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[Ash Craig]

Funnily enough? No.

It's a nod to power rangers time force. Where they lived in a old clock tower and they did odd jobs for money since they were time travelers without documentation.

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Well, that's neat. Also funny how it shook out. How far did your ideas for this snip go? Because this one grabbed me harder than almost anything else in this thread.

 

[SharkCultist]

Well, that's neat. Also funny how it shook out. How far did your ideas for this snip go? Because this one grabbed me harder than almost anything else in this thread.

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I had bits and pieces here and there.

I didn't decide one way or another if Jaune would have aura but I did want him to be stupidly durable, not like full on anime level but like if someone dropped a brick on his shoulder from four stories up a building all he'd have is a really wicked bruise and maybe a cramp.

A big part of the idea was going to be the big tug of war over Blake.

White fang want their weapon.

Salem wants a replacement for cinder. One stronger and raised by her.

Atlas wants to euthanize her because of safety concerns and racism.

Jaune has to deal with Aaaaall of that along with trying to make Blake a well adjusted little girl and save whatever scraps of her childhood he can. And he's still gotta make rent.

I wasn't quite sure how the dice would fall with the Ozpin/Beacon faction.

 

[Ash Craig]

Jaune: "Excuse me? Did you just ask me what kind of faunus I was?"
Nora: "Wow, that's giga racist!"
Yang: "I bet you think our white haired friend here is a Schnee, too!"
Weiss: "Tch, you're a squirrel faunus...of course a herbivore would make such ridiculous and brainless accusations!"
White Fang Guard: *sobbing* "I'm sorry!"

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Blake: "…Do I really sound like that?"
Ruby: "Yeah, you kinda do"
Pyrrha: "Absolutely"
Ren: "Yes."

Blake: "oh."

I didn't decide one way or another if Jaune would have aura but I did want him to be stupidly durable, not like full on anime level but like if someone dropped a brick on his shoulder from four stories up a building all he'd have is a really wicked bruise and maybe a cramp.

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If Jaune doesn't get aura, you could have a really funny callback to one of his canon lines, where after beating someone with aura he says something to the effect of "Aura? What's that?" If you do give him aura, I don't think he should have his canon semblance. A semblance is a reflection of the person it comes from, and this Jaune isn't the bright-eyed young man full of dreams and passion. It should have some connection to his original semblance though. I could see a semblance that forces aggro or punishes attacking anyone but him to represent the part of him that will always put himself between harm and those he loves. Maybe a semblance that grinds down the aura of everyone around him at an equal rate, including himself, to reflect his slow loss of his old dreams, which would be very powerful with his stupidly large aura reserves and the fact that Blake doesn't rely on aura.

EDIT: Mundane basass Jaune sounds awesome, and I can't decide on whether I'd prefer that or an awesome awakening of his aura with a unique semblance. I'm leaning towards auraless, because of how I've literally never seen that though.

 

[Gur40]

Which Sister Shot Jaune?

Spoiler: My Money is on Tangy

Which Sister Do you think?

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Emerald and Mercury

Spoiler: This is just them

 

[SharkCultist]

Ok so let me cook with this

Sun wukong. Sun the abs boy. You know who else was based off the monkey king?

Goku.

So let's think up a Vegeta for our sun....bonus points if we can make it a female tsundere.

 

[cavalal386]

i think someone had the idea to make Vegeta related to weiss.

..... it might have been me.

 

[SharkCultist]

i think someone had the idea to make Vegeta related to weiss.

..... it might have been me.

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"Virginia! Hanging out with faunus in spandex I see."

"Yes."

 

[AndrewJTalon]

A few thoughts for expanding on The Arc Clan some more:

-I realized that Alucard as Seras' husband wouldn't work. So instead her husband is Pip. Who tragically dies. Seras drained him dry.

Seras: *sobs* "HE SAID WE'D MAKE A BABY NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES IT TOOK! MY BELOVED PIP, NOOOOO!"

Jaune: "Um... How many times?"

Seras: "ONE HUNDRED! I BEGGED HIM TO TAKE A BREAK BUT HE REFUSED!"

Neptune: sobs "HE WENT OUT LIKE A HERO!"

Sun: "A TRUE MAN!"

Coco: sobs "WHAT A MAN!"

This means Alucard is still known to the Arc Clan. So I do need to come up with a way for him to appear, since it is October. And have it be related to Ruby somehow.

-Shampoo is Yang and Ruby's auntie. And I was thinking her own husband tragically passed away... Or divorced her because Ranma doesn't deserve Shampoo. So Shampoo comes to Beacon to hunt for a husband. And no, she's not after Jaune... But Qrow, General Ironwood, and Jaune's single uncles Alexander, Brand, and Trey have attracted her attention.

 

[SharkCultist]

This means Alucard is still known to the Arc Clan. So I do need to come up with a way for him to appear, since it is October. And have it be related to Ruby somehow.

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...I want to involve time travel somehow because imagine everyone having a stroke when Alucard shows up and hits Ruby with a "Hi mom".

 

[AndrewJTalon]

Teams RWBY and JNPR had intercepted another White Fang operation in Vale. This time though, Blake managed to get close enough to give Roman Torchwick a good haranging.

Her voice rose, her eyes blazing with righteous fury.

"HOW COULD YOU MAKE THESE INNOCENT FAUNUS WORK FOR YOU?!" She demanded.

"They're terrorists, not exactly innocent to begin with, Kitty Kat," Roman said, his voice dry. "Seriously, what, did Adam just make you get the coffee?"

"NO! I was his second in command!" Blake snapped.

"Uh-huh. I'm sure you were recruited for your brains, sweetheart," Roman taunted. Ruby held Blake back as she lunged, her Aura flaring.

"I mean, he has a point, Blake," Yang pointed out.

Blake shook her head furiously.

"I… I'm sure the Faunus working for the White Fang were all misguided and innocent!"

A White Fang goon shrugged. "No, I'm a rapist."

Another piped up.

"I get kids hooked on drugs."

"I make drugs! To get kids hooked on them!"

"I'm a rapist," the first repeated.

"You already said that," the second goon muttered.

"Well, I like rape!" the first insisted.

Another goon sighed. "I owned a mattress store franchise."

Gasps echoed.

"You make me sick!" the first goon spat.

Blake's eyes widened, her voice desperate as she zeroed in on another White Fang goon. "Well, what about you?!"

"I was a corporate lawyer. For the SDC," this goon said.

"But you quit and joined the White Fang to fight the good fight?" Blake asked, hopeful.

"Actually, it's because I was a serial killer," the goon admitted.

Yang raised an eyebrow. "…You seriously didn't know?"

"I-I'm sure it's not representative of the entire White Fang! Really!" Blake stammered.

"And you call me a spoiled princess," Weiss scoffed.

"Um, do you need our help?" Jaune called.

"Just sorting some stuff out, Jaune!" Ruby called back. "I think Blake's having a mental crisis!"

Jaune sighed.

"I'll get the tuna and scratch behind her ears."

"Thank you!"

 

[ThunderBasilisk]

Points to another White Fang pair.
Blake: and what God forsaken thing did you do!?
WF: I ripped the price tags of his mattresses.
WF: I use my semblance to make people step on Legos at the worst possible time.

 

[cavalal386]

i'm just gonna leave this here.

 

[Ash Craig]

When travelling with team JPBY, Ruby also finds out just how close they are one night. Jaune has his hands full.

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Blake has none of the hesitation of Pyrrha, and pushes everyone else to the point of opening up about their feelings. Maybe she begins to fall for both Yang and Jaune after the White Fang mess, when she realizes that her team will be there for her no matter what? That they will support her in her moments of need, while also making sure she doesn't fall like Adam did? (I know this thread doesn't like Bumblebee, but this is a chance to use it for good!)

You know the most crack-y aspect of that chapter?

Blake giving good dating advice. Like, what.

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She knows the warning signs, so she knows a lot of things to avoid, and abuse victims tend to be hypersensitive to people's moods and what triggers what mood, so it's actually pretty reasonable for a Blake that got her head a bit more in the game to recognize that Jaune is shying away from the aggression and preferred the quiet moments he had with her.

Second, we need a story prompt where Blake ISN'T a shitty kitty. Just to imagine such a world

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Maybe a world where Ozpin recognizes that Blake is a brainwashed child soldier for a terrorist cult, and makes mandatory therapy a requirement for her attendance at Beacon like it should have been in the first place! Also, a few on-staff therapists that all students are required to see at least occasionally for checkups.

She was Salem, the Just and Kind.

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Maybe make a play on how her name means "peace" with her titles and legend?

Blake: "WHAT?!"

Jaune: "Yeah, have fun with that, Blake."

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Dealing with Hex is enough to make Blake less racist out of disgust for his actions. Incidentally, Hex knocking racism out of students is exactly why Headmaster Ozpin hasn't expelled him yet-he's too useful.

Blake: Not just in a sexual way. But, well, that too. But to completely own me, make all of important decisions for me.

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the idea of Blake being too scared of herself to make her own decisions on life is depressingly in character, even if she was never willing to give that control to someone else-and why would she be? The last time she gave someone that level of control over her, they tried to make her a monster, and almost succeeded.

He NTRed me from Adam!

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And all of Menagerie celebrated!

Darkness: wince "Oh you poor fools..."

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So the next group gets gushed to about Darkness's fetishes, yes?

Things uh... Things don't go well. Poor Isabel.

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How dead is Oz? By which I mean how many decades is it before Isabel stops hunting him down in all his reincarnations?

I kind of want to see a story where Yang or Blake takes him up on that offer

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I'd like to see Jaune's response to Jacques being abusive and manipulative to Weiss. Or maybe in the snippet where Blake asks him to be her master, realize that Adam is in large part to blame for Blake being so scared of herself, and going full-on castration with a rusty cheese grater at Adam.

That would be rushing things for normal romance. Which I totally know how to do!

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I want to see more of Blake has no idea how to do a normal relationship, and is both constantly surprised at her parter doing normal partner things… and less amusingly, gets set in edge by seemingly innocuous things that Adam has conditioned her to be scared of, because it means his temper is closer to the surface. Slowly have her partner sort out what makes her feel safe, what scares her, what she's unfamiliar with but wants more of. And when Adam comes to reclaim Blake?
Break him.

Cardin was strong. He wasn't the strongest but he was strong. When vale fell Cardin kept fighting.

When Sky died, ripped apart by a beringel, Cardin cut it down.

When Russel Overused his aura and ended up crushed under a collapsing building Cardin got the civilians out safely.

When Dove was cut down by bandits Cardin burned the camp to the ground and salted the earth.

But here and now at a place with a warm bed and no combat Cardin sits by a fire being hugged by a girl half his size and bawling his eyes out.

Cardin is strong. But right now he doesn't have to be.

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Is this Ruby/Cardin I smell? Huh. Never seen that before.

[Oz wtf make it last loved one in there head or like minded soul]

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The best reason I've heard for why the mantles work the way they do is that the mantles inherited hit reincarnation curse, and so everything in relation to their transference is Completely unintentional.

He didn't mention the girls father. Better to save that subject for when they're a little more stable.

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Ooohhh nooooo… Taiyang was barely functional with his daughters to keep him going, if he lost them? I doubt he'd be able to keep going at all.

How does RWBY change if Blake is a bit attached to Jaune from the start? As in, He's MINE.

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Well, for one, she'll have someone to check her when she's being pigheaded or running from her fears, which will lead to a more balanced Blake. Jaune will certainly have his aura unlocked before Beacon, and some training. Jaune will have a little less bright-eyed innocence when arriving, having seen what the White Fang did do Bake and what they do to those that's oppose them. He'll probably be a lot sneakier and more able to deceive opponents, even if he's still the knight. I don't think it'll be enough to totally stop the Fall, but they might be able to lessen the damage.

Now perhaps if you had months to work on her then maybe she can learn to love again but it'd take months/years of dedicated effort or a shattering of her world view and accept the possibility of change or that she is wrong.

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If only there was some point in canon that Jaune got years to do that…

Blake: "I'm fine with being on his lap."

Yang: glare

Blake: "I didn't mean it like that!"

Yang: GLARE

Blake: "... Yes I did."

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Y'know, Blake's last relationship was with an abusive and manipulative monster, and aura is the reflection/light/energy/whatever of the soul, so someone who literally walks around with his soul on display might make her feel safe in a way she's struggled to find since Adam.

Had a thought.
The First Arc is

Spoiler: The Hero's Shade

And Jaune trains under him.

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…I can't help but draw some connections between the Hero's Shade and the Rusted Knight. It'd be cool if Jaune met his ancestor in the Ever After.


So, I was listening to some music earlier, and I thought: if team RWBY came to the Ever After and found Jaune with a guitar he'd somehow acquired, with his helmet off, singing this song:

View: https://youtu.be/8AHCfZTRGiI?si=9h_lWDVgPI6HbBVB
How bad would their hearts break?

 

[SharkCultist]

Kinda goofy idea here. Kinda Halloween but more just fall in general.

People keep disappearing and the only evidence to where the missing people are is small piles of orange powder lying around the areas where they went missing.

In truth a barista snapped and awoke their aura and semblance in one day. One of if not the most situational semblances ever.

If you are rude to the semblance user at any point between 9-5 (outside of a half hour around 1:30) they can make your body dissolve into pumpkin spice.

Cinder is one of the missing a long with Roman.

 

[Gur40]

Cinder is one of the missing a long with Roman.

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Roman i can see being Sassy but polite to the staff, NEO on the other hand is done
Cinder can't help but exploited her power over other in the service industry with Zero Empathy [the hypocrite]
Mercury i see being polite to the staff while Emerald by habit swipes there tips

 

[SharkCultist]

Roman i can see being Sassy but polite to the staff, NEO on the other hand is done
Cinder can't help but exploited her power over other in the service industry with Zero Empathy [the hypocrite]
Mercury i see being polite to the staff while Emerald by habit swipes there tips

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Surprisingly enough Weiss is liked by the staff. She's usually got annoyingly long orders but she's willing to wait for them without causing a scene and is a very good tipper.

Blake however keeps trying to get faunus discounts put in place so she's not thought of too fondly.

Ruby is ok. A cheerful enough girl but pretty much everyone is sure that if it wasn't for Weiss coming often she wouldn't be there. She goes to the coffee shop and orders anything but a coffee.

 

[Gur40]

SNIP

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How is Blake alive?!?

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Found these for Fun

Spoiler: Nick cutting the Wedding Cake

And Jaune at his Wedding

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Young Jaune had his Sibling visit him alot?

Spoiler: Jaune in the Hospital

I can see him bored out of his mind

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Neo Many Disguises

Spoiler: 3 basic

Ironically Chocolate is was Neo originally looked like as Trivia

 

[SharkCultist]

How is Blake alive?!?

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A mix of not running into the specific employee that has the pumpkin power, having the simplest orders (straight cream), and her parents secretly having a line of credit set up with Ozpin to smooth over any ruffled feathers she causes in Vale while she's a student.

 

[The Brotherhood of Steel]

Funny idea: Jaune's home town is a on a path the white fang use to travel between the kingdoms. As such over the years Jaune has had his runs sandwiches stolen from a mysterious cat faunus. No one ever believes him and whenever he's tried fighting back he's always lost. He's even set out traps only for them to fail. Fast forward to Beacon and Jaune is making a late night snack only to get ambushed again. He then discovers Blake's been the culprit all these years.

 

[SharkCultist]

Funny idea: Jaune's home town is a on a path the white fang use to travel between the kingdoms. As such over the years Jaune has had his runs sandwiches stolen from a mysterious cat faunus. No one ever believes him and whenever he's tried fighting back he's always lost. He's even set out traps only for them to fail. Fast forward to Beacon and Jaune is making a late night snack only to get ambushed again. He then discovers Blake's been the culprit all these years.

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It's time for the nuclear option.

Tuna fish sandwich with homemade spicy pickles. More specifically ghost pepper infused pickles and spicy mayo used in the tuna mixture. And just for good measure toast the bread using capsaicin.

 

[Stephen the barbarian]

How is Blake alive?!?

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Weiss's tips cover the difference +some, so the employees get to pocket the difference.

 

[Fusion Blaster]

It's time for the nuclear option.

Tuna fish sandwich with homemade spicy pickles. More specifically ghost pepper infused pickles and spicy mayo used in the tuna mixture. And just for good measure toast the bread using capsaicin.

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Blake: Oh it hurts so gooooooood

 

[AndrewJTalon]

Jaune using his cooking skills and gaining a following is always fun. So, what would he make for each of his friends?

 

[cavalal386]

i have a funny idea. Nora is the best at doing paperwork among the jnpr, while Pyrrha is the worst at it.

@AndrewJTalon, quick question!! did you know about this?

 

[AndrewJTalon]

i have a funny idea. Nora is the best at doing paperwork among the jnpr, while Pyrrha is the worst at it.

@AndrewJTalon, quick question!! did you know about this?

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I was aware of it. And yeah, Ruby going evil is interesting. Meaning that the only person who can stop her is Jaune... A true tragedy.

 

[NightDranzer]

I was aware of it. And yeah, Ruby going evil is interesting. Meaning that the only person who can stop her is Jaune... A true tragedy.

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The real tragedy is that Jaune actually DOES stop her.....only to take her place as the well-intentioned true final villain.....

.....since unlike Ruby, Jaune HAS a proven track record of being capable of carrying the world's weight on his shoulders without breaking (even if he might end up twisted by the pressure and strain).

Basically, instead of Ruby's Instrumentality, it will be Jaune going full Lelouch.


EDIT:

It just occurred to me: Ruby could instead become the Lancelot (as Jaune's Strongest Knight)/Bedivere (as Jaune's Closest Confidant) to Jaune's Arthur (The Once and Future King of Kings)/Vortigen (The Supreme King who Usurped the Gods). They BOTH become the final test for humanity.

Particularly, this scenario I formerly discussed comes to my mind

....If we use my Vortigen idea, we can really wrap up a very gourmet meal.


His time as a king in the past, seeing how the people rebelled due to the Brother's machinations. Seeing how people died, fought, killed, suffered, fought, died, rinse and repeat until the Brother's nuked First Humanity into oblivion has left Jaune a deeply scarred cynical wreck.

Unfortunately, it is impossible for Jaune to become indifferent to other's sufferings; it is literally antithetical to his very being. So instead, it only makes Vortigen more determined, more obssessed to protect. Think Ironwood, but if he had both Ozma's AND Salem's powers on top of Hazel's overwhelming presence and power PLUS Cinder unrelenting and indefatigably persistent ambitiousness.


.....and onto that pile of psychological issues you add the fact that Aura Amp/Soul Infinity has drawn out the full totality of both his [Soul] (he has 1st Humanity's Magic, and can harness and manifest his Soul's Light/Silver Eyes and Darkness/Black Blood) and his [Body] (his body has evolved on par with his [Soul] due to Soul-Mind-Body relation, so if Jaune has Faunus ancestry, he is also now a Faunus of a type most compatible with his personality; a Pendragon in this case (Since both Arthur's and Jeanne's legends are connected to dragons)).


...and because the [Mind] is a plaything of the [Body], his thought processes have changed. Since he is now an existence that transcended humanity, he has retained his compassion but the way he now understands and feels things is slightly alien to human logic, but far more humane than the Brother Gods', since he himself once used to be human and still remembers slightly how it felt to be one.

So you now have a severely traumatized transcendental being whose sense of logic has been twisted to the point of being alien to human thought, but whose deepest, utmost desire is to save people and protect them. This being liberates you from the Brother Gods' callous Tyranny, but now instead Humans/Faunus are now on HIS smothering but well-meaning grip instead.

It is an enemy that desires to save, the final test for Humanity; whether they choose to finally lay and rest in a now peaceful, stagnant world; or to keep fighting for an uncertain tomorrow.

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[SharkCultist]

Jaune using his cooking skills and gaining a following is always fun. So, what would he make for each of his friends?

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I feel like Ren and Nora would both enjoy Japanese style pancakes as a dessert. You know the big jiggly ones.

Pyrrha....I'm sticking with the fandom idea that she's a secret chocoholic. So one of those death by chocolate cakes for her.

Blake...taiyaki. no I will not elaborate.

Weiss, I wanna say eclairs?

For some reason I think Yang would like one of those parfaits with a jello layer. Specifically flavors like strawberry and lemon.

Ruby. Strawberry shortbread cookies.

 

[Fusion Blaster]

So the beginning of an idea. During some mission inside a ruin of some sort Jaune and Ren intreact with an magical item of some sort, perhaps a pair of bracers but in any case mishap occurs and they are fused.

No take backs it's perminate but Jaune and Ren are gone and Jauren is in their place.

He starts off as a blend of the two but he should develop as his own person..

Nora and Pyrrha are in a odd position. The Jauren is awkward around them as he knows how they feel their predecessor.

Then there is how RWBY will react. If using AJT's version of Jaune's family how they reaact to the event.

Jauren's weapons fuse as well. SMG/Sword... perhaps Golden Flower as it's name? The other gun fused with the Sheld the Storm Shield perhaps as it's name... ending up similar to this

 

[AndrewJTalon]

Here are a few prompts:

-Blake has looked up the history of the Arc family. And she wants herself a proper romance with a knight after her terrible experience with Adam. So Jaune's a fixer-upper? It'll make her romance story more interesting!

-Ruby's Halloween/Birthday Party is gonna be lit! And she's asked Coco and Jaune to plan it! How spooky does it become? And is it sexy Halloween as well?

-Jaune's "Uncle" Alucard comes for a visit. Oh dear.

-Weiss doesn't really see the point in Halloween so Ruby and her friends try to show her how amazing it can be!

 

[SharkCultist]

Ruby decides to branch out a bit from weapon engineering and decides to take a computer class (mostly so she can learn how to program fabricators and other mechanical systems for weapon production).

Turns out? She's got some talent! Like a lot of talent.

As a fun little experiment Ruby tries making some simple learning AI chatbots and rigs them up to some V-tuber models.

They're a lot more popular than she expected.

(If you know the inspiration cool)