Sorry for my bad English.
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What do you think about a character dying?
One of the fics I am following up has made a turnabout on the original events, and I particularly did not like how those events went. I will not enter in too much detail about it but what I can say is that the author made the characters who died in the original show live in the end. The way he used the characters and how everything wrapped on bothered me a little, but there is those who liked what they read, with a few agreeing with me.
This is making me think in how is going to be when the time comes and I decide to end the life of one of the characters, making me realize that I may make the same mistake Rooster Teeth did with Pyrrha, my opinion. Make the whole scenario bad build and make most part of my readers complain about how I did everything.
Also made me realize that is not easy to kill a character in a story. I will need to think about the impact that will made in the story and in the characters, but I also think that is a mistake to let a character live just because I want to see him keep living.
This is kind confusing me about when I will have to or not make a tragic outcome to one of the characters. So for now, I will focus on the plot right now.
Enough said. To the fic!
Forever Fall
Koro was starting to question his decision to apply to Beacon.
While not being illiterate anymore was something he felt proud about it, all those classes were not getting him the results he was expecting. He became a student in Beacon to become stronger, not smarter. And while some intelligence may be good, his cunning intellect was all he needed to deal with his opponents.
He was wondering about that because today's lesson was looks around in Forever Fall Forest for some dust located in the ground around.
So there he was, with his teammates, team RWBY, JNPR and another he did not care to remember the name. Stranger enough, he and his teammates were singing like were prisoners, rising small pick mattocks and digging the floor.
-… You gotta walk when the winds says walk. –Team STRK sang. -You gotta run when the gun says hi! You got nothing and no one to turn to now and 76 reasons to die. And we go one step, two step, guns to the sky. Pocket those caps and wipe that knife. Three step, four step, never ask why, 76 reason to die.
While their classmates found just a bit odd their singing, no one expected to Unicorn, who not talk too much sing along, even if is with her teammates.
-Children. –Goodwitch called getting the STRK off from their digging. –We are here at school work, so take it serious.
-We are taking this serious. –Sally said. –It is not against the rules to sing.
-But you and your teammates are distracting your classmates, Ms. Highwind.
Looking to behind the blonde teacher Sally and her friends see their classmates eyeing them oddly.
-I can't even have some fun with you all, huh? –Koro asked to no one in particular and jumped to a tree.
He then starts to jump from branch to branch, leaving his teacher, classmates and teammates behind.
-Mr. Koro! –Goodwitch called but received no response.
He was already far when the teacher called again. This time Sally knew that Koro was not able to hear his angry teacher calling for him.
She sighed.
Koro has been acting a little strange make a while now. She tried to ask to the ninja what was wrong but he just answered by saying "I'm hungry" or "I'm bored".
-Ryan. –She called her teammate who stops his digging to look at his leader. –I hate to ask you that, but can you please bring Koro back?
-Can't someone else do it? –Ryan asked.
-You don't want to go?
-We are in a forest with grimms lurking around. I don't want to be alone.
-Oh c'mon! I already see you take care of a Ursa with your head stuck in a jar.
-Not my best moment…
-I'm sure that you can take care of whatever you find.
-Okay, fine! But I want something in change for having to drag that ninja pig.
-Can I pay you with a kiss? –Sally said with a finger raised and winking at her teammate, and giggled seeing his face blushing.
Without saying a word, Ryan left to go after his partner.
Koro knew what he should expect when accepted to study in Beacon, or so he thought.
Follow stupid rules, not hurt people he doesn't like, obey the staff… all of this was getting on his nerves, but nothing more than the fact that the academy was not helping him improve his combat skills.
This was the main reason he decides to take Ozpin's invitation to the academy, to become stronger. But since the first day, he felt that has not improved as much he wished.
He still could kick the butt of his teammates and classmates but that was not enough. He needed to be strong enough to protect those who can't protect themselves.
While living with the poor people, he learns that they were on their own. No one wanted to stand for them.
With that in mind, Koro self proclaimed himself as the guardian of Vale. Protector of the weak and the vigilant the town needed, since the huntsmen were always busy killing each other or dealing with grimms. One of the reasons Koro steal food from the academy is to give for his friends in the shanty town in Vale, since they are not able to get enough food for themselves. Sometimes he left the academy late in the night to keep watch in the town, a measure he forced to take since his meeting with the vigilant a couple of weeks ago.
But he had little improvement. His strength from now would make little difference when he lost his long life friend, Cloud.
What some old fort building by faunus has to do with him becoming more skilled? What fill jar with sap can make him become a better fighter? And while the academy has combat classes, Koro had to agree with Unicorn about Glynda's competence in teaching combat to the students.
All those thoughts were annoying him. Why is he in Beacon anyway?
Heck, he even had to move away from his classmates and the so called combat teacher to not vent his anger on them.
He just wanted to beat something until it lay unmoving on the ground.
As if his wishes were granted, his instincts kicked and he turns around drawing his katana to face the grimm what was coming from the ground.
It was the first time the young ninja saw this type of grimm. Koro not remember ever seeing this grimm in the book he read while Port not shut his mouth.
It was humanoid in appearance but its face seemed like a melted cranium, the body seemed to be covered with an old black sheet, and was a bit transparent on the floating ground beneath him.
Koro did not care, now that he could blow off some steam.
-You choose the wrong prey today buddy. –Koro said as he jumped to above and was ready to cut the grimm in half.
The blade passed through its body, and the grimm disappeared in the same instant. Immediately Koro was disappointed.
He hoped to calm a bit his nerves with some fighting but the grimm proved to be a easy kill. Knowing that if he stays away for too long, he decides to walk back to where his classmates were.
But when he turns around to walk back, Koro found himself in a forest with leaves black as the night.
-What the fu…
Ryan knew that his leader was just teasing him with her beauty, but this did not stops him from blushing with the memory of him leaving his teammates behind and disappear deep in the Forever Fall, but not before Sally blow a kiss to him.
He just could not win against his leader when she is like that. It is not like Sally is interested in Ryan like that but he still can't help but feel a bit embarrassed with the way Sally treats him.
It makes a while now since he parted away from his classmates and found no sign of Koro yet. He knew how skilled his partner is but Ryan could not shake the feeling that something was wrong or that something was going to happen.
Ryan's instincts proved to be right when the look to his back and see a ghost grimm he never see approaching. Screaming like a child watching a horror movie, he start to run away as fast he could, like he normally do.
A chill in his spine made him stops his running and look back to the grimm, only to find nothing.
This took Ryan's attention, knowing that grimms actually not just disappear like that. Normally they received a mortal wound, then fall dead on the floor followed by their carcass disappearing where they were killed.
So with the grimm disappearing like that made Ryan suspicious about where the monster went.
He decide to walk back to where his team was and tell to Goodwitch what he just found it when he notices that was not in Forever Fall anymore.
His only visible eye widened in surprise seeing that he was in a red canyon filled with natural made pillars around him.
-What on Remnant? –Ryan asked wondering how he arrived in that place. –That grimm did that?
Before the gunslinger could ponder more about what was happening, his instincts kicked once again alerting him from an incoming projectile. Rolling to the side, Ryan dodges a skull like fuuma shuriken. Turning around to see who threw the fuuma, Ryan felt a chill run down his spine with the sight of the most monstrous grimm he ever meet.
It was humanoid in its appearance with four eyes, large sharp teeth and claws, thick root-like layers of flesh covering its body, encircling his face and reaching up to form a spiked crown on the back of its head, thick severed roots with spiked tips drape down from his back like a scarf. In its wrists, a huge blade like sword.
Never see or hearing about the grimm in front of him, Ryan went for his scroll to call for help only to be destroyed in his hand by a skull spike.
Turning his attention back to the grimm standing in one of the pillars, Ryan knew that the monster was not allowing him to run away. But he still will try of course.
Koro did not know what was the thing the grimm he found took from its back, but he was not going to give it a chance to use it.
Today was full of surprises for the young ninja. First he finds a ghost like grimm and then, he found the most ugly grimm he ever had the displeasure to find it.
Its head has two large ram-like horns, reptilian feet and bat-like wings which are white as the broken moon. The chest and head glow with incandescent red, and its body covered in flames. Strange enough, the mask in the face seemed to have grown to cover a wounded eye.
Koro did not care.
It was a grimm and as such, it was going to be killed. Of course Koro could use his scroll and call for help, but unfortunately he left behind in the academy before went to this trip along his team. He totally did not forget purposely to not have his teacher annoying him once he was away.
-As if I would need help to deal with some ugly bat-man.
Koro got ready his katana to literally handle the grimm with just one hand when the monster did something he never, ever, once in his life he expected for a grimm to do, it run away while roaring.
Koro was with a blank expression for a moment, wondering about what he just witnessed.
-Meh… -Was all he said before going for a hunt.
End of the chapter.
The song they sang is from Youtube channel JT Music, Fallout 76 song. I once thought about them singing while digging like prisoners and could not resist.
The grimm's appearance received huge inspiration from Devil May Cry 5. While the third game remains my favorite I think was a good ending for the series. Let's see if will have more in the future and hope for the same quality and work Capcom gave to us with this game.
That's all folks! See you next time.