Death and the Rose
is a RWBY and Bleach AU in which characters from the former take on powers and roles fitting for the latter.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Ruby and Weiss are dating by the time the story starts, in contrast to canon, where their relationship started out a lot colder.
- Adaptational Superpower Change: The RWBY characters get some flavor of Bleach spiritual powers instead of their canon abilities. Blake and Ruby are Soul Reapers, Weiss is a Quincy, Yang seems to be a Fullbringer, etc.
- BFS: Like Ichigo in canon, Ruby's Zanpakuto is initially huge to represent her incredible raw power before Weiss helps her get the hang of compressing it.
- Composite Character:
- Ruby is combined with Ichigo, being a Substitute Soul Reaper who gained their powers by nearly draining another Soul Reaper dry.
- Yang has both elements of Ichigo's canon sisters and Chad in being the apparent Fullbringer of the group, with powers centered around their arms.
- Blake takes the place of Rukia, being the Soul Reaper whose powers Ruby takes.
- Weiss takes the place of Ishida as the Quincy of the group.
- Ozpin is the fic's version of Urahara, with Sienna Khan as the Yoruichi equivalent.
- Zwei is this AU's version of Kon.
- Summer is this AU's version of Ichigo's mother.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation:
- With some help from her sister, Blake, and Weiss, Ruby is able to kill Grand Fisher at the graveyard, in contrast to how he escaped Ichigo and died to Isshin as a pseudo-Arrancar in canon.
- Jacques died of a supposed heart attack the same day Summer died, in contrast to how Ironwood killed him in canon.
- Fusion Fic: The story combines the worlds of Bleach and RWBY, using elements of the former with characters from the latter.
- Secret-Keeper: Outside of Tai and Yang, Weiss was the only one who knew Ruby could see spirits before the start of the story.
- Shrine to the Fallen: Parodied with Taiyang, who keeps a shrine to Raven... who is not dead. He does have one for Summer, though.
