Service with a Smile/Trivia

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 * Characterization Marches On: Adam Taurus.  At the time this was written, the "SDC" brand across his face (hidden under his Grimm mask) had not yet been revealed, so naturally Coeur Al'Aran wrote him without it, allowing him to remove the mask and blend in with the customers in the diner.  The full extent to which he was a narcissistic sociopath and bigot had also not yet been revealed; it's likely the canon Adam would never have looked favorably on Jaune and his diner, and only seen a human exploiting a faunus when looking at Velvet's employment there.  The author discusses this in the note at the end of chapter 39, and points out that the story was plotted out before Adam "went full psycho on us".
 * No Celebrities Were Harmed: Musician Olly Firs, an Expy of real world British musician Olly Murs. (In deliberate imitation of the canonical "Spruce Willis".)
 * Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: On the meta level. Coeur Al'Aran is a UK writer whose text successfully manages to read like an American wrote it, from spelling to usage. However, he does slip up on a few occasions, usually with idioms and vocabulary -- such as Ruby eating biscuits instead of cookies, referring to a lawyer as a solicitor, using "sodding" as an expletive, someone using the phrase "taking the piss", Ruby complaining of Weiss's "whinging", "barista"/"barrister" puns, and the occasional "Oi!"
 * Shout-Out:
 * To Star Wars when Blake wakes up at the end of chapter 26, complete with the obligatory "I've got a bad feeling about this."
 * To RWBY Chibi in a scene where a bored Yang demands, "Blake -- entertain me!"
 * Shown Their Work: Weiss's business advice to Jaune and Russel's lectures to Velvet about being waitstaff are both right on the money.  The end-of-chapter notes from "Coeur Al'Aran" make it clear he's a successful businessman running a magazine in the UK; at least some of the in-story information is clearly born of long personal experience.