Lie Detector
Nora: Hey guys! Guess what I just found in the dumpster! *Slams Device on the Center Table* IT’S A LIE DETECTOR!
Ruby: Wow, really?!
Jaune: Does it still work?
Weiss: *Scoffs* As if. It was obviously thrown out for a reason.
Nora: Oh, is that so? How about we play a little game to test it out?
Ren: Maybe we shouldn’t-
Weiss: HMPH! I humbly accept your challenge. Do your worst, Valkyrie.
Nora: It’s on, then! First question: Have you ever spied on Jaune while he was hitting the showers?
Jaune: HUH?!
Weiss: Wha- What kind of question is that?! Of course not!
BZZZZZT!
Blake: So it does work.
Yang: HAH! Off to a great start, Ice-Queen.
Weiss: T-That doesn’t mean anything! Never in my life have I-!
BZZZZZT!
Weiss: Fine, I admit it! I accidentally had the displeasure of peeking on Arc ONCE!
BZZZZZT!
Blake: Just once?
Weiss: Okay! I might have run into him a few more times-!
BZZZZZT!
Weiss: A couple more-!
BZZZZZT!
Weiss: A dozen-!
BZZZZZT!
Weiss: Dozens-!
BZZZZZT!
Weiss: I did it close to a hundred times! AT BEST!
BZZZZZT!
Jaune: *shook*
Ruby: Why does it keep getting worse?
Weiss: ALRIGHT, I CONFESS! I PEEP ON HIM EVERY TIME HE’S IN THE SHOWERS!
BZZZZZT!
Pyrrha: You too? Eh-! I mean-! What?!
Weiss: OKAY, YOU GOT ME! I LIKE TO GO THERE WHENEVER HE’S NOT TAKING A SHOWER JUST TO IMAGINE HIM TAKING ONE! BUT ONLY SOMETIMES!
BZZZZZT!
Weiss: AGH, SCREW IT! I DO IT EVERYDAY! IT’S ALL PART OF MY MORNING ROUTINE!
BZZZZZT!
Ren: I think we heard enough-
Weiss: FINE, IT’S ALSO PART OF MY NIGHTTIME ROUTINE!
BZZZZZT!
Yang: Geesh! A picture lasts longer, you know?
Weiss: I WOULD NEVER-!
BZZZZZT!
Weiss: I HAVE 735 PHOTOS KEPT DIGITALLY STORED IN MY-!
BZZZZZT!
Weiss: ALL THE PHOTOS ARE IN FILM AND I PAY A GENEROUS SUM TO VELVET EVERY MONTH SO I CAN REVEAL THE PICTURES IN HER SECRET DARK-ROOM BECAUSE I FIND IT ESTHETICALLY MORE PLEASING! THERE! HAPPY?!
…
Nora: Looks like you’re telling the truth. Good job, Weiss! How do you feel?
*THUD*
Nora: …Alright, who’s next?
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this scene is so personal to me it genuinely makes me DIE inside like genuinely everything about it.
from weiss's reaction and her expression and just the sheer, utter pain written all across her face as she's once again painfully reminded of what happened back in atlas, as she's once again reminded of all the things that previously went wrong.
and GOD, the look on ruby's face. poor ruby, who is also thinking about the ruins that they've left back home, who sees how horribly weiss is hurting and wishes for nothing more than to take that pain away, but can do nothing more than gently lead her away.
there's something about the expressions of guilt and shame and just pure hurt on both of their faces; the way you can immediately tell how weiss is very vividly remembering what happened back in V8 and how ruby is trying so so hard to NOT think about that and only focus on weiss right now and make sure that weiss is okay.
also i'm just a sucker for how soft they are with each other. ruby's hand on weiss's back and the way she's gently holding her hand and leading her away??? goodbye i am unwell you can pry them out of my cold dead hands.
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the little scene we got of team rwby talking about ruby's outburst was very telling with everyone's reaction.
blake didn't say much but she was sympathetic, and it makes sense - she's no stranger to depression or to lashing out and running from the people you care about. and she was still playing the leadership role in ruby's absence, mediating yang's frustration and keeping everyone together.
i think it's fascinating that yang was the angriest over it. yang loves ruby more than anything, but i think there is truth to the idea that the nature of her relationship with ruby as her big sister and protector made it harder for her to understand this side of ruby, because to yang ruby has always been her happy, brave little sister who she protected from the horrors of the world. and now she must be hating herself for that blindness (though of course it's not her fault).
and weiss seemed to understand ruby best. she got that ruby felt isolated, and put on a pedestal, and that she didn't think she could talk to them. and i think she gets it because as ruby's partner she feels responsibility over it. since volume 1, weiss has only ever wanted to be a good teammate and a good partner to ruby, and now she must feel like she failed.
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