History Fanfic / RelicoftheFuture

* HateSink: Alexander Nikos is easily the single most hated character in the story despite having only a few scenes. He seems designed to fill the roll Mr. Schnee would normally fill (abusive rich father figure), but impossibly he comes off as even more vile then Jacques Schnee's canon portrayal.

* ArmorPiercingSlap: When she sees Raven for the first time in ''fourteen years'', Summer slaps the woman so hard she breaks her hand.

** On the flipside to the several examples of AdaptationalBadass, Ruby is badly traumatized by the attack on the Vytal Festival in Atlas. Without the motivation of her mother's death to spur her on, gives up her Huntress aspirations completely and instead seeks to become a doctor. Her family still teaches her enough to protect herself because she's been targeted before, but she's still not as good as an actual Huntsman student her age, never mind a GradeSkipper.

* CoverBlowingSuperpower: {{Defied}}. Jaune is careful of using his [[HealingHands Healing Semblance]] as little as possible because it's the kind of rare and too-useful power that draws unwanted attention. [[spoiler:Unknown to him, Ozpin was in fact on the lookout for a someone with a Semblance like his at Summer Rose's request because she wanted to personally thank the blond, blue-eyed man that saved her life.]]
* CovertPervert: Winter Schnee of all people valiantly struggled to keep her mind out of the gutter when [[spoiler:her father told her about his plans of her MarriageOfConvenience to the man she actually has the hots for. It doesn't work, so she fell back to [[INeedAFreakingDrink knocking herself out with expensive booze]].]]
* CowardlyLion: Younger Jaune and, after a bizarre heart to heart with her, Raven. Young Jaune says he's a coward but he has to fight anyway because he's terrified of losing everyone. Raven decides she's a coward too, but rather than be too cowardly to fight Salem like in the original timeline, she's too cowardly to [[spoiler:throw everything away in order to survive like her other self had]].

* DaddysGirl: Emerald. ''Big time.'' It's actually deconstructed a little, as she's built up so much of her life around Jaune and his wants, needs, and desires that it's absolutely unhealthy. She ''is'' getting better, slowly, but she still cares more about her father than literally anyone else on the planet. Yang accuses her of being this, [[InsultBackfire and Emerald agrees with her instantly]].
** Vernal is a Tsundere version after he adopts her as well. She essentially acts exactly like Emerald just with more swear words. She's much more emotionally grounded though so she's not as dependent as Emerald was, but she is extremely proud of being part of Jaune's family.

** [[spoiler:Ghira Belladonna, Blake's father, gets executed by Atlas as a result of the Atlesian Vytal Festival White Fang Attack.]]

* DefeatMeansFriendship: Inverted with Jaune and [[spoiler:Qrow]]. After losing to him he develops something of a vendetta against him. [[spoiler:Then played straight after the second time they fight. Immediately afterwards they start laughing and acting like the best of friends.]]

** Jaune certainly didn't expect [[spoiler:that the sigil on his hand gives him the ability to take the maiden's powers from Amber]].

* DirtyCoward: In a very rare form of example, Raven's cowardice is {{deconstructed}}: Young Jaune actually trusts Raven ''more'' than he trusts someone like Summer because she's such a large coward, meaning that when she feels the need to get involved in something, it's important enough for him to take seriously.

* DoWithHimAsYouWill: [[spoiler:Rather than kill Gillian for her schemes, Jaune decides to spare her life…and leave her at the mercy of the many victims of Jax's mind control]]. [[GoryDiscretionShot We don't get much description of what they do with her,]] [[SoundOnlyDeath but given her screams as Jaune & Qrow flee the scene]] that's probably for the best.
* DownerBeginning: The story begins in the aftermath of the final battle against Salem in the future, with Jaune as the SoleSurvivor. He can't even go back to his family, as they're all dead, hunted by Salem and her minions, and Jacques Schnee took over Atlas, so any attempt to go back would get him branded a traitor and arrested or worse. Such a PyrrhicVictory is the reason why he accepted a dying Salem's offer to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong despite TheTimeTravellersDilemma.

** By the time Jaune decides he should try to keep the timeline as stable as possible, he's already failed on multiple counts -- by saving Summer Rose, and by selling his future-tech scroll. Neither of these acts seemed even remotely significant to him at the time.
** Jaune was pretty chagrined when he got wind of the rumors saying he and Winter are an item, unaware that this is very much her intention. He even thought the reason why Winter has been avoiding his calls is that she's embarrassed that the tabloids would write that 16-year-old heiress is engaged to a guy almost ten years older.

** Jaune says he doesn't want to draw the attention of Salem down on Winter in chapter 45. An earlier chapter had a scene where the White Fang (who are controlled by Salem) announces that they're going to capture Winter.
** Helena tells her sister that she should find a man who is ''like'' Jaune Ashari, but not as oblivious, and take him for her own. Pyrrha's subplot of the first two seasons of RWBY was that she had fallen for Jaune (who in the future ''becomes'' Jaune Ashari).

** Jaune only discovers that the Del'Ashari tribe is [[spoiler:the remnants of Salem and Ozma's former kingdom]] years after taking the tribe's name as his own last name. As a further dose of this, it's [[spoiler:Salem]] who ends up informing him of this.

** Watts hates Jaune because he assumes that none of the latter's wealth, fame, or favor of Salem was truly earned, and that he never had to push himself or struggle to get where he is. He's not ''exactly'' wrong about Jaune's monetary wealth -- it was a thoughtless accident that made him rich, after all -- but Watts doesn't have an inkling of the struggle, suffering, and loss Jaune went through to get the opportunities he has now.
* TheDreaded: Jaune.

** To a small degree, Emerald feared him because of his DissonantSerenity while killing multiple people who were going to kill her.
** To a larger degree, Ruby fears Jaune because he cut a White Fang member in half in front of her while saving her life. Any time she's near him, she insists on standing behind someone (often Summer).

* TheDrifter: Jaune insists on traveling fairly often, if not constantly. [[spoiler:Especially after his extended stay in Atlas led to the White Fang turning militant three years early]]. This traveling usually leaves grateful civilians and awed children [[ButNowIMustGo in its wake]], not that he seems to notice. Eventually, he and Emerald settle down in Vale, but insist on going on trips for one reason or another.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: Beacon's professors express irritation that Vernal doesn't show them any respect. The sole exception is Professor Port who beat her in a spar.

** Yang and Ruby. [[spoiler:Jaune saves a dying Huntress's life with his [[HealingHands Healing Semblance]] without realizing she is Summer Rose, preventing the loss that almost destroyed Taiyang and forced Yang to [[PromotionToParent pick up the slack]] for Ruby's sake in canon. [[InvertedTrope On the flip side]], the [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe brutal way]] Jaune saves Ruby's life in Atlas gives her a trauma she didn't have in the original timeline, and Qrow later states that Ruby no longer wishes to be a Huntress. She eventually decides to become a doctor instead]].

** The first chapter has Salem claim many things about the setting's background and her history with Ozpin, all of which would be contradicted by canon months later. While a lot of canon developments are being integrated into ''Relic'' [[BroadStrokes with some finagling]], Salem's exposition here is never addressed and treated as if it never happened.

** When Salem learns of Jaune's unusual power, she concludes he's from an unknown bloodline that survived the gods wiping out humanity. It also fits with why Tyrian found Jaune near some old ruins from before humanity's near extinction.
* EscalatingWar: PlayedForDrama. This is what the championship battle between [[spoiler:Emerald and Pyrrha]] devolved into. [[spoiler:Jaune's poorly-worded concern for her made Emerald fight more aggressively than she originally intended to, prompting Pyrrha to try and capitalize on it. Emerald saw her defeat coming and came up with an impromptu BatmanGambit based on what Jaune told her about her opponent's SwissArmyWeapon. Pyrrha fell for it and turned [[NamedWeapons Milo]] into a rifle, only for Emerald to blindside her with a hidden weapon feature of her own by using her chains to jam Milo's transforming mechanisms. Emerald seized the opening and Pyrrha fell back to her [[MagnetismManipulation Semblance]] to simultaneously unjam her weapon and hit Emerald with her own chains, but this only pushed her to desperately counter with her [[MasterOfIllusion Semblance]] too. Having no prep-time, a random memory of Emerald's DarkAndTroubledPast was [[MindRape pushed into Pyrrha's mind]] and everything ended in screams.]]

** [[spoiler:Adam Taurus]], of all people. [[spoiler:"Specialist Ashari" made a powerful impression on him and Blake by defusing a mob violence incident between White Fang civil protesters and Atlesian law enforcement through a single display of strength that boiled down to "all of you behave yourselves or else." This motivated Adam to try and become stronger and more influential within the White Fang earlier than in canon, which combined with the White Fang's sudden turn to terrorism (also Jaune's fault via Tyrian and Hazel) before he crossed the line himself allowed Blake to become a much more effective moral and emotional support for him.]]

* AdaptationalJerkass: Vernal. In all her canon appearances she speaks in a well-mannered way, doesn't go out of her way to insult anyone and is genuinely loyal to Raven and the Branwen tribe as a whole. Here, she swears at every conceivable opportunity and goes out of her way to antagonize everyone around her. She is still loyal to the tribe and to Raven (even thinking worse of Yang for being so weak while wearing "her" face, or disliking Qrow because he left the tribe), but she did voluntarily leave to go train with Jaune (though she still thinks herself one of them). She's little different even when the timeline catches up to the first few Volumes, a matter of months before her canon debut, implying that her being groomed for years by Raven into a decoy Spring Maiden humbled her in a way that she hasn't been while training at Jaune's gym and attending Beacon.

** As of Chapter 29, [[spoiler:''[[CorruptCorporateExecutive Jacques Schnee]]'']] becomes this after [[spoiler:Winter returns to her role as SDC heiress, to immediate success]]. He smiles and expresses pride in [[spoiler:Winter's efforts as head of security, gives her and her staff a raise, and actually apologises for being too rash over her decision to go to Atlas Academy]]. To cap it all off, he [[spoiler:''teases her over Jaune'', tentatively supports Weiss becoming a Huntress, and pats Whitley's head]]. [[spoiler:Whitley himself says that Winter]] deciding to remain has caused him to become a better, happier person. Fascinatingly, this trope even extends to the same work. The world that Jaune came from had a Jacques that was even worse than his canon counterpart. This also results in [[spoiler:Jacques pulling any and all financial support from General Hawk and his supporters after the former murdered Ghira Belladonna]], and giving full support to [[spoiler:Ironwood as the next General of Atlas.]]
** To a small degree, Summer. In Coeur's other fics, particularly [[Fanfic/ForgedDestiny Forged Destiny]], it's implied that Summer was a great huntress and was a genuinely good person, but she wasn't a great mother, always trying to go out on the next mission and saving as many people as possible at the expense of her family. After her near-death experience and rescue by Jaune, she decides to go on less missions and spend more time with said family, becoming a better mother.
** Qrow. As a result of Summer not dying, the man drinks less, ''never'' drinks on missions, and is altogether less surly and cynical than his canon counterpart.
* AdaptationalVillainy

** [[spoiler:Blake Belladonna]] is going down a darker path, in contrast to the AdaptationalHeroism displayed by [[spoiler:Adam Taurus]]. As a result of [[spoiler:her father's execution]], this person is falling into the same murderous extremist mindset that the aforementioned adaptational hero displays in canon.

* AdaptationalWimp
** On the flipside to the several examples of AdaptationalBadass, Ruby was badly traumatized by the attack on the Vytal Festival in Atlas, and without the motivation of her mother's death, as of chapter 43, has given up her Huntress aspirations completely and instead seeks to become a doctor. Her family still teaches her enough to protect herself because she's been targeted before, but she's still not as good as an actual student her age, never mind a GradeSkipper.

* AlternativeSelfNameChange: Jaune takes the surname "Ashari" after traveling back in time, partly in honor of the Del'Ashari tribe who took him in for a while, and partly to avoid anyone connecting the dots between him and his younger self. [[spoiler:Many chapters later, he learns that the Del'Ashari are the last remnants of Ozma and Salem's kingdom, and by taking that name he's put a big neon "I'm relevant to your interests" sign on him in both their eyes.]]

** Junior's opinion of Jaune after [[spoiler:he killed several of King's top men in a deal gone bad]]. This relationship has started to gain shades of an OddFriendship over time.

** Emerald was the top student at the ASH Gym, and was quite smug and proud of it... until Vernal came along and almost effortlessly curb stomped everyone else but the teachers.

** [[spoiler:It's not clear whether Amber's FaceHeelTurn is due to resentment over Ozpin putting her in a GildedCage or legitimately believing that there was no way to beat Salem and joining her out of fear like Lionheart did.]]

* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:After creating a much better timeline with ten years of hardships, Jaune is plucked right back where he left - the burning tower with Salem's dead body in the BadFuture. Realizing that it's now his responsibility to repair the timeline once more, Jaune manages to barely save Ruby's life before setting out to do exactly that, no longer abandoning the world he once tried to save]]. Additionally, the final author's note confirms that this version of Jaune will appear in ''Fanfic/ArcRoyale'', so this is not the last we've seen of Jaune Ashari.

* AnythingButThat: PlayedForLaughs. Jaune's silent reaction when [[spoiler:Junior asked to train the Malachite twins in his Huntsman prep-school.]]

* ArmiesAreEvil: Ozpin takes a firm stance on this being the case, and argues often with James Ironwood, who in turn strives to {{Invert|edTrope}} this perception. Jaune, having seen cities that were garrisoned lightly or only with Huntsmen be wiped out overnight in his BadFuture, tends to side with Ironwood.

** {{Defied}}. Yang was showing obvious signs for this -- understandable, she was 11-year-old and the best fighter she knew in her age group -- so her father and [[spoiler:stepmother]] saw fit to sign her up for a tournament with kids as strong as her in order to keep her self-confidence from turning into hubris that could one day get her killed. [[spoiler:Sure enough, Yang got taken out without too much trouble by a then-debutante fighter Pyrrha Nikos.]]

** Jaune teased Junior about copying him after meeting the man's young bodyguards, the Malachite twins.

** Roman and Neo were very surprised to discover that they weren't the first to come up with this combo. [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble Which they would have done in the future had Jaune not done it first in the past. Or something]].

** A role Jaune ends up finding himself in fairly frequently. So far the list includes Vernal, Emerald, and Winter Schnee. [[spoiler:He later opens the ASH gym and becomes this for a number of others, including Sky Lark (of future Team CRDL), Yang, and Coco Adel.]]

* BadFuture: Jaune gets sent back from one. While they did defeat Salem in that timeline, the cost was extremely high. The rest of the kingdoms have fallen, save Atlas, which is under the dictatorial control of Jacques Schnee. Literally every single major or minor character in the show, save Jacques, Salem, and Jaune, are dead, including Jaune's family (and given that Salem is pinned to her throne by Crescent Rose through the heart, Salem doesn't have much longer). On the plus side, Raven lived in that timeline, by virtue of being nowhere near anything else and refusing to take part in the final battle.

** It turns out that Salem marking Jaune's hand before sending him back was one aimed towards her past self: knowing that only she could have given him the symbol but also knowing that she never did means that Jaune instantly becomes one of her highest-priority targets upon his arrival.

* BattleAmongstTheFlames: Chapter 66 starts with one between Hazel and Jaune Ashari surrounded by the corpses of dead White Fang members. There's even explosions in the background

** Jaune Arc (the one from the new timeline, not Jaune Ashari) says that he'd do anything to get strong enough to be a Hunter. He does this in front of Raven "Strength is literally the most important thing in the world" Branwen. As of chapter 45, she's training him.

** Emerald to Jaune, her AdoptivePeerParent. [[spoiler:Also a {{Deconstruction}} because the lack of ''any'' nurturing presence in her life prior to Jaune made her deadly afraid of either losing him or getting discarded, which manifests in her near-obsessive desire to become stronger -- and thus "useful" in her own words -- as fast as possible.]]
** [[spoiler:Cinder]] starts to legitimately respect Jaune because he [[spoiler:offers her a good-faith partnership instead of spiteful competitive backstabbing like the rest of Salem's circle, and was willing to stand up to Salem on her behalf when Salem tortures her as a demonstration.]]

* FakeAssassination: [[spoiler:Jaune]] executes this on [[spoiler:Pyrrha]] on Chapter 95 whilst [[InTheHood wearing a fully robed disguise to conceal his identity]] in order to both rile up the security forces to better protect her and provide a valid reason to move her from [[spoiler:Haven to Beacon Academy]] in order to [[spoiler:get her away from Salem's spy [[TheMole Leonardo Lionheart]] who is activately helping her subtlely to permanently remove potentially-troubling Huntsman/Huntresses, and also to prevent him being able to deliver the new "Fall Maiden" to Salem on a silver platter.]] While it had some trouble in the act of faking the shots [[spoiler:due to Helena interfering,]] the faked stunt was still executed successfully, the ripple effect occurred and word got out that an unknown assassin was after [[spoiler:Pyrrha's]] life in the news headlines shortly afterward.

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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: When Jaune gets Oobleck to translate some of the ruins he found... it doesn't go well. After a long time, much money spent, and tons of effort thrown into them, the best they can do is a few pages of partially translated notes. Work like that takes time, particularly the translation of dialects that haven't been spoken of in thousands of years. It's the reason the Rosetta's Stone in real life was so important -- it offered a way to translate texts not spoken by any living person.

* AGodAmI: Jaune speaks from experience regarding [[spoiler:Omaira, relaying to Qrow that suddenly being given the powers of the Summer Maiden, accidentally killing her family with it, and never being directly contacted by Ozpin means that her ego has swelled to the point that she believes she's blessed by the Gods and has become more than human. Jaune notes in his thoughts that it wouldn't surprise him if she genuinely thought she was some kind of demigod]].

** Arthur Watts is also pettiness personified. [[spoiler:When Jaune offers to make him a partner in their new energy system, he decides to sabotage it and attempt to kill Winter out of spite that Jaune was attempting to prove that he was "better" than him]].

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:At some point in the past, Amber joined Salem's forces]].

* FateWorseThanDeath: In the first chapter, when Jaune accuses Salem of trying to draw him close to kill him, Salem points out that if she wanted to hurt him she can't do any better than leaving him alive in a war torn world where all his friends and family are dead.

* GiverOfLameNames: Hei "Junior". His gang is the Red Axe Gang and his nightclub is "The Club". After learning his street name is [[spoiler:Goldilocks]], Jaune admits he shouldn't have let Junior choose it for him.

** Yang and Ruby. [[spoiler:Jaune saved a dying Huntress's life with his [[HealingHands Healing Semblance]] without realizing she was Summer Rose, preventing the loss that almost destroyed Taiyang and forced Yang to [[PromotionToParent pick up the slack]] for Ruby's sake. [[InvertedTrope On the flip side]], the [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe brutal way]] Jaune saved Ruby's life in Atlas gave her a trauma she didn't have in the original timeline, and Qrow later states that Ruby no longer wishes to be a Huntress.]]
** Blake. [[spoiler:Jaune unwittingly influenced Adam to try and become stronger and more influential within the White Fang before he crossed the MoralEventHorizon, which allowed Blake to become a more effective moral and emotional center for him that, so far, is keeping him from becoming the monster he was in canon and preserving their relationship]]. Subverted quite nastily later on when we discover that [[spoiler:Ghira was murdered by the General of the Atlesian army without being charged for anything; Ironwood, Adam and Sienna don't take the news very well, and Adam frets over how Blake will handle the news]].
** Weiss. [[spoiler:He asked Winter to remain the Schnee heiress for the time being as part of a BatmanGambit to get Jacques to support Ironwood during the fallout of the tragedy of the Vytal Festival Tournament in Atlas. This not only allowed Winter to be the sole reliable older figure to her younger siblings, but also reprieved Weiss from the pressure of becoming the heiress herself and in turn train to become a Huntress with their father's blessing. Further, both she and Whitley have received training from Winter, meaning that once they do come to Vale, they're stronger than they would have been at this point in the original timeline.]]
** Pyrrha. [[spoiler:This story posits that the Nikos family grooms their young to martial success through [[HonorRelatedAbuse effective yet questionable methods and philosophies]] ([[FridgeBrilliance which would explain]] why her canon self [[CanNotSpitItOut couldn't even confess to the guy she liked]]). Jaune preventing [[OriginalCharacter her older sister]]'s death and her return to the Nikos family improved Pyrrha's family life by both providing a CoolBigSis to confide in and look up to and, sadly enough, because Helena draws the blunt of their father's abuse to herself and away from Pyrrha.]]
** Ren and Nora. [[spoiler:Jaune didn't arrive to Kuroyuri in time to save their families, but he did manage to give them some survival gear and supplies, rescue other villagers, and avenge the fallen by killing the Nucklelavee. Chapter 46 revealed that they may be in a lot of trouble, though, as after they escaped they were apparently taken in by Watts, one of Salem's minions.]]
** The Schnee family in general. [[spoiler:Due to Winter deciding to stay with the SDC (a suggestion of Jaune's) Jacques is put much more at ease since she's set to inherit the company. This has made him much more likable in general, such as him allowing Weiss to follow her dreams and not only trying to set up a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage for Winter, but actually ''teasing'' her about her crush. Winter outright admits that before they had a massive falling out he was actually a good, if very busy, father and now with her return he's slowly going back to how he was.]]

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** In the original timeline, Jaune and Weiss apparently got together shortly after the Battle of Haven because [[RescueRomance Jaune saved her life]]. Unfortunately, as a result, the entire foundation of that relationship was that Weiss believed she owed it to him out of gratitude for saving her, and such a terrible foundation meant that it didn't last long for them.
** When Jaune gets Oobleck to translate some of the ruins he found... it doesn't go well. After a long time, much money spent, and tons of effort thrown into them, the best they can do is a few pages of partially translated notes. Work like that takes time, particularly the translation of dialects that haven't been spoken of in thousands of years. It's the reason the Rosetta's Stone in real life was so important -- it offered a way to translate texts not spoken by any living person.
** Summer immediately tells Ozpin about the man that saved her life, and as much as she could tell about him, and tries to check up once a month to see if Ozpin has found her savior. The problem is, the best description she could give is "Blonde Hair and Blue Eyes, with a healing semblance." Semblances are not an exterior feature, and require active use to be seen (if they can be seen, which isn't always a guarantee), and even if they were, "Blonde and Blue Eyed," is such a wide net, even Taiyang (her husband) falls into it.
** Even if Jaune is shown affection by someone, he's not obligated to return those feelings. Summer, Qrow, and Taiyang start teasing him about Winter kissing him, but they stop short when he tells them he doesn't feel the same way but doesn't know how to tell her that without crushing her (or getting her on a campaign to slay Salem and her goons to make sure Jaune is available). He even points out that even if he ''was'' interested, there's lots of competing things on his attention, such as his illicit activities, running the gym, prepping to fight Salem, and working his plans around Ozpin's, not to mention that he's number one on Salem's list. He does admit that he wouldn't mind going on a date or two with Winter to see if things could work out if he didn't have all those things going on in his life.
** Abuse and a total lack of anything resembling love and affection from growing up is ''not'' something fixed easily. It takes Jaune close to eight years to get through to Emerald that he's not keeping her for a purpose, that he's not going to sexually assault her, and that he cares for her as a human being. And even then, Emerald struggles in social situations that a ten year old would navigate with ease, has trust issues miles high, and doesn't like anyone who tries to get close to Jaune for fear they might take away the only person she really believes in in the world.
** Ironwood and the other teachers at Atlas are educators and instructors of children, meaning that they recognize clear signs of abuse. It takes less than a day for them to confront Jaune about Emerald's TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior, and those assigned to teach Emerald pepper in their conversations with her with questions about how Jaune has been raising her. He isn't abusing her, of course, it's a result of Emerald growing up on the streets, but they don't know that and they have to be sure.
** Apparently Jaune leaving Nora and Ren to fend for themselves in the wilderness instead of taking them with him, no matter how prepared they were, would backfire on him. Roman learned this the hard way when he was hired ''years'' later to search for them -- [[spoiler:''Watts'' had found the pair because Salem had her forces keeping an ear to the ground about anyone who knew Jaune.]]
** When a freak storm delays their flight, Qrow is incredulous that they have to wait two hours, but Taiyang points out that the airport has to chart a new route, add extra fuel, and contact the receiving airport to make sure there's room at the new time.
** Young Jaune attempting to attack a Maiden by screaming at the top of his lungs as he runs across fifty meters of open ground gives the woman an eternity to casually dodge his attack and pin him to the ground. However, said Maiden then ignoring Jaune when he's both conscious and uninjured gives him an opportunity to stab her in the thigh.
** Not long after Young Jaune went off with Raven to [[spoiler:rescue Ren and Nora]], his family realized he was gone and filed a missing persons report along with checking everywhere they can think of to find him.
** The horrible work conditions SDC employees face at many of their mines aren't because of Jacques Schnee but more local managers trying to look good by increasing profits while cutting costs. Running a Fiction500 doesn't allow someone the time to oversee every minute detail of their company.
** While giving Jaune advice on [[spoiler:possibly marrying Winter]], Summer notes that it's not necessarily a lifelong commitment, citing that a number of people [[spoiler:marry]] multiple times over the course of their life for one reason or another.
** Something that Jaune never thought about in the original timeline, but realizes in the new one, is the full consequences of Cinder's operations leading up to the Fall of Beacon. Putting aside all the life-and-death matters of violent crime, consorting with terrorists, using Grimm as shock troops, and destroying a Huntsman academy... Roman and the White Fang stealing and hoarding all the Dust they could find seriously messed up the world's ''economy'', long before the stakes became lethal. Thanks to Jaune's changes, Vale and the SDC are much more economically stable by the time of his original year at Beacon.
** Sun's tendency to wear his shirts unbuttoned is partially a habit from when he was homeless and had to wear anything he could find, often having to leave shirts unbuttoned so they'd actually fit. Emerald notes having similar experiences but her slight frame meant she had to worry about clothes being too big rather than too small.
** [[spoiler:Summer Rose refuses to accept that Jaune is a time traveller without proof, something that never mattered to everyone else who learned the truth because they had a reason to believe it - Raven had Jaune's memories implanted in her head by a being that cannot physically lie, and Winter is in love with him and believed him on principle if nothing else. Jaune also can't provide the proof she wants by this point because the timeline has changed so much that his knowledge is now next to useless, and he can't use anything only she would know because she died before he could meet her in the original timeline. As a result, all Jaune can do is hope that Oscar becomes Ozpin's next host like the original timeline because he has no other information he can possibly reveal.]]
** After accepting a deal with [[spoiler:Salem]] to close three SDC mines in exchange for some information, Jaune talks to Winter to convince her to do it. To his misfortune, she has no way to do it - while she understands why he wants it, she can't give the SDC board a plausible reason to lose so much profit, and the only way she could legally do it (close the three in order to consolidate their forces into one larger dig site) is no longer plausible now that large dig sites have long since run dry. Even when Jaune decides to ''illegally'' close the sites, Winter can't help him because if she goes missing for even half an hour she'd have four middle managers and the entire board on her back wondering what happened (all of this without even mentioning that she'd be instantly recognized as soon as she tried anything).
** While Raven & Qrows' bird forms are a convenient way for them to travel, they were also incredibly difficult to get used to, as the differences of a human & bird mind made it very difficult for them to get a hang on them at first. Not to mention the numerous other drawbacks, like landing being difficult, having to fight off predators, take care of their feathers and not give into the birds' hormones.
** [[spoiler: Omaira, the Summer Maiden,]] may have godlike powers, but due to having the mentality of child and never experiencing real combat with anyone, she is unprepared for Jaune's attacks, allowing him to have the upper hand during most of their fight. Had it not have been for Qrow's interference, he would've killed her easily.

* HeroWithBadPublicity: Jaune ends up as this, at least in Atlas, after [[spoiler:protecting a peaceful White Fang rally against an angry mob]]. [[spoiler:It goes UpToEleven after the White Fang turn militant and attack the Vytal Festival later that year, though this was self-invoked by Jaune so that Ironwood wouldn't take the blame and be able to become the General that Atlas needs.]]

* AdultFear:
** Her time as a StreetUrchin made Emerald painfully aware of the very worst people can do to others. Suffice to say it takes her ''months'' of continued cohabitation to stop expecting Jaune to sexually assault her. [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior She was around]] ''[[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior eight years old]]'' [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior at the time]].
*** It gets worse when Summer finds out that Emerald has ''no'' context for any sexual activity that isn't linked to rape or prostitution, or other equally unsavory things.
** Qrow and Jaune have this concerning Ozpin and his plans. It's becoming more and more clear that he wants Ruby and Yang in Beacon so that they can become the core of the next iteration of team STRQ, despite that Ruby doesn't want to become a Huntress anymore out of trauma and that Team STRQ have experienced no end of hardship working for Ozpin (ranging from seeing the effects of the tournament on Ruby to Summer nearly getting killed to Raven just straight-up abandoning all of them with Ozpin as the largest contributing factor).
** Young Jaune disappears from his home one night with no one in town having seen him leave.

** Jaune develops a tendency to ruffle Emerald's hair. Considering her initial [[AdultFear fears of being beaten or sexually abused]] by this strange man, allowing these small gestures of affection is a pretty big show of trust in him.

** Inverted with Emerald, whose lack of ''any'' support from fellow [[StreetUrchin street rats]], as well as the added dangers of being a [[AdultFear young girl living on the streets]], led her to be a somber, cynic, and somewhat timid child.

* PoorCommunicationKills: While it doesn't exactly cause any deaths, many of the Emerald's mental issues could have been resolved far earlier had Jaune told her that he considered her his daughter, or even just that he wasn't going to [[AdultFear sexually assault her]].

* HowDoIShotWeb: Because of the circumstances of his travelling to the past, Jaune becomes one of the only people in the world who has the ability of real magic. But not having been born with it, and all knowledge of it having been wiped out, Jaune has no idea what the extent of his powers are or how to make them work. Needless to say, his efforts to figure things out are a slow-going uphill battle of trial and error, when he makes progress it's mostly by accident, and his fumbling often makes things worse. [[spoiler:After getting all of an ancient instruction book, a cipher to read it, some description of how to activate magic, and a guinea pig in one Arthur Watts, Jaune can finally start to intentionally learn things and practice them.]]

** When Emerald and Vernal team up [[spoiler:in an attempt to get Oscar punished, Emerald informs Summer of Oscar trying to pressure Ruby into being trained and then has Vernal pretend to be him while she uses her Semblance to fill in the rest. In the process, they notice that Summer calls him Ozpin; when Emerald then has Oscar act and sound like Ozin and Summer treats it like normal, they realize they've stumbled onto something major]].

* CowardlyLion: Younger Jaune and, after a bizarre heart to heart with her, Raven. Young Jaune says he's a coward but he has to fight anyay because he's terrified of losing everyone. Raven decides she's a coward too, but rather than be too cowardly to fight Salem like in the original timeline, she's too cowardly to [[spoiler:throw everything away in order to survive like her other self had]].

** Every one of Jaune's students at the ASH gym have passed the qualification tests for Beacon, to the point that even Glynda is excited about the upcoming students. Notably is Sky Lark, one of Beacon's cowardly punching bags in the original timeline, takes well to Jaune's training and becomes one of the best in his gender and age group, to the point of being able to give a good challenge to Yang.

** Every one of Jaune's students at the ASH gym have passed the qualification tests for Beacon, to the point that even Glynda is excited about the upcoming students.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Thus far, [[spoiler:Mercury Black and Maria Calavera]] remain the only major characters whose states in the new timeline have not been discovered or mentioned.

** Jaune is noted by Ozpin to look like he's at least 35 despite being in his late twenties due to stress.

* ImmortalityImmaturity: After years of castigating and proclaiming the worst of the Brother Gods for their actions thousands of years ago, a discussion with Team STQ gets Jaune to consider another hypothesis: that the Brothers were, in the grand scheme of things, in their relative infancy at the time, doing something that they'd explicitly never done before (possibly something that had never ''been'' done before), and the reprehensible behavior that he hates them for may have originated from a lack of wisdom and experience they may have already grown out of. Jaune tentatively admits that it is plausible. [[spoiler:It proves to be on the right track in the end. When asked, Jinn admits that the Gods have no interest in repeating all the mistakes they made when they walked amongst humanity, and have even accepted fault and apologized to Ozma and Salem after welcoming them to the afterlife]].

** In the Volume 5 finale of ''RWBY'', it is heavily implied that Raven murdered the Spring Maiden for her power. Her version of events here sheds a little light on what happened. [[spoiler:In this story, the Spring Maiden was so desperate to be rid of her responsibility that she considered joining Salem and attacked Raven when she tried to reason with her. Raven fought her to the death out of self defence and because her distrust of Ozpin does not blind her to the fact that Salem could and ''would'' use the girl's power to wreak havoc on the world.

* BroadStrokes: As both canon ''RWBY'' and ''Relic'' move forward, later scenes from canon are mentioned to have happened in the original timeline of ''Relic''. The issue is that the later direction of ''RWBY'''s plot increasingly contradicts the stated conclusion that sets up ''Relic'', and it will surely deviate further as ''RWBY'' itself approaches its end. It's safe to say that the original timeline in ''Relic'' is not the same as the canon timeline, but instead one where many of the same events occurred but not all, and not always in the same way. For example, in Chapter 150 [[spoiler:Jaune and Ironwood discuss the events of Volume 8, but that Volume ended with Atlas and Mantle destroyed and Jacques Schnee dead, while ''Relic'' has established that Atlas was one of the only places that mostly survived to the end, and Jacques had taken control of what was left of the kingdom. Unlike some instances of earlier conjecture being quietly retconned to match later canon, ''Relic'''s description of the state of Atlas stays the same all the way up 'til the final chapter]].

* HasAType: It's not lost on anyone that Raven is unusually close with two (not-so-)separate people who are blond with blue eyes, just like Taiyang. It's ambiguous whether it's actually the case since she's made no move towards Jaune beyond some teasing, but everybody assumes it at some point. For what it's worth, there was one time she mistook him for Tai while in a half-awake haze and begged him to come back to bed... [[spoiler:Jaune and Qrow ultimately come to the conclusion that she does love him, but waited too long to make her move and lost her chance to do anything with him. That is, until Winter allows her one night to join them in the bedroom]].

* BroadStrokes: As both canon ''RWBY'' and ''Relic'' move forward, later scenes from canon are mentioned to have happened in the original timeline of ''Relic''. The issue is that the later direction of ''RWBY'''s plot increasingly contradicts the stated conclusion that sets up ''Relic'', and it will surely deviate further as ''RWBY'' itself approaches its end. It's safe to say that the original timeline in ''Relic'' is not the same as the canon timeline, but instead one where many of the same events occurred but not all, and not always in the same way. For example, in Chapter 150 [[spoiler:Jaune and Ironwood discuss the events of Volume 8, but that Volume ended with Atlas and Mantle destroyed and Jacques Schnee dead, while ''Relic'' has established that Atlas was one of the only places that mostly survived to the end, and Jacques had taken control of what was left of the kingdom]].

* ImmortalityImmaturity: After years of castigating and proclaiming the worst of the Brother Gods for their actions thousands of years ago, a discussion with Team STQ gets him to consider another hypothesis: that the Brothers were, in the grand scheme of things, in their relative infancy at the time, doing something that they'd explicitly never done before (possibly something that had never ''been'' done before), and the reprehensible behavior that he hates them for may have originated from a lack of wisdom and experience they may have already grown out of. Jaune tentatively admits that it is plausible. [[spoiler:It proves to be on the right track in the end. When asked, the Gods admit that

The work is at over 1,000,000 words and sitting at over 160 chapters as it moves to a close. Can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12863738/1/Relic-of-the-Future here]] at Website/FanFictionDotNet.

* AlasPoorVillain: Jaune does his best to comfort [[spoiler:Omaira in her final moments, in spite of all the crimes she committed in both timelines. He gently assures her that she became a monster through no real fault of her own, and that her parents will forgive her when they meet in the afterlife]].

* HasAType: It's not lost on anyone that Raven is unusually close with two (not-so-)separate people who are blond with blue eyes, just like Taiyang. It's ambiguous whether it's actually the case since she's made no move towards Jaune beyond some teasing, but everybody assumes it at some point. For what it's worth, there was one time she mistook him for Tai while in a half-awake haze and begged him to come back to bed...

* SoleSurvivor: Jaune. It's the reason he decided to accept Salem's offer.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: Beacon professors express irritation that Vernal doesn't show them any respect. The sole exception is Professor Port who beat her in a spar.