Well, this is something unusual. Namely, a sort of set of trailers for my potential new crossover: RWBY with Hellsing. It's thanks to discussions with whitetigerwolf and mellra that this is even possible, so...I hope you enjoy.
RWBY: SINS
PROLOGUES:
FUCHSIA TRAILER
The opulent corridors of the Schnee Mansion. A palace in all but name. Usually a quiet place. But one now resounding with the sounds of pursuit.
"GET BACK HERE!"
"HALT AND WE SHOOT YOU!"
"Umm, don't you mean 'or we shoot'?!"
"I KNOW WHAT I SAID, YOU WHITE FANG INTRUDER!"
"Ach, how many times must I tell you? I'm not with the White Fang!"
"STOP LYING, YOU LYING LIAR!"
Skidding around the corner of a marble-floored corridor is a teenaged boy in dark trousers and a beige shirt. His handsome, even androgynous features are framed by a ratty mess of blonde hair, from which a pair of cat's ears protrude. Besides the cat ears, his most striking features are his fuchsia eyes. Despite the fact that he's being pursued by a bunch of thugs in poorly-fitting, expensive suits and wielding rather better-fitting, and even more expensive weapons, he looks like he's enjoying himself. Until a lucky shot tears through his skull, bursting it like an offal-filled piñata. His body stumbles, and falls, leaving a smear of gore along the marble.
"Hey!" one of the security personnel snaps at the man who took the shot. "Faunus or not, our orders are to capture them alive unless they're clearly a danger to the boss or his family."
"Fuck that, he was a Faunus, in the Schnee Mansion!" sneered the other man. "The only Faunus who'd come in here is White Fang scum."
"Umm, guys…his body's disappeared," a third hired goon said. "So's the blood."
"Huh. He's self-cleaning. And/or magical," another guy said sardonically.
"Must be a trick, or some sort of Semblance," the first man said. "Spread out and find him. Even if he isn't White Fang, he's dangerous."
"Just shoot him until he stays dead," the second man said.
Jacques Schnee wasn't a pleasant man by any means. He despised Faunus, considering them little more than animals to be domesticated. So when he heard one had snuck into his mansion, he was livid. How dare one of those animals forget their place? He only adhered to capture protocols for his security because General Ironwood insisted on it, just in case the intruders were White Fang.
But when he saw the note left on his desk, and unfurled it, he paled, and then rushed out the door.
On that note, in gothic script, was a taunting note.
Dear Jackass Schnee,
You seem to think you're so high and mighty, treating us like shit. Well, I've come to take something very precious indeed…I am going to take…
Having fallen asleep in a chair at her family library, Weiss Schnee was having such a nice dream, of being kissed gently on the lips by a tall, handsome stranger with dark hair and smouldering eyes. But when she woke up, she realised she was having her face drawn upon by a cat-eared Faunus boy with fuchsia eyes. She promptly recoiled, and screamed.
…Weiss' dignity!
Yours sincerely,
The Cat Who Walked Through Walls,
AKA Schrödinger.
As Jacques Schnee burst in, Schrödinger gave a cheeky salute, and then vanished into thin air. The library, once silent, was filled with the screams of disgust of Weiss Schnee and the furious roars of her father…especially once Weiss found a mirror, and saw all the drawings on her face.
As he reappeared on a snowy peak not far from the mansion, Schrödinger smirked at the sounds of fury he could hear all the way from here. Well, that was fun, he thought to himself, as he walked off. Now, hopefully, that was enough of a distraction for the others to get the loot out of there. Hope my girlfriend isn't going to be too upset that I got too close to another girl. Oh, wait. She's probably going to gut me a few times.
As he vanished again, he was unaware that he was being watched from afar, by a tall silhouette dressed in a large red coat and a wide-brimmed hat…
FUCHSIA TRAILER END
RAINBOW TRAILER
She ran for her life. She was fleeing from the police, but she knew that she had little alternative. Not after what happened.
She thought back to the moment she heard about her parents' deaths on the news. Killed in one of the SDC's mines. No, not killed. Murdered by apathy and negligence, because they were only Faunus. Her classmates, all mocking her parents because they were merely Faunus, mocking the sacrifices they made to ensure their daughter made it into a swanky Atlesian prep school. When they saw her change colour in her grief, they were afraid at first, before tormenting her in earnest.
She broke their teeth.
And now, she was on the run from the local police. Police who were known to be in the pocket of Jacques Schnee, who used them as unofficial press gangs. Any Faunus who committed a crime disappeared to the Dust mines. General Ironwood may have begun to crack down on that practise, but it was by no means finished.
As she dashed around a corner, she nearly ran into a pair of police officers who were waiting for her. "Nowhere to run, little bitch," one of them sneered.
She may have been halted for now, but she had been trained as a Huntress at the school. Not yet at the level of one of the great academies like Beacon or Atlas' military academy, but certainly better than the norm. She snatched out her sword-whip, Crossland, and hit both of the cops with it, channelling the power of Lightning Dust into their bodies, causing them to scream and crash, convulsing to the ground.
She fled for a series of warehouses. She could hide out there, use her colour-changing abilities to hide in the shadows. They couldn't go to all this trouble just to capture a Faunus if she evaded them for too long.
As she ran by a group of trucks, a hand snaked out of the shadows and grabbed her, skilfully covering her mouth. "Ssshhh," whispered someone into her ear.
But then, one of her pursuers spotted them, and brandished a rod flickering with Lightning Dust. As he brought it down on them…there was a sudden sensation of something breaking and crazing…and then, they were somewhere else.
She recognised their surroundings as near a railway outside of Atlas. And nearby were a pair of kids about her age. "What's this?" one of the kids, a blonde boy…a Faunus, she realised, with cat ears.
Her rescuer (not captor) made a couple of gestures, hard to interpret for her, but for the other two, apparently easy. The girl accompanying the Faunus boy sighed. "Picking up a stray? Do you think she'll want to join?"
"Well, let's ask her. Hi, my name is Schrödinger."
She gasped in recognition. The infamous Cat Who Walks Through Walls?! A folk hero to the Faunus, though not to the White Fang, given how much he targeted them as much as the SDC. She realised she had tuned him out introducing his companions, both girls, and both with rather unusual appearances.
"So, what's your name?" one of the girls, the only one to have spoken, asked.
"…Ilia Amitola."
RAINBOW TRAILER END
HARLEQUIN TRAILER
In Junior's club, sitting at the bar, a girl, or perhaps a short young woman, of indeterminate age was sitting down and enjoying a bowl of Neapolitan ice cream. Interestingly, her hair matched the colours of the dessert: pink with white streaks, and brown. Her eyes were pink and brown. A folded parasol was leaned up against the bar next to her as she listened to an orange-haired man in a snazzy white coat and a bowler hat, a cane by his side.
"…So Junior thinks he can get me some men, but I thought, if your lover boy is up to it, I can bring him in on this too. Oum knows I need all the help I can get, and competent help at that. So, whaddya say?"
The girl looked at him, before she pulled out her Scroll, and tapped at the keyboard, before showing him the message. No thanks. We have another big job on the cards. But thanks for the offer anyway, Roman.
The man called Roman nodded. "Okay. A shame we won't be working together. Still, if anything happens to your catboy-toy and the others, look me up, okay? I'd be happy to give you a job. Be seeing you."
As he left, another person entered the club. A blonde-haired, buxom girl in her late teens, strutting with confidence, shot-gauntlets on her wrists. The girl with the multi-coloured hair ignored her, even as the blonde sat down next to her and asked for a Strawberry Sunrise with an umbrella.
Junior came over and asked the girl whether she was too young to be in a club, whereupon the blonde retorted that he was too old to have a name like 'Junior'. "Besides," the blonde said, jabbing a thumb at the ice cream eater, "isn't it past her bedtime?"
Junior snorted. "She's special. And she's older than she looks. And she's good at kicking ass."
The ice cream eater rolled her eyes, though she took notice when the blonde grabbed Junior by the balls, and began demanding information about someone. The ice cream eater frowned when she briefly saw the picture. That looked like Raven Branwen. And now that she came to think about it, the blonde resembled her, at least in terms of facial features.
Well, as amusing as it was to see Junior undergo some testicular trauma, the ice cream eater decided to intervene, so she picked up her Pernicious Parasol, still rolled up, and gently tapped the blonde on the shoulder. When the blonde looked her way, the Pernicious Parasol slammed her in the face, sending her onto the now-clearing dance floor.
Junior began calling out his thugs, but the ice cream eater held up a hand, before indicating the blonde. "Really? You're sure?" Junior asked.
The ice cream eater nodded, and reached for her Scroll, before typing out something. Junior nodded, and then called to the blonde, "Hey, Blondie! She just told me that, if you beat her in a fight, she'll tell you what she knows about that woman."
The blonde grinned. "Then I'll try not too hard to enjoy this. I don't usually like beating up little girls."
The ice cream eater merely smirked, before skipping over to the dancefloor. A crowd had gathered, as if to watch a no-holds barred fight. Which this was.
Much to her frustration, as the blonde lashed out with her fists, the shotgun-gauntlets extending to cover them, the ice cream eater dodged her attacks with contemptuous ease. And contempt was apparent in the smirk the ice cream eater gave the blonde as she continued, blocking blasts from the gauntlets with her Pernicious Parasol. It frustrated the blonde no end.
They continued in this dance for a while, before finally, the ice cream eater sent the blonde flying into a pillar, smashing it. But the blonde didn't go down so easily. A flame-like aura briefly burst into life around her, her hair glowing, her eyes turning from lilac to red. She dashed forward in a charge and hit the ice cream eater, only for her to seemingly shatter like a broken mirror. Then, she was subjected to a vicious beating by the ice cream eater, before finally being knocked out cold…
Yang Xiao Long didn't know what she expected when she woke up, though being at a café not far from Junior's club was a bit unexpected. So too was seeing her sister sipping at a drink, and that little ice cream-eating bitch sitting in front of her rather smugly, eating more Neapolitan ice cream. Though she was surprised that the girl slid a Strawberry Sunrise, complete with umbrella, over to her.
"Yang?" Ruby asked when she saw her sister waking up. "Are you all right?"
"Yeah, no thanks to this little bitch," Yang grumbled.
The girl pouted, typed something into the Scroll, and showed it to her. On the screen was the message, This is the thanks I get because I stopped short of murder on the dancefloor. Besides, I thought you'd be grateful to hear something about your mother.
Yang blinked. "But you said to Junior that you'd only do it if I beat you in a fight."
The girl snickered quietly, before she typed out another message. I didn't say I wouldn't tell you anything if you lost. Anyway, I met your sister when I was dragging your sorry arse out. She nearly attacked me with that scythe-rifle she clearly would marry if she could.
"She…suggested we come here while you woke up," Ruby said.
"And what do you know about my birth mother?" Yang demanded. "Who are you and how do you know about her?"
Well, that's a long story. But I guess I should introduce myself. My name is Neopolitan. My friends call me Neo…
HARLEQUIN TRAILER END
GREEN TRAILER
Along the streets of Vale, a dark-skinned girl with light green hair and an outfit that was somewhat revealing strutted. She made her way into a bookstore, called Tukson's Book Trade, and declaring itself, somewhat inaccurately, to have every book under the sun. As she entered, she called out, "Hello?"
"Just a moment," spoke the voice of the proprietor, a big, burly, dark-haired man, who was standing up from behind the counter. "Now, how can I…oh, it's you."
The girl smiled. "You were expecting someone else? Anyway, did you get the info we wanted?"
The man nodded reluctantly, and fished out a large book. "You didn't get this from me. Though to be honest, I don't know what you're thinking, looking to break into Beacon."
"Yeah, well, we all like to live dangerously, Tukson," the girl said, thinking back to earlier, when she nearly got caught pickpocketing…
"We're gonna carve you up so fine, the worms won't have to chew," sneered the Faunus.
Another nodded. "Who's going to care about a street rat?"
She rolled her eyes. Here she was, doing what she did best by stealing the Lien from people's pockets, and these fuckers took issue because she hadn't noticed them watching her nick their comrade's wallet. And she was sure they were White Fang to boot…
"I heard you got into a scuffle earlier today," Tukson said. "Some people new to town."
"And lacking in brain cells. What is it about fanaticism that lowers IQ by at least twenty percent?"
The green-haired girl smirked, before suddenly, one of the Faunus laid out the other with a haymaker. She then knocked that one out, and looked at the third. "You're new in town, aren't you? Now, give me your Lien and leave. Call it a 'Stupid Newcomer Toll."
Tukson grimaced. "I thought thieves were meant to go unnoticed."
"Yeah, well, my friends are rubbing off on me a little…they say hello, by the way…"
The third Faunus is rammed into a wall, and falls unconscious. The green-haired girl smirked as she took the Lien cards out of their wallets, and then ran off. "Welcome to Vale, idiots," she laughed as she sprinted away.
"Anyway, thanks for the info. And be careful, the White Fang's working for Roman Torchwick, last I heard. Things are going to heat up around here."
Tukson nodded grimly. "Stay safe, Emerald."
Emerald Sustrai shrugged, and smiled. "Stay safe? What's life without a little risk?" she asked, shortly before leaving the store…
GREEN TRAILER END
OPENING
Music: Otherworld by Nobuo Uematsu and Alexander Smith
We make a series of blindingly fast zooms through the burning, blood-drenched city of London as the opening riffs begin, all the way up to Schrödinger perched on a building. With the next set of riffs, we see him tearing open his throat, falling into a river of blood, and being absorbed into Alucard, who implodes into a white void. This void spits out Schrödinger, no longer dressed in a Hitler Youth uniform, albeit in clothes that are not dissimilar in colour, who is revealed to be falling from the sky in front of the shattered moon of Remnant. We zoom out to see Vale and Beacon under a moonlit sky as the title caption RWBY: SINS shows up. Then the lyrics begin.
Go, now, if you want it,
An otherworld awaits you
Don't you give up on it,
You bite the hand that feeds you!
With each of the lines of the verse, we see the member of Team SINS in action: Schrödinger disappearing and reappearing as he slashes at Grimm with a long knife like the one he killed himself with, and shooting them with a pistol in the grip like Olga in Metal Gear Solid 2; Ilia using Crossland to beat back members of the White Fang; Emerald using her kamas against more Grimm; and Neo cartwheeling and somersaulting away from the camera to sit on a crate and smirk smugly, rather like how she did in her fight with Yang.
All alone, cold fields you wander,
Memories of these cloud your sight…
We see from above Schrödinger walking along a snow-riddled field in Atlas, his shadow grotesquely large in front of him. Like how the carpet Momonga/Ainz walks in the Overlord anime's title sequence shows characters from the series, we see the following in the shadow: Team RWBY; Team JNPR; Ozpin and Glynda; Ironwood, Winter and Penny…
Fills your dreams, disturbs your slumber,
Lost your way, a fallen knight…
More faces show: Cinder Fall, Mercury Black, and Roman; Adam Taurus and the Albain Twins; a mysterious silhouette that could be Salem, with Watts, Hazel and Tyrian in front of her; and another mysterious set of silhouettes that look familiar…with the Nazi flag behind them, only for the red around the swastika to bleed into the shadow and create a monstrous, dark shape that could be Alucard, grinning viciously.
Hold now, aim is steady,
An otherworld awaits you,
One thousand years you ready?
The otherworld awaits you…
Team SINS dashes along the ground alongside Team RWBY and JNPR, facing down a veritable army of Grimm. We cut to Ironwood and Winter facing off against a hulking silver-haired, tanned skinned figure in a long coat, his eyes red, before he shifts into something like a misty wolf.
Hope dies and you wander,
The otherworld it makes you
Dreams they rip asunder
The otherworld, it hates you!
We see Amber, the Fall Maiden, confronting silhouettes of Cinder, Mercury, a gangly girl with glasses and a musket, and a muscled girl wielding a scythe, the latter of whom slams her hand onto the ground and causes arcane writing to crawl along the ground towards Amber. The writing-covered ground seems to tear itself apart, revealing a torn photograph of Team STRQ, which is revealed to be in the hands of a pensive but determined Raven Branwen, as what looks like a shadowy outline of Alucard enters her tent…and kneels.
Free now, ride up on it,
Up to the heights it takes you,
Go now, if you want it,
Another world awaits you!
Team SINS, RWBY and JNPR are flying through the air above the Emerald Forest, as if it's Initiation. All look determined…except Jaune, who looks motion sick. We then see them land (even Jaune manages to make it look good), Team SINS first and foremost as the titles end…
TRAILERS ANNOTATIONS:
So, there you have it. Teaser trailers for my latest crossover project: RWBY: SINS. Okay, they're a bit lacking, but they show a little of what you're in for. I originally intended this to be a Potterverse crossover idea, like an AU of Under the Light of the Shattered Moon, but while talking to mellra about story ideas, they suggested a story where Schrödinger is reborn on Remnant and is adopted by Summer Rose. I decided to use the basic concept, with mellra's permission, to modify this. And I think it will be awesome.
Incidentally, the lyrics come from Otherworld, from Final Fantasy X. Obviously, I don't own the song or lyrics, yada yada yada…
Hope this excites you guys.
EDIT: A guest reviewer asked why Neo's trailer was called the Harlequin trailer, as they claim Harlequin is a shade of green. Which may be true, I haven't looked it up, but it's worth pointing out that another name for Neapolitan ice cream is Harlequin ice cream, at least that's what Wikipedia claims.