Love’n Da BEESS

Never free them they’re exactly where I like em

Girl was in a TOTALLY dif show during the team Rwby separation arc, she was in a fantasy political drama about dealing with infighting within Faunus society with themes of recovery from mental illness, reconciliation with loved ones, and emotional closure about a long term abuser and not letting them have power over you anymore

The rest of the team was finding out satan is real and they, personally, have to go fight her

If the show was about Blake it would’ve ended a season and a half later which would’ve been mainly about rebuilding her relationship with her team and Yang specifically while also helping to maintain the new white fang and start to create noticeable lanes for progress for her people

I’ve answered this before I think so short answer:

Yang Meeting Blake’s parents (not the other way around) taken seriously

Like genuinely considering the context of their daughter was dead for a while and they had previously lost their daughter to a toxic and abusive relationship while also considering the fact that yang was also considered dead for a while

AND I want some implications that Blake’s parents asked around about their daughter to Blake’s living friends and learned some things that happened through second hand sources

Also giving complexity to yang considering her experience with parents not just a “oh wow they’re sooo nice that’s so great wish I had a mom” like I want her to be confused to borderline slightly weirded out by the way Blake’s family loves each other

Like no I don’t think yang acts like that but DAMN do I respect that you let her act like something!! And not as like just a bounce off character for someone else’s growth or character (not that that’s evil either, it’s a fic, you should do literally WHATEVER you want)

The way they suffer their mothers sins and their father’s grief

Penny dying on Ruby and Blake abandoning Yang

Both of them shutting down when they get overwhelmed with loss and grief just lik their father

The misfortune, self destruction and apathy of their uncle

Oooooooo do I love them

I think Ruby subconsciously mimics Yang when she’s angry

And then whatever happened on that mission took both of them away from the girls. Summer by presumed death. Raven because whatever happened that night broke her into the person she is today.

GODDDD u right

Especially because raven actually CONSTANTLY throughout the show betrays herself by showing a clear and visible softness for her family especially yang

I doubt that it’d be easy to get her to fully rejoin the family but it probably would’ve been actually SUPERR possible to convince Raven to be a part of yangs life in some capacity

Like maybe very sporadically and In a way that isn’t actually all that stable for yang (STILL BETTERTHEN IN CANNON especially if summer is alive) but still in a way that could be super cool and interesting of a dynamic maybe Raven could have sporadically helped train her maybe offer to have her visit or stay at her camp maybe try and convince yang of more of her own views and ideas sooner

That’d be really really fun and the way that she could be like in this in between state of being with and not with her team and with and not with tai and summer

Like the possible anger and disappointment when she continues to leave but the obvious continued love regardless of what Raven actually does and how that idea of love despite everything effecting Ruby and Yang

Like, she’s already seen Weiss grow out of the attitude. Whitley is obviously just a kid. Winter might not be on their side at the moment but she’s still got loyalty and a dedication to protecting the world even if the team doesn’t agree with the how. Willow is a broken woman and alcoholic who loves her children but wasn’t good at protecting them.

Blake grew up viewing the Schnees as this snobby bunch of evil assholes and in reality most of them are just abuse victims trying their best to survive.

(Very basic Summary for ur convenience: i doubt it actually takes Blake that long to get to that point ESPECIALLY after how genuinely quickly Weiss managed to improve from how she was)

I think Blake and most people always saw Weiss’s dad as the biggest problem because he’s for one the face of the company and its decisions and financials

Like if you think of today’s world and in our own real life thinking of all the awful manipulative and cruel billionaires of the world I’m not really thinking “and their kids suck too”

if the kids aren’t also adults and aren’t SUPER fed to the public, people aren’t really thinking about them

Like they might be like “oh I heard his oldest went into the military and quickly rose through the ranks, must be to get more government connections and when possible use the military for more business opportunities in other countries (this is a real thing that happens) or just to get away with more illegal actions” and not like “oh she was trying to escape her family” because monopoly to facist military doesn’t give that vibe even though winter was genuinely trying to leave all that evil behind (its not like she was raised with an awareness of how inherently corrupt the atlas military would HAVE to be considering it seems to be the only military and their country is THE evil country)

But even still it wouldn’t be something people would talk about all that often it’d be more about the company and therefore the dads actions cause he’s the one doing that shit it’s his name on the horrors

HOWEVER

Weiss was clearly meant to be used (and was continued to be used) as propaganda and distraction tactics for the company before winter gave up her role as heiress

She’s a singer she’s shown being an entertainer in a way (a fancy rich pretentious persons version of what a performer is allowed to be) this is obvious to distract and deflect from all the negativity the company gets for their crimes and horrors (may or may not be something Weiss is aware of)

This probably would have put a bit more hate her direction because she’s just being put in the public eye a lot more

However not in the THIS IS ALL UR FAULT kinda way it’s a like “oh look at that nepo baby” “look at the company trying to distract from the terrible things instead of change or apologize” “oh turns out this is the person who will eventually be in charge of the company? This singer? Probably an evil little girl then” but she’s still a teenager and jsut a symbol for something that people hate so it’s not the worst

I REALLY doubt a lot/any of Blake’s hate pre meeting Weiss was directed at Weiss specifically

Maybe after seeing her become a bit of a singer (if it’s something that was put into the world and not some super exclusive but decently frequent event for rich people, then it’s after finding out about it vaguely) just because Blake and Weiss are the same age so Blake wouldn’t be viewing her as a young teenage girl, she’d be viewing her as someone who should have the same accountability and responsibility as an adult (because Blake was groomed by Adam and assumes all people her age should act “mature” and be treated as adults) but other then that probably not a lot of thinking about the schnee children

HOWEVER when she MEETS Weiss, she becomes a representation and symbol for that hatred because Weiss is RIGHT THERE and also WILDLY supportive and forward about how GREAT her family and her families company is

And even still Blake wasn’t overly antagonistic to her when she could bare not to be she really only retaliated against Weiss she didn’t start anything

Weiss was OPENLY and LOUDLY bigoted against Faunus and very narrow minded and harsh and loud about her thoughts on the white fang

This brought Blake a lot closer to the idea of the Schnee family instead of company and possibly putting more judgement on the actual family

But probably a lot of that faded after Weiss got her little “oh shit racism is baddd” arch and they became good friends and they got to both come to an understanding on how they were led to think about things a certain way (Blake’s was a lotttt more of a subtle thing)

Other contenders

Two birds one stone (2 branwens and a ruby)

strq survivors

Team fam

What’s left of em

Ozmas fav victims

But i always thought it was an interesting concept you know? Like she’s definitely significantly older then yang and ruby but you can play with the age gap cause we don’t know by exactly how much so they could totally be kids at the same time it’s just cinder would probably be fully in teens while they’re still under 8 or something

But it’s interesting to me cause like ok qrow finds this poor girl then what? He’s not gonna take her with him on missions cause then he would’ve done that with neglected one and two, his actual nieces, and also because he has a who thing about staying close to people dooms them inherently

So he probably drops her off at safe house strq the second he gets a new mission from Oz

But what I think is a REALLY interesting situation is that cinder would be SOOOOO traumatized at this point like she’s in NOOOO state to be helpful for the current issues (other than like… chores you know… considering) so for a really long time despite the age gap yang is probably STILL in charge of taking care of everyone she just can maybe split the chores if it isn’t clearly making cinders problems so sooooooo much worse and THAT dynamic would be really interesting

It’s like a parallel to Ruby in a fun way of “can’t escape the feeling of being a burden because technically you are but no one blames you and it’s not your fault but you are a burden” in the sense of simply having needs of any kind while ur family is struggling

It’s also really makes her fit in with the strq families constant battle of “what exactly do we do with all this love? How exactly are we supposed to treat each other? What are we to each other?” With Ruby and yang already having to deal with one being both sibling and caretaker and their dad not knowing how to talk about emotional stuff and re enter their lives after what summer’s death did to him and qrow wanting to get close with people but believing he’s a curse so he’s both their most consistent adult caretaker and also a flake and a drunk who’s loyalty to Ozpin is more obvious then his commitment to them

Cinder and her inability to truly fit into an “older sister” role because of her own problems she has to deal with for so long fits RIGHT in ESPECIALLY if she randomly attempts to fill the role anyway and it doesn’t go great which is another source of mental anguish of not being able to help the people who help you

This is also all fun cause it makes the strq sisters (now adding her) wayyyy more fire themed which could feed a little bit into insecurity of Ruby for not being like them

She’d probably sleep in Qrows bed (that I assume he has) till they got a new one cause he’s not around much cause ozpin missions

Ruby is still definitely yangs 1st priority but she should be both of their first priority because youngest siblings just had to be first priority that’s the rule

Good news is both yang and cinder got their semblances young so they both got good ways to defend themselves and Ruby in the woods which helps

Cinder being scared of qrow despite being saved by him (and then probably also very attached to him) and being TERRIFIED of tai just from lack of exposure, like he’s THE other shoe that’s gonna drop, sleeping beast kinda thing

The sisters already both wear lil neck coverings so if she got any scars their it’s in the family’s fashion sense to easily hide them

Also the way that if cinder ever runs away out of fear or guilt or anything yangs ALREADY got abandonment issues so she’s gonna be REAL happy bout that for sure

Good news is maybe yang just ends up guilt tripping her out of doing it after the first couple of times

Cinders def gonna be a huntsman because that’s just what they do in this family

Qrow IMMEDIATELY telling yang about the whole “cinder killed a buncha people” thing and why and yangs main takeaways are “wow this girls gonna have ISSUES and you just leaving her with me???? ” and “so convenient she already knows how to fight so i don’t need to worry about a 2nd person getting mauled by ursa” :)

Cinder maybe getting super easily wrapped up in the anything for ozpin propaganda that qrow follows because it works really well on the youth who think they have no good place or purpose which could cause interesting dynamics

Like I want her to have bird accurate difference in height to qrow where she’s soooo much bigger and also I’ve decided that’s where yang gets her height from and they’re both that kind of person who just keeps growing forever

A detail of this is that I think it’d be fun visualization of the change in yang from v3 to v4-5 for her to reunite with her team and be visibly bigger and more towering even if technically she lost a lot of muscle/weight probably in her trauma coma because it makes her initially more visibly striking and then they can maybe find out she’s trying to gain back that weight and muscle

Like a physical representation of how she presents with a cold anger after leaving her house but it’s to deal with that draining sadness

And for physical metaphors for Raven it’s how she try’s to project herself as bigger and better and separate herself from her loved ones with that and with strength and cruelty even and it showing how she kinda try’s to look down on her loved ones

But said much smaller loved ones can always somewhat cut her down with the words and connections and things that she tries to separate herself from

And also with her and yang is that yang is the only person who can to this and be risen to her level

When they meet is when yang is the closest to Raven, untrusting and angry and wronged by connections, she embodies a strength Raven has preached but is defined by the connections that Raven has ran from believing them to doom her

And by doing that both is the most successful at convincing Raven of something and connecting with her in general while also entirely dismissing her and her mindset

Yang doesn’t tell her to be different she says “this is who you are and who you are can’t handle this so I’ll do it for you”

It leads into yangs passivity when comes to not expecting people to change for the better she just worked with Raven where she was at

And then it turns out they’re LORE RELEVANT LEVELS OF FUCKED UP

Like SATAN KNOWS THEIR FAMILY!!! THEIR FAMILY HAS BEEN KNOWING AND WORKING WITH JESUS WHO WAS SECRETLY UR HEADMASTER!!!! SATAN PERSONALLY KILLED ONE OF THEIR TWO MOMS AND WORKED WITH THE OTHER ONE WHILE YOU KNEW THEM!!!! WEISS GOT RESCUED AFTER BEING KIDNAPED BY ONE OF THE BIGGEST BANDIT TRIBES, A LITERALLY SATAN RECOGNIZED BANDIT TRIBE, BECAUSE SHES HER NORMAL TEAM MATES M O M

LIKE THE WHOLEEEEE TIME THEY BE TALKING ABOUT BLAKES HISTORY IN CRIME NEITHER OF THEM SPOKE UP???? YOU SERIOUS??? TURNS OUT THEIR FAMILY IS 3/4 M A G I C WHEN IT COMES TO PARENTS/GUARDIANS

TWO CAN TURN INTO BIRDS AND ONE HAS LASER EYES AND THEY DONT EVEN KNOW ABOUT THE WHOLE MAIDEN THING

LIKE OH MY GOD

Blake and Weiss are modern day moderately politically important

RUBY AND YANGS PARENTS WERE WORKING FOR MAGICAL IMMORTALS TO KILL SATAN TO STOP THE SECRET END OF THE WORLD PLOT SO THAT THEY COULD MEET THE VERY VERY REAL GODS

it’s the funniest thing in the show

Blake and Weiss are google-able