History Fanfic / FairiesOfTheShatteredMoon

* NotSoDifferent:

** It quickly becomes apparent that Cinder and Pyrrha really are two sides of the same coin, despite Pyrrha seeing Cinder as an ArchEnemy. They're both prodigies who have become traumatized by events in their pasts, now seek to grow stronger to cover up their perceived "weakness" to NeverBeHurtAgain, and are dearly devoted to their mother figures [[ActionMom who they only dream they could be as badass as]]. The only real difference is that Pyrrha still hasn't slipped into evil to sate her desire for strength.

** Salem and Ozpin are revealed to be this. Both are fully prepared to do terrible things if they believe that the survival of the world is at stake though Salem shows considerably less guilt than Ozpin regarding them.
** While he would probably incinerate anyone who suggests this End has clearly been influenced by Natsu's personality to a certain extent. End likes a good brawl, is very loyal to his friends, is extremely honest, and has a bad temper (though his is far more dangerous). When Erza points this out to him, [[BerserkButton he goes ballistic]] and almost kills her.

** [[spoiler: Summer is this to canon Ironwood as they are both former members of Ozpin's circle who end up becoming dictators of Atlas and who consider their emotions a weakness. However while Ironwood typically relied on brute force methods which usually blew up in his face, Summmer relies more on her cunning and has achieved the most success of any of Salem's circle so far. This is most prominently shown in their methods of gaining control of Atlas. While Ironwood essentially declared himself dictator and eventually alienated even his most loyal supporters, Summer manipulates events so that she is elected dictator to popular acclaim. Also while Ironwood showed almost no concern how people perceived him and was hated in Mantle, Summer carefully managed her PR and is a beloved figure in both Atlas and Mantle. Finally, while Ironwood had a NeverMyFault tendency and saw himself as a HeroWithBadPublicity, Summer takes responsibility for everything, even things she arguably at least wasn't directly at fault for, and views herself as a NeccessaryEvil.]]

** Salem makes short work of Jaune, [[spoiler who is a Gate and at that time had access to Crash Magic.]]

* DemotedToExtra: In canon Adam Taurus serves as one of the main antagonists of Volume's 3, 5 and 6 and is the archenemy of two members of Team RWBY, Yang and Blake and serves as the final boss of the latter Volume. Here he is something of a BigBadWannabe suffering multiple Curb Stomps from Blake, Hazel and Weiss before being unceremoniously killed and raised as a zombie soldier by Watts.

* SuperpowerLottery: Salem wins this easily as she has the biggest arsenal of magic of anyone on Remnant. When she was first created she was given the ability to command the Zodiac. She has access to multiple Elemental Magics all of which are superior to the Maidens. Plus she can use the Metria spells far better then Lucy can (Unsuprising considering she invented at least one of them). She is also a competent is not master healer and enchanter. Salem also has physical strength on the same level as the Gates and is extremely fast as well. Her Transitive Curse means that she can cast any magic as a curse and any curse as magic which means that she doesn't need a Maiden nearby to utilize her magic fully in addition to be incredibly useful against opponents like Acnoligia or Franmalth who are immune to Magic. The Queen also has access to all the LovecraftianSuperpower she has in canon meaning she can spawn Grimm arms from anywhere and is a RubberMan which she uses in conjunction with her SuperStrength. If that weren't enough she still has her complete immortality and Deadpool level healing factor from canon which means that she can recover from any attack now matter how devastating in seconds and either doesn't feel pain from them or is capable of ignoring it. The only attacks that are somewhat effective on her are Spirit Slayer Magic and End's Fire and she still recovered from a point blank blast from former in a less then a minute. Finally and most devastatingly she has her Eclipse Etherious form a giant 12 headed hydra that can fight evenly with Acnologia one on one for a considerable period of time a feat only Igneel managed. Salem wasn't kidding when she called herself one of the most powerful beings in history.

* SuperpowerLottery: Salem wins this easily as she has the biggest arsenal of magic of anyone on Remnant. When she was first created she was given the ability to command the Zodiac. She has access to multiple Elemental Magics all of which are superior to the Maidens. Plus she can use the Metria spells far better then Lucy can (Unsuprising considering she invented at least one of them). Salem also has physical strength on the same level as the Gates and is extremely fast as well. Her Transitive Curse means that she can cast any magic as a curse and any curse as magic which means that she doesn't need a Maiden nearby to utilize her magic fully in addition to be incredibly useful against opponents like Acnoligia or Franmalth who are immune to Magic. The Queen also has access to all the LovecraftianSuperpowers in canon meaning she can spawn Grimm arms from anywhere and is a RubberMan which she uses in conjunction with her SuperStrength. If that weren't enough she still has her complete immortality and Deadpool level healing factor from canon which means that she can recover from any attack now matter how devastating in seconds and either doesn't feel pain from them or is capable of ignoring it. The only attacks that are somewhat effective on her are Spirit Slayer Magic and End's Fire and she still recovered from a point blank blast from former in a less then a minute. Finally and most devastatingly she has her Eclipse Etherious form a giant 12 headed hydra that can fight evenly with Acnologia one on one for a considerable period of time a feat only Igneel managed. Salem wasn't kidding when she called herself one of the most powerful beings in history.

* SuperpowerLottery: Salem wins this easily as she has the biggest arsenal of magic of anyone on Remnant. She has access to multiple Elemental Magics all of which are superior to the Maidens. Plus she can use the Metria spells far better then Lucy can (Unsuprising considering she invented at least one of them). Salem also has physical strength on the same level as the Gates and is extremely fast as well. Her Transitive Curse means that she can cast any magic as a curse and any curse as magic which means that she doesn't need a Maiden nearby to utilize her magic fully in addition to be incredibly useful against opponents like Acnoligia or Franmalth who are immune to Magic. The Queen also has access to all the LovecraftianSuperpowers in canon meaning she can spawn Grimm arms from anywhere and is a RubberMan which she uses in conjunction with her SuperStrength. She still has her complete immortality and Deadpool level healing factor from canon which means that she can recover from any attack now matter how devastating in seconds and either doesn't feel pain from them or is capable of ignoring it. The only attacks that are somewhat effective on her are Spirit Slayer Magic and End's Fire and she still recovered from the former in a less then a minute.

** [[spoiler: Summer is this to canon Ironwood as they are both former members of Ozpin's circle who end up becoming dictators of Atlas and who consider their emotions a weakness. However while Ironwood typically relied on brute force methods which usually blew up in his face, Summmer relies more on her cunning and has achieved the most success of any of Salem's circle so far. This is most prominently shown in their methods of gaining control of Atlas. While Ironwood essentially declared himself dictator and eventually alienated even his most loyal supporters, Summer manipulate events so that she is elected dictator to popular acclaim. Also while Ironwood showed almost no concern how people perceived him and was hated in Mantle Summer carefully managed her PR and is a beloved figure in both Atlas and Mantle. Finally while Ironwood had a NeverMyFault tendency and saw himself as a HeroWithBadPublicity Summer takes responsibility for everything even things she arguably at least wasn't directly at fault for and views herself as a NeccessaryEvil.]]

* NamedWeapons: Aside from Crescent Rose, Ruby named plenty of her new armaments, such as [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe Tulip's Aegis]], [[HeroesPreferSwords Waxing Petal]], [[RoyalRapier Waning Thorn]], [[{{BFG}} Full Magnolia]], and [[KnightInShiningArmor Reaper's Rose]].

** While he would probably incinerate anyone who suggests this End has clearly been influenced by Natsu's personality to a certain extent. End likes a good brawl, is very loyal to his friends, is extremely honest, and has a bad temper (though his is far more dangerous). When Erza points this out to him he goes ballistic and almost kill her.

** [[spoiler: In chapter 71 Ruby becomes the Winter Maiden.]]

* TraumaCongaLine: Salem/Sitara's life after arriving in Earthland is one trauma after the next with any brief periods of happiness being taken away cruelly.[[spoiler: She starts off as someone who just wants to visit the humans world but the minute she gets there she is kidnapped and experimented on by Mard Geer. Then she gets rescued and prepares to go back home only for Ankhseram to exile her from her home, family and friends. Still she makes the best of her new life on Earthland and falls in love with Ozma only for him to die shortly afterwards. Then she goes to the brothers and begs them to return her love to her. Eventually she sees him again only for them to take him away immediately afterwards and curse her with immortality preventing her from reuniting with him in the afterlife. She then spends the next few centuries trying to find a way to erase her existence. Eventually she make friends with Team RWBY the first ones she had in centuries only for them to accidentally go back to Remnant soon afterwards. Then she decides to join Fairy Tail only for the Guild to be disbanded when she works up the courage to join. Then later on inspired by her friends she leads a rebellion against the brothers and they wipe out almost all humans leaving her alone being constantly stalked by Grimm for centuries. Then she is reunited with her love Ozma and has 4 daughters whom she loves with all her heart. But of course her husband tries to take them away from her triggering Serams madness causing her to unintentionally kill them.]] It sucks to be Salem. Both Jaune and Ozpin think her trauma is affecting her judgement.

* YanktheDogsChain: Happens frequently to Salem/Sitara. Anytime she finds any source of happiness its generally taken away from her shortly afterwards usually by means outside of her control.

* WhamLine

* RevengeBeforeReason: Weiss is starting to show this. She displays tunnel vision where Esper is concerned and ignores that the situation is more complicated than first assumed. When Ruby and Blake point out that they may need Salem to stop the Umbral Spirit King her response is to claim that they can defeat him by themselves (which considering he's so powerful even Salem and End are wary of their chances and could control all the Grimm world-wide if he manifests on Remnant is unlikely) and even declares that she doesn't want to be part of a team that makes deals with Esper or Salem. Gray has to confront her directly and remind her that while he's just as chomping at the bit for vengeance as she is, that doesn't change the fact what they ''want'' is not the same thing as what the world ''needs'' and they need to put the latter above the former if that's what's necessary. When Salem's castle comes down Weiss immediately convinces herself that it had to have been her completely ignoring how improbable that is so she has an excuse to go after Esper. Taken to its ultimate level when she calls on the Umbral Spirit King's power to launch an attack that would have killed Ruby had [[spoiler: Esper not sacrificed herself to get her out of the way. Whats more Weiss didn't think of the affect killing Esper would have on her daughters and now Yang Weiss's friend and teammate wants her dead.]]

* RevengeBeforeReason: Weiss is starting to show this. She displays tunnel vision where Esper is concerned and ignores that the situation is more complicated than first assumed. When Ruby and Blake point out that they may need Salem to stop the Umbral Spirit King her response is to claim that they can defeat him by themselves (which considering he's so powerful even Salem and End are wary of their chances and could control all the Grimm world-wide if he manifests on Remnant is unlikely) and even declares that she doesn't want to be part of a team that makes deals with Esper or Salem. Gray has to confront her directly and remind her that while he's just as chomping at the bit for vengeance as she is, that doesn't change the fact what they ''want'' is not the same thing as what the world ''needs'' and they need to put the latter above the former if that's what's necessary. When Salem's castle comes down Weiss immediately convinces herself that it had to have been her completely ignoring how improbable that is so she has an excuse to go after Esper.

* TheAce: End, Yang openly calls him Salem's Ace. It his job to take care of any threat that the Gates can't handle by themselves and its noted by the author that his base form alone is more powerful then any of the Gates released ones. His powers include Fire Curses that can obliterate an entire tribe, SuperStrength, SuperToughness, AntiMagic, and he is an ImmortalBreaker. End is also immune to all forms of Fire Magic including Devil Slayer Fire Magic which should be especially effective against demons like him. He also shows immense skill and precision with his Fire Curses as well as being able to use them far more creatively then Natsu ever used his Fire Magic. His feats include wiping out the Branwen tribe in one move, Curbstomps Yang and Raven, and later at the battle of Haven he defeats both Jaune and Wendy while the latter is in Dragon Force and Jaune distracting him is the only reason he didn't kill all the Fairy Tail Wizards.

** While he would probably incinerate anyone who suggests this End has clearly been influenced by Natsu's personality to a certain extent. End likes a good brawl, is very loyal to his friends, is extremely honest, and has a bad temper (though his is far more dangerous).

* BerserkButton: [[spoiler:For End, it is [[DoNotCallMePaul being called "Natsu"]]]]. [[spoiler:End is the true personality of E.N.D. and absolutely furious when he is identified with Natsu, to the point he can fly into murderous rage and has to physically restrain himself from harming anyone he doesn't want to. Also, Lucy's very existence pushes this into overdrive, since she's the one who "killed" him to save Natsu]]. He also hates being called E.N.D.

** [[spoiler: Salem does have a certain vulnerability to Spirit Slayer magic (in fact Ozpin's original rough draft for defeating her was based off that) however when Summer uses her eyes to encases her in stone it only manages to immobilize her for less then a minute before she breaks out and mortally wounds the huntress]]. This may be explained by Salem also being part Etherious who have no vulnerability to Spirit Slayer type magic.]]

* SuperStrength: All of the Gates get this upon their Ascension. Tyrian also stops a truck driven at him at high speeds with his bare hands and later hurls it with only one hand.

** End in addition to his fire powers has this. He was able to casually send Shay D. Mann flying a great distance with his strength and later took out a large portion of Yang's aura with a single blow while holding back most of his power.

** Cinder is this ''to her own side'' repeatedly derailing her more cunning superiors' careful plans. [[spoiler: The Fall of Beacon was a fiasco for Salem's Circle. The plan severely derailed Salem's plan to recruit Fairy Tail onto her side, something that she deeply desires for both personal reasons and because Lucy and Wendy are vital to her overall goals. In addition, the Fall caused Ironwood's paranoia to shoot through the roof, forcing Summer to abandon her initial plan to take over Atlas via slowly and quietly replacing members of the Atlas Council with people she could control, and instead had to enact a coup that left multiple people dead and made recruiting Fairy Tail even harder. She does the same thing at the Battle of Haven, turning what should have been an easy victory for End and the Gates into a battle that left her and Mercury dead, the relic gone, and Haven burnt to the ground. Both Salem and Summer see this trend and firmly tell Cinder she needs to smarten up.]]

** Cinder is this ''to her own side'' repeatedly derailing her more cunning superiors careful plans. [[spoiler: The Fall of Beacon was a fiasco for Salem's Circle. The plan severely derailed Salem's plan to recruit Fairy Tail onto her side something that she both deeply desires for personal reasons and because Lucy and Wendy are vital to her overall goals. In addition the Fall caused Ironwoods paranoia to shoot through the roof forcing Summer to abandon her initial plan to take over Atlas via slowly and quietly replacing members of the Atlas council with people she could control, and instead had to enact a coup that left multiple people dead and made recruiting Fairy Tail even harder. She does the same thing at the battle of Haven turning what should have been an easy victory for End and the Gates into a battle that left two of them dead, the relic gone and Haven burnt. Both Salem and Summer see this trend and firmly tell Cinder she needs to smarten up]]

** [[spoiler: Summer]] becomes this for ''Erza'' of all people once the two start to talk. While she isn't as powerful as either Salem or End, her sheer conviction terrifies Erza as it reminds her far too much of [[ShadowArchetype herself]]. Carla, Raven and Penny also greatly fear her as well with the latter backing down when Gate of the Maiden makes it clear that she will be leaving and that she will lose any fight she starts.