Do you got any headcanons for an AU where James Ironwood x Willow Schnee (Iron Will) raise the Ace-Ops and the Schnee siblings?
RWBY Ship Headcannons #60: Iron Will
Okay so after Whitley was born, Willow booked it away from Jacques. She managed to get Winter, Weiss and Whitley out with her and she went straight to James, who wasn’t gonna abandon her when she’s so distraught and also holding a baby, a toddler, and a very stern little girl. He helps Willow get the SDC and full custody of the kids in the divorce, and over that time they fall in love. Simple.
They started picking up the future Ace-Ops along the years of raising the Schnee siblings. Marrow was first and they found him as a Mantle orphan while Willow was going through the divorce case. Harriet and Vine were found as a pair trying to escape from a sketchy orphanage, and Elm was tossed out of the same orphanage two months later and found by James. Clover was actually found last and came into the picture as a teenager trying to sign up for the military by lying about his age just to get a roof over his head. Safe to say that Willow wasn’t allowing that and took him in instead.
With so many kids, it’s a big and busy household. Except for Whitley, all of them want to be Huntsmen and Huntresses, so it’s a lot of training and calling in favours from friends and Academy applications over the years.
Winter and Clover, as the oldest siblings, are basically the second parents. Clover takes responsibility for a lot of the others’ mishaps because he “was supposed to be watching them and had a lapse in judgement”, whereas Winter will have none of it and is least liked by Elm and Harriet.
Harriet is blatantly James’ favourite, actually. He times her running even before she gets her Semblance, he’s the one who picks her up after school a lot, etc. (He’s also the one who bailed her out of her first hundred fights.)
Willow, on the other hand, is the favourite parent. As well as being the one to find and take in most of these kids or being their bio mom, she’s very lenient and understanding on a lot of things. When Winter ends up coming out as gay, she’s the first one to make sure she’s as comfortable as possible by doing all she can for her baby girl. She’s also a pretty good influence, seeing as she manages to talk a little sense into Marrow to stop grabbing his tail to stop it wagging.
They’re good parents is what I’m trying to say.
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