Informing Black

My name is Silva Branwen, and currently, I am on a hiking trail near Shion with Garnet Arc. After sparring with Aleanor, both she and Jeanette pushed us onto the hiking trail to have us get to know one another. However, Giles looked less than happy at this arrangement since he was constantly glaring at me as we left. As the eldest Arc girl and I walked through the trail, I asked her.

" Are your mothers usually this pushy?"

Garnet had a wry smile as she answered.

" No, however, but Mother Jeannette does have the final say on my and my sisters' boyfriends. My baby brother is also included, as mom had to scare away more than a few gold diggers from him. Plus, Mother Aleanor took a quick liking to you since you were actually able to beat her."

She then quickly walked in front of me and looked me in the eye as she asked me.

" Speaking of which. Where did you learn to fight?"

" My adoptive mother taught me the basics, then had me get live combat experience against Grimm and bandits. So I am mostly self-taught."

" Wait, she had you fight against bandits!?"

I nodded as I understood how out of the norm it was to have a kid fight bandits but in my case, being born into a bandit tribe set things in motion for me not to have a normal childhood life on Remnant. I found her look of shock funny, which made me smirk in amusement. The eldest Arc sibling then asked me.

" Are you alright?"

She looked at me with a surprising amount of concern, and I assured her.

" I'll live. No need to worry."

" Are you sure?"

" I may have regrets and sorrows, but what person doesn't? Every scar I bear, whether physical or emotional, is what makes me who I am today, and every bit of it is irreplaceable and precious."

In this rare moment, I felt like my total age if you combined my past and current life. I walked past Garnet as I continued down the hiking trail, and she followed as we walked in silence. Things certainly took a heavy turn, but whatever, I don't have a particular interest in the Arc girls as I am happy with what I have right now. However, I might as well get to know them since I have a chance in case of Jaune being Jaune.

***

Meanwhile, back at Shion's inn.

Giles, Aleanor, and Jeannette Arc were meeting privately while their kids and Silva's companions played around. The Arc patriarch asked his bespectacled wife.

" Jean, what did you see in that young man when I enhanced your Semblance with my own?"

" Yeah, Jean, what did you in the kid?"

The bustier Arc matriarch asked as she felt curious about the snow leopard faunus that managed to make her give up in defeat. Jeanette took off her glasses and cleaned them with a cloth from her pocket before answering them.

" For starters, Silva... has not lived a normal life by any means. From what I could see, he has been involved in a lot of bloodshed in his short life and has learned to live with it as best he can. He also lost someone dear to him and learned to let go when he could've kept a memory of her alive after she died. Silva had to deal with the discrimination of being a faunus like most of his kind and make peace with necessary evils. Overall, I have to say he has a complicated past, but he bears with it."

" What bloodshed has he participated in, Jean?"

Giles asked his bespectacled wife with a serious look as he gripped the handle of his sword, Guardian Edge. Jeanette sighed as she told her husband.

" I suspect that he was born into a bandit tribe."

The Arc patriarch got and was ready to go after Silva and protect his daughter, but the bespectacled woman stopped him.

" Settle down, Giles! He has put that chapter of his life behind him!"

" He is bandit scum that needs to be dealt with!"

Aleanor grabbed her husband and forced him back into his seat before saying.

" Cool it, Giles! Do you think Jean would honestly let any of the kids near him if he were scum?!"

The bustier Arc matriarch asked her sister in all but blood as she looked at her while keeping Giles seated.

" Jean, what makes you trust the kid?"

The bespectacled woman answered with a slight smile.

" He cares. Silva cares so much about the people he is connected with that he would lay his life on the line for them without hesitation, even if he isn't aware of it himself. He loves the women he is close to by varying degrees, and it makes him happy that they are happy. So it would honestly make me feel relieved if one of the girls took a fancy to him because I know that they would be well taken care of and eventually loved deeply."

Aleanor smiled as she asked.

" Who do you think would match him best, Jean?"

" Garnet, for obvious reasons, Jade as well. Cally would probably find a fellow intellectual in him, and they would talk for hours. The twins would prank him, and he would prank them back. Violet still has found her type yet, so she's not included. Jaune is straight despite the girls dressing him up and getting him in touch with his feminine side so that I won't count him, but he is already starting to admire him for his strength."

The bustier Arc matriarch whistles and comments.

" Dang, Jean, you weren't kidding when you said he was a catch. Maybe we can have some grandbabies sooner than expected."

Giles grumbles under his breath as he does not approve of some random vagrant getting close to his daughters, but he trusts his wife's judgment.

***

Emerald was relaxing with her usual pastime of reading, but her cheeks burned red as the title of her current book was " Ninjas of Love." After finishing a chapter, she puts the book down and mutters to herself.

" Silva would never let me live it down if he knew I was reading this."

The mint-haired girl felt a dull ache in her chest as she missed her... friend? Emerald did not feel sure how to define Silva, as he was her benefactor, teacher, and a number of other things as well. She knew that she liked women, especially after nearly getting raped by some scum back in Upper Cairn when she still lived off the streets of that town. More often than not, her sexual fantasies include Neopolitan, the Malachite twins, after they were bound and gagged, of course, and even Silva's shadow Argint.

Emerald started to imagine Silva naked to see how she would feel about it, and her mind wandered to the scars on his body rather than his third leg. All of them looked painful, and she was curious about the stories behind them as the snow leopard faunus didn't go into detail about how and why he got them. The mint-haired girl makes a mental note to ask the next chance she gets and goes back to see if she is bisexual or not when it comes to Silva.