History Fanfic / BoopTheSnootForCriticalDamage

* GenerationXerox: Defied in Weiss' case. She may have her mother's looks, but she's trying very hard not to become an alcoholic like Willow, even though Pandora's insanity seems hell-bent on making her take up the bottle to cope.

Story can be also be found [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/17674832/chapters/41688416 here]] and [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13299123/1/Boop-the-Snoot-for-Critical-Damage here]].

* EvilIsPetty: Jack sends his death squads after Weiss not due to anything like SinsOfTheFather, but because she has a special drone that has Hyperion programming and is just killing her for shits and giggles along the way. To top it all off, he gives her a bounty price of... fifty dollars and a high five from one of his body doubles. On top of even that, he has his robots do a lot of degrading things to the SDC homeworld like tea-bag the statue of Nicholas Schnee.

* BreatherEpisode: Both Weiss' and Blake's trailer chapters, while having prominent BlackComedy, follow them through their trying circumstances (Weiss having just lost her homeworld to Hyperion while being hunted by Handsome Jack and Blake being left trapped on an island DeathWorld with [[SanitySlippage her progressively losing it]]). Yang's trailer chapter has more lighthearted comedy and is just a small adventure romp that follows Yang saving Blake and arriving on Pandora.

* FusionFic: The lore and worlds of the two series are mixed into one, as Ruby is a Siren, corporations like the Schnee Dust Company, Hyperion, and Atlas litter the stars and control various planets, and Grimm are present throughout the galaxy. This is all traced back to when the opening of the first Vault led to humanity discovering interstellar travel.

* ABirthdayNotABreak: ''Hoo boy''. Weiss's birthday consists of her being forced on the run, losing her planet, her family's company, her father getting captured and tortured, not knowing if her mother and brother survived or what not, getting hunted by Hyperion, and just to end a shitty day, getting run over by Ruby. Yeah, this easily qualifies as the worst birthday ever.

* AdaptationNameChange: Downplayed. Claptrap usually always went by Claptrap or [=CL4-TP=]. Here, thanks to being the unit that started the robolution, he goes by Claptrap Prime, though he still gets called Claptrap for short.

** Angel doesn't have a debilitating need to be injected with Eridium to stay alive, which lets her actually escape from Jack's control without dying.

* AdaptationOriginConnection: Pietro not only created Penny, but he also created Gortys as well.

* TheTeamBenefactor: Angel is the primary head of Guardian Angels Incorporated, financing and sending team RWBY to do various jobs given by Pandoran citizens.

* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Ruby is the foolish sibling to Yang's responsible sibling (which isn't saying much). Ruby is a lot more ditzy and reckless than Yang, who, while definitely not what you'd call a responsible adult, has the sense to stay the Hell away from Pandora and actively warn her sister not to go near it.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Nicholas Schnee was a renowned Huntsman and corporate owner, having earned both Ozpin and Ironwood's respect. That said, he thought Jacques was a good catch for his daughter and saw fit to name him his successor.
-->'''Ozpin''': He was a good man, just not a particularly perceptive one.

** Nora's introductory subtitles are one to the many, many titles of [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire Daenerys Targaryen]].

* Penny was already a powerful robot (doubly so after her upgrades), but here, she's an '''artificial Siren'''.

** Gaige not only gets the ''RWBY'' benefits, but she's also got more robots to summon to her aide besides Deathtrap and is working on making her own personal robot army.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Weiss' early FantasticRacism towards Faunus is completely absent, and her relationship with Ruby starts out less antagonistic.

A FusionFic written by The_Mad_Dragon. The story chronicles a very different Team RWBY as they all form a team on Pandora, working with a Siren named Angel to uncover the mysteries behind the legendary Vault and ensure that Handsome Jack never gains such power. Along the way, mass mayhem, guns, loot, and lots and lots of bodies ensues.

* ActionGirl: It's ''RWBY'' mixed with ''Borderlands'', so this is present full stop. Whether it's Ruby being a Siren, Weiss and her deadly combat drone and summons, Blake's ninja/assassination skills, or Yang's bounty hunting skills and raw power, pretty much all of them kick ass in their own ways.

* GenerationXerox: Subverted in Weiss's case. She may have her mother's looks, but she's trying very hard not to become an alcoholic like Willow, even though Pandora's insanity seems hell-bent on making her take up the bottle to cope.

* EvilIsPetty: Jack sends his death squads after Weiss not due to anything like SinsOfTheFather, but because she has a special drone that has Hyperion programming and is just killing her for shits and giggles along the way. To top it all off, he gives her a bounty price of... fifty dollars and a high five from one of his body doubles. To top it off, he has his robots do a lot of degrading things to the SDC homeworld like tea-bag the statue of Nicholas Schnee.

* GenerationXerox: Discussed and actively averted in Weiss's case. She may have her mother's looks, but she's trying very hard not to become an alcoholic like Willow, even though Pandora's insanity seems hell-bent on making her take up the bottle to cope.

* AlienBlood: Bandits, no longer being human due to the Grimm masks forced on them, instead bleed a black, oil-like substance that smells of rot and decay.

* FusionFic: The lore and worlds of the two series are mixed into one, as Ruby was born a Siren, corporations like the Schnee Dust Company, Hyperion, and Atlas litter the stars and control various planets, and Grimm are present throughout the galaxy. This is all traced back to when the opening of the first Vault led to humanity discovering interstellar travel.

* Fiction500: Corporations practically embody this given how ludicrous their investments and overall stocks are. Hyperion in particular makes 80 ''quadrillion'' on a quarterly basis. The Schnee family used to own their own planet and the garden of their mansion had it's own mini-mansion according to Weiss. Angel, despite no longer being with Hyperion, siphoned a few hundred billion dollars in seed money to start her own business. Oh, and she also legally owns the '''entire planet of Pandora'''.

* ActionGirl: It's ''RWBY'' mixed with ''Borderlands'', so this is present full stop. Whether it's Ruby being a Siren, Weiss and her deadly combat drone, Blake's ninja/assassination skills, or Yang's bounty hunting skills and raw power, pretty much all of them kick ass in their own ways.

* PowerIncontinence: According to Yang, Ruby would create bursts and small maelstroms of razor sharp rose petals whenever she sneezed as a child.