I decided to come back to these notes after realizing that more info can be found by using different aspects of the show's data. Note that data may not correct by lack of knowledge in certain fields.


I've been curious about how powerful Hazel Rainart, one of the main antagonists of RWBY, could be based on what could be found in the battle of Haven.

First off, Hazel is seen to be able to fight both Lie Ren and Nora Valkyrie at the same time, which is surprising by how Nora has stated that she can lift 5 of her. Using average height to weight calculations, I got that Nora can lift around 600 pounds, and that's not taking into consideration her other feats of strength like how she hit Yang enough to launch her to terminal velocity. would go more into depth, but this is a different subject to cover later.

This still implies that Hazel is able to lift the same amount by how he stopped Nora's weapon with his bare hands or greater depending on the amount of effort he took to stop that attack. He even took Lie Ren's attack head-on using his aura, which has been shown to be strong enough to slice Beowolves in half.

I'll be focusing on Hazel Rainart's semblance and his unique ability. Hazel Rainart has the semblance to not feel pain, allowing him to fight for long limits when other huntsmen would stop. He uses this ability to do what few people would ever do in their lives: Inject pure Dust into his body.

I want to figure out the amount of energy that Hazel injects into his body and what that could mean for the future.

In order to figure out the energy of the Dust, we have to figure out two things: What size the Dust crystals Hazel uses and a form of data that can be applied. The first part was fairly simple. Taking measurements of Hazel and his hands and comparing them to the crystals in Vol 5 chapter 12, I was able to guess that the Dust crystals were about 8 inches in length.

The second part is a bit more complex. Based on data from RWBY Science!, each of Weiss Schnee's Dust crystal contains around ¼ tons of TNT. Using a cosplayer's sword from Amazon as a reference I found each crystal is about 2 inches in length.

If 2 inches = ¼ tons of TNT, then the ratio can be carried up to 8 inches = 1 ton of TNT. Since Hazel uses 4 crystals when first starting, the grand total would equal up to 4 tons of TNT or about 6171920 Foot-tons of force.

For comparison, that's more than the Oklahoma City bombing blast, which was measured to be 2.5 tons of TNT. While I doubt that Hazel is giving over 6 million tons of force for each punch, it's still staggering that if he used 1 percent of power he still has around 61719 tons of force in him.

It's possible to overwhelm him, but note that he wasn't defeated, he ran away when he knew the objective was lost. While a believer that using any type of heavy artillery on Huntsmen is extreme, in this case, it's right to fear him by how he fought Ozpin, Qrow, Ren, and Nora in one fight and took an impalement from a summoned queen wasp Grimm by Weiss and had no long-lasting injury after. Overall, Hazel is a formidable foe that I'll avoid at all costs if I ever did meet him.


Sorry, I haven't written here for a while, I got college stuff to plan and work to do. If you see any errors, let me know so I can fix them as fast as possible!

I still hope to update at a decent rate, so it's back to writing!