N: ( ✍️📜 Expose me & I'll tell everyone what YOU'RE hiding, Your Highness)
Prompt: ENEMIES-TO-LOVERS + ROYALTY AU
Fox blackmails Neo into breaking an arranged marriage + she blackmails him to elevate her station.
Trivia Vanille is a lady in Vale’s court, & has been locked up by her parents to hide her muteness. The one exception is that her parents allow her to visit with Weiss Schnee, the future Empress of Atlas. Their parents are friends, and even though they are lower in the court structure, the Vanille’s are valuable to the Schnees.
A party is being held in Vale’s court, and since Weiss wants her there, Trivia is finally allowed to go. This is because it’s the engagement party for Fox Alistair, Prince of Vacuo, and Weiss.
Fox Alistair travels to Vale to attend the party, but he is robbed by gentleman thieves calling themselves “Neopolitan” and “Roman Torchwick”. But in a shocking turn of events, Fox realizes when he gets to the palace that Lady Vanille has the same mental signature as Neopolitan.
Ready to find the truth, he follows Trivia into the night. He finds out she is Neopolitan and they fight. But during the fight, Neo breaks Fox’s mask and finds out he’s blind. Fox has been hiding his blindness for the sake of the arranged political marriage with Weiss Schnee.
So now they blackmail each other. Trivia wants to elevate her station and get away from her parents. Fox wants to break the arranged marriage with Weiss Schnee. The solution? Trivia and Fox pretend to be madly in love to stall the wedding until they can both figure out what to do about their problems.
But maybe, just maybe, these enemies will fall in love!
"In the world of idols, lies are weapons. You wanted a hero & you got me instead. I’d be disappointed too."
Oshi No Ko inspired redraw - but obviously not the anime plot!
Fox's agency is hiding his blindness. Cinder is 'Neo's' true singing voice.
I know Fox looks like a Miraculous Ladybug character but that's just his stage outfit lol.
Neo's parents force her to be an idol, using her semblance for fancy effects/costume changes that dazzle the fans. But as she's mute, Cinder is singing behind the scenes. She is pretending to be the one singing through lip sticking and her illusions making it look convincing. Meanwhile, Fox's agency is hiding the fact that he's blind with a Fox mask / aesthetic.
Fox meets 'Trivia' in a chance meeting, but she doesn't recognize him as Fox Alistair and he doesn't know she's 'Neo'.
The idea is that in this image though, that they are still as they appear at the beginning of the story. Instead of Neopolitan, Neo performs entirely as her Neo persona. And it's the same with Fox always performing with the mask. In the Oshi No Ko music video, there are ‘two Ai’s’ and ever since seeing those I thought of Neo. Obviously it doesn’t follow the Oshi No Ko plot at all, they more exist in the Oshi No Ko Universe with the magical star power!
Through Fox and Neo’s friendship, they'll reveal their true selves to the world someday!
Roman: "Sooooo let me get this straight - you ran into this tower while I distracted the horse and now he won't give us back the crown unless we take him to hear the symphony they do for the Prince every year?"
“Everyone is so busy staring at the monster that they can’t ‘see’ the girl.”
Team CFVY is sent to kill a Grimm monster in the woods… but Fox knows he feels the mind of a normal girl🤔
A Beauty and the Beast AU where Neo has cursed herself using her illusion Semblance, but can’t remember and believes that she is a monster! Luckily, Fox believes there is more than what the others may see…
An Amnesia AU for Dessert Oasis Week 2023! However, in this case it’s everyone else who forgets.
After RWBY Volume 9, Neo returns to Remnant with a newfound purpose, remembering that Roman told her she could be “anything she wanted, even a Huntress.” before they ran away together. She trains at Shade Academy after beating Headmaster Theodore in a fight to prove that she was strong enough to stay (though, he may have let her win). Neo eventually falls in with Team CFVY and ends up being romantically involved with Fox, becoming team CFVYN (Caffeine). At some point, Velvet is a candidate for receiving the Summer Maiden powers. Neo, wanting to protect Team CFVY, knowing the only way to rival Cinder is to have those powers and that Cinder will surely kill Velvet, convinces Theodore to pick her instead.
The Relic of Destruction in this AU works on Equivalent Exchange - to use it, you must offer something of equal value to what you want to destroy. Since Neo is a maiden, she is considered ‘equal’ to Cinder, and can use the relic to destroy her. But as a result, Cinder and Neo are both wiped from existence, the only person who remembers her being Fox since he was present when the relic was used. As a result, he grieves alone, and no one knows what Neo did for all of them.
I hope everyone continues to enjoy Dessert Oasis Week!
Fox Alistair and Trivia Vanille become friends at a preparatory boarding school (Trivia sent by her parents, Fox sent by Headmaster Theodore after the death of his family & Uncle Copper). Both are happy to find someone who can understand what they’ve been through, and they spend a lot of time together. When Trivia’s parents pull her out of school after an incident™️ with her imaginary friend ‘Neo’ and her semblance, the two make a promise: to meet each other again at Beacon Academy.
After the Fall, the wanted criminal Neopolitan loses the one person in the world who loved her - Roman Torchwick. After finding Roman’s body on the grounds of the school, she runs into a Huntsman and they fight.
“You know, when we made that promise to meet again here, this isn’t exactly what I meant!” - Fox Alistair
In this Post Volume-9 AU, Neo taps out messages onto Fox's hand using a braille-like system, and Fox slowly repeats the messages he receives aloud... 😏😈
More details about the background / base used on the bottom panel here.