Yang: *The Next Day*

GIVE

JAUNE

THE LÄMP

“How could you be so broken inside? To take so many lives...all with that damn smile on your face?!” - Jaune to Cinder, v5

Oh god but if Jaune actually knew the answer to that question tho...

She could just sit on his shoulders and use him as a sniping perch.

Put Jaune and Ruby’s marketing poses together because Lancaster Rights 😌

A Thought: Jaune and Cinder end up having another throwdown, Neo sees Jaune getting some hits in and is so done with Cinder she switches teams on the spot, we get Silent Knight vs. Cinder. Neo may or may not follow Jaune away from Atlas like a stray cat after.

When I first started my fic, the biggest question I had to answer was how they would start to work together and move past just being on different sides. This is pretty similar to one of my early ideas but I thought it might be more difficult, from a story telling perspective. 

But

Pyrrha Nikos was an international prodigy and celebrity. Neo and Roman might have been living in warehouses but they had scrolls. Neo knows who Pyrrha was. Not to mention Neo participated in the Vytal Festival. She saw Pyrrha and Jaune together during the JNPR fight. 

So when Jaune confronts Cinder again for the third time, and Cinder brings up killing Pyrrha and nearly killing Weiss, Neo could put the pieces together. She would notice the sash too, which was so characteristically Pyrrha’s. In a single moment Neo would understand all the reasons Jaune fights and who he’s fighting for. And who they could both fight against. 

Ever since the fall of Beacon, Neo has been after one goal: revenge. With that goal achieved, she wouldn’t know what to do with herself. Vale is largely trashed after Beacon fell. Atlas is under high alert, Mantle is about to be overrun, and Vacuo is a desert miles away. Her choices are either fly back to Mistral and try to make her way in life, or stick it out with the only person in Remnant who can understand her, communication barrier or no

You have to respect the fact that the entire FNDM just agreed Fem!Jaune would be tall and stacked like PowerGirl. But I forgot how cute Fem!Ren usually is.

He’s already tall, and tal and stacked is a wonderful combo. Also, Ren is cute, period.

(that last opinion is sponsored by Nora Valkyrie)

You say that like she wouldn’t enable Arkos at every possible step.

Pyrrha’s champion-level thirst is probably the main reason Glynda wouldn’t send her clumsy, fraudulent, brother straight home.

That and/or spite, if their parents said they were training Jaune when they weren’t.

Glynda as the good older secret sister of Jaune she makes sure that any girl that has a crush on her baby brother are up to her standard to make her an aunt

oh god. no one would be good enough

Jaune: Food in bed Nora?

Jaune: *Pulls out a ruler* That's a Paddlin'...

Nora: *Laying in bed eating chips* Hehe, Funyuns~

*Eats her chips*

Councilman Arc AU: Juniper Arc had dealt with plenty of trouble caused by her eight children, but honestly, how is she meant to handle the first lady of Menagerie calling her up hoping to sneak a marriage arrangement over their children's heads?

Mama Arc had to deal with a lot of things over her life, particularly ever since she became a mother. The shenanigans of her children, worrying about her only son, especially once he all but fell into his role as councilman of Vale.

She could take solace that Salem promised her she would take care of him, that he would not be harmed.

Though she was not quite prepared for a call from Menagerie, from Kali Belladonna, no less!

“Ah, Mrs Arc, I presume,” the cat lady greeted her jovially, a twinkle in her amber eyes.

“Hello, Mrs Belladonna,” the mother of eight barely got out, blindsided and barely prepared for this. “To what do I owe the pleasure?”

“Just call me Kali! And...well, I wanted to know if your son is single right now.”

Now the woman was alarmed. What did she want with her son?? “Yes, he is, but why do you ask?”

“I have a daughter. Single as well.”

Ah, that was a relie- wait.

“Are you suggesting what I think you are suggesting?”

“Maybe?” the First Lady of Menagerie replied playfully. “I do want to set the two up for a date.”

Mrs Arc was still suspicious. “For what reason?”

“Can you imagine the grandkitties?”

Oh.

Oh!

“You and I will get along ju~st fine,” the matriArc laughed.

I don't know about this Greta, but you know who it'd be fun to see still exists? Deery, faunus tension is lowered so she might not have joined the WF, or she did, but she's Eve's plant in Jaune's office.

(Deery yes, Deery very yes. Cutie patootie deer faunus)

“So, there seems to be a gap in your resume...”

Jaune was currently hiring, as Greta had expressed some desire to retire in the near future. Hence Jaune asking her if she would train her successor.

She accepted, but only if he were to choose her. After all, he was the one to be working with her.

“Ah, that.” Deery, full name Deerdra Glas, was a cutie of a deer faunus, with two small antles growing out of her head. She had a pretty smile, but that mattered little to Jaune, even if it was nice to look at.

What mattered was if she could survive the bureaucratic hell.

“Well, I used to work at a charity, but I felt like it was not worth mentioning, since it was a small one-”

“You worke with the White Fang, didn’t you.” Jaune’s bullshit meters were honed well after weeks of surviving meeting after meeting with political sharks, some of which he really wanted to slap through a fucking wall.

“I worked with the White Fang,” Deery admitted in shame.

“Why are you lying?”

“It’s...” She looked down, sadness in her eyes. “It’s not a good look if I would mention it at a job interview.”

“Well,” Jaune started as his eyebrow raised up. “I made peace with Sienna herself, so that’s no excuse. Apart from that, however, your resume is solid.”

Deery nodded glumly, bracing herself for maybe some encouraging words before being sent away.

“When can you start?”

She didn’t expect that. “Bwuh?!”

He grinned at her, showing some teeth at it turned into an amused smile. “You are the first applicant who doesn’t want to sleep with me, so you are basically a shoo-in for that alone. Add to that your overall qualifications, and you are a fit. So yeah, when-”

“Right away!” she blurted out, beaming from ear to ear. Then she realized what she did, and sat back down. “I mean, if that’s okay...”

He laughed at her enthusiasm. “Maybe tomorrow? Today is already very much in progress, and I need to inform your trainer. trust me, she might look really jaded, but once she gets going with her stories, you’ll struggle not to laugh along.”

Deery laughed genuinely, feeling so much gratitude for the young man before him. “I can’t wait.”

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“Infiltration successful.”

Deery hated it. She hated that she had to apply with an ulterior motive. She would have liked to get to know Jaune Arc, anyway, the man who made Adam Taurus say “He’s a good human”.

She wnated the job for the job’s sake!

And maybe a little to get closer to Arc, because she thinks he’s cool....

But not for this!

“Thank you, Deery.”

to help someone else get laid!

“I hope you will continue gathering information for me,” Eve said, seeming all too pleased with the situation right now.

“I will delay- i mean, relay as much as I can,” Deery replied, eyes steely and expression much unlike the cutely demure woman from before..

Oh, she hated this....

Do we need to use seasons though?

Since apparently they don't actually correlate to the powers you get.

Other sets of 4 could be neat.

Best I could come up with was Night Baron, Dawn Baron, Day Baron, and Dusk Baron.

What would be the male equivalent of the Maidens in RWBY?

Would they be called ‘Masters’? I’ve been wracking my brain around trying to think about it.

Pyrrha: *Hearing Yang*

Aura

Ruby: where is aura store?

Ren: the soul

Jaune: the heart!

Yang: the balls