White Rose

White Rose is the femslash ship between Weiss Schnee and Ruby Rose from the RWBY fandom.

Canon
Ruby and Weiss meet at Beacon when Ruby accidently knocks over Weiss' expensive luggage that happens to be full of Dust. This puts the two on bad terms to begin with. When they meet again in the Emerald Forest, Weiss' first instinct is to walk away, leaving Ruby behind, despite the rules being that the first person you see it to be your partner. She only decides to partner with Ruby after seeing that her other option would be Jaune Arc. Their relationship improves over the first volume after Weiss sees how hard Ruby is trying with her school work and leadership duties. She start making coffee for Ruby as a way to support her.

By season 2, the two seem to have developed a better and closer relationship, as they both hug and "cry" together after losing a board game to Yang. Ruby also laughs at Weiss' small joke following their battle against Roman in his Atlesian Paladin.

While fighting in the Vytal Festival Tournament, Weiss saves Ruby from being attacked during a match, causing Ruby to excitingly call Weiss her "BFF". While Weiss refutes this label, Ruby nonetheless holds it to be true. Later in the volume, during the Battle of Beacon, Weiss follows Ruby to find Jaune and Pyrrha showing total faith in her. In the aftermath of the battle Ruby learns that Weiss was taken back home by her father, which leaves her visibly saddened.

Fanon
White Rose is one of the most popular pairings in the RWBY fandom, alongside Bumbleby. People began shipping them as early as the first two character trailers, before the series had started and when little was known about their personalities. Part of its popularity comes from it being a partner pairing to Bumbleby. Those who don't like White Rose will often ship Rose Garden (Ruby x Oscar), Nuts and Dolts (Ruby x Penny), Lancaster (Ruby x Jaune), Freezerburn (Yang x Weiss), Whiteknight (Weiss x Jaune), Iceberg (Weiss x Neptune) or Monochrome (Weiss x Blake) instead.

Fans of White Rose eventually speculated for Weiss have hinted feelings for Ruby since friends don't look at each other that way  and since the manga focus on this pairing given the impression if they were really just friends although there are shippers who disagree since they ship other Ruby or Weiss pairing which make others feel if White Rose were underdeveloped or too forced yet people who defend White Rose actually think it will still be canon because it parallels with the other main pairing and they want it to be a slow burn since they've been through a lot with each other.

After Volume 7 and beginning of Volume 8 revealed that ruby and weiss had less interaction than previous seasons, some fans starting to feel offended ever since Ruby and Weiss look like a background character kind of interaction but other thought whiterose will be back to their spotlight because RWBY rooster teeth had hinted about Weiss being Ruby supportive friend that would stood out on whats right for her.

Other fans actually think Ruby is afraid to fall in love with someone because of her losing someone she loves especially when Weiss had interact with nora and blake about the case of Renora seperated team on Volume 8 Chapter 3.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Ruby/Weiss tag on FanFiction.Net
 * Ruby/Weiss tag on FanFiction.Net

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Trivia

 * The in-universe team attack of Ruby and Weiss is named Ice Flower.
 * Rooster Teeth CRWBY has sold White Rose on the twitter RT Official Store.
 * White Rose ship was supported by Monty Oum through the manga "Red like Roses" where Ruby jokingly says Weiss as her wife also Weiss seen to blush over Ruby several times
 * Lindsay Jones ( Ruby Rose VA ) liked White Rose since she share insta story post of this ship on her Instagram page.
 * On August 20 2020, Rooster Teeth CRWBY Retweeted a White Rose fanart by PollyCrackling
 * Their ship name comes from the fact that Weiss's theme color is white and Ruby's surname is Rose.
 * Although its not official from RWBY, Whiterose ship name itself are similar with the song title Whiteroses  by Charli XCX  and  Whiterose by Tkay Maidza.

Variations

 * Frosen Steel — the ship between Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee and Penny Polendina
 * Newspaper — the ship between Weiss Schnee, Ruby Rose and Blake Belladonna
 * Pollinated Knight — the ship between Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Jaune Arc, Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiao Long
 * Pollination — the ship between Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiao Long
 * Short and Sweet — the ship between Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Penny Polendina and Neo Politan
 * Strawberry Sunweiss — the ship between Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee and Yang Xiao long
 * Team RWBN — the ship between Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna and Nora Valkyrie
 * War of the Roses — the ship between Weiss Schnee, Ruby Rose and Jaune Arc
 * Winter Greenhouse — the ship between Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Penny Polendina, and Nora Valkyrie