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Creator/{{trestwho}}

[[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/10589888/trestwho trestwho]] (also known as [=xTRESTWHOx=] on Spacebattle Forums) is a fanfiction writer who's works include fanfiction for ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'', ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'', ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'', and ''Franchise/TheDCU''. He and his works can be found on Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/members/xtrestwhox.357862/ here]] and Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/xTRESTWHOx/pseuds/xTRESTWHOx here]]. trestwho is also a member of TV Tropes and can be found [[Tropers/{{Trestwho}} here]].
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!!Fanfics by trestwho with their own pages:
* Fanfic/DustAndEchoes
* Fanfic/FamiliarEvil
* Fanfic/HuntersOfJustice
* Fanfic/{{Outsiders}}
!!Tropes used by this author include:
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!!Tropes used by this author include:

[[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/10589888/trestwho trestwho]] (also known as [=xTRESTWHOx=] on Spacebattle Forums) is a fanfiction writer who's works include fanfiction for ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'', ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'', ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'', and ''Franchise/TheDCU''. He and his works can be found on Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/members/xtrestwhox.357862/ here]] and Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/xTRESTWHOx/pseuds/xTRESTWHOx here]]. trestwho is also a member of TV Tropes and can be found [[Tropers/{{trestwho}} here]].

[[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/10589888/trestwho trestwho]] (also known as [=xTRESTWHOx=] on Spacebattle Forums) is a fanfiction writer who's works include fanfiction for ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'', ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'', ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'', and ''Franchise/TheDCU''. He and his works can be found on Website/SpaceBattlesDotCom [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/members/xtrestwhox.357862/ here]] and Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/xTRESTWHOx/pseuds/xTRESTWHOx here]].

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All tropes for ''Fanfic/PyreOfDestiny'' have been transferred to the appropriate tropes page.

''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/pyre-of-destiny-rwby-time-travel-fic.849604/ Pyre of Destiny]]''([=AO3=] link [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/30445515/chapters/75068775 here]]) is a ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' time travel fanfic written by Teen Spirit/Stormwalker and hosted on Website/SpacebattlesDotCom.

The plot follows Blake and her daughters, Kali and Summer, as they're sent back in time during a freak storm to everyone's initial travels on their journey to stop Salem.

The story is divided into acts and is currently on Act 8.
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!!''Pyre of Destiny'' provides examples of:
* AdaptationalHeroism: While Marrow was the most heroic of the Ace Ops, it wasn't until Ironwood threatened to bomb Mantle that he defected. Here, he defects much earlier, largely due to learning about the man he would turn into in Summer's future, even using his Semblance on his team and General to help the heroes escape.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: {{Downplayed|Trope}} with Cinder. Whereas in canon she has yet to show any moral standards as of the Volume 8 finale, here she's shown to care for her family from the future, and only her family from the future.
* AdaptationalVillainy: In the original timeline, aside from their canonical crimes, Atlas succeeded in escaping into the upper atmosphere and became a cruel bandit nation. In particular, characters that pulled a HeelFaceTurn in canon (Marrow and Winter) didn't do so in Summer's timeline, and devolved into further evil as a result.
* AntagonisticOffspring: Cinder/Kali for Future!Yang and Future!Blake, much to both side's frustration. Frost Schnee is one as well, with zero reservations about killing her mother, Winter.
* BadFuture: The timeline that the future versions of Blake and Yang, as well as their children, come from isn't exactly a sunny one. Most of their family and friends are dead, Atlas is in ruins and Salem rules over the remaining Kingdoms with seemingly no hope left of defeating her.
* BrokenPedestal: Emerald's faith in Cinder is utterly shaken when Summer tells her that in her time, someone else would have saved her from the streets, meaning Cinder had been lying and taking advantage of her from the start. This faith suffers even more when she starts seeing Cinder's blatant double-standards when it comes to Frost and other people from her time. [[spoiler: So much so she ends up defecting to Summer's side.]]
* CainAndAbel: Kali is the Cain to Summer's Abel. Unusually for this trope, it's the Abel, Summer, who wants to kill her sister and has to be talked out of it while the Cain, Kali, would rather avoid killing her sister.
* DeadGuyJunior: Summer and Kali are named after the mothers of Yang and Blake respectively.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation:
** Adam Taurus survives past Argus where he canonically died, instead dying during the attack on the Schnee Manor to Future!Blake.
** Unlike canon, where Jacques was killed by Ironwood in V8, he's instead killed by his future granddaughter during the party at Schnee Manor, where she drags her knife across his throat.
* DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment: Zig-zagged. Future!Blake, Future!Yang, and Summer treat the past incarnations of their deceased friends and loved ones like they are those same people, with Summer in particular struggling to reconcile Emerald's more villainous incarnation with the Emerald who mentored her. Cinder/Kali, meanwhile, doesn't see the people from the past as real, with the sole, possible exception of Emerald. However, she is noted to have killed Ursula (the mastermind behind Beacon's fall in the "original" timeline), hates the Atlas of the present for its future incarnation's crimes against Remnant, and is shown to be somewhat attached to the new timeline's Emerald, even if she's still just as abusive towards her as she was in canon.
* TheDreaded: Future!Yang. Frost notably is terrified at the prospect of fighting her.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: In sharp contrast to canon, Cinder is an example of this, caring deeply for her family. Though this is played with as her feelings apply only to her parents and sister, treating everyone else, even her parent's present counterparts, as bad as she does as canon. And this love is not enough to stop her from [[spoiler: maiming her sister during a fight]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards
** Part of the reason Kali hates Frost Schnee is due to Frost's past abusive relationship with her sister, Summer. Deconstructed however, as this doesn't stop her from being just as abusive, if not more so, towards Emerald. [[spoiler:This hypocritical behavior is what compels Emerald to defect]].
** Frost herself despises Atlas in large part due to its Anti-Faunus attitudes.
* FirstEpisodeTwist: Cinder is revealed to be Future!Yang and Future!Blake's time-displaced daughter, Kali, at the end of the second part of the first chapter.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Summer has a hard time adjusting to the comparatively carefree present. Being weirded out by how many people travel without weapons, and sleeping with a gun under her pillow for example.
* ForWantOfANail: Since Cinder didn't exist in the timeline Future!Yang, Future!Blake, and Summer come from, a lot of things went differently.
** Pyrrha never killed Penny during the Vytal Tournament and neither died during the Fall of Beacon.
** Emerald was picked up by a Huntress named Ann Greene and raised as a hero.
** The White Fang don't take part in Beacon's fall, and their situation devolves into a civil war, with Ghira and Sienna teaming up to go against Adam and the Albain brothers.
** Unlike canon, Ironwood's plan to jettison Atlas into the upper atmosphere succeeds, resulting in the kingdom becoming a bandit nation that raids other kingdoms when low on supplies.
* FutureBadass: Blake and Yang's future counterparts, due to having decades more experience and in Yang's case, being the Spring Maiden.
* FutureMeScaresMe:
** {{Downplayed|Trope}}. While Blake and Yang mostly get along with their future counterparts, they're not a fan of Future!Blake and Future!Yang's more ruthless actions and behavior. In some cases, it gets lampshaded by their younger counterparts how their actions can come scarily close to something Adam would attempt.
** Deconstructed. Ironwood, Winter, and the Ace Ops are horrified at what they become in the future. However, despite this, they don't put any active effort in trying to prevent it because they're so convinced that they're the good guys and won't end up that way, clinging stubbornly to the power they have. Marrow ends up being the only one who understands that he's on the path to becoming a monster and [[spoiler:defects when it's clear Atlas' leadership is past the point of no return]].
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Emerald switches sides in Chapter 6, though notably for more personal reasons than in canon as she seems to have latched on to Summer as a replacement for Cinder.]]
* HeroicWannabe: Yang calls Ironwood out on being this. For all his talk on making necessary sacrifices, it's clear that he's making everyone but himself sacrifice everything while expecting them to see him as the hero for his so called "sacrifices".
* {{Hypocrite}}: Cinder/Kali keeps claiming that everything she does is to protect her family, but she also shows no issue with hurting them and trying to force them to comply with her views. She also hates abusers like Frost, yet is far more abusive to Emerald than Frost ever was to Summer. [[spoiler:Even Emerald becomes aware of how hypocritical Cinder is and defects as a result]].
* IHaveNoSon: Averted, despite everything Kali has done as Cinder, neither Future!Yang or Future!Blake disown her.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Qrow's reaction to when he learns that the people who suddenly popped out of the sky in the first chapter are his great-niece and niece-in-law from the future.
* InSpiteOfANail: Even though Ozpin is a lot more active in the V7 portion of the plot and actively tries to prevent Ironwood from going down the deep end, it becomes clear that the man was doomed from the start, [[spoiler:as he devolves just like he did in canon]].
* KidFromTheFuture: There are a few. Summer and Cinder/Kali Belladonna-Xiao Long for example. Later on another appears in the form of Frost Schnee, Winter Schnee's villainous daughter.
* MisplacedRetribution: Subverted. Charrie has a personal grudge against Future!Pyrrha for how she humiliated him and left scars all over his body. At first, it seems like this old grudge extends to Jaune and his team as well, but once he learns that the Pyrrha of the new timeline is already dead, he stops fighting and leaves, seeing no point in continuing when the object of his vengeance doesn't exist.
* MyFutureSelfAndMe: Since the story by design of the concept has Yang and Blake interacting with their alternate future selves, this is a given.
* OlderAndWiser: Future!Blake and Future!Yang, naturally, though they're also more pragmatic as well, given their willingness to commit more brutal actions that their past selves would balk at.
* ParentsAsPeople: Future!Yang and Future!Blake. It's clear that both their children love them very much, but it's noted that they often weren't there for them, being forced to leave Summer and Kali with relatives for long periods of time while they went away on missions.
* PowerCopying: Summer's semblance allows to copy the powers of any other semblance. It's named Copycat, pun intended.
* PsychoEx: Adam Taurus as in the main series, but Summer has one of her own in the form of her ex-girlfriend, Frost Schnee.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Here, Cinder is actually the time-displaced daughter of Blake and Yang. In canon, Cinder had no familial ties to either of them.
* RetiredBadass: According to Charrie, the Jaune in his timeline was a house husband, indicating that he retired from fighting.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Future!Yang killed her biological mother, Raven Branwen, in self-defense. Also one Frost Schnee's goals is to kill her mother, Winter.
* ShipperOnDeck: Nora for Yang and Blake. When she learns from Summer that the two get married in the future, she smugly smiles and says "Called it."
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the future timeline, Pyrrha and Penny never died during the Fall of Beacon and got to live on. In Pyrrha's case, she got to live to get married to Jaune and have children.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Due to their past history, while they're both servants of Salem, Cinder/Kali and Frost loathe each other. On the Heroes side, Summer and Jaune don't get along due to Summer's relation to Cinder. Then there is Future!Yang and Ironwood, who were on the verge of a civil war when Ruby and the others arrived and barely tolerate each other afterwards. [[spoiler: Naturally Ironwood turns on Future!Yang and her family the moment he gets suspicious of them in the aftermath of attack on the Schnee Manor]].
* UsedToBeASweetKid: By all accounts, Kali was a tender, quiet, sweet little girl who tended to be too soft for her own good and idolized her aunt, Ruby Rose. Many are completely shocked to find that said girl grew up to become Cinder Fall, a vile, sadistic sociopath who wants to kill her aunt more than anything.
* VillainousBSOD: Cinder has one when Summer [[spoiler:becomes the Winter Maiden as it makes her two goals, acquiring the powers of all of the Maidens and protecting her family, mutually contradictory. This ends up causing her to surrender.]]
* VillainousFriendship: Adam and Frost form an unusual friendship, bonding over their shared hatred for humanity and their exs.
* VillainRespect: Despite his immense hatred for Pyrrha, Charrie still holds a strong amount of respect for her as a warrior. The knowledge that she's already dead in the new timeline nearly breaks him and he even goes to see Pyrrha's mother to tell her of the accomplished hero she would have become.
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* FirstEpisodeTwist: Cinder is revealed to be Future!Yang and Future!Blake's Time-displaced daughter Kali at the end of the second part of the first chapter.

* PowerCopying: Summer's semblance

** Deconstructed. Ironwood, Winter, and the Ace Ops are horrified at what they become in the future. However, despite this, they don't put any active effort in trying to prevent it because they're so convinced that they're the good guys and won't end up that way, clinging stubborn to the power they have. Marrow ends up being the only one who understands that he's on the path to becoming a monster and [[spoiler:defects when it's clear Atlas' leadership is past the point of no return]].

* First-EpisodeTwist: Cinder is revealed to be Future!Yang and Future!Blake's Time-displaced daughter Kali at the end of the second part of the first chapter.

* BrokenPedestal: Emerald's faith in Cinder is utterly shaken when Summer tells her that in her time, someone else would have saved her from the streets. Meaning Cinder had been lying and taking advantage of her from the start. This faith suffers even more when she starts seeing Cinder's blatant double-standards when it comes to Frost and other people from her time. [[spoiler: So much so she ends up defecting to Summer's side.]]

* VillainousBSOD: Cinder has one when Summer [[spoiler:becomes the Winter Maiden as it makes her two goals, acquiring the powers of all of the Maidens and protecting her family, mutually contradictory. Causing her to surrender.]]