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* AlternateUniverseFic: Takes place in an alternate universe where Ruby was kidnapped by Cinder and turned into a Hound a year before Volume one.
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-->[[spoiler:Ruby: Because every second I was the Hound, I wanted it to end. I’d do awful things and wake up every day as a monster and I wanted to scream but I couldn’t, because they’d ordered me not to, so I’d sit there and try to do something, anything, until my brain got so fuzzy that I couldn’t remember why I wanted to scream in the first place. And every time there was enough me in my head to think, I’d spend every second wondering how long I had until I wasn’t me again. And every time I stopped thinking, I’d wonder if it was the last time. If I’d just... stop being me.]]
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** [[spoiler:Cinder's epilogue in chapter five is rife with this. We're aware that Ozpin and his allies know her identity, that Qrow returned to check on his family, and Taiyang there to kill her, but ''she'' doesn't.]]
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** [[spoiler:Cinder's epilogue in chapter five is rife with this. We're aware that Ozpin and his allies know her identity, that Qrow returned to check on his family, and Taiyang is there to kill her, but ''she'' doesn't.]]]]
*** For bonus points [[spoiler: she's confident that neither Neo or Roman, who were captured during the Breach, would rat her out, and that the greatest issue behind the Hound being missing is that it's dead and Salem wouldn't be happy she lost such a rare Grimm. She doesn't realize that said Hound, Ruby, is not only alive, but also completely exposed her entire operation.]]
** Despite [[spoiler: Cinder]] being the one to kidnap Ruby in the first place, [[spoiler: neither she nor her team have any idea that Ruby is the true identity of the Hound they have accompanying them. In fact, Cinder has no idea who Ruby actually was beyond having silver eyes, meaning she doesn't recognize Taiyang when the latter shows up at her door.]] [[KarmicDeath Something that quickly ends up being a fatal mistake]].
*** For bonus points [[spoiler: she's confident that neither Neo or Roman, who were captured during the Breach, would rat her out, and that the greatest issue behind the Hound being missing is that it's dead and Salem wouldn't be happy she lost such a rare Grimm. She doesn't realize that said Hound, Ruby, is not only alive, but also completely exposed her entire operation.]]
** Despite [[spoiler: Cinder]] being the one to kidnap Ruby in the first place, [[spoiler: neither she nor her team have any idea that Ruby is the true identity of the Hound they have accompanying them. In fact, Cinder has no idea who Ruby actually was beyond having silver eyes, meaning she doesn't recognize Taiyang when the latter shows up at her door.]] [[KarmicDeath Something that quickly ends up being a fatal mistake]].
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Cinder abducting Ruby utterly screws her in the long term. When Ozpin cleanses The Hound, it completely exposes Cinder's entire infiltration of Beacon without Cinder herself knowing her cover has been blown, resulting in Cinder being easily lured into an ambush by none other than [[PapaWolf Tai]] under the context of asking her some questions about the Breach and subsequently killed.]]
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* MercyKill: Weiss ends her ArmorPiercingQuestion by suggesting Yang may have to do this to [[FaceMonsterTurn The Hound]]. [[spoiler:Yang eventually tries this in the climax, not seeing any other way to save Ruby from her fate.]]
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* MercyKill: Weiss ends her ArmorPiercingQuestion by suggesting Yang may have to do this to [[FaceMonsterTurn The Hound]]. [[spoiler:Yang eventually tries this in the climax, not seeing any other way to save Ruby from her fate. Luckily for everyone, Ozpin arrives just in time to help purify Ruby and get Yang her sister back.]]
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* TitledAfterTheSong: The title of the fic, as well as the title of each chapter, is taken from [[https://youtu.be/LChtBpTjvTY The Hounds]], a song by The Protomen.
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* TitledAfterTheSong: The title of the fic, as well as the title of each chapter, is taken from [[https://youtu.be/LChtBpTjvTY The Hounds]], a song by The Protomen.Music/TheProtomen.
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** [[spoiler:Cinder's epilogue in chapter five is rife with this. The reader is We're aware that Ozpin and his allies know her identity, that Qrow returned to check on his family, and Taiyang there to kill her, but ''she'' doesn't.]]
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-> ''Yang Xiao Long, Blake thinks, understands the dangers of being a Huntress far better than any of her teammates. Blake only knows the basics— her mother (a veteran Huntress) killed on an everyday mission, and her little sister (a Huntress in training, a prodigy) devoured so thoroughly they could only find her scythe— but she gets why it would turn even the most headstrong of people cautious.\\
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“We have to go after it,” Yang says. “Please. I swear to God, that thing’s my baby sister.”''
-->-- Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn description
''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/46492327 I can almost hear the Hounds]]'' is a completed ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' fanfic that deviates from canon a year before Volume 1, when Ruby Rose goes missing and is presumed dead. Yang hasn't recovered by the time she enters Beacon and is made leader of team YIBW (Blake, Weiss, and an Ilia who chose to run away with her old friend) no matter how hard she tries to pretend she's okay. She still blames herself for what happened to her little sister, and she'd do ''anything'' to see her again.
Then her team goes to Mountain Glenn and she's given a chance to do just that.
The story can be read [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/46492327 here]] on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn. It has a short sequel, [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/48414637 Trim and nothing else]], and a prequel, [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/49916572 There is a Hell]], written by the original story's editor.
!!This work contains examples of:
* AlternateUniverseFic: Takes place in an alternate universe where Ruby was kidnapped by Cinder and turned into a Hound a year before Volume one.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion:
-->Weiss: I mean... I mean, let’s say you’re able to beat it in a fight. Then what? If that thing is your little sister, and you want to save her— how?
*AndIMustScream:
-->[[spoiler:Ruby: Because every second I was the Hound, I wanted it to end. I’d do awful things and wake up every day as a monster and I wanted to scream but I couldn’t, because they’d ordered me not to, so I’d sit there and try to do something, anything, until my brain got so fuzzy that I couldn’t remember why I wanted to scream in the first place. And every time there was enough me in my head to think, I’d spend every second wondering how long I had until I wasn’t me again. And every time I stopped thinking, I’d wonder if it was the last time. If I’d just... stop being me.]]
* BerserkButton: Weiss presses Yang's when she suggests they leave Ilia to deal with the White Fang [[MyGreatestFailure on her own.]]
* BigSisterInstinct: Yang's kicks in ''hard'' when she realizes just who [[LongLostRelative The Hound]] is.
* DramaticIrony:
** Chapter one is full of this as it centres around Yang's grief for her dead sister. Even then, the description and tags make it pretty clear that Ruby is alive as the Hound.
** [[spoiler:Cinder's epilogue in chapter five is rife with this. The reader is aware that Ozpin and his allies know her identity, that Qrow returned to check on his family, and Taiyang there to kill her, but ''she'' doesn't.]]
** Also prominent in the sequel, ''Trim and nothing else.'' Any reader (especially ones who have read [[http://www.mrquarrie.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/1/0/10102453/just_lather_thats_all.pdf Lather and nothing else]] can quickly guess that [[spoiler:Ruby knows Emerald's identity and is testing her]] before it becomes obvious.
* {{Determinator}}: Yang will do ''anything'' to save Ruby. The Hound is escaping? Doesn't matter how exhausted and injured she is, she'll chase after it. [[spoiler:Her thigh muscle gets torn in half? She'll crawl.]] She's only stopped when [[spoiler:she tries to go fight Cinder on one leg.]]
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Ruby's eye melts in the process of cleansing the grimm parts from her body.]]
* FaceMonsterTurn: Ruby goes through one before the story takes place.
* FamilyPortraitOfCharacterization: Played with. Blake finds a series of Xiao Long-Rose-Branwen family portraits that demonstrate where the family was at in each point in time. Partly because of how they look, but also because of [[DwindlingParty who exactly is in each one.]]
* ForWantOfANail: Cinder finds a silver-eyed girl while searching for the fall maiden, and it results in [[spoiler:her being killed and the Fall of Beacon being avoided.]]
* HeroicBSOD: Yang's reaction when she figures out what (or rather, ''who'') The Hound is.
* HeroicRROD: Yang pushes herself far past the point of exhaustion while [[spoiler:chasing The Hound through Vale.]]
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Yang tries this with The Hound. [[spoiler:It doesn't work.]]
* INeverToldYouMyName: Yang's first clue that there's [[WasOnceAMan something else]] wrong with The Hound is that it knows her name.
* ItCanThink: Yang's first reaction to encountering The Hound. What do you mean, a Grimm that can talk?
* KilledOffscreen: The closest we come to seeing [[spoiler:Cinder's death]] is a flashback in ''Trim and nothing else.''
* MercyKill: Weiss ends her ArmorPiercingQuestion by suggesting Yang may have to do this to [[FaceMonsterTurn The Hound]]. [[spoiler:Yang eventually tries this in the climax, not seeing any other way to save Ruby from her fate.]]
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Ozpin initially wants to [[spoiler:try imprisoning Cinder, but Qrow insists Cinder needs to die, even if just for what she did to his niece.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: Yang views Ruby's "death" as this [[spoiler:until the very end of the story.]]
* MyGreatestSecondChance: How Yang feels once she realizes what exactly happened to Ruby.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Yang, Tai, and Qrow only ever find Crescent Rose. The logical assumption is that the Grimm infesting Patch's forest ate Ruby... right?
* NotSoAboveItAll: Glynda is offended when Oz bets twenty lien that [[spoiler:Penny will request to stay at Beacon with Ruby before the month is over.]] Not because she's above it, but because he should ''surely'' have learned that teenagers are inherently lazy.
* OhCrap: In chapter three, when Yang finishes her ArmorPiercingQuestion conversation with Weiss and realizes [[spoiler:Blake's been paying attention to them, and therefore ''isn't keeping watch.'']]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Blake's first hint at Yang's TragicBackstory is when she screams at Weiss that [[MyGreatestFailure they're not abandoning Ilia.]]
* OutsideContextProblem: Cinder is prepared for everything that could possibly go wrong in her mission to destroy Beacon. [[spoiler:The Hound she brought along being rescued and spilling the beans on her plan is not an outcome ''anyone'' considered.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The Hound tries this when the train starts moving, [[spoiler:and then again when it crashes into Vale.]]
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Yang starts ''really'' thinking The Hound is Ruby when it tries playing hide and seek with her in a way only Ruby did.
* TellMeHowYouFight: Inverted. Yang's able to go blow for blow with the Hound because it still tries to fight like Ruby did.
* TitledAfterTheSong: The title of the fic, as well as the title of each chapter, is taken from [[https://youtu.be/LChtBpTjvTY The Hounds]], a song by The Protomen.
* TragicMonster: The Hound, even more than in canon.
* WasOnceAMan: Yang's second, much more important reaction to encountering The Hound. Especially considering which [[LongLostRelative person]] in particular.
Or,\\
“We have to go after it,” Yang says. “Please. I swear to God, that thing’s my baby sister.”''
-->-- Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn description
''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/46492327 I can almost hear the Hounds]]'' is a completed ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' fanfic that deviates from canon a year before Volume 1, when Ruby Rose goes missing and is presumed dead. Yang hasn't recovered by the time she enters Beacon and is made leader of team YIBW (Blake, Weiss, and an Ilia who chose to run away with her old friend) no matter how hard she tries to pretend she's okay. She still blames herself for what happened to her little sister, and she'd do ''anything'' to see her again.
Then her team goes to Mountain Glenn and she's given a chance to do just that.
The story can be read [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/46492327 here]] on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn. It has a short sequel, [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/48414637 Trim and nothing else]], and a prequel, [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/49916572 There is a Hell]], written by the original story's editor.
!!This work contains examples of:
* AlternateUniverseFic: Takes place in an alternate universe where Ruby was kidnapped by Cinder and turned into a Hound a year before Volume one.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion:
-->Weiss: I mean... I mean, let’s say you’re able to beat it in a fight. Then what? If that thing is your little sister, and you want to save her— how?
*AndIMustScream:
-->[[spoiler:Ruby: Because every second I was the Hound, I wanted it to end. I’d do awful things and wake up every day as a monster and I wanted to scream but I couldn’t, because they’d ordered me not to, so I’d sit there and try to do something, anything, until my brain got so fuzzy that I couldn’t remember why I wanted to scream in the first place. And every time there was enough me in my head to think, I’d spend every second wondering how long I had until I wasn’t me again. And every time I stopped thinking, I’d wonder if it was the last time. If I’d just... stop being me.]]
* BerserkButton: Weiss presses Yang's when she suggests they leave Ilia to deal with the White Fang [[MyGreatestFailure on her own.]]
* BigSisterInstinct: Yang's kicks in ''hard'' when she realizes just who [[LongLostRelative The Hound]] is.
* DramaticIrony:
** Chapter one is full of this as it centres around Yang's grief for her dead sister. Even then, the description and tags make it pretty clear that Ruby is alive as the Hound.
** [[spoiler:Cinder's epilogue in chapter five is rife with this. The reader is aware that Ozpin and his allies know her identity, that Qrow returned to check on his family, and Taiyang there to kill her, but ''she'' doesn't.]]
** Also prominent in the sequel, ''Trim and nothing else.'' Any reader (especially ones who have read [[http://www.mrquarrie.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/1/0/10102453/just_lather_thats_all.pdf Lather and nothing else]] can quickly guess that [[spoiler:Ruby knows Emerald's identity and is testing her]] before it becomes obvious.
* {{Determinator}}: Yang will do ''anything'' to save Ruby. The Hound is escaping? Doesn't matter how exhausted and injured she is, she'll chase after it. [[spoiler:Her thigh muscle gets torn in half? She'll crawl.]] She's only stopped when [[spoiler:she tries to go fight Cinder on one leg.]]
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Ruby's eye melts in the process of cleansing the grimm parts from her body.]]
* FaceMonsterTurn: Ruby goes through one before the story takes place.
* FamilyPortraitOfCharacterization: Played with. Blake finds a series of Xiao Long-Rose-Branwen family portraits that demonstrate where the family was at in each point in time. Partly because of how they look, but also because of [[DwindlingParty who exactly is in each one.]]
* ForWantOfANail: Cinder finds a silver-eyed girl while searching for the fall maiden, and it results in [[spoiler:her being killed and the Fall of Beacon being avoided.]]
* HeroicBSOD: Yang's reaction when she figures out what (or rather, ''who'') The Hound is.
* HeroicRROD: Yang pushes herself far past the point of exhaustion while [[spoiler:chasing The Hound through Vale.]]
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Yang tries this with The Hound. [[spoiler:It doesn't work.]]
* INeverToldYouMyName: Yang's first clue that there's [[WasOnceAMan something else]] wrong with The Hound is that it knows her name.
* ItCanThink: Yang's first reaction to encountering The Hound. What do you mean, a Grimm that can talk?
* KilledOffscreen: The closest we come to seeing [[spoiler:Cinder's death]] is a flashback in ''Trim and nothing else.''
* MercyKill: Weiss ends her ArmorPiercingQuestion by suggesting Yang may have to do this to [[FaceMonsterTurn The Hound]]. [[spoiler:Yang eventually tries this in the climax, not seeing any other way to save Ruby from her fate.]]
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Ozpin initially wants to [[spoiler:try imprisoning Cinder, but Qrow insists Cinder needs to die, even if just for what she did to his niece.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: Yang views Ruby's "death" as this [[spoiler:until the very end of the story.]]
* MyGreatestSecondChance: How Yang feels once she realizes what exactly happened to Ruby.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Yang, Tai, and Qrow only ever find Crescent Rose. The logical assumption is that the Grimm infesting Patch's forest ate Ruby... right?
* NotSoAboveItAll: Glynda is offended when Oz bets twenty lien that [[spoiler:Penny will request to stay at Beacon with Ruby before the month is over.]] Not because she's above it, but because he should ''surely'' have learned that teenagers are inherently lazy.
* OhCrap: In chapter three, when Yang finishes her ArmorPiercingQuestion conversation with Weiss and realizes [[spoiler:Blake's been paying attention to them, and therefore ''isn't keeping watch.'']]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Blake's first hint at Yang's TragicBackstory is when she screams at Weiss that [[MyGreatestFailure they're not abandoning Ilia.]]
* OutsideContextProblem: Cinder is prepared for everything that could possibly go wrong in her mission to destroy Beacon. [[spoiler:The Hound she brought along being rescued and spilling the beans on her plan is not an outcome ''anyone'' considered.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The Hound tries this when the train starts moving, [[spoiler:and then again when it crashes into Vale.]]
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Yang starts ''really'' thinking The Hound is Ruby when it tries playing hide and seek with her in a way only Ruby did.
* TellMeHowYouFight: Inverted. Yang's able to go blow for blow with the Hound because it still tries to fight like Ruby did.
* TitledAfterTheSong: The title of the fic, as well as the title of each chapter, is taken from [[https://youtu.be/LChtBpTjvTY The Hounds]], a song by The Protomen.
* TragicMonster: The Hound, even more than in canon.
* WasOnceAMan: Yang's second, much more important reaction to encountering The Hound. Especially considering which [[LongLostRelative person]] in particular.
