Omnichrome University

New AU Story on AO3!

Summary: “Weiss is a cheerleader, Blake is an artist and musician, and Ilia is a track star. Sure, it might seem like they’re worlds apart, but one chance meetup at a campus LGBTQ student org meeting leads to something more growing between them. Perhaps they can find what they’ve been longing for in each other?

“College AU, Remnant Adjacent (no magic or semblances, but there are still Faunus and the kingdoms). Also featuring the misadventures of Team NAVYL (Polyamorous JNPR + Yang)!”

Thanks to all the help from my friends on discord, I was able to develop this new AU! I hope to have a ton of fun with it, since I can really do anything with it and the characters! Here’s a little look at each major character:

Blake Belladonna

Blake is a quirky and often quiet person, tending to stay within her own creative mind rather than branching out socially. She’s primarily an artist, but is also a musician and writer. She’s awkward to talk to at first, but is generally a nice person, though if you catch her at a bad time, she’ll try to just avoid interaction altogether.

Since coming to Beacon, her extroverted roommate Neon has decided to make Blake her adopted introvert, she has joined theatre (as a designer), and she has started attending LGBTQ org meetings regularly. Maybe making friends won’t be as hard as she thought?

Weiss Schnee

Throughout childhood, Weiss was told that she was destined to be special. And so, she did everything she could to make sure she would be. Of course, she suffered from “gifted kid syndrome” and eventually crashed and burned as a 1st year in college. Now a 2nd year, she’s on the up and up once again, with a bit more humility on hand. Additionally, now that she’s no longer obsessing over the way others see her (at least, not as much as she used to), she can take the opportunity to do some self reflecting. And she soon realizes she has a lot to figure out, thanks to a charming and attractive fellow member of the cheer team…

Weiss has a tiny problem: She’s a 2nd year in college and still hasn’t made sense of why everyone is so fucking attractive? Good thing she has fellow cheerleader and aroace wisewoman May Marigold to help her figure things out, to an extent. Weiss is a mess, so it’s taking a while. She’ll get there.

Ilia Amitola

A motivated person in almost every area of her life, Ilia dedicates a lot of time and effort to her athletics. She has big aspirations and holds herself to them, which means she often has to deal with self doubt and feelings of inadequacy whenever she comes up short. She’s a fun person to be around, and allows herself some time to relax and be social, but that personal time is often limited or bypassed altogether. She needs to get to bed early so she can get up for her early morning miles, after all.

Ilia’s actually doing pretty well in college. Well, classes could be going better, but she’s an excellent athlete and she’s loving the college life. But then she hears that Blake is at Beacon, and this rocks her world. Ilia had thought Blake was a part of her past, but here she was, looking as stunning as ever…

Team NAVYL (Nikos, Arc, Valkyrie, Yang, Lie)

They are polycule goals. But that doesn’t mean things don’t get a little out of hand at times. Yang and Pyrrha are the stars of the Beacon football team, and basketball team, and volleyball, and wrestling…Nora, Jaune and Ren are very very lucky, that’s what I’m saying. Meanwhile, Nora plays baseball and is in the robotics club with Yang, and Ren and Jaune work in a record store together, and are also cheerleaders. Jaune and Nora are trans and Ren is nonbinary, and they’re all in one big bi/pan pile of love and chaos.

And yes, they all share one giant bed.

(I’m really looking forward to writing more Team NAVYL stuff. Like, I’m beyond psyched about it. My pan heart is palpitating at the possibilities… )

I’m open to suggestions for subplots, scenes & scenarios, and questions about the AU. Let’s see where this story takes us!