Beacon Civil War (TBCW)

Female Students

The **Beacon Civil War** was a state of civil unrest between the male and female students of Beacon Academy lasting for one week before the Vytal Festival. The chronicles of war were detailed by leaders, soldiers, subjects, and prisoners on both sides as each plotted a means to destroy the other.

## Pre-war Events

### Eatery Interaction

In the morning of First Day, team JNPR heads for breakfast alongside sister team RWBY. Jaune Arc attempts to court Weiss Schnee with a lady-killer smile and "snow angel" quote, which only serves to draw her ire. Interactions continue as Jaune expresses little clue as to why Pyrrha Nikos behaves as strangely as she does, receiving no help from Yang Xiao Long, Ruby Rose, or Lie Ren. This moment serves as the final state of "peace" between the boys and girls of the teams before the start of the games.

### PA Speech

Headmaster Ozpin announces on the intercom that a new training scenario will be enacted for both Beacon and transfer students in preparation of the 40th Vytal Festival. The scenario will last one week with canceled lessons, automatic passing for combat classes, and a reward of 2,500 lien for each student on the winning side. Stipulations on what not to do include the detaqils of not attacking the medical ward and leaving the academy unless the students desire to face the wrath of Tsune and Glynda Goodwitch. The teams are set as boys versus girls, beginning immediately after Ozpin concludes his speech.

## Course of the War

### First Day

#### Eatery Skirmish

Shortly after the PA speech concluded, Jaune was in a state of shock. Ren took an initiative by kicking the table towards the women of teams RWBY and JNPR, who were at that point the most dangerous threat in the room. Yang reacted by destroying the table, which gave Jaune enough time to realize what was happening and the two men to start running away, to which the women gave chase. As Jaune and Ren ran across the eatery, they observed other battles where students used makeshift weapons such as chairs, baguettes, and silverware.

As Jaune and Ren tried to escape, they were blocked by Coco Adel and Velvet Scarlatina, who happened to have their handbag and Yatsuhashi Daichi's sword on their person. With the exit blocked and the threat of death and being dressed in frilly clothing, Jaune and Ren realized that they needed to escape by any means necessary, deciding that they needed to escape through the windows. Given that Coco was still firing her handbag, this would have been a near impossible task, but Jaune had a plan to create a genius distraction consisting of the men charging right into the fire while he and Ren escaped through the window, which he enabled through a motivating speech about teamwork.

As the terrified men continued to charge at Coco's hellfire, Jaune and Ren attempted to run away from the fray to enact their escape. Unfortunately for them, Ruby noticed their attempt, and began to pursue them with the female members of RWBY and JNPR. Jaune had the idea to use cookies to distract Ruby, clearly unaware that strawberries are actually her favorite food, which lead to Ruby being offended at Jaune's perception of her instincts. Fortunately for Jaune, he was able to get similar results by tossing an empty bown behind him, which Ruby happened to step her foot in and slipped, crashing into a bunch of recovering men in the process.

#### Regrouping

After the Eatery Skirmish and the declaration of the **Beacon Civil War**, Octavia Ember provided insight into the men's initial defeat and decision of Ozpin. She stated that the women's victory did not necessarily come from having a greater number of or better fighters, but from the logistics of the operation. Whoever won the initial skirmish would have subdued over half of the other sex's population of Beacon, while the remaining percentage would be without leadership and resources. At the same time, 70% of the women would be collected in one place to communicate and organize a means to quell those who remain outside. This coupled with the fact that the battle determined who controlled the eatery posed a huge advantage to whoever won the initial skirmish, which turned out to be the women.

Shortly after the skirmish, Weiss would be promoted to brigadier general, where she gave a quote of confidence regarding the conflict, stating that "[the men] are helpless, and completely at our mercy."

## Mindsets

### Female Perspective

As detailed by Octavia Ember, the girls were confident in their victory on the First Day due to the success of Coco Adel in weeding out a good majority of the from the cafeteria. Controlling the distribution of food and drink had been critical to psychological stability for the women as "an army marches and fights on its stomach."

## Aftermath

### Literature

*On Days of War* by Octavia Ember

*Tales of a Wanderer* by Yatsuhashi Daichi

*The Beacon Civil War* by Lie Ren

*The High Book of Jaune* by Russel Thrush

*The Road to Manhood* by Cardin Winchester

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