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[Bommel]

So on the topic of Jaune's sisters in this fanon version of the RWBY setting that's mostly created by @AJ_Talon.
I think that Tanya isn't a good fit as an Arc sister.

A massive part of Tanya's character is her antagonistic relationship with Being X/the god entity, who's an absolute asshole, which really doens't work where there are gods but Tanya has never had any involvement with the, but the big main religion is that of furry Jesus (Aslan is canonically literally Jesus manifesting in Narina in the books).
Tanya is also a psychopath (as in literal psychopathy), which makes her incapable of feeling empathy, while the Tanya shown in the RWBY stories is shown that she actually does care and love her family, as well as the people working under her.
If you remove both of them you don't really anything left, just a blank character wearing the apperance of Tanya (which in canon is an 9 to 12 year old girl).

So what other character would fit the role as Jaune's military sister better?
What about Olivier Mira Armstrong?

She pretty much as all the same qualities that make Tanya fit, none of the things that don't make Tanya fit, and several additional beneficial character traits.

• She's a very tough but fair person who doesn't care where you're from or what your race is, just that you're compatent and do your job.
• Despite not having any powers (aka being an alchemist), she's one of the best fighters in the series.
• She's a swordsmen and her sword that has been passed down the Armstrong line for generations! (very similar to Jaune and his Crocea Mors), and comes from a noble family with a martial tradition, and a lot of inhereted strength (both similar to the Arc family).
• She also looks like she could be an Arc, with the long blond hair n'stuff.
• If someone like the fact that tanya is very short, Olivier is also shorter than her younger brother (not that she's small, Alex is just enormous, but that kind of minor chance is easy).
• Olivier is a rare heroic example of a social darwinist, as she's believes in survival of the fittest she applied to everyone, including herself, and sticks to it (using her as a hostage doesn't work, as if she dies, she wouldn't have been worthy to lead her men anyway), and believes it's the job of the strong to defend others, her country first and foremost
• Despite her stoic and scary exterior, she does actually care about the men under her, and does really love her family (she takes the position as head of the family and pushes her parents and siblings out of the country because she doesn't want them getting hurt due to Father's eclipse sacrifice plan)

Spoiler: A gag pannel says she has a very large bust, which is genetic, which might come from Isabel's genetic tampering.

 

[AJ_Talon]

@CountvonBarnOwl You know another fun plot idea? Yang is so frustrated with Jaune not getting it from Pyrrha. She also thinks everyone else is nuts to NOT SEE that Pyrrha is madly in love with Jaune!

So she's gonna make Pyrrha make a move by going out with Jaune and flaunting their relationship in front of her! To piss Pyrrha off enough to make a move!

Unfortunately Yang catches real feelings and now it's complicated.

And as for Whitley/Ruby ideas:

-Whitley goes out with Ruby just to piss off Weiss... But ends up having fun anyway.

-Ruby learns that Whitley has trash taste in guns and aims to fix this.

-Whitley attends Vytal, and fights alongside Ruby when things go down. He's no slouch at computers himself and tries to figure out how to stop the virus while Ruby covers him!

 

[digcat]

@CountvonBarnOwl You know another fun plot idea? Yang is so frustrated with Jaune not getting it from Pyrrha. She also thinks everyone else is nuts to NOT SEE that Pyrrha is madly in love with Jaune!

So she's gonna make Pyrrha make a move by going out with Jaune and flaunting their relationship in front of her! To piss Pyrrha off enough to make a move!

Unfortunately Yang catches real feelings and now it's complicated.

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Jaune walks in on them wrestling and arguing with each other and finds out the truth. They get spankings and both of them becomes his girlfriends for real.

 

[GraveyardShift]

Fuckin' hell. All these vulnerabilities and breaches going on.

 

[mgl1206]

Fuckin' hell. All these vulnerabilities and breaches going on.

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and the FAA just canceled takeoffs for planes all across the country because they lost communications due to a bug as well. I assume because of AI.

Though to be clear, the fault doesn't lie with the FAA, but whoever runs the communication systems since that's privatized now.

 

[AJ_Talon]

GUYS! Enough! We're talking RWBY fic, not the real world!

That said, while Watts' plot was still stupid, it should be clear how systems can be vulnerable to cyberattack these days.

 

[jgalue]

GUYS! Enough! We're talking RWBY fic, not the real world!

That said, while Watts' plot was still stupid, it should be clear how systems can be vulnerable to cyberattack these days.

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I can see such attack working without a trouble, mostly because modern internet in build on a few key programs and codes, and if any of those programs or codes go offline the whole thing crash, and to show a example here is a meme about it.

 

[Drageos]

Speaking of communications infrastructure in Remnant.

Why in the world is their so little redundancy in the inter kingdom communication network in Remnant?

 

[jgalue]

Speaking of communications infrastructure in Remnant.

Why in the world is their so little redundancy in the inter kingdom communication network in Remnant?

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You can only built so many redundancies in a computer code, specially when the great majority of the time the coders themselves dont know what the fuck they are doing, because i have hear stories of my sister hundsband about how he or a collegue write a code, it doesnt work, they begin to check the code for errors, they write another code when sudenly the first code begin to work without any modification and they for the life of themselves dont know how the fuck it happened, there is a reason why the people in the know get how something like Adeptus Mechanicus can originate, when people in IRL porpusly sacriface birds on radar dishes in order to fix it, left food and/or incenses on servers or machines because if they dont they dont work at all and code tend to get so combulated that if you change a number or a letter the whole thing crashdown, with a example of this been Half-Life having a image file (of i belive a monkey or a fruit) that doesnt connect with anything but if you take that out the game doesnt run at all.

 

[digcat]

After Weiss nearly died to Cinder. Both she and Ruby have trouble sleeping so they sneak into Jaune's room.

 

[GraveyardShift]

Speaking of communications infrastructure in Remnant.

Why in the world is their so little redundancy in the inter kingdom communication network in Remnant?

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Ah. This unhappy arguement.

It does in fact have redundant smaller transmitters.

But as I often keep reminding people. Humans are not the top Apex predators of Remnant. As much as people keep trying to dismiss them from the setting and INSIST on human on human conflicts as "More Interesting". The Grimm are an ever present constant detriment to LITERALLY EVERYTHING.

Hell the very episode of WoR that addresses the CCTN points out both THIS and the issue of smaller back-up extenders.

Have a look for yourself.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrfYRmCW6a0

They exist.

The problem is the Grimm letting them STAY that way.

Now just because the CCTN is the primary means of Global Communication, doesn't mean that's the only method. You still have good ole Courier systems since physical mail is timeless and the Mail Must Get Through. (And there goes the Fallout New Vegas Sleeper agents.) I have Shar'Vel experimenting with Laser Communication as a secure parallel communication method for the Artic School for their Espionage Network. (Though research has pointed out this is not exactly an ideal communication method in an area prone to sandstorms but literally nothing works in a sandstorm so *shrug*)

 

[Drageos]

Ah. This unhappy arguement.

It does in fact have redundant smaller transmitters.

But as I often keep reminding people. Humans are not the top Apex predators of Remnant. As much as people keep trying to dismiss them from the setting and INSIST on human on human conflicts as "More Interesting". The Grimm are an ever present constant detriment to LITERALLY EVERYTHING.

Hell the very episode of WoR that addresses the CCTN points out both THIS and the issue of smaller back-up extenders.

Have a look for yourself.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrfYRmCW6a0

They exist.

The problem is the Grimm letting them STAY that way.

Now just because the CCTN is the primary means of Global Communication, doesn't mean that's the only method. You still have good ole Courier systems since physical mail is timeless and the Mail Must Get Through. (And there goes the Fallout New Vegas Sleeper agents.) I have Shar'Vel experimenting with Laser Communication as a secure parallel communication method for the Artic School for their Espionage Network. (Though research has pointed out this is not exactly an ideal communication method in an area prone to sandstorms but literally nothing works in a sandstorm so *shrug*)

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Ah thank you.

It was just my lacking knowledge then.

Well that clears that up then.

 

[mgl1206]

Here's an idea of how to make the CCT require 4 network towers to work together and why losing one causes global communications to collapse.

So with some changes basically make Remnant through some mechanism (choose you're own, interference from dust itself, strong electromagnetic fields trapping solar particles that create radiation, etc.) generates noise that effectively makes long distance radio waves communication impossible. Thus the CCT towers are required because the towers working in conjunction emit a signal that negates the interference. Either through dust or some type of signal resonance which finally allows long distance radio communications to work.

Of course there's some things I haven't (read bothered to) figure out such as the Amity Arena and also the whole signals traveling through the planet issue. But it makes a whole lot more sense than normal radio towers requiring 4 separate towers to function properly.

 

[Leo 123]

So on the topic of Jaune's sisters in this fanon version of the RWBY setting that's mostly created by @AJ_Talon.
I think that Tanya isn't a good fit as an Arc sister.

A massive part of Tanya's character is her antagonistic relationship with Being X/the god entity, who's an absolute asshole, which really doens't work where there are gods but Tanya has never had any involvement with the, but the big main religion is that of furry Jesus (Aslan is canonically literally Jesus manifesting in Narina in the books).
Tanya is also a psychopath (as in literal psychopathy), which makes her incapable of feeling empathy, while the Tanya shown in the RWBY stories is shown that she actually does care and love her family, as well as the people working under her.
If you remove both of them you don't really anything left, just a blank character wearing the apperance of Tanya (which in canon is an 9 to 12 year old girl).

So what other character would fit the role as Jaune's military sister better?
What about Olivier Mira Armstrong?

She pretty much as all the same qualities that make Tanya fit, none of the things that don't make Tanya fit, and several additional beneficial character traits.

• She's a very tough but fair person who doesn't care where you're from or what your race is, just that you're compatent and do your job.
• Despite not having any powers (aka being an alchemist), she's one of the best fighters in the series.
• She's a swordsmen and her sword that has been passed down the Armstrong line for generations! (very similar to Jaune and his Crocea Mors), and comes from a noble family with a martial tradition, and a lot of inhereted strength (both similar to the Arc family).
• She also looks like she could be an Arc, with the long blond hair n'stuff.
• If someone like the fact that tanya is very short, Olivier is also shorter than her younger brother (not that she's small, Alex is just enormous, but that kind of minor chance is easy).
• Olivier is a rare heroic example of a social darwinist, as she's believes in survival of the fittest she applied to everyone, including herself, and sticks to it (using her as a hostage doesn't work, as if she dies, she wouldn't have been worthy to lead her men anyway), and believes it's the job of the strong to defend others, her country first and foremost
• Despite her stoic and scary exterior, she does actually care about the men under her, and does really love her family (she takes the position as head of the family and pushes her parents and siblings out of the country because she doesn't want them getting hurt due to Father's eclipse sacrifice plan)

Spoiler: A gag pannel says she has a very large bust, which is genetic, which might come from Isabel's genetic tampering.

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There is also the issue of Tanya's age as a sibling. If you were a soldier looking for work at a PMC, would you join 20 year old Tanya's PMC? What has she ever done? What kind of training and experience has she got? If she were trying to become a Huntress, she'd still be in her third year, yet she runs a whole company and consults with Vale? In my opinion, if you keep Tanya anyway, there are two reasonable solutions.

Firstly, age her up. If she was 30 and had experience from doing various things, it would make a lot more sense. Maybe she was in the military for a bit and made contacts there who trust her enough that getting contracts and recruits isn't an issue, even if she turned out to not be suited for the military. She doesn't work well with their rules and their structure. They have stupid rules about not torturing bandits with small knives, large hammers, and electric shocks to strategically lure Grimm into kill zones.

Secondly, she is basically apprenticed under her uncle, Philip Graves. She will one day run Salamander company, but at the current time, she has a lot to learn, a lot of people to meet and a lot of trust to build up. Maybe she joined the military at 17, but quit after a single term and joined uncle Graves PMC and plans to spend the next half decade learning everything she can before going solo.

Here's an idea of how to make the CCT require 4 network towers to work together and why losing one causes global communications to collapse.

So with some changes basically make Remnant through some mechanism (choose you're own, interference from dust itself, strong electromagnetic fields trapping solar particles that create radiation, etc.) generates noise that effectively makes long distance radio waves communication impossible. Thus the CCT towers are required because the towers working in conjunction emit a signal that negates the interference. Either through dust or some type of signal resonance which finally allows long distance radio communications to work.

Of course there's some things I haven't (read bothered to) figure out such as the Amity Arena and also the whole signals traveling through the planet issue. But it makes a whole lot more sense than normal radio towers requiring 4 separate towers to function properly.

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There was a discussion on the sb thread where people decided it must be a quantum communication thing or something. It was a while ago, but it was something like that. Even so, there should be some kind o backup system imo.

 

[Sift Green]

So bringing up another topic of discussion, which I laid out a while ago in a post on the other forum and I figure it might be worth talking about here.

The Post:

Raven used Vernal as a decoy Maiden. This raises the question: Who was Raven hiding the fact she was the Spring Maiden from?

The assumption I've seen is that Raven was hiding her Maiden status from Salem and company. This does not actually make sense. Using Vernal as a decoy Maiden would still paint a target on the Branwen Tribe's back if Salem ever decided to make a play for the Spring Maiden, and would only buy Raven a few moments in that confrontation. Helpful moments to be sure, but probably not enough to guarantee a win or clean getaway. If Raven truly wanted to avoid Salem's attention she'd be better off just hiding the powers completely and not bothering with a Decoy Maiden at all.

And so using Vernal as a decoy Maiden makes significantly more sense if Raven was hiding the fact that she was the Spring Maiden from someone else.

Now the girl we know as Vernal wasn't originally named Vernal, that was the name she answered to after becoming Raven's decoy. I wouldn't be surprised if the girl we know as Vernal is straight up assuming the identity of the Spring Maiden before Raven, who she probably bore a resemblance to and was probably around the same age.

In other words Raven was probably hiding the death of the prior Spring Maiden from Oz and the other Headmasters.

Why? Well the possibility that Raven straight up murdered the girl for the Maiden Powers is implied though not outright stated. If she did murder the previous Spring Maiden Raven might have been hiding the murder from Oz, the other headmasters, and her brother. Irregardless of if she actually murdered the girl or not having a child Maiden in her tribe's custody probably made for effective leverage against Oz and the other Headmasters for a few years, using the child Maiden as a kind of pseudo-hostage to give the Branwen Tribe breathing room before she was old enough to be viewed as a willing accomplice in the Tribe's crimes.


So the way I'm seeing it right now is that the Spring Maiden before Raven was a girl named Vernal who became the Spring Maiden at far too young an age who then ran away from home when the expectations and future responsibilities connected to her powers seemed too daunting for her. This Vernal was picked up by the Branwen Tribe, who just so happened to have a child in their number that bore and uncanny resemblance with Spring Maiden Vernal. They were even born on the same day!

Raven takes the opportunity to claim the Maiden's powers for herself, and renames the Branwen child Vernal. Raven then presents the Branwen Vernal as if she was the Spring Maiden Vernal, using Branwen Vernal as a fake hostage to keep the Headmasters and other authority figures in the know about the Maidens from sending too many resources after the Tribe.


Basically this would give us a "Prince and the Pauper" type situation gone wrong as part of Vernal's backstory, which gives Vernal a literary allusion she lacks in the original show.



What do you guys think, does this sound reasonable?

End of Original post.


The TLDR is that Raven using Vernal as a decoy to hide her Maiden status from Salem doesn't actually accomplish the goal of staying under Salem's radar, acting like there is no Maiden amongst the Branwens would make much more sense if that was her goal. Therefore, I am proposing that Vernal was used as a decoy to hide the fact that Raven probably killed the previous Spring Maiden as an effort to not burn the last bridge between herself and Qrow.

 

[digcat]

That's more of a reason then we have gotten for why they are still alive.

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Willow has a plan to get both of her Arcs. For all of Isabel's refusals she seems awfully possessive when others seem interested.

Spoiler

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Isabel "What do you think your doing walking around in that and flirting with people."
Willow "what do you mean and why do you care."
Isabel "Because you belong to Nic and i."
Willow "YES! I mean sorry won't happen again."

 

[Gur40]

Stolen From Tumblr

Spoiler: Lancaster

craziechwiv 3d
Yang: Remember Ruby, men only want one thing from you!

Ruby: Oh yeah? What's that?

Yang: Yo-

-Wild Jaune bursts through the door-

Jaune: RUBY! THERE'S AN ENTIRE DODGEBALL FIGHT HAPPENING IN THE GYM! LET'S GO!

Ruby: BET, ON MY WAY!

Both Jaune and Ruby run out the room before Yang could even speak anymore against it.

Yang: ....Fuck it. HEY GUYS, WAIT UP!

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razorblade180 1d
Ruby: Pssst!

Jaune: Hmmm?

Ruby: Don't make a big deal out of this, but I think you're kinda cute and I love being around you.

Jaune:….*looks at wedding ring* H-Have you not before this moment?

Ruby: Oh I have. Just a reminder.

Jaune: Pfft, okay. Well, I think you're pretty cute too and can see us together.

Ruby: I sure hope so. *lifts baby* Or it's gonna be really weird to explain this to people.

Lil Carmine: Hiiii.

while both are silly and goofy only 1 is really shippy

Spoiler: also stolen from tumblr

Of the 3 mad scientists who would betray the others first?

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FNKI Cooking

Spoiler: Larping

Ok but seriously - imagine if, to hide Oscar's true identity as Ozma's new host and keep him safe, Jaune started pretending to be the next Oz. Weaponized larping.

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the 2 sides of the 2 possible Cinders

Spoiler: The Witch

1 doomsday device away from a cartoon villian

Spoiler: Mrs Arc

loyal as she is deadly

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2 ways to fix Blake

Spoiler: never met Adam

and not pulling a Blake in Atlas

Spoiler: Weiss on watch duty

if Weiss was told to watch Blake so she doesn't pull a Blake, Atlas would have been saved

 

[Leo 123]

if Weiss was told to watch Blake so she doesn't pull a Blake, Atlas would have been saved

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Blake's Bizarre Adventures.

 

[Bommel]

Free idea for a fun potential additional family member:

Diego Brando from JoJo part 7 (though maybe with a different last name).
The Scary Monsters arc has started right now in the anime, aka the dinosaur arc, and someone with a power that lets them turn himself and others into dinosaurs is awesome.
So why not have someone with a Semblance that lets them do that?

I was thinking of having Diego being a cousin of Yang and Ruby from their dad's Taiyang's size (rather than adding another to the Arc family), which makes sense given that Diego grew up quite poor, but there are plenty of other possibilities.

Having the Semblance keep the same name as the Stand, Scary Monsters, could work perfectly well.
Not only is it fun, but it's pretty powerful and versitile, as it is not just enhanced senses, strength, speed and stamina, but also includes a projectile attack in the form of spitting gastroliths with the power of a bullet, which he could potentially coat in Aura.
Scary Monsters basically has all the benefits of an animal with awakened Aura, but with none of the downsides both in his own transformation anc him creating minions in the form of large and small dinosaurs (as he can fully control all dinosaurs he creates).
It's also a fun opportunity for some bodyhorror.

Spoiler: Jojo Scary Monsters clips short.

Spoiler: Diego Brando fanart.

Some alternative Diego dinosaur transformations.

 

[digcat]

"Simple thanks my behind," Blake murmured before returning to her reading.

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Ren takes Nora to see a movie after dinner and it is completely innocent and sweet. Jaune Yang and Weiss watch movies after dinner it is the same as well. Blake doesn't believe it and is driving herself crazy trying to spy on all of them. Ruby and Whitley are having fun watching her struggles.