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1. song of the (once?) hero by lunarpaddle

   Fandoms: RWBY  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/F
   • Work in Progress

   04 Nov 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Penny Polendina/Ruby Rose
   • Ruby Rose & Yang Xiao Long
   • Blake Belladonna & Ruby Rose
   • Ruby Rose & Weiss Schnee
   • Ruby Rose & Winter Schnee
   • Robyn Hill & Ruby Rose
   • Blake Belladonna/Yang Xiao Long
   • Ruby Rose (RWBY)
   • Penny Polendina
   • Yang Xiao Long
   • Blake Belladonna
   • Weiss Schnee
   • Winter Schnee (RWBY)
   • Oscar Pine
   • Robyn Hill
   • Nora Valkyrie
   • Implied/Referenced Suicide
   • Post-Canon
   • Memory Loss
   • Resurrection

   Summary

   It's just that the ghost of a world that can never be hangs over her. A world where they'd saved Atlas, and Weiss didn't have to spend her life away, an entire culture and history resting on her shoulders.

   A world where they'd worked out what was going on in Vacuo in time, and Nora wasn't the only one left of JNPR, and Ruby had never taken the poisoned fangs through her abdomen that put her out of action for a year and still loom over every bad day.

   And so many worlds where it was different with her and Penny. Where the - where she - Ruby doesn't have words for what Penny is to her.

   She's just never going to be able to deal with looking Penny in the eyes and not seeing even the smallest spark of recognition.

   Language:

   English

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   Chapters:

   3/?

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