History Fanfic / RelicOfTheFuture

* SharedFamilyQuirks: Neither Jaune nor his adoptive daughter Emerald can figure out when someone has romantic feelings for them even when the people in question are being rather obvious about it. Emerald, at least, has a level of social skills that a ten-year-old would laugh at, while Jaune has no such excuse.

** Junior's father King is a worse father than Alexander Nikos and pre-character development Jacques Schnee ''combined''. He savagely and mercilessly beats his son at the slightest ghost of a provocation in front of others, and he reminds Junior that he killed the latter's mother as a threat and a taunt. [[spoiler:Junior kills his old man himself the first chance he gets]].

** When Raven is [[spoiler:heavily injured protecting Nora and Ren on Jaune's behalf, Qrow assumes that she must be keeping Nora around because the latter's the Spring Maiden. Raven rolls with it, and the story sticks]].

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: The new teams at Beacon are teams Sage, Maroon, and Nierembergia, the last of which is as many syllables as simply saying the members' names (Nora, Rem, Blake, and Weiss).

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: While it isn't even related to the Kingdom's laws[[spoiler:, it's part of [[ControlFreak Ozpin's laws]] that everyone stand down since Salem has been weakened and can no longer launch any major attacks with her Inner Circle practically destroyed and instead wait until the [[ChildSoldier next children of war on both sides]] are rebuilt and prepared. James and Jaune, at least, will '''not''' abide that, especially since Jaune's [[AllForNothing previous "mission" with said soul-parasite]] has ended with a completely '''empty''' [[PyrrhicVictory "victory"]] before. Come hell or high water, they will '''not''' stop until [[HumanoidAbomination Salem]] is defeated, ensuring a '''true''' GoldenAge.]]

** Pyrrha's father Alexander Nikos has previously been referenced or outright appeared inCreator/CoeurAlAran[='s=] other fics like ''Fanfic/TheUnseenHunt'', but he was usually portrayed as a very loving, caring and ideal [[GoodParents Good Parent]] who values Pyrrha's happiness first. The Alexander of this fic is instead a corrupt, fame-obsessed, controlling male StageMom who puts raking in glory before his daughters' mental wellbeing, and he's willing to bully, threaten, sue, or hypocritically use any underhanded means to get his own way.

** Emerald, for a number of reasons, comes to suspect with what little she knows about Jaune's past that his original family were assholes who drove him away to a point where he felt he could never return, and thus she decides to be belligerent toward Nicholas Arc [[spoiler:and Young Jaune]] when she notices they're clearly related to her father. The reader knows Emerald's theory about Jaune's relationship with his old family is incorrect, but anyone who's familiar with Nicholas' backstory in the shared mythology of Creator/CoeurAlAran's works (which is elaborated on in ''Fanfic/NoThisTimeFate'' and also slightly hinted at in this fic) will also know that what Emerald suspects happened between Jaune and Nicholas' family is actually the bare bones of what happened between Nicholas and ''his'' original family.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Vernal. In all her canon appearances she speaks in a well-mannered way, doesn't go out of her way to insult anyone and is genuinely loyal to Raven and the Branwen tribe as a whole. Here, she swears at every conceivable opportunity and goes out of her way to antagonize everyone around her. She is still loyal to the tribe and to Raven (even thinking worse of Yang for being so weak while wearing "her" face, or disliking Qrow because he left the tribe), but she does voluntarily leave to go train with Jaune (though she still thinks herself one of them). She's little different even when the timeline catches up to the first few Volumes, a matter of months before her canon debut, implying that her being groomed for years by Raven into a decoy Spring Maiden humbled her in a way that she hasn't been while training at Jaune's gym and attending Beacon.

** When Raven is [[spoiler:heavily injured protecting Nora and Ren on Jaune's behalf, Qrow assumes that she must be keeping Nora around because she's the Spring Maiden. Raven rolls with it, and the story sticks. Unknown to all of them, Raven used exactly the same strategy in canon, only Vernal was the decoy that time]].

* TheHeart: In addition to being TeamMom, Summer plays this for her team and extended family, much like how her daughter was in the original timeline.

* TeensAreShort: Zigzagged. While Weiss is still tiny (at seventeen, she's about the same size her sister was at twelve), Winter is taller than Jaune when she's only fifteen.

* SenpaiKohai:
** Jaune's relationship with Winter of all people. This is taken even further when [[spoiler:she becomes his official assistant, insisting on aiding Jaune with everything from paperwork to holding out his jacket for him to put on, much to his embarrassment.]]
** [[spoiler:When fighting for her life against a newly-militant White Fang, one of her main concerns was still to show him that the time spent training her was not wasted.]]

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Years without proper footwear has left Emerald with a distaste for anything on her feet.