YMMV / Not this time, Fate

• Alternate Character Interpretation:
  • Jaune is either a hero to be admired for his limitless resolve and loyalty to his friends, or a wreck of a person who will gladly sacrifice the entire world over and over for the sake of achieving his goal, even though that's not what his friends actually desire. Interestingly, Jaune himself leans towards the latter interpretation.
  • Due to the lack of reliable information on the matter, Fate can be seen as a jerkass deity who torments Jaune for little to no reason, a Well-Intentioned Extremist whose actions are aimed at achieving some ultimately positive goal or a being governed purely by Blue-and-Orange Morality. Weiss' interactions with Fate at the story's climax lend credence to the second interpretation.
• Crazy Is Cool: Jaune tends to solve his problems almost exclusively in creative and dangerous ways. Granted, he often has no other options and he isn't afraid to die if something fails, but still...
  Yang: I just watched the guy ride a freaking Griffon into the cafeteria, then step off like it's his main method of transportation. Knowing the bastard, I wouldn't be surprised.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • As an offhand comment, Jaune mentions that he once tried to get Atlas to declare martial law in Vale in an attempt to prevent the Fall of Beacon. Volume 7 would eventually feature Ironwood declaring martial law in Atlas - after all-but completely losing it and dooming the citizens of Mantle in the process.
  • Jaune's Resurrection/Death Loop has done a great number on his sanity and relationship with his friends. Volume 9 reveals that he did an Accidental Time Travel by picking a clock fruit and being forced to undergo The Slow Path to reunite with Team RWBY where he too has a Sanity Slippage arc.
• Hilarious in Hindsight
  • As with all of his fanfics that feature Jaune's sisters (started before Volume 6, anyway), Coeur Al'Aran gives Jaune's eldest sister the name "Sapphire". In RWBY Volume 6's 7th episode, Jaune introduces his friends to one of his older sisters, and her name is given as... Saphron. Made funnier that in Chapter 1, whilst trying to remember the names of his sisters, Saffron (same name, different spelling) was his guess.
  • RWBY: Before the Dawn received some flak for the Retcon/Revision that Grimm is attracted to the presence of aura, in addition to their established attraction to negativity, with Coeur himself expressing bewilderment at the change. This fic he himself wrote offered up basically the same info years earlier, as a justification for why civilians don't have their auras unlocked.
  • Although it's Played for Drama and Played for Horror, there's some humor in the fact that the circumstances (Resurrection/Death Loop and Sanity Slippage) Jaune suffers in the fic ends up similarly happening to his canon counterpart in Volume 9, where Jaune did an Accidental Time Travel by picking a clock fruit and being forced into The Slow Path. Furthermore, Arc Royale reveals that Fate!Jaune has been looping for over 2000 years and in Volume 9, Word of God states that Jaune was trapped for 10-20 years^note with the added info of the scenario being a "Groundhog Day" Loop. in Ever After by the time Team RWBY arrived.
• Iron Woobie: Jaune is absolutely miserable after spending centuries fighting and dying in fruitless attempts to save his friends. Even so, he presses on.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The descriptions of various deaths and injuries throughout the story, starting with Jaune's fiery death in the first scene, are often written with unnerving levels of detail and emotion. Even when the injuries themselves aren't worse than what the characters face in the show, the narration makes them seem far more brutal than the animation feasibly could.
    Something slammed down on her hand, and Weiss cried out in pain as Cinder's heel dug down. (...) Her body trashed, but she still couldn't move. It hurt. It hurt so bad! Tears stung at her eyes. Please make it stop.
  • Jaune getting drugged by Torchwick is disturbing for two reasons. First, Jaune's situation is severely messed up and, unlike his death, has a certain level of worries to it. Second, the massacre he unleashes upon the White Fang mooks afterwards is something that would fit into a slasher film, and it being done by the main character only makes everything worse.