The Games We Play (RWBY fanfic)/Trivia

• Accidentally Accurate:
  • One of the literally largest examples would be the "leviathan" Grimm, predicted years before the kaijuu-like Leviathan appeared in RWBY V6E12, but there are numerous other little details that accidentally turned out to match actual revelations in the series. Other things (*cough*Menagerie*cough*), though, not so much.
  • Similarly, Ziz awakening and breaking out of a mountain predated the Grimm Wyvern at the end of V3 by more than a year. There's a reason there's an image on DeviantArt which declares that The Games We Play was "canon before canon was canon".
  • Jaune's "Soulforge Restoration" skill gives him a Healing Hands ability not unlike the initial manifestation of his Semblance in V5 of RWBY, and indeed, that is what the Huntsmen and Huntresses he encounters in this story think his Semblance is.

• Mythology Gag:
  • There's a point where Jaune says, "I'll be lord of the battlefield and lord of the dance—though I assure you, my moves don't need much help in that regard", which makes reference to his canonical dance skill.
  • Jaune's refusal to retreat in the face of superior forces makes for an interesting contrast to his canonical version's initial willingness to "run and live" in V1E8 -- and echoes his later refusal to back down against superior foes since in V4 and later. Then again, we don't get very far into the story before this version of Jaune is already far superior (and facing down bigger foes) than his canonical version is at that point.

• Shout-Out: Among others:
  • At one point another hunter is playing a game suspiciously similar to Angry Birds, involving firing Nevermores at buildings.
  • "I'm a Hunter, like my father and his father before him."
  • The end of Jaune and Penny's fight, when he's dismembering her, is the Black Knight scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, complete with Penny as the Black Knight giving the appropriate dialogue, albeit in her own vernacular.

• Shown Their Work: Ryuugi definitely Did the Research on a multitude of subjects -- for example, every original Grimm name and appearance (especially those of the unique legendary Grimm) comes from folklore and mythology, and the (meta)physics of the sephiroth are taken directly from the Kaballah.

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