YMMV Tropes for Spark to Spark, Dust to Dust:
- Canon Defilement: Several elements of the fic seem to share thoughts with RWBY's Misaimed Fandom.
- Adam being written as a Well-Intentioned Extremist/Anti-Hero when all he was meant to be in canon was someone who wanted revenge on humanity for what they did to him specifically and didn't care about anyone else. Him caring about Blake is also this, considering his status as Blake's abuser in the show proper.
- Ruby having romantic feelings for Jaune; nothing in the show proper even alludes to this. The same can be said about Yang's feelings for Sun.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: The fic's Yang/Sun/Blake love triangle becomes this in light of RWBY's increased Ship Teasing between Yang and Blake, culminating in their simultaneous Love Confession and Big Damn Kiss in "Confessions Within Cumulonimbus Clouds" as well as comments from the writers and voice actors that Blake and Yang were planned from the beginning to be involved romantically.
