History Fanfic / AnArcForEverySeason

** Another example from ''Zettai RWBY'' would be Winter, taking a rare sick day solely to attend Weiss' birthday party when Jaune tells her about it, caring deeply about Weiss and being very happy to see her finally get to simply be a kid and have friends.

** In the ''Team MILF'' omakes, Taiyang, Ghira, and Jacques are all dead. Ghira died sometime between Blake running away and Kali joining Ozpin's team, and Jacques officially died in an accident, but everyone who isn't Weiss is well aware that Willow killed him, with Willow herself barely bothering to hide it.

* TragicKeepsake: ''Zettai RWBY'' contains an interesting variation in the form of Yang's hair. Like in canon, [[NobodyTouchesTheHair she hates it when people touch her hair]], however, while in canon it is due to simple pride, here it is due to Taiyang being dead, with her viewing her blonde hair that she inherited from him as being one of the last things she has left from him.

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: [[spoiler:Wardes Winchester originally seems like nothing more than your typical racist Councilman - his one attempt to blackmail Jaune backfires in his face and Blanche is able to counter his efforts with no issue, meaning all he can really do is drive a wedge between Jaune and his parents. Then Jaune and Mercury discover that he also runs a Faunus trafficking ring that kidnaps Faunus off the street and harvests their organs]].

* ForWantOfANail:
** A series of different circumstances lead to the ladies of Team RWBY gaining the Maiden powers instead of the canon characters (Amber, Fria, Raven, and an unknown woman) having them instead.
** The drastic increase in Blake's power level means that the docks fight goes overwhelmingly in her favor, taking Roman out of the equation and into a prison cell far earlier than canon.
** Mercury is picked up by Ozpin's forces before the story begins instead of Cinder, meaning that he's on the side of the heroes. Notably, this is the only major setting change that neither justifies nor is explained by the fic's premise.

* SnowballLie: Exaggerated in ''Worst Girl Wins''. Instead of [[FakeRelationship just claiming she and Jaune are dating]] like she does in the main story, Blake escalates the lie and tells her parents that they are engaged. In an attempt to force Blake to admit to her parents that their relationship is fake, Jaune immediately claims she is pregnant. Blake, being unwilling to break the news, ends up sleeping with Jaune and actually getting pregnant. They keep escalating from there in hopes of forcing the other one to be the one to admit it, eventually getting married, having even more children, and entering old age together. Of course, by that point, they've long since realized [[BecomingTheMask they're in love for real]], so the "final bet" is to see who'll [[CannotSpitItOut finally confess their undying love first]]. [[spoiler:It's Jaune, moments before they both die, which Blake smugly gloats about after they (and their friends) end up reincarnating.]]

* EveryoneHasStandards: For all that Peter may be a BloodKnight against the Grimm, even he is quick to call out [[spoiler:cage fighting]] as an unhealthy coping mechanism and is clearly concerned when he realizes that Jaune genuinely thinks it's somehow helping him. It's later revealed that [[spoiler:he told Team RWBY about this habit so that they could intervene and help him move past his trauma]].

* AudienceParticipation: At the end of some chapters, {{Creator/Vendetta543}}has the habit of writing down his ideas for future plot points or omakes for the series and letting the audience decide which one they want to see next.

* SnowballLie: Exaggerated in ''Worst Girl Wins''. Instead of just claiming she and Jaune are dating like in canon, Blake escalates and tells her parents that they are engaged. In an attempt to force Blake to admit to her parents that their [[FakeRelationship relationship is fake]], Jaune immediately claims she is pregnant. Blake, being unwilling to break the news, ends up sleeping with Jaune and actually getting pregnant. They keep escalating from there in hopes of forcing the other one to be the one to admit it, eventually getting married, having even more children, growing old, and dying of old age together. [[spoiler:By that point, the duo had long since switched to seeing [[CannotSpitItOut who'd confess their undying love first]]. Jaune's final words are a simple "I love you," while [[SkewedPriorities Blake's are to gloat that he blinked first]].]] Then, [[spoiler:all of Team [=RWBY-J=] reincarnates with their memories and the Maiden powers, and Blake's first words to the reincarnated Jaune are to smugly reiterate that [[SoreWinner "You totally blinked first"]], before taking him to meet the others so she can tell them how she totally won.]]

* VirginPower: ''True Maiden'' exaggerates and plays with this. While a non-virgin can become a Maiden, as seen with Raven, once they become a Maiden they ''physically'' cannot have sex or even orgasm, no matter how hard they try. The reason Ozpin needs Jaune is because his Aura Transfer semblance also acts as an anaphrodisiac, meaning it makes people less aroused, and as such provides Team RWBY with some relief. When Jaune asks why he thought that was a good idea when he made the Maiden powers, Ozpin admits he was very drunk at the time. And depressed, but mostly drunk.

* ItsPersonal: Jaune's enmity with [[spoiler:Adam Taurus]] is so strong that he is the first person Jaune agrees needs to be outright killed rather than stopped or imprisoned.

** Jaune himself lashes out at Peter in an incredibly dickish way after [[spoiler:Peter catches him and Cardin fighting, but it doesn't take away the fact that Jaune genuinely was defending himself (the fact that he provoked Cardin notwithstanding), and when Cardin got away with being a bully for months because Huntsmen need to be able to defend themselves, Peter has no right to get mad at him for finally doing that, which Peter hinself admits when Jaune comes to apologise]].