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[Dragon Bob]

Arresting them is only the first step. How to you lock them up? their strength, resilience and unique ability make it very difficult, is it only worth the trouble? even more so on a death world? You would need a fortress to use a prison, with cells tailored to each criminal and hunter-equivalent as guard and it need to be able to hold against the grim and criminal/mercenaries hired to break them out.
It would make more sense than convicted hunter are banished from every remote control system, such as banking and communication and basically let to die, by grim, other criminal or not so defenseless victim. Hunter-killer teams sent if they are found near civilization or if they become a threat that cannot be ignored.
Eventually, if they manage to create fiefdom strong and stable enough, they can be consider foreign power to trade with but it is unlikely any such territories can last a decade let alone survive the death of the autocrat.

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I see a sliding scale of how to handle corrupt hunters. On the low end, they committed a crime but it was minor(say they demanded money from villages they protected or abused their status, but otherwise did their job well.), then they get assigned to a partner for a while as a sort of supervised probation. They aren't allowed to leave cities with multiple hunters so if they start falling back into bad habits they are stopped early. On the other end for severe crimes they get sent out into the grimmlands and aren't allowed back for a time. This being several years at the minimum.
The unspoken part of this system is that strength plays a big role in which end of the scale you are put on for the same crime. Strong hunters or those with especially useful semblances are going to have less severe punishments than the average hunter. If someone with a semblance like Jaune, able to heal and permanently strengthen other hunters, committed murder they would still likely end up on probation in exchange for boosting as many hunters as possible. On the other side, someone with a weak semblance or average combat skills might not be worth the risk and exiled instead.
The time limit on exile is the most obvious aspect where strength matters. If a hunter can survive in the grimmlands alone for years they are too valuable to give up on, even if they are doing terrible things. They would be allowed back and watched carefully and used for whatever abilities let them survive. Be it avoiding the notice of grimm or killing powerful ones.
Exile also has a sliding scale, there's exile to the borders of the kingdoms, where there's probably a whole network of outlaws in the original sense that can help the criminal survive, and act as a shield for the Kingdoms proper. There's exile into the deep grimmlands, you can still make it back to safety but if a hunter sees you they can arrest you and send you back to the middle of nowhere. Then lastly for the worst criminals (who oz thinks won't join Salem) who are exiled to the Grimm continent. No way back to civilization, no support, just you and Grimm who have been growing since before the moon broke.

 

[mgl1206]

Speaking of criminals and law-breaking, here's an idea:

Black Prisons.

The idea basically being, a prison made for the worst of criminals that don't need to immediately put to death. They're brought to a specific prison that's outside of Vale's walls, minimum of maybe 500 km away from the city (or maybe a bit closer), and its entire purpose is to generate negativity and drawn in Grimm before they can reach Vale's walls or the settlements around it.

The conditions would be poor but survivable, the walls thick and reinforced, it'd stand in the middle of a mountain valley like a monolith to cruelty and death. Generating suffering, fear, and hatred to draw in the Grimm. And Huntsmen on probation would be assigned to the prison as a punishment, fighting for hours on end as waves and waves of neverending Grimm assault the walls. And if they break in? Oh well, they were gonna die anyway. The only true safe place was in the central complex where the workers lived and slept anyway.

The worst part? Their sheer numbers allows for the formation of Grimm Miasma. Something that only happens at such places. It's basically like a Dementor showing up from Harry Potter. It draws up negative emotions from the victims and ends up acting as a beacon for even more Grimm. The only way to clear is to kill all the Grimm. Therefore the Valean artillery corp lays down a saturation mission every once in a while.

 

[Gur40]

Single Weiss hates baby sitting

Spoiler: tiny

While Married Weiss looks like her sister and mother, single Weiss suffers

Spoiler: Potential Couple

Dust +Summons+Amp Equals Susunnoo level Boss Summon [Raven Camp already did this] with an army bigger then Salem's... if only they had competent writers that had Jaune ACTUALLY SHOW HIS TACTICAL MIND

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Schnee at work vs home

Spoiler: Arc Effect

Be it Weiss Winter or Willow with Nick and Isabel

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how to find Team RWBY

Spoiler: STRQ and AARN

... actually which Huntsmen team isn't easily found by following the explosions

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i feel like this happened in Mistral

Spoiler: JN_R

they may have started dating but they were not leaving Jaune alone... unless he brought Ruby and made it a double date

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Best Dads of Remnant

Spoiler: bars on the floor

considering the rest are either dead, abusive or never around these 4 are the best by default

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Cinder with kids

Spoiler: folded

unlike canon Salem i can see fanon Salem folding aswell

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Reddit Cook or crooks?

Spoiler: Stolen From Reddit

This_Pizza3257 • 13h ago

Mewtwo: I see it in your eyes. You want to be a hero so badly. Yet that's the thing with humans. They want to be a hero. They want to do good. Yet they never ask themselves HOW to do good. HOW to be a hero. Instead, they just go with their own delusions of grandeur to prove that they are superior. And they don't care about who they hurt in the process. Cause the cost is always justified by what's at stake. Right?

Ruby: Not every human is like that!

Mewtwo flinches when he recalls…her

Mewtwo: …enough are to do the worst.

SoftGovernment3379 • 11h ago

Her tears fall as the words start to break her wills, but she grits her teeth, her eyes Flash White and she stands.

Ruby: "Because whether they want it or not, the world will always need someone who is willing to find the cause when it's lost!

I will strive to not only fix the mistakes of my predecessors, but the ones I too have made!

Because Heroes do not buckle or yield when faced with the cruelty of this world!

They Honor the Past and Push Forward,

They see the Impossible and make it possible,

They Guide Humanity out of their Fears and Despair

and they KNOW Who they Are!

I AM RUBY ROSE…

*She points her scythe and her eyes' light overwhelms the screen

…AND I AM A HUNTRESS!"

The Silver Eyes make her see the truth and the beauty of life, forcing her out of Mewtwo's Illusions.

so what do you think?

 

[Arkan10]

A story about Jaune giving an interview—I'm currently re-reading *World War Z*. The book is set twenty years after the war began and, I believe, ten years after it ended. We could have Jaune recount how he arrived on Earth thinking he was about to die, only to land right at the start of the zombie war. This leads him to become a wandering knight who helps people, fights zombies, and protects—or teaches others to protect—the settlements he encounters. He becomes a key figure in the war, not just because of his superhuman abilities, but also as a symbol of strength and hope in this hellish world. He could even be the subject of one of the stories told by the filmmaker character from the book, and now he helps rebuild the countries where he volunteers his services. Remember, his original world has Grimm and relies on walls for defense, so he would already have some knowledge of such things from his time on the frontier.
Perhaps make it so he's the leader of a knightly order in the 21st century that was in charge of helping to eliminate zombies near important safe zones, and obtaining resources for recycling.
And that his aura makes him look like a saint, they could say that his power made the religious fundamentalists who saw him follow him as a messiah and that he would prevent them from causing problems.Helping to maintain stability, and accidentally founding a religion as an envoy of God to protect humanity from zombies, Jaune uses that to help various governments. And its aura as a cure for the infected, since it would be like a positive energy of the soul, which kills the Solanum, making it more important

 

[digcat]

Considering who Cardin is based on he should be from Gallia as well. With the Arc family being the former monarchs and Cardin's dad in the government they should know each other. That also means Cardin would know Katy's family as well. What if Jaune knew he really was flirting with Velvet how would he help him out.

 

[cavalal386]

Best Dads of Remnant

Spoiler: bars on the floor

considering the rest are either dead, abusive or never around these 4 are the best by default

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ok, i have to ask since i dropped rwby before they showed up, what's wrong with ren's and penny's dad?

 

[Arkan10]

ok, i have to ask since i dropped rwby before they showed up, what's wrong with ren's and penny's dad?

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Ren's dad dies in a Grimm attack, Penny's, no idea.

 

[revetwrot]

Penny, who wonders if she is actually a real person even if she has a soul

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I forget what the Remnant equivalent of Japan is, Mistral maybe, but introduce her to the concept of tsukumogami. For the people who don't know what tsukumogami are, the Japanese believe that after some time, usually 100 years, or resentment for being discarded, an object can develop a soul. I also personally believe that worship and reverence can also create tsukumogami, being that kami and yokai are mostly the same.

 

[AndrewJTalon]

Spoiler

This is The Doctor and it was made by British artist Luke Fildes in 1891. He painted it basically from memory when his one year old son died of illness. The Doctor stayed all night, trying to keep the child alive, and comforting the parents when he passed. A real moment of humanity, compassion in the midst of so much sorrow.

Isabel would have gone through similar incidents-Getting too late to a village to save people from the Grimm. Too late to save a child from illness or injury. It wears on a person. Nick would be there with her, through it all.

It is this kind of commitment, this effort to be kind and compassionate to the needy, the suffering... This is why they would oppose Jaune becoming a Hunter. Indeed, any of their children becoming Hunters. But they nevertheless would. They would defy their parents.

Yet through it all is the price, the high cost of being so kind in a world so cruel.

 

[Arkan10]

Spoiler

This is The Doctor and it was made by British artist Luke Fildes in 1891. He painted it basically from memory when his one year old son died of illness. The Doctor stayed all night, trying to keep the child alive, and comforting the parents when he passed. A real moment of humanity, compassion in the midst of so much sorrow.

Isabel would have gone through similar incidents-Getting too late to a village to save people from the Grimm. Too late to save a child from illness or injury. It wears on a person. Nick would be there with her, through it all.

It is this kind of commitment, this effort to be kind and compassionate to the needy, the suffering... This is why they would oppose Jaune becoming a Hunter. Indeed, any of their children becoming Hunters. But they nevertheless would. They would defy their parents.

Yet through it all is the price, the high cost of being so kind in a world so cruel.

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I proposed an idea that Jaune ends up in the world of World War Z, a young man with a good heart and good intentions in a cruel and merciless world, fighting an enemy more horrible than the Grimm

 

[zMADLAXz]

It is this kind of commitment, this effort to be kind and compassionate to the needy, the suffering... This is why they would oppose Jaune becoming a Hunter. Indeed, any of their children becoming Hunters. But they nevertheless would. They would defy their parents.

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To be honest this art can be interpreted in another way.

While some would look at it and feel the kindness and perseverance of the healer, some other's might also be motivated to seek out a way to make sure that whatever ailment afflicted the child is weakened and perhaps like many other diseases, completely eradicated.

For example, from what I can search, his child died of Typhoid fever, caused by a bacteria, and since human physicians are the spiteful bastard they are, have managed to craft cures for bacteria such as this.

Such can also be said about Humanity's fight against Measles, Tuberculosis, Chickenpox etc.

It's the same I think would happen with Jaune, while Isabelle sees a work that inspires humility and patience, to a person as Jaune who is defined by his need to save and prevent people from falling into danger, he will see this as a challenge to overcome.

Remnant doesn't face the same problem as the late 19th century humanity with a lack of clear defined health protocols, the greatest threat to human life and life of the impoverished is the Grimm, no if and or buts.

What is a healer to do but take arms and fight Death till a life is saved from its maw?

In fact- Why not shake some rust off.

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Coming to the western section of city of Vale was always an experience in humility. The Great War and the later era was defined by the focus on the need for Human emotional upliftment. It was an era of perhaps the greatest and longest lasting peace this word hade seen.

Yet it came with its own victims.

Those who fell to the wrong side of luck were often put at a place together with people who faced similar situations as the, "To ensure the ability to concentrate on the care of all such people at once together", said the Powdered Wigs.

It was a diversion tactic, let those who are most capable of attracting greater quantities of Grimm be the ones to face the Brunt alone, ignore all the tragedies they have faced or are facing, let them be the molding and rotten kindling to be fed to the flame.

That was the opinion of the leading Cynics. There was more nuance to the situation than that, such as chance, lack of resources, wrong timing and planning at civilian side.

Yet, as a student of medicine it was tough to not fall to the path of the Cynic.

"Well that's the last of them, we'll see how many more doses of vaccination we are gonna get next month", Isabelle instructed her son to clear out the area while her auxiliary staff need no such instructions.

These regular rounds of providing vaccination and meal packets for the new mothers in the western section of Vale were a routine thing for them.

She had however started to bring her 13 year old son alongside her. The catalyst for the decision being his increased interest in huntsman related pursuits, and more and more time he spent "playing" and "hanging out" that she knew was him discreetly trying to teach himself basics of swordsmanship.

"Mom, those three Faunus families from Mistral, why are they so far from home?", asked her son, once they both got seated in the government issued Jeep for the medical staff and drove off, the sights of disrepair, poverty and people living at the edge of ruin were common.

"Grimm incursions are sometimes.... diverted if they cannot be completely stopped or there aren't enough Huntsman available sweetheart, some people just...... at the wrong place and the wrong time", she said as diplomatically as she could but her experience knew the real story, let the Grimm slake their Bloodlust on them, keep the "productive" people safe.

Bunch of criminals and gangsters in politics.

"Why couldn't they be saved too?"

"Jaune... we are humans, we cannot help everyone, we try to do the best we can with what we are given, and offer out support where we can", she chose her words carefully. Hoping that perhaps one of her children wasn't born with the Arc spirit.

"As healthcare professional however, I am still able to help far more people who are affected by Grimm and some times poor planning on our part"

Her son seemed pensive, fiddling with his bracelet he was given by one of the staff as a token of appreciation personally.

"What if one of the Huntsman that was present there, when the people needed help tried to help them?"

"Sometimes there is... incentive to help somewhere else, because maybe it is better to focus to save more people", she answered him.

"So the Huntsman have to listen to every order?"

She so wanted to tell her child that, it would be so easy too, just a little lie–. No, no, what is she thinking, a wrong concept taught at a young age could become poison of the mind when they saw the world for themselves, but perhaps-

"Jaune, huntsman have to think about everything, planning the optimal way of approach, and and which area to save first–

"Just like we do in Hospital mom? During emergencies?"

".......Yes, yes Jaune, it could be an emergency everyday on the job for huntsman for a whole month, of gruelling pain of losing people around them, of losing their comrades"

"But people still become huntsman?"

"....Jaune you don't have to be a huntsman to help people, honey"

".....Yes mom"

Polite and well mannered, that was her son, with his own bouts of mischief at times but this time why did she fell like, that she was so far away from her own blood and flesh, why did it feel like–

—Like she was merely a passing suggestion to the stalwart wall of her son.

 

[CountvonBarnOwl]

'Yeah, these people just care about lesbians lesbians lesbians. Story? Character? Action? Nope, just their sexual fetish and being validated. It is utterly pathetic and what's driving much of Western entertainment into the ground for the last decade.

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If I could give this 10^421 likes I would.

I know absolutely nothing about this fic and yet I am positive that knowledge that any of us were more interested in Naruto or RWBY in and of themselves and for their own sake than the author's own sexuality would hurt said author's feelings on a personal level and quite profusely.

Never believe anybody that hung up on their own sexuality or identity or anything like that is actually interested in anything like Naruto, or RWBY, or anything else the rest of us enjoy. It is always a plot make what you like about them instead of what you actually like because they're all either unstable narcissists, or if they aren't, they act enough like unstable narcissists anyway that treating them as anything but is a bad decision. People like that have no passion for anything but themselves. None.

Never let yourself get duped into believing otherwise, because it is always a trick.

I say this because myself have been working on and off on a Naruto-related project on and off the past four months and I hope at least I will put forth a showing that allows anybody who actually reads my work to think I give a damn about Kishimoto's characters, story, and world.

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Back to more relevant matters...

-Neptune hits on Ruby by accident, and now he's a dead man walking.

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Count has idea.

Count has two, maybe three ideas.

Screw that, Count has many ideas.

Most of them involving Ruby reacting either violently or in a manner that completely junks Neptune's reputation.

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Worldbuilding idea. Humans in the real world have an interesting relationship with fear and the dark. More specifically, fashion sometimes embraces both. Halloween costumes are one example, but the ones that really come to mind are emo and goth culture and fashion. Remnant may have something similar.

Enter (with some assistance fleshing it out from ChatGPT) Remnant's equivalents to goth fashion.

Grimmcore

Heavy use of Grimm imagery. Black/white/red palettes. Stylized bone masks. Fake fur modeled after Beowolves and Ursa. Red piping mimicking Grimm markings. Contacts designed to imitate particular species. Accessories shaped after claws, horns and teeth. Perhaps elaborate cosmetic "bone plates" for parties or concerts.

Mourning Goth

More aristocratic. Long coats. Veils. Dark formalwear. Victorian-ish silhouettes. Silver jewelry. Less "I am a Beowolf" and more "I attend funerals recreationally."

Salem herself might accidentally fit this category alarmingly well.

Huntsman Goth

Probably especially common among combat-school students.

Black tactical clothing mixed with Grimm motifs. Heavy boots. Weapon accessories. Stylized trophy imagery. Perhaps actual cleaned Grimm fragments would be culturally controversial or simply impossible depending upon how quickly Grimm bodies evaporate, so imitation materials become standard.

The vibe is: "Yes, monsters hunt us. I put their face on my jacket."

Neon-dark/club goth

Because Remnant has advanced technology and Dust.

Glowing Dust-thread accents. Reactive makeup. Hard-light jewelry. Programmable contact lenses. Red or purple illuminated trim.


And all of this with classics like black shirts (sometimes 'artfully ripped' in places); black jackets, hoodies, or hooded coats; 'artfully ripped' blue or black jeans; clunky black boots; black leather wristbands (sometimes studded with metal or fake Grimm bone); decorative metal chains; necklaces with Grimm skull/tooth/bone motifs; rings with similar motifs; fisnet shirts and/or stockings; fingerless gloves; striped stockings; fake Grimm fur, feathers, and/or scales in clothing; hoods patterned after Grimm heads or masks; black nail polish; and possibly white makeup to make the skin appear paler or even Grimm-bone white.

Salem is, understandably, confused when Tyrian eventually introduces her to the subculture by claiming to have found a "community of like-minded souls that embrace the glory of the darkness and my Queen".

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Ruby, Melanie, and Miltiades (who was Ruby's prototype design recycled and given a different eye color) all fit the look.

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-The Hunter Association of Remnant is, like any other large international organization, prone to corruption and stupidity. What are some examples of this that could be used for stories?

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Crossposting my response from SB.

1) Weiss and Blake discover that their parents, as well as a number of Remnant's other wealthy and well-connected use it as a massive front to skim and pocket endowments, government funding, donations, and dues.

We could really crank this up to 11 and have Oz be the only major public figure who isn't pocketing a chunk of change off of the HAR (the rest of the Ozluminati may have to be kept out of the loop too).

Weiss: "What do you mean all of you have been embezzling HAR money?!"

Willow: "Not all of us, Winter would go straight to Ironwood if she knew, but the money for mommy's vodka, hair, jewelry and your brother's luxury car has to come from somewhere with how tight fisted your father can be."

Blake: "You mean the dues that every Kingdom and every Hunter has to pay end up going into the Schnee family's personal budget!?!?!"

Kali: "Not just them, the money to keep our daughter's face off of every 'Wanted' poster where the HAR has jurisdiction and bribe the HAR commissioners to look the other way has to come from somewhere. Why not their own balances?"

Or, the HAR could accept bribes to freeze certain Huntsmen out of contracts when it appears politically fashionable to do so.

There are probably recurring scandals involving prostitution.

It comes out that 99% of HAR full-time staffers are drop-outs or people who failed their licensing exams.

Missions set by the HAR itself (as opposed to a client) are motivated almost entirely by political rather than practical concerns, have a 70 - 90% failure rate due to pervasive cowardice and misbehavior before the enemy. As well as a 99% sexual abuse rate.

The White Fang, The Spiders, Roman & Neo, various Mistrali/Vacuan bandit tribes, and even the Atlesian Military attack HAR personnel on official business and suffer no consequence, penalty, or retaliation.

Okay, that covers all of the international peacekeeping scandals I can recall off the top of my head as well as the actual purpose of existence for international organizations like this generally.

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Speaking of criminals and law-breaking, here's an idea:

Black Prisons.

The idea basically being, a prison made for the worst of criminals that don't need to immediately put to death. They're brought to a specific prison that's outside of Vale's walls, minimum of maybe 500 km away from the city (or maybe a bit closer), and its entire purpose is to generate negativity and drawn in Grimm before they can reach Vale's walls or the settlements around it.

The conditions would be poor but survivable, the walls thick and reinforced, it'd stand in the middle of a mountain valley like a monolith to cruelty and death. Generating suffering, fear, and hatred to draw in the Grimm. And Huntsmen on probation would be assigned to the prison as a punishment, fighting for hours on end as waves and waves of neverending Grimm assault the walls. And if they break in? Oh well, they were gonna die anyway. The only true safe place was in the central complex where the workers lived and slept anyway.

The worst part? Their sheer numbers allows for the formation of Grimm Miasma. Something that only happens at such places. It's basically like a Dementor showing up from Harry Potter. It draws up negative emotions from the victims and ends up acting as a beacon for even more Grimm. The only way to clear is to kill all the Grimm. Therefore the Valean artillery corp lays down a saturation mission every once in a while.

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It always throws me through a loop whenever I hear the idea of prisons on Remnant and I just can't take them seriously.

Mind if I ramble?

I think a much more believable idea is having any criminal convicted of something that a mere fine cannot fix, but not awful enough to warrant execution is just flown or driven out as far as possible into the woods/mountains/desert/tundra and told to fend for themselves.

This would also explain Remnant's bandit problem. Or if you send enough out at once, a kingdom can give them construction materials, and all of a sudden you have an explanation for the outlying towns.

Because space on Remnant comes at a premium, and you can't waste anything inside the walls on people who are just serving as Grimm bait.

Nor can you build a prison outside the walls because the only way to guarantee that the prison labor can make back the cost of establishment, maintenance, defense (now the kingdom is wasting money, weapons, and people protecting a bunch of murderers and rapists in the woods) , and other upkeep is to make sure that the prisoners are at all hours of the day miserable enough to attract a sufficient number of Grimm as to overwhelm the defenses and kill everyone inside.

So the Catch-22 with prisons on Remnant is either that a kingdom has to keep putting in men, weapons, and resources to protect prisoners (so bad actors in the eyes of the Kingdom itself) that will never make back their operating costs, or watch as whatever men and resources that they dedicated to establishing a prison at all are eaten along with the prisoners by the Grimm.

And a point on writing, generally;

Don't get too caught up in drawing from IRL sources for inspiration that you forget that fundamentally, a fantasy culture should be a lot unlike ours in some way. Canon RWBY is about the worst example on this end, with absolutely zero consideration for how life on a place like Remnant would be unlike life here.


Otherwise it cuts into verisimilitude.

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Jaune ACTUALLY SHOW HIS TACTICAL MIND

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I keep forgetting whether Jaune was meant to be a strategist by CRWBY or if that was just a thing that the fans made up and then gaslighted both CRWBY and each other into going along with because they wanted him to have a useful skill.

I know the only Beacon-era indication we get is him bobbling it against Team BRNZ, but he wasn't meant to be anything besides comic relief until after Beacon.

But what does he do after Beacon, that isn't just stating the obvious?

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Penny's, no idea.

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They literally just abandon him aboard the Amity in the high atmosphere. I am sure they will just hand wave it away and say that there was a portal for him Maria too or something if they hadn't already as part of some podcast or panel. But the show just left him in high orbit. Because let us be frank, if he wasn't trapped with Ruby's mentor he'd definitely be forgotten. As it sits presently, he is only probably forgotten.

EditorvonBarnOwl - Grammar.

 

[AndrewJTalon]

Technical Profile: SAC-SPH Fasolt

• Type: Wheeled Self-Propelled Howitzer
• Manufacturer: Slagfior Automotive Company
• Origin: Vale
• Role: Mobile artillery, area bombardment, anti-Grimm fire support, counter-battery, long-range strike against large Grimm and fortifications
• First Deployment: 1988 AMF
• Cost: Moderate (uses the existing SAC-HLT 8×8 heavy logistics truck chassis and off-the-shelf Dust systems)
• Dimensions:
  • Length: 12.6 meters (hull); 14.8 meters with gun forward
  • Width: 3.9 meters
  • Height: 3.6 meters (travel); 4.1 meters with gun at high elevation
  • Weight: 36,000 kg (combat-ready)
• Crew: 4–5 (commander, gunner, driver, 1–2 loaders)
• Powerplant: Slagfior DEM-18 Combustion Dust Engine (750 horsepower, augmented with Gravity Dust for torque)
• Performance:
  • Top Speed: 53 mph (85 km/h) on roads; 34 mph (55 km/h) off-road
  • Range: 310 miles (extendable to 430 miles with external Dust canisters)
  • Ground Clearance: 0.5 meters
• Armament:
  • Primary: 1 × Winchester-Vasagus 155 mm Dust Howitzer (rear-mounted, high-angle, Fire / Ice / Lightning / Gravity Dust shells, guided or unguided, 36–40 rounds onboard, burst 3 rounds in 15 seconds, sustained 6–8 rounds/min)
  • Secondary: 1 × Winchester 12.7 mm Heavy Machine Gun (commander RWS, Gravity Dust-enhanced, 1,200 rounds)
  • Tertiary: 1 × Coaxial or pintle 7.62 mm Machine Gun (2,000 rounds)
  • Optional: Ice Dust smoke grenade banks; laser / datalink kit for guided shells
• Defenses:
  • Composite cab and mount armor (titanium-steel with Ceramic Dust plating, resistant to small arms, shell splinters, and Grimm claws)
  • Anti-Grimm Sonic Emitters (30-meter radius, disorients lesser Grimm)
  • Smoke Launchers (Ice Dust-based for concealment)
• Avionics:
  • "DeadEye" Sensor Suite (thermal, Dust-signature, and motion detection; tracks up to 20 targets for fire direction)
  • Computer-Assisted Fire Control (meteorological mast, muzzle-velocity radar, targeting optimized for large Grimm, nests, and grid coordinates)
  • Secure Comms Array (encrypted links to VDF command, Huntsmen, Tigertails, and air support)
  • Terrain Mapping System (real-time analysis for Vale's terrain)
• Special Features:
  • SAC-HLT 8×8 Chassis: Shared with Slagfior's heavy logistics truck for cost, parts, and field repair
  • Shoot-and-Scoot Mount: Emplaces or displaces in about one minute
  • Dust Refueling System: External canisters for extended range
  • Amphibious Kit: Optional sealing for shallow water crossings (up to 1.0 meter)
  • High-Angle Fire: Elevation to +70 degrees for mountain valleys, urban defilade, and limited harassment of low airships
• Variants:
  • Fasolt-S (Standard): Base 155 mm howitzer on HLT chassis
  • Fasolt-G (Guided): Extra guided-round stowage and better datalink
  • Fasolt-R (Rocket): Experimental pack in place of the tube (limited issue)
  • HLT-A (Ammunition): Unarmed sister truck carrying the battery's main magazine
  • HLT (Parent Truck): Cargo, troop, and towed-weapon logistics vehicle

Background and Development: SAC-SPH Fasolt

Slagfior Automotive Company already built the Wyrm IFV and the SAC-HLT eight-by-eight logistics truck, so they were a natural choice to build a cheap, effective self-propelled artillery system for the VDF. The VDF needed a mobile howitzer that could bombard Grimm and enemy units beyond range without buying a unique tracked chassis. Slagfior mounted a 155 mm Dust howitzer on the HLT frame, keeping the same engine family, wheels, and canisters as the cargo truck that tows and feeds it. They also added the ability to "lock down" once it is in place to fire. When doing so, four mechashift support braces extend from the sides and back of the vehicle to provide a larger ground cross-section and a more stable firing platform for the massive gun. The transition from moving to locked-down state is only a few seconds, allowing the Fasolt to fire and manoeuvre rapidly.

The Fasolt, named for a legendary giant knight from Albion mythology, was first deployed in 1988 AMF after trials in the Vale highlands and on the Vacuo plateau, where batteries had to shoot and move before aerial Grimm or simulated counter-fire found them. It is cheaper than a turreted gun tank and could be built in large numbers. The VDF took to them with a will: artillery was the first tool that let ordinary soldiers hurt large Grimm without an Aura-activated champion, and it has continued to evolve. Shared HLT parts keep it quite reasonable in price, and it has been exported to many of Vale's allies and neighbors.

Capabilities in Remnant's Context: SAC-SPH Fasolt

• Long-Range Fire Support: Drops guided or unguided Dust shells onto packs, nests, bunkers, and grid targets called by scouts, aircraft, or Huntsmen.
• Anti-Grimm Operations: Volume HE and cluster against hordes; Ice to slow large beasts; guided rounds against elder Grimm..
• Mobility: 8×8 speed lets a battery keep up with columns on roads and displace before a Nevermore or peer counter-battery arrives.
• Combined Arms: Lives with HLT-A ammo trucks and support trains. Sky Drakes cover the battery. Chimeras hold the line and provide protection while Wyrm IFVs and infantry provide escort.
• Survivability: Light armor and sonic emitters are a last ditch defense, not for an actual fight. Doctrine is shoot, move, keep the crew. A living gun crew in a new truck is worth more than a heroically defended wreck.

 

[AndrewJTalon]

Technical Profile: SAC-HLT

• Type: Heavy Logistics Truck
• Manufacturer: Slagfior Automotive Company
• Origin: Vale
• Role: Cargo and ammunition transport, troop lift, towed-weapon prime mover, battery resupply, disaster relief
• First Deployment: Year 70 Post-Great War
• Cost: Low–moderate (civilian-derived 8×8, mass-produced with modular beds)
• Dimensions:
  • Length: 11.8 meters
  • Width: 3.7 meters
  • Height: 3.4 meters (cab roof); 3.9 meters with standard cargo bows
  • Weight: 18,000 kg (empty); 32,000 kg (typical combat load)
• Crew: 2 (driver, commander/assistant); up to 16 passengers on benches in the troop-bed fit, or 2 extra in the cab jump seats
• Powerplant: Slagfior DEM-16 Combustion Dust Engine (650 horsepower, augmented with Gravity Dust for torque)
• Performance:
  • Top Speed: 56 mph (90 km/h) on roads; 34 mph (55 km/h) off-road
  • Range: 380 miles (extendable to 500 miles with external Dust canisters)
  • Ground Clearance: 0.5 meters
  • Payload: 12–14 metric tons on the bed, or one towed 155 mm / engineer trailer
• Armament:
  • Primary (Standard): 1 × Winchester 12.7 mm Heavy Machine Gun (cab-roof pintle or light RWS, Gravity Dust-enhanced, 800 rounds)
  • Optional: 7.62 mm pintle at the bed ring; Ice Dust smoke grenades
  • Whatever weapons troops are carrying with them.
• Defenses:
  • Light composite cab (titanium-steel with Ceramic Dust plating, resistant to small arms and Grimm claws; not 25 mm rated like a Wyrm)
  • Optional slat or cage kit for the cargo bed
  • Anti-Grimm Sonic Emitters (25-meter radius, disorients lesser Grimm)
  • Smoke Launchers (Ice Dust-based for concealment) on armed hulls only
• Electronics:
  • Basic "DeadEye-Lite" package (thermal and motion detection; tracks up to 10 nearby contacts)
  • Secure Comms Array (encrypted links to VDF columns, batteries, and air support)
  • Terrain Mapping / convoy navigation system
• Special Features:
  • Modular Bed: Flat cargo, troop benches, tanker bladder, workshop shelter, ammunition racks, etc
  • 8×8 All-Terrain Drive: Shared axles and run-flats
  • Dust Refueling System: External canisters; can refuel other vehicles in the field
  • Pintle and Tow: Draws towed howitzers, trailers, and disabled light vehicles
  • Amphibious Kit: Optional sealing for shallow water crossings (up to 1.0 meter)
  • Soft-Top or Hard-Box cargo: Hard-box preferred for Dust and 155 mm cells
• Variants:
  • HLT-C (Cargo): Standard 12–14 t bed
  • HLT-T (Troop): Benches and tailgate ramps for 12–16 infantry
  • HLT-A (Ammunition): Racked ammo for tanks, artillery, etc.
  • HLT-F (Fuel / Dust): Bladder or cell tanker
  • HLT-W (Workshop): Field repair shelter
  • HLT-M (Medical): 8 stretchers or an in-field surgical suite
  • HLT-GE (Generator): Mobile Dust Generator for power
  • HLT-TA (Towed Artillery): Able to tow field artillery pieces as well as provide partial resupply
  • HLT-H (Hospitality): Mobile kitchen and recreation unit
  • HLT-Q (Electronics/Communications): Communications and control vehicle for drones.
  • Fasolt: The 155 mm self-propelled howitzer built on this chassis

Background and Development: SAC-HLT

Slagfior's civilian heavy truck line was already hauling Dust and timber across Vale when the VDF asked for a single 8×8 that could support the Army and Marines without being too costly. The SAC-HLT entered service in Year 1970 AMF as that truck: same plant, same engines, armor only where the driver sits.

Of all the vehicles that support Vale's military, the HLT is probably the least appreciated but most vital given all the roles it plays: Workshop, tanker, ammo carrier, medical, mobile power, and many other tasks. Territorial Guard, Militia, Marines, Army and PMCs all use it. After 1988, the same frame became the Fasolt's mount, giving the VDF a cheap mobile artillery unit as well.

Simple, easy to maintain, and downright ugly, the HLT is the backbone of the VDF's logistics and a popular export vehicle.

Capabilities in Remnant's Context: SAC-HLT

• Logistics Backbone
• Artillery Train
• Troop and Disaster Lift
• Prime Mover
• Endlessly Adaptable

Note: Because an army moves on its stomach and you need logistics.

 

[digcat]

After the war how would Jaune and Ruby handle all the fame they would have.

 

[Sliverhero]

After the war how would Jaune and Ruby handle all the fame they would have.

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Jaune wouldnt care as ironic he dealt woth being famous in the Ever After.

Ruby probaly be annoyed as she have trouble dealing with people recognising her while shopping.