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** As his own Semblance is SuperEmpowering, he can't do fancy things like the other Huntsmen (like Ruby's speed or the Schnee Glyphs). However, this Semblance supercharges the standard abilities of one's Aura; Jaune is able to take more hits, heal better, and hit enemies harder than most simply because his Semblance gives him such a boost. And when combined with another's Semblance, it gives them a significant amplification that is useful for both rookies and experienced Huntsmen, on top of letting him heal up others quickly so they can get back in the fray.
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** As his own Semblance is SuperEmpowering, he can't do fancy things like the other Huntsmen (like Ruby's speed or the Schnee Glyphs). However, this Semblance supercharges the standard abilities of one's Aura; Jaune is able to take more hits, heal better, and hit enemies harder than most simply because his Semblance gives him such a boost. And when combined with another's Semblance, it gives them a significant amplification that is useful for both rookies and experienced Huntsmen, on top of letting him heal up others quickly so they can get back in the fray. As such, if his Aura and Semblance are mastered, then Jaune could be the better version of what common Huntsman are.
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* TheHeart: Gradually evolves into the role as he becomes more confident and capable as a leader. Jaune already showed signs of this during his time at Beacon as Pyrrha attributes her new friendships to his friendliness which attracted people to her in the first place. He maintains a level head during the stressful invasion in Atlas which resulted in animosity between the main group and he's able to defuse growing arguments before they escalate. In the Volume 9 Bonus Ending Animatic, Ren feels the team is falling apart because of Jaune's absence and comes to realize how much Jaune did to maintain the group's morale.
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* TheLeader: Mostly the charismatic type. He's seemingly able to see an opportunity to strike and move his team to do it. His leadership skills allow his team to anticipate the enemies very well. His team also trusts his judgment and follows his orders without question, showing how much loyalty they have for Jaune. Best exemplified in Volume 2's finale where his team lets him drag them out of bed and abandon their assigned mission, one that Ren and Nora were looking forward to, just because Jaune wanted to check on Team RWBY despite their reasonable counterpoints. Because of this, Team JNPR was armed and ready for sortie when the city sirens signaled the incursion of Grimm into Vale.
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* TheLeader: Mostly the charismatic type. He's seemingly able Jaune's main strength is his ability to see read the battlefield and react accordingly to keep his team safe and provide them an opportunity to strike and move through his team to do it. His leadership skills allow his team to anticipate the enemies very well. commands. His team also trusts his judgment judgement and follows follow his orders without question, showing how much loyalty they have for Jaune. him. Outside of battle, Jaune is considered to be the people person, and can build friendships, be persuasive and defuse conflicts. Best exemplified in Volume 2's finale 8 where he's able to handle the internal animosity of his team lets and RWBY through tactical reasoning and provides a satisfying suggestion for everyone. He later handles Ren's growing frustrations before it breaks a fight between him drag them out of bed and abandon Yang, and persuades Winter to let his team walk free from their assigned mission, one that Ren and Nora were looking forward to, just because Jaune wanted arrest to check on Team RWBY despite save Oscar while acting as their reasonable counterpoints. Because of this, Team JNPR was armed and ready for sortie when test run before her own team leads the city sirens signaled mission to plant a bomb inside the incursion of Grimm into Vale.whale.
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* {{Deuteragonist}}: The stories and actions of Team JNPR are almost as important as Team RWBY's. Jaune is an AudienceSurrogate to help the audience learn about the setting, but has his own storyline building. Pyrrha's skill, grace, compassion and maturity are extremely important to the BenevolentConspiracy's plans for protecting humanity, which forcibly drags Team JNPR into the story's plotline in a way that is independent from how Team RWBY is involved. Between the two teams, they each have different pieces of the same puzzle to solve.
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* {{Deuteragonist}}: The stories and actions of story follows Team JNPR are almost as important much as Team RWBY's. Jaune is an AudienceSurrogate to help the audience learn about the setting, but RWBY. The team has his its own storyline building. Pyrrha's skill, grace, compassion and maturity are extremely important to the BenevolentConspiracy's plans for protecting humanity, which forcibly drags Team JNPR into the story's plotline in a way that is independent from how storyline and challenges to overcome throughout the volume, and they have remained by Team RWBY is involved. RWBY's side since the very beginning. Both teams even exchange teammates or fight the villains together at various points in the story. Between the two teams, two, they each have different pieces of the same puzzle to solve.
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* ItBeganWithATwistOfFate: Jaune's friendliness is why he decided to offer a hand to a poor girl laying on the ground during his arrival at Beacon Academy. This girl being [[TheProtagonist Ruby Rose]] and the one who drags him, and subsequently his future team, into the secret war against Salem.
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* TheUnchosenOne: Unlike Oscar, who is TheChosenOne, and Ruby, whose rare silver eyes meant she was destined to lead the life of a warrior, Jaune is a completely normal kid with dreams of becoming a hero like his ancestors. He never received proper combat training and choose to fake his transcripts to apply for Beacon Academy and become a huntsman. Nonetheless, he still became the other half of Ruby's heroic journey with his own storyline and their teams lead the war against Salem together. Slightly subverted once he [[spoiler:becomes the Rusted Knight meaning he was destined to join the fight and fall into the Ever After as a result. ]]
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!!Nora Valkyrie
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Samantha Ireland, Creator/KristenMcGuire (flashback, Volume 4)[[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Creator/AyaSuzaki (Japanese)[[/labelnote]]
!!!'''Debut:''' The First Step[[labelnote:*]]Volume 1 Episode 4[[/labelnote]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I'm queen of the castle!"'']]
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->''"After everything we've been through. I won't let it end. Not like this. We can do this!"''
Nora joined Beacon Academy with her childhood friend, Ren, who is also her team partner. She is an excitable, energetic girl with great strength and a big heart.
Her weapon is Magnhild, a multi-shot GrenadeLauncher capable of converting into a large war hammer. Her Semblance, "High Voltage", lets her absorb electricity to enhance her body, making her stronger and faster for a brief time.
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!!Nora Valkyrie
!!!'''Voiced by:'''
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->''"My father, my grandfather, and his father before him were
Jaune comes from a long line of esteemed warriors and
[[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:''Click here for her appearance during the Solitas Arc'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/atlas_nora.jpg ''"The longer this waiting game goes on, the harder each day gets for people down there and now you wanna send in more soldiers? You can’t just force people
->''"After everything we've been through. I won't let it end. Not like this. We can do this!"''
Nora joined
His equipment is called Crocea Mors and
Her weapon is Magnhild, a multi-shot GrenadeLauncher capable of converting
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* TwentyFourHourArmour: In the first three volumes, Jaune only ever takes off his armour when he has to wear his school uniform, dress for the dance, or sleep. However, from Volume 4, he is never seen out of armour. In the fifth and sixth volumes, he wears armour while relaxing in living rooms and preparing meals while scenes from the fourth and ninth volumes show he'll even sleep in armour, too.
* AdaptationalBadass: In the main series during the Beacon Arc, he's one of the least skilled among the main cast. In ''Grimm Eclipse''[[note]]which takes place during the Beacon Arc before the Vytal Festival in Volume 3[[/note]], he's a GameBreaker. [[invoked]]
* AllThereInTheManual: Creator/MontyOum revealed the name of Jaune's weapon, Crocea Mors, on his Facebook page; this has not been mentioned in the show.
* AncestralWeapon: Most Huntsmen and trainees possess custom, self-made multi-tool weapons that transform between different weapon types. Jaune, however, has a [[KnightlySwordAndShield sword and a shield]] that contracts into the sword's sheath. They're heirlooms that belonged to his great-grandfather, who fought in the Great War that ended eighty years ago. In Volume 4, he upgrades them so that they can combine into a dual-edged, heavy-hitting sword. In Volume 7, the shield is upgraded further to allow it to use Dust in battle.
* AudibleSharpness: The blade of Crocea Mors is very loud in every single slice.
* AudienceSurrogate: Initially asks all the relevant questions for exposition. Like the audience, he's new to the setting's world of combat.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: At the face of a dangerous opponent, he's prompt to search for a weakness in their attacks in order to maneuver his team away from danger through the course of the battle. It's also what sets him apart as a leader from Ruby; while Ruby and her team practice combos and combine their abilities to overwhelm larger foes, Jaune instead figures out the enemy's weak points and sets up events so that the rest of the team are able to land the decisive blow.
* BadassOnPaper: Subverted. Beacon only takes the best combat students. On the second day at school, Professor Goodwitch quickly concludes that the reality of Jaune's abilities do not match the claims on his entrance transcripts. She's more right than she knows.
* BarrierWarrior: In Volume 7, Jaune upgrades his shield to incorporate Dust. It can produce an extended HardLight barrier to protect a larger area and use Gravity Dust to act as a DeflectorShield to repel attacks. He also uses portable shields to generate static barriers that can stop charging Grimm in their tracks and be used as ramps to launch vehicles into the air.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Jaune's original goal was to become a hero, a veritable KnightInShiningArmor. Over time, he comes to learn that heroism isn't all it's cracked up to be, leaving him a KnightInSourArmor.
* BerserkerTears: When battling against Cinder in "The More the Merrier", Jaune is so full of rage and sorrow from everything she's done that tears are pouring down his face, even as he fights her in a violent fury.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He might be ditzy, klutzy, and socially awkward, but even he has his limits. He's shown to have an explosive temper and it's not against teaching someone a lesson if he thinks they deserve it. He particularly dislikes people being jerks to his friends. Push his buttons, and he can get quite violent. Cinder discovers this during the Battle of Haven when Jaune goes from cautiously defensive to accusing her of being broken inside and charging her to avenge Pyrrha. This shocks his companions and sets off the fight for everyone.
* BilingualBonus:
** Jaune is French for "yellow", which is Jaune's signature color, as represented by his symbol which appears on his shield as two yellow arcs and the name of his sword. His hair is a very bright shade of yellow, and his earliest introduction to Weiss consists of him responding to her description of him as "tall, blond and scraggly" with the statement that he's a natural blond.
** Jaune's sword is called Crocea Mors. This is Latin for "Yellow Death", the name of the sword belonging to UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar in [[LegendaryWeapon some legends]]. In some versions of the story, the sword also ends up embedded in a shield; Jaune's sword is stored in a sheath that expands to form his shield, with the sheath acting as the center line of the shield. He also has an upgrade that allows him to partially expand the shield while the sword is still sheathed, sacrificing defense in favor of a heavier sword with a more lethal cutting edge.
* BoringButPractical:
** The shield is collapsible and doubles as the sword's sheath. The sword is just a sword. However, the sword is easily capable of beheading an Ursa Major with a single strike, even in the hands of a novice, and the shield has withstood the full force of any attack it has so far been used against. Upgrading it in his travel to Mistral, when the sword is sheathed, the shield can partially unfold to create an extremely heavy two-handed sword that is dual-edged and contains much more damage potential. With its new Atlas upgrades, the shield can protect a wider area with HardLight and with gravity Dust he can push enemies back further than before.
--->'''Ruby''': Well, you've gotta have appreciation for the classics.
** As his own Semblance is SuperEmpowering, he can't do fancy things like the other Huntsmen (like Ruby's speed or the Schnee Glyphs). However, this Semblance supercharges the standard abilities of one's Aura; Jaune is able to take more hits, heal better, and hit enemies harder than most simply because his Semblance gives him such a boost. And when combined with another's Semblance, it gives them a significant amplification that is useful for both rookies and experienced Huntsmen, on top of letting him heal up others quickly so they can get back in the fray.
* BreakTheCutie: Jaune was initially a cheerful, up-beat individual who ineptly tried to enact his parents' life lessons of being a positive and confident person. However, what happens to Pyrrha, and his inability to help her when she needed it, devastates him. He become cynical, protective and very anxious whenever there needs to be a team split. He also becomes a DeathSeeker, believing his life so worthless that it's better spent being sacrificed to save his more valuable friends. At the end of Volume 6, he is forced to confront his pain and has a heart-to-heart with Ren and Nora. Making peace with Pyrrha's loss, he is able to start rebuilding his self-esteem and find healthier ways to protect his friends. [[spoiler:Having to assist Penny's suicide and falling into the Ever After at the end of Volume 8, compounded by being flung into the past, Alyx's betrayal, and multiple failures [[TheSlowPath through the years]] breaks him ''again''. This time, a combination of Weiss [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre consoling]] him and a repentant Alyx's [[UnfinishedBusiness dying wish]] puts him on the path to recovery as Volume 9 ends.]]
* BridalCarry: A rare example where a man gets carried by a woman. In the manga, Jaune gets carried by Pyrrha in the bridal style [[note]]Jaune swept up in her arms[[/note]] during the battle against the merged King Taijitus.
* ButtMonkey: He's clumsy, has motion sickness, and can't get the ladies to pay attention to him. He's also fully aware of his status and completely fed up with it. As his resolve and skills gain significant progress through the story, this trope becomes downplayed.
* CaptainObvious: When Jaune and Pyrrha search for the "Relic" in their first lesson, they enter a very dark cave. When Jaune grabs the glowing object in front of him, it's very quickly revealed to be the tail stinger of a huge Deathstalker. Once the monster bursts into full daylight and Pyrrha and readying herself to fight it, Jaune needlessly states that it's not the relic.
-->'''Jaune:''' ''[while hanging on the Death Stalker's stinger]'' PYRRHA! THIS IS NOT THE RELIC! IT'S NOT!
* CasanovaWannabe: He quickly hits on Weiss, Pyrrha, and to a lesser extent Yang when he meets them. All but Pyrrha are turned off by his attempts at flirting. Gets flipped on its head in Volume 7's ''Sparks'' where several women are not-so-subtly trying to catch Jaune's attention, including '''mothers'''.
* CastFromHitPoints: Jaune's SuperEmpowering Semblance works by [[EnergyDonation pouring his Aura into another person]] to give their own Aura a boost. Luckily, Jaune has a lot of Aura to work with and is capable of recharging fairly quickly.
* ChickMagnet: In the first three volumes, Pyrrha takes an interest in Jaune almost from the moment she first meets him. In Volume 7, a group of [[MrsRobinson mothers]] in Mantle giggle and swoon over his presence, and one mother keeps making caseroles for him. This is something Nora finds quite amusing. [[spoiler:In Volume 9, Weiss is openly attracted to his "mature" appearance, much to both Yang and Blake's amusement.]]
* ClassicalAntiHero: He has a good heart, but he isn't well-trained and has lots of self-doubt, which makes him a rather flawed but still likeable protagonist. This is part of why Pyrrha's partnership with him tends to do him a lot of favors.
* CloseRangeCombatant: Jaune is one of the only major characters with no long-ranged capabilities due to his weapon being a regular sword. Despite this, he's become quite capable in combat and can hold his own in a fight.
* TheConfidant: This is one of the basis for his close friendship with Ruby. As leaders, they can relate to each other about their choices and how it affects everyone around them. In Volume 4, Ruby waits until they’re alone to apologize for dragging everyone into danger, feeling responsible for Tyrian hunting them down because he’s going after her, but Jaune turns this around and expresses his gratitude for inspiring his team to chase the people responsible for the Fall of Beacon. [[spoiler:This is cruelly subverted five volumes later where Jaune calls out Ruby for the paper pleasers' deaths, since Neo was targeting her, and their predicament in Ever After was a result of her failed plan. Jaune’s words are a deliberate foil to his encouraging words in Volume 4 as he’s very aware of Ruby’s insecurities and targets these to hurt her the most.]]
* CosmicPlaything: Despite his self-improvement and ever-increasing competence, whenever something appears to be going right for him, events outside his control cause things to go sideways and leave him feeling useless and [[SamaritanSyndrome unable to protect others]]. After Team RWBY reunites with him in the Ever After, Jaune's situation leaves him mentally vulnerable; he tells them he knows he's not okay, but he's protecting the Paper Pleasers because it's the one thing he can actually do, and the one group of people he can actually protect. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, the Paper Pleasers don't want to be protected and commit mass suicide while the protagonists battle the Jabberwalkers, triggering Jaune's breakdown; he acknowledges all his problems are stemmed from being forced to live alone for years with his guilt over assisting Penny's death.]]
* CrazyPrepared: Has "Left" and "Right" on the soles of his shoes. Apparently, it's just in case he gets concussed and needs help.
* DamnedByFaintPraise:
** While Ruby is grumbling to Yang on their first night at Beacon that "it's weird not knowing anyone here", Yang replies, "How about Jaune? He's... nice!" There is a short but distinct pause as she visibly searches for a positive descriptor she can use with sincerity.
** When describing the team in Volume 3, Nora describes Pyrrha as being a world-renowned fighter, Ren as tantamount to a {{ninja}}, herself as being able to bench five times her own weight, and Jaune as... Jaune. Two volumes later, she repeats this again when explaining Semblances to Oscar, describing everyone's Semblances.... and Jaune, who hasn't found his Semblance at that point in time.
* DancingRoyalty: Jaune is infamously awkward at nearly everything he does, but reveals at the school dance that he's a shockingly good dancer. Even while [[WholesomeCrossdresser wearing a party dress]] and trainers combination.
* DarkSecret: Jaune was never really accepted into Beacon. He forged his transcripts due to his desire to become a warrior like his famous ancestors. While it's clear Glynda is puzzled about the discrepancy between his skills and his transcript information, it's not clear how much Ozpin knows.
* DeathSeeker: Jaune's willingness to put his friends' lives ahead of his own is not seen as heroic by the villains. When Cinder defeats him during the battle of Haven, he tells her that dying doesn't matter to him if it buys his friends a little time because their lives matter more than his own. Cinder angrily states he's just a failure with a death wish. His teammates later address this attitude and insist they love their leader and don't wish to lose him, breaking him out of this mentality.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Jaune deconstructs the LoserArchetype: ButtMonkey. Introduced as the travel sick boy who can't remember where his locker is, he embarrasses himself trying to woo Weiss, has to be rescued during Initiation because he doesn't know what he's doing, and it's all played for comedy until Cardin's bullying reveals the AwfulTruth. Jaune loathes the "loveable idiot" label and wants to live up to his famous ancestors as a protector of the people, but even his own parents didn't believe in him. His journey shows how being "comic relief" can shatter confidence, hopes, and dreams. Once he starts accepting help from others, he turns his life around because he's determined to better himself no matter what.
* {{Determinator}}: Due to his lack of combat background, there is a noticeable gap in ability between Jaune and almost every opponent he encounters. Despite this, he has never backed down from a fight and, once he engages in fighting, he won't stop until he wins or can't get back up. This means he either gets thrashed or does the thrashing depending on whether his fights depend more on skill (which he lacks) or grit (which he has in spades). Pyrrha once states that she has never met anyone with more determination to better themselves than Jaune, enabling him to start catching up with his peers in record time. In Volume 8, Ren says Jaune's so convinced they can successfully rescue Oscar, that he's not even afraid to walk right into the heart of the BigBad's lair to do it. [[spoiler:Volume 9 has him [[AccidentalTimeTravel accidentally flung years into the past]] in the Ever After, and forced to spend years slowly surviving in a bizarre dimension waiting for Team RWBY to show up. Even when he does meet them, it's clear that the ordeal took a mental toll on him, on top of all the trauma he endured ''before'' falling, but he still keeps going regardless]].
* DivingSave: Does this to a falling Weiss in Episode 8, by jumping off a tree. Then both of them fell to the ground, Jaune first, and Weiss landing on his back.
* DoggedNiceGuy: A DiscussedTrope. He's head-over-heels with Weiss, and constantly makes it known with grandiose gestures, such as asking her to the ball by serenading her with a guitar. Weiss dismisses his efforts as a sign of a GoldDigger, leaving him turning to his teammates for advice. Pyrrha tells him that the best way to win her over is to stop using crazy schemes and just have an honest discussion about how he feels. Taking her advice, he goes to find her, only to overhear her asking Neptune to the dance. When he learns that Neptune didn't accept her offer, he passes on Pyrrha's advice to Neptune, telling him to stop trying to be too cool to admit he can't dance and just be honest; he then moves on from Weiss, but Neptune telling Weiss the truth makes her realize that Jaune is a genuinely nice person, after all. They become good friends after that.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Realizes he's the "lovable idiot stuck in a tree while everyone is fighting for their lives" and hates it. This leads him to initially reject Pyrrha's offer of giving him extra training.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Jaune suffered really bad motion sickness on the way to Beacon Academy; consequently, he picked up the nickname "Vomit Boy" amongst the other students, which he really, really hates.
* EnergyDonation: His Semblance Aura Amp can let him give his own Aura to another to boost their own Aura to enhance their own protection, healing, and strength of their Semblance.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The scene where he meets Ruby. Where other students antagonized or ignored her, Jaune helps her up and they find the assembly hall together, talking and bonding over their shared awkwardness. All Jaune wants to do in life is develop the skills he needs to help people, while also living up to his family legacy.
* FailedASpotCheck: During the first lesson, he's too busy questioning Ozpin about landing strategies to notice the other kids are being launched into the forest until it's too late.
* FailureHero: He begins to feel like a failure more and more throughout the series. After the death of Pyrrha, he becomes a DeathSeeker out of the belief it's the only way to redeem himself. This is only exacerbated by his duel with Cinder in the battle of Haven, wherein she [[ButForMeItWasTuesday can't remember who he is]] and [[CurbStompBattle easily defeats him]]. Once he finally hits her, Cinder becomes frustrated and impales Weiss. He becomes less self-flagellating in the sixth volume, but it returns with interest three volumes later, [[spoiler:wherein after the stress of killing Penny, he becomes so obsessed with protecting ''something'' that he spends years trying to stop the Paper Pleasers from [[{{Reincarnation}} ascending]] against their wishes, and breaks down after his failure. After Ruby refers to the departed Pleasers as his "make-believe friends", he blames Ruby for the failure of her plans and the heroes getting stuck in the Ever After in the first place, which eventually leads to her [[DrivenToSuicide suicide-by-ascension attempt]].]]
* FamilyHonor: He doesn't care that he's a normal guy surrounded by elite fighters in an environment that will put his life at stake constantly. As the descendant of a great war-hero, he just wants to live up to his family's name.
* FamilyThemeNaming: Vol 6 commentary reveals the Arc siblings all have names taken after colours in the rainbow; Jaune is yellow.
* FashionableAsymmetry: Jaune's armor in Volume 4 only has one shoulder guard on his left arm, unlike his previous armor set which was symmetrical.
* FatalFlaw: For the first six volumes he has a martyr complex that turns him into a DeathSeeker. Losing Pyrrha overwhelms him with feelings of inadequacy as a fighter and a leader, and leaves him terrified of losing anyone else; he believes his well-being means nothing compared to the survival of his friends, whom he sees as the real heroes. Upon realizing his own safety isn't important to him during the battle for Haven, Cinder stops trying to kill him and instead targets one of his friends just to torment him. Ren and Nora confront him in Volume 6 about his attitude, telling him that he's family to them and that they don't want to lose him. He eventually grows out of it and even provides advice to other people in the same situation.
* FightsLikeANormal: When Jaune joins Beacon Academy, he stands out from the other students by having no special skills or techniques; his Aura is locked until Pyrrha activates it, leaving him without even a Semblance. Whereas other students have learned how to make custom weapons that work in concert with their abilities and Aura, Jaune only wields a hand-me-down sword and shield. Even when his Semblance finally activates, his ability is to amplify Aura using his own Aura reserves instead of a flashy combat-focused ability.
* {{Foil}}: To both Pyrrha and Ruby:
** [[IdealHero Pyrrha]] is a very intelligent and competent warrior who has garnered [[TheAce in-universe fame]] for her personal exploits. [[ClassicalAntiHero Jaune]] is a naive, unassuming young man who has zero combat training but has a famous ancestry. Her character arc is about learning from Jaune what it means to be a normal teenager with normal friends and relationships, while his character arc is about learning from Pyrrha what it means to be a true warrior. Both have self-esteem issues, with Jaune being the first person who ever treated her like a [[IJustWantToBeNormal normal human]] being and Pyrrha being the first person who ever had genuine faith in his ability to [[IJustWantToBeBadass become a warrior]].
** Both Ruby and Jaune come from a family of heroes (a Huntsman family for Ruby, a long line of heroes for Jaune). However, Ruby is a talented Huntress-in-training who got admitted into Beacon [[GradeSkipper two years early]] at Headmaster Ozpin's personal invitation, while Jaune is a [[NaiveNewcomer civilian]] without an unlocked Aura, let alone combat training, who relied on forged documents to get into the school. Their weapons, the first introduced in-series, are opposites ([[AceCustom hand-designed and forged]] mechashifting scythe-sniper rifle combo vs a sword-and-shield/scabbard [[AncestralWeapon hand-me-down]]), as well as leadership styles during team combat (Ruby goes for flashy [[CombinationAttack combination attacks]] while Jaune [[TheStrategist methodically identifies]] opponents' weak points and directs his team to go for them). Nevertheless, they become each other's first friends at Beacon, co-leaders, best friends and each other's rock of support throughout the series. [[spoiler:Both are eventually crushed under the weight of TheChainsOfCommanding, which leads to them [[RageBreakingPoint snapping]] at each other in the Volume 9 episode "The Perils of Paper Houses"; during their outbursts, they instinctively know where to [[EtTuBrute twist the knife]] in to inflict maximum emotional suffering on the other (being a FailureHero for Jaune and ItsAllMyFault for Ruby)]]. The CRWBY Roundtable for "The Perils of Paper Houses" refer to Ruby and Jaune as two sides of the same coin, [[spoiler:who undergo the same HerosJourney in this Volume]].
* FountainOfYouth: After being forced to take TheSlowPath, Jaune does return to his original self [[spoiler:When the Blacksmith used Alyx's wish to undo the damage she caused to return him to the age he was before coming to the Ever After but [[LockedintoStrangeness with the grey streaks in his hair]] remaining]].
* FriendToAllChildren: Implied. During Volume 7, Jaune worked to protect the school children on their morning journey to classes. The mothers all love him for it and the children come to respect him a great deal. This becomes invaluable during the Grimm invasion when Jaune's rapport with the children is able to keep them, and therefore the adults, calm enough to follow his instructions without question.
* {{Gesundheit}}: The first time that Pyrrha mentions Aura, his ignorance as to what she means is displayed by him saying this, as if she'd just sneezed.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: After so long alone in the Ever After, Jaune's mental health has taken a serious toll. [[spoiler: He has named all the Paper Pleasers after his friends and has taken them hostage and not allowed them to die, controlling their lives to keep them "safe". Once they eventually succeed, Jaune becomes distraught and says he was supposed to keep them safe. He knows he's not okay, but it doesn't make it hurt any less. After seeing them reborn as the Genial Gems however, he begins to realize he was stopping them from becoming what they needed to become]].
* GravityIsAHarshMistress: Of the Gravitational Cognizance variety. After a brief moment of heroically trying to save the falling Weiss, they both suddenly realize exactly where they are. Although they fall at the same time, Jaune [[PlayedForLaughs lands first]]. He falls flat on his face before Weiss lands on his back almost nonchalantly.
* GravityMaster: Jaune's shield is upgraded to use Gravity Dust in Volume 7, which he uses to both negate his downward momentum when falling from great heights, repel enemy attacks and attract his thrown shield grenades.
* GrinOfAudacity: His response when Cardin tries to intimidate him in Forever Fall is to just give Cardin a wild, fearless grin. Doubles as a NotAfraidOfYouAnymore.
* HardLight: One of the upgrades to Jaune's shield in Volume 7 is the ability to use Hard Light Dust, extending the area of protection his shield grants.
* HealingFactor: When his Aura is first unlocked by Pyrrha, the scratch on his cheek heals instantly. Seeing this, Pyrrha comments that he has a lot of Aura. When being beaten up by Cardin's team, his Aura briefly flares up, completely healing his injuries in the process. These are early hints that his Semblance gives him the ability to supernaturally amplify the Auras of other people; his natural ability to heal himself is the first effect of this aura amplification that he triggers when Weiss is fatally injured during the battle of Haven; by amplifying her Aura with his own, her injuries heal the way his did in the early volumes.
* HealingHands: The first use of Jaune's Semblance takes this form, pouring his own Aura into Weiss to boost her natural HealingFactor and allowing her to rapidly recover from an otherwise fatal impaling wound.
* HeroicBSOD: Falls into one after Pyrrha hits him with a ShutUpKiss and rockets him away in a locker so he won't stop her from fighting Cinder. After appraising Ruby and Weiss of the situation, he smashes his Scroll on the ground and falls to his knees in grief. He comes out of it eventually and accompanies Ruby, Nora, and Ren on their hunt for Cinder, though the event left him with severe issues on the long run.
* HeroicLineage: Jaune's father, grandfather, great grandfather and great-great grandfather are all said to have been warriors, the last one possibly being a war hero. Jaune himself, however, seems very unsuited to being a warrior. He usually displays none of the training, instincts or knowledge of his peers except when cornered. He faked his transcripts, confirming he's been kept away from the typical upbringing of combat school students.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Jaune doesn't hold himself and his abilities in high esteem. Although he comes from a loving family, he believes his parents had no faith in him and that Pyrrha was the first person to ever believe in him. He can't fight to begin with and, while being bullied, feels like he's a failure at leadership, too. While he initially goes to Beacon to become a hero like his father and ancestors all were, the more he learns, the more convinced he is that he can't measure up. Pyrrha tells him that she's never met anyone who works as hard as he does to better himself, but he still feels useless in Volume 5 because he can't figure out why he can't unlock his Semblance. He ends up willing to throw his life away for the sake of his friends just because he thinks there's nothing else he can do for them. It takes a heart-to-heart with Ren and Nora in Volume 6 for him to finally come through the other side.
-->'''Jaune:''' I'm a failure.
* HeroicWannabe: Jaune enters Beacon Academy because he's driven by the desire to be a hero like multiple generations of his male ancestors have been. He's tormented by the idea that he's just a walking joke and that he constantly seems to fall short of what a hero's supposed to be. Being unable to save lives, including those he cares deeply about, takes an enormous toll on him. It's not until he goes through this that he eventually begins to understand the price of being a hero is far more costly than the fairy tale depictions of them present
* HiddenDepths: He's awkward, clumsy and unskilled yet persuasive, smart and a fast learner. His backstory puts his battle inexperience into perspective and shows just what he's up against in an academy that is far above his level. He initially acts cowardly yet never backs down from a fight if he’s got no other options and his ability to lead people and create strategies in the midst of a fight comes naturally for him. Later, it’s revealed by Ren that to maintain one’s Aura active at all times takes training and can be exhausting yet Jaune’s Aura has always been active from the moment he unlocked it and he’s able to heal wounds without realizing. He also demonstrates incredible feats of strength for someone with no combat experience even before starting his proper training with Pyrrha.
* HopelessSuitor: For the first two/three volumes, Jaune is Weiss' would-be but ultimately failed suitor. He asks her out multiple times, but she always rejects him.
* IGaveMyWord: He (jokingly) told Pyrrha that he'd wear a dress to the dance if she couldn't get a date. She can't get a date, so he followed through.
-->'''Jaune:''' An Arc never goes back on his word.
* IHaveSisters: He attributes his dancing skills to the fact that he has [[MassiveNumberedSiblings seven sisters]], the natural inference being that he learned such a "girly" skill either because he was forced to join in or through simple osmosis.
* IJustWantToBeBadass: His motivation is to be a great hero just like his father and grandfather, as he can't bear to be just a "nobody". This leads to him enrolling in Beacon Academy, despite his distinctly lackluster fighting skills or appetite for combat.
* IdiotHero: He calls himself a 'lovable idiot'. He feels horrible about himself and wants to improve. Initially, he doesn't want to ask for help but eventually wises up and accepts it.
* IgnoredEnemy: He tries hold a team meeting during their match with Team BRNZ due to arguments about codenames, grinding the battle to a halt. When BRNZ tries to get the ball rolling again, he initially dismisses them before deciding to just have Nora [[DropTheCow whack them away with her hammer and end the match]].
* IncompletelyTrained: Unlike the other students, Jaune doesn't enter Beacon Academy with existing combat training, so receives extra-curricular tuition from ace student, Pyrrha. Although they worked hard to uncover what his Semblance was, they never figured it out by the time the heroes abandon school to hunt down the villains. He eventually unlocks his Semblance in Volume 5.
* InnocentBlueEyes: His eyes are a very deep and dark shade of blue. His simple honesty and pure intentions make him a much more effective leader than he realises.
* InnocentlyInsensitive:
** In "Extracurricular", he blithely complains to Pyrrha that Weiss wouldn't accept his offer to be her date. There is a noticeable tremble in Pyrrha's voice when she responds to this.
** In "Destiny", in a bid to cheer her up, he encourages Pyrrha to fulfill her destiny no matter what and is baffled when his advice reduces her to tears. What he doesn't know is that Pyrrha is trying to decide what to do with the secret Ozpin and Ironwood have given her. Taking on the power of the Fall Maiden could isolate her from her team and possibly destroy her identity in the process.
* IronButtMonkey: When launched from a cliff on his first day at school, Jaune ends up pinned to a tree by Pyrrha's lance. When he runs into a Deathstalker, he's thrown through the forest until he eventually slams into Ruby and a tree. He attempts to leap out of the tree to catch a falling Weiss, which results in him slamming into the ground and her landing heavily on top of his back. He's been propelled through the air by rocket-powered lockers, thrown around by Grimm and has ranted about his "butt monkey" status, but he never seems to end up injured or physically scarred by these antics thanks to his unusually large Aura reserves.
* {{Irony}}: When Jaune first joined Beacon Academy, he was a CasanovaWannabe who attempted to flirt with Weiss, with each attempt either being rejected or ignored; Pyrrha was the only girl who was interested in him despite his initial flirting, but Jaune didn't realise until just before her death. In Volume 7, his first job as an official Huntsman involves him guarding young children as they travel to school; this earns him a great deal of attention from local women, who giggle and swoon in his presence; [[MrsRobinson one blushing mother]] keeps giving him home-cooked casseroles in gratitude for his help. Since he has the attention, he finds it [[CharacterDevelopment awkward and embarrassing]] rather than flattering. [[spoiler:And in Volume 9, Weiss, the girl who rejected his advances in the early volumes, ''purrs'' in [[EatingTheEyeCandy appreciation]], if not outright [[HasAType physical and emotional attraction]] at him getting more... "mature", but he's too jaded by his recent experiences to react.]]
* ItsPersonal:
** Jaune shows more enmity towards Cinder than any of the other protagonists; he was devastated when she murdered Pyrrha during the fall of Beacon and he jumps at the chance to ask Professor Lionheart what he knows about Cinder, given that Cinder claimed to be from Haven Academy. His request is made in a cold, insistent tone and, when Leo tells him that all he found were forged identities, Jaune's hands ball into tight fists. During the battle of Haven, Jaune shouts tearfully at Cinder that he'll make her pay for everything she's done. He's the first one to fight her, enraged by the way she toys with his grief and appears to enjoy hurting people.
** He also has a personal enmity with the Curious Cat in Volume 9. [[spoiler:He distrusts the Cat because Lewis disappeared after Alyx poisoned Jaune, resulting in him believing that the Cat fed Lewis to the Ever After's Tree for a DeathOfPersonality fate. When Jaune learns that it was actually Lewis who escaped and the remorseful Alyx whom the Cat murdered, he furiously attacks the Cat for what they've done.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Jaune takes a romantic interest in Weiss from the moment he first meets her, and ties himself in knots trying to convince her to date him. In the end, he takes Pyrrha's advice and goes to ask Weiss to the school dance properly. However, he instead encounters Weiss asking Neptune to the dance and leaves before they see him, crushed. When he learns that Weiss came to the dance alone because Neptune turned her down, he confronts Neptune about it and learns that Neptune is terrified of people realising he's an awful dancer. With Jaune's encouragement, Neptune does ask Weiss to be his date for the evening, although she's shocked when she learns that she has Jaune to thank for that. After that, Jaune and Weiss settle over time into a proper friendship and Jaune start to take notice of Pyrrha's feelings.
* IWorkAlone: He rejects Pyrrha's offers for training on the basis that becoming a skilled huntsman is only an accomplishment worthy of his family name if he's able to do it without anyone else's help. He later thinks better of this policy, recognizing he was only being selfish and asking for Pyrrha's training properly.
* KiManipulation: He first knowingly activates his Semblance when Weiss is fatally injured by Cinder. He pours his Aura into hers, boosting her Aura and amplifying all her abilities that are powered by Aura. It allows her to heal and then empowers her summoning ability to allow her to injure Hazel when no-one else could. The creators later clarified that his Semblance allows him to directly manipulate his Aura and thereby the Auras of others; they confirmed that, when Cardin punches him in Volume 1, Jaune unconsciously amplifies his Aura's defensive abilities thereby blocking Cardin's attack.
* KnightInShiningArmor: In "Forever Fall", he saves the life of [[JerkJock Cardin Winchester]] when an Ursa was about to kill him. Jaune shows everybody what it means to be a Huntsman: staying cool under fire, carefully positioning yourself to find the enemy's weaknesses, and defending those who can't defend themselves, even if they don't necessarily deserve it. He also fights in a knightly style with sword, shield and armor. Initially, his skills don't back up his nature, but he is a fast learner, and Pyrrha once comments that she's never met anyone with so much drive to better themselves.
* TheLeader: Mostly the charismatic type. He's seemingly able to see an opportunity to strike and move his team to do it. His leadership skills allow his team to anticipate the enemies very well. His team also trusts his judgment and follows his orders without question, showing how much loyalty they have for Jaune. Best exemplified in Volume 2's finale where his team lets him drag them out of bed and abandon their assigned mission, one that Ren and Nora were looking forward to, just because Jaune wanted to check on Team RWBY despite their reasonable counterpoints. Because of this, Team JNPR was armed and ready for sortie when the city sirens signaled the incursion of Grimm into Vale.
* LeeroyJenkins: Glynda chastises him for his lack of defense and his habit of suicidal charges when he should be falling back. His lack of training is part of the problem, but even when it sinks in that he should monitor his LifeMeter, he still charges in when he should defend.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Jaune has two leitmotifs, one of them shared with Pyrrha:
** His [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axPwHHqCa7A first leitmotif]] plays at scenes where he is under the spotlight (except when he shares it with Pyrrha, for which see below). It first plays as a LonelyPianoPiece (part of the soundtrack ''Forever Fall, Part 1'') during his heart-to-heart talk with Ruby on leadership in Volume 1, with instrument variations playing across the volumes, notably as an orchestral[=/=]choral version playing while he awakens his Semblance to save Weiss at the climax of Volume 5. [[spoiler:The LonelyPianoPiece variation returns in Volume 9, serving as a MusicalSpoiler to the reveal that he is the Rusted Knight.]]
** His [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EXDQL2MFow second leitmotif]] (shared with Pyrrha) is a mellow piano[=/=]harp melody which plays during scenes involving their relationship. Examples include: when Pyrrha formally partners up with Jaune and unlocks his Aura; when she takes him up to the Beacon rooftop (and accordingly during the same episode's ending credits in the DVD version) and when Jaune formally asks her on the same rooftop to train him; when they talk about "destiny"; and when Pyrrha kisses him and shoves him into a rocket locker before going off to her death against Cinder. Its full, vocal version [[InsertSong plays]] when Jaune comes upon Pyrrha's statue in Argus and starts to get closure for her death, and was released with the Volume 6 soundtrack as ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv7e3E6fgfY Forever Fall]]''.
* TheLoad: Because his teammates are all stronger, better trained, more confident and generally seem better suited for the Huntsmen lifestyle, Jaune begins the show as the weakest member of the team, and weighs heavily on him. He invokes the trope in an emotional outburst to Pyrrha about how he perceives himself as a burden on his team due to his weakness, and his passionate declaration to try and improve so that he's no longer an impediment. She helps him train and once comments that she's never met anyone with a greater drive to better themselves than he does. It takes him until the end of Volume 6 to fully grow out of this trope.
* LoudGulp: In Volume 1 Episode 4, when Ozpin reveals a very real possibility of dying during the Initiation, Jaune loudly swallows and then lets out a weak chuckle, making his fear quite obvious.
* LockedIntoStrangeness: After spending most of Volume 9 [[spoiler: aged up due to spending years in the Ever After from a time travel mishap, Jaune is reverted back to his proper age by a gift from Alyx's spirit...but his hair now has white streaks to serve as a reminder of how he has been changed by his experience.]]
* LoveTriangle: Pyrrha seems to like Jaune, who is oblivious to her feelings and only has eyes for Weiss. Weiss unfortunately can't stand Jaune, but has an interest in Neptune, who has an interest in her... and every single other attractive girl on the entire planet.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Jaune's weapons consist of a sword and a shield. While they seem boring compared to the multi-purpose creations other students use, the shield has proven to be extremely durable no matter what attacks it's been used to block. The reforged version can also be transformed into a larger, heavier blade, letting Jaune use it with his sword like a two-handed cleaver. In Volume 7, it's upgraded to have a forcefield around it to extend its effective area and make it work as a parachute.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: The excuse he gives for knowing how to dance well is that he has seven sisters, making him the only boy in a family of eight kids.
* MeaningfulName: His full name is deliberately similar to [[JeanneDArchetype Jeanne d'Arc]], foreshadowing his heroic, leadership qualities and that he comes from a non-combat background. Jeanne d'Arc was rough, led soldiers and rode on the front line, but personally refused to engage in any killing. Jaune had no combat training prior to Beacon. His leadership and heroic qualities go from strength to strength but his Semblance's ability to buff Auras means he's more useful to his companions as tactical support. It's lampshaded at the beginning of Volume 4 when the team is fighting a Petra Gigas; when he crashes into a rock he complains that his companions felt he would be fine in a fight even though he didn't have his sword and shield with him because they viewed him as the strategist.
* MentalHealthRecoveryArc: In the fourth volume, Jaune secretly trains himself at night, punishing himself for the harrowing events of the previous volume. During the battle at Haven, Jaune admitting he doesn't care if he dies if his friends survive makes Cinder realise he has become a DeathSeeker. By Volume 6, he come to terms with his state of mind, after an intervention from an unexpected source as well as both Ren and Nora tell him that they love him like family and don't want to lose him.
* MisplacedRetribution: After being bullied by Cardin for several days and then being blackmailed, he lashes out at Pyrrha when she offers him a helping hand. Fortunately, he very quickly realizes his error after Cardin pushes him too far, and learns first hand why messing with Jaune [[BewareTheNiceOnes is a very bad idea]].
* NervesOfSteel: Although visibly nervous during his first Grimm fights, and recklessly losing his temper against Cinder in Volume 5, Jaune grows beyond his inexperience and trauma to become a steady, fearless fighter. When his group enters Salem's lair to rescue Oscar, Ren notices Jaune is completely fearless. Later, he keeps his team on mission while Ruby's team fights Cinder. When he joins the battle, it's after Ruby, Blake and Yang have seemingly died; he remains calm against Cinder, and after he's forced to MercyKill Penny and has watched Weiss apparently die, he still holds it together and encourages Winter to escape to safety instead of recklessly charging Cinder like he once did.
* NonActionGuy: DiscussedTrope. Jaune was never taught how to fight and started Beacon Academy not even knowing what an Aura is. He joins Beacon because he comes from a warrior lineage; his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were all warriors, and his great-grandfather was a famous war hero. He's fed up of going through life with no expectations, with parents who don't believe in him, and feeling like he's the butt of every joke. His determination to better himself and his natural instincts enable him to develop his combat abilities at a very fast speed so that by Volume 6, two years after he first joined Beacon Academy, he has caught up with his team-mates and can carry himself in battle. He has a strong tactical mind, natural leadership abilities, and can take a heavy beating and still keep going. His Aura is unusually powerful, and his Semblance allows him to use it to [[SuperEmpowering buff the Auras of other people]] so that they can achieve more powerful effects than they can normally achieve alone.
* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: After Jaune rescues Cardin from an Ursa, he makes it clear to his former bully he won't stand for any more of Cardin's behavior.
* NotSoWeak: He's goofy, clumsy, and a frequent target of Cardin's bullying. But when the life of his friends is in danger he'll protect them with everything he has. Lampshaded when says he doesn't care what Cardin does to him. He's also strong and a pretty good fighter, just not in the same league as the others in Beacon, so it's easy to miss.
* ObliviousToLove: He had no idea that Pyrrha was into him due to having his eyes stubbornly set on Weiss. It isn't until Pyrrha outright tells him why she likes him that he realizes her affections for him were romantic all along.
* OlderThanHeLooks: For all intents and purposes, Jaune seems like another teenage member of the cast, the same age Ren, Nora, Weiss, Blake and Yang. However, he's actually not quite the age he appears to be. [[spoiler:Shortly after Jaune falls into the Ever After, the local time tree throws him back in time. He is forced to live in that world for decades until Team RWBY, who fell before him, arrive. Thus, he becomes a grizzled, jaded veteran who has been suffering alone for far too long. Upon eventually returning to Remnant, Jaune has returned to the age he was when he first fell, but his life, experiences and memories are not erased. The only physical sign he has to hint of these extra decades of life is in his hair, which permanently retains the white streaks he'd gained from age.]]
* ProperlyParanoid: After spending years alone in the Ever After with his trauma from Atlas and experiencing new betrayals while waiting for Team RWBY's arrival, he starts going through SanitySlippage and becomes increasingly mistrustful for Afterans. This causes problems for Team RWBY, and the Afterans themselves, as he won't listen to them due to him believing they're too clever, too stupid or too manipulative. Once Team RWBY realise Jaune's instability, they begin questioning his sanity and reliability of his word. [[spoiler:Jaune however is right about his distrust of the Curious Cat, whose true motive for helping Team RWBY go to the tree is revealed to be deliberately breaking down Ruby's state of mind with the intention of possessing her and escaping the Ever After.]]
* PunyParachute: Jaune receives Dust upgrades to his shield that allow him to create HardLight extensions to his shield. The extensions make his shield more useful for deflecting attacks but aren't very large in terms of parachuting. However, his landing strategy involves him extending the hard light wings and using his shield as a glider to control his descent. His shield then uses gravity Dust to give him a recoil bounce off the ground, allowing him to land safely on his feet.
* RainbowMotif: Jaune Arc's surname comes from arc-en-ciel, the French for "rainbow". His family's hand-me-down shield sports a stylized rainbow motif, and his combat outfit collects the colours of the rainbow as the show progresses. Jaune has seven sisters and a family photograph in Volume 6 reveals which rainbow colour each sibling represents, with indigo represented by twins. Jaune, as per the French origin of his name, represents yellow. The sister he stayed with at Argus in Volume 6 is named Saphron (after the spice saffron) and she represents orange.
* RecognitionFailure: He had neither heard of Sanctum Academy nor of Pyrrha's career as an athlete. He only recognized her from her appearance on a cereal box. Pyrrha eventually reveals she was thrilled to meet someone who didn't know her reputation and therefore got to know her as a person instead of a celebrity.
* ReforgedBlade: His weapon, Crocea Mors, is a hand-me-down from a famous ancestor of his and is very chipped and worn. In Volume 4, Jaune gives his weapons to a village blacksmith who restores the cutting edge of the sword and modifies it with metal from Pyrrha's equipment, giving both the sword and shield a new appearance that heavily references Pyrrha; the shield gains gold bands in the shape of her tiara.
* RejectionAffection: He attempts to court Weiss in a number of different ways, ranging from offering her a team slot and attempting to heroically rescue her when she's falling, to asking her out while playing the guitar. She doesn't hide her impatience and disapproval, and never hesitates to reject him. He even asks Ren for advice and takes advice from Pyrrha before he finally realizes that Weiss wants to go to the dance with Neptune. When he sees how dejected Weiss is after Neptune rejected her offer, he gives up his pursuit of her and gives Neptune the advice that enables Neptune to hook up with Weiss for the dance.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: When Pyrrha first unlocks Jaune's Aura she comments that he has a lot of it, which makes a lot of sense once his Semblance is finally revealed. It's revealed in "Downfall" that Jaune's Semblance allows him [[SuperEmpowering to enhance the natural abilities of his allies]] by transferring his own aura into theirs thus increasing the innate power of their HealingFactor and making their own Semblance stronger, which in itself would require a large pool of Aura to not leave him defenseless every time he transferred his Aura.
* RetractableWeapon: Jaune's shield collapses down into the sheath for his sword when he doesn't need it. It still weighs the same, though, as pointed out by Ruby. Jaune takes advantage of this in Volume 4, giving the shield a deployable sharpened edge, letting him wield the sheathed sword in something akin to a short, heavy two-handed blade.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: [[spoiler:Jaune's distrust of the Curious Cat comes from their role in the Ascending process the Afterans undergo, which he views as death due to the LossOfIdentity and DeathOfPersonality. This makes him belief that the Cat plans to feed him and team RWBY to the tree in order to nourish it just like how they supposedly did with Lewis. While the Cat turns out to be EvilAllAlong, they actually never intended to feed them through the tree especially since that goes against their real plan, which is to mentally break Ruby into a new vessel for themselves to possess and escape the Ever After.]]
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: Although Jaune shows instinctive leadership qualities, his combat prowess is nonexistent. It results in him being the only student unable to handle the landing strategy in their very first lesson and he's also far behind the other students in combat training. He never went through the combat schools that develop students for entry into Beacon and lied his way into the school.
* SarcasmBlind: Overheard Weiss sarcastically referencing him with regards to stereotypical girl behavior of discussing attractive boys. He has since taken it straight and hit on her multiple times.
* ScreamingWarrior: He screams a lot during his second fight with an Ursa, after they've invaded the city. Despite hollering his lungs out, he keeps on fighting with everything he's got.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Screams when he and Pyrrha are attacked by the Death Stalker in Episode 7. In the distance, Yang and Blake think a girl is screaming.
* {{Squee}}: Absolutely impressed by the awesomeness that is the Ace Ops' tactical work. He goes full fanboy when Clover explains what makes them so efficient.
* TheStrategist: Zig-zagged. [[StrategyVersusTactics He's less a Strategist than a Tactician]] given that he reacts well to tactical imperatives. He's quick to come up with strategies to exploit enemy weaknesses and makes great use of the strengths of his team all while in the middle of a fight. He's also demonstrated talent for planning before-hand as shown by his heist to steal an Atlas airship which was carried out nearly flawlessly, only failing due to an unpredictable third party.
* StarCrossedLovers: Jaune and Pyrrha. They're very close. Even when Jaune's blunders put some strain into their relationship sometimes, they're inseparable and Pyrrha is quite obviously in love with him. By the time he finally understood her feelings and [[LastKiss they have their first kiss]], it was also the last time he saw Pyrrha alive...
* StrongerThanTheyLook: Jaune's lack of combat background can easily paint him as physically unfit in comparison to his peers. However, even before receiving proper training, he already showed impressive feats of strength, such as beheading an Ursa Major with a perfectly clean cut. He can also withstand strikes of enormous Grimm such as the Nuckelavee, which can easily charge through buildings but couldn't get pass Jaune's defensive stance. His shield has been stated to be heavy, but he can combine it with his sword to create a very heavy, two-edged weapon that he can still swing about with ease. And he is ''always'' wearing his armor which is noted to weight plenty but it doesn't slow him down one bit.
* StrongGirlSmartGuy: With Pyrrha. Some of his ideas in battle were possible because Pyrrha is skilled enough to pull them off.
* StuffedIntoALocker:
** As part of Cardin's ongoing bullying campaign, Jaune was thrown into a rocket-propelled locker which was programmed to take off and fly elsewhere with him inside it.
** It happens to him again during ''End of the Beginning'', where Pyrrha launches him away with one of the rocket lockers so he doesn't follow her to fight Cinder.
* SuperEmpowering: His Semblance is revealed to be a form of this. Jaune describes his ability as giving his own Aura to another in order to enhance their abilities. His first willing use on Weiss allows her recover from an otherwise-fatal stab wound and summon a construct of the Lancer Queen strong enough to pierce Hazel's flesh and allow her to drag him back into the room everyone else is fighting in.
* SupportPartyMember: While Jaune is more than capable of carrying his weight in a fight, his strength lies in [[BarrierWarrior shield protection]], strategy and making effective use of the abilities of others. His Semblance emphasises this role by amplifying Aura. He can boost the Semblances of others, such as enabling Ren to mask the emotions of an entire train full of people, and so effectively enhance a person's Aura ability to heal wounds that he is able to save Weiss from an otherwise fatal injury.
* SurvivorsGuilt: Jaune struggles a lot with Pyrrha's death. He adds the metal from her tiara into his shield and starts wearing a red sash in honour of the red sash she used to wear. He becomes angry and cynical about the motives of both Qrow and Ozpin upon learning about the Maidens and realising that they were trying to turn Pyrrha into one. While he's clearly very angry with Cinder, when he finally faces her at Haven he loses control and fights her recklessly; when he reveals that he doesn't mind dying if it buys his friends time, Cinder accuses him of being a loser with a death wish. After learning what Ozpin's been hiding about Salem, Jaune attacks Oscar as being nothing more than a vessel for Ozpin's lies, resulting in Oscar running away. While Team JNPR scour Argus looking for him, they discover the city has erected a memorial in Pyrrha's honour. In front of her statue, Ren and Nora confront him about his behaviour since her death and reveal they heard what he said to Cinder; the team is their family and they're terrified of losing Jaune, too. An encounter with a mysterious woman who is implied to be a relative of Pyrrha's helps Jaune come to terms with why Pyrrha died, enabling him to move forward from both her death and the truth about Ozpin. [[spoiler:[[CosmicPlaything Unfortunately]] having to MercyKill Penny means that he gets hit with this hard ''again''; see TheseHandsHaveKilled below.]]
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: [[spoiler:His inability to heal in time and subsequent MercyKill of Penny at her own request at the end of Volume 8 has stuck with him all throughout his extended stay in the Ever After; her showing up as one of his reflections during the punderstorm indicates that the trauma from this remains open and unhealed. He sorrowfully admits as much during his breakdown in "The Perils of Paper Houses", saying that he will have to live with the guilt of killing Penny until he dies.]]
* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself:
** He believes that not only does he need to improve, but that the only way he's "earned" his improvement is if he handles his training by himself, which leads him to reject Pyrrha's offer of personal training.
--->'''Jaune:''' I'm tired of being the lovable idiot, stuck in the tree while his friends fight for their lives! Don't you understand? If I can't do this on my own... then what good am I?
** Invoked by Pyrrha when Jaune is fighting the giant Ursa to save Cardin. She does cheat a little by secretly boosting his shield with her polarity Semblance, thus giving him the confidence to ask for Pyrrha's help. And she does it again during his second fight against an Ursa but this time she doesn't help him at all.
* TookALevelInBadass: A constant example. Jaune is initially presented as a civilian with no combat experience who can barely hold his own in a fight but becomes stronger and more resourceful with every Volume. Eventually, he becomes a valuable asset for the team in his own right thanks to his useful set of abilities and is more than capable of striking down difficult enemies on his own. [[spoiler:He takes a few extra levels in Volume 9 due to being forced to take TheSlowPath.]]
* TragicKeepsake: He wears a red sash at his waist that is knotted on his right side. It's reminiscent of the red sash Pyrrha used to wear, although it isn't as long. His white weapons and armour also incorporate Pyrrha's metal equipment, giving them gold accents and the shape of her tiara on his shield. His scroll also contains a combat training video by her that includes an aborted attempt to confess her feelings, which he watches in his spare time to improve his swordsmanship and hear her voice again. [[spoiler:Him having spent so much time in the Ever After as the Rusted Knight has worn the sash out to the point that Jaune uses what is left of it to tie his hair up into a ponytail. It returns to its original condition when Jaune became young again.]]
* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Weiss's near death at the hands of Cinder ends up awakening Jaune's HealingHands powers as he begs her to stay with him, holding his hands over her wound when his Semblance kicks in.
* UnskilledButStrong: He has a lot of Aura, an instinctual grasp of combat tactics, and is strong enough to be close to the level of the others when he actually blocks or hits. However, he doesn't have a basic grasp of sword and shield style, jumping around and throwing his whole weight behind most of his blows without the trained reflexes or proper technique to react to an enemy's counter. During his second fight with an Ursa, his wild strikes compare to the techniques of his peers but he still kills it without help. He survives the tournament fight against Team BRNZ, although he doesn't land a hit on his opponents, and in Volume 4, he stops dead the lethal charge of the Nuckelavee with brute strength alone. In Volume 5, Ozpin acknowledges that Jaune's skills are improving, but he's had to put a lot of extra work in to develop combat skills because he started off so far behind all the other students and is therefore developing via trial by fire. He also manages to hold his own when fighting Cinder, though admittedly she wasn't taking him seriously for most of it.
* WasTooHardOnHim: After the fall of Beacon, Jaune grows increasingly irritable and cynical towards Ozpin, expressing frustration with Qrow and suspicion that he was using Ruby as bait to draw out Salem's forces, and making occasional sarcastic comments about Ozpin's habit of toying with their understanding of the situation they're in. While journeying to Atlas, his temper finally snaps when he learns the truth about what Ozpin has been hiding. He argues Oscar cannot be trusted because Ozpin might be able to secretly control him without their knowledge and accusing Oscar of helping Ozpin to hide information from them. His companions are horrified, especially as they only learned Ozpin's secret through Oscar's efforts to fight Ozpin for control over his own body. Later, a remorseful Jaune apologizes to Oscar for his behaviour.
* TheWatson: His lack of knowledge about the combat-related side of his world allows for things to be explained to both him and the audience, such as the concept of Aura or how huntsmen and huntresses fight.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: When Cardin is ambushed by an Ursa, Jaune has the perfect opportunity to just leave him to die without anybody knowing (at least he thinks nobody's around). He saves him anyway.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Jokes to Pyrrha that he'll wear a dress if she can't get a date to the dance. He keeps the promise, even doing a dance with his team while wearing it.
* WorthyOpponent: Cardin can easily wipe the floor with Jaune and bullies him to no end. Until a trip to Forever Fall where Jaune decapitates an absolutely massive [[BearsAreBadNews Ursa]] that almost easily kills Cardin. He stops messing with Jaune for good.
-->'''Cardin:''' Holy ''crap''. ''Jaune?''
* WreckedWeapon: In "[[Recap/RWBYV8E14TheFinalWord The Final Word]]", Jaune and Cinder duel over the fate of the Winter Maiden, leading to Jaune's sword being destroyed as a symbol for how he's been forced to break his ideals and his heart in the process. Cinder fatally wounding Penny causes her to ask Jaune to finish the deed so that she can choose a successor for the power and prevent it from going by default to Cinder. The sword breaks at the point where it is stained with Penny's blood.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Before meeting Pyrrha, Jaune didn't know a single person who believed he could be successful and he finally found the confidence to become a capable huntsman and a better person thanks to her encouragement and support. He even comments that his parents didn't have faith in him and expected him to wash out of Beacon quickly and come back home.
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[[folder:Nora Valkyrie]]
!!Nora Valkyrie
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Samantha Ireland, Creator/KristenMcGuire (flashback, Volume 4)[[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Creator/AyaSuzaki (Japanese)[[/labelnote]]
!!!'''Debut:''' The First Step[[labelnote:*]]Volume 1 Episode 4[[/labelnote]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/beacon_nora.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"I'm queen of the castle!"'']]
[[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:''Click here for her appearance during the Anima Arc'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nora_mistral.png ''"This is perfect! We were stuck at a dead end, but now, we can just take little cute boy Ozpin to Lionheart and have him set things straight!"''[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:''Click here for her appearance during the Solitas Arc'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/atlas_nora.jpg ''"The longer this waiting game goes on, the harder each day gets for people down there and now you wanna send in more soldiers? You can’t just force people to fall in line."''[[/labelnote]]]]
->''"After everything we've been through. I won't let it end. Not like this. We can do this!"''
Nora joined Beacon Academy with her childhood friend, Ren, who is also her team partner. She is an excitable, energetic girl with great strength and a big heart.
Her weapon is Magnhild, a multi-shot GrenadeLauncher capable of converting into a large war hammer. Her Semblance, "High Voltage", lets her absorb electricity to enhance her body, making her stronger and faster for a brief time.
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* AdaptationalBadass: In the main series during the Beacon Arc, he's one of the least skilled among the main cast. In ''Grimm Eclipse''[[note]]which takes place during the Beacon Arc before the Vytal Festival in Volume 3[[/note]], he's a GameBreaker. [[invoked]]
* AllThereInTheManual: Creator/MontyOum revealed the name of Jaune's weapon, Crocea Mors, on his Facebook page; this has not been mentioned in the show.
* AncestralWeapon: Most Huntsmen and trainees possess custom, self-made multi-tool weapons that transform between different weapon types. Jaune, however, has a [[KnightlySwordAndShield sword and a shield]] that contracts into the sword's sheath. They're heirlooms that belonged to his great-grandfather, who fought in the Great War that ended eighty years ago. In Volume 4, he upgrades them so that they can combine into a dual-edged, heavy-hitting sword. In Volume 7, the shield is upgraded further to allow it to use Dust in battle.
* AudibleSharpness: The blade of Crocea Mors is very loud in every single slice.
* AudienceSurrogate: Initially asks all the relevant questions for exposition. Like the audience, he's new to the setting's world of combat.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: At the face of a dangerous opponent, he's prompt to search for a weakness in their attacks in order to maneuver his team away from danger through the course of the battle. It's also what sets him apart as a leader from Ruby; while Ruby and her team practice combos and combine their abilities to overwhelm larger foes, Jaune instead figures out the enemy's weak points and sets up events so that the rest of the team are able to land the decisive blow.
* BadassOnPaper: Subverted. Beacon only takes the best combat students. On the second day at school, Professor Goodwitch quickly concludes that the reality of Jaune's abilities do not match the claims on his entrance transcripts. She's more right than she knows.
* BarrierWarrior: In Volume 7, Jaune upgrades his shield to incorporate Dust. It can produce an extended HardLight barrier to protect a larger area and use Gravity Dust to act as a DeflectorShield to repel attacks. He also uses portable shields to generate static barriers that can stop charging Grimm in their tracks and be used as ramps to launch vehicles into the air.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Jaune's original goal was to become a hero, a veritable KnightInShiningArmor. Over time, he comes to learn that heroism isn't all it's cracked up to be, leaving him a KnightInSourArmor.
* BerserkerTears: When battling against Cinder in "The More the Merrier", Jaune is so full of rage and sorrow from everything she's done that tears are pouring down his face, even as he fights her in a violent fury.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He might be ditzy, klutzy, and socially awkward, but even he has his limits. He's shown to have an explosive temper and it's not against teaching someone a lesson if he thinks they deserve it. He particularly dislikes people being jerks to his friends. Push his buttons, and he can get quite violent. Cinder discovers this during the Battle of Haven when Jaune goes from cautiously defensive to accusing her of being broken inside and charging her to avenge Pyrrha. This shocks his companions and sets off the fight for everyone.
* BilingualBonus:
** Jaune is French for "yellow", which is Jaune's signature color, as represented by his symbol which appears on his shield as two yellow arcs and the name of his sword. His hair is a very bright shade of yellow, and his earliest introduction to Weiss consists of him responding to her description of him as "tall, blond and scraggly" with the statement that he's a natural blond.
** Jaune's sword is called Crocea Mors. This is Latin for "Yellow Death", the name of the sword belonging to UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar in [[LegendaryWeapon some legends]]. In some versions of the story, the sword also ends up embedded in a shield; Jaune's sword is stored in a sheath that expands to form his shield, with the sheath acting as the center line of the shield. He also has an upgrade that allows him to partially expand the shield while the sword is still sheathed, sacrificing defense in favor of a heavier sword with a more lethal cutting edge.
* BoringButPractical:
** The shield is collapsible and doubles as the sword's sheath. The sword is just a sword. However, the sword is easily capable of beheading an Ursa Major with a single strike, even in the hands of a novice, and the shield has withstood the full force of any attack it has so far been used against. Upgrading it in his travel to Mistral, when the sword is sheathed, the shield can partially unfold to create an extremely heavy two-handed sword that is dual-edged and contains much more damage potential. With its new Atlas upgrades, the shield can protect a wider area with HardLight and with gravity Dust he can push enemies back further than before.
--->'''Ruby''': Well, you've gotta have appreciation for the classics.
** As his own Semblance is SuperEmpowering, he can't do fancy things like the other Huntsmen (like Ruby's speed or the Schnee Glyphs). However, this Semblance supercharges the standard abilities of one's Aura; Jaune is able to take more hits, heal better, and hit enemies harder than most simply because his Semblance gives him such a boost. And when combined with another's Semblance, it gives them a significant amplification that is useful for both rookies and experienced Huntsmen, on top of letting him heal up others quickly so they can get back in the fray.
* BreakTheCutie: Jaune was initially a cheerful, up-beat individual who ineptly tried to enact his parents' life lessons of being a positive and confident person. However, what happens to Pyrrha, and his inability to help her when she needed it, devastates him. He become cynical, protective and very anxious whenever there needs to be a team split. He also becomes a DeathSeeker, believing his life so worthless that it's better spent being sacrificed to save his more valuable friends. At the end of Volume 6, he is forced to confront his pain and has a heart-to-heart with Ren and Nora. Making peace with Pyrrha's loss, he is able to start rebuilding his self-esteem and find healthier ways to protect his friends. [[spoiler:Having to assist Penny's suicide and falling into the Ever After at the end of Volume 8, compounded by being flung into the past, Alyx's betrayal, and multiple failures [[TheSlowPath through the years]] breaks him ''again''. This time, a combination of Weiss [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre consoling]] him and a repentant Alyx's [[UnfinishedBusiness dying wish]] puts him on the path to recovery as Volume 9 ends.]]
* BridalCarry: A rare example where a man gets carried by a woman. In the manga, Jaune gets carried by Pyrrha in the bridal style [[note]]Jaune swept up in her arms[[/note]] during the battle against the merged King Taijitus.
* ButtMonkey: He's clumsy, has motion sickness, and can't get the ladies to pay attention to him. He's also fully aware of his status and completely fed up with it. As his resolve and skills gain significant progress through the story, this trope becomes downplayed.
* CaptainObvious: When Jaune and Pyrrha search for the "Relic" in their first lesson, they enter a very dark cave. When Jaune grabs the glowing object in front of him, it's very quickly revealed to be the tail stinger of a huge Deathstalker. Once the monster bursts into full daylight and Pyrrha and readying herself to fight it, Jaune needlessly states that it's not the relic.
-->'''Jaune:''' ''[while hanging on the Death Stalker's stinger]'' PYRRHA! THIS IS NOT THE RELIC! IT'S NOT!
* CasanovaWannabe: He quickly hits on Weiss, Pyrrha, and to a lesser extent Yang when he meets them. All but Pyrrha are turned off by his attempts at flirting. Gets flipped on its head in Volume 7's ''Sparks'' where several women are not-so-subtly trying to catch Jaune's attention, including '''mothers'''.
* CastFromHitPoints: Jaune's SuperEmpowering Semblance works by [[EnergyDonation pouring his Aura into another person]] to give their own Aura a boost. Luckily, Jaune has a lot of Aura to work with and is capable of recharging fairly quickly.
* ChickMagnet: In the first three volumes, Pyrrha takes an interest in Jaune almost from the moment she first meets him. In Volume 7, a group of [[MrsRobinson mothers]] in Mantle giggle and swoon over his presence, and one mother keeps making caseroles for him. This is something Nora finds quite amusing. [[spoiler:In Volume 9, Weiss is openly attracted to his "mature" appearance, much to both Yang and Blake's amusement.]]
* ClassicalAntiHero: He has a good heart, but he isn't well-trained and has lots of self-doubt, which makes him a rather flawed but still likeable protagonist. This is part of why Pyrrha's partnership with him tends to do him a lot of favors.
* CloseRangeCombatant: Jaune is one of the only major characters with no long-ranged capabilities due to his weapon being a regular sword. Despite this, he's become quite capable in combat and can hold his own in a fight.
* TheConfidant: This is one of the basis for his close friendship with Ruby. As leaders, they can relate to each other about their choices and how it affects everyone around them. In Volume 4, Ruby waits until they’re alone to apologize for dragging everyone into danger, feeling responsible for Tyrian hunting them down because he’s going after her, but Jaune turns this around and expresses his gratitude for inspiring his team to chase the people responsible for the Fall of Beacon. [[spoiler:This is cruelly subverted five volumes later where Jaune calls out Ruby for the paper pleasers' deaths, since Neo was targeting her, and their predicament in Ever After was a result of her failed plan. Jaune’s words are a deliberate foil to his encouraging words in Volume 4 as he’s very aware of Ruby’s insecurities and targets these to hurt her the most.]]
* CosmicPlaything: Despite his self-improvement and ever-increasing competence, whenever something appears to be going right for him, events outside his control cause things to go sideways and leave him feeling useless and [[SamaritanSyndrome unable to protect others]]. After Team RWBY reunites with him in the Ever After, Jaune's situation leaves him mentally vulnerable; he tells them he knows he's not okay, but he's protecting the Paper Pleasers because it's the one thing he can actually do, and the one group of people he can actually protect. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, the Paper Pleasers don't want to be protected and commit mass suicide while the protagonists battle the Jabberwalkers, triggering Jaune's breakdown; he acknowledges all his problems are stemmed from being forced to live alone for years with his guilt over assisting Penny's death.]]
* CrazyPrepared: Has "Left" and "Right" on the soles of his shoes. Apparently, it's just in case he gets concussed and needs help.
* DamnedByFaintPraise:
** While Ruby is grumbling to Yang on their first night at Beacon that "it's weird not knowing anyone here", Yang replies, "How about Jaune? He's... nice!" There is a short but distinct pause as she visibly searches for a positive descriptor she can use with sincerity.
** When describing the team in Volume 3, Nora describes Pyrrha as being a world-renowned fighter, Ren as tantamount to a {{ninja}}, herself as being able to bench five times her own weight, and Jaune as... Jaune. Two volumes later, she repeats this again when explaining Semblances to Oscar, describing everyone's Semblances.... and Jaune, who hasn't found his Semblance at that point in time.
* DancingRoyalty: Jaune is infamously awkward at nearly everything he does, but reveals at the school dance that he's a shockingly good dancer. Even while [[WholesomeCrossdresser wearing a party dress]] and trainers combination.
* DarkSecret: Jaune was never really accepted into Beacon. He forged his transcripts due to his desire to become a warrior like his famous ancestors. While it's clear Glynda is puzzled about the discrepancy between his skills and his transcript information, it's not clear how much Ozpin knows.
* DeathSeeker: Jaune's willingness to put his friends' lives ahead of his own is not seen as heroic by the villains. When Cinder defeats him during the battle of Haven, he tells her that dying doesn't matter to him if it buys his friends a little time because their lives matter more than his own. Cinder angrily states he's just a failure with a death wish. His teammates later address this attitude and insist they love their leader and don't wish to lose him, breaking him out of this mentality.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Jaune deconstructs the LoserArchetype: ButtMonkey. Introduced as the travel sick boy who can't remember where his locker is, he embarrasses himself trying to woo Weiss, has to be rescued during Initiation because he doesn't know what he's doing, and it's all played for comedy until Cardin's bullying reveals the AwfulTruth. Jaune loathes the "loveable idiot" label and wants to live up to his famous ancestors as a protector of the people, but even his own parents didn't believe in him. His journey shows how being "comic relief" can shatter confidence, hopes, and dreams. Once he starts accepting help from others, he turns his life around because he's determined to better himself no matter what.
* {{Determinator}}: Due to his lack of combat background, there is a noticeable gap in ability between Jaune and almost every opponent he encounters. Despite this, he has never backed down from a fight and, once he engages in fighting, he won't stop until he wins or can't get back up. This means he either gets thrashed or does the thrashing depending on whether his fights depend more on skill (which he lacks) or grit (which he has in spades). Pyrrha once states that she has never met anyone with more determination to better themselves than Jaune, enabling him to start catching up with his peers in record time. In Volume 8, Ren says Jaune's so convinced they can successfully rescue Oscar, that he's not even afraid to walk right into the heart of the BigBad's lair to do it. [[spoiler:Volume 9 has him [[AccidentalTimeTravel accidentally flung years into the past]] in the Ever After, and forced to spend years slowly surviving in a bizarre dimension waiting for Team RWBY to show up. Even when he does meet them, it's clear that the ordeal took a mental toll on him, on top of all the trauma he endured ''before'' falling, but he still keeps going regardless]].
* DivingSave: Does this to a falling Weiss in Episode 8, by jumping off a tree. Then both of them fell to the ground, Jaune first, and Weiss landing on his back.
* DoggedNiceGuy: A DiscussedTrope. He's head-over-heels with Weiss, and constantly makes it known with grandiose gestures, such as asking her to the ball by serenading her with a guitar. Weiss dismisses his efforts as a sign of a GoldDigger, leaving him turning to his teammates for advice. Pyrrha tells him that the best way to win her over is to stop using crazy schemes and just have an honest discussion about how he feels. Taking her advice, he goes to find her, only to overhear her asking Neptune to the dance. When he learns that Neptune didn't accept her offer, he passes on Pyrrha's advice to Neptune, telling him to stop trying to be too cool to admit he can't dance and just be honest; he then moves on from Weiss, but Neptune telling Weiss the truth makes her realize that Jaune is a genuinely nice person, after all. They become good friends after that.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Realizes he's the "lovable idiot stuck in a tree while everyone is fighting for their lives" and hates it. This leads him to initially reject Pyrrha's offer of giving him extra training.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Jaune suffered really bad motion sickness on the way to Beacon Academy; consequently, he picked up the nickname "Vomit Boy" amongst the other students, which he really, really hates.
* EnergyDonation: His Semblance Aura Amp can let him give his own Aura to another to boost their own Aura to enhance their own protection, healing, and strength of their Semblance.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The scene where he meets Ruby. Where other students antagonized or ignored her, Jaune helps her up and they find the assembly hall together, talking and bonding over their shared awkwardness. All Jaune wants to do in life is develop the skills he needs to help people, while also living up to his family legacy.
* FailedASpotCheck: During the first lesson, he's too busy questioning Ozpin about landing strategies to notice the other kids are being launched into the forest until it's too late.
* FailureHero: He begins to feel like a failure more and more throughout the series. After the death of Pyrrha, he becomes a DeathSeeker out of the belief it's the only way to redeem himself. This is only exacerbated by his duel with Cinder in the battle of Haven, wherein she [[ButForMeItWasTuesday can't remember who he is]] and [[CurbStompBattle easily defeats him]]. Once he finally hits her, Cinder becomes frustrated and impales Weiss. He becomes less self-flagellating in the sixth volume, but it returns with interest three volumes later, [[spoiler:wherein after the stress of killing Penny, he becomes so obsessed with protecting ''something'' that he spends years trying to stop the Paper Pleasers from [[{{Reincarnation}} ascending]] against their wishes, and breaks down after his failure. After Ruby refers to the departed Pleasers as his "make-believe friends", he blames Ruby for the failure of her plans and the heroes getting stuck in the Ever After in the first place, which eventually leads to her [[DrivenToSuicide suicide-by-ascension attempt]].]]
* FamilyHonor: He doesn't care that he's a normal guy surrounded by elite fighters in an environment that will put his life at stake constantly. As the descendant of a great war-hero, he just wants to live up to his family's name.
* FamilyThemeNaming: Vol 6 commentary reveals the Arc siblings all have names taken after colours in the rainbow; Jaune is yellow.
* FashionableAsymmetry: Jaune's armor in Volume 4 only has one shoulder guard on his left arm, unlike his previous armor set which was symmetrical.
* FatalFlaw: For the first six volumes he has a martyr complex that turns him into a DeathSeeker. Losing Pyrrha overwhelms him with feelings of inadequacy as a fighter and a leader, and leaves him terrified of losing anyone else; he believes his well-being means nothing compared to the survival of his friends, whom he sees as the real heroes. Upon realizing his own safety isn't important to him during the battle for Haven, Cinder stops trying to kill him and instead targets one of his friends just to torment him. Ren and Nora confront him in Volume 6 about his attitude, telling him that he's family to them and that they don't want to lose him. He eventually grows out of it and even provides advice to other people in the same situation.
* FightsLikeANormal: When Jaune joins Beacon Academy, he stands out from the other students by having no special skills or techniques; his Aura is locked until Pyrrha activates it, leaving him without even a Semblance. Whereas other students have learned how to make custom weapons that work in concert with their abilities and Aura, Jaune only wields a hand-me-down sword and shield. Even when his Semblance finally activates, his ability is to amplify Aura using his own Aura reserves instead of a flashy combat-focused ability.
* {{Foil}}: To both Pyrrha and Ruby:
** [[IdealHero Pyrrha]] is a very intelligent and competent warrior who has garnered [[TheAce in-universe fame]] for her personal exploits. [[ClassicalAntiHero Jaune]] is a naive, unassuming young man who has zero combat training but has a famous ancestry. Her character arc is about learning from Jaune what it means to be a normal teenager with normal friends and relationships, while his character arc is about learning from Pyrrha what it means to be a true warrior. Both have self-esteem issues, with Jaune being the first person who ever treated her like a [[IJustWantToBeNormal normal human]] being and Pyrrha being the first person who ever had genuine faith in his ability to [[IJustWantToBeBadass become a warrior]].
** Both Ruby and Jaune come from a family of heroes (a Huntsman family for Ruby, a long line of heroes for Jaune). However, Ruby is a talented Huntress-in-training who got admitted into Beacon [[GradeSkipper two years early]] at Headmaster Ozpin's personal invitation, while Jaune is a [[NaiveNewcomer civilian]] without an unlocked Aura, let alone combat training, who relied on forged documents to get into the school. Their weapons, the first introduced in-series, are opposites ([[AceCustom hand-designed and forged]] mechashifting scythe-sniper rifle combo vs a sword-and-shield/scabbard [[AncestralWeapon hand-me-down]]), as well as leadership styles during team combat (Ruby goes for flashy [[CombinationAttack combination attacks]] while Jaune [[TheStrategist methodically identifies]] opponents' weak points and directs his team to go for them). Nevertheless, they become each other's first friends at Beacon, co-leaders, best friends and each other's rock of support throughout the series. [[spoiler:Both are eventually crushed under the weight of TheChainsOfCommanding, which leads to them [[RageBreakingPoint snapping]] at each other in the Volume 9 episode "The Perils of Paper Houses"; during their outbursts, they instinctively know where to [[EtTuBrute twist the knife]] in to inflict maximum emotional suffering on the other (being a FailureHero for Jaune and ItsAllMyFault for Ruby)]]. The CRWBY Roundtable for "The Perils of Paper Houses" refer to Ruby and Jaune as two sides of the same coin, [[spoiler:who undergo the same HerosJourney in this Volume]].
* FountainOfYouth: After being forced to take TheSlowPath, Jaune does return to his original self [[spoiler:When the Blacksmith used Alyx's wish to undo the damage she caused to return him to the age he was before coming to the Ever After but [[LockedintoStrangeness with the grey streaks in his hair]] remaining]].
* FriendToAllChildren: Implied. During Volume 7, Jaune worked to protect the school children on their morning journey to classes. The mothers all love him for it and the children come to respect him a great deal. This becomes invaluable during the Grimm invasion when Jaune's rapport with the children is able to keep them, and therefore the adults, calm enough to follow his instructions without question.
* {{Gesundheit}}: The first time that Pyrrha mentions Aura, his ignorance as to what she means is displayed by him saying this, as if she'd just sneezed.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: After so long alone in the Ever After, Jaune's mental health has taken a serious toll. [[spoiler: He has named all the Paper Pleasers after his friends and has taken them hostage and not allowed them to die, controlling their lives to keep them "safe". Once they eventually succeed, Jaune becomes distraught and says he was supposed to keep them safe. He knows he's not okay, but it doesn't make it hurt any less. After seeing them reborn as the Genial Gems however, he begins to realize he was stopping them from becoming what they needed to become]].
* GravityIsAHarshMistress: Of the Gravitational Cognizance variety. After a brief moment of heroically trying to save the falling Weiss, they both suddenly realize exactly where they are. Although they fall at the same time, Jaune [[PlayedForLaughs lands first]]. He falls flat on his face before Weiss lands on his back almost nonchalantly.
* GravityMaster: Jaune's shield is upgraded to use Gravity Dust in Volume 7, which he uses to both negate his downward momentum when falling from great heights, repel enemy attacks and attract his thrown shield grenades.
* GrinOfAudacity: His response when Cardin tries to intimidate him in Forever Fall is to just give Cardin a wild, fearless grin. Doubles as a NotAfraidOfYouAnymore.
* HardLight: One of the upgrades to Jaune's shield in Volume 7 is the ability to use Hard Light Dust, extending the area of protection his shield grants.
* HealingFactor: When his Aura is first unlocked by Pyrrha, the scratch on his cheek heals instantly. Seeing this, Pyrrha comments that he has a lot of Aura. When being beaten up by Cardin's team, his Aura briefly flares up, completely healing his injuries in the process. These are early hints that his Semblance gives him the ability to supernaturally amplify the Auras of other people; his natural ability to heal himself is the first effect of this aura amplification that he triggers when Weiss is fatally injured during the battle of Haven; by amplifying her Aura with his own, her injuries heal the way his did in the early volumes.
* HealingHands: The first use of Jaune's Semblance takes this form, pouring his own Aura into Weiss to boost her natural HealingFactor and allowing her to rapidly recover from an otherwise fatal impaling wound.
* HeroicBSOD: Falls into one after Pyrrha hits him with a ShutUpKiss and rockets him away in a locker so he won't stop her from fighting Cinder. After appraising Ruby and Weiss of the situation, he smashes his Scroll on the ground and falls to his knees in grief. He comes out of it eventually and accompanies Ruby, Nora, and Ren on their hunt for Cinder, though the event left him with severe issues on the long run.
* HeroicLineage: Jaune's father, grandfather, great grandfather and great-great grandfather are all said to have been warriors, the last one possibly being a war hero. Jaune himself, however, seems very unsuited to being a warrior. He usually displays none of the training, instincts or knowledge of his peers except when cornered. He faked his transcripts, confirming he's been kept away from the typical upbringing of combat school students.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Jaune doesn't hold himself and his abilities in high esteem. Although he comes from a loving family, he believes his parents had no faith in him and that Pyrrha was the first person to ever believe in him. He can't fight to begin with and, while being bullied, feels like he's a failure at leadership, too. While he initially goes to Beacon to become a hero like his father and ancestors all were, the more he learns, the more convinced he is that he can't measure up. Pyrrha tells him that she's never met anyone who works as hard as he does to better himself, but he still feels useless in Volume 5 because he can't figure out why he can't unlock his Semblance. He ends up willing to throw his life away for the sake of his friends just because he thinks there's nothing else he can do for them. It takes a heart-to-heart with Ren and Nora in Volume 6 for him to finally come through the other side.
-->'''Jaune:''' I'm a failure.
* HeroicWannabe: Jaune enters Beacon Academy because he's driven by the desire to be a hero like multiple generations of his male ancestors have been. He's tormented by the idea that he's just a walking joke and that he constantly seems to fall short of what a hero's supposed to be. Being unable to save lives, including those he cares deeply about, takes an enormous toll on him. It's not until he goes through this that he eventually begins to understand the price of being a hero is far more costly than the fairy tale depictions of them present
* HiddenDepths: He's awkward, clumsy and unskilled yet persuasive, smart and a fast learner. His backstory puts his battle inexperience into perspective and shows just what he's up against in an academy that is far above his level. He initially acts cowardly yet never backs down from a fight if he’s got no other options and his ability to lead people and create strategies in the midst of a fight comes naturally for him. Later, it’s revealed by Ren that to maintain one’s Aura active at all times takes training and can be exhausting yet Jaune’s Aura has always been active from the moment he unlocked it and he’s able to heal wounds without realizing. He also demonstrates incredible feats of strength for someone with no combat experience even before starting his proper training with Pyrrha.
* HopelessSuitor: For the first two/three volumes, Jaune is Weiss' would-be but ultimately failed suitor. He asks her out multiple times, but she always rejects him.
* IGaveMyWord: He (jokingly) told Pyrrha that he'd wear a dress to the dance if she couldn't get a date. She can't get a date, so he followed through.
-->'''Jaune:''' An Arc never goes back on his word.
* IHaveSisters: He attributes his dancing skills to the fact that he has [[MassiveNumberedSiblings seven sisters]], the natural inference being that he learned such a "girly" skill either because he was forced to join in or through simple osmosis.
* IJustWantToBeBadass: His motivation is to be a great hero just like his father and grandfather, as he can't bear to be just a "nobody". This leads to him enrolling in Beacon Academy, despite his distinctly lackluster fighting skills or appetite for combat.
* IdiotHero: He calls himself a 'lovable idiot'. He feels horrible about himself and wants to improve. Initially, he doesn't want to ask for help but eventually wises up and accepts it.
* IgnoredEnemy: He tries hold a team meeting during their match with Team BRNZ due to arguments about codenames, grinding the battle to a halt. When BRNZ tries to get the ball rolling again, he initially dismisses them before deciding to just have Nora [[DropTheCow whack them away with her hammer and end the match]].
* IncompletelyTrained: Unlike the other students, Jaune doesn't enter Beacon Academy with existing combat training, so receives extra-curricular tuition from ace student, Pyrrha. Although they worked hard to uncover what his Semblance was, they never figured it out by the time the heroes abandon school to hunt down the villains. He eventually unlocks his Semblance in Volume 5.
* InnocentBlueEyes: His eyes are a very deep and dark shade of blue. His simple honesty and pure intentions make him a much more effective leader than he realises.
* InnocentlyInsensitive:
** In "Extracurricular", he blithely complains to Pyrrha that Weiss wouldn't accept his offer to be her date. There is a noticeable tremble in Pyrrha's voice when she responds to this.
** In "Destiny", in a bid to cheer her up, he encourages Pyrrha to fulfill her destiny no matter what and is baffled when his advice reduces her to tears. What he doesn't know is that Pyrrha is trying to decide what to do with the secret Ozpin and Ironwood have given her. Taking on the power of the Fall Maiden could isolate her from her team and possibly destroy her identity in the process.
* IronButtMonkey: When launched from a cliff on his first day at school, Jaune ends up pinned to a tree by Pyrrha's lance. When he runs into a Deathstalker, he's thrown through the forest until he eventually slams into Ruby and a tree. He attempts to leap out of the tree to catch a falling Weiss, which results in him slamming into the ground and her landing heavily on top of his back. He's been propelled through the air by rocket-powered lockers, thrown around by Grimm and has ranted about his "butt monkey" status, but he never seems to end up injured or physically scarred by these antics thanks to his unusually large Aura reserves.
* {{Irony}}: When Jaune first joined Beacon Academy, he was a CasanovaWannabe who attempted to flirt with Weiss, with each attempt either being rejected or ignored; Pyrrha was the only girl who was interested in him despite his initial flirting, but Jaune didn't realise until just before her death. In Volume 7, his first job as an official Huntsman involves him guarding young children as they travel to school; this earns him a great deal of attention from local women, who giggle and swoon in his presence; [[MrsRobinson one blushing mother]] keeps giving him home-cooked casseroles in gratitude for his help. Since he has the attention, he finds it [[CharacterDevelopment awkward and embarrassing]] rather than flattering. [[spoiler:And in Volume 9, Weiss, the girl who rejected his advances in the early volumes, ''purrs'' in [[EatingTheEyeCandy appreciation]], if not outright [[HasAType physical and emotional attraction]] at him getting more... "mature", but he's too jaded by his recent experiences to react.]]
* ItsPersonal:
** Jaune shows more enmity towards Cinder than any of the other protagonists; he was devastated when she murdered Pyrrha during the fall of Beacon and he jumps at the chance to ask Professor Lionheart what he knows about Cinder, given that Cinder claimed to be from Haven Academy. His request is made in a cold, insistent tone and, when Leo tells him that all he found were forged identities, Jaune's hands ball into tight fists. During the battle of Haven, Jaune shouts tearfully at Cinder that he'll make her pay for everything she's done. He's the first one to fight her, enraged by the way she toys with his grief and appears to enjoy hurting people.
** He also has a personal enmity with the Curious Cat in Volume 9. [[spoiler:He distrusts the Cat because Lewis disappeared after Alyx poisoned Jaune, resulting in him believing that the Cat fed Lewis to the Ever After's Tree for a DeathOfPersonality fate. When Jaune learns that it was actually Lewis who escaped and the remorseful Alyx whom the Cat murdered, he furiously attacks the Cat for what they've done.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Jaune takes a romantic interest in Weiss from the moment he first meets her, and ties himself in knots trying to convince her to date him. In the end, he takes Pyrrha's advice and goes to ask Weiss to the school dance properly. However, he instead encounters Weiss asking Neptune to the dance and leaves before they see him, crushed. When he learns that Weiss came to the dance alone because Neptune turned her down, he confronts Neptune about it and learns that Neptune is terrified of people realising he's an awful dancer. With Jaune's encouragement, Neptune does ask Weiss to be his date for the evening, although she's shocked when she learns that she has Jaune to thank for that. After that, Jaune and Weiss settle over time into a proper friendship and Jaune start to take notice of Pyrrha's feelings.
* IWorkAlone: He rejects Pyrrha's offers for training on the basis that becoming a skilled huntsman is only an accomplishment worthy of his family name if he's able to do it without anyone else's help. He later thinks better of this policy, recognizing he was only being selfish and asking for Pyrrha's training properly.
* KiManipulation: He first knowingly activates his Semblance when Weiss is fatally injured by Cinder. He pours his Aura into hers, boosting her Aura and amplifying all her abilities that are powered by Aura. It allows her to heal and then empowers her summoning ability to allow her to injure Hazel when no-one else could. The creators later clarified that his Semblance allows him to directly manipulate his Aura and thereby the Auras of others; they confirmed that, when Cardin punches him in Volume 1, Jaune unconsciously amplifies his Aura's defensive abilities thereby blocking Cardin's attack.
* KnightInShiningArmor: In "Forever Fall", he saves the life of [[JerkJock Cardin Winchester]] when an Ursa was about to kill him. Jaune shows everybody what it means to be a Huntsman: staying cool under fire, carefully positioning yourself to find the enemy's weaknesses, and defending those who can't defend themselves, even if they don't necessarily deserve it. He also fights in a knightly style with sword, shield and armor. Initially, his skills don't back up his nature, but he is a fast learner, and Pyrrha once comments that she's never met anyone with so much drive to better themselves.
* TheLeader: Mostly the charismatic type. He's seemingly able to see an opportunity to strike and move his team to do it. His leadership skills allow his team to anticipate the enemies very well. His team also trusts his judgment and follows his orders without question, showing how much loyalty they have for Jaune. Best exemplified in Volume 2's finale where his team lets him drag them out of bed and abandon their assigned mission, one that Ren and Nora were looking forward to, just because Jaune wanted to check on Team RWBY despite their reasonable counterpoints. Because of this, Team JNPR was armed and ready for sortie when the city sirens signaled the incursion of Grimm into Vale.
* LeeroyJenkins: Glynda chastises him for his lack of defense and his habit of suicidal charges when he should be falling back. His lack of training is part of the problem, but even when it sinks in that he should monitor his LifeMeter, he still charges in when he should defend.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Jaune has two leitmotifs, one of them shared with Pyrrha:
** His [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axPwHHqCa7A first leitmotif]] plays at scenes where he is under the spotlight (except when he shares it with Pyrrha, for which see below). It first plays as a LonelyPianoPiece (part of the soundtrack ''Forever Fall, Part 1'') during his heart-to-heart talk with Ruby on leadership in Volume 1, with instrument variations playing across the volumes, notably as an orchestral[=/=]choral version playing while he awakens his Semblance to save Weiss at the climax of Volume 5. [[spoiler:The LonelyPianoPiece variation returns in Volume 9, serving as a MusicalSpoiler to the reveal that he is the Rusted Knight.]]
** His [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EXDQL2MFow second leitmotif]] (shared with Pyrrha) is a mellow piano[=/=]harp melody which plays during scenes involving their relationship. Examples include: when Pyrrha formally partners up with Jaune and unlocks his Aura; when she takes him up to the Beacon rooftop (and accordingly during the same episode's ending credits in the DVD version) and when Jaune formally asks her on the same rooftop to train him; when they talk about "destiny"; and when Pyrrha kisses him and shoves him into a rocket locker before going off to her death against Cinder. Its full, vocal version [[InsertSong plays]] when Jaune comes upon Pyrrha's statue in Argus and starts to get closure for her death, and was released with the Volume 6 soundtrack as ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv7e3E6fgfY Forever Fall]]''.
* TheLoad: Because his teammates are all stronger, better trained, more confident and generally seem better suited for the Huntsmen lifestyle, Jaune begins the show as the weakest member of the team, and weighs heavily on him. He invokes the trope in an emotional outburst to Pyrrha about how he perceives himself as a burden on his team due to his weakness, and his passionate declaration to try and improve so that he's no longer an impediment. She helps him train and once comments that she's never met anyone with a greater drive to better themselves than he does. It takes him until the end of Volume 6 to fully grow out of this trope.
* LoudGulp: In Volume 1 Episode 4, when Ozpin reveals a very real possibility of dying during the Initiation, Jaune loudly swallows and then lets out a weak chuckle, making his fear quite obvious.
* LockedIntoStrangeness: After spending most of Volume 9 [[spoiler: aged up due to spending years in the Ever After from a time travel mishap, Jaune is reverted back to his proper age by a gift from Alyx's spirit...but his hair now has white streaks to serve as a reminder of how he has been changed by his experience.]]
* LoveTriangle: Pyrrha seems to like Jaune, who is oblivious to her feelings and only has eyes for Weiss. Weiss unfortunately can't stand Jaune, but has an interest in Neptune, who has an interest in her... and every single other attractive girl on the entire planet.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Jaune's weapons consist of a sword and a shield. While they seem boring compared to the multi-purpose creations other students use, the shield has proven to be extremely durable no matter what attacks it's been used to block. The reforged version can also be transformed into a larger, heavier blade, letting Jaune use it with his sword like a two-handed cleaver. In Volume 7, it's upgraded to have a forcefield around it to extend its effective area and make it work as a parachute.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: The excuse he gives for knowing how to dance well is that he has seven sisters, making him the only boy in a family of eight kids.
* MeaningfulName: His full name is deliberately similar to [[JeanneDArchetype Jeanne d'Arc]], foreshadowing his heroic, leadership qualities and that he comes from a non-combat background. Jeanne d'Arc was rough, led soldiers and rode on the front line, but personally refused to engage in any killing. Jaune had no combat training prior to Beacon. His leadership and heroic qualities go from strength to strength but his Semblance's ability to buff Auras means he's more useful to his companions as tactical support. It's lampshaded at the beginning of Volume 4 when the team is fighting a Petra Gigas; when he crashes into a rock he complains that his companions felt he would be fine in a fight even though he didn't have his sword and shield with him because they viewed him as the strategist.
* MentalHealthRecoveryArc: In the fourth volume, Jaune secretly trains himself at night, punishing himself for the harrowing events of the previous volume. During the battle at Haven, Jaune admitting he doesn't care if he dies if his friends survive makes Cinder realise he has become a DeathSeeker. By Volume 6, he come to terms with his state of mind, after an intervention from an unexpected source as well as both Ren and Nora tell him that they love him like family and don't want to lose him.
* MisplacedRetribution: After being bullied by Cardin for several days and then being blackmailed, he lashes out at Pyrrha when she offers him a helping hand. Fortunately, he very quickly realizes his error after Cardin pushes him too far, and learns first hand why messing with Jaune [[BewareTheNiceOnes is a very bad idea]].
* NervesOfSteel: Although visibly nervous during his first Grimm fights, and recklessly losing his temper against Cinder in Volume 5, Jaune grows beyond his inexperience and trauma to become a steady, fearless fighter. When his group enters Salem's lair to rescue Oscar, Ren notices Jaune is completely fearless. Later, he keeps his team on mission while Ruby's team fights Cinder. When he joins the battle, it's after Ruby, Blake and Yang have seemingly died; he remains calm against Cinder, and after he's forced to MercyKill Penny and has watched Weiss apparently die, he still holds it together and encourages Winter to escape to safety instead of recklessly charging Cinder like he once did.
* NonActionGuy: DiscussedTrope. Jaune was never taught how to fight and started Beacon Academy not even knowing what an Aura is. He joins Beacon because he comes from a warrior lineage; his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were all warriors, and his great-grandfather was a famous war hero. He's fed up of going through life with no expectations, with parents who don't believe in him, and feeling like he's the butt of every joke. His determination to better himself and his natural instincts enable him to develop his combat abilities at a very fast speed so that by Volume 6, two years after he first joined Beacon Academy, he has caught up with his team-mates and can carry himself in battle. He has a strong tactical mind, natural leadership abilities, and can take a heavy beating and still keep going. His Aura is unusually powerful, and his Semblance allows him to use it to [[SuperEmpowering buff the Auras of other people]] so that they can achieve more powerful effects than they can normally achieve alone.
* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: After Jaune rescues Cardin from an Ursa, he makes it clear to his former bully he won't stand for any more of Cardin's behavior.
* NotSoWeak: He's goofy, clumsy, and a frequent target of Cardin's bullying. But when the life of his friends is in danger he'll protect them with everything he has. Lampshaded when says he doesn't care what Cardin does to him. He's also strong and a pretty good fighter, just not in the same league as the others in Beacon, so it's easy to miss.
* ObliviousToLove: He had no idea that Pyrrha was into him due to having his eyes stubbornly set on Weiss. It isn't until Pyrrha outright tells him why she likes him that he realizes her affections for him were romantic all along.
* OlderThanHeLooks: For all intents and purposes, Jaune seems like another teenage member of the cast, the same age Ren, Nora, Weiss, Blake and Yang. However, he's actually not quite the age he appears to be. [[spoiler:Shortly after Jaune falls into the Ever After, the local time tree throws him back in time. He is forced to live in that world for decades until Team RWBY, who fell before him, arrive. Thus, he becomes a grizzled, jaded veteran who has been suffering alone for far too long. Upon eventually returning to Remnant, Jaune has returned to the age he was when he first fell, but his life, experiences and memories are not erased. The only physical sign he has to hint of these extra decades of life is in his hair, which permanently retains the white streaks he'd gained from age.]]
* ProperlyParanoid: After spending years alone in the Ever After with his trauma from Atlas and experiencing new betrayals while waiting for Team RWBY's arrival, he starts going through SanitySlippage and becomes increasingly mistrustful for Afterans. This causes problems for Team RWBY, and the Afterans themselves, as he won't listen to them due to him believing they're too clever, too stupid or too manipulative. Once Team RWBY realise Jaune's instability, they begin questioning his sanity and reliability of his word. [[spoiler:Jaune however is right about his distrust of the Curious Cat, whose true motive for helping Team RWBY go to the tree is revealed to be deliberately breaking down Ruby's state of mind with the intention of possessing her and escaping the Ever After.]]
* PunyParachute: Jaune receives Dust upgrades to his shield that allow him to create HardLight extensions to his shield. The extensions make his shield more useful for deflecting attacks but aren't very large in terms of parachuting. However, his landing strategy involves him extending the hard light wings and using his shield as a glider to control his descent. His shield then uses gravity Dust to give him a recoil bounce off the ground, allowing him to land safely on his feet.
* RainbowMotif: Jaune Arc's surname comes from arc-en-ciel, the French for "rainbow". His family's hand-me-down shield sports a stylized rainbow motif, and his combat outfit collects the colours of the rainbow as the show progresses. Jaune has seven sisters and a family photograph in Volume 6 reveals which rainbow colour each sibling represents, with indigo represented by twins. Jaune, as per the French origin of his name, represents yellow. The sister he stayed with at Argus in Volume 6 is named Saphron (after the spice saffron) and she represents orange.
* RecognitionFailure: He had neither heard of Sanctum Academy nor of Pyrrha's career as an athlete. He only recognized her from her appearance on a cereal box. Pyrrha eventually reveals she was thrilled to meet someone who didn't know her reputation and therefore got to know her as a person instead of a celebrity.
* ReforgedBlade: His weapon, Crocea Mors, is a hand-me-down from a famous ancestor of his and is very chipped and worn. In Volume 4, Jaune gives his weapons to a village blacksmith who restores the cutting edge of the sword and modifies it with metal from Pyrrha's equipment, giving both the sword and shield a new appearance that heavily references Pyrrha; the shield gains gold bands in the shape of her tiara.
* RejectionAffection: He attempts to court Weiss in a number of different ways, ranging from offering her a team slot and attempting to heroically rescue her when she's falling, to asking her out while playing the guitar. She doesn't hide her impatience and disapproval, and never hesitates to reject him. He even asks Ren for advice and takes advice from Pyrrha before he finally realizes that Weiss wants to go to the dance with Neptune. When he sees how dejected Weiss is after Neptune rejected her offer, he gives up his pursuit of her and gives Neptune the advice that enables Neptune to hook up with Weiss for the dance.
* RequiredSecondaryPowers: When Pyrrha first unlocks Jaune's Aura she comments that he has a lot of it, which makes a lot of sense once his Semblance is finally revealed. It's revealed in "Downfall" that Jaune's Semblance allows him [[SuperEmpowering to enhance the natural abilities of his allies]] by transferring his own aura into theirs thus increasing the innate power of their HealingFactor and making their own Semblance stronger, which in itself would require a large pool of Aura to not leave him defenseless every time he transferred his Aura.
* RetractableWeapon: Jaune's shield collapses down into the sheath for his sword when he doesn't need it. It still weighs the same, though, as pointed out by Ruby. Jaune takes advantage of this in Volume 4, giving the shield a deployable sharpened edge, letting him wield the sheathed sword in something akin to a short, heavy two-handed blade.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: [[spoiler:Jaune's distrust of the Curious Cat comes from their role in the Ascending process the Afterans undergo, which he views as death due to the LossOfIdentity and DeathOfPersonality. This makes him belief that the Cat plans to feed him and team RWBY to the tree in order to nourish it just like how they supposedly did with Lewis. While the Cat turns out to be EvilAllAlong, they actually never intended to feed them through the tree especially since that goes against their real plan, which is to mentally break Ruby into a new vessel for themselves to possess and escape the Ever After.]]
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: Although Jaune shows instinctive leadership qualities, his combat prowess is nonexistent. It results in him being the only student unable to handle the landing strategy in their very first lesson and he's also far behind the other students in combat training. He never went through the combat schools that develop students for entry into Beacon and lied his way into the school.
* SarcasmBlind: Overheard Weiss sarcastically referencing him with regards to stereotypical girl behavior of discussing attractive boys. He has since taken it straight and hit on her multiple times.
* ScreamingWarrior: He screams a lot during his second fight with an Ursa, after they've invaded the city. Despite hollering his lungs out, he keeps on fighting with everything he's got.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Screams when he and Pyrrha are attacked by the Death Stalker in Episode 7. In the distance, Yang and Blake think a girl is screaming.
* {{Squee}}: Absolutely impressed by the awesomeness that is the Ace Ops' tactical work. He goes full fanboy when Clover explains what makes them so efficient.
* TheStrategist: Zig-zagged. [[StrategyVersusTactics He's less a Strategist than a Tactician]] given that he reacts well to tactical imperatives. He's quick to come up with strategies to exploit enemy weaknesses and makes great use of the strengths of his team all while in the middle of a fight. He's also demonstrated talent for planning before-hand as shown by his heist to steal an Atlas airship which was carried out nearly flawlessly, only failing due to an unpredictable third party.
* StarCrossedLovers: Jaune and Pyrrha. They're very close. Even when Jaune's blunders put some strain into their relationship sometimes, they're inseparable and Pyrrha is quite obviously in love with him. By the time he finally understood her feelings and [[LastKiss they have their first kiss]], it was also the last time he saw Pyrrha alive...
* StrongerThanTheyLook: Jaune's lack of combat background can easily paint him as physically unfit in comparison to his peers. However, even before receiving proper training, he already showed impressive feats of strength, such as beheading an Ursa Major with a perfectly clean cut. He can also withstand strikes of enormous Grimm such as the Nuckelavee, which can easily charge through buildings but couldn't get pass Jaune's defensive stance. His shield has been stated to be heavy, but he can combine it with his sword to create a very heavy, two-edged weapon that he can still swing about with ease. And he is ''always'' wearing his armor which is noted to weight plenty but it doesn't slow him down one bit.
* StrongGirlSmartGuy: With Pyrrha. Some of his ideas in battle were possible because Pyrrha is skilled enough to pull them off.
* StuffedIntoALocker:
** As part of Cardin's ongoing bullying campaign, Jaune was thrown into a rocket-propelled locker which was programmed to take off and fly elsewhere with him inside it.
** It happens to him again during ''End of the Beginning'', where Pyrrha launches him away with one of the rocket lockers so he doesn't follow her to fight Cinder.
* SuperEmpowering: His Semblance is revealed to be a form of this. Jaune describes his ability as giving his own Aura to another in order to enhance their abilities. His first willing use on Weiss allows her recover from an otherwise-fatal stab wound and summon a construct of the Lancer Queen strong enough to pierce Hazel's flesh and allow her to drag him back into the room everyone else is fighting in.
* SupportPartyMember: While Jaune is more than capable of carrying his weight in a fight, his strength lies in [[BarrierWarrior shield protection]], strategy and making effective use of the abilities of others. His Semblance emphasises this role by amplifying Aura. He can boost the Semblances of others, such as enabling Ren to mask the emotions of an entire train full of people, and so effectively enhance a person's Aura ability to heal wounds that he is able to save Weiss from an otherwise fatal injury.
* SurvivorsGuilt: Jaune struggles a lot with Pyrrha's death. He adds the metal from her tiara into his shield and starts wearing a red sash in honour of the red sash she used to wear. He becomes angry and cynical about the motives of both Qrow and Ozpin upon learning about the Maidens and realising that they were trying to turn Pyrrha into one. While he's clearly very angry with Cinder, when he finally faces her at Haven he loses control and fights her recklessly; when he reveals that he doesn't mind dying if it buys his friends time, Cinder accuses him of being a loser with a death wish. After learning what Ozpin's been hiding about Salem, Jaune attacks Oscar as being nothing more than a vessel for Ozpin's lies, resulting in Oscar running away. While Team JNPR scour Argus looking for him, they discover the city has erected a memorial in Pyrrha's honour. In front of her statue, Ren and Nora confront him about his behaviour since her death and reveal they heard what he said to Cinder; the team is their family and they're terrified of losing Jaune, too. An encounter with a mysterious woman who is implied to be a relative of Pyrrha's helps Jaune come to terms with why Pyrrha died, enabling him to move forward from both her death and the truth about Ozpin. [[spoiler:[[CosmicPlaything Unfortunately]] having to MercyKill Penny means that he gets hit with this hard ''again''; see TheseHandsHaveKilled below.]]
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: [[spoiler:His inability to heal in time and subsequent MercyKill of Penny at her own request at the end of Volume 8 has stuck with him all throughout his extended stay in the Ever After; her showing up as one of his reflections during the punderstorm indicates that the trauma from this remains open and unhealed. He sorrowfully admits as much during his breakdown in "The Perils of Paper Houses", saying that he will have to live with the guilt of killing Penny until he dies.]]
* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself:
** He believes that not only does he need to improve, but that the only way he's "earned" his improvement is if he handles his training by himself, which leads him to reject Pyrrha's offer of personal training.
--->'''Jaune:''' I'm tired of being the lovable idiot, stuck in the tree while his friends fight for their lives! Don't you understand? If I can't do this on my own... then what good am I?
** Invoked by Pyrrha when Jaune is fighting the giant Ursa to save Cardin. She does cheat a little by secretly boosting his shield with her polarity Semblance, thus giving him the confidence to ask for Pyrrha's help. And she does it again during his second fight against an Ursa but this time she doesn't help him at all.
* TookALevelInBadass: A constant example. Jaune is initially presented as a civilian with no combat experience who can barely hold his own in a fight but becomes stronger and more resourceful with every Volume. Eventually, he becomes a valuable asset for the team in his own right thanks to his useful set of abilities and is more than capable of striking down difficult enemies on his own. [[spoiler:He takes a few extra levels in Volume 9 due to being forced to take TheSlowPath.]]
* TragicKeepsake: He wears a red sash at his waist that is knotted on his right side. It's reminiscent of the red sash Pyrrha used to wear, although it isn't as long. His white weapons and armour also incorporate Pyrrha's metal equipment, giving them gold accents and the shape of her tiara on his shield. His scroll also contains a combat training video by her that includes an aborted attempt to confess her feelings, which he watches in his spare time to improve his swordsmanship and hear her voice again. [[spoiler:Him having spent so much time in the Ever After as the Rusted Knight has worn the sash out to the point that Jaune uses what is left of it to tie his hair up into a ponytail. It returns to its original condition when Jaune became young again.]]
* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Weiss's near death at the hands of Cinder ends up awakening Jaune's HealingHands powers as he begs her to stay with him, holding his hands over her wound when his Semblance kicks in.
* UnskilledButStrong: He has a lot of Aura, an instinctual grasp of combat tactics, and is strong enough to be close to the level of the others when he actually blocks or hits. However, he doesn't have a basic grasp of sword and shield style, jumping around and throwing his whole weight behind most of his blows without the trained reflexes or proper technique to react to an enemy's counter. During his second fight with an Ursa, his wild strikes compare to the techniques of his peers but he still kills it without help. He survives the tournament fight against Team BRNZ, although he doesn't land a hit on his opponents, and in Volume 4, he stops dead the lethal charge of the Nuckelavee with brute strength alone. In Volume 5, Ozpin acknowledges that Jaune's skills are improving, but he's had to put a lot of extra work in to develop combat skills because he started off so far behind all the other students and is therefore developing via trial by fire. He also manages to hold his own when fighting Cinder, though admittedly she wasn't taking him seriously for most of it.
* WasTooHardOnHim: After the fall of Beacon, Jaune grows increasingly irritable and cynical towards Ozpin, expressing frustration with Qrow and suspicion that he was using Ruby as bait to draw out Salem's forces, and making occasional sarcastic comments about Ozpin's habit of toying with their understanding of the situation they're in. While journeying to Atlas, his temper finally snaps when he learns the truth about what Ozpin has been hiding. He argues Oscar cannot be trusted because Ozpin might be able to secretly control him without their knowledge and accusing Oscar of helping Ozpin to hide information from them. His companions are horrified, especially as they only learned Ozpin's secret through Oscar's efforts to fight Ozpin for control over his own body. Later, a remorseful Jaune apologizes to Oscar for his behaviour.
* TheWatson: His lack of knowledge about the combat-related side of his world allows for things to be explained to both him and the audience, such as the concept of Aura or how huntsmen and huntresses fight.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: When Cardin is ambushed by an Ursa, Jaune has the perfect opportunity to just leave him to die without anybody knowing (at least he thinks nobody's around). He saves him anyway.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Jokes to Pyrrha that he'll wear a dress if she can't get a date to the dance. He keeps the promise, even doing a dance with his team while wearing it.
* WorthyOpponent: Cardin can easily wipe the floor with Jaune and bullies him to no end. Until a trip to Forever Fall where Jaune decapitates an absolutely massive [[BearsAreBadNews Ursa]] that almost easily kills Cardin. He stops messing with Jaune for good.
-->'''Cardin:''' Holy ''crap''. ''Jaune?''
* WreckedWeapon: In "[[Recap/RWBYV8E14TheFinalWord The Final Word]]", Jaune and Cinder duel over the fate of the Winter Maiden, leading to Jaune's sword being destroyed as a symbol for how he's been forced to break his ideals and his heart in the process. Cinder fatally wounding Penny causes her to ask Jaune to finish the deed so that she can choose a successor for the power and prevent it from going by default to Cinder. The sword breaks at the point where it is stained with Penny's blood.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Before meeting Pyrrha, Jaune didn't know a single person who believed he could be successful and he finally found the confidence to become a capable huntsman and a better person thanks to her encouragement and support. He even comments that his parents didn't have faith in him and expected him to wash out of Beacon quickly and come back home.
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!!Nora Valkyrie
!!!'''Voiced by:''' Samantha Ireland, Creator/KristenMcGuire (flashback, Volume 4)[[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Creator/AyaSuzaki (Japanese)[[/labelnote]]
!!!'''Debut:''' The First Step[[labelnote:*]]Volume 1 Episode 4[[/labelnote]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I'm queen of the castle!"'']]
[[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:''Click here for her appearance during the Anima Arc'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nora_mistral.png ''"This is perfect! We were stuck at a dead end, but now, we can just take little cute boy Ozpin to Lionheart and have him set things straight!"''[[/labelnote]]]]
[[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:''Click here for her appearance during the Solitas Arc'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/atlas_nora.jpg ''"The longer this waiting game goes on, the harder each day gets for people down there and now you wanna send in more soldiers? You can’t just force people to fall in line."''[[/labelnote]]]]
->''"After everything we've been through. I won't let it end. Not like this. We can do this!"''
Nora joined Beacon Academy with her childhood friend, Ren, who is also her team partner. She is an excitable, energetic girl with great strength and a big heart.
Her weapon is Magnhild, a multi-shot GrenadeLauncher capable of converting into a large war hammer. Her Semblance, "High Voltage", lets her absorb electricity to enhance her body, making her stronger and faster for a brief time.
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* TheStoic: Subverted. In his introduction he looks like he'll be the stoic foil to Nora's energy. As the episodes progress it becomes clear that he's fairly open about his emotions, making it easy to see when he's frustrated, fed up or in a snarky mood. He merely doesn't raise his voice very much, although Nora's antics can make him shout. Flashbacks reveal that he was a very emotional child; on the day his home was destroyed, his Semblance saved his life, but the activation and use of his Semblance appears to be linked to a very calm emotional state.
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* TheStoic: Subverted. In his introduction introduction, he looks like he'll be the stoic foil to Nora's energy. As the episodes progress it becomes clear that he's fairly open about his emotions, making it easy to see when he's frustrated, fed up or in a snarky mood. He merely doesn't raise his voice very much, although Nora's antics can make him shout. Flashbacks reveal that he was a very emotional child; on the day his home was destroyed, his Semblance saved his life, but the activation and use of his Semblance appears to be linked to a very calm emotional state.state.
* TheWorfEffect: The first time that Ren fights, he is seen soloing a King Taijitu using his dual pistols, showcasing a total of three advanced applications of Aura Manipulation: sensing its presence, forming an aura shield, then tearing its fangs off, and blasting its head off using a shockwave, something which the members of Team RWBY and JNPR aren't seen capable of. However, since then, Ren has shown no other moments like that as the show continues and often finds himself on the losing end, whereas his friends and team are often shown fighting against the heavier hitters.
* TheWorfEffect: The first time that Ren fights, he is seen soloing a King Taijitu using his dual pistols, showcasing a total of three advanced applications of Aura Manipulation: sensing its presence, forming an aura shield, then tearing its fangs off, and blasting its head off using a shockwave, something which the members of Team RWBY and JNPR aren't seen capable of. However, since then, Ren has shown no other moments like that as the show continues and often finds himself on the losing end, whereas his friends and team are often shown fighting against the heavier hitters.
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* CarryABigStick: Magnhild is a large hammer/grenade launcher that she can also use to launch people across large gaps. When the village Ren and Nora lived in was razed to the ground by Grimm, Ren gave her a wooden toy hammer to comfort her, which led to her choice of Magnhild when she became a Huntress.
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* LargeHam: She's enthusiastic and clearly full of herself ("''[[https://youtu.be/i1545Y_B3Vk?t=25 I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!]]"''). Even when Nora has a breakdown, as in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuLBRigqX5A the moment]] listed below in MadeMyselfSad, she does so in an over the top and melodramatic way. Nora's fighting is also hammy, as she's always giggling and jumping, and usually [[DropTheHammer hammering]] only when the strike can be done in a flashy way.
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* LargeHam: She's enthusiastic and clearly full of herself ("''[[https://youtu.be/i1545Y_B3Vk?t=25 I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!]]"''). Even when Nora has a breakdown, as in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuLBRigqX5A the moment]] listed below in MadeMyselfSad, she does so in an over the top and melodramatic way. Nora's fighting is also hammy, as she's always giggling and jumping, and usually [[DropTheHammer hammering]] hammering only when the strike can be done in a flashy way.
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* SubtleSuperpowering: In combat against people who don't know her actual abilities, Pyrrha only uses her Magnetism Manipulation subtly to adjust their weapons' positioning. This is noticed by Mercury when he fights her.
