History HoYay / RWBY

* Yang often comes across as trying to flirt with Blake. When they first met, she complemented Blake's bow for matching her pyjamas. Yang and Blake's partnership is formed the moment they make eye contact in the forest, and Blake's attitude towards Yang ever since can be viewed as "fondly indulgent".

* Yang repeatedly insists to everyone to trust her when she says Blake will come to the dance. She then bares her soul to Blake to explain why it's important that Blake take care of herself, for the first time revealing some of Yang and Ruby's back story and how Yang once nearly got Ruby killed because of her stubbornness. She then promises with a wink to save a dance for Blake. When Blake finally agrees to go with Sun, she warns Sun that her first dance is spoken for and she and Yang can later be seen completing a dance together.

* When Adam tells Blake he intends to make her suffer for her betrayal by destroying everything she loves, he spots Yang desperately searching for Blake and Blake's horrified reaction. He immediately decides to start that suffering by destroying Yang and stabs Blake. Yang explodes with rage in response, ignoring Blake's desperate begging for Yang to not respond, and charges in fists first with [[FreezeFrameBonus eyes full of tears]]. When she collapses unconscious after Adam maims her, Blake throws herself over Yang, uses a clone to distract Adam, and carries Yang away - all despite being very badly injured herself.

* When Ruby next sees Penny after the fight with Roman, Penny doesn't seem to recognise her. Ruby abandons the mission she's on to pursue Penny, and find what's going on and why Penny disappeared; she had been worried for Penny's safety. Ruby doesn't give up until Penny acknowledges her and confides in her despite knowing she's not allowed to. When Penny flees from Atlesian Soldiers, Ruby unhesitatingly follows using her speed to try and lose them. She loses control of her Semblance and almost falls in front of a lorry but Penny rushes back to save her. Once alone, Penny reveals her dark secret, that she's a robot, and Ruby instantly dismisses her concerns telling her that she can feel Penny's soul, and instantly accepts her as a person. Penny then hides Ruby from the Atlesian Soldiers to protect her.

* Emerald visibly lights up whenever Cinder appears and becomes eager and polite when addressing her. When Cinder shows up to chastise Roman for threatening Emerald and Mercury, Emerald is thrilled to see her. Cinder's instructions to her are almost purred. Back story shows that Cinder recruited Emerald first, giving this scared, angry, half-dressed street rat an almost hungry look. Emerald becomes very jealous when Cinder then recruits Mercury. She thought she and Cinder were doing fine by themselves. Cinder slapping Emerald in response indicates their relationship is not healthy.

* This seems to happen to Yang a ''lot.'' Neon spends their entire tournament match equal parts mocking and flirting with her.
-->'''Neon:''' You should try rollerblading sometime! It's ''super'' fun. It might take you a while though, because you're so, you know. ''top-heavy.'' [cut to a shot of Yang's breasts]

[[folder:Coco/Velvet]]
* When Team CFVY first shows up, Coco treats Velvet more gently than she does the rest of her team even though she's mostly just kicking ass and taking no prisoners at the time. The moment a Grimm forces Coco to retreat, Velvet rushes over, determined to help. However, Coco rallies, refusing to let Velvet [[TooAwesomeToUse waste her weapon]] on the current threat. She later uses the same soft tone when giving Velvet permission to use her weapon during the battle for Beacon.
-->'''Coco:''' Hey, come on. You've spent all semester building that up!
* During the tournament, when Coco gets knocked out by Emerald and Mercury, Velvet is visibly horrified, covering her mouth. Her voice trembles and she has to be comforted by Fox. In return, when Velvet is hurt by an Atlesian Paladin during the battle for Beacon, Coco sounds genuinely scared as she calls Velvet's name, and she quickly opens fire on the Paladin with extreme prejudice.
--> ''"[[FutileHandReach Velvet]]--!"''
* Velvet's name is by far the most frequent thing we hear from Coco, and every time it's in a situation where she's clearly concerned for Velvet's well-being and wants her closer--in Field Trip the entire team is exhausted (and given [[GangOfBullies Velvet's experiences with certain elements of the student body]], leaving her by herself in that situation is potentially disastrous), in Battle of Beacon she's lingering out in the open in a Grimm-filled arena unaware that her team is some distance away, and in Heroes and Monsters she's [[SayMyName just taken a vicious blow]].
[[/folder]]

* Ruby and Weiss have a sarcastic, [[LargeHam over-emotional] relationship with each other. During the food fight, Weiss is temporarily knocked down, and Ruby [[PietaPlagiarism dramatically cradles]] her body crying out to the heavens while Weiss goes along with it and fakes being dead. During a Magic/Risk-style board game, when each girl dramatically declares her moves for the turn, Weiss almost wins the game but activates Yang's trap card. She sobs crocodile tears while Ruby dives into her arms to sob with her.

* Neon spends the entire tournament fight mocking and flirting with Yang, and focusses heavily on Yang's breasts and figure.

* NDGO is an all-female team that displays complete disdain for the male Team SSSN, which seems to be well-known specifically for their attractiveness.
* As cruel and creepy as it is, Pyrrha's death--on her knees, with her forehead resting against Cinder's hand as she dies, with Cinder holding her iconic headpiece until she's faded away entirely--is a twisted form of ''intimate.''

* From her first appearance, Emerald is ''painfully'' head-over-heels for this woman. When her boss shows up to chastise Roman for threatening her apprentices when he thought she wasn't listening, Emerald immediately lights up.
-->'''Emerald:''' Cinder!!!
* Cinder has sexual tension with ''everyone,'' and Emerald is no exception. Almost every word out of her mouth, if it's not a sharp reprimand, is a warm, sexual purr.

* Emerald also shows herself to be ''very'' jealous of Mercury when he first joins them in Beginning of the End, insisting they don't need him (she uses the word "we" perhaps by accident, showing she clearly thinks of herself and Cinder as a unit and Mercury as an interloper). The fact that Cinder slaps her for the presumption indicates that, [[CaptainObvious in case any doubt remained in the audience]], her relationship with Emerald is ''not'' a healthy one.
* Emerald, more than anyone else, spends a lot of time desperately trying to impress Cinder. She's always eager and polite, much more formal than any of Cinder's other underlings; she's the only one who regularly ducks her head and calls Cinder "ma'am" as well as the only one never shown to talk back to her or engage in SnarkToSnarkCombat.
* Their first meeting even has some distinct sexual undertones. The look Cinder gives this scared, angry, half-dressed street rat is nothing short of ''hungry,'' and a few of her lines are no less suggestive in-context.
-->'''Emerald:'''What do you want?
-->'''Cinder:'''I already told you. And I do not. Like. Repeating myself.
--> ---
-->'''Cinder:''' Don't. Unless of course, you ''want'' them to hear you.

* Ruby and Weiss first meet with Weiss fussing at Ruby for being a klutz. Ruby is very embarrassed to have been clumsy in front of Weiss. The two end up becoming permanent partners in the beginning of their training, with Ruby being distressed when Weiss momentarily abandons her and cheering when she returns. Ruby wants to impress Weiss so that Weiss will want to be friends with her.
* When a fire starts in the middle of their beowulf fight, Weiss grabs Ruby's arm and pulls her away from the danger.
* They fight like a married couple throughout the episode, even having a classic 'just admit that we're lost' spat.
* Weiss, dramatically, after being left by Ruby on the Nevermore: "How could you ''leave'' me?"
* Weiss saves Ruby from the Deathstalker and gives her...the Vol 1 Weiss version of a pep talk. They agree to try and work together better as a unit, and make good on it immediately.
* After a brief fight over who should be team leader, Weiss makes up with Ruby. She brings her coffee, tells her she believes in her, and promises to be 'the best teammate ever'. After she leaves, Ruby has a huge grin on her face.
* Throughout the series they're one of the best examples of opposites attracting, with a side of StrangeMindsThinkAlike. After their initial friction Weiss grows up a bit, and by the later volumes repeatedly demonstrates complete faith in Ruby's judgement, trusting her plans and [[DefrostingIceQueen sharing warm moments]] with her.

* In the Best Day Ever food fight, not only does Weiss (along with the others) instantly follow Ruby's lead in an objectively ridiculous situation that she'd normally [[NotSoAboveItAll have no interest in]], but during the PietaPlagiarism scene she indulges Ruby's antics by pretending to "die" dramatically in her arms despite actually having no real injuries.
* Ruby also has a running, natural [[SnarkToSnarkCombat teasing relationship]] with Weiss that she doesn't have with the others. They're obviously very comfortable with good-natured mockery toward one another than they are with their other teammates.
-->'''Ruby:''' Sisters! Friends! ''[[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Weiss]]''.
** They actually have quite a lot of fun together, as evidenced by their [[LargeHam overemotional reactions]] to the Magic/Risk mashup boardgame in Welcome to Beacon.

* And of course, at the end of the world, it's Weiss and Ruby who end up standing together against the darkness.
-->'''Ruby:''' I'll find them, and I'll bring them back.
-->'''Weiss:''' No. ''We'' will find them.
** And she sends Ruby off with a little smile and an earnest "You can do this." A long way from a girl who was once convinced Ruby would be the reason she failed her initiation.

* When Ruby first meets Penny in 1.15 The Stray, she casually says, "Take care, friend," to Penny before walking away. However, Penny fixates on this in such a way that suggests that Ruby is the first person to ever show any semblance of friendship to Penny, let alone call her a ''friend''.
* When Penny hears that Blake is missing in 1.16 Black And White, she immediately declares that she "won't rest" until she's found Ruby's teammate, showing that she is dedicated to helping Ruby despite only knowing her for a brief time.
* Despite being annoyed by Penny's peculiar behavior in 1.15 and 1.16, Ruby tolerates her and lets her join the search for Blake.
* Later in 1.16, when Ruby confronts Torchwick in the docks and Penny comes up behind her, Ruby's first instinct is to tell Penny to get back. She gets shot in the back by Torchwick for going to the trouble of warning Penny.
** When Ruby is blown back by Torchwick's shot, Penny moves forward with [[DeathGlare a look that could kill]] and [[CurbStompBattle proceeds to cut down an impressive number]] of Torchwick's henchmen, forcing him to flee.
** And when Penny moves forward to attack, Ruby, who is still shaken by Torchwick's hit, tells Penny to stop. It's obvious that she doesn't want Penny to get hurt.
* When Ruby encounters Penny again in 2.3 A Minor Hiccup, Penny initially refuses to recognize Ruby and walks away. Instead of shrugging it off, Ruby abandons her mission (which was to gather information with Weiss) to find out what's wrong with Penny, and to find out if she's all right after the incident at the docks weeks ago. Even when Penny continues to hide her knowledge of Ruby, Ruby keeps pushing, making an appeal to Penny "as a friend" to explain what's going on. Penny finally acquiesces and agrees to explain to Ruby.
** She's obviously worried about what she's going to say, but Ruby puts her at ease with one of her brilliant smiles.
** But before Penny can say anything, two Atlesian soldiers spot her, and she runs away. Ruby immediately follows, even though she may be breaking the law by running from the soldiers. Ruby follows this by ''definitely'' breaking the law- she tips a pile of crates to stop the soldiers and uses her super-speed semblance to help Penny escape.
** Then, having escaped, Ruby loses control of her semblance and [[OutOfTheFryingPan falls directly into the path of a speeding truck.]] Penny saves Ruby by leaping in front of the truck and stopping it with her ''bare hands,'' and does more damage to the truck and the road than herself
** Penny runs away after this, and Ruby follows again and corners her. Penny confesses that she's a robot capable of generating an aura (which is a highly confidential military secret that she shouldn't even be telling Ruby about), she's afraid of what Ruby will think. So how does Ruby react?

* While all of Team CFVY seems very close-knit and [[TheHeart especially protective of Velvet]], there are instances that suggest her relationship with Coco is just that tiny bit more than friendly. Even in The Breach, Coco's voice takes on a slightly gentler tone when addressing Velvet than in the rest of the scene, where she's mostly just kicking ass and taking no prisoners.

** The only reason she has to say that at all is that, despite Coco demonstrably being able to handle herself and not appearing to be in any danger, the moment a swipe from a Grimm forced her to retreat Velvet came rushing up preparing to pull out her very [[TooAwesomeToUse high-cost]] weapon, knowing full well that she'd have to spend a great deal of time and energy to [[PowerCopying scan the hard-light replicas back into the device]].
* Despite the implication that [[BigBrotherInstinct Yatsuhashi]] is Velvet's partner, during the match with Emerald and Mercury in Volume 3 we only get a reaction shot to Coco's knockout. Velvet's visibly horrified, covering her mouth, and her voice trembles as she looks at her injured leader. Fox has to reach out and comfort her, and even then she still looks upset.

** Velvet being hurt is the first time we ever hear Coco Adel sound legitimately scared. She quickly recovers and [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend opens fire on the Paladin with extreme prejudice]], but for a moment she completely loses her composure.
--> ''"[[FutileHandReach Velvet]]--!"''
* Heroes and Monsters has another example of Coco using a much softer, warmer tone, even in the middle of combat, when she's speaking directly to Velvet. "Just make 'em count" is said almost fondly.

* And ''how.'' As early as Shining Beacon, Yang comes across a lot like she's trying unsuccessfully to flirt. ("I love your bow! It goes great with your...pajamas!") Blake's attitude toward her from the moment they officially become partners (a bond formed via eye contact, no less) can best be described as "fondly indulgent," as well.

* Kicks into high gear in Volume 2, with Yang's repeated assurances that "Trust me, Blake ''will'' be at the dance."
** Burning The Candle, where she bares her soul to Blake in order to explain ''why'' it's important that she take care of herself even while the team as a whole tries to track down Torchwick and the White Fang is one of the most intimate and emotionally raw moments of the season. There's a distinct impression that Yang's never told ''anyone'' about the night her "stubbornness" and obsession with her birth mother almost got herself and her little sister killed.
-->'''Yang:''' I'm not asking you to stop. Just...please, get some rest? Not just for you, but for the people you care about.
** And she finishes off with a warm promise and very interesting wording.
-->'''Yang:''' And, if you feel like coming out tomorrow...I'll save you a dance. ''[winks over her shoulder]''
** Blake takes her up on that dance, too.
* Comes to a head in the finale of Heroes and Monsters, when Adam is taunting Blake about how he intends to make her "suffer for her betrayal" by destroying everything she loves...
-->[Yang appears in the background, desperately searching for Blake in the chaos]
-->'''Adam:''' Starting with ''her.''
** All a badly-injured Blake can do is desperately whisper "no--please--"
** And Adam knows exactly how to lure Yang into dropping all of her defenses and making a stupid, impulsive attack--he ''stabs Blake in the stomach,'' forcing her to cry out in pain loud enough for Yang to hear and turn toward the sound. [[FreezeFrameBonus Watch carefully enough]] and you can see tears start to form in Yang's eyes right before she ''instantly'' powers up her Semblance in full and charges him.
--> '''Yang:''' ''GET AWAY FROM HER!''
* Despite previously being almost unable to move from the beating Adam gave her, Blake manages to throw herself in front of a crippled Yang the minute Adam moves to finish her off.
** She also manages to half-carry Yang, who's taller and heavier than she is by a not-inconsiderable degree, out of the burning cafeteria quickly enough that they manage to escape in the few seconds it takes for Adam to realize the deception.
* A subtle but powerful implication: While it's clear from the fact that Adam only realized after the decoy was dissolved that the "Blake" he killed was just her Semblance that she's gotten much better at using that illusion (normally she's still visible after she leaves the decoy), the fact remains that he didn't realize ''Yang'' was gone either. So, either he was so distracted that he didn't notice the tall blonde bombshell a foot behind his target getting up and being dragged away...or Blake was able to create a decoy Semblance of Yang, as well. Ladies and gentlemen, that's what we call a soulmate.
* When Beacon is being evacuated, Yang and Blake are laid out with the wounded right next to each other. Yang is unconscious--from either blood loss, shock, or both--and Blake's injury has finally caught up to her; but she still reaches out weakly to hold Yang's hand, gasping for air and tearfully apologizing for getting her into this situation.
** The fact that Blake ultimately runs once everyone is safe is implied to be almost entirely due to guilt over being the reason for Yang's potentially career-ending injury and a determination to protect her and the others from being targeted by Adam again.

* It's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, but in Extracurricular, as Team RWBY (featuring, among other things, Yang's assets and booty shorts) passes Emerald in the hallway, she briefly [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/02209fb13ed3b2a8bbf685a3de0ea600/tumblr_inline_obxj8hMqfg1rhumfl_540.png gets a little distracted from her mission]].

* Later in 1.16, when Ruby confronts Torchwick in the docks and Penny comes up behind her, Ruby's first instinct is to tell Penny to get back. While she's facing Penny, Torchwick drills her in the back with his weapon.

* Comes to a head in the finale of Heroes and Monsters, when [[CompleteMonster Adam]] is taunting Blake about how he intends to make her "suffer for her betrayal" by destroying everything she loves...

* Ruby and Weiss first meet with Weiss fussing at Ruby for being a clutz. Ruby is very embarrassed to have been clumsy in front of Weiss. The two end up becoming permanent partners in the beginning of their training, with Ruby being distressed when Weiss momentarily abandons her and cheering when she returns. Ruby wants to impress Weiss so that Weiss will want to be friends with her.

* Throughout the series they're one of the best examples of opposites attracting, with a side of WeirdMindsThinkAlike. After their initial friction Weiss grows up a bit, and by the later volumes repeatedly demonstrates complete faith in Ruby's judgement, trusting her plans and [[DefrostingIceQueen sharing warm moments]] with her.

(trope page currently under construction)

* Kicks into high gear in Volume 2, with Yang's repeated assurances that "Trust me, [Blake] ''will'' be at the dance."

* Weiss' disapproval makes Ruby upset/angry enough to chop down an entire adult tree while screaming in rage.

* Weiss, dramatically, after being left by Ruby on the Nevermore: "Why did you leave me?"

* She also manages to half-carry Yang, who's taller and heavier than she is by a not-inconsiderable degree, out of the burning cafeteria quickly enough that they manage to escape in the few seconds it takes for Adam to realize the deception.

-->'''Yang:''' And, if you feel like coming out tomorrow...I'll save you dance. ''[winks over her shoulder]''