Moonlight Solarium

I'm Saula || Compassrose is nice

[astro-alchemist]

Having fun with brainrot here but physical treasure can be associated with silver and gold.

I wonder what characters could possibly have that as their secondary colours...

[saulagoode]

#not yo mention ruby being a red gemstone #and oscars name having two possible connotations to gold

These tags, and of course, their respective gold and silver eyes.

Quite the treasure trove this ship has going for it

[compassroserwby-deactivated2023]

Early OST thoughts: “Lost” and its many meanings

Just one mod having thoughts here, but I love the play on Lost they’ve been doing in recent songs.

All That Matters was already a duet that suggested both Ruby and Oz are lost to the other at different times, given the chorus is sung by both of them, but the new songs go much more in depth with using the word than we see in earlier seasons (and Given Oscar’s involvement and beginning agreement with Oz (as shown in their emotional and experience-wise alignment in both narrative, as well as The Sky is Falling and For Every Life) it falls much more to Ruby to be Lost than her boys).

In Treasure’s second verse we get a couple lines where Ruby goes:

“Lone and lost, I wander with no place to go Just aimless till you reappear”

and on reappear they play the same bell chime melody we get when Ruby first meets Oz in vol 1, and again when she’s talking to Maria about not being able to see eye to eye with the boys in vol 6, in the episode called Dead End (which comes right before Lost, two episodes that are extremely connected to Ruby and Oscar reacting emotionally to learning about the Lost Fable (a story of Oz being led astray from the path of light)).

Which is also a scene where she’s surrounded by blue daisies - blue signifying loneliness, and daisies signifying eternal love.

So we can at that point be sure that Lost is a specific word applied to both Ruby, Oz, and Oscar, because without each other they are, indeed, Lost.

This is also made apparent by the fact that For Every Life and The Sky is Falling are both narrated by the boys and suggest an increasing desperation in returning to Ruby’s side, as they also promised in Until the End and countless other songs.

For Every Life, after all, is a list of all the things that’s been standing in their way since the dawn of time from properly being with her, with verse 1 being narrated by Oz about all their lifetimes and verse 2 being Oscar about this specific lifetime. As well as a pretty decent show of their focus narrowing back in to just Ruby.

Both songs are a pretty good indicator that whatever Oz was shown by the Crown of Choice is coming nearer as well. And as a result we get a pretty decent example of just how close they both are to losing patience with the whole separation.

“Our world is lost without a soul We’re losing all control Not getting closer Every step is just another dose of torture”

Gets a lot more specific now as well, since Lost is specifically about Ruby when narrated by the boys, which means that here they’re beginning to show just how irritated they are with not being able to “provide the things their loved ones need” because they keep being thwarted and can’t get closer to her.

Not to mention the fact that here we get a very clean view of what their priorities actually are. Oz and Oscar are likeminded souls, and Oz has both stated before and shown on countless occasions (as has Oscar) that they don’t care about the world. They care about the person they love.

Hence why “Our world” doesn’t refer to Remnant.

It means Ruby is their Whole World.

[isanarte]

Guess who read that reincarnation theory @compassroserwby has been going on about for a while, started making a whole comic about it, gave up for a few months, and then decided to upload it right now out of nowhere??

*points thunbs at myself* this girl~!

Ko-Fi / Twitter / Commissions

[saulagoode]

A WIP I don't think I will be finishing

[saulagoode]

Ruby Pose Sketches

I set off with the intention of doing serious practice, but then I got bored and she started t-posing...

[saulagoode]

A Kiss

[commentarybyredacted]

Rereading RWBY Fairy Tales 1: The Grimm Child

A Fairy Tale of Grimm Warnings

“(…) If you wish to fully appreciate a story, you should consider its source and attempt to unravel and understand the storyteller’s intentions. Why did they tell this story? Why now? Yes, stories may be shared for entertainment alone; however, they also can disguise lessons, moral guidance, important historic records, moon-shattering revelations—and even dire warnings of hidden dangers in the world and difficult trials yet to come.”

So writes Oz in the introduction to the Fairy Tales of Remnant book.

In other words, the text exists as an extension of canon, an act performed by a character with reason and intention beyond what is merely written down.

And given that we can now pressume that Ruby, too, is a character who reincarnates, albeit without her memories, the obvious reason for this book of fairy tales and memories seem rather clear: as a reminder to a friend and a companion of who she is even when she is not able to remember, as an act of care based in a feeble hope of something lost returning.

Thus, the stories we find in the book and the series become much more than just stories, and become so much more relevant to the series and what we have yet to experience together with Ruby and her team.

Therefore I’m cautiously sticking my toes back into the RWBY fandom again after many-a-year to hopefully analyse the episodes of the RWBY Fairy Tales series as they come out (and maybe even beyond that point), to share some of the interpretations we might find in-between the lines.

Keep reading

[saulagoode]

The Wizard

[hyperfixation-hideout]

Ozpin when Ruby has an idea // Oscar when Ruby has silver eyes

[cardinalroses]

Ooohhh i just saw the list of kisses and your last drabble was ABSOLUTELY adorable, can i have #1? A kiss on the top of the head for them pls?? 🥺🥺

#1 from this list: A kiss to the top of the head Please feel free to send in other requests from this list, or your own original prompts as well. I would love to do more drabbles!

“Kay, I’m out of here, see you in a few hours!” Ruby spoke in a rush, bending down to kiss the top of his head briefly before using her semblance to give her an extra little boost out the door, leaving a spare few petals in her wake.

She was playing a game. It all started when she noticed how cautious Oz had gotten with any little touch.

It didn’t used to be like that, he was comfortable with casual touch in general. Being that he shared a body with her boyfriend and that she considered a close companion, things like hugs and sitting right against each other were commonplace between them.

That was until a few weeks ago. There was a little mishap, a mistaken kiss, to which Oz apologized profusely and continually for the rest of the day regardless of assurance that it was bound to happen eventually, that it was fine, Ruby didn’t mind, Oscar didn’t mind, they both just found it funny.

From that point onward he had been respectful to a fault, not so much as touching her shoulder without direct permission. She had discovered incidentally that if she were the one to touch him in any sort of casual way, he would instantly become flustered. It was the least put-together and dignified she had ever seen him, and she couldn’t help but want to try it again. So she started with much more intentional and frequent hugs, or resting her head on his shoulder while he was writing, watching him turn increasingly red until he’d make an excuse to move away. If she thought it was making him genuinely uncomfortable, she wouldn’t push it, but as it was, it was a fun way to mess with him. The forehead kisses were the newest thing, though she had yet to stick around long enough to see his expression afterwards, she was sated with the knowledge that he was certainly left a mess. What Ruby wasn’t expecting was Oz’s retaliation. One evening soon after, Ruby was hunched over tinkering with her scythe, doing maintenance. She was too distracted to register how close by he was, though the tone of voice as he mumbled about going to bed for the night told her that it was Oz in control at the moment. Then, just a moment later, she felt a kiss pressed to the top of her hair. She was almost annoyed before she could process what had happened, because she was working on very fiddly fine work right now and the motion had made her drop a tiny screw onto the table.

That initial annoyance faded into humor rapidly though. It happened so quickly that she almost would doubt it happened if not for the sound of his feet and slam of the bedroom door as he fled. She set down her scythe and tools, rubbing her cheeks as if that’d cool them down at all.

[stonehillart]

Tug of War

Another comm for @compassroserwby done!!

[isanarte]

Pinky promise that you will step on me? ;)

Ko-Fi / Twitter

[chaikachi]

CompassRose comic I made a few months ago under the cut

i repeat. COMPASS. ROSE. DO NOT LOOK. IF UNCOMFORTABLE. THIS IS YOUR LAST CONTENT WARNING. NOT TO LOOK IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE IT. IF I HEAR YOU GRIPING ABOUT ME POSTING THIS, I WILL NOT HESITATE 🔪🔪🔪

/ahem

anyway.

The Ruby Also Reincarnates Theory grabbed me by the throat and has not let go of me since, so I wanted to play around with that idea a little bit. About the idea of Oz's soul not being the only one that perpetually returns to Remnant and how that could manifest in interesting ways. Especially in a context where his and Ruby's (or I guess, the original Rose's) souls are connected. Poor Oscar would be very confused waking up to a dream like that.

[cardinalroses]

Thank you for that last Drabble!! Really looking forwards to her boys showing her that much concern in show!

Might I request 2 or 24???

24 from this list: A kiss to the shoulder (I will be doing 2 here soon as well) Ruby woke slowly, warm and comfortable, with an arm around her waist and kisses being pressed against her bare shoulder. For a while she didn’t move at all, didn’t say anything though her less even breaths now gave away the fact that she was awake. “Mmn, you’re up early.” She mumbled when the kisses turned to nips instead.

“Oh am I?” And there was something in the way he said that, that gave her pause.

She could usually reliably tell who she was talking to, it was rare for her to be mistaken. There were countless small things that were clues. Kisses to the shoulders, or neck, almost always meant it was Oscar. Though he rarely ever woke up before she did, where Oz sometimes woke an hour before her. Neither of those two things necessarily meant anything on their own, they were quick to switch out control some days or share it other days. It was his voice that made her wonder, because even in sharing control they didn’t speak as one person.

Ruby glanced back at him and in his slightly unfocused gaze back at her, and the soft but smug smile he gave, that she confirmed her suspicions.

Sharing control was an active choice, but once in a while they blended in a way neither Oscar nor Oz had any say in.

It used to be an issue. The first time it happened there was just no getting through to them, it was the strangest most intense combination of outright panic and resigned depression she had ever seen someone go through.

It had been painful to watch, and she was thankful that each subsequent time had gotten easier. As they gained confidence that it wasn’t a permanent thing, and then gained comfort and trust in each other that even if it were permanent it would not be a tragedy, things got better.

Still Ruby preferred not to draw attention to it when it was happening. Half because of the concern that it would still upset them, and half because it was always fun to see what would come of it. She would treat him as one person who had a random grab bag of traits of either of her partners, an assortment of preferences that never seemed to stay the same time to time.

There were even things that showed up that she knew for a fact were not preferences of either of them as individuals. Such as last time this happened where he drank five cups of peppermint tea with honey in it, a drink that both Oz and Oscar would separately claim to be completely neutral to.

“Yep, you’re up too early. Can’t you let a girl sleep in?” She responded eventually, jostled out of thought by teeth grazing against the line of her collarbone.

“Nuh.” That was as coherent an answer as she’d get when he refused to take his mouth off of her.

[compassroserwby-deactivated2023]

RWBY Compassrose Analysis: Pink, The Colour of Romance

After the last couple of days that have been so full of negativity, we thought it was high time to talk about something fun.

So we’ve compiled a tiny little analysis on one of our favourite scenes in the first three volumes: The dance scene from Burning the Candle

Not only is this an episode whose title plays on the Wizard of Oz metaphors series of titles they’ve been having which focus on the Dorothy-Wizard metaphors in the overarching plot (Burning the Candle, Lighting the Fire, The Coming Storm etc), but it’s also one of the episode where we really begin to get foreshadowing about Ruby’s reincarnation and her significance in the greater scheme of things; thanks to Summer’s introduction into the story and Ruby and Oz’ conversation during the dance.

But I want to start somewhere else because what I really love about this episode isn’t just all of that: it’s how they use colour to tell a story of emotion.

Keep reading

[chaikachi]

Seeing a looooooot of discourse around CompassRose this last week and a lot of it seems... really misinformed on what exactly it entails? So I'm throwing this here as a sort of breakdown for anyone that want's to know more about it. so maybe you can stop attacking people for literally no reason whatsoever

[apocraphelion]

don’t make me spell it out for you (all of the feelings that I’ve got for you)

Words: 2541 Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: RWBY Rating: Explicit | Warnings: Underage Relationships: Oscar Pine/Ozpin/Ruby Rose (RWBY) Characters: Oscar Pine, Ruby Rose (RWBY), Ozpin (RWBY) Additional Tags: Compassrose, PWP, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, First Time, no ages are mentioned the underage tag is there just to be safe and this is au anyways, oz is a magically formed plural system actually you cannot change my mind, me writing this: ‘what if the merge was hot actually?’ Summary: “Hi.” She says, breathlessly. “Hello yourself” He replies, smiling. “So is *this* why you bought me this?” “I… well, yes.” “Why you, and Ozpin, bought me this?” Oscar blinks, and suddenly Ozpin is there shifting his posture uncomfortably. an au of an au of an au

for @teethhunter