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Cursed by the gods and embittered from millennia of isolation, Salem prepares for her invasion of Atlas before the crushing feeling of repetition begins to truly grate on her nerves. How many times has she done this before, leveling an army of Grimm against a desperate and pitifully human defense, bolstered by whatever lingering hope remained in their hearts, only to be pushed back by a stubborn champion with her dear Ozma pulling the strings?
It all used to be so much simpler.
Hadn’t she brought humanity together once before?
Where along her well-trodden path did she truly lose her silver tongue?
Struck by an epiphany, Salem decides, once more, to gamble on the willingness of humanity to toss aside sense for desire. Someone once coined the phrase “the truth will set you free” and perhaps, in order to truly gain freedom from her wretched existence, the only price she need pay is a little truth.
(Or, a Volume 8 AU where everyone is just a little smarter, Salem is just a little bit more manipulative, Ironwood has legitimate reasons to go insane, and teams RWBY and JNPR face enemies far more difficult to kill than childhood monsters of ink and smoke.)