History Fanfic / TheLongestHunt

* IdiotPlot: Fortunately, this does not degrade the story-writing and entertainment value of this fanfic. The only thing moving the plot as a whole forward (but the sub-plots are self-propelled) is everyone being absolutely pants-on-head when it comes to Sibyll. Which results in easily preventable tragedies whose consequences further or deepen the plot.
** Though, sometimes it is due to innocent ignorance or naivety (usually only applies to the students), depending on circumstance.
** Not that Sibyll is innocent of idiocy, though. His inability to simply explain the threat of the Scourge in the first place exacerbated the snowballing idiocy driving the plot and made things far worse for his mission. This is despite the fact that part of ''his entire reason for being in Remnant is to warn them of the Scourge''.
** Somewhat averted in Sibyll's case, however. His decision to stay quiet on the Scourge was a deliberate choice made because the plague was not currently spreading, and he fears that someone might deliberately seek out the power of the blood if it became common knowledge, or begin the twisted experiments of Yharnam anew. Given the actions of the White Fang, his fears are justified.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11295916/1/The-Longest-Hunt The Longest Hunt]]'' is a Bloodborne/RWBY crossover fanfic by [=NaughtFiction=].

* IdiotPlot: Fortunately, this does not degrade the story-writing and entertainment value of this fanfic. The only thing moving the plot as a whole forward (but the sub-plots are self-propelled) is everyone being absolutely pants-on-head when it comes to Sibyll. Which results in easily preventable tragedies whose consequences further the plot.

* IdiotPlot: Fortunately, this does not degrade the story-writing and entertainment value of this fanfic. The only thing moving the plot as a whole forward (but the sub-plots are self-propelled) is everyone being absolutely pants-on-head when it comes to Sibyll. The characters' reasons tend to only be valid after the consequences of their actions bite them and would not have been valid if they had not done something stupid.

* IdiotPlot: Fortunately, this does not degrade the story-writing and entertainment value of this fanfic. The only thing moving the plot as a whole forward (but the sub-plots are self-propelled) is everyone being absolutely pants-on-head when it comes to Sybill. The characters' reasons for their idiotic decisions tend to only be valid after the consequences of their actions bite them and would not have been valid if they had not done something stupid. Though, sometimes it is due to innocent ignorance or naivety (usually only applies to the students), depending on circumstance. Not that Sybill is innocent of idiocy, though. His inability to simply explain the threat of the Scourge in the first place exacerbated the snowballing idiocy driving the plot and made things far worse for his mission. This is despite the fact that ''his entire reason for being in Remnant is to warn them of the Scourge''.

* IdiotPlot: Fortunately, this does not degrade the story-writing and entertainment value of this fanfic. The only thing moving the plot as a whole forward (but the sub-plots are self-propelled) is everyone being absolutely pants-on-head when it comes to Sybill. Every single event that adjusted the direction of the plot was born of pure stupidity. The characters must either [[spoiler: cheat (like the duel challenge to Ozpin and how that ended up as a gang-up attempt on Sybill's life), betray Sybill (every time he trusts an authority figure connected to canon), spy on him, attempt to (or successfully in a way) steal from him]] and generally treat him like crap while moaning about how they want to trust him but that he's so untrustworthy when their mistreatment of him is the founding basis of his interactions with them. Most importantly, all of the [[spoiler: betrayal, imprisonment, torture, spying,]] and so on ''has no point'' because none of the characters have '''any reason what-so-ever''' to behave that way. Not that Sybill is innocent of idiocy, though. His inability to simply explain the threat of the Scourge in the first place exacerbated the snowballing idiocy driving the plot and made things far worse for his mission. This is despite the fact that ''his entire reason for being in Remnant is to warn them of the Scourge''.

* IdiotPlot: The only thing moving the plot as a whole forward is everyone being absolute pants-on-head when it comes to Sybill. Every single event that adjusted the direction of the plot was born of pure stupidity. The characters must either [[spoiler: cheat (like the duel challenge to Ozpin and how that ended up as a gang-up attempt on Sybill's life), betray Sybill (every time he trusts an authority figure connected to canon), spy on him, attempt to (or successfully in a way) steal from him]] and generally treat him like crap while moaning about how they want to trust him but that he's so untrustworthy when their mistreatment of him is the founding basis of his interactions with them. Most importantly, all of the [[spoiler: betrayal, imprisonment, torture, spying,]] and so on ''has no point'' because none of the characters have '''any reason what-so-ever''' to behave that way. Not that Sybill is innocent of idiocy, though. His inability to simply explain the threat of the Scourge in the first place exacerbated the snowballing idiocy driving the plot and made things far worse for his mission. This is despite the fact that ''his entire reason for being in Remnant is to warn them of the Scourge''.

* IdiotPlot: The only thing moving the plot as a whole forward is everyone being absolute pants-on-head when it comes to Sybill. Every single event that adjusted the direction of the plot was born of pure stupidity. The characters must either [[spoiler: cheat (like the duel challenge to Ozpin and how that ended up as a gang-up attempt on Sybill's life), betray Sybill (every time he trusts an authority figure connected to canon), spy on him, attempt to (or successfully in a way) steal from him]] and generally treat him like crap while moaning about how they want to trust him but that he's so untrustworthy when their mistreatment of him is the founding basis of his interactions with them. Most importantly, all of the [[spoiler: betrayal, imprisonment, torture, spying,]] and so on ''has no point'' because none of the characters have '''any reason what-so-ever''' to behave that way.

* IdiotPlot: The only thing moving the plot as a whole forward is everyone being absolute pants-on-head when it comes to Sybill. Every single event that adjusted the direction of the plot was born of pure stupidity. The characters must either cheat, betray Sybill, spy on him, attempt to (or successfully in a way) steal from him and generally treat him like crap while moaning about how they want to trust him but that he's so untrustworthy when their mistreatment of him is the founding basis of his interactions with them. Most importantly, all of the betrayal, imprisonment, torture, spying, and so on ''has no point'' because none of the characters have '''any reason what-so-ever''' to behave that way.

* WeakButSkilled: Sibyll doesn't have enough physical strength to wield a Kirkhammer or heavier weapons, having prompted Gehrman to laugh at his attempts and the Doll to clap seriously at his efforts after he had fallen backwards from the weight. Instead he focuses on speed, technique and careful strikes in the right spots.

!!This fanfic has examples of:

** [[spoiler: he also unwillingly takes someone's memories, their Blood Echoes, as Sibyll has done with Blake and Ozpin. With the latter, it drove the Hunter to madness.]]

** [[spoiler: After Sibyll returns to the village accompanied by Port and Oobleck, he finds Cormack at the final stages of the Scourge, cradling a photo of him, his wife and his daughter Chisa.]]