Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-8785285-20161202005634

Brutal RWBY AU roleplay. OC's involved.

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We live in the world of Remnant, a very unique world that houses three primary races. Human, Faunus, and Grimm. In the beginning, Mankind had struggled in a war against the Grimm, the Grimm being a very powerful and hostile creature, being made up of initially, shadows with unique, gray and red pieces on their body. However, the Grimm had evolved past this stage, now taking on a much more frightening appearance. But, back to the beginning, Mankind had discovered a vital resource in defeating the Grimm - Dust. Dust was a very powerful resource being able to channel the elements and other sources in the world in many different forms. Some infused it inside their clothing, which gave the clothing elemental properties. Skilled people could channel this into pure dust and use their own clothing as a source of power. However, another common form of Dust aside from infusing it into blades to give them elemental properties and clothing was ammunition. Dust ammunition was very strong against the Grimm, and as Mankind evolved and made kingdoms now being able to fend off the Grimm, Mankind created new types of weapons built for Dust usage. These weapons commonly mixed the designs of melee and ranged together, to be able to create a powerful weapon that they could infuse Dust into, and being able to use it for Dust ammunition aswell, which was much needed in the new evolution of Grimm, due to them being very powerful. Hunters and Huntresses were trained in the art of brutal combat as this new type of Grimm was too strong to hold back on. Along the way, Mankind learned of a new power deep inside everyone, called a Semblance, channeled through an Aura. Each Semblance was unique to the person and could be manipulated in many different ways, but it was usually in one form which would be unique to the person, even if it was just how effective it was or how it looked.

This is a slight AU to RWBY. The AU was decided by Ewan as brutalized with some Bloodborne elements in it. Don't worry, its mostly still RWBY, its just that instead of a joyful teenage girl hoping to defend people it would be a bit less of that cartoony feel and more of a real-scenario feeling.

PS: Checkout the Guide, it will teach you more about this.


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This is a short guide on some things in RWBY and this AU. The main idea was proposed by Ewan but ultimately, I decide what its like in the end, so i've added a few things.

First off, to show you actually read the plot, put 'Booply Dooply' in Extras on your signup.

First I will explain RWBY weapon design and semblance/aura, then I will list types of Dust which may be expanded later, and then AU info.

In RWBY, all the weapons have a very unique design choice to them, take for example: Crescent Rose. Crescent Rose is the weapon of Ruby, the main character, it is a scythe capable of tearing off bodyparts off of a Grimm along with being combined with a sniper, and being extendable like a butterfly knife. To put it simply, its a folding sniper scythe. There is also Ember Celica, Yang's weapon. Yang is the sister of Ruby, and her weapon is two gauntlets named Ember Celica capable of firing explosive blasts, said blasts can be altered through dust. Basically, your weapon can be anything you want it to be, just as long as its not a minigun sniper rifle combined with a scythe combined with a foldable sword. Be unique.

Now, onto Semblance. Semblance is a very unique thing in RWBY. It is, to be put short. A form of magic unique to only you. Where Semblance comes from, is as of now unexplained, but it is something to do with your Aura, a protective force that also acts as your lifeforce. If your aura is completely drained, there is a good chance you will die and you cannot use your Semblance. Your Aura can be shown, rarely through an outline/halo around you, but this is only if you have a large Aura and thus lots of energy. Your Semblance uses energy from your Aura, but it is mostly harmless, but if you keep using it over and over and over again in battle, it will start to drain your stamina, and then if you keep using it, it will directly attack your Aura. This is the setback to using a Semblance, but a Semblance is very effective in battle. For example, Ruby's Semblance is simply super speed, with the particle effect of roses as a trail to where they went while using the Semblance. Yang's Semblance turns her eyes red visually, and gives her a massive boost in power. It is typically triggered through an immense emotion, usually anger. Weiss's Semblance are a bunch of runes that can be changed and used ALOT through Dust, which is possibly one of the strongest Semblances we've seen in the show. So don't go crazy with your semblance but pick one you'll see your character using.

The types of Dust are very unique, and we don't know a lot of canon types of Dust, but for the sake of the roleplay and AU, we will use custom dust a lot if it doesn't exist in the show. There are, as of current:

Fire Dust.

Ice Dust.

Lightning Dust.

Different types of the dust listed above, such as Blaze Dust, a more powerful Fire Dust.

Gravity Dust

Time Dust.

Time Dust is a Dust that we introduced ourselves, you can use it to slow down or speed yourself up. Gravity Dust is never directly mentioned outside of RWBY Chibi, but it was actually used in the Red trailer, the first trailer for RWBY, introducing Ruby Rose. Ruby used it at the end of the trailer and at first it seemed like a type of speed dust, but its later elaborated on, in RWBY Chibi where Ruby is testing out dusts, she picks out some dust with the same symbol as the magazine in the Red trailer, which isn't on her other magazines, and proclaims "Gravity" while testing it.

This AU is simply a more brutal and bloodborne-like RWBY, atleast thats what Ewan added. The characters will be a lot more brutal than before, so no more happy, joyful teenagers. They can still be happy to some extent but not overly joyful as many of the characters in RWBY were. Monster hunting is considered a very serious topic and job now and so characters like Ruby will be more serious about it. Clothing choices for Hunters and Huntresses are also a bit different and more serious about their survival. For example, instead of Weiss having a dress with a 'combat skirt', she will probably wear something more along the lines of light-weight armor or leather garments.


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I will not add direct rules here for now but the same ones from last time apply, and usual roleplay rules such as not being overpowered. If I absolutely MUST, I will add proper rules to this, but if i have to do that, someone's doing something wrong, and if i'm yelling at someone a lot, its likely them that caused it.

 