Main theme: Metro Exodus rap by Jt Music, featuring Andrea Storm Kaden
Theme: Quirky Dog by Kevin Macleod
Ever since arriving in Beacon and becoming part of Team JNPER, Jaune had discovered that when it came to one Nora Valkyrie, it paid to just not question the reasons behind her various antics.
That pathway led to madness, surely.
Because honestly, it was starting to get harder and harder to apply logic to anything that that woman did nowadays. Every new day seemed to begat another Nora Valkyrie sponsored adventure that looped around into madness and then somehow back round into sanity.
Jaune knew that the girl was smarter than she let on, and he was sure that all of the things that she did at the drop of a hat were just some elaborate ploy of obfuscating stupidity in order to, he didn't know, take over the school or something when everyone's guard was down around her.
Honestly, he could definitely see something like that happening.
It had to be a testament to how good she was at that, because honestly, sometimes it was hard to tell.
Like that time when she and the Techion known as Voltage had tried to host a static electricity party, where everyone had to wear electricity conducting clothes.
Or that time that she wore Pyrrha's clothes and tried to pass herself as the titular girl herself.
(How many people had she fooled that day?
Less than he'd thought, more than one would think.)
Or that time that she dressed up like an actual Valkyrie and rode a horse into a sparring session (Skipjack was still tending to his trampled suit and head injuries to this day).
Or that time that she somehow convinced herself that she was an actual sloth and began to do everything that a sloth shouldn't do.
Or that time that she bounced around their room without any pants on and seemed determined to flash her junk at them all (Except for Eri, of course).
(As it turned out, Nora was transgender. Learn something new everyday.)
Or that time that she-
Look, the point is, that she did a lot of stuff without there being any real meaning to them, and so he had decided to stop trying to ascribe meaning to them until any actual meaning behind them came to light, either by Nora, or by someone else.
Such as today for example.
Jaune stood in the middle of the room, a steam cup of coffee in his hand. On the other side of the room was Nora, also standing completely still.
"...Nora?"
"...Yeah?"
"...You are naked", it was a statement, not a question.
"...Yeah."
"...Nora?"
"...Yeah?"
"...You are covered in pancake syrup."
"...Yeah."
"...Nora?"
"...Yeah?"
"...Why are you naked and covered in pancake syrup?"
"..."
"..."
"...Jaune?"
"...Yeah?"
"...Could you please get Ren?"
There was the answer to that question.
Jaune just took a sip of his coffee, nodded, and then leaned his head towards the doorway to the bathroom where Ren was taking a shower, "Ren, Nora wants a word with you!" before slinking out of the room, and locking the door behind him.
Yeah, it was way too early in the morning for this.
Yep, Nora is trans in this one. I had to look up the difference between transgender and transsexual just to get it right.
Now, before any of you get pissy, no, this does not affect the plot in any way, shape, or form, nor does it change Nora's character at all. She's still Nora, just with a slight biological adjustment.
To be honest, there wasn't really any reason why I decided to make Nora transgender. I was just writing this down, and midway through, my brain just went, Should I make Nora transgender? because I know that there's a running theory of Nora being trans because of the colours of her outfit, and once I realised that it would have no impact on the plot at all, my brain said to me, Eh, fuck it, and now boom, Nora's trans. I know that there are going to be some people gunning for my head now, because I've dared to do such a thing, but honestly, if you don't like it, then that's up to you. Just leave me out of it please.
One thing's for sure, it certainly explained to Jaune and Pyrrha why she kept making so many jokes about people sucking her dick...