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* BatmanGambit: Early in the book, Roman talks the Malachite Twins into helping with a scheme to bring down a rival gang in Mistral. It works, but the fracas nearly gets the Twins seriously hurt, and Lil' Miss forbids Roman from interacting with the Twins again. This is what Roman wanted, as he hated babysitting the Twins.
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* RobbingTheMobBank: The first bank Roman robs happened to belong to Hei Xiong, who was not happy about it and tried to have Roman killed. Afterwards, Roman focuses his heists on areas out of Hei Xiong's control.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: When Hei Xiong sees Roman's old Spiders tattoo, he assumes that Roman is part of a scheme by Lil' Miss Malachite to take over Vale's underworld. As it turns out, Lil' Miss ''is'' working on that, but Roman had long since ditched the Spiders.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: When Hei Xiong sees Roman's old Spiders tattoo, he assumes that Roman is part of a scheme by Lil' Miss Malachite to take over Vale's underworld. As it turns out, Lil' Miss ''is'' working on that, but Roman had long since ditched the Spiders.
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* ThatWomanIsDead: Trivia's long journey into becoming Neopolitan eventually ends with her decision to disown Trivia forever. [[spoiler:After Jimmy and Carmel are killed, Neo concludes that Trivia died in that moment, too.]]
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* ThatWomanIsDead: Trivia's long journey into becoming Neopolitan eventually ends with her decision to disown Trivia her real name forever. [[spoiler:After Jimmy and Carmel are killed, Neo concludes that Trivia died in that moment, too.]]
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* DramaticIrony: Roman manages to survive in a room with a Grimm because he knows that Grimm are drawn to anger even more than fear and takes advantage of that, keeping calm and riling up his captor to draw the Grimm towards him. This is exactly how he'll eventually die: his fury at Neo's supposed death not only distracts him from the much bigger threat in favor of beating on Ruby, but draws the Grimm straight to him.
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* DramaticIrony: Roman manages to survive survives in a room with a Grimm because he knows that Grimm are drawn to anger even more than fear and takes advantage of that, keeping calm and riling up his captor to draw the Grimm towards him. This is exactly how he'll eventually die: his fury at Neo's supposed death not only distracts him from the much bigger threat in favor of beating on Ruby, but draws the Grimm straight to him.
* ForegoneConclusion: Since ''Roman Holiday'' is a prequel to ''RWBY'', those who are familiar with the show will already know that Roman and Neo will form a friendship and survive the events of this novel.
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* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Trivia's parents wanted the perfect child and constantly punish Trivia for not being one. They hate her muteness, her pink eye, and the nature and power of her Semblance. They therefore put her under constant pressure to speak, wear a contact lens to hide her pink eye, and to stop using her Semblance.
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* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Trivia's parents wanted the perfect child and constantly punish Trivia for not being one. They hate her muteness, her pink eye, and the nature and power of her Semblance. They therefore put her under constant thus pressure her to speak, wear a contact lens to hide her pink eye, and to stop using her Semblance.
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* FlippingTheBird: It’s implied that Neo does this at one point.
* GildedCage: Trivia/Neo's parents kept her mostly locked up in their mansion throughout her entire childhood. She had to resort to tricks to get out once.
* HideYourOtherness: Trivia’s parents really don’t like her semblance and never want her to use it.
* MobWar: A plotline in the book is Lil' Miss Malachite's Spiders Gang trying to move in on Hei Xiong's territory in Vale.
* OnlyFriend: Although she does make friends with Melanie and Miltia when she joins the program, it becomes very apparent that Roman is perhaps the only person Neo has a genuine bond with, making it even more apparent why she despises Ruby for her role in his death.
* ParentalNeglect: Trivia/Neo's parents never really gave her any love or attention.
* GildedCage: Trivia/Neo's parents kept her mostly locked up in their mansion throughout her entire childhood. She had to resort to tricks to get out once.
* HideYourOtherness: Trivia’s parents really don’t like her semblance and never want her to use it.
* MobWar: A plotline in the book is Lil' Miss Malachite's Spiders Gang trying to move in on Hei Xiong's territory in Vale.
* OnlyFriend: Although she does make friends with Melanie and Miltia when she joins the program, it becomes very apparent that Roman is perhaps the only person Neo has a genuine bond with, making it even more apparent why she despises Ruby for her role in his death.
* ParentalNeglect: Trivia/Neo's parents never really gave her any love or attention.
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* GildedCage:Trivia/Neo's Trivia lives in an enormous mansion that has 56 rooms for just three people. It's filled with expensive and rare items, from the flooring to the ornaments. Her room is full of games, books, toys and clothes, and she wants for nothing -- except love and freedom. Her parents kept hide her mostly locked up away in their the mansion throughout her entire childhood. She had childhood, even forcing her to resort be home-schooled. She's also forbidden from entering certain rooms, meaning her freedom inside the house is further restricted. Eventually, she resorts to tricks using her Semblance and developing skills like lock picking and driving to get out once.
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* HideYourOtherness:Trivia’s Trivia was born with one pink eye, something that horrifies her parents. She is forced to wear a contact lens that makes the eye as brown as the other. Linked to her extraordinary Semblance, which initially manifests as a girl with pink eyes and hair, her parents really don’t like her semblance what that to be hidden and never want used, too. Even after Trivia eventually masters her Semblance and embraces her identity as Neo, she is so affected by this childhood experience that, when she brings Roman back to the mansion, she uses her Semblance to make herself appear brown-haired and brown-eyed. Roman tells her to use it.
stop and let her parents see her true self, which helps break the last few influences her upbringing holds over her.
* MobWar: Aplotline war between criminal organisations in the book is Lil' Mistral provides Lil Miss Malachite's Spiders Gang trying with the opportunity to move in on Hei Xiong's territory in Vale.
expand her organisation elsewhere, triggering further wars as a result. [[spoiler:She begins expanding into Vale, eventually triggering a war with Vale's dominant crime organisation, the Xiong family. It comes to a head at Trivia's family estate until Neo and Roman find a way to end it for good.]]
* OnlyFriend:Although she does Kept isolated by hostile parents for most of her childhood, Trivia is forced to socialise with her imaginary friend Neo. Her first chance to make any friends with Melanie and Miltia occurs when she starts attending Lady Beat's academy at the age of 18. However, she is quickly isolated by the Malachite twins, who turn the students against her. When she joins the program, it becomes very apparent that "advanced" programme, the twins insist on bringing her into their friendship, but she knows they're false friends. As a result, the first -- and only -- true friend Neo is able to make is with Roman. The novel therefore helps clarify exactly why Neo is so loyal to Roman is perhaps in the only person Neo has a genuine bond with, making it even more apparent why she despises Ruby for her role in his death.
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* ParentalNeglect:Trivia/Neo's Trivia's parents never really gave are so disappointed in their imperfect, troublesome daughter that they hide her any love or attention.away from society, lock her up when she annoys them, and don't even admit to many people that they have a child at all; she is left to try and figure out her own entertainment. The only affection she receives is from her mother, but that is only given when her mother is trying to manipulate her.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Trivia's abusive and neglectful parents are fairly ableist towards her over her muteness, refusing to believe she can't speak.
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: This occurs repeatedly throughout the novel, sometimes with LampshadeHanging by the characters. Roman in particularly is suspicious whenever offered something, since he's not above drugging people in the same manner to get the upper hand. Trivia also mixes her sedatives into her tutor's tea in order to escape from the house for the first time. [[spoiler: At the end of the story, Trivia's parents serve them drugged tea in order to capture them both. Trivia falls for her parents' trick, while Roman is ProperlyParanoid and played along to get the drop on the Vanilles.]].
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: This occurs repeatedly throughout the novel, sometimes with LampshadeHanging by the characters. Roman in particularly is suspicious whenever offered something, since he's not above drugging people in the same manner to get the upper hand. Trivia also mixes her sedatives into her tutor's tea in order to escape from the house for the first time. [[spoiler: At the end of the story, Trivia's parents serve them drugged tea in order to capture them both. Trivia falls for her parents' trick, while Roman is ProperlyParanoid and played along to get the drop on the Vanilles.]].
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Trivia's abusive and neglectful parents are fairly ableist towards refuse to accept their daughter is mute. They constantly try and find ways to force her over to speak, and don't tolerate her communications board, punishing and emotionally withdrawing from her whenever she fails. Lady Beat also forces her to attend diction classes and communicate with a voice synthesiser that stresses Neo out because the sound is too alien and mechanical to represent who she is. Part of why she bonds so quickly with Roman is because he never comments on her muteness, refusing and lets her be herself to believe communicate however she can't speak.
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* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: This occurs repeatedly throughout the novel, sometimes with LampshadeHanging by the characters. Roman in particularly is suspicious whenever offered something, since he's not above drugging people in the same manner to get the upper hand. Trivia also mixes her sedatives into her tutor's tea in order to escape from the house for the first time.[[spoiler: At [[spoiler:At the end of the story, Trivia's parents serve them drugged tea in order to capture them both. Trivia falls for her parents' trick, while Roman is ProperlyParanoid and played along to get the drop on the Vanilles.]].
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: This occurs repeatedly throughout the novel, sometimes with LampshadeHanging by the characters. Roman in particularly is suspicious whenever offered something, since he's not above drugging people in the same manner to get the upper hand. Trivia also mixes her sedatives into her tutor's tea in order to escape from the house for the first time.
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* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Trivia's parents are forever frustrated with both their daughter's physical abnormalities as well her more dangerous tendencies.
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* DamselOutOfDistress: At a couple of points in the story Neo is captured but fights her way out of the predicaments.
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* BreakoutCharacter: Roman is the main show's StarterVillain, until overshadowed and replaced by the plot's primary villains. Neo is always in the shadow of the other villains as a minion. However, they've always been among the most popular villains, so this novel places them into the starring role.
* DamselOutOfDistress:At a couple of points in Neo's cleverness, creativity and flexibility allows her to adapt to the story Neo is captured but fights situations she's in. Combined with her way powerful Semblance, she is almost always able to get herself out of the predicaments.predicaments she ends up. Whether it's learning how to pick locks to escape being imprisoned in her bedroom or using her Semblance to turn the tables on her own kidnappers, Neo is almost always able to rescue herself without relying on others.
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** Trivia was the daughter of Jimmy and Carmel Vanille, with Jimmy serving as Vale's city manager. Her parents purposely kept her at home, all but hiding her existence from the world due to her "abnormalities" and Semblance. Her father, although not physically abusive, often screamed at her while her mother did very little to actually help her.
** Roman grew up on the streets of Mistral after his mother abandoned him, turning to thievery in order to survive.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Roman and Neo, two villains from the show, are the main focus of the novel.
** Roman grew up on the streets of Mistral after his mother abandoned him, turning to thievery in order to survive.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Roman and Neo, two villains from the show, are the main focus of the novel.
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** Trivia was is the daughter of Jimmy and Carmel Vanille, with Jimmy serving as Vale's city manager. Her parents purposely kept her at home, all but hiding her existence from the world due to her "abnormalities" and Semblance. Her father, although not physically father is emotionally and verbally abusive, often screamed screaming at her while for her "imperfections" and creativity; her mother did very little to actually help her.
is emotionally manipulative, first offering affection then instantly withdrawing it whenever she's dealing with Trivia's "imperfections".
** After being abandoned by his mother at an orphanage in Wind Path, Roman grew up on the streets ofMistral after his mother abandoned him, Mistral, turning to thievery crime in order to survive.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Roman and Neo, two villains from the show, are the main focus of the novel.survive.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: Roman and Neo, two villains from the show, are the main focus of the novel.
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* BackForTheDead: The novel details Roman's beginnings, first as a member of Lil' Miss Malachite's syndicate, and later as a prominent thief.
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* BigBrotherIsWatching: Little Miss makes use of surveillance technology to know the intimate goings-on of everyone in places she's interested in. [[spoiler:Her decision to try and move into Vale is aided by Lady Browning's Preparatory Academy For Girls. Students and graduates of the academy all wear triskelion pins which act as secret body cams, allowing Lady Beat to collect in-depth insider knowledge on everything that happens around the wearers, from the heights of government to the depths of the underworld.]]
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* BigBrotherIsWatching: Little Miss makes use of surveillance technology to know the intimate goings-on of everyone in places she's interested in. [[spoiler:Her decision to try and move moving into Vale is aided by Lady Browning's Preparatory Academy For Girls. Students and graduates of the academy all wear triskelion pins which act as secret body cams, allowing Lady Beat to collect in-depth insider knowledge on everything that happens around the wearers, from the heights of government to the depths of the underworld.]]
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** Trivia was the daughter of the Vanille family, her father the Jimmy and Carmel Vanille, with Jimmy serving as Vale's city manager of Vale.manager. Her parents purposely kept her at home, all but hiding her existence from the world due to her "abnormalities" and Semblance. Her father, although not physically abusive, often screamed at her while her mother did very little to actually help her.
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* {{Patricide}}: As the story is set in the criminal world, certain characters end up killing their fathers to resolve the dilemmas they're in. [[spoiler:When trying to escape her parents house, Neo tricks Lil' Miss into shooting at her bedroom, where she locked her father with his secret stash of Dust. The resulting explosion destroys the entire mansion and kills everyone inside. While her father is definitely killed, her mother's fate is a little more ambiguous.]]
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* {{Patricide}}: As the story is set in the criminal world, certain characters end up killing their fathers to resolve the dilemmas they're in. [[spoiler:When trying [[spoiler:Trying to escape her parents parents' house, Neo tricks Lil' Miss into shooting at her bedroom, where she locked her father Jimmy with his secret stash of Dust. The resulting explosion destroys the entire mansion and kills everyone inside. While her father Jimmy is definitely killed, her mother's Carmel's fate is a little more ambiguous.]]
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* ThatWomanIsDead: Trivia's long journey into becoming Neopolitan eventually ends with her decision to abandon Trivia forever. [[spoiler:After the explosion that kills her parents, Neo concludes that Trivia died in that moment, too.]]
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* ThatWomanIsDead: Trivia's long journey into becoming Neopolitan eventually ends with her decision to abandon disown Trivia forever. [[spoiler:After the explosion that kills her parents, Jimmy and Carmel are killed, Neo concludes that Trivia died in that moment, too.]]
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* BigBrotherIsWatching: [[spoiler:The pins that the students and those who graduated from Lady Browning's Preparatory Academy For Girls wear all have cameras in them allowing Lady Beat to have insider knowledge on a lot of the upper class’s dealings.]]
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* BigBrotherIsWatching: [[spoiler:The pins that Little Miss makes use of surveillance technology to know the students intimate goings-on of everyone in places she's interested in. [[spoiler:Her decision to try and those who graduated from move into Vale is aided by Lady Browning's Preparatory Academy For Girls Girls. Students and graduates of the academy all wear all have cameras in them triskelion pins which act as secret body cams, allowing Lady Beat to have collect in-depth insider knowledge on a lot everything that happens around the wearers, from the heights of government to the depths of the upper class’s dealings.underworld.]]
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* EasilyForgiven: Subverted. Despite Roman [[spoiler:backtracking his decision to give up the Malachite twins to get out of Spider, having grown fond of them]], their relationship becomes strained.
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* {{Patricide}}: [[spoiler:Neo indirectly kills her parents when she tricks Lil' Miss Malachite into shooting at her room that has a lot of volatile dust blowing up the whole mansion.]]
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* {{Patricide}}: [[spoiler:Neo indirectly kills As the story is set in the criminal world, certain characters end up killing their fathers to resolve the dilemmas they're in. [[spoiler:When trying to escape her parents when she house, Neo tricks Lil' Miss Malachite into shooting at her room that has a lot bedroom, where she locked her father with his secret stash of volatile dust blowing up Dust. The resulting explosion destroys the whole mansion.entire mansion and kills everyone inside. While her father is definitely killed, her mother's fate is a little more ambiguous.]]
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* ThatWomanIsDead: [[spoiler: After the fire that kills her parents, Neo disowns her Trivia persona altogether.]]
* VillainEpisode: All of the main characters are villains. All the supporting characters are villains. And the few non-villains have maybe one brief scene and that's it.
* VillainProtagonist: Torchwick and Neo, antagonists in the main series, are the stars here.
* VillainEpisode: All of the main characters are villains. All the supporting characters are villains. And the few non-villains have maybe one brief scene and that's it.
* VillainProtagonist: Torchwick and Neo, antagonists in the main series, are the stars here.
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* ThatWomanIsDead: [[spoiler: After Trivia's long journey into becoming Neopolitan eventually ends with her decision to abandon Trivia forever. [[spoiler:After the fire explosion that kills her parents, Neo disowns her concludes that Trivia persona altogether.died in that moment, too.]]
* VillainEpisode: As an exploration of Roman and Neo, the entire story is set in the criminal world. Allof the main characters are villains. All the and supporting characters are villains. And villains; aside from a few marks, most of the minor characters are villains, too. Very few non-villains have maybe one brief scene appear, and that's it.
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* VillainProtagonist: As the story of how Roman Torchwick andNeo, antagonists in the main series, Neopolitan met and became partners, they are the stars here.of the show. Both the protagonists and antagonists are villains.
* VillainEpisode: As an exploration of Roman and Neo, the entire story is set in the criminal world. All
* VillainProtagonist: As the story of how Roman Torchwick and
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* TheCameo: Professor Ozpin briefly appears in the news, decrying Torchwick's blatant daylight robbery.
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* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Occurs repeatedly throughout the novel, sometimes with LampshadeHanging by the characters. Roman in particularly is suspicious whenever offered something, since he's not above drugging people in the same manner to get the upper hand. Trivia also mixes her sedatives into her tutor's tea in order to escape from the house for the first time. [[spoiler: During the finale, Trivia's parents serve them drugged tea in order to capture them both. Trivia falls for her parents' trick, while Roman is ProperlyParanoid and played along to get the drop on the Vanilles.]].
* ThatWomanIsDead: [[spoiler: After the fire that kills her parents, Trivia disowns her previous identity and changes her name to Neo.]]
* ThatWomanIsDead: [[spoiler: After the fire that kills her parents, Trivia disowns her previous identity and changes her name to Neo.]]
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* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Occurs This occurs repeatedly throughout the novel, sometimes with LampshadeHanging by the characters. Roman in particularly is suspicious whenever offered something, since he's not above drugging people in the same manner to get the upper hand. Trivia also mixes her sedatives into her tutor's tea in order to escape from the house for the first time. [[spoiler: During At the finale, end of the story, Trivia's parents serve them drugged tea in order to capture them both. Trivia falls for her parents' trick, while Roman is ProperlyParanoid and played along to get the drop on the Vanilles.]].
* ThatWomanIsDead: [[spoiler: After the fire that kills her parents,Trivia Neo disowns her previous identity and changes her name to Neo.Trivia persona altogether.]]
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* ThatWomanIsDead: [[spoiler: After the fire that kills her parents, Neo decides that her identity as Trivia died with them.]]
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* AbusiveParents: Jimmy is borderline abusive in his efforts to keep his daughter hidden from the world and only gets physically aggressive a couple of times. The only thing keeping him from being full on abusive is that he never assaulted her.
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Trivia Vanile Vanille is the isolated daughter of a rich family in Vale, whose parents are ashamed of her muteness and mismatched eyes. Her only friend is Neo, a mischievous girl who frequently gets Trivia in trouble. However, Trivia and Neo may be closer than they think...
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* AlphaBitch: The Malachite Twins are the popular girls at Lady Browning's academy, and determine the social status of other girls. They start out leading the harassment and bullying of Trivia, but then bring her into their social circle once she joins the "Advanced" program.
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* AbusiveParents: Jimmy is borderline abusive in his efforts to keep his daughter hidden from the world and only be physically aggressive a couple of times. The only thing keeping him from being full on abusive is that he never beat her.
* BigBrotherIsWatching: [[spoiler:the pins that the students and those who graduated from Lady Browning's Preparatory Academy For Girls wear all have cameras in them allowing Lady Beat to have insider knowledge on a lot of the upper class’s dealings.]]
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* AcademyOfEvil: Lady Browning's Preparatory Academy For Girls, on the surface, seems like a fancy boarding school. In actuality, it has a secret program training its students to become spies and assassins.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Roman and Neo, two villains from the show, are the main focus of the novel.
* AscendedExtra: Lil' Miss Malachite, who appeared for a short while during Volume 6, is given a lot more focus, including her organization. She's also the one who recruits a young Roman Torchwick into her organization. The same also goes for her daughters Melanie and Militia, who only showed up in the Yellow Trailer and a cameo appearance in Volume 2.
* BackForTheDead: The novel details Roman's beginnings, first as a member of Lil' Miss Malachite's syndicate, and later as a prominent thief.
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** Roman grew up on the streets of Mistral after his mother abandoned him.
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** Neo had Trivia was the daughter of the Vanille family, her father the city manager of Vale. Her parents that neglected her and purposely kept her locked up in their mansion.at home, all but hiding her existence from the world due to her "abnormalities" and Semblance. Her father, although not physically abusive, often screamed at her while her mother did very little to actually help her.
** Roman grew up on the streets of Mistral after his mother abandonedhim.him, turning to thievery in order to survive.
** Roman grew up on the streets of Mistral after his mother abandoned
* EasilyForgiven: Subverted. Despite Roman [[spoiler:backtracking his decision to give up the Malachite twins to get out of Spider, having grown fond of them]], their relationship becomes strained.
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* OnlyFriend: It makes more sense why Neo is so vengeful over Roman's death in the series when he was the only friend she ever truly had.
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* WeUsedToBeFriends: The Malachite twins were friends with Roman and Neo in the time they knew them. [[spoiler:Despite Roman backtracking on his decision to give up the twins because he realized he cared about them, they've made their thoughts and feelings on the matter very clear. Their friendship with Neo similarly ended when she betrayed the syndicate in favor of protecting Roman.]]
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Trivia's abusive and neglectful parents are fairly ableist towards her over her muteness, refusing to believe she can't speak.
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! Spoilers for all ''Franchise/{{RWBY}}'' works preceding this one will be left unmarked.
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* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Trivia's parents are forever frustrated with both their daughter's physical abnormalities as well her more dangerous tendencies.
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* BigBrotherIsWatching: [[spoiler:the pins that the students and those who graduated from Lady Browning's Preparatory Academy For Girls wear all have cameras in them allowing Lady Beat to have insider knowledge on a lot of the upper class’s dealings.]]
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* DamselOutOfDistress: At a couple of points in the story Neo is captured but fights her way out of the predicaments.
* DarkAndTroubledPast:
** Neo had parents that neglected her and kept her locked up in their mansion.
** Roman grew up on the streets of Mistral after his mother abandoned him.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Several times Roman finds himself facing capture and/or certain death and he mouths off every time.
* FiveFingerDiscount: Trivia sneaks out of the house and goes on a “shopping spree”. When she returns her father already knows what she did and bought it all off. This upsets her as it means that she no longer owns any of it.
* FlippingTheBird: It’s implied that Neo does this at one point.
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** Neo had parents that neglected her and kept her locked up in their mansion.
** Roman grew up on the streets of Mistral after his mother abandoned him.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Several times Roman finds himself facing capture and/or certain death and he mouths off every time.
* FiveFingerDiscount: Trivia sneaks out of the house and goes on a “shopping spree”. When she returns her father already knows what she did and bought it all off. This upsets her as it means that she no longer owns any of it.
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* HideYourOtherness: Trivia’s parents really don’t like her semblance and never want her to use it.
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* {{Patricide}}: [[spoiler:Neo indirectly kills her parents when she tricks Lil' Miss Malachite into shooting at her room that has a lot of volatile dust blowing up the whole mansion.]]
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* AbusiveParents: Jimmy is borderline abusive in his efforts to keep his daughter hidden from the world and only be physically aggressive a couple of times. The only thing keeping him from being full on abusive is that he never beat her.
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* ParentalNeglect: Trivia/Neo's parents never really gave her any love or attention.
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* GildedCage: Trivia/Neo's parents kept her mostly locked up in their mansion throughout her entire childhood. She had to resort to tricks to get out once.
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* OnlyFriend: It makes more sense why Neo is so vengeful over Roman's death in the series when he was the only friend she ever truly had.
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* TheCameo: Professor Ozpin briefly appears in the news, decrying Torchwick's blatant daylight robbery.
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''RWBY: Roman Holiday'' is a ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' young adult novel written by E.C. Myers, with help from Kerry Shawcross and Eddy Rivas, and published by Scholastic. It was released on September 7, 2021. It is a prequel, taking place years before the events of the main series, showing how Roman Torchwick and Neopolitan met and became partners in crime.
Trivia Vanile is the isolated daughter of a rich family in Vale, whose parents are ashamed of her muteness and mismatched eyes. Her only friend is Neo, a mischievous girl who frequently gets Trivia in trouble. However, Trivia and Neo may be closer than they think...
Roman Torchwick is a young, up-and-coming criminal mastermind, trying to make his way through Remnant's underworld. He butts heads with more prominent crime families, but manages to keep ahead- just barely - with his wit, charm, and stubborn desire to stay alive.
Eventually, these two meet up, setting the stage for a wild heist...
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* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler: After the fire that kills her parents, Neo decides that her identity as Trivia died with them.]]
* MobWar: A plotline in the book is Lil' Miss Malachite's Spiders Gang trying to move in on Hei Xiong's territory in Vale.
* VillainProtagonist: Torchwick and Neo, antagonists in the main series, are the stars here.
* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Trivia's parents are forever frustrated with both their daughter's physical abnormalities as well her more dangerous tendencies.
Trivia Vanile is the isolated daughter of a rich family in Vale, whose parents are ashamed of her muteness and mismatched eyes. Her only friend is Neo, a mischievous girl who frequently gets Trivia in trouble. However, Trivia and Neo may be closer than they think...
Roman Torchwick is a young, up-and-coming criminal mastermind, trying to make his way through Remnant's underworld. He butts heads with more prominent crime families, but manages to keep ahead- just barely - with his wit, charm, and stubborn desire to stay alive.
Eventually, these two meet up, setting the stage for a wild heist...
!!This novel has examples of
* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler: After the fire that kills her parents, Neo decides that her identity as Trivia died with them.]]
* MobWar: A plotline in the book is Lil' Miss Malachite's Spiders Gang trying to move in on Hei Xiong's territory in Vale.
* VillainProtagonist: Torchwick and Neo, antagonists in the main series, are the stars here.
* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Trivia's parents are forever frustrated with both their daughter's physical abnormalities as well her more dangerous tendencies.
