Rose Garden

•Rose Garden is the het ship between Ruby Rose and Oscar Pine from the RWBY fandom.

Canon
Volume 5

When Ruby and Oscar first meet in Volume 5, Chapter 1, Oscar immediately takes note of her silver eyes and appears to be in in awe of them.

In Volume 5 Chapter 3, before Ozpin and Oscar show how they switch body dominants, Oscar shares a brief look with Ruby, who giggles and smiles at him, causing Oscar to blush with embarrassed and dumbfounded opened mouth smile to which he apologizes for his reaction as he never met Huntsman or Huntresses before.

The two are paired together for hand-to-hand combat training and, after successfully punching Ruby in the face, Oscar is very apologetic. After Ruby punches him back and knocks him to the ground, she helps him up as well. When he collapses on the ground after the spar Ruby rushes to his side asking if he is okay. She later gives him and Jaune a pep talk about their semblance and how it will come with time.

In Volume 5 Chapter 5, Ruby tells Oscar that he is improving with his combat abilities - noting him to be a natural at it. Through further conversation, Oscar eventually admits to Ruby that he is scared of what bad things will happen next for their mission, and confronts her asking how she can handle the current situation. Ruby confides in him over the loss of her friends Penny Polendina and Pyrrha Nikos, admitting that she is scared too. Despite all odds, Ruby says that she has to keep moving forward, as it would be what Pyrrha and Penny would do if Ruby was the one to lose her life. Before she leaves, Ruby compliments Oscar, telling him that he is braver than he thinks. After she leaves, Ozpin converses with Oscar, noting that Ruby is remarkable and has a "spark" to inspire others. Oscar remarks in admiration that Ruby must have been "one of the best Huntresses at Beacon", which Ozpin confirms.

During the Battle of Haven Oscar takes a moment to observe how everyone else is doing and after noticing that Ruby is knocked out he immediately rushes to her aid, begging her to wake up by saying, "Ruby, get up! Get up!! We need you!".

Volume 6

After Ozpin's backstory is revealed Oscar expresses his fear of becoming just "another one of his lives" to which Ruby is the only one to encourage him by saying "You're your own person."

After everyone reunites with Oscar, who they thought was missing, Ruby shares a small moment with him and compliments his new combat gear her bought while he went shopping. Their share a smile afterwards.

During the fight against Cordovin in her giant robot, Oscar expresses his concern for Ruby several times by calling out her name.

Ruby praises Oscar to the rest of the group and compliments him for successfully flying and crash landing the airship they need to get to Atlas.

Volume 7

After Ruby's decision to lie to Ironwood, Oscar is uncertain if that is the correct action they should be taking. Nevertheless, he trusts and follows Ruby's decision.

Volume 7, Chapter 9 showed Ruby and Oscar encouraging Ironwood to tell the truth together. Coming to the realization that they should do the same they share an awkward moment where they agree to tell Ironwood the truth. They repeatedly spoke over each other and when they both said the same thing simultaneously they laughed awkwardly. Before leaving and going their separate ways, they both stop and turn to each other, once again accidentally speaking over each other. They laugh awkwardly, and Ruby does a finger gun gesture at him with both hands before running out the door towards her transport. Marrow Amin, an Ace Operative, comments "Ugh, kids." in feigned annoyance before following Ruby out the door.

When Oscar is talking to Ironwood, regarding the truth about Salem, he protects Ruby in that conversation by not mentioning that it was initially her decision to keep it from Ironwood and using a collective "we" - showing the groups, and his, responsibility in supporting Ruby's decision.

Volume 8

In chapter 1, Weiss, Ruby and Maria pick up Oscar from down in the crater, from which he fell to after being shot by Ironwood. Oscar laments on his decisions, and being unable to convince Ironwood, to which Ruby tells him that they all did their best and that she is glad that he is alright while putting a hand on his shoulder - an action which causes Oscar to momentarily blush. In chapter 10 when the group is reunited Ruby ran up to Oscar relieved that he was ok. She was presumably about to hug him until she saw Emerald standing next to him. She then immediately got angry and tried to attack her with a very noticeable blush on her face.

Behind The Scenes
Miles Luna, a writer for the show, has stated at an RTX London RWBY panel in October of 2017 that the age difference between the two is not a problem. He finds it odd that some fans find Ruby too old for Oscar and that it's fine to ship them.

Miles Luna, in his Cameo Q&A videos in 2021, later confirmed that they weren't going for a sibling dynamic between Oscar and Ruby and that their relationship is currently a vibe of adorably awkward, mutual respect, and supportiveness. He expounds on it, saying that they both feel like they can relate to eachother and that Oscar really admires Ruby, wants to be strong like her, and thinks she's super cool.

He goes on to say that Ruby see's a lot of herself in Oscar - with how they were both the younger members of the group with a lot of expectation and burdens put on them - and that she has a lot of respect and admiration for him given his situation and how he is doing his best and working hard despite that.

In the 2020 RWBY Galaxay Con Panel, there was a live stream Q&A session were fans had to pay to talk to the voice actors for RWBY. The Q&A sessions gave a shoutout to the RWBY shippers in which they put voice actors in certain pairs that correlate to ships of their characters.

Some of the panels fans had the choice to pay for to chat with the voice actors were dubbed Bumbleby(the ship for Yang and Blake), in which the fans would be paying to talk to Barbara and Arryn respectively, and the other was Rosegarden - in which fans would be paying to talk to Aaron Dismuke and Lindsay Jones respectively.

When asked about her, Lindsay(VO for Ruby), view on Rosegarden in one of her RWBY Galaxy Con video chat with one of the RWBY fans, she stated that she views Ruby and Oscar like how she saw Aang and Kataara from ATLA - in which she was of the views that they were like brother and sister but was surprised when they, Kataang, ended up together. She then goes on to say how she views that Oscar and Ruby were thrust into their roles and they have a host of emotional stuff they’re going through with that but they can relate to each other that way.

RG Fan Response: V4-V9
Some fans started shipping Rose Garden during the V4 hiatus, early in the year of 2017, and some of the reasons for this was because:

1) They noticed some similarities between Oscar and Ruby journey and character, in which they can bond over.

2) They seemed to be around the same age and looked aesthetically pleasing together,

3) Their allusions hint at them developing a sweet bond(like with Bumbleby and their allusions to Bueaty and the Beast).

4) Some had inklings that Oscar would become a love interest for Ruby.

The ship started getting support gradually because of the fanart/comics made by RG artists, the dubbed comics produced by MiraculousCoraZone, and the aspects mentioned above which really helped the ship become noticeable.

However, it rose greatly in popularity when they had their first meeting in Volume 5. This is shown in how early shippers had hoped, and headcanoned, that Ruby and Oscar's eventual meeting would consist of Oscar being drawn to Ruby's eyes and/or gaining a small crush on her when he sees her.

When the first meeting did occur with Oscar being amazed by Ruby's silver eyes, in the shows canon, many jumped onboard as they thought it was cute and that it showed an inkling of something romantic on Oscar's side. The shippers themselves shippers were pleased with their headcanon coming true to an extent. Even some abroad fans viewed that scene as Oscar being attracted to Ruby and made other versions of it.

During Volume 5, when Oscar remarks that Ruby must have been one of the best huntresses at Beacon Academy, shippers were pleased with how the show is portraying Oscar to look up to Ruby as a role model and how Ruby was being supportive and be able open up about her feelings, regarding the FOB, for the first time in months.

Many shippers believe this shows how Ruby is able to relate and sympathize with Oscar to the point that she was able to open up to him about certain things that she wasn't able to do with the others as was confirmed by the writers in the V4 chapter insights as they stated she only held it in and tried to deal with it when she was alone.

During the Battle of Haven, when Jaune goes to assist Weiss and Oscar rushes to Ruby's side after she is knocked out by Emerald, some fans joked about how it did the subtle showing of a potential nod to the ships, Whiteknight and Rosegarden, seeing as Jaune was a love interest to Weiss and how some fans suspect that Oscar might be a potential love interest for Ruby.

Similarly, during the fight against Cordovin, Oscar calls out Ruby's name several times, but never others who are also in danger like Weiss, who was right next to Ruby when Cordovin launched her missiles at them. These moments are seen by fans of the ship as examples of Oscar's attachment to Ruby and affection for her, as he worries about her well-being above everyone else's.

Many Rose Garden fans believe that in Volume 6, Chapter 9 when Oscar is first seen with his new outfit, he is looking in Ruby's direction. This is seen as him being excited to see her reaction and hoping that she will like it.

Their awkward moment in Volume 7, Chapter 9 has fans of the ship excited as it showcases a typical shoujo scenario.

As of Volume 8, many shippers are really happy with how the show is really starting to imply that Oscar's admiration and respect for Ruby has made him develop a crush on Ruby as evidence by him blushing when she merely touches him. This is something he doesn't even do when Nora hugs him.

RG Allusions/Design
RWBY is heavily involved in color themes and fairytale allusions and, as such, may fans view that Oscar and Ruby designs a individual narrative stories alludes to certain characters/things in a certain fairytale which subtly hints at them becoming canon in the future,

Firstly, the complementary color theory that is applied to several other RWBY ships is also applicable to Rosegarden. Additionally, Oscar's new outfit includes dark red elements, that is seen by fans of the ship as him trying to complement Ruby's color scheme. Ruby and Oscar also share a trait of glowing eyes, where Ruby's glow silver due to her silver eye warrior powers, while Oscar's glow gold due to Ozpin's influence. In this sense, Ruby and Oscar are also seen as silver and gold, being the only two main characters in the show whose glowing eyes do not come from maiden powers.

Fandom
FANFICTION


 * Ruby/Oscar tag on FanFiction.net
 * Ruby/Oscar tag on FanFiction.net

TUMBLR



Deviantart


 * Rosegarden Group on Deviantart
 * Rosegarden posts on Deviantart

Trivia

 * They are both the youngest protagonists of the show.
 * Their ship name comes from the fact that Ruby's surname is rose, and there are lots of gardens in farms. Oscar used to live on a farm.
 * On January 13th, 2020, the Official RWBY Twitter released a meme image Tweet about the 2020 Oscars. The template used showed Ruby Rose scowling at the idea of the Oscars, but beaming at the idea of Oscar Pine.

Variations

 * Bright Eyes — the ship between Ruby Rose, Oscar Pine and Penny Polendina
 * Ruby's Harem — the ship between Ruby Rose, Oscar Pine, Penny Polendina, Jaune Arc and Weiss Schnee
 * Traffik Lights — the ship between Ruby Rose, Oscar Pine and Jaune Arc