended purpose) in the same way that Salem took to simply culling them and later turning them into her pet alchemical subjects.

Actually, that Salem took that approach at all is quite telling; it's the sort of thing you sit there asking, 'Hey, why didn't the bad guy just do x?' when you're not reading the narrative really correctly, but it is intentionally doing something thematically. If Ozpin and Salem have both got it wrong in the same way, then clearly someone else needs a better answer, and it's not simply going to be 'fixed' by doing it his way.

Which is why I think Summer had Ruby to pass on the silver eyes. Summer is the 'failed' heroine (who is a source of inspiration and then disillusionment for Ruby, so that she might grow beyond it) and team STRQ were - well, Raven literally said as much - the team R/WBY of their generation. So I think it is absolutely very likely that in the way that team STRQ failed - includes a failure to ever fix this relationship to magical powers in the story. Of course, it's not like Summer didn't end up loving Ruby (or Yang by extension); the idea here is that she couldn't resist that, and that's part of the conflict. How could Summer stay with her baby, whom she's condemned to being a silver-eyed warrior, when there's Salem to fight? And that was the very reason she had one at all? That is like, actually meaty conflict. Summer having a child borne of ostensibly practical purpose in contrast to Raven's borne of love, where both of them wrestled with it and made different decisions, is actually really interesting. Even more interesting that I was right Raven knew of Summer's disappearance. They both each had to contend with the reality of motherhood in the face of Salem.

As I have gestured to this interpretation in the past, this explains the slightly weird dynamic of team STRQ - and obviously with Volume 9, this explains the implication of subterfuge with Summer's relationship to Tai. Because I do think there is more to Summer on this front, and it wasn't a storybook romance. I'm not trying to say it 'wasn't' real, but we've already been shown it has more tooth to it than at first glance. I also personally think it's fucking weird Tai had a kid with both Raven and Summer, and this feels like the only explanation (rebound and SEW progeny and subterfuge) which tonally fixes it. If it's 'shitty romance with Raven, then pure amazing tragic romance with Summer' it's just... not very interesting to me, both in giving complexity to Raven ('complicated') and to Summer (more than a Madonna). That the emotional dynamics of team STRQ are a total mess is also probably to do with their general protagonist failure shenanigans (Tai and Qrow visibly don't seem to get along much anymore; Qrow and Raven have ostensibly denounced each other; Raven and Summer had a peculiar rapport; etc.) and at least team R/WBY is keeping it relatively straightforward in that department.

But also that Summer's love for Ruby is partly what drives Ruby's power altogether is part of the ironic answer here. It was never purely about having kids to pass on the powers; it is about something deeper and more emotional than that because the power is symbolic. This higher awareness, I want to say, that the characters have of these powers, and the narrative consequences of that, are explicitly being unpacked and redeemed. This is basically the answer to people who write bad theories on Reddit which ignore narrative logic lol.

If Summer really is a Grimm-human abomination still, then the cure - Ruby's silver eyes - will be Ruby recognising and loving her mother, not the mere lineage of the silver eyes. She can't just use them like laserbeams to kill evil monsters. So, in a way, there is an ironic balm to Summer's intentions to pass on the powers. Because her daughter loves her (and forgives her).

I think that this is equally true of the Maiden powers - in that it is never strictly about 'who's the next Maiden?' game that people want to play, that characters like Ozpin and Ironwood literally play and handpick the successor. So we've seen this before, and we'll continue to see it. It's quite telling that Ruby and Cinder both have the potential to redeem (or have begun to redeem) these ideas.

#and set my teeth in the silver of the moon #mother maiden crone

[lifesafairytale]

Ozpin: There is a fine line between insanity and genius. Ozpin, watching team STRQ strap fireworks to a Beowolf and then point it towards the rest of the pack: Team STRQ has snorted that line every day since they first met.

I absolutely love reading people's little shenanigans with Team STRQ.

They just have that chaotic energy— remember the skirt story? Yeah.

#Ozpin chose them so he has no room to complain *wheeze* #[asks.]

[whatissleepeven]

Summer, dancing and singing: Hit or miss -

Qrow: Depression is a bitch huh

Taiyang: You hate yourself and there's nothing you can do ya

Raven: Then you find out that no one would really miss ya

Qrow: "You'll be fine" yeah right that's how they always get ya

Summer, in tears: Guys please stop, this has been going on for weeks -

#three fourths of Team STRQ is not okay #help them #please help them #rwby incorrect quotes #rwby taiyang #rwby summer #rwby qrow #rwby raven #qrow branwen #raven branwen #taiyang xiao long #summer rose #welcome to rwby quote hell #team strq #team strq shenanigans #summer needs a raise #past ozpin is rolling in the floor #present ozpin is rolling in his grave

[mummacalavera]

official introduction 😊🙋🏽‍♀️

Hi, I'm Martins (female, any pronouns), 25yo. This is a side-blog I created to post original content only, so I can keep my fandom thoughts better organized. It's RWBY corner, RWBY party, RWBY all around.

Feel free to talk and share 💞

More about my faves and my content under the cut.

Favorite Characters ...

Cinder Fall

Raven Branwen

Salem

Winter Schnee

Weiss Schnee

Yang Xiao Long

Ships ...

Rosebird / Black Rose Raven and Summer

CinWin / Temperature Play / SnowFall Cinder and Winter

WitchFire / East and West / Bitches and Witches Cinder and Salem

Bumblebee Blake and Yang

Honorable mentions: WhiteRose Ruby and Weiss;

I like basically all characters with very few exceptions. But beware that I only care about the girls. Most of the boys are nice and all but they are just not my thing, so I won't be talking much about them if it's not connected to one of the females.

Content

Most of the time I'm just sharing random thoughts, but I also post a lot about my own AUs and headcanons. When motivation strikes I make gifs and gifsets which are under "rwby gifs" and "rwby gifset". You can find things under specific tags like "mom!salem" -- an AU -- or in general tags concerning a character, like "raven branwen".

#rwby #i know i have been posting for awhile now but this is an official intro about my shenanigans around here #cinder fall #yang xiao long #blake belladonna #raven branwen #weiss schnee #team strq #summer rose

[starlightshadowsworld]

Do I ship Cloqwork? 

Yes. 

Buttt...Is it possibly outweighed by my love of the idea of Oz being made the dad of Team STRQ, Qrow falling asleep on the new sofa in his office wrapped in Oz’s cape that he just...steals. And Oz absolutely spoiling him by telling him the of the great Grim Reaper and getting him merch. 

Hecking yes.

#Cloqwork #found family shenanigans won again #Who would've known #Oz didn't adopt team STRQ...they adopted him #You are our dad now Mister #rwby

[cosmokyrin]

Ohhhh wait I've got a theory, ok so CRWBY said this next volume is something they have had planned since the beginning right? Falling through a portal that effects time and space could result in time travel shenanigans right? Well what if they get sent back to the past not into the future, and wait for it, meet team STRQ as students! Having a STRQ pequal series is something fans had wanted for ages but why wait, maybe this can be a tease for it! Then ruby could actuly meet and see what her mother was like at her age, also if it happens imagine to hide the fact they are from the future they chose fake last names for themselves and ruby not wanting say Rose panics and says "I'm Ruby... Polendina" I would die! Hire me CRWBY lol/jk

ANON WHOEVER YOU ARE THANK YOU FOR PUTTING THIS TO EXISTENCE I WANT THIS

I WANT MY STRQ PREQUEL AND RUBY POLENDINA PLEASE

#anon #askbox #penny polendina #ruby rose #nuts and dolts #mechanical rose #rwby #strq #team strq #spoilers #rwby volume 8 #rwby volume 8 spoilers #rwby spoilers #rwby v8 spoilers

[perpetuallyfive]

A couple episodes into this volume, thinking about everything they’d said about v9 being really unique and different, my two big theories for where we were headed was:

Ruby gets kidnapped and we spend most of the volume with her apart from her team, maybe only seeing it from her point of view.

We get a volume long flashback to team STRQ via a wish to see what happened to Summer, or possibly through a “where is the summer maiden?” that leads to us either seeing her die and transferring the power or more likely at this point that she’s still alive somewhere.

But then Oscar was taken instead and the odds of spending an entire volume away from anyone in team RWBY always seemed pretty low. (Even if it meant getting very young Xiao Long-Rose family hijinks.) It didn’t really seem likely that we’d end up with anyone else being held by Salem by the end of the same volume and then she blew up. Okay, so not going to happen. They slipped to the back of my mind.

Except kidnapped Oscar told that story of the girl who fell through the world and now all the pieces are aligning where it seems more and more likely that we’re going to see team RWBY falling through the world into some kind of possible time travel shenanigans and I genuinely cannot believe I was so close and yet so comically far. 

Not Ruby kidnapped and apart from everyone and not a flashback, but team RWBY apart from everyone else but flashing back together.

#everyone i told this to HATED the idea of the flashback volume #(because no team rwby) #and i'm like but imagine the world building!!! imagine what you could do! how much we could learn about a whole set of characters!!! #and all that time i never fucking thought ''but what if team rwby was there'' #because i'm a very smart IDIOT #rwby v8 spoilers #rwby spoilers #rwby #i don't know this will probably matter to nobody but i'm documenting it because it's so funny to me #between this and me thinking cinder would use the lamp and NEVER CONSIDERING THE STAFF #i can't even tell if in a normal year with normal access to my full brain power like would i have figured it out #POSSIBLY NOT?

[frankielucky]

Today’s Shitsketch Theme: Beacon FairGame and Team STRQ Shenanigans

Yknow it was only a matter of time before I made some fairgame content

#qrow branwen #clover ebi #fairgame #rwby #taiyang xiao long #raven branwen #summer rose #qrow was a short grumpy teenage boi #you cant change my mind #i want to draw more beacon STRQ now

[strqyr]

i love the 'team strq adopts cinder' aus so much, but i'm also stickler for canon timeline, which is a problem...

...unless i just make an au where 4th year team strq is on a mission in mistral and ends up finding a shady orphanage, and through a series of various shenanigans they return to beacon with 4-5 year old cinder.

no one at beacon is quite surprised with this development.

yes, this has been inhabiting my brain for the last couple of days. yes, i already have like million aus. yes, everything's fine.

#rwby #team strq #cinder fall #cinder branwen au #sorta #ozpin: what's up with the child #team strq: our child now

[secret-engima]

I’m kinda curious what oz and team strq’s relationship is like in your ‘always i dreamed’ verse is like. got any headcanons to share?

ABSOLUTELY.  :DDD

Now I could make this very angsty but I’m in a fluff mood so all aboard the (mostly) fluff train.

-Oz 100% becomes Team STRQ’s exasperated sibling figure and an adopted member of the team. They now refer to themselves only as Team STORQ (stork) because this is their Sad Headmaster Man. Ozpin is wary at first, but there is no stopping Raven once she decides to adopt and the others follow her lead.

-They have successfully moved into his apartment by the time they are fourth years, even if they hide this fact so Oz won’t get in any trouble for it. Just- this team of semi-feral and totally feral teens moving in and setting up shop in his too big apartment/could practically be a house inside another building that he inherited from the previous Oz. Taiyang is now the group cook, Qrow keeps flopping on the couch to play video games with the console he brought home from SOMEWHERE, Summer likes to maintain their weapons on the kitchen table and Raven is always down for sidling up next to his armchair to listen to him read aloud from whatever book he’s reading.

-Note that this is all the far side of a slippery slope for these kids, and it wasn’t an entirely fast process with Ozpin being stubbornly aloof afraid to make personal connections and Team STRQ being wary of their mysterious “only a few years older” Headmaster. But after Raven gets attached (read: breaks into his apartment at one point by accident because she had come to the conclusion someone had kidnapped him and discovered to her surprise that she could portal to him, which meant she was more attached than she thought) there is no escape. The adoption of Sad Wizard Man was inevitable.

-Team STRQ manages to hold a veneer of propriety in public right up until they graduate. Then they give it two weeks and promptly stop caring what the public will think and start openly hanging out with Ozpin. Qrow and Tai will drag him off on “guy hangouts” that USUALLY end in a narrow escape from trouble or even the police (Qrow’s luck at work), Summer will lure him into taking the day off to go book shopping with her, and if he stays in his office for too long doing paperwork when he should be clocking out and eating dinner/sleeping, Raven with calmly open a portal, march through, and then potato sack him back through the portal. No she doesn’t care if anyone is in the room to witness, Ozpin is terrible at self care and Raven is here to ensure he takes care of himself. Even if she has to force him to take breaks.

-All of Vale knows the rumors that Ozpin is in a relationship with all of Team STRQ by like- the end of the year after they’ve graduated, but these disaster children are 1000% platonic. They’re just like cats rather than conventional people. Sibling shenanigans and cuddle piles on the couch are all part of how they express affection and Raven and Qrow don’t care what society says and Tai and Summer have learned not to care either.

-Ozpin teaches all of them how to dance. Being a quasi-immortal means you know a lot of different dancing styles, and after Team STRQ gets curious he’s happy to teach them. His favorite is swing dancing but shhh.

-Ozpin is a school Headmaster and has memories stretching back thousands of years and many, many lifetimes. He knows how to comport himself with dignity and reserve, how to sit back and strategize rather than leaping into a situation before looking. He is unquestionably the Braincell of the group.

-Until he’s not.

-Qrow and Raven take far too much glee in coaxing Oz to act his *physical* age rather than the layers of mental age he has going on. And since he’s only in his twenties still when they graduate, that means they manage to talk him into doing some Really Stupid Stuff. Luckily, being a quasi-immortal and two ex-bandits means they are very good at escaping without being caught.

-Of course Team STRQ are involved in the Salem Thing, and so they do take orders from him, but off the clock they’re his gremlin siblings and he loves them fiercely. He honestly expects them to treat him differently after he tells them about Salem and the curse thing (they set up shop in his apartment back when they thought he was just a sad, too-young Headmaster who needed a Team of his own), but other than Summer acting weird and thoughtful for a few days to process and Tai stress baking to wrap his head around the “immortal queen of grimm exists” thing they go right back to treating him like they always have. So what if he’s a tangled ball of memories and magic limping around in a green scarf? He’s *always* been like that, now they just know why he can curse fluently in long dead languages.

-Ozpin still gives Raven and Qrow birb powers, Raven and Qrow proceed to take turns, when not on mission or otherwise busy, to perch on Ozpin’s shoulder for the day. All of Beacon knows about Ozpin’s “pet birds” by now and there are a lot of urban legends about it, but no one realizes that these birbs are his feral Branwen siblings keeping an eye on him and making sure he takes a lunch break while working.

-Because, as previously established, Ozpin kinda sucks at self care. Comes from having too many lifetimes worth of self-sacrificing mentality all blended around in one’s head.

-Raven fully abuses her portal powers to keep her family together. She and Tai have a nice place on Patch and Oz missed the flight over for the night when he was planning (read: ordered by Summer) to take the weekend off? No problem. Ozpin forgot something back at his apartment? Hi Glynda don’t mind her. Nice apartment by the way but Raven’s just passing through. (Glynda: sighs in annoyance but this has been happening for years and she doesn’t bother to care anymore)

-The Branwen twins were raised in a bandit camp, which means groups sharing economically sized (small) tents, which means sharing sleeping space. This means these two birbs have no concept of “propriety” when it comes to snoozing when there are loved ones around. It took a long time, but they slowly infected Tai and Summer with this lack of care too, and so when they got attached to Ozpin and discovered that this boy had possibly the largest bed ever (also inherited from his predecessor for reasons lost on Oz, since heaven knows Osamu had no interest in intimate relations), the result was inevitable. More than once Ozpin has woken up to discover that all of Team STRQ had migrated over to his bed at some point in the night and were passed out in varying positions and proximities on it. There is in fact enough room for them to all sleep without touching, but by morning Ozpin usually finds himself in the center of a tangled cuddle pile anyway with Taiyang serving as the space heater center and the others all clinging to one limb or another, either each other’s or Oz’s.

-It’s ... nice. It reminds him of lifetimes *lonng* ago when families all tended to live in one or two room houses. Or lifetimes when he had blood siblings who did this.

-Even though he knows this is flirting with death for them, because Salem would love to ruin this happiness he has, but he knows he cannot convince them to stay away, and he’s been starved for positive touch for lifetimes and he is ultimately a weak man who makes mistakes. And even knowing this will likely be one of them, he cannot bring himself to escape the pile.

-It just ... feels so good to not be alone. At least for one lifetime.

#SE asks #anon asks #Always I Dreamed verse #Secret Engima Rambles #Look i just want all the team storq fluff okay #all the platonic cuddles #and pranks #and just- #LET SAD WIZARD MAN BE HAPPY #thank you for coming to my ted talk

[onewomancitadel]

I also just hate when assumed ship dynamics or fandom discourse get in the way of talking about something actually interesting. I don't care much for 'was this character a good or bad father'; I am more interested in what that says in the story for the characters. Why is it that Qrow is more consistently framed as paternal to Ruby?

It's not some harebrained fan theory (*eyeroll*) and it doesn't necessitate 'but Tai's her reaaaaaaaaal dad and he does stuff', it just warrants a little further speculation (Tai is out of the game now until team reconciliation; narratively Qrow is more of an active character; Qrow doesn't behave as Ruby's father in a persistent emotional capacity but definitely in actual actions - there's plenty at odds about him; unease between Tai and Qrow potentially exacerbated by Qrow being able to relate to Ruby in ways Tai can't, see also the scythe and cape; on and on). There are both functional factors in terms of narrative roles (Tai is there for Yang's arc in V4, Qrow is for Ruby's) and then the various complicated relationships to parenthood in the story.

This is sort of a corollary of the fanon issue I suppose, but it does go a bit beyond that, because in my opinion if you can reasonably trust a story to be trying for a commentary, thinking about what it adds to the story is almost always going to be more interesting to me. I mean yeah, the story people cite as 'neglectful parenting' in V2 where Yang Ruby have to be rescued by Qrow is like... partly a case of dramatic storytelling, partly to situate Qrow's character as the one who intervenes for mortal safety (like Raven lol), partly also like, sometimes you do make fuck ups as a parent, partly also like, a counter to theme of being over controlling, partly like, many different things all at once and that's interesting to me. But also maybe a little bit it's the Huntsman in the woods saving the lost children.

Qrow once again trying really hard not to be a dashing fairytale figure and failing. He's so silly.

Also like, team STRQ fluffy shenanigans are so yawn-worthy, and I guess that's an overall tendency of the fandom to want to defang the more complicated and emotionally poignant dynamics (oh, and I guess for me, emotional fluffiness is something I enjoy - see literally the previous paragraph - just not... superficially eliding the entire point of the characters and their relationships). I also think that if team STRQ were sufficiently dysfunctional enough and the relationships sufficiently fractured, it's gonna make for the world's worst and best class reunion ever.

#world's worst class reunion

[theriveroflight]

👀 Can we know some more about forever is the sweetest con?

Okay so! I posted some details about it the last time I did something like this, but since then I've thought over it some more.

The basic premise of it is that it's a fair game + schneewood forest (feat some polyamory because poly happy huntresses) modern AU where team STRQ are con artists kind of like the team in Leverage, the Huntresses live up to their allusions and are thieves mostly. Clover and Winter are cops that became partners when Clover's old partner in the force retires/dies/??? and Winter is more freshly minted from the police academy. There are lots of mlm/wlw solidarity shenanigans, and the general vibe should be fun but not overly crack-y. I don't know how successful I'll be at that one. (I might try and publish the first installment for FGWE day 1 because it would fit the enemies to lovers theme, but I'm not sure yet.)

A Qrow & Robyn snip:

Qrow freezes at the sound of footsteps. He can't afford to get caught -- Summer told him there were two plainclothes cops at the event tonight, they could catch him anytime.

But the person lifts the item that he was going to steal and well -- he resents that because he and his team have done so much work for this con just to have some theif steal the victory out from under his fingers.

He tails the thief, following them to their escape.

"Hey," he says. "That was my steal."

"You snooze, you lose," the thief says, and he recognizes them now.

Robyn Hill, a local Mantle politician. What is she doing as a thief?

#rwby #fair game #schneewood forest #fanfiction #ask #anonymous

[dissonantharmony]

writing team strq shenanigans at 1 in the morning is fun

#rwby #team STRQ #summer rose #taiyang xiao long #my writing #strange signals