History FanFic / ProfessorArc

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: While Jaune doesn't claim to have any experience in teaching, or having finished the official huntsman training for that matter, his alleged badassery leads Ozpin to hire him as a teacher despite the lack of other qualifications.

* ShesGotLegs: During his appointment, Oscar gets distracted by [[spoiler:Jinn's]] legs.

** Jaune gives one to Glynda over asking Pyrrha to become the new Fall Maiden, demanding why she's so willing to sacrifice one of her students. Glynda gives him an ArmorPiercingSlap and tearfully demands if he truly believes she cares so little about her students that she'd choose to do so if it wasn't the best possible option they have.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Kali and Ghira have a ''very'' active love life with the latter remarking it's why he can put up with his wife's antics.

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:A lot of them occur over the course of The Battle of Beacon. First, Jaune crashes Ironwood's airship into the Grimm dragon and lands on the top of Beacon tower in order to save Pyrrha and Velvet from Cinder with the help of Roman and Neo while Glynda shows up just in time to save Yang and Blake from Adam. Then when the rest of Salem's associate's appear, we get [[UpToEleven three more in succession]]. Qrow and Jaune's father arrive to save Penny, Blake, Ruby and Yang from Hazel. Peter and Oobleck save team RVNN and Cardin from Tyrian. And Tsune comes to help Glynda against the combined force of Adam and Watts.]]

* AdultFear: Kali mentions having spent ''years'' not knowing if Blake was happy and safe or dead in a ditch somewhere, wondering if she was such a terrible mother that Blake wouldn't come to her with her problems.

* SecretKeeper: Roman and Neo are the only two people in the main cast who know Jaune's whole story, and help him keep the con going. [[spoiler:The Arc family is also convinced into secrecy after they find out what he's been doing. At the end of the story, Jaune reveals his secret to the rest of Beacon's staff but no one else]].

* KlatchianCoffee: The "special brew" the teachers, save Glynda, are so partial to.

The sequel to Professor Arc can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13220830/1/Professor-Arc-II-Headmaster-Arc here]]. Tropes for Professor Arc II can be found below.

* KarmaHoudini: {{Discussed|Trope}} regarding [[spoiler:Salem. After Jaune first sits down with her and opens up the idea of getting her psychological help, Nicholas points out that they shouldn't necessarily be trying to help someone responsible for untold death and presently trying to cause more. Jaune concedes that it ''is'' a miscarriage of justice for her not to be punished for her crimes, but the simple fact is that she's immortal, and they ''can't'' punish her in a way that will actually solve the problem. If the only way they can end the threat is by treating the perpetrator better than they deserve, then it's just the prudent thing to do, even if it's unsatisfying]].

* NoodleIncident: In an omake, Zwei's bed is filled with flour and apparently it's not the first time it happened.

* RealityEnsues:
** Team RWBY tries subtly communicating their plans to each other with silent glances so as not to tip off Professor Arc. Since he's standing right in front of them, he notices immediately and thinks to himself how cute it is that they think they're being subtle.
** Jaune's exploits end up with him being put on TV. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, this reveals his deception to his family (who believed he was teaching schoolchildren), and [[AngerBornOfWorry angrily show up at Beacon to try and take him back, fearing he could die or get himself arrested]] for his fraud]].
** During the Battle of Beacon, [[spoiler:many of the students join in the defense of their school. Unfortunately, they end being completely outmatched by the older and more experienced criminals and extremists, especially when Salem's forces join the attack. Ruby herself gets put out of commission early on by Adam's attack. It only the timely intervention by their more experienced teachers and older soldiers that saves them from certain death]].
** This happens repeatedly for laughs in the Chapter 56 omake. Professor Port's attempt to use the AirVentEscape doesn't work because air vents aren't meant for full-grown men, let alone one as big as him. [[TapOnTheHead Karate chops to back of the neck]] aren't a one-hit KO. DressingAsTheEnemy fails because he doesn't do a good impersonation of the other soldiers. ThrowingTheDistraction doesn't work if they see the distraction get thrown, not to mention they just call for back-up instead of wandering off to investigate. He only succeeds via a cardboard box used ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' style as a KansasCityShuffle rather than like in the games.

** [[spoiler:Yang]] versus Raven is completely one sided in the latter's favor.

* RealityEnsues:
** Ozpin keeping so many secrets bites Beacon in the ass when his faction tries to plot against Salem and has almost no information beyond the fact she exists.
** Even terrorist factions require someone to do the paperwork to keep everything organized, to Sienna's dismay.
*** In an omake, the White Fang faces a supply shortage because Adam ignored the paperwork required to get said supplies delivered.
** Ozpin shows what happens when you try to capture/intimidate a person who has centuries of experience and ResurrectiveImmortality. He not only verbably runs circles around everyone who "ambushed" him, he outright escapes without breaking a sweat then instigates what amounts to a rebellion with just a few sentences. To say Salem's people never really had a chance is putting it mildly.
** Ozpin points out how ConservationOfNinjutsu doesn't work in reality and that as powerful as they are, Cinder, Hazel, and Tyrian are only three people and can't hope to take on hundreds of Haven's students.
** [[spoiler: Yang tries to attack Raven and Cinder, to keep them from reaching the Jinn of knowledge. Both of them being both maidens and adult Huntresses, [[CurbstompBattle it ends as well you'd expect for Yang, who is still in training]]. The only reason Yang survives is because Raven spared her, as she was secretly sabotaging Cinder all along]].
** When Jaune tries to block Cinder's fire, the part that hits his shield is stopped but the rest of it still hits him and sets Jaune on fire. Jaune even notes that the stories where the fire is deflected in every direction by a much smaller shield isn't how fire works.
** A milder example occurs when trying to find an escort for Team RWBY. Most of the staff have rather specific or unusual reasons why they can't make it that day (captured Ursa, having to review inventory and finances after the embargo was lifted, etc.), Oobleck simply has a dentist appointment that day.
** In one of the canon omakes, Raven and Qrow catch chicken pox from a pair of sick children because they lived out in the wilderness before Beacon and had never been vaccinated.
** Sienna confesses that the White Fang has to demonize their enemies, such as Winter and Jaune, because few are comfortable trying to kill a "good and normal person who just happens to disagree with them politically", but plenty are willing to take up arms against monstrous villains.
** During midterms, Ruby realizes there's topics she doesn't know because they were covered in the two years of education she skipped.
** Salem has no one in her castle to talk to or to relate to, her minions have no personal connection to her beyond just being minions. [[spoiler: So when Jaune offers to play the therapy card on her it works wonders, and she spends several hours just talking to him about her past, glad to finally have someone, '''anyone''' she can hold a good conversation with.]] This leads to another moment of reality ensuing for Jaune who deduces that, [[spoiler: the countless years of solitude have left her depressed as hell, as opposed to Ozpin, whom as least had a change to live several lifetimes with other people, and as such had happy memories to call upon when the times got tough.]]

* UnstoppableForceMeetsImmovableObject: [[spoiler:At the end of the story, Hazel uses the Relic of Choice to ensure he will accomplish his goals, and the object will warp reality to ensure its prediction of the future is true. He is stopped with the Relic of Destruction, which destroys things so utterly it included Hazel's predicted future]].

* IWantGrandkids: According to one of the omakes, this and ConsummateLiar sums up Jaune's mother. She is ecstatic to hear about how popular he is. In the fic, proper, not so much, to the point that her reaction to learning that [[spoiler:Jaune and Glynda had sex]] is INeedAFreakingDrink.

* AndThenWhat: Jaune asks this to Salem to get her to stop. Specifically that if she successfully killed all humans and Faunus on Remnant, there would be nothing left to do and she'll eventually be DrivenMadByTheIsolation.

** PlayedForLaughs. ''[[CrazyAwesome Nora]]'' of all people asked Team RWBY if [[spoiler:having compulsory sessions with a counselor]] makes it look like all four of them are mentally unstable. Blake and Yang were reduced to StunnedSilence, Ruby tried to laugh it off (to no avail) and Weiss simply let her face fall into her hands.

* Mis-blamed: Jaune's sister Coral makes Jaune to apologize to his family after he justifiably gets angry at them for publicly shaming him upon arriving at Beacon. They are subsequently ostracized by everyone at the Academy for their actions, but his sisters [[InsaneTrollLogic somehow]] wraps the idea around to be Jaune's fault despite his students reactions being natural to hearing a close friend being smeared by his own family, fraud or not.

* Mis-Blamed: Jaune's sister Coral makes Jaune to apologize to his family after he justifiably gets angry at them for publicly shaming him upon arriving at Beacon. They are subsequently ostracized by everyone at the Academy for their actions, but his sisters [[InsaneTrollLogic somehow]] wraps the idea around to be Jaune's fault despite his students reactions being natural to hearing a close friend being smeared by his own family, fraud or not.

* JerkassHasAPoint: [[spoiler: Jaune's family do treat him in a vituperative manner]], but they are correct [[spoiler: that he's doing something that could get him in serious trouble. Jaune, even though he wants to keep the charade going, doesn't really object to what he's saying. He admits to Yang, who was annoyed with the way his sisters were treating him, that he was as weedy as he described]]. Though YMMV is in effect for readers as to how much this excuses their behavior and how much of this is due to Jaune being conditioned from to accept their abuse for most of their life.

* JerkassHasAPoint: [[spoiler: Jaune's family do treat him in a vituperative manner]], but they are correct [[spoiler: that he's doing something that could get him in serious trouble. Jaune, even though he wants to keep the charade going, doesn't really object to what he's saying. He admits to Yang, who was annoyed with the way his sisters were treating him, that he was as weedy as he described]].

* IWillWaitForYou: Played with and [[InvokedTrope invoked]] by Glynda [[spoiler:in the aftermath of the Vol 3 Arc. After TheReveal about Jaune's origins she hints that she wants to resume their relationship, but asks that he be patient while she gets over her hangups about their [[MayDecemberRomance age difference]]. Jaune is more than happy to wait for the chance, especially since he's [[ImplicitPrison not going anywhere]]. ]]

* KarmaHoudini: Jaune might be an example, [[PlayedWith depending on the perspective taken]]. In terms of overall story, he fits right in; He cons his way into a job, makes alliances with some of the Remnant's worst criminals criminals and manipulates his students and colleagues [[spoiler:only to end up getting rewarded with fame and power as the headmaster of Beacon]]. On the other hand, his more noble actions as well as the [[ButtMonkey sheer amount of misery he goes through]] ought to make a reader feel sympathetic towards him, rather than wanting him to get punished. [[spoiler:And despite being rewarded with the job, he is saddled with the enormous task of rebuilding Beacon, and his relationship with Glynda, after he comes clean to her, is more or less on hold]].

* BigBrotherBully: A Gender Flipped, and partially age inverted in the cases of Lavender and Amber, version of this trope. Jaune's sisters are shown to be largely abusive to their only brother, willingly shaming him in front of his students in their first appearance. This is largely PlayedforLaughs, but behavior more than a few readers react with a [[DudeNotFunny!]] at several points as it appears their insults likely contributed to their brother's self-esteem issues. Not helped by their mother, [[WhattheHellHero? Juniper]], [[VictimBlaming victim blaming]] their treatment on Jaune for being a "wet noodle."