History Fanfic / TheLegendOfRuby

* ElementalPowers: Since the crossover features Avatar style bending...
** AllYourPowersCombined: As the Avatar, Ozpin of course, as well as his predecessor, Avatar Amber, and all the others all the way back to Avatar Monty. And in the finale of Book One, [[spoiler:the titular Ruby Rose, his successor]].
** BlowYouAway: Ruby, Ren, Sun, Fox, Russel, Mercury, Oobleck, and many others.
** DishingOutDirt: Blake, Pyrrha, Sage, Yatsuhashi, Adam, Ironwood, and many others.
*** ExtraOreDinary: Sadly, not discovered in this story. [[spoiler:Until almost the last chapter of the first book, when Pyrrha discovers/invents it during a moment of crisis]].
*** MagmaMan: [[spoiler:Adam Taurus knows this advanced, deadly technique, and does not hesitate to use it against anyone in his way]].
** MakingASplash: Weiss, Glynda, Jaune, Velvet, Neptune, Emerald, Jacques, and many others. [[spoiler:Including Salem]].
*** GreenThumb: Neptune demonstrates plantbending from the get-go, usually only to manipulate flowers for flirting with girls, but [[spoiler:also capable of grabbing up great amounts of seaweed to form a massive, colossal, regenerating body to fight with]].
*** HealingHands: A known technique of waterbending, though it’s not a common ability. It’s a bit of a surprise when [[spoiler:Jaune]] ends up showing talent for it.
** PlayingWithFire: Yang, Nora, Port, Coco, Scarlet, Neon, and of course Cinder. WordOfGod is that this was Ozpin's original element as well.
*** ShockAndAwe: As a Professor and a Fire Sage, Port knows the lightning technique of course, and attempts to teach it to his students. While none ever quite seem to get the hang of it, [[spoiler:Nora Valkyrie later learns how to redirect electricity instead, and uses this to great effect in the final battle]].
*** StuffBlowingUp: [[spoiler:Cinder]] knows this technique, making them a sort of Combustion [[spoiler:Lady]].
** PureEnergy: Chi-Blocking exists in this universe, with at least one practitioner, which could be an example of this. In addition, its implied energybending is known by at least one other character, who uses it to [[spoiler:steal bending away from others]].

* CombinationAttack: As in WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} canon, the girls of the titular team use these against the Paladin Mecha-Tank. But now they have new [[CallingYourAttacks names]] based on the elements involved:
** '''Thunderstorm''' ([[BlowYouAway Ruby]]/[[PlayingWithFire Yang]]): Ruby creates a small ball of whirling wind, and Yang bounces a fireball off of it, both re-directing her attack and enhancing it.
** '''Mudslide''' ([[MakingASplash Weiss]]/[[DishingOutDirt Blake]]): Blake liquefies the ground and slides along the mud while Weiss does the same with some ice, as they attack simultaneously from both sides.
** '''Sandstorm''' ([[BlowYouAway Ruby]]/[[DishingOutDirt Blake]]): Blake breaks up the ground into tiny fragments of dust and sand, and Ruby blows it up into the air to create a sandstorm, obscuring vision.
** '''Volcano''' ([[DishingOutDirt Blake]]/[[PlayingWithFire Yang]]): Blake launches Yang skywards, who sets her fists ablaze as she comes back down to earth.
** '''Blizzard''' ([[BlowYouAway Ruby]]/[[MakingASplash Weiss]]): Weiss freezes her water into thousands of tiny particles of snow and ice, and Ruby sends them blowing towards the enemy to freeze them en masse.
* They later add two more:
** '''Sunshine''' ([[BlowYouAway Ren]]/[[PlayingWithFire Nora]]): Ren launches Nora into the air so she can attack with fire from above.
** '''Clay''' ([[MakingASplash Jaune]]/[[DishingOutDirt Pyrrha]]: Jaune throws water over the ground to help liquefy it, as Pyrrha finishes turning it into mud, trapping their enemies feet before hardening the ground into a clay-like rock, encasing them.

* EvilAllAlong: Papa Schnee has made a deal with the devil, so to speak.

* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Once the Avatar awakens, casting aside any possible doubt.
** Double the Doom when [[spoiler:Salem sports a pair like hot coals in later chapters, by virtue of being the Dark Avatar]].

* TookALevelInBadass: Ruby starts out a modest but capable airbender. By the end of the story, she's the [[spoiler:goddamned [[PhysicalGod Avatar]]]]. In addition, many other characters can be seen as this, particularly Jaune, who becomes a decent fighter with water when before he was downright helpless, as well as picks up [[spoiler:HealingHands]] that make him more useful in other ways to his teammates. Justified, they’re students, learning and getting better is what they’re supposed to do.

* DarkestHour: In chapter eleven, [[spoiler:Future Industries has blown up, military zepplins are falling, the walls have been breached by Dai Li with explosives, Grimm are swarming the city, and Dark Spirits are circling overhead. And to top it off, Cinder is making a move to suppress unrest and conquer Beacon to find the new young Avatar... and kill her too]].

* ElementalEyeColors: Played straight with some, subverted with others. Ruby, however, with her silver eyes, very much looks the part of an airbender.

* WhipItGood: Waterbenders frequently use this technique. Glynda, in particular, has elevated it to an artform.

** Taken UpToEleven with the second “Book” of the story, where most of the main cast break down into two man teams and scatter across the globe on their own separate adventures.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Or Green, or Neon Pink, or any number of colors, natural or otherwise. Eyes are the same way. RWBY characters keep their original coloration, and nobody comments on why or how this is.

* ABoyAndHisX: Zwei is re-imagined in the continuity as a great shaggy polarbear dog. He finds Ruby shortly after TheReveal as her new companion and mount.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Adam, while still a villain, seems to genuinely love Blake, and when they are both threatened by a collapsing structure he throws her out of harm’s way rather than save himself, a far cry from the sociopathic yandere of his canon counterpart. Also Raven Branwen, who unlike her self-centered canon self, seems to more genuinely care about her daughter Yang and wants to re-connect with her, but prioritizes her mission [[spoiler:for the White Lotus]] first and foremost.

!!The Legend of Ruby contains examples of:

* ADayInTheLimelight: While the main focus is on Ruby Rose and Team RWBY, most chapters of the first book feature one of the other four man elemental teams. CFVY in chapter six, SSSN in chapter seven, and JNPR throughout in various roles. It could be argued the bending masters (Glynda, Oobleck, Port and Ironwood) have this in the tenth chapter as well, and the villains the chapter before that.

* ChekhovsGun: Port teaching lightningbending to his students. While none of his students ever did learn how to generate it (at least, not yet) [[spoiler:Nora learned how to redirect it off-screen]], leading to a [[spoiler:her taking out a Paladin Mecha-Tank with it]].

* CreatorCameo: Creator/MontyOum is a vital part of the world’s backstory, having been [[DecompositeCharacter divided]] into both the first Avatar, Monty (a la Wan), and also the Spirit of Light who empowers all Avatars, Oum. Though long gone from the world, their legacy continues to inspire future generations.

* DefeatMeansFriendship: Or at least a dose of respect, for Cardin gives Jaune a hand during the final battle, after having been thoroughly thrashed by him during a critical fight in the forest.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11706062/1/The-Legend-of-Ruby The Legend of Ruby]]'' by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/~Rassilon001 Rassilon001]] is a completed {{Crossover}} between ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' and the ''[[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar]]'' series. It primarily features the cast of the former in the setting of the later, with all the bending abilities found therein. It stars young new airbender Ruby Rose, newly arriving at Beacon Academy to study the bending arts. Along the way she meets up with her team: a cool and proper Ice Princess waterbender Weiss Schnee, the mysterious and shady earthbender Blake Belladonna, and her awesome and hot big sister firebender Yang Xiao Long.

* ABoyAndHisDog: Zwei is re-imagined in the continuity as a great shaggy polarbear dog. He finds Ruby shortly after TheReveal as her new companion and mount.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11706062/1/The-Legend-of-Ruby The Legend of Ruby]]'' by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/~Rassilon001 Rassilon001]] is a completed {{Crossover}} between ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' and the ''[[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar]]'' series. It primarily features the cast of the former in the setting of the later, with all the bending abilities found therein. It stars young new airbender Ruby Rose, newly arriving at Beacon Academy to study the bending arts. Along the way she meets up with her team: a cool and proper Ice Princess waterbender Weiss Schnee, the mysterious and shady earthbender Blake Belladonna, and her awesome and hot big sister Yang Xiao Long.

* ChekhovsGun: Port teaching lightningbending to his students. While none of his students ever did learn how to generate it (at least, not yet) [[spoiler:Nora learned how to redirect it off-screen]], leading to a CrowningMomentOfAwesome as [[she takes out a Paladin Mecha-Tank with it]].

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The author originally intended to write Mercury and Emerald taking part in the assassination attempt on Ozpin’s life... fifteen years ago. And unchanged in the present day. Thankfully, it was written in such a way that the water and air benders in question were off-screen, so it was quickly established they were two other random benders in Cinder’s service.

* BiggerBad: Salem, however, trumps her once she becomes the Dark Avatar, as does Zoa, though his interaction with the story is limited as he’s a GreaterScopeVillain.

* ChekovsGun: Port teaching lightningbending to his students. While none of his students ever did learn how to generate it (at least, not yet) [[spoiler:Nora learned how to redirect it off-screen]], leading to a CrowningMomentOfAwesome as [[she takes out a Paladin Mecha-Tank with it]].

[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11706062/1/The-Legend-of-Ruby The Legend of Ruby]] by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/~Rassilon001 Rassilon001]] is a completed {{Crossover}} between WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} and the [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar]] series. It primarily features the cast of the former in the setting of the later, with all the bending abilities found therein. It stars young new airbender Ruby Rose, newly arriving at Beacon Academy to study the bending arts. Along the way she meets up with her team: a cool and proper Ice Princess waterbender Weiss Schnee, the mysterious and shady earthbender Blake Belladonna, and her awesome and hot big sister Yang Xiao Long.

* [[ABoyAndHisDog A Girl and her Polar-Bear Dog]]: Zwei is re-imagined in the continuity as a great shaggy polarbear dog. He finds Ruby shortly after TheReveal as her new companion and mount.

* Comes up ''again'' when Salem [[spoiler:rips the Spirit of Light, Oum, out of Ruby and reduces her to a mere airbender. Oh, and has her Grimm Dragon, the Jormungander, about to lay waste to the entire world]].

* Taken UpToEleven with the second “Book” of the story, where most of the main cast break down into two man teams and scatter across the globe on their own separate adventures.

[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11706062/1/The-Legend-of-Ruby The Legend of Ruby]] by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/~Rassilon001 Rassilon001]] is a {{Crossover}} between WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} and the [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar]] series. It primarily features the cast of the former in the setting of the later, with all the bending abilities found therein. It stars young new airbender Ruby Rose, newly arriving at Beacon Academy to study the bending arts. Along the way she meets up with her team: a cool and proper Ice Princess waterbender Weiss Schnee, the mysterious and shady earthbender Blake Belladonna, and her awesome and hot big sister Yang Xiao Long.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Adam, while still a villain, seems to genuinely love Blake, and when they are both threatened by a collapsing structure he throws her out of harm’s way rather than save himself, a far cry from the sociopathic yandere of his canon counterpart.