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Recent content by CountvonBarnOwl

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    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts

    Bad idea? I'm trying to capture the General's Edward Richthofen tone of voice and his propensity to click back into his native when I can get away with it, and the fact that Amzel is basically an archetypal Germanic mad scientist. Unfortunately, the only German I know all involves weapons...
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    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts
    Threadmarks: How It Happened – Part 2

    How It Happened – Part 2 Sleep, in his state, had proven impossible, and existing, being cognizant was an experience of such like that no words existed to truly describe. But approximately, it was absolute darkness. And yet it held more in common with the afterimage and memory of light that...
  3. CountvonBarnOwl

    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts
    Threadmarks: Yang Branwen 1

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Changed up a few of the details but am working on it now. I will have it done this week. Edit 7-18-26 And here it is, the first insane and incomplete look into my Yang Branwen AU Yang Branwen "Jaune Arc," Glynda called, and every nerve in the aforesaid student's body...
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    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z1P8LGhsXU All I have to say. I got a video for this one too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SupNaQeJrq0 Now, a few points. The largest figure for Jackson's duels that I have seen was 119. With the figure that I had heard referenced more often thereabouts...
  5. CountvonBarnOwl

    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts

    This, I love this idea. It follows Ruby's theme song splendidly. And I especially like the bits of characterization that we got in the trailers. Those fights told us more about Team RWBY and the world of Remnant than the whole Maya era ever did. And here she is borne false witness. Ruby never...
  6. CountvonBarnOwl

    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts
    Threadmarks: How it Happened – The Beginning of my Cyber-Whitley AU & all of its offshoots; Part 1

    Crossposted from SB - I got a 3K word snippet for everybody. It lacks the level of polish that I usually aspire to (in my own estimation) especially near the beginning and the end. But this is what I get for doing things without a proofreader. Nevertheless, I find it increasingly...
  7. CountvonBarnOwl

    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts

    Crossposting from SB: Yeah, Powerpuff Girls = way too broken. Esdeath, not dissimilar to Raven, but handled by a competent writer, and with coherent and discernable thought patterns. She (well, her and Solf J. Kimblee, but that is a discussion for another time) is the standard that Raven is...
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    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts

    That is exactly what Jacques is. I generally write from the perspective and assumption that Willow forgets Whitley's name whenever she is drunk and calls him either Weiss or Jacques instead. Definitely more retcons about Aura needing to be turned on or off. Aura doesn't seem to be a...
  9. CountvonBarnOwl

    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts

    I posit a different theory. Jacques held his charming, dependable charade that he used to get into the good graces of Willow's family together in the first place until Weiss was 10 (Weiss says that her tenth birthday was when Jacques told Willow he never actually loved her when she explains the...
  10. CountvonBarnOwl

    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts
    Threadmarks: Two Short Pieces

    Interesting… a Semblance that specifically thwarts Ozpin… at the logical cost of being a zombie after death "Soul permanently anchored to the body" There's an idea, Jacques walking around, his flesh puppeteered by his Aura, with a bullet hole in his head or heart, or, more comically, missing a...
  11. CountvonBarnOwl

    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts

    Literal translation? I enjoy Yang speaking Fu Hsi. It reminds me of my own idea to have the Branwens speak either a very very arcane and very formal dialect of it, or if I write based on my Oz quietly killed off all but one language over the millennia because unity, they just sound really old...
  12. CountvonBarnOwl

    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts

    CRWBY are irrationally afraid and comically ignorant about the workings of guns, so that doesn't come as a shock. Well, Plant Dust's mechanism of action has to do something with the creation of organic material, cells, and glucose (the basal unit of metabolizable organic energy) so that...
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    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts

    Now this is a hard question. Mostly because I could give you a dozen each with a score of reasons per item, and no two would be the same. Suffice it to say that anyone not included on my previous list is not a pairing that I particularly like… I think I left a more detailed explanation...
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    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts
    Index: Original Character, Do Steal: Lieutenant General Doctor Henryk Amzel

    Forgot to add my OC sheet to QQ yesterday. Remedying that now. Lieutenant General Doctor Henryk Amzel Inspiration: Edward Richtofen (COD: WAW specifically), Heinrich Amsel (also COD: WAW for the name) Henryk (Bloodborne) also for the name and for the fighting style. Appearance: As muscled as...
  15. CountvonBarnOwl

    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts

    Cognitive dissonance. She'd take it upon herself to explain to him how and why he's really the one oppressing them. Likely at a very inopportune time.
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