Hold It In (RWBY/Transistor)

Your name is Jaune Arc. You're 16 years old, going on 17, and you're about to face your final test of Signal Academy.

By which I mean, you're in the waiting room just before your final test of Signal Academy. You and your entire class have been in this room, waiting for about… 3 hours now?

You've no idea, your Scroll gave up the ghost a while ago. Shame, really, you were doing so well at Glyphstory. You're fairly sure half your opponents were people in here, and some of your wins were just downright embarrassing for them. Then again, winning most of the pre-game rock-paper-scissors matches got you first choice of faction, and you always were better at playing the Grimm units. And even when you lost, bias usually gave you them anyway.

Not much love for Grimm players.

You suppose, as a Hunter in training, you should understand why that is, but still… you sigh quietly to yourself as, without really intending to, you cast your thoughts back to the first time your… Semblance, you suppose, manifested itself.

Ah, allow me to paint a picture of the root of your worry;

It was a clear evening, about, what, seven years ago? Yeah, around that, you think. good enough for the purposes of your recounting, anyway. The sun was low in the sky, slowly going from eye-searing white to orange to red, the sky turning purple above you, the moon and its remnants just barely visible elsewhere as day turned to dusk, then to darkness.

It was a cold sun, the temperature low enough to just see your breath if you weren't parched, but you and Jasmine were quite happy to be outside regardless. You were walking home from the park, chatting away to your sister about nothing and everything in particular, and then you both simultaneously, but independently, realised you had wandered down an alley you didn't know. Even for Arc children, that was a nono. It didn't take long for a couple of the less reputable elements- two guys and a girl, around high school age but obviously not too interested in their education, to come up and talk about tolls. Specifically, the toll for using this street.

100 Lien each.

Translation- 'we saw you two, the 10-year-old boy and the 8-year-old girl, and decided you would be great for mugging practice.'

Yeah. They were those kinds of asshole.

When your sister, catching on to their game faster than you, mentioned that you didn't have any Lien- which you didn't, you'd used it at a vending machine for drinks and snacks- they didn't seem to care about that too much. No, instead they just called you both shitfaced little liars and started screaming something about respect while pushing and shoving your sister about, instead of you.

You tried to help her, grab her and run, fight them off, do something, but the girl's boot came for your face-

The world shatters. A thousand paths explode forth from this exact moment.

Yggdrasil has flowered. Pick your bloom.

[] Marked. (Mark of The Outsider, Dishonored)
[] Rebirth. (Link, Legend Of Zelda) The Hero Lives On In You. As You. As He Has Before. His Mark Adorns Your Left Hand Already.
[X] Start() (The Transistor, from, er, Transistor) "... Hey. Look, whatever you're thinking, do me a favour; don't let go."
[] Wraith. (Not-Celebrimbor, Shadow Of Mordor) Their Minds Will Be Forfeit.
[] North Star.(Hokuto No Ken- Shin Ken- Whatever Ken, Fist Of The North Star.) ... What? If the name doesn't give it away, I don't think I can help you here.
[] Vox Deus Vox Dei Verbum Dei THE WORD OF GOD FROM PREACHER I'M BAD AT LATIN OK
[] Pillar. (Pillar Man, JoJo) You Have No Masters To Awaken.
[] Spiral. (Spiral Power, TTGL) Every Moment, Every Second, We Move Forward. Like A Drill.
[] aberrant (Aberration, The Zombie Knight)SOUL GLUTTON. HOW DARE YOU BLIGHT THIS WORLD WITH YOUR PRESENCE.
[] Ten Meti.(Disciple Of Meti, Kill Six Billion Demons.) Is The Violent Breath Of Life In You Not Hot? Exhale! Exult!
[] 100%. (Shigeo Kageyama, "Mob," Mob Psycho 100)