- Yang's guilt over what happened with her sister is even worse here, both due to her scars and what Ruby ended up becoming.
- Emerald pines over Cinder for years before she and Neo go poly with the other girl.
- After she's freed from Salem's influence, Ruby is seriously depressed at being driven against her loved ones.
- Team CFVY is severely hurt defending a village from a Grimm horde, much to Cinder's dismay, given that they're friends.
- Ruby is rendered into stasis after defeating the Wyvern with Penny.
- Weiss basically fleeing to Menagerie with Blake and Yang to hide from her father.
- Cinder has to watch Team JNPR fall into the void and supposedly die.
- Winter brings up concerns about the project to raise Atlas into the sky, only for Ironwood to shoot them all down.
- STRQ turns out to have been in a polyamorous relationship, so Tai wasn't the only one to hurt when Summer died.
- JNPR is kept separate for decades or even centuries within the Ever After, unable to go beyond their "territories" and search for each other until Alyx and Lewis show up.
- Alyx survives in this AU, but never reunites with her brother, spending all her time slaying Jabberwalkers in the Ever After.
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