Professor Arc

Depiction of Jaune Arc and Neopolitan in Chapter 10 by Exvnir

***Professor Arc* (PA)** is the second fictional work written and published by Coeur Al'Aran depicting a "worst-case scenario" for Jaune Arc in his transcript admission. The work ran in syndication for 64 chapters from 2014 December 18, to 2017 July 2, . From 2016 July 11 to 2017 January 29, it was Coeur's longest active work in syndication before it was supplanted by *Not this Time, Fate*.

At this point, Coeur still had plenty of time to watch *RWBY* and work out the intricate details without ultimately being pressured by deadlines of fictional and work-related transcriptions.

## Background

According to Coeur, *Professor Arc* was not planned. In the early days, he wrote from *Harry Potter* and decided that he fancied Neopolitan and "Glunda", deciding to write what he picked.

### Prelude

In 5 BB, Jaune decided that he wanted to become a hunter at the age of 12. Unfortunately, this only netted him six months until the Signal entrance exams took place, meaning that he was not considered "fit" enough to pass the exams and be accepted, resulting in him lacking the necessary experience to attend Beacon Academy.

In 4 BB, the Vacuo Academy for Gifted Youths was destroyed in a Grimm attack. Most academic records were destroyed in this incident.

A couple of weeks before applying to Beacon, Jaune asks Roman Torchwick to provide fake transcripts and information to get him to join as a student, using the aforementioned Vacuo Academy incident as a cover story. Upon testing the cover with a bank, he decides to follow through with the application process.

Less than a week before the Beacon semester was set to start, Jaune is called personally by Ozpin for an interview and arrives at Beacon via airship, where he meets Glynda Goodwitch. While walking within Beacon to the headmaster's office, Jaune complemented Glynda, eliciting a "small smile" before it was mercilessly killed.

### Hired by Beacon

After some dialogue takes place regarding his credentials and potential as a teacher rather than a student, completely unexpected by Jaune, he is hired by Ozpin as a professor and support teacher much to his chagrin.

 Shortly after being hired, Jaune was given an office and special quarters consisting of an en-suite bathroom, kitchen-living room, and edible amenities within the fridge and cupboards. He received a card from his parents and sisters in the meantime, all of whom expressed shock that he received employment within Vale. According to Jaune, he made altercations to the story stating that he was teaching 14-year-old students at a combat school rather than young adults at Beacon. In an attempt to make him look more mature and be "respected" by the "younger" students, his parents sent him a coat to make him appear "taller and more buff."

Glynda enters his quarters to provide him with books along with a syllabus for history and Grimm studies to plan for the school year. After complimenting Glynda on the effort that went into providing advice on how to properly punish people, both Jaune and Glynda established a first-name basis, which was unprecedented by other senior professors at Beacon.

Eventually, Jaune is given the responsibility of naming a team consisting of Lie Ren, Nora Valkyrie, Pyrrha Nikos, and Velvet Scarlatina. He decides to name them "RVNN" after 'cheating' with last names.

### Docks Incident

It is after the Docks incident that the Arc family is finally informed of Jaune's actual job, teaching huntsmen instead of younger teenagers as he implied to his mother over the Scroll.

### Promotion to Headmaster

After defeating Cinder in the Battle of Beacon, Beacon is still left without a headmaster for leadership. Deciding to subvert the bureaucratic process, Glynda nominates Jaune as headmaster of Beacon, with Oobleck, Peter, and Tsune voicing their approval.

## Impact and Legacy

*Professor Arc* is one of the most well-known and praised fictional works across the *RWBY* fanbase. It has and continues to spawn a significant collection of derivative works and inspire writers to create continuations, comedic pieces, alternative history, and pornography based on the premise of Jaune being a professor of Beacon.

## Additional Links

* *Professor Arc Syndication Timeline*
* *Literary Style of Professor Arc*
* *Derivative Works*

## Data Analysis

### Reviews, Favorites, Follows

The following table presents data on the reviews, favorites, and follows for *Professor Arc* in general from its initial publication on December 18, 2014 to the end of Writing Year 2017. At its conclusion, *Professor Arc* achieved around 7,000 reviews, 5,200 favorites, and 5,400 follows.

#### Reviews

Reviews of Professor Arc over a 1,420 day timespan from December 18, 2014 to November 7, 2018. Blank areas are due to a lack of available information on certain dates.

### Date

18 December 2014—7 November 2018

The review growth was initially a slow process, requiring over 11 months to acchieve 1,000 reviews. The piece began to quickly take off in terms of reviews in December 2015, requring only one month to gain an additional 300. The piece maintained sustained growth over the course of 2016—2017, with the most dramatic increase taking place between April and July 2017 when the review count increased by 1,900 when the piece ended. Immediately following the end of its publication, *Professor Arc*'s review growth would flatten, only gaining approximately 500 new reviews by the end of Writing Year 2017.

#### Favorites

No data sources have been found for the favorites on Professor Arc predating March 2015. However, based on precedent, it may be assumed that Professor Arc had a sttep initial favorite growth on the first day before levelling out. Similar to the reviews, the trendline from March to May 2015 suggests that there was a slow growth in favorites, likely because Coeur had been injured and not published any chapters. By September 2015, the growth rate had increased substnatially. Compared to the reviews, the favorites growth is more linear overall. Even after the conclusion of Professor Arc in July 2017, the piece maintained a consistent favorites rate throughout the rest of Writing Year 2017.

## Trivia

* Accompaniment works such as "Staffroom Chronicles", "The Night Before Christmas", and "What Happens in Vacuo, Stays in Vacuo" are confirmed in an author's note to be part of one major canon for *Professor Arc.*
* Within the *RWBY* public shipping chart, the relationship pairing between Jaune Arc and Glynda Goodwitch has a secondary pseudonym of "Professor Arc."

## Professor Arc Library Archives

### 2014

* Chapter 1, "A Slight Oversight", **Thursday, December 18**: https://web.archive.org/web/20200415225645/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/1/Professor-Arc
* Chapter 2, "Doomsday Approaches", **Wednesday, December 24**: https://web.archive.org/web/20181112235940/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/2/Professor-Arc

### 2015

* Chapter 3, "Wolf among the sheep", **Thursday, January 8**: https://web.archive.org/web/20180405100126/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/3/Professor-Arc
* Chapter 4, "Of forests, Grimm and Special Brew", **Monday, January 19**: https://web.archive.org/web/20180405104850/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/4/Professor-Arc
* Chapter 5, "White Lies", **Thursday, February 12**: https://web.archive.org/web/20180405112814/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/5/Professor-Arc
* Chapter 6, "Just another criminal", **Tuesday, February 24**: https://web.archive.org/web/20180405120302/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/6/Professor-Arc
* Chapter 7, "Awkward Circumstances", **Monday, March 16**:https://web.archive.org/web/20150513103934/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/7/Professor-Arc
* Chapter 8, "Lifestyle Choices", **Thursday, May 14**: https://web.archive.org/web/20191026202104/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/8/Professor-Arc
* Chapter 9, "Facing the music", **Monday, June 29**: https://web.archive.org/web/20200527042409/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/9/Professor-Arc
* Chapter 10, **Monday,** **July 27**: https://web.archive.org/web/20200524042128/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/10/Professor-Arc
* Chapter 11, https://web.archive.org/web/20191110063812/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/11/Professor-Arc
* Chapter 12, "The Devil's in the Detail", **Monday,** **August 17:** https://web.archive.org/web/20151010123837/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/12/Professor-Arc
* Chapter 13, "Forever Fall", **Monday, September 7**:https://web.archive.org/web/20191111073052/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/13/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20191111073034/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/14/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200527042538/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/15/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200527042600/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/16/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200527042712/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/17/Professor-Arc

### 2016

* https://web.archive.org/web/20200527042823/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/18/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200527042849/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/19/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20191111073128/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/20/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200527042916/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/21/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200527042952/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/22/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200524042138/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/23/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200524042142/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/24/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200527043104/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/25/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200527043209/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/26/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200527043401/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/27/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20191111072820/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/28/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200527043426/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/29/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200524042208/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/30/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200527043808/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/31/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200524042214/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/32/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200527043832/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/33/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200527043853/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/34/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200527043912/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/35/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20191111073523/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/36/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200527043938/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/37/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20191111073448/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/38/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200527043959/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/39/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200527044031/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/40/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200527044054/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/41/Professor-Arc

### 2017

* https://web.archive.org/web/20200523215521/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/42/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200524042218/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/43/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20191111073553/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/44/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200527044149/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/45/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200527044150/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/46/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200523215548/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/47/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200527044235/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/48/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200527044236/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/49/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200524042226/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/50/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200525184559/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/51/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200527044313/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/52/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200527044316/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/53/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20191111073045/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/54/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200527044343/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/55/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200523215601/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/56/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200527044346/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/57/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200524042231/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/58/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200524042239/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/59/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20180405112815/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/60/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20180405104851/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/61/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20180405100127/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/62/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20181113001457/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/63/Professor-Arc
* https://web.archive.org/web/20200522221031/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10898868/64/Professor-Arc

## References

1. ↑ http://archive.is/0JjXo#selection-689.3-691.12
2. ↑ http://archive.is/0JjXo#selection-685.42-687.11
3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20191011000107/https://www.fanfiction.net/topic/189701/163655710/16/Coeur-Future-Fics
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 http://archive.is/0JjXo#selection-1085.159-1085.297
5. ↑ http://archive.is/0JjXo#selection-1085.298-1085.408
6. ↑ http://archive.is/0JjXo#selection-1289.99-1289.401
7. ↑ http://archive.is/0JjXo#selection-1277.0-1277.124
8. ↑ http://archive.is/0JjXo#selection-1281.0-1281.217
9. ↑ http://archive.is/0JjXo#selection-1105.0-1105.237
10. ↑ http://archive.is/0JjXo#selection-1189.31-1189.210
11. ↑ http://archive.is/0JjXo#selection-1313.126-1317.33
12. ↑ http://archive.is/0JjXo#selection-1327.0-1327.118
13. ↑ http://archive.is/0JjXo#selection-1331.0-1331.200
14. ↑ http://archive.is/0JjXo#selection-1435.0-1445.13
15. ↑ https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11353797/1/Professor-Arc-Staffroom-Chronicles
16. ↑ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1\_bnr68pepImz1RDq7uJiQraVnDjU2D0vqmrSE85sF\_U/edit#gid=1295997636&range=AP7