Jaune Arc in Professor Arc: The Night before Christmas

As part of the *Professor Arc* literary continuity, **Jaune Arc** awakens in the middle of the evening on Christmas Day after Ozpin accidentally killed Santa. Following this unfortunate incident, to mitigate the potential rise of Grimm attacks due to distraught children, Jaune is tasked alongside Glynda Goodwitch, Bartholomew Oobleck, and Peter Port to save Christmas. The canonicity status is unknown, as Coeur has established *Staffroom Chronicles* and *Headmaster Arc* are both canon to *Professor Arc*, but works like *What* *Happens in Vacuo, Stays in Vacuo* are never mentioned in canon.

## The Night before Christmas from Jaune's Perspective

### Prelude

Jaune was born in 17 BB to Nicholas Arc and Juniper Arc as the fifth of eight children, and the only male of seven sisters. When Jaune was young, he heard tales about Santa and his reindeer, which presented an optimistic outlook regarding Christmas. At some point, Jaune left Ansel to apply for Beacon Academy in Vale. Much to his surprise, Jaune started working at Beacon Academy after the administrative staff looked over his transcripts, and decided they were too good to admit him as a student, giving him a professorship role instead. During this time, Jaune got to know the Beacon staff and students, and it is known that Jaune was planning to give Ozpin rare Vacuan coffee, likely saving several weeks worth of salary. On a date implied to be December 24, Jaune fell asleep in his bed alongside Neopolitan, a regular occurance at this point.

### Christmas Day

#### Discovery

At around 1:30 AM, the alarm system in Jaune's room went off. Jaune mistakenly believed his alarm clock was going off, and threw it with enough strength to destroy it against the wall. Neo disabled the alarm via a stabbing. Jaune found himself confused, and checked his scroll as Ozpin was calling. Jaune inquired the nature of the situation, to which Ozpin provided little information other than needing to proceed to his Beacon Tower office immediately. Jaune initially believed this was a matter over coffee, but decided to leave anyway. After an unsuccessful effort to get Neo to remove her sword from the ceiling, Jaune ventured to Ozpin's office, presumably still in his onesie. He encountered Glynda Goodwitch, and the two made an agreement to kill Ozpin if it were a prank. Jaune saw Bartholomew Oobleck and Headmaster Ozpin in the office, the two in a state of despair. Jaune witnessed Glynda drinking coffee, a rare occurance of utmost seriousness, as Ozpin described attempting to incapacitate an intruder. Jaune was concerned and imagined the bloody scene, but grew frustrated when Bartholomew revealed Ozpin killed Santa since he assumed it was a prank. When Glynda dismissed the idea, Peter Port threw Santa's corpose onto Ozpin's table, much to Jaune's shock. Ozpin asked Jaune about Santa's purpose, and after giving an initial material answer, Jaune realized that with the loss of Santa and the joy he brought, the youths would be disappointed, which corresponded with more Grimm attacks. As Glynda inquired what Ozpin was going to do, Ozpin replied that he would delegate for the blame was shared, despite Jaune and Bartholomew's efforts to clarify and reinforce Ozpin's blame.

Eventually, Jaune discovered that Peter secured Santa's sleigh, and noted the details such as "red paint" on the sleigh. Jaune witnessed Ozpin explain the nature of Santa's reigns, how they are made with mind-controlling dust to enslave those tied in it, Bartholomew's disappointment, and Ozpin's justification. Ozpin suggested they use the reindeer to deliver gifts to individual kingdoms. Jaune saw Glynda engage in a staring contest with one of the reindeer, to which the former won. As the rest of the crew left to their respective kingdoms, Ozpin assigned Vale and a "particularly evil-looking" reindeer for Jaune.

#### Delivering to Vale

##### Employing Neo

Jaune, realizing using a reindeer for transportation would not be effective, decided to employ Neo's wormholes to make things more efficient. He would achieve these aims by using the enslaving reins on a sleeping Neo, much to her fury. Despite the capacity of the enslaving dust, Neo still showed signs of resistance and Jaune had to appeal using logos and pathos. Neo eventually decided to help, before forming a wormhole to teleport to some Valean location.

##### Delivery Underway

As Jaune investigated the mechanics of Santa's sack, he realized the bag gives the appropriate presents when near the person. Jaune began to realize the magnitude of delivering to Vale with the sheer volume of people. He was soon distracted by Neo, who was stealing jewelry from innocent homeowners. Jaune lamented it would take a long night assuming the current rate.

##### Encountering Roman

After between 1000-1600 homes, Jaune and Neo teleported into another home. Neo expressed visible tiredness over using her semblance so much, though still tried to attack Jaune for putting her in a slave position. Unexpectedly, Jaune encountered Roman, who was acting as an inverse Santa by stealing items for his men. Roman asked Jaune what he had done to Neo, to which Jaune revealed the events which transpired since 1:30 AM and the implications of their failure much to Roman concern. In exchange for a favor, Roman helped Jaune by employing Hei Xiong Jr.'s men to conduct large-scale break-ins across Vale to deliver the presents. Jaune transferred several Scrolls and a few million Lien to Roman, to which Roman said Vale should be done within 2 hours. Jaune reined Neo again, much to her frustration, and bid Roman farewell.

##### Beacon Dormitories

After delegating the task to Roman and Hei's men, Jaune delivered presents to multiple Beacon domestic and transfer students, along with visiting staff including Penny Polendina, General James Ironwood, Teams CRDL, CFVY, RVNN, and RWBY. Along the way, Jaune encountered several "Santa traps", presumbly used to capture Santa for extortion. At some point, it is implied Jaune was raped by Yang Xiao Long, who had been sexually trolling him chapter 3 of *Professor Arc*. Jaune and Neo completed the last of the Beacon deliveries at 4 AM, approximately 2.5 hours after his initial discovery of Santa's death.

## References

1. ↑ **That said the events [of Staffroom Chronicles] are all inter-connected, and you can assume they are all canon to Professor Arc.**
2. ↑ **Is [What Happens in Vacuo, Stays in Vacuo] canon? Well, so many have asked me that, haven't they? What can I honestly say? Decide for yourselves – it won't ever be mentioned or brought up in canon.**
3. ↑ Indeed… from the tales Jaune had always imagined cheery animals frolicking happily as Santa delivered presents, but the five brown creatures looked absolutely ferocious, all biting and kicking – though as Ozpin said, they never actually hit anyone.
4. ↑ Right then, see if he gave Ozpin that rare Vacuan coffee set he'd saved up for.
5. ↑ Jaune lay in his onesie, Neo having stolen his bed,
6. ↑ Jaune lay in his onesie, and Neo in his bed,
7. ↑ *How to win friends, and influence people.* He read, nodding to himself as he laid the small book by the orange-haired girl, who to be honest was sleeping a little weirdly.
8. ↑ *Dummie's guide to dating?* Huh… who knew? Either way he made sure to be extra-silent as he placed it by the bed the General was using in Beacon.
9. ↑ Another 24-pack of Vale premium lager came to rest at the foot of Cardin's bed, the four teens snoring loud enough to drown out any noise.
10. ↑ Not since when he'd delivered presents to Coco's team she hadn't been the one drawn out the bag – though that might have been a little awkward. Especially if Coco had woken up to see him carrying Velvet around in a sack…
11. ↑ Deciding that a sleepy Neo was a safer Neo, Jaune crept by her as he pushed open the door to RWBY's room, using his teacher's card to overwrite the lock.
12. ↑ A Santa trap eh? Somehow he could imagine that of someone like Yang, though he supposed the lure had proven irresistible to Ruby.
13. ↑ With a sigh he stepped by the offered cookies once more, ducking beneath a spike that threatened to impale him asyet *another* Santa Trap threatened to eviscerate him.
14. ↑ A second later he jumped, as two hands came under his armpits, grasping him as something soft pressed into his back.
15. ↑ "Well lookie here," a warm voice whispered into his ear, "looks like Santa got me just what I asked for."
16. ↑ "Next…" Jaune Arc grumbled as he let himself into a new room, trying to ignore the bite marks on his neck, or the unrelenting tightness of his pants. It was for the greater good that he escaped… the greater good of all of Vale.
17. ↑ And [Jaune] managed it all, with only once being molested!
18. ↑ Smooth, confident, and he knew how to play the game? Oh yeah… she was going to have *fun* with this one! School had just become that *much* more interesting.
19. ↑ His scroll beeped four, and in a moment of horror he watched as some of the young ones stirred in their beds, though to his luck they did not awake.