At first glance, the premise of Remnant's Reclaimer - a 23 year old Ruby Rose being accidentally sent back in time during her battle with Cinder Fall to Team RWBY's first year at Beacon- is an interesting plot ripe with opportunities. One with loads of potential for storytelling as a character from the future struggles to change the past, with each decision she makes having the possibility to change the out come for better...or for much worse.
Trouble is, like so many other stories out there, it's a great idea let down by poor execution. (Keep in mind that while this was written before Volume 3 came out, I'm not holding that against the story in the slightest)
To start with, the method Future!Ruby uses to arrive to the past isn't technological or magical. No, she manages to time travel by using her Semblance to outrun a Dust explosion set off by Cinder in a final 'I'm taking you with me' moment. And no, its not some new or weird form of Dust made up by Cinder or the White Fang. Its just normal Dust. Whats even weirder is that when she tells other characters about how this happened, no one is the least bit curious or surprised by it.
The future version of Ruby doesn't act a thing like you'd expect her at all. She shows a great amount of professionalism and efficiency... when the mood strikes her, which is almost never. Future Ruby acts more like Yang, if you took Yang's occasional flirtatious moments and exaggerated them until they began to consume the character to the point where it was her defining characteristic. (So basically what half the fanbase thinks Yang is like anyway).
The story tries to explain this away as her using sex and sexuality as an escape mechanism, but it doesn't logically fit what we know of the background of the character. Nor does it, I think, fit Ruby in the slightest. Sure, people change as they get older, but not so much their entire personality flips around 180 degrees.
This leads to yet another problem this story has, which is characterization. Frankly, it's just shit. Most of the main characters (RWBY, JNPR) act and talk more like horny teenagers then their canon selves. Also, pretty much all the characters (Ozpin, Glynda etc) let themselves get bossed around by Future!Ruby with little to no argument like they suddenly became her personal minions. This also includes Future!Ruby all but forcing Blake/Yang and Past!Ruby/Weiss into relationships with each other.
As for the plot:
It spends far, faaaar too much time fucking around doing what amounts to spinning its wheels. I'm reminded very much of filler arcs in mangas that last on for years. I'll come clean and admit that I stopped reading several chapters in, which is apparently long before the plot apparently picks up again. Also, as seen with the whole handling of time travel, its got plot holes you could sail a battleship through.
FanficRecs A Beautiful Mess
At first glance, the premise of Remnant's Reclaimer - a 23 year old Ruby Rose being accidentally sent back in time during her battle with Cinder Fall to Team RWBY's first year at Beacon- is an interesting plot ripe with opportunities. One with loads of potential for storytelling as a character from the future struggles to change the past, with each decision she makes having the possibility to change the out come for better...or for much worse.
Trouble is, like so many other stories out there, it's a great idea let down by poor execution. (Keep in mind that while this was written before Volume 3 came out, I'm not holding that against the story in the slightest)
To start with, the method Future!Ruby uses to arrive to the past isn't technological or magical. No, she manages to time travel by using her Semblance to outrun a Dust explosion set off by Cinder in a final 'I'm taking you with me' moment. And no, its not some new or weird form of Dust made up by Cinder or the White Fang. Its just normal Dust. Whats even weirder is that when she tells other characters about how this happened, no one is the least bit curious or surprised by it.
The future version of Ruby doesn't act a thing like you'd expect her at all. She shows a great amount of professionalism and efficiency... when the mood strikes her, which is almost never. Future Ruby acts more like Yang, if you took Yang's occasional flirtatious moments and exaggerated them until they began to consume the character to the point where it was her defining characteristic. (So basically what half the fanbase thinks Yang is like anyway).
The story tries to explain this away as her using sex and sexuality as an escape mechanism, but it doesn't logically fit what we know of the background of the character. Nor does it, I think, fit Ruby in the slightest. Sure, people change as they get older, but not so much their entire personality flips around 180 degrees.
This leads to yet another problem this story has, which is characterization. Frankly, it's just shit. Most of the main characters (RWBY, JNPR) act and talk more like horny teenagers then their canon selves. Also, pretty much all the characters (Ozpin, Glynda etc) let themselves get bossed around by Future!Ruby with little to no argument like they suddenly became her personal minions. This also includes Future!Ruby all but forcing Blake/Yang and Past!Ruby/Weiss into relationships with each other.
As for the plot: It spends far, faaaar too much time fucking around doing what amounts to spinning its wheels. I'm reminded very much of filler arcs in mangas that last on for years. I'll come clean and admit that I stopped reading several chapters in, which is apparently long before the plot apparently picks up again. Also, as seen with the whole handling of time travel, its got plot holes you could sail a battleship through.