RWBY Fanfiction Thread

Relic Of The Future chapter 81.

Five words: "Would you like a condom?"

Man, Winter was right. Everybody IS obsessed with her vagina, as she put it herself.

Caught up on Service with a Smile.

Adam and Mercury discussing Ruby was hilarious until suddenly it so totally wasn't. The slow realization that Mercury genuinely believes love is a horrible, horrible thing was hard to read.

Cinder leaving Snow behind hurt as well. CAA is good at making Cinder sympathetic but still evil.

In non-CAA news, I've been reading explosivesky's stuff over on AO 3. Her stuff is pretty much exclusively Blake/Yang with barely even background references to other pairings. A lot of her fics retread the same ground, but they're still good.

Chapter 82 of Relic Of The Future.

...A whole chapter about Relics. I've never been a big fan of that story arc. I don't think they're done badly, but I just can't bring myself to show interest in fictional history.

There was a scene where Winter enters Jaune's tent and that should've resulted in something kinky, damn it!

Something just came up to me.

Adam Taurus as portrayed in Service with a Smile might just be the single best portrayal of him I've ever seen. While he's stilling driven and willing to use violence, he's much more reasonable about it and capable of showing compassion. If the canon Adam was at least a quarter as nuanced as here, it would've removed one of the biggest complaints I had about this series.

Edited by dRoy on Nov 11th 2019 at 12:16:51 AM

Service's Adam is, for all intents and purposes, an entirely different character. Canon Adam was never intended to be nuanced. He started as an asshole and ended as an asshole. There were hints that he was once actually a Well-Intentioned Extremist, but we only got those hints after he cut off Yang's arm to spite Blake.

I think the FNDM made the mistake of... not full leather-pantsing him, but assuming he had better motivations than he ever did. His first appearance involved him planning to leave a train full of people to die, but he was badass so it was easy to overlook. And he remained almost entirely offscreen for three volumes, which made it easy to fill in the gaps with something more relatable than what the writers were intending.

And in fairness, this all happened in-universe too. It took Blake a long time to realize Adam was just a spiteful asshole, the Albain twins thought he'd be a decent leader until they actually put him in charge, and Adam's men were shocked when he tried to kill everyone rather than surrender or make a fighting escape.

Sienna is the person people assumed Adam to be

Adam was a Well-Intentioned Extremist. This is how Blake describes him. This is how the commentary describes him. This is how he acts when he decides not to ally with Cinder because he doesn't want his people to die for a human cause. He is also not obsessed about Blake or even romantically interested in her. For the FNDM to come to any other conclusion would require them to ignore the characterization laid in front of them, as well as the statements given by the creators.

Mind you, that's coming from someone who only started watching RWBY after Volume 4 came out and who didn't even watch Black Trailer before going throught the series. Looking back at it though, it clearly sets Adam to be a different character than he is from Volume 3 onwards.

And one of the few moments in the series I won't defend is unceremoniously killing her off.

No, I take that back, killing her off could have worked. It was a good moment for both Hazel and Adam. Killing her off five minutes after her introduction was the problem. There was a lot to do with that character, either with Hazel successfully convincing her to side with Salem (which also would have been a nice contrast to Cinder bullying Adam into it), or her refusing and the fallout of that. She could have eventually sided with the heroes in an Enemy Mine or still been usurped by Adam, but killing her off in her introduction scene was poorly-done shock value.

And it feels like another symptom of the short episodes and short volumes. They didn't have the screentime to give her a long arc of her own where she is demonstrated as a more reasonable extremist compared to Adam, so they skipped to the end.

I just noticed Linked in Life and Love updated a day or two ago. Weiss might need a cybernetic lung but she'll definitely survive, Ozpin is officially telling everyone the truth (starting with Ironwood, Glynda, and Winter), and Jacques is coming to visit to figure out why his daughter suddenly has three girls listed as her life-partners on her medical records.

Chapter 2 of A Rabbit Among Wolves.

• Jaune is already shaping out to be a ladies' man, like he always is in CAA's
• Perry and Banesaw are shaping out to be regular cast. Speaking of whom, the latter is...wow. Here he is characterized as a massive softie, owner of a flower shop and an excellent cook. Oh God, he's going to be my favorite side character in this fic.
• Unlike other White Fang members, Jaune had his face uncovered, and thus now the most wanted criminal in the entire Vale. Fun start for him!
• Oh, and Ghost!Adam is still the better Adam than his canon counterpart.
• And of course, like in every CAA story, Jaune's going to get attentions from Cinder.

This is turning out to be a mix of Beacon Civil War and White Sheep in terms of tone and basic premise.

Edited by dRoy on Nov 13th 2019 at 6:11:31 PM

What do you guys think of RWBY: Destiny of Remnant?

Service with a Smile Chapter 58, in which Ozpin comments how Jaune would make an excellent politician, the kind that would actually make changes.

I can't help but notice how the main characters in CAA, even Yang in Captain Dragon, eventually ends up getting roped in politics.

Chapter 3 of A Rabbit Among Wolves is out.

Just like in the early chapters of Professor Arc and The Beacon Civil War, it prominently features Jaune earning respect as a leader by sheer luck and misunderstanding. Jaune leads White Fang into becoming a humanitaraian group (or as the WF members insist, faunusian). In the process, he unintentionally gains approval from Ilia, who deems him better than Adam because he is willing to listen to other's opinions.

He also unintentionally screwes over Cinder by selling off all the Dust Adam gathered before he died. Also, despite all that, Jaune gets screwed over because Lisa Lavender colors WF's charity work as "preying upon the poor." Going legit is hard.

The part that raised questions for me was how Jaune and the reforming White Fang mananged to sell all the Dust without drawing attentions and in such a quick notice, but this is a fanfic tagged Humor/Parody genre, so I'm not going to press further.

All in all, fascinating and amusing chapter.

I like how the story roasts multiple characters in every chapter. Adam gets burned for being a jerk, Blake gets burned for her crappy disguise, Jaune gets burned by his own psyche for being an idiot, Ilia gets burned by an Author Note and I'm pretty sure the part about Jaune not feeling guilty about killing someone in self-defence was a subtle Ghira roast.

I half suspect that's the entire reason why this fic was written.

I'm surprised nobody is talking about how all the fanfics that featured Penny surviving her dismembering in Volume 3 have been finally vindicated by Volume 7's first episode.

Edited by MarqFJA on Dec 1st 2019 at 7:29:48 PM

It would have been been more of a surprise if Penny stayed gone.

Plenty of people seemed sure that at the very least she'd have an irreversible case of Loss of Identity.

I haven't kept up with RWBY much, does she not? Because, uh, that feels like it manages to somehow retroactively reduce the already-unclear-or-low stakes of the show even more

All signs indicate that she didn't suffer any reprecussions from her "death". Hell, even when her father Pietro used "death" to describe what had happened to her, it was obvious from the way he qualified it with "in a manner of speaking" that he's only using it in a loose sense; it's probably more accurate to say that she was in a coma-like state in between being dismembered and being reactivated in her new body back in Atlas.

And to be fair, if Death Is Cheap for Penny, it's only because her nature as a being is very different from a human. I mean, it's not like she's the first robotic entity to be able to survive the dismemberment that she suffered with zero consequences after the requisite repairs, and I don't think anyone raised a fuss over that before. Hell, Ghost In The Shell Standalone Complex has a full-body cyborg (Batou) that not only survives decapitation, but is still able to converse afterwards. For robots and cyborgs, the basic idea is that they're not necessarily behold to the same anatomical vulnerabilities that afflict analogous biological organisms.

... That being said, several fans have speculated that the only reason Death Is Cheap for Penny right now is because her father is enough of a genius roboticist to make that happen. Should he die (which is likely, considering the several death flags that have been raised regarding him), it's almost certain that Penny would be effectively rendered "mortal" by the simple fact that nobody besides Pietro can successfully put her back together if she suffered "lethal" damage once again and get anything other than a lifeless machine with no soul of her own.

And hey, even if Pietro doesn't die, I'm very certain that he would not be able to restore Penny if she was completely destroyed from head to toe rather than merely having her head and limbs torn apart from her torso without seriously damaging the internals of the head (first likely location for her computer-brain and/or Aura core) and torso (second likely location for her computer-brain and/or Aura "core").

Edited by MarqFJA on Dec 3rd 2019 at 7:47:53 PM

I find it strange that why anybody assumes that people here should be talking about it anyway.

1. There are not that many fics who feature Penny as the centerpiece.

2. RWBY fanfic writers don't care too much about canon vindication anyway, although they do get amused. Case in point, Coeur Al'Aran.

3. This thread is not that active anyway, sometimes going a couple of days without anybody posting.

In another note, speaking of CAA, in his works Roman's backstory involves him being a former Huntsman who lost his team at Mountain Glenn, where he lost all his idealism and made him into a criminal. Although I don't care too much about the circumstances, I always liked the idea of Roman being a former Huntsman.

Edited by dRoy on Dec 5th 2019 at 12:39:10 AM

As do I. To the point where I actually thought it was canon, to be honest. I haven't actually watched beyond the fall of Beacon, really, beyond reading some plot points on the wiki and such. But I still keep up with some of my favorite fanfictions. And Oobleck's Partner!Torchwick is a personal favorite trend of mine with them.

Edited by Xiphoniii on Dec 8th 2019 at 2:27:45 AM

Say, are there any fanfics that pair Jaune with one or more of the (and I quote Miles Luna from a few months back) "real thirsty moms" that have been flirting with Jaune in the fifth episode of the current season? Hell, do they even have names of their own, whether canon or fan-made?

I'm certain there are, given this fandom.

Indeed. Penny is a well-liked character, but there just isn't that much about her to write about. Coeur himself, who gave complex characterization to Russel of all people, find Penny so boring from a literary standpoint he can't find a use for her besides comedy and occasionally serving as a passive plot device. There is potential there, but as portrayed in the show she's just a quirky robot girl with a generic "Does this unit have a soul?' quandary that doesn't really get explored.

I don't really like that version of Torchwick's backstory. It works well in the context of Professor Arc, but it doesn't mesh well with what we see of Torchwick in canon. He doesn't strike me as someone who lost his idealism along the way, but as someone who never really had it — thus him never getting to unlock his semblance. Also his relatively low power level makes it hard for me to believe he was even a huntsman. I would sooner go with him being a talented, but a terribly dispassionate fighter who could never become a huntsmen so he chose to utilize his skills in an area that doesn't require him to show any real dedication, much less heroism.

I doubt so. While there is a lot of fanart and a few fanfics made for minor characters, there has to be something to these characters, if just a unique design. Those moms have nothing. I doubt anyone cares enough to write them into their story, much less in such a short window of time.

Before someone else states this, a new chapter of A Rabbit among Wolves is out. While the joke of Ilia being a gay stalker wears pretty thin by now, the idea of her dressing Jaune as Blake is genuinely funny. On a meta level, it amuses me how Coeur resorted to referring to Jaune's eldest sister as "Saph", as it fits both canon and his traditional portrayal of Jaune's family. Smooth. Overall the story looks good and the shenanigans are well on par with Professor Arc, though I doubt I will like this story as much as PA or Arcanum.

Have I mentioned I love Arcanum?

It's almost mid-December...been aching real badly for new Remnant Inferis: DOOM chapter.

I just simply love the crossover story. On RWBY side, I consider it well written, just dark and gory.

On Doom? It's possibly the only crossover fanfic that's on-going and well-thought out in the first place. Who else follows, reads and likes it?

Edited by Dhiruxide on Dec 10th 2019 at 1:20:57 PM