#ozqrowweek2023

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@ozqrowweek 2023 Day 1: Daily Rituals / Nonsexual intimacy

One of two left that's (extremely) late to the party; day 1, daily rituals! This is a newer AU @cara-kira and I thought of quite recently. Beacon is left abandoned after a grimm attack many years ago, but the students and staff still haunt it's halls. Qrow and Glynda are Beacon's care takers and tour guides, and a daily ritual of Qrow is to talk to his one-of-a-kind friend, Ghost Ozpin. :)

For this day, I did the sketch and lines, and Cara did the coloring!

[ozqrowweek]

💚 Ozqrow Week 2023 Prompt List ❤️

Thanks for your patience, everyone! Here are the prompts for this year's ship week:

August 1st: Daily Rituals / Nonsexual Intimacy

August 2nd: Accidental Kiss / Stargazing

August 3rd: Crossover AU / Nothing Bad Ever Happened AU

August 4th: There Was Only One Bed! / Stranded Together

August 5th: Spa Day / Sparring

August 6th: Text Messages / Taking Flight

August 7th: Free Day!

If, for some reason, none of those prompts float your boat, we also have alternate prompts!

Soulmates

One Night Stand

Bachelor Party

Summer Vacation

Love Letters

Cooking Class

All kinds of fanworks are welcome: fic, art, photoshoots, fanmixes, etc. If you have questions, ping us, and we'll be sure to answer them ASAP.

Now, go forth and prepare! ❤️💚

[heartsaidnoibat]

Moodboard for Ozqrow Week 2023.

Day 2: Stargazing 🔭 💫

[zacs-of-rwby]

Chapter 2: The Choices of Men

Story Summary: Qrow Branwen is a world renowned treasure hunter looking for his next successful discovery. Ozpin is a wealthy philanthropist trying to find the lost Relics of Creation, Destruction, Knowledge, and Choice. Despite Qrow's skepticism in the existence of the Relics, Oz hires him to trace their location and track them down. Qrow expects that this search will prove fruitless and put an end to Oz's obsession with the story, but he doesn't care- Oz promised to pay him either way.

Chapter Summary: Oz and Qrow have finally made it to the Temple of Beacon.  What secrets will they uncover when they make their way inside?

Categories: Action/Adventure, Mutual Pining, Uncharted AU

Author’s Note: My second entry for @ozqrowweek is a chapter 2 XD luckily I had this Crossover AU just lying around.  A collab for this one may be appearing in due time.  Hypothetically, if it did, the link would be in the notes.  As soon as it was available, that is.  Hypothetically.

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Ozqrow Week - Day 6 - Taking Flight

Flight means so much, and yet so little

Isn’t that what they call it, if you run away

To write new songs and new beginnings?

Or even just to find yourself, since after all

That’s a part of growing up.

So what, if, running, you don’t go back?

And never truly try to think

On everything you lost in choosing

To follow the voices in your own head?

And yes, maybe they were the Wizard

Ancient, knowing all that’s passed

And yes, maybe they were right

When they warned you of your fate

Salem kills whole families, you see…

And whatever you may once have thought

Of the man that sired you, the others

Both the sister born and those yet to come

Are innocent in all of this, they never

Deserved to share the fate you bought

Upon them, merely by being yourself

This is not a gift, merely a curse

But by bearing it, you can ensure

That for a time, it falls on no one else.

And so you run, you flee to where

You were told that others wait

To greet the next, for next you are

And teach you what you need to know

There will be a price to pay

There always is, in every life

But you’re too young to realise, yet

Just what they’ll ask of you, in truth

They will rip you all to shreds

And remake you, someone new

They even gave you a new name

Although that might be a blessing, after all

You’re pretty certain that they’ll look

Those you fled to save them from

That destiny they never chose, but then

You never chose it, either, did you?

And as you grow into the man

They chose to model you, mould you as

You’ll meet those you’d call your friends

If, of course, you can truly have them

And someone more, and something greater

Than you looked for, ever thought

You could be worthy of. That one love,

The greatest love you’ve ever felt

Will mould you as you, too, change him

And both of you will soon be more

For the having of each other.

Qrow is not a name you knew

Or ever thought you’d savour the taste of

On your tongue, the symbols rounded

Out by long use, easy caring

Maybe too easy, for he too

Could so quickly be taken from you

At the whim of someone who you’ve never even met

The shadow of the Witch, behind each memory you share

With those who came before is vast, you fear to fall too far

But how can you resist the pull when all of you is screaming for it

You love him, after all, against all logic or advice

And for him, you’d contemplate anything…

And yet that backbeat still remains

For all you ran, so long ago

They are still your kin and so you worry for them

Maybe you should not have given

In to temptation, threatened James

But then the only sister that you met

Chose Atlas of all places to enrol

And so put herself beneath his gaze

And to him became much more.

There’s something in that, something dark

That he cleaved so close to your own sibling

He doesn’t know that, you covered your own

Tracks too carefully for that, and yet

You worry that you never truly can forget

Yet you have he and he has you, though tired minds

And tired eyes spill more than you ever truly meant to

He knows now, who you used to be, sees through the mask

You have so carefully crafted. Even now, where they are

So hard to find, you had your sources…

Hairdye, colored contacts and the lies you hide behind

May be enough, at least until they aren’t.

You taught your Qrow well, after all, when you granted him

His own sort of flight, though this one is more normal

That your own. Oh if you knew what was to come

Would you have flown when you did? Or at all?

Since after all, you know that Atlas would have cherished you

Though that would have meant living there

In that cold city, far above those they should care the most about

And listening to Jaques Schnee, of all people… no

No, it was better, running far away from all that you once knew

Weiss is better as the heir, after all, and Winter too

Maybe taking from your lead and maybe not, you’ll never know

Fled too from that cold place you never called a home.

And as you face the death you know is coming

You can’t help but smile, for after all

They’re safe awhile longer, there is nothing now

To link you to them, what comes next

Whoever you next wake as, they

Have no connection to your past

You breath your last, oh… they are free

All of them, your siblings all, and so too Qrow to find another

If he can, he’s known surely that this could never last?

You love him, oh you love him so and as you feel your soul

Take flight, you know that this is freedom, too

In chains… oh Qrow, my love… goodnight.

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@ozqrowweek 2023 Day 4: There Was Only One Bed / Stranded Together

Hi hello no this isn't late what are you saying!! On a more serious note, I've mentioned this before of course but sis and I are simply catching up on the days we missed at a slow pace. We're working on it when we can, and now that the week has passed any way we're taking our sweet time!

With that said, here's day 4, taking place in @cara-kira and I's Royalty AU! The Kingdom of Vale recognized that the King needed a Guardian. They hosted a tournament, of which the winner would be appointed as Ozpin's Royal Guardian. Despite Qrow's joy for his hard work paying off, Ozpin is less than pleased to be stranded together with some stranger...

For this day, @cara-kira did the lines, and I did the coloring that took sixty more years off my life.

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@ozqrowweek 2023 day 2: Accidental Kiss / Stargazing

Oh Qrow, you just can't get a break, can you?

In case you missed Cara's last post, we did actually participate in Ozqrow week again this year! Ufortunately we didn't get much finished yet, so we'll be taking our time for the remaining prompts :)

For this day, @cara-kira did the lines, and I did the coloring!

[zacs-of-rwby]

Home is Where You Get a Little Help

Story Summary: Oz has had a rather recent change to his nightly routine- a change he welcomes into his life with open arms. Qrow’s presence at the house late into the night has become a comfort Oz never thought he’d have. There is one thing that hasn’t changed, though. At Beacon, someone always needs some help.

Categories: Domestic Fluff, Slice of Life, Cute

Author’s Note: My first submission for @ozqrowweek this year! Of course, I had to set it in the Halfway House AU (@ozpins-halfway-house)

Writing this scene was so much fun! This was the first time I really got to write their dynamic when they have to work together to take care of the kids. It also presented me an opportunity to explore an aspect of their relationship I don’t talk about too much. There are so many ideas for this AU I still have, I hope I get to share them all one day!