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ㅤ ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*⠀Welcome to the AZRE universe !⠀✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

welcome to rwbyazre, a blog dedicated to the RWBY AU; AZRE! This pinned will include the awaited Masterdoc for anyone who wants to go further into the universe and all the worldbuilding/characters!

Warning - The Masterdoc is currently unfinished, with some of the character cards needing to be finished and a few of the other parts needing to be done. It also contains spoilers of the AU for up to the next gen series CSYN, so if you don't want to be spoiled, I would refrain from looking.

With all that said, the doc can be found HERE!

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* To Be Completed List: ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

Volumes 1 - 4 edits.

Concept Art of cast.

Grimm Section.

Semblance Section.

History Section.

AZRE fic.

PRSM interquel.

RWBY sequel.

Me and his creator started becoming friends again after breaking up, and I did always like Aurelius so I didn't mind putting him back in.

He's just now part of a band that Eirian's a super fan of and in the art as a little gift for my friend. I even made some concept art for him too.

That's fine, there's a few flags that I know would cause some confusion so here's the definitive guide on each character shown!

Adam/Zanthus/Aurelius:

Adam's outfit: Bisexual Aurelius' outfit: Bisexual / Transgender Zanthus' outfit: Gay Man Flag: Polyamorous

Ruri/Pyrrha:

Ruri's outfit: Genderfluid Pyrrha's outfit: Aceflux Flag: Lesbian

Eirian/Yang:

Eirian's outfit: Sapphic Yang's outfit: Nonbinary with a Leather Pride patch Flag: Pansexual - Bisexual

Ruby/Sun/Penny:

Ruby's outfit: Asexual with Intersex sash Sun's outfit: Bisexual / Transgender Penny's outfit: Omnisexual Flag: Polyamorous

Weiss/Blake:

Weiss' outfit: Demiromantic Blake's outfit: Demiromantic Flag: Bisexual - Bisexual - Lesbian (Outside) / Demisexual (Inside)

Ren & Nora:

Ren's outfit: Agender Nora's outfit: Lesbian Flag: Lesbian (Nora) / Asexual (Ren)

Chase/Ankhesenamun:

Chase's outfit: Aromantic Ankhesenamun's outfit: Bisexual Flag: Bisexual

Roxanne:

Roxanne's outfit: Butch Flag: Asexual (Outside) / Lesbian (Inside)

Aurora/Whitley:

Aurora's outfit: Bicurious Whitley's outfit: Bicurious Flag: Questioning

Summer/Taiyang:

Summer's outfit: Bisexual Taiyang's outfit: Bisexual Flag: Bisexual

Qrow & Raven:

Qrow's outfit: Demiromantic Raven's outfit: Demiromantic Qrow's flag: Pansexual Raven's flag: Pomosexual

Ozpin & Eliana:

Ozpin's outfit: Genderfluid Eliana's outfit: Aroace Flags: Aroace

Jin:

Jin's outfit: Demigirl Flag: Pansexual

Ironwood/Clover:

Ironwood's outfit: Transgender Clover's outfit: Gay Man Flag: Gay Man

Winter:

Winter's outfit: Agender Flag: Bisexual

Harriet/Chau:

Harriet's outfit: Butch Chau's outfit: Nonbinary Harriet's flag: Bisexual Chau's flag: Pomosexual

Monroe/Velvet:

Both outfits and flags: Lesbian

Emerald/Mercury:

Emerald's outfit: Bisexual Mercury's outfit: Genderqueer with an Asexual Spectrum heart zipper

Ilia:

Ilia's outfit: Lesbian Flag: Two-spirit

Happy Pride!

I'm nearly done editing V1 while dealing with work and life and all that, but today I had to go to hospital following a seizure and I am still suffering from them.

I just wanted to make a post to let ppl know and to say thanks for all those who've stuck around and those who've sent in asks. I'm still loving AZRE more than most works I've ever done and whole the process is slow and haphazard, I will see the day I finish this story.

ZRE reuniting with Adam only for him to lose his leg like 2 days later like-

So I was going to split AZRE into its respective Volumes to make it easier to read, and then I had ideas of what I wanted to do differently/add mroe foreshadowing and leads in the earlier volumes to feed into the later ones, or just remove characters like Ghira since I was growing more dissatisfied with the idea of having to write him lol

Oh, there's only 3 Marrón siblings; Chase, Roxanne and Aurora. Though fun trivia fact: there was originally meant to be more Marrón siblings in the early drafts of AZRE before I started streamlining them down. Pretty late into the story building, there was actually 4 Marrón siblings with a middle brother between the twins and Aurora named David.

He was originally meant to be Grimmified while Roxanne just died in the FOB, but then I decided to axe him and had Roxanne be captured and thought dead, only to come back as a Hound in the Chase Interquel.

So all that's left of the big group once thought are three left but I love each and every one of them sm.

I will have drawings available soon but Connley is Aurora and Whitley's only child, and is one of the youngest of the cast. There's not much storywise yet but he is one of the only children from a SEW that doesn't have silver eyes themselves. He has Whitley's purple eyes.

But he's the opposite to Guiying. Whereas she is desperate to live up to the idealised heroes in her head, and sees her lack of silver eyes to be a curse, Connley doesn't. He was raised to live a happy life from two people who had horrible upbringings. Both Whitley's entire childhood living under Jacques and dealing with the death of Willow, and Aurora losing her entire family and being raised as basically a bioweapon at the age of 12.

Originally in AZRE, it was going to be Winter who became the Winter Maiden in kinda a reverse of what happened in canon. Winter becomes the Maiden and ultimately makes it about her choice in doing so, choosing these powers not because of Ironwood or Salem, but because she wants to help and she will do it this way.

In the rewrite, I decided that ultimately Winter's story can end in a number of ways, including her choosing not to be the Winter Maiden. It's made more obvious during the Atlas Arc but Winter choosing her own happiness and refusing the powers can honestly be just as rewarding for her because finally she is choosing what she wants; and that's ultimately to stay just herself and be with her family rather than proceed further into being a glorified chess piece against Salem.

Like yes, Ironwood and Winter do care about each other and he's not conciously manipulating her. It's not a clear case of evil general and poor Winter, they both agreed that it made sense in their situation and Ironwood would have to give up his mother, Cailleach, while she's at her most vulnerable with dementia.

But that still puts a lot of pressure on Winter and honestly? I wanted her to finally be happy lmao.

Now why Ilia? Her story is all about reclaimation. Of her life, of her culture, of her freedom. She was forced into conformity under Atlas from birth, she had to go to a school that forced her to hide both her Faunus AND Native heritage, she had no freedom in the White Fang because Kaanchana quickly gave her to Cinder without even telling Ilia beforehand.

And the Winter Maiden powers were within the Solitese natives hold for milennia before Cailleach became the Maiden following her friend Tahki's sudden death. It makes sense not only for a story about minorities taking back their rights/culture/homelands, but for Ilia's story of reclaimation.

Yes! It was partly because I wanted to differentiate Ruby from Summer and also based Summer off a few Irish friends I have that have very similar hair texture to Summer!

Well the Empress passes away during the time skip between the main story and the sequel, with Qiujun succeeding the throne instead. And really, he's very similar to his mother in ways of ruthlessness and detachment from other people... except for one.

That was Seigyoku. Even decades after her death, Qiujun is impacted by her brief teachings and kindness and that pushed him to reconsider how Mistral treated the Faunus. Even with the outcry over it, he made sure that the Faunus that were relocated from Mistral were welcomed back to their ancestral homeland and tried to keep an open mind when offering allyship to other parts of Anima like Phon Lan and the Khangris Steppe/Mountains.

Ultimately, Qrow is a very loving person and Winter is one of those people on his list of those he loves the most.

The issue is that he is so emotionally damaged from his past and constantly on edge because of his Semblance that he pushes everyone he cares about away. Chances are if he lets you get close physically to him, he doesn't actually care that much if the bad luck gets you.

With Winter, Qrow was honestly attracted to her physically only for that love to deepen very fast. He tries to keep his mystery and distance from her, but Winter's keen eye and refusal to back away from something only endeared her more to him. He finds that they both really are birds of a feather; two lonely people casted out, desperate for purpose and connections yet having been burned too many times to actually take that oppotunity.

He's one of the few people who knew about Willow, about Jacques' treatment of her, how her childhood was spent as basically an indentured servant and that made Qrow feel like finally someone might understand what he went through.

Because he too had been casted out. He too was put down by his parents, his tribe, even Raven in the end. No one wanted to be around the walking bad luck charm as much as they wanted to be around the Bastard Schnee.

But ultimately the growing connection was something that Qrow feared. He knew how close Winter was getting and even little things set him off; a broken glass here, a near miss there. And soon enough, he found that he was going to be a father with Winijay on the way.

That self hatred and lack of control that ironically fueled his Semblance's unpredicatbility pushed him away. And he left precisely because he cared so much about her; just like with Ruby and Yang, like with Taiyang and Summer.

Whitley dyes it when he's older to fully white to further distance himself from Jacques'. Even funnier since Aurora's natural brown hair turns white because of stress and the strain of her silver eyes, so she goes to dyeing it back to brown for some normality, even if she can't see it properly anymore.