A/N: Ok. If you guys have not read the news on my profile.
You all (should) know that I have always kept about 3-4 chapters ahead of my posted one, in reserve. To make sure I never missed my planned weekly posting, in case of things like writer's block or the like.
I am afraid to inform you all, that ALL my stored chapters on my PC were lost last week. That includes the three chapters I had waiting to be posted, and even worse, the ENTIRETY of my 'Sheet of Stuff'. Basically the document that held all the information of my fanfiction, from how the world functions, the details about each persons abilities and the like. Background information, both on the people and the places were they all reside and partake in. Future plans, etcetera etcetera.
It was a RIDICULOUS amount of written information... and I lost it all, plus three chapters... Needless to say, by show of NOT having posted, it hit me hard. As you can see from this post, I am working on getting the information page rewritten a bit... but I really have VERY VERY LITTLE motivation at the moment. I have restarted Chapter 14... but I am progressing slowly on it... I apologize, and hope you all understand my situation, and that this tides you over a bit while I get back into the swing of things and post my chapters properly again.
P.S. My current situation with my personal life is not helping, but I won't go into details about that for obvious reasons. Nonetheless, I do hope you are all not too badly incensed at me for failing to follow on my own schedule.
Also, since I found little time to reply properly to you all, I have some replies here for those who reviewed during my absence, to hopefully balance the lack of a speedy reply, by posting it in public.
Lantern - I have indeed had some issues in my own personal life that have kept me occupied. Quite a few actually, some rather severe that required my full attention. It truly did not help that these issues followed IMMEDIATELY after I lost all my saved documents on this story. As they say, 'When it rains, lightning is sure to strike you repeatedly until Murphy stops laughing.'... or something like that.
That being said, I am truly grateful for your review, as nothing bolsters writers like their readers saying they like their work, expect more of it eagerly, and believe in them.
weasel AKA boundedsumo - There are literally thousands of good stories out there, on this site alone. Some will be overlooked. Still, I am glad and fortunate enough to have some of you stumble onto it, and I am glad you liked it. Also, I am glad to find a fellow writer who has not painted Papa Schnee as epitome of evil. There are too few of those, and I am including iterations of him that make him a dis-likable person, but not evil. Or version where he is an understood kind of evil, the kind that ACTUALLY has a legitimately acceptable reason for becoming evil, but was not born as such. Seriously, most just write him as if he was born evil, and just became worse with age.
Slenderbrine - XD Thank you for this, it makes me feel really good about myself and this story.
Daozang - As I stated to our local BDSM Sumo, there are a lot of good stories out there, more good than not, but combined we find ourselves lost in a sea of stories. Sometimes it takes awhile to find some of the things we end up liking. Other times we get lucky and find them from the beginning. Personally? I am just happy to find good stories that interest me at all, and that they are either completed successfully, or on-going and not dead. This of which I assure everyone is the latter of the two.
Now for some of the recreated 'Sheet of Stuff' !
To get you all a bit of information on the world as I see it and work with, as well as some of the characters.
Obviously, this spoils the previous chapters, so I will only upload that which has already been revealed, as well as re-upload it every time I put more information into it, so that new readers don't accidentally spoil themselves on later chapters.
Remnant Born Humans and Faunus.
Unlike Earth Humans, all those born on Remnant have innate physical abilities that give them seemingly supernatural advantages to others. And I am not just talking about Semblances and Aura. People are born with some aspects of themselves being abnormal in comparison to the norm. For example, Nora Valkyrie is supernaturally strong. Even if she were NOT to use Aura, an Earth born Human with a similar body structure, height, weight, muscle, etc, would have a third of her strength.
Faunus of course have animal traits, such as ears, eyes or the like. But aside from that, they also carry instinctive traits from the species as well. Blake is a cat Faunus, she has cat ears and eyes, and loves fish and is distracted by things like a laser pointer. Also, many Faunus, if their blood is 'thick' enough, have the ability to partially transform themselves a bit to be more similar to their animal. Blake and Tukson for example can grow fangs and claws.
Auras. Every person's Aura is special, just like their semblances. Some have higher healing properties, some defensive, some offensive. Every type can be trained regardless of innate talent or disposition, but some are harder for certain people for obvious reasons. Also, just like the Aura's disposition, and amount, every Aura also has different ways to regenerate itself (Almost all regenerate to some extent while sleeping though.). As stated Aura's level is based on the individual. So some will have large natural deposits of it, other miserable levels. Although Aura is claimed to be an image of one's soul. That is not entirely true, as all living things have Aura and can unlock it, and that would cause too many theologists migraines and problems. So although many will claim as such, Aura is more of a kind of life energy gifted to all who have life. (Simple, no?) In regards to Semblances, this is actually what one PERCEIVES/INTERPRETS themselves to be or need (Example: Blake perceives herself to be a coward, so when her semblance was created, it was to leave a shadow of herself to take the blows for her. Ruby felt she needed to be faster than anyone to be able to prevent something like what happened to her mother. So her semblance was that of speed.) AURA LEVELS CANNOT BE TRAINED. It increases by itself with age. You can train so that you use less aura for the same action though. To use math. If using your semblance of… I don't know, Generating Electricity takes about 5 aura every second around your hand. You can train it so it takes an aura a second instead. Or maybe even with enough mastery make it so it takes an aura a second for full body electricity generating instead of just being limited to ones hand. And yes, with training you can go BELOW an aura a second. Thank you decimals!
I will NEVER use this with numbers in the story, too much like DBZ power levels to my liking. I merely introduced this concept so that people like Jaune with RIDICULOUS Aura Levels and a natural defensive based Aura, can still be shown to take less damage than say, a fourth year student with low Aura levels but who has trained their Aura's defensive property extensively.
Aura is generally separated into Offensive, Defensive, and Support. It encompasses a WHOLE lot more though. For example, the ability to enhance your body's physical capabilities with Aura falls under Offensive, even if it is merely increases how hard your bones and organs are when you get hit by an Ursa. The ability to turn aside, or stop the blow altogether with JUST your aura shielding, falls under Defensive. Things like sharpening your blade with Aura, or enhancing the speed or piercing ability of your bullets, even increasing the effects of dust, increasing how much of a beating your weapon can take, or even slightly repairing them, all falls under Support. Despite some of those things being offensive, and others defensive.
Basically, Offensive affects your body in some way to enhance it in combat (Except for healing and fatigue recovery). Defensive is purely about how your Aura works to shield the body, or how it repairs the body. Support is anything outside of that, usually used to enhance one's weapons, armor, or semblances (Or even other's in some rare and special cases.)
Confirmed Shipping Pairs. (Serious note, I am still open to literally ALL other shipping pairs. So please, send me or post your ideas and why you would like them. Once I get enough I will even start up a poll for the most liked pairings to finally decide them. This will, for the most part, go on till I start up their second year, as by then, romance will start taking a more active role in this story.)
Blake and Jaune.
Ruby and Weiss. (Neptune will of course like and hit on Weiss, but I hope to have Ruby and her together before then… we shall see though, as I have a lot of ideas of how this situation could work out.)
Up in the air Pairs that I am considering. (These are NOT confirmed, merely things I am considering unless other ideas are thrown at me.)
Cardin and Melanie or Velvet. (Because who hasn't thought of the Cardin und Velvet ship at least once. And Melanie because she is in his squad.)
Coco and Fox.
Velvet with Cardin or Yatsuhashi.
Russel, Sky, or Dove and Winter or Melanie. (I have written it so that Dove has fallen for Winter so far, this does not mean that it will turn out to be a pairing though.)
Ren and Nora. (I really cannot see anyone else with Nora except Jaune. Nor can I see anyone with Ren except for Blake if Nora is not available. And both Blake and Jaune are taken.) [Now considering Nora and Pyrrha.{Which leaves poor Ren alone if I do go down this path.}]
Neo with Pyrrha.
Yang and… Wow, I actually can't think of anyone for her. Poor girl. I take away Blake and suddenly Yang is horribly single. XD
Episode 1 of Season 1, Start of Beacon date: April 1st, 2014
Beacon Teams:
First Years:
Team MDNS (Madness) will comprise of Kuroi Mato, Dove Bronzewing, Neopolitan, Winter Snow (Schnee).
Team RWPY (Ruby) will comprise of Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Pyrrha Nikos, Yang Xiao Long.
Team JNBR (Juniper) will comprise of Jaune Arc, Blake Belladonna, Nora Valkyrie,, Lie Ren.
Team CRML (Caramel) will comprise of Cardinal Winchester, Russel Thrush, Melanie Malachite, Sky Lark.
Original Character Teams borrowed from other writer's works, with their express permission:
Team TAPE (Taupe) will comprise of Tyrian Inuhoozuki, Automne Ombre Noire, Petunia Kapelle, Eve Howlite.
Team PLAD (Plaid) will comprise of Pastel Sognatore, Lila Tinta, Ammolite, Dahlia Petals.
Team SEPA (Sepia) will comprise of Sienaerde Gewehr-Tänzerin, Ecru Laurent, Pyrite Tzoker, Aurum Ihesus.
Second Years:
Team CFVY (Coffee) will comprise of Coco Adel, Fox Alistair, Velvet Scarlatina, Yatsuhashi Daichi.
This is a bit of a help section to understanding the Character Sheets that follow this.
In regards to the 'Special Abilities' that people have, in regards to their birthed physical talents. Like Nora's Supernatural strength. They will be split into three levels.
Superior - This can be taken to be one or two times stronger than most in the same physical condition without Aura or semblances.
Supernatural - This one is between three or four times stronger.
Superhuman - This one is really only for Mato, Penny and Neo. But in terms of strength, Mato has about thrice Nora's strength. (WITHOUT AURA, with Aura Nora is nearly twice as strong, so much closer to Mato's strength. And Mato's Aura really doesn't help her much, so yeah…) So she is about ten times stronger than a normal human who IS in proper physical. While she is NOT in proper (Visibly) physical condition. Thankfully, Mato can't really get stronger. (Her body IS physically fit, despite appearances, seeing as how her regeneration keeps her at peak physical condition.) I am sorry, but Kuroi Mato will not grow any real visible muscles throughout this story. Not that she needs any of it anyway…
Neo's strength is not as great as Mato's. But it is still about twice that of Nora's. It falls below Nora's when she is using her Aura. And as Neo's aura does nothing to enhance her body, Nora can beat Neo's natural strength with Aura. Unlike Mato though, Neo does get/have muscles to show for it. Also unlike Mato, Neo is NOT in perfect physical condition, as such, she can technically grow stronger, but really? She won't be getting much stronger physically, as her style revolves around speed, and flexibility, so while she CAN get stronger, matching even Mato's natural ability, she won't, as it would be counter productive.
Penny is a combat android… She is technically not human… so yeah, superhuman strength. Anyway, she is hands down the strongest character, but she can only get stronger if they enhance her body, so she technically has the same restriction as Mato in regards to getting stronger, at least until the scientist and engineers update her. For figures. She is slightly stronger than Mato is, unlike Mato though, Penny's aura enhances her strength greatly. FAR outstripping even Mato. Even if Mato decides to push her body beyond its safety limitations, using 100% of her strength and trained her Aura to increase her strength to the same levels as Penny's does. Penny ALWAYS uses 100% (Robot Body!) and unlike Mato, Penny CAN and WILL get stronger physically later on in the series thanks to technological developments. So Penny is the defacto Strongest Woman (Unless I, for WHATEVER reason, decide that she wants to change her gender later in the series, as she does in fact have a robot body, that is granted FULL customization.[This is no Jape, depending on the pairings that are decided later on, and the pairing's initial sexual orientation, I might really mess around with Penny's looks/body.])
(Side Note, Mato's strength does not change, regardless of whether she has her flame active. [Regardless of Blue, Red, or Purple.] She has long since gotten past the point where she needs to use her emotions to use 100% of her strength. But Red Flame would make it MUCH harder to hold back said strength. Also, on average, Mato uses up to about 70% of her strength, to avoid the painful tearing of muscles and whatnot. [There is no such thing as going beyond that. While a punch thrown can have a lot more force than 100% strength would dictate, that is thanks to the body's movement working in tandem to increase said force, like any martial artist would know. And yes, this can cause the body to hurt itself further. Still, they are not using more than 100% of their strength.])
(Second Side note, Neo CANNOT use 100% of her strength like Mato or Penny. It would do MUCH more damage than help if she could anyway. Thanks to training and her insanity at certain points though, she can in fact use about 85%. Which to be honest, is about the range of most of the cast that has had intense training or is a certified cuckoo. Nora can use about the same. As can Ruby, Ren, Pyrrha, and even Jaune in the right situations [Jaune's is mostly due to his heightened emotions in most scenarios.].)
Kuroi Mato
Age: 16? (Mentally 97, and physically she is either 97 as well, or less than 1. But she [supposedly] looks 16 as that is what BRS stated was her restarting point. Actually looks like a 10-12 year old. And I will make her take the age of 17 before she starts at Beacon to make it easier on Qrow.) (D.O.B. [Earth March 19, 2000] {Remnant} December 23, 1996)
Appearance: She has the appearance of Black Rock Shooter from the 2012 Anime, so no scars. Her blood is red though, and does not come out of her wounds like a pressure washer, nor evaporate upon contact with other surfaces. Otherwise, exactly like her 2012 Anime counterpart initially, eventually adds a black shirt with her emblem to her ensemble, as she understands that walking around in public, in a string bikini top is rather foolish.
Height: 149 Centimeters.
Personality: Mostly OOC in the fact that the anime Kuroi Mato was 12 years old… Not 97. After a life spent mostly on the 'other side' using Black Rock Shooters appearance to fight beside her again the 'other selfs' merging them with their originals to wipe out the 'other side' altogether. Her actions flip between that of a granny that is late to the party and wants to enjoy herself (A Troll in other words.) to that of socially awkward whatever between 16-97 year old. Sometimes she can seem her age and give out good advice, rare though, considering her entire life consisted of death matches, with no other real social interactions aside from the rare times she was awake in the presence of others. Although she can feel pain, she literally doesn't care about it, she has felt so much physical pain in the last 80 years that it is less irritating getting impaled by a Deathstalker to her, than most humans would feel over a mosquito bite. She still avoids damage though as part of her combat instincts anyway, but don't expect her to even flinch in taking a seemingly fatal injury.
Her flames can alter her personality a bit at the time of use.
Blue makes her a tad bit more cold and emotionless, thanks to decades of experience though, it is only a bit.
Red makes her an insane berserker. Nuff Said.
Purple is actually closest to her general personality after meeting with Neo and being on Remnant for a few months, hence her using it so often lately. It still makes her more prone to violence, both physical and mental.
Sexual Orientation: Unknown. Never came up in her life after she took on the mantle of Overseer. Initially seemed heterosexual, but it may have just been her going with the flow of her friends. Unknown.
Weapons: Black Rock Cannon and its forms. (Original, Tri-barreled Vulcan, Blade) Black Blade (Which unlike other RWBY swords [Except Jaune's Crocea Mors] is just one solid lump of metal [no fancy transformations]. Which also happens to weigh 20 kilograms. To understand how ridiculous this is, Crocea Mors probably weighs about 2-4 kilograms. And Crescent Rose around 32 kilograms. Black Rock Cannon weighs 70 kilograms.) She also has the Seven-Shots, (It is a moderately large handgun.) as well as Beast Blade([Officially titled BRSBlade, but that sounds lame to me.]It is a large, guard-less, broadsword that weighs around 45 kilograms.) When using the Purple Flame, she can also wield Insane Cannon Lance and Insane Blade Claw. Not gonna bother with this for a LONG time, but when using the Red Flame, she uses her limited armor generation to produce metal gauntlets that end in sharp claws for her fingers, which she of course uses as a weapon to tear into her enemies like the berserker the flame is named after.
Aura: 220 (Average Hunter level at the age of 30 is about 180. Considering that Aura never stops increasing until you die, and that Mato is 97. This is actually a VERY VERY low amount. She would normally have between 400-500 at that age.) Thanks to a ridiculous throw of the galactic dice. Her aura is COMPLETELY below average in everything. She can still train it with enough effort and time to match even the greatest aura users, but it will be a MUCH longer and harder journey than anyone else would have. She doesn't care that much though, since her own body is more than a match without aura even against most hunters and huntresses. She tells people it has incredible healing properties to wave off the fact that she heals nearly instantly from practically any damage, and incredible defensive abilities, to explain her taking blows the would break people in half, or falls that would transform others into a paste. In reality though, her aura can barely block a beowulfs slash and gives her no advantages in recovery or healing.
Her Aura recovers with sleep. She has found no other way to recover it, as she hasn't bothered to check... considering she doesn't even use it...
Semblance: Unknown. She hasn't really gone out of her way to find out… Not like she needs it.
Special Abilities: Abnormal Pain Threshold. (What it says on the tin.)
Advanced Level Regeneration (No scars, slows aging, regen limbs, regen damage even to the brain, immune to almost all toxins and drugs, and those that do affect her, will leave no permanent effects. [Nanomachines are NOT considered as a toxin or drug, not that this will EVER come up in this story.])
Superhuman strength (Even without Aura, she can swing around a large unwieldy block of metal weighing 70 kilograms with enough force and speed to crush a Deathstalker.)
Superhuman endurance (Can go for days fighting non-stop without collapsing or tiring physically. And considering her experience in doing just that anyway several times in her first life, can endure the mental fatigue as well. Nonetheless, she does get mentally fatigued and much prefers to have a solid four hours of sleep a day.)
Strange protection to Blunt Damage. (She can fall from nearly 80 meters in the sky into the earth, and it doesn't even break her epidermis. It will still damage internal organs, blood vessels, bones, etc. But no visible damage on the outside. If you hit her hard enough with a mace, you can see her arm break, but it won't break the skin… So no blood… Unless you hit it strong enough to tear of the arm off altogether… But either of those options would take A LOT more than most creatures can put out. So blades and piercing weapons are you best bet. Or magic. Explosions etc. Pretty much anything that is NOT a blunt weapon. Concussion grenades fall under blunt weapons.[Her Aura does NOT have the same protection. A blunt object can drain her aura as much as anything else.])
Extreme Dedication/Concentration (Considering she spent 81 years focused on a single goal to the point that she was awake less than a fifth of the day, and the other 4/5th was spent fighting and destroying an entire world? Yeah. [Also, when she gets REALLY into the zone, this is when the flame ignites over her left eye. It doesn't really increase any of her stats or abilities, it is merely a fact that she is COMPLETELY focused on the situation and would be the equivalent of anyone else being super hyped on adrenaline. On that note, her body doesn't really produce adrenaline unless this happens...)
Insanity Switch (If shit hits the fan hard enough, insanity breaks through, changing her flame red, and making her MUCH more aggressive. And completely disregards her own body. Only caring about the complete annihilation of her target, or completion of her goal without regards to anything around her or the consequences. She will create clawed armored gauntlets that she focuses on SOLELY in this state. [If she is capable of focus while the switch is on or was had already activated her Blue flame. The flame will become purple. Allowing her to also manifest the armor of Insane Black Rock Shooter and gets Insane Cannon Lance and Insane Blade Claw at this point. It is not limited to the form in the Anime either. She can create whatever armor she desires, and is capable of using the other weapons beside the Insane versions. But seeing how effective they are, and the fact that they can ONLY be used during this form, probably won't.])
Emotional Control (Thanks to decades of experience being with BRS and having nothing better to do while fighting in death matches, she can use both the Blue and Purple flames pretty much at will, although the latter will still influence her actions. [The Red Flame cannot be controlled. If she does attempt and succeed, it shifts into the Purple flame. So while it is purely red, it signifies she just doesn't care and is letting herself go.])
Ruby Rose
Age: 15 as of story start. 16 as of Beacon Start. (D.O.B. February 14, 1998 [I went there. Refer to Weiss Schnee to understand])
Appearance: Exactly like her Web Series counterpart.
Height: 158 Centimeters.
Personality: Naively Optimistic. She truly believes in the best in people. Nonetheless, years of training from her Uncle Qrow have tempered that Optimism with a pragmatic mindset. Allowing her to avoid being blinded by said optimism. As such, you are innocent until proven guilty. But with her training, which included things that would make most Private Detectives seem like stumbling drunks by comparison, she is very good at getting the information she needs to come to said verdicts. The same training has left her moral compass a tad bit skewed. She doesn't like hurting others, much less killing others. Far from it, it would normally make her sad to even consider it. Thanks to Qrow though, if they or the situation deserve it, she can ignore her own instincts to avoid said actions, and carry them out for the greater good. (Example, If killing a man will keep a city from blowing up, she will cut off his head without hesitation, and cry about it later once she has dealt with the immediate issue at hand.) That said, she will only do such a thing as a last resort. Thanks to her own nature and training, she is very curious, often wanting to know everything, and absorbs knowledge quickly, VERY quickly. (So she will get bored in classes, possibly having already read the whole textbook before her first class started.)
Sexual Orientation: Homosexual. Has absolutely no interest in the male population, never has. Until she was accepted by Beacon, only Qrow knew this fact. Thanks to him, Winter, Mato and Neo, she has decided to be open about it... at least to anyone who asks. Thanks to her habit of hiding it though, she still doesn't really show it in her actions or words, unless to the above mentioned parties.
Weapons: Crescent Rose (Giant 32 kilogram Anti-Material Sniper Rifle and Scythe combination. Capable of three forms, Fully extended, Sniper or gun form, storage form.) She also carries a pair of hidden single shot pistol capable of firing the same Sniper rounds of Crescent Rose's in case of emergencies hidden in her sleeves (NO ONE knows about these two, as she has NEVER shown them to anyone, or even spoken about them. It is literally her last resort weapon). She will also have a pair of combat gloves with claw like tips for piercing and slashing in hand-to-hand combat.
Aura: 130, Her aura recovers normally through sleep, but until she is unconscious, her Aura takes her calories to regenerate itself (This inversely means that if her Aura is full, it will NOT take any calories)[Now you all know why she eats so many cookies]. Surprisingly, her aura is defensive in nature, granting her both an above average ability to come out unscathed from attacks that would hurt others, as well as good healing abilities. Although she has attempted to train it, her aura has practically no offensive capabilities yet, barely enhancing her physical abilities. She has focused all her training on her initially average support aura, so that Crescent Rose will always be the sharpest and sturdiest possible (She REALLY likes and cares for Crescent Rose [If her cradling, petting, 'feeding', etc of it didn't tip you off].). Her ability to sharpen her blade, combined with her Semblance, allows her to cut through A LOT of things that would not be possible to anyone else decked out with an identical weapon.
Semblance: Speed (It isn't just running, she can enhance the speed of ALL her actions, including thought processing [It would look like the rest of the world slowed down to a crawl] with her semblance. It is actually ridiculously overpowered, but thankfully it puts quite a strain on her her Aura. She has trained EXTENSIVELY in its use, and as such can use it throughout the day without much worry of not being combat ready, but tends to keep several bags of cookies on her person at all times, and her aura levels around 70% just in case.)
Special Abilities: Superior Strength (Thanks to her innate ability, as well as her massive amounts of training, she can carry, wield, and fight easily with Crescent Rose even without Aura. Unlike the web series though, you can expect some comments in regards to her musculature in the story. Unlike Mato, she is still a normal human for the most part, so although not proportional to her strength thanks to the innate abilities all Remnant born humans have, she will still have very well developed muscles on her body.)
Superior Agility and Dexterity (Pretty self explanatory. But the later is from training rather than just her innate talent and ability.)
Information gathering/extrapolation (A.K.A. Detective Training, from Qrow. Intended to help her analyze things since she tended to skim over details due to her speed. This has helped center her. Only Qrow took it further and now she notices even the small things most people miss as well now.)
Extreme Metabolism (Not really an ability per se, just that thanks to her Semblance and the way her Aura Regenerates, she usually has to intake between 6-10 thousand calories a day. Unless of course she decides to sit on her butt and play games or study all day. In which case 1-3 thousand is more than enough.)
Innate talent with the Scythe (At the cost of being unable to wield practically any other weapon short of certain hand to hand styles and firearms in general. Ruby Rose has a near genius level talent in learning how to wield her scythe. Having reached Qrow's level of scythe use after only 7 years. Qrow has been using a scythe for almost 30 years and is considered the leading Scythe Expert.)
Qrow Branwen
Age: 37 as of Beacon start. (D.O.B. October 31, 1976)
Appearance: Imagine Matt Bomer with slightly sharper jaw line, in skin tight black pants and shirt with full sleeves. black leather armor meant to protect only the vitals and not disturb ones mobility and range of movement. Wears a dark grey cloak with a hood. And black combat boots.
Height: 180 centimeters
Personality: A kind loving uncle to his favorite niece. Who also happens to be an incredibly strict army sergeant like drill instructor when it comes to training said niece. (Not as strict with his students in Signal surprisingly enough, treating them much nicer. Although of course, on the flip side, they don't learn as much or gain as much from it as the harsh training he put Ruby through.) He loves both his nieces, but only trained Ruby, whereas Yang was trained by her father, Tai Yang. Nonetheless he has taught a couple things to Yang, as Tai has taught a couple of things to Ruby. Outside of his family, he tends to be a funny, charming gentleman, always trying to make a good first impression and keep those around him in good spirits. Find a way to get on his shit list though, and there are few people who can put on as scary and serious expression as he can.
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual. Has had a few flings, but nothing serious, as he doesn't believe a hunter like himself can allow himself such a luxury as a family of his own. Not as set in his ways after taking and training Ruby from age five after she lost her mother, since Ruby proved that he COULD take care of himself and his family.
Weapons: A sniper scythe, like Ruby's but unlike Ruby's, it has only one form, making it more durable than her own allowing Qrow to push it further. It is also slightly larger than Ruby's, albeit the sniper's caliber is lower. Actually weighs less than Ruby's at only 29 kilograms, surprisingly enough.
Aura: 187, regenerates extremely fast with sleep, and moderately by itself as long as it is not in use. No other method of regenerating it. Originally offensively detailed, Qrow has trained it to be a complete jack-of-all trades. Nonetheless, it still excels in offensive details, particularly boosting his speed and reflexes.
Semblance: Sound Manipulation. (Exactly as it sounds, BUT only with volume [He cannot make one thing sound like something else, a cow saying moo will sound like a cow saying moo.] and placement [He can 'throw' sounds, like a ventriloquist.] So long as the sound is within 7 meters of him, he can manipulate it as he sees fit. A pin dropping? Could sound like an explosion if it was up to him. [And yes, if the sound is enhanced enough, it does in fact cause concussive damage, but since it is so close to him, he tends NOT to do something that stupid, as it takes A LOT of concentration to do something like that while keeping it from harming him.] He fired his sniper rifle at you? You could put your ear on the gun and you wouldn't hear a thing, not even the friction from it rubbing against your ear from the recoil.)
Special Abilities: Superior Strength (Same as Ruby.)
Superior Agility and Dexterity (Same as Ruby.)
Shinobi training (Everything he taught Ruby, he knows better, has more experience with, and knows more. In addition to the sections that Ruby's 'Detective training' 'ability' has, Qrow's also means he is very good at being a ghost. Whether it be for information gathering, or assassinations. Or just plain hiding from Ruby to train her own skill in finding him. She only recently got good enough at finding him to make him satisfied.)
Hunter training (Received full Hunter training, and passed. Nuff said. Anyone with this is an incredibly deadly person regardless of any other special abilities, semblances, etc.)
Neopolitan
Age: 17 as of Beacon start. (D.O.B. Unknown. Will be made February 2nd, 1997 at her request.)
Appearance: Exactly the same as her web-series counterpart.
Height: 145 Centimeter.
Personality: ...bipolar to say the least. She is mentally unbalanced. Shifting from giggly school girl one moment, to deranged sociopath the next. For the most part, she keeps to an amused teenager. She finds Yang's jokes funny. Her eyes tend to stay Brown and Pink.
If her eyes stay Pink alone, she is in full on needy lazy child mode. Mostly closed eyes, likes to sit or hang from people.
Both Brown, she is full on observant teenager. Good student role model, if you can ignore the near permanent grin on her face.
Both White. RUN. GET AS FAR AWAY AS POSSIBLE AND HOPE SHE IS NOT TARGETING YOU. Full on sadistic sociopathic mindset. She is going to enjoy herself, and it will probably result in a lot of screams and bloodletting.
Combination of Brown or Pink and White. Tends to be that of a prankster, she is slightly sadistic, but not dangerously so, and depending on which color is showing besides White, it can be petty pranks, to those aimed at making people blush heavily. But a bloody nose, NOT from physical damage, is the worse it is gonna get. (At least physically, it may ruin you socially. But hey, at least no violent death or torture!)
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual. Thanks to her upbringing, she merely wants comfort when with someone insane enough to hook up with her. She doesn't care if they are male or female. That said, she also really doesn't have any sexual urges, nor the proper understanding of a romantic relationship to look for one. When she gets around to it though, gender won't be a problem to her.
Weapons: Her parasol with a hidden blade inside. The parasol is inscribed with dust to fortify it, and with a bit of Neo's aura applied to it, can make it to be quite the impenetrable shield. Still cloth though, so if push comes to shove, her parasol won't survive as much damage as Crocea Mors's sheath/shield. Or Pyrrha's Akoúo̱. But it will still take A LOT of damage. And it is far easier to repair/replace. Just more expensive. XD
Aura: 310. (The highest aura level, second only to Jaune Arc's in their age group.) Her aura is COMPLETELY supportive, being imbued into her weapon to increase its durability, and make the blade sharper. It is why she uses her parasol as a shield, and why her combat style revolves around dodges and counters. Her aura barely defends her any more than cloth armor would (Although if she would enhance it the moment of the blow with her Aura, it can be stiffer and stronger than most plate mail.)and does almost nothing to increase her strength. On the flip side. It has giving the tiny girl some ridiculous natural strength. (Only Mato is physically stronger. Even Nora doesn't have the 'natural' strength that Neo has. Although on the flip side of that, Nora can still hit harder thanks to her weapon. And WITH Aura, Nora is stronger than Neo, since Neo's grants no increases in her body's capabilities.) Thanks to her aura, her blade is VERY sharp and can pierce through anything not supported with aura, which is why Mato has restricted her from using it unless in combat with Grimm or people whose lives they are not concerned with sparing. Also thanks to same said Aura, Neo's parasol CAN take more damage than other's shields, and her clothing is also almost impossible to pierce or cut, especially since it also has been treated to the same dust process as her weapon. Blunt weapons are the way to go when trying to hurt Neo. (The complete opposite of Mato. XD)
Semblance: A rare one. Neo's Semblance changes depending on her eye colors. So she can have two semblance at her disposal at any given time. Brown has the ability of teleportation. Pink has the ability of illusions, which break away into glass if made contact with sufficient force, unless Neo keeps active concentration on it. White has the ability to make her victim suffer through an mental illusion created from their worst fears and all the things Neo ACTUALLY went through. As it is only mental, the victim is usually screaming bloody murder and running around while this is happening. Unlike Pink's illusions which create a physical image into the world, that can be touched and interacted with. White's is purely mental, so no one but the victim can fight it off. (To date only Mato has succeeded, and she has NO intention of doing it again, nor is she sure of how exactly she dealt with it.)
Special Abilities: Superhuman strength. (Despite being tiny, she is the second strongest character without aura in the entire cast. It is mindboggling. Why the two strongest characters, are the two smallest ones. And it is mostly cannon to boot…[This does not count on Penny obviously])
Split Personalities/Semblances. (Having three separate personalities that work in tandem together to create a total of six personalities is pretty special. Especially when the three bases have their own separate semblances.)
Superior Endurance. (Brought about purely due to training her combat style. As with any combat style, you will get hurt. Even more so with one purely dedicated to hairbreadth dodges and counters, and no one is perfect in their style to begin with. She can take a hit, and she can fight for quite awhile.)
Superior agility and dexterity. (Once again. Purely through training for both of them, unlike Ruby and Qrow whose agility is supported by their natural prowess in the field.)
Easygoing? (Not quite sure how to explain how her other two personalities don't break down at the actions of her White personality. She has done some pretty messed up things. Maybe I can call it a lack of a moral compass? Although she clearly knows right from wrong… Legally at least, she just doesn't care when her White personality does it…)
Pure Counter Combat Style. (Although she can throw punches and swing a sword rather beautifully. Her true combat style is purely brought through Dodges and Counters. As such, she is very good at reading people's body language. Anticipating their actions. And is patient enough to learn all of one's ticks before beating you.).
A/N: That is it for now, more character sheets will be revealed as I rewrite them, as well as more information on the world, and its inhabitants, such as the cities and their forces, etcetera etcetera. My next task though, is to finalize Chapter 14 again. I hope to have it released soon, and to get back to my originally planed release schedule. I still have a lot of things eating up my time though, so forgive me if I don't reply to PMs or Reviews as quickly as I usually do.
That said, do please continue to Review. As I stated, it is actually the reviews of all of you that gave me the energy to get back into this despite all that I am currently juggling in my real life, and the negative emotions I held against writing for a bit after I lost all that info. Seriously, try to imagine how much I lost, 3 chapters worth of writing. As well as the COMPLETE 'Sheet of Stuff', which had a character sheet for EVERY character that has shown up so far (Except OCs that I am borrowing [Although I am actually going to ask the original writers to fill out a few so that I can post them here as well]) just like those above, as well as detailed information on each city, their forces, the criminal organizations and THEIR forces, Grimm types, including weaknesses, strengths and appearances, planned events for the story, both from cannon and not. And MUCH MUCH more.
So yeah, people like yourselves, who left me Reviews, wishing me the best, stating that they enjoyed my work, and looked forward to more of it. All of these things are to be quite honest, the main reason I am forcing myself to get back on this before I finish resolving my private life's issues. Otherwise I would have put this off for at least another two, possibly up to four weeks. So to those who haven't reviewed, thank those who have, and leave a review! To those who have, as per usual, you all have my deepest gratitude.
Also, someone brought up the lack of disclaimers on my chapters... Go back and read the prologue. Chapter 00.
As if I needed to remind you all that I don't own RWBY or BRS anyway. SMH
