Team SPRN
- “You four had chosen the white castle piece. From this day forth, you four will work together as Team SPRN. Led by… Sun Wukong.”
One of the newest teams in Beacon, along with Team RWBY, Team SPRN is made up of Sun Wukong, Pyrrha Nikos, Lie Ren and Nora Valkyrie.
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General
- Color-Coded Characters: Sun is yellow, Pyrrha is red, Ren is green and Nora is pink.
- Sun has bright yellow hair and tail, wears a bracelet with yellow accents, and built his weapon with red and gold accents. When using his Semblance, his clones are made of bright yellow light.
- Pyrrha has long, red hair, wears red accents in her outfit with her sash, and wields a red and gold spear/rifle.
- Ren wears a mostly green outfit with white and pink accents, though his hair is black with a pink streak rather than matching his chosen colour.
- Nora similarly wears pink throughout her outfit, with her skirt being the most catching, and fires pink grenades from her rocket launcher.
- Fun with Acronyms: As with every team, SPRN is an anagram of the members' names and is pronounced spring, referencing spring green.
- Gender-Equal Ensemble: Like Team AZRE and CMRN, Team SPRN consists of two girls and two guys. From how they partnered up in the Initiation, the partnerships between the two male/female members play into their strengths and weaknesses:
- Sun is sociable and carefree, often not taking things seriously enough with his ability to move on from serious topics rather than face them. Pyrrha, on the other hand, is far more humble and formal with people, especially her fans, while hinting that her fame and fans that come with it is starting to drain on her, though puts up with it nonetheless.
- Ren is quiet, serious and seen as low energy, appearing tired all the time, whereas Nora is high energy, loud and loves a good fight as seen in the Initiation. Ren's calmer nature helps temper Nora, whereas Nora's cheery nature helps bring Ren out of his shell.
Sun Wukong
- “Come on, Chase! Where’s your sense of fun?”
The younger adoptive brother of Chase and Roxanne Marrón, Sun Wukong is a mischievous monkey Faunus fro Isidis City that had chosen to attend Beacon Academy.
- Adaptational Backstory Change: While Before The Dawn reveals that Sun was an orphan who travelled across Vacuo with his cousin; Starr, his backstory in AZRE is completely different. He was adopted by Eliana and has lived in Isidis City for an unspecified amount of time, though longer than the Marrón children were brought in seven years prior. There's no mention of Starr or his tribe before being adopted.
- Adaptational Gender Identity: He's cisgender in RWBY, but was rewritten as a trans man in AZRE.
- Amazon Chaser: He shares some flirty banter with Yang, centering mostly on their hypothetical team with Yang's brawler personality and confidence something that Sun positively responds to.
- Animal Stereotypes: A monkey Faunus and is seen to be a trickster who's favourite food is bananas.
- Anti-Mentor: He was told to have been teaching Ruri how to use the bao staff, since it's his primary weapon of choice. However, while Ruri acknowledges his skill with it, she also admits that he's easily distracted and overall not that great of a teacher.
- Beneath the Mask: While usually Sun shows himself as cheerful and full of life, never letting negativity affect him for long, he does still show that sometimes, things are affecting him more than he's letting on. After Chase and Roxanne argue over whether they should become Huntsmen at the Vytal Tournament, Sun admits to Roxanne afterwards that he's worried that Chase will hate him if he follows the same path, heavily hinting that he's not choosing Shade. The third year arc shows that he didn't chose Shade, rather coming to Beacon, and his fear of Chase hating him comes true with his brother refusing to even talk about him, even to his friends.
- Big Brother Instinct: Sun seems to be one of Aurora's only friends, with the two constantly being seen together and Sun explicitly stated to have done his share in raising her. Even after leaving for Beacon, he still keeps in contact with her, and Roxanne.
- The Confidant: He's the first one that Blake opens up more to since coming to Beacon, admitting that she's frustrated and upset at Weiss' racist remarks and just wanted to come to Beacon to try and right her wrongs. Sun immediately drops his previous behaviour and comforts her.
- Everyone Has Standards: Even though he willingly partakes in Chase's reckless behaviour, Sun does show more concern for the destruction they caused and willingly takes the blame for it when Eliana scolds Chase specifically.
- Family Theme Naming: With the exception of Chase, Sun and the rest of his family are named after fire or stars. Roxanne and Aurora mean "dawn", Eliana is named after the colour red and connected to fire, and Sun himself is named after the star.
- Friend to All Children: He seems to easily get along with younger kids, especially seen in his scenes with his younger sister, Aurora.
- Hair-Contrast Duo: Sun and Blake. Both the only Faunus members of the newest Beacon teams, Sun protective, cheerful, and openly welcoming to anyone he comes across, even if they are complete strangers. Blake is aloof, confrontational to people who intrude, and often moody. Sun is blonde haired, associated with the sun and light, and uses offensive light clones that fight with him, Blake is black haired, associated with the moon and shadows, and uses defensive shadow clones that take the hit for her.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: He has sunny yellow hair, and is probably the nicest out of his siblings, minus Aurora.
- Happily Adopted: Not being related to his siblings or mother by blood doesn't stop Sun from loving them just as much.
- Heroic Build: Firmly on the side of the protagonists, and has a muscular body that he doesn't mind showing off.
- Hidden Depths: Despite his seemingly goofy personality, Sun has shown to take his responsibilities to his family more seriously than his older brother, being attentive to Aurora and always being the one to take her to school and keep her company.
- Just Friends: With Blake. Both are clearly close, with Weiss mistaking their closenss for romantic interest, but Blake explicitly rejects it with stating they're just friends.
- The Leader: He was named the leader of Team SPRN.
- Meaningful Name:
- Sun has obvious connections to the sun, but also has another meaning in Chinese, one of the ways to write sun with a character meaning "monkey". Sun is a monkey Faunus predominantly dressed in bright and warm colours, like white and yellow.
- His name together, Sun Wukong, is the name of the Monkey King from Chinese folkore; Journey to the West, who Sun is based on.
- Mischief-Making Monkey: A monkey Faunus, and even introduced causing havoc in Isidis City with his brother.
- Mr. Fanservice: Spent the entirety of his scenes in Vacuo completely shirtless, showing off his toned body. When he gets to Beacon, he puts on a white shirt but leaves the front open to expose his chest and abs still.
- Mr. Vice Guy: When talking about motivations for joining Beacon with Blake and Zanthus, Sun freely admits that he has no meaningful reason for becoming a Huntsman, simply doing it because it was the path the rest of his family has taken rather than a desire to save lives or improve the lives of their people.
- No Shirt, Long Jacket: His default outfit in Beacon.
- Prehensile Tail: His monkey tail is strong and dexterous to not only support his body weight while hanging, but grab things around him, like the chess piece in the Emerald Forest.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: In both Vacuo and Beacon, since Sun never wears a shirt and only puts on an open jacket when he comes to the more temperate Vale.
Pyrrha Nikos
- “She’s Pyrrha Nikos. She’s practically a celebrity in all four kingdoms!”
A famous champion and celebrity in Remnant, Pyrrha is one of the newest students at Beacon Academy, having moved there from the city of Argus in Northern Mistral.
- Apologises a Lot: A habit of hers. Usually played for comedy, it takes a more dramatic turn when she apologises to Zanthus and Blake, right after the latter calls her out for putting her image before her friends.
- Accidental Misnaming: Sun calls her Piper rather than Pyrrha, due to not really knowing her, which she corrects him on.
- The Ace: Pyrrha is quickly introduced as a four-time champion of the Mistral Championships by the time she was fifteen, graduated top of her class in Sanctum, and obviously became successful enough to appear on merchandise and even have her own merch that Ruby is clearly eager to get.
- Adaptational Dye-Job: Very minimal compared to the canon characters, but Pyrrha has more of a tan and wears both a black mesh vest under her chest piece to cover her chest.
- Celeb Crush: She's a famous celebrity in the Huntsmen world, and has countless people following her. While others aren't shown being attracted to Pyrrha, Weiss at least is shown to have some attraction to Pyrrha given her reaction to Blake pointing it out.
- Disappeared Dad: Her father passed away from liver cancer when she was fifteen.
- Establishing Character Moment: When she's first introduced properly, she's friendly with Blake and interested in the Faunus' connection to Menagerie, though assumes Blake knows who she is already and is clearly shocked when Blake corrects her. Despite her baring no ill will to Blake and Sun, or the Faunus in general, Pyrrha has some questionable beliefs in that she still calls Menagerie a colony, rather than a kingdom, and doesn't actually stand up for Blake or Sun when Weiss is explicitly racist towards them.
- Extreme Doormat: No matter how uncomfortable someone makes her, Pyrrha seems unable to tell them off or even stand up for herself properly, seen especially in her interactions with Weiss. Blake calls her out for this in Acceptance & Rejection, as Pyrrha refuses to dampen her image in favour of standing up for her and Sun.
- Fair-Weather Friend: What Blake basically calls her. Pyrrha is a nice person, and while she does hate bigotry, she doesn't actually do much to stop it if it impacts her image. This is even when it's her teammate and leader; Sun. When Pyrrha tries to console Blake after a near confrontation with Cardin, Blake refuses it, telling Pyrrha that if she wants Blake to accept her as a friend and someone who actually cares for the downtrodden, she had to be there even if it negatively impacted her.
- Famed In-Story: A very popular celebrity who won tournaments, has deals to use her image on cereal, and attracts crowds of fans no matter where she goes. The only people who don't recognise her are Blake, who came from Menagerie and lived isolated from the kingdoms, and Sun, who only knows her from the cereal he eats.
- Humble Hero: Despite all her fame, Pyrrha doesn't shown any arrogance because of it, and only assumes that Blake knows her because she's always been recognised everywhere.
- Innocently Insensitive: She obviously doesn't mean anything bad by it, but Pyrrha calling Menagerie a colony rather than a kingdom annoys Blake, since Menagerie actually hasn't been a colony for over eighty years, and is shown through Adam and Eirian to actually be fighting to be recognised as a legitimate kingdom by the other four kingdoms.
- Lady Legionnaire Wear: Her Huntress outfit is heavily inspired by Ancient Greek armour, using bronze and gold in her chest plate, left vambrace and greaves, along with a Greek style circlet and a skirt.
- Meaningful Name:
- Pyrrha is a Greek derivative of "flame-coloured", alluding to the colour red. Not only is her hair a deep red, but Pyrrha wears a long red sash around her waist that carries the colour throughout her design.
- Nikos is a Greek name meaning "victor of the people", not only connecting to her various wins in tournaments and exceptional fighting skills, but her immense fame and popularity of the general population of Remnant.
- Her name connects with her allusion; Achilles, as Pyrrha was his name when he was disguised as a woman to avoid going to war.
- Nice Girl: Despite a few blunders regarding the Faunus and Menagerie, calling it a colony rather than a kingdom, Pyrrha is pleasant to everyone and never has a bad thing to say about them, even if it's towards people that obviously make her uncomfortable like Weiss Schnee.
- Product Placement: In-Universe. Pyrrha's face is used as the mascot for the Pumpkin Pete cereal brand, which is what gets her recognised by Sun.
- Tactical Withdrawal: She suggests that they run from the Deathstalker rather than remain and fight it due to how dangerous the Grimm is, something that Ruby doesn't agree with.
Lie Ren
- “Nora. Please, don’t do that again.”
A mysterious Mistrali teen who came to Beacon Academy, Ren is quiet and straight forward, giving a much needed calm aura to their more energetic and wild teammates.
- Adaptational Gender Identity: While Ren is a cis man in RWBY, they were changed to non-binary in AZRE, with solely they/them pronouns.
- Bayonet Ya: Their dual pistols come with hooked blades on the bottom, allowing Ren to slash at enemies that get too close.
- Boring, but Practical: Their Semblance isn't flashy like the rest of their team. Able to detect emotion and manipulate it, Ren's Semblance isn't suitable for straight up combat, but they can use it to sense people around them and manipulate people's emotions to calm or agitate situations.
- The Comically Serious: Their responses are monotone and dry in relation to the outgoing Nora, with a lot of their responses being dry quips in response to everyone else around them.
- Deadpan Snarker: One of their most go-to responses.
- Yang: You think that's our way out?Ren: I think it's the only one we're gonna find!
- Emotion Suppression: Ren's Semblance allows them to lessen someone, or their own, emotions. Which they do to Weiss to calm her down and allow her to think over what Yang and Eirian told her.
- This is what they tell Adam to do as well in the Forever Fall forest. Ren has long surpressed their emotions to survive the harsh world outside the kingdoms, and believes that this is the right thing to do to survive. Unfortunately, their Semblance means that, even if they successfully push their emotions down, they still have to feel everyone else's.
- The Empath: While their Semblance allows them to manipulate one's emotions, a passive effect allows them to sense everyone's emotions around them, and almost "track" a specific person. However, being surrounded by people means they're constantly bombarded with all different kinds of emotions, pushing Ren to often try to keep everyone calm as to not overload them.
- Establishing Character Moment: Lesser so than the rest of their team, but Ren comes into the story after working together with Nora to kill a King Taijitu that was giving Weiss and Ruby trouble, cutting its head off. Afterwards, they simply approaches the group, chides Nora for her recklessness, and notices that there were very few idols left, meaning they were one of the last to arrive. It sets them up as a quiet, but analytical person who pulls Nora's recklessness back.
- Guns Akimbo: The weapons they use are a pair of bladed machine guns that Ren dual wields.
- Ham and Deadpan Duo: With Nora. Ren is a reserved and thoughtful person, with most of their reactions being sarcastic and dry as they never raises their voice. Nora, on the other hand, is far louder and outgoing, providing the more visible comedy compared to Ren's more subtle jabs.
- Honor Before Reason: Despite having just stopped Cardin from fighting Blake, Sun and Zanthus, Ren stops Nora from escalating the fight for the sole reason that Cardin and his gang were running away. Even if they are horrible people, Ren will not lower themself to chasing after people who are retreating.
- Masking the Deformity: They wear long gloves to cover up the burn scars on their arms.
- Meaningful Name: Ren is Japanese for "Lotus", which is not only their emblem, but is a flower that can be both pink and green, which Ren is mostly coloured with.
- Their name together can come from the Chinese pinyin for "Hunter", not only connecting to their aspiring career as a Huntsman, but also from Hunter Green, a shade of green that Ren is named after.
- Mysterious Past: Their and Nora's past, along with their characters, are mostly a mystery. Besides coming from Mistral, having met and befriended White Fang members before, and have known each other for years, not much else is said about them.
- Not a Morning Person: Their love of sleep and constant tiredness is one of their biggest character points. So much so that disturbing it is a big red flag for them, with Sun confessing that, when some of the other students came to their dorm room to train with Pyrrha, Ren shut the door in their face. The reason? It was a Saturday morning and they woke them up.
- The Quiet One: Compared to the rest of their team, Ren doesn't really speak and only says a sentence or two when people talk directly to them. Otherwise, they are trying to nap or simply enjoying the peace and quiet.
- Technicolor Eyes: They have pink eyes.
Nora Valkyrie
- “Oh, it was just a lil’ bump. You can walk it off!”
Extroverted and boisterous, Nora came to Beacon Academy alongside Ren, showing up in the Emerald Forest after helping Weiss and Ruby fight a King Taijitu.
- Big Damn Heroes: She's the one to stop Cardin from starting a fight with Blake, Sun and Zanthus; by hitting him in the head with a foodtray.
- Blood Knight: Introduced as such, since while Weiss appropriately shows fear at fighting the King Taijitu and nearly being hurt, Nora brushes it off and shows none of that fear when fighting Grimm. When Ren tells her off for picking the fight, she mopes and calls him a spoilsport.
- Boisterous Bruiser: Strong, tough and fight close up with her giant hammer, Nora prefers to treat fighting more as a game rather than a serious life or death situation that other students due. While nearly everyone is either treating the Grimm seriously or are showing fear, Nora simply wants to have fun.
- Childhood Friends: She and Ren had been together for many years, and came to Beacon together. They work well as a duo, are hardly seen apart, and when they are with Nora hanging out more with Sun, she still trusts them to help with schoolwork.
- Disproportionate Retribution: While Cardin was threatening her friends, Nora immediately jumped to violence with hitting him with a tray, and then suggesting that they break his legs when no ones looking.
- Establishing Character Moment: She comes into the story bringing down a powerful Grimm, and immediately brushing off Weiss' justified reactions to nearly being hurt by it, showing a confidence and almost love for fighting that has to be brought back by Ren.
- Fiery Redhead: She has bright orange hair, and a temper to match. It doesn't take much to push Nora's buttons, and when she's pissed, she immediately turns to violence. She seemingly had this as a child as well, given how Ren spoke of a time she nearly took Sienna's head off when she found them as children.
- Girly Bruiser: Dresses in pink, wears feminine clothing with a skirt and associated with hearts that decorate her shirt, but also loves fighting and uses a giant hammer to pummel enemies with.
- Ham and Deadpan Duo: Her and Ren. Nora is the Ham; reacting to situations in a loud and comical manner, is very expressive, and shows no desire to hide whatever is on her mind. Meanwhile, Ren is quiet and thoughtful, only reacting to things in similar manner while giving dry quips.
- Large Ham: Everything she does is done loud and energetically, from fighting to simply collecting an idol for her mission.
- Meaningful Name:
- Nora has different origins in different languages, but most meanings lead back to "light". She's brightly coloured with a Semblance that allows her to absorb lightning, further connecting to her allusion as Thor, the Norse God of Thunder. There's also the Nora Barlow Columbine, a pink flower, with Nora's chosen colour being pink.
- Valkyrie is the name of the Norse mythology revolving around a group of warrior women who fight for Odin, with one actually being the daughter of Thor; Nora's allusion.
- Mysterious Past: Just like Ren, nothing is known about Nora unlike Sun and Pyrrha. All that's none at the moment is that she came from Mistral, is a childhood friend of Ren, and has met White Fang members in the past and befriended them, giving her a more positive viewpoint of the orginisation.
- Pink Is Feminine: Her Huntress outfit is decked out in pink; involving her gloves, skirt, shoes and heart deco on her shirt. On top of that, she associated with hearts, having a heart icon on her shirt and grenades.
