History Fanfic / WhiteSheepRWBY

Every family has its odd member, the one that doesn't fit. Jaune was just that, the black sheep. He had always wanted to be the hero, to be a Huntsman. But when your name is Jaune Salem Arc - Prince of the Grimm - and your mother is understandably against the idea, what is a young man to do? Why, run away to attend Beacon in pursuit of a dream, of course. What could go wrong?

* DangerDeadpan: The Beacon initiation test begins with Jaune being launched off a cliff and caught by a giant Nevermore, carried off to what the teachers and other students believe is his certain death. Everyone is left in StunnedSilence, and Ozpin needs a sip of coffee - followed by three more sips - before he turns to the others and asks, "So, who wants to go next?"

'''Watts:''' No. It's because I'm not Jaune. And [[BreadEggsMilkSquick a host of other reasons]] related to [[{{Ephebophile}} suitable age]], [[StraightEdgeEvil personal feelings]], [[ConsummateProfessional professionalism]], [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil not taking advantage of a woman]], and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers a desire not to]] be [[CruelAndUnusualDeath strung up]] by [[GuttedLikeAFish my entrails]] by [[BigBad my mistress]].

** During the game of Remnant, Yang summons a giant Nevermore to cut off the town of Magnis. In Coeur's first fic ever, "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10817938/1/One-Good-Turn-Deserves-Another One Good Turn Deserves Another]]," the town of Magnis was the location of the climax and was attacked by a giant Nevermore, and an Ursa swarm (that Ruby summoned in the game in response to Yang's actions) played a role earlier in that story as well.

* BluntYes: When [[spoiler:the God of Darkness]] accuses Yang of trying to turn him against [[spoiler:the God of Light]], saying she wants him to do her dirty work, she responds with, "Yeah, pretty much." [[HonestyIsTheBestPolicy But that doesn't make her wrong]].

** Jaune's massive Beowolf is called "Mannie." Technically his name is Man-slayer, but everyone, including Cinder and Salem, call it Mannie.

* VillainHasAPoint: Cinder, early on, points out to Salem that Roman is a scumbag who she doesn't trust as far as she can throw him, but his story about helping a person who ''exactly'' matches Jaune's appearance in both normal and Grimm forms to enroll in Beacon seems true. She also can't blame his reasoning for why he didn't try to keep Jaune around - Roman saw Jaune as a person who was far too powerful to try to manipulate, and only saw destruction for himself if he tried.

* OverprotectiveDad: [[PlayingWithATrope Zig-zagged]] with Taiyang. Before he met Jaune for the first time, he gave Zwei instructions to attack him. However, when he hears that [[spoiler:his daughter married and was "with child" by the Crown Prince of the Grimm]], his biggest concern is that [[spoiler:he wasn't invited to the wedding]]. Once Jaune clears things up, Tai offers Jaune some advice for dealing with politicians [[spoiler:and threatens him that he'd better be invited to the real wedding]].

* CuffsOffRubWrists: [[spoiler:Yang tries this while held in an Atlesian research facility, but since her right arm isn't under her own conscious control, she needs to ask Yin to help]].

* GoodColorsEvilColors: Jaune's belief in this trope causes him to mistake [[DarkIsNotEvil Ruby]] to be the evil villainess attacking the respectable [[LightIsNotGood Roman]].

* AlternateUniverse: Aside from the obvious part of Jaune being Salem's son, Salem has a different personality, Cinder is Jaune's adoptive big sister and helped raise him as his babysitter growing up, and due to this Jaune's alternate behavior or locations, the events of the story differ from canon. For instance, instead of Team RWBY and Team JNPR, Team WJRP (Whirlpool, made of its leader Weiss, Jaune, Ruby, and Pyrrha) and Team RYBN (Ribbon, made of its leader Ren, Yang, Blake, and Nora) are formed after an altered initiation test.

* JoinTheArmyTheySaid: Watts at the end of Chapter 83.
--> '''Watts:''' [[ForTheEvulz Be evil]], they said. [[CardCarryingVillain Become a supervillain]], they said. [[ItAmusedMe It'll be fun]], they said. [[NotWhatISignedOnFor This wasn't in the job description]]...

* ArmorPiercingSlap: [[spoiler:Cinder slaps Jaune across the face when he complains to her that he might as well get himself killed to stop being a burden to her]]. Downplays the "armor piercing" part since Jaune's Aura blocks the physical damage, but Jaune is still hurt emotionally.

** Ruby gives one in chapter 93 to the various, citing that with the current situation with the Kingdoms (which is functionally the same as canon), humanity would have no chance against Salem without something like random superpowers or magical artifacts.

** Ruby gives one in chapter 93 to the various {{Deus Ex Machina}}s in canon, citing that with the current situation with the Kingdoms (which is functionally the same as canon), humanity would have no chance against Salem without something like random superpowers or magical artifacts.

** Watts prefers to save the time, effort, and trouble of kidnapping priests and tailors and stealing associated materials for the weddings of Salem's children by simply [[NoodleIncident having himself (and Tyrian) ordained as priests]] and [[StatingTheSimpleSolution paying Lien to hire the tailors]].

---> '''Cardin:''' How much [[SoulPower aura]] do you have? Forget it... so you've got [[LifeMeter a big aura]]. That's nothing special!\\

* CringeComedy: Chapter 16 ends with an AfterActionReport written by [[RobotGirl Penny]] about [[TheBlindLeadingTheBlind her tour of Vale with Ruby and Jaune]], containing multiple UnEntendre misinterpretations of the aforementioned event, and sent to [[FourStarBadass her Atlesian military general]] with the hope that [[TheComicallySerious Ironwood]] will be pleased by her progress in [[HughMann acting like a normal person]].