It's been a long time, so I thought I'd come back with a new idea for you all!

The White Grimm of the Family

(Inspired by White Sheep by Coeur Al'Aran, Children of Remnant by Selene Sokal, Elden Ring, and Destiny)

In Vale City, a wandering Ruby Rose meets a strange boy named Jaune Arc, who is lost within the city and is trying to find his way up to Beacon. He's clearly new to Vale and definitely as awkward as she is in social situations, maybe even more so. Doesn't help that he has such an antiquated way of speaking, using old words like he's from the medieval kingdoms of old.

Then, suddenly, Roman Torchwick raids the dust shop with his goons, and Ruby Rose jumps to the rescue...

Only for a figure in black, smoking armour to swipe his had at the criminals and send a wave of solid Grimm matter into them, knocking them out and destroying quite a bit of private property alongside them. And by a bit I mean a lot.

Ruby blinks at the sight, and the Grimm Knight looks at the scene, blinks as well, and then flees the scene before Glynda and the police can apprehend it.

The next day, new year of Beacon begins, and Jaune Arc awkwardly fumbles his way into the school, cursing himself for almost blowing his own cover like that. He was supposed to be in hiding from his mother Salem and the rest of their family, and then he had to go and almost blow his cover by trying to take down a bunch of criminals with powers that he couldn't control or completely understand.

Jaune Arc is sort of overpowered in this story. Sort of, but not really. As the youngest of his siblings, that being the children of Salem, he is the least experienced in controlling his Grimm powers, and the least suited to do so as well. Unlike his siblings, he's never been good at getting into the negative mindset, in channelling his negative emotions to control the Grimm that he summons. The Creatures of Grimm are beings fuelled and commanded entirely by negative emotions, but he has never really been fond of using them. He doesn't want to become wicked and evil like the rest of his family and their ambitions, he wants to be one of the heroes like the Arc family used to be. He wants to help people like his ancestors did before him.

Because of his desire to help people, as well as his attempts to try and maintain a positive mindset, this leaves him utterly incapable of controlling the Grimm that he can summon. Grimm are fuelled by domination and destruction, and so his creations would simply refuse to obey his commands and attack the people around him with wild abandon.

It also doesn't help that he has no desire to be part of the plans that his mother, Salem, and his older sisters are constantly concocting. He doesn't entirely know what they are, but he doesn't like it.

So now he's here, in Beacon, amidst the natural enemies of the Grimm, learning how he can be one of them so that he can carry out the heroic legacy of the Arcs before him, all with powers that he cannot control or completely understand due to their nature as Grimm. Wonderful.

Soon enough, Jaune begins to meet people across Beacon, from Velvet to Weiss to Pyrrha to Ruby once again, and each and every time he tries to interact with his upper classmates and soon-to-be peers, his old language, taught to him by Salem and his sisters, mixed with his general anxiety (from being a half-Grimm person in disguise) and awkwardness (from having only interacted with his mother, Salem Arc, his sisters, and their mother's minions up until now), makes each conversation a contest on how to embarrass himself, which some find a bit endearing whilst others find annoying.

The next day, initiation time. Jaune is sent down into the Emerald Forest with everyone else, and ends up bumping into Ruby once more, the two of them becoming partners. After that, it's Pyrrha that they run into, and then finally Blake, whom Jaune had tried to speak to the previous night and ended up leaving Blake with a bad first impression, due to Jaune's genuine curiosity at why she was hiding her Faunus ears under a bow being mistaken for a racist comment.

But the group are forced to put aside their differences when they are engaged by an advanced Grimm form, a monster that they haven't seen before, a four-armed, gargantuan humanoid with insect features and ice powers, dressed in some sort of noble knight armour and garb, and labelled at a Baron, its sights on Jaune for some reason.

(Here's a fun challenge for this arc: don't use any canon Grimm. Make up your own for each fight against the Grimm. Create your own ideas for different Creatures of Grimm and their power sets, and throw them into the story and see what happens. This particular Grimm, the Baron, was inspired by the Fallen of Destiny, particularly the Fallen Captains of House of Salvation.

Sounds like an interesting idea, yeah?)

Jaune, recognising that this particular type of Grimm is the creation of one of her sisters, quickly teams up with Yang's group, that being Nora, Ren, and Weiss, and the two blondes are able to come up with a plan to take down and kill the Baron, ending its rampage and with Jaune thankfully keeping his secret under wraps.

Initiation ends, and the induction into Beacon begins, with Jaune, Pyrrha, Blake, and Ruby being put together to form Team JNBR (Juneberry), whilst Yang, Ren, Weiss, and Nora are placed together to form Team YLSN (Yellowstone).

It is not an easy commitment. Jaune's attempts to apologise and connect to Blake are rebuffed due to his social awkwardness and anxiety, as well as incomplete understanding of social ques due to being raised in isolation, leaving said attempts seeming half-arsed and not understanding what he did wrong in the first place. Worse, Ruby's silver eyes only serves to weaken his Grimm side by proximity, plus Ruby can't help but feel uneasy around his presence, her silver eyes reacting in their own way by proximity to Jaune's Grimm side, leaving Pyrrha as his only real friend on the team.

Jaune's life in Beacon, though, is significantly better than it was in Salem's castle. Suddenly he's around dozens of people to talk to aside from his family and their goons, with dozens of books to read in the library and the ability to simply interact with the world at large. There were some like Cardin that turn out to be jerks, but there are others like Pyrrha and Velvet who turn out to be nice, the latter introducing him to the rest of her team, with Coco deciding to take the awkward leader under her wing.

However, Jaune still proves to be paranoid about his secret being discovered, or worse, Salem realising where he was and trying to take him back home, hurting and killing all his new friends and everyone else as well. His Grimm powers only continue to grow more unstable because of that fear.

And Ozpin is beginning to take an interest in his team, both for himself and for the silver-eyed warriors with him.

Soon enough, Blake would hear of the dust robberies in the city and their link to Roman Torchwick and the White Fang, and would run off on her own to investigate alongside Sun, with Jaune, Pyrrha, and Ruby, alongside the newly arrived Penny, running after her and dragging YLSN along with them. Soon, the battle at the docks begins - though this time it is Neo and Banesaw that are leading the Fang, not Roman as he's currently in prison thanks to Jaune and Ruby's intervention - and the White Fang goons find themselves being overwhelmed by the small army of Huntsmen, only for the Huntsmen themselves to be met by a special new foe in the form of a group of Grimm and their thralls.

The Wrathful, Grimm humanoids in the shape of skull-masked berserkers and barbarians, armed with clubs and swords and axes and emitting an aura of rage around it that destroys the minds of anyone not using aura and turning them into rageful slaves to their will. Jaune is able to resist its effects due to his half-Grimm biology, but that same biology reacts violently to the Wrathful's passive aura as many of the White Fang goons in the docks are turned into mindless raging drones of the Grimm.

The Wrathful and their thralls attack the Huntsmen, with the latter of the battle barely able to defeat them whilst Neo and the White Fang beat a retreat. The group are left exhausted and wounded, and all but Jaune questioning just what the hell they had just been fighting against.

After this, Jaune and Blake talk again, with Blake unable to understand why the White Fang are working with the Grimm of all things. The two of them have a long conversation, and this time, they are able to bury the hatchet and make up, shaking hands and agreeing to work on their differences and be clear with each other in the future as to avoid any mishaps like their first interaction.

Jaune is sad at the fact that he has to lie to her to hide his identity as half-Grimm, but decides that he has no other choice.

Elsewhere, Neo and Banesaw back how successful the new Grimm variant was, but express annoyance at how they had not only turned some of their minions into mindless animals, but had also failed to kill any of the Huntsmen that had come to try and kill them. Cinder asks who the Huntsmen were, and frowns at not just the description of the silver-eyed warrior, but also a familiar face, Jaune Arc, the runaway. Realising that she will have to report this back to Salem, Cinder becomes frustrated at how complicated her plan has become at this point.

Soon enough, the Grimm parasite inside her senses a familiar presence rapidly approaching Vale.

Jaune sisters are known to be... overprotective of their kin.

Elsewhere, JNBR and YLSN are called up to report on what happened at the docks, and are properly punished for their vigilante actions with detention and community service. During this time, Jaune and Ruby begin to talk more, and Ruby begins to realise that a lot of the physical irritation that she feels around Jaune is actually coming from her eyes, and she starts thinking about how Ozpin had commented on them when they first met. It might just mean that she needs glasses, but the fact that it only happens around Jaune begins to raise some concerns in her...

With Jaune, however, his friendship with CFVY continues on, now joined by Sun and Neptune, and both CFVY and S+N are shocked to hear that, all this time, he hasn't had his aura unlocked. He doesn't even know what it is other than being some kind of forcefield. His Grimm side has been making him physically more durable than the average Remnantian for years now, and he just didn't know it.

But when they unlock it, they find that his aura reserves are big. Massive, even. What's more, Jaune finds that the Grimm part of himself quail and shrivel at being in the presence of such aura, leading him to realise that he now no longer needs to focus on trying to control his Grimm aspects whilst his aura can do it for him. He can now focus on being a Huntsman entirely.

Meanwhile, Ozpin continues to watch the progress of Ruby and Jaune, the former for beginning the journey to discovering her silver-eyed powers all on her own, and the latter for bringing out the reaction from Ruby, as well as his odd mannerisms and clear anxiety and paranoia of the people around him, as if he is expecting them to attack him over whatever secret he is trying to hide.

Ozpin's suspicions begin to mount.

However, there's not much time to focus on that, as Blake, despite warnings from Glynda and Ozpin as well as confirmations that the authorities are working to repel the White Fang and the new Grimm threat, decides that she is going to go hunting for the White Fang regardless of both her team's warnings alongside the warnings of others. The rest of JNBR are forced to go along with her just to make sure that she doesn't get herself killed. Along the way, the group decide to link up with Sun and Penny again, along with Neptune, and end up snagging disguises for themself, with Jaune grabbing an all-black outfit that he thinks makes him look like an idiot. Black is not a good look on him, and it makes him look like he's trying too hard to get noticed by women, the exact opposite of what he is trying to do.

(This is my way of poking fun at the fics that turn Jaune into an overpowered edgelord who always gets any girl that he wants. This fic isn't that. Jaune has a really powerful, er, power, but its incredibly difficult for him to control and is honestly more of a detriment at points along with other contributing factors, meaning that he can't reliably use it.

Not only that, but while Jaune has some dark origins, and this fic itself is a lot darker than canon due to its nature of dealing with new Grimm monsters and a hybrid Grimm in hiding amongst its natural enemies, this is still Jaune Arc we're talking about. Jaune Arc the bumbling goof who's making it up as he goes along, now probably even more now due to his isolated upbringing. He has his moments due to his paranoia and hidden Grimm traits, but he's still a positive person deep down. Additionally, this isn't a harem story. Most of the girls that Jaune makes friends with would ideally stay that way.)

However, worrying that they will start biting off more than they can chew, and worrying himself about being discovered by Salem and her minions (having come to the conclusion that the Grimm working with the White Fang means that Salem's, or at least one of her minions, has cut a deal with the White Fang for one reason or another), Jaune pulls Blake aside, and after a lengthy talk, is able to convince the stubborn girl to at least inform Ozpin of what she knows before they go in, reasoning to both himself and Ozpin that Blake isn't going to stop for anything, neither him or Ozpin himself. No one is pleased about the arrangement, but Ozpin quickly recognises that Blake will indeed not stop for anything in pursuing her obsession with the White Fang, and promises to support them for the time being, though he promises that there will be consequences for their actions tonight.

Soon enough, JNBR, Sun, and Penny split up to try and chase up as many leads as they can, with Jaune and Penny going off on their own to look up White Fang raids on Atlesian armoured vehicle shipments. During this time, Jaune learns of Penny's existence as an android with an aura, and Penny ends up learning of Jaune's existence as a Grimm. The two briefly duel, and Jaune loses hard, but Penny is herself shocked to see how genuine Jaune, the half-Grimm, is with his intentions, how terrified he is of being discovered and what that would mean for his friends, and his earnest desire to live up to the legacy of those that his current family have forsaken.

Then, the two are attacked by Grimm. A new variant of Grimm, looking like humanoid soldiers with alien rifles and knives, and with different types of dust shoved into them, giving them the powers of the elements, such as fire, ice, lightning, wind, gravity, hardlight, and plants. These are the Elementals (inspired by the Attendant and Weaver Psions from Destiny 2), and they are the Grimm of Jaune's twin sister, Joan Arc, the Grimm Aspect of Envy.

And now Joan Arc is here, and she is demanding that her brother come home.

Elsewhere, Blake and Sun infiltrate the White Fang rally, and Blake is horrified to see not just Neo and Banesaw leading the meeting, but also Adam Taurus himself, flanked by the by-products of the White Fang's newest allies, the Elemental Grimm and the Wrathful.

However, when the majority of the civilians in the White Fang rally express disgust at the thought of working with the Grimm, the same creatures that were endlessly trying to kill human and Faunus alike, Adam, without any hesitation, uses his newest secret weapon on them, a weapon given to him as a token of their alliance by the one who calls themselves the Aspect of Envy.

The Charm of Lust, a hypnotic spell that instantly puts everyone in the crowd under his control, wiping their minds and replacing them with a fanatical devotion to Adam and his crusade to the destruction of all humans. Blake and Sun are barely able to escape before they are enraptured by the spell, but find themselves being hunted down by the brainwashed crowd and the Elemental Grimm.

Back with Jaune and Penny, the two find themselves being hounded by the Grimm-empowered Joan Arc, alongside her army of Elementals throughout the streets of Vale. After being forced to split up, Jaune is cornered by his sister, who talks to him softly, asking if he's done running, and if he's got this little rebellious streak of his out of his system. Jaune makes it clear that he's not going back home, but Joan makes it clear herself that he doesn't have a choice. His part in the plan has yet to be carried out. Does he really wish to disappoint their mother so?

It is revealed here that, much like their mother Salem, the seven Arc sisters are subtly manipulative and abusive as well. They take after their mother after all. They love their brother, they truly do, but they also act controlling to him and manipulate him and his feelings to get what they want from him, whatever that might be.

Jaune Arc wants nothing to do with it and tries to fight back with just his aura, but his twin's superior strength and skill with her Grimm traits easily overpowers whatever he can throw at him.

Realising that there is nothing he can do to fight back, Jaune is forced to pull back his aura and embrace his Grimm side once more, turning into the Grimm Knight once again.

Elsewhere, Penny is joined by Blake, Sun, Ruby, and Pyrrha, and they find themselves surrounded by the Elementals and the rabid crowd. They are battered and beaten, and just about to be overwhelmed, only to find the Grimm-encased form of Joan Arc being tossed into the middle of the crowd and the Grimm Knight standing before them, tall and angry.

The Grimm Knight lets out a roar and throws itself into the crowd, cutting down the Elementals and sending the mindless Faunus flying. Then, it begins to spawn its own Grimm in the form of hulking knights known as the Knightmares, and Joan (though none but Penny realise that it is Joan) is forced to retreat from the rampaging monstrosity that is the Grimm Knight, all before the monster turns its sights onto its former friends.

But then, finally, reinforcements arrive in the form of a furious Glynda Goodwitch and a small army of Huntsmen, including Team YLSN, who immediately kill the Knightmares and begin the process of rounding up the rabid Faunus, all the while Glynda beats down on the Grimm Knight, only to find that even she cannot stand up to the power of the monstrous Grimm.

However, Jaune is able to gain just a sliver of control over the Grimm Knight once again, and forces the Grimm Knight to retreat, slinking away into the buildings around them and dissolving away, leaving an exhausted and badly wounded Jaune Arc, slumping down into unconsciousness several blocks away.

It is Penny who finds Jaune first, and she is able to successfully deceive Glynda and the Huntsmen that the Grimm Knight has fled deeper into the city. Once Jaune and the rest of Team JNBR are released from the hospital, Penny and Jaune talk once more, and Penny realises that Jaune is genuine in his desire to hide away from Salem and help others, and agrees not to tell anyone about his secret. Realising that he finally has something that he hasn't had in all his life, that being a real confidante with whom he could share his honest feelings, Jaune agrees to keep her secret safe as well, and they become best friends.

However, Jaune thinks back to Joan, and realises that the city isn't safe anymore. He then realises that no matter what, a confrontation between him and his siblings, and Salem herself, is inevitable, and so he must prepare for it.

However, what comes next is Ozpin's punishment for the team. Ozpin decides that if Blake is so desperate to hunt down the White Fang, then she can go join the people who are tasked with hunting them. As such, Blake is sent away from Beacon to join the Atlesian taskforce sent to Vale with the purpose of chasing down the White Fang and their allies, with her new partner being one Ciel Soleli. Blake bristles at the thought of joining with the people that she was fighting against, but decides that she doesn't have a choice and goes along with it.

The rest of the team, however, is treated more lightly, as Ozpin recognises that they were only going along with it to stop Blake from getting herself killed, as well as Jaune having been the one to alert Ozpin of what was going down. However, they are still placed under house arrest as punishment, until the Vytal Festival to be exact, and are given a new teammate to replace Blake: one Penny Polendina. Team JNBR becomes JNPR.

All of them are unaware of just how much Ozpin has become to grasp of their individual situations.

Then, during their house arrest, the teams are met by Sun and the rest of his team, and the rest of the team are finally introduced to Velvet, Coco, and the rest of Team CFVY. Not only that, but the team soon makes friends with Team BRNZ and NDGO from Vacuo, with Jaune becoming quite friendly with May Zedong from the former team.

But it's all a lie. Team BRNZ and NDGO have been made into spies for the Arc sisters. Saphron, the Aspect of Lust, has seduced May and turned her into her champion, who then enthralled the rest of her team as well as the whole of NDGO into the service of their new love.

And here is where we finally see the powers of the Arc sisters. Each one has been turned into an aspect of the Seven Deadly Sins through the unholy magics of the Grimm and Salem's influence, and each one have the powers to go along with it.

There is Joan, Jaune's twin sister and the Aspect of Envy. Her powers allow her to infest any local environment with Grimm matter and reshape everything around her, and also possess people and manipulate the biomass of her own body to suit her designs. Her Grimm are the Elementals, and her Champion is Cinder Fall.

Then, there is Saphron, the second-eldest sibling, the leader of the group, and the Aspect of Lust. She has the power to seduce and enthrall the hearts of human and Faunus, man and woman and everything else, to her service, making them fall rabidly in love with her and in turn becoming rabidly devoted to carrying out her will. Her Grimm are the Succubus and the Incubi, and her Champion is May Zedong and her thralls.

After that, there is Viola, the oldest sibling and the Aspect of Wrath. She is the military commander of the family and has direct control of all the Grimm under their command. She has the power to induce great wrath and rage into the hearts of men and turn them into mindless extensions of her will and anger, and channels that into her Grimm, the Wrathful. She is her own champion, but wants to make Pyrrha Nikos and Yang Xiao Long into hers.

Next is Jackie, the Aspect of Greed, the first half of the second pair of twins in the family. She has the power to take other people's semblances and knowledge, reducing them to braindead, powerless bodies on the ground. and then create perfect Grimm copies with her new knowledge as well. Her Grimm are the Jackals (three guesses as to what they're inspired by, and the first two don't count), and her champion is Emerald Sustrai.

The second twin is Jill, the Aspect of Gluttony. Her power has left Jill a void, a floating shadow that consumes the aura of those around her, always feeding her endless hunger for the lifeforce of others. Her Grimm are the Hunger, and her champion is long dead, having been consumed years ago.

After her is Lavender, the Aspect of Sloth. Lavender is an endless ball of energy, fuelled by the energies of others. She has the power to drain the will, stamina, and energies of those around her to fuel herself, and then revive those corpses as her servants to carry out her will for her. Her Grimm are the Tarnished, for they are tarnished corpses that lumber across the world in service to their Mistress. Her Grimm are the Sightless, and her champion is a closely-held secret.

And finally, there is Julia, the Aspect of Pride. Her power allows her to declare something to be true according to her standards, and for it to then be made true instantly, affecting localised reality around her to suit her desires. Her Grimm are the Barons, and her champion is an unwitting James Ironwood, who does not yet know that he is a pawn.

And Jaune Arc, the last, and youngest, of their siblings?

Jaune Arc is to be the Aspect of Sin itself, and he is to be theirs to complete their plan.

Through the powers of Salem's magics, and the mystical energies of the four relics, they intend to harvest the power of the Brother Gods and ascend their brother, Jaune, into godhood before having him take them as his consorts.

Once they have all ascended into divinity, they intend to become the new gods of Remnant, destroying the Grimm and all the evils in the world and ushering mankind into a new, endless age of kindness and love, whether they want it or not.

The Arc sisters, much like Jaune, idealise their forebearers in the Arc family and their deeds, and they want to honour them as well by becoming the greatest heroes that Remnant has ever known...

And if the sisters, the Aspects of Sin, have their way, they will plunge the world into a new era of divine darkness, all through the power of their misplaced intentions.

And so, Jaune must train. He must learn to master the Grimm, the living sin within him, to fight against them.

If he doesn't, then all the kingdoms will fall.