Full Moon Dance
Word Count: 2700+ (chapter 1) (chapter 2) [AO3 link]
Genre: Humor/Romance
Characters: Raven Branwen, Summer Rose, Qrow Branwen, Taiyang Xiao Long, Kite Branwen (OC, mentioned)
Pairing: Raven Branwen/Summer Rose
Summary: Misunderstanding what “taking a partner” is supposed to entail, Raven asks Summer to the Vytal Festival Dance.She did not expect that to become a gateway to facing her changing feelings for her teammates and her place at Beacon.
(I meant to have this posted for the free day of @rose-bird-week but missed the mark by a few days)
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“Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone’s hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.”
Vera Nazarian
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Culture shock was a phrase that Raven had grown to truly detest by the end of her first year at Beacon. Navigating the obstacle course that was non-tribe society seemed to trip her and Qrow up at every turn, even as constantly helpful as Summer tried to be.Â
(Considering how funny Tai found them sometimes, she would hesitate to fully include him in the “helpful” category.)Â
When they’d gone back home to the tribe for their break, Kite had insisted on several nights where the three of them took dinner and drinks alone in her tent, so she could squeeze her twins for every last detail of their new school lives. Which Raven supposed she understood, coming from their leader who they’d never been apart from for so long, but she could have done without quite that much raucous laughter at their missteps.Â
But by the time they got into the swing of second year, Raven thought that they had fully gotten the hang of this whole “living in the real world” thing, as Qrow was given to calling it. So when on the way back from class she started to hear the strains of an animated conversation, she didn’t think she would need to ask about exactly what was being discussed.
“…what everyone does,” Tai was saying. “Just don’t think so hard about it!”
Their backs were to her as they walked in the direction of their dorm room, so she couldn’t see Qrow’s face. But she could see him slowly nodding, and could picture the look of deep contemplation that probably accompanied it. This must be serious business.
“But I’ve got no idea what to do! We don’t have these things in Anima!”
“…No offense, but you guys don’t really have that much in Anima, do you?”
“You’re just catching on to that? And, I mean, I guess we do, but it’s not like it’s a fun party. What’s even the point of this dance thing?”
Recognition sparked in Raven’s head. Of course it was that.
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