#lumberyang

Yang is a Lumberjack who works for Schnee Lumber and Oil CO. Canada's finest company, she's from Alberta, and has a heavy accent because her mom is from Newfoundland. That means she really does say "Aboot the houuse" and "Soory"

She's a die-hard Toronto Maple Leafs fan and a Beacon fan. She takes her coffee black.

Blake is a semblance Ice hockey player for the White Fangs, a faunus only team, slowly working up to being recognized in the big semblance Ice hockey leagues

She's from Quebec, not the good part, the part that everyone makes fun of and lowkey hates. It's where all the Canadian Faunus live. She's a die-hard Montreal Canadians fan, and if she had to pick another team that wasn't her own, she'd choose Beacon. She prefers tea to coffee.

They first meet when Blake goes on a training camp with her team. Blake wanders off, being lethargic and upset because team dynamics after her dad stopped being their coach have been messed up. Not to mention she recently broke up with Adam.

She gets lost, and stumbles upon a lumber camp, Yang, the kind soul lets Blake stay the night, but alas, there is only one bed in Yang's room. So, they share. They have a connection, and Yang takes Blake back to her camp, never expecting to meet her again.

Ice semblance hockey is like normal ice hockey, except the use of semblances is allowed. Yang tried to become a player when she was younger but because her semblance would melt the ice she was deemed unfit.

Ruby is the youngest player on the Beacon team, small and fast she's looking to be the best rookie of the season.

Yang tries to go to all of her little sister's games with her dad and stepmom. (Summer never died because the American military manages to keep the grimm pretty much extinct in North America, apart from some isolated places in the rockies)

They're at a playoff game, Beacon vs the White Fangs, It's a wild game. Blake is about to score the winning goal! Ruby dashes in to try and block, and Adam trips Ruby with his stick. She tumbles into Blake, who's shot goes above the net. It flies up over the glass and hits Yang in the face.

Yang stumbles back and hits her head on the bleachers, passing out.

She wakes up disoriented. The White Fangs won the game. As she's coming to and reassuring her family that she's fine, Blake comes in, to apologize and make sure Yang is okay.

Yang says that she won't be unless Blake makes it up to her.

Blake asks what she can do and Yang answers "How aboot a coffee date at Timmies eh? Here's my number"

And thus the Canadian Bees begin.

Extra Notes:

The Schnee Lumber and Oil CO are the company that took control of the Albertan Oil and Dust sands and managed to make Canada an actual competitor on the world scene when it comes to Dust and Oil trade.

When Sienna Khan took over coaching the White Fangs she changed the Jerseys, Blake refuses to play with anything other than her original Jersey.

Instead of numbers, Semblance Ice Hockey players have their emblems on their jerseys.

Adam is notorious for getting in a fight every game.

Yang never wears a coat because she's a walking furnace, but she always wears orange because once she almost got shot by a hunter who mistook her for a deer while she was out tagging trees.

Ironwood is the President of the United States, Winter is his VP. Ozpin is the Prime Minister of Canada

Now gimmie asks about the AU because I have way more where this came from.

Thanks to

@xiaodonnas

@wishcircuit

@yeahbumbleby

Idk if you're here for the bad art or what, but here's most of the Weiss stuff. Thanks to @misslionfigther for the figure skating idea.

Weiss Schnee is an Atlesian born Canadian with German roots that go way back, (America is now the United States of Atlas in this AU, so Atlesian = American)

She's an Olympic figure skater and is also relatively adept in a variety of other fields including firearms, fencing, business, finances, and music.

She speaks German, English, and several dialects of French fluently.

When her older sister Winter decided go into politics rather than the family business all the expectations of inheriting both the Schnee Dust Company, and Schnee Lumber and Oil CO fell on her shoulders.

Her childhood and upbringing was micromanaged by her father, so that she would become the perfect candidate for running the companies.

She's lonely, trapped, and constantly burdened by her family's dark historical past, her future responsibilities, and the fact that it's up to her to somehow make amends for all of the bad her father and family have done.

During her first experience with competetive pair skating her partner accidentally kicked her in the eye, she's lucky she didn't go blind, after that she only did solo routines.

She met Pyrrha briefly a couple times during the olympics, and because her father considers Pyrrha "a wise investment" she keeps in touch with her.

Her 18th birthday is soon. The day when she would begin work at the company and as each day passes she gets more and more stressed. At this point she just wants some kind of out from the literal hell she's living in.

Notes on her Family:

Willow Schnee: Atlesian, former CEO of the Schnee Dust Company, Alcoholic, she lives in a summer mansion in Hawaii, where there's no ice to be seen.

Jaques Schnee: Canadian born, CEO of both Schnee companies and founder of the Schnee Lumber and Oil CO. Abusive and Racist Asshole. Lives in Atlas Canada, an area in Quebec near Toronto, that used to be an Atlesian colony.

Winter Schnee: President Ironwood's VP, Atlesian, used to be an ice skater herself. Owns way too many guns. Served in the military before moving into politics.

Whitley Schnee: Atlesian born, lives with his father, spoiled and undersupervised younger brother. Since no one ever payed attention to him or made him do anything he never developed any particular talents besides manipulation and avoiding work.

Attends a private school in Atlas Canada. Is a very depressed and spiteful young boy.

Klein: Weiss' figure skating coach, basically the one who keeps her sane.

Now have a badly written short fic!

Unknown Number

The day before her 18th birthday she got a call from an unknown number. Normally she would let it ring, but for some reason, be it boredom or hope, she picked up.

Instead of answering with her usual cold 'This is Weiss Schnee, heiress of the SDC, why are you calling.' She simply answered with a tentative "Hello?"

The voice that responded was high pitched and childish "A-ah! Hello! I mean-"

The voice cut off and there were panicked noises in the background, she heard a cheery 'Just be yourself' and a cryptic 'I can't just talk to important people normally!' Before the voice resumed

"Most esteemed heiress! I am Ruby Rose! The finest player of the Canadian Nation's iconic sport! Your, frie- uh, fellow comrade in arms! Pyrrha Nikos bestowed thy number upon me! And! I wish to, um. . Uh."

There was a pause, and more mumbling before

"Okay you know what this is hard! I can't talk fancy! Weiss Schnee! I need to talk to you about how to fix the disparity between Faunus, Semblancers, and Normies!"

Weiss hung up. She was already constantly bombarded with reporters and angry crowds asking about what she "Planned to do" about every little grievance and misdeed attached to her name.

Now they had gotten their hands on her private number. She made a mental note to block Pyrrha permanently later.

The girl who had called. What was her name again? Ruby Rose?

Weiss googled the name and was soon hours in to an intensive investigation on the sixteen year old hockey rookie.

Human Rights, Faunus Rights, Semblancer and Normie equality. Autism Awareness, Gun safety, Children's health,

These were all causes that this seemingly awkward and underqualified redhead had involved herself with.

Weiss sighed and looked at the ornate clock in her room as it ticked to midnight. She was 18, and her life was never going to be her own again.

She stared at the last webpage she had opened, Beacon Academy's player roster.

She scrolled down to the bottom and found the link to the Beacon website homepage,

Here she found pictures advertising the programs specifically catering to Semblancers, and the school's hockey program.

And there it was, the Academy's address, somewhere in Northern Alberta Canada.

She stared at it, the old forgotten feeling of defiance rising in the pit of her stomach.

Picking up her phone she dialled her coach's number and left a simple message.

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I'll start from the beginning, Me Dad and Mum met when they both got selected to try out for Team Beacon. He's from Alberta, She's from Newfoundland,

There be sub teams within semblance hockey, and My Dad's team, Team STRQ, happened to be's the best.

Now eventually me Dad was after playing, you age out of sports quick y'know, and somehow he convinced me Mom to marry him.

They moved to Newfoundland, back to her 'ometown, and I was born. We lived there until I was aboot ten years old.

Now, when I say they were good at hockey I mean it, they be so good that the Prime Minister himself wanted to meet them. But after that everything changed.

Me Uncle Qrow quit hockey and became a politician, and me Mom and Dad started fighting, a lot. They never told me aboot what.

They were just after it and got a divorce.

I spent a year or so going between them, then me Mom took me Dad to court to fight to have her parental rights terminated.

I'd be lying if I said that didn't make me some crooked.

After that me Dad reconnected with Summer, she stayed playing hockey the longest out of all of them, but after she broke her ankle she decided it was time to slow down, and she and me Dad got married and moved to Alberta. That's where Ruby was born.