RWBY: Absolution
Chapter 3: The Past Part 3 (Team IRIS)
Age 5
Rosaleen Marvel was a struggling kid. A purple haired girl with red eyes, who never knew who her parents were thus she was left outside in the cold with no one to look after her with the only thing the foster home told her was her name. No mother or father figure to guide her. And it was like that when she turned 5 as her foster father kicked her out of the house at the age. Now for months she did whatever she could to survive, steal, lie, and cheat.
She didn't like to do this, but she didn't want to die. So she stole where she could, of course, there were times when she was caught to which she had received a beating for but it was especially worse since she was a faunus. A fox faunus to be precise, however never tried to hide her faunus trait no matter how bad she had gotten bullied or abused because of it. Her trait was her purple fox ears that she displayed proudly at all times.
Age 7
One day the police had caught her and put her in a foster home as she waited to get adopted, however she had been there for 2 years now and she doubted that she would ever get adopted. She was quiet and reserved, and do to this fact and the fact that she was a faunus she was picked on by other kids living there as well. No one would help her so she had to just accept it.
Age 11
She had finally been adopted but the problem now was that she had been adopted multiple of times as she would always be moved from home to home, never being able to settle. It was to the point that she began to ignore her foster families in order to not become attached.
However, out of all of this she realized what she wanted to become. She wanted to become a huntress, to help people. And thus in two years she would be enrolled in Signal Academy.
Age 13
She finally did it as she was accepted into Signal Academy. However the students there did the same as those kids she was living with in the foster program. And it became apparent that she was depressed, teachers tried to help her through it but it was never enough. She just wanted someone that she could call a friend.
Two months later
Rosaleen was walking back home, she was excited because the next day she would be able to make her own weapon.She had a design and a name for her weapon as well, sadly however she still didn't have her semblance which was okay. She walked as she was having a relatively good day. "I can't wait to make Void Quasar tomorrow it's going to be so awesome!" Feeling very upbeat she decided to stop by her favorite cafe. She had ordered her something to drink and a muffin, as she now had a drawing of her intended weapon as she studied and looked for any improvements she could do.
After a couple of hours she finally left the cafe and went on to her foster home, however on her way there she encountered some students at her school, "Hey Rosaleen." Rosaleen continued to ignore them and kept walking home, "Aw not even going to say hi," the leader of the group looked at a book that she had with her weapon's design on it, to which he quickly snatched it away from her and began looking at it with his other accomplices holding Rosaleen back, "What do we have here, I must say Rosaleen this is an interesting weapon." He then tore out the page and dropped the rest her notebook on the floor.
"Give that back I need that!" Rosaleen yelled.
"Need it? So this is important to you is it?" He then began to tear it slowly as only a small tear appeared.
"No! Please stop! I-its the only thing I have that is important to me, please don't take it away!" She pleaded with tears coming down her eyes as she struggled against her tormentors. Usually it wouldn't be a problem as there would be a copy on her scroll, however her foster parents never gave her a scroll, and thus this was the only copy she had.
The kid smiled wide as he was about to rip it in half and then into pieces, until a voice called out from behind them, "Let go of the paper and leave her alone."
Everyone turned to see a black hair with white streaks kid with a white shirt black pants and a black jacket, "And who are you?"
The black haired kid smiled, "I'm Drayce Draven," Drayce then pulled out a sword hidden behind him, as he stabbed it into the ground, "And this is Ascalon, who would like to make your acquaintance," Drayce then pulled the lever with his two fingers and lightning began to spark from the weapon.
The gang was sweating slightly, "No problem we'll leave come on guys," he said as he dropped the paper and ran.
Drayce sighed and placed his sword back on his back, "Cowards." Rosaleen when freed immediately went to her weapon paper and checked if it was alright and that none of the contents were ripped which thankfully was none as well. "Hey," Rosaleen looked up at the kid that was without a doubt younger, from the ground with tears in her eyes. He then outstretched his hand to her, "Come on, I don't think you would like to stay on the ground long." Rosaleen looked at his hand with hesitation which Drayce took notice of, "Hey, I promise that I won't hurt you."
Rosaleen hesitantly took his hand and raised off of the ground, "Why… Why did you help me?"
Drayce looked at her with confusion, "Do I need a reason to help someone out who was in trouble?"
"But… I'm a faunus, why would you help someone like me?"
Drayce, even though he was shorter than her raised her hand into the air and was able to rub and pat her head twice, "It doesn't matter if you're a faunus. I think faunus are the coolest, I wish I had animal traits. Ooooh I so wish I had a tail!" Rosaleen was looking at this boy in shock, "Hey can I ask you something?" Rosaleen unable to form words into her mouth just nodded, "Do you… want to become friends?" Rosaleen eyes widened even more, "It just that when you exited the cafe you looked sad as if you didn't want to go where you needed to go."
Rosaleen just stared at the boy as tears began to stream down her face. She could not believe it, this boy had saved her, helped her, and wanted to befriend her because she was sad. 'My wish,' she thought as to her it seemed as though a light was shined off of Drayce, as he smiled at her with a wide smile. She didn't say a word and hugged him as she cried and he rubbed her head, 'Drayce, I don't know how… but you already became the most important person in my life… thank you.'
5 months later
Five months have passed since their meeting and Rosaleen and Drayce had become best friends, almost inseparable. After school Rosaleen would go to her favorite cafe, a place she found out that Drayce, even though he was so young, worked at. Their they would converse about their day. The day of their meeting Drayce saw her weapon designed and was intrigued by it but found some things that could be tweaked. With the help of Drayce, Rosaleen was able to create her weapon, Void Quasar. It was a purple spear with an elegant style blade which was ruby red and on the bottom was a ruby red pummel. Connected from the blade to the pummel was a thin cloth that was white and at the bottom of the pummel were exhaust points as well something that she added after looking and seeing how Drayce's sword Ascalon worked and decided to implement a similar function to her weapon.
With Drayce, Rosaleen was able to be herself and be open with her expressions. And after some time she had met Drayce's brother Fenrir and Drayce's mother Seraphina. Seraphina and Fenrir took an immediate liking to her and went as far as to basically induct her into the family. Although she never was able to adopt her, Seraphina thought of Rosaleen as her own daughter, the daughter she never had. Rosaleen was finally happy and it was all thanks to Drayce to which she was always loyal to.
Age 14
At age fourteen Rosaleen was able to see Drayce even at school as he enrolled into Signal. She watched him accel above all, as she bore witness the birth of an amazing huntsmen and prodigy. She would at times even as Drayce for help, as she was marveled at how smart and strong he was at a very young age. Hell he was even the one to help her unlock her semblance, in a duel that she had requested. Her semblance was called portal. She has the ability to create a portal to wherever she could see or around the vicinity of her in a very quick fashion. She uses this in order to attack an opponent from a long distance with the added boost that the semblance also gives her bigger depth perception, and even though she had lost she was fine with the result.
No matter where Drayce was after class one constant was that Rosaleen was always there as well. People had rarely seen them apart from one another.
Age 16
Rosaleen had gotten a call from Drayce and immediately ran to his house, she had opened the door with a spare key that his mother had given her long ago. The home was tiddy and seemed like your average place. When you opened the door and down the hall, you could see the living room with a couch a glass table in the middle with a TV on the wall, and a fireplace right under it. To the right of it was a dining table and to the right of that was the kitchen. Lastly across the living room was a hall to the bedrooms which were three.
When she made it to the living room, she found Drayce sitting near the fireplace with a chair, with his head resting on his hands which were folded. "Drayce, what's wrong? You called me, is something the matter?" Drayce looked to Rosaleen and she saw a sight which she never wanted to see ever again. Their Drayce was crying with tears in a constant flow down his eyes like a waterfall. Rosaleen instantly ran to him and guided him to the floor where she also sat as she laid her hand on his cheek. "Drayce what's wrong? What happened? Please tell me?"
Drayce began to tell her what happened as he had gotten a visit from Ozpin that day, telling him that his brother was basically dead. "I don't know what to do. I lost my father, and now my brother, not to mention mother is still sick. I… I don't know what to do," he said as tears continued to flow.
Rosaleen then took Drayce and hugged him, burying his head into her chest, "I don't know… I don't have an answer for you and I'm sorry… but no matter what you choose, I will always be by your side. No matter what, so for now grieve, and let me take away your pain and sorrow for once." Drayce after a couple of seconds, hugged her back tightly as he cried his eyes out, letting out all of his pain, to which Rosaleen took and accepted.
Age 20 (present)
After a year Drayce and Rosaleen went to Beacon Academy where they became Team IRIS with Drayce leading. The family recovered and pushed forward as they continued on.
Rosaleen looked over to her leader and Wynn talking, Drayce smiled, "It's just that, I can't believe when we get back we will be officially in our fourth year."
Wynn smiled at him, "I know what you mean," Wynn said as he looked out of the same window.
Rosaleen smiled mischievously, as she snuck up on Drayce and buried his head in her well endowed… assets, "Well you better believe it captain."
Drayce struggled to get out but when he did he turned to Rosaleen with an annoyed expression, "Dammit Rosaleen you know I hate it when you do that."
Rosaleen smiled slyly, "Which makes it all the more amusing captain," she said teasingly.
Wynn sighed, "I swear."
Drayce sighed and turned to Wynn, "This is what I had to go through for six years."
Rosaleen smiled and draped her arm around his neck, "And you are stuck with me for all your life."
Drayce smiled at her, "I wouldn't have it any other way."
Rosaleen smiled widened as she thought, 'My light.'
Character File
Name: Rosaleen Marvel
Age: 20
Appearance: She had long purple hair with red eyes along with a necklace that had a purple amethyst that was shaped as a teardrop. She wore a white high collar crop jacket with purple lining designs on the edges of the jacket, and under she had a black dress (*cough cough* sorry I mean combat skirt) with purple lining while the skirt was reddish-purple. She lastly had black shorts grey leggings and black long boots, folded her sleeve of the jacket to her elbow, and had black gloves with a silver bracelet with a purple line that glowed slightly.
Occupation: Beacon Academy (4th Year Student)
Team: IRIS
Weapon
Void Quasar: It was a purple spear with an elegant style blade which was ruby red and on the bottom was a ruby red pummel. Connected from the blade to the pummel was a thin cloth that was white and at the bottom of the pummel were exhaust points as well.
Semblance
Portal: She has the ability to create a portal to wherever she could see or around the vicinity of her in a very quick way. She uses this in order to attack an opponent from a long distance. This semblance also gives her a bigger depth perception.