[RWBY/GW2] The Noble Roses

Antimatter

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#1
First full length fic here, A RWBY/Guildwars 2 inspired fic.

Summery: The story of a girl, a team, a guild and the trials they face. Life as an mmo inspired fic.

Chapter 1 can be found here

The Noble Roses: Chapter 1

Chapter one isn't too different from canon, but it will start to branch out more as time goes on and the full crew gets into things.
 

BF110C4

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#2
It starts well, as an standard retelling of the first episodes of RWBY but showing, with more subtlety than usual the differences of Ruby and Yang, and I like that your Jaune is not as much of an idiot (and plot device) as the original.

I know nothing of the GW2 side of the crossover, but so far it does not matter.
 

Antimatter

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#3
Hes still Jaune, but hes more reacting to the conversations, which are a bit different than canon.

The biggest thing here is honestly, certain events are going to happen, because they need to. I'm just not going to waste time talking about what hasn't really changed, hence why certain scenes are skipped or summarized. This will be really apparent next chapter.

Stuff will really start to change post initiation, when the effects of the crossover become more apparent.

Edit: I went an added a bit of a prologue. It will probably be revised a bit though.
 

BF110C4

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#4
About Jaune I hope that at least you remove some of his knowledge inconsistencies that he had added to him as an excuse to teach it to the audience. He was smart enough to fake his curriculum to a combat school, he must have known at least the basics of Dust, Aura and huntsmen to do so even if he had a locked Aura and no experience.

As for the FF version? Still needs to add some formating, especially to separate the different scenes.
 

Antimatter

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#5
BF110C4 said:
About Jaune I hope that at least you remove some of his knowledge inconsistencies that he had added to him as an excuse to teach it to the audience. He was smart enough to fake his curriculum to a combat school, he must have known at least the basics of Dust, Aura and huntsmen to do so even if he had a locked Aura and no experience.

As for the FF version? Still needs to add some formating, especially to separate the different scenes.
FF seems to keep eating my formatting at times. I'm really not sure how to fix that, though I tried to do it with their WYSIWYG editor. Every time, it just deletes the spaces/spacers/dashes/etc and such.

Edit: ok, that should be fixed in the live version now.

As for Jaune, I always figured he bought the transcripts off some person, etc, and may in fact have not known all this info, as not being a huntsmen student, nor apparent;y having an interest watching tournaments, he didn't know about it. He probably figured he'd learn all the ins and outs of the profession at the school itself, and didn't realize he was suppose to know all this before hand.

He'll be a quick study here though, due to a few changes to the timeline here and there, and some secondary effects.

Canon wise, i've always wondered just what Jaune did prior to this caper, ie where does he live, what's his family do, etc. Word of god/canon only says he's got seven sisters, his ancestors were warriors/heros, and he's one of the younger siblings in the family.
 

BF110C4

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#6
More advanced knowledge like how does Aura works or the practical uses of Dust can be left for didactic purposes, but just make him learn the basics of the basics such as Aura and Dust. He was made so ignorant because the studio needed a way of telling that stuff to the audience but in universe its the kind of knowledge children would learn in kindergarden.
 

Antimatter

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#7
Pretty much, yeah. I don't plan on retreading any of that, fyi. If a conversation or scene is the same as canon, i'm pretty much just skipping it.
 

Antimatter

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#8
I'm about 3/4ths done with chapter 2's first draft, turning into a much longer chapter then expected.

But this should get most of the canon recap stuff out of the way, with some changes of course. After that the real fun starts for me, as I can really go off the rails in places.
 

Antimatter

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#9
Chapter two's rough draft is finished, weighing in currently at just over 10,000 words. Will give it another good top to bottom read, and post the google doc probably tomorrow.
 
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