History Roleplay / LordsAmongTheAshes

* BloodKnight: Jaune, Ruby, and Cinder all have aspects of this.

** Ruby has a tendency to really get in the zone when killing Grimm. This ends up being deconstructed later on -- [[spoiler:she ends up ignoring that Cody needed help while they were defending Redrock Gorge]], leading to Cody's death and his city isolating itself from the world]].
** Cinder felt a huge sense of Hunger and Satisfaction from [[spoiler:[[DidYouJustHijackCthulhu gaining control of Bahamut and turning it against the Grimm of the Dark Continent]]]]. All three of these cases are implied to be at least partially due to [[SuperpowerfulGenetics each of them carrying the Blood of War, Death, and Destruction, respectively.]]

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[BadassCrew Jaune and his Paragons]], along with Normandy's Army [[spoiler:[[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe halved]] Cychreides, [[FantasticNuke obliterated]] Olympus from the inside, and]], [[HijackingCthulhu turned Bahamut against its own hoard]] before [[SelfDestructMechanism making it self-destruct]].]] There's a reason Normandy has the "Legendary" rating.
* DisasterDominoes: The second peace conference is very much this. Ruby's denouncement of Sherwood (which would have given a bonus to her other actions) fails, as does her demand for disarmament, and a blockade. Since all of her proposals were aggressive in nature, the majority of the other players saw her [[YouAreWhatYouHate as a second Lily]] and refused to ally with her [[spoiler:when she [[ThisMeansWar declared war]]. Seeing that she didn't have the support she had been looking for, Ruby decided to [[EnemyMine ally with Alexandria]]. As Alexandria's stated goal is the conquest of the Central Continent, Varric immediately allies with Lily to prevent such a thing, prompting his ally, Neil, to do the same.]] Since she [[IdiotBall declared war at the peace conference that had taken years to establish,]] she almost irreparably damaged her relationship with [[BigGood Cardin]]. With war officially declared, [[FromBadToWorse Lily immediately had her agents in Silversun ransack its academy and steal Ruby's advanced ship designs]].]] The [[GameMaster [=GM=]]] puts it best.

* RealityWarper: [[spoiler:Sun]] becomes a minor one [[spoiler:when in Avatar form and boosted by Jaune.]] This allows him to alter reality in such a way that [[spoiler:Cychreides' [[BreathWeapon plasma cannon]] is [[NoSell entirely deflected]]].

** Battle for Jersey part 8: [[spoiler:Cychreides has been killed but it was a programmed [[LostSuperWeapon Warbeast]] that, with its last act, [[MyDeathIsOnlyTheBeginning initiated the Vengeance Protocol]] and awoke the rest of the Warbeasts around the world.]]]]

* AfterTheEnd: The sim, and modern day Remnant, both take place several thousand years after some cataclysmic event that shattered the various [[AdvancedAncientAcropolis advanced civilizations that came before them.]] [[spoiler:The cataclysmic event was the Titans [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters turning against humanity]] and likely [[TheCorruption taking the Fallen Gods with them]]]].

* BreathWeapon: [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Tyrant Scales, Cychreides,]] [[GiantFlyer Ziz, Bahamut,]] and [[GiantEnemyCrab Karakinos]] all can fire streams of energy from their mouths.

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[BadassCrew Jaune and his Paragons]] along with [[BadassArmy Normandy's Army]] [[spoiler:[[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe halved]] Cychreides, [[FantasticNuke obliterated]] Olympus from the inside]], and [[HijackingCthulhu and turned Bahamut against its own hoard]] before [[SelfDestructMechanism making it self-destruct]].]] There's a reason Normandy has the "Legendary" rating.

** Conqueror's Presence, one of the abilities of Jaune's Semblance, is ''statistically more terrifying''. It allows him to inflict almost crippling horror upon his opponents. He has only ever used this ability on the Creatures of Anonymity but if he were to use it on humans it would likely draw [[EmotionEater the Grimm]] [[KillAllHumans upon them]] [[ZergRush in droves]].

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Normandy hits [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Cychreides]] with [[spoiler:a SupernaturalFearInducer, corrosive and explosive bombs, [[KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter hypersonic bullets]], [[MagicKnight destruction forged Aural constructs,]] an ice mine, a gravity spike ''[[EyeScream through its eye,]]'' [[{{BFG}} dozens of rounds of howitzer and battleship fire, and hundreds of rounds fired from the Harkonnen.]] [[ImplacableMan It almost isn't enough.]]]]

* TimeLimitBoss: The Titans.
** [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Cychreides.]] [[spoiler:If it hadn't been defeated [[JustInTime exactly when it was]], the Titan would have used the injured Normans as a distraction to temporarily retreat and [[HealingFactor fully heal]] before attacking again]].
** [[MonsterShapedMountain Olympus.]] [[spoiler:It is capable of shattering almost any structure in its range. If it had been allowed to advance to the Norman outcropping, the amount of lives lost would have been drastically higher.]]

** Battle for Jersey part 8: [[spoiler:Cychreides has been killed but it was a programmed [[LostSuperWeapon Warbeast]] that, [[MyDeathIsOnlyTheBeginning with its last act,]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt initiaded the Vengeance Protocol and awoke the rest of the Warbeasts around the world.]]]]

--->“Oscar Diggs, at your service, Your Majesty. I was drawn to your city by the tales of your force’s acts of heroism on the high seas. I was hoping to offer my services to you in this time of turmoil.”\\
And with those words, [[spoiler:[[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Ozpin,]] [[EccentricMentor your Headmaster from outside the simulation]]]] offers you his hand.

--->When Cinder came to Normandy, she was impressed. Suitably so to discuss an alliance and after a feast held on the first day to welcome her, you got one. Well, it was one way to get an alliance, though [[spoiler:[[AltarDiplomacy the new ring of black dust crystal on your finger seems weirdly cold]]]].

--->[[spoiler:[[InvisibleWriting [SYSTEM FAILURE, IMMINENT] ]]]]\\

--->“You may refer to me as…[[spoiler:[[BigBad Salem]]]]. Perhaps we shall meet again, if you heed my advice.”

--->[[spoiler:[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt “… All of the continents other than Menagerie and the Dark Continent are lost. The situation is untenable.”]]]]

--->“Though, if you would trust anyone to know about [[spoiler:the titan]], it would probably be the one remaining member of the group that made it.[...] [[spoiler:[[GoneHorriblyRight Bahamut was my greatest creation, and my greatest failure.]] And I have reason to believe [[HijackingCthulhu we can control it again. At least long enough to trigger the self-destruct mechanism]]]]."

** [[BigGood Cardin]] has a bit of this later on when [[spoiler:he refuses to abandon Oum's Ascension in hopes of saving more lives]] to the point that even ''[[TheIdealist Ruby]]'' [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere gives up on him]]. He eventually confides in Jaune that he has hopes that Jaune and Ruby would be able to [[spoiler:[[BigDamnHeroes marshal their forces]] and turn Oum's Ascension into one last bastion against the darkness or at least assist in its evacuation if it was deemed untenable]]. [[PragmaticHero Jaune]] [[CruelToBeKind swiftly relieves him of this notion.]]

** This becomes [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] [[spoiler: once the sim ends as [[StrangerInAFamiliarLand each of the players have aged ten years while their former teammates have not]]. This has led to a disparity between the teams and their leaders who have [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt lived through things]] [[CharacterDevelopment and grown in ways]] [[HadToBeSharp their former comrades couldn't imagine]]]].

* ZergRush: The go-to strategy for the Grimm is to attempt to overrun their adversaries using their massive numerical advantage. [[StrongerWithAge The older ones]] [[SubvertedTrope subvert]] this however and deploy a level of tactics that is utterly lethal.

* AchillesHeel: The [[spoiler:Titans [[SubvertedTrope used to]]]] have one. Their makers installed a deactivation command in their technology that would force them to shut down if they received the appropriate signal. [[spoiler:Their forced hibernation has [[GrewBeyondTheirProgramming altered them in such a way]] [[ItOnlyWorksOnce that the signal would not work a second time]]]].

* AfterTheEnd: The sim, and modern day Remnant, both take place several thousand years after some cataclysmic event that shattered the various [[AdvancedAncientAcropolis advanced civilizations that came before them.]] [[spoiler:The cataclysmic event was [[{{Kaiju}} the Titans]] [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters turning against humanity]] and likely [[TheCorruption taking]] [[FallenHero the Fallen Gods with them]]]].

* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:[[TheBaroness Alexandria]]]] loses one of her arms during the final years of the sim when her fleet is attacked by what may have been [[spoiler:a second [[KrakenAndLeviathan sea]] [[{{Kaiju}} Titan]]]]. %%[[spoiler:Jaune]] loses an arm as well [[spoiler:and then regrows it as a demonstration of the advanced capabilities of Aura]].

* BadassArmy: The Norman military. It took sacrificing one-hundred elite soldiers for another kingdom to dispose of a [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier Ghoul]]. It takes ten Norman soldiers to do the same and they would be expected to survive. It helps that they're led by [[FourStarBadass Jaune]] [[SuperEmpowering Arc]] but there's a reason they are the only "Legendary" fighting force on Remnant.

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: The simulation pulls and extrapolates data from ancient computer networks and classified sources to accurately depict Remnant and its people as it was several centuries ago. [[spoiler:This includes Oscar Diggs, a young [[EccentricMentor Professor Ozpin]], [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Paragon]] [[TimeMaster of Time.]]]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Jaune and Ruby are some of the most reasonable rulers in the sim and two of the largest proponents of peace, but if anyone is [[TooDumbToLive foolish enough to attack their subjects]] [[ItsPersonal they will do everything in their power to exact revenge]]. Her citizens being injured is what persuades Ruby to [[spoiler:[[ThisMeansWar declare war on Lily]]]]. The deaths of his soldiers prompts Jaune to [[TranquilFury personally rip their murderers apart]] and [[ShockAndAwe vaporize anything left into oblivion]].

* BloodKnight: Jaune, Ruby, and Cinder all have aspects of this. All Jaune felt when [[{{Kaiju}} the Titans]] awoke on [[DeathWorld the Dark Continent]] was eagerness and a desire to crush them. Ruby has a tendency to [[NightmareFetishist really get in the zone when killing Grimm]] [[spoiler:[[DeconstructedTrope which is why she didn't notice that Cody needed help while they were defending Redrock Gorge]]]]. Cinder felt a huge sense of Hunger and Satisfaction from [[spoiler:[[DidYouJustHijackCthulhu gaining control of Bahamut and turning it against the Grimm of the Dark Continent]]]]. All three of these cases are implied to be at least partially due to [[SuperpowerfulGenetics each of them carrying the Blood of War, Death, and Destruction, respectively.]]

* BreathWeapon: [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Tyrant Scales, Cychreides,]] [[GiantFlyer Ziz, Bahamut,]] and [[GiantEnemyCrab Karakinos]] all utilize this.

* TheCorruption: Whatever turned [[FallenHero the Mad Gods]] against humanity. This is implied to have been [[spoiler:the interaction between their [[BioArmor Grimmtech suits]] and [[HijackingCthulhu their attempts to control]] [[{{Kaiju}} the Titans.]]]]
* CruelToBeKind: When [[BigGood Cardin]] refuses to [[spoiler:leave Oum's Ascension after the [[{{Kaiju}} Titans]] awaken and says that he has hopes that [[TheGoodKing Jaune]] and [[TheHighQueen Ruby]] would assist him in his efforts,]] [[PragmaticHero Jaune]] immediately dismisses his statement, says that he won't throw [[AFatherToHisMen his troops]] to their deaths in a [[SenselessSacrifice meaningless act of defiance]], that Cardin's efforts to [[TheNeedsOfTheMany save a few more lives could mean death for all of his people]], and that attempting [[spoiler:virtual [[SuicideByCop suicide]] [[TakingYouWithMe by]] [[TheSoulless Grimm]] would be pointlessly risky [[KnowWhenToFoldThem when he could just flee now]]]].

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: [[BadassCrew Jaune and his Paragons]] along with [[BadassArmy Normandy's Army]] [[spoiler:[[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe blew Cychreides in half,]] [[FantasticNuke obliterated Olympus from the inside,]] [[HijackingCthulhu and turned Bahamut against its own hoard]] [[SelfDestructMechanism before making it self-destruct]].]] There's a reason Normandy has the "Legendary" rating.
* DisasterDominoes: The second peace conference is very much this. Ruby's denouncement of Sherwood (which would have given a bonus to her other actions) fails, as does her demand for disarmament, and a blockade. Since all of her proposals were aggressive in nature, the majority of the other players saw her [[YouAreWhatYouHate as a second]] [[RevengeBeforeReason Lily]] and refused to ally with her [[spoiler:when she [[ThisMeansWar declared war]]. Seeing that she didn't have the support she had been looking for, Ruby decided to [[EnemyMine ally with]] [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans Alexandria.]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero As Alexandria's stated goal is the conquest of the Central Continent, Varric immediately allies with Lily to prevent such a thing, prompting his ally, Neil, to do the same.]] Since she [[IdiotBall declared war at the peace conference that had taken years to establish,]] she almost irreparably damaged her relationship with [[BigGood Cardin]]. As war had been officially declared, [[FromBadToWorse Lily immediately had her agents in Silversun ransack its academy and steal Ruby's advanced ship designs]].]] The [[GameMaster [=GM=]]] puts it best.
-->'''[=Iandude0=]''': You just took peace into a back ally and shot it, you dumbass.

* TheDreaded: Jaune, [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast King of Ash and Fire]], definitely fits. Not only is he an absolute nightmare on the battlefield, but [[EmotionBomb Conqueror's Presence]] [[SupernaturalFearInducer makes him statistically more terrifying than]] [[{{Kaiju}} a Titan]], so much so that [[TheSoulless the Grimm]] [[HorrifyingTheHorror fear HIM.]]

* GondorCallsForAid: Jaune calls on both [[BigGood Cardin]] and [[spoiler:[[BigBad Salem]]]] when he has to [[spoiler:infiltrate [[MonsterShapedMountain Olympus]] and plant a [[FantasticNuke Void Bomb]] inside of it while having to fight [[ZergRush hordes]] [[EliteMooks of elite Grimm]] and ''[[FallenHero two]]'' [[FallenHero Mad Gods]]]].

* KrakenAndLeviathan: Sea Grimm tend to grow to be the largest in size since they [[StrongerWithAge tend to live longest]]. The most dangerous sea Grimm are [[http://i.imgur.com/vX142Wy.jpg Deep Ones,]] [[http://i.imgur.com/5RG1PUK.jpg Leviathans,]] and [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/reddits-world/images/8/8e/Kraken_v2_by_elmisa-d70nmt4.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140922042121 Krakens.]] The only thing worse than them in the ocean would be [[spoiler:the two sea [[{{Kaiju}} Titans]]]].

* MagneticHero: Jaune. [[LivingLegend The magnitude of his successes quickly draws the other nomadic tribes to him]] [[RecruitmentByRescue and his rescuing of Coco's city inspires them to follow him as well.]] He had the largest following in the sim from turn two and it only grew from there.

* MamaBear: [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Lily.]] Her first objective when her city was being attacked by [[TheBaroness Alexandria]] was to see her daughters to safety, she trained them extensively for their first voyage which was led by one of her best captains, [[spoiler:[[RoaringRampageOfRevenge and she does everything in her power]] [[ItsPersonal to make Ruby and Silversun pay after they attacked and sunk her daughters' ship.]]]]
* MarriageBeforeRomance: [[spoiler:Jaune and Cinder]] initially only [[AltarDiplomacy marry because doing so greatly benefits both of their kingdoms]]. Over time, however, they begin to trust one another and develop actual feelings for each other that persist[[spoiler: even after the sim ends]].

** Jaune and [[spoiler:Cinder]] use their status as MindlinkMates to bolster each other's Auras and [[spoiler:combine their Semblances of War and Destruction to form their Dual Semblance, [[DispelMagic Ruin.]]]]

** [[MonsterShapedMountain Olympus]] is rather slow, especially when compared to [[LightningBruiser Cychreides]] but it's armor is so thick that only the most powerful of strikes could hope to dent it and any damage they may cause would likely be piddling.
* MonsterShapedMountain: [[http://i.imgur.com/mik28FJ.jpg Olympus]], [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Titan of Doom]], is a walking mountain capable of crushing any structure in its way that also acts as a carrier for the legions of Grimm inside it [[spoiler:as well as ''two'' [[TheCorruption Mad]] [[FallenHero Gods]]]]. Clouds wrap around its peak and it steps over geographical features as if they were children's toys.

** Jaune takes this attitude towards the deaths of a few of his soldiers during [[TheCavalry the trip to reinforce Clearwater Harbour]]. He reflects back on the mourning daughter and widow those soldiers left behind whenever he loses men to [[TheSoulless the Grimm]] [[{{Determinator}} and renews his determination to not let such a thing happen again.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Ruby at both Redrock Gorge (see PersonaNonGrata below) and the second peace conference (see DisasterDominoes above). Jaune when [[spoiler:his invasion of the Dark Continent awakens three [[{{Kaiju}} Titans]] and when the Normans kill [[{{OurDragonsAreDifferent}} Cychreides]] [[MyDeathIsOnlyTheBeginning which awakens the other Titans]] [[ApocalypseHow all around the world]].]]
* NightmareFetishist: Ruby. She has an incredible fascination for weapons, thinks a human wielding claws that are dripping blood looks cool, [[PervertedDrooling and literally drools]] [[WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys at the sight of Jaune's Howitzers.]]

** [[FaceMonsterTurn Mad God Samael]] has a strong enough soul that he entirely resists [[spoiler:Ruby's Curse]].

* OldSoldier: [[http://orig03.deviantart.net/399e/f/2012/277/9/d/knight_by_beaver_skin-d5grk2p.jpg Robespierre Arc]] and [[http://i.imgur.com/99Te9.png Siegfried Schnee]] are two of the greatest [[FourStarBadass generals]], [[BadassBureaucrat stewards]], and [[TheSpyMaster spy masters]] that Remnant has ever seen. [[NoPlaceForMeThere Both have retreated/were exiled from society after their assistance in the Color Revolution]] [[TheDreaded but everyone who knows of them fears what will happen if they feel that their presence is required once more.]]

** [[http://i.imgur.com/EUSLqPZ.jpg Tyrant Scales]] are large draconic Grimm that [[BreathWeapon breathe fire]] and are normally only found on [[DeathWorld the Dark Continent]]. They are considered to be even more deadly than [[EliteMooks Ghouls]].
** [[http://i.imgur.com/LYLO8iz.jpg Cychreides]] is much worse. It is [[{{Kaiju}} almost three times the size of an aircraft carrier,]] [[LightningBruiser incredibly fast for its size]], [[ArmorOfInvincibility has armor that not even battleship cannons can dent,]] and [[BreathWeapon breathes]] [[PlayingWithFire fire]] [[spoiler:among [[WaveMotionGun other things]]]].
* OurGhoulsAreCreepier: Ghouls are [[EliteMook some of the strongest]] [[ItCanThink and smartest of Grimm]] that are normally only found on [[DeathWorld the Dark Continent]]. Defeating them usually takes either a prepared [[PowerLevels Lord]], [[SuperMode a Paragon]], [[HeroicSacrifice one-hundred elite soldiers]], or [[BadassArmy ten Norman marines.]] [[spoiler:[[TakingYouWithMe When they are critically injured]] [[ThatOneAttack they execute a berserk attack on their murderer]] that can even be lethal to Paragons.]] [[http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/832/368/0b3.png Just look at them.]]
* PeaceConference: Cardin organizes two of these at Oum's Ascension. The first took place at the end of year four [[spoiler:and coincides with Jaune and Cinder's marriage]] It was largely successful as it set up relief efforts, established refugee sites, and convinced some players to become neutral. The second took place during year seven and [[DisasterDominoes did not]] [[ThisMeansWar go]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero well.]]
* PersonaNonGrata: Ruby is this to [[spoiler:Cody's]] city as [[FearlessFool she was the one]] [[LeeroyJenkins who proposed that the leaders should]] [[HeroicWannabe attack the horde surrounding Redrock Gorge themselves]] [[SenselessSacrifice even though the Grimm threat had been reduced to the point that the army could probably handle it]]. This led to [[spoiler:Cody's]] death, the first unintentional one in the sim, and his city isolating itself from everyone else.
* PersonalityPowers: Semblances names and effects have a tendency to match the personalities of their users.

* ThePowerOfHate: [[spoiler:Salem's]] [[PersonalityPowers Semblance, Hate,]] allows her to empower herself and her comrades offensive abilities while decreasing their defensive abilities.

* PragmaticHero: Jaune. He will sacrifice soldiers if it is absolutely necessary, pursues every advantage he has against [[TheSoulless the Grimm]] regardless of how [[DirtyBusiness morally ambiguous it may seem]], and is not above [[WideEyedIdealist disabusing others of their idealistic notions]] [[CruelToBeKind if it means saving lives.]] [[spoiler:His actions determine his first moral axis to be Lawful]].

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[HealingFactor Since Aura restores one's body to its natural state]] [[PowerLevels the higher one's mastery of Aura, the slower they age]]. Lords age at half the normal rate, Paragons a quarter, and Gods [[TheAgeless don't age at all]]. [[spoiler:Of the two Gods, [[EccentricMentor Professor]] [[BigGood Ozpin]] has lived for centuries while [[BigBad Salem]] has lived for millenia]].
* RealityWarper: [[spoiler:Sun]] becomes a minor one [[spoiler:when in Avatar form and boosted by Jaune.]] This allows him to alter reality in such a way that [[spoiler:[[OurDragonsAreDifferent Cychreides]]]] [[BreathWeapon plasma cannon]] is entirely deflected.

** Invisible text from Toppling Olympus has revealed that [[spoiler:Simulation!Salem]] has had her faith restored by Jaune due to what he is willing to do for his people. As someone who witnessed [[spoiler:the fall of the Dark Continent along with the corruption of the various God level beings]] and who would themselves later turn against humanity [[spoiler: in the real world]], this is a big deal. So big a deal, in fact, that she has advised Jaune on how to ascend to Godhood:[[spoiler: by getting the scroll from her real-world counterpart]]. She has faith that if he manages such a thing, then he will have earned it.

* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:The [[{{Kaiju}} Titans.]] When they first [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters went rogue]] and destroyed the [[{{Precursors}} ancient civilization]] [[GoneHorriblyWrong that had created them]] the last of the civilization's scientists were able to send a shut-off code that sent them all to sleep. The only ones known to rouse from this are those on [[DeathWorld the Dark Continent]] that awaken whenever humans venture there. [[MyDeathIsOnlyTheBeginning If one of them were to die, however...]]]]

* SheIsAllGrownUp: Both a male and female example are provided by [[http://pre10.deviantart.net/153c/th/pre/f/2013/348/5/6/jaune_arc_by_lollyst-d6xywd6.png Jaune]] and [[http://pre12.deviantart.net/5bc0/th/pre/f/2013/120/b/6/ruby_by_memipong-d63lin2.png Ruby]]. While neither of them are unattractive, they [[https://i.imgur.com/shnxLZK.png grew up]] [[http://i.imgur.com/4iXgf2L.png quite nicely.]]

Run by [=Iandude0=] and Aegir on both sites, Lords Among The Ashes is a pair of quests run tandem on Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom and its spinoff site Sufficient Velocity. The quest takes place in the interim between volumes two and three of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''.

* BladeOnAStick: [[ShockAndAwe Aurea Victus]] ([[GratuitousLatin Golden Victory]]), a Dust imbued spear/banner and one of [[TheGoodKing Jaune's]] most prized weapons, given to him as a [[spoiler:wedding]] gift from [[TheHighQueen Ruby Rose.]]

* ShockAndAwe: Jaune's favored method of ranged combat after he was given [[BladeOnAStick Aurea Victus]] from Ruby as a [[spoiler:wedding]] present.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Jaune and Ruby are this by the end of the sim. Ruby's people adore her for the effort she puts forth to better their country. Jaune's civilians treat him as near divinity and his soldiers treat him as a close friend because of both how hard he strove to secure their safety and the victories he attained while doing so.

* TheGoodKing: Jaune. He always does what he thinks is right for his people and [[GoodIsNotSoft goes to any means to secure their safety]]. He [[HeroicSacrifice demands much of them]] but [[FrontlineGeneral no more than he demands of himself.]] They understand this and [[HundredPercentAdorationRating love him all the same]].

* TheHighQueen: Ruby. Not only does she become highly charismatic, intelligent, and beautiful as she grows into her role as the leader of her people but she also reduces corruption, cuts down on piracy, and leads relief efforts to other nations.[[HundredPercentAdorationRating It's no wonder why her people absolutely love her]].

[[YearInsideHourOutside Trapped in a leadership]] [[InsideAComputerSystem simulation]] GoneHorriblyWrong, Jaune and Ruby [[YouAreInCommandNow have found themselves leaders of two very different nations in Remnant]], hundreds of years before the events of canon. [[WinToExit Forced to serve and survive for ten years in their new roles]], the two protagonists have to grow into their positions as figures of authority while they contend with the many dangers and problems of the world they have found themselves living in.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: As the leaders of each of the different cultures are trained [[HunterOfMonsters Huntsman and Huntresses]] thrust into their position by the sim, they are almost guaranteed to be the greatest fighters their nation has to offer.

* BarrierWarrior: Jaune has the ability to summon Aegis, [[InstantArmor large shields capable of slowing or stopping enemy attacks]]. His strongest one to date fully stopped [[spoiler:[[FantasticNuke the eruption of ]][[MonsterShapedMountain Olympus]]]].

** [[TheBaroness Alexandria]]. Every single military action that she led throughout her time in the sim ended in complete failure. When [[KnowWhenToFoldThem she finally decided to]][[spoiler: [[KnowWhenToFoldThem abandon her city]] to the approaching [[{{Kaiju}} Titans]] and flee to Oum's Ascension her fleet was attacked and destroyed by what may have been a ''second'', hitherto unknown, [[KrakenAndLeviathan ocean Titan]]]].

* DeathWorld: The Grimm are an everpresent threat that every kingdom has to deal with but special mention goes to The Dark Continent. It is the only location where one can find [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier Ghouls]], [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Tyrant Scales]], [[GiantFlyer Ziz]], and [[{{Kaiju}} Titans]][[spoiler:...at first.]]

** [[spoiler:Ruby]] allies with [[TheBaroness Alexandria]], the utterly ruthless head of a fascist state that practices both [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slavery]] and [[{{Conscription}} impressment]] of WarRefugees whose stated goal is to conquer the Central continent, in order to better combat [[{{Pride}} Lily.]]
*** [[DisasterDominoes This immediately prompts]] [[TheEngineer Varric]] and [[NatureLover Neil]] to ally with Lily to oppose [[TheConqueror Alexandria.]]
** [[GodzillaThreshold Everyone is forced to put away their differences when]] [[TheUsualAdversaries Grimm activity spikes]][[spoiler: due to [[{{Kaiju}} the Titans awakening worldwide.]]]]
* FaceMonsterTurn: What is implied to have happened to [[spoiler:the Fallen Gods]] possibly due to the mental backlash that came from [[HijackingCthulhu attempting,]] [[EvilIsNotAToy and failing]], to [[spoiler:[[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters control]] [[{{Kaiju}} the Titans.]]]]
* FallenHero: The various [[spoiler:Mad Gods, corrupted God-level Aura users,]] that appear throughout the story are implied to be this, having reached the pinnacle of human strength before [[TheCorruption they were corrupted.]]

* GiantFlyer: [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Tyrant Scales]] and [[http://i.imgur.com/jxqBbS5.png Ziz]] qualify but the most prominent example would be [[http://i.imgur.com/Xu27n1y.jpg Bahamut]][[spoiler:, the Titan Salem developed before the fall of the Dark Continent and the corruption of the other God-level Aura users]].

** By the end of the series, all Paragons were given a title in commemoration of their achievements: Light Amidst the Darkness(Aurora), Lord Among the Ashes(Azure, Coco, and Sun), Beacon of Hope(Ruby), Beacon of Peace(Cardin), and King and Queen of Ash and Fire(Jaune and Cinder, respectively).

** [[http://i.imgur.com/LYLO8iz.jpg Cychreides]] is much worse. It is [[{{Kaiju}} almost three times the size of an aircraft carrier,]] [[LightningBruiser incredibly fast for its size]], [[ArmorOfInvincibility has armor that not even battleship cannons can dent,]] and [[BreathWeapon breathes]] [[PlayingWithFire fire]][[spoiler: among [[WaveMotionGun other things]]]].

* PreAsskickingOneliner: Jaune and Ruby both give these during their time in the sim.

** [[BadassPreacher Cardin]]. He spends most of his time in the sim [[BigGood leading relief and refugee efforts, trying to establish peace between the numerous hostile states in Central,]] [[TookALevelInKindness and becoming a genuinely good person that everyone in the sim eventually grows to respect.]]
** [[TheGoodKing Jaune.]] He supported Cardin in almost all of his efforts, [[FrontlineGeneral personally lead the charges to lay claim to Normandy,]] had the BioArmor they found extensively analyzed to guarantee that it [[SubvertedTrope had no effect whatsoever]] [[CyberneticsWillEatYourSoul on the user's soul]], and willingly [[spoiler:shared his information on advanced technology, Grimm, and Titans with the other leaders when the giant monsters awoke around the world.]]

* RulingCouple: [[spoiler:Jaune and Cinder]]. They both take part in the governing of their kingdom and they excel at [[TheSpymaster it almost]] [[TheSocialExpert as much]] [[BadassBureaucrat as they do]] [[FourStarBadass at actual combat]].
* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:The [[{{Kaiju}} Titans.]] When they first [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters went rogue]] and destroyed the [[{{Precursors}} ancient civilization]] [[GoneHorriblyWrong that had created them]] the last of the civilization's scientists were able to send a shut-off code that sent them all to sleep. The only ones known to rouse from this are those on [[DeathWorld the Dark Continent]] that awaken whenever humans venture there. If one of them were to [[MyDeathIsOnlyTheBeginning die]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero however...]]]]

** [[{{Kaiju}} Titans]] have a presence about them that imbibes a sense of fear and despair upon their enemies that even Paragons are not immune to.

** Cinder carries the Blood of Destruction, an inheritance passed down in her line since before [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized they were cast from power by those who had placed them there.]]
** Jaune carries the Blood of War, a power cultivated in his line [[PragmaticHero in an attempt to avoid the self-destructive nature of others without losing any of their might.]]
** Ruby carries the Blood of Death, a legacy bestowed upon her line for the sake of [[HunterOfMonsters destroying the Grimm]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters but that may destroy themselves in the end.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: Happens to many players throughout the game but shout outs go to those who have gone through the Paragon ritual.

** Ruby goes from cute GenkiGirl to one of the three most powerful and terrifying hunters in the sim while being the most potentially dangerous in a one-on-one confrontation as she is a Paragon of Death.

* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Jaune is [[spoiler:Cinder]]'s, and she will not let anything in the world take away from her what is hers.
* WarIsHell: The war on the central continent consumes thousands of lives, causes a vast increase in Grimm activity, and even its original instigators [[ShellShockedVeteran wanted an end]]. The biggest proponents of peace were Cardin, Jaune, and Ruby. [[BadassPreacher Cardin]] [[BigGood spent years trying to establish peace between the hostile states]]. [[TheGoodKing Jaune]], [[{{Irony}} Paragon of War]], accepted [[WarRefugees refugees]], refused to become an ArmsDealer, stopped impressment in the northern hemisphere, and sent food and soldiers to supply Oum's Ascension. [[TheHighQueen Ruby]] also accepted refugees, stopped impressment in the southern hemisphere, advocated for peace, and hunted down pirates. [[spoiler:Ruby eventually [[YouAreWhatYouHate joins in on the war]] after Lily attacked her docks in [[CycleOfRevenge revenge]] for Silversun sinking [[MamaBear the impressment ship her daughters were on for their first voyage]]. Ruby [[EnemyMine allies with ]][[TheBaroness Alexandria]] [[TheConqueror Steelshine]] but [[TheEngineer Varric]] and [[NatureLover Neil]] immediately ally with Lily to oppose them.]]
* WeDoTheImpossible: Jaune earned this reputation ''by turn two'', so much so that most people think his accomplishments a gross exaggeration. [[spoiler:By the end of the sim, the rest of the world has either retreated from or been destroyed by [[{{Kaiju}} the Titans]]. [[BadassArmy The Normans have killed three of them]].]]

** The Last Gasp of Peace: [[spoiler:[[ThisMeansWar Ruby declared war on Lily]] [[EnemyMine and allied with]] [[TheBaroness Alexandria,]] [[DisasterDominoes causing several formerly neutral parties to ally with Lily in retaliation,]] making the war larger than it ever was before and possibly permanently alienating [[BigGood Cardin.]]]]

** Turn 7 Results (Jaune): [[spoiler:Jaune's engaged...to ''[[LadyOfBlackMagic Cinder]]''.]]

** Turn 20 Results (Jaune): [[spoiler:[[BigBad Salem]] requests that Jaune find her real world counterpart and [[RestoredMyFaithInHumanity restore her faith in humanity]] [[HopeBringer like he already did for her]]. [[DeityOfHumanOrigin Once he does, her real world counterpart will give him the God-level Aura ritual.]]]]

* BadassInCharge: Considering that the players were all training to defend humanity against soulless monsters that have been the enemies of mankind since as far as anyone can remember, all the leaders count.

* TheAce: Not only is Jaune one of the [[AFatherToHisMen greatest generals]] [[FourStarBadass Remnant has ever seen]], he is also [[BadassBookworm a scholar of ancient languages]], [[FunctionalMagic an expert on Aural and Dust manipulation]], [[MightyGlacier a nearly invincible fighter]], [[RousingSpeech a great]] [[MagneticHero personal speaker,]] [[spoiler:[[MagicKnight an accomplished Dust Mage]], [[WeDoTheImpossible the key figure in the deaths of three Titans, and the only person known to have ever killed three Mad Gods]]]].

* ActionGirl: In the world of RWBY, this is almost par the course for anyone who has a name.

* AltarDiplomacy: [[spoiler:Cinder]] is so impressed by what she sees in Normandy that she manipulates events so that she and [[spoiler:Jaune]] marry. This gives Wintershroud access to the LostTechnology that Normandy has rediscovered and Normandy access to Wintershroud's rich mineral resources.

* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler:A ApocalypseHow/Class1 has occurred by the end of the sim as only two civilizations remain standing and they are entirely separated from each other with the rest having been destroyed by the Titans.]]

* {{Adorkable}}: Jaune and Ruby are still rather adorably awkward, even after leading their own civilizations for years. Prime examples include: Ruby contemplating using her mass production technology to increase Silversun's cookie output, and Jaune accidentally rolling off a building's roof to avoid seeing a photo of Coco in the shower.

* BadassGrandpa: [[http://orig03.deviantart.net/399e/f/2012/277/9/d/knight_by_beaver_skin-d5grk2p.jpg Robespierre Arc]] and [[http://i.imgur.com/99Te9.png Siegfried Schnee]] are two of the greatest [[FourStarBadass generals]], [[BadassBureaucrat stewards]], and [[TheSpyMaster spy masters]] that Remnant has ever seen. [[NoPlaceForMeThere Both have retreated/were exiled from society after their assistance in the Color Revolution]] [[TheDreaded but everyone who knows of them fears what will happen if they feel that their presence is required once more.]]

** [[BadassGrandpa Robespierre Arc and Siegfried Schnee]] are famous for their contributions during the Great War, with those aware of them [[TheDreaded terrified of what may happen if their assistance is required once more.]]

* MemeticBadass: Jaune is this both in-universe and out.

* OhCrap: Happens several times throughout the story.
** MassOhCrap: The news about the [[spoiler: rest of the [[{{Kaiju}} Titans]] awakening]] freaked out the rest of the players to the point that they finally decided to [[spoiler:[[EnemyMine put aside their differences and stop fighting after several years of warring with each other]]]].

** Ruby's efforts to destroy the Grimm surrounding Redrock Gorge ''would'' be this with five Hunters decimating a force of over 2400 Grimm were it not for [[spoiler:Cody's death.]]

* HiveMind: The Norman soldiers have an instinctual understanding of each other while under the effects of Jaune's Semblance to the point that they coordinate as if they were a single entity.

* KnowWhenToFoldThem: Ruby [[spoiler:decides to abandon Silversun at the end of the sim and retreats inland with the rest of her people rather than try to fight the ocean [[{{Kaiju}} Titan]] and risk everything that she had built up to that point]].

* MindlinkMates: [[spoiler:Jaune and Cinder]] share a soul-bond that allows them to sense each other's emotions, bolster each other's Auras, and [[spoiler:combine their Auras to form a dual [[YinYangBomb Semblance]], [[StatusBuffDispel Ruin]]]].

* StatusBuffDispel: [[spoiler:Ruin, Jaune and Cinder's [[YinYangBomb dual Semblance,]] fully dispels enemy buffs and removes allies' debuffs]].