Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25555436-20150130030020

Since we're in an Hiatus, and it's going to take months before Vol.3 arrives, I decided to do something to pass time. As you saw in the title of the thread, this is going to be about Alternate Universes' versions of the characters. Pretty much, you mention a character, then explain what happened to it in that alternate universe, and how it changed them, along with how different they are to their canon counterparts.

I'll start: I got, Ruby, Weiss, and Blake.

Ruby Rose: Red like Roses fills her dreams, Red like Roses stains her scythe!

Blood Ruby: This version of Ruby didn't take very well her mother's apparent death. She withdrew herself from the outside world, trapping herself in her room listening to her headphones, and only going out to get some food from the fridge. She abandoned Signal, her friends, and her family, out of the pain that Summer's death caused to her.

Later, Qrow decided to help her. He told her that he could train her how to fight, to become a great Huntress. Not training like in Signal, but real training, the kind profesional Hunters took to be able to take on the stronger Grimms. Needless to say, Ruby jumped at the oportunity. She put her very soul into her training, day and night, releasing all her pain and despair and dedicating her life to the use of the scythe, and how to fight effectively.

However, Qrow knew that this was not a definitive solution. She was focusing her mind on something else other than her pain, not getting over said pain. To relieve this, he spoke to Ozpin, to let him take Ruby into Beacon along with Yang. He accepted, and there she was.

This version of Ruby is a lot more cold and ruthless, and pretty much a cynical, believing Fairy Tales to be bullshit and the real world being a cruel place. Her social skills are also much lower than Canon Ruby's, and she has no real sense of humor, along with not liking social interactions. However, her time with her team and sorta-friends allowed her to become less cold, get over her mother's death, and start to feel happy, becoming more of a realist.

Weiss Schnee: She puts the Ice in Ice Queen!

Cold Weiss:This version of Weiss never decided to become a Huntress, instead dedicating her whole life to becoming the perfect heiress her father wanted her to be. Due to the pressure, and the sadness caused by the constant loss of family and friends due to the White Fang, she forced herself to restrain all emotion to deal with the pain, becoming a cold, emotionless, "robot" young woman that cared about pretty much no one and nothing. So much, that even her father was afraid of her.

Due to not recieving Hunter Training like her Canon counterpart, this Weiss' Semblance is much less developed. However, she still took constant combat training to survive the constant WF attacks, resulting in much better fencing skills, along with some survival skills. More physical-focused than Canon Weiss. Also, since she never met RBY, she never had any real friend, someone to be by her side, and as such never got better unlike Blood Ruby up there.

Blake Belladonna: Strong as the tiger, quick as the jaguar, ruthless as the panther!

Blake Night: This version of her is like the Weiss above, but instead of SDC it's the White Fang. She dedicated herself to the White Fang, at first unwillingly, but her experience as she completed her missions made her see constantly the darker side of the discrimination, and eventually she agreed that the WF's methods were the only way to bring change.

She's more calm, reserved, snarky and aloof than Canon Blake, and has an (even) more pessimistic view of the world, though she intends to change it with the WF. She's more serious and punishing than the Canon Blake, but still has a sense of humor, if a bit twisted. Her sympathy for humans and especially SDC members, is pretty much non-existant, and she despises the Faunus that choose to work for them, considering them weaklings that give up their remaining freedom instead of fighting, trying, to make things better.

Now, it's your turn. 