What can you tell us about Riley and Rhuben that you haven't before? Their relationship with each other? Do they share friends? Do they have separate friends? Headcanons?
Something we haven’t said before: Hmmm, I feel like we usually eventually bring it all up. Hmmm. Riley and Rhuben are so in tune with each other, they can easily navigate conversations away from topics they don’t want to discuss for each other without really thinking about it. As well as have silent conversations with only a few movements of their faces to get something across to each other. Also, they can read minds so to speak; like without saying anything if one of them needed something, the other would just hand it over to them. On a different note, of course the girls love their parents, but Riley is more attached to their dad, and Rhuben is more attached to their mom.
Relationship with each other: Their relationship with each other depends on whether or not their parents are alive. If their parents aren’t alive, they tend to stay apart from each other to get used to the fact that, if they were adopted, they would be split apart. It was inevitable, to them, that it would happen. So as much as they were there for each other, they worked to get used to life without each other. When their parents are alive, they’re very close to each other, very similar to each other in their reactions to things, always love to be around each other, always have fun together, are very sneaky together, a little bit manipulative, and make each other laugh all the time. In both ways, it’s still very obvious that they’re very close, but in the latter scenario they can show it more. (In the former scenario, they move into being like the latter when things start to go right for them).
Share/Separate friends: They mostly do share friends as they mostly meet new people together. Not to say that they really see themselves as a “package deal” but it’s how things usually turn out. Even if they did have separate friends, they would all end up being one large friends group either with each other, or with all the Jackson kids. Separate friends are usually part of things they do separately. By that I mean, the whole Jackson family does surf and enjoy it and love it, but Riley is really the surfer in the family, having some people she can go and see at the beach and spend time with them if she ever finds herself going it alone. Just like on the other hand, Rhuben is the one more often to find pickup games of soccer to join, usually ending up with a specific group of people she’d hang out with.
Headcanon:
-As competitive or independent as Riley and Rhuben are, they hate the idea of one of them being left behind
-A lot of their first thoughts when one can ‘get ahead’ in some way is ‘what about my sister?’
-Even as babies they would get fussy if one of them was taken out of the room for whatever reason
-If they’re apart for a while and come back together, they always greet each other exuberantly, and immediately start to catch up on things - even if it’s only for a couple hours
-Both girls can silently resent the other for feeling like they have to take on a certain role/responsibility the other won’t
-Rhuben records and edits all of Riley’s surf reels - both in the water and on the beach, to not only highlight what she does best, but to get a closer look at what to work on - as a result at surf competitions she knows exactly how close she’s allowed to be to get footage
-Riley is always the loudest cheerleader at Rhuben’s soccer games, you’ll hardly find her without some sort of sign, pom-poms, or facepaint
-They’re actually very protective of each other in terms of boyfriends and friendships, in that they won’t tolerate anyone treating the other badly - even if it takes a while for it to get through why they’re worried
-It’s never their dad or their brothers their potential dates/boyfriends have to worry about, it’s their twin
-In every place they’ve lived they either share a room or have their own room with a pocket door to connect it
-They share all of their clothes if it’s not strictly in their color and/or, to the point they don’t buy much clothes without the other in mind
-They always have nights where they stay up late and just talk about things that bother them within themselves or other people (it can be hard, but they don’t take it personally)
-They don’t hold hands or hug a lot, almost not at all, but at times will squeeze each other’s hands three times to silently say ‘i love you’ and then the other do it four times to say ‘i love you, too’
-They’re each other’s best friend and biggest supporters
-Almost don’t ever make any decisions without talking to the other, no matter how easy or difficult the decision is
-Can finish each other’s sentences
-Gives each other piggy-back rides often
-Will sometimes dress exactly the same to test people on whether or not people can tell them apart
-Some of their boyfriends had mixed them up before
-Wakeboarding trips to the lake benefits them both; wakeboarding is Rhuben’s water sport of choice (though she can and does surf), Riley can also use that time to wakesurf to keep her skills up if the ocean is too flat
-Even if a photo shoot or interview/magazine is focusing on one of them, they always have their twin there for support (and let’s be honest here, god knows Patrick, Noah, and Sydney would want to come too, just because)
-As close as the girls can be, they. can. fight. However there have only been a handful of arguments they weren’t able to get over quickly. Usually it’s something they can get over once both sides are heard.
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