[X] Be assertive. If you're going to be at Beacon until winter you should at least pretend to have a personality. That means not rolling over just because someone talked at you in a loud voice. You may know essentially nothing about most aspects of being a Hunter, but you're uniquely positioned to know plenty. Potentially enough to knock Pyrrha out of her stride a couple of times.
It's hilarious how many things about Jaune actually make sense if you assume he is Grim infiltrator in a meat suit.
Also it's great how Ruby is actual Red Riding Hood. And sees dead people .
ActuallyAchilles!Phyrra is hilarious.
Obviously, the greater attention to everyone's inspiration means that Nora is actually god of thunder in a drag pretending to be squishy mortal while Ren is a woman fulfilling familial duty while masquerading as the relative that was supposed to go to Beacon .
[X] Be assertive. If you're going to be at Beacon until winter you should at least pretend to have a personality. That means not rolling over just because someone talked at you in a loud voice. You may know essentially nothing about most aspects of being a Hunter, but you're uniquely positioned to know plenty. Potentially enough to knock Pyrrha out of her stride a couple of times.
[X] Be assertive. If you're going to be at Beacon until winter you should at least pretend to have a personality. That means not rolling over just because someone talked at you in a loud voice. You may know essentially nothing about most aspects of being a Hunter, but you're uniquely positioned to know plenty. Potentially enough to knock Pyrrha out of her stride a couple of times.
We're a grim in a meatsack in a grim infested forest, so we probably know a thing or two about what could be waiting for us.
"The name's Jaune Arc. Short, sweet, rolls off the tongue, ladies love it," you say suavely.
The horned woman quirks one eyebrow up an inch. "Do they?"
You purse your lips. You did not plan for this response. "(I don't know, that was my first time trying)," you reply. Again also true. She snorts and playfully smacks your shoulder. It feels like being winged by a warhammer.
Maybe they're not outright suspicious of you yet but this is going very poorly unless you can draw attention elsewhere. More conversation. Quick.
"O-oh I uh..." Lie, you need a believable lie- do you even need to lie? You rifle rapidly through drawers full of Jaune's useless memories in the back of your head and find a half-fogged snippet of recollection, a wall covered in the well-maintained ancestral weapons of past Arcs. "No. No I picked up one of the older family ones. But they were all kept in working order!"
"What's it do?" Ruby asks innocently.
Shit you did not plan for a follow-up. Fake it, fake it, if there's one thing being inundated in his memories has taught you it's that Jaune fakes it more than he breathes.
"Iiiiii haven't actually... tested it out properly," you admit. Technical truth. The best kind of truth. The detective says the best lies are believable to you as well as the intended rube. "But that's what coming to Beacon's for, right? Working all of that out?"
There's a thunk and a clatter and a crash as half the breakfast buffet starts sliding off the prow-side of the table, spilling everywhere across the carpet. Everyone in the common room staggers and has to catch themselves, voicing various levels and flavours of surprise. Oh, this isn't normal. Best to play along then. You deliberately leave yourself unsteady-
Okay, this is just adorable. "Oh wait, everyone else is staggered, I better stagger too-WELP!"
Also, am I the only one that gets the feeling that this plane crash is simply part of the initiation for Vale? Like "if they can't handle a planecrash and a trek through the forest, they won't be useful as Hunters"?
[X] Acquiesce completely. Seems fairly in-character for Jaune as far as you can tell, and you aren't in the mood to risk your cover or indeed the chance of getting to Beacon and all for the sake of being assertive.
Seems completely in character for Jaune to try and kiss that ass.
Actually, Loki is more of a fullblooded jötunn that just happens to be on the side of the aesir most of the time and was a bloodbrother of Odin. It isn't impossible that our dear Shadow will eventually gain a similar role, though presumeably with fewer giant serpent offspring.
Actually, Loki is more of a fullblooded jötunn that just happens to be on the side of the aesir most of the time and was a bloodbrother of Odin. It isn't impossible that our dear Shadow will eventually gain a similar role, though presumeably with fewer giant serpent offspring.
[X] Try to play along, but don't be a complete kiss-ass. As far as the detective's concerned, simpering toadies are only tolerated until the second they aren't. You... may be missing some subtlety in that statement.
I took it at face value for a few long seconds that drunken Torchwick got a little too spicy with the Shadow and learned immediately why making out with someone who eats humans and just learned what words are is a bad idea.
Your focus narrows as Pyrrha finishes crossing the room, filling your field of vision. You judged her pretty tall from a distance but that's still nothing compared to actually seeing her up-close. She's muscled like a feline predator, power and agility combined without having to sacrifice either, stretched along a statuesque frame. Her hair is pulled back into a ponytail so as not to obscure the jewelled bronze tiara on her brow. Breastplate and gauntlets, shoulders bare, plated boots and more armour over her trousers from roughly the mid-thigh down. A scarlet half-skirt hangs down over her hips and rear, a matching half-cape from her left shoulder. Without so much as stopping to say 'hello' she reaches out and yanks your arms into position until you're posed just the way she apparently wishes her banner-bearer to pose.
[X] Be assertive. If you're going to be at Beacon until winter you should at least pretend to have a personality. That means not rolling over just because someone talked at you in a loud voice. You may know essentially nothing about most aspects of being a Hunter, but you're uniquely positioned to know plenty. Potentially enough to knock Pyrrha out of her stride a couple of times.
Adhoc vote count started by toxinvictory on Dec 2, 2017 at 4:54 AM, finished with 45 posts and 32 votes.
[X] Be assertive. If you're going to be at Beacon until winter you should at least pretend to have a personality. That means not rolling over just because someone talked at you in a loud voice. You may know essentially nothing about most aspects of being a Hunter, but you're uniquely positioned to know plenty. Potentially enough to knock Pyrrha out of her stride a couple of times.
[X] Try to play along, but don't be a complete kiss-ass. As far as the detective's concerned, simpering toadies are only tolerated until the second they aren't. You... may be missing some subtlety in that statement.
[X] Acquiesce completely. Seems fairly in-character for Jaune as far as you can tell, and you aren't in the mood to risk your cover or indeed the chance of getting to Beacon and all for the sake of being assertive.
[X] Try to play along, but don't be a complete kiss-ass. As far as the detective's concerned, simpering toadies are only tolerated until the second they aren't. You... may be missing some subtlety in that statement.Lel, of course mr. FGO would give Jaune a banner.
[X] Be assertive. If you're going to be at Beacon until winter you should at least pretend to have a personality. That means not rolling over just because someone talked at you in a loud voice. You may know essentially nothing about most aspects of being a Hunter, but you're uniquely positioned to know plenty. Potentially enough to knock Pyrrha out of her stride a couple of times.
...-a banner. Very much not what you expected. It takes you a moment to even find the dangerous part, a spear-like spiked tip just above the dangling cloth. Embroidered with golden Dust-active thread on a pure white background, the scent of radiating power hits you like a wall. You actually recoil a little, holding it at arm's length as you stand. It stands out among all the other actual deadly weapons enough that it draws all attention to you immediately.
"Huh," says Yang. "So what's that do?"
You surreptitiously sniff to examine the scent of the Dust a little more closely. "It's uh, I didn't make it myself, it's a family weapon, but I think it... amplifies. Stuff." You indicate the banner itself. "See this thread? The type of Dust in this thread is sort of like a repeater. It doesn't have an element of its own, but it can strengthen others."
"Congratulations, you just made it into Team Pyrrha," the flame-haired woman -Pyrrha, obviously- says as she immediately starts towards you.
"N-now hold on a minute!" The white-haired woman interjects. "As the resident Dust expert with the Semblance most conducive to amplification across a wide area, it only makes the most sense to place him under my command-"
Cardin is a voice of reason, trying to make sure everyone doesn't just hare off into the woods, but willing to adapt once Ruby, Nora, and Ren have already left. He's annoyed by Weiss' provincialism, but ready to let it slide so as to avoid causing friction.
In canon, he ends up with Sky, Russel, and Dove... who here are the only injured one, the only one without a magic weapon, and the injured one's unobtrusive friend. In other words, dead weight who need someone competent to support them on the way to Beacon.
...I love how all the fairytale / historical references are being actually incorporated this time. Yang the Dragon, Vale is... in a vale, Ruby really is 'little red riding hood', Jaune really is(/would have been) the genderbent Joan of Arc type etc etc. Team Cardin looks to actually exist and be made of people, the faunus and their role in society actually makes a lick of sense instead of just 'persecuted for reasons' (even if we haven't seen much of them). You've gone and made RWBY what it was actually promising to be.
Well played Zerban, well played.
Out of curiosity, given what Blake's semblence does/looks like would it be too out of the norm to try playing off any of our weirdness as a matter of 'we have a freaky semblence we don't like talking about'?
The image of Jaune, Definitely Not A Grimm, leading the charge with banner held high is kind of hilarious considering what he actually is now.
[X] Try to play along, but don't be a complete kiss-ass. As far as the detective's concerned, simpering toadies are only tolerated until the second they aren't. You... may be missing some subtlety in that statement.
Ngl, maybe it's just because I've been watching bits and pieces of the 2BF playthrough or maybe it's just the more general "grizzled Detectiveman lost in a nightmarish mindscape" but I kinda imagine the Detective as Sebastian from the Evil Within.
Okay this is getting painful. "Bösenwulf?" you prompt her.
"That's the one!" Ruby exclaims. "Yeah a Bösenwulf ate her three days ago, tricked the other townspeople into thinking 'she' was just sick to lure me in." She leans in and lowers her voice to a conspiratorial whisper. "Sometimes monsters can be nearby, just waiting to pounce, when you leeeeeast expect it."
Oh my god Ruby you fucking weirdo. No wonder Yang's surprised that we hit it off, her lead-in story was about how her Grandma got fucking eaten. I imagine that's generally when people start making excuses about ironing their cat and edging away. Still though, tbh I do love how the character's set up, just this weird little murder prodigy that makes everyone kinda uncomfortable. It's a nice change from "BUT I JUST WANNA BE A NORMAL GIRL THO" or even the fine but pr generic "Yaaaay Beacon".
Heyyyy, the Maidens at least are a thing! So that's one hook that Zerban seems to be using even if the mirrored-eye warrior stuff got taken behind the shed and fucking shot.
You surreptitiously sniff to examine the scent of the Dust a little more closely. "It's uh, I didn't make it myself, it's a family weapon, but I think it... amplifies. Stuff." You indicate the banner itself. "See this thread? The type of Dust in this thread is sort of like a repeater. It doesn't have an element of its own, but it can strengthen others."
"Congratulations, you just made it into Team Pyrrha," the flame-haired woman -Pyrrha, obviously- says as she immediately starts towards you.
"N-now hold on a minute!" The white-haired woman interjects. "As the resident Dust expert with the Semblance most conducive to amplification across a wide area, it only makes the most sense to place him under my command-"
Pyrra: "Alright, everyone read off your classes and we'll figure out the party that way. I'm a Fighter."
Ruby: "Rogue."
Cardin: "Paladin."
Yang: "Barb."
Weiss: "Fighter (Eldritch Knight)."
Jaune: "Uh, Bard."
Pyrra: "DIBS"
Cardin, Yang, Weiss: "D-"
Weiss: "Fuck."
Cardin is a voice of reason, trying to make sure everyone doesn't just hare off into the woods, but willing to adapt once Ruby, Nora, and Ren have already left. He's annoyed by Weiss' provincialism, but ready to let it slide so as to avoid causing friction.
In canon, he ends up with Sky, Russel, and Dove... who here are the only injured one, the only one without a magic weapon, and the injured one's unobtrusive friend. In other words, dead weight who need someone competent to support them on the way to Beacon.
Tbh I dunno how I can cope if this quest doesn't have Jaune Dark dramatically smear sap all over Team Pelvic Thrust. I can put up with a lot but not that.
But yeah honestly I'm weirdly excited for finding out more about Cardin of all fucking people now, because we've gotten bits and pieces of detail around him and they're all kinda fun. He seems to be kinda wealthy (I mean his weapon's pretty elaborate and expensive looking) and a Vale local (in a twist of irony, Weiss is actually the immigrant trying to steal good Vale jobs but yeah he got irritated at her like you said), but Vale's a crumbling shithole that looks like the bastard lovechild of Dunwall and Yharnam. He seems to have tension with Blake but we didn't hear him screaming "All Lives Matter" in her face. So already we're a step up or two in that regard.
Plus, I mean, like you said: he's likely not going to ditch the dudes who are obviously the weakest links considering they canonically end up on his team and assuming he and they make it through the forest he's...probably actually pretty good at the Hunter thing too then?
[X] Be assertive. If you're going to be at Beacon until winter you should at least pretend to have a personality. That means not rolling over just because someone talked at you in a loud voice. You may know essentially nothing about most aspects of being a Hunter, but you're uniquely positioned to know plenty. Potentially enough to knock Pyrrha out of her stride a couple of times.
Tbh a large part of identity development are the moments when someone tells you to do something and you go "fuck you no". Better get a head start and shit. Also yeah @Imrix and @Revlid are right in that if we let people walk all over us at the start it's going to be that much harder to find space and set boundaries on our own which we need to do to do the uh spy shit.
[X] Be assertive. If you're going to be at Beacon until winter you should at least pretend to have a personality. That means not rolling over just because someone talked at you in a loud voice. You may know essentially nothing about most aspects of being a Hunter, but you're uniquely positioned to know plenty. Potentially enough to knock Pyrrha out of her stride a couple of times.
[X] Try to play along, but don't be a complete kiss-ass. As far as the detective's concerned, simpering toadies are only tolerated until the second they aren't. You... may be missing some subtlety in that statement.
[X] Be assertive. If you're going to be at Beacon until winter you should at least pretend to have a personality. That means not rolling over just because someone talked at you in a loud voice. You may know essentially nothing about most aspects of being a Hunter, but you're uniquely positioned to know plenty. Potentially enough to knock Pyrrha out of her stride a couple of times.
Do you think Ruby might be able to mod our weapon for us? Not the banner, but the actual heft/staff/spear itself.
I'm thinking of a thick staff/spear which the banner rolls up into. Since, frankly, having all that cloth flapping everywhere, and getting caught on trees and shit, is liable to mess us up a bit at times. Making it self-rolling would be good for circumventing that.
More ideas:
If it can also turn into a rocket surfboard, using the Banner as a sail, that would be cool too.
Or the staff is hollow, and acts as a sheath. So we've also got a sword in there for emergencies (whether that be because we need a sword or because an ally needs one is up for debate).
[X] Be assertive. If you're going to be at Beacon until winter you should at least pretend to have a personality. That means not rolling over just because someone talked at you in a loud voice. You may know essentially nothing about most aspects of being a Hunter, but you're uniquely positioned to know plenty. Potentially enough to knock Pyrrha out of her stride a couple of times.
[X] Acquiesce completely. Seems fairly in-character for Jaune as far as you can tell, and you aren't in the mood to risk your cover or indeed the chance of getting to Beacon and all for the sake of being assertive.
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