Fanfic / Vox Faunus

"Welcome to Mantle. Home to operations of the Schnee Dust Company, known for doing nearly anything that turns a profit, and home as well to its many mine workers. Struggling under backbreaking conditions and predatory debt lending, the faunus could use all the help they can get... and once upon a time, there was a group who lifted them all up together, led by the enigmatic Vox Faunus.

But Vox Faunus is gone. And without their shared voice, the repression has been brutal. Eudico remains, once the face beneath the mask, but in this new world since the Fall of Beacon, there's not much more she can do. Not unless things start changing for the better, for once. Not unless the right spark lands to ignite a new passion in her weary bones.

Things are certainly changing, in some way or another. Maybe this will be the day."

— Summary for Vox Faunus, Archive of Our Own.

Vox Faunus and the other stories in its series are fanfiction stories available on Archive of Our Own by Flamesong and HopeStoryteller. The series is a crossover between RWBY and Warframe where various Warframe characters can be found natively in the world of Remnant, and it follows RWBY canon strictly until Volume 5, then loosely until the beginning of Volume 7. Two of the three fics are complete at this time, however according to the authors there are more fics planned in the series than just the two.

• Burnt Sienna can be found here.
• Vox Faunus can be found here.
• A Tale of Two Queens can be found here.
• The full series, Under a Broken Moon, can be found here.

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Warning: Each folder contains unmarked spoilers for the book in question, with the exception of the General folder. Please read at your own risk.

General Tropes

General Tropes for the series:

• Action Girl: Almost every female character in the fic.
• Badass Cape: Ruby. As in canon, it keeps getting torn/ripped/otherwise mangled. Better it than her!
• Back from the Dead: Sienna, on multiple occasions.
  • Unfortunately, Adam.
  • Six of the seven Zuud sisters, if not entirely.
  • Clover.
• Cosmic Chess Game: Oz and Salem, as in RWBY canon, and subverted in that neither of them are actually gods.
• Expy: Oscura Weaver, a SDC enforcer who shows up as a whistleblower on said company releasing the Grimm and, once she's gotten once she's wanted, melts away into the shadows. Oscuro is the Spanish word for darkness, which is found in the shadows.
  • Xuri, Eve, and Jade are OCs first seen in Flamesong's RWBY fic Threading the Needle of Destiny.
  • Little Duck briefly cites a kid with blonde hair and red-orange cat ears as an example of another faunus with a trait colored differently from human hair. This description bears a striking resemblance to the Catradora kid posted by showrunner Noelle Stevenson on their Twitter account.
  • Violet Belle and her lover Angel, co-owners of Opalescent Boutique in Vacuo.
• La Résistance: The titular Vox Faunus, the White Fang, and the Happy Huntresses. For a time, all three groups do work together toward the same goal, and they remain cordial even after said goal has been achieved.
• Magical Girl: The Maidens.
• They Killed Kenny Again: As of the last time this example was updated, Sienna has died and come back four(?) times onscreen. Five if you count the time Blake remembers.

Burnt Sienna

Burnt Sienna contains examples of:

• Death Is Cheap: Sienna uses her semblance to avoid being detected on her way to Atlas. It is implied she has done this before.
• First Law of Resurrection: The authors' reasoning behind this entire fic.
• Only Mostly Dead: Sienna's canon semblance, Grudge, is replaced with one that allows her to set a timer and, at the end of that timer, any damage to her body, death included, reverts.
• Revenge: Sienna's quest to murder Adam. Unfortunately, she is thrown into a tree while Blake and Yang kill him as in canon. Also unfortunately, that was Ballas they stabbed, and Adam turns up again in Vox. Hilariously, Sienna misses Adam's real death too.
  • Because she's busy making out with Willow. Fortunately, the Happy Huntresses had it under control.
• Spoiler Title: To an extent. The fact that the fic has Sienna's name in the title makes it clear that she is involved, but it's really the summary showing her story isn't exactly canonical. Additionally, it is linked in the author's notes of the chapter she turns up in (in Vox Faunus) for a reason.

Vox Faunus

Vox Faunus contains examples of:

• A Deadly Affair: Willow killed Jacques after some... encouragement from Sienna.
• Cast Full of Gay: The Happy Huntresses are poly, Team RWBY seems to be on their way there, and Ticker and Eudico are somehow not dating despite having made out in the first chapter.
  • Shortly before and continuing after the death of Jacques, Willow and Sienna.
• Evil, Inc.: The Schnee Dust Company. Heavily implied to be subverted once Jacques is dead.
• Fake-Out Make-Out: Weiss and Yang do this multiple times in order to anger Weiss's father. It is heavily implied they are developing feelings for real.
  • Eudico and Ticker. Hilariously, their relationship then resets into slow burn.
• Faking the Dead: The Business implies this early on, but is later revealed to be the canon, current headmaster of Shade Academy... except he isn't. He was replaced and presumably killed by an agent of Salem: Teshin.
• Foreshadowing: So much.
  • From nearly the first chapter of the fic, it is implied that things went a bit differently somewhere. After all, how else would Yang even know who Sienna was, never mind that she'd died? This comes full circle when it is revealed that Sienna is not dead at all. A link to Burnt Sienna is included in the end notes of the chapter she first appears in.
  • Clover mentions that Winter, Vine, and Elm were teammates in their academy days, making up Team SKVE (Shockwave.) Their fourth member, however, was expelled. It is eventually revealed that Little Duck's real name is Catherine Kneipe, making her the K in SKVE. (Winter SCHNEE, Catherine KNEIPE, VINE Zeki, ELM Ederne.)
  • Shortly after Weiss and Yang were strongly encouraged to stay at the Schnee Manor (read: taken prisoner), Whitley began to ask his sister some interesting questions. Most notably, whether if girls could like girls, could boys like boys as well? Later, after meeting Oscar at his father's funeral, he describes him in the narration as cute.
  • Biz's semblance is revealed early on as being able to repair broken objects. It does this by turning back time for the object in question to a time, just a few seconds earlier, where it wasn't broken at all. Later, he is stated to be able to use it on people, as he is present in case Zuud messes up in giving Thursby new prosthetics. In the final chapters of the fic, when it looks like despite the best efforts of the characters, Clover will still die, Biz uses his semblance. It is unclear whether it works because Clover isn't entirely dead, Biz simply never tried with ideal conditions before, or Clover is just lucky even without his semblance.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Sienna does this to save Margulis from Adam's attack. Subverted because of her semblance.
• Romancing the Widow: Sienna with Willow Schnee after she murders her husband. Subverted in that it begins before Jacques is actually dead.
• The Alcoholic: Eudico, Qrow, and Willow. Subverted in Qrow giving up drinking as in canon, and Willow doing the same. Eudico is implied to be well on her way.
• Undercover as Lovers: Weiss and Yang, while taken captive by Jacques.

A Tale of Two Queens

A Tale of Two Queens contains examples of:

• Bluff the Impostor: With the real Headmaster Theodore Berzins now in Atlas, the heroes already know that he has been replaced by an impostor. The issue, then, is making sure that the impostor Teshin does not realize that they know he is the impostor.
• Family of Choice: Xuri and Eve. To a lesser extent, Jade, Nora Night, and Julie.
• Late to the Realization: Nora Valkyrie, again, this time with The Business being Theodore Berzins.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. There is a two Steve limit here, or more accurately a two Nora limit: Nora Valkyrie, the one familiar to fans of RWBY, and Nora Night, the one familiar to fans of Warframe.
  • Additionally averted in that there is a two Ozma limit: Ozbot (originally Ozma, most recently Ozpin) and Councilwoman Ozma.
• Sharing a Body: Thanks to the events of Vox Faunus, Jaune and Pyrrha.
• The Conqueror: The endgame of her Eminence. (As opposed to her Grace, Salem, whose stated endgame is to prevent the reunion of all four Relics.)

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