Gingersnaps

Gingersnaps is the femslash ship between Nora Valkyrie and Penny Polendina from the RWBY fandom.

Canon
In volume 7 chapter1, Nora was surprised to see that Penny was still alive in Mantle, but happy nonetheless. In the next episode, Nora and everyone else, are guided by Penny through Atlas academy to their dorm. Penny then also takes the time to show them around the academy too. In chapter 4, Nora joins in with Penny and Yang and they all start laughing together. In chapter 6 in the aftermath of Tyrian interferring with Robyn's election, Nora immediately rushes to the stage to see if Penny' alright. She then encourages Penny to go backstage with her, Penny has a shocked look on her face.

In volume 8 chapter 3, Nora was shown to be so willing to save Penny that she ends up overuses her Semblance to break down a door to save Penny from the Ace-Ops. Penny being so shocked that Nora did that for her ran over and knelt beside her to see if she was alright. She then tried to grab nora's hammer but was unable to as it electroshocked her. She is then later seen running with the others with an injured, unconscious Nora in her arms. Penny then lays Nora down on the floor of the airplane when the group escapes Ironwood.

In chapter 8 despite being injured, Nora was the one to reach out to a hacked Penny, telling her not to forget about the rest of herself and enabling Penny to temporarily overcome the hack. In "Risk" Nora helped stop Penny from going to the Atlas vault and repeated her words of wisdom to Penny, saying that the virus was only a part of her, to help her regain control of herself. After Jaune helped Penny calm down by boosting her Aura, Nora rushed to hug Penny, which Penny joyfully returned, and was seen holding her hand alongside Ruby after showing that she had become very close and protective of Penny. She later supported Penny when the virus started to return. will.

Fanon
Gingersnaps is a rarepair within the RWBY fandom. This is mostly because the two didn't interact at all in the first 3 volumes of rwby. They also didn't interact at all in volume 7 of rwby, and ReNora and Nuts and Dolts are much more popular pairings for the two. This ship grew in popularity in volume 8 after the two had a few cute moments together. It has a small fanbase on tumblr. Gingersnaps fans were then very sad with Penny's death at the end of volume 8.

Fandom
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Trivia

 * Their ship name comes from the fact that both Penny and Nora are gingers