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** It's implied Qrow Branwen killed his sister Raven Branwen.

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** It's implied Qrow Branwen killed his sister Raven Branwen.Branwen. Ruby later on comes across her corpse, though she didn't seem to recognize her.



* KickTheSonOfABitch: It's implied Qrow killed Raven for having deserted Lord Ozpin's side. Given that Raven was [[AbusiveParents an abusive mother]] to Yang, she'll hardly be missed.

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* KickTheSonOfABitch: It's implied Qrow killed Raven for having deserted Lord Ozpin's side. Given that Raven was [[AbusiveParents an abusive mother]] to Yang, she'll hardly be missed.

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* VillainousBreakdown: Ruby has one after being forced to flee the massive "Team JNPR & Weiss vs. The Resistance vs. Blake vs. The Reaper & Yang" fight. The reason being the fact that her planned victims, the Resistance, escaped her for a third time.

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* VillainousBreakdown: VillainousBreakdown:
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Ruby has one after being forced to flee the massive "Team JNPR & Weiss vs. The Resistance vs. Blake vs. The Reaper & Yang" fight. The reason being the fact that her planned victims, the Resistance, escaped her for a third time.
** Ozpin erupts in anger upon learning from P.E.N.N.Y. that Salem is still alive.
** Ruby is noticeably empty and despondent after not killing for weeks (aside from two people) and only recovers from it after coming up with an idea : working with Lord Ozpin.
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* BattleCouple: Jaune and Pyrrha are an item and fight together for Lord Ozpin's sake. For example, they engaged Yang together.


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* VillainousBreakdown: Ruby has one after being forced to flee the massive "Team JNPR & Weiss vs. The Resistance vs. Blake vs. The Reaper & Yang" fight. The reason being the fact that her planned victims, the Resistance, escaped her for a third time.
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* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Possible. After Ruby forces Yang to kill a teenage boy, the starving Yang comments that her stomach began growling afterwards. Though it is unknown if Yang actually goes through with the deed, seeing as how she became feral enough to hunt and eat rats shortly before, it is possible she will do anything to sate her starvation.

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* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Possible.[[ImpliedTrope Possible]]. After Ruby forces Yang to kill a teenage boy, the starving Yang comments that her stomach began growling afterwards. Though it is unknown if Yang actually goes through with the deed, seeing as how she became feral enough to hunt and eat rats shortly before, it is possible she will do anything to sate her starvation. PlayedStraight when Ruby decapitates a sheep Faunus and feeds part of her to Yang.

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** It's implied Qrow Branwen killed his sister Raven Branwen.



* KidsAreCruel:
** Dialed up to 100 when a teenage Ruby Rose murders her entire family, tortures and mutilates her half-sister Yang, and generally slaughters anyone she comes across.
** Lie Ren was AxCrazy since his childhood, to the point his parents locked him up.

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* KidsAreCruel:
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KickTheSonOfABitch: It's implied Qrow killed Raven for having deserted Lord Ozpin's side. Given that Raven was [[AbusiveParents an abusive mother]] to 100 when a teenage Ruby Rose murders her entire family, tortures and mutilates her half-sister Yang, and generally slaughters anyone she comes across.
** Lie Ren was AxCrazy since his childhood, to the point his parents locked him up.
she'll hardly be missed.


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* TeensAreMonsters:
** Dialed up to 100 when a teenage Ruby Rose murders her entire family, tortures and mutilates her half-sister Yang, and generally slaughters anyone she comes across.
** Lie Ren was AxCrazy since his youth, to the point his parents locked him up at age 16.
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* EvilVsEvil: By the end of the first four prologues, three evil parties are opposed (with LaResistance being a fourth, heroic party) : the White Fang, Lord Ozpin and Ruby "The Reaper" Rose. While Ruby ends up joining Ozpin later on, neither party is under the illusion that this alliance is anything but temporary.

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* AxCrazy: Ruby Rose, who only wants to kill.

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* AxCrazy: AxCrazy:
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Ruby Rose, who only wants to kill.kill.
** Lie Ren had issues even as a teen. He had urges to kill, killed small animals and attempted to stab someone because he refused to sell him sake.


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* VillainHasAPoint: As AxCrazy as Ren is, he isn't wrong when he noted that the panic and fear in Kuroyuri provoked by Lord Ozpin's arrival would attract Grimm. In fact, it's an understatement : a Nuckelavee attacked Kuroyuri soon after.

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** {{Averted}} with Lie Ren's parents Li and An Ren as well : they're still GoodParents and their intent to lock up their sociopathic son is completely justified.



* EvilOldFolks: Maria Calavera is the Headmaster of Signal Academy and a devout follower of Lord Ozpin.



* KidsAreCruel: Dialed up to 100 when a teenage Ruby Rose murders her entire family, tortures and mutilates her half-sister Yang, and generally slaughters anyone she comes across.

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* KidsAreCruel: KidsAreCruel:
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Dialed up to 100 when a teenage Ruby Rose murders her entire family, tortures and mutilates her half-sister Yang, and generally slaughters anyone she comes across.across.
** Lie Ren was AxCrazy since his childhood, to the point his parents locked him up.
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Whitley wisely chose to surrender his claim to the evidence, aware of his sisters' superiority over him and having no interest in dying against them in a fight to the death. Weiss noticeably looks down on him for that.

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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Whitley wisely chose to surrender his claim to the evidence, Schnee Dust Company, aware of his sisters' superiority over him and having no interest in dying against them in a fight to the death. Weiss noticeably looks down on him for that.
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** {{Averted}} with extreme prejudice regarding Jacques : if anything, he's even worse than in canon.


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** Straight-up {{Averted}} with Taiyang and Summer, who are GoodParents to Ruby and Yang and do not have a bone of evil in their veins.


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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Whitley wisely chose to surrender his claim to the evidence, aware of his sisters' superiority over him and having no interest in dying against them in a fight to the death. Weiss noticeably looks down on him for that.

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* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Penny had no relation to Glynda Goodwitch in canon while P.E.N.N.Y. was created by Glynda in the fanfic.



* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Ozpin's goons, such as Team JNPR, Weiss and more recently Ruby and Yang can't stand each other (with [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Jaune and Pyrrha being exceptions]]), but they have shared enemies, such as the White Fang and LaResistance.



* UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: P.E.N.N.Y. was created by Glynda Goodwitch with some help from James Ironwood, not Pietro Polendina.



* {{Yandere}}: Nora Valkyrie is absolutely obsessed with Lie Ren, the latter of which could not care less.

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* {{Yandere}}: Nora Valkyrie is absolutely obsessed with Lie Ren, the latter of which could not care less.can't stand her.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Jaune and Pyrrha may be Hunters working for Lord Ozpin, but they genuinely care about each other.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: while she did die in the first prologue, when compared to her canon self, Summer Rose lived much longer : while canon Summer died when Ruby was a toddler, that version of Summer lived to see Ruby become a teenager. And kill her as well.
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** Zwei died a year before the story started.
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* DeathByAdaptation:
** Tai is killed by Ruby in the first chapter.
** Winter is killed by Weiss in their fight to the death.
** Jacques - much earlier than in canon - dies shortly after Winter, leaving Weiss to inherit the Schnee Dust Company.
** Neo falls to Ruby in their second fight, cut in half.
** Cardin Winchester, Dove Bronzewing and Ciel Soleil have been KilledOffscreen in combat and their corpses are used by Oobleck in his experiments.
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* ImpliedRape: During the chapter on Yang, it's implied that Ruby forced herself on a boy her own age.
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* DirtyOldMan: Qrow is a ''really'' sick version of this trope, forcing himself on the female students of Signal.

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** Pyrrha's parents aren't winning any Parents of the Year award anytime soon : to uphold their high social status, they had no problem sending Pyrrha to Signal Academy against her will.



* BitchInSheepsClothing: Qrow seemed to be the only decent person towards Pyrrha in Signal Academy. Then he attempts to rape her.



* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: One of Ruby's victims is a teenage boy, whom she strips naked. While the act is not covered in detail, Yang comments on hearing him plea for her to stop doing something. After that, Ruby comments that she was done "having fun" with "the cutie". Ruby is not even the one to finish the boy off, as she makes Yang end the boy's life. The boy tells Yang that Ruby "violated" him, and asks her to kill him, to which she is forced to oblige.

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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil:
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One of Ruby's victims is a teenage boy, whom she strips naked. While the act is not covered in detail, Yang comments on hearing him plea for her to stop doing something. After that, Ruby comments that she was done "having fun" with "the cutie". Ruby is not even the one to finish the boy off, as she makes Yang end the boy's life. The boy tells Yang that Ruby "violated" him, and asks her to kill him, to which she is forced to oblige.
** It's far more explicit when Qrow tries to rape Pyrrha.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: While she's a crazed {{Yandere}} working for Lord Ozpin, Nora dislikes child trafficking.
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* VillainProtagonist: Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Yang Xiao Long, Jaune Arc, Pyrrha Nikos, and Nora Valkyrie all serve as villainous protagonists in respective prequel chapters before turning into antagonists in the main story.

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* VillainProtagonist: Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Yang Xiao Long, Jaune Arc, Pyrrha Nikos, and Nora Valkyrie Valkyrie, and Lie Ren all serve as villainous protagonists in respective prequel chapters before turning into antagonists in the main story.
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* VillainProtagonist: Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Yang Xiao Long, Jaune Arc, and Pyrrha Nikos all serve as villainous protagonists in respective prequel chapters before turning into antagonists in the main story.

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* VillainProtagonist: Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Yang Xiao Long, Jaune Arc, and Pyrrha Nikos Nikos, and Nora Valkyrie all serve as villainous protagonists in respective prequel chapters before turning into antagonists in the main story.
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* VillainProtagonist: Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Yang Xiao Long, and Jaune Arc all serve as villainous protagonists in respective prequel chapters before turning into antagonists in the main story.

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* VillainProtagonist: Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Yang Xiao Long, and Jaune Arc Arc, and Pyrrha Nikos all serve as villainous protagonists in respective prequel chapters before turning into antagonists in the main story.
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* VillainProtagonist: Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and Yang Xiao Long all serve as villainous protagonists in respective prequel chapters before turning into antagonists in the main story.

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* VillainProtagonist: Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and Yang Xiao Long Long, and Jaune Arc all serve as villainous protagonists in respective prequel chapters before turning into antagonists in the main story.
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* DarkFic: It has an "M" rating on Website/FanFictionDotNet and it's easy to see why. To recap: Ozpin is an EvilOverlord, team JNPR are soldiers in his hit squad, and he drove Salem insane; Penny is a KillerRobot; Oobleck and Goodwitch are {{Mad Scientist}}s with Port as TheIgor; Ruby is a serial killer and rapist, whose crimes include the murder of her parents, the [[EyeScream mutil]][[AnArmAndALeg ation]] of Yang and brainwashing her into her slave, and the [[EyeScream mutilation]] of Cinder; Weiss is a CorruptCorporateExecutive like her father and brother and is still racist towards Faunus; and Blake has canon!Adam's FantasticRacism towards humans.

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* DarkFic: It has an "M" rating on Website/FanFictionDotNet and it's easy to see why. To recap: Ozpin is an EvilOverlord, team JNPR are soldiers in his hit squad, and he drove Salem insane; Penny is a KillerRobot; Oobleck and Goodwitch are {{Mad Scientist}}s with Port as TheIgor; Ruby is a serial killer and rapist, whose crimes include the murder of her parents, the [[EyeScream mutil]][[AnArmAndALeg ation]] of Yang and brainwashing her into her slave, [[MadeASlave enslavement]] of Yang, and the [[EyeScream mutilation]] of Cinder; Weiss is a CorruptCorporateExecutive like her father and brother and is still racist towards Faunus; and Blake has canon!Adam's FantasticRacism towards humans.
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* DarkFic: It has an "M" rating on Website/FanFictionDotNet and it's easy to see why. To recap: Ozpin is an EvilOverlord, team JNPR are soldiers in his hit squad, and he drove Salem insane; Penny is a KillerRobot; Oobleck and Goodwitch are {{Mad Scientist}}s with Port as TheIgor; Ruby is a serial killer and rapist, whose crimes include the murder of her parents, the [[EyeScream mutil]][[AnArmAnsALeg ation]] of Yang and brainwashing her into her slave, and the [[EyeScream mutilation]] of Cinder; Weiss is a CorruptCorporateExecutive like her father and brother and is still racist towards Faunus; and Blake has canon!Adam's FantasticRacism towards humans.

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* DarkFic: It has an "M" rating on Website/FanFictionDotNet and it's easy to see why. To recap: Ozpin is an EvilOverlord, team JNPR are soldiers in his hit squad, and he drove Salem insane; Penny is a KillerRobot; Oobleck and Goodwitch are {{Mad Scientist}}s with Port as TheIgor; Ruby is a serial killer and rapist, whose crimes include the murder of her parents, the [[EyeScream mutil]][[AnArmAnsALeg mutil]][[AnArmAndALeg ation]] of Yang and brainwashing her into her slave, and the [[EyeScream mutilation]] of Cinder; Weiss is a CorruptCorporateExecutive like her father and brother and is still racist towards Faunus; and Blake has canon!Adam's FantasticRacism towards humans.
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* DarkFic: It has an "M" rating on Website/FanFictionDotNet and it's easy to see why. To recap: Ozpin is an EvilOverlord, team JNPR are soldiers in his hit squad, and he drove Salem insane; Penny is a KillerRobot; Oobleck and Goodwitch are {{Mad Scientist}}s; Ruby is a serial killer and rapist, whose crimes include the murder of her parents, the mutilation and brainwashing of Yang into her slave, and the mutilation of Cinder; Weiss is a CorruptCorporateExecutive like her father and brother and is still racist towards Faunus; and Blake has canon!Adam's FantasticRacism towards humans.

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* DarkFic: It has an "M" rating on Website/FanFictionDotNet and it's easy to see why. To recap: Ozpin is an EvilOverlord, team JNPR are soldiers in his hit squad, and he drove Salem insane; Penny is a KillerRobot; Oobleck and Goodwitch are {{Mad Scientist}}s; Scientist}}s with Port as TheIgor; Ruby is a serial killer and rapist, whose crimes include the murder of her parents, the mutilation [[EyeScream mutil]][[AnArmAnsALeg ation]] of Yang and brainwashing of Yang her into her slave, and the mutilation [[EyeScream mutilation]] of Cinder; Weiss is a CorruptCorporateExecutive like her father and brother and is still racist towards Faunus; and Blake has canon!Adam's FantasticRacism towards humans.
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* DarkFic: It has an "M" rating on Website/FanFictionDotNet and it's easy to see why. To recap: Ozpin is an EvilOverlord, team JNPR are soldiers in his hit squad, and he drove Salem insane; Penny is a KillerRobot; Oobleck and Goodwitch are {{Mad Scientist}}s; Ruby is a serial killer and rapist, whose crimes include the murder of her parents, the mutilation and brainwashing of Yang into her slave, and the mutilation of Cinder; Weiss is as bad as her father and brother; and Blake has canon!Adam's genocidal racism.

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* DarkFic: It has an "M" rating on Website/FanFictionDotNet and it's easy to see why. To recap: Ozpin is an EvilOverlord, team JNPR are soldiers in his hit squad, and he drove Salem insane; Penny is a KillerRobot; Oobleck and Goodwitch are {{Mad Scientist}}s; Ruby is a serial killer and rapist, whose crimes include the murder of her parents, the mutilation and brainwashing of Yang into her slave, and the mutilation of Cinder; Weiss is as bad as a CorruptCorporateExecutive like her father and brother; brother and is still racist towards Faunus; and Blake has canon!Adam's genocidal racism.FantasticRacism towards humans.
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* DarkFic: It has an "M" rating on Website/FanFictionDotNet and it's easy to see why. To recap: Ozpin is an EvilOverlord, team JNPR are soldiers in his hit squad, and he drove Salem insane; Penny is a KillerRobot; Oobleck and Goodwitch are {{Mad Scientist}}s; Ruby is a serial killer and rapist, whose crimes include the murder of her parents, the mutilation and brainwashing of Yang into her slave, and the mutilation of Cinder; Weiss is as bad as her father and brother; and Blake has canon!Adam's genocidal racism.
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It is an MirrorUniverse DarkFic taking place in a [[{{Dystopia}}| dystopian]] version of Remnant. All of the heroes from the canon series are now the villains, and the heroic protagonist Cinder Fall must lead her [[LaResistance ragtag group of rebels]] through the [[CrapsackWorld hostile world]] and oppose the vicious tyranny of Lord Ozpin.

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It is an MirrorUniverse DarkFic taking place in a [[{{Dystopia}}| [[{{Dystopia}} dystopian]] version of Remnant. All of the heroes from the canon series are now the villains, and the heroic protagonist Cinder Fall must lead her [[LaResistance ragtag group of rebels]] through the [[CrapsackWorld hostile world]] and oppose the vicious tyranny of Lord Ozpin.

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