For some reason there were some issues with the chapter when I published it initially. So I'm hoping it works this time around.

Hey there everyone, welcome back for another interlude! Yup. As always after we finish up an arc, we take a moment, have breather and hopefully these little one-shots prove to be entertaining enough or manage to excite you all for what's to come.

I'd like to personally thank everyone who left a review, I'm glad most of you enjoyed all the Cardin stuff, and I'm glad no one's threatened to murder me over any of it. So that's working out. So, thank you The Novice Storyteller, Baoh joestar, jin0uga, Drake187, Ussop, winddemon199 and Vostok21. I hope to continue entertaining you all.

Also, uh, so...some people actually messaged me about that supposed 'Arkos' thing last chapter. So, we're at chapter 36 now. There will be a total of 120 chapters in 'The Darkling Thrush'. There's a lot more going to happen.

Well, that aside, on with the interlude.

Violette

In every war there are winners and then there are losers. Despite ending with the unanimous decision for world peace, The Great War was no exception. To the east, Roman Winchester was hailed as a hero due to his efforts during the Standoff at Cape Groad. He was hailed as the man who succeeded where any other man, woman or faunus would surely have failed. The sun did not set on Vale under the Winchester's stewardship.

Because the Winchester had persevered to the point of stalemate, Vacuo did not storm the capitol as they had initially intended. The war could have ended with then and there, Vacuo would have prevailed. With no victory in sight, the ruling council of Vacuo agreed to the terms of the Vytal Peace Accord.

The inability to crush the enemy's defenses made the Vacuan commanding officer the most hated man in the nation. Orion Violette was a loser in the eyes of his peers, in the eyes of the men and women who he'd given arm and leg for. Orion was cursed for his failures as was his entire bloodline.

Andros Violette, son of Orion, aspired to be so much more than his father whose failure clung to him like the stench of a dead cat. Born in war time, Andros knew only the art of waging war. He dedicated his life to strengthening Vacuo, pulling it out of the rank desert shit pile it had become.

He didn't care for the people, Andros believed they served only to fuel the grand war machine that was Vacuo. He rose above his father's failings and soon he stood on his own, no longer shamed by the actions of another.

It soon became apparent that Vacuo was revving up the engines of war once again. However, days before Andros and the ruling class of Vacuo could commence what would have been the second Great War, out in the very courtyard of the capitol building, a group of faunus equal rights protesters were gunned down for being bothersome.

It was this action that acted as a call to arms, that every faunus in Vacuo would take to the streets and riot. Andros' leadership abilities were tested when the government instilled martial law. After the fateful night, the faunus would become organized under a banner of anger and begin The Faunus Rights Revolution.

Andros proved to be an incapable leader when it came to urban warfare. His stratagems were foolhardy and destroyed infrastructure rather than the revolting faunus. Andros had also failed to win over the hearts of those who served beneath him, leading to an alarming number mutinies.

The defeat of the Faunus at the island nation Menagerie would not be done by Andros hands, but rather by a colleague and a united coalition of other nations, who all had been suffering from his personal failures. Andros fell farther than even his own father. While Vale would consider Orion to be a worthy adversary, all would come to think of Andros as nothing more than a fool.

Messier Violette was born during the twilight hours of Andros' career. He witnessed his father's decline into despair and eventual suicide. Messier was unlike his father or his grandfather, he chose to step away from the public stage. Messier was the Violette who couldn't even bother to try as he was too fearful of ending up like his predecessors.

He chose a simple life over a life of a Huntsman or the life of a government official. Messier took a job with the Schnee Dust Corporation. He never ascended up the ladder nor did he fall beneath it, rather he remained stagnant at his job. It was for the best, that's what he'd say to himself. It was better to be away from it all, to not take part in the shaping of the world. He'd never be a winner, but at least he'd never be a loser.

But then Messier met a nice woman. They talked, they hit it off, he fell in love. They'd wed and then they'd have a child. So then Messier welcomed into this world his daughter whom he would name Nebula. Maybe things would be different for her, he'd pray. Maybe she'd manage to turn things around for the Violette.

Maybe she might just succeed where they all failed. Perhaps she'd be a winner.

So there we have it, our girl from Vacuo is Nebula Violette.

I actually hinted at this decision all the way back in the first interlude where I'd purposely named the Vacuo General as a Violette. So I hop that tells you the level of planning that's gone into all this.

The main reason I chose her was because before I published the first chapter of 'TDT', I'd been kicking around ideas of writing an NDGO centric story, as well as a May Zedong story(which I'd actually gotten around to coining a title called 'Winnebago'). The Darkling Thrush is the only story I'm writing for RWBY, so I'm just tossing all those elements for those ideas into these characters. So, next arc is going to be a little different.

Next Arc: Nebula