History Fanfic / LinkedInLifeAndLove

** 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 [[BladeOnAStick pike]] that allows her to pole vault-RocketJump to new heights.

* BreakTheCutie: A downplayed example with Ruby. In the space of one day, [[spoiler:she meets Raven Branwen, finds out that Raven and Summer [[HasTwoMommies are her mothers]] and that she never was Taiyang's biological daughter, that she had been lied to all these years, learns a bit more of why Raven abandoned them, (re)meets her [[LongLostRelative uncle]] Roman, finds out that Summer was a StreetUrchin as a kid, that one of her new girlfriends' exes is gunning for her head, and that a plan was brewing to kill her new robot friend and drown the city in Grimm]]. It's no wonder she really wants to sleep after having her entire world yanked out from under her.

* HasTwoMommies: [[spoiler:Turns out that it was Summer and Raven that were the OfficialCouple of STRQ, and the parents of Ruby and Yang ([[HomosexualReproduction biological in the former's case]]). Taiyang was just the biological father of the latter and godfather to both.]]

** In Chapter 17, Ruby accidentally causes a massive explosion by combining Earth and Lightning Dust, which destroys her desk. Come Chapter 93, Weiss uses the same Dust combo, combined with [[spoiler: Blake's clones]] to attack the [[spoiler: Geist-possessed Paladin]].
*** From the same chapter, when Yang follows Blake to a Faunus pharmacy to refill her prescription, she checks out some hair shampoo intended for dog Faunus. In Chapter 95, Blake finds Yang in their dorm bathroom trying to straighten her hair after falling into the Vale harbour. One of the bottles is the dog Faunus shampoo.

* DefrostingIceQueen: Just like her younger sister, Winter can't help but start to thaw slightly when she starts chatting with Ruby.

* DontSplitUsUp: [[spoiler:Summer Rose and her brother Roman Torchwick]] were orphaned at a young age, and the moment the former heard the inkling that she and her brother could be split up in the system, she decided that becoming [[StreetUrchin street kids]] was better than that fate.

* FlamingHair: [[spoiler:Just like what happens when Yang uses it, the other members of Team RWBY have their hair affected by the use of Yang's Semblance, though none of them have a flame, exactly. Ruby gets a [[PowerDyesYourHair full red-haired, static-charged dye job]], Weiss's gets more white and frosty, and Blake's goes [[PurpleIsTheNewBlack violet]] and takes on a vapor-like appearance.]]

* GirlfriendInCanada: [[spoiler: Familial variant; Vernal assumed that this was the case about Raven's stories of Yang and Ruby, though she thought Raven had just lost them to a Grimm attack rather than having made them up entirely.]]

* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler: Ruby starts practicing summoning in order to help Weiss with her ''own'' block on using that aspect of her Semblance, and with some advice from Blake she manages to summon the Nevermore that she decapitated in the Emerald Forest. However, she can't ''control'' it, and it somehow manages to ''use her Semblance'' to fly off in the direction of the Forest.]]

* MindlinkMates: Generally the focus of the fic. These links are a normal part of Faunus mating and are formed by essentially implanting a piece of one's aura in another. They allow emotion sharing as well as a general feeling of the location of a Faunus' partner(s). They also allow something referred to as "instinct sharing" where one partner can send an action or series of actions to another. In rare cases the mixing of auras creates what is known as an Affinity, which is a kind of "second Semblance." [[spoiler:In Team RWBY's case, this ends up being Semblance sharing, essentially allowing all four girls to use each others' Semblances.]]

* [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou Mommy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You]]: A main reason why Raven couldn't stick around to raise the girls is that she was the target of a very persistent lynch mob, specifically [[spoiler:the Cult of Salem who were looking for the user of the Silver Eyes. With Summer in no shape to do any fighting at the time, [[IAmSpartacus Raven said that she was the Silver-Eyed maiden]] and became the target of the cult]]. After they escalated to assassinations, Raven decided the risk was too great for her family and chose to stay away.

* NotSoStoic: When Weiss finds out that [[spoiler: Winter gave Professor Ozpin a black eye]], her sister's composure collapses. Especially when Weiss starts laughing at her.

* OutsideContextProblem: [[spoiler: Team RWBY is this due to their [[AllYourPowersCombined Affinity]]. Multi-semblanced opponents are [[OnePersonOnePower not a thing]] that happens in Remnant so fighting an opponent with four is unthinkable.]]

* SomebodySetUsUpTheBomb: [[spoiler:The Cult of Salem, targeting Raven as who they thought to be the Silver-Eyed Maiden, eventually escalated to gifting her a child's toy top which she then gave to her daughter Yang - which turned out to be a bomb.]]

* AbledByAdaptation: Yang still has two arms even after fighting Adam

* MateOrDie: Downplayed with regards to Blake's situation when she can't get medication to suppress her heat -- there's no suggestion that she would actually die if it's not dealt with, but Blake is already sweating and trembling after one hour of trying to go cold turkey with nine more to go until morning. Blake knows [[ADateWithRosiePalms going solo]] doesn't work, and the other RWBY members find out via online research that her symptoms will progress to a high fever and phantom pains.

* 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, mean that the fight goes on for rather

** Chapter 91 ends with the emergence of a Geist in Vale's harbor, possessing the wreck of Roman's modified Paladin.

* CallBack: When Taiyang reunites with Raven in Chapter 58, he gives her a back-breaking hug that squeezes all the air out of her, just like Yang did to Ruby in the first episode of the show. [[spoiler:[[{{Foreshadowing}} Which becomes a lot more significant in the next chapter... ]]]]

** Chapter 91 ends with the emergence of a Geist in Vale's harbor, possessing a load of wreckage.

* SuperOCD: Ciel Soleil does not do very well without the presence of rules, restrictions or order. The idea of no curfew or etiquette in the Beacon Academy dorms leaves her completely flummoxed, and without a dress code to go off of, picking a dress for the dance is painful for her.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: an understated example in chapter 41 when [[spoiler:Winter]] downs her wineglass after hearing Weiss' explanation of how the [[MindlinkMates Mates]] situation happened.

* IHaveYourWife: A variation: [[spoiler:Raven tells Ozpin that her bandit/mercenary group had rescued and taken in a girl who turned out to be the Spring Maiden, and if Ozpin won't tell Raven what happened to her wife Summer Rose, he'll never get his hands on her]].
** [[spoiler: Later, when he learns that Ghira is in Vale, Adam modifies his plan so he'll use Blake as bait for her father]].

* PentUpPowerPeril: This is part of Yang's kinetic EnergyAbsorption Semblance. When she takes a hit, her Semblance amplifies the energy absorbed, but her body can only safely hold on to so much of it at once, and once that limit is surpassed by too much energy absorbed and/or amplified, Yang has to release it or risk it shattering her bones. Yang repeatedly broke her arms because didn't understand the limits of her Semblance and didn't discharge her stored energy fast enough.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11689623/1/Linked-in-Life-and-Love Linked in Life and Love]]'' [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/1234649 (AO3 link)]] is a ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' fanfic written by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/3217679/l-OmegaInfinity-l | OmegaInfinity |]], who also authored the ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'' fic ''Fanfic/TheStrengthInWeakness''.

* WeaponOfChoice:

** Black Valentine, Roman Torchwick's weapon in his [[FallenHero pre-criminal Hunter days]], and as befitting a kid who grew up on old mobster movies, switches between [[RetractableWeapon compact]], short sword, and [[CoolGuns/SubmachineGuns drum-magazine Tommy gun]] modes. Designed and up-kept by [[spoiler: his co-brother-in-law Qrow]].

* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: Adam Taurus's Semblance ''Moonslice'' is given a slight adaptation in this fic; it also has the capability of nullifying Aura, [[AntiRegeneration keeping the wounds he inflicts from healing fast]] and even disrupting some Semblances.

* AntiMagic: In this story, Adam's Semblance nullifies Aura, meaning that [[AntiRegeneration any wounds he deals with it have to heal the natural way]], and [[spoiler: he even manages to cut through one of Raven's portals before it can send him away, somehow injuring Raven in the process]].

* BigScrewedUpFamily: [[spoiler:Roman]] says as much when talking about Team STRQ and the weird dynamic their daughters were born into.

** Yang's has a similar downside, she has a maximum amount of energy she can hold at one time, but her Semblance still tries to multiply the power when she hits her limits. If she lets it out, the worst she gets is microfractures that her Aura heals easily – if she doesn't, the energy tries to get out on its own, first by cracking her bones, then "[[PentUpPowerPeril boom]]", as she and Ruby put it. She broke her arms several times before figuring all of this out.

* FromBadToWorse: [[spoiler: When Adam learns that Ghira is in Vale, he adjusts his plans to pull an IHaveYourWife with Blake]].

* NotSoOmniscientAfterAll: [[spoiler:Roman is [[DidntSeeThatComing flabbergasted]] when he finds out that Ozpin, the man who virtually everyone trusts to know everything and keep Vale safe, had no idea of Cinder's plans, what she was doing in Mt. Glenn (despite freight train shipments regularly going in and out), or that she was masquerading as a student right under his nose. Heck, believing that Ozpin was TheOmniscient was the only reason Roman went along with her insane plans in the first place, as he was expecting Ozpin and his allies to blow the whole crazy plan sky high at the best moment while he escaped.]]

** UpToEleven come Chapter 59: [[spoiler:Summer and Raven were the OfficialCouple of their team. Yang came about from Taiyang volunteering to be a sperm donor for them. The big kicker is Ruby: her biological parents are Summer and Raven, thanks to advances in HomosexualReproduction.]]

* AdultFear: 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.

* AllLesbiansWantKids: [[spoiler: Summer always wanted a family of her own with her lover Raven coming around to the idea. Raven had Yang using Tai as Yang's sperm donor. Ruby came later via [[HomosexualReproduction a Dust IVF]].]]
* AscendedExtra: Penny's partner for the Vital Festival, Ciel Soleil, is greatly expanded upon. She is given a personality, Hunter weapon, Semblance, and backstory, all of which she lacked in canon.

** Despite Yang's animosity towards [[spoiler: her mother Raven]], she can't help but break down in giggles at the news that [[spoiler: Ruby accidentally collided with her during her initiation trial]], as well as at Ruby's dismay.
** [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Ilia]] ends up giggling helplessly at Blake's story about how she ended up mated to three humans, calling it straight out of a trashy romance novel.'

-->'''Weiss:''' Freeze? When I'm like this, I don't freeze. [[spoiler: ''(activates Yang's Semblance)'' I burn.]]

* ScarsAreForever: [[spoiler:After Adam's attack on Weiss, which could have easily killed her if he had hit just a little ways to the left ''or'' right, she's left with a large scar on her chest.]]
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: [[spoiler: Team RWBY and their allies know that Jaques attempted to kidnap Weiss while she was recovering they can't do anything to him without evidence. The man is the richest person in Remnant and holds a monopoly on Dust. Angering him would cause too many problems.]]

** 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 absorbed, [[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.

* BigNo: Taurus's reaction to finding out Blake is Mated again.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: [[spoiler: Team RWBY and their allies know that Jaques attempted to kidnap Weiss while she was recovering they can't do anything to him without evidence. The man is the richest person in Remnant and holds a monoply on Dust. Angering him would cause to many problems.]]

** [[spoiler:Team RWBY's decision to mate ultimately serves as this to Cinder and Salem's plans. The moment Adam finds out, he diverts all the resources Roman and Cinder amassed for him to getting revenge on Blake. Meanwhile, Roman and Neo have secretly turned on the alliance due to Ruby and Yang being the former's nieces, and spill the beans to Ozpin. This leaves Cinder completely blindsided and desperate to cobble back together what's left of the situation for fear of failing Salem, only to be defeated and captured by Ozpin]].

* RealityEnsues:
** Despite Raven being a much nicer person in this story and [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou having a legitimate reason for leaving]], [[spoiler:Ruby and Yang still have trust issues with their mother.]]
** [[spoiler:Weiss is hit by an aura nullifying attack that pierces her lung. She is in critical condition right after the attack.]] Despite having nanite healing tech [[spoiler: Weiss]] still has a long recovery process and has to take it easy after she is released from the hospital.
** [[spoiler: Team RWBY and their allies know that Jaques attempted to kidnap Weiss while she was recovering they can't do anything to him without evidence. The man is the richest person in Remnant and holds a monoply on Dust. Angering him would cause to many problems.]]