"What Oscar Pine Really Thinks," Blake read the screen before looking over at Ruby
The normally sunny girl dimmed quite a bit while she normally is happy to hear her friends thoughts on her and other things.Finding it out like this just felt wrong.Especially since it wasn't intentional on their part.
"Watch and find out?" Weiss questions looking over to Yang who nodded and hoping to lift her sister's spirit came over and placed Ruby on her lap.
Ruby, who was not expecting this got a bit embarrassed from her Yang's sudden affection though she didn't mind it.
The whole room was full of anticipation as their world begins to play on the screen.
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Flashes of Green and Crimson are shown clashing in a shadowed room the crimson flashes get brighter as the green ones are slowly pushed into a small corner of the room and before it could vanish completely ....A boy with freckles and hazel eyes, wakes up in a panic and sighs in relief after looking around.
{Holy Cats! that dream was too real..I Was fighting someone.She looked familiar ..Oh well that's all the thought i'm gonna put into that}
He emerges from the loft of a barn and climbs down a ladder. The boy is wearing patched khaki pants, a white shirt, and orange suspenders and gloves. Tucked into his pocket is an orange-based multi-colored cloth.
{Oh Crap! i slept in my aunts gonna kill me}
He opens the barn door to a peaceful country scene with a rising sun and birds tweeting. White mountains are a background to a dirt road, grass, a few trees and a green water pump.
{Ah yes my nonexistent farm. Stupid crows keep eating everything…Welp better get to work}
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"I can't deal with another pun right now."Weiss groans, imagining the number of puns that could be made because of that one line. Too bad for her Yang was and had inherited her father's sense of Humor.
"Yeah, I can't believe my uncle would eat a whole farm. It has to be pretty..Unlucky," said Yang while laughing at her own jokes.
"Oh joy," said Weiss in a sarcastic tone already having heard enough bird puns for a lifetime from Nora and Yang, especially when they first found out about her uncles power.
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He smiles and pumps water into a blue bucket.
As his gaze wanders the landscape, he becomes distracted from the pump and utters a quiet sound of surprise upon realizing he has overfilled the bucket.
{This is so lame Atlas gets droids and i'm pumping water here by hand like a chump.}
His shoulders fall with a sigh. The scene cuts to the boy shutting and turning a green compost tumbler that is marked with a yellow crown bearing the initials CK.
While hoeing rows in a garden Oscar began to lament his situation.
{Nothing to see here folks,Just a boy and his hoe.}
Then Oscar's eyes started to glaze over and for A few minutes Oscar started to move and began swinging the hoe around like a scythe leaving long tracks of the dirt uprooted and destroying his previous hard work.
A small flash of green then confusion was shown in his eyes until He suddenly straightens up and looks out into the distance.
{Maybe if i stare hard enough into the distance and imagine the SpaceWars music i'll get roped into some crazy adventure.}
To the sound of blowing wind, the scene cuts to a shot of blue sky above a green forest. There are a few shots inside the forest before Oscar is heard speaking.
"Not even john williams can get me out of here Huh." frowning he continues his farm work before bringing the tool into the barn for the day.
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"Oscar, Don't be Jaune." Weiss said remembering how he had gone into beacon not prepared at all though it worked out for him she hoped Ozpin was responsible to at least give Oscar a few months of training before sending him off.
"Major dreams huh." commented Yang.
"Strangely, this reminds me of Ruby." said Blake, smiling remembering the day she first met her partner and her little leader and how they shared their thoughts on hunters.
"What? How?" Ruby asked embarrassed that Oscar wanting adventure and playing with imaginary weapons did kinda sound like her.
"On the first day you finally finished Crescent Rose, you tried to do everything with it, and I mean everything with it." said Yang deciding to tease her sister a little bit.
Weiss added on to the moment "yeah remember we had to replace a lot of things because you ruined them when we were decorating the dorm too. I mean why did you try to hang the curtains with Crescent Rose anyway?"
Ruby nervously chuckles as she remembers the day she finished her baby and ran around the house with it.
While Ruby remembered the fun times and tried to explain that logistics of how it totally made since with how long her scythe was much to Weiss's groaned explination how her glyphs would work way better.
Blake thought that their first task as a team was fun too but maybe cutting and fixing the curtains and almost being late was a part they could forget.
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Oscar carries a pitchfork into the barn, which has loose bits of hay strung about the floor.
{What was I expecting? Life isn't some kind of fairytale.}
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"He said the thing!" Yang said excitedly pointing at the screen.
"Now that you mention We have been hearing that alot recently." Blake said nodding her head to the outburst.
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He passes a sink with a mirror behind it, and something makes him pause and take a closer look. He sees his own reflection and lifts a lock of his hair, as if expecting something different. He leans forward and examines the mirror more closely.
When nothing seemed off he let out a sigh
"Mirror Mirror tell me who's the loneliest of all."
He didn't know it but the connection with the song and a familiar student roused the soul inside Oscar from its rest and changed his destiny while causing his mind to go gray and flip around.
[Oooh that's a Weiss Reference]
{Huh?}
Just as Oscar is about to back away, a voice booms out, sending him crashing backward.
[Ozpin: Yugi ! Prepare Yourself it's time to duel!]
{What The Hell!}
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"I've been thinking..Was Oscar always meant to go on journey to meet us?" Blake asked the group after realizing everything that happened in one day had something related to a member of their friend group in one way or another
Weiss sighs "you know what I'm going to agree but I'm not sure how besides destiny or the fact that he heard my recital over the radio we saw earlier."
"That's got to be the smartest and dumbest thing I've heard all day" said Yang not entirely convinced by Weiss especially with the hint's at Blake's first conversation to her and Ruby.
Yang keeping this theory to herself could cut her some slack since Weiss wasn't there for that.
"Didn't expect that to actually make sense," said Weiss
"Hey! This reminds me of the first time I met Weiss!" Ruby said, recollecting an episode when she heard her partner's statement.
"Really?" Weiss asked, confused on how something being both intelligent yet dimwitted could possibly remind Ruby of herself..
"Yeah! You were shaking a dust vial in front of me, then blamed me when it exploded!"Ruby was happily remembering her first meeting with her super bestie.
Weiss had the decency to shrink into her seat and look guilty, while remebering how when she found out Winter scolded her for being irresponsible with dust and for not trusting her enough to tell her about how she really meant her team leader.
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Shocked, he falls back onto one of the piles of hay causing the farm tools to scatter all over the floor of the barn.
{Oh man, I've been working too hard. Yeah that's it}
Oscar looks up at the sink and mirror from the floor of the barn, breathing heavily. From outside the barn, a woman's voice calls out.
Oscar's Aunt: Oscar? You be careful with those tools!
Getting up from his fall Oscar looks at the scattered pile of tools around him and begins reorgainsing them. after a while of just staring of into the distance wondering about life he then went and continued hos work for the day before heading inside.
Oscar sits on his bed in his room, reading a book by the light of a lantern.
Oscar's Aunt: (yelling from another room) Oscar, supper's almost ready!
Oscar: What're we having?
Oscar's Aunt: Doesn't matter! You're eating it!
{I swear if Blue milk is on the table again i'm gonna lose it.}
Oscar: (jokingly) I never agreed to these terms!
Oscar's Aunt: It's part of the "living under my roof" contract! Read the fine print, then come wash up!
{Oh Really. And Part of the contract was letting me go to a combat school with my friends but No! You need me on for another season building this nonexistent farm.}
Oscar closes his book and stands up. He is walking toward the door when a voice resounds, causing him to pause.
[Oscar gather yourself.We have to leave.]
{Care to introduce yourself properly this time "Pharaoh".}
[Ah yes sorry about that i couldn't help myself.A reflex from the past that one, I'm Professor Ozpin of beacon Academy]
{Really One of the most famous people in the world died and entered my head. I don't think that's how reincarnation works. You're not real and I'm probably going to the crazy house.}
[No! Please listen to what I have to say. The world is at stake here.]
Oscar continues forward.
[Oscar. Oscar!]
Oscar is about to grasp the door handle, but holds back.
Oscar: I've decided you're not real, so you might as well give up.
Ozpin: I understand how you're feeling. I went through the same panic and confusion.
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Ouch," said Yang, feeling bad for both Oscar and Ozpin, having to constantly have your life interrupted over and over again already sucked for her but having to do it hundreds of times while saving the world…maybe she would forgive Ozpin if he apologized for all of his lies to them.
"Well, it's almost funny, but i'd rather we finish this and got back to the alternate future." said Blake honestly, kind of bored as while the banter between the two were funny it was something that Oscar had told them about while he didn't include some of the more…personal details most of what she had seen lines up with what he told them already.
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{You mean you had someone die and enter your mind too?}
[Oh Gods! No, I was talking about being a teenager. I've been one thousands of times now and it never gets any easier you know.]
Oscar turns around and looks at an open book on the floor. He bends down and shuts it,
[Ninjas of Love eh? I'm more of a Man With Two Souls fan but that's good too]
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"Finally someone who knows art! We can get together and discuss it together."Blake feeling rather inflamed that another one of her friends understood the greatness of literature that explored mature themes and didn't dismiss it as porn actually existed-
"He's younger than Ruby is Blake" Her excitement was immediately doused when her partner put a hand on her shoulder and looked her in the eyes to remind her that discussing her taste in 'Literature' was not the most appropriate thing to do with someone who's not even old enough to drive.
"Yang, if he's old enough to fight Grimm then Oscar is old enough for a mature conversation besides Ozpin is ancient and we know he's had a family before so it's not as if Oscar doesn't know what sex is" Blake piped up as she remembered a similar talk with her own mom. It happened once she had gone back home with Sun.
It was extremely awkward when she realized how often her own parents had indulged when she came back from Beacon. While she respected her mom she made a promise to never listen to her when it came to discussing sex ever again. Especially since the walls were thin and her mom was quite candid when it came to the topic.
"Why would we even allow such a thing? Why are you you so incessant on Oscar doing such acts?" Weiss agreed while she had no problems with..Coitus happening between people of her age she still desired to not be surrounded by the topic especially with how many times she had to deal with unsavory offers from older men and their sons while she herself was younger .
Yang however, while agreeing with Weiss Realized something. "Well, He is alone with nothing but his aunt on that farm and no other people close by, so I guess letting him have the book isn't so bad. i mean it's better than the other options"
"I agree that it's perfectly normal to explore the depths of human nature through deep messages in literature. Mine just happens to explore the deeper and more baser needs of both Human and Faunus relationships after all and as a faunus I think it's great that Oscar would-"
"I don't Care Blake, it's Filth Filth!" Ruby, who was tired of stumbling on Blake's 'Research' everytime she was looking for adventure books, was not budging on not letting her friend poison another mind with her books "Baser Needs' or whatever it was still dirty and nasty so Ruby decided on not letting Blake have any new material in their Atlas Dorms when they finally get back to Remnant.
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Talking aloud as he puts it and the one next to it away on a shelf.
Oscar: It's not real. It's not real. It's not real. Oscar stands up and his reflection is visible in the window.
[I can assure you, you are perfectly sane.]
Oscar: I'm talking to a voice in my head.Yep! We're going to the Asylum First thing Tomorrow.
[I didn't say you were normal. I said you were sane.]
{Do you enjoy lying to people or something? You're having waaayy too much fun with destroying my life here.}
[Well I like to look at it this way it's not technically a lie I'm just not telling the whole truth.]
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"So It wasn't just with us, even to Oscar." Yang said with a grimace, realizing that Ozpin had done his whole half truth thing for a loooooong time.
"Well, he can just become a huntsman, right?" Ruby stated. She knows that being a hunter and joining her team is one of the best things to ever happen to her so maybe if Oscar became a hunter after everything was over it would help him. Plus with all the experience he would have it would be a breeze to be his team leader and he would get more friends.
The more she thought about it the more it made sense to Ruby that Oscar could just be a Hunter and go along with them and have fun adventures building houses or fighting baddies! Beaming at her having such good ideas she told Weiss the same thing.
"Ruby" Weiss said with a sigh towards her partner, "How many times do I have to tell you? Hunters can't just go around doing whatever they want. We exist to fight the Grimm. Us traveling with the Lamp was just an extension of that.`Weiss sighed as she tried to get her partner to have a more realistic approach.
"But a Hunter goes around saving people and fighting the Grimm while smiling and letting them know everything alright even if they get hurt! That's what a hero does!" Ruby retorted with a cute glare at her friend who would dare insinuate her mo-that being a Huntress wasn't the best thing ever.
"No Rubes they just do that as part of the job like those two on the train. The real hero's are the crazies that do it for fun or actually save the world like we're trying to do." Yang sighed, deciding to end this conversation before it could get worse.
She has been trying to convince Ruby that someone being a hunter isn't the pinnacle of justice since she was young and it's been doing nothing but getting worse since Beacon. Ruby's current attitude resembles her mom far too much, and she's afraid of history repeating itself and her leading Ruby into danger...More than she already had.
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Oscar starts to leave his room again.
Ozpin: There's quite a significant difference between--
Oscar: Shut up! You think this is funny? It's not.
[We are in complete agreement on that matter, I promise you. Believe me, I wish this weren't the case. But as I've told you, our Aura, our souls are combined.]
{And what does that mean?}
[I'd tell you but Aura is hilariously inconsistent, In this world i doubt there is anyone who understands it fully. Even I wouldn't claim to know everything about it But what it boils down to is that eventually i'll be inside of you forever.]
{I need an adult}
[I am a adult]
{A different adult preferably one who isn't dead…now can you go away for like twenty minutes. I uh..have to clean my room before dinner.}
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"I don't get it?" said Ruby, scratching her head not understanding why Oscar would want Ozpin to leave. if he was embarrassed about having a dirty room she could get it but why wait till before dinner and not clean it tomorrow.
"Maybe it's a reference to something," said Yang steering her sister away from the innuendo,
"No what he means is-" Blake was cut off by a hand over her mouth by a still upset at her partner Yang who refused to let her sister know about anything related to 'Room Cleaning' beyond the surface meaning Ruby was to remain pure until 35 or Dad explained it because Yang didn't want Qrow,Herself,or Oum forbid someone like Blake giving that talk to Ruby.
"He means he wants privacy to gather his thoughts Ruby" Weiss seeing the writing on the wall decided that giving Ruby a better meaning than the one. Blake would give while not a lie would be more generous than not telling her anything at all and leaving her confused.
"Oh yeah that makes sense."said Ruby before going back to watching the episode. Feeling accomplished Weiss moved to watch as well until she felt a glare on her side and looked over to see Yang staring at her before giving her a nod and looking back to the screen himself.
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[Um..I'd advise against that.Im omni present and can observe what you observe at all times]
{You mean i can't turn you off?}
[Uh No]
Oscar looks up at the ceiling without really focusing on anything but clearly showing his disgust.
Oscar: I'm done listening to you.
[Have you ever been to Haven?]
Oscar: I told you I'm not going, and I told you I'm done listening.
[Do you think you could describe the Headmaster's office?]
Oscar: No. Why would I know that? I've never seen--
[Try. Right now.]
{It's a circular room.There are lots of bookshelves and portraits with moving people on the walls. And… Is that a Phoenix? Oh God! it just burst into flames!}
[Dammit! Wrong Office Try this one]
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"Still….. I'm still wondering why he would have a Phoenix?and the paintings that talk? Friends maybe?" Ruby pondered.
"Or maybe… they're not real and it's something Professor Ozpin made up?" Yang noted.
"That can't be. So far, the only headmaster you know him as is professor Ozpin but who's to say he hasn't been all of them? What the kid saw is obviously a memory from when magic was more acceptable else what he saw would be harder to explain" stated Blake.
"That's… hard. I don't think Oscar will accept not trying again." Ruby commented on Oscar seeing the wrong memory and giving no more thought to it without explanation.
"Both have the correct mindset. Oscar wants to leave and do something meaningful to the world and Headmaster Ozpin needs to Save it. There is no need for other objectives to distract them from their goals." Weiss said agreeing with her leader with what little she knew of Oscar pine he didn't seem like the type to let the people he cared for be troubled..
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Oscar: It's probably... It's... His eyes widen and his face slackens. The visual pans around his head in a circle as he continues to speak.
Oscar: It's autumn-colored... with a large mahogany desk. There's a small table with chairs in a corner for guests, with a tea set that... I... I gave him. The pan stops when Oscar refers to himself in the first person. He puts his hand to his head, disconcerted.
Oscar: Why did I say that? Why did I know that? Why did I say that? Oscar becomes increasingly bothered and he starts backing up,dropping his hand.
[Because I helped build that school, and the tea set was a gift to the man running it now.]
{How much did you help build anyways?}
[Uhh pretty much the entire combat school system is my creation.]
{So you've been sending kids to fight and die for thousands of years with anyone noticing it was you the entire time? I find that a little hard to believe.]
Oscar sits on his bed and holds his head, groaning.
[If you don't believe me, you can look it up. If I recall, your aunt has several books on Mistral downstairs. I'm certain you could find a picture in one of them.]
Oscar: (straightening up and lowering his hands) That... that's right, I must've seen it in a picture. (sighing)
Ozpin: Oscar...Oscar stands upright, tightening his fists at his sides and shouts.
Oscar: Stop talking to me!
[What's that, keep talking okay!]
[I have a grave responsibility to uphold. We both do.]
Oscar: (falling to his knees) I never agreed to anything.
[No, you didn't. And neither did I, at first. But you do have an opportunity.]
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"Think he's gonna tell Oscar more about what happened?" Yang asked, remembering that Ozpin actually didn't agree at first and only came back for love.
"I know I would." Ruby said, answering Yang's question in her own way.
"Question is, will she believe him?" asked Weiss.
"Probably not." Blake said already knowing that if Oscar did know he would have either told them earlier or was asked by Ozpin not too
"I for one am glad he doesn't even try to slowly mention it during a conversation. Telling your subordinates what the current situation is more important than the circumstances that led to them." Weiss said agreeing that Ozpin should have been more clear with Oscar though with what she knows now about his past the fact that Ozpin shared that much at all pleased her.
"What confuses me is why not mention any of this to his aunt" asked Ruby who was the only one who remembered Oscar's aunt she wasn't that important but it bugged him.
"Better to not tell her at all." Yang said knowing that most people barely understand hunters let alone an immortal wizard being in someone else's soul who needs to fight an immortal enemy so he helped build the kingdoms and built the whole combat school system..yeah it was hard for her to wrap her head around still and she was there for the whole thing..
"I guess he must still be in shock." Blake said not agreeing with Yang's idea but not wanting to cause an argument this close with her partner.
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Oscar: For what?
[Greatness, hopefully. Greatness in knowing that, when the world needed help, you were the one to reach out your hand. It won't come without hardship, without sacrifice, but I know you don't want to live the rest of your life working as a farmhand in Mistral.]
[..Oh no. Should not have said that I should not have said that.]
Oscar: (hands on his head again, eyes wide) So you just decided to read my thoughts?
[I... well. They're our thoughts, now.]
Oscar: (groaning)
[Well I never said I couldn't and by the way if you get us to Haven. I think I can hook you up with some of those cute girls you keep thinking about. I happen to know a few that might-]
Oscar:Get out of my head!
[Well Excuse me for trying to help a brother out.]
Oscar's Aunt: Oscar! Supper time! I better see clean hands!
Oscar looks toward the door, but remains silently on the floor.
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"I say he did pretty good," said Yang grinning.proud of Oscar for making it through such a rough start even if she found a few parts of it funny.
"I suppose so," said Weiss, respecting Oscar a bit more. After all, leaving your family behind to find freedom and accomplish a bigger goal was what her older sister had done.Oscar did the same thing but way younger and iller prepared, Yes Weiss could respect Oscar's drive even if it wasn't entirely his own choice..
"Now all that is left is the hero stuff, I wonder who the cute girls were though?" said Ruby, glad that even if it started out rocky Oscar would eventually meet her…her friends and everyone would totally be happy forever and beat Salem.
"Ruby we already how it turns out," said Weiss, cheered up by her partner's shenanigans and even grinned down at her from atop her throne.
"Weiss i know and wait look." said Ruby, turning her attention to the lower bottom right half of the screen As the others turned to see the totals and notice an arrow walking up and pushing the arrow the screens showed static then switched to a menu.
*New World(Please Vocally Specify)
*Old World
*Current<
*Random
"Okay, there are more options than we thought," said Blake
"Hm wonder what they're like," said Ruby
"Let's find out," said Yang, going to the menu and once again pushing it down to Random causing it to dim and her to go back to snuggling up to Blake who blushed at the sudden contact.Ruby went to go to an Idol meeting with Weiss and when they returned the screen began a new world showing.