#rhuben jackson

👗 for a moodboard about my muse’s fashion style

This was fun and also kind of hard to just narrow it down to nine pictures - and don’t be fooled; while there’s a lot of black here, it’s an even mix of black and purple (or even white and purple) for her :D. Rhuben’s clothing style is laid back, but can also lean towards the dancer’s style. Plus, she’s gotta have a leather jacket. (All the Jacksons do.)

Note: Two things are missing from this; galaxy print and black/white polka dots. Those are Rhuben’s two favorite patterns.

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Big Time Rush: Love Me Again / Prompt / LoganxRhuben

Oh my god! You’re in love with them!

Rhuben took the time Stephanie and Camille gasped, leaning forward in their seats to let out a “No way!” and “What?!” to lift her bottle of hard lemonade to her mouth, taking a long sip in lieu of confirming or denying the statement. Riley merely crossed one leg over the other, propping her heels up on Jo’s coffee table. Jo had lifted her glass of wine in front of her mouth, as if trying to hold back her declaration upon getting to the bottom of why Rhuben wasn’t as into girl’s night as usual: Stephanie, Camille, and Jo were the best girl friends she and Riley had ever had; they made it a point to make time in their busy schedules to meet up once every two weeks.

Of course the topic of boys would come up.

The word “still” should have been added in there, Rhuben surmised swirling her hard lemonade around in the bottle she grasped in her hand; “Oh my god! You’re still in love with them!” That would have been more accurate. She was 23 now, and she knew loving Logan now was different than when she had been 16, but those feelings were still there. When they had gotten stronger, she couldn’t exactly say.

Could she even say she loved him years ago? Dating was just what you did at 16. If whatever strong feelings she had for him at the time was even close to love, it had felt nice, she couldn’t lie. Nice enough to try and hold on to it as long as she could: being the only source of kindness, gentleness, and love she got outside of her family at the time. Even if it meant hurting her best friend’s feelings – betraying her best friend if she was really being honest with herself.

But she had grown up in the past seven years. They both had. Rhuben no longer relied on her need to be perfect in all areas of her life to get any sort of attention she could. Logan no longer used his intelligence to feel accepted and worthy. She no longer fantasized about a boy whisking her away from her life to save her, and he didn’t set out to fix people and their problems.

They could just be themselves: confidants, shoulders to lean on, that tether to what your life used to be like, and still that one person that just got it. The one always willing to delve into nostalgia when things got too tough. The person you could always be yourself around. That was probably the scariest part of it for her: being that open with someone. Even if she had changed over the past few years, what if it still wasn’t enough?

“I’ve liked you since we were kids,” Logan had reassured her. ”Of course you’re enough. Sometimes I wish we could just go back to that. It was just easier.”

“I couldn’t do it,” Rhuben had replied, shaking her head back and forth, “go back.” Logan’s eyebrows had pulled towards each other in response to her statement. “I’m not that little girl anymore, Logie,” she had explained. “I wouldn’t be who I am if I didn’t go through all that crap with Robert. I can’t just pretend that it didn’t happen. Not anymore. All that’s done is cause bloody problems.”

“Well,” he had said after a moment of silence. She could see the gears turning in his head. “There shouldn’t be any problems now. With us. What do you think? About trying again?”

“Mate, I don’t want you to feel like it’s just something that’s bound to happen,” Rhuben had replied. “Because it’s easy. Because it’s what we’re supposed to do because we’ve been through so much together.” Not like she hadn’t done the same when they were younger.

“That’s not what this is,” Logan had insisted, giving her a gentle smile. “I promise. Just think about it.”

It was the same smile that had caught her attention when she was younger. With those stupid dimples. And even stupider warm, brown eyes he used to look at you to show that he was listening to what you say. He may have finally relaxed, changed his style, grown more confident in himself, but he was still Logan. He was still impressively ambitious; working on his music all the while continuing his studies to be a doctor. He had goals he wanted to meet, knew how to work hard, and was above all else a big source of support to everyone he cared about.

And it had been all that was on Rhuben’s mind since then. Logan’s unwavering support and loyalty to his friends – through her abuse (though his need to study all the literature on the subject, only to regurgitate facts back to her did get annoying real fast) and with her music. His ability to make anyone feel like they mattered. Like they were being listened to. His overall sweet disposition. Even his psychotic moments (one could argue it was just his tunnel vision at work) was something that made him him.

All the same, Rhuben should have known she wouldn’t be able to keep any of this past her friends: Riley she would tell right off the bat; Camille could pick apart people’s auras like it was her day job, she was bound to realize something was off about her; Jo had always been empathetic to other people’s feelings; and Stephanie, as an aspiring director, was able to pull emotions out of her friends with just a few questions.

“Yeah,” she admitted after swallowing her sip of the crisp drink, “I am.”

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Not to mention I would have the Logan/Rhuben pairing work out better than I previously had it;  a "they're childhood friends of course they'd fall in love" kind of thing. I think I really have it planned out well this time around.

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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Permanent Tag: @foxesandmagic, @witchofinterest

Rhuben Jackson + Aesthetic

“When I was little, my mum would take me to see the orchestra, tell me to close my eyes and think about the story the music was telling. I always spoke about colours. I'd talk about how purple the oboe was.”

Jackson Tag: @dancerdramatic14

I’ll go more into the Jackson family dynamic in this case. So, here we go!

@dancerdramatic14 @witchofinterest @foxesandmagic

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Reed and Renee, when we write them alive, are their kids’ inspiration to the type of relationships they want to eventually end up in. They truly do love each other. Despite their arguments, and they can argue, they end the day united. They’re always touching each other in some way, or just being in the vicinity of each other. It’s not rare to see them cuddling or kissing, or even reading the same book together as things wind down for the night.

The family is essentially a equal mix of laid back, loud, and fun (from Reed), and disciplined, calm, and straight-laced (from Renee). Themed nights such as game nights, movie nights, bbq nights, pool nights, beach nights etc are a regular occurrence. At the same time, they work just as hard as they play. The kids know the second they’re home from school homework needs to be done at the table and checked over by their mom, daily chores are done as soon as homework is accepted; weekend chores are done right after breakfast on the weekends, and music practice at home is never ever skipped or shortened.

No topic is truly off limits in the Jackson household. A “no” is always accompanied with an explanation (most times after a whining “whyyy”, or huffing, and stomping feet), or they could get a “I don’t think you’re ready to hear that,” response. The kids do have the chance to “appeal” a decision only if they can come up with a good argument for why they feel they should be able to do something. A lot of the time, it doesn’t work.

Over the years, the family has owned five dogs, one cat, and one rabbit.

Thanks for the ask! We love talking about our babies. We could go on and on, so this is a decent lengthed post - and we did take a different route with answering your second question. Which is why it’s under a read more.

We’re just sorry we don’t do much with them on here, but are moving into doing more (and re-working our OC page), and answering questions and everything.

Let’s get started!

Tag: @dancerdramatic14, @foxesandmagic

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So! The Jackson are the first OCs we ever created without really know what OCs were. Because, at the time, fifth grade, we were just writing separate stories for ourselves, very, very loosely based on ourselves, but our characters had our names - because duh. (And it’s fun to write about yourself in different situations.)

Anyway, first it started off as writing fanfics - though we didn’t know what fanfic was at the time and was introduced to it later - like with Pokemon or Digimon but with ourselves added into it, but at the same time we were also just writing original stories. When we talked to each other about the original stories, we came to find we wrote about the same family dynamic - two parents, older daughter and younger son. We both named the younger son, Patrick.

Yes! It both boils down to building their self-esteem and it also coincides with what they deem to be important to them. What I mean by that is Riley wants to be liked and Rhuben wants to be loved.

Riley knows that with her bipolar disorder, a scary side of her can be shown. One that people would never see if she could help it. She can be rash, she can be rude, she can be loving, she can be arrogant but that is all how she chooses to be. When she's in a manic state, it's nothing she can control; she's not in control of how people perceive her. She doesn't want anyone to view her as a monster. So she takes care of everyone, makes sure they're safe, being heard, makes the decisions so others don't have to make rough decisions (though honestly a lot of that is put on her right off the bat as the oldest), etc to have others see her how she wants them to see her. This, however, is also a detriment to her mental health.

It's not so much that Rhuben thinks that a man can fix her problems/build her self-esteem. Ultimately she knows she has to work on how she views herself on her own. But first physical appearances are what a lot of people go by and it's a big part of her job. Controlling her eating is something easy for her to do to give herself more time to get done everything people put on her; to have others precieve her as the one who can do it all, and do it well, and to make it look easy. People love the responsible one; the one who can be given a task and have it done at the deadline. And Rhuben likes that validation.