#rwby weiss schnee

[thrythlind]

Not who I thought I was - commissioned art

Art by @nilusart

From near the end of the initial fic where they tell Weiss she's a faunus. Scene bit after "Keep Reading" line:

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

And the precise scene (spoiler for the first 9k word part... but for the overall series its not a spoiler)

“What’s going on?” Weiss snapped. “Will someone just tell me?”

“Blake.” Velvet said softly. “Um, Blake. It.. it might be better coming from you.”

The cat faunus nodded and gathered herself up. She stood and paced back and forth a couple of times.

“Blake for goodness sake, just tell us what’s going on.” Yang insisted.

The black-haired huntress turned around and nodded. She took a deep breath and stood back to avoid looming over her irritated teammate. “Umm… Weiss. You’re a faunus.”

Yang blinked and toppled off her chair while Ruby’s eyes widened and looked between Weiss and Blake.

Weiss stared and blinked a few times. “Excuse me? What kind of joke is that?”

“It’s not a joke.” Velvet leaned down and hesitantly reached for the white-haired girl's hands. “You have claws, Weiss.”

Weiss slowly pulled her hands out of Velvet’s. “I just drink a lot of milk.”

“Ruby, can you show her your hands please?” Blake asked.

“Umm… sure.” The younger hunter stepped over hesitantly and held out her hands.

“Look at those nails and look at yours,” Velvet pointed. “In fact, here’s mine.” The rabbit faunus held out her own hands next to Ruby’s and then looked over to Yang and Blake. “You too.”

Blake immediately stepped forward and reached in, placing her own hand next to Velvet’s and Ruby’s. A moment later, Yang was leaning in with her own hand. Four hands with simple nails compared to Weiss's tiny blades.

Weiss scanned the hands in front of her and then looked at her own, comparing the thick and sharp nails she’d had all her life. She’d never really thought of it before, if you weren’t looking for it there wasn’t much difference and the nail-polish made them fit in even more, but it was increasingly harder with each passing moment to accept that the difference that was there only came from drinking a lot of milk.

[luminoushane]

Sketch of a WR screenshot redraw

[ficretus]

Weiss' first summon being a knight is pretty logical, considering she is a fairy tale princess.

But the second one being a bee feels so random.

But it makes sense if you think of Weiss sharing an allusion with Winter, being a Snow Queen. Because the Snow Queen's minions in the story are snow bees, snowflakes that look like bees.

Queen's Lancer summon is created by a snowflake glyph and is made out of white particles.

Also in the story, there is a Gerd, young girl, heavily associated with roses, guided by a crow, and with an innate special ability. Which sounds Ruby-like, but I can't quite point my finger at what it could mean.

[gordonrwby]

Team RWBY Adventures a bank 🌹❄️🐈‍⬛🔥

How do you accidentally rob a bank? I don't know! It all happened so fast!

A little tiny render for the RWBY Beacon Week 26, team RWBY is certainly having quite a night out ;)

Unsure if I qualify, but I'm happy to provide some input nonetheless! :D

[thrythlind]

Not who I know how to be - chapter 25 teaser

A glimpse of Winter's view on events.

Arc finale

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

Winter had looked up at the wide smile her father wore as he circled an arm around her mother. She beamed brightly under the attention and only barely cringed under her cultured etiquette. It was something that would only become clear later on when Winter was older and able to look back at all those memories leading up to when Willow had drifted into being incapacitated as often as not.

“Yes, soon Winter won’t be an only child, she’ll have a little sister or brother to share her life with.” Willow had smiled.

“My wife was an only child, you see. Her parents were never able to have another. Health concerns.”

Jacques smirk stood out clear in her memory. Some would tell her that memory was never reliable, but even so much of their life hadn’t been recorded at the time, that smirk would be burned in her mind.

“I’m sure the competition will drive them both to grow.”

That was the thing of course, it was always the competition. Having more children than Nicolas Schnee was a triumph. And he had expected Winter and Weiss to be working against each other to make sure they were always on top. Multiple children was a diversified investment or a way to hedge a bet.

The reporter turned to her then. “And what do you think about this new sibling, Miss Schnee.”

Ten year old her had looked across to her parents with Willow’s soft smile and Jacques smile underneath hard and warning eyes. “I cannot wait to meet them, of course.”

Father’s enthusiasm for the new child lasted only until she was born and then his mood was dark and angry. For the next several weeks, she would catch him watching her as if he had caught her disobeying him somehow. That had… eased off a couple of weeks after a doctor’s appointment.

He treated Mother the same way, and the rate of her drinking had spiked. By the time he’d decided he trusted them again, such as he was capable of, the damage had been done.

[thrythlind]

Not who I know how to be - chapter 21 teaser

The raid on Vale begins.

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

The green flash emerging from a disused and bricked up stairwell was ignored among several other sounds and distractions. A moment later the sound of shattering brick and concrete heralded opened the way up. Weiss followed behind Yang and Nora and stepped aside to make room for others looked across the smoke rising up into the sky through which numerous creatures of Grimm wheeled. Her eyes turned up the cliffs beyond the city now to where Beacon’s tower stood swarming with Grimm. In the distance she could hear the roar of Grimm and the exchange of gunfire.

A massive dragon-like Grimm circled above, surrounded by swarms of other flying Grimm.

A sound of squealing tires drew her attention to a car careening into the scene covered in creeps. She rolled Myrtenaster’s chamber and summoned a spinning clock glyph underneath her and then rushed across the scene, landing on the car alongside Blake. A series of thrusts and cuts slashed through the small Grimm and removed both the car’s front doors. Below them, a stream of brilliant red petals swept the driver out the side door. Blake and Weiss leaped off the out of control car leaving Yang to slam it off track away from a building into the open space where it harmlessly rolled to a stop.

Weiss looked to where Ruby was depositing the driver and making sure they were okay, and then across to where the rest of their group had reacted to similar situations. Spread out across the square.

“Everyone, please stay inside and lock your doors.” Winter addressed the civilians looking on at their arrival as she walked into the center of the square. She turned to Jaune and Professor Port. “We need to clear the -”

The sound of an explosive firing brought attention to the sight of a rocket twisting wildly through the air towards Winter. Her sister was already forming a barrier glyph in front of her, but didn’t need to worry as the rocket was sent off course by Ilia’s extended lightning lash striking it near the back. It rushed high up into the air and exploded.

Winter turned to the chameleon faunus and nodded.

[thrythlind]

Not who I know how to be - chapter 20 teaser

A familiar but different train ride.

CW: depression, identity crisis

The AO3 preview isn't working again.

The dissipating mist of a Grimm drifted off and was quickly lost into the darkness. The individual packs weren’t difficult, but destroying them quietly without attracting others was time-consuming. But at the moment, that wasn’t what was concerning Weiss.

She looked across to see Ilia finishing off a trio of creeps and then from her to where her sister was cleaning her saber. From there she exchanged a look with her team.

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“I have seen Team JNPR around campus while I’ve been here.”

Weiss winced and slowly turned around to look at her sister standing there to the side of this little meeting.

“Which means that you must be one of the agents Sienna Khan sent to this operation.” Winter narrowed her eyes and looked over Ilia and scanned over the four girls. “How do you know my sister?”

Weiss raised a hand and started to open her mouth.

“We used to date.” Ilia glared at her. Winter arched her eyebrow and turned toward her sister. “Until your company dropped a mine on my parents.”

Weiss snapped her mouth closed and furrowed her brow, focusing on Ilia again. “I’m sorry what?”

“You heard me.” Ilia turned to Winter. “Are you planning to arrest me, or should we get on with the mission?”

“Yes, that sounds like a good idea.” Winter agreed.

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“So much for keeping you unassociated with the White Fang.” Yang whispered next to Weiss.

“How was I supposed to expect my girlfriend from five years ago would turn up?” The Schnee whispered harshly as she turned to look at the blonde. “And that she’d be in the White Fang?”

“Oh yeah, totally not your fault.” Ruby agreed.

“To be honest, the reasons Ozpin recognized me probably means your sister does too, and just hasn’t said anything yet.” Blake shook her head and looked across to where Winter stood.

“Why is my personal life so tangled? I’m only 17.”

Weiss reached up to pull her fingers and thumb across her forehead and release a breath, calming herself down and reminding herself they were avoiding Grimm still.

“I think tangled social lives is normal for teenagers.” Ruby shrugged as she collapsed Crescent Rose and hooked it along her back.

“There should be a limit.” Blake sighed while they all started walking back toward Winter.

[thrythlind]

Not who I know how to be - Chapter 17 teaser

The movie night wraps up into bed time and sleep issues. And then movies on to task assignments.

CW: Night Terrors

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

“What?” Blake shifted where she sat and half-rose up.

Weiss could see the tension in her shoulders as she watched. Her … friend? Crush? …poised herself to pounce probably on first sign that Weiss was going to start crumbling.

Pyrrha looked around and then stood up before approaching the monitor “What makes you think she’s your grandmother?”

“Winter told me all of Mother’s favorite movies had grandmother in them.” Weiss turned back to the monitor. “She never figured out who. But she never looked at the faunus actors… and this fox has been in every movie so far and well…”

Ruby stepped up next to Weiss and looked from the image on the monitor to Weiss. Her hand slid across the counter to bump into Weiss’s own, fingers stretching out but not grabbing her hand yet. “She does look like you.”

Weiss lifted her other hand up and brushed through her hair, touching the scar hidden there on the side of her skull. “Except the obvious.”

Ruby’s wrapped an arm around her and squeezed in a light hug. Behind her, Blake hopped to her feet and picked up the remote. The movie reset back to the beginning and the opening credits with the cast list.

“‘Allie’ Alabaster, played by Wisteria Arcti.” She walked up to stand on Weiss’s other side. “Is that the right name?”

“It begins in W at least.” Yang pointed out.

“I don’t know?” Weiss shook her head. “Mother and Father never talked about her.” She turned to Blake. “You’re right, I think I get it a little now.”

The black-haired girl smiled and reached around to hug Weiss opposite of Ruby’s position.

“Do you want to stop now?” Nora asked.

Weiss shook her head. “I want to see more of Grandmother’s movies.”

“We do have to be rested for tomorrow.” Ren cautioned.

Ruby turned to him with sharper look and movement than Weiss had seen her make outside of fighting Grimm. When she spoke, after a pause that felt deliberate, it was the same easy and cheerful tone of voice as always.

“We’re not going to make you stay.” She waved and shrugged as if it was no big deal underscored by performatively exasperated laughter. “But if Weiss wants to get to know her grandma, then we’re letting her do it.”

The smile was so broad and genuine that Weiss almost thought she’d imagined that moment. A glance at Yang and the concerned look at the blonde’s face convinced the young Schnee that she had seen what she’d seen.

“Thank you, Ruby. Really.” Weiss said.

“It’s no big deal.” Her partner and team leader said casually.