Piprooney

Piprooney is the femslash ship between Pip Quintana and Rooney Bach from the Osemanverse fandom.

Canon
Pip and Rooney are girlfriends and co-directors of the Shakespeare society. At first, they didn't get along, often arguing with each other, thinking that their love is unrequited, but by the end of the story they get together.

Part Two
The two first meet because their cars were next to each other and Pip noticed Rooney's fern, who is named "Roderick". Later on, they meet again when Pip is visiting Georgia's room and Rooney just so happens to be Georgia's roommate. Rooney excitedly announces once Georgia is done introducing everyone that Pip and her had already met and holds out her hand for a handshake. Pip shakes it and then mentions Roderick, "I see Roderick has settled in." Rooney is surprised that Pip's immediate reaction was banter but replies, saying that Roderick has been enjoying the northern air.

Jason, who is also there to visit Georgia, jokes about Rooney stealing Georgia from him and Pip. Although Pip seems to not take it as a joke, which Rooney seems to notice and smiles. Pip changes the topic, saying that she heard Rooney was into theatre. Rooney is excited to talk about theatre and asks Pip if she is also into theatre, which Pip is. Rooney also asks Pip if she will be auditioning for a DST play. Pip tells her that she'll be auditioning for the lead role, and Rooney grins, telling her that they would be competing then, which makes Pip flustered.

Rooney ends up having to leave to go meet up with someone. After she leaves, Pip says that Rooney seems nice and Georgia suspects that Pip has a crush on Rooney, saying that when Pip fancied someone it was pretty obvious.

The next day outside of the Durham Cathedral, while with Jason and Georgia, Pip notices that Rooney was staring right at them and immediately starts adjusting her hair. Rooney was still looking at them and then directly smiles and waves at Pip. Pip awkwardly waves back with a nervous smile. Pip tells Georgia that the three of them should have a pizza night but Georgia can tell that Pip just wants an opportunity to talk to Rooney again, which Pip admits to.

During the pizza night, Pip mentions that Rooney is "abnormally attractive". Georgia questions this and Pip says that she was only stating facts, telling them that Rooney had a "I could step on you and you would enjoy it" energy. Jason raises an eyebrow at this and Pip starts to get flustered, saying that she was just making an observation. Unfortunately, the three later on see Rooney with a guy in the kitchen and Pip stares. When she finally looks away, she says "that's got to be unhygienic" and has a look on her face like she'd seen it coming. Although Pip seems to be upset, calling herself "dumb".

At the Fresher's Fair, Pip asks Rooney how Roderick is and Rooney is amused, saying that she likes how Pip's mind immediately went to her house plant instead of asking how she was. The two banter and Georgia notices that Pip was no longer blushing or adjusting her after what she had seen last night in the kitchen. Pip and Rooney get interrupted by Jason who asks about DST.

While writing down their emails on the DST mailing list, Pip and Rooney argue about which DST to join, both of them seemingly determined to establish that their choice was the correct choice and the other person's choice was completely wrong. After several minutes of bickering, Jason once again interrupts them to suggest getting pizza from the Domino's stand. Rooney tells them she was going to look around more for a bit and Georgia notes that Pip had this look, a slight narrowing of her eyes, and her shoulders hunched, and Georgia concludes that Pip had decided to hate Rooney now.

At a bar, Rooney asks Pip to dance with her, and Pip, who saw it as a duel, accepts. Georgia thinks that it almost looked like Pip was having fun, if it weren't for the grimace on her face every time Rooney got too close to her. Rooney puts her arm around Pip, and Pip starts to protest but is ignored.

At the Student Union cafe, Rooney gives a "A short but compelling presentation" about what her plan is for the Shakespeare Society. In part 2 of the presentation, she says that she would be directing. Pip asks Rooney who made her the "supreme overlord" of the Shakespeare Soc but Rooney smirks and says that it should be her since she was the one who came up with everything. Pip blushes and says that she feels that all of them should have a say in who directs. Rooney leans forward and asks Pip what her say is. Pip avoids eye contact and says that she wants to co-direct with Rooney. Rooney's smirk drops and she asks, "Why?" and Pip tells her that if she wanted her to be apart of it then she had to co-direct. Rooney lets her and Pip smiles.

Rooney finds a room for the Shakespeare Society and as Pip is walking in, she is on FaceTime with her parents. Rooney asks Pip who she's talking to and sneaks a glace over her shoulder. Pip's dad asks if Rooney is her girlfriend and Pip squawks a "NO!" although Rooney just waves at Pip's parents with a wide grin, introducing herself. Pip's parent asks Rooney what she studies and Rooney leans in closer to the phone and Pip, telling them that she does English literature and that her and Pip are in the Shakespeare Society together. Pip adjusts her hair then tells her parents that she has to go. Rooney is disappointed and tells Pip that her parents were cute, and that they liked her. Pip sighs, saying that her parents are going to be asking about Rooney every time they call now. Rooney shrugs and walks away, saying that Pip's parents could clearly see that she would make a good girlfriend because of her charm and intelligence. Pip blushes a little bit and then laughs.

During the meeting, Pip and Rooney argue the whole time, disagreeing with each other about everything. Jason tells them that they aren't co-directing and Pip and Rooney disagree, Rooney saying that they just have minor artistic differences, but aside from that everything was fine. Rooney says that if "Felipa" would just compromise then everything would be more straightforward. Pip tries to square up to Rooney, but couldn't quite because Rooney was several inches taller. Pip tells Rooney that she doesn't have permission to call her "Felipa"

When Georgia and Jason are rehearsing, Rooney calls Pip "Felipa" again and Pip makes to clear to her that she doesn't like being called that name. Rooney's smirk drops, sensing the change of tone in Pip's choice and apologizes (more genuinely than Georgia had ever heard her talk to Pip). Pip thanks her and they stare at each other. Rooney then asks if she could call her "Pipsqueak" instead and Pip looked like she was about to erupt but Jason interrupts them before the two could get into another argument.

Later on, Pip messages Georgia, asking her how someone "so hot can be so fucking annoying" Georgia asks Pip if they were finally going to talk about her ginormous crush on Rooney but Pip objects, saying that she didn't have a crush on Rooney and she just meant that she was objectively hot. Georgia doesn't believe her and Pip tells her that she doesn't crush on straight girls. Georgia still doesn't believe her, replying with a "lol" and Pip continues to try and prove her point, saying that they would murder each other if they dated.

Part Three
When Georgia and Pip are rehearsing the Shakespeare play, Much Ado, Rooney comments that maybe the role isn't for Georgia. Pip defends Georgia and Rooney and Pip end up bickering. Pip tells Rooney she wants to see if Rooney could do better, if she had no problems "getting gay for a scene." Rooney says that she has no problems with "getting gay" for a scene and calls Pip "pipsqueak", seemingly implying something else entirely which surprises Pip. The two act out Beatrice and Benedick's first argument from Much Ado About Nothing and Rooney leans right in, her face mere centimeters from Pip's and lets her eyes drop down to Pip's month. When the scene ends, Pip is red-faced. Pip and Rooney end up being the ones to play Benedick and Beatrice and Georgia doesn't mind, thinking that their performance was great, "Perhaps a little too great, if the flush on Pip's cheeks was anything to go by." The two continued rehearsing the scene and kept getting more flustered each time, along with increasing the amount of intense eye contact and touching in the scene.

Pip and Georgia decide to hang out but they enter Georgia's bedroom and find Rooney crying. Georgia goes up to Rooney but she tells them that she's fine and Pip laughs. Rooney tells Pip to leave and Pip tries to explain that she wasn't laughing at Rooney but Rooney interrupts her, telling her to leave again. Pip gives Rooney some napkins and Rooney looks at them, then at Pip, and doesn't say anything. Pip tells Rooney that she hopes she feels better soon and if she happens to need more tissues, Pip could go get some. Rooney tells Pip that she thinks she has enough now and Pip says she'll just go then. But before Pip leaves, she asks Rooney if she's okay and Rooney just stares are her for a long moment. Pip doesn't wait for an answer and apologizes then leaves.

At the Bailey Ball in the marquee, Pip sees Rooney in her Bond villain dress and Rooney smiles down at Pip. Rooney, who is drunk, asks Pip who invited her when she's not a John's student. Pip goes along with the joke and says she snuck in. Pip then invites Rooney to have a bouncy castle battle and Rooney agrees. Pip ends up winning but the two of them had fun. Pip starts bouncing up and down, making it harder for Rooney to get up but Pip stops and holds out a hand to help Rooney up. Rooney doesn't take it and instead stands up on her own.

Later on, Pip walks into Rooney and Georgia kissing. Rooney tries to explain that Georgia just wanted to try kissing a girl but Pip doesn’t want to hear it. Pip tells them that could at least have told her about it and Pip ends up leaving.

Part Four
In an attempt to try and talk to Pip, Georgia decides that one of them should go give Pip her jacket back. Rooney demands to be the one to talk to Pip, as she felt the whole situation was her fault.

Rooney knocks on Pip’s door and says “Hi”, but a noticeable silence follows after. Pip asks Rooney what she was doing at Pip’s door and Rooney gives Pip her jacket. As Pip is about to close the door, Rooney swings her arm out to keep the door open. Rooney panics and asks Pip why her room was messy. Pip tells Rooney to leave her alone and Rooney says that she just wanted to apologize in person. Rooney tells Pip she wants her to come back to the Shakespeare Soc. Pip laughs and says she should’ve guessed it wasn’t even about her and Rooney only wanted her for the Shakespeare Soc. Rooney tries to explain but is interrupted by Pip, who asks Rooney why she would come back when Rooney made her believe there was the tiniest chance she liked her back, but decided to get off with Georgia instead. Rooney tries to say she did like Pip but instead just starts crying and runs off. Pip watches her disappear around the corner and curses, saying that she didn’t mean to make Rooney cry.

After Pip and Georgia made up, Pip stays at Georgia's room and they have a sleep-over. The next morning, Rooney walks into the room, not expecting to see Pip on Rooney's bed. Pip blushes and apologizes, saying that they should've asked if she could stay over. Rooney tells her it's fine and she could stay if she wanted to. Pip says she'll go since she has to wash her hair anyway. As Pip is about to leave, she looks at the pile of clothes in her hands and realizes one of them belongs to Rooney. She goes to give it back to Rooney and Rooney thanks her. They have a small conversation before Pip leaves.

After Pip leaves the room, Rooney paced back and fourth, going on a tangent as to why Georgia didn't tell her that the girl she liked would be in their room. "Do you think I would have waltzed in here wearing fucking LAST NIGHT's CLOTHES with last night's make-up smeared all over my FUCKING face had I known that Pip Quintana was going to be here with the most FUCKING adorable bedhead I have ever seen in my FUCKING life?"

- Rooney

On the night before the play, Georgia, Pip, and Rooney gathered together for one final rehearsal in Pip's bedroom. They end up taking a break and watching a movie but when the movie ends, Georgia leaves, telling the two that she was sleepy and that Pip and Rooney could go through their last scene on their own. Pip and Rooney did end up finishing their last scene but by then it was 3am so Pip offered for Rooney to sleep in her room. At 5am, they were both awake so they just decided to talk to each other while lying in bed. They talked for at least an hour and when it was quiet for a while, Rooney tells Pip "I know it seems like I hate you but it's actually the opposite." and Pip tells Rooney she feels the same way. Rooney leans into kiss Pip but immediately moves away, afraid that she had made a mistake but when she saw the look on Pip's face, she leaned in again and they started making out.

After kissing for a while, Rooney takes her shirt off. Rooney asks Pip if it's okay and Pip nods very enthusiastically. As Rooney is about to put her hand in Pip's pyjama shorts, she pulls back and starts freaking out. Rooney gets off Pip and puts her clothes on and apologizes to Pip. Pip sits there confused but Rooney continues to freak out and says that she messed up everything and runs out of Pip's room.

The next day, Georgia and Pip find out that Rooney is missing but Georgia ends up finding Rooney. Rooney tells Georgia that she was afraid that she was about to do what she normally did, having sex to detach herself from feeling anything real. But Rooney realized she wasn't, because it would have been the first time with someone she actually cared about.

Part Five
When Rooney goes back, Pip asks Rooney and Georgia where they had been and Rooney explains everything to Pip. She tells Pip that she realized that she truly liked her and she hadn't felt that way with anyone in a long time and it really scared her so she ran away. Rooney then talks a step forward and places her hands on the table in front of Pip and asks Pip how she feels about her. Pip's cheeks go read and she stutters, telling Rooney that she also really likes her.

Quotes
"I just want to know how a person so hot can be so fucking annoying."

- Pip about Rooney "...I might...be starting to like someone new...I really...don't want to be doing that...It just won't end well. And she hates me, anyway."

- Rooney about Pip "...She's objectively extremely hot and yes in any ordinary situation she would be exactly my type...but - I mean, she's straight and she literally hates me,"

- Pip trying to deny her crush on Rooney (and failing)

Fanon
Being the sub-plot of Loveless, Piprooney is the most popular ship within Loveless. Fans of ship liked their sexual tension throughout most of the book and their enemies-to-lovers-esque relationship. On AO3 they have 7 works, not as much as other ships within Osemanverse but that is mostly due to the fact that Loveless is a newer book by Alice.

Fandom
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Trivia

 * They are both members of Shakespeare Society
 * Alice Oseman explains Pip and Rooney's relationship as "a directorial rivalry fraught with sexual tension between two queer girls"
 * When prompted to describe Loveless with AO3 tags, Alice Oseman tags Pip Quintana/Rooney Bach, Enemies to lovers, and Reluctant Pining.