I, Jaune: Or, The Context-Insensitive Semblance [RWBY]

Volume 1, Chapter 1

Eric d'Orléans

[Purges Internally]
Summary: A petty, self-obsessed kid who is suspiciously similar to Jaune Arc finds out that he is Jaune Arc. Armed only with having watched two seasons of RWBY, a history of substance abuse, and a pathological phobia of carbohydrates, he and team B.A.S.S. (Blake, Arc, Schnee, & Shadow Person) must survive as the world’s least competent B-team. But don’t worry, he’s done this once before, and it’s only ended in tragedy once!


Edited by people who actually know RWBY inside and out.

Volume 1: DumB.A.S.S.
Chapter 1: KYS is not Text-Speech for “Kiss Your Soulmate”
“Ah, great. Where am I supposed to find another nice, quirky girl to talk to?”


— 1 —​

After the first time I defecated myself landing a fall that was apparently entirely survivable here, I found myself with the nickname “Bowel Blaster” and honestly considered killing myself. The problem is when I jumped I survived again with only a few nasty bruises to show for myself. I believe the new nickname was “Colon Cosmonaut,” but I had begun to ignore the street children by this point. I hated being bulled by tweenagers.

It was a moot point in any case. I only broke two ribs when I hit the ground in the Emerald Forest. You’d be amazed what a boy can survive here with a hastily improvised parachute made of duct tape, rain tarps, and a few guns you stole from some cute sophomore chick.

And hey, my skinny jeans were poop free!

Now if only I could get all this blood out of my eyes. If not for these heavy duty painkillers I’d taken in preparation before the launch, I’d probably be a in lot more pain. I’m sort of an expert at surviving things like these. Done it before, in fact.

Around the time I was trying to escape from under the gun-parachute, I realized the sniffing wasn’t from my possibly broken nose. Something big was outside there. I scrambled up, coughing a fit until I was standing in the naked sunshine.

I was there at the relic place with all the chess pieces. Parachute power, bi-yatch! Now, sure, the ramshackled ropes tied me up like the world’s least enthusiastic mummy, the parachute was tangled in the ruins’ pillars, and there was a giant black murder werewolf here to give me a prostate exam, but ⅔ ain’t bad.

We locked eyes.

“Sup?” I said.

“Top of the mornin’ to ya, laddie,” it roared back at me. At least I like to image it was a jaunty Irish greeting lost somewhere in translation and not a primal howl of Grimm hatred.

I was already ducking back under the canvas of the parachute and crawling for all I was worth.

Grimmbles the Wolf slashed the duct tape and rain tarp parachute canvas and got its claws stuck. It decide to just go direct and crawl under the tarps with me, twisting itself through all the pointless aborted rope knots I’d tried trying to make this abomination. All the while I struggled to get off my parachute back off my back oh god no, crawl around the stone pillar, blondie, crawl for you life!

Slashing, gnashing, grabbing, and biting, the werewolf crawled after me like a paraplegic with a blood vendetta against me. I threw the pack off just as the wolf snapped its huge mouth where I’d been a second ago. It bite the backpack and decided to just up and swallow it whole and smile toothily at me. Yeah, big man on campus, huh, Grimmbles?

I smiled back and tugged on one of the strings under the parachute. The roar of automatic fire exploded from above us. The werewolf had just enough time to look confused before the guns sent the chute speeding through the air, with the backpack lodged firmly its its stomach. It flailed in the air like some kind of living balloon animal.

Laughing, I stumbled to my feet and wiped more of the forehead blood from my eyes. “Ha! That’s what you get! The Colon Cosmonaut is the ultimate aeronautical engineer, bitch!” I cried out, shaking my fist at Grimmbles as I think it crashed through some girl.

Whatever. Jaune d’Arc don’t got him no time for protagonists. Not like I’d met anyone I could recognize since coming here. I am a lone wolf. The non-Grimm-flying kind, that is. One who at least pretended he followed the laws of physics, I’m saying.

I grabbed a black pawn from a stone pedestal. I even took a selfie with it. I was the first and the best at Beacon.

Of course, looking at the selfie, I realized I had a large gash over my gut from the Grimm’s claws. The only reason I wasn’t a gelding was because I’d had the foresight to add a jockstrap under my armor. Protect ya dick, guys.

Right now the grievous wound only hurt a little bit. Without my painkillers I’d probably be feeling like I’d won a season pass to Auschwitz.

I reached into my medkit and pulled out two tablets of what I thought was oxycodone. At least that’s the way the kid I’d bought them from described them to me. Then again, I was pretty sure this kid was trying to sell oregano, so it was miracle the painkillers worked at all. I downed them with a shot from a hip flask of whiskey I was keeping for just this reason. Hard not to die when you don’t have an aura, but, eh, a boy’s gotta make do.

I curled up into a very heroic ball and waited for one Hiro Protagonist to come upon me. Or whichever RWBY boob goblin I’d hit with the flying Grimm. Not like I remembered the order. Maybe it’d be Thirst Bait or the Self-Insert.

Every blink of the eye seemed to last longer and longer as the narcotics cozily clawed at my conscious.

Another blink. Longer. Longer. Dream drugs, eh? It’s was all… all…

When I opened my eyes this time and saw black, I lunged to safeguard my wallet. I rolled to the side, my chest wet with cooling blood.

I blinked the sleepy haze and saw a disapproving girl with black hair standing above me. I searched around and she was alone. Just me and the in the black bowtie.

I sniffled. “Sorry, Mittens. I, uh, I was raised in the Deep South. Just a reflex.”

She looked at me like, well, like I was me. “You’re bleeding, Jaune. Badly.”

“Yeah, I left my tampons at home,” I said with a sad shake of the head.

“You’re still bleeding, asshole. Which purse has the medical supplies?”

“The red one. Some of us actually have some taste, Mittens.” I flashed a smile. “The medkit’s in the fanny pack.”

Despite the face she made at me, she didn’t waste any time getting out the fanny pack and going for my antiseptic gauze.

I grunted slightly. “Thanks, Mittens.”

She pursed her lips and helped me wrapped my stomach up. “Stop calling me that.”

“Hey, where’s Thirst Bait?” I asked.

“I’m not going to reply to that.”

Damn, girl was already onto me. Like hell I could give up.

“Y’know, Tits-a-Flappin’,” I insisted with a vague gesture. My blood-soaked hand spattered drops of red all over the place. One landed on her cheek. “Pippen Longtitties. Ringing any bells, Mittens?”

“Yang?” she finally said in that ‘wow, I am so reserved’ voice of hers.

“Yeah, the the girl with the Ying-Yang Twins on her chest,” I said with a nod. “Whatever her name is.”

Her nose wrinkled. “You’re disgusting, Jaune.”

“And yet you still recognized her just from her bust,” I said, gesturing at her.

She very conspicuously did not answer that. Instead she tugged at the bandages. “There. You’re okay. Can you walk?”

“Only if my newest teammate in the nice stockings helps me back to a doctor,” I said with a smirk.

Mittens made an uncomfortable groaning noise in the back of her throat. You could tell she was weighing the worth of suicide versus spending the next fours years on a team with me. I think suicide was winning out.

It was a fantastic start to my career at Beacon.

I was going to need a good first day, too. After all, I’d accidentally read something on the wiki about Beacon blowing up in three semesters or something. Needed to do something about that. If only I’d finished watching season three.


a/n: Guess who’s back. I have so many regrets now that this exists.
 

Eric d'Orléans

[Purges Internally]
This will end in fire and tears.
This could only end wonderfully.
I see no possible way this goes wrong in any shape, way, or form.
As with anything I write, the real challenge will be starting with a goofy "wait wtf I wanna see more" opening and then sucker-punching the readers with actual heart and character growth. It's the fun part of this genre.

We need to address how anyone can be prejudiced against faunus when they are so adorable.
It's because the first one we ever met was worst girl.

But don't worry. Breaking canon means we can have alternative character development and make it even worse.
 

Eric d'Orléans

[Purges Internally]
What is semblance power of shadow person? Maybe he can pull some shadow justu like Shikamaru?:lol:
That shows up later. So far about 4 chapters of this are written. I wanted to have something done before even posting this to see if it was just a really trashy one-shot or a really trashy series. Shadow Person makes an appearance next chapter and Jaune basically ignores them because they're a shadow background character. Get a slightly larger roll chapter 3. Chapter 4 there's some team action.

eidt: I REWROTE IT ALL BEFORE RELEASING THOSE CHAPTERS THIS POST IS LIES
 
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Gemini Saga

Bakuretsu, Bakuhatsu, Explosion
I have created an account just to comment on this. For the first time in my life I have been compelled to do something like this. Maybe it's because I'm kind of drunk or it's because it's like three am and I'm dead tired. Maybe both.

Or just maybe that the sheer absurdity of this thing just made me have to comment on this.

In all honesty, this will probably be a smashing hit. I can't wait for more.
 

Eric d'Orléans

[Purges Internally]
I have created an account just to comment on this. For the first time in my life I have been compelled to do something like this. Maybe it's because I'm kind of drunk or it's because it's like three am and I'm dead tired. Maybe both.

Or just maybe that the sheer absurdity of this thing just made me have to comment on this.

In all honesty, this will probably be a smashing hit. I can't wait for more.
Everything about this comment fills me with a cold sense of horror and other warm confusing feelings a man ought never have. Now the fun part comes from keeping up the dragon's pace and trying to trick y'all into reading a tragedy.

*snip* also, when is greg coming back ?
Of course it's going to be a disaster. This is me. Most of the fun is being unable to close your eyes and look away.
As for your question, whenever I can square things over with an old editor who now hates me but who was instrumental in making Lisa come to life. So, until then... uh... Hey look at me playing Despacito on the world's smallest Alexa!

Imagine that, somebody who doesn't want their school to be blown up. Will wonders never cease.
I mean this is coming from a kid who in middle school once accidentally built a bomb and blew up the boy's bathroom in an ill-advised attempt to brew liquor during lunch. For the record I have zero regrets about it. Except that I didn't make any alcohol, I only made e-coli :(
 
As with anything I write, the real challenge will be starting with a goofy "wait wtf I wanna see more" opening and then sucker-punching the readers with actual heart and character growth. It's the fun part of this genre.
Even before I made an account here, I always loved your stories for exactly this reason. I really admire the work you do.

It's like somebody showing up to a gunfight with a butter knife. They are so woefully unprepared that it's hilarious, but at some point, you realize that you want the guy with the butter knife to win.

Actually, I need a better metaphor. Maybe the guy with the gun slowly switches to better guns over the course of the fight/story. Or it's a gunfight in a burning house, which the guy with the butter knife accidentally set on fire, which turns into a burning house in the middle of a hurricane. Probably both. And then halfway through the story, gun-man recruits his friends with rocket launchers, at least one of which used to be friends with butterknife man but now really hates his guts.

But despite it all, you're still rooting for him. "Go butterknife man, go!"
 

Eric d'Orléans

[Purges Internally]
Soon. Jaune needs to peer pressure Blake into helping him make low-carb snickerdoodles

Even before I made an account here, I always loved your stories for exactly this reason. I really admire the work you do.
Even tho I am, like, Effort-Shipost man, gonna stop right here and say this means a lot to me. It really does.Now onto our regular scheduled me.

It's like somebody showing up to a gunfight with a butter knife. They are so woefully unprepared that it's hilarious, but at some point, you realize that you want the guy with the butter knife to win.

Actually, I need a better metaphor. Maybe the guy with the gun slowly switches to better guns over the course of the fight/story. Or it's a gunfight in a burning house, which the guy with the butter knife accidentally set on fire, which turns into a burning house in the middle of a hurricane. Probably both. And then halfway through the story, gun-man recruits his friends with rocket launchers, at least one of which used to be friends with butterknife man but now really hates his guts.

But despite it all, you're still rooting for him. "Go butterknife man, go!"
What if instead of Butterknife man, it's Florida Man and he's bringing an alligator to a knife fight. But it's one of those smaller but feisty ones. It works for me since, in the words of one of my friends, I am Florida Man. Then you realize that in many ways Florida Man has the right idea somehow in wtf he's trying to, like so. At which point the fact that he's thrown an alligator through the Hardee's drive through window just seems like it was the right call at the time in hindsight.
 

SaitosaBard

The Crawling Chaos. On wheels.
Even before I made an account here, I always loved your stories for exactly this reason. I really admire the work you do.

It's like somebody showing up to a gunfight with a butter knife. They are so woefully unprepared that it's hilarious, but at some point, you realize that you want the guy with the butter knife to win.

Actually, I need a better metaphor. Maybe the guy with the gun slowly switches to better guns over the course of the fight/story. Or it's a gunfight in a burning house, which the guy with the butter knife accidentally set on fire, which turns into a burning house in the middle of a hurricane. Probably both. And then halfway through the story, gun-man recruits his friends with rocket launchers, at least one of which used to be friends with butterknife man but now really hates his guts.

But despite it all, you're still rooting for him. "Go butterknife man, go!"
I think I speak for all of us that this needs to be expanded into a full story. With movie adaptations. One book, three movies. Maybe a musical.

I mean this is coming from a kid who in middle school once accidentally built a bomb and blew up the boy's bathroom in an ill-advised attempt to brew liquor during lunch. For the record I have zero regrets about it. Except that I didn't make any alcohol, I only made e-coli :(
Sounds like a... vivid childhood.
 

WanderingReader

Generator of Half-Baked Ideas
Even before I made an account here, I always loved your stories for exactly this reason. I really admire the work you do.

It's like somebody showing up to a gunfight with a butter knife. They are so woefully unprepared that it's hilarious, but at some point, you realize that you want the guy with the butter knife to win.

Actually, I need a better metaphor. Maybe the guy with the gun slowly switches to better guns over the course of the fight/story. Or it's a gunfight in a burning house, which the guy with the butter knife accidentally set on fire, which turns into a burning house in the middle of a hurricane. Probably both. And then halfway through the story, gun-man recruits his friends with rocket launchers, at least one of which used to be friends with butterknife man but now really hates his guts.

But despite it all, you're still rooting for him. "Go butterknife man, go!"
Soon. Jaune needs to peer pressure Blake into helping him make low-carb snickerdoodles


Even tho I am, like, Effort-Shipost man, gonna stop right here and say this means a lot to me. It really does.Now onto our regular scheduled me.



What if instead of Butterknife man, it's Florida Man and he's bringing an alligator to a knife fight. But it's one of those smaller but feisty ones. It works for me since, in the words of one of my friends, I am Florida Man. Then you realize that in many ways Florida Man has the right idea somehow in wtf he's trying to, like so. At which point the fact that he's thrown an alligator through the Hardee's drive through window just seems like it was the right call at the time in hindsight.
...I think you two are starting to get a bit high on all the crack you're producing. That or it's just a standard case of SB madness in action. Maybe both.
 
We need to address how anyone can be prejudiced against faunus when they are so adorable.
Oh! That reminds me of a hilarious green text I read. About how the Schnee insist on using faunus labor because there so adorable and fluffy and they want to pet and cuddle them. Highlights include Blake going mad from angst deficiency, and Adam running away and embracing the edgy.

Enjoy:

 

Limbo

Daemon Prince, Esquire
So the plot train just derailed.

Anyways, it's good to see that the MC has embraced Slaanesh. We always welcome new blood (and other bodily fluids).
 

Eric d'Orléans

[Purges Internally]
I think I speak for all of us that this needs to be expanded into a full story. With movie adaptations. One book, three movies. Maybe a musical.
We must find the most powerful team of writers to put this together. A full SpaceBattles cast production, even! Danny Devito can play the role of Butterknife Man in the movie.

Sounds like a... vivid childhood.
You're telling me. But then again, normal people don't usually find themselves sticking around a place as nutty as SpaceBattles

...I think you two are starting to get a bit high on all the crack you're producing. That or it's just a standard case of SB madness in action. Maybe both.
This is decidedly normal here. Maybe you're the one who's not doing enough crack.

Man, if I, Jaune were a little more into actual crack, I'd totally try to canonize this. Sadly I must preserve my thin veneer of a cracky protagonist in an otherwise normal-ish world.

So the plot train just derailed.

Anyways, it's good to see that the MC has embraced Slaanesh. We always welcome new blood (and other bodily fluids).
Chugga chugga choo choo. Jaune is just holding the train engineer at sword-point and now this train's going to Miami.
Not entirely sure how he's embraced Slaanesh so much as he has embraced the god of "Overall poor choices"
 

TheOrange

Slightly-above Minimum-wage Newsprint Jockey
I'm not sure if I should be happy that you're writing again or mad that you aren't updating 'I, Greg' instead. Maybe that's just me reacting too quickly, this story looks great so far and perfectly follows up on the tone and jokes that I love.

But 'I, Greg' was one of my favorite fics- no, favorite stories of all time. And now that this is coming out, it just feels like a death knell for the story I loved.

(am I laying it on too thick? I think I might be laying it on too thick. I suspect as I continue to grow old I'm becoming more and more cynical and frustrated about reading fanfiction- not because I'm losing my love for the art, but because I know I'm never going to see a conclusion for 99% of this stuff.)
 
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