despite the height difference, ruby is the big spoon; she is a gigantic clinger in her sleep and always ends up with her arms wrapped around whoever she’s with. weiss, for her part, is fine with this because she’s incredibly awkward about giving physical affection. plus, it’s nice to feel like ruby wants her there.
favorite non-sexual activity:
sparring – ruby always has some new prototype for a weapon she’s invented this week, and weiss enjoys the chance to hone her technique in battle.
who uses all the hot water in the mornings:
weiss. she has a lot more hair, and anyhow ruby showers fast: she has STUFF TO DO, OKAY, THE REST OF HER LIFE IS WAITING.
what they order from takeout:
it takes weiss a long time to appreciate takeout as a concept – she grew up with an assortment of incredibly talented family cooks (nothing but the best for the schnees, after all) and has very little faith in anything that isn’t a five-star restaurant, plus being terrified of food poisoning. ruby, however, grew up with chinese takeout and has very specific friday night traditions that she refuses to budge on.
most trivial thing they fight over:
weiss’s emotionally stunted means of demonstrating fondness; ruby’s inability to sit still; the fact that ruby sometimes spends all day in the shop building weapons and forgets to eat; wess’s inability to loosen up; whether or not ruby should have to learn german in order to impress weiss’s family and if weiss should have to learn mandarin as a form of payment.
who does most of the cleaning:
weiss. she cannot stand a mess.
who controls the netflix queue:
ruby! weiss was raised to think television and movies were just a distraction, so she doesn’t care; ruby, of course, loves action movies and also devours adventure time voraciously. (weiss thought the latter was too juvenile to be worth her attention, but she ended up getting sucked in during one of ruby’s marathons, and now whenever it’s on she comes over and sits quietly on the couch, enthralled. ruby knows better than to rub it in.)
who calls up the super/landlord when the heat’s not working:
ruby. much as weiss hates to admit it, ruby has superior interpersonal skills, and she enjoys the chance for casual conversation while she’s at it. nothing wrong with being friends with the person who owns your living space.
this is a subject of great contention and we don’t talk about it in polite company.
who leaves their stuff around:
ruby. always ruby. and then when weiss puts it back in a perfectly ordered fashion she can’t find anything.
who remembers to buy the milk:
you’d think thiswould fall to weiss again, but it’s actually ruby – weiss grew up with housekeepers and maids who kept track of that kind of thing, while ruby used to go to the grocery story with yang every week when they were kids.
who remembers anniversaries:
weiss. ruby is notoriously bad at keeping track of dates, and weiss is a very skilled event planner. ruby doesn’t entirely get what all the fuss is about – she’d rather spend the day sparring with weiss until she pins her to the gym floor and seals their mouths together – but she knows that members of the schnee family don’t put this kind of effort into just anyone, so she’s grateful.
yang, like ruby, is a giant clinger, but blake likes to sleep facing her partners. they usually end up in a kind of loose hug as a result.
favorite non-sexual activity:
blake’s is talking about books, and yang’s is listening to blake talking about books. blake is usually so taciturn and closed off, but when she’s talking about a book she loves, her face lights up in a way almost no one gets to see, and yang enjoys feeling like she’s seeing this piece of blake that’s just for her. a close second is blake hanging onto yang from behind when they’re riding that ridiculous orange motorcycle.
who uses all the hot water in the mornings:
yang. blake’s showers are extremely efficient and take almost no time despite her long hair. yang, meanwhile, loves to hang around and daydream.
what they order from takeout:
outside of chinese food like ruby, yang also loves spicy-hot stuff – indian, mexican, the whole nine yards. blake’s tastes are a little more subtle; she’s particularly fond of pho.
most trivial thing they fight over:
they don’t really fight – yang is too fundamentally good-natured and blake is very patient and calm and sensible when bringing up something that bothers her – but yang will sometimes whine if blake doesn’t want to go out dancing, and blake finds herself somewhat aggravated when yang picks fights with sexist dudebros at bars.
who does most of the cleaning:
blake. she doesn’t mind mess, really, but she likes knowing where things are.
who controls the netflix queue:
this is a frequent area of compromise, because they have extremely different tastes; yang loves ridiculous action movies and gory horror (the shittier the better, in her opinion; yang adores a good terrible movie), while blake enjoys well-crafted procedurals like elementary and luther. they switch off every week; sometimes, blake will do her best to appreciate the je ne sais quois of the fast and furious series, and other times yang will do her best not to get antsy when idris elba is gazing soulfully at the floor. (he’s hot, so that helps some.)
who calls up the super/landlord when the heat’s not working:
blake. yang is often too distracted to deal with such trivialities – and she prefers, god forbid, finding creative ways to SUMMON heat through sheer force of will and candlesticks, as opposed to actually fixing the problem.
yang. and she kicks when you try to take them back, too. (blake, luckily, is mostly just amused by this.)
who leaves their stuff around:
yang tends to leave a greater diversity of stuff, but blake will sometimes leave whatever books she’s in the middle of reading scattered around as well.
who remembers to buy the milk:
blake. blake is extremely responsible about groceries in general, since she remembers a time in her life when food wasn’t always easy to come by.
who remembers anniversaries:
yang, and she loves making A HUGE GODDAMN DEAL OUT OF THEM, but not in the way where she plans an extravagant dinner – rather, she finds some cool new thing to do or a place to explore or an out-of-the-way bookshop to take blake to. and blake expresses her gratitude, but she’s honestly way more touched than she lets on: she isn’t used to someone doing so much for her, trying to make her so happy, and she wants to give something back. she’s not quite sure what, but she tries, pays close attention to what yang cares about and what she really wishes she could do.
a lot of the time, they just end the day at this spot somewhere out in the woods. there’s a clearing, and past the treetops, they can see every single star.
