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    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts
    Index: Original Character, Do Steal: Sister Lucy Hart

    Name: Sister Lucy Hart Allusion: Chūjō-hime from Japanese folklore (the devout princess who became a nun and wove a miraculous lotus-thread tapestry through divine intervention), Sister Eda from Black Lagoon (a profane, chain-smoking, gun-toting "nun" with a hidden heart of gold and zero...
  2. AndrewJTalon

    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts
    Index: On Worldbuilding: Remnant Culture: Saint Reepicheep's Second Epistle to the Temujns

    Saint Reepicheep's Second Epistle to the Temujns Chapter 1 1 Reepicheep, a mouse knighted by the Table Breaker's own grace, once quick to draw sword in wrathful pride yet redeemed by his mercy, to the fierce Temujns of the endless deserts, whose blood runs hot as the midday sun and whose...
  3. AndrewJTalon

    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts
    Threadmarks: Jaune Arc, Single Father 11 (Revised)

    Jaune pushed open the door to the JNPR dorm with Mia riding high on his shoulders, her little hands tangled in his hair like she was steering a very blond airship. "So, sweetie," he asked, grinning up at her, "what was the best part of daycare today?" Mia leaned forward, ears perked, eyes...
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    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts
    Threadmarks: Taiyang's Great Challenge

    Taiyang faces his greatest challenge after Summer left and he got his head back on straight... His girls growing up. Fortunately he has a friend to help him out. One-Shot, No Romance, Family. Work Text: Taiyang Xiao-Long faced the greatest challenge he'd ever been confronted with. Fighting the...
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    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts
    Threadmarks: Councilman Arc 8

    Jaune holds a town hall for the Vytal Festival. It does about as well as you might expect. Chapter Text The backstage of Vale's Government Tower town hall was filled with nervous energy, as the faint buzz from the packed theater drifted through the curtains. The air was thick with the scent of...
  6. AndrewJTalon

    [RWBY] The Great Temporal Step-Sibling War!
    Index: Glimpses into Another Time: Blake: The Party

    Beacon, Vale - - - The unused dorm at Beacon had been hijacked into a full-blown underground rager—string lights pilfered from festival decorations twinkled overhead like mischievous fireflies, mismatched furniture formed the makeshift dance floors, and the bass from the borrowed speakers...
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    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts

    It is possible. It was also where the Witch Queen originated.
  8. AndrewJTalon

    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts
    Threadmarks: On Worldbuilding: The Hellenic League

    The Hellenic League (also called the Argive League or Western Anima Confederation) is a loose confederation of independent city-states (poleis) clustered along the western coast of Anima, in what is now nominally part of Mistral but functions as a de facto autonomous region. Geographically, it...
  9. AndrewJTalon

    [RWBY] Sanctuary

    Next chapter is almost done, January was just such a shit show I couldn't get it out in time. But, we get an update with Blake and the world has caught up with our heroes in Radian.
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    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts
    Threadmarks: Whitley Schnee and the Dragon's Betrayal

    Altas, Solitas - - - The Schnee manor's sub-basement archive was a tomb of secrets—rows of locked filing cabinets, holographic projectors flickering with decades of ledgers, the air cold, dry and stale. The kind of air that sucked any warmth from your body, from your soul. Whitley...
  11. AndrewJTalon

    [RWBY] The Great Temporal Step-Sibling War!
    Threadmarks: Nick and Isabel on Training

    - - - Isabel was back at work at the computer, looking over the findings and data with her practiced eye. The Beacon Infirmary was quite cutting edge-Not quite up to her standards, but close enough. "How's it going, sweetie?" Isabel looked up and smiled as Nick walked in. "All right. Still...
  12. AndrewJTalon

    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts

    You know, flying monkeys are pretty freaky. And the flying Beringels are... Kind of scary. But you know what would be really scary? Grimm based on the Wheelers. https://youtu.be/WM0RFE3QGAU?si=H8XckmDGR8dwM1Wl
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    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts
    Index: On Worldbuilding: Structure of the Vacuoan Government

    Vacuo Government Structure: The Sultanate of Vacuo The Sultanate of Vacuo (officially the United Sultanate of Vacuo) is a highly decentralized federal monarchy that exists more on paper than in practice. Founded roughly 800 years ago by Malik the Sunderer, who united the fractured post-Xolotl...
  14. AndrewJTalon

    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts

    Fair enough. I had wanted to do something a little different, but honestly? You're right, lifetime appointments are better for judicial independence. And Mistral's government is a HILARIOUS shit show.
  15. AndrewJTalon

    [RWBY] RWBY Shorts
    Index: On Worldbuilding: Structure of the Mistralian Government

    The Mistralian Confederation (formally the Confederated Provinces of Mistral, or simply Mistral) is a loose confederation of semi-autonomous provinces/sub-kingdoms in Anima, structured as a nominal republic with heavy warlord-era Chinese influences (1916–1928 Beiyang/Nanjing period). It features...
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