an AU where Maria Calavera became a professor at Beacon Academy

inspired by @fairylolz2‘s post

I badly wanted an AU where Maria trained Qrow so I immediately latched onto this one LMAO

so some little things in this AU:

Maria would probably about 45ish and above in the AU, just like STRQ’s canon-ish age in comparison to Team RWBY

Because Maria is hiding from those hunting her down and people who know her, she also hid the fact that she’s a Silver-Eyed Warrior. That’s why her remaining eye is brown – she wears some sort of contact that looks natural

Team STRQ is amazed at Professor Calavera. Not because she’s terrible at teaching a class, but because she has a lot of “cool stories” as a Huntress (more cashew incidents, I guess)



She’s exasperated at Qrow’s idolization of the Grimm Reaper since she feels that she was a failure by retiring as a Huntress to hide from her enemies. At the same time, she sees a part of her in him that still draws her close to the young boy



Apparently, Raven’s bandit manners, unrefined nature and contrasting ideologies rub off of Maria. Raven butt heads with her so often and Maria’s buttons could sometimes be pushed by her. But because of Qrow’s stories, Maria tries to understand and kinda relates to Raven through her own personal conflict of survival vs. nobility / duty

Maria is obviously fond of Summer because of her optimism + the fact that she’s a Silver-Eyed Warrior. I sort of headcanon that SEWs get “good vibes” from one another immediately because they’re so rare and a part of a single clan

Because Qrow (dragging Raven along) often goes to Maria for tips and “stories” (she’s really good at training one person at a time, though), Taiyang figured he could “pilfer” information about Raven from her since a) Summer teases him relentlessly about her and b) Qrow would tattle about his mad crush on Raven anytime if he knew. He trusts Maria in keeping secrets. Maria is both game and not so game at it

Maria uses a different weapon than a scythe because she couldn’t risk anyone recognizing her. Sketches, stolen pics, trading cards and all that jazz captured some details of her weapons that could give her identity away

She’s the goddamn mother figure of STRQ. YOU CAN’T STOP ME

I’m gonna tag future related drawings as The Grimm Reaper is a Teacher (AU) / Professor Calavera (AU) (check out the tags!!!)

