Heya, everyone! ARC Alpha 12 here with a little note about the nature of some of these chapters. Not every chapter we release will be exclusively story-based. Since I will be mixing characters from Gundam Build Fighters, Build Fighters Try, RWBY, and JPDE together into this story, i figured I'd take the time to create some believable backstories for everyone (or in the case of the actual Build Fighters characters, a summary of who they are) for those who are coming in and aren't familiar with them. When it comes to the RWBY and JPDE characters, as one might imagine, every single character had to be rewritten from the ground up. These aren't Huntsmen and Huntresses in this series, they are normal people with a shared interest in Gunpla Battle. Because of this, I needed to redefine EVERYTHING about them, and that's what these short bios are meant to do! They will explain changes to their backstory and relationships with other characters, as well as providing some detailed descriptions of their Gunpla as they are introduced into the story.

Whenever a new character appears, expect some kind of short bio in a separate chapter. And, if they end up with new Gundams, their new machines will be added to let you know exactly what they are capable of. In regards to the Build Fighters characters, I am VERY well aware that not everyone has seen the two series that they come from. For those characters, I will provide a short summary of their relationships with other characters, as well as events that happened that shaped them into becoming who you'll see in the fan fiction. Doing this will help merge the RWBY characters more easily with the GBF characters, providing a more cohesive universe.

These bonus chapters also will sometimes contain polls to vote on-either in the comments or on the provided link for the Google Doc-that can determine the fight or scenario in the next chapter. I want fan submissions! Do you want to see Full Frontal's adaptive AI take on Blake in a training match? Or maybe Ruby versus Duo Maxwell's AI? Or perhaps Sekai Kamiki from Build Fighters Try challenge Yang to a duel? Or, instead of a fight, would you like to see Yang and Blake go on a double date with Nora and Ren? All of these and more can easily be included as additional chapters while I work on the main story and will help me engage with the audience.

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RUBY ROSE:

Height: 5'2"

Age: 15

Hometown: Portland, Oregon

School: Benjamin Franklin High School

Grade: Freshman

Silver eyed Ruby is everything you would expect from a girl with hopes of being the best in the field of Gunpla Battles. Charming, adorable, friendly, hyperactive, and a quick-thinking genius, Ruby prides herself on her skills as a pilot and builder first and foremost. As the team captain to Team RWBY and leader of the tag team Ice Flower, Ruby shoulders a tremendous amount of responsibility, and takes it all in stride. Her happy-go-lucky nature, easy relatability, and love of the sport and its competitors make her a welcomed and enjoyable competitor in the field.

Ruby is the brains of Team RWBY when it comes to creating and upgrading Gunpla. As the best builder on the team and completely fascinated by the various Gundam anime that exist, alongside video games, side stories, card games, and everything in between, she is a walking encyclopedia of references to the franchise and can almost instantly identify the parts of any Gunpla she sees, as long as they haven't been too heavily customized.

GUNPLA:

Gundam Crimson Strike Noir

Ruby's first fully customized machine, the Gundam Crimson Strike Noir, or "Crim," as she affectionately calls it, is a kitbash between Strike Noir, Strike Rouge Ootori, and an SD AGE-2 Dark Hound.

The machine exhibits exceptional maneuverability in both space and atmosphere, and is outfitted with a wide range of weapons, including Strike Noir's beam rifle with a grenade launcher, twin linear beam cannons on the Noir pack, foot and backpack rocket anchors, railguns from Strike Rouge's Ootori backpack, twin-beam edge swords on the wings,, twin rocket anchors stored in the side skirts of the mech (which are actually modified shoulder wings from an SD AGE-2 Dark Hound), CIWS Vulcans in the head, and two Gouf Custom heat rods that replace the arm-mounted rocket anchors. Her primary weapon with this machine is a GM Striker's twin beam spear.


BLAKE BELLADONNA

Height: 5'6"

Age: 17

Hometown: Seattle, Washington

Present Home: Portland, Oregon

School: Benjamin Franklin High School

Grade: Junior

Blake is a quiet and reserved individual, typically viewed as generally unfriendly, curt, and unwilling to open up to many, though this could not be further from the truth. An avid activist, nature lover, and explorer of culture, Blake has traveled to various parts of the world to see everything she can each summer. Her mother, Kali Hironaka, hails from Japan, and Blake has always dreamed of exploring many of the areas there, though has not had the opportunity.

Blake is a closet nerd, and is just as happy reading a book as she is watching her girlfriend Yang build Gunpla. Though she has never openly expressed interest in the activity herself, when her family hosted a foreign exchange student, Shia Kijima, she was given the Gundam 00 Shia Qan[T] as a thank you gift. Shia explained that the Gunpla means something special to her, and that the bond she and Blake forged during her stay in the US was very meaningful to her. Yang has slowly been getting her to open up on building kits, and she has found it oddly relaxing and enjoyable, though she is still a novice.

Blake has been given the nickname "kitcat" by Yang due to her practically living in her black cat-eared hoodie, black cat-eared beanie, or shirts with cute cat cartoon faces on them.


YANG XIAO LONG

Height: 5'8"

Age: 17

Hometown: Kyoto, Japan

Present Home: Portland, Oregon

School: Benjamin Franklin High School

Grade: Junior

The Blonde Bombshell, the fighting machine, the knock out punch. Yang has been described as all of these and more. Charismatic, fun loving, adventure seeking, and flirtatious, Yang is as formidable as she is beautiful. Deeply in love with Blake, Yang is the heaviest hitter of the team. She is a martial arts expert who has been training all of her life with her father Taiyang. Yang has only been building Gunpla for about a year, but has already become very, very good, dedicating herself to the hobby.

Despite being a complete novice with basic controls, the Mobile Trace system allows her to use her Gunpla with the same precise movements she has. She has broken many Gunpla practicing the design of the joints and stress levels, perfecting the most suited machine to use in Gunpla Battle that best expresses herself.

GUNPLA:

Burning Gundam Echelon

Created using parts of the Shining Gundam, God Gundam, Duel Gundam, and the head of Nobell Gundam, Burning Gundam Echelon is a perfect close-quarters martial arts machine. With the help of Ruby, Yang originally created the machine using Duel Gundam's chest, hips, and shoulders, Shining Gundam's arms and backpack, God Gundam's shoulder Gatlings, legs, fists, and Nobell Gundam's head, but has since tweaked it with custom joints, new armor plating, shotguns in the Shining Gundam wrist bracers, and additional shin and kneecap armor. Due to Nobell Gundam's head, Burning Gundam Echelon has access to the same berserker mode Nobell Gundam is known for in Mobile Fighter G Gundam, and is triggered by Yang's own emotional state-usually, her anger.


TAIYANG XIAO LONG

Height: 6'2"

Age: 38

Hometown: Portland, Oregon

The second generation of immigrant martial artists from China, Tai was always the calm but fun loving prankster amongst his peers. Even as an adult, Tai prefers to live according to the now, easily teasing his daughters Ruby and Yang and generally preferring to be the friend rather than the father now that his daughters are in high school. Despite this, he maintains a strong sense of discipline, understanding there is a time for fun and a time for focus, a principle he has done well to especially impart onto his oldest, Yang.

Tai's relationship with Yang's mother Raven Branwen is somewhat strained. Raven left shortly after Yang was born, disappearing for years to return to her homeland of Japan, leaving Tai to raise Yang on his own. His best friend, Summer Rose, stepped up, and the two eventually fell in love and had Ruby, though they never married. While the two don't see each other often, due to his teaching job and her job as an international referee for the Gunpla Battle Committee, which takes her around the world, the two are very close, and over the years, have done their best to bring Raven back into the fold to reunite their family.

Tai proves to be very supportive of his daughter's goals and dreams, personally training Yang in the same martial arts he learned from his own father, as well as regularly helping both girls study. Though he has very little interest in their hobby of Gunpla Battles himself, Tai does openly support both of their love for the sport, and could not be prouder that Ruby and Yang both made it to the finals of the Northwest Regional Championships. Seeing Yang use his martial arts techniques has also spurned a desire to learn more about it, as he feels it would bring him closer to both of his daughters, as well as Summer.