Summer Rose
Age: 37
Height: 5'2"
Hometown: Beaverton, Oregon
Job: international Gunpla Official Referee, Gunpla Ambassador
Summer Rose is Ruby's biological mother and de facto stepmother to Yang. She and Taiyang have been best friends since high school, alongside the Branwen twins, and maintains a solid bond with all three of them. Summer is not actually married to Tai but has been together with him for the last fifteen years in a healthy and loving relationship. She's a huge nerd, and overall cheerful individual, and exceptionally good-natured. She has silver eyes, much like her daughter.
Her love for Gunpla led her to apply for and get accepted into the International Gunpla Official Referee position, which often takes her around the world undercover to ensure that the Gunpla regulations are being upheld. While something like that might sound extreme for a sport featuring toys, Summer and her partner, Takeshi Iori, take such things seriously, as the Gunpla Battle Commission has much to lose if these regulations are interfered with by the likes of various individuals, such as the Gunpla Mafia. While she is not home often, she makes time to regularly call both of her daughters and Ruby.
Yang refers to her as Super Mom.
GUNPLA:
Farsia Rozen Solstice
A modified Farsia from Gundam AGE, Summer has taken an SD Rozen Zulu and added some of its parts to it for both functionality and aesthetic purposes. She's created large shoulder pauldrons, replaced the two large thruster spikes on its back with the SD Gunpla's backpacks (complete with the rose-shaped Psycho Jammers), the five Farsia bits in its bag, and created a customized flight base for the machine that has the mega particle cannons of the Rozen Zulu's shield mounted to it. Along with these pieces of equipment are the ability to fire beam Vulcans or generate a beam saber from its palms, a tail that can detach to be used as a potent physical blade, and a staff that is tipped with a heavy metal rose, that also houses a beam Vulcan/beam saber emitter to be used as a pike or a bludgeoning long-handled mace. It additionally retains the giant diffuse beam cannon in its chest.
Because the Farsia model used is technically the Fawn Farsia, the flight base is, in truth, unnecessary, as the original Farsia required it to move around due to a lack of back thrusters, but the Fawn Farsia does not. However, since the flight base has been turned into a mobile weapons platform, Summer can use it as a massive bit to accompany her smaller Farsia bits, attacking multiple targets at once in several directions. This makes the Farsia Rozen Solstice an exceptionally lethal opponent in any situation, as the flight base is just as durable and deadly as the mobile suit itself is at range.
Takeshi Iori
Age: 39
Height: 6'0"
Hometown: Kawasaki, Japan
Job: International Gunpla Official Referee, Gunpla Ambassador, Owner of Iori Hobby Shop
The runner-up in the Second Gunpla Battle Championship, Takeshi Iori, has become a legend in the Gunpla Battle circuits for a variety of reasons. His hobby shop, built into his home, is a small but well-stocked source of material for hobby enthusiasts. His building skills are toted to be some of the best in the world. His passion for the sport is unrivaled, and his son Sei Iori is a two-time World Champion himself, winning the Seventh Gunpla Championship (as an operator, alongside his partner Reiji in the Star Build Strike Gundam) and the Eleventh Gunpla Championship (on his own, in the Build Burning Gundam). Takeshi is responsible for getting a large number of people interested in Gunpla.
Takeshi is known for breaking the mold in the "Straight Build vs. Custom Build" argument many people in the Gunpla Battle community have, due to his masterful control of a completely stock RX-78-2 Gundam (Revive) kit he used to dominate his opponents in the Second Gunpla Battle Tournament. This kit has become nearly utterly synonymous with his name. He has been seen with a variety of RX-78-2 Gundam kits over the years, including the original, the 30th Anniversary, the Perfect Gundam, the 40th Anniversary Industrial Design, the Gundam: The Origin variant, and even an SD Cross Silhouette version. None of these kits are customized at all but are tuned and correctly assembled to such a degree that they can easily outpace even the most advanced customizations.
As a Gunpla Battle Official Referee, Takeshi is often away from home, traveling the world to ensure the regulations of the sport are upheld and apprehend those who try to break these rules. He takes his job-and the sport itself-very seriously and goes to great lengths to put an end to illegal activity. He is often away from home, though his wife Rinko is very understanding. He gets along very well with Tai and Summer Rose and was very grateful to be assigned to train Summer to become a Gunpla Battle Referee and Ambassador.
HAROLD OZPIN
Age: 50
Height: 6'2"
Job: Principal at Benjamin Franklin High School.
Ozpin generally doesn't like to reveal much about himself. Known as a well-educated and friendly individual, he often gives off a mysterious aura of a man who knows more than he lets on. His fondness for Gunpla is relatively unknown except by those who are close to him, and very few people actually can be considered close. He takes a particular interest in his school's Gunpla club, coaching Teams RWBY and Juniper in the more exceptional arts of Gunpla control on rare occasions, though with the lack of an actual Battle Station on campus, much of this is done through regular tutoring sessions. Generally well-liked by the students, Ozpin took it upon himself to sponsor all four doubles teams (White Rose, Bumblebee, Arkos, and ReNora) and has traveled to Japan to keep a watchful eye on both his students and his investments.
AMANITA PEACH
Age: 34
Height: 5'6"
Job: Science Teacher at Benjamin Franklin High School, Official NA Gunpla Battle Announcer
A well-loved and eccentric teacher at Franklin, Miss Peach is one part beauty, one part mad scientist. Her love of Gunpla is almost as known as her occasional explosions in her class, and her side job during the Regionals and National tournaments as official Gunpla Battle Announcer, and her colorful and excitable personality, garnered her a position to be the North American announcer for the World Tournament and Doubles Tournament. Though she does not actively battle anymore, she has a wide assortment of Gunpla in a small display case in her classroom, all of which she is proficient in. She claims that she can handle nearly any machine, with a few minutes of practice; however, none of her students have seen her fight. Many of her mobile suits come from Gundam: Reconguista in G and the one custom kit in her display is of a heavily modified G-Arcane Full Dress, hinting that might be her main Gunpla.
PETER PORT
Age: 65
Height: 5'10"
Job: Law And Public Service Teacher at Franklin High School, Official NA Gunpla Battle Announcer
A rotund man with a thick, wickedly epic mustache and a pretension for bluster and purple prose, Mr. Port is often considered one of the wisest-but least liked-teachers at Franklin, mostly for his long-winded stories and constant focus on details that seemingly do not matter. Despite this, the student body has come to respect his dedication to his craft, if not his desire to share every minute detail about a subject. His booming and very noticeable voice, and his love of description, makes him a perfect companion to Peach, who requested him to be her partner for the coverage of the World Gunpla Tournament.
He loves Gunpla as much as he loves his stories and is well known in North America as being one of the first to pick up the sport. His tried and true modified Lumber Gundam, which he calls Grizzly Gundam Blowhard (choosing the English dub name over the Japanese name), serves as a constant and valuable companion. He is known to be close friends with Mr. Ral, a well-known veteran in Gunpla Battle in his own right and one of the most powerful fighters in the world.
