Trivia for Holding the World On Their Shoulders and its sequels, Lost In The Storm and Reignfall.
- Creator's Favorite Episode: Asheskies favorite chapters are chapters 26 of HTWOTS, "Janus", chapter 21 of Storm, and "And All That Could Have Been", and chapter 3 of Reignfall, "Pyrrhic Victory".
- Dead Fic: Reignfall was sadly left unfinished due to a loss of motivation by the author, the final chapter (Containing Asheskies' notes for the remainder of the fic) being uploaded 3rd of November 2023.
- Fandom Nod: Artist SanaNaryon was initially inspired to make designs of Cinder, May and Winter
by Holding the World. These designs were later used as inspiration for Cinder and Winter's looks in the fic. - Meaningful Release Date: The last part of chapter 4 of Reignfall is set in July of 80 AGW, and was released in July of 2022.
- Post-Release Retitle: Chapter 13 of Reignfall was initially published as "Destiny" before Asheskies changed it to "Achilles, Come Down" in reference to the song by Gang of Youths.
- Schedule Slip: HTWOTS initially published every few days, but by the time of Reignfall had gone down to one or two updates a month. Over the course of 2023 it steadily went slower and slower, until it was fully cancelled in November.
- Series Hiatus: Reignfall went on unannounced hiatus after chapter 9 (September 1st 2022) because of burnout, and returned a month later (October 2nd 2022) with a double update.
- What Could Have Been:
- AsheSkies has expressed annoyance that she didn't split Holding the World into two parts, before and after May's "death", since it's so much longer than Reignfall. She did eventually split it, creating the fic Lost In The Storm.
- Reignfall was originally going to follow teams RWBY and JNPR like the show does, but it was decided that it too would focus mostly on May.
- One member of team JNPR was originally intended to be trans, but it was dropped since Asheskies wouldn't be able to give it proper attention.
- Word of God: Asheskies will occasionally explain details in the endnotes of each chapter:
- Lien are somewhere between dollars and yen in terms of value.
- The calendar of the setting starts with the end of the Great War. The 40th Vytal Tournament is in 81 AGW.
- Blake and Weiss' didn't have their fallout like in volume 1 of the show due to Weiss' Adaptational Nice Guy, and Blake revealed her faunus nature to her team slowly and on her own volition, starting with Yang.
- Cardin receiving advice from Cinder meant that he's a better fighter, and the Jaunedice arc did not happen like it did in the show. Jaune instead got the courage to ask his friends for help, and they confronted Cardin together.
- Cinder is not directly transphobic, but also isn't particularily trans friendly. While she would likely not have an issue with May being trans, she also follows Ironwood's lead when he misgenders her.
- Write What You Know:
- The fic is tagged as "Canon Trans Character" and "Equally Trans Author". The author also states that May's Trans Tribulations and Salem's manipulations are based on her own experiences.
- More amusingly, the joke of Mercury assuming May is cis and calling her out for making a trans-specific joke is based on the author having done something similar.
