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Filtered to the RWBY Cast; Blocked from Raven, Emerald, Mercury, and Neo

[Now that everyone is safely back from the Spirit world and Yang's gotten her latest Sanguis cycle over with, there's something she needs to do. Even if she's more conflicted about it than she's willing to admit, putting it off any longer just risks placing the people she cares about the most in danger.

Calling a meeting for this seems unnecessary and making a video post feels weird so instead she just sends a written message out to her friends and their allies through the network.]

Vernal wasn't the Spring Maiden. Raven Branwen is.

I don't want anybody to get hurt so please. Be careful around her. I'm sorry I didn't tell you guys sooner.

[There. It's done.]

[[OOC: The message is text but video, voice, or even action replies are welcome!]

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[It takes Yang some time to figure out what she wants to say in response. The fact that Raven's spoken to Blake shouldn't be surprising to her but it's still terrifying in its own way.

Raven's killed people. Probably lots of people. And while her mother has never gone completely out of her way to hurt her friends, she's certainly never lifted a finger to help them either. She's 100% sure Raven would have let her walk right back out of that camp without ever knowing Weiss was less than 20 feet away from her in a cage and she obviously had no problems setting them up against Cinder and her associates.

Perhaps the really scary thing is simply that she just doesn't know what her mother might do at any given time.

After another moment, she finally responds.]

Thanks. I don't think I'd ever forgive her or myself if she hurt you.

[Yang won't be hard to find. She's in her room, sitting on the edge of her bed and looking all kinds of conflicted.]

[bellagatta]

[ Hey you know what? That sounds really familiar... Well, except the not going completely out of one's way to hurt... Blake would totally agree on the walking out of the camp thing, good to know that things didn't go that way. ]

I know. Let's try to avoid that from happening.

[ Never say never, hell if she knows what Raven is thinking or going to do either. ... But that line sounds extremely familiar too, ahahahah. So, reverse situation now but at least this time they know about it now and not ... after everything happens.

Blake arrives there to sit next to her, doesn't say anything and just hugs.]

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[Yang doesn't look up at her right away when Blake arrives, instead staring at her lap but unable to resist casting a few brief furtive glances at her partner from under her bangs.

It's the hug that breaks her.

A ragged exhale tears its way out of her, her entire body slumping heavily towards Blake before she wraps her arms around her in return. Burying her face into her shoulder, her entire body hitches with each breath as she starts to sob quietly.]

[bellagatta]

[ Blake waits calmly, patiently and quietly for a moment with those glances and everything happening. If she wants to talk, they can but then the cat girl does the hugging thing instead.

... Oh. Well. ...She could see that breaking coming or more like feel it'd happen, tell from those glances, whatever anyone wants to call the combination of all of that really. Maybe it's called from knowing her partner, that would be one way to put it.

Blake swallows a little as she's getting somewhat emotional too now. Not to the point of crying even if that's close too and it'd be fine even while she's emotional support here. But... yeah, it sure is never easy to see loved ones going through bad things. She lets Yang be there, petting her hair and back quietly and giving her all the time she needs to let it all out. ]

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[Yang doesn't cry for long, if only because she's always had a habit of wanting to recover her composure as quickly as possible, but she stays buried in Blake's embrace even as her sobs settle into miserable-sounding sniffles. She couldn't pull herself out of Blake's arms right now if she tried.]

God, I'm so stupid.

[She all but coughs the words out between deep breaths, voice lodging in her throat.]

She's never going to change. She doesn't care. So why...?

[Why did she try to protect her?]

[bellagatta]

[ Yeah, she's always been like that and some things don't change... She can stay there for as long as she wants to, Blake's absolutely in no rush with going anywhere. Yang's clearly her only priority right now. ]

You're not stupid.

[ Biased because Yang is the most amazing girl Blake knows but hey, at least she can say she's not stupid for sure.

It takes her what feels like forever for Blake to say ... something... anything. Not just because she's careful with whatever she's about to say but for all the reasons ever. Blake continues petting her hair. There's no judging in her tone or anything, it's more like soft and careful and kind of quiet but easy for Yang to hear when she's so close. ]

Because it sounds like maybe you still care about her, even after all of that and even when it's complicated as hell and hard to admit after everything... I guess I'd be more surprised if you didn't care about her at all. [ she'll rather take this, whatever emotional mess this is. ] And maybe because you're still hoping she'd change, even when that's a really long way to go and she'd have to admit it and really want it to happen too. Besides, now we're all stuck here, so obviously avoiding any of us running into each other anytime is not like it's back home.

[ Which makes everything even more complicated ( as if most feelings and things aren't always complicated ) or makes it even more likely to run into Raven out of nowhere anytime. Lots of maybes there instead of sounding like she's certain about her assumptions. ]

super late tagback!

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[The stretch of silence gives Yang time to fend off another bout of sobs. Blake's never been one to just dole out platitudes to make somebody feel better. If she truly thought Yang was being stupid or foolhardy, she'd just say so. And that just makes the fact that she means it when she says Yang isn't any of that all the more poignant to her.

Her sniffles slowly cease and her shoulders stop shaking with repressed shudders. She looses one arm around Blake just enough to bring a hand up to scrub miserably at her face.]

I don't want to care about her. [Petulantly.] I don't want anything to do with her.

[None of that is really true though, no matter how much Yang might wish it were. She had yet to succeed at making herself truly not care about something or somebody who'd previously mattered to her.

And she knows it.

Returning her arm back around Blake, Yang leans slightly more into her hold, almost like she's trying to nestle against her for comfort.]

It was so much easier when I thought she was just going to ignore me. I could deal with that. I've been dealing with it my whole life.

But now...

[That's obviously not an option. It's just as Blake said, they're all stuck here. Even if she had cut all ties with Raven mentally and emotionally, that didn't mean she couldn't still run across her.

And it was doubly unfair that Raven could still approach her whenever she damn-well pleased.

Yang bites her bottom lip, brows knitting together.]

I'm not going to let her antagonize. I can't let her mess with me like this...

[But what recourse does she even have? Just tell Raven to never speak to her again?]