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* CatchPhrase: She's always ready with an exasperated "Bertilak" whenever her partner makes an ass of himself.

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''Antagonists:'' [[Characters/RWBYSalemsFaction Salem's Faction]] ([[Characters/RWBYSalem Salem]] | [[Characters/RWBYCinderFall Cinder Fall]]) | [[Characters/RWBYWhiteFang White Fang]] ([[Characters/RWBYAdamTaurus Adam Taurus]]) | [[Characters/RWBYCreaturesOfGrimm Creatures of Grimm]]\\
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* ElementalWeapon: Dew wields a spear that she uses to channel [[BlowYouAway tornados]] at her targets. Interestingly enough, it can also empower anything she hits with Dust as well, such as [[CatchAndReturn surrounding Sun's dual coconut attack with fire Dust as she hits them back at him]], [[GroinAttack the force of which]] was enough to completely knock his teammate Scarlet out of the fight.

* ShockAndAwe: Nolan uses a collapsible cattle prod. It doesn't do him any good against Nora who has the power to absorb electricity.

* BladeOnAStick: Dew wields a spear that she uses to channel [[BlowYouAway tornados]] at her targets. Interestingly enough, it can also empower anything she hits with Dust as well, such as [[CatchAndReturn surrounding Sun's dual coconut attack with fire Dust as she hits them back at him]], [[GroinAttack the force of which]] was enough to completely knock his teammate Scarlet out of the fight.

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'''Kingdoms:''' [[Characters/RWBYEasternSanus Sanus (Eastern)]] | '''Sanus (Western)''' | [[Characters/RWBYAnima Anima]] | [[Characters/RWBYSolitas Solitas]] ([[Characters/RWBYJamesIronwood James Ironwood]])\\
'''Antagonists:''' [[Characters/RWBYSalemsFaction Salem's Faction]] ([[Characters/RWBYSalem Salem]] | [[Characters/RWBYCinderFall Cinder Fall]]) | [[Characters/RWBYWhiteFang White Fang]] ([[Characters/RWBYAdamTaurus Adam Taurus]]) | [[Characters/RWBYCreaturesOfGrimm Creatures of Grimm]]\\
'''World Building:''' [[Characters/RWBYWorldOfRemnant World of Remnant]] | [[Characters/RWBYTheEverAfter The Ever After]]-]]]]]

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* TheStoic: Maintains a stoic facade when recounting the death of a third of her clan. Velvet notes this is a common characteristic of Vacuans

* AllMythsAreTrue: [[BigGood Professor Ozpin]]'s argument that all stories have a grain of truth to be found inspired Finn to believe in his family's old story. In turn, he raised his children to believe in their royal lineage.

* EveryoneHasStandards: She may be abrasive around non-Vacuo students, but even she thinks Nebula beating on Velvet is too far and reprimands her for it, especially since they're teammates now.

* WhipItGood: Her weapon of choice is a whip, though she's also skilled in unarmed combat.

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* KungFuSonicBoom: Whenever Theodore hits something with his Gravity Dust-infused gloves, it creates a thunderous noise and is capable of hurling targets through the air or leaving massive cracks around him. At the end of ''Before the Dawn'', he uses this to launch Yatsuhashi through the air so that he can get close to Jax, although Yatsuhashi is extremely alarmed to be on the receiving end of such a punch.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: It's rare for Vacuans to rely on leaders in their harsh environment, but Slate is a strong, protective woman who cares deeply for the people she's looking after. She's generous with praise and, if she orders people to perform tasks for her, she will make sure they're compensated; when she orders two children to ration out the meat they've collected from a group of dead mole crabs, she offers them an extra share for their trouble. Cocoa concludes that people rally to her because she's organised, protective and caring to a degree not common in Vacuo's harsh climate; as a result, she's become the undisputed leader of refugees from four completely different villages, some of which had originally had their own leaders.

* KungFuSonicBoom: Whenever Theodore hits something, it creates a thunderous noise and is capable of hurling targets through the air or leaving massive cracks around him. At the end of ''After the Fall'', he uses this to launch Yatsuhashi through the air so that he can get close to Jax, although Yatsuhashi is extremely alarmed to be on the receiving end of such a punch.

!!All spoilers for Volumes 1-8 are unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.

* KungFuSonicBoom: Whenever Theodore hits something, it creates a thunderous noise and is capable of hurling targets through the air or leaving massive cracks around him. [[spoiler:At the end of ''After the Fall'', he uses this to launch Yatsuhashi through the air so that he can get close to Jax, although Yatsuhashi is extremely alarmed to be on the receiving end of such a punch.]]

* BatmanGambit: She implements the team reshuffling plan because she needs the students to behave in a specific way and feels this will achieve that aim. After summoning them early in the morning while they're tired and hungry, she informs the upset students that the arrival of the newcomers has created too much division between Shade and non-Shade teams. As a result, she'll be mixing everyone up to break down those divisions. The announcement makes the students resentful of each other and the teachers and this is when the reinitiation is triggered, sending the angry students out into the desert alone to compete with each other. Upon their return, the new teams are assigned. [[spoiler:She's actually brainwashed when she comes up with this plan. The true purpose is to keep the students off-balance, mistrustful and divided so that the Crown can attack the school while it's weak and in utter disarray. To achieve this, she even forces students to fight their own teammates after the new teams are formed, sabotaging their ability to bond as new teams. It completely destroys Shade's morale and discipline in preparation for the Crown's attack. She's snapped out of it by Yatsuhashi's Semblance and the original teams are reassembled just barely in time for the attack.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: At one point, she becomes vulnerable to a brainwashing technique that reorders her opinion on who friends and enemies are. [[spoiler:While investigating the Crown, she was ambushed by Carmine Esclados and brainwashed by Carmine's employers. Her instructions were to impede Shade Academy as long as possible, causing her to instigate a team swap program and encourage students to keep fighting even after their Auras have broken. Yatsuhashi manages to free her with his Semblance while fighting her.]]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Grace Bono [EN], Kate Warner [Additional lines, EN]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Kim Newman [EN], Chisato Mori [JP]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Mylissa Zelechowski [EN], Konomi Fujimura [JP]

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Claire Hogan [EN]

* TheMole: When Velvet and Sun go undercover to investigate the Crown at a fight club, they discover that one of the cage fighters representing the Crown is Shade student Umber. As the fight club is being used to identify fighters with powerful Semblances, Velvet and Sun make it their mission to rescue Umber from the Crown's service. [[spoiler:They discover that she's NotBrainwashed when Yatsuhashi uses his Semblance to free her of the Crown's mind control power; she's serving them of her own free will and therefore really has been a genuine mole for the Crown inside Shade.]]

* EmotionBomb: His Semblance amplifies the emotions of everyone in a nearby area. [[spoiler:The truth is that Gus is amplifying emotions while Edward tries to block them; Edward told Gus to lie because he was afraid the villagers would kill Gus if they found out.]]

* PowerIncontinence: His inability to control his Semblance is what has been causing all of the Grimm attacks. [[spoiler:More accurately, it's preventing him from being able to block Gus's Semblance, which is the true cause of the attacks.]]

* PowerIncontinence: His inability to control his Semblance has kept him from being able to block his grandfather's Semblance. [[spoiler:In reality, it's his Semblance that's causing the Grimm attacks and has led to four villages becoming displaced refugees. He's absolutely terrified of hurting people, as a result.]]
* PowerNullifier: His Semblance allows him to nullify the semblances of others. [[spoiler:Except he was lying. He's the one who can create an EmotionBomb, and his grandfather is the one who can block Semblances.]]
* SuperpowerLottery: Team CFVY remarked that Gus's Semblance could be very powerful in any fight if he had some Huntsman training and learned how to apply his Semblance in a good way. [[spoiler:The mysterious villain who is after powerful Semblances wants Gus's Semblance for unknown reasons.]]

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: One of their leaders possesses a MindControl Semblance, and with the aid of his sister's Aura-siphoning Semblance, uses it to subjugate people with powerful Semblances into their obedient slaves, the "Crownsmen". Crownsmen are denoted by a silver band they wear on their arms. The only means known to free people from their brainwashing is with another mind-manipulating Semblance, or by FightingFromTheInside. [[spoiler:Rumpole is revealed to be a MoleInCharge via this method, having been ambushed by Carmine and ordered to keep Shade from interfering. Sun and Velvet are captured and also enslaved, but freed thanks to Yatsuhashi and his Semblance. He too would have been captured and enslaved, but broke free under his own power.]]

* ArcVillain: While he technically forms one half of "the Crown" with Gillian, he's by far the most driven and dangerous of the two. While she's primarily motivated by love and loyalty, willing to sacrifice her training and career for him, he is cruel, ambitious, and utterly determined to not let anything stand between him and his goal -- even if he has to turn on her to achieve it. [[spoiler:When their plans start falling apart and they're losing the battle to defeat Shade Academy, Gillian eventually turns on Jax because he'd rather they die fighting than surrender. That's a step too far even for her, so she uses her Semblance to weaken him just enough for the heroes to defeat him.]]

* DramaticIrony: The Crown has been kidnapping people with powerful Semblances for their own purpose. One Semblance in particular interests Jax, but his speculation about what it can do eventually comes back to bite him in the ass. [[spoiler:Before he brainwashes Yatsuhashi, he marvels over his Semblance, postulating that if Yatsu tried hard enough, he could wipe someone's mind entirely. That exact thing happens towards the end of the book when the two are fighting and Gillian boosts Yatsuhashi with the Aura she had accumulated, taken back from him after he had forced her to give him it, effectively lobotomizing Jax.]]

* FateWorseThanDeath: Jax is willing to fight to the death for what he wants. And, if he can't get it, he's willing to go out in a blaze of glory. However, his own actions ensure his fate is not one he would ever have wanted. [[spoiler:When fighting to take over Shade, he pushes Yatsu so far that Yatsu is forced to use his Semblance. Unfortunately, Yatsu doesn't have full control and uses more power than he intended. Jax's mind is fully wiped, leaving him in a vegetative coma. Yatsu is horrified.]]

* HiddenDisdainReveal: Jax looks down on everyone, but there are one or two people he cares about... at least until he reveals otherwise. [[spoiler:His last words to Gillian, after he had forced her to transfer all of her accumulated Aura to him and leaving her to die on the battlefield, is to say that he is only doing what she would do, and already had done before they were born, making it clear that he blames her for his fragility due to her Aura-draining Semblance, despite that she had no control over it.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Jax doesn't have a particularly good reputation. The teachers don't remember him fondly, feeling that he was holding Gill back because he got her to focus on him so much, damaging her development as a Huntress as a result. [[spoiler:While Gillian is motivated by her love for her brother, he only relies on her because he has to, and would much rather rule on his own. This is exemplified in how he is willing to take Gill down with him in a last-ditch attack when their plans have failed, regardless of how she feels about it or her own desire to survive. He also uses his Semblance to make her give him all of her accumulated Aura, which would leave her extremely vulnerable, and it's noted that he had done this once before when they were younger, in an attempt to make her give him all of her Aura so he would no longer have to rely on her, even though it would more than likely kill her. The only reason it didn't work is that her Semblance needs Aura to run, meaning she can't transfer everything she has.]]

* PoweredByAForsakenChild: Jax's ambitions to revive sit on the throne of Vacuo rest heavily on his sister's ability to transfer Aura from one location to another. By supercharging people with powerful Semblances and boosting Jax's own Aura so that he can brainwash his followers, Jax obtains an extremely powerful army that is completely loyal to him. [[spoiler:However, the transferred Aura has to come from somewhere, requiring them to kidnap people they call 'Aura vessels' to use as 'batteries'; she drains the Aura from these people to supercharge themselves and their followers. They are also willing to use anyone they feel has [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived their use to them]].]]

* VillainousBreakdown: Jax does ''not'' take defeat well. [[spoiler: Realizing the battle is lost, Jax tells Gillian they will die together and take Shade Academy with them. When his sister refuses to go along with his suicidal plan, Jax uses his Semblance on her and orders her to give him ''all'' her Aura]].

* AffectionateNickname: While a student at Shade Academy, Gillian had the nickname "Queenie". [[spoiler:The nickname was given to her by Carmine.]]

* LoveMartyr: Gillian admits to having done everything out of love for her brother. [[spoiler:She gave up her own goal of being a Huntress, and cooperated with his scheme to take over the kingdom solely because of their familial bond. Even helping to defeat him was done out of love, as Gillian didn't want him to die even if the alternative has left him in a vegetative state. Needless to say, Jax doesn't return the sentiment, and would absolutely have killed her years ago if he wasn't forced to rely on her to survive]].

* SuperEmpowering: Her Semblance allows her to transfer Aura, boosting the abilities of others for a limited time. She has to keep feeding the Aura boost to people for them to continue to benefit from it. [[spoiler:However, she can only do this by taking the Aura from somewhere else, which means she drains victims first to boost the power of others. She once tried it on a Grimm to see what would happen. The Grimm remained unchanged but she had to break the connection on discovering it was starting to drain her Aura faster and faster the longer she maintained the connection.]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: As a Huntress, she is helping the Caspians, even when Bertilak is making an ass of himself. However, she is capable of being unkind. [[spoiler:Her role is a masquerade; she's actually a human trafficker working for an unrevealed boss who is collecting people with powerful Semblances.]]

* UndyingLoyalty: Carmine can be extremely unkind, but once she gives her loyalty to someone, she stays loyal. [[spoiler: Carmine's reason for working for the Crown has nothing to do with money or power. Carmine and Gillian were friends at Shade Academy, and that friendship has made her a loyal follower of the Crown. When Velvet triggers an explosion during their fight in the underground mines, Carmine uses her Semblance to ensure Gillian is able to escape.]]

* AntiVillain: Bertilak is an openly racist and rude person, but he's not actively malicious. Rather, any form of villainy from him comes from the facts he's OnlyInItForTheMoney. [[spoiler:This is ultimately what separates him from Carmine, as while she is a genuinely awful person and has no standards whatsoever, Bertilak actually has standards and can change despite being seemingly just as bad.]]

* HazyFeelTurn: Sun and Velvet's attempt to rescue the prisoners from the bunker runs into a few snags. However, Bertilak knows the way out so helps them escape. [[spoiler:After being betrayed by The Crown, and more specifically Carmine, he calls a temporary truce with Sun and Velvet before vowing to hunt down Carmine himself. Despite this and showing some respect to them, he shows no remorse for his actions and appears to largely be driven by a personal vendetta.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Bertilak is first introduced barging past Team CFVY's waitress and insulting her Faunus heritage. He is generally unpleasant, selfish, and bigoted towards everyone. Even his partner Carmine can't seem to stand him. [[spoiler:This starts to lessen after he is betrayed and made into an Aura vessel, as he comes to develop a respect for Velvet and Sun, while acknowledging just how vile Carmine truly is and deciding to hunt her down.]]
* KarmaHoudini: By the end of ''Literature/RWBYBeforeTheDawn'', Bertilak has never been arrested for the crimes he committed in ''Literature/RWBYAfterTheFall'' and has disappeared somewhere into the desert. [[spoiler:Bertilak is discovered to have been one of the Aura-drained victims of Gill's attempts to super-charge the Crown's army. He helps Sun navigate the tunnels of the secret base so that he can locate Velvet's team, who brought the tunnels collapsing down on themselves while fighting Carmine. Sun forces himself to stop thinking of Bertilak as an enemy for now because they have bigger issues to worry about that trying to deal with him. As a result, Bertilak is free to leave while the heroes concentrate on saving Shade.]]
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Although Bertilak has no problem treating people badly, he doesn't tolerate being treated badly in return and will turn on anyone who tries. [[spoiler:After being betrayed by Carmine and turned into an Aura vessal to fuel Jax's semblance, Bertilak develops a seething hatred for both. So when Sun and Velvet free the Aura vessels, Bertilak helps them escape the self-destructing bunker before running off to hunt down Carmine.]]

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: He's a Huntsman who's helping protect Slate's village, but he also slings slurs at the Faunus waitress Topaz. [[spoiler:However, he's [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain not even a hero at all.]]]]

* TheSlacker: When he's first introduced, Carmine states that he barely graduated from Shade Academy. He just claims that the headmaster, Theodore, had it in for him, but Carmine argues that he wouldn't follow the rules. He doesn't care who knows and didn't really care about graduating. [[spoiler:Specifically, he tells Fox that it was because he was disillusioned with the institution of Huntsmen as a whole.]]
* SmugSnake: He's very confident in his ability to get away with his acts of jerkassery because he's a Huntsman, and the villagers need him. [[spoiler:His arrogance allows Fox to defeat him, taking advantage of how Bertilak toys with him rather than finishing him off.]]

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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Theodore is the central figure in the kingdom of Vacuo, and considered the strongest Headmaster. In the harsh desert kingdom, Theodore trains his students to be able to survive anything and even welcomes challenges from them. He's gone so far as to offer his position to anyone that can defeat him, though it isn't clear how ''serious'' this offer actually is.

* BigBadWannabe: Jax and the rest of the Crown seek to take over the kingdom of Vacuo and restore the monarchy, then [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer the other kingdoms of Remnant]]. While they prove to be a threat towards the students of Shade academy they pale in comparison towards [[BigBad Salem]] who seeks to turn humanity against each other and [[OmnicidalManiac destroy the world]], with her group consisting of [[LadyOfBlackMagic Cinder]], [[SerialKiller Tyrian]], [[EvilGenius Dr. Watts]], and [[TheJuggernaut Hazel]].

* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: The Crown is an extreme result of Vacuo's resentment towards the other Kingdoms, viewing outsiders and their influences as something that needs to be driven out. Their leaders promise to return to the kingdom to the "old ways", restoring the old monarchy and eventually conquering the other kingdoms. Although most of the Crownsmen are only serving because they've been brainwashed into supporting this belief, there are some members of the group who are not brainwashed and who genuinely believe in this cause.

* SaiGuy: Her weapons are a pair of ornate sai, which she levitates by using her Semblance. She can combine the two sai at the hilts to create a single bo-staff which is bladed at each end. [[spoiler:She loses this feature come ''Before the Dawn'', as one of her sai was turned to gold by Professor Rumpole, leaving her only fighting with one when she makes her reappearance.]]

* DarkSkinnedRedhead: Carmine is a dark-skinned woman with freckles on her nose and cheeks. She has golden eyes and vibrant red hair with a silver streak. She works as a Huntress-for-Hire in a kingdom known for its harsh terrain. She's a cunning trickster, skilled at fooling others with her stylish looks and friendly demeanor.

* MultiformBalance: May Zedong's rifle has a bladed stock, allowing it to serve as an axe when held by the barrel for close range fights.

* AnAxeToGrind: May Zedong's rifle has a bladed stock, allowing it to serve as an axe when held by the barrel.