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Player Info:
Name: Lyndon
Timezone: PST
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Character Info:
Name: Ruby Rose
Age: 15
AU/PG/CANON/OC: Canon!

Summary:

Yo Ruby Rose she was just 15 – okay no but like. She was training under her uncle Qrow at Signal Academy

Where she studied after having grown up on fairy tales and stuff so she really wanted to be a huntress like her mom! Summer Rose! Who is, naturally, Very Dead!

Anyway one day she stops some asshole with a hat from robbing a magic rock store with her GIANT SNIPER RIFLE DEATH SCYTHE ORIGINAL WEAPON DO NOT STEAL

(that is a lie why would I ever slander Crescent Rose like that she loves it like a BABY. A very deadly baby.)

Anyway the mysterious OZPIN decides this means she's good enough to skip a couple grades and go to the prestigious BEACON ACADEMY! Where her sister is going and she has wanted to go FOREVER! Yay!

She kills a giant bird on the first day of class and suddenly she's leading a team alongside her sister Yang and two other girls because she's A BORN LEADER. (Except like. She actually is. She plans their whole attack on the giant death bird.)

Weiss, one of those two girls, takes this poorly but Ruby wins her over later.

Then a robot girl helps Ruby stop a big robbery! The robot girl is full of knives and feelings. Ruby befriends her instantly against the advice of her team.

Team RWBY decide to stop the robber guy even more the next semester!

Ruby learns how important being a leader and working together with others is via several action scenes. This is about it for her during S2 because S2 involves her making decisions very little, except “FIGHT BAD GUYS!!!” and getting Generally Better.

Then they blow up a train full of robots and jerks and quite reasonably decide to retire to their rooms after seeing Coco fight like holy shit can you blame any of them???

So in the world of Remnant, humanity lives in constant fear of these monsters called Grimm – creatures born of humanity's negative emotions who think that people are very tasty/should die. Human civilization has only managed to survive thanks to brave men and women stepping forward to be Hunters and Huntresses – warriors with powerful weapons and powers called Semblances that allow them to combat the Grimm menace head-on. It takes courage, drive, and probably a slightly too zealous attitude towards armed combat to join their ranks – and Ruby Rose has wanted to be one since she was little, reading stories of heroes and heroines and her own mother, Summer Rose, a skilled huntress in her own right. Being a hero and saving people became, as it were, Ruby's raison d'etre, and she studied the art of the giant terrifying death gun scythe from her uncle Qrow at Signal Academy for a while, hoping to eventually go to Beacon Academy, the top school for aspiring hunters and huntresses in the land.

One day, while casually shopping in a Dust (magic rocks that power weapons and stuff) store, the place got robbed. Ruby decides to leap into action and SAVE THE DAY, which she totally manages because combat prodigy and all. She chases the robbers off and catches the attention of Professor Ozpin, headmaster at Beacon Academy who allows her to skip ahead and play with the big kids, because y'know. Combat prodigy, prestigious combat school. It follows. So she skips ahead a couple grades and starts there effective immediately!

Ruby's time at Beacon does not start off easy – the only person she knows is her half-sister Yang, and all the other students are two years older than her so making connections is hard, especially for someone with as difficult a time connecting with others as Ruby. She has difficulty dealing with new people, but as with everything she tries very hard to make things work. She immediately angers the daughter of a very rich businessman, but at least makes friends with this blond dude named Jaune who has a boring old sword and shield – Ruby has a Thing about weapons in the same way that the show has a Thing about weapons: the more complicated and cool-looking, the more attractive. After all, she's the one with the combination scythe and sniper rifle.

Beacon students are separated into teams of four, and very soon the test to divide the class up begins. Ruby tries very hard to end up partnered with Yang so as to stick with what's familiar (since the students are effectively paired off, and then the pairs are paired together again), but the rules state the first person to make eye contact is any given student's partner, and Ruby sees Weiss, the wealthy girl she angered earlier, first. Rather than trying to weasel out of it, though, Ruby takes the situation in stride and tries to prove to Weiss that she's useful in a fight and worth keeping around. They work together, albeit begrudgingly and continually getting in each other's way as they go, until they reach the end where Yang and another girl named Blake have partnered up, along with Jaune and three others who become the secondary team. The eight are attacked by two massive Grimm, and while Jaune's group deals with one, Ruby and company move to deal with the second using a plan Ruby comes up with on the fly. Ruby is rewarded with the position of team leader, and Team RWBY (Ruby/Weiss/Blake/Yang) is formed!

After starting to prove to the rest of the team, especially Weiss, that she has at least the potential to be a great team leader, Ruby and company (minus Blake because of plot reasons) encounter a strange girl named Penny, who Ruby instantly befriends against the wishes of her team. Penny helps them fend off a robbery attempt by the guy who Ruby foiled at the start of the season, and Team RWBY ends the semester heroic and successful!

Their next semester starts with Ruby trying to keep team morale high with ACTIVITIES – after all, she takes her role as leader very seriously, especially as this season wears on. It is her who decides that, since the motivations of the villains are important to Blake they are important to the whole of the team, and so they should all work together to fight Roman and the White Fang, a terrorist group he is teamed up with. She is the voice of levity in the group throughout the season even moreso than in the last – where before she had moments like deciding that the team's room should be outfitted with makeshift and technically super dangerous bunk beds, now her entire motivation is taking care of the team and making sure that they fight the villains and win the day. She's maturing very quickly here, the childishness giving way to kindness and frantic energy giving way to trust in her team and those around her. Friendship yay!

The rest of the second season is mostly a string of action scenes as Ruby and her team drive closer and closer to facing down the villains they have gotten onto the trail of while opening up to each other more than they have before – thought Ruby herself remains pretty uncomplicated in intention and motivation. After getting briefly captured and finding out that she is not nearly as effective a fighter without Crescent Rose or her team at her side, Team RWBY fights the villains and thinks they have stopped their plan to attack the city – though completely unknown to them, some of the villains are already masquerading as students, and Ruby being as trusting as she is she has no idea they might be evil. On their way back to the Team RWBY room to sleep off the exhaustion of the battle, Ruby sees a strange hole in a wall...

Gem Considerations: Not to be petty or shallow or anything, but uh. Her name is Ruby and she's passionate about stuff. I'm gonna go ahead and take the obvious route here, so she has a Ruby on the back of her left hand because she's super active and the back of her dominant hand seems like a natural place to put it. It's also one of the few exposed places on her outfit, so aesthetically it works best there, I think. I definitely want to develop her into considering more protecting and working with others than aggressively attacking enemies, so basically moving from the “passion” aspect of rubies to the “love” aspect!

Power considerations:
List Three Powers You Would Like Your Character To Have:

Her semblance and its rose-petal-themed bursts of speed.

The ability to make plants bloom and grow would be pretty neat. Not even necessarily in a combat-applicable way, at least at first. Just y'know. Rose Stuff.

Ability to store and summon Crescent Rose

I want her to do more of her arc in the show – learning to work with others and such – and lowering her power level would definitely help lead towards that. That said, it's implied in the show that semblances become sort of intrinsic to people, so I really don't want to take it away forever, as she would be super disoriented without it in combat situations in a way I'm not sure she'd ever get over fully... her aura, though, that WILL be gone, forcing her to fight more defensively, which would provide her more opportunities to engage with others, and maybe even require help in battle? As for gaining powers, she would definitely be driven to work to get more of them and become stronger as much as possible – for fighting at first, but eventually to be better able to protect others.

Sample:

Crescent Rose was a beautiful weapon, and Ruby loved her dearly. She was worth any amount of time to keep in working order, clean and happy – and yet running maintenance sometimes just took so long. First the handle had to be disassembled and cleaned, then put back together, then the hinges had to be oiled so she would collapse easily, then the blade had to be sharpened, then the polish had to be added. It took time, but it was the most intimate Ruby got with... anything, really. It was great for fifteen minutes, but by the half-hour mark when she was covered in black polish stains and staring at the blade no amount of unreasonable affection towards the weapon could save her from getting impatient with it.

Ruby sighed and flopped backwards onto her bed, looking up at the bottom of Weiss' bunk. Everyone else was out at dinner already, and she had said she would finish up quickly to catch up with them. Which meant, of course, that there was no time to take breaks – and yet here she was. Team leader, stuck in the room. Well, she supposed, they certainly didn't need her to be around every second of the day, right? It was important for the team to stick together, but... man, there was a lot to being a leader. It was tiring stuff! But Ruby loved it – loved it more and more each day she led Team RWBY into battle, and she was getting the hang of it? Probably? Whatever she was doing, it seemed to be working. Things were working out, anyway.

Yang was happy, but Ruby knew Yang well enough by now to know how to work with her. Blake was having trouble, but she was trying her best to help. Blake was hard to read, but at least progress was happening as they figured out this whole Roman and the White Fang situation. And Weiss was... well, Weiss was Weiss. Ruby had not yet figured out exactly how to best deal with her, but she. Liked her? Was that the word for it? Ruby honestly had no idea. It was a very complicated set of interconnected emotions, whatever it was. Of the whole team, Weiss was definitely the one she wanted to get closer to most, weirdly.

Across the room, the door creaked open. “Ruby? Are you coming?”

Huh? Yang? They hadn't gone? “Just a second!” Crescent Rose was her baby and all, but... maybe being with the team was more important right now. Ruby set it aside on the bed and grabbed her cloak before heading out to meet them.