“We’re friends, Aren’t we? Is this not what “friends” do?”

(scroll down if you want the TLDR)

Sure...

She’ll vehemently deny it until she’s blue in the face.

and... Yeah.

She’ll roll her eyes and pretend you don’t matter to her.

But anybody who’s been lucky enough to be close to Raven Brawen knows she WOULDN’T be able to connect a portal straight to you if she DIDN’T care about you. And care about you? Raven does extremely.

In her own... distant way.

See..

Raven wasn’t good at much of anything that didn’t have to do with being a regulator. Growing up she was stoic, distant, and never afraid to let you know you were an irritant.

I mean... what can one expect from a woman who was born, raised, and lived half of her life as apart of a bandit tribe?

Regardless, that didn’t stop her from trying to be... something. orginally sent by the camp elders of their tribe to learn how to properly handle huntsmen, Raven and her brother instead found themselves out of their comfort zone at the prestigious Beacon huntsman academy, Attached to the now Well Renowned team STRQ, Under the “watchful” eye of Headmaster Ozpin.

And for awhile... you could say things were looking up for Raven and by extension, her Brother.

at beacon and following into her adult years, Raven Fell in love with Taiyang xiao Long, had a kid, and even though by the time she and Tai had TRULY gotten hitched there team had really only existed on paper by that point, things could still be considered positive. until.... they werent.

Things.... fell apart soon after Yang’s birth.

Raven couldn’t come to terms with motherhood at all, And soon she came to the daunting and quietly heartbreaking revelation that her biggest fear of being inadequate NOT JUST at being a mother, but worse, at being a wife, at being a good “friend,” and at being just about anything that didn’t have to do with being quick on the handle and slick with the sword, was True.

So...? she bolted. And well... the rest is history.

(she lays a rose for her pal, for old time sake.)

kinda.

Her story? doesn’t end here.

After returning, reorganizing, and eventually becoming leader of the tribe she was born in, Raven became “cracked” at the one thing she was certain she was good at, and gained a heck of a following in doing so with her now more deadly and skilled tribe, While also adopting a young Vernal who she found after a raid and raised her as her own, opening herself up to the possibility that she isnt truly terrible at everything that wasn’t combat related.

Even so, Raven soon became placed under the radar of certain huntsmen and huntresses determined to put her down, with word quickly spreading that Ozpin’s special “blade” had gone rouge, leading to her now having a price on her head.

So... Many came.

Many fought.

Many lost.

And.....

thats when you came in.

The two of you fought rough and fought hard, harder then anyone else that’d ever come looking before. on certain occasions during the battle you’d have her back against the wall and the only way raven survived was being chaotically skilled, using the world around her as her oyster despite your super quick adjustments.

(imagine your in cinder’s place and ignore Ravens maiden power, she ain’t use it against you)

and yet..

in the end..?

you lost.

she had you dead to rights, Katana pushed up against your throat.

To her surprise however? You didn’t beg. You didn’t cry in the face of death incarnate herself. without Prada you conceded defeat and accepted your inevitable demise.

....

Raven.... was shocked.

Impressed even... in a way that scared her as did intrigue her.

Here she was, standing victorious against possibly the TOUGHEST person she’d ever fought, being oddly more interested in letting them go out of respect for their tenacity then following through with her goal of cutting them down where they stood.

and it was here, with a sharp blade to your throat, where your “friendship” with Raven truly began.

Soon, Raven would become so close enough to you infact, she’d start fearing she’d come too close. But it was far to late by then, she cared enough about you that she had a portal she could activate right to you.

To Raven, she swears by her sword its just “checking in” on an old friend, but it’s not exactly JUST that, really.

TLDR: Your a respected cohort and friend of bandit tribe leader Raven Brawen who highkey fw you heavy in the romantic sense 😛. she’s still keeping abunch of shit from you (like how she merked the previous spring maiden and yoinked her power, or how she got a grown ass daughter besides vernal that she dipped out on ) but... shi she’ll probably just tell you eventually her damm self or decide its private info and nun ya fucking business (respectfully).

but yeah enjoy

Genuinely HOW did tai woo this woman enough to impregnate her dude. he needs to help me out on my rizz 🫩

(lucky mfer)

anywhoo...

MILFS!!!

yuh ima probably do willow next because everybody does Kali (justifed) and we know jackshit about Summer so im not even gonna try her.

Highkey worth noting i switched up some stuff and deviated from the lore more then i usually do with notable changes being:

•changed up her tribe to be leaning more into the nomadic type shi once she took over rather then goombas who just rob and burn shit, cause highkey in canon her tribe (that we see) is lame asl, dont worry though, they still rob and kill people who get in the way and do a whole lotta raiding, Think comanche warriors or like samuari kinda

•changed up Vernal and made her team RWBY aged (19) extremely based on the “fixing RWBY” version by celtic phenix where instead of being a random “tribe #9“ looking ass member she’s raven’s adopted daughter which i personally enjoy a lot more

(also this what lil V looks like for reference to what im talking about)

(Openings with Vernal and Raven coming soon)

but yuh that’s about it. for those wit fried attention spans ima start having TLDRs so you don’t gotta read all my shi. its cool idrc

anyway...

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