"What are you doing with that stained-old Napkin, Ren?" Asked Nora. It was a hot summer's day at Beacon academy, and Nora knew just what would cool her down: maple syrup fresh from the bottle the cook kept in the fridge! The only thing better than syrup was pancakes… with maple syrup. But she had been banned from using the hob since the… "Incident". Who knew her semblance could conduct electricity through boiling water? Thus, she had to use the tired old cafeteria. Yet when she walked into the cafeteria she did not expect to see Ren staring at a Napkin and tracing paper so attentively.

"I am tracing the stains, I think they look a little like continents for a fictional world that I shall call… The Earth. Come see." He said sliding the napkin and paper abandoning the little bits on the left near India. India in East Asia he's call them, yep that sounded good.

"The Earth? What a dull name!" Nora said with mild contempt for his creation.

"So what's that part called?" she asked pointing to the top-middle part "It looks like a Dragon."

"That…" Ren answered "Is Scandinavia."
"What, 'Scan land?' that's even worse than naming your world after the ground!" Nora said flippantly.
"Well, I think it's a good name. Scan means something else in their language." Ren explained, slowly taking his world back and beginning to trace Australia.

"What does it mean?" Nora asked.

"I don't know… something." Replied Ren.

"What's there?" She said pointing to the far right.

"The Americas," he proudly explained, "Two continents, North America and South America."

"FIRSTLY, that's really stupid. We don't call Vacuo "East Saunus" and Haven "West Saunus". If you're running out of names just wait and make up a new one. SECONDLY if it's one island then it's one continent, clearly!" Nora explained, clearly disapproving of Ren's naming system.

"Geologists have no objective definitions of a continent. And if you'd like think of your own name." Ren said before attentively getting back to work.

"How about… Colombia. Maybe some guy named Colombo discovered it!" Nora thought for a moment about who he might have been. Did he discover it for riches or science? Did he come from "Indonesia"? Did he like pancakes? Do Pancakes even exist on Earth? Might this be a-a-a world without pancakes?!

"REN PLEASE TELL ME THIS WORLD HAS PANCAKES!" Nora cried, staring Ren right in the eye, her heart horrified at the thought of all the Earth dwellers not having pancakes.

"Yes Nora, there are pancakes on Earth." Ren said with a light sigh. Nora went back to smiling and dreaming of pancakes.

At that moment, Jaune entered, hoping to find Pyrrha and ask her about why he couldn't get signal or Wi-Fi during her fights. When he spotted Nora he knew she might know more than he might, girls were like that right?

"Hey, have either of you two seen Pyrrha." The knight asked Flower-power. Ren counted as an honorary girl.

"Nope." Ren replied.

"Come look Jaune, Ren's made this new world called 'Earth.'" Nora beckoned in the noodley blonde.

"That looks pretty cool." Jaune wondered.

"This bit is America, and this bit is Columbia, because Columbo discovered it!" Nora excitedly exclaimed.

"It's not called Columbia! Though maybe someone called Columbo discovered it…" Ren said dismissively as he finished tracing Australia.

"Columbo discovered it, from where?" Jaune wondered, having assumed that people would have begun in the left hand continent simply because we read left to right. You might think him dense for that, but think about how many times you unconsciously assume things go from left to right, it is more common than you think.

"The most likely option is here." Ren said, pointing to Spain. "He would have spread his culture all over the central and southern Americas." Ren had already prepared a hot-bed of ideas. He went looking for a faster way to get to India by going around the ocean, he went looking for spices to put on his pancakes… his mind was racing like a swan, appearing elegant and graceful on the outside yet raging with chaos from within.

"So now there's THREE Columbias?!" Nora exclaimed.

"He flew all that way, seriously?" Wondered Jaune, confused at how a sailing gravity-dust ship would do it on Open Ocean.

"Obviously not!" Exclaimed Ren, mildly calming Jaune's speculation. "Flying machines weren't invented then." Ren said, providing an answer that required even greater explanation.
p"So, wait, they had circumnavigating boats… but hadn't figured out how to put gravity dust onto a ship?" This explanation created even greater confusion. Jaune knew Ren had not thought 'Earth' out at all.

"Ah, now we come to the key difference between Earth and Remnant, Earth inhabitants cannot use dust, because they have no aura." Said Ren slyly, knowing it would go down like a bombshell.

"W-w-wha?" Jaune's mind twisted with imaginings of a world without dust. "We wouldn't have cars, or electricity, or… anything!" Jaune would not stand for this! No dust? THAT MEANT NO INTERNET!

"What about the Grimm? We'd all be dead from a rampaging horde destroying villages, and even Indonesia would be destroyed because of water Grimm, and off course they'd evolve into LAND GRIMM! OH GOD NOT THE GRIMM!" Nora cried in panic. It seemed no matter the quantity of pancakes on Earth- Ren had created a dystopia.

"No Grimm either." Ren said, his mind racing through possibilities like a child in a candy shop!

"Wait, wait, wait… if he went by boat then wouldn't it make more sense to go round the top… and why would he want to go to India if there was no Grimm on land to stop him?" Jaune thought, maybe it was too cold on the top, maybe he'd likely be cold if he was from that weird square stain 'Spain'. And if Pyrrha got burnt to death, this puzzled Jaune a little… why was he thinking about burning… HAD NORA GONE TO THE KITCHEN AGAIN?! No, no, she was right here. It was probably nothing, a mere premonition of sorts.

"Hmm… maybe Spain was at war with whoever controlled the Indian trade roots. It would be a long way around the bottom." Ren said lost in thought about wondrous possibility.

"Don't be silly Ren; a world with no Grimm wouldn't have war." A quiet, feminine voice came from behind Jaune.

"Pyrrha! I was just looking for you! Why were you standing behind me like that?"

"Nothing!" Pyrrha promptly retorted, averting her gaze from Jaune's... spine.

"Okay..." Jaune noted, this was now getting weird.

"Just think, mankind could build so much, and we'd have nothing to fight about if we didn't have to use resources fighting the Grimm." Pyrrha smiled at the team./p

Ren thought for a moment… what did humans fight about?

"Maybe it was some sort of religious or racial war." Ren's retorted.

"Something beginning with 'R'" Nora commented.

"Pyrrha bent over the map between Ren and Nora to get a good look at the world. Ren had traced it fabulously; she knew this to be the work of a master artist.

"Wow, what a wonderful world. How many countries are there?" Asked Pyrrha, staring at Ren's map with bags of curiosity.

"I don't know… 200 or so?" Ren said as he picked it up and displayed it for all the team to see.

"Whoa, that's 200 different cultures you've got to write in... do they all dance?" Jaune was curious.

"Ren thought for a moment before replying:

"I suppose so. I will base this eastern part off Haven, this northern part off Vale, this big part from Atlas and this desert bit off Vacuo. I think climatologically it makes sense to base their cultures off climate conditions found in ours. Vacuo's low roofs and small windows are due to its hot climate, Haven is in forest and thus a wooden empire, Vale is in a seafaring location and Atlas... is cold." Ren concluded, proud of his geo-cultural analysis.

Nora snored lightly.

"SYRUP!" she awoke with before promptly returning to the land of nod.

"I know who'd like this…" said Pyrrha "Blake, she loves fantasy!"

"And Ruby, she likes fairy tales!" Jaune added.

"With that team JNPR set off to team RWBY's dorm, Ren carefully protecting his traced world from Nora's spit bubble as she slept... but somehow through ways only known to Nora, walked beside him.

(Sorry if this idea has been done before, I've been away from RWBY for a while! Constructive criticism welcome!)