Ruby Rose | Team RWBY (eyesofsilver) wrote in valarlogs, @ 2018-10-01 19:55:00 |
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Entry tags: | !complete, caroline forbes, ruby rose |
Who: Caroline and Ruby
What: Meeting
When: Recently
Where: Outside Ren’s work
Warnings: Low
Status: Log | Complete
With her new job at the Agency, Ruby’s schedule wasn’t as open as it had been after graduating, but she got to do science and engineering and it was exciting. True it meant that she had to less time to meet up with friends but that was okay. She still made it work. Especially when she was in the bookstore and saw the perfect book for Ren. So maybe she hadn’t been planning on seeing him that afternoon. But the book said otherwise and sometimes you just had to change your plans.
So with the book purchased, Ruby made her way to where Ren worked. Only to realize she didn’t know when he’d be able to receive said book and well… that was awkward. Oops? Oh well, she didn’t mind waiting.
It had been forever since Caroline had been to one of Ren’s classes. Since she became a vampire she didn’t exactly need them anymore. But even without that she was just extremely busy. She had been taking on more responsibility at work. Was the head planner for multiple events now. And then there was her social life. Caroline had always made friends easily, and she did her best to make time for each and every one of them as much as possible. It left little time for things like classes. But Ren was still one of those friends she made time for, so Caroline figured she would stop by the dojo and say hi.
Caroline waited outside while Ren finished teaching. The blonde spotted someone else who seemed to be doing the same. “Hey,” Caroline said with a warm smile. Might as well talk while they waited, right? “You have a friend in the class?”
Ruby had never been good at hand to hand and it probably wouldn’t hurt to take a sort of class like this beyond what Yang tried to teach her but she preferred her long distance fighting. It was what she was familiar with and so until she absolutely needed to (and she was better at close distance fighting than she’d been before), the engineer was more than content to let things remain as they were.
She’d been listening to music when she became aware of someone approaching her (see, she wasn’t completely oblivious to her surroundings!), Ruby had turned the music down and then took off her head phones as she was addressed. Returning the smile, she gave a small nod.
“Yeah, I’m friends with the teacher. You?”
That was a huge coincidence. One that caused a huge smile to spread across Caroline’s face. Bigger than the warm smile she had greeted the girl with. “No way,” Caroline said lightly. “You’re friends with Ren too?” She gave the name partly as proof that she did indeed know Ren. And wasn’t just some rando pretending to know the teacher.
Well that was unexpected. Ruby didn’t know why. She had learned that Orange County could sometimes be a very small place in terms of people knowing others that you knew. Not to mention the dreams. But her eyes lit up at recognition.
“Yep! You know Ren, too? Well...obviously you do if you just asked that.”
“Yup!” Caroline replied smile still on her face. “We met a few months ago. I was actually taking his class for a bit.. but life.” If only she had time for everything she wanted to do. But at least she still saw Ren as often as she could. “I’m Caroline,” she added figuring she might as well introduce herself.
“Ah yes. Life.” Ruby might seem oblivious to a lot and could get caught up in her head and projects, but she knew how life could get in the way of things. Especially in Orange County. And if Caroline were a Dreamer on top of it? That would be even more reason for life as an explanation with no need to explain on why she stopped taking lessons. “Ruby. It’s nice to meet you, Caroline!”
The name did sound familiar, but Ruby couldn’t quite place it at the moment.
Caroline definitely recognized that name. “You baked cookies with Ren, right?” At least she hoped it was the same Ruby. But then how many Rubys could Ren know? “They were delicious.” At least the one she had.
“Yep! That was me!” That had been fun. She and Ren should do baking together again. True it had been because he had gotten the sap from the dreams and it was really good sap and cookies had been necessary but still. “Thank you, they were! It’s all in the ingredients!”
“From his dreams, right?” Caroline remembered Ren posting about getting syrup from his dreams. That was when he offered to give her one of the cookies.
“Yep. Or well the sap was from the dreams. The rest of the ingredients were your typical cookie ingredients.” And that basically answered the question on how vague she might have to be since Caroline clearly knew about the dreams. Which thank goodness given Ruby's general inability to be vague or the like. At least for the most part as things always managed to end up being said no matter her attempts to keep them quiet.
Caroline hadn’t even thought to be cautious about the whole dream subject. Which she probably should have. Although she had a feeling if Ruby was baking cookies with Ren she knew where the ingredients came from. “That’s still pretty awesome. I don’t get baking ingredients in my dreams… but then I don’t really bake.”
It would have been awkward to bake with unknown ingredients so there was that. Ruby still was awkward and tried to be careful about such things as the Dreams or now her work at the Agency since it was mostly on the hush hush level. Which..never a good place for her to be given Ruby’s inability to lie. But no matter.
“Well that would make sense then. I haven’t gotten too much from them. I mean, I got Crescent Rose and some outfits, but otherwise nothing super exciting.”
“What’s Crescent Rose?” Caroline asked curiously. Was it an animal? It sounded like it could be a name but what did she know. “I’ve gotten a sash but that’s it as far as clothes go.” If you could even call her Miss Mystic Falls sash clothes. “Unless you count this ring,” she added holding up the hand her daylight ring was on. Of course she left out what it did and why she needed it.
“Crescent Rose is my weapon!” Which of course she had on her in resting mode, so all folded up and latched to her belt, “She’s a high-caliber sniper-scythe.” Because weapons were never all that simple in the Dreams. “I designed her!” If there was one thing Ruby loved, it was Crescent Rose.
She nodded some at the comment on only getting a sash. She had learned fairly early on that there wasn’t really much rhyme or reason to what people received from the dreams.
“Ohh, that’s pretty though.”
Naming a weapon? Caroline had heard of people doing that, but had never met someone who had. At least that she knew of. But if Ruby had invented it too? It made total sense that she would name it. “That’s so cool!” Caroline commented excitedly. “You must be like super smart.” Both in the dreams and here, because well that sort of thing usually applied in both places.
Such was the world of Remnant. As for her being super smart? That made Ruby grow a bit flustered.
“I guess? I mean, I just like seeing how things come together and fit, you know?n Plus to be Huntresses, it was part of our testing to be able to design a unique weapon.” Yes she had gotten her GED and started college early and graduated early and was now at the Agency and only 20 but Ruby always got flustered because of her desperate need to be normal and like everyone else. She was a bit better about it...but not much.
“Huntress?” Caroline didn’t know exactly what that meant. But then there were many things she didn’t understand about other’s dreams. She always found it fascinating to hear what other’s dreamed about. Sometimes it helped put her own dreams in perspective too. No matter how bad she thought the dreams were, undoubtedly someone always had worse ones.
“Yep. There are these creatures known as Grimm. They’re attracted to negative emotions and can do a lot of damage to villages and cities and so there are Hunters and Huntresses who are trained to fight them and protect the people.” There were those who did it for the money if they went the private contractor route, and Team RNJR had been asked to stay in one village but they’d had their mission.
Because even though her dreams had stalled while she knew that another large fight was to come…. The carier things they were up against weren’t the Grimm but those who wanted to create chaos and didn’t care who got hurt. Salem. For Ruby, that was what scared her most but also why she fought. Because even though there were scary things, someone had to face them and so she would.
“And you’re one of those people?” Caroline wished there were no negative emotions for creatures to feed on, but she knew that was impossible. Even for her who tried to be positive and see the bright side of things.
That was the trick about Remnant. People obviously had negative emotions, it was part of life. But it was when there was a lot of it when it really became a problem. Entire villages terrified and thus attracting more Grimm. But again, that was why there were people like her parents, her uncle, her. Even if she technically hadn’t graduated from Beacon yet.
“Yep! I want to help protect people. Like the heroes in the stories.” No matter the world, Ruby was one of those people who had always known what it was she wanted to do.
“Sounds like you are,” Caroline replied with a bright smile. Well at least when it came to the dreams. But Caroline had a feeling Ruby helped people when all the strange shit happened here too. “Too bad more people aren’t like you.” Herself included. Yes Caroline protected people in the dreams and here, but it was mostly her friends, people she knew.
Ruby flushed some at the comment because she certainly didn’t see herself as a hero. There was her failing to save Pyrrha though she no longer was dwelling on it and letting it push her down, but that was more her determination to keep on moving forward and learning from it. And Pyrrha was alive here. That helped.
“I try at any rate!”
“That’s all you can do!” Caroline agreed enthusiastically. Because really there was no point in setting impossible standards for herself. One person can’t save everyone in the entire world. All she can do is her best. “Well I’m glad I finally got to meet you.”
“Exactly. We all have what we’re good at and so long as we try, then…” And since she lost her train of thought, Ruby shrugged. It tended to happen sometimes where she would make a point but lose her train of thought. Which was probably better than rambling and tripping over her words.
“Me, too!”