[RWBY] RWBY Shorts

[AndrewJTalon]

The Vale Metropolitan Museum of Art was quieter than usual Saturday morning, thanks to Pyrrha's quiet influence and a generous donation from the Nikos family. The entire Hellenic History wing had been cordoned off for their private visit, golden morning light streaming through the high windows onto marble statues and beautifully preserved artifacts.

Mia's eyes were as wide as dinner plates.

She was dressed in a tiny but authentic-looking Hellenic chiton, a soft white dress with golden trim, and a delicate laurel wreath rested on her blonde curls. In her hands she proudly carried a child-sized replica Argusian javelin, which she waved around like a magic wand and giggled over.

Pyrrha walked beside her, smiling softly, while Jaune trailed just behind, carrying Mia's stuffed bunny in one hand and looking a little overwhelmed by how fancy everything felt.

"Pyrrha, you really didn't have to go this far," Jaune said, adjusting the laurel wreath that Mia had insisted he wear too.

"Nonsense," Pyrrha replied warmly. "This exhibit is on my people's history. I wanted you both to see it properly."

Mia ran ahead a few steps, then spun around, the little chiton fluttering. "Look, Papa! I'm a princess warrior!"

"You look amazing, kitten," Jaune laughed. "Just don't touch anything, okay?"

"Okay!" Mia laughed, rushing ahead.

They stopped in front of a grand mural depicting ancient battles and heroes. Pyrrha's voice grew softer, almost reverent, as she traced her fingers near the glass.

"My grandmother used to tell me stories every night about our ancestors," she said. "We can trace our family line all the way back to Iksander the Great =the conqueror who united the known world. She always said our blood carried both his brilliance and his burdens."

Jaune glanced at her, then looked back at the mural. "I get that. My family has its own long lineage too… the Arcs have been knights and protectors for generations. It feels… like a lot sometimes. Like I have to live up to all of them."

Pyrrha turned to him, her emerald eyes gentle. "It can feel like a burden, can't it? Carrying the weight of so many expectations."

She hesitated, then continued more quietly, "But… maybe we don't have to carry it alone. Maybe we could carry it together?"

Jaune met her gaze. The air between them grew thick with something warm and unspoken.

"I'd like that," he said softly.

Pyrrha's breath caught. She leaned in slowly, heart hammering, willing herself to close the distance. Jaune's eyes widened slightly in confusion, but he didn't pull away.

Then—

CRASH!

Mia had wandered over to a low display stand holding replica hoplite armor. In her excitement, she bumped into it. The entire stand wobbled and toppled over with a loud clatter, the shield bouncing across the polished floor.

Both Jaune and Pyrrha jolted apart.

"Mia!" Jaune yelped, rushing over.

Pyrrha's cheeks flushed bright red as she hurried after him. "Are you alright, little one?"

Mia sat on the floor, laruel slightly askew, looking sheepish but unharmed. "Sorry Papa... I'm really sorry! I-I didn't mean to-!"

Jaune helped her up, brushing dust off her chiton. "It's okay, it's okay. Let's slow down from now on huh?"

Pyrrha gently pushed the shield and armor back up, inspecting it with a practiced eye. She sighed and smiled.

"It's all right. It's just a replica, and no harm done," she said. Jaune sighed in relief.

Pyrrha let out a nervous laugh, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear. The moment was gone, but the warmth in her chest remained.

Mia looked between them, then grinned mischievously. "Were you gonna kiss Papa?"

Pyrrha turned scarlet. Jaune made a strangled noise.

"Mia!" they both said at the same time.

The little girl just giggled and hugged her replica spear tighter.

Pyrrha eventually recovered enough to smile again. "Come on. There's still the Hall of Heroes to see. Maybe we can find her a helmet that will fit?"

"Oooh! Can I Papa? Can I?" Mia asked. "I wouldn't run into things so much with a helmet!"

"Somehow I doubt that," Jaune chuckled.

 

[jojoin567]

Dinner time for the Dragon Slayer Family....

Arc Farmhouse

It was dinner time for the Arc Family where all 15 children were seated, waiting for their dinner. Jaune was entertaining them while Yang was cooking food and was fondly listening to her husband's story.

Jaune: "Once there was a thief who liked to steal all kinds of vehicles and he never got caught."

The children and Yang listened carefully.

Jaune: "One day he decided to steal a train just for the fun of it but he crashed it and got caught by the police."

The children ooohd as Jaune got deeper into the story.

Jaune: "The Judge sentences him to executed by electric chair. Once he was strapped to the chair, the switch was pulled, there was the sound of electricity flowing and smoke from the wires but the thief was entirely unharmed.At the time there was an old Valean law that said that a failed execution is a sign of intervention and the thief was let go."

The kids were fully immersed in the story and Yang wonders how the story would end.

Jaune: "The thief proceeded to steal the train four more times and crashed them each time due to his reckless driving. Each time he crashed, he was sentenced to the electric chair but he was never electrocuted. Do you guys know why??"

The children chorused that they did not know.

Jaune: "Because the thief was a very bad conductor!!"

While the children were groaning at the terrible joke, Yang quietly phoned Ruby.

Yang: "Hey Ruby, are you free this Saturday."

Ruby: puzzled "Yesss??"

Yang: "Great, can you babysit my children. I need some privacy with Jaune to break my limit"

 

[Gur40]

Jaune explaining recipe to his friends

Spoiler: baking

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/JX_UynYTdbE?si=SE6tvQxmYaP_o7yj

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/eeMstN7MEUs?si=jC5Tu0c2c17fLrQo

Jaune cooking teacher

Spoiler: dylian

View: https://youtu.be/TyXQ-Z7b3JE?si=HBu7h6gXTUYEMGs1

 

[Gur40]

From Tumblr

Spoiler: Leader

superiorsturgeon - 2d

Jaune: I'm questioning my ability as a team leader.

Jaune: I attended every leadership class and spent hours carefully practicing strategies with my team…

Jaune: …only to completely forget all of it mid-fight and yell, "Jump his ass!"

Jaune: The worst part is how well it worked.

If it works it works aka 'Jump A Bitch No Jutsu'

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Jaune Core

Spoiler: Going To Beacon

Spoiler: Dating Weiss or Pyrrha

Spoiler: Mother React

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And What ifs?

Spoiler: Confident Pyrrha

Pyrrha lived Jaune 'died' and she meets the Rusted Knight

Spoiler: color returns to the world

 

[AndrewJTalon]

A few fun prompts:

-Salem is a massive fan of Ninjas of Love. So when Cinder tells her that she's discovered the identity of the author (Saphron Arc) and that Jaune Arc is going to take Blake Belladonna to an incognito book signing... Salem has GOT to get in on that! So does Watts, who claims he likes it for the intricate plot structure but we all know better.

-Neo wants to stir up some chaos, being Neo. So she poses as Jaune and a few different girls to start up a harem comedy for her own amusement. Can she escape the trap she's created for herself though? Spoilers: No, she cannot.

-Rockets of Remnant: Astronaut!Jaune goes to Atlas at a dinner hosted by Jacques Schnee. Does he present a better first impression to Weiss this time around?

-The Arc Clan: Pyrrha did have a childhood friend: Oguri Cap, a horse Faunus racer she got along well with. It turns out that Oguri was also friends with Jaune for a bit in Radian... So Pyrrha tries to use this to get closer to Jaune.

 

[Bommel]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX6PUe7nXyo
Don't worry fanboys, Jaune's Aura Amp and Yang's Burn are in the good honerable mentions

Semblances could have been more creative, both in them being created and how they were used.
So here are some ideas on new Semblances or how existing ones can be used better:

- A Semblance that lets the user heat up their hands (and be immune to the dangerous temperatures.
It's basically a weaker version of Cinder's Scorching Caress, but instead of just using it to make their punches do "fire damage", they use it to power their mechanical weapon (like one of the modes is a big chainsaw) via something like a build-in Stirling engine.

- A water-generating Semblance that lets the create some amount of water.
They can't control water or make massive amounts of it, but what they can make they can shoot out with some force.
In a similar vain to the above idea, their weapon is specially made so the water can be channeled through to power the mechanism inside.
They could also maybe channel the water through their weapon and create flying-slash attacks made from water, similar to how industrial waterjet cutters work.
Ice and Lightning Dust would also be a lot more effective for them, because there's more water to freeze and immobilize targets and can better conduct the electricity, but fire Dust would be less effective for them (but on the flip side, they would be better at defending against fire).

- Adam can use Moonslice with literally any weapon, but he just uses a sword, which seems extremely limiting.
So what if he got a bunch of steel rings on his fingers or armoured gloves, where he can block damage with and give one superpowered punch back.
Or Adam finally gets somekind of gun upgrad for his main weapon, and is able to enpower his bullet shot with Moonslice (so the impact looks like he's shooting a rocketlauncher while the actual gun is closer to a peashooter.

- Marrow should really carry some grenades or explosives around, or better yet a shitton of them.
He could literaly throw a grenade, order the targets to Stay with his Semblance, Stay, and they would be completely unable to dodge or block the explosion.
If he wanted to go non-lethal, then he could carry a bunch of flashbangs, so the targets are unable to shield their eyes or block their ears when it goes off.

- Ironwood's Semblance just sucks, as it actively detracts from his character, so what if we give him a new Semblance?
An idea for that is "Metal" (as a his original canon one was Mettle), which lets Ironwood literally turn his own body into metal, iron or steel specifically.
It would allow him to take hits like nobody else even if his Aura breaks or is low, punch even harder, be heavier to mitigate recoil from his big weapon, do more damage when stomping on someone (or airbomb by jumping from a bullhead ontop of a Grimm).
The downside would be that he can't use it in water, as he would be completely unable to swim (as despite his metal form, he'd still need to breath), aircrafts might be unable to handle the sudden increase in weight, and some floors might not be able to handle the extra weight (not sure how more or less effective electricity or acid would be).
It can also add to his backstory, where the only reason he survived the injuries that led to his cybernetics was because he transformed his whole body into metal, preventing him from bleeding out and organs from from failing (he seems to be missing at least part of his lungs and digestive organs).
Or maybe the only reason why they were able to implant the cybernetics was because he selectively turned part of his body into metal and it being drilled into like metalwork rather than a medical operation.

Spoiler: Half his body is already metal, and he's based on the tin-woodman from Oz.

- Villain Semblance: Blood Tracking.
If the user tastes/eats any part of another person (mostly it's just a drop of blood), they can track them seeing a "trail" to where they have been or towards the nearby "trail", potentially for days or even months, until they touch the person they're tracking (which is when it ends), or if the target dies.
They're basically a serial killer who's able to stalk their victoms no matter where they go.
The big downside is that if they track more people at once, the "trails" gets mixed up, which he can't see any differences between, so he can track the wrong person, and this downside gets worse the more people he's tracking at once.
They also can't prevent their Semblance from activating, so if they ingest anything from another person, they automatically tracking them.
A backstory could be that they were a pretty normal Huntsmen or bounty hunter, but they ingested a lot of bits/blood of a lot of different people, which drove them insane with all the different "trails" he was constantly seeing (he began hunting them all down and kiling them, and then began choosing more targets).

- A Semblance called Slippery, which lets the user make anything they touch slippery, as well as somewhat shiny, as well as turn off their own effect.
While it doesn't sound all that useful, good luck standing when the floor has no friction (and the user can turn the floor back to normal where there footsteps fall).
Or have fun trying to use your weapon when it's incredibly hard to hold (this one is harder to pull off without taking damage from the blow, and even then they still need to get the timeing right).
They could also use this to literally skate arount on literal ice skates.

 

[AndrewJTalon]

Cinder activated her Scroll, and knelt before the camera in her dormroom, trying very hard not to look like she wanted to set the entire room on fire.

"My Queen," she began, voice carefully neutral, "I have discovered something… unexpected, per your request."

Salem's red eyes gleamed with mild interest. "Speak."

Cinder took a breath and steeled herself. "The author of Ninjas of Love… is Saphron Arc. Jaune Arc's older sister. She is holding a secret, incognito book signing in Vale tomorrow night under the pseudonym 'S. Rosewood.' Jaune is escorting Blake Belladonna to the event."

For three full seconds, the only sound was the faint crackle of the Grimm pools.

Then Salem sat up straighter, a slow, delighted smile spreading across her face.

"…Truly?!" She gasped.

"Yes, my Queen," Cinder said, her tone dull.

Salem rose from her throne, black gown whispering across the stone floor. For the first time in centuries, she looked almost excited.

"I have read every volume. Twice. The tension between Lord Shadow and the masked kunoichi in volume seven? Exquisite. The way she used the silk ribbons in volume twelve? Revolutionary." She turned to Cinder, eyes bright. "We are attending."

Cinder's eye twitched. "My Queen… we are currently planning the destruction of Beacon. This seems-"

"Minor logistical adjustments can be made," Salem said breezily. "Besides, I have questions. Very specific questions about chapter nineteen."

From the shadows, Doctor Arthur Watts stepped forward, adjusting his monocle with exaggerated dignity.

"If I may," he said, voice dripping with false gravitas, "I believe attending would be… prudent. The series contains remarkably intricate plot structures. The way the author weaves political intrigue with the more… physical elements is quite sophisticated. A literary analysis would be most enlightening."

Salem turned her head slowly, one eyebrow raised.

Watts cleared his throat. "Also, I… enjoy the fight scenes."

Cinder stared at him. "You cried during the confession scene in volume fourteen."

"I had something in my eye."

Salem clapped her hands once, delighted. "Excellent. We shall all attend. Disguises, of course. Cinder, you will pose as my attendant. Watts, you may wear something that does not scream 'I am a wanted criminal.'"

Watts sniffed. "I do not scream anything."

Salem's smile turned sharp. "And if anyone tries to stop me from getting my copy signed… well. I have many ideas for how to express my displeasure."

Cinder held in a sigh and not for the first time, wondered if selling her soul to a deranged immoral dark queen of the Grimm might have been a bad idea.

 

[ThunderBasilisk]

LoL too later for doubts now Cinder

 

[Alkatraz_ktr]

- A Semblance that lets the user heat up their hands (and be immune to the dangerous temperatures.

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Jaune from Forged Destiny by Coeur Al'Aran have this "skill" (like videogame skill).

 

[Bommel]

Jaune from Forged Destiny by Coeur Al'Aran have this "skill" (like videogame skill).

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What that already exists in a RWBY fanfic?
Didn't know that but that is a funny coincidence.

 

[LordofBones]

-Rockets of Remnant: Astronaut!Jaune goes to Atlas at a dinner hosted by Jacques Schnee. Does he present a better first impression to Weiss this time around?

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In a twist, it's Weiss who ends up botching things.