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Location: Beacon Academy

Date: 07/19

Time: 11:59 PM

The academy grounds were silent into the late hour, majority of students and staff alike long since retired to bed, one of the few left awake being Headmaster Ozpin as he stood at the window of his office, his curious gaze focused down at the part of Beacon in which the student dorms were located, any moment now, the silence of night would be shattered.

12:00 AM

BOOM

Under normal circumstances, an explosion centralized from the student dorms would have sent the Headmaster into action, but due in thanks to the signed request form sitting on his desk, Ozpin knew well in advance such an event would take place, and had opted to stay awake not to stop it from occurring, but to instead witness it.

From within the explosion, a red blur rushed out and into the darkness of the academy grounds, immediately followed in chase by similar glows of green, pink and blue. Once more Team CROM serves as a source of both headache and amusement.

Down below, Christain found himself attacked on multiple fronts, Mouse actively lashing out with his spear, Christain engaging with one of his blades as what had to be trick arrows flew past him, Robin somewhere off in the distance raining down hell.

He had no line of sight on Olga, and that was terrifying enough.

“Treason, mutiny, betrayal, other words for what you are doing!” Christain shouted, evading another arrow as he pushed Mouse back.

Mouse slid back as he twirled his spear, “This would be a lot easier if you just went along with this.”

“Never!”

Mouse sighed as he spoke aloud, “Let him have it.”

Before Christain could question what was about to happen, all hell broke loose as explosions of, “Cupcakes?” He mumbled in sheer confusion as baked goods were fired upon him. On one of the rooftops, Olga laughed maniacally as she opened fire, the Valkyrie girl's grenade launcher in hand, “What? How?!”

Olga only had a cheshire grin, “She was quick to loan it to me when I told her what I was going to do with it. I didn't even have to mod it! It can already do this on its own!” She cheered, continuing to fire cupcakes at her leader.

A flash of steel and Christain cut one of them out of the air, his eyes narrowing as he saw his blade stained with blood red cake residue and white frosting.

Precious red velvet cake, used for ammunition, his team knew no lows.

It was unfortunate that during this moment of mourning, a buck shot rung out, Christain’s vision now filled by a sea of blonde hair as Yang reared her arm back, poised to strike at her older cousin, “Got ya!”

So his team had recruited his family into this madness, Christain realized as he was forced to jump back, the pellets of Yang’s shot peppering his aura. So if Yang was here in front of him, it was only natural that-

A burst of rose petals appeared behind him, Ruby, wielding a comically large net swung at her older brother. Christain was forced to spin in place, his sword slicing through the net aimed at him, but what unnerved him was the wild victorious grin Ruby still had.

Thwack

Crimson red eyes widened at the sensation of something striking his back, Christain helpless as a damned arrow had landed its mark, binding wire releasing and restraining his arms as Christain was forced to drop his swords to the ground.

Any attempt to flee once more was ended before it could begin as Yang full body tackled him to the floor, “Target down!” She called out as Ruby and the rest of CROM all rushed in to dog pile the still struggling Christain.

“Release me!” Christain roared as he struggled in the ever growing pile with no chance as escaping, horror in his eyes as Robin walked over, grinning wickedly as he held a paper party hat in hand, another already atop his head, Christain doubling his efforts.

“You will be loved and charished.” Olga spoke as she joined in the pile, “Your cooperation is non required.”

Hat forced upon his head, Christain sighed in defeat, unable to do anything but accept his fate.

Finally defeating him, Robin, Olga, Mouse, Yang and Ruby all collectively cheered, “Happy birthday Chris!”

Even as he laid on the ground, tied up like the gifts no doubt hidden somewhere in their dorm, Christain could not help but let the shadow of a smile form his lips, “Thanks you guys…now untie me.”

“Nope.”

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It's a day to celebrate for Christain and myself, and I figured I'd ask on this day, what would y'all's OCs wanna do for their own respective birthdays if they celebrate it at all?

This question is about those times when you are introduced to some new show or game for the first time, only to realize "oh there's a character damn near *identical* to my OC!" With character tropes and stereotypes there's always a good chance you'll find characters who are similar, but it's especially funny when you stumble across one who's so similar that someone would have guessed the similarities were intentional.

And so, have you ever come across a character who is similar to or identical to your OCs in some way or another and had no idea they existed until then?

I know I had this experience when during my rwby DnD game that's been going on for years, one of my friends asked if Christain was influenced by Clive from final fantasy 16 and my only response was "who the hell is Clive?" Having played the game, I see it now. So what about y'all?

Aight y'all, I don't know about you, but I'M about to have my final exams for Uni today and split between freaking out and being concerning levels of calm. My question for y'all is this, how do your OCs handle exams? Are they in the corner crying hours before it starts? Cool as a cucumber in the fridge? I'd love to know.

As for Team CROM, well we got a mixed bag.

Christain: only kind of studied the things he knew he'd struggle with, otherwise during it he's the kind to have something completely random and it stupid playing on loop in his head to distract himself (like the video with the monkeys with "life could be a dream" playing) and still somehow walks out with a B.

Robin: 100% didn't bother studying as he knows he's acing the damn thing and only serves to make everyone else stress by his display of nonchalants about the exam.

Olga: said she would study, didn't, and is now crying in the corner, made worse by the fact that when she tried to use her semblance to peak into one of the minds of someone closest to her like Chris, all she got was the before mentioned monkey video playing on loop.

Mouse: said he would study, did, and is still stressing over the exam, needing all the time given to finish, worried he failed (he didn't)

If you have finals or had them recently I hope it went well and best of luck.

I only ask this cause from how it looks, Aegon assuming he ascended the throne and stayed on the thing looked like he was grossly under prepared for ruling to the point they had to *drag* him to his coronation. Could someone please help me understand what team Green's goal was past that point, cause it looks like otto just wanted a continuation of being the one in charge.