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Here are a few of mine

Vacuo

The Sun King and the Moon Mother

The Sun King was said to be the first king of vacuo who waged a war against the moon mother creator of the grimm

As the sun king wrought down his fury upon the grimm every dawn mother Moon would send her horde every night

The battle was said to last so long but afterwards the moon would shatter marking her defeat

Since then a common saying in vacuo is to not fear the shattered Moon

As while the grimm still roam they the Sun still returns in its glory as the moon appears in its tattered broken form

I have it serve as a rememberance for vacuoans being known to never let anything tell them what to do that so long as they got the power they can be strong enough to shatter the moon

Vale

Vale had the seven

Seven saints figures that gained prominence during the great war one that lasted a near 300 years

The Crown

It is said that the Crown of Vale shall always bring prosperity to the kingdom and that every king who wore the Crown upon their head would ensure that Vale endured

The tale begins with King Ozymandias the First who is remembered as the first true king of Vale after uniting the kingdom under House Argent a family known for their silver eyes

When the settlements of Vale finally swore allegiance to Ozymandias the Crown was placed upon his head and was said to have been blessed with the prosperity of the kingdom

From then onward every ruler who wore the Crown was believed to carry the fate of Vale upon their head

The Crown itself eventually became a deified figure with its imagery appearing throughout Vale

The Crown is usually depicted as a silver crown floating above the kingdom or resting upon the head of a ruler

Its lesson is that a ruler does not own the kingdom but carries the responsibility of protecting it

A common saying is

May the Crown bear us as we bear it

The Rusted One

The tale of the Rusted One tells of a knight who fought for the glory and protection of Vale

They wore old and battered armor covered in rust and carried a weapon that was said to be just as worn as they were

Despite this they never stopped fighting whenever Vale was threatened

Soldiers would often claim that they saw the Rusted One standing upon a hill before a great battle

Whenever the Rusted One was seen Vale would supposedly achieve victory

Nobody knows what became of the knight

Some say they died defending Vale

Others say they still wander the kingdom appearing whenever Vale is in danger

The Rusted One became a symbol of courage perseverance and fighting for others rather than seeking glory

The Maiden

The tale of the Maiden tells of a time when the farming lands of Vale had become barren because of a Grimm infestation

The crops had withered and the farmers feared that their families would starve

Then a young girl suddenly appeared among the dying fields

Nobody knew where she came from

The Maiden walked among the crops and touched the infected land

Wherever she walked the Grimm corruption disappeared and the crops began growing again

The crops eventually became healthier than they had ever been and produced enough food to sustain the surrounding settlements for years

When the farmers returned to thank her the Maiden had disappeared

The Maiden became a symbol of life renewal hope and compassion

Her lesson is that nothing should be considered truly lost while someone is willing to nurture it

The Hunter

The tale of the Hunter is said to be the inspiration behind the term Huntsman

The Hunter lived during a time when war was ravaging the world and Vale was too preoccupied with the conflict to properly defend its people from the Grimm

Rather than wait for someone else to protect the people the Hunter took up their weapons and began fighting the Grimm

They travelled from village to village protecting farmers caravans and refugees

They fought the Grimm wherever they appeared and taught ordinary people how to defend themselves

Other warriors eventually followed the Hunter and began dedicating their lives to protecting humanity from the Grimm

Over time the name Hunter became Huntsman

The Hunter is prayed to as a saint of peace defense vigilance and protection

Their lesson is that peace is not simply the absence of war

Peace exists because someone is willing to stand between the innocent and the darkness

The Fisher

The tale of the Fisher is one of bravery during a time when Grimm infestations had made the seas around Vale almost impossible to travel

The fishing villages began starving because the fishermen were too afraid to leave the safety of the harbors

One Fisher refused to accept this

They sailed alone into the Grimm infested seas and fought their way through the waters

Their boat was eventually battered and their nets were nearly destroyed but the Fisher returned home carrying enough fish to feed the kingdom for years

Their actions inspired more and more fishermen from Silver Port to venture beyond the safety of the harbor

The Fisher became a symbol of bravery and determination in the face of necessary danger

Their lesson is not that danger should never be feared

It is that sometimes danger must be faced because refusing to face it creates an even greater danger

The Smith

The faith of the Smith is older than the Seven

Even the idea of Vale itself is said to be younger than the faith of the Smith

The Smith is often depicted as a mysterious figure standing beside an eternal forge

They are seen as a guardian of death and rebirth

According to the oldest stories the souls of the dead eventually arrive before the Smith

The Smith does not judge them and does not punish them

Instead they take the soul to their forge and place it upon their anvil

There they break away the experiences of the previous life and reforge the soul before sending it back into the world to begin a new life

Because of this death is not seen as an ending to followers of the Smith

It is simply another stage in the process of being reforged

The Smith is often compared to a Grim Reaper or a figure similar to Hades but they are not seen as an evil figure

They are a caretaker of the dead and a creator of new life

Their followers believe that fearing death is like fearing a forge because it is hot

The forge may be frightening but its purpose is to create something new

The central teaching of the Smith is

Nothing is gone just remade anew

The Mason

-During one of the worst Grimm migrations of the Great War refugees fled into the mountains there were no fortifications no army could arrive in time

So a builder supposedly gathered everyone who could work

Miners

Children

Soldiers

Farmers

Old people

They worked together for thirty days and thirty nights.

The Mason never slept.

He supposedly built the enormous walls surrounding Ironmound.

On the thirty-first morning, the Grimm horde arrived.

The walls held.

Nobody knows whether the Mason died afterward.

Some say he simply walked into the mountains.

Others say the walls themselves became his body.

At the end of the day his tale is one of perseverance and team work with his followers known to be some of the most helpful and steadfast people you'd meet

Mantle

The old mage

The tale of the old mage was one that shaped mantle

During the early days of the kingdom any settlers in mantle would always get ruined

At some point all hope to make it in mantle seemed lost

Until the arrival of an old mage

This man with his staff in hand would look for survivors people who were half dead or starving leading them to his home a village that only kept growing bigger and bigger until it became mantle

This old mage would be able to create technologies never before seen designs and creations that would help against the cold against the grimm

His name would be lost to time but his staff is immortalised as a symbol of creatives of tinkerers throughout mantle snd atlas with most inventors sporting a staff or cane with unique abilities

Mistral

Nike

Patron god of house Nikos

Was said to be a warrior Queen who lead the states of Argo(now argus) against mistral colonizers spending most of her life leading a victory after victory against them until her death where her successors seemed to never be able to match her prowess or skill which lead to the fall of the Hellenic Nations and there annexation to mistral

Has become one of the symbol during the great war where the Hellenic states into revolting against the Jade empire of mantle where her descendant Alexander Nikos allied with Vale to turn the tides against the great war

The Queen and the lamp

The story goes was an council of all the tribes of mistral gathered to decide who would lead them

From the deadly branwens to the noble Ayanas each had there own claim to the authority

Eventually a challenge was placed where the last emperor of mistral gave them a test

One by one each champion would fail

Until a girl with a lamp arrived who seemed to breeze through every challenge

Eventually when the old emperor asked how she survived the riddles the traps and tests

She'd claim her knowledge helped her down the path

She was named Empress after that and became the one who made the lamp the symbol of knowledge throughout mistral with them inventing the first form of of a projector where messages were hidden in lampnrolls that were slotted inside them to show secrets hidden within

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Team RWBY

Ruby - Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz

Look I know Theodore is mean to be Dorothy but by the brothers she is literally going through a similar journey to Dorothy going to kingdom to kingdom meeting the yellow brick gang but each member instead of being an ally against the witch turn against her

Blake - Esmeralda/Mowgli

Esmeralda from Hunchback of Notre Dame with the romani as the faunus and her as Esmeralda not really sure yet what else to do involving it I just think it kinda fits Blake

As for Mowgli I have her dad and mom be ghira and sienna with Kali and sienna fused into one

Blake is an orphan into he sense she was kidnapped as a child and her mother went to war becoming more violent while her father was the one who still wanted to coexist

Blake grows up with an adoptive dad possibly Pietro who gives her the belle experience until she gets left behind with other faunus to the grimm and rescued by the fang and eventually joins them becoming mainly the distraction or spy hardly ever getting into the knitty gritty part until she gets partnered more with adam

Team JNPR

Jaune - Prince Charming

Pretty much he's more of a failed prince charming what with the whole Weiss thing

Meanwhile with cinder he technically will go on to try and return a glass slipper

Or in this case a glass arrow through cinder's heart

As for that last prince he does succeed in being

Pyrrha - Helen of Sparta/sleeping beauty/one of the saints Joan of arc sees

Simple enough pyrrha in my au is someone who's been told what her life would be what she's destined to do destined to be told that she will achieved great things and has had no agency in her choices somewhat like Helen not having agency when Aphrodite traded her away to Paris

As for sleeping beauty I have her survive in my au but in a coma like amber was having been saved by the ace ops after the arrow shot with ruby having done her silver eyes before pyrrha got burned

As for the saints thing she ends up as a spirit her aura following jaune around during the mistral arc and only being strong enough for him to see when he unlocks his semblance and accidentally boosted her aura

Ren - Shang

Basically his dad was based more on the general from the movie

Ren was technically local nobility or atleast upper class in the town with his dad being the mayor and head of the village having his kuroyuri Rangers beignt he main militia watching over the place

Ren loses his father

That's mostly it

Criminals

Roman and Neo- Honest John and Gideon

Honestly wanted more to the characters and wanted Roman to be the son of a faunus and a human but wasn't born with any distinguishable traits apart from fox eyes

Neo has a cats flexibility snd whiskers though I'm not set in the whiskers and might switch Roman and Neo's faunus parts

Though I will be having them interact with penny more during vol 1 to 3

Salem - the Magic Mirror

Since she can't leave evernight castle she can only talk through her seer grimm that act like mirrors hence Magic mirror

Each member of Salem's cabal has a mirror that they can talk to Salem to with Salem also working to have her seals removed

Jaune Pyrrha Weiss and Blake (Jaune and Pyrrha)(Blake and Weiss)

Ruby yang Ren and Nora(Ruby and Yang)(Ren and Nora)

So these are the two teams that formed instead of team jnpr and team rwby

How would the story change with them

Will team RRYN still be going after the white fang

Or would that end up falling to team ASBN

I have 2 that I think would work really well

Archivist

-a specialized Huntsman who spend most of there time in field research going through ruins and lost cities to uncover most of the history they could've forgotten

-known characters who are Archivists is professor oobleck

Messenger

-aura users who have bare minimum training when it comes to a fight and spend there time traveling between the settlements to deliver letters and messages and are often used by poorer villages who can't afford a cct station and most of the time messengers are what happens to students who don't end up making the cut in academy initiations as an alternative

-known characters who are Messengers deery from the white fang one of the white fangs safest methods of communication with there messengers being considered one of the best in the business as not only as faunus they can continue the journey at night

They are also most of the time as combat trained as a 2nd year huntsman student

By that I mean how do you write the celebrity title of pyrrha how do you have Pyrrha feel like she's dealing with the problems of being placed on a pedestal or to jsut flesh out her character more

A few ideas i had was to have Pyrrha wearing a disguise when they head into Vale or just asking jaune Ren and Nora what to get from vale

Weiss upping the ante on trying to befriend pyrrha but there meeting in the locker leaving a bad impression on her with vol 1 Weiss practically being the exact person Pyrrha doesn't like spending time with due to Weiss acting all fan girly

Hey maybe even pull a Komi can't communicate with Jaune helping Pyrrha be friends with the rest of team jnpr and rwby Ren and Nora being a bit star struck about Pyrrha because duh they're from mistral maybe make it more prominent same goes for Team rwby with yang itching to fight her and seef she can match pyrrha Blake being a bit curious about pyrrha since despite coming fromt he racist kingdom pyrrha is humble and has no I'll will towards faunus or have Blake end up assuming pyrrha to be all high and mighty towards others

You could honestly make it an arc where jauen helps Pyrrha befriend them like setting up Pyrrha and ruby training in The shooting range and have ruby geek out on Pyrrha's weapon getting her and Pyrrha something to talk to

Hell have coco be someone she can bind with about the problems of Celebrity statuses by making coco the Pyrrha of vale to bring some more relevancy to team cfvy have the confident leader of team cfvy be the one giving Pyrrha advice on confidence maybe even being the one to suggest to have pyrrha admit her feelings to jaune at the dance

Another idea was have pyrrha and penny be friends or know of each other before the final fight have penny be there the day of her being asked aboutt he aura transfer and if you want toske pyrrha the maiden early have penny be Pyrrha's bodyguard to keep pyrrha safe

That's about all I have for now but would love to see what else everyone does

Mercury Black

Son of Marcus black a hired killer for any of the Mistral crime families known to basically be the boogey man and a huntsman killer only overshadowed by Tyrian callows

Mercury was the result of an affair Marcus had with a girl from a branch of the Vasillias family who dumped Marcus on his feet not wanting to raise him and getting a large sum for hush money

Marcus decided to train mercury as his successor to be the one who'd overtake him and continue his legacy kinda like David Cain with Cassandra Cain

Mercury would've been taught to be like a living weapon someone who's skills are honed to perfection to practically be able to figure out someone's fighting style from a few moves and learn the best ways to counter them

But in taskmaster fashion if his enemy is too strong for him to take on he bails first chance he gets

His semblance that was locked away is similar to Fa Jin from MHA where he can build up kinetic energy to make himself run faster hit harder etc

But his father Marcus locked it away so mercury wouldn't rely on it wanting mercury to know how to fight without it

Eventually after a final argument with his father that led to mercury and him duking it out with mercury losing his legs in the process while Marcus dying giving a smile to his son being the first time Marcus was ever proud of him made mercury gain a mentality that as long as he's useful he's worth something

It doesn't help that cinder and Emerald arrive offering him sanctuary so long as he works for them further reinforcing his mentality

Once the vytal arc starts he actually does let loose a bit being a bit of a flirt and outgoing more so than cinder and Emerald to keep up the act even getting a bit of a rivalry with yang that he keeps up whenever the two end up meeting flirting with her much to Yang's annoyance even going we match when he sees her robotic arm

That's about all I've got for him apart from him gaining a rival based on Apollo who is hunting him down fort he sins his father commited as Mistral has a sins of the father style law

Son of an old Mistralean hunter who had taught him and his sister how to hunt food and kept them fed in one of the outer settlements of anima like kuroyuri or oniyuri who live outside of the walled cities of mistral or the Hellenic leagues like argus

Him and his sister were great game hunters but at the time wanted to be more to help out the local settlements as they hardly had enough hunters apart from the kuroyuri Rangers a militia group run by a huntsman named Li Ren who recruited local hunters and soldiers to make them a good enough group to handle themselves despite there lack of Huntsman due to the council preferring to protect there own walled settlements and important lands

Eventually they'd apply for haven Academy and be able to pass the alternative testing and be allowed in the academy

Hazel ends up going in first due to being the older sibling his younger sister Gretchen being 3 years younger would take a bit of time

But during his third year at haven something weird happens and his sister managed to enroll earlier and her semblance seemed weird she claimed it was just a form of aura control where she could imbue things with aura to either heal or speed up effects

But everything around her seemed to spring to life her aura able to practically bring people from near death and her aura and aura control was far more advanced and she was far more powerful than she seemed

Aswell as headmaster lionheart letting his sister and her team seemingly on more dangerous missions than he believed his sister could handle that he'd eventually confront her and ask her what was going on

She'd eventually confess to the truth that she was the spring maiden telling her brother everything

He'd eventually confront headmaster lionheart and be inducted into the circle becoming his sister's guardian with his team being the one assigned to mentor hers as he did his best to reign in her excitability not wanting her to get overconfident with her new powers

It would eventually end up all wrong during the great depression in Gretchen's second year when they sent out everything and everyone against the grimm trying to make sure that the kingdom didn't fall

His sister who was filled with the dreams and promises that she had the power to change the world would head out on her own when they got a distress signal from there home town leaving with her team with lionhearts permission alongside a teacher while hazel was deployed elsewhere

When hazel learned they sent her and her team out he'd immediately request to be sent there leaving his team behind but by the time he arrived everything was destroyed his home gone

His sister was missing but her team and the teacher sent ended up dead against a named grimm and hazel would fly out in a rage so strong enough grimm would swarm the town as he did nothing but fight and kill for what would seem like hours

He'd eventually get out of that blind anger of his and try to look for any signs of her and would end up finding smooth painted beads something his sister always had on her around her waist each bead was another memory she'd paint

It would lead him to find the branwen tribe and confronting them demanding where his sister was

Only to get thrown out by raven branwen where he'd end up in a house where he'd find her corpse with cut marks across her chest

What happened to Gretchen was after her teacher and team got wiped out she had managed to hole up in the cabin where she tried to heal herself but with the trauma and her wounds she wasn't able to do anything but keep herself at barely alive

Raven would end up finding her not knowing she was the spring maiden and mercy killing her and getting shocked she became the spring maiden and was preparing to leave when hazel arrived

Hazel mentally fragile from losing everything would get visited by Salem who I'm not fully sure how she would convince him but she'd twist his thoughts his rage against the headmasters and ozpin claiming that her sister was killed so ozpin would have a stronger maiden

As a member of Salem's inner circle he was the one in charge of diplomatic affairs the one they'd send to talk to factions that may benefit there goal

His semblance allows him to absorb dust and allow him to use the different properties

Ice dust granting him freezing punches

Fire dust granting him energy and burning hits

Gravity dust stronger hits higher jumps

Etc

His main weapons are twin gauntlets that go all the way to his shoulders that he fills with dust that's inspired mainly by name from dc

That's pretty much all I got for him

So for mine atleast the first major change is making her into a faunus what faunus that's still up in the air as I've considered a few like nice to represent Cinderella dove wings to possibly tie her into Icarus someone who flew to close to the Sun and got burned for her ambitions for power

But for her backstory I'm still keeping it mostly intact with changes

For example the hotel is moreso a brothel or inn that had connections to the mantle underworld with Rhodes being someone who has too many skeletons in his closet to do anything but help cinder become a Huntsman

The Madame meanwhile runs the place which is another cover org like Lady Browning's Preparatory Academy For Girls where they gain information from high level clientele

Cinder due to refusal to work as one of the girls was treated like a slave unable to leave due to the lower faunus rights in mantle and being the actual daughter of the Madame who treats her stepdaughters better due to them being more dutiful while cinder was disobedient

Eventually she'd do her best to try and get into Rampart Academy through a testing program to determine her worth but the Madame would find out through her connections there and use a few favors to have her rejected

With everything going wrong for her cinder broke and rampaged through the brothel murdering clients and workers alike as she tried getting to her mother

Rhodes would arrive just as cinder was about to kill the Madame and he tried talking her down telling her there's a better way

But it would fall on deaf ears cinder was in no place to be reasoned forcing Rhodes to fight ending with the place burning down along with Rhodes and the Madame

Cinder missing an eye and her srm trying to run would get lost in the cold winter of solitas when a seer grimm would find her cold and desperate just as Salem was working on something to get the maiden powers found herself the perfect test subject a poor broken girl that she could control

Cinder in my au atleast is someone who wants nothing more than to ensure she has her happiness at the expense of others that she will get the happy ending she deserves

How it happens is still up in the air for me

That's about all I got for her

Arthur Watts

One of atlas's most brilliant minds and a former student of Pietro polendina and one of atlas's lead prodigies in both robotics and coding

One of his greatest fascinations were in upgrading the human body making Huntsmen more efficient he has a sort of deku style of complex when it came to semblances in being able to plan around them and working out how to upgrade them

His fascination would end up with him being connected to a like minded cabal run by Salem's top operative in Atlas think of these guys as the hydra of the world with them slowly but surely infiltrating atlas like hydra infiltrated shield

There main goal is to be part of the promised world Salem will make

Watts himself was an ally of one Dr merlot but he'd mostly have the cabal as a side project more focused on upgrading more and more until ironwood calls for a project something that was just up Watt's Alley

An android with a soul

Ironwood is tasking them to create an artificial life form that possessed aura this was something watts had been studying in his whole life something that he knows better than anyone else as surely no one is as dedicated to the idea as he was

But it keeps being failure after failure some of his ideas do get bought by different companies such as Soleil industries buying his patents for the atlesian knights or the SDC buying the schematics for the Paladins mark 1

But it isn't getting close enough no matter how hard he tries he just couldn't get a soul to work

And the closest he had gotten were dozens of animal based mechs that technically had aura as he could imbue it with his and sort of connect through them like puppets

Only for suddenly his former teacher Pietro polendina creating penny

Now this couldn't be

This couldn't be al that work all those years studying in this subject writing papers making ideas and the old man who barely had interest in this other than prosthetics makes a living doll after having been retired

He couldn't let this stand

So he stage an accident hoping to kill Pietro and penny

But it all went wrong and watts was presumed dead while the cabal saved him giving him cybernetic implants like ironwood to keep him alive and introduce him to Salem

He'd eventually work his way up to becoming the head of Salem's robotics field in arming her cult and her liaison between her atlesian agents her main connection to atlas as well as being the one who had an idea to have penny destroyed during vytal

His semblance in my au is a sort of technopathy he can Inject technology with aura and be able to connect with it and hack into things or controlling them

His weapon is scrapped instead he has his dust rings that slow him to make dust based attacks with hardlight dust being his main dust type but he can pull out moves like Weiss does so long as he's got the dust

Though his main fighting style is through drones with atlas being his own personal playground as all the knights and Paladins being his own inventions and all having a personal backdoor to get them under his spell

Alright Cardin is the only one I'm doing from his team because I genuinely couldn't think of anything for Russel dove and sky but would be happy to see suggestions

Cardin Winchester

Youngest out of 3 sons of general winchester of bulwark a veteran of the faunus Revolution and retired Huntsmen who lost his arm against the pirates who claimed to be revolutionaries but used the revolution as an excuse to raid vale

Grew up in a military household and started gaining a bit of an ego when he unlocked his semblance before his siblings could

And while he has lower aura reserves his semblance more than makes up for it

His semblance is called bigger they are it allows him to absorb hits strengthening his aura to make him last longer in a fight being a big fish in a small pond type of fighter but definitely not a push over being able to give yang a run for her money in terms of defense being a counter for her abilities

Eventually gets into beacon and is mostly the same in canon but bullies more people than just jaune or velvet though the velvet thing happened once as he got a beating from fox afterwards

But his main change happens after the jaunedice incident where his pride couldn't allow him to be one upped by jaune for saving his life so while he didn't report him he also went ahead to help training jaune in areas jaune lacked

For example jaune tends to fight like his armor isn't there with jaune less likely to avoid hits or taking hits his armor should've taken

So Cardin starts off by teaching jaune what he use of armor is and eventually gets Cardin acting nicer as a person with jaune training with Cardin every other day being the only two who come from families that were part of knight orders with Cardin even getting jaune connected to an armorer who does decent work to get jaune into some better gear atleast compared to the ones he had on

He'll also get some prominence during the mistral arc but would stay behind in mistral when the team leaves for argus to help out team abrn and what's left of team ssn in stabilising mistral

That's all I have for now woudl love to see what other's have planned

Northern Mistral

-based more on norse mythology and split into 9 main states or cities

-the hunters in this area are based on heroes and gods from northern myths the most prominent huntsman during the great war was the faunus Beowolf Who had defended mistral from Grimm attacks sent by a beast he had named Grendel

-has a culture that has similarities to old mantle due to previously being a colony state that declared independence once they started there anti emotion campain

-deals with more animalistic grimm that mostly have no intelligence with the rare exceptions of a few alpha variants that attack with the most during the great depression is a ginormous snake like grimm known as jormungandr who was held back at the cost of two huntsman named Siegfried and Brunhild

-has the most disorganized military as there built up with mercenary groups some of which don't use aura yet manage to defeat hordes of grimm

Eastern Mistral

-has a mix of Japanese and Chinese culture and design with the colder regions being more based on Japan while the warmer regions based on china

-has had dozens of different councils ever since it was made mostly due to backstabbing and coups not to mention the branwen tribe had once attempted to take over the whole of eastern mistral under the command of Hun back when the branwen tribe was at there strongest

-has more spiritual connections and better understanding of aura where they train to use aura techniques to show better uses for it

-has a few sects of villages who focus on living a more peaceful lifestyle with little conflict and rarely attract grimm

-has the most organized army between the 3 states with focus on horseback riders and archers

-home of the founders of the Mistralean Trading company

-took over most of mistral with the help of mantle before the great war

Western Mistral

-has Greek and Roman inspired culture with government similar to that of vale that was founded by a king with white hair and emerald eyes

-has some of the most intellectual members of mistral where most of there arts sciences and knowledge is has flourished and the most powerful of the other 2

-had been the most affected during the great war and currently trying to oppose atlesian occupation as well as becoming it's own independent nation preferring to be known as the Hellenic states

-has been in a power struggle with eastern mistral

-had revolted once against eastern mistral during the great war but forced to work with them so the grimm would not destroy both kingdoms

-home of the current ruling family of the Mistralean trading company

-has a religion based on the Olympians

Central mistral

-home of the capital city of haven and haven Academy

-made after the rest war as a way to balance the 4 now 3 regions of mistral

-has it's own version of the British museum where artifacts from the great war that they had stolen are on display

Government

-is split between a council of twelve with 3 members from each states

-from western mistral :Saturn Vasilias, Mars Ultor, Damocles Nikos

-from central Mistral: Leonardo Lionheart, and 2 I haven't named yet

-from Northern Mistral: unnamed

-from eastern mistral: unnamed

The governing body is split in a way so that if one of the regions of mistral were to fall the others can still maintain themselves in times of crisis

Extra lore

-had lost southern mistral during the faunus revolution as restitution with many seeing it as a stain on Mistralean history

-has the most production of adept aura users out of all kingdoms

-third most organized army from the 4 kingdoms just above the Vacuo but beneath Vale

-has the better quality dust based weapons on the market between the 4 regions with there brand of dust based metal being recognized by anyone

-each region hosts there own tournaments with the Mistral combat tournament being the national event where fighters from around the 4 states test there mettle against one another the family who's name has earned the most renown is house nikos

What are your thoughts on this

In my au he was the leader of one of 3 different revolutionary fronts that acted like revolutionaries during the faunus Revolution

He was the one in mistral a scourge against its capital and it's council named the lion of mistral for his swagger and pride being able to inspire armies

And when the dust was settled and he was recruited by ozpin at the time to go for a peace agreement he was the defining factor to ensure the other factions would stay in line with the agreements due to his exploits and main reason as to why mistral was the one forced to give up Southern mistral to become what's now known as menagerie

And with ozpin's help he became the first faunus headmaster in remnant

But why would he defect to Salem why would one of the most courageous men in ozpin's circle turn traitor

An event known as the year of disasters led to lionheart scrambling throughout mistral as entire regions of outer mistral being lost to grimm grimm that took out teams of Huntsman that were known as named grimm and took 6 months till it was over

He had enough of it at that point and went against ozpin's orders and with the help of the spring maiden went to the vault and asked jinn a question

How do I stop salem

But of course that question led to him learning Salem was unkillable

That she was immortal

A threat he couldn't power through couldn't fight his way through

That the only thing he could do was protect his own

But when Huntsman started going missing he personally went there with his right hand man to hunt this huntsman killer

Only it didn't end with a triumphant victory like it always did

It ended with his right hand man dead on the ground as tyrian callows made him an offer to work for Salem

And Lionheart knowing Salem was after his kingdom knowing that his successor would be left not knowing the secret of Salem and would end up like his right hand man

Accepted it to protect his own

It would mostly go like canon from here

But a change is that ozpin was able to bring back the old lionheart for a moment

Just enough for him to fight hazel and let the others escape dying as the man he used to be instesd of the man he became

Main song inspiration that went into his character personality waslLittle Lion Man by Mumford and Sons

Let me know what you hink of my rewrite and would love to hear everyone's ideas on him

He started out as an engineer in my au more focused on helping build walls and defenses

But somewhere along the way he became more of a field soldier during the faunus Revolution and dealing with the white fang moving up the ranks over and over

Till he was with general legume and while he tried to convince the general they should commit q different plan that this will fail it fell on deaf ears giving ironwood see reason that if he wants things to go right he should be the one incharge

Especially after that attack led him to lose most of his torso and his left arm

And slowly but surely as he became headmaster at Rampart Academy (atlas academy in my au) and acting general of the atlesian army he had been inducted by ozpin into this war of his

And ironwood was all the more happier to serve

One if his first acts as general was to create the specialist wanting to focus the huntsman of atlas better against a threat and clover Ebi had become the man for the job for him his left hand who could handle things and even lead everything if it all fell apart

But the most crucial turning point that had strained his relationship with ozpin had been the year of disasters when each of the kingdoms had dealt with one disaster

specifically the fall of Mount glenn when ozpin had ordered for it to be sealed and ironwood couldn't reconcile with it to sacrifice that many lives when they could've done more for the people

It's partly the reason he went for drones couldn't mostly stomach having to ask to leave a regiment of men to die when drones are more expendable

Than the fall of beacon happens he's criticised by he council the people of mantle almost everyone apart from his own inner circle who he had told the truth about everything and made the plans for Amity

I still plan on him turning evil or atleast end up cracking under pressure being unable to handle everything not going as he planned over and over again losing more people and friends

His end would come with crashing atlas into monstra to try and delay Salem

This is mostly barebones for now like most of my other posts by would love to hear feedback on it

Main inspiration behind his characterisation is the song writings on the wall by will stetson

RWBY and JNPR family ideas

What ideas do you have regarding the parents of team jnpr in your AU's or simply Headcanons

Team JNPR

Jaune Arc

His Dad is named Henry Arc and has 3 wives

A vacuoan named Cinnamon Clove and 2 valeans named Blanche Argent and Yvette Aster

When they were a team at beacon they were known as team HYAC or hyacinth

Henry was the team leader and was basically a proto jaune but was actually trained to be a fighter

Like jaune he fought with crocea Mors though a fun part of the arc lore I wrote is after a great achievement each wielder can rename the sword but the next wielder must call it crocea Mors to honor the first wielder til the day they earn the right to name it

So during his time at beacon it got named Ascalon the dragon slayer

He died during the Mount glenn incident when jaune was 7

Yvette was a daughter of a smaller upper class family who got disinherited after refusing to obey her father and forced to become a Huntsman when she could only relying the skills she learned from a passing Huntsman

Her weapon is blooming grace an arming sword and a Buckler shield and extends to a full round shield

Based on Cordelia from King Lear

Is Jaune's Bio mom and the one who mostly raised the 7 kids and had retired after Mount glenn mostly spending her days taking care of the Arc Estate

Blanche Argent was a military brat and team mom

Had decided to become a Huntsman when her father refused her to enlist in the Valean military behind his back

Eventually after graduating beacon Academy she enlisted in the vale military after Mount Glenn to try and ensure that the military can better respond to crisis events in the future

By current day she's a general in the military mainly incharge of defense for frontier towns

Her weapon is a lance called silver standard that becomes an anti tank rifle when she needs to hit something from afar

I actually don't have an allusion for her I sort of just wrote her and don't really know what allusion she fits

Cinnamon Clove

Hailing from Vacuo she was an adventurer and thrill seeker who studied at Pharos and than beacon mainly to gain the skills necessary to further continue her sight seeing

She became what's known as an archivist a Huntsmen who spend there time exploring old ruins and lands uncharted to discover secrets of old doctor oobleck is actually one aswell in my au

She's based more on the action girl archeologist think Laura Croft

Her allusion is based more on the DreamWorks sinbad

Her weapons are twin khopesh that turn into smgs named Spice Route

Was the party girl of the group and had 2 kids who are raised in the arc estate and she visits every few months in a year

How the four ended up dating was mostly due to Cinnamon who dated the whole team during there four years together and encouraged them to try and explore it

Henry was the one who offered his family estate to be there main home

Although after Henry died it sorta fell apart for team HYAC

Nora Valkyrie

Her grandmother was Fria Valkyrie a friend of the former winter maiden Nicholas Schnee's wife who died in childbirth

Her mother and father lived in a village in Atlas but her mother upon learning fria became the winter maiden had taken Nora to mistral keeping her away from danger of being hunted by Salem

Unfortunately both the villages were attacked with Nora's parents dying and Nora losing part of her memory only remembering her mom left her

Pyrrha Nikos

Her father Damocles Nikos is based more on the concept of the sword of Damocles

In that he hangs over every decision pyrrha makes and wss on the responsible for Pyrrha's belief in fate and destiny

He wanted to ensure pyrrha would surpass him and every Nikos before her and trained pyrrha from a young age

Pyrrha's mom was Thetis Vulkan a Smith who pyrrha gained a semblance from with Milo and akouo being the last gifts Pyrrha got from her mom before thetis and Damocles divorced

Lie Ren

Li Ren was a retired Huntsman who settled in kuroyuri his wife and partner from haven An's hometown

He retired due to taking an arrow to the knee from the branwen tribe

He helped make a village militia known as the kuroyuri Rangers who had protected the frontier villages together and been the main defense against grimm

Unfortunately most of the Rangers were wiped out after getting annihilated by the nuckelavee who amongst other villages were all wiped out during the great depression where dozens of named grimm had appeared suddenly in the frontier towns of mistral

An Ren was still an active Huntsman at the time mostly to help make ends meet and fought with twin Daos

She had died facing off the nuckelavee to try kill it

Image taken from google

What are ideas you had for grimm in the series that you've made

Located near the sea that borders the dragon continent or the grimmlands as it's known

The place is Known as the Maw a large area where ships planes anything that goes through it vanishes with no trace

Underneath it lies an ancient grimm known as Charybdis who lies in wait for any prey or hero who tries to head to the grimm continent with only a few ever goingt hriugh it and surviving

Salem Is the only one it doesn't attack on sight as they have an understanding where Salem feeds her lesser creations to it

For starters in my au whenever he possesses someone it will always end like a doctor who regeneration same software interactive with different hardware

For him I want him to be more morally gray to have his deeds referenced in history by his many names and folktales

Have him be deeply connected to how the 4 kingdoms formed have him st different stages of life form the mentalities of the people

For starters

His first act after being killed by Salem was to raise an army against her

Which in turn became connected to him finding the relic of destruction

He raised an army in vacuo with the might makes right mentality forming a large army ready to attack the grimm with the sword and his magic

Unfortunately for him this war would end in death but his name would be remembered as the sun king and Salem the Moon goddess in vacuoan myths

He'd awaken in mistral next forming himself as the first Jade Emperor and was voracious for knowledge searching the lands for anything and everything that involves powers abilities

It would awaken mistral as an aura technique practiced fighters but also knowledge obsessed with being known to expand there kingdom all over anima jsut for another scrap of knowledge

For mantle he had found the relic of creation and spent his time testing it's creations having made dozens of bunkers within mantle with technology he had reversed engineered

Most of them were weapons and defensive capabilities that would later be found by the kingdom of mantle forwarding them into a tech based kingdom

He was a wandering hermit during that time being seen as an emotionless wanderer who killed grimm and defended the people like a machine

It would become the basis to have the emotion suppression doctrine

And his first time as a king of vale he united it under 1 banner and split it into 25 states that would later be turned into 7

The great war was something ozpin couldn't stop a war that last 4 centuries with Salem not needing to lift a single finger to show ozpin how fruitless his goal is

That's all I got for now

Have been busy this week so can't make anything too elaborate

But if you were given the chance how would you make her redemption turn out better

Who would be angry or unaccepting of her being a good person

Who'd be the most volatile around her

I cans we Oscar being the first to warm up to her with her helping save him

But what would everyone else do?

By that I mean how would you classify them give them ranks danger levels

For me I plan on unique grimm that have appeared only once gaining a name or being known as named grimm

These grimm like the nuckelavee for example are creatures who have caused unknown death and destruction but have yet to be defeated

Mistral in my au had dozens of them running around

Apart from that there are also ancient grimm grimm that can manage to ignore Salem's call due to there own intelligence and could possibly be reasoned with

When I say mount glenn events I mean catastrophic disasters that had affected the kingdom

For me I had mount glenn be apart of 4 different events that happened in the same year that hit the kingdoms

Mount glenn for vale

The great depression for Mistral for this one it's the time Ren list his home because it was a time hundreds of villages were lost to named grimm

The collapse a dozen or so mining caves in mantle collapsed killing hundreds of faunus and started with sienna khan being more brutal in her acts with the white fang against the sdc

Not sure yet for vacuo