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1. When the Clock Strikes by LyriaRose

   Fandoms: RWBY  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/F
   • Complete Work

   05 Jun 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Cinder Fall/Winter Schnee
   • Cinder Fall
   • Winter Schnee (RWBY)
   • Plus some others - Freeform
   • Cinder Fall Redemption
   • Slow Burn
   • I don't consider this a slow burn but apparently others do
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • an incredibly protracted look inside Cinder Fall's skull
   • and in that sense it's sort of a
   • Character Study
   • maybe one day I'll write a fic that ISN'T an overly long study
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Alternate Universe - Post-Canon
   • Canon as of the end of Volume 9
   • Cinder cries a lot
   • Cinder Fall is Bad at Feelings
   • Cinder Fall Being an Asshole
   • Oh also
   • Explicit Sexual Content
   • Praise Kink
   • Hand Kink
   • brat taming
   • Every time you see Cinder think about hating something
   • Take a shot

   Summary

   Stripped of the Fall Maiden's power and abandoned by Salem after her failure to kill Team RWBY, Cinder is captured by Remnant's heroes. With little choice but to imprison her, they construct a miniature "Vault" using the powers of the Spring and Winter Maidens. Thus, Cinder is imprisoned in isolation, with only her new jailor--one Winter Schnee--for company.

   This gives her a lot of time to think.

   Thinking is the LAST thing Cinder Fall wants to do.

   Language:

   English

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