KLEIN SIEBEN
Height: 5'7"
Age: 45
Hometown: London, England
Current Home: Portland, Oregon
The butler to Willow Schnee and her father Nikolas, Klein has been a faithful and steadfast worker and family friend since before Willow's children were born. Choosing to remain with the actual relatives of the Schnee Company founder, when Willow separated from Jacques, Klein left with her.
An avid supporter and loyal friend to Weiss, Klein has always treated her as his own relative, truly believing that Willow and her family are as much his family as his own. He took care of Weiss and Winter when they were very young, often pretending to have multiple personalities to keep them on their toes and entertain them. As Weiss became interested in Gunpla, Klein learned the hobby as well and took to aiding her in combat training. As such, he is no pushover in a Gunpla battle himself, though he has never won a single match; whether this is intentional or not is up for debate, but he will give many individuals a run for their money, regardless of what Gunpla he pilots.
WEISS SCHNEE
Height: 5'1"
Age: 17
Hometown: Hollywood, California
Present Home: Portland, Oregon
School: Abraham Lincoln High School (formerly), Benjamin Franklin High School (current)
Grade: Junior
Weiss Schnee is the daughter of a rather influential and successful French businessman, Jacques Schnee. Her grandfather, Nicholas, started a trading company in Germany that has since expanded all over the world, and her father, who married into the Schnee family (and changed his name in order to gain more prestige from it) runs it with ruthless aggression. Weiss grew up always seeking his approval, which never seemed to come. While she initially built some fame as a child pop star, she ultimately left that life to try and be a normal kid, moving with her mother and sister to Portland to live with her grandfather and escape the oppressive expectations of Hollywood.
She originally went to the more affluent Lincoln High School, but transferred in her sophomore year to again escape constant social expectations. She met Yang and Blake early into her sophomore year, and through Yang, Ruby, who has become her best friend, even if she won't admit it outright. Through Ruby, Weiss has discovered her love of Gunpla building as a form of stress relief, though she has yet to admit this to any of them, out of fear of being criticized.
Weiss studies swordplay as a form of inspiration for her Gunpla's fighting style, choosing the refine the art of fencing and saber dueling. She herself is skilled in fencing, and this has helped her understand the Gyan's style of attack.
GUNPLA:
Gyan Noblesse Oblige
A customized Gyan Krieger, Weiss has poured time, heart, soul, blood, and money into perfecting this Gunpla's design. To make the design more elegant, Weiss has custom-made a Sleeves Neo-Zeon motif for the machine's chest, knees, shoulders, and wrists, and painted the machine stark white with an icy blue secondary, with the Sleeves patterns on black with white designs. Refined down to the very core, the Gyan Noblesse Oblige has gone through several iterations in order to best create the most flexible and potent offensive machine possible. Weiss has outfitted this mech with four white Rose Bits from the Gundam Rose, and primarily utilized an adapted Chevalier Rapier from the same Gundam Rose kit. The shield it uses is a small buckler, taken from a Gashapon HuZhen Gyan and customized slightly. It can still launch hide mines and fire pin missiles, but at a lower number compared to the standard Gyan shield. The design of the shield features a Sleeves motif, with a large snowflake painted onto the center, with each of the eight pin missile launchers at the tip of each spoke on the snowflake. A pair of chest-mounted vulcans for anti-missile defense, similar to the Zaku II Char Custom Origin Version, round out the weapons on the machine.
JAUNE ARC
Height: 6'1"
Age: 17
Hometown: Paris, France
Current Home: Portland, Oregon
School: Grover Cleveland High School (Formerly), Benjamin Franklin High School (Presently)
Grade: Junior
Born in France, Jaune comes from a massive family. He and his seven sisters moved to Portland after Nicholas Schnee, a family friend of the Arcs, offered his father a well paying job managing a shipping warehouse. Jaune still feels out of place in America, is constantly nervous, and worried that his accent will interfere with making friends. Despite this, he and Ruby hit it off immediately over their love of model kit building, though he preferred cars until meeting Ruby and Yang, who got him into Gunpla.
Jaune is still learning the concepts of Gunpla Battles, though he has taken Ruby's advice and begun studying various series religiously. The designs of a wide number of model kits stuck out to him, and he decided to compensate for his inferior skills with greater tactical awareness and support abilities. Because of this, he was chosen to be the team leader of Team Juniper, and act as leader of the tag team Arkos
GUNPLA:
Gundam Duel Cavalier Pale
A hybrid of the Blu Duel Gundam, Duel Gundam Assault Shroud, and the Pale Rider, Jaune has decided that defense is the greatest defense, through and through. The white-with-gold-trim Duel Cavalier Pale (which means "Duel Pale Rider" in French) is heavily armored but equipped with so many small thrusters that it remains remarkably mobile. He has modified the head of the Pale Rider to use a GM Sniper II visor for him to scope out the battlefield and increase his shoulder cannon and missile barrage accuracy. The cannon has been moved closer to the head and has a new pop-out targeting screen for even further accuracy enhancement, giving Jaune unparalleled long range beam support for his partner and team. Aside from the shoulder cannon, the machine retains both Blu Duel's and Pale Rider's beam sabers (one per calf, one per hip), and the short-range beam cannons on the Pale Rider's forearms. Each shoulder contains short-range missile pods for added firepower. It retains the Duel Gundam shield for more direct defense. He uses a modified Duel Gundam beam rifle with a "clay bazooka" underslung on it, which fires an RPG that explodes on proximity to release a large spray of flak similar to a shotgun.
As an added note, The Pale Rider head grants Jaune access to HADES (Hyper Animosity Detect Estimate System) , which can analyze and enhance a pilot's speed and reaction time. In lore, this is done by increasing the pilot's neurotransmitters in their brain. Normally this would lead to gradual memory loss, but the effects are in no way problematic in Gunpla Battle due to the HADES System merely increasing response time and reducing normal lag, instead of directly affecting the brain. However, the caveat is that the HADES System can use up a machine's energy far faster, and on occasion, the machine might respond abnormally or without user input. The HADES System normally is manually activated, but it can activate by accident if the system detects a particularly high level of danger, and cannot be deactivated when this happens. In addition, the enhanced movement speed can cause severe strain on the machine due to the heavy armor used on it, so Jaune must be careful as to when to activate it (or be cautious when it is active to not overextend his Gunpla's joints).
NORA VALKYRIE
Height: 5'2"
Age: 17
Hometown: Trondheim, Norway
Current Home: Portland, Oregon
School: Benjamin Franklin High School
Grade: Junior
Nora is a powerful and athletic girl from Norway. A love of pancakes and an equal love for exercise dominates her time, and she rarely sits still. Her best friend, Lie Ren, seems to be the only person who can get her to focus long enough to actually do any kind of work. She didn't like building at first, but tinkering with her first kit, the Gundam Gusion, sparked something in her. She became obsessed with Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans kits, and especially the three Gusion units.
GUNPLA:
Gundam Gusion Rebake Magnhild
A black, white, and pink customized version of the Gundam Gusion Rebake Full City mixed with the default Gundam Gusion Rebake, Nora has optimized the Gunpla for maximum damage output. The two sub arms in the backpack have been turned into grenade launchers, and a customized giant Warhammer with explosive blows replaces the Gusion Rebake halberd. To make the machine faster and more agile, she ditched the regular giant shields the Gusion Rebakes favored, choosing a smaller, custom forearm mounted shield for defense. The forearm mounted smoothbore cannons the Rebake Full City used are still present. Additional back leg armor with powerful thrusters was added to increase its speed and to allow Nora to hover across the battlefield with ease.
PYRRHA NIKOS
Height: 5'7"
Age: 17
Hometown: Sparta, Greece
Current Home: Portland, Oregon
School: Abraham Lincoln High School (formerly), Benjamin Franklin High School (presently)
Pyrrha is a fighting master. The true ace of Team Juniper, Pyrrha has won Gunpla tournaments all over Greece before coming to America. Humble, easily nervous, she mostly just wants to fit in with other students. Her popularity among the student body is undeniable, and it makes her uncomfortable that she is put on the pedestal that she finds herself on. Jaune has proven to be her best friend over the last year, both due to his similar feeling of not fitting in and because his longer-range style compliments her close range blitz attacks perfectly.
GUNPLA:
Tallgeese Leonidas
A customized Tallgeese I with Tallgeese III's face,, the Tallgeese Leonidas wears the vestige of Pyrrha's hometown's most famous hero. Clad in bronze forearms, helmet, chest, shield, boosters, and shins, with red feet, head crest, skirt, and white face, forearms, and thighs, the Tallgeese Leonidas features a redesigned helmet that resembles an ancient Corinthian helmet, longer neck for better head mobility, unique beam rifle mounted on a sub arm to free the machine's hands up, Pyrrha prefers using a physical kukri or the Tallgeese's beam saber for her weapon of choice. She opts to use the circular Tallgeese I's shield over the Tallgeese III for a greater fit to the theme, increasing its size and storing the kukri on the back of it for easy access
LIE REN
Height: 5'5"
Age: 17
Hometown: Beijing, China
Current Home: Portland, Oregon
School: Benjamin Franklin High School
Grade: Junior
An immigrant from China, Ren is an exceptionally quiet and modest individual, choosing to usually keep to himself. He tends to speak only when spoken to, or if he has something important to say. Due to this, he drew the attention of Nora, perhaps the most gregarious individual at the school. While she does seem to exhaust him, he openly admits that he hates it when she's not around. The two spend most of their time together, leading some to believe that they are dating, though Nora denies this adamently and Ren neither confirms nor denies it.
GUNPLA
Gundam Lotus Dragon
The Xiaolin Monk Sai Saishi used the Dragon Gundam to great effect in Mobile Fighter G Gundam, and Chang Wufei piloted the formidable Altron Gundam in New Mobile Report Gundam Wing. Inspired by both of these remarkably similar units, Lie Ren has combined the Dragon Gundam with the Altron Gundam EW to create a new, powerful machine.
Using the Mobile Trace system, Ren uses his martial arts skills and the variety of pikes, sabers, and extendable arms of the Gundam Lotus Dragon to decimate opponents. He has added heavy machine guns to the clavicles of the machine, and it retains the potent, high-intensity fire that Dragon Gundam was capable of using. Gundam Lotus Dragon lacks serious ranged weapons, but its speed and balance have been refined to such a degree that Ren can close the distance between his target and him quickly, and can catch opponents off guard using his agility and extendable arms with their clamping dragon mouths.
