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ChishioKunrin wrote: Isn't "Alternate Universe" usually used to describe things like, say...

RWBY AU where everyone's in normal high school, and Salem's group are actually a group of bullies.

RWBY AU where they're all actually mermaids.

RWBY AU where everything's the same, but Ruby is played by Gus and even has his face.

RWBY AU where everyone is Jaune in a costume.

RWBY AU where everything's super sci-fi and Huntsmen and Huntresses wear high tech armor like the Spartan armor in Halo.

RWBY AU where it's a horror setting instead.

RWBY AU where it's a magical girl/boy show instead. Jaune has trouble activating his magical boy powers.

Y'know, stuff where it's quite literally a different universe, not just a different timeline where it's still the show but things happened differently than they did in the canon material. Most of those are so common they actually have their own tags on fanfic sites. But canon divergence is one of the common ones, espeically when it comes to character deaths.