History Fanfic / WolvesThatWalkAlone

* DirtyCoward: After Six [[spoiler: kills most of the White Fang in Vale, Adam, much like his canon self, abandons his remaining followers to die and flees to Mistral to save himself, though Six inevitably hunts him down later and finishes the job.]]

* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: The White Fang in Mistral resort to kidnapping and selling Faunus [[WithUsOrAgainstUs who refuse to join them]] to trafficking and slavery rings, a far cry from the organization's original goals of protecting Faunus from said injustices.

** If Six knew that [[spoiler: turning Cinder over to Ozpin would've resulted in her being tortured for six years, he would've killed her instead.]]

** Nora, in a cheery tone, warns Jaune that if he touches the chest that contains their cloaks made by Six, she will break his legs, and in this instance she's being '''very''' dead serious. Luckily for him, he only earns a bitten hand when he accidentally touches said container while cleaning.

** [[spoiler: Summer]] loses whatever respect Six has for her when he finds that she knew about Raven's banditry but never made any effort to dissuade nor stop her ways.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: After years of imprisonment by Ozpin and being tortured for information on Salem, the normally prideful and sociopathic Cinder is now a shell of her former self as she breaks down sobbing in her cell while lamenting how her ambition for power only bought her back to the very situation she wanted to escape, being a helpless little girl. It's no wonder why she begs for either rescue or death.]]

* DirtyCoward: After Six [[spoiler: kills most of the White Fang in Vale, Adam, much like his canon self, abandons his remaining followers to die and flees to Mistral to save himself, though Six inevitably tracks him down later and finishes the job.]]

As of April 25, this story and others from the author have been completely removed from his page on fanfiction.net. There is a version of ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/32811703/chapters/81414871 Wolves That Walk Alone]]'' on Archive of Our Own, but that version has unfortunately been deleted as well. Fortunately on July 5 the author put the story back on Website/FanfictionDotNet, and is continuing it.

** If Six knew that [[spoiler: turning Cinder over to Ozpin would've resulted in her being tortured for six years, he would've killed her during their first encounter instead.]]

** The results of his raid at the White Fang hideout in Mountain Glenn terrifies Team RWBY, who leave the area with haunted expressions. [[spoiler:Summer]] even calls him out later on for traumatizing her daughters.

* JustThinkOfThePotential: While the "official" reason Ironwood resents Six is that he's killed entire platoons of Atlas troopers into forcing him into their custody (only to fail each time) for "justice", the "unofficial" actual hidden truth behind Ironwood's shared obsession alongside Ozpin is Six's [[TechnologicallyAdvancedFoe MJOLNIR Mk. V]] [[PowerArmor Powered Assault Armor]], while his other UNSC-related weaponry/tech might be interesting, Ironwood desperately wants to study Six's armor due to how powerful/alien it is. In case Six is ever in a situation where he will lose, he adjusts his original worn power core extracted from his armor (he replaced it with a fresh one thanks to Auspicious Spark's assistance) to act as an [[DefeatEqualsExplosion explosive potent enough to annihilate both him and the armor]], thus denying Ironwood of his real fascination completely even if Six does somehow fall.

** [[spoiler:Summer Rose]] is alive due to Six treating her wounds after nearly being killed by Tyrian.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: After spending months being imprisoned by Ozpin along with being tortured for information on Salem, the normally prideful Cinder is a shell of her former self as she breaks down sobbing in her cell while lamenting on how her ambition for power only bought her back to the very situation she wanted to escape, being a helpless little girl. It's no wonder why she begs for either rescue or death.]]
** [[spoiler: In Chapter 31, the first thing Six does is to rescue and free Cinder from her six years-long torture at the hands of the now-dead Ozpin.]]

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Cinder Fall. Her lust for power stems from not wanting to be a helpless little girl again, only to be bought back to that situation full circle when her attempt to take the Fall Maiden's powers gets her imprisoned by Ozpin as a source of information regarding Salem, not to mention the implied torture she experienced under Ozpin and Ironwood before Six rescued her.

** Six subjects Tyrian to this after tracking him down when he butchered a family that Six was staying with. [[CombatSadomasochist Tyrian]] breaks down from said torture.

** Cinder, Emerald, and Mercury attempt to assassinate Amber like in canon. Six intervenes however and not only wipes the floor with them, [[spoiler: but also kills Mercury.]]

** Adam Taurus in canon [[spoiler: is killed by Blake and Yang running him through with the broken Gambol Shroud.]] Here he is killed by Six in an even more gruesome fashion.

** Raven Branwen has the misfortune of being one of the first bandits he encounters, to which she barely escapes from. She is mentioned as being paranoid and quiet whenever someone brings up Six. [[spoiler: This fear ends up leading to her and the Branwen bandit clans' demise.]]

** When he starts hunting down the White Fang in Vale, which results in a body count of over three hundred dead terrorists, many of the members desert or turn themselves into the authorities. This gets to the point where few [[DrivenToSuicide commit suicide in jail]] in fear of encountering him again.

** Six [[spoiler: kills the Cyber-Grimm after killing everything else on Merlot's island.]]

** Tyrian. [[spoiler: Six tortures him first by mutilating his limbs and [[EyeScream impales his eye with a broken bone from his leg]], then feeds him his dismembered scorpion tail laced with hallucinogens, reducing him to a crying and screaming mess before he [[TongueTrauma tears out his tongue.]]]] Six then finishes him by [[OffWithHisHead ripping his head off]] before skinning his corpse and hanging it a la ''Film/{{Predator}}''.

** The effects of certain Forerunner weaponry (such as the Boltshot's charged shot, a Pulse Grenade's field of effect or the Binary Rifle's firepower itself) on biological targets. It literally disintegrates the victim's cells, leaving nothing but ashes behind, as an unfortunate White Fang member finds out. [[spoiler: As the weapons were meant to combat the [[UndeadAbomination Flood]], this is to be expected so that they do not have any biomass to replenish their numbers with after suffering a defeat by their original Forerunner foes.]]
** Adam Taurus. [[spoiler: Six beats him to a pulp, breaks both his horns off with his bare hands, then shoves Wilt down his throat and eviscerates him from the inside-out.]]
** Raven Branwen [[spoiler: has her tribe butchered by Six, stabbed with a poisoned kukri which causes her to see the mutilated corpses of her tribe trying to grab her. She dies from the amount of poison and hallucinogens in her bloodstream.]]

* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation:
** Adam Taurus in canon [[spoiler: is killed by Blake and Yang running him through with the broken Gambol Shroud.]] Here he is killed by Six in an even more gruesome fashion.
** Ozpin in canon was [[spoiler: KilledOffscreen by Cinder during the Fall of Beacon.]] Here, he is killed by Six [[spoiler: gutting him and tearing his lungs out ''from behind'' ala [[CruelAndUnusualDeath Blood Eagle.]]]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After [[spoiler: Summer]], Qrow, and Glynda find out that [[spoiler: Ozpin had Maaya and Myne kidnapped and sent the latter to Atlas, all three of them decide to not be anywhere ''near'' Ozpin when Six comes to Beacon.]]
-->'''Glynda:''' "Qrow told me he has a forty million lien bounty on his head already. If the criminals and whatever bad apple in Mistral can't kill him, what makes you think anybody can do anything at this point? You've managed to piss off someone who's not only [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast scared half of Remnant to death]], but also kills [[EldritchAbomination ancient Grimm]] [[WeDoTheImpossible like they're mere circus animals.]] I don't know who's more deranged at this point, you or him."

** Being a bandit or a White Fang places you in Six's sights as hurting civilians is a sure way to invoke his wrath. In fact, [[spoiler: Summer]] loses whatever respect Six has for her when he finds that she knew about Raven's banditry but never made any effort to dissuade nor stop her ways.

** Raven Branwen and her bandits trying to fight Six, She narrowly escapes only thanks to her portals. [[spoiler: It only buys her a few years until Six tracks her down ''again''.]]

* BrutalHonesty: Six does NOT mince or sugar coat his words. In fact, those who do know him always tell just how blunt he is, to the point where anyone who tries to hold a conversation with him are taken aback by just how blunt he is.

* ContinuityNod: The White Fang call Six a "demon", the very term that the Covenant use when they refer to [=SPARTANs=].

** Six notes Remnant doesn't stand a chance against the UNSC or the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Covenant]] if/when they arrive should they choose to resist given the planet's overreliance on Huntsmen/Huntresses and laughable level of technological development.

** Spending a millennia trying to stop an EldritchAbomination doesn't bode well for ones sanity. Ozpin resorting to more underhanded and downright evil tactics [[spoiler: such as denying settlements help while claiming they became too prideful and kidnapping the two people closest to Six in order to force him into an agreement.]] None of it pans out for him in the end.

** Raven Branwen has the misfortune of being one of the first bandits he encounters, to which she barely escapes from. She is mentioned being paranoid and quiet whenever someone brings up Six. [[spoiler: This fear ends up leading to her and the Branwen bandit clans' demise.]]

** When he starts hunting down the White Fang in Vale, which results in a body count of over three hundred dead terrorists, many of the members desert or turn themselves in to the authorities. This gets to the point where few [[DrivenToSuicide commit suicide in jail]] in fear of encountering him again.

** Adam Taurus in canon [[spoiler: is killed by Blake and Yang running him through with the broken Gambol Shroud.]] Here he is killed by Six [[spoiler: shoving Wilt down his throat and eviscerating him from the inside-out.]]

** Maaya is a reference to the Guild Girl from ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer''. In fact, her name is based on the Guild Girl's seiyuu.

As of April 25, this story and others from the author have been completely removed from his page on fanfiction.net. There is a version of ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/32811703/chapters/81414871 Wolves That Walk Alone]]'' on Archive of Our Own, but that version has unfortunately been deleted as well. Fortunately on July 5 the author put the story back on fanfiction, and is continuing it.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Ozpin gets hit with this ''hard'' thanks to his neverending battle against Salem. It doesn't end well for him
** The White Fang are outright stated to have become as bad as their oppressors with their willingness to sell anyone who disagrees with them into slavery

** [[spoiler: Merlot's [[CruelAndAnUnusualDeath death by hallucination-induced self-mutilation]] is very similar to Albert Contiello's own death in VideoGame/DeadRising3.]]
** Six also makes a reference to ''Comic/TheDarkKnightReturns'' in his CurbStompBattle against Yang

* ContinuityNod: The White Fang call Six a "demon", the very term that the Covenant used when they talked about [=SPARTANs=].

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:Salem]] orchestrates Noble Six's bounty in Mistral in surmising it might draw out the more skilled rogue Huntsmen/Huntresses that lurk in Mistral to kill him. All it did was allowing Six to take out the trash with a '''lot''' less effort with tracking them down instead, with the Grimm that arrive in Mistral due to the eventual negative energy fallout from the backlash being easily quashed by Six as well. What a nice turn of events for Six courtesy of [[spoiler: [[BigBad Salem]] herself]], as not only did it allow for him to clean up a great deal of Mistral's criminal agents, but even further cemented his already-legendary reputation ever higher, especially after killing [[spoiler: [[AxCrazy Adam Taurus]].]]