#rwby branwen twins

[hadesisqueer]

RWBY as Tweets: Canon Bees edition (part 2)

#rwby #rwby spoilers #rwby volume 9 #rwby memes #rwby textposts #incorrect rwby quotes #incorrect quotes #yang xiao long #blake belladonna #bumbleby #winter schnee #sun wukong #qrow branwen #raven branwen #branwen twins #taiyang xiao long #kali belladonna #ghira belladonna #neptune vasilias #nora valkyrie #marrow amin #ilia amitola

[wondertrails]

Baby birbs

#rwby #qrow branwen #raven branwen #team strq #branwen twins #strq #rwby strq #my art

[cyan-orange-studio]

"A Spring Day"! The exclusive illustration of September for our Patrons! Illustration part also of my fancomic @strqchronicles https://www.patreon.com/cyanorangestudio

#RWBY #Raven Branwen #Qrow Branwen #Branwen Twins #STRQ

[hiraganasakura]

I'm rewatching RWBY and I just finished V3 and like. I'm having so many thoughts about Ruby

She was an eager student, yearning to follow in her mother's footsteps and help others, who got accepted into Beacon Academy two years early. But she felt worried that she'd be singled out; she wants to be normal among her peers, not anything special. "I just want to be a normal girl with normal knees," she says to Yang.

Then she's thrown into the position of leadership despite her young age and relative inexperience, and while she takes it in stride she's incredibly hard on herself in the process. "We need to put our teammates first, and ourselves second," she says to Jaune.

And just when she grows comfortable in her skills and her position as team leader, everything falls apart. Beacon falls. Penny and Pyrrha die horrifically right before her eyes and she's left behind to blame herself. Yang loses her arm — and a part of herself. Weiss is snatched away by her father, Blake runs away. Ozpin has vanished, his lieutenants left to pick up the pieces of the broken, ruined Vale. Most of the ppl that Ruby has come to count on, just... gone. And then immediately after she wakes up from all that, Qrow dumps on her that, congratulations kid, you have silver eyes which basically means you're destined to save the world, have fun! "Then what can I do? If I'm so special, I can help, right?" she says to Qrow.

It's no wonder she got such a martyr complex, no wonder she threw herself so heavily into the identity of a hero, no wonder she fell to pieces and grew consumed by guilt and grief and self-loathing later in the show. She just wanted to go to school and learn how to protect ppl. And then she couldn't even protect the ppl who mattered most to her, not out of some failing on her own part, but bcus she is a child, a child with way too much on her shoulders. And it's just gotten worse. Now she's expected to save the whole world, all bcus she inherited her mother's eyes.

The weight of the entire world upon the shoulders of a grieving teen girl.

How would that not be too much for anyone to bear?

#original post #i'm thoroughly enjoying my rwby rewatch so far!! #as i get further i'm probably gonna make more analysis posts like this #i'm already having a lot of thoughts on penny and ironwood but i'm gonna wait to talk about that until after v8 #and you should probably expect at least one on the branwen twins lol #anyway. hi i'm thinking rly hard about ruby #i can empathize a lot with her struggles so like. yeah i'm having lots of thoughts lol #i wanna pay for her therapy #rwby #ruby rose

[strqyr]

my fave branwen things:

raven has red eyes and lightish red aura & qrow has lightish red eyes and red aura

hero / monster dichotomy

"the branwen twins have always been... interesting, to say the least." <- thank you oobleck for the food

their weapons are named harbinger & omen, like who came up with the name first and who followed along or was it a team effort? i need answers.

what is up with their semblances, they're so in sync in the angstiest way possible that i'm just AUGH

speaking of angst: their backstory is painful but also super interesting to explore. would like to see it one day :')

they really are birds

#rwby #raven branwen #qrow branwen #branwen twins #there's sure to be more but i forget

[pilot-boi]

Do yang and jaune color swap next they will look like like twi s seperated at birth for so e reason

I mean they already look like twins separated at birth

Now that’s a good AU actually. Blonde kid twins separated at birth.

Yang is left with Tai, and Raven keeps Jaune. Tai does know about the twins and argues with Raven about it, but in the end the blondes are separated. Her thinking is that one kid will be easier to handle, and at least her SON won’t become a Maiden and get dragged into Ozpin’s bullshit

Unfortunately, she realizes very quickly that actually she doesn’t want EITHER kid, and now she’s stuck with this baby. And she can’t just dump Jaune on Tai, because that would involve admitting she was wrong

Branwen tribe, with baby in tow, raid a village (Arc family village 👀) and the Grimm are summoned by the panic. Mama and Papa Arc go to defend the town and find a wailing baby abandoned in the rubble “accidentally”

The strong survive and the weak don’t. A twisted philosophy, and one that Raven is hiding behind when she abandons her son

Jaune is rapidly adopted into the Arc clan, and he’s Raven’s son in only blood, raised by this family of golden retrievers. He and Yang don’t know about each other until Beacon, because Tai never tells Yang (grief) and the Arcs don’t know

Queue Parent Trap style twin discoveries when the two finally meet at Beacon

#rwby #jaune arc #yang xiao long #raven branwen #taiyang xiao long #twins au #mine #asks #anonymous

[sracha]

does anyone know where i can buy these amiibo cards

#rwby #strq #summer rose #qrow branwen #taiyang xiao long #raven branwen #it is wednesday or as i like to call it. woowoo summer saturday!!! #ive had these for a while and just remembered to update summer's outfit lol #summer's bday is the 'are you stupid' incedent but it worked so well with what i already had in mind for her i just kept it. #i gave up with tai's birthday he should probably be a leo. idc #summer and her three stooges (water signs) #anyways we haveeee #uchi summer. lazy tai. cranky twins or one of them can be smug idk #summer with the best decorated house. also cuts down all your trees <3 no one minds #tai very friendly beach comber loves to show you his sand dollars and all his rows of flowers that summer helps him with :(((( #raven that wont ever move out of a tent unless summer is on the same island so she can yell at her for it (the tent is ugly) #btw wolves and ravens irl have a hunting relationship..you could say they are..partners..blinks really loudly #okay i goinggg i going

[brokentrafficknight]

Jaune x Lil Miss Malachite for more MILF ships

I don't have one of her sadly BUT have some other Malachites and a different MILF criminal to substitute

#rwby #jaune arc #raven branwen #knightflight #jaune x raven #malachite twins #melanie malachite #miltiades malachite #jaune x malachite twins

[sugarspikesart]

I tried SO HARD to make them look like twins

Qrow is taller tho it seems? Man I really gotta work on proportions

#rwby #rwby fanart #jet set radio #rwby au #jsr #rwby x jsr #qrow branwen #raven branwen #branwen twins #they're birds #raven also has her emblem tattooed #in her back specifically #qrow tattooed her #they're in good terms in this au #siblings getting along #i love them

[lovingdabeessss]

My take on ✨Them✨

Yeah

#rwby #raven branwen #qrow branwen #STRQ #big birds #bird twins #strq sibs

[razorblade180]

Twin Snowflakes Master Post

Here it is! Years of chaos in one spot! Technically this isn’t all the posts but everything I think is really important, worth mentioning, or pretty helpful. They are in chronological order! I want to give the hugest thank you to @danurso for already having a file with all the story chapter links for me to grab! I wouldn’t have made this post any time soon without them.

I would like to add that I started writing this near the end of Volume 6 and had the vast majority of the structure all done as V7 Ep1 aired. In other words, certain concepts and people are around before canon said “Haha, screw you.” One last thing, in the actual chapters, the writing style changes further in. Like I said, I’ve been writing this for 4 years.

synopsis

welcome to Remnant after Salem’s defeat and our heroes have moved forward in their lives! Take a look into an au focusing on Jaune and Weiss’s kids, alongside children of other friends, enemies, and rivals alike as they face a new terrifying force while handling the struggles of growing up alongside some of Remant’s greatest Heroes.

The lore/context

Not So Kept Secret

You’re Enough

New Norm

Equal Shares

Namesake

New Look

Well?

Say Goodbye

Cold Veins and Promises

Dog Days and Resolutions

Freezing Point

Dynamics in a nutshell

Division

Sweet Sadness

Red Carpet

Say So

Not Enough

Twin Snowflakes

0 - Prologue

1 - Cold Training

2 - Warming Up

3- Checkup

4- Checkup pt2

5- Support

6- A Slow Morning

7- People

8- It’s Tricky

9- Phased

10- Expedited Exam pt1

11- Expedited Exam pt2

12- A Guest

13- A Guest pt2

14- Getting Ready

15- Foreign Princess

16- Royal Court

17- Alone Time

18- A Better Day

19- Skill, Sickness, and Skirts

20- Choice Words

21- Ice Breaker

22- Ground Zero

23- Struggling

24- Date Night

25- Date Night pt2

26/1- Preparation

26/2- Preparation (second half)

27- Hill Climbing

28- Connections

29- Coward

30- Little Moments

31- Final Days

32- Show Time

33- Show Stealers

34- Full Swing

35- Major Upset

36- Morale

37- Cunning Plays

38- Knights Battle

39- Stepping Up

40- Growing Pains

41- Pieces at Play

42- Then the World Stood Still

43- Final Warmth

44- Miracles and Memories

45- A Book by its Cover

46- Weathering the Storm

47- Who Are You?

48- Winter Wonderland

49- Adjustment

50- Face Off!

51- You vs Us

52- Final Encore

Finale- A New Tune

Post story- Recovery

#rwby twin snowflakes #rwby #rwby au #jaune arc #ruby rose #weiss schnee #lie ren #yang xiao long #nora valkyrie #blake belladonna #rwby whiteknight #penny polendina #oscar pine #qrow branwen #winter schnee #whitley schnee #nicholas schnee #summer schnee #val valkyrie #veronica belladonna #sparrow branwen #eliza marigold #razor writes #my ocs #rwbabies #rwby ships

[hadesisqueer]

Thinking about Qrow and Robyn's scenes in volume 8 and how in the v8 commentary Robyn was described as being sort of like a replacement sister to him, and like. Yeah she was a better sister to him in two days that Raven's been in the last 19 years at least lmao. The fact that she is named after a bird too just makes it funnier.

#rwby #qrow branwen #robyn hill #raven branwen #branwen twins #rwby memes

[solokabuto]

Imagine if during their mission summer had successfully managed to convince raven to come home WITH her once it was done. But summer ends up dead (possibly because of something raven did, or rather failed to do like always) and raven is left alone with her failure and another broken promise because what’s the use of returning home if not with her?

#summer rose #raven branwen #rwby #misc thoughts #rosebird #something something branwen twins and the lingering stench of failure that follows them #I wonder what their parents were like #anyways raven you can’t just halfass your entire life just because everything you commit to fully turns to shit #you’ve committed to so few things that atp it was prolly a fluke

[juanarc-thethird]

Don't ask why, but who would you choose?

A: Neo

B: Vernal

C: The Malachite Twins

D: Emerald

Please put your answers in the comments, thanks.

#rwby #rwby emerald #rwby emerald sustrai #rwby vernal #rwby vernal branwen #rwby neo #rwby neopolitan #rwby malachite twins #rwby miltia malachite #rwby melanie malachite

[hiraganasakura]

Hi so me being me I've decided to hyperanalyze the conversation Qrow and Raven had in Higanbana practically line by line bcus I have Many Thoughts and this is the best way I can think of to get them all out. If you can't tell I'm absolutely obsessed with these two. Btw.

Thanks to the RWBY wiki for providing transcripts for every episode, otherwise I definitely would have missed smth despite having just watched this scene recently lol

I put it under the read more for easier scrolling due to how long this post got!

I immediately noticed smth in the very first lines of the interaction:

Raven: "Hello, brother." Qrow: "...Raven."

You'll notice throughout the whole conversation that Raven never calls Qrow by his name, only condescendingly referring to him as "brother" this one time and never calling him anything else. Meanwhile, Qrow directly refers to Raven a total of three times throughout the conversation, and only one doesn't call Raven by her name (which we'll get to shortly)

On the other hand, Qrow doesn't bother with even so much as a greeting beyond simply stating Raven's name

It's different ways of communicating their distance. While Raven holds her relationship with Qrow over his head — never once, even outside of this scene, does she call him "brother" with affection iirc, only derision and condescension — Qrow doesn't seem to rly know how to greet her. He hesitates before saying her name and approaching her, as if trying to assess the situation before acting

Qrow: "So, what do you want?" Raven: "A girl can't just catch up with her family?" Qrow: "She can, but you're not. Now how 'bout we get on with it? Unless you plan on keeping these [drinks] comin'."

Again, Raven seems to bring up her familial ties with Qrow as a tactic to get him to do what she wants — in this case, stick around to talk to her despite him not seeming to rly want to. Frankly, it feels manipulative. We're gonna put a pin in this for now and come back to it in just a moment

Additionally, Qrow already knows that Raven's not just here for a friendly chat between two siblings, and sees right thru her facade that it is. Raven is here bcus she wants smth from him. But interestingly, it is Raven in V5 that says, in an almost frustrated/disappointed tone, "Family. Only coming around when they need something." There's another pin; keep both in mind

Raven: "Does she have it?" Qrow: "...Did you know Yang lost her arm?" Raven: "That's not—" Qrow: "Rhetorical question, I know you know. It's just obnoxious that you'd bring up family and then carry on like your own daughter doesn't exist." Raven: "I saved her." Qrow: "Once. Because that was your rule, right? Real 'Mom of the Year' material, sis."

Qrow dodges Raven's question about the Relic and instead brings up her hypocrisy in how she treats family. And it's a good point. Here she is lording her siblingship with Qrow over his head while simultaneously defending and upholding her rule that she is only obligated to help her own daughter a single time. Another pinpoint on our little conspiracy board

Also, here's the one time in this conversation Qrow refers to Raven as "sis". Like Raven's use of "brother", Qrow's use of "sis" is very pointed and with intent. But it's not to manipulate Raven, it's a snarky jab meant to rly hammer home Qrow's point

Raven: "I told you Beacon would fall, and it did. I told you Ozpin would fail, and he has. Now you tell me. Does. Salem. Have it?" Qrow: "I thought you weren't interested in all of that." Raven: "I just want to know what we are up against." Qrow: "And which 'we' are you referring to?"

A few things of note here. At some point in the past, Raven expressed an outright disinterest in Ozpin's inner circle, at least to Qrow. Qrow also feels excluded in the "we" Raven mentions being against Salem. To me, there seems to be a distinct possibility here that it wasn't that Raven felt personally disinterested in Ozpin's operations, but that she somehow felt excluded and feigned a lack of interest in order to protect herself. An idea that is further supported in my eyes by the following dialogue:

Qrow: "You should come back, Raven. The only way we'd beat her is by working together. All of us." Raven: "You're the one who left. The tribe raised us, and you turned your back on them." Qrow: "They were killers and thieves." Raven: "They were your family." Qrow: "You have a very skewed perception of that word."

And there it is. Raven's problem is laid out here for us, loud and clear: She feels like she was the one abandoned, not the one running away. She says it outright! "You're the one who left." To her, Qrow is the traitor, the one who left their family behind. If you ask Qrow (or, for that matter, Tai, Yang, and even Summer based on the scene in V9), it's the opposite

Bcus they have different definitions of family

Another thing to pin (I promise this will all become clear soon)

Raven: "I lead our people now. And as leader, I will do everything in my power to ensure our survival." Qrow: "I saw. The people of Shion saw, too." Raven: "The weak die. The strong live. Those are the rules." Qrow: "Well, you've certainly got someone strong on your side. I've seen the damage." Raven: "We couldn't have known the Grimm would set in as quickly as they did." Qrow: "I'm not talking about the Grimm. And I'm not talking about you, either."

Notice Raven's shift from "the tribe" to "our people". More of that guilt tripping!

Additionally, Raven is *obsessed* with rules. One save. The weak die, the strong live. Raven lives and breathes rules, even seemingly arbitrary ones. Guess what this is? Another pin!

Raven: "If you don't know where the Relic is, then we have nothing left to talk about." Qrow: "I don't know where the Spring Maiden is, either, but if you do, I need you to tell me." Raven: "And why would I do that?" Qrow: "Because without her, we're all going to die." Raven: "...And which 'we' are you referring to?"

Qrow's "either" here implies that he also doesn't know where the Crown of Choice is, which is... interesting. He's one of Ozpin's closest lieutenants, and is in the dark on where Beacon's Relic is? Wherever it is, it is such a closely kept secret that even Ozpin's best spy doesn't know where it is (maybe so that in the event Qrow gets captured by Salem he can't be forced into giving her the information?)

Meanwhile, Raven's "And why would I [tell you]?" implies that she does know who the Spring Maiden is (obviously. Raven's the Spring Maiden lol) but refuses to disclose to Qrow

A lantern sputters out after Qrow says "Without [Spring] we're all going to die." Now, I genuinely can't remember if this is headcanon or canon, but iirc Misfortune seems to act up when Qrow's upset. He's clearly tired of this little game of dancing around topics that Raven's been playing with him

And once again, Raven indicates a feeling of exclusion from Qrow's life in the iconic final line. She gets the final word in before leaving

We've finally reached the end of the conversation. Now what does all of this tell us?

And here is where all of those pins I wrote down are relevant. As I mentioned, the twins view family very differently

Qrow's view is pretty obvious: he views family as the ppl in his life who matter most to him. Unlike Raven, he does not view the tribe as family despite the fact that they raised him, disgustedly referring to them as "killers and thieves". It's implied that he was, in fact, neglected and/or likely abused by the Branwen tribe, saying in V6C4, "No one wanted me... I was cursed..." further explaining his distaste for them. Furthermore, despite not being related to Ruby by blood, they clearly consider one another family throughout the series, and he even seems closer to her than he seems to his niece who's actually blood related to him (I personally headcanon that he keeps more of a distance from Yang bcus she reminds him too much of Raven, who he feels abandoned and hurt by, but that's neither here nor there). Bloodlines and debts are secondary compared to loyalty, if they're considered at all. He is obviously furious that Raven only insists on saving Yang once and never directly interacting with her beyond that, despite Raven constantly guilting Qrow over abandoning his so-called "family" of the tribe. And yet. And yet. He still offers Raven a place back in his life, even if only to unite against Salem

Raven's view, to me, has been an enigma for a while. But after hyperanalyzing this conversation, after noting down all of those points of interest, I feel like I've finally cracked the code. Raven views family as an obligation, an exchange that always has an ulterior motive behind it. She seeks out Qrow only bcus she desires smth from him despite showing distaste when someone does the same to her; condescendingly calls Qrow "brother" more than his actual name and calls the tribe their "family" to try guilting him into doing what she wants; and feels fierce loyalty to the tribe but barely interacts with her daughter, only seeming to count one of the two as true family. She views the concept of family with cynicism and seems to feel an obligation to the tribe, as if she "owes" them for raising her

I think the two's perceptions of what defines family are all to do with the way the tribe treated both of them. This crosses a bit into headcanon territory, but as you can see by the above quotes and analysis, I rly don't think I'm just making it up entirely

As I already mentioned, I think it's implied that the Branwen tribe neglected/abused Qrow. In fact, we could probably blame their treatment of him for the deep self-loathing he has due to his "cursed" Semblance. But what about Raven?

Well, it's simple: I think she was abused, too, just in a different way. While Qrow was likely shown and told on a consistent basis that he was unwanted, unloved, undeserving of good things, Raven may have been shown and told she was wanted, loved, and deserving of good things... if she did what the tribe told her. If she repaid them for raising her and her brother, for being her "family". The way she uses her familial ties with Qrow as almost blackmail may be exactly the way the tribe treated her. Her obsession with following rules may stem from the fact that she had to follow the rules the tribe set for her in order to be accepted and deemed worth smth

As for her distance from Yang... honestly, I wonder if Raven is aware that Yang deserves better and keeps her distance as her way of doing that. When Summer confronts Raven in the V9 scene, Raven says, "...You're better at that life. Better than I was." She seems to have a fear and insecurity about being a good family member, a good mother, and maybe that's why she fled. Maybe she was scared of being like her abusers due to how she emulates them as a self-preservation tactic in so many other ways. Not entirely sure about this point tho

And I think too this is why the twins don't rly understand one another. They may have been unaware of the different ways in which the other was treated. Qrow, constantly unwanted and loathed, can't understand why Raven sticks around with the tribe; Raven, who obeyed the tribe and, in doing so, garnered enough of their favor to even eventually become leader, can't understand why Qrow can't just be "good", earn respect, and stay

This dissonance between the two experiences may also be completely intentional on the part of the tribe; abusers will often eliminate their targets' support systems in order to make them completely reliant on the abuser, so it's highly likely that the wedge was intentionally driven between the two siblings so that they could not find support in one another. This would also tie into why the twins seem to feel excluded from one another's lives and abandoned by one another: bcus they were made to feel that way by their common abusers, and did nothing to challenge these assumptions bcus they saw no reason to — and only seemed to keep proving one another right if they did

Which rly has some disturbing implications about how the Branwen tribe works. Like, do they just pick orphaned kids up off the street and abuse them into being perfect little bandits, molded to be of the greatest possible use and discarded if they're deemed worthless? Plus Qrow says his Semblance is how he got his name, which implies that the tribe also renames the kids they scoop up (possibly as a form of control or a way to make sure they can't be tracked down by any remaining family)? Plus there's the whole thing where Qrow and Raven were originally sent to Beacon to learn how to kill Huntsmen, which carries with it the implication that the Branwen tribe grooms literal orphan children into becoming stone-hearted murderers? What. The heck.

And if I'm right, if the Branwen tribe is that severely abusive, then like... wow, no wonder Qrow and Raven are Like That. They're both very deeply hurt people expressing it in different ways

I was considering adding their conversation at the Battle of Haven to this post, but I think that would be better as its own thing. Also I haven't gotten there on my rewatch yet so I may miss some details if I try to analyze it rn; it's better to wait overall methinks

But I have reached the point of my rewatch where we see Weiss and Whitley interact, and I think it would be very efficient to sum up what Qrow and Raven's relationship seems to be by using those siblings as a point of reference. Qrow = Weiss, actively trying to break free from and fight back against their abusers in different ways, while Raven = Whitley, continuing to do as their abusers want and have wanted as a method of self-preservation. Only, unlike Weiss and Whitley, Qrow and Raven have yet to come to a point where they can understand one another. I think that's a good way to briefly summarize the uh. Absolutely massive post this is.

In conclusion, I may have cracked the majority of the Branwen twins' pre-Beacon backstory purely by hyperanalyzing a single conversation. Oopsies

#original post #'hey hira why are you so obsessed with these two—' autism. i hope that answers your question! #ok but srsly. i've genuinely worked rly hard on this post for the past like. 3 days? #i didn't think it'd lead to me deducing all of this about the twins' pasts but here we are lol #this'll probably flop due to the length but like. i don't mind tbh! this is mostly to satisfy my own silly brain [affectionate] anyway #i'm genuinely looking forward to seeing them in v10 #since the storyboard for the scrapped v9 epilogue had raven in it #i hope they somehow reconcile and come to understand one another like weiss and whitley did #tho. i have a bad feeling that even if they do it will end in one (or both?) of them tragically dying before the other's eyes #but that's not rly relevant lol #anyhow i am not sry for inflicting you all with my branwen twin brainrot. it will happen again #i'm having sooo many thoughts on this rewatch and they just keep on coming #rwby #qrow branwen #raven branwen #branwen twins #rwby9 spoilers #i hope there's no glaring errors here. i read thru this post multiple times to be sure but it's so huge i may have missed smth irjnfbpbne

[strqyr]

harbinger has gears. def something qrow picked up from ozpin, so if he already had harbinger before attending beacon, it would have had to look different.

thinking about younger qrow, hearing stories about the grimm reaper and wanting a weapon similar to hers. maybe he had a sword similar to omen at first ( hence the hidden red blade that is only seen in harbinger's scythe form, cut into parts to account for the curved blade ), but after scavenging enough parts, he starts to build up from it. with lots of trial and error, he finally succeeds in creating something... workable, though the mechanism he has in place still jams more often than not.

just... the thought of harbinger that looks more like scrap put together that still works but isn't quite what he expected it to be, just because qrow wanted a scythe and that's not something you just find laying around, so he did himself with what little he had.

and then he gets to beacon and can upgrade harbinger to his heart content, taking inspiration from around him; harbinger finally becoming how he always imagined it to be.

#rwby #qrow branwen #strqyr.hc #also thinking that raven did not have omen's sheath or the extra blades as she does now #those were later upgrades at beacon #before the twins just had their red blades and they made do #anyway. i just like the idea of qrow scavenging parts #and making stuff from them #( including a motorcycle / dirt bike that they used to get to vale ) #( my fic canon is leaking don't @ me )