Steel Dust Run

by Arcinae

The Steel Ball Run North American race spans from the West to East coast of the North American continent. Racers travel by horseback in hopes of winning the multi million dollar prize. Jaune Arc, however, isn't in this race for the money. He's desperately following and traveling with Yang Zeppeli, to unlock the secrets of the rotation that will give him back use of his legs.

10. Update - Semblances and Etc

Update on the story.

I've been busy the past few days, leading to poorer quality chapters that are also shorter. I'm free all of Sunday, so I hope to update twice tomorrow with double length chapters.

Sorry for putting this in the feed if you expected a chapter

I'd also like to use this as an opportunity to explain what i've decided to do about semblances.

Semblances are a core part of RWBY, and while I haven't transferred much of RWBY over, not even using the setting of Remnant, I would like to bring Semblances over to this story. Initially, I thought that everyone with a semblance in the story should be able to use a semblance here, but then that got me thinking, Qrow's bad luck wouldn't make sense with his role, neither would Ruby's speed mean anything at all.

So, I thought to combine a core part of Jojo fighting with a core part of Rwby fighting, as in, make semblances a part of the stand, however, here's the thing with that, some major characters don't truly have a "stand" until near the end, and what they do have for a sort of ghetto 'stand' isn't used for fighting as much as it is used for information and examining things.

I don't want to spoil the character, but i'll call them out once they receive the information stand. However, the information stand is still technically a stand, so even though the stand itself can't incorporate their semblance, it doesn't mean that they still can't use it. So that's my sort of weird explanation for the one specific character.

Then there's also characters, however, who's semblances don't fit with their stand at all, like the previous example but more like they'd be two separate things entirely.

I received the suggestion to try incorporating the semblances into the riders horses, but that would also not work out as well. How exactly would say, Weiss, use her semblance via horse? How would Yang? Etc.

The final conclusion I reached is that semblances would become active when a user received a stand, but the semblance is not exclusive to the entity of the stand, although it can be applied to the stand. So rather than Ruby's stand having super speed, she would have super speed which she could give to her stand. This also deals with the information stand issue, and it deals with stands that conflict with the semblance because the stand doesn't have to incorporate it by force anymore.

It'll cause a lot of fights to be retold in a drastically different way, though. Fights that ended in a traditional jojo way, "I found out your weakness and I will now hit you with my stand a lot!", will now be resolved with creativity.

I'm not sure if this will affect deaths, yet, but i'm not ruling out changing the entire conclusions of fights because of semblances yet.

Sorry for this just being an update, but I felt it needed to be done.