Mit Livs Eventyr [RWBY]

So what I'm getting from this is that the only kind of cooking we can eat is Soul Food. Everything else has to be alive, or at least raw.

[ ] The strong golden-haired woman with horns and the smaller girl in red and black. The former seems to... 'like' you well enough already.
Nah, already said hi, want to meet more people.
[ ] The other animal-person on the ship and the well-built young man she appears to be having a staring contest with. Her ears twitch every now and then in vague annoyance, and the man with slicked-back hair is rolling his jaw as he clearly searches for something to actually say.
Maybe? Wait...no. That's Cardin. on the other hand, that might be hilarious. Is suspect he's trying and failing to not be too racist.
[ ] The long-haired man with a pink streak in his hair sitting with his ginger friend. He's reading a book, and she appears to have been talking about something ever since you left the dock, without once having stopped for breath.
I'm honestly concerned that we might not survive Hurricane Nora right now.
[] The woman with flame-red hair standing off by herself. Well, there is a young man with ratty clothes and a half-shaved head standing off to the side and clearly agonising over whether to approach her or not, but she seems to acknowledge him only with vague annoyance.
I have no idea who this poorfriend next to phyrra is, so I'm honestly kind of curious. We can always meet Phyrra later if we want her to carry us through Initiation (we kinda need her to activate Jaune's Aura for us [if we can even do that]).


[X] The other animal-person on the ship and the well-built young man she appears to be having a staring contest with. Her ears twitch every now and then in vague annoyance, and the man with slicked-back hair is rolling his jaw as he clearly searches for something to actually say.

Maybe not the best social link, but watching Cardin try to hide his powerlevel(?) near Blake should prove to be funny.

Also, I just realized that if we ever need a quick disguise, we can fake being faunus.

[X] The strong golden-haired woman with horns and the smaller girl in red and black. The former seems to... 'like' you well enough already.

[X] The other animal-person on the ship and the well-built young man she appears to be having a staring contest with. Her ears twitch every now and then in vague annoyance, and the man with slicked-back hair is rolling his jaw as he clearly searches for something to actually say.

[X] The strong golden-haired woman with horns and the smaller girl in red and black. The former seems to... 'like' you well enough already.

Always choose the dragon, as they say!

[X] The strong golden-haired woman with horns and the smaller girl in red and black. The former seems to... 'like' you well enough already.

I feel vaguely embarrassed that I seem to be the only person here who assumed Yang is a Bull faunus now.

Manic Dogma said:

[X] The strong golden-haired woman with horns and the smaller girl in red and black. The former seems to... 'like' you well enough already.

I feel vaguely embarrassed that I seem to be the only person here who assumed Yang is a Bull faunus now.

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Oh, my first thought was that she was some kind of goat.

[X] The strong golden-haired woman with horns and the smaller girl in red and black. The former seems to... 'like' you well enough already.

Well that was a wonderful piece. Torchwich and Shadow getting drunk and staggering around had me in stitches of laughter. Now we come to the start of canon events and our chance to interact with other Beacon students.

Honestly I find myself interested in how the Faunas are a thing here, we've seen glimpses that they tend towards being servants/second class citzens but haven't got define info so its seems a topic rife for exploration. The best way to get that info would seem to be what looks like Cardin and Blake having a staring match.

So

[X] The other animal-person on the ship and the well-built young man she appears to be having a staring contest with. Her ears twitch every now and then in vague annoyance, and the man with slicked-back hair is rolling his jaw as he clearly searches for something to actually say.

HatsuZ said:

Oh, my first thought was that she was some kind of goat.

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The curling horns part had me think some kind of sheep.

Dragon? I don't know what y'all are talking about. Yang is clearly a Satyr.

[X] The strong golden-haired woman with horns and the smaller girl in red and black. The former seems to... 'like' you well enough already.

She's a dragon because her name means Sun/Penis Dragon, and her semblance sets her on fire with red eyes.

[X] The other animal-person on the ship and the well-built young man she appears to be having a staring contest with. Her ears twitch every now and then in vague annoyance, and the man with slicked-back hair is rolling his jaw as he clearly searches for something to actually say.

Let's break the stalemate by walking in.

[x] The other animal-person on the ship and the well-built young man she appears to be having a staring contest with. Her ears twitch every now and then in vague annoyance, and the man with slicked-back hair is rolling his jaw as he clearly searches for something to actually say.

So we've basically got the same limitations as a Ghoul. Cant eat regular food, only meat.

[x] The other animal-person on the ship and the well-built young man she appears to be having a staring contest with. Her ears twitch every now and then in vague annoyance, and the man with slicked-back hair is rolling his jaw as he clearly searches for something to actually say.

[] The woman with flame-red hair standing off by herself. Well, there is a young man with ratty clothes and a half-shaved head standing off to the side and clearly agonising over whether to approach her or not, but she seems to acknowledge him only with vague annoyance.
Is this Pyrrha Nikos and Russell Thrush?!

[X] The other animal-person on the ship and the well-built young man she appears to be having a staring contest with. Her ears twitch every now and then in vague annoyance, and the man with slicked-back hair is rolling his jaw as he clearly searches for something to actually say.

First of all Torchwick is the best. Also a drunk Shadow is a happy Shadow apparently.

[X] The strong golden-haired woman with horns and the smaller girl in red and black. The former seems to... 'like' you well enough already.

I always love more Yang and this Quest is in serious need of some Ruby.

[X] The woman with flame-red hair standing off by herself. Well, there is a young man with ratty clothes and a half-shaved head standing off to the side and clearly agonising over whether to approach her or not, but she seems to acknowledge him only with vague annoyance.

TRAGEDY~!

[X] The strong golden-haired woman with horns and the smaller girl in red and black. The former seems to... 'like' you well enough already.

We already have an in with them. Might as well exploit it. If they turn out to suck, we can just move along.

Just... as long as we aren't near Snow Queen Jr. That whole thing is... very, very worrying. Perhaps we could inquire with Snow Queen Sr. when we see her next if there's any connection- if there is, Jr. might well be a useful contact. Even if she is terrifying.

Also, Roman was very nice. He may well actually make it onto the Permanent Do Not Eat List as long as he doesn't stand in our way. If he can shift that ratio further toward Grimm... all the better for everyone.

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Manic Dogma said:

[X] The strong golden-haired woman with horns and the smaller girl in red and black. The former seems to... 'like' you well enough already.

I feel vaguely embarrassed that I seem to be the only person here who assumed Yang is a Bull faunus now.

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God now if it weren't for the fact everything about Yang is dragon-themed I could see her being an Asterios genderflip

I mean look at the hair

ZerbanDaGreat said:

"Ohhhh..." You cradle your wrist and look down at the palm of your eight-fingered hand. "Ohhhhhthatssstoomany." You look back up at him. "I'mmmnotvery good at this. An' if I do bad she might kill me. M'not used to being scared people'll kill me."

"Hey, hey." Torchwick staggers over to you and jabs you in the sternum with his cane. "Kid I, I can see these things, and what I see is a young cannibal with a lot of... of..."

"M'not- not cannibal," you reply, holding up one finger. "Cannibal would be a hhhhyooman eating another one. M'Grimm. S'just how it'sssssmeant to be."

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Hhhhoooly shit I love this. I love it so much. Just the idea of the Shadow being legitimately distressed at the idea of being killed for the first time in ever while Roman drunkenly tries to cheer him. Uncle Torchwick is a huge shitheel but from the perspective of his weird shadow-monster nephew he's good civilization.

ZerbanDaGreat said:

You head out the instant you have all of Jaune's luggage gathered - you make good time, Jaune had a very large comfort-breakfast planned that you skip - and make your way to the docks with the help of the map he already pre-traced his travel plan on.

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Man I love this too but for an entirely different reason: it really plays into the feeling of us kinda being...constantly haunted by Jaune's ghost sorta? And it's a neat, humanizing touch that instantly makes Jaune sympathetic and engaging without him screaming "LOVABLE IDIOT" at the screen. Like "nervous guy plans on treating himself to try and settle his nerves". It's really mundane but it's evocative because of that too, 'cause basically everyone can understand the gist of "I want to do something nice for myself because everything's really hard right now".

ZerbanDaGreat said:

A man in uniform - the detective says they're called 'beat cops', or just 'idiots' - at nearly every street corner, their coats a vibrant autumnal rust-orange, collapsible batons and holstered firearms at their hips.

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Mostly quoting this 'cause it highlights a few one off things.

1. Rather than Vale being separated from the other kingdoms by miles of Grimm infested wilds, Zerban seems to have at least smashed Vale and Atlas together (Jaune's sister is noted as operating on the mountainous border there so there's some contiguous territory). Beyond making just...more sense honestly (the kingdoms can actually trade and shit since they're so close and have actual tension with each other) it sets up a different dynamic. Rather than mankind being scattered islands in a sea of fucked up Grimm, if they're all clustered together it's more like a lifeboat. Or a bunker maybe. A shared zone in which you are fairly Safe and the chaotic, stormy sea without.

2. Vale seems to have an Autumn theme. Government officials/agents of power and shit go with Fall colors, Jaune's memories were set in, like, an !October forest. But Atlas (and here I'm cheating a bit 'cause I know that's where Weiss and co are from) definitely has a Winter theme what with all the snow and shit. It's kinda cheeky but the story starts in Autumn, with a deadline set in Winter, and the kingdoms of Autumn and Winter are literally contiguous with each other and an actual factual Snow Queen is coming to kill the Fall season.

3. Faunus are a lot more prominent but in second class positions like it's been said. We saw them singing in Torchwick's hangout, we saw them as muscle there and also at the docks and also in the train of wealthy people (all of whom seem to be classically human). Blake's notably not hiding it either and Yang (which is sorta surprising) seems to be one too. The sense I get with the mashup between sorta-Victorian Yharnam-esque shit and the, like, interwar/Great Depression themed society is that Faunus are less literally slave races and shit like that so much as...the people in an industrialized society who turn the gears. The steelworkers and tenement poor and longshoremen. Tbh, like, if there was a sidestory about a political machine based off of exploiting Faunus immigrants Tammany Hall style it'd feel about right for the setting. Or like if you said "Gangs (Fangs?) of New York is happening around the corner except with animal people" it'd probably feel about right too.

Havocfett said:

Hmm, did we vomit up the Questionable Meats we ate? We were getting part of their stories so I'm curious on that part.

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Vindictus said:

Honestly I'm not sure why we were able to digest the cat, but not the kebabs. We were obviously getting bits of the animals stories, after all.

Also, food absolutely has stories- the bread made with loving care in the hearth of a single mother, meant to feed her children is entirely different from the bread mixed and stamped out by cruel and unfeeling machines, for example. Sorry Penny

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ZerbanDaGreat said:

Yes. Now that you have time to be calm and think about it, yes it was. The sight of your 'vomit', nothing but masticated yet completely undigested food sauteed in saliva and alcohol, is a big clue. The human food didn't taste of anything, didn't nourish you, simply sat in the pit of Jaune's stomach and refused to shift. The attempt at breakfast was merely the last straw, overloading your faux-stomach and triggering the reaction. It only makes sense. You tried to sustain yourself with prey without a story and now you've paid the price.

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Honestly just looking it over I think it's more like we can always taste shit but we can only get good nutritional value out of shit with a story and how much a given food source is handled in the translation from "meat" to "meal" determines how useful it is. The worth is bound up in the body itself and when the body is transformed into a meal it kinda loses the texture and flavor that Jaune Dark craves. Like we got backstory and motivations out of a dead alley cat, we got bare basics for the rest of the mystery meat (although in fairness part of that might just be how the comedic timing worked).

Ridiculously Average Guy said:

I have no idea who this poorfriend next to phyrra is, so I'm honestly kind of curious. We can always meet Phyrra later if we want her to carry us through Initiation (we kinda need her to activate Jaune's Aura for us [if we can even do that]).

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Iiiiitttt sounds like this dude from the cursory description.



And if you're going "literally who" he's one of Cardin's buddies and is utterly irrelevant despite, like, being a significant portion of this twelve person class all by himself. I honestly almost want to pick this option because "holy shit Team Cardinal exists and has their own stuff going on" is weirdly enticing. But tbh I think I'm gonna go for:

[X] The other animal-person on the ship and the well-built young man she appears to be having a staring contest with. Her ears twitch every now and then in vague annoyance, and the man with slicked-back hair is rolling his jaw as he clearly searches for something to actually say.

Jaune Dark: "Aha a battle for dominance!"
Jaune Dark: "Victory here will determine the dynamics of the feeding ground in the days to come!"
*observes the scene like creepy cannibal david attenborough*