Arc Royale

Jaunes' slogans depicted by Curbizzle. Left to right (top): Null, Not this time, Fate, White Sheep Left to right (Bottom): Relic of the Future, Forged Destiny, Professor Arc. Published 2021 November 1.

### Publisher

Coeur Al'Aran

*This page is a work in progress*.

***Arc Royale*** is the 28th literary work by Coeur Al'Aran published on 2021 November 2. This piece represents the single-largest screwing up of the timeline, as multiple Jaune Arc incarnations from different literary canons converge into one universe.

## Background

### Vixen

Since at least 2015 May 22, Coeur entertained the idea of Jaune interacting with himself in the short summary for dropped story "Vixen." The idea of Vixen features Jaune travelling back in time and possessing a female fox Faunus while his original body continued to exist. While not technically an alternate universe convergence story, the concept of two Jaunes' interacting in the same timeline would later become a concept in *Relic of the Future*.

### Would the Real Blake Please Stand Up?

Another exercise into multiple Jaunes' interacting in the same story emerges from Coeur's prompt for the 43rd edition of *The Writer Games* on 2015 November 13, where Jaune splits into eight, each encompassing the seven deadly sins from Christianity. Coeur only came up with the prompt and College Fool chose to use the original concept which he found better, but it is know that Coeur and College Fool had been discussing general concepts of character clones interacting in the same continuity, particularly Blake Belladonna. It's not known if this discussion encompassed multiple literary universes, however.

### League of Extraordinary Jaune-tlemen

The concept of multiple Jaunes' from different Coeur continuities stems back to 2016 August 2, when ZonkRT created "The League of Extraordinary Jaune-tlemen Totally NOT For Fun" threat on the Professor Arc Forum. At this point, Coeur published nine literary works, from *One Good Turn Deserves Another* up to *Forged Destiny*. Immediately, Coeur approved of such as concept, writing multiple comments playing along with the idea. ZonkRT would later publish the League of Extraordinary Jaune-tlemen as a stand-alone piece on 2016 August 14, featuring multiple incarnations from stories by Coeur and College Fool. The story remained in active syndication until 2016 November 14. As more characters were added into Coeur's literary stock, the PAF had more characters to explore interactions, although the thread has not seen activity as of 2017 November 8.

## Literary Motivation

> "*[We] know Remnant was the first time the Gods had a go at making something, and the first time they decided to work together - and they got "tricked" by Salem. It led to me wondering how fallible they are, and the conclusion I came to is that they are young, inexperienced and childish.*"
> ― Coeur Al'Aran, 2021 November 2
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Coeur interpreted Remnant as an early experiment from the Brother gods, noting their behavior is more consistent with youth and inexperience. As such, the premise of the work is that the Brother Gods are bored of stalemates between Ozma and Salem, and decided to intervene to make the game more interesting. This was a minor theme explored at the end of *Relic of the Future*, where Jaune and the members of Team STRQ contemplated the behavior of the Brother Gods, and the similarities between their behavior and that of younger children.

## References

1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150523045849/https://www.fanfiction.net/u/6272865/Coeur-Al-Aran
2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20211104032348/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11527150/43/The-Writer-Games
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20190819205256/https://www.fanfiction.net/topic/189701/153842645/1/The-League-of-Extraordinary-Jaune-tlemen-Totally-NOT-For-Fun
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://web.archive.org/web/20181106091828/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12101593/1/The-League-of-Extraordinary-Jaune-tlemen
5. ↑ Impatient after thousands of years of stalemates between Ozma and Salem, the Brother Gods decide to intervene.