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Ruby Rose May Catchall (Open and Closed Prompts)

Who: Ruby Rose

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What: Assorted TDM Prompts.
When: Throughout April
Where: Throughout Trench.

Content Warnings: TDM Prompt Warnings, Will update as necessary

Fate Forged in Steel

[Ruby Rose tended to do most of her weapon making out of her own house. But with sun shining and the weather warming up enough that she could feel it in her own cold blood it was enough to pull her out of the house and make her way over to Prufrock to work on her latest project. And let's be real the chance to see any sort of weapon that Hunters or other Sleepers used was enough to get excited.

So she's taken on some work at a local smithy with the promise of having some time to work on her own project at the same time. She can be found smithing and smelting and working on pieces of something that resembles not only a spear but a guitar as well. There's a fair amount of complicated moving parts that cause it to extend out into the spear and revert back into the guitar shape.

If anyone comes by she'll happily stop in her work and look up with a smile.]

Hey, Can I help you?

May Flower.

[Honestly the first time Ruby sees the festival going on at the board walk she feels a little on edge. It reminds her a lot of her first year in the dream when the towns people went more than a little culty. It had been more than a little dangerous between having to fight one of her closest friends and someone attempting to murder her. But she does her best to sort of push those thoughts aside as this certainly feels more peaceful than the last time around.

It doesn't take her long to accept a drink from a passerby and she finds herself with vibrant red roses growing out or her hair. It's cute, alright?

But... Then she sees the cookies and she's done for. Cookies have been her weakness since she was a kid. She manages to snag a whole plate to herself and inhales them with gusto. Only to find that with each cookie she eats the next one she picks up is bigger than the last.

Before she knows it she's about the same size as the cookies on the plate and she still hasn't quite stopped yet. She's using her scythe to try and cut apart one of the massive cookies to get a crumb that she can eat.

...It takes her a moment and then she realizes the situation she's in.]

Uh- Hey! A little help here?

Mirror Mirror

[Ruby hadn't given much thought to the warnings about the mirrors. That is until she fell victim to the curse herself. Now all she could really do is kick herself as she found herself sitting in the passenger seat as her own body moved against her will.

For the most part this Ruby enough like herself. That is until she something happen that endangered someone in front of her. Whether they were injured by a monster, got into a fight on the street, or even as simple as a paper cut it immediately set this Ruby off. In an instant her scythe was out and with a flourish she was standing between the injured and attacking party, a fierce glare in her mismatched eyes.]

Back off. Or I'm going to start taking limbs next.

Mirror Mirror B

[Or maybe it is as simple as a paper cut, or stubbed. In which case Ruby will take aim with Crescent Rose in it's rifle form and shoot the book right off the table. (Or feel free to bring in another minor inconvenience to have Violent Savior Ruby go ham on.)]

Now that should teach that thing not to mess with us again.

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[It's a good thing Ange has her emotional support omen a the moment, because Ruby just looks a little confused and maybe insulted in a very Ruby way when Ange implies Break doesn't have any idea what she's talking about. It only gets added on when Break says her clues are bad.]

What- No! I'm doing an awesome job describing it- You guys are doing this on purpo-

[And then the pieces click into place for Break and she looks to Ange with a victorious smile.]

Ha! See I knew he'd get it!

[But that excitement dies down when Break's questions continue.]

Uh- Yeah. They do them where I'm from. It's no such a big deal about who you're getting married too though. As it is from I guess your guy's places.

[ Sorry, Ruby. How dare Ange call her beautiful himbo wife a himbo. She will be sure to reflect on this awful mistake.

.. maybe after she's done cuddling the noodle, because Baltus is just about the one thing giving her strength in this situation. Any talk about them marrying or the wedding still threatens to make Ange's heart beat embarrassingly rapidly, after all, and she can only hide it a little bit by focusing more on the cuddling than the talking..

But she supposes that she shouldn't force Ruby to do all the talking here. Not even when Break seems to have put some of the mental puzzle pieces together. Pulling her face a little bit further away from the not-quite-dog's fur, she speaks up, doing her best to not sound as embarrassed as she feels. ]

They don't where I'm from.

[ But honestly, homophobia is just about the last thing on Ange's mind with the kind of life she's lived. She's already been cast out by society over so many things that liking girls feels like a moot point on top of it all. ]

.. but people here do. Mako and Wu got married only a little while ago.

[ And honestly, everyone in this place seems pretty down with whatever when it comes to that sort of thing, from what Ange has seen. ]

And, um.. [ Okay, now she's definitely sounding embarrassed. Definitely more so than usually, and it's not like these two specifically haven't seen Ange embarrassed before. They'd be able to tell. ] It--- It'd only be proper to actually do it that way.. [ M-Maybe she wants a nice romantic wedding with the love of her life!!! ]

Well, people have such relationships where I'm from, obviously. [Given that Break himself is in one and has never had a single scrap of issue with that aspect of it, this much is clear.] However, if anyone's going so far as to have proper weddings about it, I've never been to any.

[He sips at his tea for a moment, pleased to have guessed correctly. Hm! This is charming and cute, as are most things that embarrass Ange Ushiromiya. Break looks back on the rest of the conversation with this new context. A super important ceremony indeed, and Break's special job in it shall be to accompany Miss Ange on her long mar --]

[Here it comes.]

-- I'm to walk you down the aisle? [Break's abrupt arrival at this conclusion and the ensuing emotional fit are so abrupt that Baltus lets out a small wheeze of a honk in reaction.] Miss Ange, that's such an important duty! You really want me to do it?!

[One of the many fun facts about Xerxes Break is that he has not actually aged for the past fifteen years and has been running around in the body of a twenty-four year old this whole time. For the most part this isn't actually all that noticeable. In his good moments he looks awfully fresh-faced for forty, certainly, but his expressions so often stay in the realm of "exhausted" and "sarcastic" that he really does read as much older. And, now that the demonic Contract that was holding him back has ended, his body has been slowly catching up, as evidenced by his hair finally starting to grow out again.

Just now, though, he's so surprised and there's so much genuine honesty in his voice that Break really doesn't look all that much older than the girls are. It launches the amount of outright vulnerability on his face up through the roof somewhere.]

[Ange should be ashamed. Truly ashamed.]

[Honestly Ruby knows that Ange isn't exactly great about talking about this kind of stuff, and for good reason too. But it made Ruby beam a little to see her start to pick up on some of this conversation. She smiled softly but didn't shift any closer, Ange already had an emotional support omen to help her out here.]

Yeah... I think with everything this place throws at us too. It'd be nice to do something to kind of- show how much we care for each other. With the family involved. You know?

[Honestly Break had radiated so much old man energy that Ruby hardly recognized how young he actually looked. So there is a moment where she blinks her mismatched eyes. But then she looks over to Ange.]

I mean- I could answer this one but I think it'd be better if it came from you.

[ This is all so overwhelming. The general topic is, but both of their specific reactions here are also a lot for Ange to handle. These are two of her most important people, after all, and the way they're acting here - Break so surprised that Ange would want this from him, like it wouldn't be as obvious as it is from Ange's own point of view. And then Ruby, saying stuff that's so.. so super sweet, mirroring Ange's own feelings in that way only Ruby seems so uniquely capable of when it comes to this sappy topic.

It leaves her a little quiet for a moment, despite clearly having been prompted to speak up, and despite knowing she ought to. One arm lingers to hold on to Baltus like he's some sort of plush animal, but her other hand moves over to where Ruby is sitting, grabbing a gentle hold of the other girl's hands and intertwining their fingers.

Maybe she needs two kinds of emotional support in this moment. And there's nothing Ange has felt she couldn't do with Ruby by her side. ]

Of course. [ She slowly says. Her tone is far from deadpan, much more vulnerable and open than that, but she at least does manage to look directly at Break as she says it, seeing the surprise in the other's eye. ] I mean, it's not like my parents are here.

[ Which takes away the obvious option. ]

You're important to me. [ The sappiest possible thing to say, but at the same time something that's an objective truth in Ange's heart at this point. ] And to Ruby, too.

[ Because that girl worms her way into everyone's hearts, and lets others worm their way in so easily in turn. Ange knows it. ]

You always make sure I feel safe. So.. I can't really imagine anyone here who would be better for the job.

[The reminder that he'd be sliding into a role typically taken on by a parent is a knife to his heart, and every word Ange says after that just twists the blade. It isn't even necessarily a bad thing, it's just...having a light shone unexpectedly into one of the deepest wounds he carries, and having the feelings associated with it overflow almost immediately. Break flushes dangerously, the blood rushing to his face causing it to take on an odd shimmer.]

...oh.

[The little word comes out higher than he intended and he sets his teacup down, the brief clatter as it contacts its saucer a betrayal of the way his hands have begun to tremble. His omen eyes him from across the table as he scrubs at his cheeks, but doesn't remove himself from Ange. Break is having a lot of feelings right now, it's true, but they're dramatic, not the sort that make him forget where and when he is.]

That's, that's...ah, rather, of course I will, and gladly, I only... [There is no way he can hide the reaction he is having, and Break no longer possesses the power to simply duck beneath the table and vanish into the shadows. Since he's stuck here, and since it's Ange, and since they're looking at him, he at least tries to struggle to explain himself.] Well, it's -- you stop aging, you know, sometimes, with Pandora Contracts, and so -- milady couldn't -- she'd have looked thirteen forever, you see, so -- no parties, no suitors, none of, none of that, and perhaps -- well, I'm catching up I think? With the Mad Hatter gone? So she could, if she let her Contract go, she could get married I think but I'm not there, if it happens I'll -- I'll miss it, so I wasn't really...expecting to ever...

[He's spent this whole time in Trench watching any hope of being at Sharon's side for all the ways she'd have liked to grow up slip away through his fingers, helpless to stop it. Now he's turned around and been whacked smack in the face by the depth of someone else wanting him.]

[Ruby watches the two of them briefly. She tries not to make a sign that she registers just how intensely emotional this is for both Break and Ange. Not because she doesn't care but just because if someone doesn't look like they have a cool head here then they'll just be stammering for hours.

Then she feels Ange's fingers slide between hers and she does feel a bit of a blush of her own come on. Because she certainly wasn't immune to how cute Ange was when she sought out emotional support and affection.

She gives a little cough as she clears her throat.]

So what I'm hearing here is that we should do this while we still look younger than you-

So we don't make it totally awkward by you guiding down someone older than you.

[Look. She spent the time in Break's pocket dimension thing. She realizes some significance there but she's trying to break the tension here.]

[ Honestly, Ange is a little gobsmacked by just how much this seems to mean to Break. At least it's a little more understandable with the explanation he gives right now - if you can call that one, considering it's coming out in tiny bits and pieces, left for Ruby and Ange to string together themselves. But when Ange does connect said pieces, it feels easier to come to terms with. It's a lot easier on her heart to view this as something significant to Break because of everything he missed out on back home, rather than try to wrap her head around someone wanting to be part of something important to her that badly.

It's why she loosens her grip on Baltus a little, like she's wordlessly telling the Omen that he can go back to soothe Break if it ends up being necessary. Especially when Ange is holding the hand of her emotional support golden retriever in human girl form already.

.. a hand she squeezes when Ruby makes that joke. It's so much like the other, trying to chase away awkwardness with something like that.. It leaves a faint smile on Ange's face, though it's still accompanied by the blush. ]

We know it's no substitute. [ She says it still a little quietly.

No substitute for what Break could have had back home one day - if things had gone differently for him, even back home. ]

But we'd love to have you there with us. [ As evidenced by Ruby already making dumb little jokes to try and make Break feel comfortable again. Atta, girl. ] If you think you can handle it.

[ Considering how much the idea seems to mean to him. ]

[It's Ange's acknowledgement that this wedding wouldn't ever replace Sharon's that helps him to settle down. Of course he'd never accuse them of thinking such a thing. Rather, it draws him back to her comment from before -- It's not like my parents are here. No one here will ever replace Sharon much the same way Qrow will never replace Shelly Rainsworth and it's not like he himself erases the impact of Clover Ebi. And, likewise, it's not as though the weird new uncle that Ange's other weird uncle fished off a rock in the ocean and then brought to Ruby's birthday party is ever going to make up for Ange having grown up without her mother and father.

You can't ever get back what you have lost. Break has said as much for years. But losing the person who should be at your side doesn't mean you don't come to love others. It does mean a great deal to him to be chosen for something like this, and he settles into a watery smile as Baltus, indeed, oozes out of Ange's arms and slithers back to Break beneath the table.]

...of course I can handle it. [He reaches down to haul Baltus up like a teddy bear much the same way Ange was just doing, which the omen tolerates amiably.] Who else is -- obnoxious enough to lend you his arm for a long march to an important ceremony...?

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[He is not so overwhelmed that he doesn't pause here to stick his tongue out at Ruby.]

I was twenty-four.

[When he stopped aging, he means. Not thirteen. Unless the Pthumerians decide to really be butts and toss him into his scruffy awkward teenage body again as they did last January, no matter how his appearance shifts they will definitely get a properly dashing swordsman who has recovered from puberty, thanks.]

[Two could play at that game, Ruby playfully returns the gesture.]

Jeez. So we have four years to do this. Good thing we don't plan on making you wait that long.

[Look she knew this kind of talk could be awkward, especially for her attention starved but adverse fiancée. She felt a weight lift on her own shoulders as the both of them seemed to hit an understanding and she matched the grip Ange had on her own hand.]

I can't think of anyone more lanky or silly to do the job. It would have been awkward if we had start holding auditions for the job.

I don't think Ange could handle that.

[ Honestly, Break just oozes so much old man energy on a consistent basis that his physical appearance often seems like it's caught up already anyway.. It's hard to look beyond all that energy hanging in the air around him, after all. Just vibing.

Ange, on the other hand, just has Tired Energy. Especially when Ruby brings up that dreaded a-word. As a joke, it's already tiring enough, but the idea that Ruby is such a chaotic force at times that she definitely could have done that, if she wasn't so acutely aware of just how flustered and dead inside it'd make Ange, makes it even more tiring.

God, Ange is only now realising what she narrowly avoided. ]

We don't know when the wedding will be yet. [ She instead says, perhaps wanting to desperately distract herself from any thoughts about auditions.. Please.. ] It might be a while in the future, since we'll need to prepare a lot of things, and.. well, this place is so unpredictable.

[ Who knows when they even will be able to hold a wedding without a monster running in to crash it, or something similarly bad. ]

Yes, asking me in the first place is much more efficient. I might have decided to duel anyone you chose and then nobody else would have won the role anyway.

[Break is beginning to perk up again, settling back into his usual confident trollishness as he starts really processing all this. He is, of course, as introverted as Ange is and always sneaks away for some air and quiet to rejuvenate himself at least once per party. But, unlike her, he's had real time to attend these things with people whose company he actually enjoys, so he knows how to find his fun and like hell these two are going to have some stuffy serious thing anyway. That Ange is willing to walk down the aisle with all eyes on her at all tells him some traditions are important to her and he'll see to it that that's respected, but you can't involve Ruby Rose in anything without expecting some sort of chaos and Break is already looking forward to it.]

If it takes a while, that just means I have plenty of time to wheedle your other uncle into wearing something really pretty for you, right? I imagine that's my other important job, here.

[Let's be real, they all know this. Qrow is a snappy dresser in his way but there is a difference between "sexiest gremlin on the battlefield" and "wedding formalwear".]

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