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[GraveyardShift]

Yes Leo. They do.

Ooblek points this out in volume two while he and Ruby watch and discuss a passing Goliath herd. Said herd is maintaining a close presence to Vale but are acting rather passive for Grimm. Ooblek claiming that their old enough to know better then to engage the Captial defense and don't even bother to engage the two hunters they KNOW are there when one actually pauses to look at them before ambling on.

That killing two humans outside the walls would just summon a heavy response in a kill team. They would much rather wait and take advantage of something later. They WANT to survive so they can kill more humans.

This same herd makes a return in volume 3 at the very end matching into Beacon to occupy it during Ruby's voice over.

They played the long game and won.

 

[Chermo]

: I need more..... This isn't my limit

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He sounds like Akuma... Or evil Ryu

 

[cavalal386]

a crack prompt:
Mia is left alone with Blake.
end result? Mia becomes Blake 2.0. Blake is hiding. Jaune is on a warpath. Vale has declared war on Menagerie. and Grimm productivity has increased.

this is led to a serious prompt:
what traits does Mia pick up from spending time with other people?

a semi-crack prompt:
one day everyone wakes up to find Jaune has been replaced with a golden retriever that answers to Jaune.
to make a long story short, Jaune comes back from Vale, and reveals that:

1. the dog is his. he's looking after the dog for his uncle/family-friend.
2. the dog's name is actual Better Jaune. he was named that as a joke.

 

[GraveyardShift]

A twist on the Blake. Mia didn't become a connoisseur of erotica. She instead became obsessed with a Faunus revolution and now marches around Beacon like a tiny militant shouting slogans and protesting the adults as oppressors.

Jaune still goes on the warpath but has no idea what to do with a Militant Mia.

Granny Kyin-Kyin steps in.

Mia meekly returns to Jaune the following day back to normal but refuses to talk about what happened.

Kyinaye merely smiles and remarks "much like the White Fang. I simply accepted her declaration of war. Also much like the White Fang, she greatly overestimated how much she actually wanted that conflict."

 

[digcat]

Jaune and Weiss are the reincarnation of Beren and Lúthien. They awakened after the fall and know each other at once.

Spoiler

 

[Quietview27]

a semi-crack prompt:
one day everyone wakes up to find Jaune has been replaced with a golden retriever that answers to Jaune.
to make a long story short, Jaune comes back from Vale, and reveals that:

1. the dog is his. he's looking after the dog for his uncle/family-friend.
2. the dog's name is actual Better Jaune. he was named that as a joke.

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Funny idea that it responds well to 'Jaune' because they think the humans calling him that saw it's human.


"Mm," Pyrrha hummed in content as she slept, "Mmph, hehe stop."

She kicked her feet from a strange ticklish feeling she thought was in her dream. But then it happened again, and again.

"H-huh?" she sat up, eyes still foggy, seeing a head of blond at the edge of her bed, "Jaune?"

When her eyes focused, she then realized the cause of the tickling was from a dog! Her eyes locked with theirs, before their tail began to wag.

"Oh um, hello there," she greeted kindly, offering the dog a smile. It excitedly jumped atop her bed to begin licking her face, "O-oh hehe, you're to sweet!"

She laughed as the excited pup began playfully jumping around her bed, causing her teammates to awake as well. Ren's brows raised a slight bit, but Nora's went wide instantly.

"Puppppppyyyyyyy!" she cheered, "come here buddy!"

It did, and Nora laughed happily as she and the dog play wrestled. Ren and Pyrrha watched this for a bit.

"So when did we get a dog?" Ren asked.

"I-I am unsure. I only just found out. Jaune do you kno-"

She looked to find Jaune not there in his bed. This instantly got her attention because normally a weekend was when Jaune slept in a bit.

"Jaune?" she repeated, then noticed the dog stopped playing, and walked over to her, looking around the room with her, "...Jaune?"

The dog looked up at her, blue eyes full of pure curiosity.

"Jaune got turned into a doggy!" Nora exclaimed in slight horror, "Don't worry fearless leader, we'll turn you back to normal! Ahaha no stop that tickles!"

Pyrrha wanted to try and question her friends line of thinking, but she'd heard of dust mishaps. Ren meanwhile looked to see a note on the fridge.

"Hey, sorry guys! My uncle decided I needed to keep an eye on Julian for a bit. Dropped him off this morning, then gave me a list of things to get him. Should be back around 3. I promise when I get back I'll take care of him fully!"

Now a sensible man would have told Nora and Pyrrha this. However having his morning abruptly ruined had Ren feeling a little mischievous. So he hid the note in his pocket.

"What's wrong!?" Ruby then burst into their dorm, karate stance taken, "Where's the trou- woah!"

The retriever tackled her, and in its friendly glory began to lather her face in slobber.

"Gah! Doggy kisses! Wait a doggy!? When did you guys get one?"

"It's Jaune!" Nora stated, causing the dog to turn to her, "See?! It has to be with how they react to his name!"

"What are you idiot's doi- HUH!" Weiss's eyes sparkled in delight, "Oh who is this lovely one!?"

Now she was being dog kissed, as she happily scratched under their chin, "Oh who's a good boy? You are! Yes you are!"

The dogs tail wagged furiously at the affection.

"Aww," Yang also had sparkly eyes seeing the dog, but Blake behind her had her ears fall flat, and eyes narrow, "Well who's this ball of sunshine?"

"I just said it's Jaune!"

Now that had the 3 go wide eyed, then return to looking at the happy doggo just looking at them all. Meanwhile Zwei who was also at Beacon via Tai wanting his daughters to see him, walked in and ears perked seeing the fellow dog.

As they began lightly barking at each other, conversing about something, the 7 others continued talking.

"So you think the dog is Jaune?" Yang asked, "I can see it I guess. Blond fur, blue eyes, kinda goofy. Sounds like him."

"And he responds quite well," Weiss noted, "Jaune sweetie."

The dog looked to her, tail wagging that had Weiss smile a little.

"Heh, he really is Jaune huh? And hey he might listen if you tell him to stop Weisscream!"

Some of the assembled laughed a bit, and then Jaune whined a bit.

"Jaune?" Ruby frowned, "What's wrong buddy?"

He walked to the door, and whined, but thankfully Yang realized.

"Uh oh. Someone's gotta go potty dontcha Jaunie?"

At the perking of his ears, Yang chuckled, "Alright. Let me grab my slippers and a baggy."

"Oooh he had to poop," Nora smacked her hand in realization, "Ew."

The rest of the day was spent with similar experiences. After cleaning up after him, Yang then pulled out a frisbee, and him and Zwei playfully fought for it for an hour. Weiss eagerly got in as many scratches as she could, enjoying this supposedly new 'Jaune'. Blake of course stuck to staying in her bed, high above where 'Jaune' could reach.

Around 6 pm, the group all settled in JNPR's dorm room, 'Jaune' beginning to fall asleep on Pyrrha's lap.

"Man this new Jaune's kinda cool," Yang teased.

"Yeah right!" they heard Blake yell from RWBY's dorm.

"Scaedy cat! Don't listen to her Better Jaune. You're a delight."

"Glad to hear," the real Jaune spoke from the doorway, an amused grin on his face. A bag of dog food in one arm, and a smaller bag with various items in the other, "Should I inform Ozpin I've been replaced?"

"Jaune-Jaune!" Nora smiled, "Wait. So if you're Jaune-Jaune, then's who's the fuzzball?"

"That," he pointed at the dog, "Is my uncles dog. Come here Julian buddy!"

The dog happily obeyed, rushing to try and tackle him, but Jaune remained unfazed as the dog stood to lick his face.

"Heh, I'm glad to see you to buddy. And before I forget."

He pulled a bone from the smaller bag, and lightly tossed it onto his bed. Julian followed after it, and began to contentedly chew on the bone.

"So why didn't you inform us of this?" Weiss asked, pouting. Jaune raised an eyebrow.

"Whaddya mean? I left a note on the fridge."

"But we didn't see anything! You aren't lying to us are you!?"

"I swear on my family's name! I left it right- Ren."

The black haired boy paused, "Yes?"

"Why do you have paper in your back pocket? Is that my note?"

"......mayhaps."

"...you didn't tell them cause of the smoothie incident didn't you?"

Ren didn't answer, and everyone gave him a flat look. Until Weiss frowned.

"So- he'll have to leave?"

"Whenever my uncle gets done with whatever he was up to."

"And- and when is that?"

Jaune pondered before shrugging, "With him, between 3 days to a few weeks."

"So we might have him for longer?!"

"I guess yeah."

Weiss let out an uncharacteristic squeal, before coughing to calm herself, "I-I mean, that will be quite alright for me."

Everyone gave her an amused look, but for her sake they'd let this one slide. But for precaution, Jaune sent Ms. Goodwitch a message to make sure she was made aware. She was, and if she went to see said dog later, and pet him for a few minutes- well nobody would say a word if they wanted to remain in Beacon.

 

[Azure Hero]

So could the Ride Armor from the Mega Man X series work as Prototypes for the Atlesian Paladins, or as other Kingdoms takes on the subject?

 

[GraveyardShift]

Okay let me do some math...

Ao3 went down roughly the 30th so we'll use the later date...

Estimates of downtime are between 2 weeks and 4 at the outset.

At time of this post, its been about a week and three days.

So THIS coming Friday will mark the end of the absolute downtime. Now no guarantee it will return this Friday or even Sat, but if there's a time to start expecting it to come back online, it will be then. Not before. So we still have roughly a week before we should start the up/down roller coaster of emotions.

And even if it does come back up, its likely might be read only. Anything extra we count our blessings. We only riot at the end of the month on the 30th which is the maximum outset if full functionality isn't back by then.

 

[Reader548]

Okay let me do some math...

Ao3 went down roughly the 30th so we'll use the later date...

Estimates of downtime are between 2 weeks and 4 at the outset.

At time of this post, its been about a week and three days.

So THIS coming Friday will mark the end of the absolute downtime. Now no guarantee it will return this Friday or even Sat, but if there's a time to start expecting it to come back online, it will be then. Not before. So we still have roughly a week before we should start the up/down roller coaster of emotions.

And even if it does come back up, its likely might be read only. Anything extra we count our blessings. We only riot at the end of the month on the 30th which is the maximum outset if full functionality isn't back by then.

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don't forget the depressing possibility of it being dead permanently.

 

[digcat]

On the way to Beacon Jaune finds a artifact from before the moon shattered. With it he sees alternate realities and uses it to save as many people as possible. However they don't all line up some things are even completely different. Raven isn't a bandit she and her group hunt them to keep people safe instead. Jacques is a loving father and family man. Whitley is the older sibling and Winter the younger. Yang is the pervert instead of Blake still never even kissed anyone though.

Some more changes
Ruby and Weiss personalities are switched. Arslan is Pyrrha's only friend but supported her going to Beacon to find other people who didn't just see her as the Invincible girl

 

[GraveyardShift]

Naw that's not going to happen.

There was actually a status update on the 6th so this is actively being worked on.

I'll check next Friday but also periodically. If we get another update by the weekend then its likely never going to be dead.

 

[Sliverhero]

On the way to Beacon Jaune finds a artifact from before the moon shattered. With it he sees alternate realities and uses it to save as many people as possible. However they don't all line up some things are even completely different. Raven isn't a bandit she and her group hunt them to keep people safe instead. Jacques is a loving father and family man. Whitley is the older sibling and Winter the younger. Yang is the pervert instead of Blake still never even kissed anyone though.

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he notice an image of a burning tree and in front of it is a monstrous knight choking a strange cat in one hand and to his horror the dark knight is looking at him and is reaching out. the last thing Jaune saw before the artifact forcibly close the connection is that he saw a glance of the eyes between the helmet and they are so simlair to his owns bit surely that couldnt be.

Spoiler: Corrupted knight

 

[Villuviel]

You know what would be a really interesting premise? The RWBY world is an experiment of the brother gods.

Once, the brother gods were a single unified God; balanced, omnipotent, and omniscient. Due to him trying to give free will to mankind, he separated himself into the brother gods, breaking fate. As the years followed, the hollow pit in the brother gods souls, wishing to be whole again, became unbearable. Try as they might, they couldn't figure out how to become "perfect" again. So they started the "Remnant Project".

They would create a world of constant conflict in order to accelerate the evolution of their creations. They set two unknowing judges who would lead the conflict (Ozma and Salem). When one side won, they would be called back to see if a "perfect sample" was born.

This "perfect sample" would become the basis of their fusion, allowing them to have a reference to follow and become whole. If no sample is found, they would reset the experiment and change a few variables.

Mankind shall lose their magic, using the lasting embers of their heritage to awaken their souls (aura and semblance). The grimm shall forever search for a way to gain a soul, growing smarter and stronger as time passes.

Welcome to RWBY, the world of "Bloody Evolution".

 

[Maximize]

A random, and probably rather out-there, idea I had for Blake: what if Blake Belladonna isn't actually her real name?

What if her real first name is Bell, and she has a completely different surname? The reason for this would be that she's actually the daughter of Menagerie's ruling family, Ghira and Kali, and the name Blake Belladonna is an assumed identity she uses to conceal her heritage.

Think about it: one of the reasons nobody seems to connect Blake to the daughter of Menagerie's chieftain is that they're looking for someone named Blake Belladonna, not Bell [actual surname]. By changing both her first and last name, she effectively removes the obvious connection to her family.

It could also explain why nobody at Beacon recognises her or makes the connection. She's not introducing herself as the daughter of Menagerie's leader, and there's no obvious reason for people to associate her assumed identity with the ruling family.

I think this could be an interesting addition to Blake's backstory, especially considering her involvement with the White Fang and her attempts to distance herself from her family. It would also make the eventual discovery of her real identity a much bigger deal.

Imagine Team RWBY discovering that one of their teammates is not only the daughter of Menagerie's chieftain but has been using an entirely different name this whole time.

It's a pretty wild idea, but I think there's something interesting to explore here.

 

[GraveyardShift]

Well that would mean we'd have to change the family last name since both Ghira and Kali are introduced as Belladonna.

 

[digcat]

She could just use a different name and still be Blake Belladonna. Maybe she introduces herself as Bell Barbot. That would be a tribute to the original Beauty and the beast writer.

 

[Gur40]

found out all of Team SSSN was in vale S2 ep 5

Spoiler: as seen

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FUCK CRWBY and Stolen from Reddit

Spoiler: Neo excuse

According to CRWBY, Neo's Semblance becomes so powerful because she landed in the dark acre which was basically the experimental playground for the Brother Gods. So, how strong would RWBY's semblances would become if they landed there like she did?
And what about Jaune who lived breathed and ATE all the magic stuff in the EA

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Akumu_Oukoku • 8h ago

Full force "Most extreme" case.

Neo pretty much gains the ability to turn her "imagination" into reality. Capable of summoning everyone and everything, including their abilities and weapons, which is bullshit.

With Ruby, I could see her going fully in the direction some fans wanna see her go with the "I touch it, and it's gone" due to petal burst. Not really very exciting, but very, very, very busted. Personally, I like the more creative path where her abilities lean more into Wind/Air control. Making her a living tornado - capable of moving and becoming like the wind itself, which can lead to some busted methods of use, such as being intangible while cutting up enemies with razor wind. Maybe even give her an effect where, when she walks, roses grow and then die, turning into petals with each step.

With Yang, a constant feedback loop that just keeps feeding into Burn. Giving her some real FIRE power, too. No longer needing combustion dust, she can just keep looping damage from the fire on her body into kinetic energy for her punches and make a barrier of fire around her that protects her from some attacks. (Essentially, the fire is damaging her constantly, but her aura constantly heals that damage, and with the boost from the acre, the constant healing feeds back into her semblance, which feeds back into her aura.) It's very "Troll Logic," but fug it, we're in God land and anything is on the table.

Blake, I see ending up like she was in the JLxRWBY pt 2 movie. Shadow control. Capable of making Shadows into tangible things. I'd also add something like "Shadow stepping," where she can teleport between shadows and shadow puppetry. This might be a bit too far off of Blake's normal set and not feel like a natural evolution - but the only thing I can really think of is "infinite clones," which is cool and very cery strong but... is a lil boring, right? Like, I'm sure Yang would be hella happy - but infinite looping Blakes that can keep cloning themselves and actually move and such would be rather strong - just not super interesting. But... that is PROLLY the direction her semblance would go.

Weiss.... Nah shes just a mini Nuke. A True "Walking Wake". Like - the woman can do so much with her semblance that giving it a boost *Further* Via Magic God nonsense just feels unfair. Like, if we take into consideration the stuff she can do in IQ and then dial it up to 11, like how Neo's semblance pops off ... We're looking not just at something that's a PROBLEM; it's just surpassed Salem's levels of PROBLEM. "Why though, Akumu? It's not like she can really do anything without Dust." [[ Time Dilation ]] . Imagine a Weiss who's gone even further and has just a lil bit of lightning dust on her. Time becomes irrelevant. Speed up, slow down, stop, rewind, unwind. And that's assuming after the power boost she'd NEED dust. We're not even getting into the fact of LONG RANGE PORTALS and GAP STORAGE ( Touhou thing, but pretty much she'd be able to send big blast into one portal and unleash it at a later time when shes good and ready to do so ) Like, Ruby is cracked with "I touch you, and you die" type stuff - but Weiss is just bullshit unfair. ( I'm not really digging it tbh - I like balance with stuff )

Jaune - oh lawd he amping.... infinitely. Just send him even further beyond and give him "Aura manipulation," just full-on capable of amping or draining aura. Forming it into solid objects and armor. Capable of amping himself up infinitely. In a way "Yang's upgrade but better because it does not need to 'burn' him". Guy just becomes unkillable. A Golden God that walks among the people. Untouchable. ( I mean, he'd still need to breathe, but does Aura get to a point where it can heal the lack of oxygen to make it moot? Who knows ) Like, not much needs to be said for Jaune - his BASE Semblance is cracked as it is - pushing it even further could make him the strongest entity in and out of Remnant ( Outside of anyone that can manipulate time or reality ).

Overall, they'd all be VERY VERY stronk. Had ( at least ) Weiss, Ruby, Yang, or Jaune touched the God's playground, I don't think Salem would be much of a problem any longer.

And, again I am going "Most extreme" for this since Neo's kind of went in that direction.

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for the swapped dark mirror idea

Spoiler: evil smug Ruby

for a dark Mirror Ruby she was raised on her SEW status and believed her divine gift made her better, think Magneto on mutants etc

And for more dark portal mirror vision

Spoiler: Katy or May

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why ironwood went from piloted mech to drone based mech

Spoiler: trope

an army is nothing to a teenager with issues in a stolen super prototype

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Ruby and Zwei

Spoiler: cute

 

[DarthAtrox]

Here's an interesting idea for a fic:

Jaune gets trapped in a timeloop.

Yeah, I know it's been done. But this idea is a bit different from Not This Time, Fate.

So Jaune wakes up one Wednesday morning. At least, it's supposed to be Wednesday. Everyone and everything around him is indicating that' it's actually tuesday again.

Then it happens again. Then again. Then Jaune realizes, he's stuck in a time loop. Everyday is Tuesday.

He recruits people, explains what's going on, and he's trying to get to the bottom of everything. After all, who wants to relive the same day over and over again? The only advantage he has is after 3 months of repeating the same day is he's mastered all of the material at Beacon, and he's managed to train himself up (though, even though his technique is growing, he's still limited by his body, since he can't build muscle).

Inspired by:

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Eco65Bc3MDU​

As for the resolution? We can go a few different ways. Maybe a student awakened their semblance and it affected Jaune by mistake without anyone realizing? Maybe Jaune did something that attracted the attention from Cinder and her team, and he was targeted by Salem?

I do plan on Jaune getting out of the time loop, and from everyone's perspective, Jaune just improved by several orders of magnitude seemingly overnight.

What do you guys think?

I kinda like the idea of Jaune doing a solo mystery, while trying not to lose his mind.

It could also be an ironic twist that the villain, by putting Jaune in the time loop, actually created the circumstances that allowed Jaune to improve enough to defeat them and break free from the loop

 

[digcat]

When the war ended Jaune Weiss and Yang all got married. A couple of years later Ruby Whitley and the others come visit. Ruby is the only one not surprised Yang is the house wife type. They are all surprised Weiss took to being a farm wife and helping wherever she was needed so quickly. They almost think they are impostors when they see them covered in old oil as Jaune and Yang teach Weiss how to fix a old car.

 

[Quietview27]

Jaune - oh lawd he amping.... infinitely. Just send him even further beyond and give him "Aura manipulation," just full-on capable of amping or draining aura. Forming it into solid objects and armor. Capable of amping himself up infinitely. In a way "Yang's upgrade but better because it does not need to 'burn' him". Guy just becomes unkillable. A Golden God that walks among the people. Untouchable. ( I mean, he'd still need to breathe, but does Aura get to a point where it can heal the lack of oxygen to make it moot? Who knows ) Like, not much needs to be said for Jaune - his BASE Semblance is cracked as it is - pushing it even further could make him the strongest entity in and out of Remnant ( Outside of anyone that can manipulate time or reality ).

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Salem wondering why all the Huntsman outside her castle are glowing golden-

Meanwhile Jaune's just walking down a line of everyone with Aura high fiving em like Naruto in the 4th Ninja War lol

 

[digcat]

Salem wondering why all the Huntsman outside her castle are glowing golden-

Meanwhile Jaune's just walking down a line of everyone with Aura high fiving em like Naruto in the 4th Ninja War lol

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Both men and women will be happy after. Because it would stand to reason that if a woman's curves get bigger a man's stick would get bigger also.

 

[digcat]

Yang vs Yang

Spoiler