[RWBY] RWBY Shorts

[SharkCultist]

So what if Salem has side projects? Not exactly meant to destroy humanity but experiments of hers that also make things worse.

I had a idea of Salem making legendary items throughout history and mythology. Everything from a shield that can block almost any attack (but if something is ever strong enough to actually break it you instantly drop dead by taking ALL the damage it's ever blocked) to a monkeys paw, to my personal favorite a sword that you can trade lifespan to to make stronger. Give up a week of your life and cut through a battleship (without aura) give up more and wipe out a city. But you have to pay a life force price every time you draw the sword.

Salem makes these to fuck over humanity and they do but they fuck her over just as much, if not more so.

 

[ThunderBasilisk]

LoL wonder if he's gonna brag to Tanya later

Ozpin takes one look at this, recognizes the narrative tropes at play, and realizes this is just going to end up with the Main Character at another Academy while setting Beacon as the Rival School.

The solution is to lean into Narrative Tropes and become the Hidden Mysterious Mentor!

Ozpin: "Glynda might want to be a Minor Antagonist, but I'll be damned before I become a next season cameo!"

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Ozpin being trope savvy is both hilarious and on point given his familiarity with stories.

 

[Dragon Bob]

Ozpin takes one look at this, recognizes the narrative tropes at play, and realizes this is just going to end up with the Main Character at another Academy while setting Beacon as the Rival School.

The solution is to lean into Narrative Tropes and become the Hidden Mysterious Mentor!

Ozpin: "Glynda might want to be a Minor Antagonist, but I'll be damned before I become a next season cameo!"

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You are forgetting the other narrative trope that can come into things, the plucky main character improves over the course of the fights and becomes more motivated than ever. The final battle is a draw or near loss with the scrappy underdog getting the moral victory.

Basically think Rocky. With Ozpin being the crazy mentor who knows more than he's showing.

 

[cavalal386]

With Ozpin being the crazy mentor who knows more than he's showing.

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... So, just canon?

 

[Gur40]

Tsundere Schneeblings

Spoiler: Full Set

Family Quirk

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Specking of

Spoiler: Face of Dissapointment

what could cause such faces?

Summer lived Au

Spoiler: Raven Cooking

Both Moms Influence

Spoiler: Snark

Mocking your enemies and bounding on weapons

Spoiler: Yang Puberty

how many times has she told that joke?

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Cinder Timeline

Spoiler: and Emerald?

speaking of timelines different Weiss

Spoiler: Married vs Single

and when both Ruby and Weiss are single

Spoiler: Playing Santa

they see some things

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SI BS Jaune fear

Spoiler: infighting

vs his reality

Spoiler: loved

man is the literal definition of determination and the world 1# childhood hero and doesn't get just how loved he is

 

[Stephen the barbarian]

Specking of

what could cause such faces?

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somehow Qrow is involved.

 

[AndrewJTalon]

Tsundere Schneeblings

Spoiler: Full Set

Family Quirk

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Specking of

Spoiler: Face of Dissapointment

what could cause such faces?

Summer lived Au

Spoiler: Raven Cooking

Both Moms Influence

Spoiler: Snark

Mocking your enemies and bounding on weapons

Spoiler: Yang Puberty

how many times has she told that joke?

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Cinder Timeline

Spoiler: and Emerald?

speaking of timelines different Weiss

Spoiler: Married vs Single

and when both Ruby and Weiss are single

Spoiler: Playing Santa

they see some things

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SI BS Jaune fear

Spoiler: infighting

vs his reality

Spoiler: loved

man is the literal definition of determination and the world 1# childhood hero and doesn't get just how loved he is

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He doesn't get it, no. Mixing Jaune's memories with my own gets a guy who wants to save the world and all he loves but doesn't feel he deserves to enjoy it.

 

[Psychic_Duck]

The Harem one is fine, only the strongest will survive, they will make the strongest children with you, as the saying goes, the cream rises to the top.

 

[AndrewJTalon]

A rather ridiculous idea but I wanted to give Coco more spotlight.



Despite their beauty and prowess, Team RWBY is... Hopelessly inept at the social game. Weiss doesn't even want to try as she sees such things as little different from high society, Yang is too afraid of getting close, Ruby is socially awkward incarnate and Blake is... Blake.



Therefore! Coco Adel is on the case (with her team and a reluctant Jaune Arc) to help these feral girls act like proper ladies!



Yes, she will help them become... Popular.




View: https://youtu.be/OdQ1CG11wTQ?si=XD9mMqkNgE-4i2Ub



Just to clarify: I think the original Wicked gave birth to the shitty Millennial "Villain was misunderstood and the real hero" trend that led to a lot of awful movies and shows where evil is still evil even if you make everyone else worse next to the obvious self insert. Wicked itself is at best a resentful millennial girl's revenge on the popular kid's in a mid book and at worst character assassination fanfic of The Wizard of Oz that makes no sense, especially the movies where the leads look like they survived being in a starving cult.



... But this song is a banger and Coco arranging for musical numbers with her friends at Beacon is hilarious.

 

[Gur40]

Dr Isabel

Spoiler: break through

vs Dr Knowall medical experience

Spoiler: worse then him

fun fact! the first part was just a dream from the environmental story and never happened! so just like how Jaune graduating the the apocalypse

and Ruby in Knowall timeline vs jaune in beacon

Spoiler: chosen one vs gremlin

why do i think this is going to go similar to royal succession?

Spoiler: Jaune Good End?

Once and Future Rusted Knight and the Divine Blessed Reaper

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meanwhile SI BS

Spoiler: what he wants to do

what he's going through

Spoiler: drowning as other die of thirst

and all i want

Spoiler: i am a hater

Grimm Sub types

Spoiler: Mutant Merlot

Green and Black is an interesting combo and the dust infusion

Spoiler: Virtual Killgore

would it work for VR training? o

Spoiler: Artifical Watts

the idea of Watts uploading his brain and usurping Salem as a new immortal as a living Virus ala Kamen Rider Ex-aid

Spoiler: Schnee Summon

i love the idea of Schnee using there summons for statue or painting references , and really want Jaune Amp to out Grimm Salem armies with dust powered [like Blake Clones] stomping Salem at her own wave tactic game

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Vacuo Arc Spoilers

Spoiler: Analogy 3.0

like racism with the fang and authority with ironwood, you bet vacuo will be another rant done horribly

 

[zMADLAXz]

you bet vacuo will be another rant done horribly

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100 digital cookies that it will have something to do about the politics of immigration.

But anyway, don't wanna be a sourpuss, instead let's discuss some cool Idea.

Yang from V2 sees her life after it, get's scared and immediately decides that her Sister is more important than whatever hairbrained scheme Ozpin and the rest of Remnant is on, so she in the middle of night, she discusses with her father what to do, telling him about what she learned to convince him and they decide to hell with it, they'll pass on intel to Ozpin but Ruby and her aren't going to be Ozpin's flying monkeys.

She can afford an academic break of 2 years, and Ruby can complete her education.

Ruby is thoroughly sad, as Yang won't explain why it is happening until they reach home, so she is sulking on the rooftop, Jaune catches her because that's his favorite spot to be sad at too and the discuss what is happening.

After learning what limited info Ruby has and feeding her as many of Ren's cookies as he could to cheer her up, he goes to talk with Yang.

Usually Yang is fierce enough that if she wants to she could easily scare away jaune, and she isn't like Weiss where she will just let him off with some words, but when it comes to his friends, Jaune is stubbornly foolish to the point that things get physical between them.

He ends up in infirmary, where Yang, feeling sorry, apologizes and explains things to him in confidence that he'll back off.

Yeah, she's a little dumb like that.

Now, a tearful Ruby departs from beacon, a Bittersweet Yang promises to stay in touch and all this while Team JNPR has decided that they won't leave things as it is and from this point on, it's up to them to not only help reunite Team RWBY as friends but make sure that the rest of Remnant is not collateral between Salem's schemes, Ozpin's Mistakes, Traitors and Ironwood's paranoia.

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My Take on how the Protagonist focus would shift from RWBY to JNPR because to me the difference between what was intended to the two teams was as follows.

Team RWBY where your Classical heroes, where they were defined by the nobility of their birth and the pedigree. Like destined heroes.

Meanwhile Team JNPR was supposed to be your firefighters, your paramedics, your soldiers, the commanders etc. type of Heores.

So RWBY would become the face of the revolution, the ones who take the most adventurous, the most mythical tasks but JNPR would make sure that the armies can march, Logistics are taken care of, the people are safe, the children are happy.

 

[Sliverhero]

Fall of Beacon : The Machine That Ended an Army
Beacon Tower shook as flames licked the broken spires. Jaune Arc stood between Pyrrha Nikos and Cinder Fall, his shield raised even though he knew it wouldn't matter. Pyrrha was barely standing. Cinder's bow was already forming, molten glass pulling itself into shape.

"End of the line," Cinder said coldly.
The world screamed. A blue shape tore through the tower wall like it wasn't there, smashing into Cinder with enough force to crater the floor. She skidded across the platform, barely stopping herself from going over the edge.

Hovering where she'd stood was a machine.
Sleek. Sharp. Silent.
Metal Sonic.
Jaune didn't hesitate. "Metal. Target confirmed."
Metal Sonic's red eyes locked onto Cinder.
TARGET IDENTIFIED: CINDER FALL
ANOMALOUS ENERGY SIGNATURE DETECTED
THREAT LEVEL: EXTREME

Cinder rose slowly, eyes narrowed. "You again…"
Metal Sonic vanished, not moved, vanished.
A sonic boom cracked the air as he reappeared behind her, striking with precision that sent her flying. She fired back instinctively, arrows blazing through the air.
Metal Sonic intercepted them mid-flight, movements so exact it looked unreal. Shields flickered for fractions of a second, only where needed. No wasted motion. No hesitation.
MAIDEN ENERGY CONFIRMED
DRAIN PROTOCOL: ACTIVE

Energy tendrils snapped outward, latching onto Cinder. The stolen power surged violently, lightning flashing as it was ripped out of her, resisting with everything it had. Cinder screamed in rage as her strength collapsed. Her aura flickered wildly, then dimmed.

Pyrrha stared. "He's… taking it." Jaune clenched his fists. He knew what Metal Sonic was built for. Cinder hit her knees, drained so much, its as if her very soul was drained.
DRAIN COMPLETE
SUBJECT STATUS: COMBAT INEFFECTIVE
TERMINATION ADVISED

Metal Sonic's arm reconfigured, energy rapidly focusing into a lethal blast. Jaune stepped forward instantly. "Stop."The cannon hesitated.
JAUNE ARC PRIORITY COMMAND RECEIVED
REQUESTING JUSTIFICATION

Jaune didn't plead. He reasoned.
"She didn't plan this alone," he said firmly. "Beacon, the White Fang, Grimm everywhere..this was coordinated. She answers to someone higher up." Cinder laughed weakly. "You think you matter..." "Quiet," Jaune snapped, never taking his eyes off Metal Sonic. "She's an information asset. Alive, she's leverage. Dead, she's useless."

Silence. Then thousands of calculations ran behind Metal Sonic's glowing eyes.
TACTICAL ANALYSIS COMPLETE
PROBABILITY OF SUPERIOR COMMAND STRUCTURE: HIGH
SUBJECT VALUE: INTELLIGENCE SOURCE
TERMINATION: DENIED

The cannon powered down. Metal Sonic stepped forward and struck Cinder once, precise, controlled. She collapsed instantly, unconscious before she hit the floor.
Pyrrha exhaled shakily. "He almost killed her."
Jaune nodded. "That's why stopping him mattered." Metal Sonic turned away, attention already shifting. Below them, Beacon burned. White Fang forces flooded the streets. Grimm swarmed unchecked.

NEW OBJECTIVE: BATTLEFIELD SUPPRESSION
HOSTILE ELIMINATION: PRIORITY

Metal Sonic launched skyward. What followed wasn't chaos. It was systematic destruction.
White Fang units were erased before they could react. Metal Sonic struck supply lines first, then command clusters, then remaining forces, always in that order. Weapons failed mid-aim. Vehicles were disabled in seconds. Grimm packs were shattered before they reached civilians.

Students only saw flashes of blue light and collapsing enemies. "He's not fighting," Pyrrha realized. "He's dismantling them."
In the streets, the White Fang tried to regroup.
They never got the chance.
Entire units vanished in moments. There was no retreat, no surrender only sudden impact and silence. Grimm were destroyed just as efficiently, ripped apart before they could overwhelm huntsmen and slaughter citizens.
HOSTILE ORGANIZATION: WHITE FANG
STATUS: ELIMINATED

Only the leaders remained.
Adam Taurus and the surviving commanders engaged together in desperation, Aura flaring as they attacked in unison. Metal Sonic walked through it. Every strike was countered. Every opening exploited. Aura shattered under perfectly timed blows. One by one, the leaders fell hard.they lived barely only by luck.

Their Aura flickered weakly, almost gone, bodies refusing to respond.

SURVIVORS IDENTIFIED
COMBAT CAPABILITY: NEGLIGIBLE
THREAT PROJECTION: ZERO


Metal Sonic turned away, not for mercy, but for efficiency.

From Beacon Tower, Jaune watched the city below."There's… no White Fang left," Pyrrha said quietly. Jaune nodded, stomach heavy. "Nothing that can regroup." Grimm were already retreating, their numbers broken, their advance shattered. Metal Sonic hovered above the city, scanning relentlessly.Beacon was still burning,
but the enemy army was gone.Metal Sonic wasn't dangerous because he was strong.
He was dangerous because he decided when wars ended.
And tonight....

An army learned what that meant.

Blake : POV

My Aura was gone, completely gone. Not flickering. Not recovering. Just… empty. Yang was beside me, one knee on the ground, gauntlets cracked, breathing hard through clenched teeth.
Adam stood a few steps away, calm, composed.
White Fang surrounded us in a loose circle. No rush. No shouting. They knew we were finished.
Adam's blade rested on his shoulder.
"So," he said quietly, eyes never leaving mine, "this is where it ends." Yang leaned closer to me. "Hey," she whispered. "Eyes on me, Blake."
I tried to answer. Then the air screamed.
A high, metallic shriek tore through the street, like sound itself was being forced out of the way. Something dropped between us and the White Fang.The impact cracked the ground. Smoke rolled outward in a sharp wave.
Standing there was a machine.

Blue metal. Sharp lines. Red eyes that swept over the entire street in less than a second.
Then it spoke, flat and emotionless.
"PRIORITY DIRECTIVE ENGAGED.
PROTECTING TWO OF JAUNE ARC'S ROMANTICALLY SIGNIFICANT ASSOCIATES."
Yang blinked. "…Romantically what?"
I didn't get a chance to respond.
Because the machine looked up.
And the White Fang stopped being an army.
It vanished. Not ran. Not charged. Just vanished. The first fighter went down before the sound reached us. Another dropped a heartbeat later. Weapons shattered mid-raise. People didn't even have time to scream. The machine reappeared behind them. Then above them.
Then inside their formation. It didn't flail or rush. Every movement was exact, terrifyingly calm. Attempts to regroup were erased instantly. Grimm that rushed in were destroyed mid-lunge, never reaching anyone. Yang's voice was barely audible. "Blake… there's nothing stopping it."
She was right. There was no resistance that mattered. Adam finally moved. He charged, Aura flaring bright, blade screaming through the air with everything he had. The machine caught it. Not blocked, Caught!!! The impact cracked the street. Adam was thrown back hard, skidding across the pavement, Aura flickering wildly. Banesaw rushed in from the side, roaring.
One strike was all that was needed. Banesaw flew through a wall and collapsed, unmoving, Aura barely holding. Silence fell. The White Fang was gone. Not retreating. Gone.

The machine stood in the center of the street, eyes glowing brighter as it scanned.
"HOSTILE ORGANIZATION: WHITE FANG
STATUS: NEUTRALIZED." Adam groaned, trying to rise. His Aura flickered weakly, barely there. Banesaw didn't move. They were the only ones left. The machine looked at them. For a moment, I thought this was where it ended. Then...

"SURVIVORS LOGGED.
COMBAT CAPABILITY: INSUFFICIENT."
It turned away. Not mercy. Calculation.
It walked toward us and stopped.
"STATUS CHECK: PROTECTED ASSETS."
Yang let out a weak, breathless laugh. "Assets. Wow. Romantic ones, apparently." Despite myself, despite everything, I felt a shaky smile tug at my mouth.

"Do you remember him at Beacon?" I whispered.
Yang snorted softly. "Yeah. Standing outside our dorm like a haunted lamp post." "He waited three hours," I said. "Because Jaune told him 'friends hang out nearby.'" Yang shook her head. "And Penny. Oh my god, the music." I could see it clearly.

Metal Sonic, rigid as a statue in the courtyard, holding a speaker like it might explode. Playing the same song over and over because Penny had said she liked it once. Penny clapping happily. Jaune slowly dying of embarrassment.
Yang huffed. "He tripped over a chair because Nora moved it." I swallowed. "That machine," I said quietly, "just erased an army." Yang went still. "Yeah." She stared at the empty street. "And he didn't look any different." That was the worst part. Same shape. Same voice. Same precise movements.

The only difference was the situation.
Back at Beacon, Metal Sonic tried to understand people. Tonight, there were no people to understand. Only threats to remove. The machine looked once more at the empty street, then launched into the sky, gone in a flash of blue light and thunder. The sound faded.

Yang leaned back against the wall. "Next time Jaune says his dad builds 'support units,' I'm calling him out." I let out a quiet breath. "Please don't. I don't think he realizes what that means to everyone else." Yang smiled faintly. "Yeah. He still sees the guy who helped Penny pick music." I closed my eyes.

So did I. But now I also saw the thing that had stood between us and death, and decided who lived based on numbers alone. Yang nudged my shoulder gently. "We're alive." I nodded. "Because of him." She paused. "Still allowed to be terrified though."

"…Very allowed."
Somewhere above Beacon, a blue streak crossed the sky. And for the first time since the Fall began, I couldn't tell whether that made me feel safer or watched.

 

[AndrewJTalon]

Some fun prompts while I'm waiting for my power to be restored:

-Jaune and Yang are both assigned community service (Yang for busting up Junior's Club, Jaune for his fraud). They help out at Saint Lucy's orphanage, the homeless shelter, a local elementary school, and Junior's. Glynda is hoping Jaune will be a calming influence on Yang. And well... He sort of is. But the Arc luck tends to get them into trouble.

-Penny wants to bring Aslanmas cheer to everyone! So she asks for some upgrades from her father and help from her friends to deliver presents all over Vale City!

(Yes this will include present firing cannons). SENSATIONAL!

-Nick Arc plays Father Winter in Radian every season. And teams RWBY and JNPR, who are spending the holidays there, help him out. That said some of the Radian traditions for Aslanmas are a bit... Strange.

Weiss: "WHY ARE WE FIGHTING A GIANT ASLANMAS TREE GRIMM?!"

Nick: "IT'S TRADITION! BWAHAHAHAHA!"

-Pyrrha has to participate in the Vale City Aslanmas Parade. Her friends help build her float and agree to participate! Hilarity ensues when things get out of hand... And White Fang tries to destroy the float.

-Jacques Schnee goes through a Christmas Carol-type scenario.

 

[cavalal386]

@AndrewJTalon, is Titanmaster_117, over on SB, doing ok? his last post a bit dark, even for him.

-Jacques Schnee goes through a Christmas Carol-type scenario.

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the ghosts of Aslanmas: we did not think this thought.
Jacques: YOU GET A PRESENT! YOU GET A PRESENT! EVERYBODY GETS A PRESENT! BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

-Jaune and Yang are both assigned community service (Yang for busting up Junior's Club, Jaune for his fraud). They help out at Saint Lucy's orphanage, the homeless shelter, a local elementary school, and Junior's. Glynda is hoping Jaune will be a calming influence on Yang. And well... He sort of is. But the Arc luck tends to get them into trouble.

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either Vale in on fire or someone's a parent... again.
or Jaune ends up becoming Father Winter à la Santa Clause.

 

[AndrewJTalon]

@AndrewJTalon, is Titanmaster_117, over on SB, doing ok? his last post a bit dark, even for him.


the ghosts of Aslanmas: we did not think this thought.
Jacques: YOU GET A PRESENT! YOU GET A PRESENT! EVERYBODY GETS A PRESENT! BWAHAHAHAHA!!!


either Vale in on fire or someone's a parent... again.
or Jaune ends up becoming Father Winter à la Santa Clause.

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I hope he is. Now! An excerpt from The Good Book of the Tablebreaker Religion:

Saint Polly's Epistle to the Hermodians

Chapter 1

1 Polly, sanctified by the grace of the Table Breaker and bound in holy union to Saint Eustace, a witness to the deceptions of the underworld and the triumphs of faith, to the faithful in Hermod, who dwell amid the chill of progress and the whispers of old myths, ensnared by the tales of the Brother Gods:

2 Grace to you and peace from the Divine Spark, who through the Table Breaker has broken every illusion and curse, revealing the true light that no shadow can overcome.

3 Beloved, I write to you as one who has beheld the snares of enchantment firsthand, much like High King Peter who warned the Mistralians against the wisdom of this world that leads to folly before the Divine (Peter to the Mistralians 1:13-16). In my journeys beyond the veil—into the depths where reason falters and faith must stand firm—I encountered illusions that sought to deny the overworld, the sun, and the very paradise promised by our Lord. So too, the fables peddled in your academies and halls, tales of the Princess in the Tower and the Lost Knight, serve not as truths but as veils drawn by usurpers. These stories, spun from the threads of the so-called Brother Gods, purport to explain the origins of Remnant, yet they unravel under the scrutiny of the sacred texts and logic, exposing the Brothers not as creators, but as rebellious spirits who corrupt and deceive.

4 Recall the fable as it is told among the pagans: The Princess, imprisoned in her tower of sorrow, sought to defy death through cunning and magic, raising her beloved Lost Knight from the grave. For this, the Brother Gods—those twin deceivers, one cloaked in false light, the other in overt shadow—cursed them with immortality, dooming the Princess to endless wandering and the Knight to perpetual rebirth in vessels not his own. They claim this punishment upholds the "balance" of their creation, forbidding mortals to tamper with life and death. But herein lies their great lie, as King Caspian discerned in his Meditations, where he exposed the dualistic heresies that posit equal forces of growth and decay—a falsehood that elevates created beings to divine status, denying the sole sovereignty of the uncreated Spark (Caspian, Meditations Book VII:4).

5 Why, then, do the Brothers punish what the Table Breaker freely bestows? Our Lord raised the dead not as a transgression, but as a foretaste of his redemptive power: he called forth the afflicted from their graves in compassion, as recorded in the Chronicles of the Disciples, summoning the lost to life to glorify the Divine (Chronicles 4:7-9). These acts were not curses but blessings, miracles that drew souls to faith, as the Four Stewards raised the fallen in his name, fulfilling his command: "Heal the sick, raise the dead, comfort the weary, cast out shadows" (Sermon by the Sea 5:8). If the Brothers were true creators, loving their handiwork as a father loves his children, would they not rejoice in such restorations? Instead, they inflict eternal torment upon the Princess and Knight for mirroring these deeds, revealing their hypocrisy. As Saint Eustace argued in his Contemplations, true divinity acts from perfect goodness, not from jealousy or caprice; the Brothers' wrath exposes them as fallen beings, akin to those divine entities who rebelled with Jadis, seeking to hoard power they never possessed (Eustace, Contemplations Book IV:5).

6 This curse further demonstrates their disregard for creation, in stark contrast to the Table Breaker's boundless love. The Brothers, having supposedly forged Remnant, abandoned it in disdain when their "balance" was challenged, leaving humanity and Faunus to the mercy of Grimm and strife—like negligent artisans who shatter their flawed work rather than mend it. But the Table Breaker, the true incarnation of the Divine Spark, did not abandon us to the Ice Witch's freezing fist; he willingly laid his body upon the Stone Table, enduring sacrifice to add our lives to his eternal glory, not to hoard them as the Witch did. As Queen Lucy wrote to the Argusians: "Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his kin" (Lucy to the Argusians 1:20), and so he broke the Table, tethering his life to ours in redemption. Where the Brothers curse immortality as punishment, stripping joy and purpose, the Table Breaker promises eternal life as gift: "I came that they may have life and have it in the paradise beyond the shadow of death" (Sermon by the Sea 7:10). Their indifference—cursing lovers for seeking what the Divine freely gives—proves they are no creators, but usurpers who pervert Thy order, as Jadis perverted the seasons with her endless winter.

Chapter 2

1 Beloved Hermodians, consider my own trial in the underworld, bound to the Silver Chair of enchantment, as a parable for discerning truth amid deceit, much like Mister Tumnus exhorted the Typhons to hold fast to faith against the illusions of false oracles (Tumnus to the Typhons 3:1-3). There, a sorceress—kin to the Brothers in her serpentine guile—sought to bind us with spells, denying the existence of the overworld, the sun, and the paradise beyond. "There is no sun," she whispered, "only the lamps of my realm; no Table Breaker, only the shadows I command." Her words wove a web of reason divorced from faith, tempting us to believe that Remnant's surface was but a dream, much as the Brothers' fables tempt you to accept their dual reign as reality.

2 Yet we resisted, not by worldly logic alone, but by the signs implanted in our souls: the memory of the sun's warmth, the lion's roar echoing in our hearts, and the unyielding truth that faith perceives what eyes cannot. As our companion declared, stamping out the enchanting fire, "Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things—trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and the Table Breaker himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones." This is the triumph of faith over illusion, as King Edmund urged the Quitalans: "Awake from the sleep of sin, and the Table Breaker will shine on you" (Edmund to the Quitalans 1:25). The Brothers' curse upon the Princess and Knight is such an enchantment—a tale that inverts divine mercy into tyranny, portraying compassion as burden rather than blessing, to mask their own fallen state.

3 For if they were creators, their acts would reflect perfect love, not punitive spite. The Table Breaker's miracles spread light: his disciples, empowered by the Spark, turned deserts to gardens, healed nations, and defied Grimm with Aura born of faith. The Brothers, by contrast, spawn endless curses, their "gifts" of relics and pools mere baits that ensnare, as the Princess discovered in her doomed quest. Queen Susan teaches in her epistle that evil is not a force but a privation of good; the Brothers embody this, their "creation" a mere distortion of Thy true work, their immortality a hollow echo of eternal life (Susan to the Jotuns 4:4). They punish resurrection because it exposes their impotence—they who could not prevent the Table's breaking, nor stem the Church's growth across Remnant.

4 Therefore, as one redeemed from the Silver Chair's bonds, I exhort you: cast off the fables of the Brothers, those usurpers who joined Jadis in rebellion, corrupting Thy creation with Grimm and lies. Cling to the Table Breaker, whose love redeems even the enchanted. Let reason serve faith, as in the teachings of Valiant Queen Lucy—faith seeking understanding, that you may see through the illusions to the paradise he builds (Lucy to the Argusians 3:2).

5 Now may the Spark of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by his power you may abound in hope (Edmund to the Quitalans 1:24-25). Amen.

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-Hermod would be a city in Jotunheim, a part of Anima with a Norse-like culture north of Mistral proper. I wanted to explore how the Tablebreaker religion would resolve the tale of the Two Brothers in its theology. And Christian theology presents plenty of alternatives that fit how petty the Brother Gods are, and still allows for something greater than them to exist. This doesn't deny their magical power but it is a different force than the magic used, and it's not perfect. But I thought Polly would be a good choice to write about the Brother Gods and how to address it in a Christian-inspired theology.

Plus, anything that mocks CRWBY's 12 Year Old's First Time on Reddit view of religion is all good.

 

[Sliverhero]

Some fun prompts while I'm waiting for my power to be restored:

-Jaune and Yang are both assigned community service (Yang for busting up Junior's Club, Jaune for his fraud). They help out at Saint Lucy's orphanage, the homeless shelter, a local elementary school, and Junior's. Glynda is hoping Jaune will be a calming influence on Yang. And well... He sort of is. But the Arc luck tends to get them into trouble.

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And it ends up with somehow Team rwby, phyrra, neo ,cinder and Emerald adopting all rhe orphans legally with jaune as the legal adoptive father. And jaune just ends ups holding a small orphan girl up to cinder that looks like her when she was young to kept her by his side and betray salem

 

[TheFabulousCustodes]

-Nick Arc plays Father Winter in Radian every season. And teams RWBY and JNPR, who are spending the holidays there, help him out. That said some of the Radian traditions for Aslanmas are a bit... Strange.

Weiss: "WHY ARE WE FIGHTING A GIANT ASLANMAS TREE GRIMM?!"

Nick: "IT'S TRADITION! BWAHAHAHAHA!"

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The tree Grimm is tied up with strings of lights, displayed in the center of town, where Jaune's father hands out presents to children beside it (the positive emotions torture the grimm), and then Burnice arrives to light it on fire like a giant evil Yule log.

 

[Salraic238]

That is some beautiful Narnian-Remnant theology. Well played.

My thought is that there may be some doctrinal splits in the Table Breakers due to the time difference between the First Pevensie era, the Caspian era, and Revelations The Last Battle era. Some may accept the Pevensies only, some Pevensies and Caspian but not Eustace, some everyone but Polly, and some everyone without restriction.

 

[AndrewJTalon]

That is some beautiful Narnian-Remnant theology. Well played.

My thought is that there may be some doctrinal splits in the Table Breakers due to the time difference between the First Pevensie era, the Caspian era, and Revelations The Last Battle era. Some may accept the Pevensies only, some Pevensies and Caspian but not Eustace, some everyone but Polly, and some everyone without restriction.

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Naturally there are many doctrinal differences between different sects of the Tablebreaker church. There was a kind of Reformation over corruption in Aelia Paravel in the 1000s, which was also the time of the Witch Queen of Argus.

 

[Salraic238]

Naturally there are many doctrinal differences between different sects of the Tablebreaker church. There was a kind of Reformation over corruption in Aelia Paravel in the 1000s, which was also the time of the Witch Queen of Argus.

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Is Jadis a different individual from the Argusian Witch-Queen?

 

[AndrewJTalon]

Is Jadis a different individual from the Argusian Witch-Queen?

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Yes. The Witch Queen was actually Salem's most dangerous servant, a Maiden Salem trained herself and gave Grimm enhancements to facilitate conquest. She also arose 1000 years after Jadis' defeat.

The schism in the churches may have been helped by the Witch Queen fomenting rebellion and division on Salem's behalf, while also playing on the corruption in the church.