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Mercury is eight when his father joins up with Salem's faction and takes a post in Vale, and it takes him no time at all to decide that he hates every last thing about the city except for maybe this green-haired pickpocket.Emerald's never had a friend before, and she really should know better than to start with this angry weirdo who ruined her latest heist.

Crime Kids Au is a RWBY Fanfiction written by asamis_jodhpurs which takes place in a Alternate Universe where through a butterfly affect a 8 year old Mercury moves to Vale where he meets and befriends fellow 8 year old Emerald, with the series following the events that happen because of it.

As of writing this, the series has a total of 2 works in the series, with the first being completed and the second one still being developed


Warning! All spoilers for the canon show will be left unmarked.

This series contains examples of:

  • Adaptational Nice Guy: Downplayed as while Emerald and Mercury are much more kinder than their canon counterparts they can still be major jerks
  • Ascended Extra: Multiple characters go through this such as:
    • Marcus Black, who went from only having his corpse shown on screen aswell as a few mentions in the canon show to being the Main Villain of the first fic.
    • Tukson-who was killed in his debut episode, becomes Team EMLD’s main father figure
    • Griselda Argent-originally one of cinders unnamed stepsisters who was killed in her debut episode becomes The head of one of the most dangerous crime syndicates,one of Salem's generals, and a antagonist in both installments of the series.
    • Russel Thrush-While in canon he is just one CRDL’s filler teammate, in here he is part of Rex’s inner circle and by extension a main antagonist of the third Arc of the first work
    • Despite being OC’s this does apply to Lavender and Daily as they go from unnamed street kids to Emerald and Mercury’s closest confidants and main characters in their own right
  • Amicable Exes: Emerald and Lavender’s relationship post breakup
  • Bad Powers, Bad People:This rule applies to everybody with villainous Semblances that isn’t Emerald
  • The Cameo:Given to multiple canon characters in the first work such as ,Winter,Marrow,Cinder,Neo,Dr.Oobleck and Professor Port
  • Call It Karma: Examples of this are:
    • Mercury kills his abusive dad
    • Rex being brought down by the same girl he bullied as a child
  • Chekhov's Gun:Qrow’s whole purpose in the first work
  • Coming of Age Story:What the first fic is about
  • Cop Hater: Seeing as the majority of the cast are criminals this is a no brainer
  • Cruel to Be Kind:
    • What Mercruy thinks Marcus is doing when he beats him up after training and causes him to nearly do it to Emerald, though shortly after learns the truth
    • Merucry (believing that if they stay friends Marcus will kill Emerald) insults Emerald and breaks off their friendship,luckily he backtracks and apoligises to her
  • Demoted to Extra:All of the canon characters given a cameo.Down played but also applies to Hazel,Tyrian,Qrow,Ozpin and Watts in the first work
  • Disabled Means Helpless: Subverted,all disabled characters in the series are the furthest thing from helpless.
  • Dramatic Irony: Multiple cases of this:
    • Tukson becoming Emerald and Mercury’s main father figurewhen in canon he was killed by them
    • Mercury being a huge dog lover but being forced two kill two of them
    • Marcus constantly berating Mercury for telegraphing when scared and Mercury’s last words to Marcus being“You telegraph”
    • Marcus taking Mercury’s Semblance for being a crutch only to be killed by it later when Mercury gets it back
  • Fond Memories That Could Have Been: Mercury contemplates this about his dad when destroying all of Marcus’s alcohol and in the final fight against Marcus
  • Grey-and-Grey Morality:When a work revolves around a cast that does crime on the regular this is impossible to avoid
  • Harmful to Minors: Seeing as the main characters live in places full of crime that couldn’t care less about protecting kids innocence this is a given.
  • Mythology Gag: There are a few of these such as:
    • Tukson making “You kids will be the death of me”-esque remarks when interacting with the Main cast
    • Mercury voicing his critiques over Tukson’s catchphrase
      “That’s just false advertising,” Mercury piped up, shaking his head ruefully.
    • When going to get a haircut Emerald considered getting something similar to her canon style
      ’She’d thought about leaving a couple braids hanging down’.
    • Mercury casually sniffing boots in the Vytal stalls.
      He crossed over to the booth, picked up one of the boots, and, with an air of grave concentration, sniffed it.
    • Mercury refrencing the title of his and Emerald’s duet song
      ‘I’m the one.’
  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished:when Mercury snaps at Marcus for being a heartless monster, he gets repaid with a beating and being held prisoner in his own house.
  • Original Character:There are a Plethora of these in the series but they most notable ones are:
    • Lavender Gruff- A brash but kind Goat Faunus with wicked knife skills
    • Reynard Daily-A smart,quiet but politefully sassy Fox Faunus
    • Cypress-A sweet elderly cashier who acts as a mother figure for Emerald and Mercury
    • Vlad and Chrys-Hunstmen Husbands who run a Bakery
    • Hubert-A living microwave with legs
    • Rex Aurum-Emerald’s sadistic,racist childhood bully and The main antagonist of the first work’s Third arc
    • Orion and Meleager Janus-Rex’s equally sadistic and racist twin sidekicks
  • Orphanage of Fear: Emerald’s old orphanage though it is downplayed as not every kid is abused but the ones that are, are abused hard ,and the ones that aren’t are encouraged to bully the others and tend to end up as Entitled Bastards
  • Offscreen Breakup: Zig-Zagged as while Emerald and Lavenders Breakup already happened in the time between Arc 2 and 3 of the first work we do see a flashback of it.
  • Platonic Life-Partners:Lavender and Daily’s relationship
  • Parental Substitute: Team EMLD ends up collecting a lot of these so much so they even invented a verb for it “Cypressed”they are Cypress.Tukson,Vlad and Chrys,Roman Torchwick(Yes THAT Roman Torchwick), Qrow and Ozpin.This is also what Hazel tries to be for Mercury but fails.
  • Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: We have 3 random street kids,the son of the worlds best assassin, A freedom fighter/bookshop owner,an elderly cashier and a sentient microwave. This fits like a glove.

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