Fanfic / Twin Heroes Of Remnant

Twin Heroes Of Remnant is a RWBY and The Legend of Zelda crossover written by swift56.

It has a spin-off story where the Canon!RWBY characters read the story here.

This Fanfic has examples of:

• Action Girl: Its RWBY. Nuff said.
• Adaptational Angst Downgrade: Following Gyro successfully managing to get vital info regarding the White Fang's movements, Blake starts to relax a little more, even readily accepting Sun's invitation to the school dance.
• Adaptational Badass: Jaune gets some early help, allowing him to start off stronger than his canon self. Pretty much all of teams RWBY and JNPR are this as the story progresses, quickly becoming much stronger than their canon selves
• Adaptational Heroism: While not inherently evil, the Triforce of Power has chosen a character on the side of good as its bearer.
• Adaptational Name Change: Because of the presence of Gyro and Pierce, Team RWBY is expanded to become Team RWGBY (Rugby). Subverted with Team JNPR becoming Team JNPPR (which is still pronounced "juniper").
• All Women Are Lustful: While Yang and Pierce's relationship is about more than sex, there's still a lot of sex. Jaune and Pyrrha soon get into it as well. Then there's Summer and Raven, who both decide to share Tai. Even Ruby, once she's a little older, starts to act more seductive towards Gyro prior to the final battle. And then there's Blake in general.
• Alternate Continuity: Events on Remnant ultimately wind up clashing with Canon!RWBY. Lampshaded by the Reading Group several times.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: One of the first things Raven talks about once she starts coming back into her daughter Yang's life... Yang's sex life with Pierce.
• An Ass-Kicking Christmas: Apparently Remnant does have Christmas, and RWGBY is asked by none other than Santa Claus to save Christmas from Oogie-Boogie.
• Back from the Dead: Monty Oum. Yes, seriously.
• Beach Episode: In between adventures, Teams RWGBY and JNPPR go to a private beach, even bringing Sun along.
• Beyond the Impossible: Salem is supposed to have been cursed with immortality by the Brother Gods, and yet Gyro manages to kill her. Whether it's due to the story being outdated because of canon, or simply the Master Sword being able to bypass that immortality (which it has consistently done) is up to interpretation.
• Big Little Brother: Played with as the Vermilion brothers are twins, though Gyro is older than Pierce, yet looks younger than him.
• Big "WHAT?!": Tai's reaction when he learns that Yang and Pierce have been having regular sex.
• Blunt "Yes": When Weiss questions if everything in the Shadow Temple is trying to kill her and Blake, Blake's response is a deadpanned, "Yes."
• Bottomless Magazines: Jaune is given one early in the story, and the rest of two main teams start getting them as their weapons get upgraded.
• Break the Cutie: Ruby goes through a traumatic time when she and Gyro get lost in Termina. Luckily Gyro is able to Heal the Cutie with Kirby's Epic Yarn.
• The Bus Came Back: After falling asleep in Skyward Sword, Fi wakes up again during the Battle of Beacon in response to Ghirahim causing trouble once more.
• Butt-Monkey: Would you believe, Team CRDL? Starting with Gyro absolutely curb-stomping Cardin, the team cannot catch a break all throughout the story. Whether it's getting their asses handed to them by the main characters, getting their pranks foiled in the worst way (at one point Jaune UNO Reverses Cardin's attempt to shove him in one of the rocket lockers), or getting pranked themselves. It gets to the point where Glynda decides to have them clean up their own messes.
• Chick Magnet: Jaune of all people, especially as he starts to train his body more.
• Commonality Connection: Gyro is able to help Blake break out of her shell because his race (the elves) has been treated just as badly (if not worse) than the faunus.
  • What kickstarts Pierce and Yang's relationship is their shared love of bad puns.
• Covert Pervert: Pyrrha of all people. Just the sight of Jaune fresh from a shower, with no shirt on, and having stubble is enough to get her muttering that her ovaries might have exploded.
• Crossover: The world of Remnant gets mixed with aspects of The Legend of Zelda. Later becomes a Massive Multiplayer Crossover as the heroes partake in a transdimensional tournament and even go dimension hopping in the future chapters.
• Curb Stomp Cushion: Adam manages to take out Pierce's eye, but loses his life in the process.
• Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Unlike canon, Raven really does have a legitimate excuse for running out on Tai and Yang. Golbez and the Elemental Lords intended to use her as some sort of sacrifice, and she was concerned her family would be hurt or worse if she stayed with them.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Pierce winds up the reincarnation of darkness, but unlike Ganondorf he didn't inherit the Will of Demise. If anything he comes off more as the reincarnation of Volga.
• Didn't See That Coming: Gyro's shocked by the revelation that Neo is Roman's girlfriend.
• Don't Fear the Reaper: Several times the two teams run into the Grim Reaper himself, but under surprisingly cordial circumstances. As someone just trying to do his job, he doesn't bother anyone not meant to die in the immediate future. The only time he fights any of the main characters is when he wants a friendly spar with Ruby to see if she's worthy of the title "Little Red Reaper". She is. During his second appearance, he runs into Blake and Weiss in the Arbiter's Grounds to retrieve Adam's soul after Blake defeats him a second time.
• Elemental Powers:
  • Ruby and Jaune: Light 'em Up
  • Gyro and Weiss: An Ice Person
  • Yang: Playing with Fire
  • Pierce and Blake: Casting a Shadow
  • Ren: Blow You Away
  • Nora: Shock and Awe
  • Pyrrha: Dishing Out Dirt
• Even Evil Has Standards: When some Stalfos see Ruby cuddling Gyro, they decide not to interupt the moment, not having it in their chest cavities to interupt such a warm scene.
• Expy: Pyrrha's Time Skip outfit is described as looking like Izayoi's outfit, but with her own bronze and red color scheme.
• Fanservice Pack: After becoming elves, both Ruby and Yang experience an increase in cup-size (Ruby moreso since Yang already had sizeable boobs to begin with).
• Flanderization: Downplayed. Yang may be fun-loving, but in canon she's only made one bad pun. Here her love of bad puns is taken to the same level as her voice actress Barbara Dunkelman. Likely a Mythology Gag to RWBY Chibi, since there she was all about the bad puns.
• Gatling Good: After getting a book on weapons from Shiek (Gyro in disguise), Jaune reconfigures the scabbard of Crocea Mors to transform into a minigun in addition to a shield.
• Heel–Face Turn: Roman and Neo. Later Cinder (sorta) and Emerald.
• He's Not My Boyfriend: Blake was under the impression that Weiss had a crush on Gyro, and might have been upset that Ruby snagged him first. Weiss clarifies that she never thought of Gyro in that way, and that their relationship was more Like Brother and Sister.
• Hidden Depths: Yang is amazingly good at giving relationship advice to her little sister when she learns Ruby has a crush on Gyro.
  • Blake turns out to be an amazing dancer, especially break-dancing.
• I Want Grandkids: When Summer learns that both her daughters have boyfriends, she asks when she can expect grandkids. Subverted with Raven, who wants Yang to wait until she's had more of a chance to be a mother before becoming a grandmother.
• In the Blood: Yang may have her father's last name, but she's still a Branwen, and her temper can be terrifying, as Moldorm finds out the hard way.
• Irony: When Adam was alive, Blake was terrified of him. When she runs into him as a specter in the Arbiter's Grounds, she's shocked but not afraid, no longer seeing him as invincible.
• It's Not Porn, It's Art: Whenever someone brings up Blake's "Ninjas of Love" book, calling it smut reading, she defensively retorts that's actually artistic reading.
• Kill It with Fire: Weiss' reaction the first time she sees a ReDead. Blake calls her out on it, causing the Schnee heiress to blush in embarrassment.
• Lightning Bruiser: Epona, Gyro's horse. She's noted to be a mix of a Clydesdale and a Mustang, plus she has her Aura unlocked, making her the perfect combination of speed, strength, and durability.
• Long-Lived: It turns out Zwei is able to live for a good 37 years (which is old for a corgi), long enough to be around in the time of RWGBY and JNPPR's kids.
• Love at First Sight: Ruby winds up falling for Gyro hard after he helps her up when she literally explodes due to a Dust mishap.
• Love Before First Sight: Sort of. As fans of RWBY, Gyro always had a crush on Ruby, while Pierce had a crush on Yang. Played straight when you factor in that Gyro is a reincarnation of Link while Ruby is a reincarnation of Zelda.
• Made of Explodium: When Gyro shoots Cinder with a Light Arrow, it causes her to explode due to the Grimm essence inside her body.
• Magic Knight: Gyro and Pierce start off as this, and slowly the rest of Teams RWGBY and JNPPR become this as well.
• Mid-Season Upgrade: RWBY and JNPR get upgrades to their weapons using Sealed Weapons during certain dungeon runs.
• The Mob Boss Is Scarier: Deconstructed. Roman is so scared of Ghirahim (moreso than Cinder) that he's willing to give Ironwood any information that can get rid of the guy, largely for the sake of Neo and because Gyro offered him a way out that seemed plausible.
• Mythology Gag: Gyro sometimes disguises himself as Shiek despite being the reincarnated Link instead of Zelda.
  • Yang's participation in DEATH BATTLE! (against Tifa) is referenced during the food fight scene.
• No-Sell: It turns out Yang's fireproof due to her Semblance, and can bath in molten lava without so much as melting. She and Pierce learn this the hard way. This also applies to Ember Celica, but not the rest of her clothes...
• Noble Bird of Prey: Gyro's pet falcon Medli, an Aura awakened Attack Animal.
• Official Couple: Several. Ruby/Gyro, Yang/Pierce, Ren/Nora, Jaune/Pyrrha, Blake/Sun. And plenty of others.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Gyro realizes just how much Character Development Weiss has gone through when she starts dating a shark faunus named Alexei.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Junior turns out to be this, just wanting to make decent living and being more concerned with maintaining his club. He's also very loyal to family, and sees the Vermilion brothers as such.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: When the gang learns that Mercury has been raping Emerald following (the original) Cinder's death, pretty much everyone decides Mercury needs to die in the worst way possible.
• Real Men Wear Pink: It turns out Ren's swim trunks are pink. Which might be why he likes Nora so much...
• Really Royalty Reveal: Ruby Rose is revealed to be the current incarnation of Princess Zelda.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Ozpin as per canon. Especially when the narration treats Teen Pregnancy occurring in cases of co-ed dorms^note remember that Beacon student teams share dorms regardless of gender, as a very real possibilty. He has a special nursery for the newborns that not even Gyro's been able to find, and he was able to find the secret basement leading to the Beacon relic.
• Related in the Adaptation: There's no indication that Junior has any familial relationship with the Malachite twins in canon, but in this story they're his nieces.
• Running Gag: During dungeon runs, Weiss somehow always finds her skirt getting ripped by a blade of some kind. Finally becomes Running Gagged when she decides to just wear pants instead.
  • A more recurring gag is Weiss' undying hatred of Beamos (most gamers will relate), and she relishes the moments when said monsters can actually be destroyed.
• Screaming Woman: Weiss lets out a high-pitched one when she first sees the Dead Hand. Naturally it hurts Blake's ears, and is even heard by Tai in nearby Patch. But what's really funny is that the scream even stuns Dead Hand long enough for Weiss to kill it.
• Screw Destiny: Essentially one of the goals of the brothers, as they want to prevent most if not all the tragedies that take place in canon RWBY.
• Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: A justified and positive version. Since Ozpin notes that the number of students taking the entrance exam isn't divisible by four, he makes it so that two teams will be five-man teams instead.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: The Vermilion brother are pulling out all the stops to ensure that the future changes for Remnant. See also Spanner in the Works.
• Shipper on Deck: Gyro really wants to see Jaune and Pyrrha get together. Thanks to Pierce, he eventually gets his wish.
• Spanner in the Works: The Vermilion siblings managed to completely and utterly derail most if not all of Salem's plans, starting with killing Cinder.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Amber and Pyrrha.
• Super-Senses: Blake's natural faunus senses can help her see through illusions, which come in handy when exploring the Shadow Temple and Arbiter's Grounds.
• Supreme Chef: Gyro is an amazing cook, with Ren only surpassing him in terms of making pancakes.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gyro gives Weiss a harsh dressing down of why she's not as a good a team leader as she thinks she is. It actually sticks, and helps jumpstart Weiss' Character Development.
  • He gives her a second one regarding her own family's treatment of faunus over the years, which horrifies her.
• Took a Level in Badass: Jaune. Gyro secretly sends him a book on sword-fighting (written by Orca) that improves his combat skills tremendously. He also takes a Beacon entrance exam for normal students^note most Beacon Academy students come from prep schools like Signal rather than cheat his way in, which gets his Aura unlocked a little earlier than canon.
• Troll: After Summer Rose wound up in the Dark World, and before she was captured, she spent some time messing with Ganondorf's forces. One of her best was spreading posters of Ganon's pig form yelling out, "I am the king of bacon!" It made him the laughingstock of his own kingdom for weeks.
• Visual Pun: Gyro's Semblance is turning into a wolf (a la Twilight Princess) and is soon dating Ruby. So it's basically like Little Red Riding Hood decided to date the Big Bad Wolf.
• Walking Arsenal: Thanks to magic, Gyro and Pierce are able to bring a number of weapons with them, most of them from Hyrule Warriors.
• What Were You Thinking?: Yang's reaction to seeing her mom again is to first punch her in the stomach, then hug her and ask where the heck she's been for so long.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Jaune admits to Pyrrha that he's afraid of ghosts. Pyrrha in turn admits that she's afraid of getting raped. Later Jaune gets an upgrade to Crocea Mors that's light-based and very effective against ghosts, allowing him to conquer his fears in the silliest way possible.
• You Can't Fight Fate: Played with, as while the future has changed, a few things still stay the same, or are at least somewhat similar to what they originally were. Case in point, Pierce ends up Taking the Bullet meant for Yang in the form of Adam, losing his eye in the process.