Would you have any rosegarden fic recs? Preferably ones that build off of canon? Or whatever happens to be good. You seemed like the person to ask ^^
Oh! I'll be honest, I'm very flattered you think I'm a good person to ask for rosegarden fic recs, though I must admit these days I don't read a whole lot of fanfiction outside of one shots.
That being said, I've taken some time to look back on what I have read, and I'd say the best I can recommend is @xstonehill rosegarden fics, as I find they have the best understanding of their relationship in canon and what makes it such an interesting dynamic to explore (as they've also written a lot of fantastic meta analysis of them too)
Snowflakes Dreams and Happy Endings is a one shot that takes place during vol6 after the Apathy arc.
Another Rosegarden oneshot that they wrote which was originally an unfinished chapter of their other fic
Till We Have Faces is a 13 chapter completed fic that builds off of canon, being post Atlas arc with Salem having captured Ruby and Oscar, a general favourite in the rosegarden community as a whole, and for good reason.
I also really like the few rosegarden fics by @teethhunter too, mainly because I like how they explore the feral, angsty side of Ruby's character.
100 breaths which takes place during vol8, with the reunion of Ruby and Oscar, which honestly might be one of my favourite rosegarden oneshots ever.
Undefined and Unspoken a oneshot that takes place after the end of RWBY, with Ruby and Oscar travelling Remnant together.
Chaos is the Prize a 16 chapter fic that takes place post Atlas arc. This one's the most canon divergent of the list, and it's incomplete. But. I still can't not recommend it. After Ruby kills Ironwood, she runs away and ends up being taken under Raven's wing and joining her tribe. I just really like the idea of exploring Ruby and Raven's possible mentorship (and I admit being partial to the "Raven is Ruby's dad theory" as a Rosebird shipper only adds to this). The rosegarden takes a while to come in to play, and fair warning, this is a pretty angsty fic. There's a lot of fluffy sweet rosegarden fics out there, this is not one of them. BUT THAT'S WHY I HAVE TO RECOMMEND IT OKAY
And then finally there's @trailofclementines Lost Parallax a 13 chapter currently ongoing fic that's a canon compliant/canon divergent time travel AU, Oscar unlocks a time travel semblance after Ironwood shoots him in vol7 and goes back to before the FoB switching places with his younger self (basically he's in vol1 but still 15), with Ozpin no longer in his head, plans to attend Beacon and work with Ozpin to stop the FoB. I'm very fond of this one, though the rosegarden here is a part of the story, it's not the focus, and it is deliciously slowburn, which I love because that's how the series treats romance as well. It also avoids a lot of power fantasy tropes I see in time travel AU fanfics I've read before, which I really appreciate, and there's some great Ozdad content too with Oscar and Ozpin meeting face to face. It's just. A Really Good Time. I'd say this one's the most fun and wholesome of the whole list.
