Coeurverse more canon

Anyway, here's the chapter - and a different tack on how the Mountain Glenn journey goes. It's worth pointing out that these events are caused and influenced by past ones - for example why Roman did so much more to Jaune than he did Ruby. I didn't just add this for the sake of it.

Jaune, despite his best efforts, has clearly made a lot of changes to the timeline.

—NF32

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Either way, writing this was odd because there are a lot of events that are deeply important in canon, but would just be me re-writing scenes you've already seen before in a fanfiction.

As such, I decided to go with an almost choppy PoV this chapter, as a way of setting up what's going on and letting you all fill in the blanks. So, for instance, skipping the Ironwood talking to the team, or them making their way to Beacon, etc… Instead, I just did time-skipped PoV jumps to imply those events happened. Hopefully the whole thing didn't feel too choppy, but I just felt that writing them out in full would have dragged on over two whole chapters, just to get to this point. It felt like unnecessary padding.

If it helps, I would just assume that any scene you don't see happened exactly as it did in canon.

—PA58 AN

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This is essentially the RVNN Arc of the story, so it will be a few chapters of this mission. I don't want to put a limit or number to it, but I would only expect maybe 3 more, tops, before we go back to Beacon. Jaune and Velvet finally open up to one another, only for tempers to fray. I wanted to have Velvet show a little of the perhaps darker side of Hunterdom that we never see. When it comes to saving the lives of people, is it justified to lie and break someone's heart?

Should people like the Hunters willingly sacrifice parts of themselves to save others? At what point does it end, at what point does the trade become unequal? Judging from Summer's lyrics in the Red like Roses II, some of them are unable to make that trade. Part of me always wonders that about Ruby, too. Is she destined for the same inglorious fate, once the show ends? An already determined end where she walks into something over her head because her idealism won't allow her to let people die if there is a "chance" of saving them?

Remember that even though they are here, the canon events of the show do take place in the background. The world does not freeze, so if you consider some elements of what might happen without them there, then you might start to notice things.

—PA30 AN

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Naturally, some of the early events of the MG visit were skipped here, mostly because while I could show them, it would drag out sections which are essentially the same as canon.

—NF31 AN

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If this were my own original work, I'd never write such a shitty backstory for someone and part of me was saying "just re-write it. Just make something up, like Ozpin PURPOSEFULLY got his sister killed or something. Something to justify what makes NO SENSE from Hazel in the show". But in the end, I didn't. I tried to stick to what RT showed us and I ended up with a middling villain being a super whiny twat to Jaune.

This story was and is designed to have a big time skip in it which will happen soon. The first half (though half is not an accurate measurement) is Jaune coming to pre-Beacon and making changes. The second is when the main cast hits 17 and `Canon Beacon` begins, now set with the changes he has made.

—RF69 AN

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Oh yeah, and Pyrrha has feelings for Jaune… hell, that still makes this fic have slower development to romantic interest than the show xD Mainly, since he pretty much hasn't done anything different to Pyrrha and has treat her the same as canon Jaune did, I figured it just made sense to let it happen as it did in the show.

—WS9 AN

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Truth is, Pyrrha always gets to suffer in my stories because her attraction to Jaune is canon. I often have to include it because it IS a canon event. It was established by RT. I'm not "constantly making her like Jaune" as some weird attack on her, but because it is a part of her character in the show that she has these problems expressing herself, etc. It's a core part of her character development to face those issues and grow as a result. Sure, I could take away her attraction for Jaune, but I might as well also take away Yang and Ruby being sisters, or Ren and Nora knowing one another. If it's not important for the plot to do so, I usually don't. Once or twice I have, however. I.e. Pyrrha never had feelings for Jaune in Professor Arc because she saw him as an authority figure first and foremost, and thus didn't have the chance to think of him romantically.

—SS35 AN

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Also, we know from canon conversations that Remnant is suffering a shortage of dust when the show starts, so losing even one factory of many in the heartlands of the SDC's production powerbase is going to have an effect.

—HA37 AN

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Just to answer a question I'm sure I'll get. Cinder used her red dress and her fire powers because unlike canon, she was never called in to support Roman.

—WS21 AN

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She had only the news they had all been given. That during the preparation for the siege, before the Atlas Armada had set off, someone had attempted to breach the CCT. The teachers had noticed, of course… since Beacon was supposed to be almost abandoned. If they knew who it was or what they wanted then they were keeping quiet about it. The only information they had was that the Headmaster, Miss Goodwitch, Professor Port and Oobleck had all fought the intruder. And that the entire tower had been destroyed in the ensuing battle. The intruder had apparently been dispatched during it, their body picked out of the rubble.

—GT36

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The thing about Cinder and the CCT? The simple answer to that is that when this fic began, and when I made the decision to have them go off to Elgard and take this story arc, there was no Cinder and CCT. The episodes just hadn't gotten that far, so I had to write them in but didn't have an angle for it.

So this is what I went for… Cinder's plan to fracture Atlas and Vale in ruins, because the incursion actually strengthened them. And without the dance, all the teachers were ready and easily noticed an intruder. (Hard not to when most people are meant to be at Magnis). Four vs one, they were able to triumph where Ozpin failed… though we all know it was mostly Peter who did all the fighting. True manly hero that he is.

—GT36 AN