Hmm, I Appear To Be Behind On Checking Your Tumblr...What's This Babey/Baby Overlords AU That's Been

Hmm, I appear to be behind on checking your Tumblr...What's this Babey/Baby Overlords AU that's been circling around on your page recently?

Ah yes ...

The Babeys ....

The Babey Overlords AU is a Reverse RWBY AU of sorts, where Ruby takes the place of Cinder and Oscar takes the place of Salem and they plan to be the King and Queen of the world that is enjoying its ‘Happily Ever After’. The thing is, they’re so cute, that it’s hard not to give the world. Ruby and Oscar are so sickeningly sweet and lovey-dovey that the world dominating business often gets side-tracked because Ruby’s eyes are so bright and Oscar is so handsome and everybody at the table is going “Your Majesties, please, we need to think of a way to set Beacon Academy on fire ...”

Right now I just have concept art but hopefully I’ll put out full-fledged illustrations soon ...

So since emercury week is coming up, i figure i gotta ready for one of the prompts. here we have Mercury and Emerald swapped out with Pyrrha and Jaune. 

Mercury is every problematic teen rockstar you’ve seen in mainstream media who was won five tournaments back to back and also trashed hotel rooms, smashed a car and has posed for magazines and sports brand. Most of his gear is sponsored. 

Meanwhile Emerald is a very powerful semblance user who feels she has a debt she can never repay to Cinder Fall. She’s not happy that Mercury is her partner. At all. 

My commissions are open. You can private message me if you are interested or email me at my email address. 

Can you tell us more about the babey overlord au? How does Cinder and ruby meet? Will Salem try to change ruby veiw of the world?

I’m frankly surprised by the amount of people that want this AU to be elaborated upon. Keep em comin’ folks. 

Cinder takes the place of Ruby in canon, where she’s an expert fighter that took the notice of Salem and was allowed into Beacon on ‘recommendation’. Cinder is still for power as she is in canon but of a different sort. She wants to be the strongest huntress in existence and be remembered as a legend. This is due to a crap childhood and a grudge. Because of this Cinder is driven towards become a huntress, training endlessly and has a single-minded focus on it. Her arc during Beacon is to relax and become a better person before she can be the best huntress ever. 

Cinder meets Ruby like they did in canon, in school. Cinder thinks Ruby is kind of a baby, bc Ruby was from Mistral Academy but was 2 years younger than everyone else. She keeps falling asleep in class and keeps talking about shows, her boyfriend, and is constantly cooing over her other teammates, Jaune and Pyrrha, by fussing over them. But she also thinks Ruby is a very sweet girl who is always happy to help others. I mean, Ruby keeps on bringing cookies to class and shares them under the desk with everyone. 

But that opinion quickly changes after the Fall of Beacon ...

Salem doesn’t really try to change Ruby and Oscar’s views, despite them being so young. She thinks they’ve fallen off the edge and the Oz Collective has radicalised them to the point of no return. But then there’s the Babey Overlords Chibi AU which I like to call the Babey Jail AU which is like--

Basically, the Babey Jail AU is that Ruby and Oscar got defeated at the final battle cuz they got too tired n sleepy and fell asleep, snuggling each other in their pillow fort/castle and Salem was like “They’re too precious we have to save them” and Cinder said “No, they’re crazy and need to go down” but Salem is the adult so Ruby and Oscar were placed in a Babey Jail in a suddenly rebuilt Beacon. The AU follows Salem mothering both Oscar and Ruby into reformation ... futilely ...

I’d love to have Cinder’s concept here but I am tired and busy so I’ll reblog this post with cinder’s art eventually ... maybe ...

Then and Now

Commission for the lovely Myrkuri and gave me the pleasure of working on some lovely OC’s

How would Ruby and Oscar's wedding look like in babey overlords au?

Sorry about the wait! I was busy with art and irl stuff but I am here now, faithful anon!

Ruby and Oscar’s wedding would be very them. But, to be honest, probably has a scrapbook full of wedding ideas for the two, right down to the doilies. But Ruby and Oscar have enough control to pick out what they want. In the lead-up to the wedding, the two are just so full and it’s hard to separate the two. The two would be young though, getting married, just barely adults but they’ve made the promise to be together forever so why the hell not. 

The thing they’d have the most trouble with would be where to have the wedding, whether if it’s at the castle or in Patch or in the ruins of Beacon to taunt Salem or on Oscar’s old farm. In the end, they choose to have the wedding where they first met, looking over the cliff, celebrating both life and death with it being the place where Summer died but the place of their marital vows. 

They’d have an altar with a canopy made out stick, bone and pine trees. It’d be a small gathering, with the few conscious allies there (e.g. Pyrrha, Jaune, Yang) and family. Pictures of Summer and Oscar’s parent would be placed on chairs on the front row. The day isn’t perfect, with dark clouds cast overhead setting the occasion in a slightly sinister light, but Ruby and Oscar couldn’t care less. Candle light would line the walk up to the altar and the wedding dinner table. 

Ruby would wear a dress of red and white, being her bouquet are blue flowers, while Oscar dons his usual black and green. 

The thing is ... Taiyang doesn’t walk Ruby down the aisle. He’ll sit in the pew, but the man is so tired he doesn’t have it in him to even walk his little girl down the aisle. It make Yang incredibly frustrated with her ‘weak’ father. Yang takes his place, and in her mind, she deserves to because in reality she’s the one who’s been more of a parent rather than some husk. Oscar tears up at the sight of Ruby walking down the aisle, because has there been a woman more beautiful???

Oscar’s vows are long. The boy f r e a k e d  o u t writing them, not knowing what to say so he said everything. E v e r y t h i n g. Everybody, except Ruby, wanted it to end at the ten minute mark. Ruby was moved to tears and had to have a minute to compose herself. Ruby’s vows are short and sweet, meaning every word, which is a relief for the guests because they couldn’t sit through another 30 minute long speech again. 

But I can’t get the idea that somebody tries to betray Ruby and Oscar during this occasion, either Pyrrha and Jaune or Weiss or somebody in their group of allies, and blood spills on the altar, a body laying dead at their feet, before they move on, grinning brightly. 

The wedding reception is an intimate experience with Ruby and Oscar slow-dancing to the same Mistrali song his parents danced to at their wedding, on a patch of grass in the early night, their figures illuminated by the glowing candlelight. 

Yang is bawling through her Best Woman speech, in absolute tears, and threatens Oscar with bodily harm if he ever hurts Ruby. Meanwhile, Sun’s speech is bright and well-meaning, wishing nothing but the best for the two. 

The two would have their honeymoon in the ruins of Vale, walking amongst the affected and doing whatever they want. It didn’t matter if the streets sounded a little quiet or their subjects were nothing more than mindless puppets. 

It’s their happily ever ever.