This is very fun and interesting to read! Seeing the knight bumble about searching for any connections to hallownest sounds very interesting! But as much as it pains me to say it, it is very in character for Ozpin to either ignore or forget the fact that new students might come upon the knights during initiation. I mean surely nothing can go wrong with rookie students tasked with hunting Grimm coming upon two terrifying void creatures that are armed and ready to butcher anything that attacks them? I believe there are only three creatures the knight hasn't killed(Unless they escaped like the moss charger boss) those being Zote, Hornet and that bloody banker altought not for a lack of trying. Regardless of my rambling this story is very promising so far with knights being distrustful and lost within Remnant, I can't wait to see what trouble to knights will find themselves in because let's face it there are likely few nice and quiet days for a void vessel.

This is everything I wanted. I encourage you to make more.

Author's Notes (Chapter 3):
"Damn, RWBY's writing is... terrible; that's putting it mildly. Cinder Fall is a horrible villain and one of the worst characters ever written. Jaune sucks at life and everything else. The characters are one-dimensional. Salem's motivations are still as clear as a deep black void. Does she want to summon gods to die? To beat them to do something? I don't bloody know. / Honestly, you are better off reading fan-fiction where the authors either fixed the plot or introduced a plot of their own. After watching the first volume and reading a bit more about it, I can't believe how badly they screwed up the premise and the characters. Also, I will answer the reviews in the PMs, if you have got any questions."

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YMMV / RWBY
Acceptable Targets: In general, sexual abusers and lechers are a common target in the show. Junior's flirting with the then-underage Yang in the Yellow trailer is treated as justification for her to hit him, and Adam's abusive and possessive behaviour in Volume 3 toward Blake immediately marked him as a monster. Later on, in Volume 5, a lecherous man Yang encounters at a gas station keeps hitting on her and then tries to touch her hair, and she promptly punches him so hard he's hurled out of the store and gets a water on the house for it.

Angst? What Angst?
One of the show's criticisms, especially in its early stages, was Ruby being perennially happy and whether or not it grated as the Volumes steadily got darker and darker and the cast developed their personalities — only one episode implies it might be for show ('Stepford Smiler'). Some think it's refreshing and a good trait to balance out the increasing darkness, while other think it leaves her a 'Flat Character'.

Archive Panic: New fans often say they indulged in an 'Archive Binge'. While the short amount of episodes stimulates it, the length (usually 12 minutes, disguised in Volume 1 by splitting a few in two-parters) makes for at least 15-16 hours to watch all 7 volumes.

Arc Fatigue:
1) One common issue fans had with the first volume was that the six episodes immediately after "Players and Pieces" were very slow-paced episodes dealing with school life where Weiss had to grapple with Ruby becoming team leader and Pyrrha discovering Jaune's secret and Jaune dealing with the consequences of it. The slow pace of those episodes, the shortness of each episode, and the fact that they were split across six weeks when the show first aired meant that many fans got tired of waiting for something interesting to happen. This is less of a problem now that one can sit through all of those episodes in under twenty minutes.
2) Volumes 4 and 5 were criticised by some fans for having multiple plot-lines that took a long time to resolve due to the main characters being split apart. One particularly common complaint was that Blake's arc in Menagerie was taking too long to resolve. Another arc that was complained about was RNJR's arc in Mistral in Volume 5, which mostly involved them hanging around the house, only training in one episode, and having exposition-heavy scenes, all while basically waiting for the plot to advance, while Blake managed to conclude the Menagerie arc all by herself. Like the above, the ability to watch it all in one go makes it less of a problem.
3) Ruby takes THREE SEASONS to ask about the Silver Eyes, even though she spends much of that time travelling with two people (Ozpin and Qrow) who knew her mother well; and even then it comes around because of Maria joining the cast.

Author's Saving Throw: Ruby's handling garnered a lot of complaints over Volumes 4 and 5 due to not being active, having less relevance compared with other characters in spite of being the protagonist and not asking about her silver eyes. In Volume 6, the writers specifically said that Ruby was on their list of things to improve with this volume, and Ruby has been the primary focus for the volume, assuming a leadership position and central role in the story and finally solving the silver eyes issue. However, while she manages to get prominent focus, it also came at the cost of bringing the fact that she's a 'Vanilla Protagonist' to the forefront, narmy speeches and all.

Base-Breaking Character: While popular in the first three Volumes, Cinder has become a more steadily controversial character as each Volume goes on. The primary points of contention lie in the quality of her voice acting, her personality and the lack of character growth and background that she's received. Despite being the longest running villain on the series to date, many detractors feel that Cinder is criminally under-developed, with the only true hints to her background being in Volume 3 where she alluded to wanting power. Her fans argue that Cinder's background has been sufficiently hinted at or point to Volume 4 indicating that the power-hungry nature is just a mask hiding her true self. The end result is that as of Volume 7, Cinder is one of the most divisive characters in the show, with various arguments had over whether or not she should have been killed off or if it is too late to give her backstory and flesh her out after so long.

Broken Base: Volume 3 marking a drastic tone shift from an archetypical high-school battle anime to a world-spanning save the world plot has divided viewers. People in favour of it argue that the Beacon chapters were only meant to be a prologue to the story at large and that this allows the show to explore Remnant in full and put the characters in more unique situations. Detractors criticise the show for inconsistent pacing, especially in Volumes 4 and 5 right after the tone shift, or argue that the series worked better when it played into its cliches.

Creator Worship: To a part of the FNDM, Monty Oum was considered the sole creator of RWBY, could do little wrong, and his unfortunate passing is when they accuse the show of entering Seasonal Rot. This group dislikes criticism of Monty, objecting both to anyone who dislikes Monty's fight animation or prefers the fights of later volumes. Any faults within the show that they do acknowledge are blamed on the shows writers, Miles Luna and Kerry Shawcross, who they accuse of ruining Monty's vision.

First Instalment Wins: A lot of spin off material such as RWBY Chibi, the manga anthologies, and various games are all either set during or use outfits from the Beacon Era (Volumes 1-3) with very rare exceptions. The first three volumes are also the most iconic ones and the ones generally better regarded.

Franchise Original Sin: From the very beginning, RWBY was criticised for several traits that would haunt the series for years to come, including awkward dialogue, weak character growth and excessive character bloat. However as many early fans were more there for the spectacle of the fight scenes, the show could ignore those traits. But in Volume 5, much of the screen-time consists of lengthy scenes of exposition while there are very few fights of generally lower quality, making the flaws much more apparent and resulting in the volume gathering a very poor reception compared to the others.

Gotta Ship 'Em All: The fandom is incredibly open minded about the characters. A single one is always shipped with just about every other existing character to some extent regardless of sexual preference. If they exist, shipping fan works about them will exist with the entire cast.

Growing the Beard: Volumes 2 and 3 are generally considered when the show picks up the pace and starts consistently improving.

Just Here for Godzilla: Monty Oum had a famous and recognisable style of choreographing and animating fight scenes. His name alone was a draw for people familiar with his work to give RWBY a look when it first started airing. After his death, new animation teams and software took over the show, changing the style of action scenes. This created a divide between fans that are only interested in Monty's work, and fans that are interested in the show regardless of the fight animation style used.

Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Due to the fandom's openness with shipping, as well as their love for crack ships, just about any character can become this. Yes, that includes background characters like the shopkeeper that appeared throughout the first volumes.

LGBT Fanbase: This originated from assumptions fans made about the personalities of the four heroines during the show's original four advertising trailers. While the show proved the a great deal of these assumptions wrong, interviews revealed the creators do want LGBT characters, but the teens will develop self-awareness slowly and realistically. Confirmed creator support boosted fan interest, making it a very prominent part of the fandom, and most of the show's characters have dedicated LGBT fans.

Misaimed Fandom:
1) The shaming of Ozpin in Volumes 5 and 6 is meant to be a relatively clear-cut conflict with the entire group agreeing that Ozpin was in the wrong for keeping as many secrets as possible. However, Ozpin explains that his reasoning for keeping secrets is that Leo, Raven and countless others before usually betray or abandon him when they learn the truth, which happens again when his past is exposed by Jinn and it's revealed that he effectively did nothing wrong in Salem's origin story barring dying. It doesn't help that Ozpin is currently in the body of Oscar who gets the crap kicked out of him by Qrow and Jaune (alongside Yang physically intimidating him), and barring Ruby, no one stops to ask how Oscar is doing. That Ozpin clearly has a lot of unresolved trauma surrounding his past with Salem that he was forced to relive in extensive detail usually gets overlooked. The conclusion to this was some fans wondering what Ozpin actually did wrong and thinking Qrow, Jaune and Yang were in the wrong for physically assaulting a 14-year-old child.
2) On a meta level, a significant number of fans like to believe that the show is largely the brainchild of Monty Oum, and that the head writers, Miles Luna and Kerry Shawcross, are ruining the series and vision he had. In truth, the show was largely a mutual collaboration, as by his own admission Monty couldn't write and was more of an ideas person, and Miles and Kerry often had to make sure Monty didn't take the scenes too far for 'Rule of Cool' lest they interfere with the writing, best evident with Volume 2's finale Breach, which is criticised for making the Grimm come across as glorified mooks after seeing RWBY, JNPR, and CFVY so easily decimate them.

Only the Creator Does It Right: The show was originally advertised as an animation created by Monty Oum, who had built up a reputation around having a signature style of choreographing flashy, high-speed fights. For fans who follow the show because it's a Monty Oum creation, the quality of fights and the development of his original vision are both extremely important. Ever since Monty's untimely death after Volume 2's end, there have been fans who feel no subsequent animators can do the fights justice and that the original vision of the show has been lost. Sadly, there are numerous fans who seem to think that Monty did everything in the show, thus they consider the "original vision" to be everything in-series.

Sacred Cow: Part of the fandom is really invested in the show, to the point where they consider it almost flawless. This part of the fandom doesn't like when the show is criticised and can become very defensive when it happens. This has unfortunately led to the fandom developing a bit of a bad reputation for being unable to handle criticism.

Seasonal Rot: Volume 5 is considered drastically inferior to previous volumes due to a lack of well-animated action, the over-reliance on exposition, and unnecessary talking scenes that slow the narrative; these concerns were strong enough to require direct acknowledgement by the creators. While fans generally agree that Volume 6 has improved from Volume 5, the feeling is that the latter half of the volume deteriorated from its strong start and that the creators still have to do more work to reclaim the quality of earlier volumes.

They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Despite being the main protagonist, Ruby receives far less character development or back story exploration than the other main characters, and even some minor characters. For example, her complicated family situation is only discussed whenever Yang's character is being explored and her goals and drivers in life usually only get mentioned by proxy when other characters are discussing their own life goals. With only a few exceptions, her feelings and thoughts about even traumatic events tend to only be hinted at, or speculated about by other characters. As a result, Ruby's role in the story is passive, acting as a lens for the characters around her to be explored and as a pivot around which the plot occurs, rather than contributing to, or driving, the plot in more a active fashion. It took until Volume 6 for her to finally become more assertive.

They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
1) After two volumes building up Cinder's obsessive hatred towards Ruby and their first confrontation since Volume 3, the anticipated face-to-face meeting passes with barely any interaction between them, and the Volume 5 fight that Cinder compromised the villains' mission for never occurs.
2) Much of the narrative surrounding the Faunus and the racism they face is heavily pushed to the back-burner during Volumes 6 and 7, with the entire White Fang having seemingly disintegrated after the Battle of Haven due to Adam's downfall and having no mentions in Volume 7 (which is set in Atlas, one of the most hostile nations to Faunus in the setting). While this is likely due to Miles' stated Creator Backlash against the plot, feeling it overly ambitious for the series (alongside it being one of the most often criticised plots in the entire series), that the reaction from the crew has been to reduce it to background dialogue was seen as a wasted chance to redeem the plot.
3) In Volume 6, Oscar finally has enough of the abuse RWBY, Qrow and JNR have laid on him due to being Ozpin's vessel and sneaks away into the city of Argus. Oscar vanishes for an episode and comes back with new clothes, having gotten over his issues offscreen. That this was skipped over while Jaune got an extended scene to mourn Pyrrha was a particular point of contention for critics of Volume 6.
4) While a lot could be said about Volume 5, its portrayal of Mistral, especially after the world-building video spoke about what it was about, fell very short. The Kingdom isn't explored in full and there are only glimpses in three episodes, the third of which being thrown in the volume that shows the team leaving Mistral.

Tough Act to Follow: The quality of the animation and choreography of all the fights in newer seasons following Monty's death are often a point of contention among the FNDM, as many fans have said that many fights in Volume 3 were lacklustre compared the flow, momentum, and impact that resulted from Monty's touch. Many fans have pointed out that Monty kind of set the bar a little high and think RT is doing an okay job, while others feel the fights in newer seasons leave much to be desired. Volumes 4 and 5 were also criticised by many fans for having fight scenes that were perceived as far less complex or fluid than even Volume 3.

Mutual Relationships and Heartfelt Emotions might do good to the Knight. Especially when said person can awaken their Emotions. Hope this might help when you finally form Pairings. Little Ghost might want someone that reminds him of Myla the Miner, someone who can sing... Like Weiss. Or maybe the fangirlish Bretta... like Ruby.

Oh and maybe add the Grimmchild too, since helping the child grow up may seem good for Ghost's character Arc

Mutual Relationships and Heartfelt Emotions might do good to the Knight. Especially when said person can awaken their Emotions. Hope this might help when you finally form Pairings. Little Ghost might want someone that reminds him of Myla the Miner, someone who can sing... Like Weiss. Or maybe the fangirlish Bretta... like Ruby.

Oh and maybe add the Grimmchild too, since helping the child grow up may seem good for Ghost's character Arc

PS FF. Net is getting buggy again

Maybe add Grimmchild to the roster, as if like an accidental dropping of a Badge of Grimm. I think it's a great character arc for the development of the child , and some wild theories how a "Grimm" could manipulate Fire Dust in a way. Good thing you're not going too fast for the story

I've always assumed that Salem's goal was to cause as much chaos and division amongst the people of Remnant, so when she can summon the Gods they will wipe out all of humanity including the Faunus. Just so she can permanently get rid of Ozpin. It sounds just as stupid and petty of reason to wipe out all of humanity, but ever since Monty died the quality of the writing has gone down hill since Vol. 4. So I wouldn't put it past Rooster Teeth to do this.

This is so fun, btw, have you tought that ghost might question if the grimm and the grimm trupe have some conections? They are named the same, have red eyes and are atracted to the disgrace of others? Negative emotions/ the falling of a kingdom, you know.
And if i remember correctly, hollownest is conected in some ways to other dimensions, i mean, when you use your dream nail in a specific moth statue in the graveyard you get transported to the shrine of believers and they told you that this messages are "uterings from another world" so i put this here so you can didle with this info as much as you like.
Great chapter, great story, cant wait for more.
Since the next chapter.

Ey another good fanfic by you good though i will ask since you don't like cliche can you just make this fanfic out of team rwby interaction because almost every fanfic abour rwby i read either normal,crossover or oc is always the same. guy is in remnant, guy goes to beacon always, guy meets team rwby, if the guy is cold hearted somehow team rwby make him/her warm hearted, somehow guy makes team rwby into a harem of his/her. You can always just make the knight on an original adventure on remnant fight bandits,white fang, human, faunus agaisnt salem or heck ozpin group to find his home. one of the best fanfic about rwby that i like is about this spartan from halo, noble six but instead of him joining beacon he goes on an adventure usually him alone to go back to his home universe not only that but the author also makes his personality stay the same as canon since spartans are usually not very sociable at all. So just make the knight only trust on himself not with ozpin or salem especially ozpin he almost always vague and secretive

Yeah Ozpin with the secret yo make vessels Is bad idea, Ozpin Is to overconfident in His wisdom, Ironwood Is an idiot, and Glynda and Qrow are eay to loyal yo Ozpin even if His decisions are bad

thanks

While romance ruins some stories it just depends on how it is played out. As some romance enhances the story it is in. However for this story, I would see romance as somethin that would ruin it

Good job, you have me hooked in the history.

I will tell you what RWBY is ... RWBY is shit and an insult to human intelligence, the cartoon has too many plot flaws, plot convenience for the "protagonists", too many narrative contradictions, the worst character development, the worst relationships between characters and the worst characters that can exist. Not to mention that RWBY is mainly dedicated to putting LGBT down your throat

The best advice I can give you is to give up and abandon the story, YOU MUST NOT WASTE YOUR TIME ON A SHIT LIKE RWBY, writes hollow knight with another franchise.

Good job on this idea so far with the Hollow Knight. Don't think I have read one here on that has the Ghost being the main character alongside his tall sibling. The last ones I read was only the Hollow Knight as Weiss' summon and the one with Hollownest being transported to the RWBY world. I find it interesting to see Grimm being non hostile to the Ghost, as that seems quite an interesting plot point I think. Being able to safely navigate through the wild places without Grimm being hostile along the way and getting soul without being hurt, sounds like a nice game mechanic is what I think. I will say I like this rare idea, and the story concept. So keep up the great work.