History Fanfic / RemnantInvicta

** Throughout the story, there's no indication that Ozpin is a host of Ozma or that Ozma is active at all, even when readers get his own narration. His absence may be part of the reason the situation on Remnant has gotten so bad.

* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: [[spoiler:Dissatisfied with all the pop-fiction that's come out in the years since humanity's victory, which is indistinguishable from the disingenuous propaganda that was fed to the public during the war to keep morale and self-sacrificing patriotism up, Ozpin decides to write and release his own memoir detailing the unglamorous realities of the conflict and the unfortunate, messy people who grew up and died in it. While telling the rough draft to his adopted granddaughter, [[NarratorAllAlong he starts by recites the opening lines of the fic]]]].

** Blake here doesn't have her canon history of having perpetrated in acts of terrorism.

* DecapitatedArmy: [[spoiler:The Grimm were originally an rampaging force which could act on its own, but by making them so militarized, Salem has made the Grimm so completely reliant on her command that they become totally docile once she's dead, to the point where they cease to be a problem entirely]].

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Sun is a student at Beacon Academy instead of Mistral, due to how Vale and Atlas are the only two arcologies left standing by the time the story starts.

* AdaptationalHeroism: This version of Raven stayed and fought for humanity before dying in the line of duty.

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Most of the main characters seem to have the same parentage as canon, but since they were gestated by machinery and born directly into military service, there's no actual family relationship, just a genetic one. None of them know their parents personally, and never will as most of them are dead.

* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:As good a track record Jaune has for survival, even he doesn't make it out of the FinalBattle, being the one to call down Terminus on his own location]].

* SuperBreedingProgram: Huntsmen and Huntress trainees, who are generally selected for naturally having a degree of Aura ability without training, are made to donate reproductive cells at regular intervals, so that their Aura will hopefully be passed on and keep the ranks filled with strong candidates.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14147353/1/Remnant-Invicta Remnant Invicta]]'' is a ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' AlternateUniverseFic written by Creator/CoeurAlAran. Currently ongoing.

* SoleSurvivor: Jaune was the last man alive on several (though not all) of his squads. Other soldiers have started seeing him as a bad omen, to the point where no part of the normal military will accept him anymore for fear of affecting the other soldiers' morale. [[spoiler:Sure enough, he's the last man standing in Phoenix Squad... just ultimately without the "Survivor" part]].

* AdaptationalWimp: Conversely with being more trained and competent, characters who aren't Huntsmen or Huntresses in this setting do not have Aura, making them less physically powerful than they were in canon. Particular is Jaune, who while a novice at first was shown to have extraordinary capacity and be a natural at controlling it (rendering most combat into AmusingInjuries), compared to here where he wasn't recognized for exceptional aptitude while others were and can't fully get the hang of it even after weeks of instruction.

* DwindlingParty: [[spoiler:Phoenix Squadron fares better than any of Jaune's assignments in the past, but only to the extent of dying one-by-one on different missions rather than all at once. By Chapter 19, only Ruby and Jaune are left]].

* EyeScream: [[spoiler:During the stand to protect the launch of Project Terminus, Jaune's visor gets shattered and the shards fly into his face and one of his eyes. He's so high on adrenaline and his entire supply of combat drugs that he barely notices and even jokes about it once the violence has passed]].

* SoleSurvivor: Jaune was the last man alive on several (though not all) of his squads. Other soldiers have started seeing him as a bad omen, to the point where no part of the normal military will accept him anymore for fear of affecting the other soldiers' morale.

** By the start of the story Jaune's flip-flops between feeling guilty for his survival and just being sick of it all. It's happened so many times that to him it's more tiresome than anything else, and he comes close to [[DeathSeeker wishing for death]] just so fate will stop yanking him around already.
** [[spoiler:Ruby can't handle being the last original Phoenix squadmate and especially outliving Yang, lashing out at Jaune before breaking down in shame and grief]].

* DarkerAndEdgier: The story ''starts'' in a state just as bad as the DarkestHour in canon, if not ''worse''. Having to cope with it as a society means that indulging in distasteful vices has become commonplace. Look no further than Ruby, who as per canon is cute, shy, and supportive... but is here also a recreational drinker, hard drug user, potty-mouth and [[spoiler:moonshiner]] and nobody bats an eye.

* SuicideMission: The state of the war effort is such that accomplishing anything important (or trying and failing) is going to involve making lots of corpses, and they know that going it.

* SuicideMission:

* WhyIsntItAttacking: Or ''continuing'' to attack, at any rate. [[spoiler:After Terminus launches, the Grimm all stop mauling their way through the defensive lines and pull back. Jaune barely has time to consider why Salem deliberately called a retreat rather than finish wiping out Vale at least out of spite, before he has to see to his injured squadmate]].
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Hehehe, [[AvertedTrope nope]]. If members of the military want to get any, they can't afford to pussyfoot around their feelings because any given day they could get sent out to die. Both the {{Official Couple}}s from canon took ''many'' Volumes to finally move towards getting together... but here they've long since taken the plunge and have very active sex lives.

* EyeScream: [[spoiler:During the stand to protect the launch of Project terminus, Jaune's visor gets shattered and the shards fly into his face and one of his eyes. He's so high on adrenaline and his entire supply of combat drugs that he barely notices and even jokes about it once the violence is passed]].

* BornWinner: Most of the Huntsman pipeline is composed of people who had the ability to manifest and use Aura without having someone unlock it or instruct them how. That's generally a sign of high natural aptitude and strong capacity, making the long training investment worth it. The majority come from {{Uterine Replicator}}s fed with material from older candidates. Jaune is an exception for being born naturally and displaying Aura aptitude much later in life.

** [[spoiler:Lie Ren]] gets critically injured on the mission to the dust mines, is then discovered to been infected by the Grimm rot before taking his own life. At the same time on another front of that operation, one of the many ''many'' reported casualties is [[spoiler:Glynda Goodwitch]].

* DemotedToExtra: Blake is still in the protagonists' circle, but only unofficially by being involved with Yang, and when their lives are so controlled and regimented by the military, that means that most of the important viewpoint stuff happens without her. She has her own team and assignments, but those are all offscreen, and she most often appears when they all have downtime.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Salem has all the time in the world to destroy humanity, and the only reason people have survived this long at all is because she prefers to apply steady pressure to break humanity's defenses down over time, not taking many aggressive risks that her forces would need time to replenish from. [[spoiler:The fact that she pushes her forces on Atlas ahead of schedule and does everything she can to hunt down the evacuees (rather than her normal strategy of letting a refugee crisis weaken the remaining populations) tips the soldiers off that Salem is ''panicking'' about something. They're right -- Atlas was in the middle of working on something that, if completed, could change the course of the war]].

* JustBeforeTheEnd: Most of the planet has been made uninhabitable, supply chains for manufacturing and food are in shambles, the private sector is all-but gone with all significant productivity controlled by the government and channeled into the war effort, and the heroes' forces haven't ever been able to gain ground, only slowly but surely lose it. It's impolite (and possibly treasonous) to say it out loud and contradict the propaganda, but just about everyone who knows the reality of things is fully aware that there's no hope of victory, and they are likely living in humanity's last days.

* FromBadToWorse: Civilization has been in decline for ages by the present, and only a short time ago Vale attempted a disastrous operation that wasted a massive chunk of their total manpower. Very quickly into the story, the only other city left, Atlas, is wiped out, and the mission to save the fleeing refugees costs ''three quarters of their remaining Huntsmen'', including Qrow Branwen, the oldest active-duty Huntsman and famous war hero. The situation has so rapidly and drastically turned for the worse that the news has to be fully suppressed, or else public morale will be unsalvageable.
* GameChanger: Humanity has been slowly and steadily ground down and choked out by Salem's siege since before anyone can remember. Mistral has already fallen years ago, and Atlas is broken very shortly into the story, leaving Vale as the only significant bastion of humankind left on the planet. But Salem breaks from her established M.O. to destroy Atlas and tries to ensure nothing escapes to Vale, only to fail. [[spoiler:Atlas had been working on something, a weapon meant to be capable of killing Salem, and when she got wind of its existence she could not allow it to be finished. In spite of her efforts, most of the minds behind the project reached safety in Vale to continue development. Humanity has a glimmer of hope to turn the war around, but they'll have to survive a redoubled onslaught as Salem tries to stop that from happening]].

* SuicideMission: Jaune and Ozpin both survived what they have no problem calling a suicide mission, if not literally then practically. Thousands of soldiers and hundreds of Huntsmen were wasted on what was heralded as the beginning of humanity's big counteroffensive, but which turned out to be a useless blunder that didn't even get close to the first of its lofty objectives.

* BedmateReveal: The morning after Jaune's welcoming party to Phoenix Squad, he wakes up hungover in bed with Ruby. After numbly wondering what that implies happened, he realizes they're both mostly still clothed, and remembers her barging in during the night so she could escape hearing Yang and Blake go at it in the same room.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The story ''starts'' in a state just as bad as the DarkestHour in canon, if not ''worse''. Having to cope with it as a society means that indulging in distasteful vices has become commonplace. Look no further than Ruby, who as per canon is cute, shy, and supportive... but is here also a recreational drinker and hard drug user and nobody bats an eye.

* MilitaryMoonshiner: Jaune's experience in the military is that there's always one guy in a barracks who makes the hard stuff and everyone either dabbles or looks the other way. Jaune was the latter, because with his engineering background he was one of the only soldiers who theoretically had a future and would benefit from avoiding bad habits... until he was kicked into Beacon.

* AdaptationalBadass: Beowolves, one of the most basic and throwaway Grimm in canon, have intentionally been evolved by Salem to be far more dangerous. A squad of soldiers could probably shoot a Beowolf to death in the show -- here, one tears a swath through Jaune's squad, crushing some to gibs with strength alone and almost ignoring their gunfire, only going down when a whole munitions crate is detonated in its face. Later, a squad of six Huntsman trainees fight some in the field. They can comfortably fight one Beowolf without being in serious danger, but don't manage to kill it even after nearly a minute of combat and are forced to flee when another handful show up. By contrast, the very first thing viewers ever saw of ''RWBY'' was an entire swarm of them getting cut down by one hero without breaking a sweat.

* RightThroughTheWall: Ren and Nora bunk next door to Yang and Blake and complain about the noise, saying ''they'' at least keep it down. Yang snipes back that TheModestOrgasm is still fully audible, and ''she and Blake'' at least get it over with instead of dragging it out for an hour.