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maripr · 2 years

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i think Ruby and Oscar embody the parrot going what r u doin at each other and then screaming tiktok meme

#ruby rose #oscar pine #rwby #rosegarden #gingerbread #i don't remember if the platonic name was that #in any case this works for any interpretation

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greenteaandtattoos · 2 years

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Ruby and Weiss are acespec solidarity and that's why they're best friends; we asexuals tend to flock together.

It's why Weiss is Ruby's wingwoman when setting her up with Oscar. That boy is so asexual he's practically a walking ace flag.

#rwby #ruby rose #weiss schnee #oscar pine #ace #platonic whiterose #rosegarden

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bestworstcase · 3 months

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Ooo share the unorthodox ruby & oscar thoughts. Romance has never been a draw for me and in this case fanon flattens and honestly mutilates the significance and nuance to their relationship. There’s a lot of interesting things going on here that gets lost and I think that’s a shame

right so the rosegarden orthodoxy goes something like: "oscar is the Only Person who sees and understands the pressure ruby is under and the pain this causes, and the central conceit of his character is about learning how to take care of her because she is precious to him and needs to be taken care of." central to this orthodoxy is the reading of 'the little prince' as a romantic love story between the prince and the rose, with ruby interpreted as "his rose."

for a more thorough breakdown of my thoughts on the intertextual layer, refer to this post. the TL;DR is this: the rose is not the prince's partner—she is his dependent. he returns to her as her caretaker: a child grown up and ready to embrace the joys and responsibilities of parenthood. 'the little prince' is an allegory about parent-child relationships and the importance of treating children with respect and kindness. fortunately for the rosegarden shippers in the audience, ruby is not the rose. she alludes to the snake—the one character in the story who meets the prince as a friend and an equal.

now, before getting into the weeds i do want to stress that, 1. i'm not a shipper and i don't "ship rosegarden" in the usual sense, but 2. ruby/oscar is canon and narratively important and i think about it in those terms.

"but oscar is a child, he's fifteen, he's two years younger than—" thank you for your opinion, person who ships ruby with another character 2+ years older than her, i'll take that under advisement.

"but ruby doesn't need a love interest—" no character 'needs' a love interest, but rwby is a love story about fairytales and its romantic arcs are thematically motivated.

"but he has ozpin in his head and that makes it—" weird, yes. this tension is the fulcrum upon which the romantic arc turns and, also, it is going to be resolved by way of breaking the curse and removing ozma from oscar's head. this is a fairytale. what is not clicking.

here is my first unorthodox ruby/oscar thought: it is not complicated. the set up is really quite clear and if the rosegarden shippers would quit barking up irrelevant trees for five minutes they might notice the forest, which is to say, the foundational argument for canonicity is simply this:

marrow sees yang's disastrous stab at flirting with blake and comments, exasperated, "man, i did not sign up to be a babysitter." later, marrow watches ruby and oscar stammer through an awkward conversation resolving their volume-spanning emotional conflict and mutters, "ugh, kids." marrow's commentary underscores the tangible subtext of romantic interest in both exchanges and implies an equivalency between blake/yang and ruby/oscar.

the reunion scene in V8 is structured such that the platonic reunions occur first—ruby rushes out to hug yang, then clasps jaune's hands while yang hugs weiss—before the more lingering romantic ones. yang goes to reassure blake that things are okay and the bees forehead touch happens; ren steps forward to ask where nora is; ruby says oscar's name and goes to embrace him before emerald's presence distracts her. this again positions ruby/oscar together with the other textual romances.

that's it. there are plenty of supporting details with which to build out a more comprehensive argument, of course, but the narrative flags ruby/oscar by grouping that relationship together with the other two main pairings. (rwby does the same thing in a more overt way to confirm blake/yang […again] in V7; nora tries to initiate a romantic confession by comparing herself and ren to them.)

ozpin retreats from oscar's mind, leaving oscar free to be his own person—"i started to feel like me"—and during this time oscar comes into his own he develops an obvious crush on ruby as the narrative begins to not-so-subtly move this relationship into a romantic context. ozpin's absence opens the door for the pairing and ozma's return creates a seemingly-insurmountable obstacle. the romantic arc is about surmounting that obstacle—separating ozma and oscar—so that oscar can be free to live his own life.

it's not complicated.

so with all of that being said, let's talk about the notion—central to rosegarden orthodoxy—that oscar is uniquely supportive of ruby, and never leans on her the way all the other characters do.

in a word: no.

the cornerstone piece of evidence supporting this reading is the dojo scene in V5, construed as oscar "getting ruby to open up emotionally" leading to his recognition that "this must be really hard for her, too." but:

ruby comes downstairs to find oscar doubled over, panting heavily, with ozpin's cane in his hands—he's training alone, pushing himself almost to the point of collapse. this is not good for him or physically safe, which ruby would know as someone trained as a warrior from childhood. she says: "you're really getting better, huh? are you hungry? it's almost dinnertime." this is a soft way of telling oscar that he's done enough for the night and he should take a break. ruby is checking on him to make sure he's okay.

oscar agrees that he was "about to call it a night anyway," ruby asks about his past, he answers casually, she tells him he "looks like a natural!"—and then oscar looks down at long memory and says "it's strange. i've only had this cane for a few weeks, but i feel like i've had it for a lifetime. longer, even… i sound like a crazy person."

"i mean, uh… yeah, just a little. but at this pace, you'll be combat ready in no time!" says ruby, and then catches herself echoing penny and gets sad.

what happened here?

oscar is training this hard because ozpin told him to, explicitly in order to increase the tempo of the curse: "oscar can give me temporary control, but he'll need to strengthen his body and aura. he'll inherit my muscle memory in time, but training will expedite the process." the reason oscar seems like a prodigy is ozpin's skill and experience bleeding through.

in ruby's mind, "you look like a natural!" is a compliment. but what oscar hears is a reminder that his life is no longer his own: he gazes down at ozpin's weapon and states that he feels like it's belonged to him for lifetimes—and he doesn't like that. "i sound like a crazy person."

the reminder of what's happening to oscar makes ruby uncomfortable—she deflects and tries to put on a happy face, but the truth slips through. "you'll be combat ready in no time!" associates oscar with penny—who is dead. neither ruby nor oscar will say it out loud, but they both understand that he's going to die as ozpin's soul amalgamates with his. and when oscar begins to open up about how scared he is, ruby flinches away—gotta stay positive!!!—only to trip on her grief for penny.

her smile falters. she tucks into herself and turns away. in trying to hide from the thought of oscar being erased, ruby reminded herself of penny. she's already watched helplessly while two of her friends died. she is scared of letting herself get close to oscar, knowing that she won't be able to save him either. so she tries to withdraw.

but she's the first—and so far, only—person oscar has ever tried to talk to about how scared he is, and what he sees is ruby brushing him off and turning her back. "how do you handle all of this?! […] i'm… scared. i'm more scared than i've ever been in my life, more than i ever thought was possible. i always knew that i wanted to be more than a farmhand, but this? who would ask for this?"

<- note the echo here of what ozpin said to him in V4: "you do have an opportunity [for] greatness: greatness in knowing that when the world needed help, you were the one to reach out your hand. it won't come without hardship, without sacrifice, but i know you don't want to live the rest of your life working as a farmhand in mistral," which oscar experienced as a violation ("you just decided to read my thoughts?!") and which ozpin justified on the grounds that "well, they're our thoughts now."

the dojo scene is not about oscar offering ruby emotional support or pushing her to open up about her feelings because he can see that she's hurting. the dojo scene is about oscar breaking down and begging ruby to hear him, to be here with him instead of turning away because he's terrified of what ozpin is doing to him and ruby is dealing with all the same problems but acts like she doesn't care. "people have tried to kill you! the world's about to go to war all over again! how are you okay with any of this?!"—he lashes out at her because he's seeking a real connection and ruby keeps brushing him off.

so ruby—who is very empathetic and insightful enough to recognize why oscar just exploded at her—tells him honestly why she turned away. two of her friends died at beacon, and she is scared specifically of letting anyone else be killed. this is an important emotional moment for her in that she really did need to talk about penny and pyrrha, yes, but that's not quite the point of this scene.

rather, it's about the choice to be vulnerable and trust each other with absolute emotional honesty. oscar is afraid to die. ruby is afraid to lose another friend, and therefore afraid to let herself become close to oscar. he opens up to her about his fears and challenges her to reciprocate, and she does. that's the basis of their bond. by extension the dojo scene also sets up the core emotional conflict underpinning the romantic arc, which is that ruby can't bring herself to face the truth about what ozma's curse is doing to oscar.

that comes between them here. it floats uneasily around them in the aftermath of what jinn tells them: "i'm just going to be another one of his lives, aren't i?" says oscar, and "of course not," says ruby, "you're your own person—" and "don't lie to him, ruby," says qrow, "we're better than that."

at the end of V6, ruby exclaims that "oscar made a successful crash landing! he's a fourteen year old farmhand!" and oscar squirms and admits that ozpin helped him do that. in V7, yang confronts ruby on her choice to lie to ironwood by asking "how did oscar feel about that?" and the way oscar felt about it is hesitant to take the lamp back and fretting that "hiding things from ironwood, doesn't that feel like what ozpin did to us?" and ruby echoes that fear to qrow in the next episode.

the rest of V7 is filled with references, courtesy of ironwood, to oscar's similarity to ozpin. "eventually," ironwood tells him, "you won't even know who's who anymore." but oscar never stops trying to assert himself as an individual. in V8, salem rubs the thinning boundary between him and ozma in oscar's face and that terrifies him so badly that he insists upon staying put under torture rather than let ozpin take over or risk using magic because "every time we use magic, i can feel us merging faster."

they exit the volume more in sync, notionally on equal terms—and then in the ever after, this happens:

ruby cuts neo's simulacrum of ozpin down and reveals oscar, mortally wounded. she's spent four volumes pretending everything is fine—encouraged by ozpin's withdrawal and some of her grief eased by penny's return—and all that denial ends here. she experiences what scared her back in the dojo scene, getting close to oscar only to watch him die, subsumed completely by ozpin.

here's what you're most afraid of. what are you going to do about it?

<- pyrrha is gone. penny is gone, and not coming back. but oscar is alive, and ruby can't pretend anymore that the way things are is okay. she's going to have this image of oscar dying in ozpin burning in her mind every time she sees oscar and (just as nora's injury led ren to admit his feelings and yang's apparent death gave her and blake the push they needed to take the next step) that demands change.

what that change will look like is an open question—it could be anything from ruby simply opening up to oscar about how scared she is of losing him in particular to ruby actively trying to come up with a way to save him—but whatever it is will move toward separating ozma from oscar.

similarly, while oscar recognizes at the end of the dojo scene that "this must be really hard for her too," his mild hero-worship of her continues unabated throughout V5 (think about oscar shaking her and telling her "get up! we need you!" while she's unconscious at haven) and even after they find a more even footing during V7-8 he still contributes to the weight on her shoulders (it is oscar saying "all this doubt and and worry and distrust, it isn't getting us anywhere" that causes ruby to snap and run out of the room in V8). oscar, too, is forced to confront the fact of her mortality. how does he respond when ruby turns out to be alive?

well.

one of the obstacles to the ozlem reconciliation is that ozma has never allowed himself to empathize with salem's grief—he was dead, he never saw her anguish, and the way jinn narrates ozpin's side of the story dismisses the very real pain and anguish salem felt as merely a pretext for what was really just spiteful lashing out at the gods. ozma leapt at the chance to return to her but he has never really understood that she felt the same depth of feeling for him.

he's in oscar's head right now. they are separate people still, but ozma feels what oscar feels and thinks what he thinks and remembers his memories—and also they're on speaking terms again. and oscar has been put in salem's position: he looked up to ruby as a noble hero, he had nascent romantic feelings for her, and now she's gone. oscar to sit with that for several weeks, maybe a couple months, before ruby comes back. and ozma has to bear witness.

i think the change this incites for oscar will be less about ruby than it is a reason for oscar to challenge ozma, building from the ways oscar challenges him in V8 (to trust oscar, to become more honest, to face his mistakes) and giving oscar a chance to continue to maintain his own identity separate from ozma. which again, facilitates an eventual physical separation and the ozlem reconciliation.

<- rip to all the rosegardeners who want ruby/oscar to be the rebound and/or narrative refutation of ozlem. it is not that. lol.

#also rosegarden people who thought oscar being in V9 would have like Solved ruby's breakdown are annoying

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joshy-tomato · 11 months

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Ok, but one of the things I absolutely love about Rosegarden is that they are friends, first and foremost.

They clicked so quickly, Ruby was Oscar’s first friend in the group. They knew each other for less than a week and trusted each other with their biggest fears and grievances. They worry over the other's safety, Ruby cares about Oscar's individuality and they care about the other opinion and respect it. They are important for each other's arc. They are important for each other in a platonic level.

The fact that Oscar has an obvious crush on her makes it even better. He has a crush on her, some could even say that he loves her, but he doesn’t act on it because for him being Ruby’s friend is more important. I even think that Ruby could pursue someone else romantically and he would be alright with it, maybe upset and heartbroken, but supportive, because he respects her and her wants.

That's why if the show goes for the rosegarden route I hope the change in the dynamic comes from Ruby realizing her feelings and deciding she wants him.

#rwby #rosegarden

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oknovember · 2 years

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What your most hated RWBY ship says about you

(aka ripping off Minerva P Kelley for internet points)

Whiterose: You don’t hate the idea of these two getting together so much as you hate the way most of the fandom flanderizes them to make the ship fit anime tropes. If you see one more fanfic that features a tsunderrific Weiss verbally abusing a childish Ruby you are going to lose your shit.

Bumbleby: You get your RWBY fandom news exclusively from Reddit. You are the person still claiming to be harassed by aggressive Bees shippers in the year 2022. There’s a 93% likelihood you think Bumbleby is only canon because Miles and Kerry were bullied into it.

Arkos: You are a Jaune hater and proud of it, and anything involving him is guilty by association. You think V3′s writing did Pyrrha dirty and will go to your grave claiming that she was fridged.

Renora: You didn’t have strong feelings about this ship until V7-8, but you HATED the way it was handled in those two volumes. You think Ren is insufferable and that the show spent too long developing his character while not giving Nora any chance to grow on her own.

Blacksun: You think Sun is creepy, immature, stupid, or all three, and hate that the fandom portrays him as a fun-loving golden retriever himbo when he’s clearly a stalker douchebag who can’t take a hint.

Rosegarden: You feel like the only one who remembers that there’s an immortal old man riding shotgun in Oscar’s head at all times. You see the ship gaining in popularity and the woobified Oscar portrayals popping up everywhere and you just want to scream.

White Knight: You’re also a committed Jaune hater, and you have no interest in changing your opinion of him regardless of what happens in the show. It’s nearly guaranteed that you headcanon Weiss as a lesbian.

Monochrome: You thought the show was WAY too quick to move past Weiss’s racism in Volume 1 and still haven’t really gotten over it. Alternatively, you think the whole “catgirl racism” plotline is stupid and don’t understand why people try to fit these two into some kind of Romeo and Juliet dynamic. Either way, you have Opinions about the White Fang.

Lancaster: You have no idea why heterosexuals have to take every wholesome, platonic male-female friendship and turn it into some kind of romance subplot. Ruby and Jaune are friends and that is all. Also, you think Ruby is a lesbian.

Nuts and Dolts: You don’t actually hate this ship, because it’s nearly impossible to hate. What you do hate is the way CRWBY handled nearly everything involving Penny and her character arc. Rooster Teeth is on your shit list.

EDIT 1/28/2023: updated to add a better answer for Monochrome

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evedity · 9 months

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So... As Rose Garden week wraps up and as people are talking about whiterose. I generally have a question for the fan base.

Why do people ship Rose Garden/ Whiterose?

And I'm open for discussion. I'm not one of those anti Bumbleby people who are so firm on it being.. whatever. (Duh cause I love bmblb but that's not the point). All I ask is please be civil.

1. WhiteRose

I don't ship whiterose cause I don't see any chemistry. Blake and Yang have a specific dynamic that I don't see really between Weiss and Ruby. Ruby jokes around but Weiss is either a tsudere (which is possible) or she's just not into Ruby in that way. Even with Ruby in vol 9 guiding Weiss away from the chaos that moment didn't spike any.. romantic. I think Weiss and Ruby are very close but I don't think it goes past anything other than platonic. But I'm open to discussion about it. I could be missing a few things.

2. RoseGarden

I don't hate RoseGarden. I think it's cute and has the ability to become more likely Canon than WhiteRose. The thing that gets me is probably something others don't think about is ethics. The series has pointed out that Oscar and Ozpins souls are going to merge. So if Ruby dates Oscar, then is she slightly dating an old teacher?? Unless Ozpin somehow fades as Salem is killed or something, then I don't see this ship working. I do like their dynamic, and Oscar seems to have a crush on Ruby, but unless the circumstances are right, I don't think it could work. Wouldn't Ozpin be an involuntary 3rd wheel? That's my issue with it. Again I'm open to discussion on it.

#whiterose #ruby rose #rosegarden #rwby vol 9 #rwby spoilers #rwby

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hyperfixation-hideout · 1 year

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Note: the poly options can be any combo; not all polycules involve everyone with everyone else (if you pick one I'm curious which combos you do/don't like 👀)

Gonna make one for platonic Oscar ships too because no one can stop me

#quinpost #oscar pine #rosegarden #brighteyes #team powr #data farms #snowpines #steampunk snowgarden #poly powr #rwby ship poll #queue t 3.14

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fayraje · 8 months

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A belated realization

When I say I ship rosegarden or anything really, I just mean I want their interactions to be significant. I don’t understand romance on a fundamental level. Romance is just some mystery ingredient that usually ends up overpowering everything else, because people both hone in on it and use it too much. Crushes are easier to understand - excitement + anxiety about and around a person and in some cases being kind of addicted to them - but I don’t understand dating. How are relationships past the honeymoon stage different from best friends who live together. To me there are committed relationships and non committed relationships( a partnership platonic or otherwise). What that entails is up to the people in it.

So i think that Oscar maybe has a crush on ruby, or something like that. Ruby thinks Oscar is a good friend - and no just friends bullshit - but doesn’t have a crush on him. She does like, care for, respect and trust him. Their relationship is super wholesome and they have excellent communication. In my head they’re living together in the future along with the rest of rwyjnr, cause I don’t like when found families seperate.

#arospec #rwby rosegarden #shipping

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hamliet · 1 year

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Hello Kate! I was wondering, do the 2 people on alchemical stories have to always be romantic? Can they be siblings? Or perhaps enemies? Do they have to always combine to make a philosophers stone? If for example, the woman killed the man, would it make sense or be a tragic ending to the story?

Hello!

Nope! It's just the most common, I think. Harry and Hermione are platonic, for example! While Ginny is also White (that's literally the meaning of her name), Hermione is the mercurial, mind, white symbol in the story in contrast to Harry's red, heart, etc. Frodo (heart) and Sam(wise) are also platonic! In RWBY, while I do think Rosegarden and White Knight will happen and both pairs are respectively opposite, it's also not a coincidence that Ruby and Weiss are partners; I do think they are alchemical partners too. Sibling examples also exist.

This post gives a lot of different examples for more!

#ask hamliet #alchemy #chemical wedding

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shortkingvi · 2 years

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My hot take is that straight ships are treated like a disease in the Fandom and it's not okay. Obviously, there are homophobes who hate on gay ships because they're fucking A Class Assholes but an enormous plurality of the Fandom is in the LGBTQ+ community and the utter vitriol that any "straight" ships are treated like trash, immediately dismissing it as inherently bad compared to any gay ship.

Not only is this bi erasure at its finest, ignoring any possibility that these characters may be bi/pan/omni etc. but the level of harassment anyone gets who ships a "straight" ship over a gay ship that has one of the same characters (rosegarden; blacksun; whiteknight) not to mention the absolute level of hypocrisy and blatant double standards.

Snowpines/rich farmers (Oscar x Whitley), nuts and dolts, whiterose, & ladybug are praised while rosegarden is absolutely shit on, despite the same problems that people call rosegarden problematic for, Ozpin being in Oscar's head, a so-called maturity gap, and a two-year age gap, respectively.

And then any time two characters of the same gender are remotely affectionate or emotional with each other, it's instantly deemed a ship, and the moment it may not happen, it's called queerbaiting, despite the fact that platonic intimacy exists, platonic relationships are just as important as romantic ones, and that they are completely ignoring what queerbaiting actually is.

i’m a heterophobe leave me alone

#i’m happy for u #or sorry that happened #asks #anon

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pending125 · 6 days

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hi there! im a reader of your RWBY fic taking place post-volume 9 and im genuinely curious - do you like Ruby and Oscar’s relationship as a platonic or romantic one?

(personally i dont ship it but i wanted to know your thoughts on this)

Personally, I like a lot of Ruby ship parings and enjoy reading fics about them. Rosegarden is one of my favourite ones (Whiterose too) and I’ve read some really good fics about them. That being said, I don’t actually ship them. In fact, I don’t actually ship Ruby with anyone. I much prefer her platonic relationships with others than romantic ones. With Oscar, there’s a kind of understanding he has of her that no one else seems to have. Due to their age and the fact that they’ve both been thrust into the spotlight having to bear larger responsibilities than the rest. Oscar being Ozma’s next reincarnation and acquiring his wisdom, whilst Ruby is a silver-eyed warrior, whom everyone naturally started to defer too.

Went off on a bit of a tangent, but I hope you’re satisfied with my answer :)

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goldenrose-rwby · 3 years

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Oscar: So yeah that was my mom favorites story.

Ruby: Cool. Wait I think this was the first time you ever talked to me about your parents. We know each other for so long, and you never talk about them. I thought you didn't have any.

Oscar: Of course I had parents. Everyone does. Where did you think I came from?

Ruby looking away in embarrassment.

Oscar: Wait. where did you think I came from?!

Ruby: ...

Oscar: Ruby.

Ruby: ...

Oscar: Ruby please.

Ruby: Fine. The cabbage patch.

Oscar: Seriously! Why!

Ruby: When I was little Yang told me that is where babies came from, And you did grew up on a farm. So it made sense.

Oscar with his head in his hands laughing uncontrollably.

#rwby ruby rose #Oscar Pine #platonic rosegarden #rwby rosegarden #rwby #rwby rosebuds #my post #text #gngrbrd

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passedpresencefuture · 3 years

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Oscar: *makes a bad pun for the first time*

Jaune (tearfully): so proud, my son

Nora: ayyy

Ren: *rolls his eyes a bit but in a caring way*

Weiss: how dare you

Blake: *nods in silent approval*

Yang (tearfully): so proud *mentally plans a better pun*

Ruby: *actually laughing at the bad pun*

#this is stupid and I’m sorry #rwby thoughts #fluff #rwby fluff #rwby friendships #rwby headcanons #rwby #Oscar pine #ruby rose #Jaune arc #lie ren #Nora Valkyrie #Blake belladonna #Yang Xiao long #weiss schnee #platonic rosegarden #or romantic idk it can be interpreted both ways

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ma-lemons · 5 years

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chocolate 🍫

Ruby loved the taste of chocolate. It was rich in flavor and she could even taste it on her lips hours after she had eaten it. It tasted like warm hugs. It tasted like bliss. Like happiness.

She was unaccustomed to making things by herself, as her dad or her sister always did the cooking. Ruby was very, very bad at cooking. But she was craving chocolate chip cookies and no one was around to bake them.

No one, except, Oscar. Oscar had been distant these days, and Ruby was often afraid that he was planning to run away again. He liked to hide in his room and told Ruby often that he wasn’t hungry. Ruby would feel bad and sneak him one or two cookies Yang had made underneath his door. When she had peeked undneath the door the next morning, she was alarmed when she spotted the cookies right where she had left them.

She wanted to talk to the boy. She really did. She didn’t have anyone to talk to these days. Her team and JNR still treated her like a kid even though she was almost an adult. They were all barely adults, yet liked to treat Ruby like a baby. Despite them supposedly realizing that Ruby was just as capable as them, in the end, she was still a kid. The only person they babied more than Ruby was Oscar.

Ruby pitied the farm boy and only wished for him to heal from whatever was ailing him. Today, she decided. Today, she would get Oscar to talk.

She opened up Nora’s “secret” snack cabinet and took a few pieces of chocolate from it. Nora wouldn’t mind, as long as Ruby bought her more later. Ruby pocketed it and carefully headed upstairs. She stopped at the boy’s door and gave it a knock.

There was no reply.

“Oscar? Oscar, it’s me Ruby.”

Ruby heard a creak. And then silence. She knocked again, harder. “Oscar, it’s me. Open up!”

The door never opened. Ruby was getting impatient, now. She was worried Oscar was hurt. She had tried giving him space, but she was concerned that something was going on behind those doors.

“Oscar! Oscar!”

There was once again no reply. Ruby’s stomach was bubbling and something was telling her that Oscar was in big trouble. She backed up, and prepared herself, before using her speed semblance to barrel into the door. It didn’t hurt as much as she though it would, and the white door splintered to many pieces across the carpet. Yikes. Hopefully the farm boy wasn’t in the way of the splinters.

Ruby stopped herself and took in the sight in front of her. Wooden pieces lay around the room. It smelled of rotten food and she wondered if he still had leftovers from a few nights ago.

What really surprised her, however, was how Oscar was curled up on the ground, his face slick with sweat. He wore his green pajamas yet he looked as if he hadn’t slept in days. Dark circles were visible around his eyes. Ruby rushed to his side, wrapping her arms around his torso.

“Oscar, speak to me! What happened?” she asked panickedly. The boy was trembling, she could feel it. Ruby knew what to do in these situations. Well. Maybe she did. Usually she would recommend milk but it seemed that Oscar needed more than that. He needed a doctor. But how fast could she get there? Even with her semblance, she had no idea where a doctor could be, and she could only explode into petals ever so often. She rested Oscar’s head on the ground and stood up. “I’ll be back, I promise.”

She rushed downstairs, scrambling to the kitchen. She opened up cabinets and threw everything to the floor in hopes she could find some medicine. But there was nothing. She found a jar of honey and a lemon.

“Damn this,” she growled, frustrated. Taking a bowl, she squeezed the lemon into the bowl before spooning in some honey. She heard that lemon and honey were good for a sore throat. However, something told Ruby that Oscar had more than a sore throat. She mixed it together before grabbing a rag and soaking it in cool water. Oscar needed her. Back upstairs she went.

She reached him again, and he seemed even worse. He was unresponsive and his shaking wasn’t any better. She rested the cool rag on his forehead and tried to sit him up.

“Oscar... I’m going to feed you some honey. Is that okay?”

His head rolled to the side and she could only assume that was a yes. She took a spoonful of the mixture and shoved it into his mouth. It dribbled out. The thick mixture made its way down his chin and the huntress had to clean it up with the rag.

“Come on Oscar, I need you to swallow! Please!” she begged. Where was her sister when she needed her? Her uncle? Her friends? Maria? They all went shopping for groceries and ammo, and Ruby was left behind because Oscar had refused to respond when they asked him if he wanted to go. They would know what to do. They would know what to do because they were...

“Adults.”

Ruby was wrong. She was just a stupid kid who thought she could do anything. She was dumb and naïve and now her friend could die at any moment. Oscar could die and all she was doing was force-feeding him honey. If he didn’t get professional help, something might happen.

She left the bowl on the floor and stood up. She pulled Oscar by the arms and hauled him up before putting him on her back. He was a small kid, but he still weighed a lot on her back. She attempted to get downstairs and out the door before she got weary. She trudged down a dirt path, hoping she would get to a town square soon.

Evenatually, she had to resort to dragging Oscar because he was getting too heavy. He started moaning and she wasn’t sure if he was getting warmer, or she was. It was worse dragging him, because he started to moan more, probably because he was in pain.

“Ruby... help me... it hurts Ruby... it hurts,” he groaned. His breaths were and it become difficult for Ruby to carry him. She carefully dropped him on the autumn leaves and sat down next to him.

“Ruby, Ruby... Ruby...” the boy moaned. Ruby was getting panicked and was sure that she needed Yang. Now. She whipped out her scroll and dialed Yang. Once. Twice. Three times. After the third time, she started to cry. Small tears fell down her cheeks, staining them until her whole face was wet. She cradled the boy’s head in her arms and whispered a prayer to the gods that he would be okay.

“Please, please be okay,” she whispered, pushing a little of his hair back. His forehead was slick with sweat, which made Ruby wipe it with her sleeve. She wished in that moment that she was fast enough and smart enough to find a doctor.

“Oscar, I’m sorry,” she murmured.

Suddenly, a guitar riff played. Ruby quickly snatched the scroll up and pressed answer.

“Hello?” she asked, heart in her chest. She didn’t even know who had called her.

“Rubes?” Yang asked.

Ruby’s tears began to fall again. A smile graced her face as she spilled out what had happened.

“Yang, please hurry. I don’t know how long Oscar has.”

After she had hung up she pulled Oscar up and wrapped her arms around his body. She was so grateful her sister had picked up. Her heart felt relieved. He was going to be okay.

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Hospitals were always noisy. Sounds from crying babies, alarms, screaming people. Ruby didn’t quite like it. She had only been in a hospital once in her life, and that’s when Qrow had alcohol poisoning and the nearest place was some fancy hospital.

Ruby was waiting outside with Maria, Qrow, Yang, Blake, Weiss, Jaune, Nora and Ren. Nora was clearly panicked, as she saw Oscar as family. Ren was comforting her, and Jaune was silent and stoic. He refused to talk to anyone, and Ruby couldn’t bring herself to ask him why.

She was full of jitters and wanted nothing but to be next to Oscar, making sure he was okay. The doctor had said earlier he was in stable condition, but she wanted to see for herself. So far, Qrow was the only one who was allowed to see him.

Her foot tapped nervously on the linoleum floor and her sister was resting her hand on hers, trying to ease her worries.

“He’ll be okay, Ruby. You did nothing wrong. You couldn’t have used your Semblance for a long time. You didn’t even know where to go. It’s not your fault,” Yang murmured to her.

That’s the problem. I didn’t know where to go. But you did. But Ruby dared not share that with her sister. As much as she liked to rely on others... she always felt like she wasn’t doing enough, that she could be better. She always felt so out of place, even where she felt most comfortable, on the battlefield. Sure, she would swing Crescent Rose with vigor, and fight with all her best, but she couldn’t help but feel that she could have done more for them. When she saw her teammates down or when she saw Qrow getting struck by Tyrian, she wished she had done something beforehand.

“—go now!” her uncle’s voice echoed. Ruby shook herself out of her thoughts and reached Qrow’s eyes.

“Sorry.”

“It’s okay, kiddo, I know you’re a bit tired. You can go see him now.”

Not more than a second later, Ruby was in the room, seated at Oscar’s side. He was attached to this thing—what they called an IV, and he wore a blue hospital gown. He looked better, the color returning to his face.

“Oscar!” she cried out in glee. She was so glad he was okay. “I’m so, so sorry—“

“Ruby, don’t worry about it. It wasn’t your fault. I should’ve been eating. I... Isaw you pass cookies and meals to me. I would take them and look at them and then I just put them away.”

Ruby knew Jaune moved out of the room he shared with Oscar and resided on the couch out of anger.

“Why?”

Oscar took a deep breath. “Maybe its best if Oz explains.” A green light engulfed his body.

“Professor?” Ruby asked timidly.

“Yes, Ruby. I... Oscar’s having a hard time.”

“What?”

The professor—Oscar sighed. “You know eventually every host I take merges their soul with mine? Well, Oscar has been putting up quite a fight. That’s why he’s lost his appetite and is so weak. He’s trying to keep control of his body.” The professor sounded so ashamed when he admitted that. Ruby, however, was in shock. Poor Oscar was suffering because he wanted to have control of his own body. And Ozpin wouldn’t let him.

But what could Ruby do? They needed to finish this mission, and they needed Ozpin, whether they wanted him or not. They also needed Oscar. She couldn’t tell Ozpin to let Oscar keep his body because this whole soul thing was out of his control. Oscar would keep fighting, she knew he would, until his very last breath....

“Damn the gods,” Ruby cursed, tears brimming in her eyes. She was so frustrated, so tired of losing. She just wanted to win, to win at something.

She just wanted to be strong enough to keep everyone she cared about safe.

“I-I’m sorry, Miss Rose...” Ozpin murmured. She could hear hints of Oscar’s voice which meant Oscar was trying to regain control again. Ozpin couldn’t even control Oscar for long anymore. How long did the boy have until he was completely gone?

“Ruby?” Oscar asked. Ruby choked back a sob, running her hand through her hair. She stood up and reached down for Oscar, giving him the best hug she could without injuring him.

“Oscar, I’m so sorry you have to go through this.”

Silence. The two stayed in their hug for a while until Ruby heard Oscar’s stomach growl. It was a furious and hollow sound and it made her giggled. She let go of him and wiped her tears. “You want me to call a nurse for you?”

He shook his head. “I had this gross porridge this morning. The doctor said I just need to eat some liquid stuff until I can handle solid stuff. I’m really craving chocolate right now, for some strange reason.” He laughed, a refreshing and comforying sound.

Chocolate?

“Oh yeah!” She reached into her pocket and held out the crumpled chocolate. It was a bit soft, and probably not safe to eat, but the two didn’t care. Ruby watched as Oscar eagerly bit into his piece before biting into hers.

She finished hers and smiled a little at the sight of Oscar enjoying his chocolate.

“Is there something on my face?” he asked, catching her smile. Ruby shook her head and laughed. “No, no. I’m just glad to see you eating. I was really worried about you Oscar. I felt so horrible when I couldn’t get help for you.” She heard her own voice breaking again.

“Ruby, don’t cry. I’m... I’m alright. I’m going to keep fighting. I do want to save the world... but I want my body back in the end. I won’t let myself be another one of Oz’s hosts.” He took her hands in his and looked into her eyes. “That’s a promise.”

Oscar nodded, affirming his stance. Last time he was so weak that he couldn’t even eat.

“I do realize Oz needs my body, so I’m more than willing to share so I don’t end up here again. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to let him take over. I’ll do what needs to be done, if that means we win in the end.”

Ruby nodded. “You’re right. You’ll be the last of these hosts. Somehow, we’re gonna defeat Salem, and everything is going to be okay.”

Ruby sat back, feeling a sense of okayness. They were going to be fine.

“And Ruby?”

“Hm?”

“You’re one of the greatest people I’ve ever met. Don’t put so much pressure on yourself when you got such an amazing family, always watching your back. Don’t feel like you have to do everything yourself. You did what you can, which is more than a lot of people can say. You’re amazing, Ruby.”

Amazing.

“Thanks, Oscar. You’re pretty swell yourself.”

They had a little time to themselves until María and Nora insisted on seeing the boy. Ruby settled back with a huge grin on her face as the two fawned over him.

Ruby felt a hand on her shoulder and looked up to see Yang by her side, Blake and Weiss coming after her.

“You did good, Ruby. That’s the happiest I’ve seen him in days.”

“You really think I did enough?” Ruby asked. Weiss rolled her eyes. “You dolt, stop trying to compare yourself to others. You’re... just good as yourself.” A blush spread on Weiss’ face.

“That’s pretty sweet of you to say Ice Queen,” Yang laughed. Blake wrapped Ruby in a hug, and even Jaune and Ren got in it too.

“How are you going to forget me? I’m also concerned about the kid,” Uncle Qrow’s gruff voice exclaimed.

“Aww, Uncle Qrow!” Ruby attacked her uncle in a tight hug. She was a bit surprised when he hugged her back.

She met Oscar’s eyes after releasing herself from her hugs and he gave her a little smile, one that held a promise.

A while before everyone had to leave, Ruby stopped to say goodbye to Oscar.

“Hey, Ruby. Do you happen to have any more of that chocolate?” the young boy asked.

“Uh, no. I stole these from Nora.”

Oscar pouted, and Ruby giggled in response.

“Don’t worry, I’m quick. I’ll be able to get you some more when you come home. I’ll see you tomorrow, okay?”

“Bye.”

When Ruby shut the door, she followed Yang to the lobby where they were going to go back to their cabin. Her uncle was going to stay with Oscar for the night. As she left the hospital grounds, she took the final piece of chocolate and shoved it in her mouth before anyone could look at her. Of course she wanted to give some to Oscar, but she had realized that she was craving something sweet (even though she had just eaten chocolate). She deserved this. Something small for doing her best.

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What the heck was this? This was supposed to be RoseGarden/dealing with Oscar’s possible anxiety but it turned into them eating chocolate and staring at each other for minutes on end instead. ??? alright then

#rosegarden #platonic rosegarden #i kinda like platonic rosegarden but romantic rosegarden appeals to me more #ruby rose #oscar pine #rwby #roscar #rosepine #but this story is platonic #um #so #it took me a while to write this and i am NOT impressed #with how it turned out #ugh i dont like it anymore

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