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Well, that's why we're here! To make it better.

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ruby rose

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an independent rwby multimuse writing blog for both canon and original characters. all my muses are multiverse and multiship. please read rules before following.

written by ruby
^{( 28 / she, they / CDT (GMT -5:00))}

&. guidelines

( I ) GENERAL
I am a relatively chill person. Golden rule; Treat me like you want to be treated, and I’ll do the same. I’m not in high school anymore and I get enough bullshit from work to put up with it from one of my favorite, longtime hobbies.

( II ) SELECTIVITY
I will not interact with blogs run by anyone under the age of 18. I tend to write heavy and dark plots and threads, and I am also semi-open to NSFW.Also please, please, PLEASE, use basic grammar. I don’t care for beige or purple prose, I just want to interact with people who at least know the difference between “their, “they’re”, and "there"I'm also open to crossovers, but only with fandoms I am most familiar with. If I don't know the fandom, I'll give it a try, but don't be surprised if I never interact with your muse/s if I don't know the fandom. I'm very neurodivergent and only like interacting with what I'm comfortable with.Most importantly, while I originally started off as semi-selective in the form I'd interact with anyone; I am now mutuals only. I'm still semi-selective in the fact that I don't really care about how you might write, as long as I feel our styles mesh well together.

( III ) MEMES & STARTER CALLS
_{PLEASE SPECIFY THE MUSE A MEME OR STARTER CALL IS FOR.}Personal blogs DO NOT INTERACT. PERIOD. NOT OOC, NOT IC, NOT AT ALL.If you are a sideblog to a personal blog, please go on anon and use your username so I know who to tag.My ask memes tag is #; ask memes and I'm always accepting memes so please feel free to send one in!

( IV ) PLOTTING
If you want to do a longer, more fleshed out thread especially in one of my many AUs (Such as "Red in The Blood", "Everfall", and "Rekindled") please send me a private message and I'll reach out with my discord account so we can discuss things in detail!This goes for anything you have a particular plot in mind for too. I like to discuss things first!~

( V ) ABOUT THE MUN
I'm 21+! 28 specifically. I'm chill interacting with muns who are 18+, but only 18 and older as 18 is considered a legal adult where I am. If you're under 18 and I find out you're lying? Instant, permanent block.I am far more active on Discord. If I manage to establish a certain dynamic with you and/or our characters, I will offer to add you there. This is simply due to the nature of my job meaning I’m not always available during the weekdays or weeknights.
Discord is mobile. It’s easier to reply to things there.Speaking of said job, I am in the healthcare field and I work nights. (11 to 7 Central Time) When I get off work, a lot of times, I just want to go straight to bed. My most active days are my days off (Every other Friday, weekends, and Monday.My schedule is On four, off Friday, work the weekend, off Monday, On four, off the weekend. Repeat and my most active hours will be in the “Australian hours” due to the fact I keep my sleeping schedule consistent when I’m not working. So around 8:30 PM going to noon.Roleplaying is a hobby for me. I have a bunch of other hobbies and won’t always be around for it. Please don’t harass me for replies. I will get to them when I get to them. Anxiety is also a bitch and I struggle with it regularly.

( VI ) WRITING SPEED
Because of my job, I'm not always going to be available for replies right away. I don't expect you to be either. However, if after a month or so I haven't responded to you, please let me know! Chances are I saw it and just forgot (ADHD is a bitch).However, I do reserve the right to not respond to certain threads or asks or drop them if I feel I have lost the muse for it. This happens and this is a courtesy I will extend to you as well. I will do my best to inform you if I am doing so ( though you are free to ask me about it. ) Just don't pester me, and I won't pester you.

( VII ) MAINS & EXCLUSIVES
I don't do exclusives, with the sole exception of the Crimson Legacy AU in which I have several exclusive muses.I am, however, open to "mains" but they have to build up over time. I don't want to do one thread and immediately call your muse the main for one of my own. The build up over time doesn't also have to be on tumblr. It can take place over on Discord as well.

( VIII ) SHIPPING
I ship based on chemistry! Even if a character is married or taken in canon, I'm willing to explore other ships based on their chemistry with another.When interacting with older, adult ships, my underage muses will be aged up, I expect the same from my RP partner. I am otherwise okay with age gap ships.You're not going to find a ship bias list here because honestly, it would take up a page on it's own. If enough people ask, maybe I'll make one, but for now, more or less anything goes for me.However, I do want to address that I do have some ships I absolutely refuse to write for, one reason or another._{Gelato (Roman x Neo)
Rose Garden (Ruby x Oscar)
Black Sun (Blake x Sun)
Monochrome (Blake x Weiss)
Hummingbird (Summer x Qrow) or Qrow is Ruby's father. I will allow one-sided Hummingbird in the form of Qrow having an unrequited crush on Summer, as my own Qrow has that going on.
Tauradonna (Adam x Blake) Post-Blake leaving the White Fang. If it's a thread set before she leaves, it's fair game, but due to the nature of the ship, and Adam, being abusive, they won't be happy threads.
Any ship that violates a character's canon or headcanon sexuality; I.E. Shipping Whitley with women when I headcanon him as gay or Iila with men when she is canonically a lesbian.
Any blood-related or familial based ship with a sole exception: In my Red in The Blood AU, where Ruby is the bio kid of Roman and Scarlett and also raised by them, it is absolutely fair game for Ruby to date Yang, Qrow, or any other canon family member as she's not related to them. Any AUs like this is fair game.}

( IX ) TRIGGERS
I, myself, am very chill about triggers. I hardly have anything that has to be tagged (I read dark romance for fun), but if you have any triggers and I may have missed tagging it, please let me know! I want to keep this safe for all of us.I will do my best to tag all triggers in my responses, especially since I have several characters (Roman, Neo, etc.) that have dark backstories and are villainous, their interactions often being dark and triggering depending on the thread and its context, and I am also a writer who loves to write darker things.

( X ) CREDITSAll of my icon psds are made by me, all of my edits, headers, and banners are made by me. My carrd template, however, is made by poohsources. My unedited icons come from dresspheres.Artwork in Scarlett's gallery done by mistywrenArtwork for Scarlett's icons done by Nic

RUBY ROSE.
18. she/her. demisexual, panromantic.

; muse: ruby rose

WEISS SCHNEE.
20. she/her. pansexual, demiromantic.

; muse: weiss schnee

BLAKE BELLADONNA.
20. she/her. bisexual.

; muse: blake belladonna

YANG XIAO LONG.
20. she/her. bisexual.

; muse: yang xiao long

JAUNE ARC.
20. he/him. bisexual.

; muse: jaune arc

NORA VALKYRIE.
20. she/her. pansexual.

; muse: nora valkyrie

PENNY POLENDINA.
20. she/her. demisexual.

; muse: penny polendina

WHITLEY SCHNEE.
16. he/him. homosexual.

; muse: whitley schnee

CARDIN WINCHESTER.
20. he/him. closeted bisexual.

; muse: cardin winchester

EMERALD SUSTRAI.
22. she/her. pansexual.

; muse: emerald sustrai

NEPTUNE VASILIAS.
21. he/him. closeted bisexual with shades of internalized homophobia.

; muse: neptune vasilias

SUMMER ROSE.
verse dependent | early 40s. she/her. bisexual.

; muse: summer rose

QROW BRANWEN.
early 40s. he/him. pansexual.

; muse: qrow branwen

OZPIN.
physically 35. he/him. pansexual, demiromantic

; muse: ozpin

WINTER SCHNEE.
27. she/her. bisexual.

; muse: winter schnee

ROMAN TORCHWICK.
32. he/him. bisexual.
Alternate FCS: Rupert Grint (Adult), KJ Apa (Teen)

; muse: roman torchwick

SCARLETT WOODS.
( OC. )^
^30. she/her. bisexual. mother to celeste and ciane torchwick

; muse: scarlett woods

TRIVIA (NEO) VANILLE.
24. she/her. lesbian.

; muse: trivia vanille

HEI XIONG JR.
30. he/him. bisexual.

; muse: junior

MILO DUSK.
^{( OC. )}
23. he/him (ftm trans). homosexual. wolf faunus.

; muse: milo dusk

NEA VANILLE.
24. she/her. bisexual.

; muse: nea vanille

CINDER FALL.
25. she/her. bisexual.

; muse: cinder fall

MERCURY BLACK.
20. he/him. demisexual, biromantic.

; muse: mercury black

ANGELO GOLD.
deceased in the main canon | late 30s if alive in AUs. he/him. pansexual

; muse: angelo gold

CANON

OSCAR PINE.
15. he/him (ftm trans). bisexual

PYRRHA NIKOS
20. she/her. bisexual

COCO ADEL
24. she/her. lesbian

VELVET SCARLATINA
24. she/her. bisexual

GLYNDA GOODWITCH
34. she/her. bisexual

JAMES IRONWOOD
early 40s. he/him. bisexual

CLOVER EBI
early 40s. he/him. homosexual

RAVEN BRANWEN
early 40s. she/her. sapphic asexual

ADAM TAURUS.
24. he/him. bisexual.

SALEM
immortal. physically late 20s/early 30s. she/her. queer.

ARTHUR WATTS.
early 40s. he/him. demisexual.

TYRIAN CALLOWS
early 30s. he/him. pansexual

HAZEL RAINART
early 40s. he/him. gray-asexual

LIL' MISS MALACHITE
mid 40s. she/her. pansexual

MILITIA MALACHITE
25. she/her. asexual

MELANIE MALACHITE
25. she/her. bisexual with a preference for women

ZWEI.
dog. corgi. he/him

ORIGINAL CHARACTER

VANILLA MORWENNA.
26. she/her. pansexual. dog faunus.

ALEC IRONWOOD.
26. he/him. pansexual.

HONEY MORWENNA.
26. she/her. asexual. dog faunus.

CELESTE TORCHWICK
verse dependent | 5 / 15. she/her. lesbian. daughter of roman torchwick and scarlett woods. older sister to ciane.

CIANE TORCHWICK
verse dependent | 2 / 12. he/him. bisexual. son of roman torchwick and scarlett woods. younger brother of celeste.

BISERA GOLD
age is verse dependent. she/her. only child to angelo gold and percy charoite.

VELVET SCARLOTTI
early 20s. she/her. bisexual. valean crime lord, rival to roman.

REGINA CARDINALE
late 30s. she/her. pansexual. mistrali crime lord, rival to malachite.

LUCIAN GRAVES
mid 40s. he/him. demisexual. roman torchwick and the chaos crew's lawyer.

ELARA EBI
verse dependent | early 20s. she/her. bisexual. deceased twin sister of clover ebi. formerly made up team ICLE alongside her twin, james ironwood, and lysander frost.

LYSANDER FROST
early 40s. he/him. asexual. formerly made up team ICLE alongside the ebi twins and james ironwood. after elara's death on their final mission as students, he left the life of a huntsman and turned to science.

JINX
black cat. she/her. belongs to scarlett woods.

DAISY
pitbull dog. she/her. belongs to junior xiong.

BEANS
dachshund dog. he/him. belongs to milo dusk. very gassy.

TRICK AND TREAT
bonded pair of cats. trick is a siamese cat. treat is a long haired white cat. she/her for both. belong to neopolitan.

VALE / BEACON.
^{( volumes 1-3 )}
    usually set during the events of volumes 1-3 but can also be general threads set on beacon's campus or in the city of vale.

; verse: vale

; verse: beacon

MISTRAL / MENAGERIE.
^{( volumes 4-6 )}
    usually set during the events of volumes 4-6 but can also be general threads set in mistral, on anima, or menagerie.

; verse: mistral

; verse: menagerie

ATLAS / MANTLE.
^{( volumes 7-8 )}
    usually set during the events of volumes 7 and 8 but can also be general threads set in mantle or atlas as a whole.

; verse: atlas

; verse: mantle

EVER AFTER.
^{( volume 9 )}
    only set during the events of volume 9.

; verse: ever after

VACUO.
^{( volume 10 )}
    usually set during the events of volume 10 but can also be general threads set in vacuo and its surrounding area.

; verse: vacuo

PRE-SERIES
^{( pre-series )}
    for anything that takes place before the series properly begins; anything from events occurring right before volume 1 to all the way back to the STRQ era or even further to the Ozma era.

; verse: prequel

FUTURE.
^{( post-series)}
    for anything that goes beyond the show's timeline from events occurring after the final episode to far in the future past the time of RWBY and friends.

; verse: future

EVERFALL.
^{( canon divergent AU )}
    the events of volume 3 never come to pass; the fall never happens and the tournament concludes as normal. in this AU, cinder and her faction's plans were exposed. with neo's help, roman torchwick was broken out of jail and regains power in vale's underground as kingpin. team rwby and friends become second years at beacon.

; verse: everfall (AU)

REKINDLED.
^{( AU )}
    an AU that simply asks the question; what if cinder fall could be good? in this AU, she is joined by ren and nora at the hotel, becoming an older sister figure to them both. they would go on to survive and be freed, and cinder would enroll at haven. upon graduating, she would soon find herself assisting a young woman in a fight, gaining strange powers when the girl passes away in her arms.

; verse: rekindled (AU)

NOT MEANT FOR GODS.
^{( AU )}
    scarlett woods was never meant to be part of the gods’ war. she wasn’t a huntress, a chosen one, or even a believer. she was a former street girl turned lieutenant to roman torchwick—his most trusted, most dangerous, and most beloved. but everything changes when a dying young girl dies in her arms and unknowingly passes on the power of the summer maiden.now, with ancient magic in her veins and a target on her back, scarlett becomes a secret flame in a world divided between ozpin and salem. and roman, ever the opportunist, becomes something else entirely: her shield, her smoke screen, her only safe place. they never wanted to play the gods’ game—but together, they might just rewrite the rules.

; verse: not meant for gods (AU)

SOMEDAY THEY'LL BE TALKING ABOUT ME.
^{( AU )}
    the chaos crew. roman torchwick's criminal based faction made up of himself, neo, junior, scarlett, milo. in most incarnations of the world, they all fall into the criminal life eventually...but what if there was a world where they were given a different chance? a different choice not to be criminals or repeat the mistakes and decisions that they made a thousand lifetimes over. what if they became huntsmen and huntresses?this verse follows team RVSX of beacon, comprised of roman torchwick, trivia vanille, scarlett woods, hei xiong junior, and later joining their team as a fifth member, milo dusk. upperclassmen to team rwby, they're fourth years by the time team rwby starts, well on their way out the door to graduate.and with one more vytal tournament to compete in, everything's going to be fine, right?... right?

; verse: someday they'll be talking about me (AU)

CRIMSON LEGACY.
^{( AU )}
THIS VERSE HAS MUSES THAT ARE EXCLUSIVE TO OTHER BLOGS. PLEASE CHECK EXCLUSIVES TAB FOR MORE DETAILS    ruby rose is not the biological daughter of taiyang xiao long and summer rose. her lineage, her bloodline is much darker; she is the daughter of infamous kingpin roman torchwick and scarlett woods. the latter two had been too young, too unstable in life and mental health to care for a baby, and with a heavy heart, they gave up their baby girl to be raised with something they both never got.yet ruby never stopped questioning why she never felt like she truly belonged in her childhood home, growing up along side her single mama summer rose with her uncles taiyang and qrow, her sister yang, and auntie aurelia just a stone's throw away. she never stopped questioning why her anger, her cunning, her wit seemed to come from something other than nurture.then one fateful night, she foils a dust shop heist underway by the infamous roman torchwick. neither of them know it in that moment of huntress-in-training chasing after criminal the connection they have that goes beyond 'rivals on opposite sides of the law.' but it's only a matter of time before roman finds out "ruby rose" is his baby girl he and scarlett gave up long ago.and when father and mother start to cross paths more and more with their daughter, it's only a matter of time before the truth comes out.

; verse: crimson legacy (AU)

RED IN THE BLOOD.
^{( a crimson legacy variant AU )}
    ruby rose is still not the biological daughter of taiyang xiao long and summer rose. but this time, her actual biological parents, roman torchwick and scarlett woods, decide to keep her and raise her on their side of the law, doing the best they can to give their daughter a better life than they had, despite their youth, despite their line of work.ruby rose grows up walking a morally grey line, though from a young age she finds a love of weapons. as she grows up, her criminal parents encourage this interest, among all of her other hobbies, with ruby eventually growing up and starting a weapons repair and mod shop at the age of fifteen - a business that also doubles as a way for her to take her father's black market weapons and make them "clean."now eighteen, ruby's busy with the shop, occasionally breaking her parents out and breaking the law herself, or customizing and making her own weapons in the meantime. lately though, there's been a huntsman, recently graduated from beacon, who's been a real thorn in her father's side... and unfortunately for roman, he's caught ruby's attention.but surely qrow branwen's presence around the torchwick family business means nothing... right?

; verse: red in the blood (AU)

NEVER FREE.
^{( AU )}
    when scarlett woods and roman torchwick appeared in the halls of the velvet halo that fateful night, they rescued the other victims, struck a match, and watched angelo and fleur burn within the walls of the prison they created.but what if angelo gold survived?
in this AU, angelo slipped away in the dark of the night before the flames reached his office, returning to mistral and laying low for the heat to die down.now it's been almost ten years and he's returned to vale, seeking the one girl who got away.

; verse: never free (AU)

WHERE THE SNOW FELT SOFT.
^{( AU )}
    when ten-year-old winter schnee appeared on scarlett’s doorstep with a newborn in one arm and her baby sister’s hand in the other, scarlett didn’t ask questions, only opened the door. she wasn’t a huntress. she wasn’t a hero. but she saw herself in winter’s eyes… and she couldn’t say no.they call it a tragedy—jacques schnee’s death in a fire, willow’s descent into madness. they call it charity that roman torchwick and his partner took the orphaned schnee children in. but roman, scarlett, and winter knew the truth. and anyone who questioned it?they never asked again.

; verse: where the snow felt soft (AU)

MODERN.
^{( AU )}
    taking the muses out of the world of remnant and bringing them to our world; college AUs, coffeeshop AUs, etc. galore.

; verse: modern

HIGH FANTASY / DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS.
^{( AU )}
    an excuse to have the muses interact with any dnd / fantasy based media, ie: critical role, DA, elder scrolls, etc.

; verse: your turn to roll

IN A WORLD WE MUST DEFEND.
^{( AU )}
    an excuse to have a pokemon au

; verse: in a world we must defend (AU)