Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24573226-20160623204034/@comment-14138255-20160920030035

I had an idea awhile ago for a deconstructed "fix fic" of Jaune waking up and being back before the attack on Beacon and the events (of which Jaune is oddly apprehensive of, but doesn't know why) of the Battle of Beacon don't occur do to certain things interrupting the catalysts.

For example: Pyrrha doesn't shove Jaune against the wall, Ruby breaks Emerald's focus, causing Pyrrha to lose against Penny (and thus feeling freed from her champion status, knowing who her true friends are), who then announces her intent to enroll in Beacon and is publically supported (forcing Ironwood to relent, or risk public disappointment), which promotes goodwill between Vale and Atlas. Cinder launches the virus out of desperation, but without a Grimm attack to distract them, Atlas is able to stop the robotic forces with the help of the students.

Then he deduces the world is fake due to the moon not changing phases and goes to Ozpin for answers. Ozpin breaks it to him the events of the finale and that he is in an angst coma (initially Ozpin leads him on about it being from a Grimm attack that relies on a macguffin poisoning his aura or something, but reveals he's just fucking with him and tells him he really doesn't need a reason for it, Jaune is in a prison he can only escape by moving past it and all that). After a tearful good-bye to Pyrrha, Jaune would "leave" and wake up in a post-Battle of Beacon world with Nora and Ren by his side, his mental wounds healed (unless Jaune's still hurting come V4).

I never had time to write it and couldn't come up with anything for it, but I wanted to share it this time.