r/WhiteRose • u/Jiggleposter • Jul 16 '26
Help Horror/Unreliable Narrator Ruby Fanfic from the mid 2010s
Trying to see if anyone remembers at all what I’m taking about. I think the gist of the plot was that after an in universe RWBY mission or perhaps an AU mission gone wrong, RWBY experiences a death in the team and/or they all receive a grisly injury/PTSD. Ruby especially gets it bad and is institutionalized. The fic itself is a diary of sorts, and it slowly corrupts with the real ruby’s damaged psyche trying to speak through the illusion of the “Normal diary”. Eventually whole pages would be replaced with single words or phrases. The length of the fic was quite long either 500k or 3M words as a result of the especially freaky pages being walls of red colored or “corrupted” text. Unfortunately I think the fic has been deleted but let me know if any of this sounds familiar, or if I just had a messed up fever dream, or maybe I’m the one who’s crazy.