"Yang, the Purple Eyed Warrior. Salem, the Headmistress of Beacon Academy. Ozpin, the King of the Grimm. The laws of what was have been reversed by a known command. The rules have changed, and some of those who were good, have now become evil. As it works in the reverse. Team RWBY has become Team YBWR. Their stories ultimately lead to the same end, but through different means"
— Fanfic summary
YBWR
(pronounced as "Y-ber". Yes, really) is a RWBY fanfic written by Genatools. As the summary would suggest, it is a Role Swap AU where everyone have their roles reversed with another character.
This fic is currently on a temporary hiatus.
This fanfic contain examples of the following tropes:
- Adaptational Badass: Jaune has his role reversed with Pyrrha, making him the champion prodigy who can fight really well.
- Adaptational Dumbass
- Ren took Nora's role as the Cloudcuckoolander.
- While he isn't really stupid in the straightest definition of the word, here Sun is less intelligent than his canon counterpart. This is because, having taken Penny's role as a robot with No Social Skills, he also took on Penny's canon personality.
- Adaptational Comic Relief: The Brother Gods' roles in the Omakes.
- Adaptational Heroism: Salem and her cabal, as well as Adam, are firmly on the heroes' side here.
- Adam is the most prominent example, as he is perfectly sane and not at all a terrorist here. Rather, he is a Specialist of the Mantilian military.
- Marcus Black, Mercury's father, is in canon a murderer and an abusive father (who is also a Posthumous Character). Here, he is a medical doctor working in Beacon's infirmary and is a Nice Guy overall.
- Zigzagged by the White Fang. On one hand, the White Fang Corporation is a MegaCorp rather than a terrorist organization. On the other hand, it is run by Ghira Belladonna who in this story is a Corrupt Corporate Executive and Abusive Parent on the same vein as canon Jacques.
- Adaptational Jerkass: While still a minor example as of this writing, here it is Summer, not Raven, who abandoned her teammates and family.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Marcus Black, here a kind and caring father who works in Beacon's infirmary.
- The same goes for Mercury who, having grown up with a caring father, never became a sociopathic killer.
- Adaptational Species Change
- Penny is a human rather than a robot.
- Sun is the robot here. A robot that resembles a monkey Faunus, nonetheless.
- Adaptational Villainy: Ozpin is, as the fic's summary has already given away, the King of the Grimm. This would presumably apply to Port, and is straight up confirmed to be the case for Oobleck.
- Emerald and Mercury's roles are taken by Harriet and Marrow here.
- Winter is not only a terrorist working for the Blue Revolt, she is even more unhinged than canon Adam whose role she took.
- Ghira Belladonna took Jacque Schnee's role as the Corrupt Corporate Executive and Abusive Parent.
- Adaptational Wimp: Pyrrha, having taken Jaune's role here, is the clueless idiot who doesn't know anything about being a Hunter.
- Age Lift: Ruby is the older sister, and Yang the younger sister.
- Butt-Monkey: Pyrrha, having taken Jaune's role as the clueless idiot here.
- Canon Character All Along: Neo's getaway pilot when she is fleeting Yang after the Dust store robbery is a man who does not resemble any canon male character, making it appear as though he is an Original Character. However, it is later revealed that this man, Glenn Warlock, is in fact a genderbent Glynda Goodwitch who took Cinder's role in this story.
- Cloudcuckoolander
- Here, it's Ren instead of Nora.
- Tyrian retains his insanity from canon, but as he's on the heroes' side here, his insanity is instead presented as an extreme case of this trope. His first scene has him showing up to Grimm Studies class in his pajamas while hamming it up!
- Combination Attack: Team YBWR pulls off a series of these when fighting Neo in her Spider-droid, just like how RWBY fought Roman in his Paladin in canon.
- Composite Character: More like Composite Location, but Atlas and Mantle are nonetheless merged into one in this story.
- Cool Car: Ruby drives a convertible that she calls Strawberry.
- Curbstomp Battle
- Ruby Vs Junior's club. It is as much of a curb stomp as when Yang trashed it in the Yellow Trailer.
- Winter's Goliath summon vs a Mantilian Spider-Droid. The Spider-Droid is reduced to scraps within twenty seconds.
- Death by Adaptation
- Whitley is already dead before the story even began, and is what led to Weiss and Winter becoming Blue Revolt insurgents.
- Taiyang died instead of Summer in this story.
- Caroline Cordovin is killed by Harriet and Marrow for the same reason Tukson was killed by Emerald and Mercury in canon.
- Drives Like Crazy: Implied with Ruby, as her Cool Car apparently doesn't have a brake.
- Does Not Like Spam: Salem doesn't like coffee, and is annoyed that Watts does.
- Establishing Character Moment
- Pyrrha's first scene has her suffering from airsickness like Jaune did in canon, establishing her as this story's Butt-Monkey.
- Chapter 8 establishes Watts and Tyrian's personalities by showing how they teach their classes. Watts being the stoic no-nonsense teacher, and Tyrian the Large Ham Cloudcuckoolander.
- Sun's first appearance has him speaking in a very Penny-like manner, indicating that he has taken Penny's role in this story, right down to being a robot.
- Weiss' flashback of the train heist with Winter in Chapter 16 establishes that this Winter is even more unhinged than canon Adam is.
- Even the Guys Want Him: While Jaune is very popular among fangirls, it is noted that he also has a number of fanboys as well.
- Fantastic Racism: Inverted. Not only are the Faunus not discriminated against here, they are in fact subject to Political Overcorrectness, with Mantle taking every opportunity to represent them, down to building a Faunus-shaped android in the form of Sun Wukong. This story replaces the racism with classism instead, with the Schnees and the Blue Revolt being former victims of it.
- Gender Bender: Cardin Winchester is now Cassandra Winchester. This applies to the rest of team CRDL as well.
- Neo's getaway pilot who ends up having to fight Cinder turns out to be a genderbent Glynda Goodwitch.
- Godzilla Threshold: A minor example, but when Ruby is about to lose Crescent Rose to Roman who has a Semblance that allows him to steal anything he wants without breaking a sweat, and with Ruby herself and the rest of team YBWR exhausted after fighting Neo, Ruby is forced to summon Raven, which is reserved only for emergencies, to save her and her teammates.
- Large Ham
- Neo, being able to talk in this story, loves to do this.
- Professor Tyrian Callows of Grimm Studies class. He took Professor Port's role here. Enough said.
- Winter as a terrorist who happens to be even more insane than canon Adam is no slouch in the pork-consuming department either.
- Named by the Adaptation: The Brother Gods are named Diam (Darkness) and Liam (Light) in this story's Omake.
- Not So Above It All: Cinder is the kind of woman who don't tolerate nonsense, but she lied about the injuries she suffered during her initiation for no reason other than to troll a clueless Pyrrha.
- Omake: One appears every two chapters, starring the Brother Gods.
- Role Swap AU
- Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Inverted. Nora is the savvy one and Ren the energetic one.
- Shot in the Ass: A hapless mook shoots Ruby in her behind right after she was done with Junior's club. Said mook learned his lessons the hard way.
- Spared by the Adaptation
- Marcus Black, who is not an abusive father to Mercury here, is still alive.
- Summer is still alive in this story. Too bad it's not an entirely good thing here as she took Raven's role instead.
- The Stoic:
- Nora in this story acts like Ren does in canon.
- Watts, unlike his canon self, is like this in this story.
- Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Lampshaded by Glenn. He calls out Harriet and Marrow for brutally murdering Cordovin in such a way that would have the media and law enforcement put more attention on her death, when they could have easily kept a low profile by making it look like a simple robbery, especially since Marrow does have a gun on him at the time.
- Wizard Duel: Cinder holds one against Glenn in the same manner as the one Glynda held against Cinder in canon. It turns out Glenn is a genderbent Glynda, so it means the two combatants just had their positions reversed.
