Headscratchers / RWBY: Fairy Tales of Remnant

The Indecisive King

• In ''The Indecisive King',' how exactly did the Relic of Choice work? (setting aside the question of how it would work in the actual show.) What combinations of answers to the following questions about it explain the events of the story, especially how a formerly wise and decisive king becomes indecisive after getting it.
  • A. Does it show the wearer a point in time when they're presented with an important choice, or show them actually making the choice?
    • It shows the need for a choice, not a choice being made. The King obsessed over the vision because of the dire consequences his choice would bring but never saw how his future self would make his decision.
    • But that would mean that all the King learned from the Relic was that he'd face an important choice in the future, (yes, he claims it was an impossible choice, but he becomes unsure about every choice from then on and is unsatisfied with his research or the consul of the wisest men in the land, showing the real change after the vision was a blow to his confidence), and if that information was enough to shatter his will and mental health, how could he have been decisive long enough to earn a reputation for it? Or do we have to just say "this is an in-universe fairytale, not historical record; it doesn't need to make real sense."
  • B. Does the timeline diverge once the user puts the crown on, potentially allowing them to avert the shown situation entirely a la Minority Report, or are the visions fated to happen?
  • C. Can one person use the crown more than once?
    • Yes, though the Crown seems to focus on one choice until the choice is made. The King spent his every free moment using the Crown to replay the vision in his head to try and come up with a satisfying answer.
    • Having rewatched it again, I see no evidence that proves or disproves that the King (or anyone else) every used it more than once, though the King does only speak of the singular choice the crown showed him, so if one can use it more than once, it would have to give the same vision each time until the choice is made (unless the choice could be averted entirely, see above.)