Fairgame Week 2020



Day 7: Free day! We’re gonna have 2 posts for you today

First, we have this art and a little ficlet.

Art: line art by @bosiphas color by @data-plays-viola

Ficlet: written by @data-plays-viola editing help from @lady-branwen

Fic under the cut, as always ;)

Thank Brothers that’s done. Finally back on the airship, Qrow lets himself relax a little. All of them took some heavy hits back there, but the battle had been particularly rough on Yang, Ruby, and Clover. The girls ended up right in the line of fire for some huge Grimm, and Clover exhausted his aura using his semblance attempting to protect them. I love him, idiot. Sometimes, Clover forgets they aren’t little girls anymore. The three of them are passed out in the back of the airship, leaning against each other. A fond smile passes over Qrow’s face. Movement at the corner of his vision catches his attention and he turns to see Blake looking at Yang.



“Hey Blake, I know that look. What’s going on in that head of yours?”

She startles and looks at him. She pauses for a long moment, looking like she wants to protest. Then, her shoulders slump a little. “How do you do it?”

“Do what?”

“How do you… love him and fight beside him without… without losing your mind?”

“Honestly? Somedays, I don’t. Which, I know, I know, not very helpful. You gotta just, let go, sometimes. It’s hard, I know, but you can’t control everything. You can’t watch their back every waking moment. That wouldn’t be good for you or her.”

“I’m not sure I know how to let go. I’m just so scared sometimes.”

“I know, Blake, trust me I know. It’s just something you’re going to have to work on. For both of your sakes.”

“Pardon me for intruding,” Penny says from her place on the other side of Qrow.

Qrow jumps a little internally. Damn, the kid shouldn’t be able to surprise me like that anymore.

“But I don’t understand something. Blake, do you not believe that Yang is capable of fighting and protecting herself?”

Blake looks at her in confusion, while Qrow lets out a small laugh.

“Oh Lazer Beam, that’s not the issue here. When you–” Qrow’s eyes cut to Blake briefly– “love someone, it doesn’t matter how skilled they are or how much you believe in them. They could literally be the most powerful person in the world, and that fear would still be there. Part of it is the fear of the unknown. The rest is because when you love someone, they become such an integral part of your life that it’s hard to imagine one without them. So it’s not that Blake doesn’t believe Yang can take care of herself, or that I don’t think Clover can protect himself and then some,” Qrow reaches out to grab Blake’s hand and squeeze. “it’s that a world without them is a world we can’t imagine surviving in.”

“Oh, I see,” Penny says. Her eyes drift over to Ruby for a moment, before snapping down to look at her hands clasped in her lap. “I believe I… understand what you mean.”

Qrow smirks a little and reaches out to squeeze Penny’s hands too. Oh, so that’s how it is. He lets go of both girls and pulls out his scroll. Specifically not addressing either of them in particular, he says with a smile, “It does get easier, though.”