History Fanfic / RemnantsBlondBard

* WorldTour: Jaune's plan is travel around the Remnant and see the world.

* BigFriendlyDog: Penny's dog named Buddie, introduced in Chapter 22.

* SquishyWizard: He's not sporting a RobeAndWizardHat and throwing fireballs, but the fact remains that Jaune ends up building himself as a UtilityPartyMember with magic buffs and charms cast through speech and music. That's literally all he has going for him, as his other stats are near rock-bottom and his Aura is still locked, meaning his health pool, physical ability and toughness are all far below what's expected to suffice in any kind of fight, even with civilians. A slap from his sister takes a decent chunk of his health. [[spoiler:Two sloppy attacks from Blake takes ''most of it'' in just a couple seconds. Afterwards, he dumps every point he has available into Constitution so that at least he'll be able to survive ''five'' hits like that instead of maybe three]].

** Winter explicitly describes Penny Polendina as asexual and aromantic.

* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Jaune can understand animals and vice versa. Aside from the usual drawback that bird calls are now translated into calls for sex, Jaune learns how stupid animals can be, that they can have serious misconceptions like what happens to the sun at night, and more. Dolphins can carry the best conversations due to their intellect but they still lack certain words, such as having no word for "nets" or "humans" and Jaune's semblance can't translate their names properly. The leader's daughter gives her name and Jaune notes that "Water's-Cooling-Touch" is the ''meaning'' of the name and significantly longer than whatever she actually said. Furthermore, he learns that the barking of puppies translates to them showering everyone that passes him by with love, while cats are usually full of themselves and sadistic monsters that love the dying sounds of the animals they kill.

* WhamLine: [[spoiler: The end of Chapter 21 has Blake try to restrain Jaune in order to get her weapon back, only to be attacked by birds when Jaune cried out for help... including a juvenile Grimm Nevermore.]]

* SuperNaturalFearInducer: Jaune's Bardic Skills can act as this to defend him. His "Discordant Song" causes Blake intense enough fear she runs away and his screaming for help causes a similar feeling.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Weiss can be frosty and caustic towards Jaune, but she also arranges a performance with him partly to help build his reputation as a musician, writes a letter of recommendation for him, and insists on paying him for the entirety of his original term of employment at Schnee Manor despite it ending early.
* JerkassToOne: Pyrrha to Weiss due to her jealousy over Jaune. While she's too polite to be openly mean, Pyrrha steadfastly resists Weiss' attempts at bonding even as it becomes increasingly clear they have [[LonelyAtTheTop much in common]] (which is why Weiss is trying to befriend her in the first place, recognizing her as a potential kindred spirit) and (unsuccessfully) tries to intimidate the heiress in a [[CurbStompBattle brutal training duel]].

* UncannyValley: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. [[spoiler: The Game immediately outs Penny as a robot thanks to its interface, and Jaune notes that Penny's introduction is not something a human would say and that her voice is subtly different from that of any human because she doesn't breath in order to produce it. However, without his Semblance's heads up, Jaune would have likely passed her greeting off as unusual and failed to notice the voice.]]

* WhamShot: [[spoiler: The end of Chapter 21 has Blake try to restrain Jaune in order to get her weapon back, only to be attacked by birds when Jaune cried out for help... including a juvenile Grimm Nevermore.]]

* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Jaune can understand animals and vice versa. Aside from the usual drawback that bird calls are now translated into calls for sex, Jaune learns how stupid animals can be, that they can have serious misconceptions like what happens to the sun at night, and more. Dolphins can carry the best conversations due to their intellect but they still lack certain words, such as having no word for "nets" or "humans" and Jaune's semblance can't translate their names properly. The leader's daughter gives her name and Jaune notes that "Water's-Cooling-Touch" is the ''meaning'' of the name and significantly longer than whatever she actually said.

* InterfaceSpoiler: The Game provides Jaune with a bio on everyone he examines, filled with general information that he has no logical way of learning normally. When he approaches some kind of event, The Game will often open a quest laying out what's going on and what the consequences might be, even if Jaune himself hasn't noticed anything happening yet. Case in point, a robbery taking place inside a building that Jaune is about to enter. [[spoiler:It also identifies Blake Belladonna as one of the White Fang terrorists that attack the gala at Schnee Manor.]]

* GreenEyedMonster: Pyrrha immediately goes into panic mode at even the ''implication'' of another woman or girl being interested in Jaune. She's afraid that someone else might snatch him up on his travels before they can meet again in Argus, she's keen to emphasize how "old" Winter is before his trip to Atlas, her attitude towards Weiss goes from wariness to veiled hostility when the latter inadvertently implies that she also is pursuing him, and she freaks out when it seems like Jaune has a crush on Guitar Cutie.

** Saphron is also outraged when she reads a lewd comment by "PuttingTheWinInWinchester" about Guitar Cutie and threatens to kill him.

* NotWhatItLooksLike: Jaune is flabbergasted that him spending hours alone with Willow in her bedroom makes Weiss 100% sure that something sexual is going on. In reality, all she has him do is play more of his MagicMusic.

* JerkassToOne: Pyrrha to Weiss due to her jealousy over Jaune. While she's too polite to be openly mean, Pyrrha steadfastly resists Weiss' attempts at bonding even as it becomes increasingly clear they have [[LonelyAtTheTop much in common]] (which is Weiss is trying to befriend her in the first place, recognizing her as a potential kindred spirit) and (unsuccessfully) tries to intimidate the heiress in a [[CurbStompBattle brutal training duel]].

* MinMaxing: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Jaune can earn Stat Points by either performing a task that calls upon a certain attribute or by leveling up and receiving a lump sum of points. While he ''can'' simply power-level up only using Charisma and then allocate the Stat Points from levelling up to different attributes, including more combat-oriented ones, it wouldn't be very effective. To be a good fighter, Jaune realizes he would need to be skilled at Strength, Constitution, ''and'' Dexterity, and his level ups don't give him nearly enough to Stat Points to appreciably increase his skill in those attributes, and as the speed at which he levels up through Charisma slowing due to greater EXP requirements, this strategy becomes even less viable.

* ObliviouslyBeautiful: Jaune himself is the only who doesn't see his own appearance filtered through the influence of his Charisma. From his perspective, he doesn't look much different than the scrawny, awkward youth he's always been, and there's no way he should be able to fool anyone with crossdressing. Weiss assumes it's just false modesty when he refuses to believe he looks like a playboy.

-->'''Nora (punching his arm):''' His eyes are up there.\\
'''Ren (not flinching):''' His legs are down there.

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility: With his Charisma, Jaune could get any girl he wanted to date him. This is exactly why he doesn't pursue a girlfriend.

-->'''Terra (a little too excitedly):''' I'm willing to make any sacrifice.\\
'''Saphron (dope-slapping Terra):''' What ''sacrifice'' do you think he's asking you to make? And stop drooling! He's a man.

* AntiGrinding: While Charisma is certainly ''easier'' to grind for EXP, each feat involving Charisma nets him less EXP than a bout of combat would. Furthermore, as Jaune's level increases, he starts needing more and more EXP to level up, with even his [=GuitarC=] videos no longer easily netting him the EXP needed to quickly get to the next level.

* InterfaceSpoiler: The Game provides Jaune with a bio on everyone he examines, filled with general information that he has no logical way of learning normally. When he approaches some kind of event, The Game will often open a quest laying out what's going on and what the consequences might be, even if Jaune himself hasn't noticed anything happening yet. Case in point, a robbery taking place inside a building that Jaune is about to enter.

** Willow Schnee takes Jaune under her wing after hearing his music lifts her from her depression, and interacts with him in a way that's clearly inappropriate and reminiscent of grooming. Weiss initially assumes this trope is in play and is appalled at the thought. For what its worth, it truly is nothing more than an unhealthy obsession with his MagicMusic rather than anything sexually predatory, though Jaune does wonder, had he stayed at the manor longer, it could have developed into that.

* AntiGrinding: While Charisma is certainly ''easier'' to grind for EXP, each feat involving Charisma nets him less EXP than a bout of combat would. Furthermore, as Jaune's level increases, he starts needing more and more EXP to level up, with even his GuitarC videos no longer easily netting him the EXP needed to quickly get to the next level.

* MinMaxing: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. While Jaune can simply power-level up only using Charisma and then allocate the Stat Points from levelling up to different attributes, including more combat-oriented ones, it wouldn't be very effective. To be a good fighter, Jaune realizes he would need to be skilled at Strength, Constitution, ''and'' Dexterity, as enemies will absolutely exploit a weakness in any one of those areas in a way that video-game opponents might fail to do.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Weiss can be frosty and caustic towards Jaune, but she also arranges a performance with him partly to help build his reputation as a musician, writes a letter of recommendation for him, and insists on paying him for the entirety original term of employment at Schnee Manor despite it ending early.

* MagicMusic: Choosing to specialize into a Bard gives Jaune this power, specifically letting him encourage allies by playing good music and disrupt enemies with crappy music. Just hearing him busk instantly improves Ren's mood and lets him start working through some of the stress and uncertainty he'd been dealing with internally. It even works indirectly over a transmission -- Jaune activates his power while streaming and upon watching it, Cardin Winchester makes the decision to let go of his racism, Adam Taurus is able to put his resentment aside and recognize how much he should appreciate Blake, and ''Salem feels joy for the first time in thousands of years''.

** Willow Schnee takes Jaune under her wing after hearing his music lifts her from her depression, and interacts with him in a way that's clearly inappropriate and reminiscent of grooming. Weiss initially assumes this trope is in play and is appalled at the thought. For what its worth, ''thus far'' it truly is nothing more than an unhealthy obsession with his MagicMusic rather than anything sexually predatory.

* InstrumentalWeapon: Jaune uses [spoiler:the strap of Gambol Shroud] as an improvised string instrument to play a Discordant song.