History Fanfic / WeightOfTheWorld

''Weight of the World'' and its sequel, ''The Shattered Soul'' are fanfiction stories available on [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12649987/1/Weight-of-the-World fanfiction.net]] and [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/13193565/chapters/30179424 Archive of Our Own]] by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/3966416/SkyleafAlchemist19 SkyleafAlchemist19]]. The sequel can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12758400/1/The-Shattered-Soul here]]. The series is a crossover between ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' and ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia''.

* AloofAlly: England tries to be this to JNPRR. Whether he has grown attached to them or not remains to be seen.

* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Alfred has them when [[spoiler: he is held hostage by Emerald and Tyrian.]]

* MistakenIdentity: [[spoiler: The villains believe Canada is Vale.]][[spoiler:They also believe that France is Vacuo]].

* TranquilFury: [[spoiler: Alfred remembers England pointing a gun at him during [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution the Revolution]]. The [[NotWhatItLooksLike “betrayal”]] sends him into this and he starts burning Kuroyuri to the ground.]]

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[[folder:Tropes for ''The Shattered Soul'']]

* MistakenIdentity: [[spoiler: The villains believe Canada is Vale.]][[spoiler: They also believe that France is Vacuo]].

*** [[spoiler: They also know where Mistral is, leaving only (the real) Vacuo hidden. ''[[OhCrap Salem knows where three of the four nations she needs to get the Relic are.]]'' ]]

* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Alfred has them when [[spoiler: he is held hostage by Emerald and Tyrian]]

* LetsSplitUpGang: [[spoiler: RNJRR and the nations separate, with Ren, Nora, Japan, Italy, and Russia heading to Mistral while Canada, France, Ruby, England, Jaune, Pyrrha, Germany, and Prussia go to Kuroyuri.]] [[spoiler: The Mistral group is forced to rush to Kuroyuri because the [[TheDreaded Nuckelavee]] is headed there.]]

* [[BigBrotherInstinct Big Sibling Instinct]]: Yang to Ruby. America and Canada to each other. [[spoiler: England and France to Canada and America.]]

* {{Coma}}: Nation-tans of Earth fall into a coma-like state whenever they receive what would be a fatal wound on a human. They awaken as soon as their body heals.

* DeathWorld: As in RWBY canon, Remnant is this. Especially from the view of the nations.

* HealingFactor: Earth nation-tans have this. [[spoiler: Remnant nation-tans do not.]]

* NamedWeapons: America calls his bat "Cobalt Striker". Canada's hockey stick is called "Maple Frost".

* SwissArmyWeapon: Per the RWBY norm, both America and Canada get these. America uses a pump-action shotgun bayonet-baseball bat and Canada wields a high-caliber sniper rifle hockey stick with a [[Main/IncrediblyLamePun bladed blade]].

* WeatherManipulation: [[spoiler: Alfred has Vale's [[ShockAndAwe Fall]] [[BlowYouAway Maiden-inspired]] [[PlayingWithFire Semblance]]and Canada has Mantle's [[AnIcePerson Winter]] [[BlowYouAway Weather]] Manipulating Semblance.]]

* TranquilFury: [[spoiler: Alfred remembers England pointing a gun at him during [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution the Revolution]]. The [[ItsNotWhatItLooksLike “betrayal”]] sends him into this and he starts burning Kuroyuri to the ground.]]

* ChekhovsGag: [[spoiler:“Continue that sentence and I'll punch you in the gut so hard you won't wake up until the end of the Vytal Festival.”]]

** Chapter eight: [[spoiler: "Continue that sentence and I'll punch you in the gut so hard you won't wake up until the end of the Vytal Festival."]] Guess what happens?

** The title itself comes from lyrics from "When It Falls", the opening to Volume 3.

* SwissArmyWeapon: Per the RWBY norm, both America and Canada get these. America gets a pump-action shotgun bayonet-baseball bat and Canada wields a high-caliber sniper rifle hockey stick with a [[Main/IncrediblyLamePun bladed blade]].

* WeatherManipulation: [[spoiler: Alfred has Vale's Fall Maiden-inspired Semblance (ShockAndAwe, BlowYouAway, PlayingWithFire) and Canada has Mantle's Winter Weather Manipulating Semblance(BlowYouAway, AnIcePerson)]]

* WhamLine: [[spoiler: '''Ozpin:'''“You are not walking away. You are going to sit down, and you are going to tell me the truth, General Ironwood. What did you do to Amber? What did you do to my Kingdom? ''What did you do to Vale?!''”]]

* WhamLine: [[spoiler: '''Canada:''' “The things that erased our memories… was ''my Semblance''. ''I’m'' the reason we forgot everything. It was ''me''.”]]

* FryingPanOfDoom: The Shopkeep threatens to confront Ozpin with a wok when he finds out his workers (Canada and America) were kept in police custody for hours [[ArrestedForHeroism after helping with the breach.]]

* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:Cinder is dead and [[SparedByTheAdaptation Pyrrha survived]] but Beacon is overrun by Grimm and the rest of Vale’s Aura went to America, making him lose his memories]].

* SwissArmyWeapon: Per the RWBY norm, both America and Canada get these. America gets a pump-action shotgun bayonet-baseball bat and Canada wields a high-caliber sniper rifle Hockey stick with a [[Main/IncrediblyLamePun bladed blade]].

* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Raven]] claims to be doing this to [[spoiler:Alfred]] to keep [[spoiler:him]] from Salem.

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* AMillionIsAStatistic: [[spoiler: How Atlas views the people of Earth. She]] is willing to sacrifice them to keep Remnant safe.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: [[spoiler: At first, Weiss doesn’t accept that a Semblance capable of messing with minds is a possibility when Jaune suggests it]] but [[spoiler:she]] quickly comes around and considers it. Played straight with [[spoiler: Ironwood,]] who dismisses [[spoiler:Penny]] when [[spoiler:she]] brings up such a possibility.

** Canada beating Yang in Remnant: The Game.

* DeathOfPersonality: What [[spoiler:America]] fears will happen if [[spoiler: he agrees to do the transfer and receive Vale's remaining Aura. He loses his memories.]]

** Chapter seven: Cardin tries to shove Alfred into a locker. He fails. [[spoiler: Jaune and Pyrrha do not.]]

* FryingPanOfDoom: The Shopkeep threatens to confront Ozpin with a wok when he finds out his workers (Canada and America) were kept in police custody for hours after helping with the breach.

** Yang when she [[spoiler: realizes she attacked Alfred and shot him.]]

* ShoutOut: America’s fight with the Beowolves is reminiscent of the Red Trailer. He also calls Ozpin [[{{Film/TheWizardOfOz}} "The Wizard of Oz"]], compares him to [[{{Literature/HarryPotter}} Dumbledore]], and references [[{{Film/RevengeOfTheSith}} Order 66]] when [[spoiler: the Atlesian Robots turn on the Huntsmen.]]
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler: Pyrrha and Roman both]] survive the Battle of Beacon.

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* BloodFromTheMouth: [[spoiler: Prussia]] coughs up [[spoiler: purple]] blood thanks to [[spoiler: Tyrian's poison]]

* MergerOfSouls: Happens to [[spoiler:America and Vale, causing them to lose their memories.]] It’s unclear if it is permanent or not.
* MindRape: Desperate to survive, [[spoiler: Vale]] does this to [[spoiler:America]], intent on destroying [[spoiler:his]] soul. [[spoiler:She]] can’t go through with it and stops.
* MistakenIdentity: [[spoiler: The villains believe Canada is Vale.]]

* SplitPersonalityTakeover: [[spoiler: After Remnant nation-tans are reborn and reach a certain age, they’ll remember who they really are and their nation memories and personality will take over, [[Main/FridgeHorror presumably erasing the human personality they had before]].]] [[spoiler: According to WordOfGod[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12649987/22/Weight-of-the-World]], if the human identity is different enough, at most the nation-tan will get two Semblances for that life.]] [[note]] [[spoiler: [[AscendedFridgeHorror Confirmed]] by Neo in The Shattered Soul when she dismisses the idea of Alfred’s "human identity" surviving the merge with Vale.]] [[/note]]

* Oh Crap:

** Chapter sixteen: [[spoiler: Emerald uses her Semblance to trick Yang into attacking Alfred, who Yang thought was Neo]].

*** [[spoiler: The nations and JNPRR find out about the experiments, Vale and Mantle, the nations (and how only they can reach and unlock the Relics) and Alfred's possible DeathOfPersonality. England secretly reaffirms with the other nations (minus Canada) that they will leave the moment they find America, [[NotInThisForYourRevolution leaving Remnant to its war]].]]

*** [[spoiler: ‘‘Alfred arrives in Kuroyuri’’]]
* WhamLine: [[spoiler: ‘‘‘Canada:’’’ “The things that erased our memories… was ‘‘my Semblance’’. ‘‘I’m’’ the reason we forgot everything. It was ‘‘me’’.”]]

* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: [[spoiler: If Ruby hadn't jumped into the fight between Japan and Neo (which Japan was winning) she wouldn't have lost an eye.]]

* TheAgeless: [[spoiler: The Remnant nation-tans stop aging in their late teens or early twenties. If they avoid getting a fatal injury, they could technically live forever. None have managed it yet.]]

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Canada and [[spoiler: Japan]] when America tries to tell them about [[spoiler: Vale. They don't know the consequences and end up sounding like they are "encouraging" him to sacrifice himself.]]

* ProperlyParanoid: Canada is wary of Atlas and their robot soldiers. [[spoiler: Atlas abducted him and America and when they escaped, sent their robots to retrieve them, massacring a village in the process.]]
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:Cinder is dead]] but Beacon is overrun by Grimm and [[spoiler:the rest of Vale’s Aura went to America, making him lose his memories]].

* ShoutOut: America’s fight with the Beowolves is reminiscent of the Red Trailer. He also called Ozpin [[{{Film/TheWizardOfOz}} "The Wizard of Oz"]], compares him to [[{{Literature/HarryPotter}} Dumbledore]], and references [[{{Film/RevengeOfTheSith}} Order 66]] when [[spoiler: the Atlesian Robots turn on the Huntsmen.]]

* SplitPersonalityTakeover: [[spoiler: After Remnant nation-tans are reborn and reach a certain age, they’ll remember who they really are and their nation memories and personality will take over, [[Main/FridgeHorror presumably erasing the human personality they had before]].]] [[spoiler: According to WordOfGod[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12649987/22/Weight-of-the-World]], if the human identity is different enough, at most the nation-tan will get two Semblances for that life.]] [[note]] [[spoiler: Confirmed by Neo in The Shattered Soul when she dismisses the idea of Alfred’s ‘human identity’ surviving the merge with Vale.]] [[/note]]

* TeleportInterdiction: Invoked. [[spoiler: Only the nations can shatter the magic necklaces that will teleport them back to Earth. England and Tony made them that way no one else can use them.]]

** Chapter sixteen: [[spoiler: Emerald uses her Semblance to trick Yang into attacking Alfred, who she thought was Neo]].

* MindRape: Desperate to survive, [[spoiler: Vale]] does this to [[spoiler:America]], intent on destroying [[spoiler:his]] soul. [[spoiler:She]] can’t go through with it and stops though.

* BrickJoke: America waking up Canada in the morning by tipping his mattress on top of him.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Canada and [[spoiler: Japan]] when America tries to tell them about [[spoiler: Vale. They don't know the consequences, and end up sounding like they are "encouraging" him to sacrifice himself.]]

* TitleDrop: Ironwood says the title [[spoiler: as part of his chant to activate Canada and America’s Auras.]]

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoilers: Mantle gave Cinder Vale’s location, which led to everything from America and Canada’s abduction to the fall of Beacon.]]

* SwissArmyWeapon: Per the RWBY norm, both America and Canada get these. America gets a pump-action shotgun bayonet-baseball bat and Canada wields a high-caliber sniper rifle Hockey stick with a bladed blade.

* LuredIntoATrap: Vale was set up by [[spoiler:Mistral/Neo]] and was attacked on the road by [[spoiler: bandits]].

* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: The nations grow weary of Ruby's idealism and blind trust in [[spoiler: Qrow]].

''Weight of the World'' and its sequel, ''The Shattered Soul'' are fanfiction stories available on [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12649987/1/Weight-of-the-World fanfiction.net]] and [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/13193565/chapters/30179424 Archive of Our Own]] by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/3966416/SkyleafAlchemist19 SkyleafAlchemist19]]. The sequel can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12758400/1/The-Shattered-Soul here]]. The series is a crossover between ''WebOriginal/{{RWBY}}'' and ''Anime/AxisPowersHetalia''.

* ShoutOut: America’s fight with the Beowolves is reminiscent of the Red Trailer. He also called Ozpin [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheWizardOfOz "The Wizard of Oz"]], compares him to [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/HarryPotter Dumbledore]], and references [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/RevengeOfTheSith Order 66]] when [[spoiler: the Atlesian Robots turn on the Huntsmen.]]

* ShoutOut: America’s fight with the Beowolves is reminiscent of the Red Trailer. He also called Ozpin "The Wizard of Oz", compares him to Dumbledore, and references Order 66 when [[spoiler: the Atlesian Robots turn on the Huntsmen.]]

''Weight of the World'' and its sequel, ''The Shattered Soul'' are fanfiction stories available on [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12649987/1/Weight-of-the-World fanfiction.net]] and [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/13193565/chapters/30179424 Archive of Our Own]] by SkyleafAlchemist19. The sequel can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12758400/1/The-Shattered-Soul here]]. The series is a crossover between ''WebOriginal/{{RWBY}}'' and ''Anime/AxisPowersHetalia''.

* LuredIntoATrap: Vale was set up by [[spoiler:Mistral aka Neo]] and was attacked on the road by [[spoiler: bandits]].

* WasItAllALie: Said nearly word for word by [[spoiler:Alfred]] during the above betrayal.

''Weight of the World'' and its sequel, ''The Shattered Soul'' are fanfiction stories available on [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12649987/1/Weight-of-the-World fanfiction.net]] and [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/13193565/chapters/30179424 Archive of Our Own]] by SkyleafAlchemist19. The sequel can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12758400/1/The-Shattered-Soul here]]. The series is a crossover between WebOriginal/RWBY and Anime/AxisPowersHetalia.

* Brutal Honesty: Qrow goes for this approach when [[spoiler:telling America the risks of accepting the rest of Vale’s Aura]].

''Weight of the World'' and its sequel, ''The Shattered Soul'' are fanfiction stories available on fanfiction.net[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12649987/1/Weight-of-the-World]] and Archive of Our Own[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/13193565/chapters/30179424]] by SkyleafAlchemist19. The sequel can be found here[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12758400/1/The-Shattered-Soul]]. The series is a crossover between {{RWBY}} and {{Axis Powers Hetalia}}.

{{A Million Is a Statistic}}: [[spoiler: How Atlas views the people of Earth. She]] is willing to sacrifice them to keep Remnant safe.

{{A Tragedy of Impulsiveness}}: [[spoiler: If Ruby hadn't jumped into the fight between Japan and Neo (which Japan was winning) she wouldn't have lost an eye. ]]

{{Adult Fear}}: England’s younger brothers were captured by a mysterious organization, aka [[spoiler: soldiers from Atlas]].

{{America Saves the Day}}: {{Deconstructed}}. America is expected to (and wants to be) the Hero and save Remnant by [[spoiler:accepting the rest of Vale's Aura and keeping it from Cinder]], but [[spoiler: doing so would put his own people at risk of losing their personification. Having the fates of two worlds resting on his shoulders leads to him having a breakdown and claiming ''he doesn't want to be a hero.'']]

{{Alternate Universe}}: For RWBY. Everything is mostly the same except there are no Maidens. [[spoiler: Instead there are Remnant nation-tans.]]

{{An Arm and a Leg}}: Just like in canon, [[spoiler:Adam chops off Yang’s arm]].

{{Arc Words}}: “Choice”, “Heroes”, and “Sacrifice” are all concepts explored during the story.

{{Ascended Extra}}: Ciel Soleil. She went from a character who showed up for one minute in the show to [[spoiler: the personification of Atlas]].

{{Back to Back Badasses}}: Canada and America during the breach.

{{Bash Brothers}}: Again, Canada and America.

{{Benevolent Conspiracy}}: Ozpin’s group, as in canon. [[spoiler:Though not all of them are benevolent]].

{{Big Damn Heroes}}: Canada wakes up from unconsciousness in time to save America from an Alpha.

{{Brick Joke}}: America waking up Canada in the morning by tipping his mattress on top of him.

{{Brutal Honesty}}: Qrow goes for this approach when [[spoiler:telling America the risks of accepting the rest of Vale’s Aura]].

{{Cassandra Truth}}: RWBY refuses to believe Emerald was the one who tried to pickpocket America.

{{Character Death}}: [[spoiler: Penny and Cinder.]]

{{Chekhovs Gag}}: [[spoiler:“Continue that sentence and I'll punch you in the gut so hard you won't wake up until the end of the Vytal Festival.”]]

{{Death by Adaptation}}: [[spoiler: Cinder.]]

{{Death of Personality}}/{{Loss of Identity}}: What [[spoiler:America]] fears will happen if [[spoiler: he agrees to do the transfer and receive Vale's remaining Aura. He loses his memories.]]

{{Death World}}: As in RWBY canon, Remnant is this. Especially from the view of the nations.

{{Deconstruction}}: Of Yang's {{Blood Knight}} and {{Hair Trigger Temper}} tendencies. Because of them, the villains are able to trick her into attacking [[spoiler: Alfred on live TV]].

{{Eye Scream}}: [[spoiler:Ruby loses an eye during her fight with Neo]].

{{Frying Pan of Doom}}: The Shopkeep threatens to confront Ozpin with a wok when he finds out his workers (Canada and America) were kept in police custody for hours after helping with the breach.

{{Gut Punch}}: Literally. [[spoiler: Yang shoots "Neo" in the abdomen, but it's really Alfred]]

{{Hero with Bad Publicity}}: [[spoiler: Yang.]]

{{I Did What I Had to Do}}: [[spoiler: Ironwood.]]

{{Innocently Insensitive}} Canada and [[spoiler: Japan]] when America tries to tell them about [[spoiler: Vale. They don't know the consequences, and end up sounding like they are "encouraging" him to sacrifice himself.]]

{{Laser Guided Amnesia}}: America and Canada can't remember how they ended up on Remnant. {{Justified}}. See below.

{{Leeroy Jenkins}}: This habit causes Ruby to [[spoiler: lose an eye.]]

{{My God What Have I Done}}: Yang when she [[spoiler: realizes she attacked Alfred and shot him.]]
* Canada when he realizes [[spoiler: killing Cinder sent all of Vale's Aura to his brother]].

{{Named Weapons}}: America calls his bat "Cobalt Striker". Canada's hockey stick is called "Maple Frost".

{{No Sell}}: America and Canada are completely immune to Emerald's Semblance.

{{Not in This for Your Revolution}}: [[spoiler: England, France, Russia, Germany, Prussia, Italy and Japan's only goal is to find America and Canada and go home. England in particular doesn't care about Remnant's war against Salem]].

{{Not So Stoic}}: Ozpin shouts when interrogating [[spoiler:Ironwood]] about Amber.
* [[spoiler:Japan]] is shaking, teary-eyed and visibly angry when [[spoiler: America is shot by Yang.]]

{{Off with His Head}}: [[spoiler: Canada beheads Cinder.]]

{{Properly Paranoid}}: Canada is wary of Atlas and their robot soldiers. [[spoiler: Atlas abducted him and America and when they escaped, sent their robots to retrieve them, massacreing a village in the process.]]

{{Pyrrhic Victory}}: [[spoiler:Cinder is dead]] but Beacon is overrun by Grimm and [[spoiler:the rest of Vale’s Aura went to America, making him lose his memories]].

{{The Reveal}}: [[spoiler: Remnant has nation-tans. Thanks to experimentation at the hands of Atlas, Canada is Mantle and America has part of Amber/Vale's Aura]]

{{Sadistic Choice}}: No matter what America chooses [[spoiler: to do with Vale's Aura]] millions of people will suffer. [[spoiler: In the end, the choice was taken from him anyway]].

{{Shout Out}}: America’s fight with the Beowolves is reminiscent of the Red Trailer. He also called Ozpin "The Wizard of Oz", compares him to Dumbledore, and references Order 66 when [[spoiler: the Atlesian Robots turn on the Huntsmen.]]

{{Spared by the Adaptation}}: [[spoiler: Pyrrha and Roman both]] survive the Battle of Beacon.

{{Swiss Army Weapon}}: Per the RWBY norm, both America and Canada get these. America gets a pump-action shotgun bayonet-baseball bat and Canada wields a high-caliber sniper rifle Hockey stick with a bladed blade.

{{Weather Manipulation}}: [[spoiler: Alfred has Vale's Fall Maiden-inspired Semblance ({{Shock and Awe}},{{Blow You Away}}, {{Playing with Fire}}) and Canada has Mantle's Winter Weather Manipulating Semblance({{Blow You Away}}, {{An Ice Person}})]]

{{Wham Episode}}: Chapter seven: [[spoiler: Remnant has nation-tans]]. Chapter nine and ten: [[spoiler: Canada and America were taken by Atlas officials (including Ironwood), Mantle's Aura was transferred into Canada, and part of Vale's was put in America]]. Chapter sixteen: [[spoiler: Emerald uses her Semblance to trick Yang into attacking Alfred, who she thought was Neo]].

{{Wham Line}}: [[spoiler: '''Ozpin:'''“You are not walking away. You are going to sit down, and you are going to tell me the truth, General Ironwood. What did you do to Amber? What did you do to my Kingdom? ''What did you do to Vale?!''”]]

{{Aloof Ally}}: England tries to be this to JNPRR. Whether he has grown attached to them or not remains to be seen.

{{Amnesiac Hero}}: [[spoiler: America/Alfred]]

{{Blood from the Mouth}}: [[spoiler: Prussia]] coughs up [[spoiler: purple]] blood thanks to [[spoiler: Tyrian's poison]]

{{Et Tu Brute}}: When their lies are discovered, [[spoiler: Roman, Mercury, and Neo attack Alfred, rob him, shoot him, and leave him to die in Grimm-infested woods.]] Ouch.

{{Evil Cannot Comprehend Good}}: [[spoiler:Raven]] doesn't understand why [[spoiler:Alfred]] refuses to join a group of [[spoiler:murderous bandits]] in exchange for protection.

{{Face Death with Dignity}}: [[spoiler: Alfred. Twice. Being immortal, he doesn't die either time. Not that he knew that.]]

{{False Friend}}: Neo, Roman, and Mercury to [[spoiler: an amnesiac Alfred]]. Emerald to Ruby.

{{Laser Guided Amnesia}}: [[spoiler: Canada's Semblance is a weaponized version of this]].

{{Locked out of the Loop}}: Only Canada and Qrow know about the twins being Mantle and Vale [[spoiler: until chapter 11]]. RWBY and JNPR are completely unaware that their new friends are nations from another world.

{{Lured into a Trap}}: Vale was set up by [[spoiler:Mistral aka Neo]] and was attacked on the road by [[spoiler: bandits]].

{{Mercy Kill}}: [[spoiler:Raven]] claims to be doing this to [[spoiler:Alfred]] to keep [[spoiler:him]] from Salem.

{{Never My Fault}}: [[spoiler: Neo/Mistral]] was the one who [[spoiler: tricked the bandits into attacking Vale]] yet she blames [[spoiler: Vale]] for [[spoiler: her]] capture at [[spoiler: the bandits']] hands.

{{Personality Powers}}: The story takes Canada's {{Forgettable Character}} {{Running Gag}} and makes it into a [[spoiler: memory-erasing Semblance.]]

{{Reality Ensues}}: Just because your world is overcome by monsters doesn't mean another world will happily be dragged into your war.

{{The Reveal}}: [[spoiler: Canada erased his and America's memories of the lab with his Semblance.]]

{{Shell Shocked Veteran}}: Pyrrha.

{{Silly Rabbit Idealism is for Kids}}: The nations grow weary of Ruby's idealism and blind trust in [[spoiler: Qrow]].

{{Was It All a Lie}}: Said nearly word for word by [[spoiler:Alfred]] during the above betrayal.

'''Warning: Spoilers for 'Weight of the World' will be unmarked.'''

''Weight of the World'' and its sequel, ''The Shattered Soul'' are fanfiction stories available on fanfiction.net[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12649987/1/Weight-of-the-World]] and Ao3[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/13193565/chapters/30179424]] by SkyleafAlchemist19. The sequel can be found here[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12758400/1/The-Shattered-Soul]]. The series is a crossover between {{RWBY}} and {{Axis Powers Hetalia}}.

{{A Million Is a Statistic}}: [[spoiler: How Atlas views the people of Earth. She will sacrifice them to keep Remnant safe.]]

{{Alternate Universe}}: For RWBY. Everything is mostly the same except there are no Maidens. [[spoiler: There are Remnant nation-tans.]]

{{Brutal Honesty}}: Qrow goes for this approach when telling [[spoiler: America the risks of accepting the rest of Vale’s Aura]].

* [[spoiler:Japan]] is shaking and visibly angry when [[spoiler: America is shot by Yang.]]

{{Weather Manipulation}}: [[spoiler: Alfred has Vale's Semblance ({{Shock and Awe}},{{Blow You Away}}, {{Playing with Fire}}) and Canada has Mantle's ({{Blow You Away}}, {{An Ice Person}})]]

{{Wham Line}}: [[spoiler: '''Ozpin:'''“You are not walking away. You are going to sit down, and you are going to tell me the truth, General Ironwood. What did you do to Amber? What did you do to my Kingdom? What did you do to Vale?!”]]

[[folder:Tropes for the Shattered Soul]]

{{Laser Guided Amnesia}}: [[spoiler: Canada's Semblance]].

{{A Tragedy of Impulsiveness}}: [[spoiler: If Ruby jump into the fight between Japan and Neo (which Japan was winning) she wouldn't have lost an eye. ]]

{{Alternate Universe}}: For RWBY. Everything is mostly the same except there are no Maidens. [[spoiler: There are nations.]]

{{My God What Have I Done}}: Canada when he realizes [[spoiler: killing Cinder sent all of Vale's Aura to his brother]].

{{Shout Out}}: America’s fight with the Beowolves is reminiscent of the Red Trailer. He references Order 66 when [[spoiler: the Atlesian Robots turn on the Huntsmen.]]

{{America Saves the Day}}: {{Deconstructed}}. America is expected to and wants to be the Hero and save Remnant by [[spoiler:accepting the rest of Vale's Aura and keeping it from Cinder]], but [[spoiler: doing so would put his own people at risk of losing their personification.]]

{{Big Damn Heroes}}: Canada wakes up unconsciousness in time to save America from an Alpha.

{{Aloof Ally}}: England tries to be this to JNPRR. Whether he has grown attached to them remains to be seen.

{{Not in This for Your Revolution}}: [[spoiler: England's only goal is to find America and go home. He doesn't care about Remnant's war against Salem]].

{{Aloof Ally}}: England tries to be this to JNPRR.

{{Lured into a Trap}}: Vale set up by [[spoiler:Mistral aka Neo]] and was attacked on the road by [[bandits]].

{{Adult Fear}}: England’s younger brothers were captured by a mysterious organization, aka [[spoiler:Atlas]].

{{Alternate Universe}}: For RWBY. There are no Maidens. [[spoiler: There are nations.]]

{{Back-to-Back Badasses}}: Canada and America during the breach.

{{Chekhov’s Gag}}: [[spoiler:“Continue that sentence and I'll punch you in the gut so hard you won't wake up until the end of the Vytal Festival.”]]

{{Spared by the Adaptation}}: [[spoiler: Pyrrha and Roman both survive the Battle of Beacon.]]

{{Wham Episode}}: Chapter seven: [[spoiler: Remnant has nation-tans]]. Chapter nine and ten: [[spoiler: How Canada and America were taken by Atlas officials (including Ironwood), Mantle's Aura was transferred into Canada, and part of Vale's was put in America]]. Chapter sixteen: [[spoiler: Emerald uses her Semblance to trick Yang into attacking Alfred, who she thought was Neo]].

{{Wham Line}}: [[spoiler: Ozpin:“You are not walking away. You are going to sit down, and you are going to tell me the truth, General Ironwood. What did you do to Amber? What did you do to my Kingdom? What did you do to Vale?!”]]