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Team RWBY (In General)
- Adaptation Name Change: Though it appears only rarely, Blake and Yang's names are put last-name first, eastern-style, similar to Scars. In the case of Blake, her clan name, Hitoma, is first, while Yang is just literally Xiao Long Yang. Ruby's first name, given her reimagined Valen heritage, is changed to Rubi.
- Similarly, a few of their weapons and abilities are renamed. Crescent Rose is renamed La Rose Croissante. The American interpretation of Croissant is lampshaded.
- Adaptational Badass: On display as early as Beacon Initiation, with Rubi, Yang and Weiss especially being depicted as highly pragmatic, with new functions added to their weapons. Blake, as well, is implied to be a scarred, embittered survivor.
Rubi "Ruby" Rose
The canon protagonist. Complete ball of sunshine and rainbows, like her mom. She is half-Mistrali, half-Valen, but she uses Valen naming conventions. Rubi's Iconic Weapon, La Rose Croissante is a modified version of her canon counterpart's Crescent Rose that also has a sword form like her Uncle's Harbinger.
- Adaptation Species Change: In this AU, she's a wolf faunus, belonging to the Hijimi Clan by birth, but raised outside of it. Similarly, her mother is a canid tail-bearing faunus of unspecified type.
- Chekhov's Skill: Of all things, this version of Ruby being a Cricket player in her youth comes up surprisingly often.
- Furry Reminder: Subverted, as unlike similar wolf faunus Louve Hyacinth (See Original Characters, below.) and Blake herself, Ruby demonstrates almost no animalistic behaviors apart from her ears and fangs. This subtly implies that a lot of that is a learned behavior rather than instinctual.
- Despite that, she does growl softly at a few points.
WolfPrincessSarah: "I'm not taking a side in the nature-nurture debate here."
Weiss Schnee
- This little knife is also a gun.
- Abusive Parents: As in canon, Jacques is horrendously abusive towards her, up to the point of manipulating every point of her transition as well.
- Adaptational Nice Girl: Downplayed. It's really only a matter of degree, but she's clearly trying to be a little more polite than her canon incarnation. Until she feels backed into a corner, then she quickly reveals she's still quite the Ice Queen.
- Chekhov's Skill: During her trailer chapter, she's implied to be abnormally good at sensing using her Aura alone (a skill implied to be possessed by many Huntsmen).
- Cyborg: A very, very downplayed one, as she only has one very small "Hormone Regulation Implant", implied to play a part in her transition. During While We Fall, it's explained that it's the brainchild of one specific researcher and an opt-in experimental program.
- Infinity -1 Sword: Her Myrtenaster has a blade, stated to have been added at the demand of her father, manufactured out of Superdense Huntsman Steel, which grants it the ability to block FEHL blades with ease.
- The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Heavily implied to hero-worship her grandfather as early as her trailer chapter, and some more of that is explored later.
- Required Secondary Powers: The absurdity of Weiss being able to actively fight in heels and a skirt is Justified here with the subtle reality-warping effects of a person's Aura. Weiss wanted to fight in heels, so her Aura adapted, extending her Aspect in that way.
- Screw the Rules, They Broke Them First!: Initially, Weiss verbally backspaces after her instinct is to use a slur on Rubi, but when Blake utters a transphobic slur, she quickly lashes back with a racist one at her.
- Sobriquet Sex Switch: Before she came out as trans, her name was Rime.
- Trans Tribulations: Struggles with coming out to her family, especially her father possibly for very good reasons, as it's just one more thing to manipulate her with, and keeps it from her team as well out of fear of rejection. However, because of her celebrity status, most of them know already.
Hitoma Hozuki Blake
Ex-White Fang and mutual spoiled rich kid with Weiss. For the first few chapters she appears in, it's not very clear whether she's changed all that much from her canon incarnation, up until she appears at Beacon and isn't wearing a bow. Blake's Iconic Weapon, Gambol Shroud is actually initially unmodified from its canon counterpart, but undergoes a major overhaul when it gets damaged mid-way through Before the Whims of Fate.
- Adaptational Jerkass: Slightly. She calls Weiss a transphobic slur in her native tongue during Chapter 13, prompting Weiss to throw a racist slur right back at her.
- Blood Knight: Somewhat, even if a more coldly confident version of the trope. During a stinger scene in Chapter 13, she lingers and presents herself as distracted and vulnerable even as she completely knows Cardin is sneaking up on her.Part of her wanted to teach the bully a lesson in humility. Part of her just wanted to see some action. Both parts were voting to bait him closer.
- Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto Us: Stated in WolfPrincessSarah's author's notes to be partially the reason why she used a slur on Weiss.
- Properly Paranoid: Unlike many other overconfident hunters, including Rubi Rose, on occasion, her Aura is always raised. In combination with her faunus traits and enhanced reflexes, she's almost never caught off-guard.
- Jade-Colored Glasses: Strongly implied, even in comparison with her canon self.
Xiao Long Yang
Firebrand with shotgun fists. She is of Mistrali heritage, from both her biological mother, Branwen "The Raven" Wūyā and her father, Xiao Long Tai Yang. Has a snore that's described as "half machine gun, half wounded Grizzly bear". Yang's Iconic Weapons, Ember Celica is a modified version of her canon counterpart's weapon with pop-out arm blades. She later switched to using one half of Ember Celica, alongside a custom high-powered prosthetic built by Pietro Polendina.
- Adaptational Jerkass: Downplayed. She's just angrier and more ruthless towards enemies and criminals. Around everyone else that's not in that category, she acts more or less the same. She also seemingly has a slight Morality Pet in the form of her little sister.
- The Big Girl: As in canon, and it's mentioned during Apocalypse State of Mind that she has an Aura strength of 24, notably twice of what her teammates generally have.
- Bilingual Bonus: Peppers her (normally Valen and Atlesian) speech with Mistrali sayings and (most notably) curses, picked up from her dad.
- Blade Below the Shoulder: At some point between the events of Chapter 5 and Chapter 12 of Before the Whims of Fate, Ember Celica was tweaked to include a pop-out crescent blade as an internal homage to Été Rose's kusarigama, Rose Thorn.
- Distracted by the Sexy: Her first meeting with Blake has her eyeing her thighs and waist. To be fair, it's mutual.
