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That's the gist of ''The Beacon Civil War'', a tale blatantly inspired by ''Literature/CiaphasCain''. Written by Creator/CoeurAlAran, it can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12638092/1/The-Beacon-Civil-War here]].
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That's the gist of ''The Beacon Civil War'', a tale blatantly inspired by ''Literature/CiaphasCain''.''Literature/CiaphasCain''[[note]]Hero Of The Imperium!!![[/note]]. Written by Creator/CoeurAlAran, it can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12638092/1/The-Beacon-Civil-War here]].
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Pyrrha is made the leader of the girls because she's famous for being the strongest, her electors intending to follow this trope. But Pyrrha ''isn't'' the strongest female student -- that would be Cinder, who as per usual is keeping a low profile and doesn't do anything significant for the entire war.
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Pyrrha is made the leader of the girls because she's famous for being the strongest, her electors intending to follow this trope. But Pyrrha ''isn't'' the strongest female student -- that would be Cinder, who as per usual is keeping a low profile and doesn't do anything significant for the entire war.
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* TemptingFate: Jaune tries to convince Pyrrha to stand down and make peace in the final hours, saying there's no reason for them not to try considering the girls currently have the advantage, they haven't got any feedback from the teachers thus far, and that even if there ''was'' a rule, the teachers would rather let them learn than just give them the answer. Before he can finish his sentence, the school's PA system comes on and Ozpin clarifies that no, peace isn't an option, sorry.
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* MundaneMadeAwesome: The dramatics and pointlessly heated competition seen in Beacon's earlier food fight are enforced by the school's faculty for the duration of a full week. Rather than a training exercise and/or stock battle of the sexes episode, everybody acts like it's a brutal conflict of LaResistance fighting hopelessly for survival against a tyrannical EvilEmpire, and Jaune's impromptu gathering is framed as religious deliverance (to his chagrin).
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* MundaneMadeAwesome: The dramatics and pointlessly heated competition seen in Beacon's earlier food fight are enforced by the school's faculty for the duration of a full week. Rather than a training exercise and/or stock battle of the sexes episode, everybody except Jaune acts like it's a brutal conflict of LaResistance fighting hopelessly for survival against a tyrannical EvilEmpire, and Jaune's impromptu gathering is framed as religious deliverance (to his chagrin).
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* AsideComment: In ''Ciaphas Cain'' fashion, while the bulk of the narration is framed as Jaune's diary writings from after the fact, Ren is editing the memoir and takes the time to add in his own brief perspective on things from time to time.
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* UnreliableNarrator: Besides all of the various times CRDL go on about Jaune's greatness, Nora also greatly exaggerates her encounter with Jaune to Pyrrha and Weiss, making it sound far more epic than it actually was (even though Weiss points out that [[DiscussedTrope her details keep changing and it overall makes no sense]]). Without Ren there to translate, they can't get the truth out of her and act based on her story.
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--> '''Nora''': Pyrrha's been going over all the different ways she'll keep you locked up ever since this whole thing began. Honestly, it's kinda creepy. Even for me.
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** After the boys capture the cafeteria, Jaune refuses to barter food for his forces that have been taken prisoner: Because if one side doesn't/can't feed their prisoners three meals a day, said prisoners have to be released. Since the girls don't even have enough food for themselves, they're forced to release all their prisoners.
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** After the boys capture the cafeteria, Jaune refuses to barter food for his forces that have been taken prisoner: Because if one side doesn't/can't feed their prisoners three meals a day, said prisoners have to be released. Since the girls don't even have enough food for themselves, they're forced to release all their prisoners.prisoners, meaning the boys get both their full forces and their food supply.
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* {{Yandere}}: Pyrrha is a downplayed example. She doesn't get violent over her crush on Jaune, but she does pine over him and is invested in the war so she can take him as her personal prisoner.
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* NotSoAboveItAll: Though Ren puts his trust in Jaune, the latter is thankful that former doesn't seem to buy into his growing and increasingly divine reputation like the rest of the boys, seeing him as maybe a bit more in control than he really is but no more than that. But it turns out the whole memoir is just a long-winded preamble to explain Ren's slightly different version of Jaunehalla faith: that their Lord is not only impossibly awesome but impossibly humble as well. Jaune, reading the finished book, gets to this part and slams it shut in disappointment.
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* NotSoAboveItAll: Though Ren puts his trust in Jaune, the latter is thankful that the former doesn't seem to buy into his growing and increasingly divine reputation like the rest of the boys, seeing him as maybe a bit more in control than he really is but no more than that. But it turns out the whole memoir is just a long-winded preamble to explain Ren's slightly different version of Jaunehalla faith: that their Lord is not only impossibly awesome but impossibly humble as well. Jaune, reading the finished book, gets to this part and slams it shut in disappointment.
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Pyrrha is made the leader of the girls because she's famous for being the strongest, her electors intending to follow this trope. But Pyrrha ''isn't'' the strongest female student -- that would be Cinder, who as per usual is keeping a low profile and doesn't do anything significant for the entire war.
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* EtTuBrute: Yatsuhashi and Fox initially tried to keep their team together in spite of the gender divide, only to quickly be betrayed by Coco and Velvet. Fox ends up imprisoned for the majority of the war while Yatsu is disarmed and forced to flee.
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* NotSoAboveItAll: Though Ren puts his trust in Jaune, the latter is thankful that former doesn't seem to buy into his growing and increasingly divine reputation like the rest of the boys, seeing him as maybe a bit more in control than he really is but no more than that. But it turns out the whole memoir is just a long-winded preamble to explain Ren's slightly different version of Jaunehalla faith: that their Lord is not only impossibly awesome but impossibly humble as well. Jaune, reading the finished book, gets to this part and slams it shut in disappointment.
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* MundaneMadeAwesome: The dramatics and pointlessly heated competition seen in Beacon's earlier food fight are enforced by the school's faculty for the duration of a full week. Rather than a training exercise and/or stock battle of the sexes episode, everybody acts like it's a brutal conflict of LaResistance fighting hopelessly for survival against a tyrannical EvilEmpire, and Jaune's impromptu gathering is framed as religious deliverance (to his chagrin).
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* AccidentalHero: An offhand remark in the final chapter states that Jaune managed to get Cinder to call off her plan because of his supposed heroism, and Mercury becoming loyal to Jaune. He never met her or Mercury, and didn't even know there ''was'' a plot against Beacon.
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* AccidentalHero: An offhand remark in the final chapter states that Jaune managed to get Cinder to call off her plan because of his supposed heroism, and Mercury becoming loyal to Jaune. He never met her or Mercury, and didn't even know there ''was'' a plot against Beacon.
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* AscendedExtra: Cardin and his teammates, who were very minor characters in canon, become Jaune's first allies aside from Lie Ren.
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* DemotedToExtra: Cinder and Emerald only get an offhand mention in the last chapter, while Mercury shows up once as one of the boys on Jaune's side.
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* {{Yandere}}: Pyrrha is a downplayed example. She doesn't get violent over her crush on Jaune, but she does pine over him and is invested in the war so she can take him as her personal prisoner.
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* CassandraTruth: Nora doesn't believe Jaune when he outright tells her where Ren and Team CRDL are. Which means they're able to get away with the supply drop.
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* AccidentalHero: An offhand remark in the final chapter states that Jaune managed to get Cinder to call off her plan because of his supposed heroism, and Mercury becoming loyal to Jaune.
* DogFoodDiet: Barely averted. After the girls capture the cafeteria (and thus the main food source for the game), Jaune and Ren chase after Zwei for his dog food. Luckily, this is when they meet Team CRDL and defeat a group of girl scouts, netting their snacks. Zwei gets to keep his dog food and Jaune is never that desperate again.
* MagneticHero: Jaune, much to his dismay.
* PreciousPuppy: Zwei the corgi, who is extremely friendly and is trained to snuggle. Jaune manages to weaponize it, since adorable corgi cuddles are very distracting and nobody actually wants to hurt the dog.
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* SweetTooth: Ruby loves cookies... but not to the point of them being an effective distraction. Threatened withdrawal of sweets does, however, get her to talk.
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* CurbStompBattle: The opening battle at the cafeteria goes overwhelmingly in the girls' favor due to Coco Adel being the only one armed and being armed with a ''minigun''.
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** Neither side can prevent the other from seeking medical attention. However, nothing prevents one side from staking out the nurses office and capturing enemies once they're discharged.
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** Neither side can prevent the other from seeking medical attention. However, nothing prevents one side from staking out the nurses office and capturing enemies once they're discharged.
** After the boys capture the cafeteria, Jaune refuses to barter food for his forces that have been taken prisoner: Because if one side doesn't/can't feed their prisoners three meals a day, said prisoners have to be released. Since the girls don't even have enough food for themselves, they're forced to release all their prisoners.
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* ObviousRulePatch: There is nothing in the rules about both sides brokering peace. Ozpin tells Jaune that means he has to fight anyway, but plans to add it to the rules for the next game.
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* XanatosGambit: Jaune's plan for the end of the war. [[spoiler:If his peace talk with the girls works out, he wins by getting to escape Pyrrha and technically win the war. If he gets captured and his forces lose, there won't be enough time for Pyrrha or Nora to do anything to him and no one will blame him for defeat, so he kind of wins. And if the boys manage to pull through, he wins unquestionably. The last scenario comes to pass.]]
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* TheUnchosenOne: Lie Ren checked- Ozpin only put Jaune in Team JNPR because he needed the letter 'J' to make a word ('juniper').
* XanatosGambit: Jaune's plan for the end of the war. [[spoiler:If his peace talk with the girls works out, he wins by getting to escape Pyrrha and technically win the war. If he gets captured and his forces lose, there won't be enough time for Pyrrha or Nora to do anything to him and no one will blame him for defeat, so he kind ofwins.wins (and JNPR has an equal number of boys and girls, with both sides planning on sharing the money afterward, so he gets the same result either way). And if the boys manage to pull through, he wins unquestionably. The last scenario comes to pass.]]
* XanatosGambit: Jaune's plan for the end of the war. [[spoiler:If his peace talk with the girls works out, he wins by getting to escape Pyrrha and technically win the war. If he gets captured and his forces lose, there won't be enough time for Pyrrha or Nora to do anything to him and no one will blame him for defeat, so he kind of
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* XanatosGambit: Jaune's plan for the end of the war. [[spoiler:If his peace talk with the girls works out, he wins by getting to escape Pyrrha and technically win the war. If he gets captured and his forces lose, there won't be enough time for Pyrrha or Nora to do anything to him and no one will blame him for defeat, so he kind of wins. And if the boys manage to pull through, he wins unquestionably. The last scenario comes to pass.]]
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That's the gist of ''The Beacon Civil War'', a tale blatantly inspired by ''Literature/CiaphasCain''. It can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12638092/1/The-Beacon-Civil-War here]].
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That's the gist of ''The Beacon Civil War'', a tale blatantly inspired by ''Literature/CiaphasCain''. It Written by Creator/CoeurAlAran, it can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12638092/1/The-Beacon-Civil-War here]].
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* AccidentalInnuendo: When Jaune tries to exchange Ruby (the boys' prisoner) for food, the way he describes the situation to Yang makes it sound like he's been sleeping with her. Actually, he's just been interrogating her, but neither he nor Ruby want to admit that she cracked under pressure and gave away information on the girls.
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* InnocentInnuendo: When Jaune tries to exchange Ruby (the boys' prisoner) for food, the way he describes the situation to Yang makes it sound like he's been sleeping with her. Actually, he's just been interrogating her, but neither he nor Ruby want to admit that she cracked under pressure and gave away information on the girls.
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* {{Tsundere}}: Jaune often refers to the other boys as 'meat shields' and similar, but Ren points out that he does show a surprising amount of care for them nonetheless.nonetheless.
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* HeroicDog: Zwei is a normal corgi, but he's instrumental to the boys' efforts.
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Once upon a time, during a normal lunch period at Beacon Academy, Ozpin springs a surprise on his students: A boys vs girls civil war. The battle will start right after the announcement, last for a week, and whichever side controls the most capture points by the end wins some prize money to re-decorate their dorms. With Coco Adel (who brought her minigun-purse with her to the cafeteria) convinced by the prospect of extra fashion money and Pyrrha convinced by the prospect of ... private time... with Jaune, the girls manage to capture the cafeteria in a landslide victory. The boys are reduced to scattered survivors around the school, but they do have a few tricks up their sleeve:
One, Zwei the dog, who is very happy to assist his fellow males, even those of different species. Two, Jaune Arc, an incredible leader who can rally the boys, snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, and even convince Cardin to [[TookALevelInKindness take a level in kindness]]. Or maybe he's just a cowardly idiot who is forced into the role of leadership and carefully herded by fate into the line of fire, upon which his desperate scrambling to stay alive is mistaken for awesomeness. Or maybe it's a bit of both. Either way, Jaune's memoir reveals a side of the conflict that no one ever thought of.
That's the gist of ''The Beacon Civil War'', a tale blatantly inspired by ''Literature/CiaphasCain''. It can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12638092/1/The-Beacon-Civil-War here]].
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* AccidentalInnuendo: When Jaune tries to exchange Ruby (the boys' prisoner) for food, the way he describes the situation to Yang makes it sound like he's been sleeping with her. Actually, he's just been interrogating her, but neither he nor Ruby want to admit that she cracked under pressure and gave away information on the girls.
* AnimalJingoism: Jaune ''weaponizes'' this on accident against Blake, who's a cat faunus and does ''not'' like Zwei.
* BatmanGambit: Jaune pulls these off a lot, like using Zwei as a distraction (he's trained to start snuggling and licking people whenever someone says "Zwei, kisses!"). [[spoiler: He eventually wins the war by letting Weiss specifically go to Pyrrha with his peace offer, since he knew that she wanted to get revenge on him for humiliating her with bad poetry and would a) convince Pyrrha to betray Jaune, and b) pull in the majority of the girls' army to do it, leaving the control points ready for taking.]]
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: After capturing Ruby, Jaune gets information by threatening her with... ''health food''!
* {{Egopolis}}: Jaunehalla, the boys' fortress, against the protests of its namesake.
* FlawExploitation: Jaune exploits Ruby's SweetTooth, Weiss's overcautiousness and vengeful nature, and Blake's hatred of dogs.
* GoldenSnitch: The Cafeteria battle nearly decided the whole war in the girls' favor, since a) most of the students were there, b) Coco Adel carries her weapon everywhere in the form of a handbag, giving the girls a serious advantage, and c) it was the only source of food for most of the students.
* HeelFaceTurn: Team CRDL becomes loyal to Jaune after he helps them defeat a girl scout party (he was actually trying to run away and leave them to their fate, but it didn't work out like that), and eventually [[FantasticRacism Cardin]] grows to respect [[LittleBitBeastly Sun]]. An offhand remark at the end states that even ''[[AxCrazy Mercury Black]]'' ended up loyal to Jaune over Cinder.
* HopeBringer: Jaune to the boys.
* HypercompetentSidekick: Zwei is pretty much behind all of Jaune's victories in one way or another. Jaune ran into Cardin and gained his first followers chasing Zwei to get his dog food (the cafeteria was firmly under female control), and Zwei helps defeat Team RWBY. [[spoiler: And in the end, he helps Jaune capture the last point and win the game.]]
* IKnowMortalKombat: The Kunoichis of Love most definitely do ''not'' get their techniques from Blake's porn, [[BlatantLies no sirree]].
* IShallTauntYou: An unusual variation; Jaune reads out soppy love poetry to Weiss, since he knows that she hates his crush on her.
* TheLancer: Lie Ren, who escapes the cafeteria with Jaune, fights by his side for the whole story, and eventually edits his memoir.
* MistakenForBadass: The core of the story. Jaune is just desperately trying to survive the week, while everyone thinks he's an awesome strategist and leader. Of course, in true Ciaphas Cain fashion, it's entirely possible that Jaune's just self-deprecating and he actually was a hero, or at least grew into the role.
* ObliviousToLove: Jaune, to the point where Lie Ren (who's editing the memoir) points out that they shouldn't ''have'' to tell him that Pyrrha has a massive crush on him.
* ShaggyDogStory: Kinda- Team JNPR has an equal number of boys and girls, and the end of the story reveals that whichever side won was planning on sharing the money anyway (Team RWBY, not so much), and Jaune thinks that everything in Beacon is back to normal. The others look at the people practically worshiping Jaune and doubt that.
* SweetTooth: Ruby loves cookies... but not to the point of them being an effective distraction. Threatened withdrawal of sweets does, however, get her to talk.
* TakeAThirdOption: Averted. Jaune tries to broker peace with the girls, but despite his moving speech on the subject, Ozpin tells him that there's no provision in the rules for that, so they have to fight. [[spoiler: Both sides came prepared to betray the other, anyway.]]
* TrojanPrisoner: [[spoiler: When Jaune releases the girl prisoners, he has some boys [[WholesomeCrossdresser dress up as girls]] and join in, going unnoticed in the confusion.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Jaune often refers to the other boys as 'meat shields' and similar, but Ren points out that he does show a surprising amount of care for them nonetheless.
One, Zwei the dog, who is very happy to assist his fellow males, even those of different species. Two, Jaune Arc, an incredible leader who can rally the boys, snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, and even convince Cardin to [[TookALevelInKindness take a level in kindness]]. Or maybe he's just a cowardly idiot who is forced into the role of leadership and carefully herded by fate into the line of fire, upon which his desperate scrambling to stay alive is mistaken for awesomeness. Or maybe it's a bit of both. Either way, Jaune's memoir reveals a side of the conflict that no one ever thought of.
That's the gist of ''The Beacon Civil War'', a tale blatantly inspired by ''Literature/CiaphasCain''. It can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12638092/1/The-Beacon-Civil-War here]].
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* AccidentalInnuendo: When Jaune tries to exchange Ruby (the boys' prisoner) for food, the way he describes the situation to Yang makes it sound like he's been sleeping with her. Actually, he's just been interrogating her, but neither he nor Ruby want to admit that she cracked under pressure and gave away information on the girls.
* AnimalJingoism: Jaune ''weaponizes'' this on accident against Blake, who's a cat faunus and does ''not'' like Zwei.
* BatmanGambit: Jaune pulls these off a lot, like using Zwei as a distraction (he's trained to start snuggling and licking people whenever someone says "Zwei, kisses!"). [[spoiler: He eventually wins the war by letting Weiss specifically go to Pyrrha with his peace offer, since he knew that she wanted to get revenge on him for humiliating her with bad poetry and would a) convince Pyrrha to betray Jaune, and b) pull in the majority of the girls' army to do it, leaving the control points ready for taking.]]
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: After capturing Ruby, Jaune gets information by threatening her with... ''health food''!
* {{Egopolis}}: Jaunehalla, the boys' fortress, against the protests of its namesake.
* FlawExploitation: Jaune exploits Ruby's SweetTooth, Weiss's overcautiousness and vengeful nature, and Blake's hatred of dogs.
* GoldenSnitch: The Cafeteria battle nearly decided the whole war in the girls' favor, since a) most of the students were there, b) Coco Adel carries her weapon everywhere in the form of a handbag, giving the girls a serious advantage, and c) it was the only source of food for most of the students.
* HeelFaceTurn: Team CRDL becomes loyal to Jaune after he helps them defeat a girl scout party (he was actually trying to run away and leave them to their fate, but it didn't work out like that), and eventually [[FantasticRacism Cardin]] grows to respect [[LittleBitBeastly Sun]]. An offhand remark at the end states that even ''[[AxCrazy Mercury Black]]'' ended up loyal to Jaune over Cinder.
* HopeBringer: Jaune to the boys.
* HypercompetentSidekick: Zwei is pretty much behind all of Jaune's victories in one way or another. Jaune ran into Cardin and gained his first followers chasing Zwei to get his dog food (the cafeteria was firmly under female control), and Zwei helps defeat Team RWBY. [[spoiler: And in the end, he helps Jaune capture the last point and win the game.]]
* IKnowMortalKombat: The Kunoichis of Love most definitely do ''not'' get their techniques from Blake's porn, [[BlatantLies no sirree]].
* IShallTauntYou: An unusual variation; Jaune reads out soppy love poetry to Weiss, since he knows that she hates his crush on her.
* TheLancer: Lie Ren, who escapes the cafeteria with Jaune, fights by his side for the whole story, and eventually edits his memoir.
* MistakenForBadass: The core of the story. Jaune is just desperately trying to survive the week, while everyone thinks he's an awesome strategist and leader. Of course, in true Ciaphas Cain fashion, it's entirely possible that Jaune's just self-deprecating and he actually was a hero, or at least grew into the role.
* ObliviousToLove: Jaune, to the point where Lie Ren (who's editing the memoir) points out that they shouldn't ''have'' to tell him that Pyrrha has a massive crush on him.
* ShaggyDogStory: Kinda- Team JNPR has an equal number of boys and girls, and the end of the story reveals that whichever side won was planning on sharing the money anyway (Team RWBY, not so much), and Jaune thinks that everything in Beacon is back to normal. The others look at the people practically worshiping Jaune and doubt that.
* SweetTooth: Ruby loves cookies... but not to the point of them being an effective distraction. Threatened withdrawal of sweets does, however, get her to talk.
* TakeAThirdOption: Averted. Jaune tries to broker peace with the girls, but despite his moving speech on the subject, Ozpin tells him that there's no provision in the rules for that, so they have to fight. [[spoiler: Both sides came prepared to betray the other, anyway.]]
* TrojanPrisoner: [[spoiler: When Jaune releases the girl prisoners, he has some boys [[WholesomeCrossdresser dress up as girls]] and join in, going unnoticed in the confusion.]]
* {{Tsundere}}: Jaune often refers to the other boys as 'meat shields' and similar, but Ren points out that he does show a surprising amount of care for them nonetheless.
