Title: Prologue

Rating: PG-13(May be raised to R)

Warnings/Tags: Self-Insert, Faunus Rights, Foxes, Trickster symbolism, Mental Issues, Moral Issues, Violence, Language, Abuse, Racism, Identity Issues, Unreliable Narrator, Introspection, Reincarnation, Agender Character, Health Issues,

Summary: My name is Neon. I'm a fox, that's only half a joke. Okay, so I'm that one idiot who managed to both die and be reborn on the same day... Makes remembering my birthday that much easier I guess. Also yeah. I'm a faunus.

Disclaimer: I don't own RWBY. I'm just playing in the sandbox and writing this up while I have the inspiration.

Notes: So I just got down with watching most of the series. And by that I mean I've gotten up to episode six of the third season. Also I got inspired, so Self-Insert powers are a go.

Also happy eighteenth to me! Huzzah, I don't feel any different to how I usually do...


So I died.

On my eighteenth birthday.

Honestly, I don't really remember it, so don't ask. I vaguely recall being asleep, and then heat, and choking, but that doesn't really tell me what happened. Afterwards I can recall being in the dark. And I'm still in the dark. It's cozy and comfortable and I don't really mind being in the dark. What I do mind is the fact that I can't really move, I mean I can roll, and twitch my fingers and toes but nothing else.

So I drift.

Dreaming and reflecting and honestly... my life wasn't anything special. It was about as mundane as anyone elses... maybe a few exciting trips to the hospital, or dealing with bullies or my pains... so yeah.

The space I'm in grows smaller as I grow bigger and now I can feel the walls, and move a bit more. Also, I'm able to feel a little something extra. And it twitches behind me... Am I a freaking animal or something? I mean I can feel something extra, a limb that I never had before.

Next thing I know I'm being pushed and shoved and screaming I greet the blurry vision that's my new world. My new home...

And my new name.

My name is Neon Volpis. Neon Fox, that's funny.


My time as an infant pretty much drags on. And I spend most of it trying to see my own tail, to tug at it and understand why I even have it. I mean, I don't understand, I have a tail. It's fluffy and a kind of orange-brown colour, I get the feeling that it will become more vibrant as I grow... and probably get a darker tip, or lighter... probably darker though.

I like it.

I'm proud of having a tail honestly. Even if I've been more or less squirreled away by my parents because of it.

In this life I have heterochromatic eyes, my right is silver, my left a dark green. My hair just beginning to properly grow is currently a dark burnt orange colour, but considering that I was blonde until forth grade in my previous life and both of my parents have darker red hair in this one, I'm pretty sure that will change in the future as I grow. My skin, is as pale as it's always been, except I feel instinctively I won't burn in this life. I just feel like I won't... And finally my tail, fluffy and obvious, almost as big as me honestly... I'll grow into it probably. But right now it makes me feel a bit like Shippo.

I open my mouth to grin and there's another difference. Sharp canines, and I share that trait with my whole family... Honestly I don't think that it's a faunus trait. After all... you can only have one.

Only one. My parents are also fox faunus, Mom with the ears and Dad, he's got whiskers. Which must make it moderately easier for him to hide what he is. I don't actually quite know why we hide, though I will admit. Faunus sounds familiar, what we are is familiar.

At night sometimes I wake up because I can feel things.

Energy buzzing and crackling in the air around me, in the plants and animals beyond what I can see in the garden and in the house. In us. It would have made me assume that the world was Naruto... or Ikioi as I always called it, but there's a difference.

It's split.

Physical and Spiritual.

Ki and Chi.

It doesn't exactly combine into Chakra mixing with Natural Energy beyond the bare minimum. Beyond enough to acknowledge that we're part of the world and that we're alive. It's strange, and rings a bell in the back of my head. But for the life of me I just can't quite catch the thought.

So instead I continue to just play the child. At one and a half I can't quite talk, but I got a headstart with understanding. It's easy when the language that the people speak around you when you've been reborn is the same as the one from your old world after all. I don't think that anyone's caught onto the fact that I can understand them perfectly fine yet though. Also, it's amazing what you can hear as a small child.

What you can discover.

Worries about money, about living conditions, looking for work. Protests and peace rallies. Aura... Like Pokémon? I don't know. Hunters and Huntresses. White Fang.

Which always makes my mind instantly jump to one person. Who probably doesn't even exist in this particular universe. Hatake Sakumo, Konoha's White Fang. At least that thought entertains me when I'm not stealing books out from underneath my parents noses and reading like the eighteen year old that I had just become(only to you know die the same day). Also, my birthdate in this new world is hilariously ironic in that regard.

May 7th again.

As if becoming one of the tricksters for real wasn't enough. It makes me snicker whenever I actually think about it. At least I won't have to worry about forgetting it.

Then again, everything else is so... strange and I do have to worry about that. Protests, and the fact that I'm now part of a group that gets oppressed and side-lined. Not like I wasn't already just based on the fact that I was studying the bible.

Religion, it's so tricky.

But then again, what isn't?

Life is a tricky game, and the fact is. Nobody gets out of it alive. Not by the end. So as I stop and allow myself to close the book I'd pulled of a shelf my tail curls around and I close my eyes. I might as well see how far I get this time.

There's a crash and splintering wood and my eyes snap back open and I turn my head just enough to see what...

What is that?

It looks like a kind of werewolf creature, and it's all black and white with glowing red eyes and lines. And... SHIT WHERE'S MY SITTER? It's growling and snuffling and is THAT CLOTH HANGING IN IT'S JAWS?

I'm not even going to live to see my second birthday am I?


Notes: And I'm leaving it there for now. Oh don't worry, I'll continue it. but for the moment, I think that's going to be it. Also the way that Aura and Semblances work, and the energy Ki/Chi/Natural Energy and how it's kind of related to the Naruto universe is based on some stuff discussed in the DOS Crossover Plotting thread of the forum here: www. fanfiction topic/ 180237/ 140553015/ 82/ DoS-Crossover-Plotting(just remove the spaces) The idea was created by grifman275. I just liked it so it's been put in use here.

Anyway, that's enough, and I'm signing off to enjoy the rest of my day. I'm eighteen now after all. Heh.

Also tomorrow is both Mother's Day and the start of Self-Insert Week, which is going to be fun. tammyhybrid21. tumblr post/ 142672373097/ self-insert-week-2016 So yeah. That's a thing, and it's happening.