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I mean… kinda?? CatsVDogs is much more of an AU, and Healing Rust is sort of a canon continuation from the end of V9

In CatsVDogs their relationship (friendship) also starts MUCH earlier in Jaune’s time living in the Ever After (within the first decade or so). Also, ya know, CC gets turned into a “human” pretty early on, that’s why the romantic feelings blossomed

In Healing Rust the Cat remains a Cat, there is no romance (as you mentioned), and Jaune and the Cat only really started being friends about two decades in. It also focuses a LOT more, almost exclusively in fact, on Jaune’s time healing in Vacuo (although I admit there hasn’t been a lot of healing lol). The Journals fic is MOSTLY for my own reference and context, cause the FOCUS is the healing after

Does that make sense? So like… you’re right but also there’s more stuff going on lol

What kind of Pokémon do you think team jnpr would have? Personally I think Jaune would have a magikarp, it just feels right.

It’s because magikarp is a nothing burger who turns into a Cool Guy ™️. Just like the Boy

I must admit in shame that I’ve never played Pokemon, so I don’t actually KNOW what would be a good team for someone to have?? I mostly go on vibes alone when I’m picking pokes for characters

Do you see my vision here?

Bro I’ve got so many incredibly self-indulgent AUs that I haven’t even told yall about

I'd probably go with Jauscar, cause there's a phonetic overlap there with Jau- and o-

Look at them!!! Look at the girl(s)!!!

That’s definitely a very “weighty” kind of moment and it would VERY MUCH have big effects, but it doesn’t work like a cheat code where he can just cash it in for anything he wants

The Narrative doesn’t reward sacrifice with power. It responds to what the sacrifice represents. And with Jaune specifically, that kind of moment would hit very hard because it lines up with his roles. Soldier (putting himself between others and harm), Poet (meaning, finality), King (protecting people)

So if he chose to make that kind of sacrifice, the story would absolutely take it seriously. But that doesn’t mean “anything is on the table.” It means the outcome would be something that fits the story being told.

Things like buying time when there shouldn’t be any left, ensuring someone else survives, or turning a loss into something that MEANS something, not rewriting reality on a whim. The Narrative isn’t a wish-granting system, it’s a storytelling one.

There is actually a moment like that in THE PLOT TM, near the end of a fight with Cinder. Jaune does something that, from his perspective, is basically a death sentence. He’s not expecting to walk away from it. It’s very much a “if this works, someone else lives, and that’s enough” kind of decision

And the Narrative reads that for what it is, that’s part of why it works at all. Not because he “earned a power-up blah blah blah,” but because the moment had the right kind of weight behind it. It lined up with the roles, the stakes, and the intent

The story took it seriously… and responded in a way that matched that

So yeah if he ever hits a true “ultimate sacrifice” moment, it’s not that anything becomes possible, it’s that whatever DOES happen is going to matter a lot, and it’s going to fit the story

Ren definitely can’t see Jaune’s time in the Ever After. His Semblance lets him read emotions, not memories or alternate timelines or anything like that. He’s not suddenly clairvoyant just because Jaune's weird now lol

That said, Jaune does read WEIRD to him. Not in a “I can see the Ever After” way, but in a “this does not behave like a normal person’s emotional state” way

His emotions don’t always line up cleanly. Calm sitting on top of exhaustion, determination without the usual spikes of fear, pain that’s present but not escalating the way it should. And when Jaune leans into one of his roles, it gets more obvious. The emotional read simplifies, almost, like everything unnecessary has been stripped away.

A fortune teller or someone working more on instinct, symbolism, or “fate” though? Yeah, they’d absolutely pick up on something.

Not specifics. Not “oh you went to the Ever After and came back changed.” More like: “you’re standing in the middle of something unfinished”. They wouldn’t see what happened to him, but they could probably see that the story hasn’t let go of him

Not at all!

As I said when I explained what roles the others have, there are plenty of other people who fulfill the role of King. Cause that wasn't a "well this person would be a King if Jaune didn't exist." Nope. They ARE King

The Narrative isn’t going back and rearranging Remnant to make Jaune happen. It’s not setting up a paradox or rewriting history to force him into the Ever After. He was gonna fall in anyway

Ironwood, for example, very clearly sits in Soldier/King. He leads, he commands, he takes responsibility for protection and structure. (he's also a fascist, but that's unrelated lol)

Jacques is more Poet/King. He shapes narratives, controls perception, defines reality through influence and image, even if it’s… not exactly in a healthy way

Robyn is a really clean King. She represents her people, creates a sense of shared structure, and acts as a focal point for others to rally around.

“King” here isn’t about literal crowns, it’s about being a point of structure, someone the story can organize people around. Jaune isn't special cause he's the only King, he's special cause he all three roles at the same time without oscillating between them

Most people sit pretty cleanly in one role, maybe two if things get messy. Jaune overlapping all three is what makes the Narrative pay attention to him the way it does. And the Narrative isn’t really punishing people for being in the “wrong” role so much as it pushes things toward resolution when something doesn’t fit cleanly