#penny and ruby

The most consistent thing about RWBY is that in order to be in a romantic relationship the relationship MUST be doomed explicitly

Jaune and Pyrrha only kiss after she knows she’s ABOUT TO DIE

Ren and Nora only get to kiss during an argument where ren slightly expresses his paranoia and reasons he refuses to be with her, then he immediately gets proven right and then Nora gets almost electrocuted to death

The only reason clover and qrow get to flirt for essentially EVERY scene they have together is that they’re EXPLICITLY doomed (it’s about how their individual relationships with luck have led them to be intensely loyal to authority. Qrow in a sense of gratitude, clover in a sense of privilege. they’re both the best huntsman of where they were and most trusted warriors of their leaders. however qrows life has had his team fall apart and has gotten the appropriate amount of disillusionment from ozpins lies. This is what saves him. But clover has been left to be doomed to death because he cannot believe a system he was built for could be anything but inherently correct. Qrows misfortune had saved him clovers luck killed him. And despite how hard anyone could’ve tried their was never anything that could have saved him from being gods most perfect soldier. Or idk something like that I don’t think about them enough)

Tai summer and raven. Raven was always going to leave to go back to her tribe. Summer was always going to be murdered by Salem. Tai was always going to be left. They all knew they all probably tried to deny it. They all walked backwards into their own narrative. Their ship name is apparently str crossed lovers. Which is genius.

Ruby and penny got their whole thing because penny died TWICE and now she’s permanently haunting ruby’s lil narrative so good for her

and that’s why chronic runaway and abandonment issues personified are CANNON SOULMATES (I could go on several rants I adore them)

So yeah if you want them to be cannon they just have to be more doomed but it’s kinda hard for that cause they had a little reversed doomed situation where they’re relationship was always going to get better because they were kinda enemies at first

Still frames under cut!

Ok, out of all the things in this art dump, this is the one that started as the most promising and then disappointed me the most. The lineart was so on point... and then a bunch of things got wrong while colouring. So from left to right: I used markers for Penny's hair, neck-thingy, and skin again because the colour scheme and texture were on point, the writing on the back of the paper is still bleeding through; the road is just awful to look at and making it darker didn't work, was tempted to use markers for it too, but then realised that it would be too attention-grabbing, glad I avoided it but also ugh; Ruby's cape is also done with marker and it looks decent enough, but it clashes with the shades of the skirt; and then the big one... Ruby's fucking skin omg where do I even start. Well, first off, I wasn't expecting it to turn out so yellow and it completely messes up her entire colour scheme. Badly. Also, I picked the wrong marker at first and it was the orange of Penny's hair... which is why Ruby has two orange fingers... lol I'm sorry I did her so dirty. Last couple things: the mirrors in the background also turned out horrible and uuuuggghhh, plus the very top corner has a piece of tape on it because the shit-paper from assplanet tore while I was erasing something... and the original screenshot from Ice Queendom had warmer tones, which I decided to overlook because I wasn't feeling it. But yeah, awful art experience, 2/10, gonna draw again but not now while the crushing defeat is still fresh...