How many people do you know that live with their best friend? How many of those people are of opposite genders? How many of those people refuse to enter a relationship with each other, despite all of their friends already calling them a couple? Well, that's the story of Weiss and Jaune's life. They had always been together, since even the very beginning. It was just meant to be.
The Very True Story of Two Best Friends
is a RWBY Real Life AU which primarily explores the lives of Weiss and Jaune, two friends who live out their lives in Canada.
Tropes present in The Very True Story of Two Best Friends:
- Albinos Are Freaks: Weiss faces teasing due to her pale skin and white hair.
- Childhood Friend Romance: This story is about one between Jaune and Weiss. It starts with the two already married, then follows with Weiss having a flashback from when they met and the rest of their lives until that point.
- Childhood Friends: Jaune, Weiss, and Emerald all grew up together.
- Convenient Miscarriage: Emerald had a boyfriend and got pregnant with his baby. She didn't want to have a baby as it would get in the way of her life plan, so she decided to get an abortion. However, before the abortion could even be completed, she got a miscarriage, making it unnecessary.
- Cool Big Sis: Winter is this to Weiss and her friends.
- Fantastic Racism: After the September 11 attacks, Emerald faces some; and her father, who happens to be a pilot, gets beaten up to the applause of those in the crowd despite being an innocent man who just happens to be Muslim.
- Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Subverted. Emerald decides to get an abortion. However, it becomes unnecessary when it's revealed she had a Convenient Miscarriage.
- Parental Neglect: Weiss' parents are barely a presence in her life. It gets so bad that Winter actually takes custody of her after Weiss gets into an accident while riding her bike and didn't receive any help for her injury until Winter got home.
- Shower of Awkward: In order to get to their school on time to play for Christmas Eve, Jaune and Weiss decide to shower back to back.
- Sleep Cute: Weiss and Jaune do this on the day their band is supposed to play a big song on Christmas Eve at their school. As such, the two have to hurry to get there on time, to Emerald's exasperation.
- Teen Pregnancy: Happened to Emerald.
- Wrong Assumption: When Weiss and Jaune get to school, Emerald helps the two with their makeup. She then notices that their hair smells of the same shampoo, and comes to the obvious conclusion of why they were late.
