AN: Here we go people! Brand new territory, no more canon rails for a good long while. Now then, *gets behind "Anti-Fan Rage barrier"*, on with the show! What, why am I doing this? Um...no reason? Oh, also, from here on out, swear mode engaged. I am finding that I need curse words to be able to properly display people's attitudes, emotions, and dialog in a realistic and appropriate manner. I'm not going to be gratuitous, but it will be present. Fair warning.

"Alright guys, I know I was a giant pain yesterday." Ruby apologized. "But I learned my lesson. No more bossing you around for no reason. No more telling you what to do all the time. No more trying to do everything myself." Stopping to wolf down a pancake, she added "And definitely no more skipping breakfast when we can just do these sort of talks here."

"Amen." Yang agreed with a chuckle, digging into her own stack of pancakes, which was about the size of the rest of the teams breakfasts combined. "But seriously, I don't care if you are my sister. Make me miss breakfast again and there will be consiquences."

"Right. So, I decided to divide up our team duties based on what I think we'll do best. If any problems crop up, we'll change it when the time comes." Ruby continued. "I am still leader, and what I say still goes. However when it comes to non-time sensitive stuff I might put it to vote if it seems appropriate. However, for quick snap stuff what I say goes. I'm going to be doing my best to get things done right. If you have a problem with an order, wait until we have time to sit down and discuss it. In the middle of something is not the place to discuss problems."

"Sounds reasonable." Weiss said, nodding and doing her duty as best teammate. "You are still our leader after all. And being willing to listen to us is a massive improvement, right girls?" Seeing the other two nod in agreement, she turned back to Ruby. "So, what's my job?" She didn't expect much, as she and Ruby didn't get along too well, but whatever it was she would do her best.

"I'll get to that. First thing's first, Blake." Ruby stated, getting the other girl's attention. "You seem very studious. You're in charge of keeping track of school resources. Tutors, labs, private study rooms, library databases and catalogs, whatever. If we need it, I need you to know how to get it. Rules for the stuff, hours available, where it is, how to book or reserve them if needed, if there are any fees, that sort of thing. If we need them, I want us to be ready to use them. Now I don't expect you to memorize it all or something, but keeping a file folder on the stuff and noting down any extra tricks or the like you might pick up."

"Got it." Blake said, reading a thick book as she ate, barely looking at Ruby in acknowledgement before getting back to her book.

Weiss bristled slightly inside. She was studious, and very meticulously organized...but it wasn't the most important job, Blake needed something to do, and for all Weiss knew Blake could totally eclipse her own skills in finding out how to maximize their school resources. Hopefully whatever Ruby had in mind of her would be better.

"Right, Yang. You're in charge of physical fitness. Gyms, trainers, practice fields, equipment. Same sort of deal as with Blake, but for physical things instead of academic things. You do a ton of core and strength training, so you'd learn this stuff anyway so I might as well make it your job."

Flashing her sister a thumbs up as a response, Yang nodded and mumbled something around her mouthful of pancakes.

"Yang, chew your food." Ruby said with a sigh, lightly facepalming in response to an all too familiar sight. "I am not saving you from choking this early in the morning."

"Aw come on Rubes I'm not going to-" whatever Yang was going to say was cut off by a fit of coughing as her food went down the wrong tube. True to her word Ruby didn't go to assist as her sister cleared out her own pipes.

Weiss had a very flat look. "Are you sure Yang can do the job? Because at the moment it seems like she's not even qualified to eat breakfast."

"Her...quirks aside," Ruby hedged, "Yang really is an expert at physical fitness. She didn't get to the point where she benches a couple hundred pounds by being bad at it." Ducking the pancake projectile her sister had just coughed out with disturbing ease suggesting plenty of practice, Ruby continued "She's also a really good trainer if you can put up with her. A tall order, but it pays off."

"You know it. Check the gun show." Yang smirked, flexing her rather impressive arms, straining the material of her school uniform.

Weiss sighed. As weird as Yang seemed, if she was an expert it made sense that this would be her job...but that left Weiss unsure as to what her own job could possibly be. "Ruby, I don't think there's anything left for me to do."

"Sure there is Weiss, and it's the biggest job of all." Ruby exclaimed, pausing for dramatic emphesis. "You are my second in command."

Weiss's brain stopped working for a second as she tried to process this. "...what?"

"Second in command." Ruby said, nodding. "Normally this means you don't do much since I'm here, but if I'm not available and leader type decisions need to be made, you're next in line. You're going to need to be sharp on fighting tactics and strategy, as the most likly time I'm going to be out is if I'm knocked out in a fight. So you are going to be working alongside me on that. Making hypothetical scenarios, thinking up different tricks we can use, that sort of thing. Weiss, are you okay?"

Weiss's response was to gurgle and then faint in shock. This had just not been her week.

Blake decided it was time to tell Ruby the truth: that she was also a faunus. The Schnee was being checked over by the nurse for her fainting spell, and Yang had stayed in the cafeteria in order to eat more. They were the only two in the medical lounge at the moment. It was the perfect time to come clean and get Ruby to understand why she wanted to stay hidden. Ruby had tried to hide at first as well, so she'd probably be very understanding. "Hey Ruby, can we talk for a minute?"

Glancing up Ruby turned back to the newspaper she was reading. "Sure just let me finish this page and oh those bastards!" Ruby snarled, bearing her teeth and growling as her ears pulled sharply backwards, highlighting how pissed off she was.

"What's wrong?" Blake asked, concerned. Ruby being ticked off was not a good place to start this conversation.

"It's those White Fang bastards." Ruby growled. "They've been tied to a rash of recent and widespread theft from stores here in Vale."

"Is there proof, or are they just suspects because they're faunus?" Blake asked. As much as she wished to sever ties with her old associates, she still held out hope that they'd see the errors of their ways.

"Well...it only says suspected, and there isn't much evidence." Ruby admitted. "Still, I wouldn't put it past actually being those bastards."

"Still, no evidence? Sounds like they're just being blamed because they're faunus." Blake argued.

Ruby rolled her eyes. "No, they're being blamed because they're the freaking White Fang, it's not a faunus thing. You don't have to say nice things about them just because I'm a faunus. I hate their guts."

The bottom seemed to drop out of Blake's stomach at those words, and she could feel her ears starting to twitch nervously. Brining that to a quick halt, she asked "Why would you hate the White Fang? They're fighting to end the oppression of faunus."

"It's not that simple Blake." Ruby sighed, massaging her temples, and appeared deep in thought as she took her time before continuing. "Okay, Blake. I appreciate that you are a supporter of faunus rights. That is very open minded and fair of you. Yang says you've worked with faunus before so I'm glad we've made a good impression. And yes things still aren't the best for us, but the White Fang is going about it all wrong. They aren't fighting for faunus rights. They're murderers, liers, thieves, and hypocrites who will attack and kill faunus that don't follow their ideals. The Fang scare the shit out of me. Blake, I am from a mixed family. Do you know what the Fang would do to my family? My sister and father are just as much a target as Weiss and her family are, because we are defiling their "faunus versus humans" idea."

Blake was stunned. She never thought she'd meet a faunus who hated the Fang so much. Or feared them. They were supposed to be the champions of the faunus.

Ruby sighed. "Sorry I went heavy there, but yeah. Lots of faunus hate the Fang because they give us a bad name. The old White Fang used to be heroes. The new Fang is a disgrace to the name. If I ever get my hands on whoever caused this shift, I am going to do the world a favor and rip his throat out." she ended, growling and bearing her slightly elongated canines.

"I uh, I should go check up on Yang." Blake said, hurrying out the door. Ruby definitely wasn't in the right mood to hear this. And also Blake would have to make extra sure her past affiliation was fully buried.

"Way to scare the supporters Ruby." she mustered in self recrimination. Ears perking up, she turned around happily. "Weiss, you're okay. What happened?"

Weiss flushed a bit. "The nurse said it looked like a combination of mental, emotional, and physical fatigue. Coupled with the shock of you making me second...I thought you were scared of me."

Ruby could understand that sentiment. "Weiss, I picked you for the job because when we were in the forest, you were the one who realized we just had to grab the relics and run, and we didn't need to fight the Grimm. Admittedly we wound up doing that anyway and then my idea wound up saving the day, but that's not the point." Smiling in assurance, Ruby continued. "Weiss, I picked you because you have a cool head under pressure, speak your mind, and aren't afraid to call me out if I make a mistake. Those are all qualities I need in my second in command to help me stay sharp and become a better leader."

"Ruby I...thank you." Weiss said, smiling...before it turned into her customary frown. "Of course, you're going to need all the help you can get. This is sure to be a stressful job."

Ruby sighed. And they had been doing so well too. "Tell you what, I'll let you borrow my stress ball if you're feeling overwhelmed."

"I don't need a squeaky toy to feel better Ruby."

"It's not a squeaky toy!"

Yang wasn't sure what to make of Weiss and Ruby pointedly not looking at each other as the day wore on. It wasn't like they weren't talking to each other...which actually made it a bit weirder come to think of it. It was like they were physically displaying their dislike for each other even as they tried to be civil. Clearly, something had to be done. "Double headlock!" she shouted as she got both of her victims under her arms.

"Ack! What are you doing you brute!" Weiss shouted in panic.

"Yang, let go!" Ruby whined.

With a shake of her head and a manic grin, Yang replied "Nope. Not until you two stop acting so weird and stop fighting. You're partners, you can't afford to be fighting." Seeing that her charges were struggling more than listening, she added "If you two don't start getting along in the next thirty seconds, your faces are going in my pits." She knew that would shut both of them up, especially her sister with her sensitive nose.

Weiss blanched. "You wouldn't."

"She would." Ruby admitted. "Truce?"

"Yes, very yes." Weiss said.

Grinning, Yang let the two go. "There, that wasn't so bad. And since we have to rush to class, no time for revenge. I am such an evil genius." She really felt proud of herself for having resolved the issue with no chance of any real backlash.

Blake smirked. "Well genius, did you remember our next class is full contact sparring?"

Yang's grin dropped from her face as she studied Weiss and Ruby's grins, the two no doubt planing what to do to her if they managed to get her in the arena. "I have chosen poorly."

Blake's smirk grew as she rolled her eyes. "Come on partner, time to face the music."

"And that concludes safety regulations and proper sparring conduct." Professor Goodwitch said. "Now then, we have enough time left for a few quick matches. Traditionally, the leaders of every first year team have the first spars, representing their teams pride and skill."

"Whew, I am safe." Yang muttered. As strong as she was, Yang knew full well that her speed was an issue, and against a speedster like Ruby she was at a severe disadvantage. Weiss she wasn't so sure about, but the heiress didn't have the build of somebody who stood there and took it.

"Of course it should only take two classes, including this one to cycle through all of you. Then open sparing will begin." Glynda continued. "Matches will begin now, and will be random matches. First up is," pushing a button on her scroll she read "Ruby Rose of Team RWBY versus Ruby Ro-I thought they fixed that." Pushing the button again, she smiled. "There we go. Cardin Winchester of Team CRDL versus Jaune Arc of Team JNPR."

Seeing the two make their way to the stage, Yang had only one thing to say. "Well that is just not fair."

"I don't know." the dark skinned girl in the trench coat behind her commented. "Skinny boy might have a killer semblance for all we know."

Jaune's partner, the Phyrra Neikos, shook her head while looking worried. "He doesn't know what his semblance is yet. He will be reliant on only his sword skills."

The dark skinned girl shook her head sadly, adjusting her newsboy hat a bit so it rested more comfortably on her dreadlocks. "Poor kid. Anyone want to bet on how long he lasts? Closest time gets the pot. Willing to put fifty on a one minute knockout."

The pale girl next to her in the loud tank top glared at her. "Mahogany, you insult a warrior without seeing his metal. It is unbecoming to speak so ill of one who has dedicated themselves to battle."

"Sheesh, pull the stick out your butt Alexandria. Well my team has no takers." Mahogany sighed, before leaning forward. "So, RWBY, JNPR, any takers?"

"If you'll match, I'll put a hundred on him not even lasting thirty seconds." Weiss butted in, Mahogany grinning and nodding.

"Weiss!" Ruby chided.

"That's cold. Put me down at twenty for at least two minutes." Yang said. Seeing a couple glares shot her way, she shrugged. "What? I'm going longer than the others. I believe in his ability to last a while."

"Jaune may just surprise you." Phyrra muttered. "He did help take out a deathstalker after all."

And then the match began. Cardin took a vicious swing with his mace. Jaune tried to block with his shield, but it was held a bit to high and Cardin was able to adjust his swing to take Jaune full in the midsection, sending him sprawling halfway across the room.

"And I win." Weiss said smugly, only to see Mahogany's stunned face. "Was him losing that fast that big of a shock?"

"Check the aura Schnee." Alexandria sugested.

Doing as she sugested, Weiss's jaw dropped. "You have got to be kidding me."

That vicious blow had only knocked off a quarter of Jaune's aura.

"It was a pleasure doing business with you all." Yang said smugly, discreetly counting her winnings.

Weiss wanted to groan and just sink out of sight. How dare that creep have so much aura that he could last longer than he should have. "He was still pathetic." she muttered, feeling a need to justify her bet.

"Agreed." Alexandria nodded solemnly. "He swings his sword like a cleaver with no real control, and his shield handling is terrible. His aura made up for some of that, but he has serious issues."

"He just might not have a lot of dueling experience." Ruby pointed out. "There is a huge difference between fighting a person and fighting a Grimm. I mean he fought a deathstalker so he can't be clueless."

"A fair point." Rahu, the messy haired giant of team ARMS, said. While not the tallest in the class, his bulk made him seem much larger. Adding to the illusion was that he somehow seemed to have an undersized uniform, the fabric stretched and straining under his mighty bulk. "Still, most of us started on human opponents then moved on to Grimm. Something is off here."

"Jaune showed excellent tactical and leadership qualities during initiation." Phyrra defended. "He might be more suited for support than direct combat."

"Well he told me on his first day that he's using his great grandpa's weapon." Ruby admitted. "He wasn't too happy. I got the impression it was the weapon he was stuck using more than one he loved to use."

"Ouch, legacy weapon?" Mahogany asked. "I mean yeah I inherited my gun from my dad, but at least the weapon fit me. If he can't handle his family's style or it wasn't suited to him, he should have tried to get a different kit."

Ruby winced. "I, uh, don't think he could have afforded one."

In the ensuing awkward silence as Jaune made his way back to his seat Weiss actually felt a litte guilty at the thought that Jaune might have been stuck with an incompatible weapon because he couldn't buy anything else. Weiss had grown up with seven buttlers attending her whims. 'No Weiss, be rational. You and your family have nothing to do with Jaune's being poor. You have no reason to feel guilty for being rich. You didn't choose to be rich any more than they chose to be poor. You have nothing to feel guilty about.' It was very important to keep in mind that her family wasn't responsible for all the world's woes after all, even if those White Fang terrorists insisted otherwise.

"Well that was, certainly a quick match." Glynda said, feeling oddly vindicated in her belief that Jaune wasn't ready for this level of training. "Next up is Ruby Rose of Team RWBY versus Silvia Odyssey of Team ARMS." She hadn't even finished her announcement when Ruby was already by her side, a cloud of rosepettals having followed the speedster down. After a few moments, Glynda got annoyed. "Miss Odyssey, get down here now."

"Fine fine." the silver haired girl, Weiss recognized her from yesterday, said as she walked down to the arena floor at a leisurely pace, still playing with that yoyo. "Don't see what the point is, I'm going to win in the end." Weiss noted that this Silvia wore relatively little armor, just a silvery chest plate, grieves, and bracers. She also had a silvery round shield...

Weiss did a quick double take. "Phyraa, did she model her armor after yours?"

"Probably. It is a famous and well designed set associated with being a prodigy, and she'd love to convey that idea." Alexandria said with a shrug. "Though she's circlet free so her head's more vulnerable. Also, I think you missed one other important addition."

Looking again, Weiss noticed the large silver canister attached to the back of Silvia's skirt like a fanny pack, a large blue square cut water crystal set in the center. "That...looks important."

"It is." Mahogany said. "Still good luck to Ruby, we'll be rooting for her."

"No, really, we will." Alexandria quickly added. "We hate Silvia that much."

Rahu just shrugged. "Eh, she's not bad in a scrap. Terrible attitude, but she can fight and that's what matters in the end."

"She can't be that bad can she?" Blake asked, only to have her jaw drop when she saw what Silvia was doing as she entered the arena. "She's not doing what I think she's doing is she?"

Looking, Weiss felt sick. "If you mean useing her yoyo to walk the dog as she comes in to fight Ruby, yes she is."

Yang just glared at Silvia, eyes glowing red. "That bitch. Tear her a new one Ruby!" She shouted that last part, clueing a couple of the less astute students in on the fact that the yoyo trick was a deliberate insult.

"Like I said," Rahu leaned back, seemingly undisturbed, "terrible attitude."

Ruby really wanted to get this match to start. "Is that supposed to be a joke?"

"No." Silvia replied. "It is supposed to be an insult. I myself however do find it amusing. Arf arf."

"Thats enough of that young lady." Glynda scolded, glaring. "I sugest you put that toy away and get your weapon ready so we can begin the match."

Reeling the yoyo in, Silvia looked bored as she explained "This is my weapon, Deva. I am at the ready."

"She named her weapon Diva? Well she has the right attitude for it." Yang quipped.

"Not dēva, it's pronounced dāva." Alexandria explained. "They sound alike but they mean vastly different things."

"So what's Deva mean then?" Jaune asked, honestly curious.

"It means God." Phyrra explained. "She named her weapon God."

Mahogany nodded. "Yeah, her ego is that big."

Ruby growled. "You're seriously underestimating me if you think you can win with a toy."

Silvia looked rather sternly at her opponent. "You will not call my weapon a "toy" again. Your defeat will already be humiliating enough."

"Alright enough you two." Glynda interjected. "Save it for the official match. Ready," Taking a second to look, she confirmed the Ruby had her scythe held at the ready while Silvia had slipped her shield onto her left arm and had her right hand cocked and ready to throw her...weapon. "and begin!"

Ruby imediatly dashed forward with a vicious swing, only to have Silvia walk forward inside the blade, grabbing onto the shaft with her left arm. Having been trained on what to do for just this situation, Ruby pulled the trigger so that the recoil would propel the scythe into her opponent's back...only for Silvia to release her hold and turn inward, brining her shield to bear to halt the attack while at the same time releasing her yoyo in a hooking arc to strike Ruby in the aside of her head before quickly retraction the yoyo and ducking under the scythe blade before Ruby could reinforce her attack with more power.

"Augh, that actually hurt." Ruby muttered, surprised.

"Of course it did. It's a weapon." Silvia said, as though she were explaining the obvious to a child she didn't particularly tolerate. "It's aura channeling combat grade alloy. What did you think it was, cheap plastic?"

Ruby didn't have a quick answer that didn't make her sound dumb, so she kept her mouth shut and dashed backwards. If her opponent was a close quarters specialist, then a few sniper shots should change her tune. Or at least they would if she wasn't so good at blocking the shots with her shield. 'Still, as long as I keep my distance she can't attack me with the dumb battle yoyo, and she can't block forever.' Of course that is when Silvia spun around before releasing her yoyo horizontally at Ruby. Only her enhanced faunus senses and high speed reflexes let Ruby dodge the miniature buzz saw that would have impacted her face otherwise. "What the hell?"

"Did you really think I had no ranged option?" Silvia asked sardonically. Spinning her weapon another spinning blade of earth grew from the side. "I use rock dust to grow blades upon Deva. I can use them in melee," she demonstrated with a quick sawing into the floor, which then turned into an around the world that flung the buzz saw at a quickly dodging Ruby "or I can fling them to attack at range. You think I wouldn't consider such things?"

"I did kind of hope you over specialized yeah." Ruby admitted, before vanishing in a flurry of rose petals, only to reappear with a vicious swing that finally hit Silvia, knocking her off balance slightly. However, before Ruby could capitalize on this her opponent had already thrown a counter attack, though it was thankfully without the aid of dust. Moving Crescent Rose to block, Ruby recognized the trap too late as the yoyo wrapped around the shaft, seeking to yank her baby from her grasp. Struggling to hold on, Ruby growled out "You know, just because you have a neat toy doesn't mean you are going to win."

Silvia was infuriated. "Do not call it a toy you mutt." A burst of smoke and embers from Deva put an end to Runy's struggles to keep her weapon, as she had a much more immediate concern.

"Augh! My eyes!" Ruby couldn't even open them they hurt so much. What kind of move was that? It bypassed her aura! And it really freaking hurt!

"Stop the match, stop the match!" Weiss shouted, glyphing her way down to the arena floor. "Ruby needs to get to medical, now!" Being an expert on dust, she knew that ash dust to the eyes was extremely dangerous. While your aura would protect you from the heat, the ashes themselves was another matter entirely, usually bypassing defenses unless you had a well trained aura and could see the attack comming. Or goggles.

"Agreed." Glynda said, happy to end the match after a move like that. "Miss Odyssey, what in the world made you think a blinding attack to the eyes was acceptable?"

"I wasn't aiming for it to hit her eyes when I activated the ash dust." Silvia explained cooly. "It was just supposed to be a startling move to make her reflexively drop her hedge trimmer. That it blinded the mutt was unintentional."

"Mutt? Why you, I'll deal with you later. Hang on Ruby." Weiss said, putting her partner in a fireman's carry as she moved, using her glyphs for boosted speed. Weiss knew she had to hurry, blinding attacks like this were very dangerous. While ash dust did produce heat and could cause minor burns, it's primary use was for attacking eyes with a bursting cloud of burning soot. Unless treated properly, there could be serious and permanent damage. While it would be arguable that Silvia had indeed intended for it to just be a startling move, the amount of aura and dust used for the attack strongly sugested otherwise. Silvia had tried to blind her partner on purpose. There is no way that this would be allowed to stand.

Well that's over and done with. Send me all your hate, it only makes me stronger! Let me quench my thirst upon fan tears! Next chapter, meet more new people! The OC contest will be announcing its winners. And having the leaders fight each other. Also next chapter, Weiss tries to find a way to make Silvia pay for what she did.

And now that they've all been introduced, for your reading pleasure, the profiles of the members of my OC team ARMS!

Name: Alexandria Woden

Age: 19

Gender: Female

Species: Human

Weapon: Asura, a bident with twin edged tines. The shaft is fully adjustable, ranging in length from two to twelve feet or anywhere in between. It has a day projector located between the tines that can be used for a quick spray assault. This is typically loaded with shock dust, but she also will use freeze or burn instead.

Semblance: Enhanced sight. Alexandria can modify and improve her eyesight in a variety of ways, eyes shining brightly while she does so. Binocular micro or macro scopic vision, night vision, thermal vision, and incraced acuity being all the tricks she knows at present. Sadly her attempts at x-ray vision have all failed so far.

Physical description: Having been ravaged by disease, Alexandria isn't much to look at. At five feet tall, she is smaller thn even the juvenile Ruby, and skinnier to boot. She has short cropped light brown hair and bright blue eyes, and her skin is sickly pale. Her choice of attire is a powder blue tank top with a dark yellow sixteen pointed star on the front, her emblem. She wears tan short shorts and high wrap sandles.

History: The third daughter of the head of the Woden Food Group, Alexandria lived a life of casual ease in luxury, never having much ambition. Her life of comfort came to a screeching halt however when she was eleven and became seriously ill. Stapled into machines and treated for days, then weeks, then even months and years, Alexandria experienced fears both real and imaginary. When lucid from fevered dreams of nightmares, she had faced the very real possibility that she would die having accomplished nothing with her life, with no legacy for anyone to remember her by. She would die alone and forgotten. However she did survive and at age fifteen was free of her sick bed at last, having been confined there for almost four years. Deciding to do something worthwhile with her life, Alexandria trained herself in the rt of combat, seeking the ideal of glory in victory. Though she was being admitted to Beacon later in life than most, this is largely due to the fact that she needed those extra years to make up for the years that disease ravaged her body.

Personality: Alexandria demands respect, and don't you dare use a nickname with her. Though she hides it well, she has a strong sense of fear, acting in a brash and somewhat flamboyant manner to hide this fact. She also often tries to be the center of attention or otherwise be important. She seems lazy to some as she spends a lot of time napping, but that is just a consiquence of her recovery leaving her with pitiable stamina, a flaw she is very much aware of and working on. She is very confrontational, and believes strongly in the idea of "glorious, honorable combat". On the faunus issue, she is apathetic and doesn't care one way or another.

Style: Alexandria is a mid range fighter, using Asura's length and adjustability in unusual ways. She doesn't so much stab you with Asura as let Asura stab you itself, letting the weapon extend and retract at her opponent while she just holds it steady. The occasional sweep is thrown in as well, relying on the bladed sides to slice an opponent open. This seemingly lazy style is intended to help Alexandria preserve her limited stamina. In addition it help keep her opponents at bay, as she lacks the aura required to take any truly serious blows. As such she relays mostly on dodging for defense, and is startlingly flexible when it comes to bending and twisting out of the way, almost like a snake. If hard pressed or dealing with a more long ranged opponent, Asura can be used to produce a spray of dust discharge, usually in the form of a short range electrical discharge, but a flamethrower burst or freeze spray are also possible if the right dust was loaded earlier.

Team Relations: Rahu is the best teammate ever: they both love fighting and their styles compliment each other so well. Mahogany is okay, but the obsession over her gun is a bit creepy. Still, she provides good ranged support. Silvia can go die in a fire, her condescending attitude grateing Alexandria in all the wrong ways. If it weren't for the sheer gap in their physical abilities, she would have tried kicking Sylvia's butt a while ago.

Stats:

Strength - C

Endurance - D

Speed - C

Agility - A

Intelligence - B

Aura - E

Dust - C

Other: Alexandria is based off of three main concepts all tied into the core concept, that of Alexander the Great. Alexander was one of the greatest generals of all time, known for his love of honorable combat, and genius intilect. He was also rumored in his own lifetime to be a demigod, his true father Zeus who had taken the form of a snake. Alexander died young due to disease, but his legacy lives on to this day. Alexandrite, a stone named after him, has a sickly dark yellow color to it. Alexander's army's symbol was a sixteen pointed star. Alexander was ironically worried nobody would remember him and that he would be forever overshadowed by his massively successful father. Asura is one of the paths of reincarnation in Budism, and is the level of "demigod" or "jealous god", as they are not as powerful as a full god, or deva, and as such asura are usually quite surly and combative. Woden, also known as Odin, was the king god of the Asier. Having traded an eye for wisdom and magical powers, he now actually saw more than when he had two eyes, earning him the nickname of "the All Seeing All Father". He also possessed a magical spear called Gungnir which could never miss and was quite lethal; Gungnir was the original source of lightning in storms before Thor came about. The bident is the symbol of Hades, god of the earth and the dead in Greek mythology. Hades is the older brother of Zeus and Posidon, whose symbols are a thunderbolt and a trident. As the lord of the earth, he also had dominion of what was found within it, meaning all the worlds riches of gold and jewels were his. As such Hades was also the god of wealth. Hades was arguably the nicest of the Greek gods and helped many a hero on their great quests.

Name: Rahu Malice

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Species: human

Weapon: Naraka. A proper tetsubo, it is taller than he is, before adding in the handle on this black bat like weapon. The top can open up for cannon fire, and though the powerful shots are a bit hard to aim when they do hit devastation follows.

Semblance: Growth. Rahu becomes enveloped in black mist as he increase in size. He can currently add about 25% to his volume, effectively doubling his mass due to the square cube law. While this makes him stronger and tougher, it also cuts into his speed and agility while making him a larger target.

Physical description: When not increasing his size, Rahu is already a whopping five ten and weighs in at two fifty without his armor. His body is rather rough and scarred from his training. His hair is black and rather messy, covering the top half of his face when he's not wearing his helmet, though this doesn't seem to impair his vision at all...somehow. It seems like Rahu somehow got the wrong size school uniform, as it looks rather tight and almost ready to burst on his large frame. In battle he wears a set of black heavy samurai armor, complete with a lion fang face guard and a demon horned helmet. His symbol is a golden nozarashi.

History: Rahu is very close lipped about his past, not out of fear or shame, but because of how boring it is. Middle child of a middle class family in the middle of Vale, he likely would have wound up just another civilian middle manager if he hadn't, on a whim, signed up for some self defense classes. Rahu found he had a tallent for fighting, and what's more he really enjoyed it. He trained for several years and competed in several tournaments where he gained a reputation as a vicious and ruthless fighter. A reputation reinforced by street brawls against gang bangers and street toughs. Having grown bored fighting punks, Rahu enrolled in Beacon in order to fight some real enemies he could go all out on without risking a DQ or the cops.

Personality: If it ain't fighting, Rahu ain't interested. Even food doesn't appeal to the teenage Goliath that much. Anything else practically fades into the background by comparison.

Style: Brute force. Rahu attempts to just crush his foes fast, hard, and without mercy. Knowing he doesn't have much in the way of speed or agility, he relies on his size, armor, and aura to protect himself from damage. For speedy foes who like to keep their distance, the cannon's firepower is the proper answer. Overall his style is simple but effective.

Team Relations: Alexandria is fun and loves fighting too. Mahogany is a bit weird, and can't even give him a decent fight when they spar. Silvia is fun to fight, as she constantly pushes him harder than just about anyone else he's ever fought. Shame about her attitude. He doesn't comment on people joking about him being the only guy on a team full of girls. As far as Rahu is concerned, they aren't guys and girls, they are warriors...and Mahogany.

Stats:

Strength - A

Endurance - A

Speed - D

Agility - D

Intelligence - D

Aura - B

Dust - D

Other: Rahu are demons of rage and hatred from Hindu mythology. By their nature they seek to rip the world in half, and grow larger the more pain and suffering they cause. Naraka is the lowest state of reincarnation in Budism, and is literally a hell state. Unlike western hell, this is only a temporary state of punishment until all of a persons sins from their previous life have been paid for, at which point they reincarnate. The nozarashi, or weather beaten skull, is a symbol of crule death, the body unburied and left to rot in the elements. The katana, while being the iconic samurai weapon, was actually largely ceremonial and few samurai actually used it in serious conflict. Tetsubo were far more commonly used, as we're bows, spears, and axes. This is because katana required a lot of work to myster properly, while the other weapons were far easier to learn at a level of practical use.

Name: Mahogany Brown

Age: 17

Gender: Female

Species: human

Weapon: Preta is a heavy dual variance multi-purpose tactical assault gun. What that means is that it is a large gun with two rotating chambers, front and back, that enable the weapon to be very flexible in its use. The back chamber is a revolving five chamber cycle, each loaded with different dust canisters for a variety of elemental attacks and effects. What justifies the extra size and weight is the front three state cycle mechanism. This rather unique attachment lets one switch between single fire grenade like blasts, wide spread semi-auto shotgun, or a full auto assault rifle. The ability to adjust element and attack method makes Preta an extremely adaptable weapon. It also makes it finicky and need a lot of matinance. The grenade setting can also be used to alter terrain.

Semblance: Drain Aura. Mahogany has the ability to drain aura from other living things via touch with any part of her body, no direct skin contact required. While this won't let her go above her normal maximum aura reserves, it will replace any lost due to fatigue, damage, or heavy dust use. As Grimm do not have aura, she must instead draw it from plants, animals, humans, and faunus. She largely sticks to the first two for obvious reasons, though in a duel she is quick to use it to cause large swings.

Physical description: Dark skinned with short black dreadlocks, she is of average height and weight for her age, with an unremarkable build. Her outfit consists of a brown trench coat over dark gray pants, a white dress shirt, a dark gray vest, and a blue tie. She also wears a brown newsboy cap and leather gloves, as well as brown boots. Her outfit has had more than one person wondering if she has mob ties.

History: Oddly enough for such rumors, the answer is yes, but not like people think. Mahogany isn't involved with the mobs, but her father was. Charles Brown was a mid level mob enforcer. Unlike many in his position, Charles did not die due to the actions of criminal rivals, nor did he wind up getting caught by the police. Instead while crossing the street one night he was hit by a random drunk driver. Mahogany would not find out about her father's criminal career for another three years when she accidentally stumbled upon a hidden compartment in her Father's old office, Charles having posed as an insurance agent for a shell company for years. Inside the hidden compartment was a journal of her father's career, undertaken origionally to cover his own father's debts, and later support his family. Also within, however, was Preta, an experimental weapon her father had been developing with the hope he could find a buyer for the design so he could quit the criminal life. Having read this, Mahogany decided she was going to do her father one better. Patenting Preta, she set out to become a huntress to become a living testimony to the gun's capabilities. So that it would be worth a whole lot more to manufacturers to lease the production rights.

Personality: Mahogany is not very aggressive, preferring to avoid a fight if she can. She's not the most assertive either, content to fade into the background. She idolizes her father, who did what he had to for his family, but hates criminals in general, blaming them for forcing her father into the situation in the first place. She is very protective of Preta, as the gun is not only hard to maintain and repair but is also her father's legacy. She knows she's nothing amazing by hunter standards, and feels very insecure about it as a result. She is also very stingy and cheap, and often looks for ways to get her hands on more money, or at least some free stuff. With gambling and odd jobs of course, she's no thief. She has a tendency to be overly dramatic when anything bad happens to her.

Style: Mahogany usually opens up with a full auto spray of whatever element she thinks will work best. If an opponent handles that she usually switches over to shotgun mode to try plastering her foes while also planning her next move. She usually switches to grenades then, causing terrain altering features like fire pillars, ice walls, and quicksand pits to shape the battlefield and hinder her foes if the sheer force of the shot doesn't destroy them. Being a more or less dedicated marksman, she makes sure to stay well away when fighting, relying on her speed and reflexes to keep her well away from her opponents...unless she can "snack" on their aura.

Team Relations: Mahogany has the worst team ever. Alexandria and Rahu are battle nuts. Silvia is so far above Mahogany it's not even funny. Why her? Really, why her? This is just so unfair!

Stats:

Strength - C

Endurance - C

Speed - B

Agility - B

Intelligence - C

Aura - C

Dust - B

Other: Preta are another of the incarnation levels of Budism. The hungry ghost level, preta are the result of excess greed and desire. With pencil thin necks and empty stomachs bigger than the rest of their bodies, preta are literally made to suffer until they can make up for the crimes of the past. Mahogany is a dark brown hard wood often used for making string instruments such as violins, cellos, and basses. Cases for these instruments have traditionally been used to smuggle weapons, resulting in the iconic image of gangsters pulling tommy guns out of such instrument cases.

Name: Silvia Odyssey

Age: 17

Gender: Female

Species: human

Weapon: Deva, a combat yoyo. Is has dust chambers in each half, one obtaining burn dust and the other rock dust. The connector rod of the yoyo surges a dual function as a mixing port, enabling her to mix such things as ash or explosion dust by combing her other two elements.

Ambrosia isn't really a weapon on its own, being a cylinder used to produce generous amounts of water. However, it is intended for use with Silvia's semblance.

Her shield is unnamed.

Semblance: Water control. Silvia is able to telikinetically manipulate the liquid form of water quite freely.

Physical description: Silvia has shoulder length gray hair, though she insists it is silver, that matches quite well with her gray/silver eyes. Her silvery armor is indeed modeled after Phyrra's, with the silver being 'better' than bronze a deliberate statement. She is taller than normal at five feet seven inches. Her weight is healthy, and she has a decent amount of muscle tone. She also has a figure that would make just about any girl short of Yang feel insecure.

History: For such an egomaniac, Silvia is oddly quiet about her past. She just entered Vale one day, said she came from outside the kingdoms, and applied for Beacon. She passed quite handilly, claiming it was natural tallent alone.

Personality: Silvia has a gigantic ego. She is rude, condescending, and in general a very unpleasant person. She is also a bit lazy and unmotivated. She feels that with her raw natural tallent she does not need to train, and so far nothing has proven a big enough challenge to even shake that attitude just a little. In fact she considers her "fellow prodigy" Phyrra to be the only person around her age that could even give her a decent challenge. She is racist against faunus.

Style: Silvia is highly adaptive. Capable of short, mid, and long range combat, direct attacks, curving attacks, disarmament, blinding bursts, fire rings, and rock bindings Silvia has a trick for just about everything. And that's before you add in torrent trips, or just suffocating her opponent via drowning in a head clinging orb of water. Able to judge and move between these various options quickly, efficiently, and instinctually are what makes Silvia so dangerous. Her ability to use her aura to mix dust on the fly is also very impressive, as few experienced Huntsmen and Huntresses could do so, though this is currently limited to only mixes involving rock and burn dust due to her familiarity with them. Still, it has the potential for further growth if she bothers to acquire deeper familiarity with other dust types.

Team Relations: They are beneath her.

Stats:

Strength - B

Endurance - B

Speed - A

Agility - A

Intelligence - A

Aura - B

Dust - S

Other: Deva is the highest level of reincarnation in Budism, and indeed translates as God. Deva achieved their posistion via good karma from their past life, but do not need to remain ultra benevolent once they have reincarnated to keep the position. Deva are often arrogant and demanding, as they are as far above Asura as Asura are above humans. The Odyssey is the tale of the voyage of the Greek hero Odyssius. Odyssius famously blinded a cyclops with a hot burning wooden stake at the start of his journey. This earned him the wrath of Posseidon, king of the seas who commanded all water, from streams to raging floods, and was the Greek god of evil. Posseidon also had domain over earthquakes, infringing on what should have been his brother Hade's domain. Silvia means "mysterious woman of the woods". Ambrosia was the drink of the Greek gods.