Will it end with them together and adopting the last 1-3 ‘problem children’ who so happen to have the most trust issues and the strongest or weirdest semblances?
Okay @tsundere-bellwether has me wanting to work on this Redemption AU where Cinder’s a maiden on the run, doing good in the shadows. However, somewhere around Mistral, she comes across an orphanage similar to the one she was from before she was brought to Atlas and after scoping the place out a bit, she finds it’s a human trafficking ring. Particularly, it collects promising children who have gifted semblances.
So Cinder, noticing the town that houses the orphanage is turning a blind eye to the suffering of children, burns the place down and frees about sixteen orphans. However she knows they can’t stay safely in a corrupted town, so she tracks down Jaune and forces him to help her find the children suitable homes (despite her judgmental attitude towards anyone willing to adopt said children).
So Jaune just shows up one night at his apartment after a day of heroic huntsman work to his home stuffed with children running around everywhere and a very tired Maiden on his couch.
I mean, presumably Tai signed off on Ruby going early, Karen Glass or whatever her fanon name is would never give Cinder legal permission do do anything.
It’s one of those things we’ve never really heard about, and no one ever seems to ask, but this might actually tell us that the Age of Majority is 17 on Remnant.
Emancipation probably would go about as well as calling the cops would, Karen is rich enough to block any attempts, and vindictive enough for Cinder to not risk it.
The chain of events Rhodes was likely going for here would be:
Train Cinder until she’s a legal adult.
Hope that she’s capable by the time she leaves the hotel, since Karen sure-as-hell wouldn’t let her leave with any money, and also:
Have Cinder do what most people assume Ren and Nora did, take some qualification exam since she doesn’t have a combat school record.
Enroll Cinder in Atlas
???
Cinder happy!?
I feel like I should note that I don’t defend this plan, and all the waiting around involved in it, this is just what I think Rhodes plan was.
cinder was told she had to wait till she was 17 to take the huntsman exams but ruby got in early
Oh yeah that was a thing, wasn’t it? Well sadly, Cinder wasn’t a prodigy and I doubt Rhodes would have the balls to argue to Ironwood for her.
Jaune: Dammit Cardin I can’t even tell what you’re doing! I guess I know how your girlfriend feels!
Cardin: *Punching harder* Shut! Up! Arc! *Cardin’s hand lets out a cracking sound, drops Jaune* AAAHH!
Jaune: Don‘t worry about it man. I’m sure there are some guys who can’t last longer than you, somewhere...
Cardin: *Holding his now broken hand* Grrrahhhhh!
Penny (anonymously) writes to Councilman Arc, asking if self-aware robots have the same protected rights as humans and faunas. Jaune doesn't know if this is a joke, a dig at his equality measures, or a serious question, but he signs it into law either way. Ironwood has a panic-attack worrying if Jaune has spies in Atlas.
Ironwood was panicking again.
It was about Councilman Arc, again.
And it was about him enforcing equality, again!
...well, the equality bit was not exactly panic-worthy, but what exactly he wrought recently certainly was.
Thing is, the young Arc had just signed into law that any form of advanced AI had the same rights as humans and faunus, as they likely possessed self-awareness, thus sentience and sapience, and should be treated fairly. It was introduced in anticipation of likely progress in the field of computer science.
The fact was that Jaune had done so after receiving a letter from Penny Polendina, secretly a gynoid, where she hoped for a positive answer. he had simply gone through with it.
James Ironwood, however, did not know that.
Hence the panic.
“Pietro, I need your help.” Perhaps the robotics scientist and father to their secret project P.E.N.N.Y could advise...
Yang: *Being Super Thirsty*
Jaune: I NEED AN ADULT!
Goodwitch: *Thirsty Milf* Yes?~
Jaune: Oh no! *Gets dragged off to Goodwitch’s office by Yang and Glynda*
Would Jaune even attack Oscar if Pyrrha survived though?
Most of Jaune’s animosity for Ozpin and his group seemed to come from Jaune reading the whole Maiden thing as a sort-of guilt-trip Pyrrha got stuck in.
I might be remembering wrong though.
I still firmly believe that Pyrrha would've come to adore Oscar if she'd lived long enough to meet him. I can picture her mothering him so badly, concerned about whether he's getting his vitamins and nutrients, or if he's getting enough sleep, or if he's homesick... *sigh* I miss her.
Oh, she definitely would be a member, if not the leader, of OPPS, dear anon. I wonder how would that work with Nora's personality? I've seen people viewing her as his "mom" or "sister" and I can't really choose which one is better XD
I think Pyrrha would also treat Oscar similarly to Jaune in v1-3 - provide mental support, train with him, protect if necessary etc. Not to mention Pyrrha being alive would change sooo many things. We can only speculate about what would go differently. And I can certainly picture Oscar looking up to her.
I miss Pyrrha too, dear anon. She was a sweet character and it would be fun to see her saving the world with her friends. Now the only thing we have left is letting her rest and move forward.
Six minutes of pure and pasionate lancaster love
Kali: *Stood in the doorway*... Go on.
blake: you have no evidence against me xiao long!
yang: ahem "i wanna lick honey off jaune's toned body, i want him to collar me and put me on a leash , and fuck me like he owns me, then i want him to write "proptery of jaune arc on my ass"
blake:...
jaune:...
The fact that they’re all still tinted red in the edit just makes me laugh harder at this.
Salem: GIRLS! COME HERE!
Emerald & Yang: [DANGER]
salem holding emerald and yang like they’re just two disobedient children is exactly what i needed today
Ruby: daddy i have a boyfriend
Tai: really?
Ruby: his name is jaune.
Tai:(holding a shotgun) and where does jaune live?
Ruby:…
Councilman Arc AU: I wonder if another faunus, or a vampire, or a grimm queen, could smell Jaune and Deery on each other... Deery might know how to cover it up, but would Jaune be able to tell if he still had a symbolic 'Deery was here' sign on his back?
..only if they didn’t shower afterwards. which they did.
vigorously.
separate.