Line #7 Fanfic/FlamesShade


1	While on a solo escort mission, Ruby comes across a destroyed Faunus-centric village. While searching the village, Ruby finds a deceased Raven amongst the victims. That's not all Ruby finds, however, She also comes across Raven's sword and a suspiciously red-eyed Faunus baby.
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3	''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12322017/1/Flame-s-Shade Flame's Shade]]'' is a ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' fic by [=AYangThing=] where Ruby and Yang take care of their baby sister. The story is set a few years after the main characters have already become hunters. ''Flame's Shade'' contains Blake/Ruby, Weiss/Pyrrha, and Yang/Yatsuhashi but the latter two relationships are not the focal point of the plot.
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5	''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13352440/1/Flame-s-Shade-Revisited Flame's Shade - Revisited]]'' is a rewrite of the story.
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8	!!This fic provides examples of:
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10	* AbusiveParents: Weiss' father was emotionally and likely physically abusive.
11	* TheAlcoholic: Taiyang relapses after Raven's death. He had always hoped that she'd come back someday or that at minimum she never had a SecondLove, but instead she got pregnant with another's baby and then died without ever contacting Tai. To make it worse, Taiyang's daughters are adults so he doesn't feel the responsibility of cleaning up to be there for them like he did when Summer died.
12	* AlternateUniverseFic: The Fall of Beacon never happened.
13	* DeathByAdaptation: The very premise of the fanfic means that unlike canon (by the time of Volume 8), Raven is dead.
14	* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The differences between Faunus and human cultures is discussed a bit. For example, Faunus are generally more homophobic than humans because Faunus generally have [[MyInstinctsAreShowing stronger urges to rear offspring]].
15	* DisabledInTheAdaptation: Fox is depicted as being blind before it was canonized.
16	* LittleBitBeastly: Faunus are presented as more individualized from humans than they are in canon. For example, cat Faunus have thick, retractable fingernails that are comparable to claws. Cat Faunus also have strong night vision and a strong sense of smell to the point where they can identify a person's sex by scent alone. Blake refers to babies as "cubs".
17	* FamilyEyeResemblance: Ace has Raven's red eyes.
18	* FurryReminder:
19	** Cat Faunus are lactose-intolerant, like cats.
20	** Blake's eyes can slit like a cat's. Ruby finds it unnerving the first few times she sees it.
21	* InterspeciesRomance: Blake and Ruby are the main one. An obstacle in their relationship is Ruby learning to become comfortable with how ''inhuman'' Blake is. Blake might normally look and act like a human with cat ears, but there are deep biological and behavioral differences between humans and faunus. This is especially noticeable when they're intimate and Blake's [[MyInstinctsAreShowing more feral side]] shows through.
22	* MissingMom: Ruby finds Raven dead in the wreckage of the village. She even buried her herself. Raven left a nameless baby motherless, leading her sisters to take care of her.
23	* {{Polyamory}}:
24	** Implied between Summer, Taiyang, and Raven. It's mentioned that they all loved one another.
25	** Coco, Fox, and Velvet are a triad.
26	* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: Yang and Ruby are both young adults when they meet their infant sister.
27	* PromotionToParent: Ruby and Yang are in charge of a baby sister after finding her alone in a wrecked village.

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