She was meant to be the one who could step up and do what no one else could. She was meant to finish what people like her mother started. She was meant to be better than this, than the failure that Ruby Rose has amounted to. Jaune was right. Neo was right. Every word put in the mouths of those simulacrums of her dead friends and allies was true. She failed them. She has failed them over and over and over again.
Just like you were too late to save me at the Vytal Festival… I died in Atlas too, didn’t I? Can you imagine what that's like? To be completely and utterly failed... time and again... by someone who meant the world to you?
How many more people are going to die because of you?! I’m trying to save everyone!
And yet with all your best intentions, have you ever stopped to wonder if you’d done more harm than good?!
It’s not my fault…! How many more lives— do you have to ruin— before you realize— you’re not cut out— to save—anyone?!
Do you really think you can stand to watch more of your friends fall? Please… stop… Or are you ready to admit the truth? That the world would just be better off without you?
She wants to believe Peter. She wants to take his words as they're intended, let them be a comfort. But the words and wounds of others are still so fresh in mind.
Ruby leans into him and breathes, trying to bury the raw memory deep, deep down. "...I swear."
cw: reference to psychological torture
She was meant to be the one who could step up and do what no one else could. She was meant to finish what people like her mother started. She was meant to be better than this, than the failure that Ruby Rose has amounted to. Jaune was right. Neo was right. Every word put in the mouths of those simulacrums of her dead friends and allies was true. She failed them. She has failed them over and over and over again.
Just like you were too late to save me at the Vytal Festival… I died in Atlas too, didn’t I? Can you imagine what that's like? To be completely and utterly failed... time and again... by someone who meant the world to you?
How many more people are going to die because of you?!
I’m trying to save everyone!
And yet with all your best intentions, have you ever stopped to wonder if you’d done more harm than good?!
It’s not my fault…!
How many more lives— do you have to ruin— before you realize— you’re not cut out— to save—anyone?!
Do you really think you can stand to watch more of your friends fall?
She wants to believe Peter. She wants to take his words as they're intended, let them be a comfort. But the words and wounds of others are still so fresh in mind.Please… stop…
Or are you ready to admit the truth? That the world would just be better off without you?
Ruby leans into him and breathes, trying to bury the raw memory deep, deep down. "...I swear."