WMG / Arc Royale

The Arcs and their Anchors

It's pretty clear we haven't been introduced to all the Arcs and their Anchors yet so we might as well start a list of the Jaunes and their likely anchors. Feel free to add to the list.

• Null!Jaune
  • Adam.
  • Neo.
  • Cinder.
    • Confirmed, surprisingly enough.
• Ashari!Jaune
  • Raven.
  • Winter.
  • Ironwood.
  • Qrow.
  • Emerald.
    • Confirmed.
• Rat!Jaune
  • Oobleck.
  • Roman. (Honestly not too sure about this one.)
    • Jossed by dint of him (supposedly) anchoring Professor/Headmaster!Jaune.
  • Cardin.
  • Ciel.
  • Ironwood.
  • None of the above; Chapter 29 confirms his anchor to be Ozpin.
• Grimm!Jaune
  • Salem.
    • Confirmed
  • Cinder.
• Professor/Headmaster!Jaune
  • Roman.
    • Confirmed.
  • Neo.
  • Glynda.
  • Ironwood.
• Arcanum!Jaune
  • Sun.
• Rabbit!Jaune
  • Adam.
    • Confirmed.
  • Ilia.
  • Sienna Khan.
• Warchief!Jaune
  • Ironwood.
    • Confirmed.
• Xiong!Jaune
  • Junior.
  • Miltia.
  • Melaine.
• Magnis!Jaune
  • Nicholas Arc.
    • Confirmed.
  • Blake.
• Knight of Salem!Jaune
  • Winter.
  • Vernal.
  • Gillian.
  • Saphron Arc.
• Raise!Jaune
  • Weiss.

The Alternative versions of the Brother Gods will interfere with the competition

If we assume each reality has its own version of the Brother gods those versions likely will not be amused by their counterparts interfering with their reality and will try to interfere with the competition by either returning the favor or just trying to retrieve their Jaune.

There is only one set of Brother Gods

If the gods can give the winner anything, then they would have to be omnipotent in that world as well. As such, White Sheep Jaune will not show up, because his world is the only one where the gods themselves truly come into play, and one god has overthrown the other.

• It could be possible that they drew the different Jaune's from different times, Fate in his work said he was repeating at beacon for several centuries, a thousand years at most. While Jinn stated this Jaune has been at Beacon for two thousand years.

The author will use this story to expand on the ends of stories and answer questions the reader had.

Salem's and Ozpin's Team

Salem will have the more powerful Jaune's as their motivation for which side they choose will be based on how much their Ozpin wronged them. The Jaune's that will join Salem's side will be from Relic, White Sheep, and Null. Each of these Jaune's are powerful in their own right, with Relic and Null being the most willing to kill other Jaunes. While the side with Ozpin the most powerful so far is the Knight, they will have the most Jaune's due to a lot of Jaune's not having as much beef with Ozpin as those three.

Ashari has magic again and this will come into play at some point

He comes from towards the end of Relic after alternate Salem is dead, which removed the source of his magic mark for the remaining time he had left in that timeline. But now he's back in a reality with a Salem again, and it may have anchored to her just like it did to the second Salem despite being put there by the first Salem. He could de-power Cinder, or mark-torture Salem's other minions into submission if he wanted to.

Regular Jaune will play a crucial if not large role at some point

Nobody expects anything from him, but he is Jaune Arc despite not being brought here from another reality. Surrounded by so many examples of himself, he'll become inspired to live up to their examples, and put his life on the line in an act that drastically affects the course of the war.

Fate's inconsistent age is simply because he has been guessing how long he has been looping.

Fate isn't always being truthful about specific things he's experienced

For example he claims to have slept with Yang, which is one of several things he didn't do in NTTF. In this case he wants to mortify as many people as possible in that conversation, so he bends the truth to give him something over her in particular. He doesn't claim the same about Weiss because he already has the Winter story to target her, and giving the truth about Weiss is his way of targeting Regular Jaune by revealing his crush won't ever go for him even if he had all the time in the world.

• There's a lot of things that are the same but different with Fate, it's either two things that happen. Fate from his story doesn't remember how long he's been repeating and Jinn confirmed that he has been looping two thousand years. So he forgot about how long and just gave a number that it's been a thousand years in his story. Or This Fate is separate from the Fate in this story and has repeated longer before making it to the start of his story.

Each Jaune's planned wish.

• Knight, Hunter, Barista
  • None, they don't plan on getting the wish.
• Leviathan
  • To be free from the Grimm dimension.
    • Died before we could even learn what his wish was.
• Fate
  • The loops' end.
    • Confirmed. He tells Yang that he basically wants to escape the loop and live a normal life when she asks.
• Null
  • His family reunited and freed.
  • His parents revived.
    • Both confirmed. Chapter 10 additionally has him muse that he could wish for the Chivalric Arms to not exist, which would help even more people.
• Xiong
  • Power for the Xiong family.
• Professor Arc
  • Less paperwork, more Teachers' Coffee.
  • The removal of Ozpin and Salem's curse, so they won't start another war after he dies.

Null will get killed.

His ability to remove others' aura is strong when facing huntsmen and huntresses, but it's nothing more than a gimmick against others. He might be able to take down a Jaune like Fate or Ashari, but against Hunter? Leviathan? Knight??? He'd be worse than useless since his power would just remove his own protection. His only bet to beat them would be taking down their anchor, and I don't see any of those three letting their guards down enough to give him the opportunity.

Ironwood's Jaune is Rat.

There are precious few Coeur fics remaining, and In The Kingdom's Service is really the only one that would be able to anchor to and work along with Ironwood, which is further emphasized by how he's been working with Ironwood's top advisors; who better to give advice on these matters than a member of an intelligence agency?

• Jossed; Ironwood's Jaune is Warchief.

Ashari will help Regular Jaune regain his confidence.

As we all know Fate has made it his mission to torment his regular self by reminding him of all of his failings. I'm banking on Ashari having the opposite effect if only by accident. Ashari is living proof that Jaune has the potential to be a huntsman on par with the likes of Tyrian, Hazel and Qrow. That alone debunks Fates claim that Jaune will never be like the rest. So either intentionally or by accident Ashari will help Jaune regain his confidence.

There is an unseen factor that makes Jaune so important to these universes.

Just Jaune will discover that there is something that caused his counterparts to become focal points to their universes, able to ally with virtually anyone or claim powers and abilities they shouldn't have. Learning to manipulate this force will turn him into the strongest Jaune in the competition.

Canon Jaune will eventually appear.

Possibly as the Final Boss of the story. Regardless, he will be very confused.

Professor is lying about his anchor.

He knows what Cinder's like and is a professional bullshitter, what possible reason does he have to be honest with her? Neo is probably his real anchor.

• There's also the issue of him threatening Roman's life for the latter not especially caring if Ruby survives the war or not. They both know the rules of the war and know that a Jaune threatening their own anchor is a threat with no teeth because it would just kill them both, yet Roman was legitimately scared he was about to die.

Fate is the ultimate victor.

The end of his original fic effectively came out of nowhere; perhaps it was due to his wish being granted.

Lots of fics are in the story's multiverse, the gods just found them boring and didn't summon their Jaunes

Including any of Coeur's stories that don't turn up, the Student of Vacuo AU of Professor Arc, a couple of College Fool's stories, and some less of the ridiculous and more developed omakes. It isn't full League of Extraordinary Jaunetlemen, but it's up there.

Salem will personally come to Vale with the rest of her faction and an army of Grimm

Considering Ozpin is currently pulling out all the stops to ensure his faction wins the war it only makes sense that Salem do the same and come to Vale with an invasion force similar to the one she used against Atlas in Canon and Vacuo in Professor Arc. Cinder and friends are simply serving a role similar to what Watts and Tyrian did in canon.

Fate is working behind the scenes to kill the other Jaunes

While many including myself thought Fate was conspiring to do something behind the scenes the newest chapter confirms that Fate is under suspicion of VSS operatives in Beacon. There's a lot of hints throughout background details and his conversations that point out that he is in the background. This goes as far back as when deciding what his gimmick was with everyone other iteration introducing themselves. Hunter figuring out Fate when they went to the club and deciding to run when he killed Barista.

• Confirmed by Chapter 28.

Ruby will die.

With everyone now aware of Knight's One-Man Army status, with both the willingness to walk into an ambush and the strength to come out of it without a scratch, Ruby's now priority number one as far as all non-Ozpin-aligned factions are concerned - including Fate. With Fate under suspicion at Beacon due to nearly dying to a bomb, and the narration setting him up for a Face–Heel Turn, he's likely going to leave the Beacon group with Ruby's death - and Knight's concurrent disappearance - serving as his resignation notice. Should that not occur, however, Ruby's still the biggest target for Cinder and likely Agent to kill.

• If Raise!Jaune ever appears in the story, Ruby's death would serve as a catalyst for his debut to immediately bring her back to life.
• Fate tries to kill Ruby to get rid of Knight, but is stopped due to the intervention of Agent Rat. Even then, it would have been All for Nothing, as Knight had already died in a Mutual Kill with Grimm.

With Knight dead, there's no reason to target Ruby for that reason anymore, so that aspect is jossed.

Oz has two iterations.

One anchored to Ozpin, the other anchored to Ozma. The second Jaune is Headmaster.

The story will eventually have a remake

With the ever growing amount of stories the author has been creating and the kind of story it is, the author may get around to doing a Self-Remake with even more Jaunes thrown into the mix and may even correct a few missed opportunities the story couldn’t do at the time.

Knight of Salem Jaune was also summoned

It's too weird for him not to get kidnapped when half the Jaunes in the multiverse were. Unfortunately, he doesn't actually have that many fighting skills, so Null got him.

• If he had survived, his alias would have been Jerusalem, which means City of Salem, in reference to the city of Jaunesville, which is named after him but ruled by Salem.
• He's not really that bad a fighter. Though he doesn't have any weird powers, other than possibly his semblance (which he hasn't mastered and doesn't know) so he'd probably go down like any other huntsman.

The Brother Gods in this fic's universe are the same version from their previous fic appearances

It's implied by the Brothers in this fic that there's only one version of them for most if not all of The Multiverse which includes all of Coeur's works. This troper hypothesizes that that is indeed the case when the Brothers appeared in Arc Royale, White Sheep and Relic of the Future, and the reasons for their diverging characterizations are that there's an Anachronic Order to their appearances from their POV and they're undergoing Character Development with each appearance.

From the Brothers' perspective, their first chronological appearance is in the White Sheep universe. In this appearance; the God of Light is arrogant, hypocritical, Holier Than Thou, and he insists that retaking his dominion over Remnant and ushering in his (less than ideal) idea of Paradise or otherwise "wiping the board" when mortalkind resists this is what's right — the God of Darkness meanwhile is constantly shafted by his brother just like he was when they last ruled Remnant, and he's bitter about it. Both the Gods are at their most petty, childish and humanized comparative to their other appearances. To recap, their role in White Sheep ends with the God of Darkness being talked by the very mortals that they condescend into rebelling against the God of Light for his mistreatment — at the end of it, Darkness discorporates Light, stating that Light will reconstitute after a thousand years have passed, and that when he does, the two Gods will be having words on forming a more equal balance between them. Darkness also in response to mortalkind's vital role in his victory over Light plays the part of a Reasonable Authority Figure, leaving Remnant in peace in exchange for continued worship from the inhabitants, instead of destroying the world as we know it. Here, the Brothers are at their youngest and least mature comparatively speaking.

Arc Royale is the Brothers' second appearance from their POV: in this fic, they appear more detached and otherworldly, but they also appear to be on equal footing with each-other unlike they were in White Sheep. They still don't see their mortal creations as anything more or less than an experiment that went off the rails and disappointed them, and they still don't understand why humanity won't behave the way that the Brothers expect them to in any of the hundreds of universes they've surveyed. The God of Light shows some new semblance of humility in his admittance that he's frustrated by not only his lack of control over humanity's shortcomings but by the fact that mortalkind have always assume having a loving and benevolent deity is a one-way street where the deity was never considered a flawed being that craved rewards for their love and sacrifices in turn. In the end, the cast persuade the Brothers to just leave their Remnant alone as it is, and go away to make something new that might satisfy them better on another world. This is occurring from the Brothers' POV after the God of Light reconstituted from the events of White Sheep and after he and the God of Darkness have had their words and struck up a more equal footing, humbling Light a little and making him self-reflect a little more.

And Relic of the Future is the Brothers' last appearance from their POV. In the last several chapters of Relic, the characters speculate that a lot of the Brothers' Jerkass God behavior in Remnant's backstory comes from a relative lack of maturity at the time, and the Brothers have the potential to learn, grow and wizen up with experience and time. This interpretation is virtually confirmed in the fic's final chapter, when Jaune Ashari is returned to the Bad Future in his original native universe, and the God of Light (and possibly also his brother) personally speaks to Jaune through Jinn. The God or Gods' voice(s) confirm to Jaune that (A) they've outright admitted fault and apologized in person to the recently-deceased souls of the Salem and Ozma from Ashari's universe(s?) for the Brothers' past actions and misjudgments, (B) that they have no intention of reclaiming Remnant because they've grown to understand since they first abandoned it that it and its inhabitants are better off for their absence, (C) that they at first didn't think much of Ashari at all for accepting Salem's Deal with the Devil at the fic's start, but as they watched him better many lives in the second timeline and accept the lesson that Salem never could, they realized that they misjudged him and were genuinely impressed by what he did with the second chance that he attained; and (D) they throw Ashari a bone before departing for good by alerting him to the Bad Future's Ruby being Not Quite Dead, after they've lightly encouraged Ashari to try and better the Bad Future that he's returned to instead of immediately ending his life there and then to await his loved ones from the second timeline in the multiversal afterlife. The Gods in this appearance show even more kindness, humility, understanding and self-awareness than in either of their above two appearances, and they've already acknowledged before they show up here that Remnant is better off if they stay away, meaning that from the Gods' chronology this is their final appearance in the Coeur multiverse.

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