What's this? Something new? Huh. I wonder.
So, As several people have brought up, Jaune now has a journal. So. What's he going to do with it? Eat it? Burn it? Smack Yang with it when she makes a bad pun?
All valid guesses, but no. He's going to write in it. Ground breaking news, I know.
I'll explain a little more at the bottom
Shout out to Patriarc101 for this idea
Jaune's Journal
Entry 1
Alright…. So Weiss gave me this… notebook. Or dream journal. Who even would read this… Never mind. Not what I'm supposed to use this for.
*Sigh*
Ok. Getting back on track.
So. My name is Jaune Arc.
I am… Old. Not that I look it…. But I really am over a thousand years old… Also, it's like, 3:30 in the morning… I managed to sneak out of the room without anyone waking up. At least I still know I can be sneaky if I need to.
I'm off track again….
*Sigh*
Ok. Starting over.
My name is Jaune Arc. Ex-time traveler and… I guess this is supposed to be my outlet for all the memories.
Weiss thought this might help. And she asked me to do it… I remember only brief flashes of my earlier lives…. every now and then I'll remember something from them. More of an… ingrained memory?... I don't know. Anyways. I don't remember a lot about my first lives. I remember Pyrrha saving me at initiation. I remember my highschool crush on Weiss. I remember… A few other things.
They're not pretty things, but I guess I've become inured to some of it…
*Sigh*
I'm off track again. Weiss wanted me to write this for the nightmares and memories…
Ok.
So. My nightmares… They aren't just my imagination. They're… I relive my failures in them. I know now that it was Fate that caused them. It didn't matter what I did or how hard I trained or how many times I killed…. The point is, I know Fate was causing the whole back and forth in time thing.
But it doesn't do a whole lot for me. Knowing what caused them… what killed my friends… doesn't make it ok. It doesn't get rid of the look in their eyes.
So, I guess this is supposed to be a vent thing for me.
…. Fuck….
Ok.
Let's start with an easier memory.
So. One time I….
Pyrrha wasn't sure what to think of her new partner. She'd left minstral to escape her stardom and the shallow world her family wanted her to be a part of. She didn't want the false smiles and compliments that she'd earned in her rise of fame. She hated it, but the thing about being a polite face all the time, never stepping out of line - for fear of some photographer seeing it - was that you never really got confident in speaking up.
So, when the blond haired, blue eyed boy that stood in front of her reached out and flicked her nose for the FOURTH TIME, the twitch under her eye grew worse. She'd been trying to apologize for the love of…
Bright green eyes narrowed at the smug grin on her partners face.
They were standing in the middle of the Emerald Forest, it was about an hour into initiaion, she'd been thrown off a cliff and told to find a 'relic', she was in the middle of Grimm territory, and her partner was flicking HER NOSE! AGAIN.
"All I'm trying to do is say STOP DOING THAT!" Pyrrha's patient's finally snapped as the finger came back towards her.
"And I'm telling you I ain't gonna stop until you stop apologizing." Jaune Arc said, crossing his eyes at her.
"HOW… I.. . I JUS….GHAAAhhh. I STABBED YOU WITH MY SPEAR! WHY WON'T YOU LET ME APOLOGIZE?!" Pyrrha screamed, pointing pointedly at her spear, Milo, which was currently lodged in Jaune's leg.
"Because it was my fault?" Jaune said in a matter of fact tone. "I jumped in front of you while you were fighting. It's my fault."
Pyrrha wasn't sure what planet this boy was from, but WHAT?
Jaune let out a tired sigh before reaching down and pulling out her spear, he barely even flinched. The squelching sound alone nearly had the Minstrel native throwing her cookies, but he didn't seem all that bothered.
To be fair, my last life I had ended up thrown off the tower and landed on some broken rubble. So getting stabbed wasn't exactly a big thing at the moment.
It hurt, but it's not like I could blame Pyrrha for that. I'd been the one to jump suddenly.
That wasn't a bad repeat. I… I still couldn't save Pyrrha. She died on top of the tower as always. No one else died that repeat except for me. About six or seven months later, I tried to raid a safe house Cinder had used before the attack. Hell, I'd only found it by accident when I was wandering around Vale…. I don't even remember how I found it…
Point is, being the paranoid bitch she was, Cinder had trapped the place. I'm guessing it was supposed to burn down during the attack, but something didn't go right and the charges didn't go off properly.
Well. Not until I walked into the place and triggered the intruder alarm…. The bitch…
Anyways. So this I think I'm just going to leave this here. I… feel a little better I guess? It's about 4:30 now, and I have to be up in an hour or so. I guess I'll try this again sometime.
Ok. So there's that. I actually wrote this really late last night, but liked the premise.
I figure this will be a nice place to start dropping some of my more... outlandish idea's for what Jaune can/has done. Because let's be honest. The guy's done a LOT of shit.
These aren't going to be very long, probably ~1,000 words or so each. Just short little 'stories'.
I like the idea of it switching in and out of Jaune's perspective, of him writing something down, and then we getting a more in-depth explanation. Because let's be honest. Jaune doesn't have the best track record for picking up small details. Or obvious details for that matter.
Another thing I want to do with this is for YOU guys to send me ideas, shoot me a PM, find me on Discord, (User name Flint#2510) or something. Drop it in the comments, anything. If you got an idea for what Jaune might have done that lead to some crazy story, shoot it to me.
Also, I probably won't be able to get these to my Jaeger as often, as they'll be mainly just stupid thoughts I had at the moment and wrote down.
Let me know what you think of this, I'll probably try to update this once a week, during the week at some point.
Thanks for reading,
-Jim
P.S. I have started a discord server called Cult of Coeur. Take a guess at what that is. Also, if you'd like to join, do it. Just to see where that goes.