Cuts of RWBY
A RWBY Fic Collection by AndrewJTalon
DISCLAIMER: This is a fan based work of prose. RWBY is the property of Rooster Teeth and WB Animation. Please support the official release.
Just a collection of plot bunnies and ideas for RWBY fics. Free for you to take and make use of.
For instance...Taiyang Xiao-Long still does not have a Semblance, a weapon, or a role beyond comic relief and goofy dad. Given his importance to the narrative, this is ridiculous. So here's a way to change that...
Ruby did not think she could be as mortified at Beacon as she was when she got detention for that food fight. Or getting hit in the face with pudding during said foodfight-That was honestly a bit worse.
This though? This... Was the worst.
"Hello Class!"
Taiyang Xiao-Long, her father, was standing where Professor Goodwitch normally was during combat class. Yang cringed and hissed behind her.
"I'm your Substitute teacher, Taiyang Xiao-Long," he said with a cheerful smile. "I'll be filling in for Professor Goodwitch for this week while she's on vacation!"
"This is your fault," Ruby muttered to Yang, "You finally drove her around the bend-"
"How is this my fault?" Yang muttered back, "Blake's the one who got us into vigilantism!"
"So yeah, this is Blake's fault," Ruby said with a nod.
"It is not!" Blake muttered, "It's just your father, how bad could it be?"
"Says the girl who hasn't spoken to her parents in two years," Weiss muttered.
"Hey!"
"Take your seats, take your seats," Taiyang said, still cheerful. He winked at Ruby and Yang. Both Ruby and Yang smiled back weakly. Finally, everyone sat down. Taiyang looked around.
"Now, I've looked over your combat performance records," he said, "I've seen a lot of great standouts-Miss Nikos, and my daughter, Yang, among them."
Pyrrha waved modestly. Yang managed a weak grin.
"I've also seen some students struggling," Tai said, and Jaune visibly winced all over his body. He smiled warmly at them all.
"Now... To start us off? Let me show my combat records from my first year."
The holoscreen behind him shifted, and showed a much younger Tai grinning awkwardly at the camera. A lot of murmuring picked up. Tai smiled around the classroom. Ruby and Yang goggled at the ratings... Primarily how bad they were.
"What do you think?"
"You were rated deadlast?" Jaune gasped. He coughed. "Uh, sir?"
"Yup!" Tai said cheerfully. "I had been trained in my family martial arts since I was a kid... But I was reckless. Cocky. And stupid. I thought I could just power on through anything on my own." He shrugged. "I was wrong. Got my ass kicked a lot, too."
He looked around.
"That's the point I want to make clear," he said, "Some of you struggle at some things, some of you excel at others. That's why you're in teams. You work together to take down things you never could alone. You want to be good on your own, sure, but never forget that you're combining your efforts together. You all contribute different things to the fight: Insight, leadership, muscle, range, stealth. And you grow stronger the more you work together."
Taiyang nodded in nostalgia.
"Me? I thought my Semblance made me hot shit. And it did... Until I got my ass beat by my teammates because I thought it made me invincible. That's the thing about Semblances: They're just one weapon you have at your disposal. You can't just rely on it alone to get better. Like every other skill, you have to train it, hone it. Your team will help you do that. And thanks to that team... Well... Let me show you."
He grinned.
"You're gonna love this. What you're seeing is my normal state."
He narrowed his eyes... And his Aura flashed into existence as a bonfire, and his eyes burned red. Yang and Ruby gasped along with the rest of the class.
"This is my Semblance, Burn. My daughter Yang has a very similar one," he said, "Hers takes kinetic energy damage and turns it into more Aura, supercharging it. Mine does the same, but it can also be activated at will, with enough practice. And... Like any other Semblance, with enough practice... It can evolve."
"Evolve?" Ruby chirped. She didn't know this about her dad! From Yang's look, she didn't either.
"Yup," Taiyang said with a nod, "I don't break this out often. I haven't practiced it a lot lately... But this...? This is to go... Even further..."
He grunted, and his Aura flared brightly.
"BEYOND!"
With a loud bellow and an explosive flash of Aura energy, his power blew up the sand from the pit and made cracks in the railing around it. The students gaped as one as the dust settled, revealing Taiyang. His eyes burned green, as his hair flared and sparked with lightning bolts. He smirked out at the gobsmacked class.
"Sorry about the mess... This is Burn... Level 2..."
He vanished. Everyone gasped. They all looked back, as the bright light was unmistakable. Taiyang waved at them from the back of the class, before vanishing and reappearing back in the ring.
The power died down, and he returned to normal. He smiled warmly.
"So... If I can go from deadlast, to being able to do that? There's hope for you all," he said with a nod.
"Maybe this won't be so bad," Ruby murmured, a smile on her face. Yang though was glowering at their father.
"When was he gonna teach me that?"
"When you grow up," Taiyang said, not even looking their way but still smirking. Yang flushed.
"So! Who wants to spar first?" He asked the room, still cheerful.
Taiyang shouldn't be some loser who does nothing. We don't even know what his Semblance or Weapon is. That's just ridiculous. He's crucial to the backstory of the fucking plot involving Summer! Which is integral to the entire fucking story! So I gave him some awesome.
He's not able to maintain his transformation as easily anymore, he's out of practice. But he's going to find reasons to get back into shape, very soon.