HC that when Ruby found out Penny was a robot she started studying everything she could find about androids and bioengineering in case there was a repeat of the truck incident and she got scraped up. She meant well, but it got weird pretty fast. Ruby was convinced she was very stealthy but her friends all caught on within the first month. Yang brushed it off as her usual love of weapons at first, but once she saw the CCT searches about artificial skin their team had one VERY AWKWARD conversation. Months later in Atlas post-resurrection Nora realizes why Ruby was looking that up and screams “thank fucking gods” because she spent months worried Ruby was secretly a Hannibal/Frankenstein/Merlot type mad scientist
Glynda just decided to stop looking at student search histories forever. And maybe join Qrow for the occasional drink.
I’ve been holding onto this one bc I love the mental images I get with it :D
V7 Ruby nonchalantly going to help Penny with repairs (maybe the damage to Penny’s hands after the Cinder fight?) and Nora’s just sitting there, then she blinks, and is like ‘WHAT THE FUCK OOOOOOOHHH’
and Jaune and Ren have Flashbacks to when Nora dragged them along on an investigation of Ruby during their Beacon days (to find where she was stashing her “creation”), which caused JNPR to get in a lot of trouble as they kept breaking rules.