User blog:WeissSchnee/My Plans For Volume 4

So, with Volume 4 coming up, I thought it might be a good idea to let you guys know what my plans are for my characters story wise.



Considering how much changed at the end of Volume 3, I'll be putting most of my characters on the back burner by simply saying that they're either travelling or have gone home to their families.



Viola, after losing her entire team during the events of the Fall of Beacon, has headed to Mistral and has been looking for information on those who're responsible. Whilst doing that, she begins to hear rumors of a plot by Faunus extremists to assasinate the councils ruling the four kingdoms of Remnant. Wondering if the same people planning these attacks are the same people who were responsible for what happened in Vale, she follows the clues to a village in the swamps of Mistral called Deseaux. There, she cames face to face with Claret Gainsboro. The two almost come to blows before Claret explains that she and her team have since defected from the White Fang. Claret explains they couldn't justify attacking and killing so many innocent people, and so they left to try and do some good in the world. It turns out that Claret and her team were following the same trail of rumors regarding the Council assassinations, so while Claret's team stayed in Mistral to gather information and resources, she came to Deseaux to follow up on what they'd already learned. The two young woman agree to a temporary alliance until they discover if there's anything more to the plot than just rumors and speculation and put a stop to the extremists planning to carry it out.



As it turns out, the plot is very much real and the young woman in charge isn't about to let it be interrupted. On their way back to Mistral, Claret and Viola are stopped by Olympia Tremaine, the mastermind of the impending attacks. Claret and Olympia have met before, and the two trade banter and thinly veiled threats before Olympia states that she can't allow them to continue because once a thread is pulled, everything can unravel. Claret and Viola move to attack Olympia, but are halted in their path by the arrival of Tamesis Melanthios.



Claret, whilst never having met the older woman personally but knowing of her by reputation, is immediately nervous and suggest to Viola that they run. Tamesis works for the White Fang (though she isn't technically a member), hunting down deserters and killing them. She was contracted to find and kill Claret and has now found her after being contacted by Olympia. Tamesis is also the one financing Olympia's plans using the fortune she inherited after her parents died.



Things take an interesting turn, however, as Tamesis and Viola recognise each other. . . Viola recognising Tamesis as the mother she thought had been dead for 13 years and Tamesis recognising Viola as the daughter she thought had been killed by Grimm when she was just a child. Their reunion is cut short as Claret and Olympia begin fighting and the two are forced to join the fray to aid their respective partners. It soon becomes apparent that Viola and Claret are very much outmatched by the older and more skilled woman. Luckily for them, all of the ill feeling has attracted a massive Nemean (Lion type Grimm) that crashes onto the battlefield. Viola and Claret seize on opportunity and escape, leaving their rivals to deal with the beast.



Olympia is furious they got away, but is placated by Tamesis who tells her that nearly everything is in place, and there's nothing her daughter or the deserter can do to change that and that sooner or later, she'll track both of them down. Viola and Claret, exhausted but alive, finally make it to Mistral and meet up with Claret's team. The five of them then, after a suggestion by Viola, go and visit Dorian Grayson, the crime lord and man who raised Viola. After explaining their situation, Grayson sets them up with a warehouse to run their operation from.



And, that is all I really have so far. As I think on things some more, I'll probably add one or two of my solo characters into the mix to help out Claret and Viola. I'm really looking forward to writing some stories for this volume, and I'd love to know what you guys think of what I've got so far and any requests for what you might like to see in the future.