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[mgl1206]

You know what I need rn? More of Jaune being a leader, a planner, a general. That's what I need. Because he's always said to be an excellent leader and very good at planning but it's never shown or sorely underrepresented and misrepresented.

 

[mgl1206]

A fun premise for a crack fic that was posted on the SB thread was team RWBY, being disaster prone and rather self destructive, are in bad financial shape. Jaune though is doing well for himself and so...

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Jaune Arc checked the address. He looked at the apartment building that had definitely seen better days. He checked the address again. He shook his head.



He walked up to the door, and knocked on it. He waited.



The door opened a crack.



"H-Hey, so, um, the rent's gonna be a little late and I know you're angry but-"



"Ruby?" Jaune asked. The door fully opened. The girl's silver eyes widened. She was in nothing but her panties and what looked like her old uniform shirt from Beacon-Which had been patched several times.



"Jaune?!" Ruby gasped. Her face brightened, and she hugged him. "JAUNE!"



He hugged her back tightly, laughing. He swung her around. He then set her back down. Ruby pouted up at him.



"You keep getting taller! It's not fair!"



"Sorry, it's how it works," Jaune said with a shrug. Ruby beamed.



"What brought you here?"



"Oh, well, uh, my sister Lilac is finally getting married and I wanted to invite you all," he said, "I couldn't seem to find your Scroll number anymore, so I tracked you down."



"Ruby? Who is it?" Yang's voice echoed from inside. "If it's the landlady, I'll handle it! What's one more concussion to her-?"



She came around the corner and gaped. She too was in very little.



"J-Jaune!" Yang gasped happily. Jaune waved, keeping his eyes on her forehead.



"Hey Yang!"



"Jaune?!" Weiss gasped. She poked her head around the corner. Her eyes widened. She then sped up to him, dressed in a house dress that had seen far better days. "Please! Come in! Don't mind the mess! Or our state of dress! Have some tea!"



"Hey Weiss! I uh, sure, no problem...?" Jaune managed. He took in the state of their dwelling with a growing sense of disbelief every step he took. Spartan was a good word for it. Cluttered as well: Pieces of weapons, mending or drying clothes, and endless job applications. It was amazing how it seemed so barebones and so messy at the same time.



Blake was outside on the cluttered balcony, sunning herself in her bra and panties. Weiss scowled at her.



"Blake! We have a visitor!"



Blake rolled over and paid Jaune with an intense stare.



"Jaune?" She gasped.



"Ah, hey," Jaune said with a smile as Weiss set him down at their ragged table. Blake got up and pulled on her yukata-Which had also seen better days.



"What are you doing here? N-Not that it's not nice to see you, and all," Blake managed.



"It's amazing you know his name," Yang snarked, "Given how little you talked to him since we met."



"It's amazing you treat him nicely, given how you barely acknowledged his existence, too," Blake growled back. The two began to bicker as Weiss brought over some tea and Ruby sat with Jaune.



"They broke up, it was messy," Ruby confided in him. Jaune slowly nodded, and took tea from Weiss with a strained, polite smile.



"Ah. Thank you, Weiss."



"Anything for you, Jaune," Weiss said with a smile.



Jaune sipped the tea and hid his grimace-He'd had to endure his sister's experiments in tea for a long time, after all. An ironing board fell out of the wall, which Ruby caught just in time before it brained him.



"Ah, sorry!" Ruby said, shoving it back into place, "You okay?"



"Yeah, just fine," Jaune said with a smile. "I uh... So..." He looked around, "This... Doesn't seem like where I expected you all to be."



Blake and Yang paused in their fighting. Ruby's smile became very brittle. Blake coughed.



"Ah, well... I mean, with the Grimm vanishing and all... And my parents being voted out of office for gross incompetence..." Blake shrugged.



"What a shocker that was," Weiss snarked. Blake glared death at the Schnee heiress.



"Like you can talk! Your father's entire empire collapsed overnight and left you nothing!"



"Well-I-You-!" Weiss sputtered before she huffed.



"At the very least, we're not Yang and Ruby!"



"HEY!" Yang and Ruby growled.



"So what if he's a deadbeat?!" Yang demanded. "He wasn't pure evil OR a politician!"



"And I'm sure he's totally happy with that rich heiress who won't get bored of him when she gets out of her DILF fetish!" Weiss sneered.



"Why you-!"



Ruby cleared her throat. Very loudly. Yang and Weiss stopped but kept glaring at each other. Blake was also angry but kept silent.



"So... How are things with you?" Ruby managed with forced cheer.



Jaune sipped his tea and debated internally about how to break this... And decided to be tactful.



"I'm good. I'm almost finished with medical school, and my mom's got a residency lined up for me at our hospital," he said.



Four pairs of eyes all looked intently at him.



"You-You're a doctor?" Weiss sputtered.



"Well um, I got into medical school before I ran off to Beacon," Jaune said, "Pretty sure I mentioned it a few times?"



Blank stares. Even on Ruby. Jaune sighed.



Well, it's not like I remember everything they told me about their lives, right?



"But I wanted to be a Huntsman so bad... But uh, yeah. My Semblance makes it pretty easy, too. I've been staying at the family farm while I studied and I've also been working at the brewery."



"You... Your family owns a brewery?" Yang asked. Jaune nodded.



"Yeah. A big one. We expanded it along with the farm last year..."



"Oh... That... That's great, Jaune," Ruby said with a smile, "That's super great! Good for you!"



"Very," Blake muttered, staring at Jaune with a strange expression. Yang blinked rapidly, then looked to the side.



"So uh..."



"Um..."



"Er..."



Jaune looked at all the girls. He really did care for them, honest! Even after everything. How could you not be fond of the people you saved the world with?



"Right, well," Jaune coughed, "Like I said, I'm inviting you all to my sister's wedding." He held out the invitations. Each girl took one.



"Oh, wonderful," Weiss sighed, "I got to work a wedding once! I got to take home some of the cake leftovers... Er... Um..." Her eyes dipped.



"Least you got to keep your leftovers," Yang grumbled. "I came out of a cake at a bachelor party. Couldn't keep anything..."



Silence fell. The ironing board fell onto his head. Naturally, his Aura protected him. But as the ironing board had none, it snapped in two and fell to the floor.



"Oh no!" Ruby cried, falling to her knees. "I'm so sorry Jaune-Oh no! How do I fix this?!"



"We could steal the neighbor's ironing board," Blake suggested.



"They added more pitbulls," Weiss whined.



"And those bites hurt," Yang groaned.



Jaune finally came to a decision.



"You know what? There's a cottage on our land," he said, "That you all can stay in, since we've got so many guests in the house. It's small, but it has four bedrooms. You all can stay."



Four pairs of eyes again stared at him. Jaune smiled.



"I mean, you girls really could use a vacation, with how hard you've been working," he said, "And uh, you'll have to clean it and maintain it. And maybe do some chores around the farm. But other than that? You'd be fine to stay while you... You figure things out."



"We-We wouldn't want to impose," Weiss said, her manners coming into play, "Or be a-a burden-"



"Do you have hot water?" Yang asked, direct as always. Jaune nodded. Yang cheered. "YES! We're in! Um, for the wedding! N-Not that-I mean, work will just have to get along without us!"



"Weddings are more importan than our careers after all!" Blake nodded furiously. "We-We can help with that too!"



"Only if you want," Jaune said with a smile, "You're my guests, after all."



"Absolutely!" Weiss gushed. "I love weddings! Do you think I can keep leftovers?"



"All you like," Jaune said with a nod.



Ruby hugged Jaune tightly. She sniffled.



"Thank you," she whispered into his ear, "Thank you...!"



Jaune patted her on the back with a smile.



"Hey... We world-saving heroes have to stick together, right?"



After all, they were his friends. They'd been there for him in his darkest hours.



... Well okay, Nora and Ren had been there for him in his darkest hours. And sometimes Ruby and Yang. Once Weiss... Never Blake... But the point was, they were his friends, and he was definitely not going to let them stay in a ratty apartment if he could help it. Heck, being here with them like this? It felt like old times.



If he had to massage the truth a little to let them keep their pride? He would do it. It was worth it.



There was a very insistent knock at the door. All four girls of RWBY's eyes widened.



"Crap, it's the landlady!" Yang hissed.



"Out the back window!" Blake wailed. "Take everything you can carry!"



"Don't forget the coupons!" Ruby cried. "Or my tools!"



Yup. Definitely just like old times.



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Click to shrink...

My head canon now is that Weiss while excellent at managing an already running business, cannot for the life of her figure out how to get one started and keep it going till it's profitable .

Yang must be in despair at the state of her hair and the lack of care it has.

Ruby, I can picture her longingly looking at weapon parts and magazines through the window of a store unable to buy them.

Blake is the most comfortable with their situation having spent so long in the wild with the WF but the lack of fish she'd gotten used to at Beacon eats at her like nothing else. She's been trying to make ends meet as a commissioned writer .

 

[SharkCultist]

My head canon now is that Weiss while . She's been trying to make ends meet as a commissioned writer .

Click to shrink...

"You were supposed to be writing manuals for hospice care guidelines."

"Yes."

"THIS IS PORN!"

"I'm sure those patients feel very cared for."

 

[mgl1206]

Jaune being an absolute beast of a healer, tank, and DPS but only at close range is funny to me. He's basically Reinhardt but can Mercy himself and a semi active ability that is an all around boost to literally ALL of his stats. And can be shared with another.

His only downsides are that he's only had two years of training (and yet can still fight the Ace Ops to a standstill) and has little to no range but good luck beating his aura before he gets in range. And finally that his semblance so far has to be in contact. But even then it's been shown in a few instances that direct contact isn't necessary. So if he trains? Well yeah. Fuck his enemies if he has allies, or even if he doesn't .

 

[SharkCultist]

Hmm so was thinking of After the End stuff for team RWBY (prompted by the broke bitches prompt) but in a more serious and cathartic way.

Where would they end up?

I can see Blake ending up as a teacher funnily enough. She likes books and stuff, and she's big against racism. So helping teach values to kids would be something she could support.

Yang... probably a mechanic or maybe working as a teacher alongside Blake. She loves her bike and we know she's got some motherlyness to her. Plus keep close to the girlfriend. So maybe gym class or shop class for older students.

Funnily enough I never had any hesitation in where I saw Ruby ending up. I always thought Ruby if she wasn't a huntress would end up a baker. Sweets make people happy and she loves making people happy. And there's the well known liking of cookies she has.

The only one I stutter on is Weiss. Not just because I'm not a fan of her character but because I'm honestly not sure. It depends on how the series ends because of say, magic comes back to Remnant. Well that's pretty much the end of dust, and thus the end of the family dust company which has been in her sights the entire time. Sure she could make a other company but like I said her entire business knowledge and model is based off of dust which may be may not exist post series.

I guess she should end up slumming up with one of her teammates, or funnily enough maybe send her to menagerie. She might not know how to make money but she should still understand budgeting and expenses, could help out there some.