By the time Ruby woke up from her movie and sweet's coma later on in the day as the movie was apparently a siren call to keep her asleep somehow. I was feeling like that meme of the dried out 'alien' that represented a man who got drained completely.
"Dude... What the heck happened to you? Did you like eat the whole bag of my salt taffy?" Ruby demanded with a pout.
My face twitched as I was laying out on a couch and reading a manual on Dust Forging when it came to imbuing Dust into rune matrixes. It was a dull read, but something I knew had some potential.
"Uhhhh yeah no. I am just a bit tired after the day. I am not you who spent like the last five hours napping." I said.
And Ruby just stuck her tongue out at me before she noticed the book I was reading and said with a smile. "Oh? You are thinking of expanding your options and doing some smithing or runes on the side?"
"Can't go wrong with runes. Whether its use for yourself, and if you see some enchanted object, you can have some idea what its doing... And if it's also horribly cursed on a side note." I finished with a scowl.
As I remembered all to clearly those inheritance books of magic that Luxanna brought to me and how many of them were cursed in some form or another.
Ruby came over closer to me with her falling into the couch beside me. She pushed herself under my arm with a giggle as she leaned against me.
"Hmm so did you and my mom have fun while I went to sleep?" She said with a soft hum as she rested her head against my chest.
My lips twitched as the memory of her mom's well-toned, beautiful, heart-shaped ass clapping on my waist as I fucked her on her bed filled my mind.
"Yeah... Yeah, we had some fun messing around." I said as I hopefully disguised my wry tone with a flip of a page of the rune book I was reading.
Ruby just laid against me, relaxing and thankfully allowing me to read without issue for a good bit.
Then, with a hum, Ruby said quietly. "I am going to miss this when we go back to Beacon. I don't have much in the way of friends inside of Beacon."
Yeahhhh saying I have no friends while snuggling up to your boyfriend wasn't awkward or anything. But still I said with a softer voice. "You are obviously welcome to come mess around with my peerage and my friends at Lux's tower."
I then said with some amusement. "I do recall you being rather interested in the weapons I threw onto Ren's body, remember?"
Ruby perked up, and the next hour of my life was the excited form of Ruby excitedly asking me why the railgun naval minature cannon mounted on Ren's didn't have enchantments on the slug's to make them track targets.
And I had to patiently explain to Ruby that I was still an orphan 'wretch' who didn't have years of noble lessons for mage/warriors that were common to her nobility level.
Real fun times, even as faunus servants came around commonly with snacks and drinks. Though in a more relaxed situation, I realized that these faunus were truly fucking terrified of Ruby and especially Summer.
'Well, Summer did say that when she was really young, she took part in the Faunus Purge.' I thought as a skittish dog faunus girl gave me a new glass of tea and scampered away.
I then was curious. "How do you feel about Faunus's actually being your servants, Ruby?" I was rather curious to see if the previous sweetheart kind 'protagonist' of this world was actually a racist now.
Ruby gave me a weird look before she shrugged and said blandly. "I mean... We feed, clothe, and protect them. They work for us in turn, while we have to watch them for doing something really dumb and stupid again."
I was expecting something more racist, like her mother, who had a much stronger sense of disdain of Faunus kind.
"Why ask? Is it because of those two rabbit faunus you keep?" Ruby asked before shaking her head as she said with a smile. "It's fine Jake, besides, I like them as they used to help run a weapon shop, remember?"
Ruby then nudged me before she said with a chuckle. "Anyway, Jake, I was curious if you wanted to try to work on making a weapon together?"
I could only shrug before I said thoughtfully. "So long as it's a naval-themed weapon, sure." Well, so long as it's 'naval' themed anyway. Naval could also mean water/ocean and even space-themed.
"Hmm... Want to make just a mechashift weapon? Or you want to go crazy and make like a mech or something?" I asked curiously.
Ruby paused and then giggled as she said with an ecstatic smile at the thought. "Oooh! Can it be like a bipedal like stocky mech! One arm should have a giant round with the grooves hiding a minigun barrel."
Ruby then took a deep breath and continued. "And for the other arm, it could have like a molecular lightning whip bundle that has a lightning caster inside its main arm line to launch lightning bolts as well."
I imagined something akin to a 40k dreadnaught with such weapons... And then with a firm expression, I said. "That works, but we need to put a minigun armed with explosive ammo that feeds from a spatial storage on one shoulder. And the other shoulder should have like high-yield rockets."
Ruby gave me a look of love and 'understanding' as though she found her people. But then she paused and asked with a frown. "Hmm, but who should pilot the mech then? Would it be one of us?"
It was clear that neither of us had a fighting style conducive to just jumping into a mech with too much firepower. We both had silver eyes so just hiding inside of a mech was a terrible idea.
But then... I couldn't help but have a different idea. What if Ruby and I made a super light reflector that would bounce our Silver Eye Light upwards into a satellite that would then reflect the light back onto the surface of Remnant at a designated area?
"Hey Ruby? Want to make a war crime?"
And Ruby, with an actual blink, asked in confusion. "What is a war crime?"
Which just reminded me how fucking cursed this world was.