Love both stories and want more, when do you think you make the next story?

I gotta say, even though you made Ruby into the badass psychopathic killer, it's nice to see that she still has some sort of self restraint. If you had her just killing innocents alongside those who directly oppose her, I don't think it would have come out as good as it did.

Now, after the finale, I could see her slip further down the red path, but by now I wouldn't be able to complain.

I'll be keeping an eye out should you continue with The Red Queen.

and then you mention vomit boy. i thought that ship was one sided

Queen has pawns

More please

Something I noticed was that song "Blood Red Roses" fits your story rather well. Divide too is good at describing situation between Red Queen and Weiss

I don't really care about Salem but I do wonder if Adam finds himself ally with girl who also uses rose as their symbol. Or at least used to. Both are violent and use swords in this story so they should get along rather well. When Queens "cult" was announced I humored the idea of Blake being hidden among their number, having long since snapped from paranoia and sought safety among those who praise the source of her regret. Maybe even being the one to start it, seeing as her family is already known for starting cult, why not another?

Weiss sure is an awful hypocrite in this one. Too speechless at her bigotry to elaborate anything about the matter.

Your reasoning on why Ruby won't come back to her family was just bad. Tainting things she touches? Keeping her murderous rampage hidden was good enough reason for first story, by now she might enjoy doing it too much to really ever be able to have normal life. And all the mental instability over things she has gone through should be the real reason she can't trust herself to be around those she cares for... which might be a moot point too considering she has no problems hanging around the orphanage.

I have hard time seeing why Rubys family is still so determined to "save her form her dark path" when she has many times over made it clear she won't be coming back. Ozpin and Qrow hoping to balance the scales for all the hunters they lost and keep losing to her by getting her to switch sides won't work either since now that Grimm follow her she likely wont be able to go all out against them. But I can understand them being unable to realize that. As for Yang and Jaune, the only way I can see for them getting to be around her like they wish would be for them to join her. But they seem to have too strong a moral compass to go that far for her leaving them at this impasse they are currently in.

If I had anything else to add I forgot, and therefore shall later curse the inability to edit my own comments at this site.

Simply an amazing story. I honestly want the next installment to come out already. This is something that the readers need. I want to see Ruby fall further down the rabbit hole.

I was so enthralled by this story I stayed up till 2am reading and can't wait for the next one

Just went back all the way through all of the Red Queen story. Both the first and second stories. I said this before but I would like to point it out again.

"And yet in all of this, there exists one undeniable force behind this commotion.

Revenge.

Right now, Remnant was moving toward a black future, and the cause behind all of this was revenge. Revenge for wrongs. Revenge for revenge wrought for those wrongs. It was a vicious cycle that would soon see the birth of a proper Queen, and her bloody and blackened throne.

Between the two now opposing forces, one could say that there lay a mirror. Two sides of the same coin, both motivated by the same desire. The same force driving their actions, the same motivation causing them to move history toward a period that none would forget."

Ruby is creating an empire. You have her Grimm and her followers/cult who are all dedicated to her. And on the topic of her followers, a question I forgot to ask and I don't think was answered. Did she accidentally start a religion? Like do her followers/cult pray to her and see her as a god? With her Empire growing she is gonna need people/civilians and territory. A queen without an army is weak. A queen without a people is nothing at all.

All hail The Ruby Red Queen, drenched in blood and attended by the shadows.

RomanCenturion? I believe that would be acceptable. They wouldn't be human/faunus and yet they would be. I really just want her to have her Grimm. Although her followers/worshippers/cult are humans/faunus so I guess if they forged Roman armor and wore it then I guess you could get your original wish? Idk. I agree it would add a lot of versatility to her combat capabilities.

Grimm Roman Soldiers. Grimm in the form of people but without aura/semblance. Also let us say that when a Grimm "dies" it is actually just sleeping in the shadows waiting to come back or "awaken". So like all of Ruby's original Grimm (Chesh, Dee and Dum, Peter (beowulf), March and Peter(boarbatusk) and Haiga) and others such as Ouroboros would come to her aid when she awakens them from shadows. Basically, Ruby would be the respawn point for the Grimm. How about that Kushmaster5000?

Been a while since I looked here and no offense to the people who reviewed but . . . fools the both of ya. Ruby already has her Grimm and her followers. She has enough of a force already.

RomanCenturion? No offense but Ruby should have the New California Republic or also known as the NCR backing her up. NOT the Roman Empire. Her powers and everything else I can agree with but not the army you picked. The Holy Roman Empire is dead while the New California Republic hasn't been born on our Earth in our timeline . . . yet. Plus the NCR has guns and aircraft while the HRE doesn't have either. Please Dravyn LeCrux. Go for the NCR.

Um . . . pardon my french but fuck that. I like Ruby the way she is. Controlling grimm. Her exterminating them is just SO BORING.

Although those rules only apply to things made out of flesh bone blood guts metal etc etc etc. NOT to things made out of darkness night shadows void obsidian black abyss. If it made out of darkness night shadows void obsidian black abyss then she can spawn it anywhere so long as it is also in night/shadows. If it is in light no go. But also again she can only spawn troops armor weapons no matter what they made of. I think I got everything?