Fanfic / Lost to Dust

Lost to Dust by Brandocko is a crossover between RWBY and the Fate Series portion of the Nasuverse, particularly Fate/Grand Order and is the sequel to Fates Collide. It is set after an altered version of Volume 3 of RWBY.

Roughly a year after Team RWBY's adventure in Chaldea Academy, they will have separate but interconnected adventures. Ruby Rose and her uncle Qrow Branwen have been ordered to attend and investigate the brand new Clockwork Academy as a student and teacher respectively. Weiss Schnee has been ordered to assist her sister Winter on a mission to catch someone who has been ruthlessly murdering members of the White Fang and try to forge an alliance with the White Fang with the reluctant help of Adam Taurus. Blake Belladonna, after separately hearing about the White Fang murders, goes on a single-minded quest for vengeance while her boyfriend Achilles desperately tries to catch up to her. Yang Xiao Long goes with her boyfriend Gilgamesh and her friends Kairi Sisigou and Sakata Kintoki on a quest to seek her mother Raven Branwen. Meanwhile Cinder Fall and Chloe von Einzbern are on a quest to seek new alliances and capture the three remaining Maidens of the Seasons, and a mysterious third party is attacking both Ozpin and Salem's factions.

The cast of Grand Order reacts to part of this fic in Chapter 20 of Fate Cinema Order.

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Contains examples of:

Tropes: A to F

• Accidental Murder: Weiss tries to take out one of the White Fang Killer's men non-lethally, but she accidentally slashes his throat.
• Adaptational Superpower Change:
  • In addition to his regular abilities, Beowulf has a Feed It with Fire ability (he gets more powerful whenever he is struck) similar to Yang.
  • Instead of only making portals to people she has a bond with, Raven can make portals to anywhere as long as she knows where it is. She can go to an unfamiliar place if she has something for a catalyst.
• Always Someone Better:
  • Atalanta beats Ruby in a race even when Ruby uses her Speed Semblance.
  • Beowulf has the same power as Yang, but his limits on taking damage and getting stronger are higher than hers.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Raikou is always embarrassing her son Kintoki.
• Ancestral Weapon: Adam's weapons Wilt and Blush were first used by his father.
• Androids Are People, Too: Penny reveals she is an android to her team, thinking she will be rejected. They don't mind.
• Apocalyptic Log: On the day she was killed, Ilia made a recording on her scroll in case she didn't make it. After explaining that someone was killing everyone in her unit, she declared her love for Blake and said she was planning to find her so that they could run away together. Then she was killed. Unfortunately, the recording doesn't show the face of her killer.
• Arbitrary Skepticism:
  • Yang dismisses the Maidens of the Seasons as just a story. Kairi calls her out on this since they live in a crazy world and have seen a lot of crazy things already. She concedes his point.
  • Qrow is skeptical that Miyu could use Glyphs through training instead of being related to the Schnee family, then says it is impossible when Scathach says she is immortal. Scathach says he should learn not to limit his thinking.
• Arc Words: "We don't get to choose what we're born into this life as, but we do get to choose what we do with this life."
• Backup from Otherworld: After Yang gets her neck snapped by Quetzalcoatl, she finds herself uncontrollably starting to Go into the Light and screams that she has to save Raven. The spirit of Arturia Pendragon appears and supercharges Avalon, reviving Yang and and allowing her to upgrade Avalon into Celicavalon to defeat Quetzalcoatl.
• Bare-Handed Blade Block:
  • During a sparring match, Bazett blocks Qrow's sword with the back of her hand. She does wear gloves, but Qrow is shocked that his attack did no damage at all. This is because Bazett uses the spell Rune of Armoring to make her gloves harder than tungsten steel.
  • The Headless Hunter catches Blake's cleaver and then sends her flying.
• Battle Couple: We have Yang and Gilgamesh, Blake and Achilles, Sakamoto Ryouma and Oryou, and Sigurd and Brynhildr.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Adam appreciates Musashi for regularly visiting him in prison and giving him food.
• Berserk Button:
  • Minamoto no Raikou gets very angry when someone calls having a child a mistake. To her, children are miracles and they are never a mistake.
  • Salem gets very angry if someone compares her to Ozpin. When Cinder does it, Salem threatens to kill her if she does it again.
• The Bet: Qrow and Bazett have a match where if Qrow wins, Bazett will have to wear a maid outfit with a miniskirt for the rest of the school term, and if Bazett wins, Qrow will have to give up drinking and smoking for the rest of the school term. Bazett wins.
• Blessed with Suck: Chloe attains the Fall Maiden powers upon Cinder's temporary death.. However, due to being young her body ends up feeling pain as she is unaccustomed to the grand power of a Maiden.
• Bloody Murder: Yu Miaoyi can control her blood and make it become poisonous at will.
• Body-Count Competition:
  • Ruby and Gray get into one over a group of Beowolves. They end up tied at 20.
  • Ruby and Charlemagne get into one over a group of Beowolves. Even with Lobo helping her, Charlemagne wins 34 to 6.
• Broken Pedestal:
  • Brandamante started out as a fan of Mordred, but hates her after Mordred defends Ruby, whom she hates.
  • Musashi is shocked when one of her idols, Yagyuu Munenori, turns out to be the leader of the White Fang Killers.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Salem told Cinder that they'll need people like Qrow to stop whoever has been murdering people.
• Caretaker Reversal: Musashi regularly visited Adam in prison and helped him take care of himself when he was too weak to do so. Later, she gets broken arms and he takes care of her.
• Carnival of Killers: After a bounty is put on Yang, bounty hunters start going after her group. So far, they have been attacked by Billy the Kid and Beowulf.
• Cassandra Truth:
  • After Weiss' group helps Menagerie, Ghira Belladonna agrees to send Sienna Khan a message asking the White Fang to work together with them to take the White Fang Killers down. Sienna is skeptical and thinks the White Fang Killers work for Atlas.
  • Quetzalcoatl won't believe Raven when she says she is not the Fall Maiden.
• Character Development: While he doesn't apologize for any of his crimes, Adam's year in prison has made him more humble.
• Chess Motifs: Salem says Ozpin is a King because he is so weak that he needs others to do his dirty work for him, yet his side will fall if he falls. She says she is a Queen because she is the most powerful and her side will win in the end, even if she has to fall in a gambit to do it.
• Clingy Jealous Girl:
  • Oryou gets really angry when she notices Neo taking a liking to Sakamoto Ryouma. During their exhibition match, she tries to eat Neo.
  • While Downplayed, Scathach isn't amused when Qrow is kissed by Kiara, and glares at him for doing so.
• Commonality Connection: Weiss and Nobunaga have a bonding moment when they learn they are both looked down upon by their families, and that they both have bratty Non-Action Guy little brothers.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: During an exhibition match, as soon as it begins, Anastasia freezes Bradamante in ice and throws her out of bounds before she can do anything.
• Curse Cut Short: When Bazett tells Qrow that Miyu Edelfelt learned how to use Glyphs through training instead of being related to the Schnee family, he says, "That sounds like a load of sh-" but stops himself when he remembers he is in the presence of children.
• Dating Catwoman: Archer/Shirou Emiya has a long distance relationship with Cinder Fall, even though he knows she is a villain.
• Death by Despair: A few months ago, this almost happened to Adam when Musashi told him that Blake has a new boyfriend. He became unresponsive and stopped eating. Musashi eventually convinced him to live on.
• Death Seeker: Scathach says she is immortal and hopes one day, she'll find an opponent powerful enough to kill her.
• Delirious Misidentification:
  • When she gets a concussion, Blake briefly mistakes Melanie and Miltia Malachite for Ruby and Weiss due to their similar color schemes.
  • When Weiss gets drunk, she mistakes Nobunaga for Ruby.
• De-power: Yu Miaoyi eventually steals Cinder's Semblance and spells.
• Despair Event Horizon: Once Ozpin's head is revived, he says he's given up hope after witnessing the Headless Hunter's atrocities, including murdering Oscar, and begs to die. He gets his wish.
• Distressed Dude: Achilles gets captured by the White Fang after they mistake him for whoever has been going around killing people. After he manages to prove he's innocent, they keep him locked up until they can decide what to do with him.
• Does Not Like Spam: As Adam is a bull Faunus, he does not like beef.
• Dramatic Ammo Depletion: Yang runs out of bullets during her fight with Beowulf.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him:
  • Cinder reveals that Tyrian Callows, Hazel Rainart, and Arthur Watts have been murdered by an unknown assailant who chopped off their heads.
  • Blake sees a news report showing that a White Fang base was attacked and everybody killed. To her horror, she sees her old friend Ilia Amitola's corpse in the background.
  • Blake later finds Junior murdered.
  • Weiss' group finds the White Fang Lieutenant with the chainsaw murdered.
• Drowning My Sorrows:
  • Qrow reveals that James Ironwood, Nikola Tesla, and Thomas Edison, who had all desired Glynda Goodwitch, started drinking after Glynda started dating Vlad.
  • Weiss starts drinking after Winter is killed.
• Enemy Mine:
  • Cinder warns Qrow to be careful about whoever has been going around killing people. Qrow however refuses an alliance because he's still angry about her attacking Amber and ultimately causing her death.
  • Winter's group is working with the White Fang to deal with whoever has been going around killing people, then Apocrypha is working on a deal to integrate the White Fang into its army.
  • Blake and Roman Torchwick are forced to work together when they are both attacked by the Headless Hunter.
• Entertainingly Wrong: Ilia's autopsy reveals that she was killed with both a sword and a rifle, causing Blake to assume Adam did it, even though he was in prison at the time. Blake calls the prison and learns that he was recently released, which only fuels her conclusion. In reality, he was released in order to help Winter's group deal with the killer.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Roman Torchwick is an unrepentant criminal, but he is completely horrified by both the White Fang Killer and the Headless Hunter.
• Even the Girls Want Her: Yang comments on how hot Raikou is.
• Eye Scream:
  • Nikushimi stabs Nightingale in the right eye, blinding it. Her eye later heals.
  • Okada Izou slashes Adam across the eyes. Nightingale heals them.
  • Sienna Khan hurls a dagger into Mori Nagayoshi's eye.
• Failure-to-Save Murder: Bradamante blames Ruby for Astolfo's death. Although Charlemagne seemed more level headed about it, he eventually reveals that he feels the same way and calls Ruby a failure for not being able to save him.
• Fallen Hero: Each of the White Fang Killers used to be a renowned hero.
• Feed It with Fire: Beowulf has the same Semblance as Yang, the ability to get stronger from taking damage.
• The Fog of Ages: Salem says there was once a time when humanity was perfectly at peace, but she cannot remember what spoiled it.
• For Want Of A Nail:
  • Because of all the changes that happened in Fates Collide, the Breach did not happen and the Vytal Festival happened without any problems.
  • Because of Mercury, Emerald, Neo, and Roman defecting and then the murders of Tyrian, Hazel, and Arthur, right now, Salem's only operatives are Cinder and Chloe von Einzbern, but Salem found new potential allies in Apocrypha like Yu Miaoyi and Tamamo Vitch.
  • Because Qrow's Class Card (he's a Saber) lists his abilities, Ruby finds out about his ability to shape shift into a bird a lot earlier than canon.
  • Blake never had that discussion with Yang about slowing down and letting people help her that she got in the episode "Burning the Candle", so she is still self destructively obsessed with doing things on her own.
• Fun with Acronyms:
  • Team RAMA: Ruby Rose, Anastasia Nikolaenva, Medusa, Atalanta.
  • Team MGNP (means Magenta in the pantone color system): Mordred, Gray, Neopolitan, Penny Polendina.
  • Team CBOS (Cherry Blossom): Charlemagne, Bradamante, Oryou, Sakamoto Ryouma.
  • Clockwork Academy's other team Prisma Zwei doesn't follow this rule. It has Illyasviel von Einzbern, Miyu Edelfelt, Abigail Williams, and Lavinia Whateley.
  • The White Fang's Elite Team SSCA (Scarlet or Scar): Siena Khan, Sheba, Caenis, Atalante/Atalanta Alter.

Tropes: G to M

• Give Me a Sword:
  • Medusa loans Ruby her scythe Harpe.
  • When Adam gets disarmed, Weiss manages to toss his sword Wilt back to him.
  • When Sienna Khan's arrows cannot penetrate Mori Nagayoshi's armor, Sigurd loans her some of his daggers, which can penetrate.
• A Glass in the Hand:
  • When Achilles pisses off Sienna Khan by saying the White Fang's path of violence achieves nothing except causing pain and creating monsters like the White Fang Killer, she crushes the armrest on her throne.
  • When Qrow unmasks Hinako Akuta as the villain Yu Miaoyi, she crushes her glasses. This cuts up her hand, allowing her to use her Bloody Murder powers.
• Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: Melanie and Miltia are more amoral than evil, but Blake is shocked when they say unlike her, they do not feel an urge to help people.
• Handshake Refusal: Scathach refuses to shake Qrow's hand. At first, he assumes she's being rude, but he looks down and sees that his hand is sweaty, cursing his luck.
• Headless Horseman: One of the antagonists is the Headless Hunter.
• Heroic BSoD:
  • Mordred goes into one when she sees her deceased mother Arturia in Ruby's Reality Marble.
  • Charlemagne goes into one when he sees Astolfo in Ruby's Reality Marble.
• History Repeats: In Clockwork Academy, Ruby's new Team RAMA mirrors Team RWBY, which she notices. Anastasia is an upper class girl and ice queen, both figuratively and literally, who gets off on the wrong foot with Ruby like Weiss. Atalanta is a Cat Girl like Blake. Medusa is a super strong beauty like Yang.
• I Am a Humanitarian: Tamamo Vitch is fond of eating people.
• I Can't Feel My Legs!: When Quetzalcoatl breaks Raven's back, she says that she can't feel or move her legs. She ends up wheelchair bound.
• I Have This Friend: Ruby tries to get dating advice from her team by saying her friend "Rudy" has a crush on someone. She gets embarrassed when they say they know she's talking about herself and that she has a crush on Charlemagne.
• I Have Your Wife: Cinder reveals that she got Neo to obey her by threatening Roman Torchwick.
• "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Yang, Weiss, and Achilles try to reach Blake within Nikushimi. Surpisingly, Adam is the one who reaches her.
• Immortal Breaker: Though unsure it it is true, Salem speculates that if all four of the Maidens were to attack her at once, they would be able to bypass her immortality and kill her.
• I'm Not a Hero, I'm...: Sakamoto says he doesn't think of himself as a hero, just a guy who doesn't like to see people get killed. When Ruby, who had been in a Heroic BSoD after Charlemagne said she is not a hero, talks to him, she is able to cheer up when she realizes she shouldn't care about being called a hero as long as she does the right thing.
• Intimidating Revenue Service: Musashi is forced to join the military and help Weiss and Winter with their mission to avoid prison after she is guilty of tax evasion, entering Vale illegally, and property damage.
• Is That Cute Kid Yours?: Tamamo Vitch mistakes Chloe for Cinder's daughter, then comments on how Chloe is already so big when Cinder looks so young to taunt her about her real age before being corrected.
• Is This a Joke?: Weiss asks this when Winter tells her that they will be making an alliance with the White Fang.
• Irony: Cinder once took and stole the Fall Maiden's power from Amber, ending her life. Upon being betrayed she herself ends up losing it alongside her Semblance and even temporarily dying.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: When Musashi told Adam that Blake is dating Achilles, he says he's glad she's happy, though it is clear he's really upset about it.
• I Work Alone: Much to Illya's sorrow, Miyu refuses to work together with her, and even refuses Qrow's advice on improving her fighting style, saying she is strong enough to win on her own.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Brandamante is a fan of the old Team Round Table (Arthur, Lancelot, Gawain, and Merlin), so she is happy that Merlin is the headmaster of Clockwork Academy. She is excited to meet Mordred, Arthur's child, until the Broken Pedestal moment.
• Kung-Fu Sonic Boom:
  • Achilles' chariot crashing against Caenis' shield blows some of the buildings away.
  • Penny's fists crashing against Oryou's fists and Bradamante's shield makes explosions.
  • Quetzalcoatl's battle with Yang and Raven creates several of these.
• The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort: Because Yang has Avalon which heals her injuries, combined with her Semblance, she's started to become arrogant and just stand there tanking damage. Kairi scolds her and points out those abilities aren't foolproof and she almost got killed by Beowulf.
• Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: When Yang runs out of bullets, Beowulf puts his weapons away and says they'll settle this with fists.
• Let's You and Him Fight: The White Fang attacks Achilles after mistaking him for the White Fang Killer.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Qrow had been away from the family for a year going on missions. Although Taiyang, Ruby, and Yang kept in touch with him, since he wasn't around to witness them personally, he doesn't really understand Ruby and Yang's adventures in Chaldea Academy nor their new abilities like Ruby's Reality Marble.
• Losing Your Head: Kiritsugu and Roman find Ozpin's severed head. Even though the head is starting to decay, they find that he is breathing and there is life in his eyes. They attempt to take him to Kairi so he can use his necromancer powers to awaken the head.
• Love at First Sight: Ruby is smitten with Charlemagne as soon as she sees him.
• Mama Bear: Cinder is very protective of Chloe.
• Mêlée à Trois: Cinder, Raven, and Raikou get into a three way battle, with Cinder and Raven both wanting to claim the Spring Maiden's power.
• Missed Him by That Much: At one point, Yang and Cinder bump into each other and apologize before going their separate ways. Neither of them recognized the other because they were both in disguise.
• Money Is Not Power: The bounty hunter Quetzalcoatl attacks Raven and tries to kill her. When Yang and Gilgamesh find them, they point out the bounty called for her to be taken alive, so they thank her for her help and try to pay her the reward. She scoffs and says she does not care about money; the only reason she is a bounty hunter is so she can fight the strongest opponents, then continues attacking Raven.
• Mugged for Disguise: A hit is put on Yang and bounty hunters start going after her. Yang defeats one of them, Billy the Kid, and takes his hat, scarf, and jacket as a disguise.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Gilgamesh saves Yang from losing an arm and comments it is not easy to recover from that kind of injury, referencing how in canon, Yang lost her arm and spent months moping. Yang later loses her arm from fighting Yagyuu Munenori, and it is framed the same way as when Adam cut it off in canon. However, she recovers and simply reattaches it thanks to Avalon.
  • Medusa says she and her sisters Euryale and Stheno used to be a singing group called the Gorgons, then Medusa was kicked out for being too tall.
  • When Beowulf powers up, it makes him resemble his Ascension stages.
  • Nobunaga acquires a gatling gun like her Avenger counterpart uses, while Musashi gives Weiss the gunblades her Berserker counterpart uses.
  • Gilgamesh says he's thinking of one day creating his own kingdom called Uruk.
  • Illya and Miyu can copy other people's powers. The process looks like the Install from Prisma Illya.
  • Zwei tackles Merlin the way Fou does.

Tropes: N to S

• Neck Snap: Quetzalcoatl snaps Yang's neck. This briefly kills her, but Arturia's spirit supercharges Avalon so it can fix her.
• Never Gets Drunk: The Healing Factor Avalon gives Yang prevents her from getting drunk, annoying her.
• No Longer with Us: Medusa tells her team that she has two sisters named Euryale and Stheno and, "They aren't with us anymore." Her team assumes they are dead until Medusa clarifies that they retired from fighting and became idols.
• Noodle Incident:
  • Medusa remembers a time she beat up some punks who tried to grope her.
  • Atalanta once lost a race because of some apples. Before she dated Achilles, she dated Jason, but then he pissed her off.
• No Ontological Inertia: Subverted. Qrow assumes that if Salem is killed, the Grimm will disappear. She says if she were to somehow die, all that would do is stop the Grimm from reproducing. The Grimm would still be around as long as negative emotions exist.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Kiritsugu Emiya says he was a killing machine until the day he saved an orphan named Shirou, which gave his life meaning. Roman Torchwick says he understands, as he was a petty criminal who one day saved an orphan named Neopolitan.
• Off with His Head!: The Headless Hunter kills anyone he encounters by chopping off their heads. He's done it to Hazel Rainart, Arthur Watts, Tyrian Callows, and Junior and his men.
• One-Sided Arm-Wrestling: Penny, who has Rank EX Strength, easily beats Mordred in arm wrestling.
• One-Steve Limit:
  • There's Ilia Amitola, Blake's deceased friend, and Illya von Einzbern.
  • Illya's wand, which gained an A.I. and can talk, is also named Ruby, which causes Ruby Rose some confusion when they meet.
• The Password Is Always "Swordfish": Blake quickly figures out the password for Ilia's scroll is "Belladonna", Blake's last name.
• Pet the Dog: Roman shields Blake's eyes when they witness the Headless Hunter kill someone.
• Please Spare Him, My Liege!: When Salem decides Archer doesn't fit in her new world and she'll have to kill him, Cinder begs her not to, as she is in love with him.
• Poisoned Weapons: Yu Miaoyi coats her swords with her own poisonous blood.
• Portal Cut: This almost happens to Yang when she tries to grab Raven through her portal. Gilgamesh yanks Yang back right before the portal closes and says if he hadn't done that, she would have lost her arm. Raven later tries to kill Raikou with this method, but she is able to avoid it.
• Power Copying:
  • Illya and Miyu's wands can scan people to let them copy their abilities.
  • Salem's Semblance lets her copy her opponent's abilities at double the power.
• The Power of Hate: Nikushimi's hatred was so strong that even after getting decapitated and then a Boarbatusk eating her corpse, she was able to possess it, then reform her body into Atalanta Alter/Atalante. Later, when she is shot in the head, her hatred allows her to survive by possessing Blake, causing Nikushimi to be reborn.
• Power Parasite: Yu Miaoyi and Tamamo Vitch can use magic circles to drains the powers of others into themselves.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Roman pays Miltia and Melanie Malachite to help Blake with her mission of finding the White Fang Killer, reasoning that if Blake gets herself killed, Ruby and her friends will somehow blame him and seek revenge.
• Pretender Diss: Charlemagne declares that Ruby and all other Huntsmen are not heroes, claiming that Huntsmen are selfish and only care about killing the Grimm, while real heroes like him care about protecting people. Ruby protests that she is also dedicated to protecting people, but he says she is a failure because she couldn't save Astolfo.
• Put on a Bus:
  • Team JNPR will not be featured. Jaune and Jeanne are going to a family get together, Ren and Kiyohime want some private time in a cabin in the woods, Pyrrha and Karna are traveling the world as a celebrity couple, and Nora is traveling the world defending villages from the Grimm.
  • Ruby sent Lobo to live with her father and Zwei. Later, in "Beast Flaring Fangs", her father sends Lobo and Zwei back to Ruby.
  • Glynda Goodwitch is on a vacation with her boyfriend Vlad.
  • Neo's boyfriend Henry Jekyll/Edward Hyde was supposed to come with her to Clockwork Academy, but got sick.
• Red Baron:
  • Anastasia is called the "Grand Duchess of Apocrypha".
  • Reines El-Melloi Archisorte is called the "Princess of El-Melloi".
  • Yu Miaoyi is called the "Consort Beauty".
  • Charlemagne is called the "Benevolent King".
  • Sakamoto Ryouma is called the "Hero of Restoration".
  • Sigurd is called the "King of Warriors".
  • Caenis is called the "White Fang Champion".
  • Christopher Columbus is called the "Rider of Resistance".
  • Beowulf is called the "King of Savagery".
  • Quetzalcoatl is called "The Feathered Serpent", "The Wind of Mesoamerica", and "The Great Firebird of the Sun".
  • Okada Izou is called the "Faunus Slayer".
  • Hijikata Toshizou is called the "Grimm of the Battlefield".
  • Yagyuu Munenori is called the "Saber Empireo".
• Redemption Rejection: Raikou tells Raven it is not too late to stop her quest for power and make amends with her daughter Yang. Raven refuses.
• Relationship Upgrade: Yang reveals that Cleopatra eventually started dating the fat man she met back in Fates Collide.
• The Reveal:
  • Weiss' group learns that three White Fang bases were destroyed simultaneously, meaning there is more than one killer. Through examining one of the crime scenes, Reines deduces that one of them is Christopher Columbus, a former member of Chaldea Academy who was expelled for his extreme racism against the Faunus.
  • Raven Branwen is planning to murder the Spring Maiden to take her powers. Kintoki reveals to his group that the Spring Maiden is his mother, Minamoto no Raikou.
  • The Summer Maiden is Brynhildr.
  • The Woman in Black is Sessyoin Kiara.
  • Three more White Fang Killers are Hijikata Toshizou, Mori Nagayoshi, and Okada Izou. Their leader is Yagyuu Munenori.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Penny becomes hellbent on killing Neo when she finds out Neo had killed her friend BB. She is only stopped when Ruby's Reality Marble lets her see BB again and Archer explains the circumstances of why Neo had to kill her.
• Robo Speak: Sigurd, who is human, talks like a robot at times. His wife Brynhildr explains that he's a nerd and doing it because it is fun.
• Seen It All:
  • Qrow is surprised that Ruby isn't shocked to learn about his ability to turn into a bird. She says she's seen weirder stuff in Chaldea.
  • Winter is shocked when she sees Brynhildr's Noble Phantasm, while Weiss, Nobunaga, and Reines don't bat an eye as they have seen many displays of power.
• Senseless Sacrifice: Winter blows herself up to take down Megalos. Later, the others learn Megalos has Resurrective Immortality, so she pretty much did that for nothing.
• Slashed Throat: Penny slits Neo's throat with a sword. Irisviel manages to heal her, but her throat doesn't heal all the way, rendering her truly mute.
• Shout-Out:
  • The scene where Yang angrily rants that she doesn't need her mother before tearfully asking why her mother doesn't love her is modeled on the "How come he don't want me?" rant from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
  • Qrow experiencing heart pain whenever he tries to tell anyone the truth about Abigail Williams is modeled on the "Return By Death" curse from Re:Zero.
  • Adam uses one of his moves from the video games, but it is based on and named after Vergil's Judgement Cut from Devil May Cry.
• Sins of Our Fathers: When Weiss attempts to shop at a weapon store, the owner Burg says that because of her father's crimes against his people, once her business is done, she is banned from the store.
• Street Urchin: Neo was one of these until Roman took her in.
• Stress Vomit: Weiss vomits after her group finds a White Fang base with a lot of massacred corpses. Later, Yang has the same reaction.
• Supernormal Bindings: The White Fang holds Achilles with chains with Runes on them that make him unable to break them. Eventually, he manages to break them by pushing past his limits.

Tropes: T to Z

• Take Up My Sword:
  • To honor Medb's Heroic Sacrifice, Neo changed her Class to Saber and wields Medb's weapon Caladbolg.
  • After Astolfo's Heroic Sacrifice, Charlemagne started wielding his weapon the Trap of Argalia.
• Talking Weapon: So far, we have Illya's wand Ruby, Miyu's wand Sapphire, and Gray's shape shifting weapon Add. Ruby Rose is naturally excited to learn they exist.
• Targeted to Hurt the Hero: Raven returns home to her tribe to find Quetzalcoatl killed everyone, including her friend Vernal, in order to goad her into a fight.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork:
  • Weiss is very unhappy to learn Oda Nobunaga and Adam will be on her and Winter's team. Of course, Adam doesn't like it either. Nobunaga is confused why Weiss is so angry, while Winter tells Weiss to suck it up. Another member of their team is Reines El-Melloi Archisorte, who acts like a bitch to everyone.
  • Cinder and Chloe are very unhappy to have to work with Yu Miaoyi and Tamamo Vitch, who are jerks.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Weiss has never killed another human or Faunus, only the Grimm. When told she may have to kill the White Fang Killer's men, she balks and says there has to be another way.
• Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Adam picks up Weiss' sword and throws it into Columbus to kill him. However, we then get the downside of hurling a weapon when Columbus falls off his ship and is eaten by a Grimm Kraken, destroying the sword.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Adam confides to Musashi that his favorite food is roasted tomatoes.
• Trading Bars for Stripes: Winter Schnee pulls Adam Taurus out of jail and recruits him into the military to help her and Weiss with their mission.
• Tragic Keepsake: Qrow's flask was a gift from Summer Rose.
• Troubled Fetal Position: After Charlemagne blames Ruby for Astolfo's death, accuses her of being selfish, then says she is not a hero, Anastasia finds Ruby in fetal position crying.
• Underestimating Badassery: When Qrow and Bazett have a sparring match, even though Ruby and Yang had told him how powerful she is, he greatly underestimates her because he assumes their assessment was based on their lack of experience. In Qrow's words, he's fought powerful people all over the world, so Bazett can't be that strong. He's quickly proven wrong.
• Video Call Fail: Yang's party contacts Minamoto no Raikou, except her camera is focused on her breasts. An embarrassed Kintoki tells her to angle the camera up.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Salem says she and her forces will keep killing people until all that are left are those without negative emotions. Then, after rebuilding the world and making sure the survivors will remain pure, she and the Grimm will fade away and the world will finally be at peace. Despite Qrow's disbelief, she seems to be sincere, since she has observed Ruby Rose and decided she is pure enough to live in the new world.
• Weredragon: Oryou is a Grimm Dragon that Sakamoto Ryouma tamed as his mount. She can turn back and forth from her true form and the form of a woman.
• Wham Episode:
  • "Misfortune": Abigail Williams reveals to Qrow that she is a Willing Channeler for Salem and Salem is using her to spy on Clockwork Academy. Salem reveals that Ozpin is missing and incapacitated, but not dead, possibly captured by the third party, which is lead by someone called the Woman in Black. Salem's Reality Marble renders Dust, Aura, and Semblances ineffective, and whenever anybody is killed in there, a being formed from the victim's nightmares is created, which is how she gets ideas for her Grimm. Since she killed Guinevere in there, her Reality Marble has an Arturia Alter.
  • "Origin of Hate": The White Fang has been joined by Atalanta Alter, or Atalante, who was created from Nikushimi and has her and Blake's memories as well as Atalanta's.
  • "Lasting Bonds": Minamoto no Raikou is revealed to be the Spring Maiden.
  • "It": Brynhildr is revealed to be the Summer Maiden. Christopher Columbus had Megalos, a heavily mutated Heracles, in one of his ships and he goes berserk and attacks everyone when unleashed. Winter sacrifices herself to defeat him.
  • "Losing Yourself": Penny finds out about Neo murdering BB back in the first story. Enraged, she tries to kill Neo.
  • "Spring Forward": Raven and Cinder attack Raikou at the same time, both seeking the Spring Maiden's powers. With Yu Miaoyi, Tamamo Vitch, and Chloe's help, Raikou is defeated. Miaoyi and Vitch reveal they are working for the Woman in Black and betray Cinder and Chloe. They stab Chloe, then start draining Cinder and Raikou of their powers. Raven escapes with Cinder and delivers her to Clockwork Academy.
  • "Fall Back": Tamamo Vitch is the new Spring Maiden. Yu Miaoyi has stolen Cinder's Semblance and spells, but not the Fall Maiden's power. Cinder temporarily dies of her injuries before Irisviel revives her, but it is enough for the Fall Maiden's power to pass to Chloe, who survived.
  • "Harsh Truths": Kiritsugu and Roman discover Ozpin's severed head, which is still alive, but unconscious. They deduce his body has become the Headless Hunter. As they leave with the head, King Hassan awakens from slumber from within a cave.
  • "Broken Wings": Quetzalcoatl breaks Raven's back, crippling her. To defend her mother, Yang manages to summon Avalon and combine it with her own powers to create a new Noble Phantasm, Celicavalon, and defeats Quetzalcoatl with it.
  • "Recovery": Now that Raven is crippled, she is finally convinced to return home to her husband Taiyang.
  • "Collective Consciousness": Yu Miaoyi kills Triammu and Brynhildr. The Summer Maiden power passes to Reines.
  • "Whiteout": Yang and Gilgamesh have Raven make a portal to Weiss. They arrive in time to save Weiss, Nobu, and Musashi from Megalos. Megalos finally dies for good.
  • "Killers": Hijikata Hoshizou mortally wounds Blake and Atalante, but Atalante possesses Blake's body, causing Nikushimi to be reborn.
  • "Heads Will Roll": Kairi revives Ozpin's head. He confirms that the Woman in Black decapitated him and turned his body into the Headless Hunter. The Headless Hunter has killed everyone Ozpin could have potentially reincarnated into, including Oscar, meaning Ozpin is Out of Continues. Ozpin has given up hope and begs to die. The Headless Hunter attacks them, but King Hassan shows up, devours Ozpin's head, and sets the Headless Hunter on fire, forcing it to escape. King Hassan tells Kairi's group that he is on their side.
  • "The Land of Shadows": Scathach battles Salem and Arturia Alter in Salem's Reality Marble. She eventually tries to dispose of them with Gate of Skye, only for Cu Alter, last seen dragged into the Gate in Fates Collide, to emerge and impale Scathach before hurling her into the Gate. He then breaks through into the real world.
  • "Tearing Apart": The Headless Hunter manages to revive Ivan the Terrible, who is powerful enough to blast the Moon. Ivan knocks out Weiss, Yang, and Blake, but Reines surrenders to them as the Summer Maiden to spare their lives.
  • "Heroic Sacrifice": Cu Alter and Yu Miaoyi attack Clockwork Academy at the same time, with Yu learning Miyu is the Winter Maiden. Yu eventually blows up the entire school. Cu Alter impales Ruby and hurls her off a cliff, though she manages to pull him off as well.
• What a Drag: Billy the Kid lassos Yang by the neck and uses his horse to drag her along the ground until she manages to grip the ground and pull him off his horse.
• What Beautiful Eyes!: When Tamamo Vitch knocks off Adam's mask, she looks into his good eye and calls it beautiful.
• What Does She See in Him?: Inverted when Junior asks Gilgamesh what he sees in Yang. He answers that life is never dull when she's around.
• When She Smiles: Gray's teammates tend to become very happy whenever she gives a rare smile.
• When You Snatch the Pebble: When Ruby wants to see Qrow's Class Card, he challenges her to take it from him. Much to his surprise, she easily snatches it out of his hand.
• Wrecked Weapon:
  • Billy the Kid shoots Yang's left Ember Celica gauntlet and destroys it. When he is defeated, she takes his gun, Thunderer. Later, Quetzalcoatl shatters Thunderer.
  • Adam and Weiss destroy several of Columbus' weapons. Columbus hits Adam's rifle Blush hard enough to crack it and it explodes when it is fired. Weiss' sword Myrtenaster is eaten by a Grimm Kraken.
  • Raikou breaks several of Cinder and Raven's weapons and Raven breaks Chloe's bow, but it isn't much of a hindrance because they can all easily recreate them.
  • Quetzalcoatl generates heat to make all of Raven's weapons explode. Since Raven's sheath is what allows her to recreate her sword, she is permanently disarmed for the moment.
• You Are a Credit to Your Race: Adam says he still hates all humans, except for Musashi. Later, he adds the members of Winter's team for all they have done to help the Faunus.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: When Weiss says she was mediocre compared to Winter, Nobunaga reminds her of all she accomplished last year.
• You Could Have Used Your Powers for Good!: Blake tells Melanie and Miltia that they could do a lot of good if they became Huntresses instead of hired goons. They refuse, saying they don't feel like helping people and they don't want media attention.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!:
  • Weiss and Nobunaga are shocked to learn Adam and Musashi have become friends, even though Adam took her eye.
  • Ruby the Wand says this when Ruby Rose doesn't know what A.I. means.
• You Remind Me of X:
  • Qrow calls Bazett "Glynda 2" and later "Winter 2". When he meets Miyu, he assumes she is related to the Schnee family because she uses Glyphs.
  • Neo takes a liking to Sakamoto Ryouma, presumably because he dresses similarly to Roman Torchwick.
• You Should Have Died Instead: Bradamante angrily says Ruby should have died in the invasion instead of Astolfo.