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Survive. And look good doing it.

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I always get a batch of followers on saturdays lol. Anyways Hello! I’m Wispy and I’m a writer and artist and if your a under 18, I’m sorry but this blog isn’t for you.

This blog is suppose to focus on my writing project called Toy Soldiers.  It was a trilogy solely from Penny’s perspective but kinda grew out of control. Now it focuses on Penny, Winter, and the Happy Huntresses, and is an exploration of Atlas’ culture.

Show Your Teeth

Finished. Explicit (tagged as thoorist) 69k Words Fiona and May’s POV.

Slice of Life, Hurt/Comfort, Romance, Slow Burn

May Marigold/Winter Schnee, Fiona Thyme/Robyn Hill Happy Huntresses/Winter Schnee

Takes place 5 years before vol 1. Happy Huntresses and Winter’s origin story. How May realized Atlas is fucked up, Fiona showing up the elites, and nontraditional students Robyn and Jo get into Atlas despite being broke.

Cutting Strings

Finished Teen 61k Words Penny’s POV

Slice of Life, Action/Adventure, Slow Burn

Penny Polendina/Winter Schnee/May Marigold/Aurora Glade

Takes place during vol 1. An attempt that answers that famous quote “I want to stay at Beacon.” How Ironwood snuck Penny, someone with no government documentation, into Atlas Academy and then another kingdom.

Split Armature

drafting... kinda. Lazy, mostly. lol Mature BETTER NOT BE ANOTHER 60K FFS

Slice of Life, Angst, Humor, Action/Adventure, One-Sided Pinning, Accidental Dating

Ruby Rose/Weiss Schnee/Penny Polendina

Takes place vol 2 and 3. Follows APCX’s adventures- I mean school life at Beacon Academy. Because sending a two anarchist, a cop, and Penny away from their handlers (Winter and May) is a good idea.

Broken Theater

*waiting anxiously to see how vol 8 turns out*

APCX’s not so happy runion. Because y’know. Grimm Whale and Penny’s former teammates going WTF is a Winter Maiden?

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Behold! the real reason I draw Penny’s team, to cover it up in words and text cuz im a dumb. Anyway my next main fic is Split Armature, which follows Team APCX (apex) breakup adventure at Beacon Academy and takes place during Vol 2 and 3. Angst, Slice of life, one-sided pinning... canon-complaint. Also Ciel and Penny centric!

I don’t want to force anyone to read my previous stories so I tried to summarize it the best I could but...

Its always better to judge things from your own experiences ;3

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Scrap. Split Armature

One reason why it’s taking me so long to get the first chapter out (besides real life stuff and commissions) is that I have a very specific goal for the first chapter. It’s a slow introduction to my OC’s, one of the critiques I got was that they came on too strong. Good because it’s in character but ultimately bad because it confused the reader. And I want the first few chapters to be a vague review of the Cutting Strings. Each story is a different genre and ship so I don’t want to force readers into reading something they don’t like.

Scrapping this because I realized I’m putting to much energy in setting up Argus when they’re only there for a few days. I was forcing myself to write the not so fun bits which is why I didn’t want to get the ball rolling. So posting for archive reasons and etc, etc.

Anyway. Ciel POV, 480 words.

The Argus Military Base was an Atlesian Base. Milstral was too flamboyant in its design, loved to show off the excessive wealth and add little nauseas and gold embroidery. They had huge unsafe windows to show off the green valleys and forest, letting in the sun that isn’t blocked by a floating rock.  

Ciel was almost charmed by the few glimpses and short rides around Argus.  

Deep in the military base all she saw was the polished metal. LED lights everywhere; dimmed, off, slowly breathing or as strong and bright as Ms. Polindena’s eyes. The hum of metal almost drowning out her thoughts. Enough of them was disabled or disposed of to feel the room heat up. Panels, components, wires and bolts strewn about organized and labeled piles. The mechanic and the engineer, her civilian teammates, preforming a deep maintenance on the CCT AI Core, protected deep within the base.  

“Ms. Soleil,” the CCT AI called out. Unlike the military drones, it’s voice was smooth with almost passable fluctuation. It was uncanny and rather unpleasant. “Your records indicate that you are not in need of assistance in your studies. Physical activity and sensory stimulation every twenty minutes are shown to improve performance.”  

Ciel’s rapping fingers brushed against her textbook. Like the rest of her team she excelled in her class, setting her own standards if the Academy wasn’t going to challenge her. The goal was to finish the rest of her written assignments before their arrival in Vale.  

She frown, “My performance is not lacking.” Ciel said. She tried to stay indifferent, but her ‘teammates’ poorly hidden or open snickering heated something in her chest and her words ended up bitter.  

“Relative to the majority, you are correct.” the AI said. And of course amongst her team, Team APCX (Apex) she was the lowest bar. The AI blinked, mimicking confusion in an empty way. That pretty smile stayed, shoulders were perfectly straight. It pulled the displeased frown on Ciel could feel on her face into a small scowl. “I am detecting a negative response. Has the statistics upset you-”  

“Debug mode pause.” Ms. Cotta-Arc quickly said. Her brows pinched, weary eyes on the engineer. “What did you do?”  

Her partner replied with that irritating smirk and cocky attitude, “Maintenance.” Ugh. Ciel slammed her book. She was giving that asshole exactly what she wanted but at least Ciel had enough control not to glare at her.  

“I’m going out for some real food,” Ciel said.  

The food up in Atlas tasted too soul-less.  

“Take your time and get me something Mistralian,” Xan said, that flamboyant sarcasms replaced by a bored drawling tone. Ciel cautiously spared a glance. Xan was too engross with her work to actually aggravate her any further… an odd relief. “Once we’re done with the AI and the hard-light wall we’ll probably be stuck at the hip gain.”  

“Penn, you should go too.” Their leader hummed, rolling out from under a console, “We’ll need to replace these SDC Dust components,”

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Red! As in RWBY!! I've been rolling this idea for a long while. My main AU is meant to end with vol 8, the character arcs I have planned resolve doesn't really extend into Vacuo. BUT ToySoldiers!au is also an analysis on Atlesian culture and the BEST way to show case that is with them in Vacuo.

So this fanfic daydream (named Encore) is a spinoff of my main project and is canon divergent. The Premise is:

What if Atlas survived and they floated that thing to Vacuo?

ps. I'm also a big fan of survival games and management sims lol.

My main reason for this is to keep all the characters together, but in a way that would drive them insane and stress them out.

We have the HH running the place, handling politics and trying not to throw Harriet off Atlas.

Ace OPs feeling the impact of their complacency

The Mantle Born finally experiencing the luxery of the Atlesians

Atlesian vs Mantle conflicts

Robo Penny horribly injured and taken care of by Ruby and Weiss

and my Menagerie Tribe and indigenous leaning worldbuilding that probably no one cares about lol

But the first act would be getting the city moving. I was very careful when I made my main OC, Penny's teammates, Aurora Glade and Ashley Xanthic. I specifically made them tech savvy civilians rather than combative Hunters to compliment and support Penny.

For the most part this would follow vol 8 till the ending bits. Aro and Xan are able to undo Watt's virus being the protégée of Dr. Polendina and Watts respectively. The lamp and staff still end up getting used in some way or another and end up in Salem's hands. Winter still becomes a Maiden, probably some temporary death with the staff tricking the powers or idk.

Second act would be surviving the trip. Not enough food, water, and more importantly Dust. All the negativity keeps attracting Grimm so all our Hunters are working over time. Every so often Atlas needs float over the ocean so people can mine Dust from the sea (my indigenous worldbuilding part).

Third and final act would be Atlas finally arriving at Vacuo. And Vacuo, who's land was fucked up by the Atlesians going "Oh wow. Look at these Atlesian asshole and their flying city. Think they're so good and shit. Fuck you!" and big fights and politics all stuffs.

... That turned out longer than I thought but yeah. If I ever get around to writing this it'd be great lol.

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getting ready to the second installment of Toy Soldiers ‘Split Armature’ and slamming my notes here because thats what this blog is for lol. The first pic is Glade’s very first design.

APCX. Aurora Glade.

It’s no secret that Aurora... Glade is from Menagerie. Her exile shaken up the island for a few years. I’ll spare you the tribe drama. Everyone thinks she’s an orphan because... exiles aren’t allowed to talk about it. I wonder how Ironwood and the Schnee recruited her, Aurora’s never had a warrior’s heart. I… kinda feel bad for her? But don’t worry boss, I won’t hold back if we need to fight her during the tournament!

Honestly Glade is the weakest on her team. Second lowest priority only because she’s the leader and celebrity. Again, she doesn’t like to fight, which is why she usually manipulates movement with gravity Dust. Though it’s probably best to avoid those military grade prosthetic legs with hard-light blades and an explosive kick. Her iconic horns isn’t just a fashion statement. They’re hearing aids and an Aura radar, with it she practically has 0 blind spots. Combine with her gravity and explosive dust makes her incredibly agile. Without the aids she’s profoundly deaf. I’m not sure how my sound based semblance will work on her. Better figure that out boss! Chop chop >:3

Glade is a celebrity and a businesswoman. Aka a really squishy civilian. Don’t fall for the Atlas propaganda, this kid is all bark and no bite. Focus is hard to explain but the basic concept is “Anything is possible if you put your mind too it.” Her father had a similar semblance but it was more external, he was able to boost aura and dust around him. If Glade can boost her teammate’s abilities, attacks, anything, then she’s top priority. Polendina and Xanthic are scary enough without getting super charged.

-Notes from VYCE of Shade Academy.

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For Aro: 4. Do they have any siblings? How many? Are they older or younger? Which sibling are they the closest with? 2. What is their sexuality? 12. How old are they? When is their birthday? and for Xan: 37. How easy is it for them to say “I love you”? Do they say it without meaning it? 33. What is their biggest fear? How would they react to having to face it? 75. If given a blank piece of paper, a pencil, and nothing to do, what would happen? and both: 92. Describe them as a John Mulaney gif

For Aro: 4. Do they have any siblings? How many? Are they older or younger? Which sibling are they the closest with?

Aro is actually the oldest out of a set of triplets. She's overprotective and kinda doted on Arctic growing up, acting as their sign language interpreter since the gills make it hard to talk out of the water. But she hasn't seen them since leaving Menagerie 5-ish years ago.

2. What is their sexuality?

Work lol. Aro doesn't really use labels, but to make it easy pan, polyam, demi-aroace and sex favorable.

12. How old are they? When is their birthday?

Younger than Winter older than Weiss. I legit don't have an age for em cuz I didn't want their age to affect the reader's opinion on Aro's abilities in Show Your Teeth.

for Xan:

37. How easy is it for them to say “I love you”? Do they say it without meaning it?

If it's to annoy the shit out of someone, Xan would say it and make it believable and sweet. If she's actually trying to confess her emotions to someone she actually care's about, never. Actions speak louder than words.

33. What is their biggest fear? How would they react to having to face it?

Xan has rather intense fear of being alone and things in stasis, no change. They make robots to keep them company and have a garden to combat this.

In Cutting Strings Ironwood actually uses this to his advantage to force Xan to forge Penny's documents. Gotta make sure the top secret project is a real (aka documented) person and if just authorized it, it would be suspicious. So why not keep his hands clean and make the hacker do it? Anyway Ironwood isolates her in the Polendina Facility and her only social interactions was during work, when she's overseen by a very timid and quiet Penny and very hostile Winter.

So after a week of her worst fear she starts to become catatonic.

75. If given a blank piece of paper, a pencil, and nothing to do, what would happen? and both:

Xan would sketch out designs or write calculations or code on some project she's working on.

92. Describe them as a John Mulaney gif

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YALL HAVE NO IDEA HOW HAPPY I AM TO WRITE ABOUT THESE DORKS AGAIN!

for new followers, hello! My main is @pink-wisp This blog is half rwby but mostly for my ongoing series called Toy Soldiers. It focuses on Atlesian characters, the Happy Huntresses, Winter, Penny, etc. These characters are for my next story, Split Armature, it takes place vol 2-3 and is the sequel to Penny’s origin story Cutting Strings. Below are notes about APCX written from another team’s perspective.

We’ve done RWBY and CVFY but I saved the best report for last, boss. Team APCX. The third year stars of Atlas Academy. They have a 100% mission success rate and have TWO civilians. Something’s not adding up...

Aurora Glade. Goat Faunus. Low Priority.

Former owner of the ADC (Abyssal Dust Company). Ignoring the tribe drama, she didn’t finish training and has always been a pacifist. She’s a master with Dust with a preference for gravity. The White Fang maimed her pretty well, got both her legs, destroyed her ears, remember the horns aren’t just a fashion statement, they’re her hearing aids. We might be able to shock her, just be careful not to kill her, boss.

Penny Polendina. High Priority.

Another SDC orphan. Daughter of an esteem scientist, she wields Atlas’ latest weapon ‘Floating Array’. She’s a one women army with that thing, we’re all lucky she’s so nice.

Ciel Soleil. Low Priotiy.

She’s pretty boring actually. Human, graduated from the Police Academy. Pretty sure Ironwood only brought her on to watch Xanthic. Ranged AOE, that can localize time in a small area. Her mentor was Marrow, from the reports she mostly uses Slow so Polendina or Xanthic and pick Grimm off and Rewind for her chakrams.

Ashley Xanthic. Highest Priority.

FUCK THIS CHICK! And not in the horny way boss!! She almost has Polendina’s fire power but she’s a B-I-T-C-H. She’s a genius, her gloves can create hard-light weapons for any occasion but she usually makes an overpowered sniper-cannon THAT FUCKING HURTS. I ALMOST BROKE A RIB AND- [20min angry rant] IM GONNA SHOCK THIS BITCH! She’s not as heavily augmented as Glade BUT FUCK HER! SHE’S ARROGANT AND NARCISSISTIC AND FUCKING-

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