#jaune is a genius au

[howi99]

Penny: boyfriend Jaune, i couldn't help noticing that you were giving a lot of attention to repairing my feet. You even modified them to have toes that i didn't have before! Is it what people call a fetish?

Jaune: *spitting his drink* No! It's just that i found it weird that you didn't have any! I am NOT into feet!

Penny: *tilting her head* Is that so? I wouldn't have minded really. It's not that different from when i used my arm-

Jaune: *panicking* P-penny?! We aren't alone!

Weiss: *who was sitting next to him* Oh it's fine, i'd be thrilled to hear more.

Jaune: .... I would have expected that from Blake, but et tu, Weiss?

Weiss: I've been sleeping next to your room on one side and your sister's on the other. I don't know if it's an Arc thing but i could hear everything from both of your rooms!

Jaune: Oh god i'm so sorry i-

Weiss: I want in!

Jaune: ...sorry for my Valois, but excusé moi?

Weiss: *fidgeting* You both made me horny and...

Penny: If friend Weiss wanted to participate, she should have asked since the beginning! Jaune has always enough energy for more!

Jaune: Penny!?! *Turning to Weiss* Look, i am flattered that you think of me as handsome enough to want physical relationship with both my girlfriend and I, but-

Weiss: I've been regretting my decision in Beacon since a year ago and when i finally got the courage to tell you i wanted a relationship, you began dating Penny. Then not even a month later i could hear Penny's voice clearly attaining nirvana. I will NOT pass over the chance Penny just gave me!

Jaune: *sigh* Could we at least wait when we arrive in Atlas? I don't think the train tomorrow is a good place to have your first time.

Weiss: *blushing* W-why would you think it's my first time!?

Jaune: is it not? I just assumed you...

Weiss: *still red* It is, but keep your assumptions for yourself, Jaune!

#jaune arc #rwby #rwby au #jaune is a genius au #weiss shnee #penny polendina

[evenmorefatallyobsessed]

Aloe AU Concept

Julius Miles Arc was not a dull man, however he was known to make the occassional mistake. Deciding to follow the tradtions of his family in teaching their male heirs the way of the Birds & Bee... Was perhaps the biggest of said blunders.

In his defense it was how his father taught him, so yes, he would admit, after a spledid camping trip he may have brought his son to the redlight district of Mistral's lower ring.

He was not however about to risk his son's safety, no Jaune was to become a man, so he would become one in the greatest brothel he could find.

Lien was for once not a concern as he was willing to shell out as much as needed to make sure Jaune left the occassion filled with a new life experience and just as much pride.

The place was spledid, and the women exceptional, why, if he didn't have a wife was was almost constantly breaking his pelvis he might've been tempted.

And his boy had his pick of the lot of them, oh how the other men waiting to buy their own time one of said women. Having to wait till his son had made his choice, Julius having put down extra so Jaune could quite literally have his pick.

He would admit to being suprised... Afterall he did not think his son would pick the Receptionist... He didn't mean to sound rude but well... She did look rather worn-out and... 'Experienced' even compared to most courtesans.

His reason was that the woman Aloe, was 'very pretty' he'd admit her eyes were a darwing shade of burgendy, or would've been where they not so off puttingly dull and and her hair messy and unkempt as it was was a unique green...

Though the real reason was obvious as Jaune's eyes flickered between the Faunus woman's damaged but still pretty insteactoid wings and massive, swelling breast. One appealed to his innocent nature, the other to his developing masculine desires.

The Receptionist, surprisingly enough actually agreed, despite no longer working as a escort.

And it had been set, Jaune had left with her confused, flustered and embaressed, and come back a little more brave and proud of himself, a bit of confidence clear in his eyes and a pep in his step...

Is what should have occured...

No, no, no... Instead they could quite literally hear his son becoming a man. Aloe as it turned out had chosen a room without soundproofing, seemingly she was well known for her pranks and lack of shame.

He stood there, with the women and other customers... Listening, it should've been only a half hour at most... It had been several. And that wasn't even the worst of it.

It was not how the other men had gone from snickering at his son for his inexpereince to looking ashamed of themselves as they heard the woman two hours later actually moaning, yelling and even begging his son's name.

It hadn't been the way the women had approached him hoping to see if the dad was as good as his genius soin apparently. No... It was when Jaune spoke.

When his little, innocent, naive son told the woman she would be his wife. When he told her to have his children...

He knew then, he fucked up, because a Arc went back on their word, even in the heat of passion.

-0-0-0-

Jaune woke up as the bullhead finally landed, his head in his wives lap, Aloe, one a Mistralian prostitute, turned receptionist then turned mother of his son and daughter. Jaune got up stretching, ignoring the people looking at him, or to be more precise his wife. A mother Aloe might be, but reserved she was not. Wearing a eye catching and frankly slutty outfit.

On some level he knew it was bad, but hey, if she followed the norm they would've never met right... His dad would've never trained him, after he asked him to so he could protect his family. Jaune might've tried sneaking into Beacon frankly.

But now he didn't even need to do that, heck a part of him didn't even want to be a Huntsman, he had children to raise, and provide for. A wife to love, he'd be content living the life of a farmer, and Aloe could accept that, but... She'd made it clear that he shouldn't just settle for a average life.

So he was here, trying to live out his childhood dream, at the very least she was right if he could fight off Grimm better the family would be safer, and Anself could always use another huntsman...

Girls cooed and awe'd at his children, Teal and Jasmine were adorble after all, his son having a pair of antenna and just the prettiest blue eyes in the whole wide world. His toddler Faunus son was too much for the girls to endure the cuteness of.

His daughter though was off limits, little jasmine, four months old, and looking every bit like a little precious fairy plucked straight outta the fairytales. Some might have worried he would've dropped her while he sleep, but that was never gonna happen. Getting outta the bullhead he manged to catch a girl getting... Blown up.

He really couldn't help himself, handing Aloe Jasmine before he went off to check the occurance, finding a girl in the crater. And like that he made a new friend.

Later he met a icy bitch who made a comment on his wife being a Filthy Faunus Harlot! Oh Hell No was some freaking Schnee gonna talk shit about his family!

-0-0-0-

Aloe would've never considered something like this in the cards for her. Motherhood, happily married, a life with litte to no worries... But that's exactly was exactly the life she was living.

She owed Jaune, no her husband everything, she was under no delusions, wasn't obssessed with him... Well, unwarrentldly obssessed, no, Jaune Arc had earned he devotion.

She knew what she was, who she was, and where she came from, she, was a whore, born in the lowest cast in Mistral at the ditrest corners of it's city. A Faunus with a impossible to hide trait filled in a den of raciest. Her mom having died, maybe from a overdose, possibly by a scored customer or maybe even at the hand of her own pimp.

She didn't really remember, she was too little to really recall.

But it left her to raise herself, and in that sorta enviorment you could only really do one thing. So she did, she sold herself, and she sold herself well. moving up and outta the lowest ring to just a low one, choosing a brothel she could trust. Making a life for herself that didn't make her crave death like so many of the others in her line of work.

No, she simply didn't care about anything, about herself... About her waste of a life, she was as content as street trash could be. At least their had been moments of bliss, thankfully her pipe was her only drug, she wasn't into harder stuff like others had been.

She was... content to just die like that, not live, what she did was difently not living.

Not until that little boy on the cusp of manhood came into her life and picked her. It still brought a smile to her face, his cute flustered expression.

His innocents and affection.

He didn't see her for what she was, didn't see the worn-out, used-up animal whore her other customers had saw before she moved unto introducing the girls instead of serving herself up. He saw a pretty lady, to naive to see her for what she was, and that... that was enough for her to wanna play with him.

Only they didn't just play, Jaune had said some interesting things to her, not anything she hadn't heard before mind you. When you could change your body size to the point where you looked like a actual fairy guys tended to say a lot. Espeically when you could could become a vice tighter then any other. But Jaune was to honest to mean anything but exactly what he was saying.

And when his father explained their families motto... Well, she always did have a eye for good oppertunities, just a lack of chances to take any. And now she was happy, happier then she had any right to be. With a home, a future and family, she could be content with that.

With teasing, and being bred by her husband while the other men in the village looked at her with desire while she brutally and slying ruined their lives for it. But, Jaune deserved more, he'd stepped up at every corner and then some. Learned to farm, to fight from his dad and even learning how to lead the village for the eventual day he had to step up.

He even learned about Faunus rights, and the struggles her people went though... He actually knew more about her people and culture then she did now. The idea of his son and daughter living in a world where they could be discrimnated against seeming to infuriate him.

She, she loved him, not at first, but it had happened fast... So much so she wanted to give back. And this was how, by supporting the dream he never talked about, that she knew he'd be more then willing to throw away for his family.

And well that wasn't all... She was getting up their in years, she was closer to his moms age then his after all... And Mistral had plenty of different life styles then simple monogomy. If some of those sorry excuses for men could have a mistress or three why shouldn't Jaune. Ture, he would never cheat on her, but she had plans around that, Huntsman fought side by side, grew close as family.

If she worked her magic maybe she could make certain... Arrangements, and beside she already had candidate or two. The blonde with breast as big as her own who went all dowey eyed over her babies, her kid sister who he was fast friends with. The 'Secretly' Faunus who looked at her and Jaune warmly as he lovingly cared for his Faunus kid. Not to even mention the spartan and literal bunnygirl

Heck maybe she was reading to much into it but even the Schnee seemed to be a bit to intense with Jaune when they argued. Maybe she could get her dear husband a personal, private and exclusive brothel of his own. Filled with girls who'd just love to be his personal whores.

#jaune arc #aloe #au concept

[epic-arc]

Dark Au

After having analyzed the post of @howlingday It opened up a lot of possibilities for the future of au so I'm going to put the three categories in this post.

Domain Expansion: Written Trauma

Events: Well, let's think about something folks, in volume 2, I think it's shown that in Beacon/Vale there are communications towers that Weiss can access to look into the family company's files. Now tell me where Ozpin or Glynda wouldn't have the power to simply interrupt a program or something like that, why bring this option to give two scenarios that we can go to.

Scene 1- If ozpin or glynda were able to prevent that interview from being broadcast throughout the kingdoms, they would have material that could be used to arrest her for helping one of the biggest criminals in the kingdom, however, during volume 3, cinder could use this interview as another trick up his sleeve to cause chaos.

Scene 2- Well, if the interview takes place and spread across all kingdoms, It would be a case like Spider-Man far from home, Where you would see people calling Jaune a crow for being hidden and others calling him a genius or something like that, Well, he cheated to enters the beacon and hid to survive, for the vision of those types of people in a vacuum he is just being the smartest.

Characters:

Both routes worsen Jaune's psychology, now he has anxiety and distrust in meeting anyone new, and if we go to the second route he may even give up on being a hunter

If we follow the second route, the beacon drop will happen sooner because of the interview, thus putting more anxiety on the entire ozpin group.

Psychological:

As I mentioned, Jaune's psychology deteriorated a lot and because of that he could end up isolating himself and even avoiding his family so as not to cause any type of problem for them.

#rwby #rwby au #dark au

[pilot-boi]

For Doctor Who Jaune, who do you think would be his companions?

6 Doctor Jaune already has Pyrrha, but who would the other Jaune's have

Well the thing about Doctor Jaune, is that he’s not actually the Doctor

Thank you for giving me an excuse to talk about this stupid AU I thought up on the back of a napkin

So Jaune is a Time Lord, but he’s not the Doctor. In fact, he’s significantly younger than the Doctor, since he was a baby during the Time War

In this, a number of Gallifreyan infants were sent from the planet to ensure that the species/culture would survive if the worst should happen. Jaune is one of those infants, and he crashed on Remnant in the Arcs backyard

So he’s not a traditional Time Lord in any sense

He can still regenerate (and he does several times, god bless him he tries), but he’s not a genius like the Doctor or Master, he’s not particularly skilled in diplomacy or warfare or anything like that. He’s just a kid with the weight of a slightly different legacy on his shoulders

So yes, Pyrrha is his companion, but only because she’s his partner at Beacon when he’s on his sixth regeneration. He doesn’t have “companions” in the traditional sense cause he’s not journeying any more than he does in canon

Of course, being able to die multiple times without REALLY dying (just a personality change) doesn’t do anything to help his self-sacrificial tendencies

#rwby #jaune arc #pyrrha nikos #mine #asks #anonymous #man out of time au

[novankenn]

"Jaune Gets a Gun AU - Day 2" Is this a Zombie - Mysteltainn

Jaune was openly sobbing as Pyrrha and Ruby continued to drag his limp form away from the booth. A booth that the two swore to kill with fire if it showed Jaune any more guns with Bunnies on them.

Ruby: Get it together, Jaune, they're just guns.

Ruby stopped dead in her tracks, releasing Jaune from her grip as she slapped both her hands over her mouth, in utter mortification over what she just said.

Pyrrha: (Struggling to keep hold of Jaune) Are you going to be okay, Ruby?

Ruby: (Sobbing & Sniffling) I didn't mean it...

Pyrrha: (Hissing) Jaune stop. Ruby is having a crisis.

Jaune instantly goes into big brother mode...

Jaune: Feeling better, Ruby?

Ruby: (Sniffles) Thank you.

Pyrrha: That's enough... Jaune.

????: Jaune is that you?

Jaune releases Ruby and whips around to be greeted by a smiling face he always dreaded seeing.

Jaune: Haruna?!? What are you doing here?

Haruna: I came to check up on my partner.

Ruby/Pyrrha: Partner???

Jaune: You're here because you want something. What is it?

Haruna: Well...

Screams drew the quartet's attention to their right...

Pyrrha/Ruby: Is that a BEAR!

Jaune: (Dead panning) A megalo... I assume you brought it?

Haruna: As if I would forget it. I am a genius Magical Garment Girl, what do you take me for?

Pyrrha/Ruby: Huh? Garment what now?

Jaune: (Sighs) Let's get this over with...

Haruna: Catch!

Ruby and Pyrrha watch as the girl named Haruna pulls a pink chainsaw from out of thin air and tosses it to Jaune, who catches it with absolute ease.

Jaune: (Closing his eyes) Nomobuyo, Oshi, Hashitawa, Dokeda, Gunmīcha, Dē Ribura

In a blaze of light and accompanied by some rather blush inducing sounds Jaune changes...

Ruby/Pyrrha: WHAT THE F...

Jaune: Swear Jar!

Haruna: Here it comes!

Onlookers watched as the bear like creature charges, while the cross-dressed blond stood his ground, revving the engine of his chainsaw. Just before the massive creature was able to grab hold of Jaune, he leapt into the air...

Ruby: (Whispering) I can see his panties...

Pyrrha: (Whispering & Panting) Glorious, isn't it?

Everyone expected the cross-dressed young man to crack the beast with his slipper clade foot, only to stare in utter shock as he instead proceeded to bisect it from the head down.

EVERYONE: THAT'S NOT A KICK!!!!

The body of the creature slowly melted away into a black mist, much like how a slain grimm would decompose. Jaune sighed and tossed the chainsaw back to Haruna.

Jaune: You know if you spent less time chasing after me, and more time finishing your detentions, you would get your powers back!

Haruna: But you're so CUTE in that outfit! I can't resist!

Pyrrha/Ruby: (Snarling) He's MINE bitch!

Jaune: Swear Jar!

Watching all the action, unseen by anyone else...

Emerald: (Speaking to herself) I wonder if he can wear that when he's my blond goddess?

Haruna: So, what are you doing here?

Jaune: Looking for a gun, to round out my kit.

Haruna: Why?

Jaune: What do you mean, why?

Haruna: You're a Magical Garment Girl... use your magic. You don't need one. You should remember this from school.

Jaune: Well, for your information, I'm not only a Magical Garment Girl.

Haruna: Really? So what else are you?

Jaune: A huntsman-in-training, and this...

Haruna: What is that? A blond bimbo?

Before anyone could react, Haruna was suddenly not there. Jaune shook his head and reverted to his normal body, and turns to face the still shocked and aroused Pyrrha and Ruby.

Jaune: Figures she would bail. I'm hungry. You guys want to hit the food court?

Ruby/Pyrrha: Magical Garment Girl?

Jaune: (Rubs the back of his neck) Ah, yeah... funny story...

Around a corner, away from Jaune, Ruby and Pyrrha... Haruna found herself tied up and looking into blazing red eyes...

Emerald: You insulted my future wife... Say you're sorry.

Haruna: (Whimpering) I'm sorry?

(Okay...so this will be the last time I do the coloured name thing. I don't know how you guys do it, but I just can't anymore. So yeah... Jaune is more powerful then he let's on... Magical Garment Girl & Twin-Tail Warrior.... is there anything else he's keeping secret? Will he EVER get a gun?)

#jaune arc #ruby rose #pyrrha nikos #rwby #is this a zombie #haruna #emerald sustrai #arkos #lancaster #topaz #jaune gets a gun au

[didyoutrydynamite]

If you still got spots left for Echo Squad:

Name:

Brandy "Brad" Buckworth

Appearance:

5'9" with a strong physique. She's looks somewhat typical Atlesian, having pale skin and light brown hair. She has worked hard to create a body representing functional strength rather than one that's aesthetically pleasing.

Weapon:

A rocket-assisted pickaxe that can shift into a flechette rounds firing shotgun. It's got the name Rougly Hewn.

Semblance:

Her semblance is named Quagmire. With it, she can let the surface she stands on take on quicksand-like properties. The radius is centered between the middle of her feet and can reach 30 feet. She herself is not affected by the quicksand.

About Brandy:

In terms of physical strength she can give Cardin a run for his money. She views strength as a hard earned but well deserved result of constant training. Elm Ederne is her role-model and she considers the Ace Operative a prime example of peak female form.

In her downtime she has turned a out to be a very prolific slashfic writer. She has made it no secret that her favourite subject is her own Echo Squad in various set-ups. What is a secret is that she has created something of a grey market where people trade and discuss numerous ships across Bulwark. Her most popular and highest earning works contain General Ironwood & Professor Branwen. Recently however she been seeing a good chunk of controversial discourse with the pairing of Cardin & Jaune. Message boards are filled with accusations of blasphemy and heresy, yet works centered on the two are selling like crazy.

Hope she can fit into your little AU. Any further traits of personality I'm fine with leaving it up to you. Besides what I laid out here she basically a blank slate for you to doodle with.

Brandy: *Doing one arm pull ups while reading Ninja's of Love in the other hand* This woman is a genius...

Cardin: BRRAAAAAADDDDD!!!

Brad: *Sighs* Here we go. *Drops down off the bar and saves her page*

Cardin: *Stomps up* What the fuck Brad! *shows various printed pages of Brandy's material* I told you to stop with this gross shit!

Brandy: *Scoffs* First of all it's not gross, it's passionate, something you could stand learn to have by the way. Secondly I did exactly as you said and not write about Wen and Will anymore.

Cardin: No, I told you to stop writing porn about people we personally know! And ESPECIALLY not porn of me and that goddamn twerp Jaune!

Brandy: ...You just can't handle the truth.

Cardin: *Sputters in anger* WHAT?!

Brandy: Don't you fucking deny it Cardin! The sexual tension between you two is so palpable you can cut it with a knife! Enemies to Lovers is one of the most intense love scenarios you can write!

Welcome Brandy Buckworth to JNRZ AU, one last spot open for Echo Squad!

#jnrz ask #cardin winchester #brandy buckworth #echo squad

[stevengrantshubby]

Hi! I really like the idea of bunny! Jause x marrow!

I just came from Dragynkeep and someone propoused bunny!jaune for a more faunus!au

hey! idk who dragynkeep is but everyone on the bunny!jaune train is a genius imo.

honestly, looking back i do wish we had more mains/important characters who were faunus. like i had thought that maybe ruby, nora, and mercury though thats just off the top of my head trying to think of characters that have been important overall in the previous volumes.

im not actually sure how it would work with all of them, but id be interesting (plus maybe integrate the faunus plot better).

but really! i just think bunny!jaune would be so cute and i think it would add some fun, cute, and even sexy dimensions to jaune/marrow.

#rwby #jaune arc #marrow amin #jaune x marrow #guard dogs rwby #guard dogs #marrow x jaune #answered

[hopefadesbutnotdies]

RWBY x Spider-Man au!

Ruby Rose was at one time a pretty typical girl in some ways. Just going through school and life trying to survive with some un-ordinary stigma of being a bit of a genius prodigy who skipped some grades and was thus shorter, weaker, younger and easily pushed around by her classmates.

Still it wasn't all bad. She had her uncle Qrow who for all his problems was good to her. Her best freinds fellow outcast Jaune and Weiss who she met through her part time job/internship at a local newspaper/website run by her father.

Then everything changed when one day on a class trip to a science laboratory Ruby was bitten by a mysterious spider and gained even more mysterious powers!

Soon enough she would become the Scarlet Spider!

Au Notes:

*Yes you heard that right. I felt like the scarlet spider name just fits Ruby better than any combination of Spider and girl or woman.

*Jaques IS the James Jonah Jameson of this au.

*Ruby is already naturally pretty heroic and pure and would definitely be the kind of kid who already read superhero comics soo yeah no Qrow dying Ben style for great power great responsibility.

*Speaking of Qrow he honestly fits a niche closer Aunt May ironically. Mostly cause I couldn't think of a good aunt May stand in.

#rwby au #spider man #ruby rose #weiss schnee #jaune arc #qrow branwen #spider man au

[howi99]

Jaune: ....

Ironwood: ....

Jaune: ... *Going to say something then stopping himself*

Ironwood: You... Experienced intimacy with Penny.... I... Wasn't even aware she was equipped with the necessary... Uh... *Cough*

Winter: *red* Mister Arc... We heard both of you from across the base.

Jaune: ...

Penny: *All smile* Jaune especially liked when i used my t-

Jaune: *panicking* PENNY!!

Penny: *questioning look* What? I was just going to say i used my tongue to-

Winter: *cutting her* We DON'T NEED this information. Miss Polendina, what happens in... As much private as the thin wall of your chamber can give should stay private.

Penny: *crossing her arm and murmuring* Well, your sister was interested in it.

Jaune: *completely red* I am so sorry! It won't happen again!

Winter: *trying very hard to not scream after hearing the last bit about her sister* Quite.

Ironwood: ... You may leave, but please; think about the people sleeping near you if anything like that were to happen again.

Jaune: Of course Sir- erh i mean General! Let's go Penny. *Both of them leave*

Winter: ... This intervention never happened.

Ironwood: Intervention? What are you talking about?

Winter: Good.

#jaune arc #james ironwood #winter schnee #rwby #rwby au #weiss schnee #jaune is a genius au #penny polendina #rwby shitpost #arculus rift

[madmanwonder]

Prompt: If they had a kid

Arctaker Au

First up: Jaune x Pandemonica

Name: Mason Arc the Half Fiedish Knight-Demon

Gender: Male

General Appearance: Taller than his mother but shorter than his father at 6’3 with a slim yet well-built and muscular with well-groomed whitish blonde hair.

Personality: Soft-spoken, calm, intelligent and sardonic

Special Talents: Mathematical Genius

Who they like better: His mother

Who they take after more: Little of both but leaned more to his mother

Personal Head canon: He inherited his mother nature of turning into a malicious sadist when he drink caffeine.

Face Claim: None

#rwby #jaune arc #helltaker #helltaker pandemonica #tired knight (jaune x pandemonica) #mason arc #if they had a kid meme #crossover au #crossover prompt #arctaker au #arctaker au prompt #shipping post #shipping prompt #rwby kids #helltaker kids

[xtruss]

Picasso Was a Genius—and a Beast. Can the Two Be Separated?

It’s the wrong question to ask, says “Monsters”, a provocative new book by Claire Dederer

— Culture | Back Story | April 5th, 2023

Portrait of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) as he smokes a cigarette, seated in front of several of his paintings, Paris, France, circa 1950. (Photo by Sanford Roth/Photo Researchers History/Getty Images)

Look closely at “Woman with a Yellow Necklace” (pictured below), a painting by Pablo Picasso of 1946. The woman is Françoise Gilot, his partner at the time. Notice, in particular, what appears to be a Marilyn-esque beauty spot on the figure’s left cheek. That mark is said to represent a cigarette burn, seared onto the sitter’s face during a row with the artist.

In his astonishing range and invention, Picasso—who died 50 years ago, on April 8th 1973—was among the 20th century’s greatest artists. He was also an abusive goat, with a nauseating fondness for much younger women (40 years younger in Ms Gilot’s case). “Once they were bled dry,” his granddaughter Marina wrote of his women, “he would dispose of them.” Two went on to kill themselves.

Picasso, Pablo. 1881? 1973.? Femme au collier jaune (Woman with Yellow Necklace)

In “Monsters”, her new book, Claire Dederer identifies Picasso as an archetypal modern genius: an artist whose vices have been seen as excusable by-products of his vatic talent. Only men, she notes, are ever granted this licentious dispensation. Her book asks how she and readers today should feel about luminaries who “did or said something awful, and made something great”.

Even those who try to duck this problem can’t. Even for listeners bent on separating art and artist, “Age Ain’t Nothing but a Number”, a hip-hop track, will be tarnished by knowing its provenance. (It was written by R. Kelly, a convicted sex abuser, and sung by Aaliyah, who became his “wife” at 15.) Conversely, even those repulsed by Wagner’s anti-Semitism may find themselves stirred by “Ride of the Valkyries”. Often publishers, film bosses and other gatekeepers tackle this quandary on punters’ behalves.

The trouble, for most people, is where to draw the line, or rather several. The variables involved are all slippery and subjective. One is the gravity of the artists’ sins, a judgment liable to change over time. The same goes for views on their stature. Time itself is a factor. Today’s scandals will one day be ancient history; long-gone victims can be less compelling than living, weeping ones. Abjuring masterpieces by dead artists—such as Picasso—can seem a punishment of yourself rather than of them.

Ms Dederer fantasises about a calculator that could weigh “the heinousness of the crime versus the greatness of the art”. In reality, she says, the dilemma is inevitable—and insoluble. Rewatching “Chinatown”, she cannot but remember the gruesome sex offence committed by its director, Roman Polanski. A disgraced biography, in her apt metaphor, is a stain that cannot be wished away. And in this social-media-saturated age—when “everything is everyone’s business”—there is a lot of biography about.

At the same time, you cannot switch off the love you feel for art made by reprobates. Your leg still jiggles to “I Want You Back”, despite what you know about Michael Jackson’s proclivities. For all the disputed allegations against Woody Allen—and his marriage to his ex-partner’s daughter—“Annie Hall” is still funny.

No one is entirely a monster, Ms Dederer says by way of mitigation, both for stained virtuosos and angst-ridden fans. There is a bit of monstrosity in everyone, she adds, especially artists, for whom bloody-minded selfishness is useful. But her main argument for reconciling yourself to the art/artist question is that it is the wrong one to ask.

What difference does it really make, she writes, if you deprive a wicked genius of your cash or attention? Her case is couched in anti-capitalism; she thinks celebrity is generated and monetised by the system, which, like the house in a casino, wins whatever you choose to consume. You can doubt that reasoning but buy her conclusion: that renouncing Picasso, say, “is essentially meaningless as an ethical gesture”.

Art is important. Calling out abusers is valid and important too. But in the end, Ms Dederer argues, dust-ups over cancellations are a kind of shadow boxing. The key fights are over broader issues in society, or over private relationships and behaviour. “The way you consume art doesn’t make you a bad person, or a good one,” she counsels. “You’ll have to find some other way to accomplish that.” In the narrow realm of culture, this is consoling: “You are off the hook.”

Many shows and events will mark the 50th anniversary of Picasso’s death. Attend one, and you will encounter his revelatory vision—and, indivisibly, his misogyny, which courses through his sexualised contortions of female bodies. And, like it or not, if you come across “Woman with a Yellow Necklace”, you will see the cigarette burn.

— This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline "Picasso’s Stain"

[pilot-boi]

Oh god pilot imagine the angst of combining any of your recent au’s. Yang learning her brother is in an abusive relationship with the cat. Her seeing him associate Jaune arc as a failure and coward. Or Jaune arc using the RK persona to escape the horrors associated with being with the cat… god the potentials.

AU combos are always the best. Angst squared

All of these combos would absolutely devastate me. Remy you’re a god damn genius

Let’s Ship of Theseus this boy. How many AUs do we have to mush together until he’s no longer recognizable as the same character

#rwby #jaune arc #remy steel official #mine #asks #catsvdogs #twins au #mirror man au

[howlingday]

tragic backstory (tm) au) cin cin needs help learning the rapier, or the small sword doesn't really matter it's just her class is doing a story about a masked hero and she wants to get the lead really bad. jaune's sorry to say that he doesn't know much beyond longsword from his own time as a practice partner, but maybe letting her train with weiss would help? i mean obviously real combat isn't a good match for stage but anything is better than nothing right?

meanwhile ren's thinking he might have to rethink the assassin theory, he doesn't think jaune's sister has it in her to even say a bad thing about jaune let alone kill him... so why is he training her in such things? and what sort of training lets her be that athletic and graceful! (ballerinas are jacked man! never even try to mess with one)

and weiss is struggling to not have a mental breakdown, the girl is a once in a generation genius when it comes to the small sword and rapier but everytime she thinks she's connecting with her newest student she huffs and clams up, she's not even hiding anything it's just that she seems to remember that she's supposed to be mad at them for some reason and then goes back to pouting! she can't imagine anyone being so stubborn even when they're wrong! (basically cin-cin is volume 1 weiss when she's mad and these people were mean to her big brother for a long time from what she heard!)

You Do It For Cin

Cinnamon Arc loves many thing. First, she loves her family, who was always there for her through everything. Second, she loves her friends, whom she shared many wonderful memories with. Third and finally, and possibly more than anything else, she loves the theater.

She loved dressing up, performing, and becoming something more than herself! She begged her parents to take her to every play they could. She would reference the greats wherever she could, and often disrupted class for the sake of the arts.

Ozpin: (Clack! Clack! Clack!) And you left your sister under the care of Ms. Schnee?

Jaune: (Clack! Clack! Clack!) Yeah, I trust her. Besides, she's the better swordswoman than I am.

Ozpin: (Clack! Clack! Clack!) Well, to be fair, of the two of you, she's the only swordswoman of the two of you.

Jaune: (Clack! Clack! Clack!) I can't argue with that.

Ozpin: (Clack! Clack! Clack!) A moment, Mr. Arc.

Jaune: (Stops) What's wrong?

Ozpin: Nothing. I just have a question for you.

Jaune: Oh, okay. What do you want to know?

Ozpin: Actually, that's exactly what my question was going to be.

Jaune: Huh?

Ozpin: I'm sure you have questions for me, so consider this your chance to learn what you can. Ask me any question.

Jaune: Uh, okay. Uh, how old are you?

Ozpin: Much, much older than you, or anyone you know.

Jaune: Really?

Ozpin: Indeed.

Jaune: Older than Professor Port?

Ozpin: Much older.

Jaune: Older than the Councilman.

Ozpin: Much, much older.

Jaune: What, are you, like, a hundred years old? (Thwack!) OW!

Ozpin: (Smiles) Much older.

Jaune: I feel like you're messing with me.

Ozpin: A little bit, yes.

Weiss: Now, just as I showed you...

Cin-Cin: I know what I'm doing.

Weiss: Yes, but your arm is too tense. You should try-

Cin-Cin: I have been doing this for years! I don't need you smothering me, hag!

Weiss: H-Hag?

Yang: (Sigh) Not again. (Picks up Weiss) Come on, Weiss, suck it up, you're not a hag. Just useless teenager.

Weiss: Useless?! I'll have you know, Xiao Long, that I have done nothing but excel since...

Yang: (Walks back) Yup, this is going to be a long day.

Nora: So she's not an assassin in training?

Ren: I'm starting to think no. She's attached to her brother, so when the time comes, she won't have it in her.

Blake: Not to mention, I can't imagine Jaune training an assassin.

Ruby: He was in the mob, wasn't he?

Nora: No, he made that up to hide the fact he learned it using the bones of his best friend rat while he was enslaved.

Ruby: (Sniffs) Poor ratty!

Pyrrha: I remember Jaune telling me she's a fan of performing Huntsman. He said she's attending Sanctum so she can learn to fight and perform in an arena.

Ruby: So she's going to Sanctum to be an actor?

Pyrrha: Not everyone who attends and graduates from a primary school go on to a Huntsman Academy. Sometimes, they'll go back to have regular jobs, using their experience to benefit the community without committing to the Huntsman lifestyle.

Nora: So Sanctum is just another step towards being an actor?

Pyrrha: Real combat isn't that different from stage combat, though there are key differences, such as developing a killing intent.

Nora: Killing intent? With her

Weiss: Now, one, two, three, tap. One, two, three, tap. One, two-

Cin-Cin: I'll kill you! (Weiss expertly deflects every strike) Die! Die! Die! (Huffs, Pants)

Weiss: ...Are you done, dear? Good! Now, as we were doing. One, two, three, tap.

Nora: Yeah, I could see it.

Jaune: Wow... So that's what Uncle Jim was like. I never got to meet him before he died, but he sounds really strong.

Ozpin: Indeed. Though, I wish he controlled his emotions better.

Jaune: (Chuckles) Yeah, he sounds like he was an emotional kind of guy.

Ozpin: Yes, the apple doesn't fall far, does it?

Jaune: Hey, I am not that emotional.

Ozpin: Mr. Arc, te only difference between yourself and your uncle was his voracious appetite for flesh.

Jaune: Hey, I eat a lot of meat, too!

Ozpin: (Leans forward, Gives a knowing look) Not what I'm talking about.

Jaune: (Blushing) Oh...

Ozpin: In fact, he was especially fond of one woman in particular. A miss-

Vernal: Raven! (Rips open tent) You're going to need to see this!

Raven: (Steps out, Walks with Vetnal) This better be good.

Vernal: It isn't, ma'am. It really isn't. We were watching the Luna tribe, when suddenly one of them started screaming, then the others! Next thing we knew, they were beating each other to death, then gutting themselves!

Raven: Did any of them escape?

Vernal: Yes, but they were moving south to other side of the camp. I think they were hiding from them and trying to get you to protect them.

Raven: Cowards and weaklings, all of- (Looks over the death and gore) I'll be back. (Flies up in her raven form, Flies back down shortly after) Mobilize the camp. We're going to Beacon.

Vernal: Of course, but may I ask why?

Raven: Because like it, or not, I need Ozpin.

#rwby #rwby au #tragic backstory (tm) au #ozpin #headmaster ozpin #professor ozpin #jaune arc #weiss schnee #cinnamon arc #yang xiao long #ruby rose #nora valkyrie #blake belladonna #lie ren #pyrrha nikos #vernal branwen #vernal #raven branwen

[smh0217]

Step-sibling Arkos/ Creepy Oscar AU

Pyrrha: Oscar I need to ask you something....

Oscar: Uh, sure Pyrrha.

Pyrrha: This is stupid, but let's say I hypothetically have romantic feelings​ for a fake brother-

Oscar: You mean Jaune.

Pyrrha: Yeah sure.... anyways, if I had acted on those feelings, would it be wrong?

Oscar: Pyrrha, why are you asking me about social protocall?

Pyrrha: Because there's no one I can trust but you and even if you talked everyone would just assume your being your usual creepy self and ignore you.

Oscar: Wow Pyrrha, that's cold-hearted manipulative genius!

Pyrrha: I’m sorry. I just really need to know.

Oscar: I see you in an all new light now.

Pyrrha: Is it wrong?

Oscar: Hey, can I have a lock of your hair?

Pyrrha: OSCAR ANSWER THE DAMN QUESTION!

Oscar: Geez! Okay! I don't think it’s wrong Pyrrha. He wasn’t your real family anyway, so even if you had incest banged him it would have been fine.

Pyrrha: IT’S NOT INCEST DAMN IT!

Oscar: I know, I know, I just prefer to think of it that way.

*Pyrrha gives Oscar a disapproving look*

Oscar: BITCH DON'T EVEN GIVE ME THAT LOOK YOU ALREADY KNEW WHAT YOU WERE GETTING YOURSELF INTO ASKING ME FOR ADVICE!

#RWBY #Jaune Arc #Pyrrha Nikos #Oscar Pine #RWBY Arkos #Jaune Arc x Pyrrha Nikos #Pyrrha Nikos x Jaune Arc #source: A Slap on Titan #incorrect rwby quotes

[arc-misadventures]

How do you think a dungeon master would be au, where jaune owns a dungeon and pyr is one of his most trusted subordinate demons?

The Unconquerable Dungeon

Jaune: I’m bored… being a Dungeon Master is so boring! I’ve made such a simple Dungeon it’s stupid! Why can’t anyone finish it?!

Pyrrha: I can think of a few reasons…

Jaune: So can I: No one can leg it down a straight hallway! It’s what, 100 m’s, isn’t that a sport for those silly humans?

Pyrrha: It is.

Jaune: Then why can anyone finish it?!

Pyrrha: Humans may compete in a 100 meter dash for sport. However, they do not do it under continuous volley fire from at least 2 dozen muskets.

Jaune: I need to contain a constant rate of fire, or else the line will crumble!

Pyrrha: Yes, and they must do this while running up to the gunners, with no cover?

Jaune: They need a clear line of fire, duh.

Pyrrha: And, a 6 pounder cannon waiting at the end of the hallway, isn’t a tad bit of an overkill?

Jaune: No one said is was going to be easy! Besides, so far only one person has even managed to complete the first floor! They gave up as soon as they saw the second floor! It was completely different from the last one!

Pyrrha: My lord, the second floor is twice as big, literally: 200 m’s instead of 100 m’s. Four dozen muskets and two cannons!

Jaune: And, they took one look and ran like a dog with their tail between their legs! Cowards! I didn’t even get to fire off one volley! At this rate the third floor, will never be used either!

Pyrrha: Jaune! The third level is just the first level, only this time, it’s three times as big?!

Jaune: So? Third level, three times as harder than the first, duh?!

Pyrrha: Perhaps, more people would be willing to enter your dungeon, if you lowered the difficulty…?

Jaune: And coddle those spineless cowards?! I think not! Besides I don’t need to do that to get people to enter my dungeon! All I need to do is one thing…

Pyrrha: That being?

~~~

Jaune: There, done!

Pyrrha: You renamed the dungeon…?

Jaune: Yes!

Pyrrha: My lord, renaming the dungeon to, The Unconquerable Dungeon, doesn’t mean people will come to it…

Jaune: Yes it will!

Pyrrha: And why is that, my lord?

Jaune: Because people will see the word, Unconquerable,’ and think, “Hey, if I conquer the, ‘Unconquerable Dungeon,’ I’ll become famous!” So they’ll challenge the dungeon and fail horribly!

Pyrrha: My lord, changing the name won’t…?!

Adventurer: ‘The Unconquerable Dungeon?’ Not when I’m done with it! I’ll become legendary with this achievement! Have at thee!

Pyrrha: Wha… What the fuck…?!

Jaune: Ha! And, you doubted my genius!

Pyrrha: Haa… Why do I still put up with all of this inane idiocy…? Oh, yeah, he damn good in the sack~!

Jaune: Wait… what?

#rwby #jaune arc #pyrrha nikos #pyrrha x jaune #jaune x pyrrha #rwby arkos

[razorblade180]

Actor AU 3

The previous one<-

Penny:*dancing on set*

Nora:Someone seems happy.

Penny:🎶First episode I don’t have to wear props! 🎶 This is so liberating!

Nora:You read the script right?

Penny:Just let me vibe!

xxxx

Neo:*hanging off ledge*

Cinder:.....Long live queen. *pushes her off*

Ruby:Yo! Let’s add a lion king character!

Director:No!

xxxx

Ironwood,Broadcasting:.....

Everyone:.....

Ironwood:*leans it closely* You have one hour...or I poison Gotham Harbor.

Yang:Pay up Weiss! I told you he’d say it!

Weiss:Damn it!

Ruby:*laughing hysterically.

xxxx

Adam:*sips tea* Now you’re probably wondering why I’m on set for V8 when I have not scene or relevance. The answer is simple.

Neo:*hits Yang of the edge*

Blake:Yaaaaang-

*faint laughing offset*

Blake.....*snickers* You asshole, I was in the zone!

Adam:I’m just adding to the tension!

Yang:*hanging from harness* You should’ve yelled “Lionized!!!!!”

Adam:Oh that would’ve been great!

Blake:You two are the worst!

xxxx

Right after Cinder stabs Penny

Jaune:Penny!!!! H-Hold on!

Penny:J-Jaune? I don’t...I don’t feel so g-good... hehe, this...*tearing up* this really hurts...

Jaune:*crying* Don’t speak! My semblance, I’ll...I

Penny:No...don’t. No time, but....there’s still something I need you t-to do. Cinder...can’t get the power and the relics. *reaches for blade*

Jaune:W-What?! No, I....I can’t-

Penny:It’s okay Jaune. *smiles* Everything is...gonna be okay.

Jaune:*raising bl-

Director:Cut!

Jaune:Huh?

Penny:Hmm? *sits up* Oh no, did I miss a line?

Director:*points to Cinder*

They turn to see Weiss comforting the the woman with a hug while trying not to laugh at the situation.

Penny:What happened!?

Weiss:She’s crying over the scene!

Penny:What!? *runs over*

Cinder:I am so sorry I ruined take! You were doing so well. Too well! Ugh, god damnit!

Penny:Awww you know I’m fine right? Come here! *hugs her*

Weiss:Cinder fall everyone, the biggest teddy bear around. *wipping eyes*

Jaune:You’re crying too!?

Weiss:I am the second biggest teddy bear around.

xxxx

Jaune:We have to go!!!

Winter:*points at Cinder*....Sleep with one eye open.

Director:Cut! Why!?

Cinder:Hahahaha!

Winter:I couldn’t help myself.

Director:Be angry!

Bloop!

Winter:*glares* The next time I see you I swear, I’ll have your head!

Director:Less angry!

Cinder:That one actually kinda scared me. Haha geez, Winter giving chills!

Bloop!

Winter:Can I curse?

Director:We’re already at the limit before we’d have change ratings.

Winter:Dang it! I just one F bomb!

Director:We’ll put it the gag reel.

Bloop!

Jaune:We need to go!

Winter: Tsk, *points sword* You are going to pay for everything you’ve done! So watch you fucking back...

Director:Happy?

Winter:*grinning* Yeah that felt great!

xxxxx

Bomb starts sliding slowly.

Qrow:*clenches Clover’s pin*

Bomb falls off plan set

.....

Vine and Elm:.....

Harriet:Well...boom! I guess!? For the love of- *face palms*

Qrow:....Uhhh I haha, I think hahaha- hahaha! Can we maybe tilt the plan a little less!? Oh boy! I guess someone should’ve grabbed that.

Harriet:You know what, can we keep this ending!?

Robyn: Rename the whole episode haha. “Adults watch bomb slowly fall”

Vine:Okay but I like how we’re all just waiting for it to stop, and then just tips right over! The moment it started moving I knew it was going way too fast!

Elm:Mission failed everyone. We’ll get em next time.

xxxxx

Interviewer:How do you think fans will react to this finale?

Penny:Well I can’t spoil anything for obvious reasons but I hope it resonates well. It’s fun having my character be around for a finale for once, and with so many other roles she doesn’t get interact with much. It’s been really fun.

Interviewer:Oh yeah? Who’s been best to work with?

Penny:Oooo that’s tough. My cousin, Nora, she’s been fun to interact with this volume. But uhhh I think I’ll give it to Jaune. We don’t have many scenes overall together but...it’s hard explain. I feel like between my character and his, there’s this kinda mutal headspace they have for their friends. If I had to pick a person I would say Jaune would have the ability to open up Penny in a way nobody else could.

Interviewing:Interesting, well I hope you both get more interactions and that this finale debuts well.

Penny:Thank you!

xxxxx

Winter:*dragging Ironwood off*

Emerald:....Wait, I know I do illusions, but how did the Ironwood not hear or feel the wind coming from an airship several feet away? I kicked up dirt and alerted Amber in volume 3.

Director:....Do we have time to rewri- no? Okay... just don’t think about it!

xxxxx

Nora:Someone cut the signal!

Watts: *playing Galaga* Hehehe all according to plan.

Neo:Change the tab! It’s- we see it in camera! Haha!

Watts:*strokes mustache* I know. That’s how genius I am. Cracking codes and high-scores! Muhahaha!

xxxx

Ruby:Fun fact, we have two Hound costumes. One where he’s mainly doglike and the other when he’s beating up people. But I you wonder who’s playing him under all that? *takes mask off*

Cardin:Sup.

Ruby:Forever a bully, even behind the set.

Cardin:Pfft am not.

Penny:You had a laugh tossing me!

Cardin:You don’t count, you’re family!

Penny:Ah!?

xxxxxx

Yang:*holding camera* Pssst!

Ren:*sipping coffee*???

Yang:Ready for our fight in the snow?

Ren:I can’t feel my toes! I’m gonna yell at you and then walk away.

Yang:I’ll mess up so we’ll stay here longer.

Ren:Yang! We can have a real fight in the snow right now!

Yang:Heheh, kidding. Mostly.

xxxxx

Ruby:Blake have you heard of Among Us?

Blake:Wh-what?

Ruby:Among Us. You gotta do tasks without an imposter killing you. I only bring it up because we’re rebooting the power. Someone always dies in electrical.

Blake:Ruby this is real life. Besides this way more Resident Evil, but with no- Tyrant!

Hound:*busts through window*

Ruby:Wny is it always electrical!!!?

xxxxx

Ironwood:*doing shirtless pull-ups*

Ozpin:He’s getting ready for his fight scenes. Trying to look winded but a little bulkier in the moment.

Winter:*watching Ironwood*

Ozpin:*snickering* Winter is trying to get into the mindset of having to a play a character who has to go against all that. The agony of fighting someone you looked at for so long.

Winter:You can call it like it is. I’m gawking a little.

Ozpin:She’s gawking a little.

xxxxx

Hazel:*grabs Salem*

Salem:*squeezing his biceps* Its like my entire torso. You eat a bear for breakfast?

Hazel:Oh my god.

Salem:You know this isn’t the worst way to go out. I had a good run. At least you hold me, unlike Ozma! Why didn’t you hold me like this!?

Hazel:You’re so ridiculous.

xxxxx

Set crew adjusting lighting in manor. All but one stays on.

Oscar and Penny:*waltzing underneath it*

Nora:...I like how on or off camera I personally lose the dating game while another redhead wins.

Ozpin:Which pair you talking about?

Nora:Huh?

Yang and Adam:*cracking jokes*

Nora:This is nonsense! Where’s Jaune!?

Weiss:Food run with Ruby.

Nora:Aaaaaggghhh!

#rwby #actor au #jaune arc #ruby rose #weiss schnee #yang xiao long #blake belladonna #lie ren #rwby volume 8 #qrow branwen #robyn hill #nora valkyrie #cinder fall #penny polendina #rwby au #neo politan #winter schnee #james ironwood #harriet bree #adam taurus