Bumbleby

Bumbleby is the femslash ship between Yang Xiao Long and Blake Belladonna from the RWBY fandom.

Canon
Their first interaction was in Volume 1, Chapter 3, where Yang wanted to help Ruby make new friends. Blake first seems to have no patience with the two, only wanting to go back to being alone. Yang says that she's a "lost cause". Although, when they're picking partners, she seems happy to be Blake's partner. Even though Blake is known to be the cold and mysterious person in the team, Yang makes her smile on several occasions after they become partners.

In the episode Burning The Candle, Yang tries to get Blake to relax from investigating the White Fang and just attend the dance. She confronts her and actually got her to go after relating to her and showing her that she cares about her a lot. Yang then, states that if Blake felt like coming out, she would save her a dance. In the end, Blake does come to the dance with Sun Wu Kong, but shares her first dance with Yang.

In the episode Heroes And Monsters, Yang chooses to go find Blake other than her missing sister. When she finds Blake, Adam says that he'll "Destroy everything that she (Blake) loves". Then when Yang arrives, he points at her saying "Starting with her". Blake is horrified, and her facial expression gives this away, confirming Adam's assumption. Adam then, stabs Blake in the stomach with his sword, causing her to cry in pain. Her cries are heard by Yang, who gets angrier than she ever has in the entire series, and in a blind rage, recklessly charges at Adam, only to get her arm taken off by him. She then loses consciousness. Adam moves forward to finish her off, but Blake sends forward one of her shadow clones to distract him. While he is distracted, Blake grabs Yang and escapes. They are later shown, with Yang still unconscious, and Blake hold her hand weeping, stating over and over again that she's sorry. Do to her feelings of guilt over what happened to Yang, Blake leaves team RWBY and runs away to her family in Menagerie. This greatly upsets Yang, because Blake left without even so much as saying goodbye.

Volume 4 and 5 does not have any physical interactions between the two, but there are moments when they talk or mention each other. Yang mentions on several occasions that she doesn't understand why Blake left. Then later states, that maybe she needed Blake to be there for her. On another occasion, Blake expresses the guilt she feels for what happen to Yang, at which Sun replies that both Yang and him would gladly go through what they went through if it meant protecting Blake again, and that running from her problems to "protect her friends" doesn't solve them, it only makes the problems worse and hurts her friends.

Throughout Vol. 6 there are several instances in which Yang and Blake hold hands and give each other glances. In chapter 5, Blake holds Yang's hand and says she'd protect her, which Yang didn't take very well. During their fight with Adam in chapter 11, Blake takes Yang's trembling hand and says, "She's not protecting me. And I'm not protecting her. We're protecting each other." Yang also reveals the name of her bike is "Bumblebee". By the end of the season, after they defeat Adam, they seem to be very close and even share a moment of looking into each other's eyes after the fight.

Fanon
In the episode Burning The Candle when Yang tries to convince Blake to come to the dance, she hugs Blake and says "And if you feel like coming out tomorrow... I'll save you a dance". Yang is always known for her puns and this could be referencing "coming out", as revealing your sexuality. It could also mean just going to the dance. But, many fans of the ship see this scene as the former.

In the episode Downfall, Blake is finally reunited with her team after running away at the Fall Of Beacon. Despite being in a room full of people who also haven't seen and worried about her, the only name she says is Yang's. This helps the fact that Blake and Yang really did miss each other equally as they both almost breakdown just talking about each other when they're separated.

Fandom
ART
 * Bumbleby moments volume 1-4

FAN FICTION
 * Yang/Blake on FanFiction.Net
 * Yang/Blake on FanFiction.Net

TUMBLR

YOUTUBE
 * Bumbleby

Trivia

 * The ship has been featured on the Fandometrics most reblogged ships list several times:
 * It was the most reblogged the weeks ending Januray 21st 2019 and January 28th 2019
 * It was the second most reblogged ship on Tumblr the week ending January 14th 2019
 * It was the nineteenth most reblogged ship the week ending April 15th 2019.
 * Yang's bike is named Bumblebee.
 * The in-universe team attack of Blake and Yang is named Bumblebee.
 * The ship that Blake was on in early season 5 was named Pride.
 * Yang holds a "Save The Bees" sign in RWBY Chibi.
 * Yang says "Bumblebee? More like-" in RWBY Chibi.
 * Both their voice actors, Barbara Dunkelman (Yang) and Arryn Zech (Blake), are bisexual.
 * Barbara makes the Yang and Blake plush toys have "sexual actions".