Essence of theRemnant

The liquid in this silver canteen tastes like unrealized potential, gin, and soul. Drinking it grants you the following:

• A self-designed functionally peak human body, with beautiful and cohesive aesthetics. Closer to comic book peak human than real world.

• Optionally, you may possess one or two traits of an animal of your choice, such as a tail or pair of extra ears atop your head, marking you as a Faunus. This grants you minor and creature-specific stat boosts, like night vision for cats. You may choose a mythical creature to be a Faunus of, which will grant you potentially powerful and unique abilities and slight dominion over lesser faunus, because I know you horny bastards are into that.

• Your soul’s power is materialized outside your body in the form of an Aura. While appearing to just be a thematically colored force field at first glance, it can be used to increase your strength, speed, healing, and even extend to the weapons you wield and the clothes you wear for various purposes.

• Your Aura, alone and untrained, could make you a solid match for most of the hunters in Remnant from the get go, through sheer reserves and strength. If you really trained yourself, you could soar to the top and beyond quickly, as yours is uniquely limitless in how much you can grow it through training.

• Aura’s basic expressions are just the kindling for a much brighter flame, though. Known as a Semblance, this ability is largely unique between each person, with a few notable exceptions. You may copy any canon Semblance in RWBY, or create your own either from another CYOA or by freeform design. Remember that most Semblances shown so far have been simple concepts that possess surprising versatility. At its base, yours is around the strength of any of Team RWBY’s own, but will grow from there easily with training like your Aura. With your starting Aura reserves, you could fire off an active semblance at full power for the better part of half an hour, and a toggleable semblance could be left ‘on’ for twice that.

• You may Awaken Aura, and Semblances as a result, in other people. Their reserves and strength cannot surpass yours, but you may choose roughly how strong their Aura is compared to yours, with a cost on your own Aura based on that.

• Combat and wilderness survival skills such that you could find a good job as a Huntsman from the moment your boots hit the ground.

• A unique weapon, connected to your soul on an even deeper level than those of the other warriors on Remnant. It doesn’t have to be mechashift capable, but it helps. When wielding this weapon, your skill in combat skyrockets through your mastery of it alone. Even if you haven’t chosen a secondary (or further) shifting form for this weapon, it folds down into a relatively tiny wearable form, discrete against all forms of scanning. It also loads infinite ammo of any kind of dust mixtures you want if it has ranged functionality. It will reappear within 24 hours if destroyed.

• A unique outfit, or set of thematically similar outfits, that slowly regenerate from any damage done to them, are extremely easy for you to modify and use your Aura on, and may contain Dust weaved into the threads for a variety of effects when your Aura is pumped through them. They also happen to be extremely beautiful, if maybe a little cluttered. Expect lots of zippers and belts in weird places, although you can change into or out of them at the drop of a hat.

• You may optionally be a Silver Eyed Warrior. These orbs give you the ability to channel your emotions (most easily, the painful ones) into Grimm-vaporizing or petrifying flashes of bright light. They will be relatively ‘shotgun’ at the start, triggering only under strong emotions, but can be trained to the level of needing only a glance to instantly turn a Grimm to stone. Each time you enter a new universe, these eyes will become attuned to similar threats to the Grimm present there, such as any dark or evil creatures, and have the same effects on them. These WILL stand out, if you’re in the RWBY universe.

• You may opt to be ‘cursed’ with the ability to transform into a small, probably flying creature if not directly observed. How this qualifies as a ‘curse’, I have no clue.

• If you so desire, you may develop access to the Magic that Ozpin and Salem possess. The exact capabilities of this magic system are unclear, so be responsible when determining what you can do with it. At the very least, you can quote-unquote curse people with the above transformations, and wield the dust elements innately, not relying on the crystals.

• Charisma that allows you to come up with solid quips on the fly, bullshit your way through damn near anything, and get in the pants of others rapidly. This can be directed in many different ways, such as smug Yang charisma or brooding Qrow charisma.

• A mechashift briefcase with a larger unfolding inside that contains:

  • The purest raw crystals of every kind of dust imaginable (potentially including Fanon ones), reloading infinitely every time you close and open the case.

  • Easy to understand schematics for all of the setting’s technologies, that can also be copied into any data format you understand.

  • An untraceable Atlesian bank card with a balance of “Yes.”, convertible into standard currencies.

  • A Scroll that can connect to the internet in any reality, and that reforms itself inside the briefcase if ever destroyed or sufficiently damaged.

• Of course, this is all toggleable, or a sliding scale, adjusting to your liking.

• Optionally, be inserted into a specific or generic RWBY setting, including fanfiction or non-canon media.