"So?!" Blake demanded. "Your Nana thinks you're engaged to five girls anyway! You should at least be able to make time for me, your first fake fiancé!"
At what point does everyone admit that the reason they haven't stopped this is because they want it to be real? Or are these snips secretly prequels to
This snip?
Ozpin would make many strange and obscure soups, or older versions of soups, that hadn't been popular for many years.
I like the idea of Ozpin as a carrier of legacies, someone who collects information and cultures so that they will never be truly lost, because everyone deserves to be remembered, whether it be for what they are, what they could have been, or as a cautionary tale. It would both give him more character than just "immortal wizard" and help to illustrate just
how old he is and what that means. It's one thing to tell us how old he and Salem are, another to make your readers genuinely understand just what it means to have watched empires rise and fall, to have seen the full course of human history.
If symbols are so important to a character, why have your primary antagonist share it with one of your "side" character, why make him this really old hero who basically started the entire warrior culture that everyone is part of?
Really, Jaune reads as a deuteragonist and foil to Ruby at almost every point. Ruby is good enough to get into Beacon either one or two years early (don't remember which) while Jaune faked his way in with literally no experience to speak of. Ruby is one of the best fighters but struggles to earn the respect of her team while Jaune easily earns it while still being the worst fighter in class. Ruby is a highly mobile fighter with lots of mechashift to let her fight both up close or at range while Jaune is exclusively a close range fighter with only a little bit of mechashift and without the ability to cover ground like Ruby.
It only fits for Ruby to be descended from great heroes while Jaune is descended from the most powerful villain. Seriously, they should have just bit the bullet and made Jaune Ruby's lancer.
Also, did they not feed Weiss anything growing up, or is she naturally so portable and travel-sized?
Image dieting, baby! I can absolutely imagine Jacques putting his kids through that kind of thing for the sake of social standing, regardless of the harm it did to them in the long run.
It could also be a reason why Jaune still doesn't have his Aura unlocked, as the whole knight-spy training is required to be done without any Aura at all to maximise the benefits, such as the experiance with danger and how to react to it.
I actually have some ideas in this direction that I'll give its own post later, but maybe the training has to be done without aura because they want to bias semblances towards certain types?
Had a idea where Blake finds out about a new business "exploiting" faunus.
Feline Fine, one half clinic (and pharmacy) one half Spa. Fully staffed by cat faunus or people cosplaying cat faunus.
Catboys, catgirls, catboys who look like girls.
Naturally Blake is livid and drags everyone of her friends to support her Karen Crash Out on the business.
Only to learn that
1. The Business (which is franchising) is owned by a faunus.
2. It has great benefits and a great reputation among faunus and humans.
3.the owner actually knows one of her friends personally.
It's Katy.
I'd make it so that one of their rivals is actively spreading negative rumors about them to try and put them out of business, mostly so that Blake actually has a reason to go after them beyond social justice screeching.
Anton's Semblance let's him amplify the vibrations that he causes in an object. Essentially, he does extra Force damage on his attacks.
I'm hearing "sonic attack" here pretty loud, is his semblance strong enough to do that?
-Ren offers Blake some Menagerian tea. Jaune cooks her dishes that cat Faunus tend to love. Pyrrha offers to promote Faunus causes and Nora wants to help Blake catch that pesky laser dot. In short, everyone knew she was a Cat Faunus from the start except for RWBY. And when I mean everyone I mean EVERYONE.
Nora knows, but the laser pointer thing is completely unrelated, and Nora would do it regardless.
Eon knight. A comic book about a ageless knight trying to hunt down the evil witch who cursed him with his unaging existence.
(Not quite sure if it's someone who knew Ozpins secret and broke ties or salems group. Either way it is 100% someone fucking with Ozpin.)
Actually, I could see something like this being based on old tales, since Oz and Salem wouldn't be able to keep the secret from getting out forever, so there are definitely stories about them around.
We only get a small look into the old Red Fang Gang from the Nekomata Teaser and ZZZ Chapter 1, but they seemed to at least protect and fix up their territory and those under their influence.
That gives me the oddest idea:
At first the White Fang meant the fang untouched by blood, to represent their desire to bring about equality without bloodshed, but under the leadership of Sienna Khan, it became a symbol of terror, the fang of a Grimm. But what if another group formed, one dominant in places where faunus could not protest peacefully, where they were forced to submit or fight for their lives? The Red Fang is a militant group, unlike the old White Fang, but they still remember why they fight. Not for dominance, not for vengeance, but for the freedom to live in peace. They regard the original White Fang as idealists, but hope every day for a world that needs only the White Fang, but the new White Fang? They hold nothing but disgust and loathing for those who would willingly take upon themselves the visage of Grimm.
This has absolutely nothing to do with ZZZ, the name just made my brain start spinning.
What if Neo wasn't really a imaginary friend?
What if Neo making herself real was actually just Neo's aura awakening and her soul fully integrating into Trivia's body? Maybe Neo and Trivia are co-pilots, or maybe Trivia is the trapped one now, just a voice in Neo's head now. Maybe Neo revels in her new control, and maybe she hates it. This would provide an interesting explanation for her semblance evolution to produce sound: Neo still can't make sound, but Trivia's semblance can create and manipulate sound. Or maybe she tries everything she can to help her sister, but fails. Trying to awaken Trivia's aura fails because anyone who tries only sees Neo. This Neo would work with Salem not because she blames Ruby for Roman's death, but because Salem offered her the only thing worth more to her than her hatred: Salem offered to separate Neo and Trivia, so that both of them could live. In any case, the conflict would come to a head in the Ever After with Ascension. Ascension would allow the sisters to either achieve harmony in a single body or to separate into individual entities. Depending on whether Neo subjugated Trivia or sought to restore her, you now either have a Neo that no longer needs Salem or a Trivia finally free to fight back against her captor. Either way, our heroes gain a powerful ally and Neo gains more depth.
I have a few ideas for Trivia's semblance, the first being that she has manipulation of sound to Neo's manipulation of visuals. The second is that Neo keeps sound for her own illusions, while Trivia has the ability to create invisible but solid constructs to mirror Neo's visible but immaterial ones. The third idea I had was for Trivia to have some sort of mental manipulation semblance so that while Neo creates physical illusions Trivia has mental ones… but then I remembered Emerald and this feels kind of like stepping on her toes in a narrative sense, so it's definitely the weakest of the three.
"Yeah. They were trying to semblance shape him."
Ach, I was going to post an idea about this. Ah well, I still have a few ideas that you didn't put here, particularly about how it could affect RWBY's timeline, so I'll still post it. And I was so proud of coming up with it…
@SharkCultist you seriously have so many of the best ideas on this thread, reading your posts is always a treat.
