u/Embarrassed_Pass414

Inspired by the fan-fic Red Thorn on fanfiction.net, Dove and Russel receive some pretty miniscule changes, or big if you see it that way, where Dove is the straight man architype, a competent fighter and good man at heart who was paired with CRDL out of bad luck because Qrow was there watching over Ruby and Yang during initiation.

For Russel, taking the most amount of inspiration out of Red Thorn where he grew up in a village that despised huntsmen for abritrary reasons which put them on a black list, with Russel only wanting to be a huntsman after being saved by one back when he was younger.

For Sky, I had to rack my brain for stuff I wanted to use, ultimately deciding to make Sky someone who moved from Atlas elite areas into the outskirts of Vale because the SDC drove his father's business out of, well, business.

Cardin here receives the most changes, which ultimately devolved into me doing the rest of this post. Cardin may boast about a large family name, but the Winchesters are really only locally known in Vale with a small business, making his arrogance more of a defense system. The biggest change is in Cardin's family: His mother was a Faunus. But she was everything a mother shouldn't be. She only married into the Winchester family for the money because of a White Fang mission she was a part of. This bled into Cardin being born and her hating him for being human, which resulted in a childhood of scars hidden under his armor, thus making his later treatment of Faunus have more depth beyond "bully do bad thing. Huuuh." His mother would then go on to leave and join the White Fang fully and taking almost all the profit from Cardin and his father, whom he actually has a good relationship with.

Anyway, that's my crack addict version of CRDL if I were to do a re-write, lemme know what ya think.