History Fanfic / AgainstDespair

* AdaptationExpansion: Beacon's initiation was completely skipped over in the original version of the story, which cut straight to the teams' school days and the ongoing plot of the villains. Here, it's shown in full and given a lot of focus. In addition, the initiation is now one large camping trip between the different teams with more focus on them bonding over the course of a few days rather than occurring across a few hours.

** TheOneGuy: The flip side is that Kanji is the only male in the predominantly female Team MNYK. Ditto Enkidu and Jaune in their respective teams.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Ragna's notably more antagonistic with his teammates than he was in the original version of the story, even outright ''backhanding'' Hyde. This is due to the story starting off with them just meeting while the original version began well after they became an established team and had already moved past their early issues.

** Ragna getting too aggressive with Weiss. While he was doing it to protect Ruby, he also ruined her chance at making amends with Weiss.

** Kanji is this for Team MNYK. He gets forced into a bet against his will where he has to [[WholesomeCrossdresser wear a dress]] if he loses against Tsubaki and Pyrrha(which he does lose [[CurbStompBattle pretty easily]], though he gets Yu to take the fall and wear the dress), and has to eat ''[[LethalChef Noel's]]'' cooking.

** This even applies to the villain's side with Roman Torchwick. He doesn't really get a lot of respect despite his reputation as a high profile mob boss. Then again, considering who he works with, he can't really do much to stand out.

** The lore and mythology of Remnant is set within ''Persona'' lore, specifically with the Shinto deities(and a few Greek here and their) taking the place of the "Brother gods". Though Susano'o is more strictly his ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' counterpart while Izanami has elements of both Hades and Izanami-no-Mikoto/Marie.

** Yu: [[spoiler:Being bonded to Izanagi, god of creation, means that he must destroy the "Indulgence of Insulation", and by extension Hyde, to prevent Nyx's return]].

* GreatOffscreenWar: Besides The Great War and the Faunus Rebellion, The Dark War where the Six Heroes fought against and saved the world from the Black Beast also happened in this timeline.

* DemonOfHumanOrigin: If the story that Ozpin told Ragna is true, then the Black Beast was originally the son of one of the Maidens who bore an immense amount of anger within him. This rage grew as he became more sociopathic and sadistic in nature, warping his body and mind until he became the monster that the world fears; The Black Beast.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Ragna's notably more antagonistic with his teammates than he was in the original version of the story, even outright ''backhanding'' Hyde. This is due to the story starting off with them just meeting while the original version began well after they became an established team.

* DeadFic: It is confirmed by WordOfGod that he will not be continuing the story.

* AdaptationExpansion: Beacon's initiation was completely skipped over in the original version of the story, which cut straight to the teams' school days and the ongoing plot of the villains. Here, it's shown in full and given a lot of focus in early chapters. In addition, the initiation is now one large camping trip between the different teams with more focus on them bonding over the course of a few days rather than occurring across a few hours.

** TheOneGuy: The flip-side is that Kanji is the only male in the predominantly female Team MNYK. Ditto Enkidu and Jaune in their respective teams.

* AdaptationExpansion: Beacon's initiation was completely skipped over in the original version of the story. Here, it's shown in full and given a lot of focus in early chapters. In addition, the initiation is now one large camping trip between the different teams with more focus on them bonding over the course of a few days rather than occurring across a few hours.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Downplayed, but Ragna's notably more antagonistic with his teammates than he was in the original version of the story, even outright ''backhanding'' Hyde. This is due to the story starting off with them just meeting while the original version began well after they became an established team.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Downplayed, but Ragna's notably more antagonistic with his teammates than he was in the original version of the story, even outright backhanding Hyde. This is due to the story starting off with them just meeting while the original version began well after they became an established team.

** Jin is confirmed to be slightly less of a dick than he was in the games. He also completely lacks a psychotic {{yandere}} side of his personality.