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Fixing RWBY, also known by the abbreviation FRWBY, is a fan-made webvideo series by Celtic Phoenix Productions on YouTube. As the title suggests, the videos have him air his grievances with the animated web series RWBY and outline his own version of the show's storyline and characters, volume by volume, intended to resolve many of the canon storyline's flaws and untapped potential.

As such, the series is essentially a Fix Fic without the actual fanfic. Instead, the fixing is done in a brainstorming format, with the new version of RWBY's plot being discussed in the form of a broader story outline. With the only real rule being that the general framework of the original series must stay in place, each video consisting of Celtic detailing the numerous changes he would make to the series lore, character arcs/backstories, and the execution of any major story beats he wishes to keep intact.

It's one of the most popular fan projects in the RWBY fandom, having accumulated a ton of fan art and fan animations by multiple artists. The later volume rewrite projects actively recruit these artists to make official Fixing RWBY illustrations and animations that feature in the videos.

Fixing RWBY can be seen using this playlist.

Spoilers for RWBY are untagged below. Read at your own risk.

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Fixing RWBY contains examples of:

• Adaptational Angst Upgrade:
  • In Fixing Volume 1, Team RWBY has a much harder time getting along with one another, as their more pronounced character flaws invite much more hostility and conflict. From Ruby's immaturity and lack of leadership skills, to Yang's concerning alcohol dependency and agitation towards her sister as a leader, to Weiss's openly brazen hostility towards her team, particularly towards Blake and the Faunus. It isn't until the Volume's finale that they were able resolve their issues and finally become a cohesive team. This eventually gets brought back hard in Fixing Volume 6, with the team having a lot more trouble picking up from where they left off, which is not helped by Blake's guilt at running away being even more pronounced and disruptive than in canon. Seeing Ruby work better as Team RNJR then with RWBY, alongside the tragic truth about the Silver Eyes causes a massive falling out between Blake, Yang, and Ruby. They're eventually able to rectify their differences and come together again by the end of the volume.
  • Nora, while still maintaining her bubbly and happy-go-lucky personality, harbors major self-worth issues that manifest into jealous anger towards Pyrrha for always stealing the spotlight from the team's accomplishments. This results in her grief over Pyrrha's death being more apparent than in canon, due to never getting to fully apologize for the horrible things she said to her. These issues also boil over in Fixing Volume 6, when they meet Pyrrha's parents and visit her room for the first time.
  • Arslan also gains self-worth issues due to constantly trying to prove her worth against Pyrrha Nikos to show that her status is the result of hard work rather than nepotism, as Fixing makes her the niece of Leonardo Lionheart. Cinder plays on these emotions, stroking Aslan's anger so that when she loses to Team JNPR, Arslan snaps and goes through a full-on emotional breakdown.
  • The Fall of Beacon, an already tragic event, in somehow a lot more heartwrenching and horrifying in a few ways:
    • Penny is infected with a virus that allows Cinder to control her like a puppet. Not only is it made clear that Penny is fully aware that she is being forced to attack Pyrrha but can do nothing about it, but that it is unlikely she can be fully rebuilt due to the chip that contains her memories and personality was heavily damaged in the battle. This is made even more tragic when she's revived in Fixing Volume 7, where's it's revealed that she lost most of, if not all of her memories at Beacon due to the loss of her memory drive.
    • Ciel is present when Penny dies and, due to them explicitly having a more established bond in Fixing RWBY, it provides much more of an emotional punch when she's shown tightly hugging Penny's severed head, apologizing for being a bad friend. Eventually, after finding Penny's broken memory card, she steels herself and vows to find a way to bring her back. This would be fulfilled in Volume 7, but due to that unresolved guilt festering, she's grown super overprotective of Penny after the tragedy, especially towards her interactions with Ruby. This boils over when Ruby is framed by Neo for opening the vault, with Ciel immediately attempting to turn Ruby in for betraying Penny's trust.
    • Several characters are left disfigured, paralyzed, or even dead in the aftermath of the Fall: Fox is gravely injured by Adam, Cardin is blinded in his left eye, Velvet's left ear is cut off, and Neptune is bound to a wheelchair from being impaled in the spinal cord by a rogue Paladin mech.
  • Roman Torchwick gets one by way of their backstory is that he is the Sole Survivor of the Apathy's attack on Brunswick Farms.
  • Vernal's death, thanks to her greater connection to the cast, affects several characters a lot more than it does in canon. Namely, Yang is hurt that she never got to know her other half-sister, Weiss is even more saddened upon realizing that Vernal earnestly viewed her as a friend, Raven's grief and attempts to obscure Vernal's death end up alienating her from her tribe, and Qrow even mentions her alongside Raven, Summer and Ozpin as the people he's lost throughout his life to Maria.
  • As revealed by Maria in Fixing Volume 6, The Silver Eyes induce Laser-Guided Amnesia in the user when used too much, a dark revelation in its own right that causes the teamwork issues above to hit a boiling point.
• Adaptational Backstory Change: Rather than joining Salem because he blames Ozpin for a Grimm killing his sister during a training accident gone wrong, Hazel's reasons for joining here are more him perceiving her as the lesser of two evils comparative to Ozma, since Hazel's brother Magnus was the previous host of his Resurrective Immortality and Merger of Souls, forcing Magnus to abandon his family while their younger relative Oscar was coughing sick.
• Adaptational Badass:
  • Changes to Fixing Volume 1 and 2 make the Creatures of Grimm a far more serious and dangerous threat, with Team RWBY and even experienced Huntsmen like Coco often struggling to defeat what the show often portrayed as mere mooks to be slaughtered.
  • Adam is made out to be far more menacing and dangerous than he ever was in canon, which is especially notable considering how scary he already was. From slaughtering experienced Atlesian soldiers with ease to keeping up with Qrow, Cardin, and Russel at the same time, to causing an avalanche with his Moonslice while falling, and overpowering Team RWBY in Argus while injured. A Team RWBY out of sync from being separated for so long, with a Ruby who just healed from a broken leg, but still.
  • The Atlesian military stationed in Argus, which was barely able to hurt a single Leviathan Grimm in canon, is shown to be far more of an effective force when push comes to shove. Disobeying Cordovin's cowardly orders to retreat, the military return to effectively mow down an entire horde of mermaid Grimm. However, this is also a case of it being Downplayed, considering that most of the mermaids were following the Relic that Team RWBY left with by the end of the volume.
• Adaptational Costume Change: Starting with Fixing Volume 4, almost all of the main cast were given costume changes due to Raymond believing the canon costumes are "only OK".
  • Ruby:
    • Ruby's Anima attire leans more towards her gothic lolita aesthetic. Alongside her iconic red cape, she wears a black, puffy sleeved dress with a short skirt that sports layers of black and red-ruffled fabric. Underneath her skirt are white knee-high socks and black boots with red tops, which are laced up the front. Finally, a leather belt holding a bandolier of ammo is cinched around her waist like a corset.
  • Weiss:
    • Weiss's Anima outfit consists of a strapless pale blue dress with a fitted bodice with a rose-like knot at the center of her chest. Alongside that is a blue choker with a red snowflake emblem and a dangling red teardrop jewel. Meanwhile, her pale blue skirt with two vertical red buttons that hold it together. Both her tights and arm sleeves is caught in light gray that fade smoothly from a darker gray near the bottom upward to pale near the top. Finally, she wears blue wedge-heeled ballet shoes.
    • During her time trapped in Atlas, Weiss was dressed in a floor-length light blue gown that was adorned with a white fur trim at the neckline and hem. A red bow accents her waist while she wears white opera-length gloves and a delicate necklace.
  • Blake:
    • When she fully accepts herself in Fixing Volume 5, Kali Belladonna gives her her old guardsmen uniform, which consists of a long black, gold-accented coat with gold and dark purple accents. Underneath is a white undershirt with a diamond window. Is also comes with a high collar, a gold and yellow belt and stylized plating on her shoulders and belt. Finally, she wears black pants with dark boots and gold accents at the toes.
  • Yang:
    • Yang's Anima outfit is a much more simplistic, militaristic version of her canon attire. It consists of a brown, buttoned-up leather jacket that reveals more of her orange tanktop then the original. She also sports black pants, tall tan lace-up boots, and a light purple cloth that's visible around her right ankle under the boot. Finally, she carries a yellow satchel which hangs from her left shoulder, holding three pockets for her ammo.
  • Jaune:
    • Jaune's Anima outfit acts as more of a mix between a knight and modern clothes. He wears a dark blue, jerkin-like garment with several small, dark buttons or buckles down the front. The sleeves are particularly noteworthy, as one sleeve is a full-on armored arm with gold tints, while the other is a black portion at the wrist that carries a sash, a tragic memento he keeps from Pyrrha’s unfortunate death. Finally, the lower half consists of his signature light blue cargo-style pants.
  • Ren:
    • Ren's Anima outfit consists of a sleeveless, deep green silky tunic that wraps over the lighter green inner garment. His arms sport black armguards that extend up to the mid-forearm, while on his waist is a dark green belt with a pink lotus symbol in the center, secured with two red straps. On the lower-half are pale green pants with darker green panels and layered straps buckle around the thighs. Finally, he has black boots with white soles underneath.
  • Nora:
    • Nora's Anima outfit has a sleeveless pink dress with a fitted bodice and black accents, including a dark undershirt with long sleeves ending just past the elbows. Alongside those is black sash tied at the waist, cinching the dress. Her skirt has two layered segments; the main pink fabric having two front slits with white detailing, while beneath that is a black underskirt to contrast the pink. Finally, she has light pink lace-up boots that reach mid-calf, having hearts decorated near her ankles.
  • Roman:
    • After Roman's revival from his canon death back at Fixing Volume 3, he began dressing up in a similar way to his new host, Ozpin. Firstly, he dons a dark green button-up vest worn over a fitted black shirt with short sleeves. Alongside those are thin black bracelets that decorate the left wrist, paired with a long, fingerless glove on the right. In the lower half are silm-fit black pants with a red scarf with white trim tucked into the back pocket and trailing down. Finally, he wears some black-and-white dress shoes to accentuate his flashy persona.
    • During Fixing Volume 6, Roman buys himself a new costume in Argus, wearing a signature white suit with green on his left arm. He also decides to wear that signature red scarf around him.
  • Neopolitan:
    • During her time at Argus in Fixing Volume 6, Neopolitan decides to change into a new white jacket that has a dark trim is over a black long-sleeved blouse adorned with a small red bow at the neck and a pink corset around her waist. In her lower half, she wears brown leggings with a pink frill falling at the back. Finally, and most importantly, she decided to keep Roman's bowler hat as a memento for when he was killed previously back in Fixing Volume 3, although Roman allowed her to keep it once he was revived.
  • Adam:
    • After his successful assasination of Sienna and subsequent rise to power in the White Fang, Adam dons a high-collared red coat with black linings and trims. This is detailed with black vine patterns on the front right quarter and a large wilting red rose emblem centered on the back, complemented by a back slit. Underneath, he wears a black vest over a red shirt. Finally, he he sports black dress pants and boots which also feature the signature red vine pattern, alongside his black gloves.
  • Penny:
    • After she was rebuilt into a new Penny 2.0, her outfit was given a more vintage element. She dons a white blouse with puffed sleeves and ruffled cuffs, a black pinafore-style dress featuring a green-trimmed, pleated skirt, and a black vest with golden buttons. Alongside that, she has a large yellow bow at the waist, alongside a matching collar and bow tie.
  • Winter:
    • Winter's new outfit sports a sleeveless white dress with subtle blue gradation at the hem, alongside a blue bolero-style jacket with a raised collar and puffed sleeves, finished off with navy blue cuffs that have a silver trim and red gem accent. Below her, she wraps a blue, corset-sttled belt around her waist, with a lavish pattern adjorning the front. Finally, she wears long pale blue boots with white frills at the top. However, the most striking feature of all is her flowing white cape with a contrasting red interior with a dark blue trim.
  • Ciel:
    • During Fixing Volume 7, Ciel dons a more military-esque getup. It features a cropped, dark teal blue jacket worn over a skin tight white shirt with gold trims on the sleeves and a unique circular accent near the collar. Alongside these are dark trousers that are tucked into large, white boots. Finally, she wears a dark belt with a pouch and gold buckle, her prominent silver wristwatch on her left hand.
  • Qrow:
    • After sobering up and finally taking his life back in Fixing Volume 7, he's changed into a more professional uniform. He wears a black, high-collared jacket with a plush white fur trim around the neck and silver/grey accents along the edges and cuffs. The jacket is open to reveal a red turtleneck sweater, which is accented with a cross wrapped around his necklace. A wide white belt cinches his waist, detailed with a distinctive silver buckle and two small white pouches. Finally, he adorns grey trousers that are tucked snuggly underneath dark leather boots.
  • Happy Huntresses:
    • Robyn Hill now dons a flowing green cape, a dark green Tyrolean cap, leather brown attire fitted over a white long-sleeved shirt, and green pants that slip into her boots.
    • Joanna Greenleaf is even more of an overhaul, with her color palette going from dark reds and browns to light blues, whites, and pinks. From newly added goggles, to a large light blue scarf, to white and pink layered clothing to protect her from the cold. Finally, colorful pink flowers adorn her hair.
• Adaptation Distillation:
  • While the character later appears in Fixing Volume 2, Yang takes up Sun's role in Volume 1, finding and assisting Blake against the White Fang at the end of the volume.
  • Blake's Menagerie arc is condensed into one storyline throughout Fixing RWBY Volume 4, cutting out a lot of the fluff, including the signature montage and the Sea Feilong fight. This gives Blake an entirely original arc following Fixing Volume 5.
  • Roman ends up being Ozpin's Reincarnation instead of Oscar. Oscar is later given a very small cameo during Ozma's backstory, seen coughing as Hazel shouts for the Ozpin-possessed Magnus Reinhart.
  • Melanie Malachite ends up taking the place of Neopolitan in canon as the revenge-driven woman who's recruited by Cinder to hunt down the protagonists. Where Neo wanted to kill Cinder and then later Ruby to avenge Roman's death, Melanie wants to kill Roman to avenge her twin Miltia, who died back at the Fall of Beacon.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: Lil' Miss Malachite is a natural blonde in RWBY, but in Fixing RWBY she has black hair with turquoise highlights, making her more similar to her daughters Melanie and Miltia.
• Adaptational Early Appearance:
  • Neopolitan, Tukson, and the entirety of Team CFVY debut in Volume 1 instead of Volume 2.
  • Ciel, Scarlet, and Sage are properly introduced in Volume 2 instead of Volume 3.
  • Not so much a character but rather a battle. The Belladonna assassination attempt becomes the climax for Blake's arc in Volume 4 instead of 5.
  • Clover fully meets and interacts with the heroes before he arrests them at the beginning of Volume 7.
• Adaptational Friendship:
  • Fixing Volume 2 alters the Breach train fight so that several of the White Fang mooks who Team RWBY has to fight through personally remember Blake from when she'd been part of the White Fang, and they express their feelings about her defection.
  • In stark contrast to Yang and Neo's canon portrayal where they remained bitter enemies after the Breach and Fall of Beacon; Fixing Volume 4, gives a post-Fall Yang and Neo an unexpected bond over their shared sense of loss, being cast adrift and having to find their ways again without their previous emotional supports (Blake and Roman respectively). In the next volume, Neo becomes Yang's "travel buddy", loyally accompanying her to Mistral to find Ruby.
• Adaptational Heroism:
  • Unlike their canon counterparts, both Torchwick and Neo become anti-heroes and permanent supporting characters after the fall of Beacon, mainly due to Torchwick being Ozpin's new host instead of Oscar, and due to Neo slipping into depression after Torchwick's supposed death and her bonding with Yang and Taiyang during the events of Fixing Volume 4 to get out of it.
  • Raven, though still not a good person, is a lot more well-intentioned than her canon counterpart. Whereas her canon self only cared about keeping her tribe alive and saving her skin when she sold Qrow, Yang, and their friends out to Salem's faction, this version only cooperated to unlock the Relic of Knowledge's vault so she could try to destroy it herself using her Maiden powers. When that fails, she attempts to bury it in what she thinks is a secure location where Salem and her Grimm could never find them.
• Adaptational Intelligence: Raven's plan for the Relic of Knowledge is given a lot more thought. Rather than being a short-sighted case of Didn't Think This Through as in canon, Raven has a more concrete objective beyond just protecting herself from danger. She first attempts to destroy the Relic using her Maiden powers. When she finds out that the Relic of Knowledge is Made of Indestructium, her Plan B was to relocate it and bury it hundreds of miles beneath the surface among ruins that ward away the Grimm, in the hopes of preventing Salem from ever finding it and ending the war between Ozpin and Salem for good.
• Adaptational Jerkass:
  • Pretty much all of Team RWBY gets this in Fixing Volume 1. Whereas in canon they all got along and the only (brief) issues were caused by Weiss, in Fixing Volume 1, they are at each other's throats the entire time, to the point that Ozpin has to intervene and assign Team CFVY to monitor them. They eventually grow out of that phase by the end of the volume. In particular, though:
    • Weiss's initial Fantastic Racism is turned up to the point where she believes Faunus are naturally subservient and inferior to humans, with the rant where she expresses these views infuriating the entire team. She is also much more incensed over her place on the team at first: actively defying Ruby's orders out of spite for not being made leader herself, always pushing the blame onto her teammates, refusing to interact with them unless she was required to, and even trying to transfer to another team.
  • While Nora is still just as sweet and bubbly as her original counterpart, she harbors intense jealousy towards Pyrrha because her popularity completely overshadows the rest of the team, which plays on her issues of self-worth. She straight-up tells Pyrrha that she must be addicted to the attention and thinks she's better than everyone, and lashes out at Jaune, saying that Pyrrha is the only reason why he's remotely as good as he is.
  • Team ABRN acts more vindictive and spiteful, with a special mention going to Arslan, who doesn't believe Ren, Nora, or Pyrrha are "true Mistralians" because of their backgrounds being different ethnic groups that were absorbed into Mistral.
  • Lionheart is shown be a more bitter and resentful person then in canon. Thanks to Ozpin forcing him to become the Headmaster of Mistral, he was given too much responisblity over a Kingdom that either hated him for being a Faunus or revered him as a savior, with nothing relieving him of this anguish. Thanks to that, he has less qualms over betraying Ozpin then he does in canon.
  • Councilman Sleet makes a joke of Atlas going to war with Menagerie despite Faunus being present in the meeting.
• Adaptational Sapience: Downplayed. Unlike in canon, Winter tells Weiss that their Summons are to some degree sentient, and that Weiss is probably having trouble using her Summoning Glyphs because her Summons themselves aren't yet convinced she's worthy to use them.
• Adaptation Name Change:
  • Though the spelling of SSSN remains the same, it's now pronounced "season" rather than "sun".
  • Bordering on Named by the Adaptation, Atlas' governing body in this version is called the Atlas Round Table instead of simply being called the Atlas Council.
  • In Volume 5, to downplay the blatantly obvious Punny Name, "Shay D. Mann" is changed to "Shiloh Mann".
  • In the same Volume, Vernal Branwen's real name is actually "Lily".
  • The Colossus is renamed the Crusader to fit the Theme Naming of Atlesian technology.
  • Rather than being called the Ace-Ops, Clover's elite Huntsmen squad is called Strike Team 32, further emphasizing Atlas's rigid structure.
• Adaptational Nice Guy:
  • Roman's bigotry towards the Faunus, though not completely adapted out, is much less prominent and more passive than his canon counterpart's, as he treats the White Fang mooks he's working with more respectfully. He's also given a couple of extra scenes in the Beacon-era volume rewrites before his revival and subsequent turn to the heroes' side where he shows more reservations about hurting teenagers and participating in Cinder's terrorist plans.
  • Rather than being portrayed as a Dirty Coward who left her inner circle out of selfishness and cowardice, Raven is shown to have become disillusioned with Ozpin after discovering that his conflict with Salem was a Forever War that only killed generations upon generations of good hunters and huntresses for a cause that they didn't know was pointless.
• Adaptational Origin Connection:
  • In canon, virtually nothing was known about the life of Ozpin's Beacon-era host before Ozpin's soul fully merged with his. In this version, it's eventually revealed that Ozpin's headmaster host was Magnus Reinart, Hazel's brother, which became the prime catalyst for Hazel switching to Salem's side against Ozpin. While this is a shock on its own, it's also shown that both were also related to Oscar (who isn't Ozpin's next host in this series).
  • Unlike in canon where there was no connection whatsoever between them, in this version, Roman's Start of Darkness is eventually revealed to be tied directly to the fall of Brunswick Farms (the Apathy-overrun settlement from Volume 6).
• Adaptational Personality Change: While Cordovin is still relatively the same personality-wise (she still boasts about the superiority of Atlas, isn't too fond of Faunus, and is very strict when it comes to following the rules), she isn't nearly as cartoonishly enthusiastic about how she expresses her views the way she did in canon, being much more stern and harsh when addressing Team RWBY. She's also much more amoral and rotten to the core than her canon counterpart, as she callously leaves the entire city of Argus to die to the Siren swarm while she flees with her men, stating that her loyalty is to Atlas and that Argus could "use a bit of thinning out.".
• Adaptational Sympathy:
  • Not that the canon version of his backstory was completely unsympathetic, but this version of Roman's backstory, which is explored in-depth after the Fall of Beacon in the lead-up to his turn to the main heroes' side being revealed, is a sad and brutal thing to watch.
  • In the canon, Lionheart is treated as a Dirty Coward who simply did not have the guts to face Salem directly and head-on. In this story, it is made clearer that the reason he betrayed the others is because he had hit a Despair Event Horizon, since being a half-Faunus makes it so that half of the kingdom hated him due to his nature, while the other half looked up to him as some sort of savior figure for the Faunus, so when he learned the truth about Ozma and Salem, it only made the pressure he had been under in his role as headmaster of Haven even greater.
  • Canon treated Adam like an unrepentant psychopathic monster who got what he deserved, going on to suggest that he might never have been a good person at all to begin with, and was tricking Blake into thinking he was something he was not. Meanwhile in this version, while he's still a psychotic, despotic, and bloodthirsty radical, he is presented as more of a tragedy who was forcibly molded into a monster as a result of the excessive institutional racism of Faunus that he endured at the hands of humanity, with his final defeat being more akin to putting down a rabid dog than standing up to an unrepentant and obsessive Psycho Ex-Boyfriend.
• Adaptational Ugliness: Salem, who already looked pretty eerie and inhuman in the show but was still somewhat beautiful, is significantly more horrific-looking in this version, with her being explicitly described as "emaciated".
• Adaptational Villainy:
  • In the canon series, the God of Darkness only destroyed humanity because they attacked him first with the intent to kill while the God of Light did not directly help in the extinction. In Fixing RWBY, the brothers both destroyed humanity out of outrage that their creations stopped worshiping them and took to worshiping Salem instead.
  • In this version, instead of not having a plan to defeat Salem, Ozpin has been intentionally keeping the Forever War between him and Salem going for thousands of years, all because he can't bring himself to kill the woman he once loved.
  • Cordovin started as an obstacle preventing Ruby and her friends from getting to Atlas, only to change her mind and let them leave when they stayed to stop the Leviathan. Here, she goes back on that promise and cares not one whit for the city of Argus as she is willing to let the Grimm destroy it while she and her forces high-tail it back to Atlas.
  • While not explicitly malicious, Robyn Hill is shown to have more of a grey side in Fixing RWBY, as its revealed that she had connections with Sienna and the White Fang. This would be exploited by Cinder to manipulate her into forming an alliance with her as a mole and provider for information. Sadly, this shady dealing would eventually catch up with her during the Solstice festival, as she would be assasinated by Tyrian live on stage.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • In canon, both Shay D. Mann and Vernal were just Raven's subordinates. In Fixing RWBY, Vernal (real name Lily) is Raven's biological daughter, with Shay (now named Shiloh) as her father and Raven's current lover.
  • Ozpin is more directly related to the death of Hazel's sibling, a brother named Magnus in this continuity, with said sibling being his previous host rather than just a student of his who was killed. In addition, Oscar is heavily implied to be his former host's son.
• Adaptation Species Change: Faunus are not considered a single species, but rather a blanket category for many different species.
• Adaptational Wimp: A lot of the more over-the-top feats accomplished by trainee Huntsmen in Volumes 1 and 2 are removed or downplayed which, combined with the Grimm's Adaptational Badass described above, means that the cast struggles a lot more against both Grimm and human enemies in general. For example, Coco in the original can mow down two Nevermores in seconds during the Breach, while in Fixing RWBY, she can only keep them at bay.
• Adapted Out:
  • As noted in the post-story commentary for Volume 4, Oscar was completely excised from the plot due to Celtic Phoenix believing that his only contributing factor to the story was having Ozpin still be around. He happily replaced him with Roman Torchwick as Ozpin's latest host. Eventually Subverted when he appeared in several flashbacks, implying he's now Hazel's nephew, and the son of Hazel's brother, Magnus, Ozpin's previous host.
  • The Huntsmen Dee and Dudley are cut out of the story, replaced by Cardin and Russel. Subverted later in Volume 6, when they appear as Atlesian soldiers under Cordovin.
  • The Leviathan Grimm is removed from Volume 6, replaced by a horde of lesser Grimm called Sirens.
  • The Ace Ops (except for Clover) are entirely absent from Volume 7, and their role in the narrative is taken up by Strike Team 32, consisting of Flynt Coal, Neon Katt, Ciel Soleil and Penny Polendina.
• Age Lift: Cinder is more clearly established as being older than most other characters, and so instead of being disguised as a regular student when she infiltrates Beacon, she's disguised as a teacher.
• Alternate Universe Fic: Fixing RWBY rewrites the source material from the ground up, with only the broad story beats kept intact.
• Anger Born of Worry: When Neo reunites with Roman in Volume 5, she tearfully rushes to hug him and pound his chest for letting her think he was dead for about a year.
• Angsty Surviving Twin: The first episode of Volume 5 reveals that Melanie Malachite has become this, having gone mad when her twin sister, Miltia, died at the Fall of Beacon. She starts hallucinating Miltia at all times now, addressing herself in the Royal "We", and seeks to kill Roman in revenge for his part in causing the Fall in the first place.
• Anti-Villain: Ozpin of all people turns out to be one, intentionally prolonging the conflict between himself and Salem into a millennia-spanning Forever War at the cost of thousands of lives, all because he can't bring himself to kill the woman he once loved.
• April Fools' Day: For April Fools 2024, he did a video where he attempted to rewrite Justice League × RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen only for it to go completely Off the Rails, such as Doctor Strange being behind it all, Cyborg secretly being a vampire, Batman actually The Grimm-mace, and so much more.
• Ascended Extra: Lots of them, directly addressing one of the most widely-held complaints against the canon show that side characters and settings don't get enough depth to justify their existence, contributing to RWBY's cast bloat.
  • Roman gets a little more screen time, especially in his flashbacks and reveal, before graduating to being a full-blown member of the main supporting cast in Volume 5.
  • Yang's friends from "The Shining Beacon" never get mentioned after that episode and have seemingly been forgotten about by the narrative. In Fixing RWBY however, they have actual character designs and have gained a bit of plot relevance in both 1 and 2.
  • Team CVFY has been especially expanded on, being introduced in Volume 1 and acting as mentors to guide members of Team RWBY to help with their problems, making them integral to the plot. They even gain a subplot in Volume 4 alongside Team CRDL where they attempt to retake Beacon after the Fall.
  • Neo becomes a recurring character from Volume 1 onward, getting involved in the dock fight alongside Roman. This gets especially apparent during the Anima Saga, where she sneaks into Taiyang's house in an attempt to assassinate Yang. This unexpectedly allows both Yang and Neo to connect over losing their way due to personal losses. Eventually, Neo fully warms up to Yang, pulling a Heel–Face Turn and joining the heroes' side against Salem alongside Roman.
  • Tukson of all people gets slightly more of a presence early on. He runs a miniature underground railroad operation for any White Fang deserters to leave safely. In. Volume 1, he takes in Blake when she is running away from Beacon, even offering her a job in his library to earn a steady payment. In Volume 2, he gets a scene helping Blake and Sun find out where the White Fang rally takes place, and has a lighthearted interaction with Sun. All this makes his murder by Mercury and Emerald's hands all the more tragic.
  • Cardin's role in the story has been vastly expanded upon, gaining a ton more character development and having plot relevance in almost every Fixing Volume (excluding Volume 5). He has an arc involving Velvet where he slowly grows past his Fantastic Racism and Jerkass tendencies, becoming a better person as a result by Volume 6.
  • The White Fang Lieutenant is upgraded from an Elite Mook to the main antagonist (alongside Roman) of Volume 2, with him being the one who ordered Tukson's death and the one to lead the train into Vale, causing the Breach.
  • Ciel becomes more of a recurring character in Volumes 2, 3, and 7, gaining a more developed relationship with Penny, even grieving over her death and vowing to find a way to fix her no matter what.
  • Melanie Malachite ends up more involved in the plot by taking Neo's original role as the post-Fall of Beacon revenge-driven woman who is recruited by Cinder in her hunt for Team RWBY.
  • Shay D. Mann (renamed Shiloh Mann), get a lot more prominence among the Branwen tribe as the father of Raven's younger daughter, Vernal.
  • Vernal herself is a much more highlighted and plot-relevant character due to her Related in the Adaptation, and due to her unexpected friendship with Weiss in this version. Her death has a huge impact on the rest of the Branwen Tribe, and it's also felt by Yang and especially by Weiss.
• Author Tract: Sometimes, when the author makes a significant change from canon, he will pull the audience aside to lay out what he thought was wrong with the original scene and why he feels like it should be changed.
• Bait the Dog: At first this version of Cordovin presents herself as a tougher but fair authority figure compared to what we saw in the show. It's revealed that she is an opportunistic, smug, nationalistic hypocrite who breaks her deal with Team RWBY. After arresting Adam, she breaks the deal to get Team RWBY to Atlas, justifying her decision by accusing Team RWBY of cowardice when they retreated from Adam, when in reality she was just using them for free labor and was looking for an excuse when they were no longer needed.
• Battle in the Center of the Mind: After Roman deduces that the Relic of Truth is attracting Grimm to the team's position, he and Ozpin struggle for control over his body as Ozpin tries to prevent him from telling the others what he knows. Roman regains control for long enough to tell Ruby Djinn's name and demand she call her out before Ozpin successfully suppresses him.
• Beach Episode: Ruby tries to have one in Argus. Unfortunately, she didn't take into account the colder temperature and nearly got hypothermia.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • At the end of Volume 6, Episode 7, after seeing the truth from Jinn, the wounded, exhausted, and emotionally volatile heroes are set upon by a new wave of Grimm, only for a lone figure to appear and rip through the new horde in a single attack, revealing herself to be the veteran Huntress Maria Calavera.
  • In Volume 7, Episode 1, after being exhausted by the swarm of Mermaids and then cornered by a Carcinos, the team is saved by the arrival of Penny Polendina and the rest of her support team.
• Big "WHAT?!": Weiss shrieks out a "What?!" that can be heard across the entire Bandit Camp when she learns Raven is using Myrtenaster as a rotisserie spit.
• Blackmail:
  • Instead of threatening Junior with a Groin Attack as in canon, Yang subtly blackmails him by showing a picture of him talking with Roman that she's more than happy to let slip to the police and media.
  • Like in canon, Cardin blackmails Jaune into doing stuff for him in exchange for not telling him that Jaune faked his way into the school. Unlike in canon, Jaune blackmails him back by having Blake swap his transcripts with forged ones.
• Bound and Gagged: This happens to Cordovin after her soldiers hear her conversation with Ruby, disgusted with how she doesn't care about the fate of Argus, Dee, and Dudley take command and return to help fight off the Grimm horde and give Team RWBY safe passage to Atlas.
• Break Them by Talking: Ozpin tries to talk Headmaster Lionheart down during the finale of Fixing Volume 5, appearing as his Magnus Reinhart version during Volumes 1-3. Unfortunately halfway through, Lionheart was able to spot a flaw in Neopolitan's illusion, revealing Roman instead.
• Broken Pedestal: After Qrow outright neglects his watch and drinks himself to a stupor twice while the team are taking shelter in Brunswick Farms (on top of having been belligerently drunk for much of Fixing Volume 6 to that point), Ruby viciously rips into him and wonders aloud how she ever looked up to him. They eventually patch things up after Qrow drops the bottle for her sake.
• Bully Brutality: Cardin's bullying of Velvet, while at first just mild harassment and annoyances, eventually evolves drastically after the Jaundice arc, to the point of inflicting serious physical harm on her, prompting Blake to snap and defend her against Cardin.
• The Bus Came Back:
  • After leaving Beacon behind in Fixing Volume 4 and being absent from Volume 5, Cardin and Russell return at the beginning of Volume 6, replacing Dee and Dudley as the hired protectors of the Argus Limited.
  • In addition to Penny's revival as in canon Volume 7, Ciel, Flynt, and Neon return to the series after being absent since Volume 3.
• Child by Rape: While not explicitly shown, it's heavily implied that Adam is a byproduct of this between his Faunus mother and an abusive human landlord.
• Character Exaggeration: Most of the main protagonists' early quirks elevated to outright character traits, from Yang's Hard-Drinking Party Girl attitude to Weiss's Fantastic Racism.
• Cincinnatus: Ironwood's plan to convince the Round Table of Atlas to grant him the title of Architect would make him this, granting him Emergency Authority over the kingdom and essentially making him a dictator. When the Atlesian Round Table put in a vote of no confidence and attempted to remove him from power, Ironwood appoints himself Architect to prevent them.
• Composite Character:
  • Melanie Malachite takes up Neopolitan's role from canon as the villain pursuing one of the main cast to avenge a fallen life partner after the Fall of Beacon.
  • The Nubucks who serve under Caroline Cordovin are named Dee and Dudley Tweedle, after the two Huntsmen who were Adapted Out.
• Continuity Snarl: Discussed by Phoenix himself in the remaster of Fixing Volume 1. The Ursa Major is still attracted to the sweet sap of the episode, which is the only time a creature of Grimm has ever been interested in food when it was later established in the original work that Grimm only kill and eat people and are attracted to negative emotion. Phoenix admits that he had overlooked the odd bit of writing the first time around when he was remaking the series and doesn't know how to reconcile it to better fit with later established canon, so the Sweet Tooth remains as an outlier among the Grimm.
• Combat Breakdown: A variant occurs in the first episode of Volume 7. Because the heroes were forced into another fight right after the events of Volume 6 without getting time to rest and restock their arsenal, none of them are at their A-game. Ruby, Ren, and Nora run out of ammo, Yang and Blake struggle to get used to not having their primary weapons after they were destroyed during the fight with Adam, Qrow's withdrawal symptoms inhibit his vision, and Roman's head is frozen in a block of ice that Neo struggles to break. While they're able to wipe out all the mermaid Grimm, they're overwhelmed by a Carcinus and need to be saved by Penny.
• The Coup: Adam not only performs one to take over the White Fang but also plans to start one for the Kingdom of Mistral known as Operation Fenrir. Initially thought to be a pipe dream due to the other kingdoms' intervention, it would become possible due to Vale recovering from the Fall of Beacon and Atlas calling back all their forces abroad.
• *Crack!* "Oh, My Back!": Maria's Big Damn Heroes moment is undercut by the fact that she threw her back out during it. As soon as the Grimm are dead, she yells at the heroes to help her with her intense back pain.
• Cyborg: Neptune suffers a spinal injury in the Fall of Beacon that leaves him paraplegic. He's been given an Atleasian implant to repair the damage and let him walk again after months of physical therapy.
• Darker and Edgier: Debatably, to the original RWBY. The personalities of the Nice Girl heroines take a turn towards the much more flawed here, they have much more trouble getting along and working as a team, and it takes them much longer to overcome their differences. Grimm are shown to be much more capable against Huntsmen-in-training, even if they are very capable, and key characters are shown being permanently disfigured, injured in a way that ends their Huntsman careers, or straight up Killed Off for Real. Themes of inter-human racism are also more prominent, not to mention Fantastic Racism against Faunus.
• Darkest Hour: The end of Fixing Volume 7 is the bleakest the series has been so far. Salem's forces successfully provoke an uprising in Mantle just as Atlesian forces declare martial law, causing fighting in the streets. Roman and Neo have absconded with the Lamp, and are implied to have defected to Cinder's side outright. Team RWBY are framed for letting Cinder access the Vault which (on top of having their earlier deceptions regarding the Lamp revealed) leads to Ironwood loosing all trust in them. Ruby is blasted off the edge of the Vault platform by Ironwood (in a direct parallel to how Oscar was blown off the side in canon) and her teammates are subdued by Strike Team 32 and arrested. And then, on top of everything else, the Whale Grimm crests the mountains outside the city.
• Death by Adaptation:
  • Saber Rodentia is killed in the Belladonna assassination attempt.
  • Miltiades Malachite is revealed to have died in the Fall of Beacon.
  • Arslan is killed by Cinder in Volume 6.
  • Robyn Hill is killed in an assassination in Volume 7.
• Delicate and Sickly: Neo of all people appears like this in her Early-Bird Cameo. By her next appearance, she's gotten better enough to save Roman from a pursuing huntsman by stabbing them In the Back, but she's still visibly not at 100% until the fight at the docks.
• Devoured by the Horde: In Fixing Volume 2, The White Fang Lieutenant is eventually stopped when the heroes knock him directly into the horde of Grimm in the middle of Vale. While he fights defiantly to the last, he's eventually overrun by the Grimm and meets his gruesome end.
• Disney Villain Death: Rightfully suspecting the Grimm attacking Jaune to be a Ursa Major, Ruby forces Weiss to follow her plan to knock it off a cliff. Ruby knows that none of the Huntsmen-in-training could actually injure a Major, and even suspects it survived the fall to denote how Made of Iron it is.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Roman is shocked to find out that Ren is a guy when they get into the hot spring, to Ren's bafflement. They spend the next scene arguing about it, with Ren listing off all the clues that he is a guy and Roman defending his assumption with examples of women with those same traits.
• Early-Bird Cameo: A sick in bed Neo appears as a cameo in the third episode.
• "Eureka!" Moment: As the Lieutenant keeps fighting during the Breach, he bellows out that humanity will fall against the White Fang. This inspires Blake to call for the team attack "Forever Fall", which results in the Lieutenant getting lifted up into the air and punched over the blockades and into a horde of Grimm, which swarm and finish him off.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
  • From the very beginning of Fixing Volume 1 onward, it's made very clear how much both Roman and Neo genuinely care for each other, with both of them looking after one another when the other is down. This is especially apparent when the two of them reunite in Fixing Volume 5.
  • After the Fall of Beacon, Junior acts genuinely bereaved over the death of Miltia Malachite, as is her twin sister Melanie. Melanie goes completely insane from her twin sister's death, while Junior tries to take care of Melanie as best he can, with him solemnly looking at a picture of the twins.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: It turns out that the Brunswick Farms disaster was caused by the Brunswick patriarch, who, in an effort to save money on Huntsmen services, tried to keep people in the hamlet calm by luring a lone Apathy away and sealing it into his cellar. Unfortunately, the lone Apathy either multiplied or drew its kin to the hamlet over time, resulting in the deaths of everyone but Remus Putnam.
• Evolutionary Levels: If an Apathy Grimm feeds enough over its life, it will eventually evolve into a Mimic, giving it new ways to hunt.
• Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: When Kali interrogates Ilia about "Operation Fenrir", Ilia initially dismisses it, since it was a pipe dream by the previous White Fang leader before Sienna. When explaining just why it was a pipe dream, Ilia breaks down that it was supposed to be a full-scale coup in Mistral, but it would have been impossible to occupy all the critical territory before Atlas or Vale could get involved... only to realize that with Atlas having closed its borders and Vale still recovering from the Fall of Beacon, this is the perfect time to try enacting the plan.
• False Flag Operation: After reading a newspaper article about the White Fang, Roman gets the idea to use the organization as a scapegoat for his crimes, hiring Faunus to help him in his latest heist, using fake uniforms to pass them off as White Fang members. This lands him in hot water when the real White Fang finds and corners him in Volume 1's epilogue.
• Fantastic Racism:
  • Pyrrha, Nora, and Ren suffer from discrimination by Mistralians because they're not "pure" Mistralians. They're descended from ethnic groups that were dissolved into Mistral.
  • Cordovin shows herself to be an even worse bigot than she ever was in the original, with her outright calling Adam an animal and Blake Ruby's pet, heavily looking down on the people of other nations such as her apathy towards Mistral, and bragging nonstop about Atlas's superiority over everything else.
  • The Kingdom of Atlas discrimination towards Faunus is largely focused on with many of its officials and enforcers showing prejudice towards them.
• Fantastic Slurs:
  • Some slurs cited are "fur-licker" for cat faunus, "lizard brain" for reptilian faunus, and "furball" for mammalian faunus. "Faunus" itself can be a slur (and it originally was a slur) depending on how it's used.
  • According to the commenter TheIntratec9 (who suggested the idea in the first place), "Critter" is a derogatory term used against all faunus and sounds similar to a real-life derogatory term used against African-Americans.
  • "Jockey" is a derogatory term used against those who sympathize with the Faunus.
• Faux Affably Evil: Cinder initially behaves like this, being capable of acting casual around Mercury and Emerald when she's in the mood. It isn't until she's scarred by Ruby's Silver Eyes that she drops this veneer entirely, acting more like her canon counterpart going forward.
• Fauxreigner: Fantastical equivalent; Cinder wears clawed gloves to look like a Faunus to trick Robyn into believing she's a representative from the White Fang.
• Feed It with Fire: During the Volume 5 finale, Hazel makes the mistake of zapping Nora with Lightning Dust, empowering her enough to briefly knock him out of the fight.
• Feminine Two-Fisted Pounding: Neo does this to Roman after a flying hug/tackle when the two of them are reunited in Fixing Volume 5, when both of them assumed the other was dead after Volume 3.
• Fix Fic: To the point where he has two hours' worth of videos tackling the revised mythology, history, and geopolitics of the new story alone, before even getting to Volume 1.
• Fond Memories That Could Have Been: While carrying Vernal's lifeless body up from Haven's vault, Yang sees a vision of her, Ruby and Vernal playing together as little girls and mourns how the three of them never got to be real sisters.
• Foreshadowing:
  • Cardin telling Jaune that he can't protect his friends forever in Volume 1 is intended to foreshadow Pyrrha's death in Volume 3.
  • Two of the stories Ruby, Pyrrha, and Penny discuss while researching their history paper foreshadow events that will be featured in both Fixing Volumes 2 and 3.
    • The first book, called the Siege of Grim Rock, tells the story of how Atlesian troops use subterranean infiltration to sow a distraction while Mistralian forces drop in from above. This foreshadows Cinder's plan with the upcoming Breach fight in Fixing Volume 2 and the eventual Fall of Beacon in Volume 3.
    • The other book mentioned is called the Tale of the Four Maidens, mostly gushed about by both Pyrrha and Penny. This gives us a sneak peak into what will be Pyrrha's storyline with the introduction of the Maidens in Fixing Volume 3.
  • Arslan's obsession with beating the "invincible" Pyrrha in Volume 3 foreshadows Pyrrha's tragic demise several episodes later.
  • Fixing Volume 5 has several hints to the next volume's reveal of Ozpin maintaining a Forever War to keep his love, Salem, alive.
    • As Raven tells Yang what she found out about Ozpin, she questions why Ozpin doesn't use the Maidens and the Relics to defeat Salem. Instead, Raven believes Ozpin is just trying to hold off defeat and "keep the game going".
    • Ozpin notes to Roman that he only ends up in the bodies of people with personalities similar to his own. At first it seems like a sign that Roman is being given Adaptational Heroism, but Fixing Volume 6 reveals that Ozpin is being given Adaptational Villainy.
    • In the finale, Raven bitterly claims that "Ozpin isn't trying to save the world. He's just trying to keep it the way he likes it." Fixing Volume 6 demonstrates that she was completely right.
  • Several of Penny's lines in the beginning of Fixing Volume 7 allude to how the Penny we're seeing isn't a reconstructed body, but an entirely new one with Identity Amnesia:
    • Episode 2 has Penny exclaim how her reunion with team RWBYJNR will feel just like Beacon, before adding "I think.".
    • At team RWBYJNR's graduation party in episode 5, Penny comments that this is the first party she's attended. Even though she was present at the Beacon Dance in Fixing Volume 2.
    • Midway through episode 8, Ruby compliments Penny's new look, which Penny refutes, believing she's always looked like this.
• Forever War: Invoked; Believing Salem cannot be defeated, and knowing that only the gods can kill her, Ozpin has kept the battle between them going for centuries at an intentional stalemate, unable to bring himself to kill the woman he once loved.
• Founder of the Kingdom: Instead of having a king, Mantle once had a position known as the Architect who was the national leader chosen by the populace.
• Fun with Acronyms: When the entire main supporting cast is in one place, Celtic Pheonix refers to the collective as "Team RWBYJNRQRN" (pronounced "Ruby-junior-kern").
• Gender Flip: As opposed to a sister named Gretchen in the main continuity, Hazel here had a brother named Magnus, who was Ozpin's host during Volumes 1-3.
• Gilligan Cut: During the finale of Volume 6, Yang excitedly exclaims that Ruby convinced Cordovin to return to save Argus. Cut to Cordovin, Gagged And Bound in the back of her flagship, while Dee and Dudley coordinate the Atlesian air forces themselves.
• Good Is Not Soft: Ozpin considers this the difference between himself and Ruby. He truly wants to protect mankind and its future, but he's willing to do any Necessarily Evil action to safeguard the world. It's why he feels he has more in common with his new host Roman than with Ruby. Of course, this all goes out the window when Ozpin's intentions are revealed to be much less heroic than in canon.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: One change is that Yang's Hard Drinking Party Girl image isn't completely for show. For example, after she gets formally initiated into Beacon she gets drunk and ends up hangover the next day. It borderlines on alcoholism and Yang drinks to deal with her abandonment issues. Coco calls her out on this when Yang decides to drink rather than try and help with the problems Team RWBY are currently facing.
• Hate Sink: Cordovin is made out to be far more unpleasant than she was in the show. Not only does she go back on her word, hypocritically calling out Ruby on how she handled Adam, but she can be best described as a representation of the worst of Atlas.
• Hazy-Feel Turn: As Ozpin's newest host, Roman ends up having to align himself with the heroes, though it has yet to be seen if Roman will turn over a new leaf of his own volition.
• Heel–Face Turn:
  • Cardin, unlike his canon counterpart, grows to respect the Faunus after being chewed out for his bullying numerous times. During the Fall of Beacon, he goes to look for Velvet on the basis that he feels indebted to her, and protects her and Fox from Adam.
  • Neopolitan, finding herself unable to assassinate Yang as she intended, spends time with and even befriends her as they both undergo physical therapy. When they both fully recover, Neo joins her in traveling to Anima and becomes a full member of the heroes' team.
• Hot Springs Episode: A Breather Episode in Volume 5 is set in "Onsen Onsen Onsen", a Mistrali bathhouse, where the heroes all relax in hot springs heated by fire dust. Weiss, Yang, and Ruby have their conversations about Blake as in canon, while in the men's bath Roman is surprised to discover Ren's actually a man and the two argue about it.
• Hypocrite: Cordovin accuses Team RWBY of cowardice for retreating from Adam's vicious assault on Argus. When the Grimm attacks the city as well, her first instinct is to abandon her post and flee with her army.
• Imaginary Friend: Melanie hallucinates seeing and hearing her twin sister with her at all times, despite Miltia having died in the Fall of Beacon.
• Internal Reveal: Blake being a cat Faunus is changed into one of these. She doesn't have her bow in this version of the Black trailer, so viewers know she's a Faunus passing as a human from the get-go.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • Early in Fixing Volume 2, although Cardin is largely just defending his clear Faunus racism and lashing out because he can't take criticism, he's startlingly right to point out that Beacon itself could end up like all the Dust shops in Vale if the White Fang were to target it, and also to call Team RWBY out for being oblivious to the continuing Dust shops raids (which were all over the newspapers) up until they heard him talking about it.
  • As snide and mocking as he is about it, Adam is proven correct to warn Ilia in Fixing Volume 4 before the latter's confrontation with Blake, telling her to expect Blake to either co-operate or to hold back based on their past friendship if things between her and Ilia get messy.
  • Although Beacon and Team RWBY weren't quite what Ilia was referring to when she accused Blake of abandoning both her cause and her friends in Fixing Volume 4, the callout strikes a special chord with Blake because that's what she unintentionally did to her friends by running away after the Fall of Beacon.
  • Downplayed by Adam, when he tells Blake that Weiss didn't really show much loyalty to her freshly-traumatized teammates when she went back to Atlas just after the attack on Beacon without much resisting. Weiss did admit that Jacques couldn't force her to go back home with him but she did fall back on her home out of habit.
• Just Like Robin Hood: Robyn Hill and the Happy Huntresses are played closer to their inspirations than in canon. With Atlas hoarding food during Watts' engineered shortage, they crash a SDC cargo ship with Cinder and Malachite's help to loot supplies and redistribute them to the people of Mantle. Team RWBY are so sympathetic to their cause that they let the Happy Huntresses leave.
• Kill Sat: Ironwood's plan to destroy Salem involves turning Amity Arena into one of these, and using it to disassemble her at a molecular level. Then he plans to use it to destroy every Grimm Pool worldwide until the Grimm are completely wiped out.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: When Bolin realizes most of his team was knocked out of the ring and JNPR outnumbers him, he quietly drops his staff and surrenders.
• Lame Pun Reaction: In Fixing RWBY, it's Yang who notices Pyrrha's Polarity semblance. Pyrrha loses her smile when Yang calls her Semblance "really attractive" and is even less impressed after asking for secrecy when Yang says "[her] lips are sealed. Magnetically."
• Left Hanging: Played for Laughs in the April Fools' Day episode, Fixing Justice League × RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen. At the very end, we learn that Summer Rose was a Living Weapon taking the form of Crescent Rose all along. Then:
  Celtic Phoenix: Now, I know people are going to have questions, and it doesn't seem to make sense, but trust me, I have a plan.
  *End credits
• Little Bit Beastly: Faunus evolved from a common ancestor of humans and are still closely related enough to interbreed. Most faunus are mammalian Faunus. Faunus have quirks that differentiate them from humans, such as improved senses and estrus cycles. The concept of "Faunus" is a relatively recent creation as historically it was deemed as a generalized slur against their kind. Faunus saw each other as entirely different species from one another, so they rejected the term.
• Living on Borrowed Time: Roman calls out this trope by name, stating that they don't know how much time he has left until Ozpin consumes his personality completely.
• Made of Indestructium: The Relics, created by the God of Light, cannot be destroyed or even damaged by mortal means. Even the full might of a Maiden doesn't so much as scuff the Relic of Knowledge.
• Match Cut: Celtic Phoenix loves using this; nearly every scene transition uses an object or color from one shot to transition to a similar object or color in the next.
• Meaningful Name: Remus's name refers to Romulus's brother and co-founder of Rome. It makes sense then how it becomes a Meaningful Rename to Roman Torchwick, as in torching his past as a Brunswick.
• Meaningful Rename: Melanie Malachite exclusively goes by her last name after season three because she's gone insane and believes she is both Melanie and her dead sister Miltia sharing a body.
• The Mentor: Professor Ozpin assigns Team CVFY to mentor Team RWBY after realizing how dysfunctional the team is. Coco is especially keen on mentoring Ruby as they're both responsible as team leaders.
• Misplaced Retribution: In the first episode of Fixing Volume 6, Blake furiously refuses to celebrate the local festival with Roman, accusing him of being responsible for Tukson's death. Roman retorts that, not only did he have nothing to do with that, he was against killing Tukson in the first place (Though he frames it such that Tukson's death made his life harder, which doesn't make Blake much happier).
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Weeks of being locked in house arrest by the Atlesian military under Ironwood's orders eventually prompt Roman and Neo to break out and collaborate with Salem's agents in the city to steal the Relic of Knowledge and escape.
• Mix-and-Match Critter: Dangerous squirrel/monkey (or squirrel/ape) hybrids are mentioned in the third episode, with these creatures going on to attack the characters.
• Mundane Utility: Raven uses a sword as a spit to cook her dinner. Weiss is outraged because it's her sword and family heirloom Myrtenaster.
• Never My Fault: In one of the fairy tales detailing Salem and Ozpin's past, Salem encouraged Ozpin to travel to distant lands to conquer them. While he was away, assassins stole into their tower and killed their children. When Ozpin returned, Salem was heartbroken and blamed Ozpin for their deaths since he wasn't home to defend them, ignoring that he only left at her insistence.
• No Body Left Behind: Averted. Unlike in canon, the Grimm leave behind their skeletons when they die, though the flesh still dissolves off their bones. Scientists study the remains to try and learn about the Grimm and Huntsmen use the bones to prove the worth of the creatures they killed for bounty payments.
• No MacGuffin, No Winner: Raven attempted to invoke this by destroying or burying the Relic of Knowledge, hoping to keep it out of Salem's hands forever. Unfortunately, the Relic is Made of Indestructium and Team RWBY comes to take the Relic away from her before she can accomplish the latter.
• No-Sell: Sun gets knocked to the ground and kicked repeatedly by some human crewmembers of the airship he stowed away on. But because they are normal people while Sun has Hunstman training, his aura is so powerful that their kicks do absolutely no damage, so he cheekily keeps up his casual banter while they futilely try to hurt him.
• Nothing Is Scarier:
  • Invoked. Rather than a lengthy Breaking Speech after Penny's death to incite chaos and attract the Grimm, Cinder instead plays a garbled message as if she were being hunted for trying to reveal some dark truth, leaving the terror to people's imaginations.
  • Unlike canon, where Salem and Evernight Castle appear regularly, her first "appearance" here is Emerald's frantic hallucination at the end of Fixing Volume 5.
• Older Is Better: During the Montage in Volume 7, Episode 6, Blake and Jaune briefly examine an advanced Atlesian pistol with a digital readout. Ruby, thoroughly unimpressed, places a magnet against the receiver, making the readout bluescreen, then demonstrates that the gun will no longer fire.
• Patriotic Fervor: Cordovin is somehow an even bigger patriot than in canon, boasting about the greatness of Atlas and its inherent superiority over other kingdoms. Once the horde of Sirens shows up towards Argus, Cordo flees towards Atlas, showing a complete lack of empathy towards the civilians at Aegus, claiming that the population could use some thinning out. When Ruby calls her out on how she made an oath to protect Argus, she justifies her actions by claiming her oath was to Atlas and the legacy of the Architect, not to Argus.
• Profane Last Words: Before being fatally shot by Ruby at the end of their climactic battle, Weiss confronts Adam, sincerely apologizes to him for everything he's suffered through because of her family. He can only spit out this in response:

  Adam: Fuck you, Schnee.

• Related in the Adaptation:
  • Whereas in canon Vernal isn't known to have any biological relations, the Fixing RWBY version is Raven Branwen's second daughter, which also makes her Yang's biological maternal half-sister and Qrow's biological niece. It's furthermore strongly hinted that Shiloh (the renamed version of Shay D. Mann) is Vernal's biological father.
  • It's also revealed unlike in canon that Ozpin's Beacon-era host was Hazel Rainart's brother, and in this version, Ozpin's possession of him and assimilation of his soul is the biggest reason as to why Hazel aligned himself with Salem against Ozpin. The Volume 6 rewrite furthermore heavily implies that this version of Oscar is related to the two.
• Retired Badass: Volume 5 reveals that Kali Belladonna was the captain of the Menagerie Militia twenty years ago, but stepped down over her love for Ghira taking priority.
• Royal "We": In her deteriorating mind, Malachite believes she is both Melanie and Miltia at the same time, referring to herself in the plural at all times.
• Running Gag: A recurring point of humor is that when Roman and Neo directly interact, no one can pin down what precisely the nature of their eccentric and extremely close relationship is: are they lovers, surrogate father and daughter, surrogate siblings, or something else that's beyond human comprehension?
• Sanity Slippage:
  • Adam's mental health erodes further and further throughout his hunt for Team RWBY in Fixing Volume 6. The hazardous conditions, compounded by his growing stress and the lack of medication get to the point where he suffers vivid visual hallucinations.
  • After the Fall of Beacon, it is revealed that Melanie Malachite has gone completely insane from grief after her twin sister Militia died at the Fall of Beacon, with her assuming the form of both sisters at all times.
• Saying Too Much: After Roman deduces that the Relic of Truth is attracting the Grimm, Ozpin tries to downplay the situation and lets slip more than he intended.
  Ozpin: It's intentions are not to draw the Grimm, but-
  Roman: "Intentions"?!? That thing thinks?!? Is it alive?!?
• The Scapegoat: In Fixing Volume 4, Sienna Khan only recently became the new High Leader of the White Fang, due to her predecessor, Kin Onyurio, being deposed and handed over to the authorities after the White Fang's involvement in the Fall of Beacon tragedy became known.
• Shapeshifter Guilt Trip: A new breed of Grimm is introduced in Brunswick Farms; the Mimic. This Grimm takes the appearance of someone emotionally significant to its victim to lure them into a hug, whereupon their arms, lined with serrated teeth, would dig in and begin devouring them. Notably, it can't distinguish people associated with positive emotions from those associated with negative ones; when it briefly targets Yang, it takes the form of Adam.
• Shapeshifting: Malachite's semblance is to be able to perfectly mimic anyone she meets, up to and including muscle memory.
• Shout-Out:
  • In the original cut of Fixing Volume 1, Yang's friends outside of the established characters are represented by images of Joker, Ryuji, and Makoto.
  • In Fixing Volume 1 Remastered, one of the students seen when Ruby fangirls over all the different weapons looks a lot like Pomni.
  • The Brunswick Farms arc in Fixing Volume 6 is scored to the soundtrack from The Thing (1982). It also doubles as Foreshadowing for the presence of the Mimic.
  • In Volume 7, Episode 2, Asha and Human Star are amongst the crowd getting on the train to Atlas.
  • In Volume 7, Episode 14, one of the business heads invited to Jacques Schnee's estate is a horse faunus resembling Gold Ship
• Significant Wardrobe Shift:
  • Adam's redesigned costume at the end of Volume 4 swaps out his black coat for a red one aligned with flower thorns, symbolizing his rise to power after his violent coup of the White Fang.
  • In the Stinger for Volume 4, we see that Roman has swapped out his white suit for a green waistcoat over a black dress shirt and pants after becoming Ozpin's latest host.
    • In Volume 6, After Ozpin recedes from Roman's mind following Djinn's reveals about his true objectives, Roman brings back his iconic white suit - albiet with one sleeve colored green - topped off with a bright red scarf.
• Smug Snake: When Cordovin reveals her true nature she shows nothing but smugness towards an imprisoned Adam whom she only captured because he was already weakened and fighting against Team RWBY.
• Sole Survivor: Roman Torchwick, formerly known as Remus Putnam, was once an inhabitant of Brunswick Farms, having been the only inhabitant to escape the Apathy.
• Spanner in the Works: Zwei ends up derailing the White Fang's plans with the train by unintentionally speeding up the train, causing it to crash into the battering ram engine in front of it and sending everything careening out of the subway into Vale proper, further from the heart of the city than they intended.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Roman Torchwick survives being Eaten Alive by the Alpha Griphon, with the caveat of Ozpin being the one to hitch a ride in his head.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Malachite serves the same purpose as Cinder's accomplices that Neo did in canon; a former enemy with an illusion-based Semblance, working with Cinder to get revenge on a mutual foe.
• The Speechless: Like in canon, Neo is shown to be mute, using sign language to communicate with others. This wasn't confirmed in canon at the time of writing it.
• The Stations of the Canon: While many major and minor elements of the source material were changed, Celtic Phoenix limits himself from diverging too far away from the original story by having the most important plot beats from each season occur, albeit through different circumstances and/or characters.
  • Downplayed later, starting with Volume 5, which the team felt was so bad that nearly all of it had to be reordered, restructured, or removed entirely. Volume 6 got closer to canon, but knock-on effects from earlier changes and canon RWBY's indefinite hiatus have led to Fixing RWBY slowly going further and further off the rails.
• Still Wearing the Old Colors: Kali Beladonna is retired from the militia but still wears the dress uniform, having it modified for day-to-day use.
• Strange Minds Think Alike: Malachite and Tyrian hit it off remarkably well despite - or rather, because of - the latter attacking the former on sight. They part on genuinely friendly terms and promise each other to meet again for another "playdate".
• Street Smart: Yang is portrayed as street-wise, which Phoenix sees as being implied in canon but not receiving much emphasis.

• Sue Donym: Cinder's pen name is "Ash Autumns" when she's pretending to be a journalist to spread more division.

• Take That!: While generally going to great lengths to at least try to be respectful to the source material, Celtic Phoenix is more than willing to call out certain scenes, characters, and choices by the creators that he feels are particularly dumb, pointless, or just bad writing.
  • During the finale of Volume 4, he pulls aside from the action to firmly state that Jaune's "upgrade" in the canon version of the finale is extremely dumb and that they're not doing it.
  • When the entire cast (sans Blake) is reunited in Volume 5 is reunited for a feast, Celtic Phoenix says that "all the food is properly prepared and not in one gigantic tub because our artists actually understand how food works".
    Celtic Pheonix: "When Ruby asks for her duck sause, she gets her goddamned duck sauce.
• Team Member in the Adaptation:
  • Both Roman Torchwick and Neopolitan become full members of the supporting cast from Fixing Volume 5 onward; Neo because she and Yang gradually became friends while recovering from the injuries they sustained during the Fall of Beacon, and Roman because he survived being Eaten Alive by the Griffin and became Ozpin's newest host.
  • Instead of Harriet, Vine, Elm, and Marrow, the team Clover leads consists of Penny Polendina, Ciel Soleil, Flynt Coal, and Neon Katt.
• Unflinching Walk: Hazel pulls this off several times against Ren and Nora, all owing to his Semblance and ludicrously powerful Aura.
• We Used to Be Friends: It's more concretely established here that Blake and Adam were once legitimately close friends before Adam became radicalized. There's enough memories of happier times for Blake to take Adam's sword as a memento after he dies.
• Wham Episode:
  • Volume 6, Episodes 6-7. Team RWBY, Qrow, Neo and Roman learn about Ozpin's biggest secret, thanks to the Djinn. The four relics weren't meant to be kept apart, but united for the Gods to return to Remnant and decide whether to spare or destroy humanity. Ozpin prevented the reunion of the relics because he still loved Salem despite her villainy, so he has been maintaining a Forever War to keep Salem alive. After this revelation, Ozpin refuses to emerge from Roman for the unforeseeable future.
  • Volume 7, Episode 14. Ironwood appoints himself as Architect of Atlas and Winter is revealed to be Robyn Hill’s informant.
• Wham Line:
  • Throughout Volume 4, we focus on Remus Putnam, a kind boy who was a resident ( and eventually Sole Survivor) of Brunswick Farms. At first, this seemed like a story that would set up the Apathy arc in Volume 6 until we see him running away from home and beating up a group of teens for money. When he's asked who he is, he answers:
    "My name is Roman. Roman Torchwick. And these streets are mine."
  • In the Volume 5 finale, when the up-to-now unflappable Hazel enters an Unstoppable Rage upon learning Roman is Ozpin's host.
    Roman What did you do to piss him off?
    Ozpin: This is Hazel Rainart. Brother of Magnus Rainart.
    Roman (Scrambling to get away from Hazel) And who the hell is THAT?!?
    Ozpin: He was my host prior to you.
• Wham Shot: The stinger for Volume 4's rewrite reveals just who Ozpin's new host is: It's Roman, back from the dead.
• Wrecked Weapon:
  • In Fixing Volume 4, we see why Jaune had his sword and shield reforged by a blacksmith, as both were heavily damaged in a battle with a pack of old Beringel Grimm at the local train station.
  • The first episode of Volume 5 reveals that Roman's cane was destroyed during his resurrection after crashing down to the ground.
  • In the final battle of Volume 6, Gambol is destroyed by Adam as in canon, but this time Yang also loses her metal arm. It gets damaged from blocking several of Adam's attacks and finally gives up the ghost from the strain of her last Megaton Punch.
• You Can Keep Her!: During the climactic Battle of Haven in Fixing Volume 5, Ruby and Jaune manage to get Emerald with a sword to her throat, and demand that Cinder surrender. Cinder disregards them, citing that she doesn't have "unnecessary attachments", summoning a spear to impale Weiss.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Ironwood has this reaction when he learns that Ozpin has landed inside Roman Torchwick.
• You Kill It, You Bought It: Blake takes Wilt and Blush with her after Adam's death, both because her own weapon was destroyed in the battle against him and as a last memento of the man who was once her friend.

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