History Fanfic / LinkedInLifeAndLove

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: Sienna Khan was able to defeat Tyrion Callows when he attacked her on the way to Beacon. We only see the aftermath but Tyrion had part of his tail ripped off and is tied up.]]

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: Sienna Kahn was able to defeat Tyrion Callows when he attacked her on the way to Beacon. We only see the aftermath but Tyrion had part of his tail ripped off and is tied up.]]

* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:When Yang asks Raven why she hasn't tried to create a portal to Summer, Raven says she did and creates a portal that fizzles out and burns her. Raven just says it's because Summer is in an unreachable location, but then Yang asks her if anyone she's had a portal connection to had ever died before, and when Raven answers no, Yang posits that it could just be what naturally happens with her Semblance when someone does die. Then, she blows up at Raven for giving her hope that Summer could be alive only to yank it away with an "I don't know".]]

* IdenticalStranger: Penny Polendina and Percy Spring look very similar to the point that when Yang first sees Percy she mistakes her for the former.

* NamedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: The girl who is currently the Spring Maiden, whom [[AdaptationalHeroism Raven]] adopted into the Branwen clan [[SparedByTheAdaptation instead of killing her for her powers]], is named Percy Spring.]]

* ParentChildTeam:[[spoiler:Roman and Neo are this due to Neo being Roman's adoptive daughter]]
* ParentalSubstitute:[[spoiler:Roman acting like a father to Neo, especially after it's revealed that legally she's his adopted daughter due to Roman filling out the paperwork and having a lawyer make it look like that had been the case for a while to get her out of jail (he meant to have it forged, but it turned out to be easier to do it legitimately). Neo's not sure how she feels about that information]].

* PercussiveTherapy: Yang gets the opportunity to talk out, work out and fight out her feelings with [[spoiler:her mother Raven]] when they have a spar in Vale's old sports arena.

A Pollination fic without Enabler, Linked in Life and Love focuses mainly on the relationship between all four girls of team RWBY and them getting used to each other's extended family, all the while moving towards an earlier than canon conflict with Adam Taurus who's not too happy about his ex-girlfriend sleeping with the enemy.

*** When Cardin and his team first see Blake [[spoiler:with her ears exposed]] and [[FantasticRacism move to start hassling her]], they get a DeathGlare from not only the rest of her team, but most of team JNPR as well. Nora is the only one smiling, but that's because she's letting [[DropTheHammer Magnhild's]] [[GunboatDiplomacy appearance on her lap]] do the glaring for her.

* ForWantOfANail:
** With Blake on the run for almost a week during Season 1's finale, she forgot to refill her anti-heat prescription. Neo raided Beacon's student database looking for info on the students from the Season 1 finale battle. This causes the school to go into lockdown and triggers the whole plot.
** [[spoiler:This culminates in the Fall of Beacon being averted entirely due to Roman and Neo switching sides and spilling the beans to Ozpin and co. in order to protect his newly-found nieces and their girlfriends. Adam is captured and the White Fang's presence in Vale is made nonexistent, and Cinder and her minions are exposed and face a similar fate]].

* BossInMookClothing: The [[spoiler:Geist-possessed Paladin]] turns out to be this. Despite not looking like much, [[spoiler:and the Paladin being Roman's already-wrecked one]], the fact that it doesn't need to keep itself safe like one with a normal pilot would, among other factors, means that the fight goes on for far longer than she expected.

* DareToBeBadass: In Chapter 96, Professor Goodwitch gives a speech to this effect when Cardin Winchester tries to complain about Team RWBY [[spoiler:using multiple Semblances]] in the Vytal Tournament, claiming that doing so would be impossible. Goodwitch says that they still have two weeks to prepare for the tournament, that fighting against impossible odds is a Hunter's entire duty, and that if Cardin can't handle impossible odds, he should quit. While Cardin declares that he's not a quitter and doesn't complain after that, the speech also buoys all the other Hunter trainees to not back down in the upcoming tournament, especially against Team RWBY - [[SpiritedCompetitor something that Yang finds herself excited by]].
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* HarmfulToMinors: The reason Raven left is that, after five years of assassination attempts, the Cult of Salem convinced a five-year-old boy to give her a toy top as a reward for saving his village. Upon returning home, she gave it to her daughters, Yang [[spoiler:and Ruby]] to play with, only for it to [[SomebodySetUsUpTheBomb explode]] in the middle of the living room, right in a ''[[WouldHurtAChild four-year-old]]'' Yang's face.

* ParentChildTeam:[[spoiler:Roman and Neo are this Neo is Roman's adoptive daughter]]

* PowerDyesYourHair: This is the case when [[spoiler:Team RWBY use Yang's Semblance; just like Yang's, their hair lights up bright, and even gains [[FlamingHair extra effects]]. Ruby gets a full red-haired, static-charged dye job, Weiss's gets more white and frosty, and Blake's goes [[PurpleIsTheNewBlack violet]] and takes on a vapoury appearance.]]

* PrideBeforeAFall: [[spoiler:Team STRQ]] experienced this right out of graduation. Hailed as Beacon Academy's best, and high on the cockiness of youth, they accepted a mission that had them facing an entire horde of Grimm that would've been a challenge for ''five'' teams, and [[SuicidalOverconfidence decided to take it all on by themselves instead of calling for backup]]. It was a literal miracle they all made it out alive.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Roman makes a hasty exit when Taiyang Xiao Long confronts him with the knowledge of what he did to his daughters.

** The Schnee family glyph Semblance is this. So Winter has an interesting time [[spoiler:teaching three outsiders who can use it as well how to use them]].
** Yang's Semblance is apparently similar to her father Taiyang's: both can [[EnergyAbsorption absorb kinetic energy]] and enhance their strength with it, but while Yang can amplify the energy she takes in, [[PentUpPowerPeril she cannot store it for very long before it has to be released]], whereas her father can only return as much energy as he absorbs, but can stack and store it for effectively forever. This is PlayedForDrama, since Taiyang had tried to teach Yang to use her Semblance ''exactly'' like his (holding it in for as long as possible), causing a lot of pain, frustration, and ''shattered'' bones before they finally realized the problem.

* {{Synchronization}}: A downside of [[spoiler:Ruby's method of summoning via the Schnee Semblance. While embracing her emotions during the summoning process gives the resulting summon a degree of sentience and independence, the stronger link between her and her summon means that Ruby feels all the pain dealt to the summon, including some painful feedback if it is destroyed. During the Geist fight, her summon Speedymore is buried under some rubble, wracking her in pain for a large majority of the fight]].

* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:The cult hunting the Silver-Eyed Maiden (whom they believed to be Raven) eventually escalated to assassinations, and even once [[SomebodySetUsUpTheBomb delivered an explosive]] disguised as a toy top to their home, which went off while a four-year-old Yang was playing with it. She was lucky to have survived.]] This is what finally convinced Raven to leave.

* AscendedExtra: Penny's partner for the Vital Festival, Ciel Soleil, is greatly expanded upon, especially after she and Penny are put on a Huntress team with [[spoiler: Ilia and Neo]]. She is given a personality, Hunter weapon, Semblance, and backstory, all of which she lacked in canon.

--> '''[[spoiler: Ghira]]:''' [[ShutUpHannibal Not you.]]

** Throughout the entirely of [[spoiler: the Battle with Torchwick, the reveal of Team STRQ, the raid on the White Fang and Weiss's kidnapping]], Team JNPR was completely unaware of it all, and Sun and Neptune only being aware of the first. Jaune points out that they would've jumped to help their friends if they were told, and although the excuse that there was NoTimeToExplain doesn't work (they had a week to prepare for one of the events), the fact that most of it was highly confidential does.
* LogicalWeakness: [[spoiler: It's mentioned that Adam's Semblance is powerful, but has the major weakness of needing to ''hit'' it's target to work]].

* PowerMisidentification: [[spoiler:Hinted at when Penny suggests that Ruby's Semblance isn't ''just'' SuperSpeed, but she's interrupted before she can elaborate.]]

* SuperpowerLottery: [[spoiler: The Affinity of Team RWBY to [[PowerCopying use each other's Semblances]] due to being Mates is a very potent skill, ''especially'' when using the Semblances [[AllYourPowersCombined together]], like combining Yang's strength boost with Ruby's SuperSpeed. Especially considering that most Affinities between Faunus Mates are rather passive]].

* {{Synchronization}}: A downside of [[spoiler:Ruby's method of summoning via the Schnee Semblance. While embracing her emotions during the summoning process gives the resulting summon a degree of sentience and independence, the stronger link between her and her summon means that Ruby feels all the pain dealt to the summon, including some painful feedback if it is destroyed]].

** As an Atlassian combat prodigy and a no-nonsense ConsummateProfessional, Ciel uses a [[SwordAndGun knife and Dust-round pistol]] in combat. They can also [[BifurcatedWeapon combine]] into a pike that allows her to pole vault-RocketJump to new heights.

---> Cinder: [[spoiler: I will not! What part of 'I will not betray her' do you moronic imbeciles not get! I will not tell you anything about Mother, not now, not ever!]]