YMMV / Fixing RWBY

• Complete Monster: Cinder Fall is an ambitious agent of Salem, whose actions have left the world in a state of disunity and chaos. Cinder is responsible for stealing the powers of the Fall Maiden by killing the previous host, causing the Fall of Beacon, and has the deaths of countless civilians and friends of Ruby Rose at her feet. Using an alias to create articles to stir up tensions during the Vytal Festival, emotionally manipulating students to create more drama, downloading a virus into Penny to force Pyrrha to use lethal force against the robot girl; these acts aid Cinder in dividing humanity once more. In Mistral, Cinder participates in killing off most of Mistral's Huntsmen, as well as wiping out any bandit tribe she comes across in her search for Raven. Cinder supports Adam Taurus and the White Fang's plan to start a wide-scale coup to take control of Mistral and all of Anima, which would not only allow Adam to take control of the kingdom and continent but trigger a second Great War as well.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In the Fixing RWBY series, Cinder implants a virus into Penny that controls her actions and forces her to try and kill Pyrrha while she's helpless to fight against it. In Volume 8 of the actual RWBY series, Dr. Watts implants a virus into Penny to take control of her to make her open the Vault of the Winter Maiden and we're shown Penny's intense and terrified struggle against the foreign programming.
• Hate Fic: The author clearly has a severe disdain for the original show as written, describing it as "a show with infinite potential left to squander in a desert of idiocy." The fic consistently diverts from the themes present in canon, alters characters to the point that they bear no resemblance to their canon counterparts, and includes tracts about the failings of the original show, and how his version is superior. It matches the TV Tropes definition of this trope to a T.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • The Brother Gods are somehow even more petty and destructive than they were in canon. After taking Salem immortal they decide to wipe out humanity for worshiping her as their new deity even though she brought them hope after they abandoned them.
  • Cordovin crosses the line when she decides to abandon Argus to a Grimm invasion and refusing to call her troops back to aid Ruby and her allies, showing apathy towards the potential civilian casualties of Argus while boasting her pride and loyalty to her Atlas lineage.

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