Maybe the tall, dark, sinister girls need friends the most.
Team JNPR can't stand seeing a transfer student sitting alone during lunchtime. So they tell Pyrrha to do something about it, there's nothing the invincible girl can't do after all.
Unfortunately that transfer student is Cinder Fall.
The Girl From Mistral
is a RWBY Point of Divergence fanfic created by El Cuervo in which Pyrrha and Cinder meet before Team JNPR's first field mission, only to discover the two have much more in common than they could imagine.
Tropes:
- Becoming the Mask: Cinder when posing as a student. She was originally just pretending, but eventually starts genuinely working with Team JNPR.
- Death of a Child: The majority of Glynda's students, more often than not, end up dying not long after graduating. This cycle, along with the events of her past, is what motivated Glynda to push for the procedure of students shadowing registered Huntsmen and Huntresses.
- Defecting for Love: By the time the city of Vale is under siege by a horde of Grimm, Cinder no longer as any allegiance to Salem, having preferred the company of Team JNPR and her girlfriend Pyrrha to the abuse she received from Salem.
- Forbidden Zone: Ruin Zones are areas such as Mountain Glenn, and avoiding letting the Emerald Forest turn into one is what prompts Team JNPR's first field mission.
- Healing Factor: Aura enables this, as long as the user is alive. They can not only heal wounds, but blood coagulates faster once they are wounded, they can sustain heavy blood loss, and they can even heal oxygen deprivation, allowing them to hold their breaths for much, much longer than the average human.
- Only a Flesh Wound: How Aura works in this continuity. Aura-enhanced individuals always have the effects of Aura, even if the protective barrier around them was broken. As such, even if grievously injured, most students and huntsmen can continue fighting.
- Point of Divergence: Cinder meets Pyrrha as she's scouting the Academy and becomes interested in swaying Pyrrha to her side, resulting in changing the focus of her plans and keeping Emerald and Mercury out of Beacon.
- Spider-Sense: Aura can do this when a person is particularly sensitive, detecting nearby danger the user isn't aware of. Used to the advantage of Team JNPR during the Emerald Forest mission in chapter 5 when they use it to correctly deduce that while the reports of bandits in the forest were false, there were still people in the tower, and they were very much in danger.
- Villainous Crush: As soon as she meets Pyrrha, Cinder has feelings for her, although she can't properly decipher them at first.
