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he pulls them in immediately, squeezing their hand as that smug grin of his widens—— of course, he hadn't expected anything else, but he won't let them slip away now. so mercury laughs at their request, louder than he expected, but it's not like it matters in the middle of a party. ❝ it's not like i'd let you, ❞ he says back, ❝ so no complaints on my part. just don't step on my toes and i won't step on yours. alright? ❞ and they both know that won't be a pleasant experience at all.

further protest builds in their throat, but it dies away quickly. they have the urge to wipe that smug look off his face, but they doubt they'll put up much of a fight in this awkward dress. “ okay, okay. if something goes wrong, i warned you. ” as they raise their hand to meet his, one final moment of hesitation gives them pause—should they take this step? (what would their father think?) but they steel themself and rest their hand, gently, in his. “ you have to lead. as the taller one. ”

#metal garden save me metal garden #talaria. #volume two. #vtriol

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mercury doodles

#talaria. #thief’s respite. #MY KIDS

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I drew Pyrrha Nikos for @rwbyprism zine!

Leftover sales are open until October 15th ➡️➡️➡️ HERE🌈

#miló and akoúo̱. #AUGH

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* 🙴 @etruatcaelum ; ❝ ... this can't be happening. ❞ she's half convinced she's dreaming right now; yang inhales sharply, hand clenched into a shaking fist. ❝ this—— you can't be real. ❞

#yaaay yippee drama!! #etruatcaelum #ember celica. #volume four.

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* 🙴 @likemosaic ; ❝ s'nothing personal, i promise—— we would have trashed anyone else too. just so happened to be your team that round. ❞

#ohhhh he's so annoying. i think she should punch him #ALSO I'LL PROBABLY GIVE U MULTIPLE :cartwheel: #talaria. #volume three. #likemosaic

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❝ was that supposed to be a personal jab? ❞ still, he doesn't move—— in fact, he's outstretching his hand to them anyways, grinning from ear to ear in an all-too-smug way. ❝ i think you owe me a dance just for that. i'm just trying to be nice, y'know. ❞ don't cause a scene, he seems to say, with a brow quirked up and his head tilted towards the crowd. it's an important night for them, after all.

“ you don't know that. maybe the first time i dance, someone will break a leg. literally. ” they are dressed for the occasion, but surely mercury didn't have the time to waste with them.

#i hate him i wish thana could step on his toes #talaria. #volume two. #vtriol

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* 🙴 @thisgrief ; ❝ i mean it, jaune. you truly have gotten better. our progress in the tournament is a testament to that, don't you think? ❞

#Hey what if i threw up #miló and akoúo̱. #thisgrief #volume three. #feel free to make this longer im going to go curl up listening to forever fall now

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* 🙴 @vtriol ; ❝ c'mon, don't be like that. a simple dance has never killed anyone, has it? ❞

#'russian roulette' As if i would not choose him. Immediately. The fuck #i love them so bad im gonna give them a ship name like the fandom does for the charas #talaria. #volume two. #vtriol

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also re:pyrrha and her death this is so autistic of me but i enjoy the way she haunts the narrative, haunts each character's every choice, in the same way adam haunts the narrative in the saw movies. her death propels the plot, yes, but it also provides strength to (and, generally, shows vulnerability in) the characters. ruby unlocks her silver eyes because of pyrrha, and uses her death (and summer's) to stand firm on her choices. jaune is shown affected by pyrrha most, and honestly, for good reason. she was his friend and teammate and realizing that she loved him the whole time and in a sense also died for him is hard. very hard! from her death onwards, he is always thinking about her. and it's not just her- nora and ren lost her too, after all. she was their friend too, she was loved by them too. it's even more personal for ren, however, because he's lost everything before. losing pyrrha is a stinging reminder of that but also another new wave of grief. he's lost his family but the universe didn't stop there; it took pyrrha from him too. who else is next? this is something that i think nora is also keenly aware of- it's why she's constantly trying to bring him to the present.

#death / #i have a lot of thoughts on who was affected by pyrrha and how. like i havent touched on weiss but trust i have Thoughts #she looked up to pyrrha; regarded her as one of beacon's strongest; she was friends with her too. losing pyrrha is a complete shock to her #which doesn't help with the fact that her father dragged her back to the schnee manor as well. it amplifies her grief/depression #blake probably feels partly at fault just because of the white fang's involvement. #yang wonders if she could have done anything different. if she didnt attack mercury maybe she wouldn't have been too late to fight with her #there's just. a lot. and i think a lot about it. shes so integral to the narrative the same way adam is in saw #he haunts those movies fr. pyrrha does the same in rwby #out.

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general headcanons and canon divergencies for my little guys! this will up updated over time as i solidify my years-old thoughts and headcanons, and will be linked on my muselist page.

starting off with none of my guys are cishet. most of them are nonbinary, some are trans, and their sexuality ranges! eventually i will note this on my muselist page itself. currently, their pronouns are whatever the show has given them, but i will make an announcement when this changes!

i am still unsure as to where exactly i will take ruby— i am fond of flown north, and it is part of my main canon on this blog (hi aesop and cole), but i am not sure if that's where i want to take my ruby at this moment. as a whole, my ruby is still taiyang and summer's daughter, but i can easily adapt this for my writing partner's canon. in short: i'm going with the flow! <- as a whole this note applies to when i eventually add qrow.

zwei (yes, zwei headcanon) is an emotional support animal for the rose-xiao long-branwen household and their guests. i'm still thinking (and frankly researching) on whether to make him a psychiatric service dog or not.

i do have aus planned for roman and pyrrha where they live— roman's is easy, pyrrha's not so much. i will detail a full post for this later, but roman's tldr is that he survived somehow and has been on the run since. whereabouts unknown, but probably slinking off to mistral's underbelly.

as a whole, there are parts about the white fang that i think need to be critically examined and will be rewritten on my blog, especially in regards to the very flat "peaceful protests=good, violent protests=bad" angle that rooster teeth is going with. to be clear: i am a person of color living in the u.s. (i'm south korean) and do face racism from a variety of angles, and i am also very interested in the history of and actively participate in social activism. i am not talking out of my ass, but criticisms are always welcome! all that to say, i think that adam and the system that enables him within the white fang is the problem within the organization, but on the whole, racism directed against the faunus is the true root of "evil." this is something my characters recognize and acknowledge, especially blake, ilia (at least re:adam), weiss, etc.

^ get back to me about the faunus racism part in regards to marrow, i want to see where volume 8 takes his character. i will say for now that despite marrow being treated as a kid and as a soldier blindly following orders, that does not make him naive or ignorant of atlas' issues. he knows and understands them— there's definitely something bigger than that that makes him loyal to ironwood.

#umm. i cant be assed to tag everyone individually rn #headcanons.

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oopsies got swept up in irl stuff! howver, here’s that starter call i promised! 🩵 no cap, length will probably vary, please specify. request as many as you’d like!

#out.

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bark?

#I LIED HAVE THIS

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shame, shame dialogue prompts from dr. dog's 2010 album.

i do believe that there's no more tricks up my sleeve.

it's the right night for the wrong company.

there ain't nothing 'round here to look at.

something's gone wrong.

you could be twisted or you could be insane.

i got something on my mind.

that look on your face, i've seen it before.

i'll be gone, a long time, but i could be gone for more.

i need to go back home.

i'm doing time, i'm guilty.

where'd all the time go?

you know i get so forgetful when i look in your eyes.

there ain't no way to sweep up the mess that we've made.

there's nothing to keep you from falling in love.

i can't sit around and wait for you.

you say you'll call me later and then you never ever do.

i always knew you were a liar.

i'm not here to punish you.

you're an open book, anyone could read you.

let's get on with it.

excuse me.

forgive me.

i only wear blue.

i should've known better.

i was a man. i turned to bone.

i never moved and now my will is gone.

don't fix the part that isn't broke.

i'm so tired that i can't sleep.

i got a devil after me.

you got something on your mind.

did someone give you bad directions?

were you in the wrong place at the wrong time?

they found a body in the river.

we're all in it together now.

it isn't what you think.

the more you fight, the more you sink.

we've been hurting so long that our pleasure is our pain.

are we madly in love or are we madly insane?

i was a loner unloved.

i really didn't need any help at all.

i really thought i was fine.

i really did think it would make me strong.

i just couldn't let it go 'til now.

do you fear the attachment to things that you want?

i don't know what to do.

i was losing myself turning into you.

the life that i lived seemed so useless now.

you know you made me do it.

and no i don't regret a thing.

it's all in how you look at it.

come on, take me into town.

i guess this shirt'll do.

i'm broke as a monkey and i could use a drop or two.

i've been staring at the floor for days trying to figure out what it all means.

i must have lost a lot of blood.

i haven't been home since i was a kid.

nobody knows who you are.

#prompts. #this too while im not home 🏃

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from the work of  amanda lovelace  ,  the mermaid’s voice returns in this one   (  consider supporting the author  ) .  pronouns  (  he , she , they , i , etc  )  &  tenses can be adjusted as needed

“ i’m dropping my sword ” “ i’m not sure which of us i’m trying to convince ” “ there was no one i could have told ” “ there was nothing i could have done ” “ do you ever find yourself nostalgic for the life you never got to have ? ” “ do you ever find yourself nostalgic for the person you never got to be ? ” “ i never meant to be here for so long ” “ when will it be my turn ? ” “ who was i before you ? ” “ you can’t fix someone else ” “ you were the first one i believed ” “ i don’t mean to frighten you ” “ i would seriously consider drinking the atlantic whole if only you asked me to ” “ what wouldn’t i do for you ? ” “ i wish you had been my first love ” “ you were always my favorite wreck ” “ why wasn’t i smart enough to stay away from you ? ” “ this isn’t that kind of fairy tale ” “ cages are still cages even when they’re designed to look just like castles ” “ staying with you is nothing more than muscle memory ” “ how can you just walk away ? ” “ sometimes we have to feed ourselves lies just to live ” “ i still have every part of myself ” “ you don’t get to say it’s my fault for staying ” “ i’m but a work in progress ” “ i’m still alive and therefore so is hope ” “ i’m my own sunrise ” “ be stronger than the villains ” “ your voice could sink spaceships ” “ you need to try anyway ” “ you have been known to pry the scabs open  ,  bleed them out ” “ i woke up the next morning and i did not feel brave ” “ we talk about survival like it’s a thing that makes you stronger ” “ i was a bird before this ” “ i remember everything ” “ my healing is ugly ” “ there always exists more than one opportunity for you to grow ” “ i meant to break open to make room for stars ” “ it’s time you give yourself a fair chance ” “ it was never as pretty as you like to pretend it was ” “ i’m used to it by now ” “ don’t ever take anyone’s bullshit ” “ you did not disappear unnoticed ” “ your scraped knees will always mend ” “ just keep singing yourself to sleep ” “ eventually your monsters will stop haunting  you ” “ you are not sad forever ” “ maybe the difference between remembering and hurting is just me ” “ does your pain have a voice ? ” “ you are worth spoiling ” “ when i was a child  ,  i used to believe anyone ” “ you did all you could do ” “ now you must learn what it means for you to live ” “ i’ve never been a river nor a lake for you to peer into ” “ my story has never been your story ” “ rip this page out and keep it with you ” “ be victorious in everything you do ” “ disturb the gods  ,  if that’s what it takes ”

#yoinking this from fumi yippeee #prompts.

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𝐖𝐄'𝐑𝐄 𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐎𝐍!

#rwby rp #rwby roleplay #rwby rpc #hello. is anyone left here #promo.

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team xaco ( zacho, after zacho blue ) is a team from beacon academy featuring xerces flores, mazarin argus, caesius parion, and oak arhopala. whereabouts are unknown after the fall of beacon, where xerces tragically died. done with this picrew even if it leaves stuff wanting.

i had a rwby oc named mazarin i remember fucking nothing about but i think it's time we overhaul her

#all of them are based on different butterflies from the same family; lycaenidae #xerces flores — xerces blue (extinct) #mazarin argus — mazarine blue #caesius parion — large blue #oak arhopala — japanese oakblue #i have more done on mazarin but the rest i will cook up #edit: i need to make it known that while editing oak i was struck by the fact that they reminded me of rachel amber and sat back in my chai #i miss rachel. i miss her a lot. #shes on my mumu but like. still.