Who's onboard for the suffering train!
Yeah, you know how this is all going to go...
Return By Death
(Inspired by Re:Zero)
Basic Premise: Jaune has Subaru's Return By Death ability as a semblance, meaning that every time that he dies, his soul is automatically sent back to a sort of checkpoint in the past, allowing him to do over his mistakes and defy the laws of destiny.
He unlocks this semblance when he is 4 years old.
It isn't a happy time.
By the time that Jaune is brought into Beacon against his will, he is well and truly tired. He has seen more than most other people his age, and as such, is much more jaded and cynical than them.
He is also the most seasoned out of all of the Huntsmen in training, practically being an experienced Huntsman veteran already thanks to all of the deaths that he's suffered through and learnt from. This all means that he is able to trump and defeat a lot of his peers, barring Pyrrha Nikos of course, not due to any physical power, but simply due to the creative way that he uses his semblance, and his pure intelligence, experience, and out of the box thinking.
However, when the story progresses into Beacon, that's when we finally get the feeling that something is deeply, deeply wrong with this world.
The biggest change comes with Ruby. Now, of course, she's still the same lovable paragon of purity that we know in canon, and is deeply concerned with whatever is troubling Jaune, but slowly, we are drip-fed hints and subtle clues that she knows more about Jaune and his semblance (Which he has kept secret from everyone else) That she's letting on.
And moreover, there's what she asks him to call her. For everyone else, she is fine with them calling her by her name, but when it comes to Jaune, she is extremely insistent that he call her by a different name:
Salem.
Jaune and everybody else is obviously confused at this insistent demand of that particular nickname that Ruby asks Jaune to call her, as they don't understand its significance, but when Ozpin hears it, you better believe that he starts shitting bricks.
And then comes Initiation, where things get even worse than before, and a guild of colourful, but extremely deadly, assassins, bounty hunters and mercenaries, emerges and begins to slaughter the initiates down below in mass, leading to Jaune having to fight them off again and again and again as they kill him again and again and again.
However, soon, at the end of this nightmare that lasts almost a week, slowly which Jaune had been looping again and again and learning all of their skills and moves to be on equal par with these killers, is the truth about them revealed:
They know about Jaune's semblance.
And they came here because they were hunting him for it.
The rest of the story begins to revolve around what is going on, and this grand mystery revolving around Jaune and his semblance, Ruby and her connection to Salem which shouldn't exist at all, and the truth behind this guild of killers and thugs as they hunt them down relentlessly, completely shafting the storyline of Cinder and the White Fang and removing them as a threat, and becoming themselves the main villains of the story.
Then, we would begin to venture into the supernatural, as the specifics and rules of Jaune's semblance are put under a microscope and examined, and realise that it is actually an artificial semblance.
He wasn't born with this power. Someone gave it to him.
But who, and why, is unknown...
And not my story to tell, and it's now yours.
As always, PM me if you want to use this story, but if nothing else, I shall be seeing you all next time!
Titanmaster117 out!