RWBY/Ships

Alcohol Poisoning
 Alcohol Poisoning is the slash ship between Tyrian Callows and Qrow Branwen.

Canon
The first time Tyrian and Qrow is in volume 4. During this Qrow manages to save Ruby from a fatal blow from Tyrian. He then proceeds to fight against Tyrian using his bad luck semblance to his advantage. At one point during the fight Qrow loses his weapon so he then decides to continuously punch Tyrian in the face. Near the end of the fight Tyrian managed to poison Qrow with the stinger on his tail before Ruby rescued Qrow and managed to cut it off.

In "With Friends Like These", after Clover and Robyn get into a fight on the prison transport, Tyrian uses this as a chance for him to escape and then kill the pilots. He then starts laughing maniacally while wearing one of the pilots hats. Qrow runs over to him and grabs by the forearms asking what he was doing?. Tyrian then responds "the will of our goddess", while grabbing the control stick and crashing the plane into the ground.

During Qrow's fight against Tyrian and Clover, Tyrian suggests to Qrow that they should work together temporarily to take down Clover and then settle the score between them. After Clover's Aura depletes, Tyrian double-crosses Qrow, by taking his weapon and impaling Clover from behind, thus framing him. Qrow completely shocked then angrily yells that he'll kill him and tries to lunge at him. As now seen in the beginning events of Volume 8, Qrow harbors a deep grudge against Tyrian and is now making plans to track him down and kill him.

Fanon
Alcohol Poisoning is a rarepair in the RWBY fandom. Mainly because the two are enemies and Tyrian tried to kill him (and actually killed Qrow's friend Clover). Most people who do ship them though usually portray Tyrian as a yandere, since Tyrian is crazy and loves killing people and has attempted to kill Qrow twice now. They have a small but decent sized fanbase on tumblr.

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Trivia

 * Their ship name comes from the fact that Qrow is an alcoholic, Tyrian is a scorpion faunus and he "poisoned" Qrow in volume 4.

Dragon Rose
 Dragon Rose is the family ship between Ruby Rose and Taiyang Xiao Long.

Canon
Ruby is Taiyang's younger daughter he had with Summer Rose. Though he sometimes annoys her, the two seem to have a healthy, happy father-daughter relationship. In the finale of volume 3, Taiyang is at Ruby's bedside when she wakes up and demonstrates relief when she regains consciousness. However, he seems hesitant to tell her more details when Ruby asks about what she could not remember. He then kisses her on the head before he leaves the room.

Later, when Taiyang discovers that Ruby left for Haven Academy, he madly dashes throughout the house, though he is unsuccessful in finding her. After several months have passed, in volume 4, it is shown that he wants to bring Ruby back home, but is unable to since he feels that he has to look after Yang.

Taiyang has not been in direct contact with either Yang or Ruby since that time. In volume 8 chapter 5 when Ruby broadcasts her message to all of Remnant Taiyang is shown to be watching her on the TV at their home. When her broadcast was cut off abruptly, he yelled out "No, come back!", before burying his face in his hands in despair. In Rwby Chibi volume 2 chapter 8 Taiyang attempts to make Ruby laugh by making a bad pun about how he tai-dyed his shirt. In episode 10 he constsntly tries to impress Ruby and Yang by how much of a cool dad he is. In episode 18, Tai tries to guilt-trip Ruby into fixing things for her. In season 3 episode 2 Ruby tries to help Tai setup a profile on a dating website. In episode 11 Tai is shown trying to give Ruby driving lessons.

Fanon
While Taiyang and Ruby are father and daughter, there have been fans who treat Dragon Rose as a Het ship. For some, they feature them as non-related or ship them as incest. Then there are those who strongly prefer to ship Dragon Rose as a family, and hate the idea of pairing them romantically due to them being father and daughter. Regardless, most people can agree that the two have a healthy loving father and daughter relationship. It has a small fanbase on tumblr.

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Old Silver
 Old Silver is the het ship between Maria Calavera and Pietro Polendina.

Canon
There has not been much interaction between Maria and Pietro, but it was revealed in volume 7 that Pietro was the one who made Maria's prosthetic eyes after she lost her real eyes to Tock.

Although we dont know when the two met it's presumed they met before the events of rwby. Maria revealed in volume 7 that she often comes and visits Pietro every 10 years so he can perform maintenance on her prosthetic eyes. In volume 7, chapter 1 when Maria and the rest of the group visit Pietro at his clinic, he forgets she needed new prosthetics until she reminded him.

Later it was revealed that Maria and Pietro are old friends with each other and have known each other for a longtime. Maria has a very high personal opinion of Pietro and deems him to be Atlas' brightest mind and greatest inventor. Pietro in return reciprocates this and also sees Maria as a very dear close old friend.

During Ruby's Group's arrival at Atlas, Maria primarily stayed with Pietro while Ruby and her friends stayed within Atlas Academy as they worked with James Ironwood. In volume 7 chapter 7, Maria can be seen comforting Pietro when he reveals to Ruby, Weiss, and Maria that he cannot donate anymore of his Aura to restore Penny if she gets destroyed again otherwise he will die. He then smiles down at her.

Later, as seenn in volume 7 chapter 9, Maria showed concern for Pietro due to the massive riot erupting all over Mantle and later the massive Grimm invasion. She then attempted to have him come with her inside the clinic for safety. In volume 8 chapter 5, Maria attempted to reason with Pietro about letting Penny make her own descisions due to his overprotectiveness of her. She later comforted him after they lost contact with Penny when she lost consciousness and fell out of the atmosphere due to Arthur Watts trying to overwrite her A.I.

Fanon
Even though Old Silver isn't as popular as some other het ships in RWBY, it has a decent sized fanbase, since the two seem to be close old friends. They may also remind some people of an old married couple.

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Trivia

 * Their ship name comes from the fact that they're both old and Maria used to have silver eyes.

Sea King
 Sea King is the cargo ship between Neptune Vasilias and water. AKA: Ocean King, Ocean Prince, Sea Prince, Poseidon, Blue Water

Canon
In Volume 3, when team sssn fights against team ndgo it is revealed that team sssn has water on their side of the ring. This horrifies Neptune so much to the point where he turns as stiff as a statue. He then proceeds to run to the enemies side where there is no water. Blake then reveals to the other members in team rwby that Neptune is scared of the water. During the fight with team ndgo Neptune is shown to be so petrified of the water that he waits until the last second to help his teammates and go near the water.

In RWBY Chibi volume 1, chapter 15, it is shown that Neptune's afraid of the smallest bits of water, including puddles, the rain and even showers. Later when Neptune covers for Sun as a life guard at a pool, Jaune falls into said pool and because Neptune pretends not to notice, Jaune ends up drowning. In another episode he is shown running for help very fast but once he goes near a pond he on his tiptoes, slowly walks past it. In another episode in order to leave a place, he says he has to leave or he'll be late for his swimming lessons, to which no one believes him. In the episode where they all go to the beach Neptune stays away from the water the entire episode.

In Before the Dawn, it is revealed in a flashback that Neptune grew up in Argus where everyone had to learn how to swim. He then also learned that he had a water based semblance like everyone else in his family, which he hated. It is then shown that even when he was four he never liked taking baths. One time as a child, he accidentally almost killed his brother by trapping him in a water bubble using his semblance. This scarred Neptune so badly to the point where he swore never to use his semblance or go near water again.

Fanon
Sea King is not a popular ship within the RWBY Fandom. Though a lot of fans began jokingly ship it due to Neptune being named after the roman god of the sea, as well as having a water based semblance and yet being afraid of water. Some people even jokingly ship the two since many people in the beginning didn't like Neptune or his demeanor. It has a small fanbase on Tumblr.

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Trivia

 * "Sea King" comes from the fact that Neptune is named after the Roman god of the sea and the fact that his surname means "prince" in old Greek.
 * Neptune's voice actor Kerry Shawcross, suffers from Hydrophobia in real life as well.