Kali: *Stood In The Doorway*... Go On.

Why does this sound like a threat...

Anyway, I’ll put my bet on Deery, because someone has to.

Second bet’s on Willow, she arguably wants it most.

….

jaune will lose his virginity soon

Jaune and Neo fight, Neo is winning until Jaune traps her in a bear-hug. Jaune doesn't know what to do at that point because if he lets go she'll just be start winning or escape again, so he just turns on his heel and starts running with Neo squirming to get free. That's what everyone sees when they get to Schnee Manor. Neo is 'captured', but oddly cozy.

Jaune helps Oscar stand up as Neo comes running around a corner, looking for the exit. The three of them stare at each other for a moment. 

Jaune: “I don’t have the aura or the time to fight you The AceOps are about to detonate a bomb and take this whole place out” 

Neo, not believing him, brandishes Hush

Jaune knows he can’t leave without the Relic. They fight for a few moments. It seems like Neo could win until Jaune grabs her in a tight hug. 

Neither of them know what to do for a moment until Oscar yells at them to run. 

[Later]

Jaune and Oscar arrive at the front line of the Atlesian trenches. RNBW had come out to meet RYE already.

Jaune crosses the battlefield and walks up to Yang: “Oscar, and the Relic” Calling back to her questions the night before. He had finally gotten them both back 

-

Neo gave up struggling after the bomb detonated. The knight had been telling the truth. But as long as she didn’t let go of the Relic, he didn’t let go of her. 

Yang: “So, everyone is just okay with this?”

Weiss, sitting on her staircase. Her home was slowly turning into a refugee camp: “I say we take the win...”

I might be in the minority where I hope none of the ‘main girls’ become Maidens.

Ever since it was introduced Maidenhood has screamed ‘more trouble than it’s worth’ to me. You get a bit of a power boost but you still lose fights, and everyone now wants to find or fight you. You end up a over-pressured and paranoid mess.

Penny, honestly, was the one exception they could have convinced me on, it serves her arc in a way they couldn’t do most other ways, and they handled it’s effects well, through Fria’s choice through this episode.

It also seems a bit too obvious? Nora less so because the most obvious would be Team RWBY all getting magic.

Can we leave the Winter maiden Nora theory in V7 where it died? Y'all are really hoping Penny dies just so your personal fav can get a power up.

Penny's not dying again, she's already a real girl, and her arc would make no sense if she lost the powers. She'd be running from her conflict, not resolving it.

Nora already has an arc about identity issues and giving her the responsibilities of a maiden would make that worse. Let her figure out who she is as an individual.

Let’s be real here, Yang would be into that.

Pyrrha: Jaune’s sweet and all, but he can be kinda awkward when we’re intimate.

Pyrrha: For example one time I went down on him in the shower, and he, not knowing what to do with his hands, decided to wash my hair.

Yang: At least he’s thoughtful I guess?

Winter, and maybe Emerald:

jaune makes everyone dinner. how do they react?

I could see it, Yang’s got hangups and has no chill.

Jaune meanwhile, goes all in when he’s flirting, no real fear at all.

I could see Yang being flustered in that situation.

Bit of a dragonslayer switch. Imagine yang being the one that got nervous when she tried talked to someone she liked?

Jaune "Ready to die for anybody" Arc and Winter "Scared to die for everybody' Schnee. IDK how to make it shippy but I thought it was a neat parallel.

jaune's martyr complex mixed with winter's self presverations. winter shows jaune that he doesnt have to be the scapegoat and jaune shows winter its okay to be vunerable

Do we need to use seasons though?

Since apparently they don't actually correlate to the powers you get.

Other sets of 4 could be neat.

Best I could come up with was Night Baron, Dawn Baron, Day Baron, and Dusk Baron.

What would be the male equivalent of the Maidens in RWBY?

Would they be called ‘Masters’? I’ve been wracking my brain around trying to think about it.

A Thought: Jaune and Cinder end up having another throwdown, Neo sees Jaune getting some hits in and is so done with Cinder she switches teams on the spot, we get Silent Knight vs. Cinder. Neo may or may not follow Jaune away from Atlas like a stray cat after.

When I first started my fic, the biggest question I had to answer was how they would start to work together and move past just being on different sides. This is pretty similar to one of my early ideas but I thought it might be more difficult, from a story telling perspective. 

But

Pyrrha Nikos was an international prodigy and celebrity. Neo and Roman might have been living in warehouses but they had scrolls. Neo knows who Pyrrha was. Not to mention Neo participated in the Vytal Festival. She saw Pyrrha and Jaune together during the JNPR fight. 

So when Jaune confronts Cinder again for the third time, and Cinder brings up killing Pyrrha and nearly killing Weiss, Neo could put the pieces together. She would notice the sash too, which was so characteristically Pyrrha’s. In a single moment Neo would understand all the reasons Jaune fights and who he’s fighting for. And who they could both fight against. 

Ever since the fall of Beacon, Neo has been after one goal: revenge. With that goal achieved, she wouldn’t know what to do with herself. Vale is largely trashed after Beacon fell. Atlas is under high alert, Mantle is about to be overrun, and Vacuo is a desert miles away. Her choices are either fly back to Mistral and try to make her way in life, or stick it out with the only person in Remnant who can understand her, communication barrier or no

Pyrrha: *Hearing Yang*

Aura

Ruby: where is aura store?

Ren: the soul

Jaune: the heart!

Yang: the balls