This Is Amazing!!!

This is amazing!!!

Not All Histories Are The Same

Over the course of the Loops, as Weiss gets reacquainted with her Team now that they are repeating time with her, the Heiress and Anchor notices a few details...

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It… took a while, to notice… Nagged at her, in quiet moments. Little things, small comments and behaviors. Yang… wasn’t quiet what she remembered. Both Roses—for all that Yang would likely always be Xiao Long, Weiss privately thinks of the sisters as a set only missing Summer—were just slightly not what she recalled.

Ruby was less changed than Yang; listened to Yang more than Before perhaps, was content instead of annoyed when Yang would just… sit and watch her.

Yang, though… Yang hovered, and her teasing was softer more often than not. She still had her temper, was still impulsive and liked to sass or threaten instead of putting in time to think deeply, but… Yang worried, more. She’d pick up on moods more—Weiss knew, though she never said anything, that Yang must’ve seen her breakdown beside the monument in the rain—and would try to draw them out with smiles and jokes and hugs.

But what confirmed it—that Yang and… and Ruby weren’t exactly the ones she’d lost at Castle White—was when she noticed how their stories of Taiyang changed. Changed, and became much rarer. Tai suddenly wasn’t the ever-present father who taught at Signal and took short missions nearby; instead he was constantly gone on missions, drifting back into the house maybe once a week to spend a couple days with the girls and make sure everything was stocked up, before...disappearing, from their perspective. Qrow was more reliable.

Not that either sister said anything negative about the man, but the omissions and excuses, delivered so easily and casually… Weiss stopped asking about him.

And if ignoring the existence of Taiyang Xiao Long made it easier to ignore the little changes? Made it easier to pretend there was no difference? She’d thought she had lost them forever before she started Looping. Thought she was losing them over and over, before Yang started to remember previous timelines, before Ruby started to remember too. Why should she care, if they didn’t quiet remember things from before Castle White like she did? It was still undeniably them.

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Fruit Loops is told from the perspective of several people, though Weiss and Ruby are the most common. Their ability to recall things gets better as they settle into the Loops.

But while the big details—like their time in Beacon and the couple of years that followed—all line up... little things don't, or things from before or outside Beacon.