#forthcoming au

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Legends Scatter Map (After The War Against Salem)

General Stuff About the World:

Languages:

Vale:

A bit of everything! I imagine it’s kind of a melting pot for all sorts of Remnant cultures

In general though, it’s mostly European languages mixed in with all sorts of other languages

Coeus:

Slavic languages! Definitely more guttural sounding

After the war and once Coeus is established in Atlas’s place, the language stays roughly the same but Germanic sounds do start to appear :)

Sierra:

African and Native American Languages

Mistral:

East Asian and Indo-European languages

Vacuo:

South Asian, Middle Eastern, and Latin languages

Climate:

Weather is a little weird on Remnant.

I think Remnant’s weirdness can be attributed to the fact that there’s dust alterations and other forms of funky stuff going on.

I imagine dust starts getting funky around the equator for some reason.

So Anima & Sanus have similar issues

Vale gets lots of rain and has really pretty and lush forests, along with plains and savannas.

While Vacuo gets a lot of the more dry and desert-y stuff, with the addition of sandstorms and dust storms. <- There are dangerous on Remnant! This is because, as the name entails, dust powder gets kicked up and activates during these storms. Not cool when you see a literal tornado of fire dust flying your way!

Vacuo also has a high dust area that is considered off limits to the general public. It’s called the Red Desert. The name comes from the excess amount of explosion and fire dust in the sand and sandstone in the area.

Coeus has something similar, however it’s man made in this case. This would be the Codex EZ (Exclusion Zone). Think Chernobyl but on Remnant basically. A dust accident occurred and now the land is permanently altered.

Nearing the equator, gigantic dust crystals begin growing. Think almost redwood tree height and incredibly thick in width.

These dust crystals vary in type depending on what part of land they’re on.

Mistral gets mist and lightning dust growing near their equator (Mist being the replacement for water dust here because water dust is STUPID imho, this at least makes it a little less dumb to me)

Vale gets wind and plant dust (along with the occasional earth dust, be careful!)

And Vacuo gets Fire and Combustion dust

Coeus (despite it’s situation being man made) also has these giant dust crystals, theirs are Ice and Hard Light dust. However it’s too dangerous to go and harvest the super charged dust crystals.

Feel free to send asks about the AU!

I’d be happy to elaborate on things :3

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What's Ember's story?

They were originally Cinder’s daughter (unknown father) but Cinder was either:

A. Unable to take care of the kid due to being in hiding from everyone and being a wanted criminal

or

B. Is just a really bad parent

Both are likely.

But all Qorbyn knows is that the girl was removed from where she was living due to what was classified as “neglectful circumstances”.

Cinder was arrested, and Cinder (unable to think of anyone else fit for the job and VERY reluctantly) requests for Qorbyn to take care of Ember. So she does.

It’s ironic, really. One of the three people she was so hellbent on killing, the one she’d injured horrifically, is now the one taking care of her daughter.

But yea, Ember doesn't really notice anything is different when she's younger, like most kids.

Once she gets into middle school, she gets interested in why she looks so different from Jasmine and Qorbyn and inevitably finds out about the situation.

The reason Qorbyn and Jasmine never said anything is because they didn’t know how to approach the situation with Ember and didn’t want her to get hurt when she inevitably goes to look for Cinder.

They thought they were protecting her. But they do realize how much they hurt her by doing that, and apologize and attempt to do better,

She does eventually meet Cinder, but it leaves her conflicted.

It’s not necessarily a “happy” reunion.

It also leads to her lashing out at people while she’s attending Beacon because of that inner turmoil (those ppl include Jett, Qorali, Qorbyn, and Jasmine)

Partially because she's mad at all the adults for knowing who her bio mom is and not telling her, partially because she believes that maybe if she's terrible enough they'll want to give her back to Cinder, and partially because she's confused and having an identity crisis.

Eventually, Ozpin and Qrow are called in to try and reason with her

It’s here that she learns about Qorbyn’s particular experiences with Cinder. She knew her mom was scarred badly, but she didn’t know it was because of Cinder, or it happening in the first place because Cinder had hurt her grandfather and her mom was trying to protect him.

This leaves her even more conflicted.

Embers semblance is the ability to cause blasts of fire, and generally to control fire and heat. She’s able to heat herself up to a degree where it burns other people, and she’s able to use fire similarly to Cinder.

The difference here, is that Ember’s fire is red/pinkish, a lot hotter than Cinder’s fire, and can only be put out by Ember.

Ember tends to use her semblance only in the heating way, it’s only later on that her semblance evolves to include creating fire.

This does, in fact, freak her out.

She wields two daggers / shortswords that have a dust blade she can activate in order to make them cleaver swords, they also can turn into dust whips, which she’s able to heat up with her semblance to do more damage.

She also uses throwing knives.

She does go to signal and beacon, mainly bc that's what her mom's did, but of course this is also around the time that she starts having an identity crisis.

She does train a lot, she's skilled but she'd be better if she had a bit more confidence in herself.

She fights very offensively and, similarly to Yang, is more worried about doing as much damage as possible than where exactly she's hitting the enemy.

But yeah! There’s mostly what you need to know about her.

Oh! And here’s kinda what she looks like!

[the-grimm-tales]

With the war against Salem over, what is the challenge of the Forthcoming AU? Is there an overarching plot for everyone or is it more slice of life?

A bit more slice of life, it’s what they deserve

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Did I change what happened to Neo from the original Remnant Heirs AU fic? Yes. I did.

Anyways Neo ascends in the ever after and arrives back in remnant as Minty Couverture :)

This is what Minty looks like btw.

She’s still mute and still uses a parasol but her parasol is a bit different.

It’s a staff/gun/shield parasol this time :)

She has a casual parasol which is more reminiscent of her old one, but that also has a sword in it lol.

Always gotta be prepared

Her semblance is the same too.

She doesn’t have any of her memories from her previous life, but it’s not hard to see who she looks like.

She’s 17 now and on Ember’s team <3

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I think the saddest part abt the Ironwitch family is that specifically Ironwood literally becomes the worst version of himself sooner because his life fell apart after Glynda left.

This guy had everything and then in an instant had nothing.

I feel bad for him.

Hence why I think he probably gets better after the war. Maybe not immediately, but he does eventually.

And eventually he’s allowed to be in his grandkids’ lives.

Which makes for an interesting dynamic between him and Lila (one of Sparrow and Blaine’s daughters) when Lila starts falling into the same militaristic motions that James did originally at her age. He is terrified of that.

But ultimately that’s not James’ fault.

Y’know that internet radicalization pipeline from middle leaning -> far right leaning.

Yeah that’s kinda how it goes with Lila and the military.

Needless to say her and Jett do NOT get along.

But yeah. James becomes a pretty good grandpa :)

Is pretty active in his kids’ lives too.

I don’t think his relationship with Glynda is repairable completely tho. They’re friends, but I don’t think they’d get married again.

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Who was the straggler that almost accessed the 11th floor? 👀

Nobody important really. Just a random criminal looking to get their hands on something that doesn’t belong to them.

As I said, Qorbyn kinda threw them around like a Ragdoll until she decided to be nice and take them upstairs for law enforcement to deal with them.

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TELL US ABOUT THE 11TH FLOOR BESTIE I WANNA HEAR IT ALL

Well, before I can tell you about what happened, we need to establish WHAT the eleventh floor to The Remnant Archives is.

Needless to say, any information on anyone in the world, you can find in the eleventh floor. Everyone’s entire life stories, transactions, interactions with other people, networks, health conditions, EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU, is in an archive in the Eleventh Floor.

This is done via a machine and software, and the access that the machine has to every security camera on remnant.

Think of it like The Machine from Person Of Interest kinda

So, obviously, Qorbyn doesn’t want this information getting into the wrong hands.

When she became the Archivist, she took an oath to protect the information of everyone and in the archives. No matter if that’s from a criminal, or the governments of Remnant.

So. She doesn’t tell ANYONE about this floor. And when I mean anyone, I mean EVERYONE.

She doesn’t tell even the inner circles about this.

It’s a secret she plans to take to the grave.

The eleventh floor itself is nigh impossible to hack into or to even get into. Qorbyn herself uses an embedded microchip in her hand (a microchip that’ll literally self destruct if her body temperature goes down past the point of living body temperature.) in order to get into the floor.

The elevator does lead to it, however after someone uses said elevator to nearly get in and steal information, Qorbyn has the elevator redone and no longer has it go down to the eleventh floor.

Its only access is via a code that’ll activate a teleporter. Said code is also nigh impossible to get because you have to jump through tons of hoops in order to get it. And it’s a code Qorbyn has memorized.

Now, about that straggler who managed to nearly get in, and who was promptly thrown around like a Ragdoll by Qorbyn.

This straggler, when interrogated, tells the inner circle about the eleventh floor. Saying they don’t know what’s in it, but that Qorbyn seemed awfully protective of it and downright wrathful at the straggler for even getting down there to begin with.

And so the inner circle begins interrogating Qorbyn angrily, asking why she kept a secret that important. Except 2 members

Ozpin and Blaine.

Ozpin because he understands the secret keeping. It would be hypocritical to interrogate her over it when he himself in the past hasn’t told the whole truth and has kept secrets.

But Blaine? Blaine understands WHY she kept it a secret.

And he doesn’t understand why everyone except himself and Ozpin are so mad at her for it.

So he calls a meeting to tell his thoughts to the group.

“Why are we mad at her? And before you say “because she kept it a secret”, think about WHY she kept it a secret.

There must be something really important down that she doesn’t trust us with. And that’s within her right. It’s not her saying she doesn’t trust us, it’s her saying that we are ultimately still people, and we can fuck up still.

She probably doesn’t even trust herself with that information.

She took an oath the day she became Remnant Archivist, and she plans to keep that oath till the day she dies.

So I’ll ask again, why are we mad at Qorbyn for doing what she swore to do?”

Qorbyn ends up not budging, and so the inner circles never end up finding out what’s down there.

Ozpin doesn’t find out until almost a complete century later when one of his Reincarnations ends up jumping through all the hoops to get that code.

And hoooo boy does that open a can of worms he wasn’t expecting.

Everyone who’s ever been on remnant is in there.

Including all of his incarnations

Qorbyn wasn’t just trying to protect remnant’s information. She was trying to protect remnant from itself. Seeing the worst of its peoples trauma, she tried to make sure they wouldn’t have to relive it.

And that’s the saddest part, all she wanted to do was protect people.

And ended up making a secret memorial for all those lost over the years instead.

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PLEASE someone ask me about the Eleventh Floor of The Remnant Archives and how the past and present inner circles find out about it

I NEED TO RANT ABOUT THIS BECAUSE OOOOOOH ITS C R U N C H Y