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| 13 | [[WMG:[[center:[-''Franchise/{{RWBY}}'' [[Characters/{{RWBY}} Main Character Index]]\ |
| 14 | ''[[Characters/RWBYTheHeroes The Heroes]]:'' [[Characters/RWBYTeamRWBY Team RWBY]] | '''Team JNPR''' | [[Characters/RWBYOzpinAndOscar Ozpin and Oscar]]\ |
| 15 | ''[[Characters/RWBYRemnant Remnant]]:'' [[Characters/RWBYEasternSanus Sanus (Eastern)]] | [[Characters/RWBYWesternSanus Sanus (Western)]] | [[Characters/RWBYAnima Anima]] | [[Characters/RWBYSolitas Solitas]]\ |
| 16 | ''Antagonists:'' [[Characters/RWBYSalemsFaction Salem's Faction]] ([[Characters/RWBYSalem Salem]] | [[Characters/RWBYCinderFall Cinder Fall]]) | [[Characters/RWBYWhiteFang White Fang]] | [[Characters/RWBYGrimmBestiary Grimm Bestiary]]\ |
| 17 | ''Beyond Remnant:'' [[Characters/RWBYTheEverAfter The Ever After]]-]]]]] |
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| 19 | [[WMG:[[center:[-''Other Media:'' Characters/RWBYIceQueendom - Characters/RWBYTheOfficialManga - Characters/RWBYJusticeLeague - Characters/JusticeLeagueXRWBYSuperHeroesAndHuntsmen - Characters/RWBYChibi -]]]]] |
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| 23 | !!{{Spoiler}}s for all works set prior to the end of Volume 8 are unmarked. |
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| 27 | !Team JNPR |
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| 29 | The [[{{Deuteragonist}} secondary team]] of the show, JNPR (pronounced Juniper) comprises [[TheLeader Jaune Arc]], [[GenkiGirl Nora Valkyrie]], [[BrokenAce Pyrrha Nikos]] and [[TheQuietOne Lie Ren]]. Unlike Team RWBY, JNPR fell into the team role much more easily: Jaune became good friends with Pyrrha over the initiation, while Nora and Ren were ChildhoodFriends. Thus, they're more down-to-earth, but no less problematic or competent than the main team. |
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| 35 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 36 | * {{Deuteragonist}}: The story follows Team JNPR as much as Team RWBY. The team has its own independent storyline and challenges to overcome throughout the volume, and they have remained by Team 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, they each have different pieces of the same puzzle to solve. |
| 37 | * FamilyOfChoice: After the death of Pyrrha and traversing across Anima with Ruby as Team RNJR, they all reaffirm the idea they're extremely close to one another. After Jaune's declaration to Cinder that he doesn't care about his life so long as the others are okay, Ren and Nora confront him in front of Pyrrha's memorial statue in Argus, and they make clear to him that they ''love'' him, and don't want to lose him. The three ultimately end up affirming at the statue that they ''are'' in turn a family and will stick together. They later come to include Oscar in this dynamic after Jaune apologizes to him, becoming protective of him and treating him akin to a little brother, Nora in particular taking many chances to give him TheGlomp, and giving him a more gentle hug after seeing he's safe after he confronted Ironwood. |
| 38 | * FieldPromotion: While they originally went to Beacon Academy to become Huntsmen and Huntresses and get their licenses, the fall of Beacon caused the school to close with Team RWBY and the remaining members of Team JNPR traveling the world to find the people responsible while most students transferred to other academies like Shade. By the time they reach Atlas, General James Ironwood states that the dangers they've faced during the Battle of Beacon, in the wilds of Anima, and against the forces of Salem, means they're not functioning at the level of students, they're functioning as Huntsmen. Thus, he promotes them to fully licenced Huntsmen on the basis of their field experience even though they haven't completed their schooling. |
| 39 | * FunWithAcronyms: The team's name can be pronounced as "Juniper", which is a shade of green. However, when Ruby travels with them during Volume 4, they argue over how to rename their team with Ruby's initials added into the mix. Ren and Nora have some difficulty agreeing on whether the acronym should begin with Ruby's name or Jaune's, but eventually settle on RNJR (pronounced "Ranger", also a type of green) after Jaune decides that JNRR (pronounced as "Junior") sounds dumb when spoken aloud. Nora retains her preference for JNRR. |
| 40 | * GenderEqualEnsemble: When Team JNPR is first formed, two male/female pairs are brought together to create a team of two males (Jaune and Ren) and two females (Pyrrha and Nora). The team emphasis lies with balancing the strengths and weaknesses of each pair. |
| 41 | ** Jaune is the team's leader, possessing a natural gift for leadership but lacking combat training and skill. He is paired with Pyrrha, a star athlete who excels in combat, is naturally inclined to provide a supporting role to others and takes on the responsibility of training Jaune. |
| 42 | ** Ren is a quiet, serious student whose preferred fighting style is rooted in practicality and hit-and-run strikes. His partner is Nora, a fast-talking, highly energetic girl who is an attention-grabbing powerhouse in battle. The loss of Pyrrha creates a visual, and occasionally referenced, empty hole that leaves the team feeling and sometimes acting in an imbalanced way; Jaune, in particular, feels her loss the most as she was important to him in many ways, and he was the team leader so felt responsible for what happened to her. |
| 43 | * HistoricalGenderFlip: Like the other teams, JNPR has a shared theme; in their case, it's a gender flip of ancient heroes who disguised themselves by crossdressing. [[UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc Joan of Arc]] for Jaune, [[Myth/NorseMythology Thor]] for Nora, [[Literature/TheIliad Achilles]] for Pyrrha, and [[Literature/TheBalladOfMulan Hua Mulan]] for Lie Ren. |
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| 46 | [[folder:Jaune Arc]] |
| 47 | !!Jaune Arc |
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| 49 | %%Image Pickin' thread decided to keep only the first outfit: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1642489291023664100&page=1 |
| 50 | %%Succeeding outfits are on ImageLinks.RWBYJauneArc. |
| 51 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MilesLuna[[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Creator/HiroShimono (Japanese)[[/labelnote]] |
| 52 | !!!'''Debut:''' Ruby Rose[[labelnote:*]]Volume 1 Episode 1[[/labelnote]] |
| 53 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/beacon_jaune_3.png]] |
| 54 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"The name's Jaune Arc. Short, sweet, rolls off the tongue. Ladies love it."'']] |
| 55 | |
| 56 | ->''"My father, my grandfather, and his father before him were all warriors! They were all heroes! I wanted to be one, too. I was just never good enough."'' |
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| 58 | Jaune comes from a long line of esteemed warriors and came to Beacon Academy to follow in their footsteps despite not having prior combat training. He is the leader of Team JNPR and his team partner is Pyrrha. |
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| 60 | His equipment is called Crocea Mors and was handed down to him from his great-great-grandfather. The shield can collapse into a sheath to carry the sword that it's paired with. His Semblance is called Aura Amp and allows him to enhance his Aura or boost the Auras of other people. |
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| 62 | * 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. |
| 63 | * 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]] |
| 64 | * AllThereInTheManual: Creator/MontyOum revealed the name of Jaune's weapon, Crocea Mors, on his Facebook page; this has not been mentioned in the show. |
| 65 | * 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. |
| 66 | * AudibleSharpness: The blade of Crocea Mors is very loud in every single slice. |
| 67 | * AudienceSurrogate: Initially asks all the relevant questions for exposition. Like the audience, he's new to the setting's world of combat. |
| 68 | * 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. |
| 69 | * 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. |
| 70 | * 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. |
| 71 | * 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. |
| 72 | * 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. |
| 73 | * 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. |
| 74 | * BilingualBonus: |
| 75 | ** 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. |
| 76 | ** 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. |
| 77 | * BoringButPractical: |
| 78 | ** 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. |
| 79 | --->'''Ruby''': Well, you've gotta have appreciation for the classics. |
| 80 | ** 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. |
| 81 | * 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.]] |
| 82 | * 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. |
| 83 | * 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. |
| 84 | * 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. |
| 85 | -->'''Jaune:''' ''[while hanging on the Death Stalker's stinger]'' PYRRHA! THIS IS NOT THE RELIC! IT'S NOT! |
| 86 | * 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'''. |
| 87 | * 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. |
| 88 | * 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.]] |
| 89 | * 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. |
| 90 | * 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. |
| 91 | * 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.]] |
| 92 | * 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.]] |
| 93 | * CrazyPrepared: Has "Left" and "Right" on the soles of his shoes. Apparently, it's just in case he gets concussed and needs help. |
| 94 | * DamnedByFaintPraise: |
| 95 | ** 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. |
| 96 | ** 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. |
| 97 | * 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. |
| 98 | * 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. |
| 99 | * 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. |
| 100 | * 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. |
| 101 | * {{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]]. |
| 102 | * 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. |
| 103 | * 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. |
| 104 | * 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. |
| 105 | * 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. |
| 106 | * 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. |
| 107 | * 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. |
| 108 | * 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. |
| 109 | * 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]].]] |
| 110 | * 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. |
| 111 | * FamilyThemeNaming: Vol 6 commentary reveals the Arc siblings all have names taken after colours in the rainbow; Jaune is yellow. |
| 112 | * FashionableAsymmetry: Jaune's armor in Volume 4 only has one shoulder guard on his left arm, unlike his previous armor set which was symmetrical. |
| 113 | * 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. |
| 114 | * 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. |
| 115 | * {{Foil}}: To both Pyrrha and Ruby: |
| 116 | ** [[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]]. |
| 117 | ** 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]]. |
| 118 | * 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]]. |
| 119 | * 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. |
| 120 | * {{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. |
| 121 | * 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]]. |
| 122 | * 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. |
| 123 | * 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. |
| 124 | * 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. |
| 125 | * 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. |
| 126 | * 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. |
| 127 | * 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. |
| 128 | * 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. |
| 129 | * 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. |
| 130 | * 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. |
| 131 | * 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. |
| 132 | -->'''Jaune:''' I'm a failure. |
| 133 | * 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 |
| 134 | * 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. |
| 135 | * 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. |
| 136 | * 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. |
| 137 | -->'''Jaune:''' An Arc never goes back on his word. |
| 138 | * 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. |
| 139 | * 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. |
| 140 | * 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. |
| 141 | * 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]]. |
| 142 | * 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. |
| 143 | * 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. |
| 144 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: |
| 145 | ** 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. |
| 146 | ** 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. |
| 147 | * 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. |
| 148 | * {{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.]] |
| 149 | * 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. |
| 150 | * ItsPersonal: |
| 151 | ** 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. |
| 152 | ** 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.]] |
| 153 | * 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. |
| 154 | * 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. |
| 155 | * 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. |
| 156 | * 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. |
| 157 | * TheLeader: Mostly the charismatic type. Jaune’s main strength is his ability to read the battlefield and react accordingly to keep his team safe and provide them an opportunity to strike through his commands. His team trusts his judgement and follow his orders without question, showing how much loyalty they have for 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 8 where he’s able to handle the internal animosity of his team 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 and Yang, and persuades Winter to let his team walk free from their arrest to save Oscar while acting as their test run before her own team leads the mission to plant a bomb inside the whale. |
| 158 | * 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. |
| 159 | * {{Leitmotif}}: Jaune has two leitmotifs, one of them shared with Pyrrha: |
| 160 | ** 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.]] |
| 161 | ** 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]]''. |
| 162 | * 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. |
| 163 | * 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. |
| 164 | * 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.]] |
| 165 | * 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. |
| 166 | * 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. |
| 167 | * 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. |
| 168 | * 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. |
| 169 | * 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. |
| 170 | * 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]]. |
| 171 | * 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. |
| 172 | * 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. |
| 173 | * 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. |
| 174 | * 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. |
| 175 | * 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. |
| 176 | * 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.]] |
| 177 | * 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.]] |
| 178 | * 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. |
| 179 | * 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. |
| 180 | * 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. |
| 181 | * 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. |
| 182 | * 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. |
| 183 | * 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. |
| 184 | * 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. |
| 185 | * 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.]] |
| 186 | * 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. |
| 187 | * 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. |
| 188 | * 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. |
| 189 | * 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. |
| 190 | * {{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. |
| 191 | * 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. |
| 192 | * 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... |
| 193 | * 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. |
| 194 | * StrongGirlSmartGuy: With Pyrrha. Some of his ideas in battle were possible because Pyrrha is skilled enough to pull them off. |
| 195 | * StuffedIntoALocker: |
| 196 | ** 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. |
| 197 | ** 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. |
| 198 | * 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. |
| 199 | * 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. |
| 200 | * 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.]] |
| 201 | * 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.]] |
| 202 | * ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: |
| 203 | ** 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. |
| 204 | --->'''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? |
| 205 | ** 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. |
| 206 | * 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.]] |
| 207 | * 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.]] |
| 208 | * 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. |
| 209 | * 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. ]] |
| 210 | * 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. |
| 211 | * 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. |
| 212 | * 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. |
| 213 | * 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. |
| 214 | * 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. |
| 215 | * 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. |
| 216 | -->'''Cardin:''' Holy ''crap''. ''Jaune?'' |
| 217 | * 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. |
| 218 | * 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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| 221 | [[folder:Nora Valkyrie]] |
| 222 | !!Nora Valkyrie |
| 223 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Samantha Ireland, Creator/KristenMcGuire (flashback, Volume 4)[[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Creator/AyaSuzaki (Japanese)[[/labelnote]] |
| 224 | !!!'''Debut:''' The First Step[[labelnote:*]]Volume 1 Episode 4[[/labelnote]] |
| 225 | |
| 226 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/beacon_nora.png]] |
| 227 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"I'm queen of the castle!"'']] |
| 228 | [[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]]]] |
| 229 | [[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]]]] |
| 230 | |
| 231 | ->''"After everything we've been through. I won't let it end. Not like this. We can do this!"'' |
| 232 | |
| 233 | 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. |
| 234 | |
| 235 | 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. |
| 236 | |
| 237 | ---- |
| 238 | * BigEater: Nora approaches eating like she does everything else: with an excess of passionate enthusiasm. Unlike some gluttonous characters, she doesn't eat constantly, but when she does get to sit down to a meal, she packs away ridiculous amounts of food. When first introduced, she talks non-stop to Ren while slurping up pancakes like they're noodles. When the students are collecting sap from Forever Fall forest, she keeps drinking up all the sap. At the end of the story arc, Pyrrha wryly tells Jaune they have Nora to thank for there being no syrup to go with the pancakes Ren has cooked. |
| 239 | * BigStupidDoodooHead: She tries insulting Caroline after the operative once again denies them entrance through the border, but she flounders and ends up saying that her base looks like "a big, dumb boot!" Jaune isn't impressed. |
| 240 | -->'''Jaune:''' Way to tell her, Nora. |
| 241 | * BlemishedBeauty: In Volume 8, Nora Valkyrie absorbs so much electricity that her [[ShockAndAwe Semblance]] is pushed to its limit and quickly shatters; she's left with scars on her upper torso, arms and neck that are akin to Lichtenberg figures. It doesn't put anyone off her appearance, and she doesn't make any effort to hide them. The event contributes to her LoveInterest, Ren, finally admitting he's in love with her. |
| 242 | * BloodKnight: She is very enthusiastic about punting stuff (and other people on occasion) with her rocket-propelled hammer. Not to mention her first suggestion to solving Jaune's bully problem in "Jaundice Part I" is to break said bully's legs. |
| 243 | * BlushSticker: Nora has a ruddy complexion that makes her cheeks always seem a little redder than the rest of her face. In Volumes 1-2, the rough nature of the animation software used means the ruddy cheeks are faint circles of pink that don't follow the contours of her face, making it seem like she's wearing stickers on her cheek. This is toned down and sometimes non-existent in Volume 3. Once the animation software is overhauled from Volume 4 onwards, the trope is no longer in effect, and her ruddy complexion is much more blended and natural in appearance. |
| 244 | * BoisterousBruiser: She's very energetic and extroverted, equally strong and tough, and absolutely revels whenever she gets a chance to fight. Whenever the prospect of violence comes up, she's always seen treating it with her trademark cheerful enthusiasm. |
| 245 | * BottomlessMagazines: Given the size of the [[MarkedBullet heart-marked grenades]], the size of the weapon, and how many shots she fires off without reloading, it certainly seems that way. She's seen firing it at least 8 times without reloading, which exceeds the capacity standard grenade launcher of that type. "New Challengers" showcased the inside, when she fired all grenades at once for a heart-shaped attack; she carried only 6. |
| 246 | * CannotSpitItOut: Nora and Ren are first introduced when Nora wakes up Ren for their first day in school. As she rambles on about the length of time they've been together, she hastily points out that she doesn't mean they're "together, together" because "that would be weird". They are so close that they're mistaken for a couple and Jaune even turns to Ren for dating advice on the grounds that Ren and Nora are an item, something Ren and Nora are quick to correct. However, whenever Ren gets injured in a fight, Nora becomes extremely distracted and distraught. She will also make a bee-line for whoever injured Ren to injure them in revenge. |
| 247 | * 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. |
| 248 | * CheshireCatGrin: Being a PerpetualSmiler, she also grins during aggressive actions, such as catapulting Jaune with her hammer or threatening to break a bully's legs. Of particular note is the one she gives Nolan of Team BRNZ when [[NoSell he tries to]] [[FeedItWithFire shock her]]. |
| 249 | * ChildhoodFriends: Ren and Nora start the show as seventeen-year-olds and have already been together for a very long time. Nora is concerned about making sure they are teamed together in class, even inventing secret "sloth" call noises that Ren is certain cannot be a real sloth's sound. Ren spends most of his time trying to rein in Nora's hyperactivity and wild enthusiasm. Nora admits they're orphans with no home outside Beacon Academy, and they're so close that other characters have mistakenly believed that they're in a romantic relationship. Nora is secretly in love with Ren, but has no idea whether he feels the same way. |
| 250 | * CleavageWindow: She wears white tops that have a small heart-shaped window that displays part of her cleavage. |
| 251 | * ColorFailure: In Vol. 3 Episode 1, all of the color is bleached out of her during her panicked rant about the potential ramifications of losing in the first round of the Vytal Festival, in order to emphasize just how worked up she's gotten. |
| 252 | * ContrivedClumsiness: In "Cordially Invited", Nora stacks a plate full of food and then deliberately trips in order to drop said food on Whitley's head so Weiss can escape an unpleasant and distracting conversation with him. |
| 253 | * CoveredInScars: When Nora breaks down a locked door, she ends up taking scars from the effort. The door is highly secure and reinforced with a powerful electrical grid to protect a classified military lab. The only way to bring it down is for Nora to use her Semblance to direct the electricity through her body, which creates VolcanicVeins of purple lightning across her entire body. By overcharging, she is able to smash down the door in a single strike. However, this immediately destroys her Aura, renders her unconscious, and leaves behind a network of electrical burn scars across her upper body. |
| 254 | * CovertPervert: While she admonishes Ren for accidentally looking up her skirt in the Volume 4 finale, she secretly smirks to herself afterwards, making it obvious she enjoyed the fact that he was looking at her in a potentially sexual light. |
| 255 | * CryLaughing: During the tournament, Nora tries to dismiss the pressure on the students to perform well. However, she quickly moves from talking about how losing would ruin the team and school's reputation to getting them kicked out of school, which would leave her and Ren homeless because they're orphans with nowhere to go. She starts off her usual chipper self but quickly dissolves into panicked rambling; her manic laugh quickly descends into sobbing until she leans forward and hits her head on the table in front of her. |
| 256 | * CuteBruiser: Nora is the picture of a cute girl with her love of hearts, bubbly attitude, petite size, and generally happy nature. Absolutely none of this changes the fact that she actively ''enjoys'' fighting or prevents her from having the strength to carry around the massive Magnhild, a grenade-launching hammer which combines with her strength to make her the hardest hitting member of team JNPR. |
| 257 | * CuteLittleFangs: Fitting with RWBY's definitely anime-ish design style, Nora has pronounced upper canines that are intended to help make her look cuter. Hers are only seen when her mouth is open, which admittedly is fairly often. |
| 258 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: She was a dirty, lonely, and terrified street urchin, and implied to not be a local, when she met Ren. They became friends the very day Ren's hometown was wiped out by Grimm, on account of him saving her life and treating her with kindness. |
| 259 | * DisproportionateRetribution: After Cardin Winchester has been seen childishly torturing Jaune Arc, Nora suggests breaking his legs, and she's serious. |
| 260 | * ElementalAbsorption: Nora's Semblance allows her to absorb electricity to boost her already impressive physical strength. However, this doesn't mean that she's outright immune to being electrocuted. When Hazel grabs her after enhancing himself with yellow dust in ''Downfall'', she screams in pain as he holds her down and zaps her. |
| 261 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: In a montage depicting them getting ready for the day, Nora flits energetically around Ren, [[MotorMouth talking non-stop]] about their history and how to ensure they get on the same team, regardless of what they're doing. From Ren waking to them eating breakfast, she pauses only to swallow a pancake. She turns out to be every bit as upbeat, energetic and devoted to Ren as she her introduction suggests. |
| 262 | * FeedItWithFire: During the fight against Team BRNZ in "New Challengers", after one opponent incapacitates Ren with an electric prod, he then hits Nora with it... only for it to have [[NoSell no effect]]. Oobleck then [[MrExposition explains]] how Nora's Semblance is to draw power from electricity, supercharging her muscles and increasing her speed and strength. The opponent has enough time for a [[OhCrap suitable reaction]] before Nora sends him flying. |
| 263 | * {{Gasshole}}: One of Nora's comedic traits is that, due to her gluttonous appetite for food and propensity for rapidly consuming her meals, she can belch with surprising vigor for such an otherwise girlish character. This is a downplayed trait in that she's only been shown belching twice and the Japanese dub tones down her loud belches into a more ladylike sound. |
| 264 | ** At the end of the food fight in Volume 2, Glynda tries admonish Teams RWBY and JNPR for the state they get the food hall into, only to be disrupted when Nora suddenly lets out a loud belch, causing the two teams to dissolve into laughter. |
| 265 | ** After eating a huge bowl of noodles prior to a match in Chapter 1 of Volume 3, Nora lets out a huge belch, which the others ignore because they are used to this by now. |
| 266 | * GenkiGirl: Nora is an energetic [[MotorMouth non-stop talker]] who doesn't appear to have an off switch even at the crack of dawn. She's even accompanied by her own unique zany music score for when she really gets going. Contrast with her partner Ren, who needs to be kicked out of bed in the morning and who barely talks. Not even brushing her teeth or eating breakfast slows her down. The quietest and most still she gets is when the Headmaster is explaining their first task, but she interrupts him once and can be seen in the background bouncing energetically on her heels as she waits for the task to begin. Ren seems to tolerate her energy and MotorMouth tendencies with good humor and affection, which is one of the many subtle hints of their attraction to each other. |
| 267 | * GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: When Ren goes blind with rage while fighting the Nuckelavee, Nora slaps him across the face to make him listen to reason and calm him down. |
| 268 | * GhostStory: Her story in the cafeteria deliberately resembles this, though she is repeatedly undermined by Ren. As it turns out, [[AllJustADream it's only a recurring dream]] that she's been having for about a month, and Ren is perceptibly tired of having to correct her embellishments. |
| 269 | * GirlyBruiser: Nora's bubbly attitude, love of heart decorations and penchant for wearing skirts doesn't really inspire the image of her ''beating monsters to death'' with a [[MixAndMatchWeapon war-hammer/grenade launcher]], but that's exactly what she does for a living. She even has cute heart designs on her grenades, just to make her GirlyBruiser status clearer, and her finishing move against Team BRNZ was a set of grenades whose smoke formed the shape of a pink heart. |
| 270 | * TheGlomp: |
| 271 | ** After Team RNJR slay the Nuckelavee, Nora happily throws herself into Ren celebrating that they survived and defeated the monster that haunted Ren all his life. |
| 272 | ** When RWBY and the others finally make it to Argus, Nora spots Oscar in the crowd, shouts out "Cute Boy OZ!", and knocks him to the ground in joy at being reunited. |
| 273 | * GrenadeLauncher: Nora's weapon can transform into either a huge warhammer with a long handle and heavy, cylindrical head, or it can transform into a grenade launcher that she nestles in her arms to fire. In the warhammer form, the head is capable of launching single-shot grenades, which she either targets at the opponent she's about to hit or uses to generate rocket propulsion to greatly enhance her forward motion. The grenade launcher form can also fire single shots, but it is also capable of opening up its barrel to allow expose all the grenades that are loaded. When it does this, it can fire all the grenades it contains simultaneously. |
| 274 | * HamAndDeadpanDuo: Ren is quiet, thoughtful and prone to expressing his wit in deadpan and sarcastic ways, such as when he's asked to distract the sniper during the tournament, despite being the one with no shield, and his response is an understated "Sure, why not". His life-long partner, Nora, is expressive, energetic and loud. During the same tournament fight, when Jaune asks her to finish the fight with a single hit, she grins broadly, leaps in the air with her power needlessly flaring everywhere just for effect, and hits all four opponents with an exaggerated hammer swing. When Nora is telling Yang a story about her dream, she exaggerates the adventure for mood and suspense, while Ren quietly interjects with the actual, more boring, facts of the dream, deadpanning her enthusiasm. |
| 275 | * HammerSpace: The large gun-like weapon she wears on her back in the lineup in Episode 4 is not present in Episode 6. As a matter of fact it it randomly disappears occasionally at the lineup in Episode 4. It's questionable whether the object appears on her back in Episode 5 as she's falling. There's only a split-second to view her and that dark patch could just be the back of her shirt. |
| 276 | * {{Headdesk}}: After [[MadeMyselfSad depressing herself]] at the noodle stand by focussing on the fact she and Ren are orphans with no home to go to if they were ever kicked out of Beacon, Nora concludes by slamming her head down onto the counter. |
| 277 | * HeartSymbol: Love hearts feature a '''lot''' in her physical design. Hearts are printed on her tops, or she has cleavage windows cut out of her tops in the shape of a heart. Even the grenades fired by her weapon have hearts engraved on their base. When multiple grenades are detonated together, the explosion cloud they produce is shaped like a giant pink heart. The heart symbol is obviously something she quite likes, and they symbolize her [[GenkiGirl passionate nature]]. |
| 278 | * HeroicRROD: Nora's Semblance allows her to absorb electrical energy and channel it to her muscles; overdoing it can shatter her Aura and damage her body. To help the heroes escape from a highly secure military office, Nora absorbs an energy barrier, which leaves her seriously injured. They flee to the Schnee Manor, where she is treated by the medically trained Klein. Although she recovers, she is left with permanent scarring in the style of Lichtenberg figures. |
| 279 | * HomeRunHitter: Nora tends to send people flying with Magnhild. Just ask Yang during the infamous food fight (this one [[ImprobableWeaponUser was with a watermelon on a pipe]]), the ''entirety'' of Team BRNZ during the Vytal Festival, or Hazel during the Battle for Haven. |
| 280 | * ImageSong: A song called "Boop" talks about how the singer is struggling to come to terms with her romantic feelings for her best friend. Nora is in love with Ren, and they've been together as friends since they were young children. The song title is taken from their initiation class, when Nora gently tapped Ren on the nose, saying "Boop!". During softer, more romantic moments between the two, the song plays in the background. |
| 281 | * ImprovisedWeapon: During the food fight, she uses [[XOnAStick a watermelon on a stick]] and improvises grenades out of soda cans. |
| 282 | * InASingleBound: Pretty everyone in the series pulls off crazy-high leaps at one time or another, but Nora does it by the far the most between either RWBY or JNPR, sometimes helped by a RecoilBoost from her weapon. Notably, while everyone else is investigating the abandoned village from the ground in Volume 4, Nora can be seen in the background jumping all over the architecture. |
| 283 | * IncomingHam: "Wake up, lazy bud! ♪It's morning! It's morning! It's morning! It's morning!♪" as she jumps all over the room. If that's not enough of an over-the-top entrance, it's followed by Nora rambling on and on for at least a minute [[ConversationCut while she and Ren go through their entire morning routine]]. |
| 284 | * JustFriends: Whenever someone brings up the fact that Nora and Ren are always together, even if it's Nora herself, she'll reiterate that they aren't an item. As Nora puts it, "[They're] not ''together'' together..." but she says it nervously, which acts as a hint that her feelings are less than platonic. By Volume 6, she's no longer hiding her feelings for him, and they resolve the nature of their relationship two volumes later. |
| 285 | * LamePunReaction: In the season 2 premiere, in response to Yang quipping that she "always kicks her semesters off with a Yang", Nora [[ProducePelting hits her in the face with a tomato]] and boos her. |
| 286 | * 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 hammering only when the strike can be done in a flashy way. |
| 287 | * LossOfIdentity: After going to Atlas and more regularly arguing with Ren, Nora comes to realize that she's been with Ren for so long, she doesn't know who she is without him anymore. While Weiss tries to advise she take the opportunity find out who she is, Nora just says she only knows how to "Be strong and hit stuff". So when an electrical barrier blocks everyone from Penny as she's forced to fight the Ace-Ops, Nora repeats to herself that she needs to be just that and do something only she can do. While Weiss tries to stop her, she proceeds to overcharge her Semblance using the barrier, to the point her body is left covered in Lichtenberg figure like scars, and smashes the barrier, the impact being strong enough to send the Ace-Ops flying. Doing so however shatters her Aura and [[HeroicRROD leaves her comatose and in need of medical attention]]. She later mumbles while unconscious: "Now what am I good for?" |
| 288 | * MacrossMissileMassacre: The grenades are usually fired one at a time, but Nora can remove the cover to allow all the grenades to be fired at once. When this happens, the grenades take the shape [[SigilSpam of a heart!]] |
| 289 | * MadeMyselfSad: In "Round One", she goes from cheerfully reassuring Jaune that not winning the tournament would be fine, only to ramble off a list of awful things that will happen to them (mentioning Team JNPR becoming social pariahs, and having no home to return to), and subsequently experience ColorFailure, slump down onto a desk, and leave the restaurant feeling blue. |
| 290 | * MarkedBullet: Nora tends to wear tops that have a heart motif printed on them or cut out to create heart-shaped cleavage windows. Her weapon fires large cylindrical grenades that have heart motifs engraved into the base. The cylinders always fire heart-side first. When her weapon's grenade launcher mode fires the entire barrel of grenades at once, the Dust cloud from the explosion caused by them all detonating together creates the shape of a heart in the air. |
| 291 | * MeaningfulName: The valkyries are Odin's twelve handmaidens who choose half of the slain dead to be conducted to Valhalla. They are warriors in their own rights. One of the valkyries (þrúðr "strength") is a daughter of Thor, the Norse God upon whom Nora is based. Nora's power, like Thor, is rooted in her strength and ability to power up that strength with electricity, such as lightning. As a result, her weapon also has a Norse name, composed of "magn" (mighty) and "hildr" (battle), that emphasizes her strength and power in battle. |
| 292 | * MidairBobbing: Nora is very briefly (one second) shown hovering during the class field trip in Episode 13, a sight-gag to show off just how excited the already-energetic girl is about the prospect of what they're going to do. |
| 293 | * MissingMom: She mentions to Ren in Volume 8 that her mother ran and left her behind during a Grimm attack. |
| 294 | * MixAndMatchWeapon: Nora's weapon extends into a huge warhammer with a long handle and heavy cylindrical head. It allows her to take full advantage of her great strength, especially when her Semblance has powered up her super-strength. The warhammer's long handle can collapse down to just the hammer, which allows her to use it as a grenade launcher for ammunition that consists of large cylinders full of explosive Dust. She can fire the weapon when it's in warhammer form to use the recoil like a rocket launcher to generate great forward momentum. |
| 295 | * MotorMouth: When Nora becomes interested in a subject, she keeps talking and talking no matter what activities she might be engaged in. Just before their initiation lesson, Nora starts talking to Ren from the moment he wakes up about how to make sure they end up in the same team together: while she's brushing her hair, while they're eating, while Ren is cleaning his teeth, and while they're sorting out their weapons. |
| 296 | * MysteriousPast: Ren and Nora first meet on the day Ren's home village of Kuroyuri is destroyed by the Grimm. She is a filthy and terrified street urchin whose clothes are unusual for the local design. Although the destruction of the village orphans Ren, Nora is clearly already abandoned by that point and implied to not be native to the region. Where she came from, what happened to her family, and how she ended up in Kuroyuri are unknown. |
| 297 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Nora tends to remain optimistic even in grim circumstances, keeping up her team's spirit and offering words of comfort when needed. When she starts to lose her cool, it's a sure sign that things are going really bad. |
| 298 | ** After her team is told the truth about Ozpin and his plans - or rather lack thereof - her optimistic attitude disappears entirely. When Jaune exclaims that everything they've done was for nothing, Nora agrees with him and doesn't visibly react when he shoves Oscar into a wall in a fit of anger. Afterwards, when Yang asks whether Jaune will be alright, Nora responds only with an angry "I don't know!" and leaves the room without another word. Seeing the ever-enthusiastic Nora act so upset and resigned emphasizes just how hard the heroes took the revelations. |
| 299 | ** When the heroes arrive in Atlas-Mantle, Nora becomes increasingly vocal, angry and impatient about the harsh conditions that Mantle is currently suffering as a result of Ironwood's decisions. It reaches a head in "Worst Case Scenario" when she finally snaps and lectures Ironwood about his attitude towards Mantle, dismissing his claim that everyone has made sacrifices by bluntly stating that Mantle's bearing the burden alone. |
| 300 | --->'''Nora:''' You keep talking about how we just need a little more time, but you’re not the one having to struggle.\ |
| 301 | '''Ironwood:''' We have all needed to make sacrifices for the greater good. Mantle has had to bear a lot of the burden, but- \ |
| 302 | '''Nora:''' They're bearing all of it! The longer this waiting game goes on the harder each day gets for people down there, and now you want to send in more soldiers?! You can't force people to fall in line! If you do that, you'll just be trading all these problems for the Grimm! |
| 303 | * ParentalAbandonment: Ren first met Nora when she was a filthy street urchin, scrounging for mouldy bread in rubbish bins. After the village was wiped out, the two orphans became each other's only family. In Volume 8, Nora reveals that her mother abandoned her during a Grimm attack nor long before she first met Ren. It has left her with a deeply buried insecurity about her own self-worth, which only comes to light in Volume 8 when she realises she's never learned who she really is as an individual. |
| 304 | * PerpetualSmiler: Risk of dying? Launched into the air? Battling in general? No problem. In fact, her smile gets bigger, when she's flying through the air via controlled explosions. She only ever gets upset when Ren is hurt. And the most dramatic case of her dropping her smile comes when she learns the truth about Ozpin and Salem's pasts, and how they relate to the heroes' shared journey to defeat the latter. |
| 305 | * PinkMeansFeminine: Her gloves, skirt, socks, and shoe soles are all pink and her favourite motif is a heart. Hearts are printed on her tops, or she has cleavage windows cut out of her tops in the shape of a heart. Even the grenades fired by her weapon have hearts engraved on their base. When the grenades explode, they produce pink smoke, and if multiple grenades are detonated together, the explosion cloud they produce is shaped like a giant pink heart. All of which are blatant visual signals of the fact that Nora is a girl. |
| 306 | * ThePollyanna: Her constant, practically relentless cheerfulness is one of Nora's dominant personality traits throughout the series. CharacterDevelopment dampens down her enthusiasm somewhat, but nothing, not even the destruction of Beacon Academy, totally manages to quash Nora's happiness. |
| 307 | * RecoilBoost: By standing on the head of the hammer and discharging it, Nora can propel herself through the air, which she often uses to get the mobility advantage in her battles. |
| 308 | * RequiredSecondaryPowers: Subverted. As revealed in "Downfall", Nora may be able to absorb electricity to power up, but it doesn't mean being electrocuted doesn't hurt; when Hazel tries to fry her brains out with lightning Dust, she screams in agony. |
| 309 | * RocketJump: In almost every fight, Nora will gain speed/height/momentum by detonating a grenade from Magnhild at her feet as she leaps, "riding" the explosion to give her greater propulsion. |
| 310 | * ScarsAreForever: The mass of scars Nora received during the heroes' infiltration of Atlas cannot be healed by her aura. Once Jaune is finally able to reach Nora and use his Semblance to boost her aura's HealingFactor, too much time had passed and the damage became permanent. |
| 311 | * SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: The happy-go-lucky Nora and her ChildhoodFriends partner, the serious, deadpan Ren; Ren is [[TheStoic serene]], calm, [[TheQuietOne soft-spoken]] and prefers to think before he acts, which [[CloudcuckoolandersMinder balances and reins in]] Nora's [[GenkiGirl passion-fueled]], [[BloodKnight aggressive]] "act first think later" personality, while at the same time benefiting from her drive to bring him out of his shell. This leads to conflict during the Atlas Arc as Ren bottles his emotions while Nora expresses hers, leading to Ren shutting down and pushing people away, while Nora feels like she's losing her ability to understand Ren and, with it, her own ability to understand herself. They resolve the problem in Volume 8. |
| 312 | * ShipTease: Ren and Nora introduced as an extremely close partnership at the beginning of the show, where Nora debates how weird it would be if they were more than just friends. When Jaune asks Ren for dating advice on the assumption that he and Nora are a couple, a very embarrassed Nora corrects his misconception. From Volume 4 onwards, Ren and Nora are much more physically affectionate as they're forced to confront their traumatic past, with hand holding, shoulder grasping and comments about how they have each other to rely on. From Volume 6 onwards, Nora is openly willing to refer to Ren as "my man" but the reason why their relationship status is ambiguous is only revealed in Volume 7 when they start arguing about its lack of resolution in front of a very uncomfortable Ruby. The argument ends with Nora hauling Ren into [[BigDamnKiss a kiss]] to which he positively responds. |
| 313 | * ShockAndAwe: Downplayed; Her Semblance is to draw power from electricity, which ties in nicely with her Thor theme, but unlike most versions of this trope, she can't actually ''project'' or ''manipulate'' electricity. Instead, she has the power to [[ElementalAbsorption absorb electrical energy to boost her strength]]. She doesn't even have the typical RequiredSecondaryPowers of "can't be hurt by electricity" -- or, rather, her version is much weaker than normal. The electricity she absorbs still hurts her, it just won't normally impair her, and she can be overwhelmed by sufficiently high voltage. |
| 314 | * SigilSpam: Her symbol is on the back of her outfit, as well as her comb. Then there is her pajama "boop" shirt, [[http://store.roosterteeth.com/products/rwby-nora-boop-shirt which you can buy in real life]], and her headphones. |
| 315 | * SnotBubble: As befits both RWBY's deliberate anime-inspired visuals and Nora's own status as a cute-yet-funny girl, when she sleeps, she tends to produce big bubbles of snot from her nose that inflate and deflate as she breathes. This is first seen in Volume 2 Chapter 2. |
| 316 | * SpinAttack: She nails the stinger on the Death Stalker's head by using some RecoilBoost from Magnhild to propel her into the air high enough and then whipping Magnhild around so violently that she spins in circles before striking it. |
| 317 | * StreetUrchin: Ren first met Nora when she was a filthy orphan living on the streets. Three bullies were targeting her for her state and having stolen some mouldy bread to eat. |
| 318 | * SuperStrength: Her Semblance allows her to supercharge her physical strength, which is already pretty high; this grants her the striking power to fight Grimms of even the largest size. |
| 319 | * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: On literally their first appearance together, as they get ready for their first day, Nora talks about how long she and Ren have been together, and then immediately corrects herself that she doesn't mean "together, together" because "that would be weird". As literally nobody other than Ren himself, who one would expect to ''know'' if they're a couple, was there, it immediately becomes suspicious in the viewer's mind, and serves as an EstablishingCharacterMoment for their relationship. |
| 320 | * TakingTheBullet: Pushes a dizzy Ren out of the path of an Atlesian Paladin's fist in "Heroes and Monsters", getting hit herself in the process. However, Ren is distracted by Nora getting hurt and the Paladin nails him regardless, and the subsequent injuries take them both out of the ongoing fight. |
| 321 | * ThunderHammer: Befitting a character inspired by Norse myth, Nora fights with a hammer and can [[ElementalAbsorption absorb electricity]] to boost her strength and speed. In volume 4, the hammer gets an upgrade that allows it generate an electric current. |
| 322 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Pancakes. Nora ''loves'' pancakes; whenever she's seen eating breakfast, Nora is invariably devouring huge stacks of pancakes, drenched in syrup. She's even depicted mumbling about pancakes in her sleep, making it obvious just how much she thinks about them. |
| 323 | %% * ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Even before she and Ren get their RelationshipUpgrade, Nora generally reacts quickly and violently if he's ever hurt, uppercutting Yang through the ceiling after she takes him out in the food fight, and swiftly targeting Nolan after he shocks Ren down - a tactic that proves very unsuitable against Nora herself. |
| 324 | * WeaponBasedCharacterisation: When Ren and Nora first meet, it's in Ren's home village where Nora is living as a starving, terrified street urchin. When the village is destroyed by a Grimm attack, Ren's Semblance soothes them both and prevents the Grimm from finding them. Ren hands the frightened Nora a toy wooden hammer that is lying on the ground and tells her that, from now on, they will protect each other. Since that day, the two have been inseparable, to the point where Nora starts plotting on their first day in school to ensure that she and Ren make the same team as each other. Her weapon is a giant war-hammer, based on the toy war-hammer that Ren once gave her; it reflects her continued loyalty to Ren while allowing her to take full advantage of her Semblance, which makes her super-strong when hit by lightning. |
| 325 | [[/folder]] |
| 326 | |
| 327 | [[folder:Pyrrha Nikos]] |
| 328 | !!Pyrrha Nikos |
| 329 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Jen Brown[[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Creator/MegumiToyoguchi (Japanese, volumes 1-2), Creator/ShizukaIto (Japanese, volume 3)[[/labelnote]] |
| 330 | !!!'''Debut:''' The Shining Beacon Pt. 2[[labelnote:*]]Volume 1 Episode 3[[/labelnote]] |
| 331 | |
| 332 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pyrrha_3.png]] |
| 333 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Hello again!"'']] |
| 334 | |
| 335 | ->''"I've been blessed with incredible talents and opportunities. I'm constantly surrounded by love and praise, but when you're placed on a pedestal like that for so long you become separated from the people that put you there in the first place. Everyone assumes I'm too good for them, that I'm on a level they simply can't attain. It's become impossible to form any sort of meaningful relationship with people..."'' |
| 336 | |
| 337 | A famous, world-class athelete and tournament fighter, Pyrrha is a star student who had already won the Mistral Tournament four times prior to joining Beacon Academy. Her partner is Jaune. |
| 338 | |
| 339 | Pyrrha's weapons are called Miló and Akoúo̱, and consist of a shield, and a weapon that is able to change form between a pilum (Heavy Javelin), xiphos (Short Sword) and a hunting rifle. Her Semblance, "Polarity", gives her telekinetic control over metal. |
| 340 | |
| 341 | ---- |
| 342 | * ApologisesALot: Pyrrha is prone to making a lot of often-unnecessary apologies - she'll even apologize when she saves people. |
| 343 | * AttractivenessIsolation: Pyrrha somewhat bitterly sums up why no one asked her to the dance: |
| 344 | -->'''Pyrrha:''' I've been blessed with incredible talents and opportunities. I'm constantly surrounded by love, and praise... But when you're placed on a pedestal like that for so long, you become separated from the people that put you there in the first place. Everyone assumes I'm too good for them. That I'm on a level they simply can't attain. It's become impossible to form any sort of meaningful relationship with people. |
| 345 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: She fell in love with Jaune because he was the first person in a long time who treated her like an actual person instead of a celebrity and he became the bridge Pyrrha needed to form the long-lasting friendships she so strongly desired. |
| 346 | * BrokenAce: She's a world-renowned fighter who has kept her title as Mistral Regional Tournament Champion for a record-breaking four years. She is beautiful, talented, has been blessed with incredible opportunities and a supportive family. Everyone worships her. And that's the problem. She has been placed on such a high pedestal that it is impossible for her to make any friends at all. She's a very lonely person who just wants to be treated like a normal person. When she meets Jaune, the fact he doesn't know who she is and therefore treats her like anyone else attracts her to him, and enables her to finally start making friends. |
| 347 | * CannotSpitItOut: She quickly develops a crush on Jaune after meeting him, but rarely even hints to him that she's romantically interested. Her advice to Jaune to be honest with Weiss about how he feels leads to Nora advising her to practice what she preaches. It's only after Jaune begins showing signs in Volume 3 of being interested in her that she is finally able to be more honest about her feelings. |
| 348 | * CharacterCatchphrase: There are two phrases that Pyrrha is constantly spouting; "I'm sorry!" and "Hello again!" |
| 349 | * ChronicHeroSyndrome: Pyrrha always puts everyone else's needs above her own, no matter what. If she is called on to be a perfect representative of her people, she will do so. If she is expected to be a good friend and advisor to a friend, she will -- even if means helping Jaune win over Weiss despite her own feelings for him. When Ozpin asks her to risk LossOfIdentity and her personal desires to become the Fall Maiden to protect the world, she accepts the responsibility. Being on a such pedestal means she cannot reveal her personal struggles, which takes a great toll on her. She's lonely and friendless because people think she's too good for them, and she's willing to enter fights she knows she cannot win because she feels it's her responsibility to act if noone else can. |
| 350 | * CombatStilettos: The knee-high boots she wears in combat possess high heels. They don't seem to slow her down in battle; she is the most competent member of her team. In "Extracurricular", she beats the entirety of Team CRDL at once all on her own in a sparring match, with plenty enough energy to spar with Mercury, all despite wearing heels. |
| 351 | * CurbStompBattle: When Pyrrha fights Team CRDL in combat training, she single-handedly defeats the entire team. Despite the four of them working together against her, they could barely even touch her. |
| 352 | * DoggedNiceGirl: Pyrrha is very interested in Jaune but he's interested in Weiss. Pyrrha smiles and bears it, but is clearly unhappy. When Jaune is pining over Weiss rejecting his invitation to attend to the school ball together, realizing he won't be asking her leaves her crestfallen. Jaune, however, assumes Pyrrha already has a date for the ball and believes she has boys lining up to ask her out. She doesn't and, when alone, implies that boys are never interested in her. But, being so unfailingly nice and having a strong instinct to help others, she ends up [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy advising Jaune]] on the best way to win Weiss over. In Volume 3, Jaune starts to reciprocate her feelings. |
| 353 | * ExtremeDoormat: Despite having no ill will towards Jaune (and being one of the few people to actually ''like'' him), she doesn't hesitate to get rid of him when Weiss asks, offering only a small "sorry" as she gets her spear back. The only time in Volume 1 that she shows open anger is when Cardin bullies Jaune. |
| 354 | * FacePalm: When she tries to act out the answer to the teacher's question for Jaune, he misinterprets her signal and gets it wrong, leading to her facepalming. |
| 355 | * FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: Shortly before her death at the end of Volume 3, Pyrrha calmly asks if Cinder believes in destiny. It's a question Cinder never forgets. |
| 356 | * FamedInStory: She's a four-time consecutive tournament winner, has her picture on cereal boxes, and is known as "the untouchable girl". This has placed her on a pedestal to the entire world at a very young age, a position she secretly struggles to cope with. |
| 357 | * FatalFlaw: Her heroic selflessness. At the end of Volume 3, she goes off to fight Cinder despite everyone trying to dissuade her ''and'' Ozpin telling her she doesn't stand a chance. She does it because she believes that it's her responsibility to help wherever she can. If she is the only person who can act, she will put her life on the line to do so. |
| 358 | * FirstFriend: At the school dance, Pyrrha explains to a surprised Jaune that no-one asked her to come to the dance because everyone assumes she's out of their league. She states that Jaune is the first person who has ever treated like she was normal instead of a celebrity. He is therefore the first true friend she's ever been able to make and is the reason she's been able to make other friendships that will, in her words, 'last a lifetime'. She then admits to Jaune that, for this reason, she wishes she was going to the dance with someone like him. |
| 359 | * {{Foil}}: Jaune and Pyrrha. [[IdealHero Pyrrha]] is a very intelligent and competent warrior who has garnered [[FamedInStory 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]]. |
| 360 | * FightsLikeANormal: Discussed. Pyrrha has a reputation for being "the Untouchable Girl". She is a four times Mistral champion and considered unbeatable in combat tournaments. Aside from her great skill at combat, she appears to use no obvious powers beyond recalling weapons to her hand. This is because she hides what her Semblance really is. Mercury spars with her in training very briefly just to get an idea of what her power is before discussing it with Cinder and Emerald: Pyrrha is using her magnetism power to gently nudge weapons and armour of both herself and her opponent to ensure her strikes always hit and her opponent's strikes always miss. Cinder comments that it makes her seem to others as though she's fated for victory when she's really taking destiny into her own hands. |
| 361 | * HeroicBSOD: While fighting with Penny in the tournament, Emerald tricks into thinking she's in mortal danger, causing her to use her full power on Penny. After realising what she's done, Pyrrha falls into despair to the point where she doesn't even try to protect herself from an oncoming Giant Nevermore. It takes all the students uniting against the Nevermore, and Ruby and Jaune revealing that Cinder is the real culprit, before she can pull herself out of her funk. |
| 362 | * HoldingBackThePhlebotinum: The food fight demonstrates what she can do when she unleashes the full force of her polarity Semblance. However, in battle, all she does is make minute adjustments to either herself or her opponent to tilt battles in her favor. Given her extraordinary combat talent and her great subtlety when using her semblance, most people have no idea she's doing any such thing. |
| 363 | * HopelessSuitor: Certainly feels this way towards Jaune, especially after he talks to Ren in Volume 2 about wanting to express his love to Weiss. Pyrrha ends up telling him to tell her how he feels about her. Though Jaune seems encouraged by it, Pyrrha doesn't look happy at all, which also causes Nora to tell her to [[CannotSpitItOut practice what she preaches.]] |
| 364 | * HopeSpot: Doubled; She is quickly scouted out as a replacement Fall Maiden to make sure Cinder doesn't get all the power. She struggles with the inherent LossOfIdentity risks before they attempt the transfer of power. Cinder beating them to the punch anyway makes it seem that she no longer has to worry about that particular problem and no longer jeopardizes her relationship with Jaune, who has just caught on to her romantic feelings for him and seems to reciprocate. She dies the following episode when she foolishly tries to take Cinder on alone despite Jaune's warnings. |
| 365 | * HypercompetentSidekick: Even though Pyrrha is actually ''way'' more competent than Jaune in close combat, she still chooses to defer to him, especially when it comes to [[TheStrategist battle strategy]], which she thinks Jaune shows an aptitude for. |
| 366 | * HypocrisyNod: Pyrrha tells Jaune that the best way to woo Weiss is to be open and honest. Nora promptly tells Pyrrha, [[CannotSpitItOut who is nursing her own private crush on Jaune]], to "practice what you preach", which she ''eventually'' does. |
| 367 | * HypocriticalHumor: Briefly. In the library, she confiscates Jaune's issue of "X-Ray and Vav" and hands him a book he ''should'' be reading... before opening up the comic book and enjoying it for herself. |
| 368 | * HumbleHero: Pyrrha is very down to earth and unassuming, despite her fame. She also goes out of her way to explain to Jaune and teach him how to use his Aura without making fun of him. In "Fall", it's shown that Pyrrha made it to the singles round; despite that, she tells Ozpin that she only got that far thanks to her teammates, and gets noticeably upset when Qrow suggests otherwise. |
| 369 | * IJustWantToBeNormal: Sort of. Pyrrha is grateful for her talents and the opportunities they've given her, but her celebrity status has kept her from making any real friendships. What she finds most attractive about Jaune is the fact that he treats her like an equal. |
| 370 | * IdealHero: She is loyal to her friends, and is a selfless, helpful person who is willing to make sacrifices for the greater good. It's because of her compassion, kindness and gentle spirit, on top of her prodigious talents, that makes Ozpin choose her to become the next Fall Maiden. |
| 371 | -->'''Ozpin:''' She's strong, intelligent, caring, but most importantly, she's ready. |
| 372 | * ImageSong: Pyrrha is in love with Jaune, but he doesn't initially notice because he's too busy trying to get Weiss to take an interest in him. Instead of making her feelings known, she gives Jaune advice on how to approach Weiss. Two songs focus on her feelings for Jaune. "Shine" focusses on her sadness about the situation while "Dream Come True" allows her to take digs at Weiss in a way she would never openly do. "Shine" becomes the song Team JNPR dances to at the school ball, after Jaune gives up Weiss and Pyrrha gives him a few home truths about her situation. |
| 373 | -->"I've been watching you, helping you, wishing that you'd see / That the girl you've been waiting so long for could be me." |
| 374 | * ImprobableAimingSkills: She manages to nail a free-falling Jaune to a tree without injuring him from a very large distance (it takes about 5 seconds for it to hit its mark!) with a (recoil-aided) spear toss, aimed via her thumb (after locating his general position via scope) no less. |
| 375 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: She encourages Jaune to ask Weiss out to the prom, despite the fact she's in love with Jaune herself. This prompts Nora to tell Pyrrha to "practice what she preaches" with regards to making her feelings known. |
| 376 | * LadyLegionnaireWear: Her combat outfit resembles that of a Greek Hoplite, consisting of a breastplate, helmet, spear, shield and bare legs, but with a normal skirt, instead of the leather skirt worn by a real Hoplite. |
| 377 | * LadyOfWar: A fluid and graceful fighter with her Miló and Akoúo. This becomes even more the case when it revealed that she also uses her semblance to subtly "nudge" her opponents' attacks off-center, creating the impression that she's untouchable. |
| 378 | * TheLancer: To the team leader Jaune. Whereas he's bumbling, barely competent and not knowing much of the outside world, she's straight-laced, talented and more experienced. Unlike Weiss, though, she's thoroughly supportive of him. |
| 379 | * LonelyAtTheTop: In "Dance Dance Infiltration", she explains to Jaune that because everyone looks up to her, no one finds her approachable and can talk to her as an equal. This in turn is what made her warm up to Jaune, who never knew of her celebrity status beforehand, since day one. |
| 380 | * LossOfIdentity: Pyrrha has to grapple with the possibility of this in Volume 3, when she accepts the burden of merging her soul with Amber's and taking the Fall Maiden's powers to keep them safe from Cinder. Ozpin warns her that the process could change her, and that she might not be the same person she was before the process, which causes her intense distress. |
| 381 | * LoveTriangle: Pyrrha likes Jaune, who unfortunately has eyes only for Weiss. Weiss thinks Jaune is just a GoldDigger, but has an interest in Neptune. Neptune briefly shows interest in Weiss, but he's also a womaniser. The fact that he never stops making passes at other women eventually turns Weiss off him and Jaune eventually moves on from his crush on Weiss. |
| 382 | * LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Her shield is tough enough to let Pyrrha crash through trees unharmed if she manages to ensure she hits the tree with her shield first. |
| 383 | * MagnetismManipulation: Her Semblance is Polarity, giving her control over metals. Volume 2 reveals it's so powerful, she can send hundreds of cans of soda flying at once without so much as moving her arms. This however, was goofing off with her friends. In a test combat, Mercury realizes how she ''really'' uses it for fighting -- she manipulates her enemies' weapons and armor just enough to win battles without anyone, not even her opponents, realizing why. |
| 384 | * MeaningfulName: Pyrrha is named after the Greek hero Achilles, who was once disguised by his mother as a woman called "Pyrrha" because she knew he'd die if he went to war. "Pyrrha" is a Greek derivative of "flame-colored" and a Greek Aptronym [[note]]A character name that describes a particular trait of the character[[/note]] for a person with red hair. "Nikos" is Greek for "victor of the people". Her name effectively means "Pyrrhic Victory". In Volume 3, Pyrrha is the catalyst for several victories that are achieved at too high a price, such as winning her tournament fight with Penny in a way that enables the villains to begin their plan to invade Vale; she ends up making a sacrifice that helps save the City of Vale and activates Ruby's innate superpower, but still results in loss of life, loss of global communications, and the inability of the Huntsmen to recover the lost Beacon Academy. |
| 385 | * MimingTheCues: Jaune gets asked a question in class that he doesn't know the answer to. She tries to mime it to him -- the answer is night vision -- but he misinterprets it and answers, "Binoculars?" Cue FacePalm. |
| 386 | * MixAndMatchWeapon: In a matter of seconds Miló can go from a short sword to a carbine rifle to a spear which uses the rifle part to boost its speed. |
| 387 | * MsExposition: Gives Jaune (and thus the audience) a lecture on the subject of Aura, explaining the details on how it works and establishing the lore for it amongst the viewers. Later on she does this to Ruby and Weiss on the subject of [[SuperheroSpeciation "Semblance"]]. |
| 388 | * MsFanservice: A miniskirt, [[OfCorsetsSexy a corset]], [[ImpossiblyLowNeckline exposed cleavage]], detached shoulders and thigh-high boots are all given from Pyrrha, making her quite the eye-candy for most viewers. |
| 389 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: |
| 390 | ** She bursts into tears and runs away from Jaune after using her Semblance to slam him into a wall, tearfully apologizing. |
| 391 | ** She starts to tear up after realizing she's misused her Semblance in combat when she accidentally destroys Penny. |
| 392 | * NiceGirl: She doesn't hold people's flaws against them, such as Jaune shoving her out of the way to talk to Weiss or initially rejecting her offer of help for 'macho' reasons. She is pleasant, mild-mannered and motherly. She sacrifices her weapon to ensure Jaune lands safely during their first lesson, teaches him about Aura and combat strategy. She objects to bullies and has no ill-will towards Faunus. Despite her feelings for Jaune, she gives him good advice on how to get Weiss. She's so selfless, she sacrifices her own desires for the sake of others. She offers to pay for Team RWBY's lunches when Weiss's card gets rejected. |
| 393 | * NoGuyWantsAnAmazon: Implied in "Extracurricular", when Jaune tells her she must have men falling over themselves to ask her to the dance. Her expression suggests otherwise. Later in "Dance Dance Infiltration", she reveals that the reason why she has no partner to the dance is that she is such an [[BrokenAce ace]] that nobody sees themselves as able to live up to her standards, and can't treat her as their equal to dance with. |
| 394 | * PrecisionGuidedBoomerang: Her shield always returns to her when she throws it, and her spear flies back into her hand with an audible magnetic effect. This is because her specialty ''is'' magnetism. |
| 395 | * ProductPlacement: In-Universe. Part of her fame is appearing on "Pumpkin Pete's Marshmallow Flakes" cereal boxes. |
| 396 | -->'''Pyrrha:''' Yeah, it was pretty cool... sadly, the cereal isn't very good for you. |
| 397 | * RecoilBoost: The rifle's barrel becomes the bottom of the spear. It can fire to give the spear an extra boost [[JavelinThrower when she needs to throw it]]. |
| 398 | * SeasonalBaggage: The season of Autumn is heavily associated with her, from the red and brown of her main outfit to having red maple leaves be a part of her introduction in the season two opening. She is eventually asked by Ozpin to become the replacement Fall Maiden. |
| 399 | * SecretKeeper: She's carrying the secret of Jaune's faked entrance into Beacon, and has also been told about the existence of the Brotherhood and that they safeguard the secret history of Remnant. |
| 400 | * SelectiveMagnetism: Her Semblance, though she uses it less liberally than most examples, using it to subtly manipulate her opponent's weapons, rather than constant barrages. Though if the situation calls for it, she will make her abilities known, as shown in the FoodFight, where she manipulates numerous soda cans to create an unrelenting soda assault. |
| 401 | * SexyMentor: To Jaune, at least as far as 'releasing his Aura' goes. He looks quite awkward when the process requires her to touch him. Finally becomes this trope properly after Jaune takes her up on her training. |
| 402 | * ShipTease: She makes her debut (albeit in a cameo) by appearing immediately after Jaune said he wanted to meet "another nice, quirky girl" like Ruby. When she meets Jaune face to face, she immediately tries to get his attention before he talks to Weiss, and generally hits it off well with Jaune. The series only proceeds to lay it on really thick from there. |
| 403 | -->'''Pyrrha:''' I guess, you're the kind of guy I wish I was here with. |
| 404 | * ShutUpKiss: A rare example where it's initiated by a woman, she interrupts Jaune's attempt to dissuade her from fighting Cinder by kissing him. She then tosses him into a rocket-locker and sends him away so he won't try and fight Cinder with her. They both know she can't win against Cinder. |
| 405 | * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: It's implied by way of her ShipTease with Jaune that Pyrrha both wants to find a husband and wants to make sure that said husband is a really nice fellow. After all, men don't get much nicer (even if oblivious) than Jaune. |
| 406 | * SniperRifle: Pyrrha's javelin, Miló, can assume a gun-form that is optimized for extremely long-range shots. It even comes with a scope! |
| 407 | * SpiritedCompetitor: Downplayed, by still present. Pyrrha does not approve of opponents forfeiting a fight in the middle of combat. She was noticeably disappointed that Mercury did exactly that during their fight in Volume 2, and she shot him an annoyed look as he explained that she was too powerful for him anyway. |
| 408 | * SpockSpeak: Pyrrha's speech is particularly exacting and fact-focused, at least when it comes to combat. |
| 409 | -->'''Jaune:''' Did you hear that?\ |
| 410 | '''Pyrrha:''' Gunfire. It seems some of our comrades have encountered the enemy. |
| 411 | * StepfordSmiler: For all the things she's been gifted with, she's terribly alone and isolated due to her [[FamedInStory celebrity status]]. She only feels normal around Jaune because he makes her feel normal. In "Destiny", she's under immense pressure from the secrets Ozpin and Ironwood have told her, but she cannot confide in anyone. She therefore puts on a brave face when Ruby wishes her luck in the tournament, which vanishes as soon as Ruby's left. |
| 412 | * 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. |
| 413 | * SummonToHand: She can use her [[MagnetismManipulation Polarity]] Semblance to equip her sword and shield in a split second, making them leap from where they are to her hands. It's an integral part of her fighting style, as she can use her melee weapons as projectiles and then instantly recall them to her hand for further use. |
| 414 | * SuperpowerLottery: Pyrrha has unmatched combat ability that allowed her to become the Mistral Tournament champion four times running by the age of 17. Nicknamed "The Untouchable Girl" and a legend in her own lifetime, she keeps her Semblance secret. Able to [[MagnetismManipulation control anything metallic]] at will, she subtly adjusts her body, weapons and those of her opponents to make their blows miss and hers hit. When fully unleashed, she becomes a force of nature who can only be stopped by unnaturally powerful warriors. Her talents are so great she is hand-picked by the BigGood to inherit the power of the Fall Maiden in attempt to prevent [[TheHeavy Cinder Fall]] from obtaining them. When the transfer fails, Pyrrha pits herself against Cinder's Fall Maiden powers, and is able to fight toe-to-toe by using the full force of her Semblance. She only loses the fight because Semblances consume Aura, whereas magic does not, allowing Cinder to win once Pyrrha runs out of Aura. |
| 415 | * StarCrossedLovers: Pyrrha likes Jaune from the moment she meets him, but she has to sit back while Jaune works through his unrequited crush on Weiss. When they start becoming much closer in Volume 3, and Jaune shows signs of reciprocating her feelings, she's asked by Ozpin to become the Fall Maiden. This sets her on a path from which there is no return, and ensures that she and Jaune can never be together. |
| 416 | * TacticalWithdrawal: In episode 7. After Jaune is sent flying by the [[ScaryScorpions Death Stalker]], she takes one look at it and promptly legs it. It ends up taking the whole of Team JNPR to bring it down. |
| 417 | * TeamMom: The commentary on the DVD reveals that Pyrrha takes on this role to a degree. The bit of her offering to help Jaune was just a bit of this, and she does the same for her other teammates. That said, she did have other reasons for wanting to be alone with Jaune. |
| 418 | * ThrowingYourShieldAlwaysWorks: She makes frequent use of her shield as a projectile weapon in combat. Thanks to her Semblance, she can also [[BoomerangComeback make it return]]. However, in "End Of The Beginning", she tries to slice one of Cinder's arrows in half by throwing her shield like a frisbee. The arrow simply reforms on the other side, keeps going, and hits her in the foot, incapacitating her and allowing Cinder to kill her moments later. |
| 419 | * TranquilFury: In "Jaundice Part II", After seeing Jaune get bullied yet again by Cardin, she almost takes Nora's advice on dealing with him. If she wasn't attending to Jaune first, her tone implies that she probably would have: |
| 420 | -->'''Pyrrha:''' You know, I really ''will'' break his legs. |
| 421 | * UndyingLoyalty: She will never abandon Jaune, even during the times when he's being a jerk to her (often unintentionally in his case). |
| 422 | * WreckedWeapon: When Pyrrha and Cinder fight in the Volume 3 finale, Pyrrha forces Cinder into a throat lock with her spear, Miló. To escape this, Cinder has to summon the Wyvern and super-heat the spear into shattering while Pyrrha's distracted by the charging Grimm. This symbolises the turning point of the fight. In straight combat, Pyrrha is a match for Cinder, but their fight after this becomes more magical, with Pyrrha's Semblance versus Cinder's magic. Magic outperforms even powerful Semblances, and so Pyrrha -- like her weapon -- is destroyed. |
| 423 | * WrestlerInAllOfUs: Performs a few wrestling moves in her fight against team CRDL, most notably a suplex from mid-air to finish off Cardin. Fits, considering wrestling came from Greece. She also uses them against Cinder. |
| 424 | * YankTheDogsChain: In "Heroes and Monsters", she's finally going to take Amber's Aura to become the next Fall Maiden, and is in the middle of doing so when Cinder arrives and kills Amber, shutting off the process. When Pyrrha confronts Cinder, she puts up a spectacular fight even though she cannot win. |
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| 426 | |
| 427 | [[folder:Lie Ren]] |
| 428 | !!Lie Ren |
| 429 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MontyOum (Volumes 1-2), Neath Oum (all subsequent appearances), Creator/ApphiaYu (flashback, Volume 4)[[labelnote:Foreign [=VAs=]]]Creator/SomaSaito (Japanese), Creator/MariyaIse (Japaneses; flashback, Volume 4)[[/labelnote]] |
| 430 | !!!'''Debut:''' The First Step[[labelnote:*]]Volume 1 Episode 4[[/labelnote]] |
| 431 | |
| 432 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/beacon_ren.png]] |
| 433 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"Nora, please! Don't ever do that again."'']] |
| 434 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:''Click here for his appearance during the Anima Arc'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/haven_ren.png ''"[[DeadpanSnarker Is that it?]]"''[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 435 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:''Click here for his appearance during the Solitas Arc'']]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/atlas_ren.jpg ''"No one is replaceable."''[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 436 | |
| 437 | ->''"We never get the easy path, do we?"'' |
| 438 | |
| 439 | Ren joins Beacon Academy with his childhood friend, Nora, who becomes his team partner. He's quiet, reserved and prone to bottling his emotions. |
| 440 | |
| 441 | His weapons are called [=StormFlower=], a pair of green guns with collapsible curved blades under the barrels. His Semblance, "Tranquility", allows him to dampen down emotions, making himself and his targets invisible to the negativity-sensing Grimm. |
| 442 | |
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| 444 | * AllThereInTheManual: His weapons are named in Ren's album on Monty's [[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=481864455261765&set=a.480874392027438.1073741839.278065288975017&type=3&l=0e7072db34 Facebook page.]] |
| 445 | * AndThisIsFor: During the final battle in Volume 4, Ren decides to give his opponent the list. As Ren cripples and kills the Nuckelavee by slicing off each limb, he says that each cut is for his father, his mother, all the people this Grimm has slaughtered, and finally himself. |
| 446 | * BareFistedMonk: He uses his dual gun-blades alright, but his first combat sequence shows that with the use of Aura, he might be even more deadly when disarmed. |
| 447 | * BareHandedBladeBlock: Like all Huntsmen, he can use his Aura as a personal forcefield. When attacked by a snake, he can use his Aura to safely stop its attack by grabbing its fangs, as the Aura prevents him from cutting or piercing himself on the poisoned teeth. |
| 448 | * BarrierWarrior: As the concept of Aura is being explained, Ren displays using it defensively and offensively. How? Force-fielding a giant snake's attack, then ripping its fangs off, and making [[YourHeadAsplode the snake's head explode]] with a ''bare palm strike''. |
| 449 | * BayonetYa: Ren's choice of melee weapon is a collapsible dagger-like blade attached to both of his pistols, a more high-tech version of the bayonet. |
| 450 | * BladeBrake: Able to do so with his GunsAkimbo, as demonstrated by his landing technique in Episode 5 -- hooking his blade to a tree trunk and spiraling his way down. |
| 451 | * BoringButPractical: Ren's Semblance allows him to mask the emotions of himself and others; this isn't a flashy power, it simply turns affected people "grey" for the duration. As Grimm are attracted to negative emotions, Ren's power makes people functionally invisible -- even when standing right in front of the Grimm. It also allows the people affected to remain calm even in the most nerve-wracking situations. Ren later develops the ability to unmask emotions allowing him to see and understand exactly how the people around him are feeling, which encourages others -- and even himself -- to manage their emotions honestly; it also allows him to track people he cannot see. |
| 452 | * ChildhoodFriends: Nora and Ren start the show as seventeen-year-olds who have been together since a young age as a result of being orphaned by the Grimm. Nora is determined to make sure they are teamed together, even inventing secret "sloth" calls that Ren is convinced cannot be a real sloth's sound. Ren tries to rein in Nora's hyperactivity and wild enthusiasm while she thinks his penchant for "health" drinks is disgusting. They are so close that others erroneously think they're in a romantic relationship. They kiss in Volume 7 but villainous events prevent them from being able to immediately discuss it. In Volume 8, they admit they're in love with each other but Nora wants to sort her own individual identity; Ren is [[IWillWaitForYou fully supportive]]. |
| 453 | * TheComicallySerious: Ren isn't always Nora's straight man. "Destiny" proves it when out of nowhere he's in a hot pink apron and offering a... [[IfItTastesBadItMustBeGoodForYou "health drink"]] to Pyrrha. |
| 454 | * CordonBleughChef: It's implied that Ren has an... unusual... idea of just what should be mixed together to make his personal "health drinks". Nora's reaction to drinking one of Ren's liquid concoctions herself is to turn green and vomit in a nearby bin. |
| 455 | --> '''Nora''': If it looks the same coming up as it does going down, then there's something wrong. |
| 456 | * DeadpanSnarker: Ren favors making dry, sarcastic and biting comments, especially in response to Nora's GenkiGirl MotorMouth, or to Jaune's orders during combat. Even as a kid, he had a sassy streak, which his mother playfully said he got from her. |
| 457 | * EmotionSuppression: Ren's Semblance allows him to calm the negative emotions of both himself and others. This renders him and anyone he happens to be targeting completely undetectable to the Grimm, who are attracted to negative emotions. |
| 458 | * TheEmpath: Ren's Semblance initially allows him to mask people's emotions, which he uses to calm people into becoming invisible to the negativity-sensing Grimm; those affected by his Semblance appear visually grey. Later, he develops the ability to unmask people's emotions as well. In Volume 8, arguing with Harriet about her attitude towards teammates triggers an evolution in Ren's Semblance, greying his vision of the world except for his target, who remains coloured, surrounded by an aura of petals, the colour and movement of which identify their emotional state. Despite the simple visual, he immediately displays a remarkable degree of insight into each of the Ace-Ops; that Harriet is furious over Clover's death despite her claims of indifference, and that both Marrow and Winter want nothing to do with the missions they're on anymore, deducing that their emotional repression is what led to their loss against [=RWBY=]. |
| 459 | * EyedScreen: As Pyrrha explains how Aura works the scene cuts to Ren as he senses the King Taijitu's presence. We then get one of these focusing on his eyes. |
| 460 | * FacePalm: He slaps a hand over his face in embarrassment and annoyance when Nora pies Weiss in "Best Day Ever". |
| 461 | * GoForTheEye: Targeting weak points such as these seem to be Ren's go-to style for taking out large Grimm. He does this to the King Taijitu, whose hide is too thick for his guns to harm, and later a Nevermore, sending his blade straight into its eyeball. |
| 462 | * GrapplingHookPistol: In Volume 7, Ren gets this as an upgrade to Stormflower. The blades on his guns can aim forward and fire out as the grapples. With two anchor points, Ren can then launch himself forward for a powerful kick. |
| 463 | * GunsAkimbo: Ren's fighting style revolves around wielding a pair of bladed Machine Pistols, one in each hand and both at the same time. |
| 464 | * GunKata: Ren's fighting style relies on a mixture of gunplay at a distance and close-quarters combat. At a distance, he relies on mobility and special positions to avoid incoming shots and deliver accurate shots himself. In a melee, he both uses his pistols as blunt objects to strike with and attempts to shoot his foe at close-range - the blades on his pistols ensures that they are even handier in a close-quarters fight. |
| 465 | * TheGunslinger: Ren always lets loose a flurry of rounds from his automatic weapons whenever he fires, relying on sheer quantity of shots to guarantee both a hit and a kill. This qualifies him as the "Vaporizer" archetype. |
| 466 | * HamAndDeadpanDuo: Ren is quiet, thoughtful and prone to expressing his wit in deadpan and sarcastic ways, such as when he's asked to distract the sniper during the tournament, despite being the one with no shield, and his response is an understated "Sure, why not". His life-long partner, Nora, is expressive, energetic and loud. During the same tournament fight, when Jaune asks her to finish the fight with a single hit, she grins broadly, leaps in the air with her power needlessly flaring everywhere just for effect, and hits all four opponents with an exaggerated hammer swing. When Nora is telling Yang a story about her dream, she exaggerates the adventure for mood and suspense, while Ren quietly interjects with the actual, more boring, facts of the dream, deadpanning her enthusiasm. |
| 467 | * {{Hammerspace}}: His sleeves are evidently tight and yet he can fit his guns inside it without trouble. |
| 468 | * HiddenInPlainSight: His Semblance allows him to hide himself and others from the Grimm. When the Semblance activates, the target's colors become washed out, their emotions calm, and the Grimm can no longer see or detect them. The Nuckelavee that charges towards Jaune and Qrow actually stops and looked around in confusion when they disappear directly in front of it. |
| 469 | * HoldingHands: As the patrolmen take Team RNJR away from their fight with the Nuckelavee, Nora and Ren sit at the hatch door. Out of the blue, Ren grabs Nora's hand in a silent and appreciative gesture of gratitude. Nora is so shocked by the gesture that even the music cuts off in surprise. |
| 470 | * KissTheCookApron: When presenting a health drink to Pyrrha to help her prepare for the Vytal Tournament finals, Ren is wearing a hot pink apron with the phrase, "Please Do Nothing to the Cook" on it. |
| 471 | * KungFuWizard: His impressive demonstration of bare-handed fighting coupled with direct application of Aura in volume 1 episode 6 makes him the most skilled person at both among Teams RWBY and JNPR. |
| 472 | * LastNameBasis: Ren is almost universally referred to by his surname; even his closest companions, such as his long-time childhood friend Nora, call him "Ren". In fact, until it was revealed that Ren was his surname, most fans thought he was the sole character with their name in Eastern order (surname first, given name second). |
| 473 | * LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Fittingly, the one time he and Nora argue they go back and forth very much like a long-married pair due to their long familiarity with each other, with the camera even focusing on Jaune and Pyrrha's reactions as if to suggest they just want to leave them to it. |
| 474 | * LongHairedPrettyBoy: He has pretty pink eyes and a slim, feminine facial structure. His body is slender and, while he's just barely taller than most of the female students, he's shorter than most of the men. For the first three volumes, his hair is tied back into a long ponytail with a pink streak that's the same color as his eyes. In Volume 4, the pink streak is darker, almost purple, and he wears his hair unbound. It's so long it almost reaches his butt and emphasizes his slight, feminine appearance. |
| 475 | * MeaningfulName: Ren is Japanese for "lotus", and he wears a lotus emblem. It turns out to be the symbol of his home town, which was destroyed by a Grimm when he was young. On the day it happened, he was admiring a lotus flower that was floating in the town's canal. His entire name "Lie Ren" is the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for "Hunter"; the reason his town was destroyed was because it had no Huntsmen to protect it and relied on the skills of ordinary warriors such as his father. He is strongly implied to be motivated to become a Huntsman because of this event, as Jaune apologises for cancelling their training mission to protect a village from the Grimm when the creatures breach Vale's walls. |
| 476 | * MixAndMatchWeapon: Ren's weapon of choice can serve as both blades and guns. In a pinch, he can even use his weapons as [[BladeBrake brakes]]. |
| 477 | * MoreDakka: Rather than the standard semi-auto pistols used by most Huntsmen, Ren sports a pair of fully automatic Machine Pistols, which launch barrages of bullets and whittle foes down with sheer weight of shots. |
| 478 | * {{Ninja}}: Nora explicitly calls him one in Volume 3, and he's a highly adept and agile martial artist who uses many of the movements classically associated with ninja. His Semblance allows him to hide from the Grimm, giving him the stealth powers of a ninja as well. |
| 479 | * NotAMorningPerson: He is sluggish and groans when Nora has to wake him up, and he performs the morning ablutions in an almost zombie-like state, which contrasts to Nora buzzing energetically around him. |
| 480 | * NotSoStoic: Ren starts off highly stoic and calm, but over the course of Volume 4 he begins emoting more and more as the team travels further into Anima and keep encountering villages that have been destroyed by bandits or the Grimm. When the team finally reach Ren's home, they confront the Nuckelavee that has been destroying local villages. Ren sinks to his knees in horror and shock but his hatred and anger grow throughout the fight until he loses all control against the monster that killed his home town and family. In the seventh and eighth volumes, the stress of the situation the heroes are under sees Ren struggling to contain his emotions throughout, resulting in increasing outbursts of anger or tears whenever situations hit him particularly hard, such as when he's forced to fight Neo at the end of Volume 7 while she's disguised as Nora or in Volume 8 when Oscar is taken away by the Hound and he isn't able to stop it. |
| 481 | * NothingUpMySleeve: Ren wields decent sized knife-guns that are stored in his sleeves when not in use. Despite being a slim cut, the sleeves [[{{Hammerspace}} never reveal]] the presence of his weapons. |
| 482 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Ren is generally a calm, even-tempered person who only becomes flustered by Nora's crazy, hyperactive antics. However, his mood becomes increasingly grim, sour and depressed the further into Anima they get and with every destroyed village they encounter. When they reach the outskirts of the long-ruined Kuroyuri, Ren is so distraught about going into the village that the team split up, a decision that accidentally leads Ren and Nora straight to the lair of the creature that destroyed Shion, Oniyuri and Kuroyuri. Although they make it back to Ruby and Jaune in time, the sight of the creature that destroyed his childhood, standing in the middle of his old home, drives him to his knees in despair. Later, during the fight itself, Ren is consumed by rage and hatred, to the point that he keeps trying to attack the monster even while unarmed and with his Aura depleted. |
| 483 | * ParentalAbandonment: Nora mentions in "Round One" that she and Ren don't have any parents or home. Ren implies his parents were part of the Oniyuri project, an abandoned plan to create a new town free from Mistral's control that could develop into its own kingdom. When the the kids reach the devastated town of Kuroyuri, flashbacks reveal that this was Ren's home town. Ren and Nora were the sole survivors of an attack that killed everyone and destroyed the town by the same creature that destroys Xion Village. Ren's mother is killed in front of his eyes when their house collapses on them while his father sacrifices himself to give Ren time to escape. |
| 484 | * TheQuietOne: He speaks rarely and briefly, at least when compared to [[MotorMouth Nora]], though he can "get real deep when he feels like talking". Jaune mentions how he considers Ren his good friend despite knowing little about him, owing to his reticence. It shows how he's a calm person, especially if contrasted with Nora. |
| 485 | -->'''Jaune:''' Ren, I'm just gonna come out and say it. You are one of my best friends. These past few months, I feel like we've really bonded. Even though... you don't say much. I mean, you're ''really'' quiet. To be perfectly honest, I really don't know much about you personally... But darn it, I consider you to be the brother I never had!\ |
| 486 | ''[{{beat}}]''\ |
| 487 | '''Ren:''' (''Wearing only a towel'') And I you. |
| 488 | * SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: The happy-go-lucky Nora and her ChildhoodFriends partner, the serious, deadpan Ren; Ren is [[TheStoic serene]], calm, [[TheQuietOne soft-spoken]] and prefers to think before he acts, which [[CloudcuckoolandersMinder balances and reins in]] Nora's [[GenkiGirl passion-fueled]], [[BloodKnight aggressive]] "act first think later" personality, while at the same time benefiting from her drive to bring him out of his shell. This leads to conflict during the Atlas Arc as Ren bottles his emotions while Nora expresses hers, leading to Ren shutting down and pushing people away, while Nora feels like she's losing her ability to understand Ren and, with it, her own ability to understand herself. They resolve the problem in Volume 8. |
| 489 | * ShirtlessScene: Courtesy of wearing nothing but a pink towel in "Burning the Candle". In his defense, it wasn't intentional--Jaune had yanked him out of the bathroom to have a heart-to-heart. Throughout the whole scene, Ren looks ''incredibly'' uncomfortable about it, and he was reaching for his clothes when Jaune startled him by asking when he and Nora got together. |
| 490 | * ShipTease: He and Nora get confused for a couple a few times and Nora does have a confirmed crush on him. Ren does get concerned whenever Nora gets injured, but his feelings are more ambiguous until late in Volume 4. The fight with the monster that destroyed his family and home town is also the tragedy that brought Ren and Nora together as children. Ren's hatred and rage builds throughout the fight until Nora is injured at which point he loses all control. Nora slaps sense into him, and after the fight Ren is more openly affectionate towards her. From Volume 6 onwards, Nora is openly willing to refer to Ren as "my man" but the reason why their relationship status is ambiguous is only revealed in Volume 7 when they start arguing about its lack of resolution in front of a very uncomfortable Ruby. The argument ends with Nora hauling Ren into [[BigDamnKiss a kiss]] to which he positively responds. |
| 491 | * SpiderSense: Early in Volume 1, he is able to sense a King Taijitu moments before it attacks. In Volume 4, he's able to sense Tyrian's approach, and from which direction, long before Tyrian arrives. Although Pyrrha indicates Aura allows people to instinctively sense when they're being watched, Ren is the only character shown to be so sensitive the approach of danger to the point that if he suddenly freezes on the spot, his friends immediately tense up and go into combat stances without even questioning Ren's instincts. This also extends to situations out of combat as he states in Volume 4 at one point that he can sense they are getting close to ''something''. This something turns out to be of emotional significance for him. |
| 492 | * 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. |
| 493 | * 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. |
| 494 | * SupernaturalMartialArts: When he drops his guns, he promptly beats a giant snake to death with its own fangs and a palm strike. |
| 495 | * TellMeHowYouFight: As one would expect from his quiet personality, he fights calmly and carefully, and his physical strikes are done with precision. |
| 496 | * TragicKeepsake: A simple hunting knife his father gave him before sacrificing himself to give his son time to escape from the Grimm that destroyed his village. The blades of his own weapon are modeled after the shape of this knife. His outfit while in Atlas actually incorporates it into the design, putting it in a holster attached to a brace on his right arm, though he never actually uses it. |
| 497 | * UnstoppableRage: When faced with a nightmare from his past, Ren loses any attempt to remain calm. Even Jaune has to yell at him to knock it off, to no avail. The Nuckelavee which has been destroying villages along Team RNJR's travel route eventually confronts them in the ruins of Ren's former home, a home that it destroyed years ago after killing his parents and everyone else in front of him. His anger builds throughout the fight but explodes when the creature brutalises Nora. He attacks it over and over, ignoring Jaune who yells at him to stop. He only calms down when Nora slaps his face to bring him back to his senses. |
| 498 | * WeaponBasedCharacterisation: Ren is an orphan survivor of a Grimm attack that destroyed his entire village. The village's symbol was a lotus flower, which is his personal symbol. His green tunic mimics the style of green dress his mother was wearing when she died and he wears a streak of colour in his hair, just like his father -- although the pink colour reflects the eye colour he inherited off his mother. One of the last things he hears before his parents die is his father saying they need a Huntsman to deal with the threat they're facing. His weapon consists of green guns with strangely shaped, jagged blade attachments, and he's very keen on his school mission being to defend villages that are located outside the Kingdom. Flashbacks reveal that the last thing his father ever did was give him a knife and tell him to run. The knife is the exact shape of the blades on Ren's guns. Ren's entire motivation as a Huntsman, including his personal appearance and the colour and shape of his weapons, is designed to be a memorial to his lost parents, village and why they died. |
| 499 | * WrestlerOfBeasts: In "The Emerald Forest", Ren encounters a giant, [[{{Ouroboros}} two-headed snake]] Grimm called the King Taijitu. After it disarms him, he fights it with his bare hands, snapping off one of its fangs and jamming it into its eye before obliterating one of its heads with a palm strike. |
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