Inspired by Jaune Arc: Hero of Vytal (JA: HoV) by Kartofel von Kouch, Jaune: The Gamer (J:TG) by Desodus, and The Games We Play (TGWP) by rgm0005. Further influenced by various other The Gamer crossovers as well as the Legendary Moonlight Sculptor Light Novels. I do not own RWBY, The Gamer, or Legendary Moonlight Sculptor as both are property of their respective owners Roosterteeth, Sung San-Young, and Nam-Hi-Sung

Reading The Gamer webcomic, I felt sad that the main character would always make strange and potentially unwise decisions due to his confirmed to be staying low WIS. I wondered how well the MC would have done had he continued to gain strength on his own without giving the secret away to anybody, as well as what could be done with crafting.

So I read up on The Gamer crossovers to feel better. None precisely fit what I wanted so I just decided to write something and see how it goes.

First story, will probably be updated oddly

Note: I wanted to have both small and large numbers of Lien drop later so I made Lien like cents/yen rather than like dollars/euros.

Jaune Arc: The Accidental Hero

Prologue

The Hero Awakens!

Once there was a boy who like many other young children was read fairy tales by his caretakers. Stories of Heroes and Villains, Dungeons and Monsters, Knights and Princesses, and much much more. But among all of the stories that the boy was read, his favorite by far were stories about Legendary Heroes; Heroes chosen by Fate to achieve a great Destiny.

Should Fate actually exist, she undoubtedly has a sense of cruel irony.

Because you see the boy who once dreamed about being the Chosen One, the Legendary Hero, the Savior, and many other pretentious sounding titles that only a small child can fully believe in, eventually the boy noticed something strange about the stories; that the greater the story, the more likely that even the seemingly limitless Hero would be drawn to death.

So the boy looked for proof, believing in the Heroes that he so loved.

The video games that the boy played as 'training' until he got big enough to go out and kill lots of Grim, seemed pretty obvious.

The Hero barring exceptional circumstances, was the only one able to access many menus, see stats, put up queues, and most importantly train to rapidly gain levels against the most unlikely of foes, to triumph over unreasonable foes on a daily basis; and possibly look good while doing it.

So in real life it must be the same.

The vast majority of the people just weren't getting stronger fast enough; so logically they must not have been Heroes.

And the most successful people in the world; people who actually had a chance of being a Hero must have been too humble to share their exploits with the world.

But some of those fake-slow-to-grow Heroes came from the boys own family.

And while the boy loved the concept of Heroes with as much power as a certain other worlds city destroying bombs, the boy loved his family with the searing intensity of a second sun.

So with belief in his family the boy did something no young child should ever do; he decided to open a history book to look for support of the greatness of Heroes.

What he found was the truth.

Heroes die.

Most of them die pathetically.

And most of those who did Heroic actions were crushed long before they could prove themselves enough to be individually remembered as a Hero at all.

Many even became a lesson of what not to do, a shame that lasts until someone else even 'stupider', 'more foolish', 'more hopeless', and so forth came along.

The stories that had created such conflict in him in the first place, that shook his belief in Heroes, that tormented the boy enough that the boy nearly tripped while dancing with his sisters...

they were the safest stories where Heroes had the least gruesome fates, ending up with the most probable gains, and it was in fact far more expected that any to strive to become a Hero would end up suffering a far grimmer fate; with even the bad pun being unable to cheer the boy up.

Seeing a short life of repeated mockery, depressingly likely failure, and sudden inglorious death... that day the boy lost all desire to become any type of Hero; especially a Legendary Hero, with the boy pledging to never become a Hero regardless of what happened from then on, and to just take care of his sisters, and when they became older, to just take care of himself.

But also on that day, the very moment after the boy gave his solemn oath... the world awakened the boys Semblance.

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(The Gamer)

Lv2 Jaune Arc

"WHY AM I THE PROTAGONIST!?"