Apr 19
Let’s go steal a military truck!
Edit: i forgot May’s ponytail 😭, pls pretend its hidden behind her or something
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Let’s go steal a military truck!
Edit: i forgot May’s ponytail 😭, pls pretend its hidden behind her or something
The Happy Huntresses c:
Butch Yang Week Day 5 - Bar Culture
Commed the incredible @frishbi!
cheeseeater2 asked:
Friends Au: How would Roblyn and the happy huntresses react to seeing the photos of Jaune's family?
The Rivalry Burns Brighter
Yang: Hahaha! Oh, gods I forgot he looked like such a huge dork!
Ruby: Yeah, he's really grown up. Losing all that baby fat, and gaining a lot more muscles.
Yang: You better keep that to yourself. Otherwise, Winter will come after you.
Ruby: Yeah, she... Winter... Winter scares me...
: Do I now?
Ruby: AHHH?!
Yang: Oh?! H-Hi, Winter... W-We're just looking at old photos when we were back in Beacon, and we were just laughing at how Jaune used to look.
Winter: Laughing at, Jaune?
Ruby: Y-You know how he looks now, but I don't think you ever saw him when he was at Beacon.
Winter: No, I've never seen him until recently; What did he look like?
Ruby: Well, uhh... h-here's a photo of him...
Winter took Ruby's scroll looking at the skinnier body of Jaune from a few years ago.
Winter: Hmmm... He definitely has a much more boyish face... A cute, rounder, child...ish... face...?
Winter zoomed on Jaune's face, analyzing every aspect of his face where she noticed something interesting. She pulled out her scroll before sending the photo to her scroll, before giving Ruby's scroll back to her.
Winter: Thank you for sharing this with me, Ms. Rose. Now if you'll excuse me.
Winter swiftly made her way to leave, quickly leaving the two sisters alone.
Yang: ...
Ruby: ...
Ruby: I think we just did something bad...
Yang: But, what did we do...?
Ruby: I don't know...
Yang: Well doesn't that sound scary...
~~~
Inside the 'secret' headquarters of the Happy Huntresses, Robyn Hill, and her companions were going over several plans that they needed to accomplish to ensure Robyn's ascension to become a councilmember for Mantle, and Atlas. But, this planning session was about to be brought to an abrupt end. One scared sheep faunas was about to explain why.
Fiona: Uhhhh... R-Robyn...?
May: Fiona? You okay?
Joanna: You look a little pale.
Robyn: Is something wrong, Fiona?
Fiona: You have a visitor...
Robyn: Oh? And, who is it?
Fiona: It's... It's Winter Schnee...
Robyn: Wi... Winter Schnee?!
May: Seriously?!
Joanna: What the hell is she doing here?!
Fiona: I-I don't know?! She just said she needs to talk with you alone!
Robyn: About what?!
Fiona: I don't know?!
Robyn: Okay, okay, okay... Relax everyone, let's play it cool... There's nothing to worry about.
Joanna: But, it's, Winter fucking Schnee?!
Robyn: I know that... but, I must not show fear in front of my rival.
MJF: Rival?
Robyn: For my, White Knight!
May: White knight?
Fiona: Jaune Arc.
JM: Ohhh!
Robyn: Silence! We must prepare for the demon's arrival...
Joanna: Alright...
May: We're ready.
Robyn: Alright, Fiona. Let her in...
Fiona nodded her head as May, and Joanna took a flanking position behind, Robyn stood proud in front.
Fiona opened the door, and told Robyn she could enter. Soon, came the high, and mighty, Winter Schnee. Her eyes fixed solely on Robyn Hill, not caring for the other members of the Happy Huntresses, as if their mere presence meant nothing at all to her.
Winter: Hello, Ms. Robyn Hill. Our meeting has been long overdue...
Robyn: Indeed it has been, Specialist Schnee.
Winter: ...
Robyn: ...
Winter: Before we begin, I just want you to know that this... meeting of ours has nothing to do with your past exploits of stopping Atlas Military personnel, supplies, and equipment. If so, I would have dealt with you sooner if you mattered.
Robyn: If I didn't matter, then should I take it that, Mantle, and it's people don't matter either?
Winter: No, they do, and will always matter. But, you do not matter as much as them. You are, but a drop in a bucket.
Robyn: I'd be careful if I was you, even a single drop of water can start a tsunami.
Winter: Or, show you that you have a leaky bucket.
May: They're fighting right...?
Fiona: Over, Jaune, right?
Joanna: They should be... But, am I the only one who isn't picking up on a lot of hidden sexual tension?
Fiona: Everyone can!
May: You can practically taste it!
Fiona: It makes sense too. They're both fighting for the same guy, whoever beds him first wins!
Joanna: So... is this where the war begins...?
Winter: Now then. Robyn... as much as I would like to call you a lying cheating political whore...
Robyn: And, as much as I would call you a thieving dust slut...
Winter: I'm afraid we both have bigger foes to deal with when it comes to winning the heart of my Knight!
Robyn: I think you mean, my Knight.
Winter: Over my dead body you slut!
Robyn: Bring it whore!
WR: ...
Winter: Haa... enough... as much as I like to insult you, and prove why it is better if I became, Winter Schnee Arc!
Robyn: Robyn Hill Arc sounds better...
Winter: I'm afraid that we are both already losing to another woman.
Robyn: What?! What do you mean we're already losing?!
Winter: Let me show you this photo of Jaune, and his family.
Winter plucked out a photo from under her coat, and handed it to Robyn. She eyed it warningly for a moment before taking it, and inspected the image upon the photo.
Robyn: This is a photo of Jaune... and his family... with... Wait? Does Jaune have eight sisters?!
Winter: Seven sisters, the man in the back is Jaune's father, and the woman next to him is Jaune's mother.
Robyn: Oh... But, seven sisters...? That's a good sign of fertility...
Winter: A very good sign. Now then, here is another photo of Jaune sisters, and his nephew.
Robyn: Nephew?
Winter pulled out another photo, and handed it to Robyn who took it. She saw a fair skinned blonde with blue eyes, the person Robyn assumed was Jaune sister, and a girl with dark skin, and red glasses holding a dark skinned baby in their hands.
Robyn: Who are the people in this photo?
Winter: The blonde, as you've probably already guessed, is Jaune's sister, Saphron Cotta Arc, and the woman with the darker skin is, Terra Cotta Arc, Saphron's wife, and Jaune's sister-in-law. And, the child in the middle is Adrian Cotta Arc, Jaune's nephew.
Robyn: Okay... he looks cute, what about him?
Winter: This is the last photo I wanted to show you; This is a photo of Jaune when he was back in Beacon. Before his... glow up~!
Robyn: Glow up?
Robyn took the photo, Winter offered, and inspected it. Jaune was much more lanky, and childish, nowhere near as charming, and attractive as he is now. But, he did have a nice, cute face that...
Robyn: Hold on...?
Robyn placed the photo of, 'Beacon Jaune,' next to the lesbian couple, and their child. Her eyes darted between the two photos before she raised her head, looking at Winter with bloody fury in her eyes.
Robyn: Call, Jaune Arc down here... NOW...
~~~
Jaune walked into the Happy Huntresses 'secret base,' and already his danger senses were blaring. He could see Joanna, and May looking at him, fear was echoing in their eyes as they shied away from him.
His step hesitated for a bit before he walked up to Fiona who was standing nervously in front of a door to Robyn's 'office.'
Jaune: Uhh... Fiona... Is... is something going on?
Fiona: Oh well... something is going to happen... I don't know what exactly, but... well...?
Jaune: ...
Jaune: I don't like that answer...
Fiona: I'm sorry... I can't help you with what's...?!
Robyn: Fiona is, Jaune here yet?!
Jaune, and Fiona visibly recoiled from the door as Robyn screamed bloody hell through the door.
Fiona: Y-Yes...?
Robyn: Then tell him to get his ass in here! NOW!
Fiona: EEP!
Jaune looked at Fiona as she embraced the scared sheep persona that real sheep were so well known for. But, he gave her a reassuring shoulder pat before entering Robyn's office.
As the door shut behind him, he saw Robyn Hill standing next to her desk, while Winter Schnee was standing on the other end. Robyn had her arms folded across her chest staring daggers at him, while Winter held her arms behind her back glaring down at Jaune.
Jaune knew without a shadow of a doubt that he was in trouble, big trouble at that, and that these two warrior women were furious with him for some reason. But, Jaune couldn't help but think that the pair looked damn hot while doing so.
Jaune: W-Well... It's nice to see you two finally meeting each other face to face... So, uhhh... w-what is this all about? Are you finally putting an end to this rivalry you two have imposed over me... C-Cause I want to end it myself, I just... I-I don't know who to pick... I mean you two are some of the most impressive, and beautiful women I've ever met!
Jaune: I mean, Robyn... I admire your noble beauty, and courage to stand up for what you believe is right! That you're willing to put everything on the line for the people of Mantle. I may be your white knight, but you will forever be my lady I've sworn to protect, and serve.
Jaune: And, Winter, I adore your elegant charm, and despite all that your father did, both directly, and indirectly to you, that you are standing strong, and proud throughout it all is inspiring. I am honoured to stand beside you as we fight to serve, and protect the people of, Atlas.
Jaune: I want to make my choice... I don't want to be an ass, and make you two feel like I'm stringing you along. But, I can't choose between either of you... I'm trying, but... I've never been so lucky to have two wonderful women want me before. But, this time... I'm scared to choose, because if I only pick one of you, I'll lose the other... And, I can't handle the pain of losing someone I love again... not again.
Jaune had dropped his head in shame as he lamented the cowardice of his heart, but as he brought his head up to stare at the two women he was met with the sight of a pair of scarlet tinged faces. Winter was averting her gaze as she was shuffling around nervously, while Robyn had turned her face to look away from him, but Jaune could tell she was blushing based on how red her ears were.
Winter: While it's nice to know how you feel about the both of us... and, I can understand why you're having difficulty choosing one of us... I'll explain why to you later, Ms. Hill.
Robyn: T-Thank you... Specialist Schnee.
Winter: But, that's... that's not what we called you here for.
Jaune: Oh? Then what did you call me for?
Robyn: Well.. okay... so, Specialist Schnee showed me these photos.
Robyn handed Jaune the photos of his family, these photos gave Jaune pause as he looked at Winter with a distrustful look on his face.
Jaune: T-These were the photos in my locker? D-did you take these out of my locker?
Winter: No, I took a photo of them, and printed a copy.
Jaune: Oh... that's marginally better... but, what's with this third photo... Where did you get this, this was from when I was in, Beacon?
Winter: I acquired it from Ruby Rose.
Jaune: She had a photo of me? Didn't know she had anything of me... But, what is all of this about?
Winter: Well, I was looking at the photo of you, and your family... and, I noticed something... peculiar... I decided to take this photo to Robyn Hill to ask if she also saw something in the photos...
Robyn: And, I did happen to find something most curious to see.
Jaune: Oh... w-what did you find...?
Winter took the photo of Jaune back when he was in Beacon, and the one with Saphron, Terra, and Adrian in it, holding the next together.
Winter: Why does your nephew look like you!
Jaune: Arc genetics...?
Robyn: It's obvious, Terra is the birth mother! Yet he looks like you!
Jaune: Most babies look the same, it doesn't mean he looks like me?!
Winter: Are you really Adrian's uncle, or are you his father?!
Jaune: I am his uncle!
Robyn: Did you fuck your sister-in-law?!
Jaune: I did not?!
Winter: It's fucking RED!
During the shouting match, Robyn had grabbed Jaune's shoulder, and started shaking him, involuntarily activating her semblance on him in the process. Jaune looked at the emanating red glow from Robyn's hands before looking at the pair of women looking at, Jaune demanding an answer with murderous intent if he refused to answer.
Jaune: O-O-Okay! I am Adrian's biological father! Saphron, and Terra wanted to have a child, and they wanted them to be an Arc, so they asked me to be the donner.
Winter: Why did they ask you, why couldn't they ask someone else to be the donner.
Jaune: It's either me, or my dad. Which would you prefer, Winter; your dad, or your brother to be the sperm donner?
Winter: ...
Winter: I find that question revolting… But, if I had to choose, I’d choose my younger brother...
Jaune: And, that's why they asked me.
Robyn: So you went to a clinic, and donated your sperm, and they artificially inseminated your sister-in-law?
Jaune: That... That was the plan... Terra had other ideas...
Robyn: Other ideas...?
Jaune: ...
Jaune: I slept with her...
Robyn: You really did fuck your sister-in-law?!
Jaune: Hey, it's what we agreed to! They wanted a child, and they wanted me to be the donner! So yes, I slept with my sister-in-law, but she got the child she wanted, and everyone was happy!
Robyn: Then what, you dip out and never have a part of your child's life?
Jaune: If you're thinking that I'd go out for milk, and never return, then you'd be sorely mistaken. I am a part of my son's life, I am just not that involved with him. If he ever wants to learn about his father, we will tell him the truth; That I am his biological father.
Winter: And, that's the end of it with you, and your ‘nephew,’ right…?
Jaune: ...
Winter: That's the end of it with you, and your ‘nephew,’ right?
Jaune: Haa... Three months ago, back when I was staying with them in Argus... I was in a more... darker place... A more... suicidal place...
Robyn: S-Suicidal?
Winter: Jaune lost a lot of people when Beacon fell. He also lost the only person he could ever consider his friend... Jaune was thinking about taking his life... more in a sense of a heroic self sacrifice... but suicide nonetheless. He hasn't had such a mindset as of late though.
Robyn: Are you sure about that? The way he went after that scorpion fellow says otherwise.
Winter: That monster needed to be taken out with extreme prejudice. While I agree, Jaune's method was rather risky, it nonetheless eliminated a severe threat, and saved your life in the process.
Robyn: I understand... But still, don't go around risking your life like that!
Robyn poked Jaune in his chest, even if she was poking his armour, it did feel like he was forcing her fingernail to stab him.
Jaune: Don't worry, I'm doing a lot better since then, especially since you two came into my life. I feel happy just knowing that I have a pair of women such as yourselves in my life. But, there was also Terra's threat... that helped in another way. But, it was mostly thanks to you two.
The pair were blushing faintly as Jaune was sweet talking them into a blushing mess again just by being so nice to them. However, there was something they needed to be asked.
Winter: What threat are you talking about?
Jaune: Well, you see... the original plan was to never talk about who Adrian's father was. But, Terra threatened me that she would tell Adrian when he was older who his father was, and she wanted me to be alive so he would know. That was the first part of the threat...
Winter: First part.
Jaune: It was meant to be a secret between the two of us... But, Terra told Saphron that I was Adrian's father. Saphron wasn't as surprised, or as angry as I thought she would be. She had already expected that we wouldn't go to a sperm bank, she wasn't angry about that at all. Nor was she angry that... Terra wanted another kid... And, well... last i heard, Terra's about three months pregnant...
Winter: T-Three months pregnant?!
Robyn: You did it again?!
Jaune: It was all consensual!
Winter: But, you slept with your sister-in-law!
Robyn: And, impregnated her!
RW: Again!
Jaune: Yes, I impregnated my sister-in-law, twice! We've already established that already! Why are you freaking out about that so much?!
Winter: Cause, I wanted to have your child first...
Jaune: I uhh... what?
Robyn: I was going to have his first kid, not you, you bitch!
Winter: You want to go there, you whore?!
Robyn: Bring it you cunt!
Jaune: Excuse me?! You were interrogating me about my son, and now you're arguing about who should have had my first kid? Where the hell is all of this coming from?!
Winter: Ahh...?!
Robyn: Uhh...?!
Winter: Baby fever...?
Jaune: Why is that question?
Robyn: Yeah, baby fever... we saw the photo of your adorable son...
Winter: Absolutely adorable~!
Robyn: And, now we want your kids.
Winter: I want at least three.
Robyn: Ha! I'll go for four!
Winter: Five...
Robyn: Six...
Jaune: ...Jaune: I love you, Adrian, but gods dammit, why do you gotta do your father dirty like this?
Something that I have subconsciously known for a while, but that only just now fully occurred to me:
The Ace Ops all have versatile semblances that are hugely useful in combat, but also that you can find easy enough workarounds for. In contrast, we have another group of characters from Atlas whose semblances aren’t really for combat, but that would make them very useful as “Ironwood’s personal attack dogs” (as someone once called the Ace Ops). A group basically built for Black Ops, who chose community service instead.
Robyn Hill and her Happy Huntresses.
The Happy Huntresses all have abilities that would be invaluable to the Atlas Military, specifically. It makes the fact that they no-selled that Special Operative commission all the more interesting, and frankly speaks to great strength of character from the Happy Huntresses.
We don't know Joanna's semblance, or much else about her, so I cannot yet give her a full paragraph. Sorry gang.
But look at Fiona Thyme!!! Mass compression, a pocket dimension that easily and comfortably stores multiple armed transports. The industrial military complex would’ve been slavering over the idea of free mass compression and infinite hidden resources. They canonically did!! Fiona's card in Amity Arena literally says that that Atlas collectively wishes she worked in the military or for the SDC, because she'd save them a ton on shipping costs.
(Which, y'know, is an incredibly reductive sentiment — Fiona spends at absolute minimum four years training as a Huntress, and they want to tell her to haul freight instead of doing the highly specialized job she's actually trained for. Jo mylordshesacactus had a post about this during volume 7 if I recall correctly, so I won’t go super in depth, but I did wanna mention it.)
But then again, Fiona is a Faunus. Atlas is extremely racist. Fiona definitely had ample opportunity to see that she would never truly be welcome, let alone respected, even if she joined the military. She just got there a bit sooner than Marrow, or else was more of a cynic than him about her chances of changing things while working inside the system.
But what about May Marigold?
Her semblance is built for military stealth and special ops missions — she can turn not just herself, but entire groups of people invisible. Seemingly the field from her semblance also muffles sound to an extent, so she’s really well-suited to sneaking around and spying on people. And her semblance is by contrast not a ton of help to her as a civilian Huntress, because it's only effective on people in the first place.
(Invisibility is not gonna hide you from the Grimm, at least not completely and not for very long. Grimm sense emotions, and that appears to be their primary method of tracking prey. We see that Ren's ability to mask emotions will save someone from a rampaging Grimm even when the monster is a scant few yards away from it’s target. Logically it follows that whether Grimm can see you doesn’t really matter so long as they can sense you. May’s semblance is no more helpful than hiding behind a wall when it comes to avoiding Grimm.)
And here's the thing: on the surface, May leaving Atlas could be seen as self-interest. Her family rejected her when she came out, she had nothing to stay for, she went to Mantle to spite them. That would mean it’d be even easier for her to have joined/stayed with the military, taken a well-paying job as an Ace Op and been comfortably set for life. But we know that May Marigold did not get to where she is because of any kind of self-interest.
"Mantle needed me. And to the Marigolds, that meant I wasn’t their son anymore. And I made sure everyone knew that I wasn’t their daughter.”
The order of events here is: 1. May decides to follow her conscience and serve the common people whom Atlas has always looked down on and exploited. 2. May officially severs ties with her family, who may have been shitty to her before that point, but hadn’t actually disowned her. 3. May comes out as a trans woman.
May Marigold left Atlas, solely because she was needed in Mantle. That she transitioned is a totally separate subject - May's VA has even said she imagines May didn't figure out that part of her identity until after she escaped Atlas's oppressive social climate.
And Robyn? Robyn Hill?
She is a literal human lie detector. Her belief in a need for truthful, honest communication between everyone, but especially those in power versus those they hold power over, is exactly what makes her a good leader. It’s such a big part of what made her the Hero of Mantle — no doubt she was exposing corruption as much or more as she fought Grimm.
But how easily and eagerly would the Atlas military have used and corrupted that semblance?
Robyn would make a fantastic interrogator. Atlas has always seen Mantle as untrustworthy, or at least undeserving of honesty, let alone kindness. Imagine how many times the principle of “innocent until proven guilty” could be broken if you got someone to hold a prisoner’s hand and question them, calling out even the tiniest lies, until they got frustrated and broke and admitted something, anything.
(Concerning thought which just occurred to me — would a person who got corrupted and exploited their semblance that once reflected their best qualities then have that semblance change drastically? Or can you betray your own values and keep your semblance as-is? Hmm. May use Cinder or Neo or even Emerald as potential case studies for this. But later.)
Robyn’s semblance could so easily be corrupted and used against the common people. Subsequently, James and the military probably tried so fucking hard to recruit her.
And she no-selled it. The Happy Huntresses all did.
Including Joanna, who tragically we still do not know enough about for me to confidently analyze what she gave up and why, but like…she’s not one of Mantle’s heroes for nothing.
Robyn Hill, Joanna Greenleaf, May Marigold and Fiona Thyme could’ve sold their souls for personal profit in Atlas. They chose not to.
No wonder Forrest put so much emphasis on the fact the Happy Huntresses could’ve done what was proper and profitable and easy, and instead spat in Atlas’s collective face to do what was right for Mantle.
Cramming two cities worth of refugees into an already populated city is doing wonders for Robyn’s stress levels
i appreciate the happy huntress polycule more on every rewatch of the atlas arc
The Happy Huntresses but not as you remember them. Sorry for avoiding Joanna’s face tattoos