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1. Cowards Way Out by LiamLegendsG88

   Fandoms: RWBY  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con
   • F/F
   • Work in Progress

   17 Jul 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Rape/Non-Con
   • Blake Belladonna/Yang Xiao Long
   • Lie Ren/Nora Valkyrie
   • Ghira Belladonna/Kali Belladonna
   • Other Canon Couples
   • One-Sided Ilia Amitola/Blake Belladonna - Relationship
   • Past Blake Belladonna/Adam Taurus - Relationship
   • Blake Belladonna
   • Yang Xiao Long
   • Ruby Rose (RWBY)
   • Weiss Schnee
   • Sun Wukong (RWBY)
   • Kali Belladonna
   • Ghira Belladonna
   • Adam Taurus
   • Qrow Branwen
   • Jaune Arc
   • Nora Valkyrie
   • Lie Ren
   • Raven Branwen
   • Ilia Amitola
   • I’m not listing every RWBY character
   • Taiyang Xiao Long
   • Past Rape/Non-con
   • Screw the slow burn
   • The Major Character Death is just Adam
   • First fanfic please go easy on me
   • POV Blake Belladonna
   • POV Yang Xiao Long
   • POV Raven Branwen (for like 3 chapters)
   • POV Sun Wukong (just for half of chapter 2)
   • Some Dark Humor
   • The Bees cope with bad comedy
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Canonical Character Death
   • BUMBLEBY FOR LIFE
   • Post-Volume 3 (RWBY)
   • Canon complaint from V1-3
   • Diverges in V4 onwards
   • It gets happier after chapter 2
   • Mostly just Bees fluff
   • POV Qrow Branwen
   • Yang really thinks she always needs to be strong
   • Trauma cuddles
   • POV Ilia Amitola
   • POV Weiss Schnee

   Summary

   Pain, that was all Blake could feel when she woke up in the hospital. Damnit, why, why did he have to chase her, why couldn’t he leave her alone, why does she bring her demons with her everywhere, why does she hurt everyone she cares about. She ruined Yang’s life, her own partner, somebody whose life she cared about more than her own, she couldn’t take knowing she was responsible for killing the brightest light in her life. It’d be kinda a jerk move to bail on them in their time of need, don’t you think? Sun sure seemed to think so, cause he’d be damned if he let Blake just leave.

   What If Blake didn’t bail after V3 AU

   Series

   • Part 1 of Cowards Way Out

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   25,298

   Chapters:

   16/?

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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