#autistic ruby

[vigilantsycamore]

I like to think that sometimes Ruby asks Weiss a question she already knows the answer to, just because Ruby knows that Weiss enjoys sharing facts about stuff like this (also Ruby enjoys listening to Weiss share those facts) and that Weiss knows a lot of facts about this topic

(Neither of them know what infodumping is but that is in fact what's happening there)

[bardock1991]

As someone who's neurodivergent myself, hearing Ruby herself confirm that she's in the spectrum too makes me really happy

https://twitter.com/Breadcrumbs1783/status/1679299690955698186?t=1BUZMFiB0igbbS9jaDFxNg&s=09

[random-rwby-au-headcanons]

AU where Ruby has autism.

...

Wait, that's just the actual show.

[spockanalia]

im just thinking about autistic garnet and the keystone motel episode when ruby & sapphire split, one of them goes into shutdown and one meltdown.

sapphire, very literally, freezes up & doesn’t move. thats how she processes the stress of the situation & it just felt very shutdown-y to me

ruby starts to get agressive & needs to go outside so she doesnt destroy the place. she lashes out at steven without thinking and afterwards she feels horrible.

as garnet they can balance each other out but when emotions get high they have to unfuse bc garnet is already an emotional connection that they dont have the capacity for when they are shutting/melting-down

[maxiemumdamage]

Anyway Penny Polendina and Ruby Rose are both transgender and autistic, also they’re girlfriends thank you.

[musings-from-mars]

A reminder that Ruby Rose:

is Trans

is Gay

is Autistic

is Swoll af

is the best girl

Loves you unconditionally

Punches rich people

is still the best girl

is cute

is a badass motherfucker

is, yes, you guessed it, THE BEST GIRL

[softly-speaking-valkyrie]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

And here it is, a little later than intended but people liked Autistic Ruby enough I had to go and rewrite this Chapter entirely.

Say hello to the final day, Day 7 of @white-rose-week and I didn’t want it to end this quickly. It’s been so much fun and the first week long event for a ship or fandom I’ve done. I’m glad it was White Rose too, such a pure and brilliant pairing. They’re so cute and I’m glad I did the event. 

I hope it runs again next year and I hope there’s other shipping events for Rwby too, like the bees. Sign me up for bumbleby week guys. 

If anyone ever wants some more White Rose from me, please do send asks and stuff, maybe even commission because it helps a lot, and the info is always floating about.

Enjoy the final day - Reunion.

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[vigilantsycamore]

Headcanon:

Weiss and Ruby are both autistic, but Ruby rarely masks and even when she does try masking she doesn't really know how to go about it - partly because she's never really had to - while Weiss spent most of her childhood being forced to mask, absolutely hates doing it, and finds it exhausting, but unfortunately it's a force of habit for her at this point

After a while, Weiss gets comfortable enough around Ruby that when it's just the two of them, she does stop masking. Usually when that happens, Weiss is already exhausted from masking all day up to that point so she just sort of slumps next to Ruby and wordlessly bumps against her as a way of requesting Girlfriend Cuddles

Related to this: Ruby actually took a relatively long time to start talking (somewhat supported by canon's inconsistensies about how old she was when Summer left) and while she's pretty talkative now she does still have the odd nonverbal moment. Weiss, on the other hand, was raised by Jacques, who definitely did some fucked-up shit to make her start talking at a "normal" age - but now that she doesn't have to deal with him anymore, Weiss does tend to go nonverbal as soon as her mask drops

(Side note, this headcanon does give Weiss something in common with Neo, which definitely has some kind of storytelling potential)

Also - neither of them is actually diagnosed. In Ruby's case, Yang and - once he became more present - Tai sort of figured it out by doing their own research, and in Weiss's case she just had no idea about anything related to autism until Ruby mentioned it, and took longer to realize she might have it herself