History Fanfic / SparksAmongTheStars

-> ''"You lose, Mother of grimm. You lose, Salem. All the sparks have finally been lit and set free from this wretched plane. They're free of you and your beasts, you monster still trapped in a tower. They are free and ''you lose!''""''

Scattered to the far corners of the Blind Eternities, divided and alone, the Planeswalkers of Remnant must find each others, and find their way home, and find a way to stop Salem before she destroys Remnant once and for all in their absence.

* DeathSeeker: Salem is an interesting variation of this: according to Ozpin, she wants more than anything to end her immortality curse, and finally die, but only if its on ''her'' terms - i.e., in a way that brings all of Remnant down with her and spites the gods; she will fight against ''any'' other kind of death as firmly as anyone else would. And since an amnesia-stricken Ozma told her about the Multiverse, and the powerful beings in the worlds beyond Remnant, she's been tracking down and either recruiting or eliminating anyone with the spark, that potential to become a planeswalker, despite the God of Light's barrier preventing them from igniting.

* MythologyGag: Geyadrone was in the middle of a plan to [[KillAndReplace the Tolarian Academy Archmage]] before Weiss distracted her, which is what she'd been revealed to be doing in Dominaria United.

* TheseHandsHaveKilled: After [[Main/{{NoHoldsBarredBeatdown}} beating a prize fight opponent to death]] in a blind UnstoppableRage, Yang has this reaction. [[Main/{{StressVomit}} Emptying her stomach]] onto the street as she stumbles home in a daze and then finally planeswalking away from Zendikar instinctively when the weight becomes too much.

** Vaevictis Asmadi was confirmed to be long dead after his spell was turned back on him in canon. Here [[spoiler:he was inadvertently sent through the Blind Eternities to Eldraine, where he became known as Korvold]].
* SpeakOfTheDevil: When Korvold name-drops [[spoiler:Bolas]], believing that Jaune was sent by them, Jaune feel an inexplicable chill up his spine.

* TeleportationSickness: Tai soon discovers that he does ''not'' like teleportation spells. Though that might have been partially because of interference from the Skyclave.

* AmbiguouslyRelated: Emmara calls Jakorai "uncle" in Chapter 13, but it's unclear if she's being literal or if it's merely an honorary title.

* BodyHorror: Tezzeret's etherium enhancements to the injured Cinder include a good chunk of her ''head'' now being replaced with filigree metal.

* AmbiguousSituation: There's an implication by the author that Rhodes might be Pyrrha is the daughter of Rhodes, but it's unclear if she's remembering her own pasts, Amber's, or a mix of both.

* MassTeleportation: When Tai and company accidentally reactivate a Skyclave on Zendikar, its defenses eventually teleport the entire facility, as well as the crew and their ship, to Akoum.

* BadDreams: More than one of the Remnantians has had some so far, due to their ShellShockedVeteran status.

* AlwaysABiggerFish: Salem knows about both the existence of the Multiverse and the various powerful entities that exists in it, particularly planeswalkers, and is afraid that a planeswalker could find a way to end her despite the barrier the God of Light erected around Remnant or her own incredible power and immortality curse, and thus ruin her plans to force the gods to ''remember'' her as she destroys the world, even if she's destroyed herself. Thusly, she has devoted great effort to tracking down every Remnantian born with a spark and attempting to recruit them despite knowing that the barrier kept them from igniting. If they refuse, she kills them in such a way that Ozpin is at fault, having gotten bored with simply tracking down and killing his incarnations after a few hundred years.

** Weiss struggles with this concept, as she has learned enough about Black mana to be horrified when she realizes she can use it since, Weiss associates the traits it embodies with her father. Although Argent tries to reassure her by giving her a more nuanced understanding of the color, she's still conflicted about it.

* DarkIsNotEvil: As in MtG canon, no color of Mana is inherently good or evil, even Black. Heck, ''Jaune'' is White/Black aligned, and can kill people and absorb their souls with his hand, and he's still trying to be a hero.

* SecretTestOfCharacter: The Green Knight's challenge to Jaune was to see if he would KnowWhenToFoldEm, which he does when it becomes clear that Jaune cannot win, as the Green Knight can recover from ''losing his head''.

* MixAndMatchCritters: Pyrrha fights two Chimeras on Theros. The first is close to the classical chimera, with a lion, ram, and dragon head, wings, and a spiked tail. The second, Gnostro, has an owl head that has limited precognitive abilities, a wolf head, and a stallion head that can heal the beast, a scaly back with no wings, and a giant stinger on its tail.

TheseHandsHaveKilled: After [[Main/{{NoHoldsBarredBeatdown}} beating a prize fight opponent to death]] in a blind UnstoppableRage, Yang has this reaction. [[Main/{{StressVomit}} Emptying her stomach]] onto the street as she stumbles home in a daze and then finally planeswalking away from Zendikar instinctively when the weight becomes too much.

''Sparks Among The Stars'' is a ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' and ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' crossover that can be read [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/sparks-among-the-stars-a-rwby-and-magic-the-gathering-crossover.923699/ here]] and [[https://fanfiction.net/s/13836228/1/ here]].

** The Dimiri assassin Mysl saves Ruby from a sneak attack from a surviving monster, even though doing so exposes himself, and is fairly polite despite his position and skillset.

* AnArmAndALeg: Yang still loses her arm and falls into a depression over it, though her first trip through the Blind Eternities healed the stump over at least.

* EvilIsPetty: Salem has been going after anyone that she can find with the spark, and if she can’t recruit them, she kills them in such a way that Ozpin is at fault. Apparently she got tired of tracking down and killing Ozpin’s incarnations in brutal ways after a while. She also wants to spite the gods and bring of all Remnant down with her, even prioritizing it over her DeathSeeker desires. She’s also apparently been tracking down the descendants of his various hosts as well.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Mentally lampshaded when Ruby finds herself with a group of people representing all of the Guilds. She notes that it feels ''right'' somehow.

* RevengeByProxy: WordOfGod is that Salem, unable to permanently kill Ozpin, has sometimes hunted down the relatives of his host bodies and killed them instead.

* AdaptationalVillainy: The brother gods, and the God of Light in particular, get this: while they were no means sympathetic characters in canon, Light still gave Ozma a choice in reincarnating, and is implied to be pulling for humanity to pass their test. ''This'' God of Light fears and hates planeswalkers, viewing them as a threat to the sanctity of his "experiment", along with apparently being jealous Ozpin some of the faith of his followers, and brainwashed Ozma into forgetting he'd ever been one before sending him back to Remnant.

* {{Rewrite}}: The first version of chapter 7 introduced Nicol Bolas in the Meditation Realm, who has Jinn, knowledge of/apparent access to Remnant and was working with Raven. Upon realizing that the story would flow better that way, the author rewrote the chapter so that Tezzeret was instead the one who found Cinder and augmented her with etherium all by himself, and on an unnamed plane instead, with Cinder accepting an offer to join the Infinite Consortium as a partner, replacing Raven in the scene at the tail end of chapter 4 as well. WordOfGod is that Bolas ''will'' show up later, given the setting, same for Raven, but in different capacities, and that Remnant remains closed off to the Multiverse for the time being.

''Sparks Among The Stars'' can be read [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/sparks-among-the-stars-a-rwby-and-magic-the-gathering-crossover.923699/ here]] and [[https://fanfiction.net/s/13836228/1/ here]].

* DramaticIrony: Only Ozpin and Ruby are aware that the other Remnantians are planeswalkers, or that they are scattered across the Multiverse. At one point Weiss even wonders if any of her other friends could be in the wider Multiverse, but after Bo Levar tells her how rare planeswalkers are, she decides that it's just a coincidence.