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A ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' story by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/12605116/Selene-Sokal Selene Sokal]], ''Children of the Grimmlands'' is an AlternateUniverseFic of the existing AU ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfRemnant''. After Salem secures the five children she demanded, she immediately breaks down and finds she can't harm them after all. Instead of torturing and tormenting them as part of a decades-long BatmanGambit, she desperately does everything she can to make them comfortable despite the fact that she made ''no'' preparations for keeping children safe and happy. However, she still teaches them leadership, diplomacy, combat, and magic, because she believes they need every advantage they can get in the world.

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A ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' story by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/12605116/Selene-Sokal Selene Sokal]], ''Children of the Grimmlands'' is an AlternateUniverseFic of the existing AU ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfRemnant''. After Salem secures the five children she demanded, demanded...she immediately breaks down and finds she can't harm them after all. Instead of torturing and tormenting them as part of a decades-long BatmanGambit, she desperately does everything she can to make them comfortable despite the fact that she made ''no'' preparations for keeping children safe and happy. However, she still teaches them leadership, diplomacy, combat, and magic, because she believes they need every advantage they can get in the world.
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* LimaSyndrome: Salem goes from wanting to torment the children to wanting to care for them like they were her own.

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* LimaSyndrome: Exaggerated. Salem goes from wanting to torment the children to wanting to care for them like they were her own.own in about a minute.
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* SiblingRivalry: Thanks to their powers, violent natures, and obsession with Jaune, each of the Claimed girls can create fights that become literal small-scale wars.
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* WouldntHurtAChild: Salem decides she can't go through with tormenting innocent and helpless children who haven't done a thing to her.

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* WouldntHurtAChild: Salem decides she can't go through with tormenting innocent and helpless children who haven't done a thing to her.her.
* {{Yandere}}: Emerald was perfectly prepared to frame Coco for murdering her own family to keep her from marrying Jaune.

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* ActionMom: Summer Rose, who uses her espionage skills to...help Jaune's birth parents reach out to him.



* OpportunisticBastard: The Adel parents joined Salem's religion, but Coco disgustedly notes their doing it, including marrying her off to Jaune, out of nothing but social advancement.

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* OpportunisticBastard: The Adel parents joined Salem's religion, but Coco disgustedly notes their doing it, they're "devotion", including marrying her off to Jaune, is out of nothing but social advancement.
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* AbusiveParents: Coco's parents all but bullied her into accepting an arranged marriage with Jaune with threats of FinancialAbuse.


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* OpportunisticBastard: The Adel parents joined Salem's religion, but Coco disgustedly notes their doing it, including marrying her off to Jaune, out of nothing but social advancement.
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* IncompatibleOrientation: Coco, being lesbian, has no interest in marrying the Prince of Grimm.


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* SpoiledSweet: Jaune is spoiled rotten by his adopted mom and siblings, but his genuine kindness is strong enough that even Cinder can't dismiss it.

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* AGlassOfChianti: Salem enjoys a glass of wine as she prepares to stick it to her ex-husband.



* IronicEcho: Salem sarcastically refers to the children as "little angels" when talking to Ozpin before they arrive. Later, she does repeatedly think of them as little angels.



* LimaSyndrome: Salem goes from wanting to torment the children to want to care for them like they were her own.

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* LimaSyndrome: Salem goes from wanting to torment the children to want wanting to care for them like they were her own.


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* MeaningfulEcho: Salem sarcastically refers to the children as "little angels" when talking to Ozpin before they arrive. Later, she does repeatedly think of them as little angels.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Whereas ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfRemnant'' Salem bullied and abused her adopted children [[spoiler: for the purpose of destroying Remnant]], this Salem decided to become a genuinely loving parent.

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* AdaptationalHeroism: Whereas ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfRemnant'' Salem bullied and abused her adopted children [[spoiler: for [[spoiler:for the purpose of destroying Remnant]], this Salem decided to become a genuinely loving parent.



* WorldsStrongestMan: Gender inverted. By the time she enters her teenage years, Pyrrha becomes one of the strongest warriors ever. She can even fight her own mom and win.

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* WorldsStrongestMan: Gender inverted. WorldsBestWarrior: By the time she enters her teenage years, Pyrrha becomes one of the strongest warriors ever. She can even fight her own mom and win.

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* GargleBlaster: When DrowningHerSorrows, Salem drinks Grimmstuff-infused whiskey. Cinder notes it would kill anyone else who tried to drink it, and that even being in the same room as an open bottle of the stuff probably wasn't good for her health.



* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Salem's plan gets derailed when she takes one look at the children, [[CutenessProximity finds them too adorable to harm]], and promptly realizes that she is a horrific monster for kidnapping children for the express purpose of torturing them into ChildSoldiers. She has to scramble to find them beds and food, and later breaks down crying because she feels like nothing she's doing is good enough.

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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
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Salem's plan gets derailed when she takes one look at the children, [[CutenessProximity finds them too adorable to harm]], and promptly realizes that she is a horrific monster for kidnapping children for the express purpose of torturing them into ChildSoldiers. She has to scramble to find them beds and food, and later breaks down crying because she feels like nothing she's doing is good enough.enough.
** Later, she throws Jaune in the Pool of Darkness after he asks to be like her, only to immediately freak out because she didn't think before doing it and doesn't know if he can even swim.
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* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: When the Claimed turn fifteen, Weiss tries to marry Jaune. It's pointed out that they're only of legal age in three counties in Vacuo, and she is prevented from giving her presentation to Salem. Salem, on the other hand, is DrowningHerSorrows because Jaune has to get married now that he's of legal age.

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* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: When the Claimed turn fifteen, Weiss tries to marry Jaune. It's pointed out that they're only of legal age in three counties in Vacuo (whose governments and laws aren't even recognized by the central government of Vacuo, meaning said marriages aren't recognized as legal), and she is prevented from giving her presentation to Salem. Salem, on the other hand, is DrowningHerSorrows because Jaune has to get married now that he's of legal age.age, with Cinder trying (and failing) to point out that he is only legal according to the unrecognized governments of three counties in Vacuo.

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