History Fanfic / BelladonnaLilies

* HeroicBastard: Yang is Ruby’s half-Chinese bastard sister. This allows her to get away with quite a bit more than would normally be appropriate for a high society girl, like being an underground pit fighter in her spare time.

* TheDulcineaEffect: Jaune has shades of this, but it comes off as part of his strong sense of care for those affected by the crimes he tries to solve. Of course, given that it's [[spoiler:[[HeroesWantRedheads Pyr]][[SignificantGreenEyedRedhead rha]]]] he's assisting, his chivalry isn't surprising.

-->Blake looked at Yang in wondrous amazement. "You don't object to [[spoiler:us being sapphic]] with one another?"\\

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10072303/1/Belladonna-Lilies Belladonna Lilies]]'' is a ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' fanfic and alternate universe setting created by [=DezoPenguin=].

* BikerBabe: Yang and Blake are both this, as far as Victorian England allows at least.

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Nora's full name is revealed to be [[spoiler:Leonora Jennifer Valkyrie]] in chapter 3.

** ''Human Chastity Belt'': "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07fOCNiml6o Robbery, Assault and Battery]]" by Music/{{Genesis}}.

** ''Preparing The Spring Trap'': "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykaEysI4KYA Your Own Special Way]]" by Music/{{Genesis}}.
** ''The Carpet Scrawlers'': "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yUN6CsuVPw The Carpet Crawlers]]" by Music/{{Genesis}}.

* RaceLift: Played with. Most of the character's racial origins (with the exception of Blake, for certain reasons) are accurate to their names, with Ruby being of English stock, Weiss's family hailing from Austria, Pyrrha growing up in England with mixed parentage (see MixedAncestry for details), and Yang and Ren both coming from China. However, it's played straighter in the cases of [[spoiler:Neptune and Nora]]; the former is completely Greek, and the latter completely [[spoiler:Irish]].

* MixedAncestry: Yang is half-Chinese, half-English, with her apperance leaning heavily towards the latter side of the family. Later on, Pyrrha is revealed to be half-Greek, half-[[spoiler:Irish]]. It explains why Pyrrha's got a Greek name, [[SignificantGreenEyedRedhead yet has auburn hair and bright green eyes]], as Jaune points out.
--> Jaune looked somewhat surprised at Pyrrha's choice in tea, but nodded affirmatively.
--> "Sure thing. Never realised you were one for [[spoiler:Irish]] tea, by the way."
--> Pyrrha, ''clearly'' having heard ''that'' remark before, sighed and rolled her eyes.
--> "Well, when your mother's an [[spoiler:Irishwoman]], you learn to love [[spoiler:Irish]] tea ''really'' quickly."
--> "Ah; that makes sense. [[LampshadeHanging I did wonder why you had auburn hair despite the Greek surname]]."
** In ''Amaryllis and Aconite'', this is the description of [[spoiler:Cinder]]'s lineage.
--> ''If a trained eye were to look at her in broad daylight, she would be identified as a person that could only be bred and raised in one location; Hong Kong. Half of her ancestry on both sides hailed from various parts of England, and she was a fluent speaker of the language. However, her mother's maternal family hailed from Hokkaido, and the family name her father had been bestowed with was Mandarin.''

* RealityEnsues: The [[spoiler:pirates weren't expecting resistance when jacking the Autumn Maiden]], and therefore brought knives to [[spoiler:a Dust fight and lost]].

** Induction: ''The Logical Song'' by Music/Supertramp.
** Delegation: ''School'' by Music/Supertramp.

* CommonalityConnection: Oscar and Ilia hit it off pretty quickly when they discover a shared taste in literature, and further conversation reveals that both have an interest in computer science and French music, along with a similar sense of humour. It's what leads Oscar to [[spoiler:ask Ilia out on a date]] at the end of chapter 3.

* NonIdleRich: Oscar Pine, natch. What kicks off Oscar's involvement in the plot is his desire to use his materials engineering degree to make a name for himself outside of the baronetcy he's set to inherit. It's he who suggests to his superiors the crucial idea of [[spoiler:making the robot they're building over two feet shorter than normal]], in order to achieve the objectives that General Ironwood had set for the project.

* RomanticFalseLead: WordOfGod flat out states in Chapter Two's notes that [[spoiler:Ilia]] is this to Oscar, presumably to avoid any controversy.

* BackgroundMusic: The work comes with a soundtrack, like most of Stewbacca94's fics in this AU do. In order, it goes as follows:

* CommonalityConnection: Oscar and Ilia hit it off pretty quickly when they discover a shared taste in literature, and further conversation reveals that both have an interest in computer science.

* NonIdleRich: Oscar Pine, natch. What kicks off Oscar's involvement in the plot is his desire to use his materials engineering degree to make a name for himself outside of the baronetcy he's set to inherit.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: In this setting, Ozpin's given the first name of Cormac, while Dr. Merlot is named Obadiah in this setting.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Lord Cormac Ozpin, Prime Minister of England and the Baron of Hastings in this AU, is the uncle of Oscar in this setting.

* NamedInTheAdaptation: In this setting, Ozpin's given the first name of Cormac, while Dr. Merlot is named Obadiah in this setting.

* CommonalityConnection: Oscar and Ilia hit it off pretty quickly when they discover a shared taste in literature.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: When Neptune seems reluctant to help Yang and Nora with their mission in Chapter 11, Yang uses one ''doozy'' of a blacksmithing pun to make him change his mind.
-->"Oh, ''come on'', Neptune," Yang whined sensually. "Don't leave me in the cold like some musty slag."\\
Nora almost choked on air as Neptune thought it over.

More recently, the AU has been expanded on by a second author, [=Stewbacca94=]. Five days after the main work concluded with a list of [[SequelHook story prompts]], a {{Whodunnit}} piece revolving around Pyrrha and Jaune called ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12405898/1/Aeneus-Idola Aeneus Idola]]'' was developed in response to one of the hooks, and it clocked in at 11 chapters when finished on April 30 that same year. On August 15, 2017, a second work called ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12616235/1/Said-the-Butler-to-the-Huntress Said the Butler to the Huntress]]'' began, this time centering around Ren and Nora. After sporadic updating, it finished on the 30th of May, 2018. After a lengthy break, [=Stewbacca94=] released ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13210420/1/Amaryllis-and-Aconite Amaryllis and Aconite]]'' on the 18th of February, 2019 - and it finished after 20 chapters on the 19th of July that same year.

Furthermore, [=Stewbacca94=]'s profile states that one more fic is being planned for the setting; ''Mechanica Aurantiaco'', which has no set release date and seems to be about Penny (the title is Latin for "Mechanical Orange").

** The impressive part is that doctorates in English universities are usually handed out to people ''twice'' the age of Pyrrha, and are only handed out to people who gave a significant improvement or innovation within their field of study. For reference, the youngest person to have ever gained an English doctorate was twenty-five years old - and Pyrrha was ''[[HolyShitQuotient several years younger]]'' when she earned hers.

* HolyShitQuotient: A meta example; the prompt for ''Aeneus Idola'' was released five days prior to the first chapter's release. The author ''then'' wrote and released the next four chapters over the next nine days.

* DrinkOrder: For Pyrrha, it's Irish breakfast tea. Most amusingly, Ruby and Jaune both prefer hot chocolate.

** ''Vallis Autem Reges'': "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNiie_zmSr8 Eye In The Sky]]" by the Music/AlanParsonsProject.

** Chapter 17 shows Ironwood channelling Film/MontyPythonAndTheMeaningOfLife after [[spoiler:Raven kills Cinder]] in front of a stunned Qrow and Jaune.

** This continued since Stewbacca94 took the reins, both with weaponry and real life events. Pyrrha's weapon is a modified version of the world's first repeating shotgun (the Winchester 1887), and both the sarcophagi she finds in both Saqqara and the Valley of the Kings are speculated to be in those places in real life. Also, the somewhat forgotten origin of the [[spoiler:fedora as a woman's hat gets touched on in the second chapter]].

* BigDamnKiss: Happens thrice in the AU. The first instance occurs in the main fic (and ''boy'' is it a ''doozy''), the second appears in ''Aeneus Idola'', and the third and fourth instances happen in ''Said the Butler to the Huntress''.

* OfficialCouple: ''Aeneus Idola'' features two of these. First, we get Coco and Fox (who are already engaged). Then in chapter 8, Jaune and Pyrrha become this - and in the first chapter of ''Said the Butler to the Huntress'', [[spoiler:they get engaged]].

** ''Vallis Autem Reges'': "Eye In The Sky" by the Music/AlanParsonsProject.
** ''Nox Ad Museum'': "Kashmir" by Music/LedZeppelin.
** ''A Purpura In Studium'': "Ji" by Music/{{Periphery}}.
** ''Pulchritudo Et Quod Bestia'': "Caught In A Web" by Music/DreamTheater.
** ''Orientalis Redemptio'': "Repentance" by Music/DreamTheater.
** ''Mitto In Quo Faber Ferrarius'': "Strange Little Girl" by Music/TheStranglers.
** ''Septemtrionis Venatibus, Meridionali Excursiones'': "Dirty Creature" by [[Literature/StrangerThanFictionTheLifeAndTimesOfSplitEnz Split Enz]].
** ''Tempus Ut Upgrade'': "Don't Give Up" by Music/PeterGabriel and Music/KateBush.
** ''Oculus Tempestate'': "In The Lowlands" by Music/CrowdedHouse.
** ''Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges'': "The Dark Eternal Night" by Music/DreamTheater.
** ''Deo Solus Scit'': "God Only Knows" by Music/TheBeachBoys.

** ''Hide and Sneak'': "Red Right Hand" by Music/NickCave.
** ''Human Chastity Belt'': "Robbery, Assault and Battery" by Music/{{Genesis}}.
** ''Pride Goes Towards A Fall'': "Money" by Music/PinkFloyd.
** ''Send In The Clowns'': "Intruder" by Music/PeterGabriel.
** ''Preparing The Spring Trap'': "Your Own Special Way" by Music/{{Genesis}}.
** ''The Carpet Scrawlers'': "The Carpet Crawlers" by Music/{{Genesis}}.
** ''Rest and Reconnaissance'': "Private Investigations" by Music/DireStraits.
** ''Exhamination'': "Watching the Detectives" by Music/ElvisCostello.
** ''The Fallen Triad'': "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" by Music/TearsForFears.
** ''Team Meeting'': "The Chain" by Music/FleetwoodMac.
** ''Setup: Plying Supplies'': "Pretty Woman" by Music/RoyOrbison.
** ''Setup: Recruiting The Cavalry'': "Duchess" by Music/TheStranglers.
** ''Setup: Mechanical Machinations'': "Highway Star" by Music/DeepPurple.
** ''Heist: The Rotherhithe Raid'': "Private Eyes" by Music/HallAndOates.
** ''The Horseless Carriage'': "Ride The Lightning" by Music/{{Metallica}}.
** ''All Hands On Deck'': "Achilles' Last Stand" by Music/LedZeppelin.
** ''The Canary Wharf Catfight'': "The Dance Of Eternity" by Music/DreamTheater.
** ''Reflection and Reception'': "When The War is Over" by Music/ColdChisel.
** ''It's Drawl In The Family'': "Chocolate Cake" by Music/CrowdedHouse.
** ''One Perfect Day'': "Two Of Us" by Music/{{Supertramp}}.

More recently, the AU has been expanded on by a second author, [=Stewbacca94=]. Five days after the main work concluded with a list of [[SequelHook story prompts]], a {{Whodunnit}} piece revolving around Pyrrha and Jaune called ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12405898/1/Aeneus-Idola Aeneus Idola]]'' was developed in response to one of the hooks, and it clocked in at 11 chapters when finished on April 30 that same year. On August 15, 2017, a second work called ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12616235/1/Said-the-Butler-to-the-Huntress Said the Butler to the Huntress]]'' began, this time centering around Ren and Nora. After sporadic updating, it finished on the 30th of May, 2018. After a lengthy break, [=Stewbacca94=] released ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13210420/1/Amaryllis-and-Aconite Amaryllis and Aconite]]'' on the 18th of February, 2019.

* CurbStompBattle: The end result of the sting operation in chapter 16. [[spoiler:The heroes win]].

** In chapter 17, [[spoiler:Raven]] kills [[spoiler:Cinder]] after the latter killed Vernal.

* CurbStompBattle: The end result of the sting operation in chapter 16. [[spoiler:The heroes win]].

* FlowerMotifs: The main work is named after the amaryllis plant, which represents pride in the language of flowers. Likewise, [[spoiler:Cinder]] wears a hat decorated with an aconite, which stands for misanthropy; the fifth work's title accordingly refers to the clash of the proud Weiss Schnee's and the misanthropic [[spoiler:Cinder Fall]].

* ShipTease: Chapter 11 sees this get sown between [[spoiler:Yang and Neptune]], courtesy of mutual, yet supressed feelings and Nora discovering them.

** ''Heist: The Rotherhithe Raid'': "Private Eyes" by Music/HallAndOates.0
** ''The Horseless Carriage'': "Ride The Lightning" by Music/{{Metallica}}