#daedalus au

Together they make WY cause all they ask is “why”

Chapter 5/5 of DLMTMSLHC Prompts: Promise, Greater Good, Salvation Callum returns home without Rayla, and, well… how can he be expected to do those two years without her for the rest of his life?

For the first time in his life, since the first time he’d blacked out two years ago and was never truly free since, the voice in his head was easy to ignore.

He couldn’t do it again. Couldn’t let bile course through his veins and into every crevice he didn’t know he had.

She wouldn’t want him to.

Even if he’d done a lot of things she wouldn’t want him to.

She deserved to rest.

And so did Callum.

So he stood up. And he placed one foot in front of the other, over and over and adding motor control over his hands into the fray until blood pooled around him and the ghost she’d hunted to the ends of the earth, becoming her undoing just as she was his, and the woman who’d saved him were nothing more than a memory.

And he broke his promise.

He couldn’t bring her home.

LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION!

Early beacon days I feel like yang would’ve spent a significant amount of time training and hanging out with her friends from signal and on and bringing ruby with

Obviously it would be just because ruby doesn’t have a lot of friends there yet and yang doesn’t want all her time to be spent with Weiss especially because Weiss currently doesn’t seem to like ruby much, and because a lot of yangs friends have probably already met/hung out with ruby as well because yangs brought her to hang out before or maybe rubys friends with their younger siblings

But it would probably be conflicting emotionally for ruby because on one hand she likes yangs friends and she likes training or going out to eat with yang and co but on the other hand it probably doesn’t help the distance she feels to her peers being two years younger because everyone in this group not only knows that she’s younger but knows her as yangs little sister

Daedalus au yang and Weiss spend a longer time alone together post raven reunion because I think they’re BEST FRIENDS and I want a universe where they get to explore that as only a duo for as long as possible

In this au my excuse for this is that ozpin didn’t want his top operative(qrow) to be able to be accessed at any time by raven because she’s a criminal who hates ozpin so he uses his magic to stop her semblance from reaching him with portals but she still is vaguely aware of where he’s at

So she portals them to the closest person to him and they have to track him on their own

And because I desperately don’t want to cut down any time the sisters have with each other the timeline looks closer to like

This

For ruby vs yangs timeline

Like yang wakes up no arm then a little while later ruby wakes up and immediately leaves and then yang just leaves for her sooner then usual just a little bit worse at having a prosthetic

Like she’s still great at fighting as always but she’s got slightly more going on

It’s really JUST because I love the idea of yang and Weiss traveling together so much

They’d be so mean to people

They’d have to deal with how GLARINGLY OBVIOUS Weiss being an rich atlas citizen is, which is crazy cause people tried to rob yang who at least looks tall and tough just cause her bike looks like it’d sell for a lot but WEISS!?!? Screams rich girl

Like what a highlight to their parallels it would be

Because Blake started out as a kid a lot like how Ruby presents, happy, energetic, optimistic, just an all around ball of joy

She used to love fairy tales a LOT it’s clearly what got her into reading

But she loses so much of that after she goes with Adam

When we meet her she’s depressed and self destructive and pessimistic and consumed by guilt

But then after she leaves to go home, she gets a support system, she eventually accepts that sun stalked her and accepts his help(LOVE YOU SUN!!! She fucking needed it) she reconciles with her old friends and she gets closure about the white fang and Adam (this is the ideal end of her interactions with Adam she didn’t want to ever kill him)

She’s finally on her way to getting back the parts of herself she lost

So if she came back when pre Weiss and yang

Then the contrast from her starting to heal and Ruby starting to really get worse

Would be SO clear

Ruby who’s away from her sister for the first time, for possibly a very VERY long time, Ruby who’s abandoned the person who raised her to follow a cause she knows is right and just, but still can’t not feel awful about it, Ruby who watched her friends die in front of her and feels awful that she didn’t stop it, she feels alone and pressured into doing this mission and she’s been lied to by her uncle and her friends are grieving and they have no idea what they’re doing

She’s not doing superb