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On the surface, Ruby seemed like an overly excited, absent minded, weapon obsessed child.
Mostly because she was.
However, she was also sweet, caring, and incredibly romantic. Ruby always knew how to comfort Weiss when she was upset. She’d plan small surprises for Weiss—just because she wanted to make Weiss smile.
The one thing Weiss appreciated the most was how special and loved Ruby would make her feel with her words. It started slowly—Ruby would sometimes leave a cheerful doodle in the margins of the notes she borrowed, or perhaps she’d leave a terrible joke on a slip of paper in Weiss’ homework so she could laugh when the stress of school overwhelmed her.
After seeing Weiss’ reaction to those, Ruby started hiding similar notes in Weiss’ things—still small, but more frequent. Weiss had to hold in a giggle when she retrieved her spare eraser during a test and saw Ruby had stuck a small doodle of Zwei fighting a Grimm with a chew toy.
Weiss always tucked these notes away when she found them and then stored them in a special box when she returned to the dorm. Sometimes if Ruby was out—they were partners and dating, but they still kept their own lives—and Weiss felt a wave of sadness coming on, she’d reach into her box and look at Ruby’s silly notes until she felt better.
Weiss’ favorites, however, were kept elsewhere—a small scrapbook with each note laminated—she’s Weiss, of course she had her own laminator—and carefully taped onto its own page. Whenever she added a new note, she’d write the date and context, sometimes including how she felt or why she liked it.
While she suspected Yang and Blake knew about her box, even Ruby wasn't aware of her scrapbook. She was little embarrassed—she wondered what it meant if Ruby could drop tokens of affection so effortlessly, but she was still compelled to hoard them. Did it show that she appreciated Ruby’s love so much she wanted to preserve it? Weiss feared it simply meant she lived so starved for affection so long that even just scraps of it were overwhelming.
She wasn't sure what it was, but she continued saving Ruby’s gifts in her scrapbook.