#rwby x hikaru no go au

[lyriquette]

Old RWBY AU description for the Frosen Steel chat server - 12/16/2020

A Hikaru no Go-esque crossover. It's an AU about Go. Aha.

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lilac — 12/16/2020 6:46 PM

XD. So relevant stuff. I'll probably keep it to Go, because that's what I understand but I'll keep it super general so you can think of it as chess instead. 8D

So Penny is a very precise and orthodox player, almost mechanical in feel. Her plays aren't particularly exciting, but they're solid. She's weaker at the start of the game, but as the game progresses and the number of possible moves go down, she becomes mightier with every placed piece. Her endgame is nearly perfect, and she's won many a game from behind through her endgame alone. What's worse is that if you're behind by the end of midgame, you might as well resign cause you're not coming back.

Weiss on the other hand has a strong grasp of the global game state and is very strong at the beginning of the game and early mid-game. Her usual strat is to make the board state extremely complex and then use her superior ability to read the whole board to gain an unsurmountable advantage. Most of her opponents end up resigning when playing her. Because of that, she really just plays an average endgame compared to other pros, nothing spectacular.

Penny and Weiss are naturally rivals, and games go down to if Weiss can gain enough of an advantage to make an endgame meaningless.

lilac — 12/16/2020 11:06 PM

In any case, this is more of a weaker Grimm world. Ozpin and Salem are between plans, still plotting in the background to save/destroy humanity but it wouldn't affect their current generation or the generation past. Beacon ends up becoming two schools - one for Hunters and another more vocational - and Team STRQ ends up being reborn in the other. Part of it is because Qrow screwed up the registration; Raven nearly strangled him for that. And Taiyang and Summer hit it off with their love of the same board game. The game was also originally Mistrali to begin with, so Qrow and Raven knew how to play to, so they had their little group. And because of their dream to become pro, they eventually quit Beacon and joined the Atlas and Mistral circuit because of its greater coverage.

They did go professional for a little bit until a series of tragedies happen. One was that Raven left after having Yang during the middle of their careers ; no one even knew she had a Semblance.

Tai actually hits Grandmaster status at his age but then gets falsely accused of cheating by one of the four others, Jacques Schnee, and is banished from the pro world in disgrace. Qrow had to go on the run because he slogged Jacques in the face after he went all "Even if I falsely accused your friend, what do you think you can do to me here?"

Tai and Summer do eventually get together when they come back to Patch. Summer remains a pro because Tai not wanting her to drop what she loves. At home, he teaches Ruby the game that he adores - Yang didn't want to pick it up, liked more athletic endeavors - and between teaching Yang martial arts, taught Ruby how to play.

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lilac — 12/16/2020 11:23 PM

Summer also teaches Ruby. During the interim, Summer eventually hits grandmaster status and is invited to Atlas for the Schnee Cup. After telling her husband she'll be back soon, Summer gets on a plane to Atlas.

The fatal crash is announced the next day.

That destroys Tai. The game's taken away everything that's good from him, and he stops playing for good except he didn't expect his youngest daughter to be so persistent on learning how to play. Because Ruby always associated it with time with her dad and mom. But as Ruby gets older and realizes the game causes her father a lot of grief, she stops requesting to play and just learns on her own - delves into records and records of recorded games. The only person she really plays with is her Uncle Qrow, mostly because no one her age played - and the game never really caught on in Vale.

Problem is Uncle Qrow - even her family - would always beat her. No matter what she did. She definitely got better and better as her opponents - her family - decided to get rid of more and more handicaps (adding extra pieces on her side of the board for Go, and let's say removing pieces from their side on board like a Queen for Chess) before she began to play even. Never does she know that her family are actually professionals at the game - Taiyang never talks about his professional days as the game is intrinsically linked with Summer's death. Qrow does mention he once was an amazing professional player but he also bragged about how he once punched Jacuqes Schnee, head of the Schnee Dust Company, in the face and got away with it, so he's not quite the most reliable source.

So Ruby never really learns about how good she is at the game until one day Atlas and Mistral decided to host a tournament in Vale both to raise awareness for the game and publicity for grandmaster Schnee's to retain one of the five titleholder positions for the game. Naturally, Penny and Weiss are there.

lilac — 12/16/2020 11:46 PM---

Yang takes Ruby there by motorcycle and tells her that she'll pick her up when the event is done. Ruby goes into the event amazed by all the people playing and learning and teaching. Some people are even selling books and even holding contests to earn prizes.

Ruby picks up one of the puzzles (in Go, it's a "make white / black live in two moves", in chess it'd be "mate in x") and solves it easily and continues to solve them until she finishes off the hardest problem that's offered in front of the receptionist. The receptionist immediately accuses the girl of cheating because the last puzzle would require a low-level professional to beat. Naturally, having heard bits of her dad's history from her uncle (about how he got screwed over in the past by someone falsely accusing him), she gets ticked off and immediately starts arguing.

This catches the eye of one of the organizers which happens to be Weiss, who mediates but still naturally takes her people's side. But she tells Ruby that if she plays well enough against her, she'll let her keep the book. Ruby agrees readily enough while Weiss places down the board and offers a handicap since beating up on the obvious amateur is rather gauche.

Ruby refuses, thinking that this is just someone slightly older than me, how good can she be. And they start to play. Weiss plays more standardly, not with her usual pace of kill the opponent before the endgame just to keep it even with the newcomer, and Ruby capitalizes on that ruthlessly.

They're even by the beginning's end, but it's the middle of the game where Ruby starts to shine. Because places where Weiss thought were dead get reversed, because that is Ruby's specialty - finding a path to life when none are present. To play against someone stronger on a regular basis and not get crushed, it was necessary. Furthermore, because she never played against players on par or weaker than her, she's never really learned how to play using power.(edited)

lilac — 12/16/2020 11:57 PM-

So Ruby learned how to play devious traps instead. And having underestimated her and falling to an incredibly nasty trap that set her back severely, Weiss gets serious as they finish up the endgame. By the time the game finishes, Weiss is stunned upon realizing she lost by the slightest margin while Ruby picks up the book in triumph. As her loss sinks in, Ruby gets a phone call from Yang who tells her:

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"Dad and Uncle Qrow are pissed. They wants you to come back home right now."

"Why?"

"I told them where you were."

"And?"

"I don't get it either, but I'm turning the corner right now. Get out and hop on."

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Ruby takes her book as Weiss comes to, all the while saying "I'm strong, aren't I?" with a triumph giggle and running off. Weiss gets mad but then pales upon seeing who enters just as Ruby's exiting.

"Who let the riffra-"

Their eyes meet.

"You..."

"Have silver eyes..." was all Ruby heard before she hopped onto Yang's motorcycle. The motor drowned out everything else as her sister and she drove off.

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i have a beginning, i kinda have an end-game. just need the middle pfft. XD

[thefacelesswanderer]

21.

In honor of my amazing collab with @triwizard-tardis​,  Molten Magic, I have updated that insane ship list I posted a year or two ago..... It got REALLY long, sorry! 

21. Who do you ship? 

Harry Potter:

Draco/ Harry

Draco/ Hermione (very rarely, but occasionally there’s a REALLY well-written fic)

Draco/ Ginny

Harry/ Hermione

Harry/ Ginny

Ron/ Luna

Ron/ Hermione

Krum/ Oliver Wood

Seamus/ Dean

Neville/ Luna

Neville/ Hermione (Only seen it once or twice, but it worked for some reason)

Blaise/ Draco 

Draco/ Daphne Greengrass

Remus/ Sirius /James (Marauder era)

Remus/ Sirius (Marauder era and now)

James/ Sirius (Marauder era)

Remus/ Nymph

Blaise/ Pansy

James/ Lily (obvs)

Luna/ Ginny

Hermione/ Ginny

Fred/ George

Harry/ Draco/ Ron

Fred/ George/ Harry

Alice/ Frank Longbottom

Bellatrix/ Voldemort

Crossover with Harry Potter:

Harry/ Ed Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Harry/ WuFei Chang (Gundam Wing A/C)

Severus Snape/ Zechs Marquise (Gundam Wing A/C)

Harry/ Duo Maxwell (Gundam Wing A/C)

Hermione/  Duo Maxwell (Gundam Wing A/C)

Hermione/ WuFei Chang (Gundam Wing A/C)

Draco/ Duo Maxwell (Gundam Wing A/C)

Luna/ Stoll brothers (Percy Jackson)

Harry/ Edward Cullen (Twilight)

Draco/ Jacob (Twilight)

Hermione/ Prince Adam (Beauty and the Beast)

Ron/ Belle (Beauty and the Beast)

Gundam Wing A/C:

1x2x1 (Heero/ Duo)

3x4x3 (Trowa/ Quatre)

1x2x3 (Heero/ Duo/ Trowa)

3x2x3 (Trowa/ Duo)

2x5 (Duo/ WuFei)

5x6 (WuFei/ Zechs)

5x13 (WuFe/ Treize)

5x6x13 (WuFei/ Zechs/ Treize)

6x13 (Zechs/ Treize)

6x9 (Zechs/ Noine)

5xSally (WuFei/ Sally)

Dorothy/ Relena

1x2x3x4x5 (Heero/ Duo/ Trowa/ Quatre /WuFei) 

6x1 (Zechs/ Heero)

9xSally (Noine/ Sally) 

Fullmetal Alchemist:

Ed/ Winry

Ed/ Al (I’m shipping trash, I’m so sorry)

Roy/ Riza

Roy/ Ed

Ed/ Lust

Havoc/ Lust

Izumi/ Sid

Maes/ Gracia

Lin Yao/ Lan Fan

Al/ May Chang (panda midget princess)

Al/ Winry

Ed/ Rose

Ed/ Envy

Hoenheim/ Trisha

Ed/ Greedling (Greed and Lin once they’re combined)

Ed/ Lin

Crossover with Fullmetal Alchemist:

Ed/ WuFei (Gundam Wing A/C)

Avatar the Last Airbender:

Zuko/ Katara

Toph/ Aang

Suki/ Sokka

Sokka/ Yue

Mai/ Ty Lee

Pakku/ Gran Gran

Suki/ Katara

Azula/ that jackass from Ember Island (It’s Chen or something)

Azula/ Mai/ Ty Lee

Yue/ Jet

Azula/ Teo

Mai/ June

TyLee/ Haru

Marvel:

Steve/ Bucky

Steve/ Tony (bonus if Peter Parker is their kid)

Clint/ Natasha

Bruce/ Tony

Thor/ Jane

Loki/ Tony

Loki/ Thor

Sif/ Thor

Sif/ Jane

Darcy/ Maria Hill

Peggy/ Angie

Peggy/ Colleen

Steve/ Peggy

Tony/ Pepper

Peter/ Mary Jane

Peter/ Gwen Stacy

Peter/ Harry Osbourne

Steve/ Sam

DC:

Bruce/ Clark

Bruce/ Dick

Bruce/ Jason

Dick/ Wally

Dick/ Koriand'r (Starfire)

Dick/ Jason

Dick/ Damien

Dick/ Roy Harper

Dick/ Tim

Jason/ Tim

Jason/ Damien

Tim/ Kon-El

Cass/ Barbara

Cass/ Steph

Wally/ Artemis

Jaime/ Bart

Tim/ Kon/ Bart

Roy/ Jade (Chesire)

Roy/ Koriand'r/ Jason 

Dinah Lance/ Oliver Queen

Dick/ Kaldur'ahm

Clark/ Lois Lane

Garr/ Raven (Beast Boy)

Kaldur’ahm/ Tulla

Bart/ Secret

Jason/ Roy

M'Gann/ La'gaan

Roy/ Wally

Bart/ Clarion (ICE CREAM– this is for you daveyjacobskemp)

Cassie/ Cissie

Anita/ Slobo

Zatana/ Dick

Musicals:

Jack/ Davey (Newsies)

Jack/ Davey/ Katherine (Newsies)

Sarah/ Katherine (Newsies)

Sarah/ Hannah (Newsies)

Katherine/ Hannah (Newsies)

Specs/ Romeo (Newsies)

Specs/ Race (Newsies)

Spot/ Race (Newsies)

Raoul/ Christine (Phantom of the Opera)

Christine/ Meg Giry (Phantom of the Opera)

Fantine/ Jean Valjean (Les Mis)

Enjolras/ Grantaire     (Les Mis)

Marius/ Cosette (Les     Mis)

Cosette/ Eponine (Les     Mis)

Joly/ Musichetta/ Boussett (Les Mis)

Jean Valjean/ Javert (Les Mis)

Enjolras/ Courfeyrac (Les Mis)

Jehan/ Combeferre  (Les Mis)

Bahorel/ Feuilly (Les Mis)

Fairy Tail:

Natsu/ Lucy

Gray/ Juvia

Erza/ Jellal

Gajeel/ Levi

Evergreen/ Elfman

Natsu/ Lisanna

Freid/ Evergreen

Freid/ Mirajane

Mirajane/ Reedus

Loki/ Lucy

Loki/ Aries

Bisca/ Alzack

Hetalia:

Austria/ Hungary

Austria/ Switzerland

Belarus/ Russia

Denmark/ Norway

France/ England

Germany/ Italy

Hong Kong/ Iceland

Poland/ Lithuania

Prussia/ Austria

Prussia/ Hungary

Prussia/ Canada

Russia/ China

Russia/ America

America/ Belarus

Sweden/ Finland

Asian orgy

Nordic orgy

France/ England/ America/ Canada

Spain/ Romano

ENGLAND/ AMERICA

Taiwan/ Japan

Rome/ Germania

Holy Roman Empire/ Italia

Switzerland/ Lichtenstein

France/ Scotland

Sealand/ Wy

World orgy

Lord of the Rings/ The Hobbit

Legolas/ Gimli

Frodo/ Sam

Merry/ Pippin

Tauriel/ Kili

Thorin/ Bilbo

Galadriel/ Gandalf

Galadriel/ Elrond

Aragorn/ Legolas

Aragorn/ Arwen

Merlin

Merlin/ Arthur

Arthur/ Gwen

Lancelot/ Gwen

Lancelot/ Gwaine

Gwaine/ Percival

Gwaine/ Elyan

Merlin/ Lancelot

Merlin/ Gwaine

Gwen/ Morgana

Morgana/ Mordred

Percy Jackson and the Olympians/ Heroes of Olympus:

Percy/ Annabeth

Jason/ Piper

Percy/ Nico

Jason/ Nico

Leo/ Calypso

Frank/ Hazel

Hannibal:

Hannibal/ Will (bonus if Abigail is their kid)

Jimmy Price/ Brian Zeller (Science Husbands)

Jack/ Bella aka the Crawfords

Rave Master:

Haru/ Elie

Musica/ Reina

Let/ Julia

Cattleya/ Shuda

Go/ Rosa

Range/ Sopra

Remi/ Musica

Musica/ Belnika

Sieg/ Elie

Jegan/ Janna 

Clea Maltese/ Alpine Spaniel

Rise of the Guardians/ How to Train Your Dragon/ Tangled/ Brave/ Frozen:

Jack/ Hiccup

Jack/ Merida

Jack/ Rapunzel

Jack/ Elsa

Hiccup/ Rapunzel

Star Wars:

Han/ Leia

Luke/ Mara Jade

Padme/ Anakin

Obi Wan/ Dorme

Robin Hood BBC:

Robin/ Marian

Much/ Eve

Will/ Djaq

Yu-Gi-Oh:

Yugi/ Yami

Bakura/ Ryo

Kaiba/ Jonouchi

Marik/ Malik

Yami/ Bakura

Bakura/ Marik

YuYu Hakusho:

Yusuke/ Keiko

Yusuke/ Kurama

Yusuke/ Botan

Yusuke/ Kurama/ Hiei

Kurama/ Hiei

Kuwabara/ Yukina

Genkai/ Younger Toguro

Shizuru/ Sakyo

Shinobu/ Itsuki

Mukuro/ Hiei

Miraculous Tales of Ladybug and Chat Noir:

Marinette/ Adrien

Nino/ Alya

Alix/ Kim/ Max

Chloe/ Nathaniel

Chloe/ Sabrina

Juleka/ Rose

Ivan/ Mylene

Check Please!

Bitty/ Jack 

Lardo/ Shitty 

Holster/ Ransom  (Bonus points if it’s the AU that must not be named)

Nursey/ Dex 

Nursey/ Dex/ Chowder 

Chowder/ Farmer 

Questionable Content

Bubbles/ Faye 

Martin/ Dora 

Martin/ Claire 

Faye/ Sven 

Momo/ May 

Tai/ Dora 

Dale/ Marigold 

Clinton/ Brun 

Wilde Life 

Oscar/ Lorelei

Oscar/ Sylvia 

Eliza/ Darcy 

Oscar/ Clifford (I’m trash, I’m well aware)

El Goonish Shive

Tedd/ Grace 

Elliot/ Ashley 

Nanase/ Ellen 

Elliot/ Sarah

Catalina/ Rhoda 

Disney/ Close to It:

Belle/ Adam (Beauty and the Beast)

LeFou/ Gaston (Beauty and the Beast) (Only really works if Gaston isn’t being a dick anymore)

Anya/ Dimitri (Anastasia)

Vlad/ Sophie (Anastasia)

Elsa/ Kristoff (Frozen)

Elsa/ Hans (Frozen)

Anna/ Kristoff (Frozen)

Ariel/ Eric (The Little Mermaid)

Cinderella/ Her Prince Charming (Cinderella) (Bonus points for genderbending)

Mulan/ Shang (Mulan) (Bonus points for transgender Mulan)

Rapunzel/ Flynn (Tangled)

Anime/ Manga:

Saitama/ Genos (One Punch Man)

Phoenix Wright/ Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney Phoenix Wright)

Victor/ Yuuri (Yuri on Ice)

Yurio/ Otabek (Yuri on Ice)

Yuuri/ Phichit (Yuri on Ice)

Todoroki/ Yaoyoruza (My Hero Academia)

Deku/ Uraraka (My Hero Academia)

Deku/ Bakugo (My Hero Academia)

Todoroki/ Deku (My Hero Academia)

Light/ L (Death Note)

Matt/ Mello (Death Note)

Dante/ Nero (Devil May Cry) (only cause of @triwizard-tardis)

Gon/ Killua (Hunter x Hunter)

Gon/ Kurapika (Hunter x Hunter)

Hisoka/ Leorio/ Gon (Hunter x Hunter) (Damn you amazing NSFW fanart)

Canary/ Killua (Hunter x Hunter)

InuYasha/ Kagome (InuYasha)

Miroku/ Sango (InuYasha)

Sesshomaru/ Rin (InuYasha) (aged up Rin)

Sesshomaru/ Kagome (InuYasha) (ONE good fic and fanart)

Tsuna/ Gokudera (Katekyo Hitman Reborn!)

Mukuro/ Chrome (Katekyo Hitman Reborn!)

Takeshi/ Gokudera (Katekyo Hitman Reborn!)

Tsuna/ Kyouko (Katekyo Hitman Reborn!)

Bulma/ Yamcha (Dragonball)

Bulma/ Vegeta (Dragonball Z and Z Kai)

Goku/ Krillin (Dragonball)

Goku/ Chichi (Dragonball)

Riku/ Sora (Kingdom Hearts)

Sora/ Kairi (Kingdom Hearts)

Axel/Roxas (Kingdom Hearts)

Ciel/Sebastian (Black Butler)

Ruby/Jaunne (RWBY)

Jaunne/ Pyrrha (RWBY)

Yang/Blake (RWBY)

Blake/ Weiss (RWBY)

Ruby/ Weiss (RWBY)

Ren/ Nora (RWBY)

Ozpin/ Glynda (RWBY)

Blake/ Sun (RWBY)

Soul/ Maka (Soul Eater)

Black Star/ Tsubaki (Soul Eater)

Death the Kid/ Patty/ Eliza (Soul Eater)

Stein/ Medusa (Soul Eater)

Maka/ Chrona (Soul Eater)

Stein/ Marie (Soul Eater)

Haruhi/ Tamaki (Ouran Highschool Host Club)

Tamaki/ Kyoya (Ouran Highschool Host Club)

Hikaru/ Kaoru (Ouran Highschool Host Club)

Mitsukuni/ Takashi (Ouran Highschool Host Club)

Haruhi/ Hikaru/ Kaoru (Ouran Highschool Host Club)

Ranma/ Akane (Ranma ½)

Mortal Instruments/ Infernal Devices

Clary/ Jace

Clary/ Simon

Simon/ Isabelle

Alec/Magnus

Jace/ Alec

Jocelyn/ Luke

Simon/ Maia

Tessa/ Will

Will/ Jem

Will/ Magnus

Sherlock BBC

Sherlock/ John

Sherlock/ Molly

Lestrade/ Mycroft

John/ Mary

Sherlock/ Irene

John/ Anthea

Mycroft/ Anthea

Teen Titans

Robin/ Starfire

Beast Boy/ Raven

Cyborg/ Bumblebee

Aqualad/ Terra

Beast Boy/ Terra

Twilight

Bella/ Edward

Alice/ Jasper

Rosalie/ Emmet

Carlisle/ Esme

Bella/ Jacob

Renesmee/ Jacob

Edward/ Jacob

Edward/ Bella/ Jacob

James/ Victoria

Quil/ Embry

Jacob/ Leah

Sam/ Emily