History YMMV / FairiesOfTheShatteredMoon

* GrowingTheBeard: While the story spends most of its first half telling revised versions of RWBY volumes 3, 4, and 5, it hits its stride during the [[SignatureSeriesArc Haven arc]] and beyond. From the Haven arc on, the series {{Myth Arc}} is front and center as [[ChekhovsGun many plot threads built up over the story are advanced and/or concluded]] while Fairy Tail's bonds and ideals are pushed to their limit. [[spoiler:By the time the Grimmland's arc concludes, Fairy Tail has split up to fulfill different objectives, and the war with Salem is in full swing, [[NothingistheSameAnymore leaving the status quo shattered entirely.]]]]

* BrokenBase: The story's reviews are ''extremely'' split on the actions of Weiss and Yang during the Grimmlands Arc and which one was more justified in the events surrounding [[spoiler: Summer's death]], as seen below in the UnintentionallyUnsympathetic section. People side with Weiss or with Yang, a third group feel that this was the right direction for both girls' character arcs, and a fourth group sees the author's intent but thinks that, given the scale of harm that [[spoiler: Summer's actions]] resulted in, the whole thing is falling ab it flat.

* BrokenBase: The story's reviews are ''extremely'' split on the actions of Weiss and Yang during the Grimmlands Arc and which one was more justified in the events surrounding [[spoiler: Summer's death]], as seen below in the UnintentionallyUnsympathetic section. Weiss has been called completely correct or a monster who ignored the bigger picture and the pleadings of her friend. Yang has been said to be having a completely understandable reaction to [[spoiler: the death of her mother]] after she'd pleaded with Weiss to stay her hand or a whiny child stuck in an ItsAllAboutMe MoralMyopia. And then there's a third group that points out that both girls' character arcs had led up to their respective actions and that both of their internal logics make sense from their point of view, appreciating the tragedy of it all.

** [[spoiler: While Yang is hurt by Summers death the thing that enraged her the most is how Weiss completely ignored her pleas. Yang accepted that Summer was going to have to face justice for her actions but she just wanted more time with her. Yang gave up her arms for her friends, she jumped into bulkhead with a superdemon for her friends, she was prepared to give up her mother for her friends and all she asked of Weiss was to delay her revenge for a bit. Weiss refused to do that and in the process nearly killed Ruby as well. Yang values loyalty above all else and Weiss betrayed that.]]

** Related to the above, [[spoiler: Yang entering a FaceHeelTurn over Summer's death marks her as, at best, a massive hypocrite; she wants to kill Weiss for killing her mother, but the very crime that Weiss killed Summer for was the murder of her own mother. Viewing Weiss' actions as unforgivable and her own as justified is, at best, MoralMyopia at its finest. The fact that Summer was one of Salem's forces beforehand makes Yang's actions even less justified.]]

* Unintentionally Unsympathetic: While the story makes efforts to present [[spoiler: Summer Rose's death as a tragedy, the fact that she has spent the majority of her screentime screwing over everyone around her for her goals makes it hard to sympathize. Her claim that everything she's done is for her daughters also likewise falls flat, given both that she's at least partly responsible for Cinder turning out like she did, and that she spends most of her final battle beating one of those daughters to death- she barely stops herself in time. Given that Weiss is avenging her own mother's death, it's extremely difficult to see Summer's death as anything but exactly what she deserved.]]

** The Erza vs. Cinder battle was later voted the fan-favorite fight of the entire first half of the story.

* SignatureSeriesArc: The author held a vote to determine what the readers' favorite arc was. The Haven Arc, consisting of such iconic moments as Ruby vs. Pyrrha, End wiping out the Branwen Tribe, Wendy and Erza's development surrounding the Nikos family drama, and ESPECIALLY the Erza vs. Cinder fight that capped the arc off, won with nearly half the total vote.

* SeriesSignatureArc: The author held a vote to determine what the readers' favorite arc was. The Haven Arc, consisting of such iconic moments as Ruby vs. Pyrrha, End wiping out the Branwen Tribe, Wendy and Erza's development surrounding the Nikos family drama, and ESPECIALLY the Erza vs. Cinder fight that capped the arc off, won with nearly half the total vote.

* HeartwarmingInHindsight: In a way, Hazel first going after Salem for the death of his sister and only turning against Ozpin once he learns that she is [[CompleteImmortality immortal]] and the story's AwfulTruth becomes this after Volume 8 reveals that [[spoiler: he similarly went after Salem first in canon too, only turning against Ozpin after killing her multiple times to [[NoSell no effect]] and coming to believe that she couldn't be stopped]].

* HarsherInHindsight: [[spoiler:Cinder/Ella's past of being kidnapped by her stepmother after the latter killed her father and being trained abusively to be a killer becomes this when canon reveals she was basically bought from an orphanage in Mistral by an abusive hotel owner and her two daughters who made Cinder's life hell.]]