History Fanfic / InYourWildestDreams

** Played painfully straight for Professor Port. In canon, his bombastic, drawn-out speeches about slaying the Creatures of Grimm had no deeper meaning beyond him being a great Huntsman. [[spoiler:When Jaune enters his subconscious in Chapter 37, he discovers that the story Port was telling his current class was a highly fictionalized account of a real incident - one that resulted in Port having to MercyKill a child that was beyond saving, and two Beacon students under his protection dying.]]

** Chapter 36 (which Coeur himself admits to being somewhat of a filler chapter) is another example. After witnessing Cardin's nightmare and waking to Neo sitting on his bed, nothing too crazy happens to Jaune, and he gets to hang out with his friends. Yang, Weiss, Blake and [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Pyrrha]] do decide to pay Junior a visit that results in the four of them getting detention (and some AmusingInjuries in Pyrrha's case) but the whole thing is largely PlayedforLaughs.

* INeverToldYouMyName: After Pyrrha has a nightmare about the time she accidentally ended a friend’s career on the tournament scene, [[spoiler:Jaune accidentally says too much when he’s trying to comfort her; he says Ashley’s name, which he only learned in the dream because Pyrrha spent the whole conversation dancing around it]].

* SinsofOurFathers: Cardin was hated during his childhood for his father's actions during the Faunus War.

** Chapter 36 (which Coeur himself admits to being somewhat of a filler chapter) is another example. After witnessing Cardin's nightmare and waking to Neo sitting on his bed, nothing too crazy happens to Jaune, and he gets to hang out with his friends. Yang, Weiss, Blake and [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Pyrrha]] do decide to pay Junior a visit that results in the four of them getting detention. but the whole thing is largely PlayedforLaughs.

* BreatherEpisode: Chapter 22 is set weeks after [[spoiler:Amber’s death and Jaune’s NearDeathExperience trying to find her murderer]], and while it has emotional fallout pertaining to that as well as [[spoiler:Ruby’s later nightmare]] it’s considerably more relaxed and cathartic than preceding events.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14145272/1/In-Your-Wildest-Dreams In Your Wildest Dreams]]'' is a WhatIf fanfic by Creator/CoeurAlAran where Jaune has a Semblance that allows him to be a DreamWalker. The fic follows Jaune as he explores his friend's dreams, while trying to navigate and learn about the true power his newly found Semblance.

* DreamWalker: Jaune's semblance in this story is that he unintentionally invades his teammates' and other peers' dreams. Jaune, being a generally good person, tries to use this to help them.
* DreamWeaver: Jaune's semblance gives him a version of this, allowing him to alter the dreamer's world at the cost of his aura, which eventually extends to being able to perform actions [[YourMindMakesItReal that can effect them (and himself) in real life]], such as healing or receiving injuries.

* SinsofOurFathers: Cardin was hated during his childhood for his father's actions during the Faunus War. See [[LikeFatherUnlikeSon]] above.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14145272/1/In-Your-Wildest-Dreams In Your Wildest Dreams]]'' is a WhatIf fanfic by Creator/CoeurAlAran where Jaune has a Semblance that allows him to be a DreamWalker, he explores his friend's dreams and tries to navigate his newly found semblance.

** Cardin's father Alabaster was previously portrayed in ''Fanfic/{{Relic of the Future}}'' as a racist braggart. In this fic, Alabaster is portrayed in Cardin's nightmare as a much more complex man. Jaune discovers that Alabaster is an unpunished war criminal (a Faunus teacher in the nightmare accuses Alabaster of murdering his brother), and he is fully aware why the local Faunus absolutely despise him and his family. Alabaster was haunted by what he'd seen and done during the Great War, and he explicitly wanted Cardin to grow up to be a better man than himself. Alabaster enrolled Cardin in a school whose student body was mostly Faunus in hopes that it would make his son an accepting, tolerant person. Unfortunately, this backfired when the students [[SinsofOurFathers bullied and ostracized Cardin for his father's actions]].

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:In Chapter 37, Jaune notes early on while in Professor Port's dream that he wishes he could understand how his stories are supposed to relate to killing Grimm. He even notes that Ren once spent hours analyzing Port's stories in search of some kind of hidden meaning. By the end of the dream, he learns that rather than secretly explaining how to kill Grimm, the stories are traumatic anecdotes about his failed missions. He's forbidden by the Council to properly prepare students for the horrifying reality of being a huntsman, because telling people that they're more likely to perform a MercyKill on a dying child than heroically save a village would hurt recruitment rates. So he tells grandiose versions of these stories with happy endings in hopes that, eventually, a student will be able to figure out the {{Hard Truth Aesop}}s behind his boring stories ''before'' graduating. The following day, Jaune realizes that the story of Port valiantly protecting a "puppy" from a Grimm horde is a cleaned-up retelling of another failed mission; Port was called to a destroyed village where the only survivor was a child, but while Port was trying to protect him, the child got scared, ran off, and was killed by the Grimm. When class ends and Jaune sees Professor Port sitting on his chair staring at the ceiling, he realizes that Ren was right that their teacher's stories had hidden meanings - and he wishes he never knew about them.]]

* PetTheDog: Though Jaune refuses to tell Winter what he saw in any of Weiss's nightmares so as to not violate her privacy any more than it already has been, he does tell her that she was never in any of them, which gives her some relief.

* PsychicSurgery: Chapter 28 reveals that Jaune's Semblance can heal others. When he heals the hand injury of Nora's dream self, the real Nora wakes up to discover that a wound she got during training (which, by Nora's estimation, should've taken her a week to recover from) had completely healed overnight.

* SinsofOurFathers: Cardin was hated during his childhood for his father's actions during the Faunas War.

** [[spoiler:Professor Port's entire personality is revealed to be a facade for a deeply cynical man who struggles with the morality of his profession. He's well aware of how dangerous the situation is for the villages outside of the city's walls (a village can be wiped out to the man in about twenty minutes), but the Council refuses to let him teach the grim realities of the job for fear of how it would affect recruitment numbers. The cognitive dissonance between what he's being told to teach versus what his job is actually supposed to be is too much for him, so he makes up his fake stories that put his students to sleep because he has no idea what he's actually supposed to be doing]].

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:In Chapter 37, Jaune notes early on while in Professor Port's dream that he wishes he could understand how his stories are supposed to relate to killing Grimm. He even notes that Ren once spent hours analyzing Port's stories in search of some kind of hidden meaning. By the end of the dream, he learns that rather than secretly explaining how to kill Grimm, the stories are traumatic anecdotes about his failed missions. He's forbidden by the Council to properly prepare students for the horrifying reality of being a huntsman, because telling people that they're more likely to perform a MercyKill on a dying child than heroically save a village would hurt recruitment rates. So he tells grandiose versions of these stories with happy endings in hopes that, eventually, a student will be able to figure out the {{Hard Truth Aesop}}s behind his boring stories ''before'' graduating. The following day, Jaune realizes that the story of Port valiantly protecting a "puppy" from a Grimm horde is a cleaned-up retelling of the nightmare he saw. In truth, Port and a team of Beacon students were investigating a village ravaged by Grimm when they come across the sole survivor of the attack - a young boy whose legs were torn off. When one of the students walk in on Port putting the child out of their misery, she accuses Port of being a murderer and her negativity attracts a swarm of Grimm. The student is mauled by an Ursa, and one of her teammates runs into the woods in a panic, unarmed and pursued by several Grimm. When class ends and Jaune sees Professor Port sitting on his chair staring at the ceiling, he realizes that Ren was right that their teacher's stories had hidden meanings - and he wishes he never knew about them.]]

* DisappointedByTheMotive: In Chapter 27, Neptune falls squarely into jerk territory when he asks Weiss out to the school dance, only to abandon and publicly humiliate her. When Jaune ends up in one of his nightmares and gets some more insight into his psyche, he discovers that Neptune is terrified of being made fun of for literally anything, such as not knowing how to dance[[note]]even though most men don't know how to dance either[[/note]] or being inadequately sized down below[[note]]Neptune was naked for most of his dream and Jaune sees that he's actually about average[[/note]]. Compared to the geniume trauma his friends have endured, Neptune's fear of social embarassment are so meaningless and insignificant that an irate Jaune tears into him, calling Neptune pathetic for letting his performance anxiety and nonexistent problems ruin Weiss' night.

** In the first chapter, Jaune accidentally ends up in one of Blake's dreams, and it's clearly based off of one of her smut. He's pretty entertained until he realizes that he's actually in one of his friends' dreams, and it makes him swear to himself that he'll never take advantage of the opportunity.

* FriendlessBackground: Ruby reveals that despite being more of a social butterfly, Yang struggled at making friends with her peers just as much as Ruby did [[SoBeautifulItsACurse because of her good looks]]; guys would assume that she was leading them on if she was nice and girls thought she was dressing provocatively to steal their boyfriends. Her childhood friends started acting weird once puberty hit, which only made her Raven-induced fear of abandonment even worse.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:In Chapter 37, Jaune notes early on while in Professor Port's dream that he wishes he could understand how his stories are supposed to relate to killing Grimm. He even notes that Ren once spent hours analyzing Port's stories in search of some kind of hidden meaning. By the end of the dream, he learns that rather than secretly explaining how to kill Grimm, the stories are traumatic anecdotes about his failed missions. He's forbidden by the Council to properly prepare students for the horrifying reality of being a huntsman, because telling people that they're more likely to perform a MercyKill on a dying child than heroically save a village would hurt recruitment rates. So he tells grandiose versions of these stories with happy endings in hopes that, eventually, a student will be able to figure out the {{Hard Truth Aesop}}s behind his boring stories ''before'' graduating. The following day, Jaune realizes that the story of Port valiantly protecting a "puppy" from a Grimm horde is a cleaned-up retelling of the nightmare he saw. In truth, Port and a team of Beacon students were investigating a village ravaged by Grimm when they come across the sole survivor of the attack - a young boy whose legs were torn off. When one of the students walk in on Port putting the child out of their misery, she accuses Port of being a murderer and her negativity attracts a swarm of Grimm. One of the students is mauled by an Ursa, and another runs into the woods in a panic, pursued by several Grimm. When class ends and Jaune sees Professor Port sitting on his chair staring at the ceiling, he realizes that Ren was right that their teacher's stories had hidden meanings - and he wishes he never knew about them.]]

* FriendlessBackground: Ruby reveals that despite being more of a social butterfly, Yang struggled at making friends with her peers just as much as Ruby did because of her good looks; guys would assume that she was leading them on if she was nice, girls thought she was dressing provocatively to steal their boyfriends. Her childhood friends started acting weird once puberty hit, which only made her Raven-induced fear of abandonment even worse.

* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: After experiencing Cardin's traumatic childhood through one of his nightmares, Jaune does concede that Cardin probably wouldn't have become a racist bully if he hadn't been bullied in his youth but knowing his sympathetic past doesn't suddenly mean that he's not a racist bully or that anything he did was justified.

* FriendlessBackground: As Ruby reveals, despite being far more of a social butterfly, Yang struggled at making friends with her peers just as much as Ruby did because of her good looks; guys would assume that she was leading them on if she was nice, girls thought she was dressing provocatively to steal their boyfriends, and even her childhood friends started getting weird once puberty hit. This only made her Raven-induced fear of abandonment even worse.

* DisappointedByTheMotive: In Chapter 27, Neptune [[Heel falls squarely into jerk territory]] when he asks Weiss out to the school dance, only to abandon and publicly humiliate her. When Jaune ends up in one of his nightmares and gets some more insight into his psyche, he discovers that Neptune is terrified of being made fun of for literally anything, such as not knowing how to dance[[note]]even though most men don't know how to dance either[[/note]] or being inadequately sized down below[[note]]Neptune was naked for most of his dream and Jaune sees that he's actually about average[[/note]]. Compared to the geniume trauma his friends have endured, Neptune's fear of social embarassment are so meaningless and insignificant that an irate Jaune tears into him, calling Neptune pathetic for letting his performance anxiety and nonexistent problems ruin Weiss' night.

* DisappointedByTheMotive: In Chapter 27, Neptune falls squarely into [[heel]] territory when he asks Weiss out to the school dance, only to abandon and publicly humiliate her. When Jaune ends up in one of his nightmares and gets some more insight into his psyche, he discovers that Neptune is terrified of being made fun of for literally anything such as not knowing how to dance[[note]]even though most men don't know how to dance either[[/note]] or being inadequately sized down below[[note]]Neptune was naked for most of his dream and Jaune sees that he's actually about average[[/note]]. Compared to the geniume trauma his friends have endured, Neptune's fear of social embarassment are so meaningless and insignificant that an irate Jaune tears into him, calling Neptune pathetic for letting his performance anxiety and nonexistent problems ruin Weiss' night.

* DisappointedByTheMotive: In Chapter 27, Neptune falls squarely into [[Heel heel]] territory when he asks Weiss out to the school dance, only to abandon and publicly humiliate her. When Jaune ends up in one of his nightmares and gets some more insight into his psyche, he discovers that Neptune is terrified of being made fun of for literally anything such as not knowing how to dance[[note]]even though most men don't know how to dance either[[/note]] or being inadequately sized down below[[note]]Neptune was naked for most of his dream and Jaune sees that he's actually about average[[/note]]. Compared to the geniume trauma his friends have endured, Neptune's fear of social embarassment are so meaningless and insignificant that an irate Jaune tears into him, calling Neptune pathetic for letting his performance anxiety and nonexistent problems ruin Weiss' night.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:In Chapter 37, Jaune notes early on while in Professor Port's dream that he wishes he could understand how his stories are supposed to relate to killing Grimm. He even notes that Ren once spent hours analyzing Port's stories in search of some kind of hidden meaning. By the end of the dream, he learns that rather than secretly explaining how to kill Grimm, the stories are traumatic anecdotes about his failed missions. He's forbidden by the Council to properly prepare students for the horrifying reality of being a huntsman, because telling people that they're more likely to perform a MercyKill on a dying child than heroically save a village would hurt recruitment rates. So he tells grandiose versions of these stories with happy endings in hopes that, eventually, a student will be able to figure out the {{Hard Truth Aesop}}s behind his boring stories ''before'' graduating.]] The following day, Jaune realizes that [[spoiler:the story of Port valiantly protecting a "puppy" from a Grimm horde is a cleaned-up retelling of the nightmare he saw. In truth, Port and a team of Beacon students were investigating a village ravaged by Grimm when they come across the sole survivor of the attack - a young boy whose legs were torn off. When one of the students walk in on Port putting the child out of their misery, she accuses Port of being a murderer and her negativity attracts a swarm of Grimm. One of the students is mauled by an Ursa, and another runs into the woods in a panic, pursued by several Grimm. When class ends and Jaune sees Professor Port sitting on his chair staring at the ceiling, he realizes that Ren was right that their teacher's stories had hidden meanings - and he wishes he never knew about them]].

* BrokenAce: Qrow is one of Ozpin's most trusted agents and an incredibly skilled Huntsman and combatant. He's also an alcoholic wreck of a person who can barely teach his classes, once left a ten-year-old Yang alone at a park until 2 AM, and carries a mountain of trauma from a horrible past as a bandit and the friends and family he lost along the way, whose deaths he blames himself for.

* DisappointedByTheMotive: While he's far from being a villain, Neptune's definitely the heel in the dance arc when he asks Weiss out only to stand her up and publicly humiliate her. Nobody is impressed to learn that he chickened out at the eleventh hour because he can't dance. Later, Jaune ends up in one of his nightmares and gets some more insight into his psyche, learning that Neptune is terrified of being made fun of for ''anything'', since it could potentially undermine the cool image he puts on, even things that objectively are fine. This just makes Jaune ''more'' disappointed, as he's no stranger to facing real trauma from other peoples' nightmares, and not only is Neptune's fear of embarrassment petty and unfounded in comparison, he makes it everyone else's problem to deal with his irrational social cowardice.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:In Chap[ter 37, Jaune notes early on while in Professor Port's dream that he wishes he could understand how his stories are supposed to relate to killing Grimm. He even notes that Ren once spent hours analyzing Port's stories in search of some kind of hidden meaning. By the end of the dream, he learns that rather than secretly explaining how to kill Grimm, the stories are traumatic anecdotes about his failed missions. He's forbidden by the Council to properly prepare students for the horrifying reality of being a huntsman, because telling people that they're more likely to perform a MercyKill on a dying child than heroically save a village would hurt recruitment rates. So he tells grandiose versions of these stories with happy endings in hopes that, eventually, a student will be able to figure out the {{Hard Truth Aesop}}s behind his boring stories ''before'' graduating.]] The following day, Jaune realizes that [[spoiler:the story of Port valiantly protecting a "dog" from a Grimm horde is a fictionalized retelling of the nightmare he saw, which was about him trying to protect a Beacon student during a Grimm ambush, but failing because said child ran away and got themselves killed. When the bell rings and the class leaves, Jaune also notices that Port is obviously faking the joyous energy he'd imbuing the story with]].

** Assuming the dream is an accurate representation of an actual person, [[spoiler:Adam is far more uncertain about attacking Beacon than he was in the show. Here, he says that he hates the idea (Huntsmen protect everyone regardless if they're human or Faunus, after all) and the only reasons he agreed to the plan are that Cinder is way too powerful to deny and the students are all Huntsmen-in-Training, so they should all be fine. In the show, Adam not only led the charge to destroy Beacon but personally attacked students during it, including almost executing a defeated student before Blake arrived]].

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Jaune notes early on while in Professor Port's dream that he wishes he could understand how the tales he tells are supposed to relate to killing Grimm, even noting that Ren once spent hours analyzing Port's stories and never found any kind of hidden meaning. By the end of the dream, he learns that [[spoiler:rather than secretly explaining how to kill Grimm, the stories are traumatic anecdotes about all his failed missions. He isn't allowed to actually warn and properly prepare students for the horrifying reality of being a huntsman, because telling people that they're more likely to perform a MercyKill on a dying child than save a village from ruin would hurt the heroic image of the career. So he tells grandiose versions of these stories with happy endings in hopes that, eventually, a student will be able to figure out the {{Hard Truth Aesop}}s behind his boring stories ''before'' graduating.]] Jaune decidedly isn't a fan of this newfound knowledge when, the following day in class, he can't help but notice that [[spoiler:the story of Port valiantly protecting a "dog" from a Grimm horde is him trying to protect the last human survivor of a Grimm attack, but failing because said child ran away from him and got themselves killed, and that Port is obviously faking the joyous energy he'd imbuing the story with]].

* BreatherEpisode: Chapter 22 is set weeks after [[spoiler:Amber’s death and Jaune’s NearDeathExperience trying to find her murderer]], and while it has emotional fallout pertaining to that as well as [[spoiler:Ruby’s later nightmare]] it’s considerably more relaxed and cathartic than preceding events.

* CannotSpitItOut: Deconstructed in regards to Pyrrha’s inability to confess her feelings for Jaune. Jaune suspects that Pyrrha might have a crush on him, but given what just happened with Weiss, he doesn't want to presume anything and potentially ruin their friendship if he’s mistaken. So he just starts heavily hinting to her that he’s interested in going out to the Beacon Dance with her instead, but she won’t act on the matter. [[PoorCommunicationKills This convinces him he misread the situation and he should ask out someone else]], to Pyrrha’s consternation. Ren does confirm that Pyrrha has a crush on him when asked, but since he's already started a relationship with Yang by that point, he reasons it's not fair to him, Yang, or their teams to openly acknowledge Pyrrha's feelings until she finally does.

** In the first chapter, Jaune accidentally ends up in one of Blake's dreams, and it's clearly based off of one of her smut novels. He's pretty entertained until he realizes that he's actually in one of his friends' dreams, and it makes him swear to himself that he'll never take advantage of the opportunity.

** His jumping into dreams has given Jaune a glimpse at the inner thoughts and insecurities of the people around him, much to his dismay as he knows how deeply personal they are and that his Semblance is essentially forcing him into an extreme invasion of privacy.

** It's implied that Qrow's recent public fights with Winter aren't just because he enjoys riling her up, but in part because she knows that Jaune might've invaded her sister's dreams and he's running interference so Jaune doesn't have to deal with her overprotectiveness for as long as possible. This is backed up when Winter immediately corners Jaune for that exact reason the moment Qrow is occupied arguing with someone else.

in addition to harm other people through their dreams after healing Nora in her dream resulted in Nora discovering that her injury from a recent combat class was healed as well.

** Chapter 35: [[spoiler:After waking up from Cardin's nightmare, Jaune wakes up to find Neopolitan - who, as far as Jaune knows, is on the run with Amber's murderer - perched atop him and holding his mouth shut, making him unable to cry for help]].

** Jaune finds himself feeling increasingly this way over the people he's seen the insecurities of in dreams, especially when he sees them placed in a situation threating to twig those insecurities in real life. To the point that he punches out Cardin in an enraged fugue when he sees the latter hurting Velvet before he can even process doing so.

* PsychicSurgery: Chapter 28 reveals that Jaune's Semblance can heal in addition to harm other people through their dreams after healing Nora in her dream resulted in Nora discovering that her injury from a recent combat class was healed as well.

* SinsofOurFathers: Cardin was hated during his childhood for his father's actions during the Faunas War.

* YourMindMakesItReal: Jaune's semblance quickly evolves to have this effect. [[spoiler:While in a dream of Amber's killer, Jaune conjures a weapon of pure Aura and throws it in what he assumes to be a symbolic gesture against the villain before they wake up. Cinder jolts awake with a real injury corresponding to the one in the dream. Later on, when a vision of Cinder slices his neck during one of Neo's nightmares, ''he'' wakes up with a real injury as well. On the flip side, healing Nora in one of her nightmares heals a real injury she got earlier in the week from sparing]].

** Played painfully straight for Professor Port. In canon, his bombastic, drawn-out speeches about slaying the Creatures of Grimm had no deeper meaning beyond him being a great Huntsman. [[spoiler:When Jaune enters his subconscious in Chapter 37, he discovers that the story Port was telling his current class was a highly fictionalized account of a real incident - one that resulted in Port having to [[MercyKill Mercy Kill]] a child that was beyond saving, and two Beacon students under his protection dying.]]

** ZigZagged for Weiss and her siblings. In canon, Weiss merely states that she had watched family acquaintances disappear and never come back due to the White Fang kidnapping or killing them, and this affected her deeply. Here, we get a dream of the White Fang directly attacking Weiss' family in Chapter 30. [[spoiler:The dream is ultimately revelaed to be Blake's, and was caused by a traumatic anecdote that Weiss told her during an argument. In the dream, the SDC building was attacked with her uncle and several boardroom members killed. In real life, Weiss and her family were able to hide in a secure bunker while the White Fang were routed away. Blake's nightmare had her attack the Schnee children due to her own guilt about being a former White Fang member.]]

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Unlike the show, Weiss is shown to carry some resentment for Winter over her leaving her and Whitley to fend for themselves against Jacques and his rage, which ends up boiling over during an argument the two have over Jaune's "arrest".

** Played painfully straight for Professor Port. In canon, his bombastic speeches about slaying the Creatures of Grimm had no deeper meaning beyond him being a great Huntsman. [[spoiler:When Jaune enters his subconscious in Chapter 37, he discovers that the story Port was telling his current class was a highly fictionalized account of a real incident - one that resulted in Port having to [[MercyKill Mercy Kill]] a child that was beyond saving, and two Beacon students dying.]]

** Cardin's father Alabaster was previously portrayed in ''Fanfic/{{Relic of the Future}}'' as a braggart who was openly racist against the Faunus. In this fic, Alabaster is portrayed in Cardin's nightmare as a much more complex man: though the nightmare all but confirms him to be a war criminal who went unpunished (a teacher in the nightmare says Alabaster murdered his brother), he expressed understanding for why local Faunus in particular hate him so, was significantly haunted by his war experiences, and he explicitly wanted Cardin to grow up to be a better man than himself. He enrolled him in a majority Faunus school so as to avoid him becoming a racist like Alabaster did, but this backfired when the students bullied him for his father's actions.

** Played painfully straight for Professor Port. In canon, his bombastic speeches about slaying the Creatures of Grimm had no deeper meaning beyond him being a great Huntsman. [[spoiler:When Jaune enters his subconscious in Chapter 37, he discovers that the story Port was telling his current class was a highly fictionalized account of a real incident - one that resulted in Port having to [[Mercy Kill]] a child that was beyond saving, and two Beacon students dying.]]

* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: ZigZagged for Weiss and her siblings. In canon, Weiss merely states that she had watched family acquaintances disappear and never come back due to the White Fang kidnapping or killing them, and this affected her deeply. Here, we get a dream in Chapter 30 that Weiss herself was attacked directly by the White Fang. [[spoiler:It turns out to be Blake dreaming about a traumatic anecdote that Weiss told her during an argument, with Blake's dream telling an inaccurate version of the events: the company building was attacked, with her uncle and other boardroom members dying, but the attack on the manor never got anywhere near Weiss, as her and her family were able to hunker down in a bunker while the White Fang were routed away. Blake dreamt otherwise due to her own guilt about being a member of the group.]]

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Thanks to Jaune being so kind to both her Neo and Trivia personas in her dreams, she latches onto him like a protective older sister. When Mercury threatens to beat up Jaune after Emerald becomes nervous about him possibly suspecting them when he looks in their direction (actually at Mercury, whom he entered the dream of the night before), Neo very pointedly threatens to snap Mercury's mechanical legs since she appreciates Jaune's niceness toward her younger dream personas. Later, after Cinder finds out about Jaune's Semblance, Neo has no qualms on planning to murder the woman once she makes not-so-subtle threats about what she'd do if Jaune entered her dreams again.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Jaune notes early on while in Professor Port's dream that he wishes he could understand how they're supposed to relate to killing Grimm, even noting that Ren once spent hours analyzing Port's stories and never found any kind of hidden meaning. By the end of the dream, he learns that [[spoiler:rather than secretly explaining how to kill Grimm, the stories are traumatic anecdotes about all his failed missions. He isn't allowed to actually warn and properly prepare students for the horrifying reality of being a huntsman, because telling people that they're more likely to perform a MercyKill on a dying child than save a village from ruin would hurt the heroic image of the career. So he tells grandiose versions of these stories with happy endings in hopes that, eventually, a student will be able to figure out the {{Hard Truth Aesop}}s behind his boring stories ''before'' graduating.]] Jaune decidedly isn't a fan of this newfound knowledge when, the following day in class, he can't help but notice that [[spoiler:the story of Port valiantly protecting a "dog" from a Grimm horde is him trying to protect the last human survivor of a Grimm attack, but failing because said child ran away from him and got themselves killed, and that Port is obviously faking the joyous energy he'd imbuing the story with]].

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Jaune notes that he once wished he could understand Professor Port's stories and how they're supposed to relate to killing Grimm, even noting that Ren once spent hours analyzing Port's stories and never found any kind of hidden meaning. Then Jaune ends up in Port's dreams and realizes the hidden meaning. [[spoiler:Rather than secretly explaining how to kill Grimm, the stories are based on Port's traumatic memories, but he completely divorces them from the horrifying reality to keep it palatable for the children's ears. For example, Jaune realizes that a story of Port valiantly protecting a dog from a Grimm horde was actually a story of Port trying to protect a child in the aftermath of a Grimm attack, but the child got scared, ran away, and was killed by the Grimm]]. Jaune notes after that he's finally found the hidden meaning and wishes he could forget about it.

* MercyKill: Jaune learns through a dream that [[spoiler:Professor Port once had to mercy kill a child following a Grimm attack; the child had lost both legs in the attack and was never going to survive regardless of any first aid he could provide, so he coaxed the child to sleep and killed him right there. It's made clear that Port is still traumatized by this, even if he maintains that it was ultimately better for the child]].

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Jaune notes that he once wished he could understand Professor Port's stories and how they're supposed to relate to killing Grimm, even noting that Ren once spent hours analyzing Port's stories and never found any kind of hidden meaning. Then Jaune ends up in Port's dreams and realizes the hidden meaning. [[spoiler:Rather than secretly explaining how to kill Grimm, the stories are based on Port's traumatic memories, but he completely divorces them from the horrifying reality to keep it palatable for the children's ears. For example, Jaune realizes that a story of Port valiantly protecting a dog from a Grimm horde was actually a story of Port trying to protect a child, the sole survivor of a village, but the child got scared, ran away, and was killed by the Grimm]]. Jaune notes after that he's finally found the hidden meaning and wishes he could forget about it.

** When Jaune enters Oobleck's dreams for the first time, Oobleck becomes lucid and tries to summon an image of one of his deceased teammates. [[spoiler:In his excitement, he forgets that, lucid or not, he was in the middle of a nightmare, so the summoned image is of his teammate's mutilated corpse blaming him for her death]].

* DramaticIrony: Jaune is in a position of knowing hardly anything about his friends' histories, but the reader does through watching the show or reading Coeur's other fics. As such, he's occasionally left confused by the incomplete information their dreams present him, and is stuck speculating how much of the imagery might be literal versus metaphorical versus random nonsense, and occasionally getting it wrong. For example, he assumes Cinder's dream about killing Rhodes and her stepfamily was a metaphor for her feelings towards an abusive childhood, while the reader knows she was dreaming about an actual event from said childhood.

* JerkassRealization: Weiss spells out to Jaune in her dream that his pursuit of her isn't cute and endearing, it's actively making her life worse. The bottom line is that she isn't interested and nagging won't change that, but by putting her on the spot in public over and over, he forces her to be the bad guy rejecting him, with bystanders and even their other friends sympathizing with him and putting the blame on her for raining on his parade. Weiss has come to dread seeing him at all because interacting with him almost always ends up reflecting badly on her when she already struggles to make social connections. Jaune is mortified by how thoughtless he's been this whole time, and next time they're together he (publicly, to make it fair) apologizes for his behavior and promises she won't have to deal with that from him anymore, which begins repairing their relationship.

** Franchise/{{Alien}}: pokes its head over the opposite side of the couch as Jaune and little!Velvet watch a children's movie. Since it seems to be waiting for Velvet to notice, Jaune puts his hand so Velvet can't see it.

** EvilPhone: A threatening voice on the phone asks if Velvet's home alone. Jaune answers no, and that he's a Huntsman. The voice claims it was a wrong number.

** The differing circumstances leading up to the Beacon Dance mean that [[spoiler:Cinder outright blows up the CCT rather than just hack it]].

* PoorCommunicationKills: Jaune and Pyrrha dating is torpedoed by this: the former begins to suspect the latter harbours feelings for him, but not wanting to make a fool of himself by asking outright, instead spends a full week giving repeated hints to her to ask him out for the dance. Pyrrha doesn't do anything in response to his obvious signals, so Jaune concludes he must be mistaken… until Ren confirms that he wasn't wrong; Pyrrha does have a crush on him and was heartbroken when he decided to ask out Yang instead. Neither of them understand why Pyrrha failed to make a move, but Ren assures Jaune that he shouldn't feel guilty since he can’t be faulted for Pyrrha’s unwillingness to act on her own feelings when he gave her many opportunities to do so.
* PowerIncontinence: Jaune can apparently only enter others' dreams when he himself is asleep, and on account of being asleep, he has no conscious control of what he's doing and invades a dream randomly. Once he's ''in'' a dream though, he's lucid, so he can make deliberate choices how to use that power within it. [[spoiler:His power activating while he's sleeping means that the usual bodily failsafe of a Semblance failing due to exhaustion or falling unconscious isn't in affect, meaning he can use it far past the point of safety, which causes him to overuse it to the point of cardiac arrest in Chapter 21]].

* DiesDifferentInAdaptation: As expected, Amber isn't long for this world once the story starts, but rather than being murdered by Cinder during the Fall, [[spoiler:she dies peacefully in her sleep several months early]].

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Assuming his dream matches how he actually feels, [[spoiler:Adam is incredibly uncertain about attacking a Huntsman academy, recognizing that they're just students, but he genuinely believes there's no other option that wouldn't maximize innocent casualties. He even notes that the students in the Academy handle the kind of Grimm they're bringing for breakfast, so they ''should'' be okay at the end of the day. He also admits that while he's far from a saint, Cinder is far worse than he is]].
* EveryoneHasStandards: Even knowing that it means [[spoiler:Amber's killer remains unidentified, Jaune can't bring himself to force her to relive Cinder's attack when she's already about to die anyway, instead granting her a peaceful final dream]].

** It's implied that Qrow's recent public fights with Winter aren't just because he enjoys riling her up, but in part because she knows that Jaune might've invaded her sister's dreams and he's running interference so Jaune doesn't have to deal with her overprotectiveness for as long as possible.

* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Cardin's father enrolled Cardin in a school where a majority of the students were Faunus in an attempt to prevent Cardin from becoming as bad as he did. It backfired when the other students bullied him because of his father's actions, turning him into the racist bully is he in Beacon.

* SinsofOurFathers: Cardin was hated during his childhood for his father's actions during Faunas War.