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Her eye twitches as he oh so casually greets her. A million words cross her mind, that may make her look crazy, but she definitely wanted to say them. She had spent the last week combing through everything she had done to possibly upset him, or hurt him, and she couldn’t think of one instance. Perhaps she was being too clingy, or too distracting. 

Too much. 

Hoisting herself up onto Jaunes’ bed, she taps her fingers on the wood. Something was really wrong, and he wasn’t talking to her about it. Not that it’s a big deal, but it was a big deal to her. Nora had always been the type to be mostly upfront with how she felt about certain situations, and Ren was never in the dark. Maybe it was naive of her to think that maybe there was something else between them. 

She started to wonder if Ren even had romantic feelings towards her. The blushing, hand-holding, dates but not really dates, all of that seemed a little too intimate for just friends. After everything that they had gone through, she didn’t want this to be where it all ended. 

“Oh hey? What am I, some old friend you haven’t seen since high school?”  Rolling her eyes, she could feel her body temperature rising. “I see you’ve been keeping yourself busy, huh?”

Leaving an open window for conversation, she was sure he could feel the pressure building up behind him. Though she had put a lot of the pent up anger and frustration into her workout, it still was a lot to unpack. 

“Or maybe you kinda forgot that you had a phone. Wait. There’s no way because you’ve seen every message.” Her tone is straight-up sarcastic. While fighting the urge to fall into a passive-aggressive vent, she stares at the back of his head. “Got anything on that?”

Being the quiet, not very social type has always kind of been his thing. It’s nothing new to him. But the lengths he’s gone through to avoid any kind of contact, until now that is, with Nora, is something he’s never really dabbled in before. It’s extremely difficult for him to pinpoint just what the hell he’s doing? She’s his best friend. Typically, best friends don’t ignore each other the way he’s avoided her like the worst kind of sickness imaginable. He should feel bad for the way he’s been treating her, or not treating her, whichever works better. But...something keeps telling him to not let up his defense mechanisms. Still not even daring to look up at her and meet her gaze, he continues working on his sketches, so lost in thought that the’s just barely comprehending the things she’s saying directly to him. “Yes. I...have a lot of school work to catch up on. Busy time of year.” he practically says into the paper he’s drawing on. 

That’s when her last comment arises. He had pretty much forgotten the fact that Nora would know when he saw her texts and decided to just not answer at all. Sweat beading down his brow, he really cannot find an appropriate answer to that. How can he possibly respond? What is he supposed to say? 

For some reason, he still refuses to give in, refuses to let himself be vulnerable, keeping himself as composed as can be, still avoiding eye contact. This time though, his eyes slowly drift away from his drawing to just look around the room, anywhere but where she’s looking at him.

“I...it’s...you wouldn’t understand.”

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jaunearcs‌:

   “Theoretically, no, I did not know that.”

   Exasperation and utter embarrassment is flush upon a forced smile, skin slick with a thin sheen of sweat as he begins to regret near every decision he’s ever made up to this very moment. At the time, Jaune honestly wasn’t sure what he was thinking bringing Ren into his escapades–it seemed easy. No one REALLY knew much about his roommate, so would they really question whether he was a basketball star or not? No, of course not–…

   But, Jaune never thought they’d actually ask to see it. 

   The Arc is near ready to get onto his knees and begin begging, hands already clapped together in preparation, yet, before he can even move, by some miracle, Ren agrees. 

   “–Wait, really?! Oh, Ren, you are the BEST.”

   That expression of discomfort quickly contorts into one of relief, the forced grin left upon his features now melding into pure joy–and before he can even give Ren the option to move, strong arms are tossed around the other’s body to squeeze and lift off his feet.

   “Thank you, thank you! You’re a lifesaver!”

   Another moment of holding his poor roommate in the air, and then quickly does he put him back on his feet, unwind his arms, and take a quick step back; now flushed with crimson in the cheeks as fingers reach up to tussle through styled, blond tresses.

   “Uhhh–I mean, you’re really saving my hide! The guys would probably make me sit on the bench forever if you didn’t actually show!”

All Ren can really manage to do for a brief moment is shake his head, all the while with a little knowing smile. Just what is he--what are they about to get themselves into? Sometimes, he genuinely questions himself as to why he even so much as entertains so many of these shenanigans that the blonde gets himself into. In many ways, his life would be vastly easier to navigate if he so much as chose to just steer clear of this, but he knows in his heart, he could never let down his friend like that. Being roommates for more than a year now, the two have become rather close friends, and in a lot of ways, he finds silly, but well meaning nature of the blonde to be rather endearing.

“To be honest with you, I can barely believe it myself that I’m actually agreeing to this. At least this way, you wouldn’t have to potentially look foolish on your own, I don’t mind taking some of the hit as well. That’s assuming I don’t pull off a miracle.”

He can’t help but chuckle a little bit. For as long as he’s known Jaune, he’s never known him to be a sports, or even basketball extraordinaire. Dance has always been the thing he’s been good at. I guess branching out to some extent can always be a good thing...

“Of course, I’m sure you would do the same for me, well, not that I would ever be so bold to attempt something like, you--we’re, about to do, on my own. But tell me though, Jaune. Why the sudden interest in joining the basketball team?”

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@sunsguns​

While it’s true that Ren isn’t the most sociable of people, he still tends to be a friendly enough person in passing, and meets many people through mutual friends. Living with Jaune in the dorms for over a year now, he’s gotten to know a fair amount of people, one such person being Sun, for the time being more Jaune’s friend than his. Though Sun can be a little bit...wild so to speak, him and Ren still tend to get along pretty well unsurprisingly as Sun as probably one of the more friendly people you’ll ever meet.

Noticing the same blonde walking around casually, Ren gives him a casual wave before slowly approaching him. It’s always nice having even just casual conversations, at least in his mind. To him, it’s always worth putting in a little bit of extra effort with a friend of a friend.

Scratching his head slightly, he gives the blonde a small smile. “Sun. How are your classes going? Pretty busy time of year, isn’t it?”

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thunderxthighs‌:

[ 12:30 pm]: Hey, I don’t know if you’re busy or not, but Froyolo has a deal going on and I’m ready for some yogurt!

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“AGAIN?” Nora had never been one to control her volume. Always the loudest in the room, most of her teammates had learned to block it out. Her massive amounts of energy made her an asset, and quite frankly, she could probably pummel them all if needed.

Aggressively curling her weight with one arm, she stares at her phone. Ren hadn’t been answering any of her texts or calls, which wasn’t exactly normal. He was quiet and reserved, and she knew he liked his space, however, it was unlike him to let her know. Being left on read for a week was starting to get old and she was tired.

Before barging in his room, she decided to blow off some steam.

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He’s honestly not even sure what’s come over him. He’s never done anything remotely like this, let alone to his best friend. Lately, he’s been feeling some intense emotions in regard to Nora, and quite frankly, has no idea in the slightest how to process them. It’s not anger per se, it’s... a lot of things. Things that he can’t quite put his finger on. What started as just thinking to himself he’d get back to her eventually turned into full blown ignoring out of panic, and here he is, nearly a week later, avoiding Nora in any way he possibly can. 

Maybe I’m finally feeling the weight of everything I’m trying to juggle crashing down all at once, he thinks to himself. The pressure of everything, maybe it’s all too much. Or maybe, I’m just running from something. But what? This afternoon, he notices another text from Nora, deciding to once again not even grant her any kind of response. Out of all of this, the one surprising thing is that she hasn’t come to check up on him in person yet. Is this what he’s trying to do? Is he maybe subconsciously trying to lure her over here? That can’t be, can it? Confrontation after all, was never something Ren has been good at, it seems like Nora’s better at that sort of thing with her outgoing personality.

Deciding he’d work on some tattoo sketches to take his mind off of things, he takes a seat gently, quietly beginning the drawing process, only to be interrupted by a loud bang on the door. 

Uh oh.

While he knows what’s about to happen, he casually continues his drawing, not even looking up as she approaches him. Mostly because he’s way too nervous, and cowardly at that, to look her in the eyes. He hates hurting people, and seeing the potential hurt, anger in her eyes is too much for him to bear.

Her words almost just miss him completely as he nearly zones out, but just barely manages to comprehend her.

“Oh. Hey.”

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alright y’all it’s about time, time for a starter call!!

so uh, feel free to give this a like for a starter!!

i’ll cap it at say, 4 for now, excluding castmates!!

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Honestly, it tends to amaze pretty much everyone he knows how he’s able to make time for everything, the school work, the tattoo side business, the clubs. They’d think maybe he’s some kind of super human. In all honestly, a lot of the time Ren himself doesn’t even know how he manages to find so much time to balance school work with just about everything else. He somehow always manages to make things work, something he takes great pride in despite not fully comprehending how he manages.

Just as his classes for the day are at end, before leaving his building, he quickly catches wind of a somewhat familiar face. While not being the most sociable of people, he attempts to be as friendly and courteous as he can when given the chance. This familiar face he doesn’t know all too well, but recognizes him from the gardening club they both happen to be in. They haven’t spoken all that much as of yet aside from mostly pleasantries, but today, Ren happens to be in a pretty good mood, thus feeling a little friendlier than usual.

Picking up his walking pace a little bit until he falls in beside the fellow gardening club member, he gives the boy a small, friendly nod.

“Hey, you’re...Erengyl, right? It’s nice to see another member of the gardening club. Done with classes for the day as well?”

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jaunearcs‌:

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   “So, Ren.

       Theoretically—”

   The Arc begins, palms upturned and chin pointed high, his tongue lapped against the roof of a drying mouth as he searches carefully for his words; determined not to startle any alarms in his roommate’s head. A soft pop of his lips, a twist of a sneaker against the flooring, and his voice begins again, slow and cautious.

   “If say, I, THEORETICALLY told one of the guys on the Basketball team that you taught me a super cool, super secret move that’d make it so I could make. Uh. A throw from waaaaay on the other side of the court. This is all Theoretically, of course, but if I told them that, so they would let me on the team, and now they wanna meet you so you can teach them–….in THEORY, how mad would you be?”

   Cue the large, forced grin, eyes of pure blue wide like a puppy begging for scraps. Something in the way he spoke sure made it sound like less than a theory.

Having already being Jaune’s roommate for just over a year now, Ren has become rather used to the way the blonde...is, to put it simply. A kind person, a loyal friend, but also rather silly and more often than not, pretty clumsy. Often times he seems to get himself in trouble with his little antics, but they never really go as far as to bother him or anything remotely like that. Truly getting on the black haired boy’s nerves takes a great deal, seemingly having the patience of a saint. 

He breathes a small sigh, rolling his eyes slightly as his friend describes his so called “theoretical” predicament. Pretty much, code for he’s actually done what he’s described, despite his claims. However, being used to this sort of thing, he can’t help but smile a little bit at the sheer ridiculousness of this. Classic Jaune, it seems.

“Jaune, let’s say that this ‘theoretically’ did happen. You...know I haven’t played a single game of basketball since my freshman year in high school, right? ‘Theoretically’, of course. I was never that great at it.” he pauses, shaking his head slightly. What a predicament. He feels as though the easiest option in this scenario is to go and find the basketball team himself and tell them straight up that Jaune was lying about what he said to try and save himself from embarrassment, but what kind of friend is he should he actually do that?

Breathing another large sigh, he’s unable to believe that he’s actually willing to attempt this for his friend’s sake. “But...if it really means that much to you, I guess I could try and give it a shot? I can’t guarantee we won’t both be embarrassed, though.”

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alright y’all it’s about time, time for a starter call!!

so uh, feel free to give this a like for a starter!!

i’ll cap it at say, 4 for now, excluding castmates!!

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hi hello!! thought i’d throw together a quick little intro for myself and ren as well! my name is patrick, but i usually go by patty and i’m 23!! rwby is and will probably always be one of my major obsessions, and ren is one of my favorite muses!! i’ve rped him a couple of times in the past and am super excited to try him out in a university au setting!! anyway, without further ado, about ren:

lie ren || 19 || second year || fine arts major, environment science minor || 

he’s a pretty quiet but chill dude 99% of the time

he is super into tattoos and has been since he was a kid, now runs a makeshift tattoo parlor in his free time, the quality of his tattoos is more or less professional grade

he has many tattoos of his own, including tattoo sleeves on each of his arms and a couple on his back

will give you free tattoos if you’re a close friend of his, either way he tries not to charge too much for them

one of those students who balances so many activities it makes you wonder “how does he do it when i can barely do even one of those things”

also is a fantastic cook, will make you like foods you never thought you would before

take note of his “please do nothing to the cook” apron

is not a fan of clutter and thus always keeps his dorm nice and tidy

although he isn’t a man of many words, he is still a super loyal friend and will always be there for you

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and Ren never made pancakes with them again

//draw the squad here

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one episode in and im already sad thinking about Ren and Nora.

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man, now im havin so many angst filled headcanons for when Ren and Nora were younger. did they meet at a orphanage? did they lose their family to Grimms?? WAT HAPPENED DAMMIT

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