History Fanfic / AnEmeraldUnearthed

* KickTheSonOfABitch: We can certainly say that Silva deserved what happened to him.

* JustForPun: The writer made a {{Retcon}} when someone said the best LoanShark would be a [[LittleBitBeastly shark-Faunus]]. The story was rewritten to give Silva shark teeth.

* SheIsAllGrownUp: Silva notes how [[BuxomIsBetter well-developed]] Emerald has gotten after finding her again when she’s eighteen. Emerald is not amused.

* RealityEnsues:
** Emerald tries to use her Semblance on three people at once. In canon, she couldn't handle two minds without a headache. Also considering that she was twelve when she did it, she definitely needs a while to rest before she can get back in action.
** [[spoiler: If you're a NonActionBigBad who relies on your men to do the heavy lifting, maybe [[BadBoss mistreating them]] isn't a good idea since it won't earn you favor in your ranks. Especially when you're in a position where you need their help the most. This is why Emerald has an easy time convincing his workers to turn on him.]]

* WouldHurtAChild: Silva threatens to kill Emerald if Cole doesn't get his money. And he says he'll hurt her if she doesn't come with him calmly.

* BadassGay: Emerald is explicitly bisexual, and she trained herself to fight. She is able to take down five guys.

* BiTheWay: Emerald mentions having boyfriends and girlfriends while on her own and is seen attempting to flirt with a girl before realizing she has a boyfriend.

* BigBad: Randall Silva.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Silva's interaction with Cole shows how unapologetically greedy and exploitive he is. It also shows how willing he is to kill people just to get his money.

* ShesAllGrownUp: Silva notes how [[BuxomIsBetter well-developed]] Emerald has gotten after finding her again when she’s eighteen. Emerald is not amused.

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/13280643/chapters/30389916 An Emerald Unearthed]]'' is a ''{{WebAnimation/RWBY}}'' FanFic by [[http://archiveofourown.org/users/Snarky_SilverHaired_Sociopath/pseuds/Snarky_SliverHaired_Sociopath Snarky_SilverHaired_Sociopath]]. It tells of Emerald’s upbringing working as a pickpocket with her father, Cole. Unfortunately, a [[LittleBitBeastly Faunus]] by the name of [[LoanShark Randall]] [[BigBad Silva]] is trying to take all the money the Sustrais have and is willing to go to some scary length to make sure that he gets paid. After her father’s death, she lives on her own for six years… and Silva finds his way into her life again.

It is the second in the series ''FanFic/TheMakingsOfTeamCRME'' after ''FanFic/MyNameIsCinder''. The next story is ''FanFic/TheBlackHearts''.

* [[BadassGay Badass Bisexual]]: Emerald is explicitly bisexual, and she trained herself to fight. She is able to take down five guys.

* BadSamaritan: Silva comes to Cole offering him a place to stay after he gets his family homeless. However, he asks for very high prices knowing that Cole will have trouble paying. And when he does fail to meet a payment, he kills Cole’s wife. This is likely a standard tactic for Silva.

* BittersweetEnding: Emerald lampshades this as [[spoiler: Silva being killed]] doesn’t change anything since she’s still on the streets. Still, knowing that [[spoiler: he’s dead]] makes things easier since she [[spoiler: doesn't have to worry about him and]] knows how to live on her own.

* BrokenPedestal: Averted. Even after knowing that her father [[spoiler: lost all their money on gambling]], it doesn’t change her opinion of her because he still loved her and tried to make it up to her.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: It involves her family ending up homeless because of [[spoiler: her dad’s gambling addiction]] and a LoanShark taking advantage of them. She grew up as a pickpocket after her mother was killed by that loan shark [[spoiler: and her dad was killed by him, too]]. She lived on her own for six years on the run.

* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler: Silva starts panicking when he realizes that his options are running out. When Emerald has Silva at her mercy and turns his men against him, [[VillainsWantMercy he begs for his life and tries to make every deal he can]].]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Silva’s interaction with Cole shows how unapologetically greedy and exploitive he is. It also shows how willing he is to kill people just to get his money.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: “Evil” is a bit of a stretch, but Cole clearly loves his daughter even though he uses her in criminal activities. He also loved his late wife.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Silva is incredibly charismatic. He usually acts all chummy and has a casual, laid-back demeanor most of the time. That doesn’t change the fact that he’s a ruthless LoanShark who would kill you or your loved ones for not making a payment. In fact, this demeanor makes him look like an even bigger {{Jerkass}}.

* TheGadfly: Emerald takes a man’s wedding ring for being a {{Jerkass}} and noticing that the girl he was with wasn’t into him. After that, she goes to where he’s proposing to him and uses [[MasterOfIllusion her Semblance]] to make him think he still has it. Making him look like a fool.
* TheGamblingAddict: [[spoiler: Cole lost his money to gambling, causing him and his family to live on the streets. That’s when Silva came in and offered him a home. At a steep price.]]
* GoodParents: [[SubvertedTrope Not exactly.]] While Cole does care about Emerald like any other parent, he still has her participate in his illegal activities at the age of ten (when she discovered her Semblance). [[spoiler: And he wasted all the family’s money on gambling.]]

-->[[spoiler:'''Silva:''' [to Emerald] I’ll just stay around because at least watching these guys beat the snot out of you will be entertaining.\\
'''Silva:''' [to his men] And remember, you don’t need to kill her. Just make her hurt a lot.\\

'''Emerald:''' [to Silva] I’d do it myself, but watching these guys beat the snot out of you will be entertaining.\\
'''Emerald:''' [to his men] You don’t need to kill him. Just make him hurt a lot.]]

* MsFanservice: Emerald’s attractiveness gets a bit of mention after she turns eighteen.
* {{Narcissist}}: Silva implies that the reason that Emerald showed up is because of his “dashing good looks.” Obviously, she is not amused.

* NonActionBigBad: Silva may shoot people, but he doesn’t engage in direct combat.

* TheSociopath: Randall Silva is a LoanShark who is described as a man who would “kill someone with a smile and go off to have lunch in twenty minutes.” He’s incredibly charismatic and shows no concern for anyone. He kills Emerald’s mother because her father was behind on payments. He [[WouldHurtAChild threatens to hurt Emerald]] if she doesn’t come to work for him. And, in that same scene, [[BadBoss he shoots one of his henchmen for not being able to find her]]. When she sees her again years later, he continues to pretend that killing [[spoiler: her parents]] was something Cole brought upon himself.

* TermsOfEndangerment: Silva calls Emerald “little Sustrai.”
* ThatWasntARequest: When Silva said that he wanted to take Emerald and use her as a tool to get more money and make up for her father’s debt.

* VillainHasAPoint: Silva is right when he says that it was Cole’s bad choices that landed him and his family in the situation that he’s in. And Cole seems to agree as well. Doesn’t mean that taking advantage of him was a good thing.
* WouldHurtAChild: Silva threatens to kill Emerald if Cole doesn’t get his money. And he says he’ll hurt her if she doesn’t come with him calmly.

* TheGadfly: Emerald takes a man’s wedding ring for being a {{Jerkass}} and noticing that the girl he was with wasn’t into him. After that, he goes to where he’s proposing to him and uses [[MasterOfIllusion her Semblance]] to make him think he still has it. Making him look like a fool.

** [[spoiler: Being as [[BadBoss bad a boss]] as Silva is won’t win you favor in your ranks. Emerald [[ExploitedTrope uses this]] to get his men to turn on him when she has him held hostage.]]

* UndignifiedDeath: Silva is first utterly humiliated by Emerald when she persuades his men into beating him up. Then, she leaves him a pathetic, bloody mess on the ground just before shooting him.

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/13280643/chapters/30389916 An Emerald Unearthed]]'' is a ''{{WebAnimation/RWBY}}'' FanFic by [[http://archiveofourown.org/users/Snarky_SilverHaired_Sociopath/pseuds/Snarky_SliverHaired_Sociopath Snarky_SilverHaired_Sociopath]]. It tells of Emerald’s upbringing working as a pickpocket with her father, Cole. Unfortunately, a man by the name of [[LoanShark Randall]] [[BigBad Silva]] is trying to take all the money the Sustrais have and is willing to go to some scary length to make sure that he gets paid. After her father’s death, she lives on her own for six years… and Silva finds his way into her life again.

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/13280643/chapters/30389916 An Emerald Unearthed]]'' is a ''{{WebAnimation/RWBY}}'' FanFic by [[http://archiveofourown.org/users/Snarky_SilverHaired_Sociopath/pseuds/Snarky_SliverHaired_Sociopath Snarky_SilverHaired_Sociopath]]. It tells of Emerald’s upbringing working as a pickpocket with her father, Cole. Unfortunately, a man by the name of [[LoanShark Randall]] [[BigBad Silva]] is trying to take all the money the Sustrais have and is willing to go to some scary length to make sure that he gets paid. After living on her own after her father’s death, she lives on her own for six years… and Silva finds his way into her life again.

* BittersweetEnding: Emerald lampshades this as [[spoiler: Silva being killed]] doesn’t change anything since she’s still on the streets. Still, knowing that [[spoiler: he’s dead]] makes things easier since [[spoiler: she doesn't have to worry about him and]] knows how to live on her own.

* IronicEcho: When Emerald lets Silva get beat up by his own goons, she uses some similar lines to when he had them beat her up.
-->'''Silva:''' [to Emerald] I’ll just stay around because at least watching these guys beat the snot out of you will be entertaining.
-->'''Silva:''' [to his men] And remember, you don’t need to kill her. Just make her hurt a lot.
-->''[later]''
-->'''Emerald:''' [to Silva] I’d do it myself, but watching these guys beat the snot out of you will be entertaining.
-->'''Emerald:''' [to his men] You don’t need to kill him. Just make him hurt a lot.

* ChekovsGun: The Dust round that Emerald [[VictoriasSecretCompartment kept in her cleavage]] comes in handy for escaping from Silva.

It is the second in the series ''The Makings of Team CRME'' after ''FanFic/MyNameIsCinder''. The next story is ''FanFic/TheBlackHearts''.

It is the second in a series about the origins of Team CRME after ''FanFic/MyNameIsCinder''.

* BadBoss: Silva shoots his subordinates for minor slights and belittles them constantly. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking He also doesn’t pay them much.]] [[spoiler: [[ExploitedTrope Emerald shows why]] [[DeconstructedTrope this kind of behavior doesn’t benefit an employer]].]]

* BadBoss: Silva shoots his subordinates for minor slights and belittles them constantly. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking He also doesn’t pay them much.]] [[spoiler: Emerald shows why [[DeconstructedTrope this kind of behavior doesn’t benefit an employer]].]]

* BittersweetEnding: Emerald lampshades this as Silva being killed doesn’t change anything since she’s still on the streets. Still, knowing that he’s dead makes things easier since she knows how to live on her own.
* BrokenPedestal: Averted. [[spoiler: Even after knowing that her father lost all their money on gambling]], it doesn’t change her opinion of her because he still loved her and tried to make it up to her.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: It involves her family ending up homeless because of [[spoiler: her dad’s gambling addiction]] and a LoanShark taking advantage of them. She grew up as a pickpocket after her mother was killed by that loan shark and [[spoiler: her dad was killed by him, too]]. She lived on her own for six years on the run.

* DirtyCoward: Silva starts panicking when he realizes that his options are running out. When Emerald has Silva at her mercy and turns his men against him, he begs for his life and tries to make every deal he can.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Silva orders this on Emerald, [[spoiler: but ends up on the receiving end because of Emerald.]]

* PrecisionFStrike: Emerald drops the word "shit" while defending her dad.

* RealityEnsues: Being as bad a boss as Silva is won’t win you favor in your ranks. Emerald uses this to get his men to turn on him when she has him held hostage.

* TheAtoner: Cole tries his best to get money back after wasting it on gambling.

* BadBoss: Silva shoots his subordinates for minor slights and belittles them constantly. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking He also doesn’t pay them much.]] Emerald shows why [[DeconstructedTrope this kind of behavior doesn’t benefit an employer]].

* BrokenPedestal: Averted. Even after knowing that her father lost all their money on gambling, it doesn’t change her opinion of her because he still loved her and tried to make it up to her.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: It involves her family ending up homeless because of her dad’s gambling addiction and a LoanShark taking advantage of them. She grew up as a pickpocket after her mother was killed by that loan shark and her dad was killed by him, too. She lived on her own for six years on the run.

* FakingTheDead: Emerald uses [[MasterOfIllusion her Semblance]] to make Silva and his men think that the died by accident while trying to excape.

* TheGamblingAddict: Cole lost his money to gambling, causing him and his family to live on the streets. That’s when Silva came in and offered him a home. At a steep price.
* GoodParents: [[SubvertedTrope Not exactly.]] While Cole does care about Emerald like any other parent, he still has her participate in his illegal activities at the age of ten (when she discovered her Semblance). And he wasted all the family’s money on gambling.

* KickTheDog: Silva killed Emerald’s mother because of a debt that her father owed him. Then, he kills her father for trying to protect her from him. Lastly, he makes his goons beat Emerald up to persuade her to join him.

* LackOfEmpathy: Silva does not give two fucks about anyone other than himself. Killing is as natural as breathing to him. He’d kill his subordinates, rivals, and people’s loved ones. When she thinks Emerald died when she messed up a jump from a window, he doesn't seem particularly perturbed by it. And he won’t even acknowledge why Emerald might have a problem working with him after killing her parents.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Silva orders this on Emerald, but ends up on the receiving end because of Emerald.

* TheSociopath: Randall Silva is a LoanShark who is described as a man who would “kill someone with a smile and go off to have lunch in twenty minutes.” He’s incredibly charismatic and shows no concern for anyone. He kills Emerald’s mother because her father was behind on payments. He [[WouldHurtAChild threatens to hurt Emerald]] if she doesn’t come to work for him. And, in that same scene, [[BadBoss he shoots one of his henchmen for not being able to find her]]. When she sees her again years later, he continues to pretend that killing her parents was something Cole brought upon himself.

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/13280643/chapters/30389916 An Emerald Unearthed]]'' is a ''{{WebAnimation/RWBY}}'' FanFic by [[http://archiveofourown.org/users/Snarky_SilverHaired_Sociopath/pseuds/Snarky_SliverHaired_Sociopath Snarky_SilverHaired_Sociopath]]. It is the second in a series about the origins of Team CRME after ''FanFic/MyNameIsCinder''. It tells of Emerald’s upbringing working as a pickpocket with her father, Cole. Unfortunately, a man by the name of [[LoanShark Randall]] [[BigBad Silva]] is trying to take all the money the Sustrais have and is willing to go to some scary length to make sure that he gets paid. After living on her own after her father’s death, she lives on her own for six years… and Silva finds his way into her life again.

* PrecisionFStrike: Emerald drops the word "sh*t" while defending her dad.

* FakingTheDead: Emerald uses [[HasterOfIllusion her Semblance]] to make Silva and his men think that the died by accident while trying to excape.