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Remnant

General

• After the End: All the cities of Remnant are struggling with this, in addition to suffering bouts of resource shortage. Only Kuo Kuana, Vacuo, and Argus are in any sort of decent shape. As for everyone else:
  • Vale:
    • Only Beacon and the surrounding agricultural district are under some form of law and order. The rest of the city is in utter chaos; Adam Taurus in particular is running completely unchecked, using what White Fang forces that haven't already defected as his personal gang and executing anyone he doesn't like. James Ironwood and what's left of the Atlesian forces are trying to retake the city, but it's a slow-going effort due to all the other problems they have to deal with.
    • The economy is wrecked. Roman Torchwick has taken over the industrial district and is now holding the city by the balls with it. Lien itself is effectively worthless thanks to the limited resources shifting the currency system to a bartering one. Dust fragments now serve as payment for goods and services.
    • Finally, the entire population is collectively depressed. Alcoholism and suicide rates are at an all-time high. Already in Beacon, Ozpin has started issuing and increasing mandatory group therapy sessions to keep what little morale is up. Time will tell if it's effective or not.
    • Taking a shower in itself has become a luxury that can only happen once a week, with everyone having a designated time. Anyone that wants to clean themselves more frequently than that has to take a trip to the river and take a bath there.
  • Mistral: Has descended into complete anarchy after the deaths of Headmaster Lionheart and the remaining civilian government, with dozens of warlords trying to consolidate power over the city. The two most powerful factions, led by Sienna Khan and Miss Malachite respectively, are on the verge of a racial war due to Sienna preferring a Pro-Faunus approach while Malachite supports a Pro-Human one.
  • Atlas and Mantle: Stable for now, but the growing disparity in resource allocation has only furthered the divide between the two cities, putting them in a cold war that could very well erupt into a Civil War at any given moment.
  • Argus: While the city itself is relatively stable, abuses of power by the military police has resulted in civil unrest from the civilian population.
  • Kuo Kauna: Resource shortages are putting a strain on the populace of the city despite Ghira's best efforts to maintain peace.
  • Vacuo: While the city is doing surprisingly well under Professor Theodore's leadership, members of the Crown are attempting to launch a violent coup in an attempt to restore the old monarchy.
• The Alcoholic: An unfortunate side effect of Brainiac's invasion. Many Remnantians turned to alcohol to cope with the grief of losing so much; within days, almost all the stores of alcohol in Vale were depleted, causing bars to turn to moonshine.
• The Apocalypse Brings Out the Best in People: Zigzagged. On the one hand, many people have to endure the loss of loved ones, shortages, and the breakdown of authority. However, the racism between Faunus and humans has greatly diminished with only a few holdouts like the Red Fang left, and some antagonists like Emerald and Ilia have become, or are on the road to becoming, better people.
• Audience Surrogate: All of RWBYJNPR towards the DC side of the crossover. The heroes take the time to explain things that they don't fully understand regarding their new world.
• City in a Bottle: What's left of Remnant is six or so bottled, miniaturized cities currently residing in Brainiac's lab.
• Colorful Theme Naming: Twofold for Remnant, along with teams RWBY and JNPR. Remnant's culture dictates that names are related, in some way, to a color. The real name of RWBY and JNPR all reflect this. Ruby - Red, Weiss - White, Blake - Black, Yang - Yellow, etc. This is deliberately invoked when the two teams decide on their superhero names, meant as a way to honor their culture while also describing them in turn. Ruby became the Red Reaper, Weiss the Ivory Mage, Blake became Nightshade, Yang the Golden Dragon, Jaune the White Knight, Nora became Pink Lightning, Pyrrha to Crimson Guardian, and Ren the Verdant Lotus.
• Doomed Hometown: The planet of Remnant was destroyed after Brainiac bottled all the major population centers. If those population centers are ever released, they will have to be placed on an entirely new planet to inhabit.
• Driven to Suicide: Many Remnantians, when the trauma of the loss of their planet and living under Brainiac became too much for them.
• Evil Power Vacuum: The lack of central authority in Mistral after Lionheart's death has created one of these, with at least a dozen factions vying to take over the city. Right now the two strongest are Sienna Khan, who took over Haven Academy in Lionheart's place, and Lil' Miss Malachite, who took over most of the city's lower districts, but Brainiac notes it's only a matter of time before those two factions clash once they've each amassed as much power and resources as they can.
• Fantastic Racism: Zigzagged all across the board. For specific examples:
  • Implicitly subverted in Vale. When Brainiac's invasion started, most of the White Fang defected and joined their respective kingdom's military in repelling him after recognizing the Coluan as the greater threat. After Vale was defeated, the racial tensions between humans and Faunus have calmed to a near non-existent level, thanks to shared depression, loss, grief and hatred against Brainiac. If anything, most of the hatred is directed at Adam Taurus because of his terrorism and his attempts to reignite those racial tensions.
  • Played with in regards to Mistral. While Sienna Khan has nothing against normal humans, she gives preferential treatment to Faunus because she finally has the authority to make sure Faunus are treated equally, the joy of which is causing her to unintentionally give more attention to them than the humans under her care. Unfortunately, that has the side effect of driving the humans that would've joined her to Miss Malachite, which is setting the stage for a racially-charged civil war.
• Fling a Light into the Future: After Brainiac kidnapped Ruby Rose, Ironwood was convinced to send a strike team in the form of the rest of RWBY and JNPR, both to rescue her and to take down Brainiac. While they failed into the latter, they managed to escape via an unexpected Boom Tube and arrive on Earth. This effectively makes them Remnant's last hope.
• Human Aliens: RWBY and JNPR to the people of Earth. Functionally, they are similar enough to humans in that they are biologically compatible. However, enough key differences remained in order to classify them as an entirely new species dubbed Remnantian. These differences include:
  • Their muscles and skeletons are denser than a human being's, granting them increased strength and durability.
  • Blake in particular is noted to be even more genetically distinct, due to her being a Faunus. As such, Blake is noted to have strands of extra DNA that are similar to felines.
  • Finally, every single Remnantian is noted to have the ability to unlock an Aura, which the Justice League discover to be the result of a universal metagene held within their genetic makeup.
• I Call It "Vera": All of the weapons used by Remnantian huntsmen and huntresses are named. For RWBYJNPR, their weapons are, in order: Crescent Rose — a highly customized sniper-scythe, Myrtenaster — a multi-action Dust rapier, Gambol Shroud — a variant ballistic chain scythe, Ember Celica — a dual ranged shot gauntlets, Crocea Mors — a sword and shield that can be collapsed into a sheathe and combined into a claymore, Magnhild — a multiple grenade launcher hammer, Miló and Akoúo̱ — a semi-automatic xiphos javelin and a shield, respectively, and Stormflower — dual automatic pistols with vertical bayonets underneath the barrels.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Team RWBY currently knows about the Fables, but JNPR doesn't, and the former has been discouraged from telling them anytime soon.
• Lost World: Relatively speaking, to the universe. Not even the Guardians of Oa knew Remnant existed; it's all but stated that the Brothers shielded the planet from the rest of the universe to prevent outside interference with their test for humanity. Unfortunately, that shielding is what likely drew Brainiac to Remnant in the first place.
• Meta Origin: All Remnantians are noted to have a universal metagene that grants them natural access to the power of the soul, which came to be known as Aura. Due to how finicky souls naturally are, however, the process of bringing this power to the surface led to the development of powers unique to the individual called Semblances.
• Mob War: Mistral has been swept up in a gang war ever since the bottling and Professor Lionheart's death. The two biggest gangs fighting over the city are the White Fang and the Spiders.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Remnantians are far stronger than the normal denizen of the wider DC Universe, but are above average at best when it comes to the super-community. This was best shown during Brainiac's invasion, where they were essentially slaughtered despite throwing literally everything they had at him.
• Nothing Is the Same Anymore:
  • Even if the bottled cities of Remnant are released, nothing will ever go back to the way things were. Millions are dead, their planet has been destroyed, and they are now brutally aware that they are not alone in the universe. Not to mention, whatever new planet they settle on will not have the issue of the Grimm, which their entire society revolved around. Brainiac has changed everything for them, on every scale possible.
  • This is partly why RWBY and JNPR decided to Starting a New Life on Earth. There's nothing left for them with their planet gone, and even if they somehow managed to track down Brainiac, they're simply not strong enough to reclaim what's left of their home. All they can do is settle down on Earth, grow stronger, and hope it will be enough when Brainiac comes for their new home.
• Racial Remnant: Pun aside, what's left of Remnant is six cities of varying sizes, out of millions of people. It's later revealed that only half the population (approximately 125 million out of 250 million) survived after the destruction of the planet, with around half a million more dying in the chaos and despair caused by the bottling. That number is only posed to go down further as the people adjust to the depletion in resources.
• Revealing Cover-Up: Whatever veil presumably created by the Brothers that shielded Remnant from the rest of the universe was apparently what ultimately drew Brainiac to the planet. Brainiac later confirms this to Ozpin, saying that he noticed the Mother Box that RWBYJNPR used to escape activating thanks to Salem, then was puzzled when the region of space Remnant was in had absolutely nothing notable.

Team RWBY

Ruby Rose — Red Reaper

Ruby Rose

by TehShraid

Birthdate: October 31st, 64 AGW

Kingdom: Vale

The leader of Team RWBY, and overall commander for all Remnant survivors on Earth, Ruby Rose is the daughter of two of the greatest Huntsmen of their generation, Taiyang Xiao Long and Summer Rose, the half-sister to Yang Xiao Long, and partner to Weiss Schnee. A prodigy, Ruby was accepted into the illustrious Beacon Academy two years early after Beacons' headmaster, Professor Ozpin, recognized her potential following an encounter with the infamous criminal Roman Torchwick. Although she entered Beacon simply with the intention of becoming a skilled Huntress that would protect people, fate had different plans in store when the alien conqueror Brainiac invaded Remnant during the Vytal Festival and abducted her after detecting a genetic anomaly, setting in motion a chain of events that would lead to her, her team, and Team JNPR getting transported to Earth.

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• The Baby of the Bunch: Despite being the leader of Team RWBY, she is the youngest member of the two teams. She gets really annoyed when she is constantly referred to as Just a Kid.
• The Blacksmith: While all of RWBYJNPR have some knowledge of designing and forging weapons due to it being tradition in Remnant, Ruby by far is the most enthusiastic and talented in it. Most of the data from her scroll that she gave to the Justice League was about forging processes, and the first place she went to in Themyscira was their local blacksmith, even going as far to make a sword there under her supervision.
  • When she visits WayneTech and Lucius Fox has an employee show her around, said employee is so impressed by her mechanical knowledge that he begs Lucius to hire her.
• Break the Cutie: Downplayed. The events of the story have not been kind to her by any means, due to seeing her planet destroyed, an alien warlord specifically capturing her for her eye's special properties, and having to face off against several terrifying villains on Earth. Yet, despite it all, she keeps her eternal optimism and serves as a beacon of hope to the rest of her friends.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Ruby's knowledge of metallurgy, mechanics, and engineering is enough to have WayneTech's chief engineer want to hire her on the spot; however, Weiss is also constantly scolding her for watching cartoons and reading comics rather than doing homework.
• Cape Wings: Ruby's cape on her hero suit contains the same glider wing configuration as many of the Bat-Family.
• Fragile Speedster: When compared to the rest of Team RWBY and Team JNPR.
• First Kiss: During Fables Among Us, while she and Weiss are stuck in the story of Snow White and need to reenact certain parts of it to get out, Ruby mentions that Weiss will be the one who gets her first kiss.
• Friendly Sniper: Ruby's weapon, Crescent Rose, is a Highly Customized Sniper-Scythe (HCSS), and frequently uses the sniper function in battle. She's also one of the perkiest, nicest girls you will ever meet.
• Gun Nut: Ruby is obsessed with weapons, going gaga whenever she sees a new one that catches her interest. None more so than her baby, Crescent Rose, leaving her devastated when it gets destroyed by Trigon. Her interest in weapons also allows her to strike a bond with Vigilante and Jason Todd, aka Red Hood.
  • After getting a well-paid internship at Wayne Enterprises and moving into their own apartment in Metropolis, given to them and mostly paid for by Batman, Ruby ends up starting her own gun collection.
• Handguns: After Crescent Rose is destroyed by Trigon, Ruby ends up creating a backup weapon with the help of Jason Todd. It ends up being a pistol based off the ones he uses, only with the ability to fire nets, grenades, and shotgun shells from a built-in adjustable under-barrel and the ability to be reconfigured into a knife. She calls it Rose Thorn.
• Inelegant Blubbering: Upon seeing Qrow for the first time in months, she tackles him to the floor and starts sobbing and muttering incoherently into his chest with copious amounts of tears and snot.
• The Intern: Ends up getting an internship at WayneTech.
• Jerkass Ball: While normally an All-Loving Hero, Ruby gets surprisingly selfish on her birthday. Since Halloween happens to land on her birthday, that selfishness spreads to the holiday as demonstrated in "Ruby's Halloween Do-Over" when she hoards a plate of cookies for herself meant for all of the Remnant Trick-or-Treaters.
  Ruby: IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!
  Weiss: No it isn't!
  Ruby: DO-OVER!
• Like Brother and Sister: When Yang tells her that some people at Beacon thought that she and Jaune would end up together, this is how she describes her feelings towards him.
• Made Myself Sad: To try and cheer Yang up about their first Time Travel adventure being in The Wild West and the fact that she can't punch a Nazi in the face, Ruby points out she can still do that. Then she gets sad over the fact that Nazis are still a thing in the modern day.
• Magical Eye: As in RWBY proper, Ruby's silver eyes have the ability to destroy Grimm. In addition, should an entity be metaphysically similar to the Grimm, such as Trigon, it works on them as well. It's also revealed that her eyes are connected to a fragment of the Life Equation.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: When confronting Chronos in a train engine, Ruby accidentally kicked one of his Mecha-Mooks into the furnace, causing the oil in the machine to go off, damaging the engine and speeding the train up to the point of it going out of control.
• Rage Breaking Point: Played for Laughs, along with Mirthless Laughter, and temporary Sanity Slippage. After chasing down Hogzilla for three days straight with only hunting equipment before finally killing it with the help of the people of Andrews, Texas, RWBY, JNPR, and the Titans all return to the Watchtower, tired, frustrated, and with several coolers of pork. Superman's first reaction is to call their week productive. This sets Ruby off, and she starts shouting at him about how horrible and exasperating the experience was.
• Running Gag: Being the youngest of the group, whenever someone refers to her as Just a Kid, she answers with an indignant "Hey!".
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: After the Fall of Remnant, all of RWBYJNPR is hit with a massive case of PTSD. Ruby, in particular, is affected, frequently having nightmares of Brainiac coming for her.
• Situational Sword: The Justice League's studies of Ruby's silver eyes reveal that their power is only ever "primed" in the presence of Grimm or creatures simiarly Made of Evil.
• Super-Speed: Ruby's Semblance, Petal Burst, allows her to traverse her environment at extremely high speeds. However, she's nowhere near as fast as other speedsters, such as the Flash.
• Swiss-Army Gun: Crescent Rose 2.0 can use four kinds of ammo, and can change in size to accommodate the different calibers. The largest caliber is 20mm and practically turns it into a BFG.
• Tranquil Fury: Discussed in a Hunters of Justice Chibi! chapter. When Ruby meets her Anger, she just stands there silently with a perpetual Death Glare. Ruby expected her Anger to be more like Unstoppable Rage, but her Knowledge describes her Anger as "Righteous Fury".
• True Love's Kiss: Gives a platonic version of this to Weiss's scar to awaken her from her Snow White poison apple curse.
• Unobtainium: After Trigon destroyed Crescent Rose, she's been making a replacement, with a Nth metal blade.
• Who Would Want to Watch Us?: Almost name-drops this when she learns about The Multiverse, and how they could be fictional characters in another universe.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Despite the horrific events that have befallen them, Ruby is still able to look at the bright side of life and keep moving forward.
• Wrecked Weapon: Crescent Rose is destroyed by Trigon during the fight against him. Afterwards, she begins the process of creating an upgraded replacement.

Weiss Schnee — Ivory Mage

Weiss Schnee

TehShraid

Birthdate: May 15th, 62 AGW

Kingdom: Atlas

The middle child of Jacques and Willow Schnee, sister to Winter and Whitley Schnee, partner to Ruby Rose, and the heir to the powerful Schnee Dust Corporation, Weiss Schnee grew up under the controlling thumb of her father who desired nothing less than to mold Weiss into his image. Rather than accept this, Weiss followed in her older sister's footsteps and enrolled in Beacon Academy with the aim of becoming a Huntress and restoring her family's once good name. There she became partners to Ruby Rose and a member of Team RWBY. While her relationship with her teammates was strained at first, particularly with Ruby and her fellow teammate Blake Belladonna, in time Weiss found a new family within her team. But after Brainiac's invasion, she and her friends found themselves whisked away to Earth, away from nearly everything she knew and cherished from her old life and forced to build a new one on this alien world.

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• Awesomeness by Analysis: Her ability to analyze information and apply what she's learned to combat is one of her greatest strengths. It's also what allows her to compliment Ruby so well in their partnership. She was even able to discern the true identity of Batman just by learning Dick Grayson's last name and putting together the appropriate timeline of events in just a few seconds after learning it.
• Big Sister Instinct: Her relationship with Whitley might have been strained, but she still loves him, and is horrified and angry that Jacques abandoned him to Brainiac's experiments.
• Combat Stilettos: Not being a brawler and usually a Long-Range Fighter, she walks in heels. When Yang ends up in her body, she immediately takes off her shoes since she can't walk on them.
• Covert Pervert: Under Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth, she admits she secretly moderated a popular "Ninjas of Love" forum back at Beacon Academy.
• Cultured Badass: Weiss has very high standards for herself and what she participates in. For instance, she knew the fundamentals of Martian philosophy whereas the rest of her team had no idea what it was. She can still kick just as much ass as her teammates, however.
• Cuteness Proximity: Her canon love of dogs shows up when she meets Krypto and Ace, and she loves cute things in general, as shown by her reaction to little kids dressed up for Halloween. This extends to creatures not normally associated with being cute, such as Silkie.
• Draw Aggro: She distracts Mumbo Jumbo by challenging him to a sing-off, knowing he won't ignore the possibility of being upstaged.
• Everyone Has Standards: For all that her relationships with her mother and brother are on the rocks, she does love them, and feels immense guilt when she learns that they had been experimented on by Brainiac. She had naively believed only Winter was at risk for that and that they would've been safe, and is horrified to learn that she was wrong.
• Flipping the Bird: When forced to eat a poison apple when acting in Snow White's role, she manages to do this to the Evil Queen before falling totally unconscious.
• The Intern: Lucius Fox is so impressed with her negotiations for Ruby's internship that he offers her one.
• I Have No Son!: Inverted. After learning about how Jacques handed Willow and Whitley to Brainiac without so such as a fight, she completely disowns him.
• Lampshade Hanging: Weiss tends to be the one who points out the illogical things that happen on Earth while the rest of the group just goes along with it.
• Not So Above It All: Weiss ends up being the one who starts a Bar Brawl when time travel shenanigans send Team RWBY and Qrow to the American West. She extremely embarrassed by it, as well as her teammates' reactions (those who were there compliment her for how crazy she was and promise to tell Willow and Whitley about it, while Ruby isn't even angry, just disappointed).
• Power Incontinence: When in Yang's body due to a "Freaky Friday" Flip, she has some trouble with her Glyphs due to Yang's Aura levels being significantly higher than hers.
• Riches to Rags: With Remnant's destruction, she's now dirt poor and freeloading off the Justice League. She takes it well, mostly because everything that led to her new status was infinitely worse.
• Survivor Guilt: During her stay at Wayne Manor, she has a nightmare about Brainiac capturing her sister. While relaying her family story to Alfred, she breaks down in tears because she feels like she abandoned Winter to become Brainiac's guinea pig.
• Tears of Joy: When reunited with her mother and little brother.
• Tranquil Fury:
  • She's almost as mad as Yang about the Aura-draining nanites, she's just a lot better at keeping her cool about it, and at trying to see it from the other point of view.
  • She's can only seethe and pace around after learning that Jacques gave up Willow and Whitley to Brainiac, and the only reason her reaction isn't more violent is because Yang got to the holographic training room before she could.
• Unobtainium: Due to Dust, her regular fuel source, no longer working after they arrived on Earth, Weiss has begun utilizing various substances available to her on Earth. They don't work as well with her Aura as Dust, but they manage to get the job done. One of the materials she works with the most is powdered Nth Metal, which comes in handy when dealing with magical foes such as Trigon, and she eventually replaces Myrtenaster's blade with Nth Metal. She also uses chemical compounds based on Firefly's fuel and Mr. Freeze's cryogenic gas.

Blake Belladonna — Nightshade

Blake Belladonna

TehShraid

Birthdate: January 19th, 62 AGW

Kingdom: Menagerie

The daughter of Ghira and Kali Belladonna, and partner to Yang Xiao Long, Blake Belladonna stands apart from the rest of Team RWBY and JNPR by being a faunus, a minority subspecies of Remnant humanity that was indistinguishable from the former aside from a random animal trait on their bodies. Blake is herself a panther faunus like her father, born with a secondary set of feline ears on top of her head. Like most faunus on Remnant, Blake was subjected to harsh discrimination from a young age, which led her to taking part in the White Fang civil rights group led by her father. But when Ghira was ousted and replaced by Sienna Khan, who advocated for a more violent and proactive solution to ensuring faunus equality with humans, Blake stayed with the White Fang, slowly becoming radicalized by her former mentor Adam Taurus. After eventually realizing that the White Fang had strayed too far from its idealistic roots to become nothing more than terrorists, Blake defected from the White Fang and enrolled in Beacon Academy with the aim of both improving the faunus' standing in the world as well as atoning for her personal crimes. But Brainiac's invasion threw all of that into disarray, and after finding herself on Earth has vowed to protect her new home from all that threaten it.

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• Cat Girl: Blake is a cat Faunus, specifically with a pair of cat ears on the top of her head in addition to her normal pair of human ears. She's also noted to have superior night vision than the rest of RWBYJNPR. However, due to Faunus discrimination back on Remnant, Blake is sensitive about her feline features and strives to ensure that she's not solely defined by them. Case in point, when choosing her superhero name she deliberately avoids invoking a feline theme, she is furious when Mumbo transforms her into a panther, and is exceptionally annoyed by Catwoman deliberately drawing attention to her feline features.
• Cat Ninja: Her fighting style, that being of employing hit and run tactics, striking from the shadows, and incapacitating her opponents lead her to be the 'ninja' of the group. She's also a cat Faunus, as mentioned above.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: On two occasions she gets jealous when a girl flirts with Yang.
• Covert Pervert: Has a large variety of smutty books in her literature collection. Ruby calls her on this when she criticizes her Gun Nut collection.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Downplayed. As happy as she is to see the rest of her team reunited with their family, there's a part of her that's envious for the same reason.
• The Intern: Gets a job at the Planet as Lois' understudy.
• Last of Her Kind: With the exception of those still trapped in Brainaic's collection, Blake is the only Faunus to escape, potentially making her the last Faunus in existence. It causes her some degree of angst.
• Reformed Criminal: Prior to joining Beacon, Blake used to be a member of the White Fang terrorist organization, specifically the Vale branch under her mentor/friend, Adam Taurus. Her realizing that their methods of violence to achieve Faunus equality were growing too extreme led her to abandon the White Fang and become a huntress at Beacon Academy.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: Performs one on Commissioner Gordon and Harvey Bullock, like the rest of the Bat-Family.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Fish. Just the sight of a particularly large one in the Themysciran market leaves her drooling.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: What's worse than a Hunter-trained corgi? An alien dog that can fly and shoot laser beams out of his eyes.
  • How about one trained by the Goddamn Batman?

Yang Xiao Long — Golden Dragon

Yang Xiao Long

TehShraid

Birthdate: July 28, 62 AGW

Kingdom: Vale

The daughter of Taiyang Xiao Long and Raven Branwen, the half-sister of Ruby Rose, and partner to Blake Belladonna, Yang Xiao Long's life was flipped upside down at a young age when Summer Rose went on a mission and never returned. It was then that she learned the truth; that she was actually the daughter of Raven Branwen, not Summer Rose as she believed. This sparked a lifelong quest to uncover the truth as to why Raven abandoned her and her father, a mission she was still undertaking when she and her sister enrolled in Beacon Academy. There she became a member of Team RWBY and partner to Blake Belladonna. A fiery and passionate fighter, Yang will stop at nothing to protect the ones she loves no matter the personal risk to herself, a mindset that led to her, Team RWBY, and Team JNPR being whisked away to Earth following an attempt to save her sister from Brainiac's abduction and experimentation. With her old home reduced to dust, Yang has vowed to do everything she possibly can to protect the world she now calls home.

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• Abled in the Adaptation: Because the Fall of Beacon never happened, she never lost her arm. That said, Batman did learn that there are versions where this came to pass and designed her armor to keep it from happening to this version.
• Big Sister Instinct: More than anything else, Yang loves her little sister, Ruby. Brainiac kidnapping her put her into such a rage that she immediately launches a rescue operation for Ruby inside Brainiac's ship. Tellingly, her eyes don't stop being red until Ruby is found.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: Is looking to add an extendable blade to her gauntlets.
• Blood Knight: Yang loves a challenge and the thrill of the fight. It's one of the reasons why she became a huntress in the first place, wanting to experience a sense of adventure and the ensuing adrenaline rush. However, this is tempered by her genuine desire to help people.
• Boisterous Bruiser: Yang is a very lively, in-your-face person whose primary fighting style revolves around hand-to-hand combat.
• Even the Girls Want Her: Played For Laughs, when Kassandra, a harlot from the Wild West and Jinny Hex all hit on her. It leaves Yang a stuttering mess and Blake completely jealous.
• Eye Color Change: Yang's eyes can change color depending on her emotional state. Their normal color is lilac, red when she's angry, and light blue when she's sad.
• Hidden Depths: Yang may be boisterous, but she's also more perceptive than people give her credit for, and she can use it to her advantage. When she was thrown into the pit of thugs in the Iceberg Lounge, she noted that Bane was hanging back and using the brawl to gauge out her fighting style. As such, she refrains from using her kinetic-absorbing Semblance during the brawl, so that when Bane steps into the ring himself, she is able to pull it out as a Secret Weapon.
• Hot-Blooded: Yang's prone to getting angry, which does lead to her getting into trouble.
• Instant Expert: Even though she had never ridden a horse before, she gets a hold of it like a duck to water thanks to her experience with her motorcycle, to Ruby's bafflement.
• It's All My Fault: Blames herself for the death of the Bullhead pilot that flew her and the others into Brainiac's ship, feeling that because she was so focused on getting Ruby to safety she didn't consider his own. Afterward, she resolves to learn how to fly jets herself in order to ensure she never has to put someone into that position again.
• Parental Abandonment: Her mother, Raven Branwen, left her and her father when she was still an infant. This led to Ruby's mother, Summer, filling the void Raven left, only for her to die a few years later. This has led to severe abandonment issues that she hides from others.
• Shotguns Are Just Better: Alongside her usual Ember Celica, she picks up a Mossberg from one of Penguin's goons and claims it for herself, eventually modifying it with an additional axe configuration.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: Averted. When she, Batwoman, and Blake are finished talking to Commissioner Gordon and Harvey Bullock after arresting the Penguin and Bane, she alone stays behind while the other two silently disappear. She was bemused about it, more than anything, but felt no need to do it herself.
• A Taste Of His Own Medicine: Played for Laughs; Yang can be pretty flirty at times, but when Kassandra, a harlot on their Wild West trip, and later Jonah's descendant Jinny, flirt with her she turns into a blushing mess. Ruby finds the fact that she can dish it out but can't take it hilarious.
• Unstoppable Rage:
  • When Ruby is abducted in front of her by Brainiac's drones, she literally explodes in fury, and she proceeds to obliterate the rest of the drones that were subduing her and her fellow teammates.
  • After learning about how her mother betrayed everyone and signed up with Brainiac, Yang goes to town on the Watchtower simulator to work off her anger.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: As it turns out, following a traumatic experience as a child involving an Aura-activated cuttlefish attaching itself to her head, Yang is terrified of cuttlefish and any other tentacled creature. She's convinced that they are evil, and nothing will convince her otherwise.

Team JNPR

Jaune Arc — White Knight

Jaune Arc

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Birthdate: March 2nd, 62 AGW

The only boy of eight children, the leader of Team JNPR, overall second-in-command of all Remnant survivors on Earth, and partner to Pyrrha Nikos, Jaune Arc grew up in a loving and caring household as well as the weight of a heroic family legacy. His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were all heroes and Huntsmen, and he wished above nothing else to live up to their legacy and become a hero himself. But for a reason only known to him and his family, Jaune was never trained, and his family never believed he would be able to accomplish his dream. Undeterred, Jaune managed to acquire a set of forged transcripts and used them to be accepted into Beacon Academy, hoping there he would get the training he desperately needed to become a hero. But never in his wildest dreams did he anticipate becoming partner to the famous Pyrrha Nikos and the leader of Team JNPR. While the pressure of both his position and his own personal hangups initially led to him faltering in his role, Jaune quickly proved himself to be a natural leader, able to connect with people easily. It was through his and Ruby's friendship that Team RWBY and Team JNPR become so close, and when Ruby was captured by Brainiac during his invasion of Remnant, he jumped at the chance to rescue her. After being transported to Earth along with his friends, Jaune has vowed to ensure that the fate that befell Remnant would not happen again, joining the Justice League becoming a superhero.

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• Ancestral Weapon: His sword, Crocea Mors, belong to his his family for generations. Shining Knight specifically calls out Crocea Mors for having this quality, describing it as something to be proud of since the other weapons of RWBY and JNPR don't have that.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: Batman himself notes that Jaune's most effective trait in combat is his ability to quickly get a read on any given situation and form a solid strategy to counteract it. So much so that JNPR's coordination noticeably takes a hit whenever Jaune is taken out.
• Bad Liar: He's not very good at coming up with convincing lies about his secret identity and most of the children he looks after are certain he's a superhero.
• Boring, but Practical: Jaune's general fighting style and equipment. Whereas everyone else focuses on high speed, flashy techniques, and use highly customized firearms that can turn into melee weapons, Jaune simply goes into battle wearing heavy armor and using a sword and shield combo. While he is noted to be generally weaker than the rest of his allies, Batman notes this is purely due to lack of training when compared to them. The basics of Jaune's fighting style are just as effective, and turn him into a walking tank, able to absorb tremendous amounts of damage while dishing it out as well.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Is controlled by Poison Ivy.
• Butt-Monkey: His training on Themyscira mostly consists of him getting the crap kicked out of him by the far more skilled Amazons, particularly Artemis. Tellingly, he tells Artemis that since he's so used to it, her beatdowns are nothing special to him.
• Cast from Hit Points: As with all Semblances, Jaune's is fueled by his Aura. Luckily, he has a lot, which allows him to use his Super-Empowering Semblance quite a bit to tremendous effect.
• Catch and Return: During the fight against a Trigon-possessed Brother Blood, the cult leader throws the broken fragment of Crocea Mors at Jaune. He's able to catch it, then throws it right back into a surprised Blood's gut. Even Jaune was surprised he was able to do that.
• Chick Magnet: He becomes very popular to all the single mothers at the daycare center he works at while living in Metropolis.
• Close-Range Combatant: Compared to everyone else in RWBY or JNPR, Jaune is the most centered around close-quarters combat with no ranged option whatsoever.
• Cool Sword: Crocea Mors 2.0 has a multi-elemental function, allowing it to be coated in plasma, emit electricity like a taser, or freeze things.
• Determinator: Jaune's refusal to give up is noted as a strength by both his allies and Batman. It can also quickly turn into stubbornness if not checked.
• Elemental Weapon: Crocea Mors 2.0 is a multi-elemental sword with plasma blade, electric, and freeze modes.
• Family Honor: Prior to Remnant's destruction at Brainiac's hands, living up to his family's legacy was the primary reason he became a Huntsman in the first place.
• Genre Savvy: Is quick to catch on to the House of Mystery's horror-themed workings.
• Healing Hands: His Semblance allows him to use his own Aura to boost/amplify others, tapping into Aura's natural Healing Factor to heal their injuries. He discovers his once he finally unlocks his Semblance to save Nora's life.
• Knight in Shining Armor: Out of everyone in team RWBY or team JNPR, Jaune evokes the classical image of a medieval knight, from his full suit of plate armor, his weapon choice (that of a sword and shield), and even his superhero name being the White Knight. To top it off, he got training by Shining Knight, an actual medieval knight.
• The Leader: Of Team JNPR, and second to Ruby herself for the entirety of RWBYJNPR.
• Made of Iron: Thanks to his high Aura reserves, he can take more hits than the rest of RWBYJNPR. The only other member that can tank comparable damage is Yang, and that's because her Semblance depends on it.
• Self-Deprecation: Tends to do this to himself, mostly in regards to his fighting ability when compared to his friends. Pyrrha calls him out on this whenever she can, as she feels he's too hard on himself. In the dedicated file Batman compiles on him, he notes that Jaune's tendency to do this is indicative of a lack of self-esteem, especially when he compares himself to his friends. Batman believes that, if left unchecked, it could grow into truly self-destructive tendencies.
• Super-Empowering: Jaune's Semblance, Aura Amp, allows him to use his Aura to boost the Aura of others. As Aura is the source of all Remnantians' powers, their super strength, super speed, Semblances and healing factor to name a few, it quickly becomes apparent just how useful it is. It comes in tremendously when he first awakens it to save Nora's live by boosting her Aura and her healing factor by extension. He then uses it for the rest of RWBYJNPR, bringing back to full strength in hardly any time at all. And it doesn't just work on Aura. He's able to heal ordinary humans, and even boost the powers of metahumans like Black Canary. Fridge Brilliance kicks in when you remember that Aura is a result of every Remnantian having an active metagene.
• Took a Level in Badass: He gradually grew in skill thanks to his time in Beacon thanks to Pyrrha's tutelage, and has continued that training with others after RWBYJNPR landed on Earth. Just about the only thing stopping him from almost completely closing the gap with the rest of his peers is his lack of a Semblance. After the Marvel arc Jaune unlocks his Semblance, Aura Amp.
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Only unlocks his Semblance when saving Nora's life after Taking the Bullet for him.
• Unskilled, but Strong: When compared to the rest of RWBYJNPR. Jaune is certainly a capable fighter in his own right, but the others have training for literally years, in some cases their entire lives, to be fighters whereas he's only been seriously training for about a year. However, out of everyone, he has the highest Aura reserves and can take a hit like no one else. He calls this out on himself during the fight against Trigon, with it being the justification he uses to press forward after Raven is freed.
• Wrecked Weapon: Like Ruby's Crescent Rose, Crocea Mors was destroyed in the fight against Trigon. Afterward, he starts to develop a replacement alongside his fellow leader.

Nora Valkyrie — Pink Lightning

Nora Valkyrie

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Birthdate: June 5th, 62 AGW

Kingdom: Mistral

Partner to Lie Ren, Nora Valkyrie was orphaned at a young age and living on her own when she arrived at the Mistrali settlement of Kuroyuri. After a Grimm attack led to the destruction of the entire settlement, only she and Ren managed to survive. Inseparable ever since, she and Ren eventually enrolled into Beacon Academy, becoming members of Team JNPR. A hyperactive and energetic girl with a strong emotional core, Nora quickly proved herself to be the physically strongest member of Team JNPR who will stop at nothing to protect the ones she loves, a characteristic she brought alongside her when she and her friends were whisked away to Earth.

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• Achievements in Ignorance: Nora accidentally protects her and Pyrrha from Poison Ivy controlling them before they get their Auras up by using a strong perfume.
• Big Eater: She even gets into eating contests with Flash, and recently, Scooby-Doo & Shaggy from Mystery Inc. However after some time, it's implied she only has the 4th biggest appetite of all the characters behind Norville "Shaggy" Rogers, Scooby-Doo, and the Flash.
• Energy Absorption: Her Semblance, High Voltage, allows her to absorb electricity to boost her physical strength. To take advantage of this, her costume has built-in batteries that charge themselves by her movements and can also absorb electricity from other sources, giving her a source of electricity whenever she needs it.
• Genki Girl: Nora is an extremely excitable and hyperactive girl, in contrast to Ren's stoic nature. They balance each other out.
• It's Personal: Nora gets genuinely pissed and ready to break some legs when Poison Ivy brainwashes her man.
• Hidden Depths: Despite her hyperactive appearance, Nora is actually very perceptive when it comes to other's emotions. Case in point, she was able to figure out that Pyrrha actually liked Jaune well before anyone else did. She's also quite knowledgeable about projectile physics, which she uses when launching grenades from her weapon.
• Scars Are Forever: Like in canon, she receives similar electrical burn scars all over her body after she takes on Black Adam's lightning attack and ends up overloading her semblance.
• Stating the Simple Solution: While Tim, Stephanie, and Ren are wondering how best to infiltrate Gothcorp and get a meeting with their CEO, Nora just walks in the front door and asks politely. It works.
• Taking the Bullet: Shoves Jaune out of the way of an electrical attack by Black Adam that would have likely killed him. Even with her Semblance providing her some protection before her Aura failed, she herself was nearly killed, and would have likely died if Jaune hadn't figured out his Semblance.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Not that Ren can't fight on his own, but hurt Ren and she will bring hell onto you.
• Wrecked Weapon: Magnhild gets snapped in two at the hands of Black Adam.

Pyrrha Nikos — Crimson Guardian

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Birthdate: April 24th, 62 AGW

Kingdom: Mistral

Partner to Jaune Arc, Pyrrha Nikos was internationally renowned well before enrolling in Beacon Academy after graduating top of her class from Sanctum Academy and winning the Mistral Regional Tournament four years in a row. Dubbed the "Pride of Mistral" and "The Invincible Girl", Pyrrha quickly found herself placed on a pedestal away from her peers, unable to form proper friendships that she desperately craved. Luckily for her, she managed to find a genuine friendship in Jaune Arc, who both had never even heard of her aside from her cereal box promotional image and treated her as simply a girl, to the point where she manipulated events so that they would become partners. After learning the truth as to how Jaune came to enroll in Beacon, she became his mentor. As in Mistral, Pyrrha quickly proved herself to be the best fighter in her class and arguably in all of Beacon, skills she is going to need if she wishes to protect the people of Earth after failing to protect Remnant from Brainiac.

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• The Ace: By far the most skilled combatant among RWBYJNPR, to the point where she ends up getting second place in Themyscira's tournament. She only loses to Artemis, but in the process wins the Amazon's respect.
• The Anti-Nihilist: In contrast to Owlman, she believes that the nature of The Multiverse means that choices are even more powerful and meaningful.
• Birds of a Feather: Gets along swimmingly with the Amazons of Themyscira.
• Cannot Spit It Out: Pyrrha had a crush on Jaune for months, ever since the start of the second semester, yet was unable to simply tell him how she felt while he pursued Weiss... Until she suddenly could because of Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth, where she then told Jaune everything regarding how she felt about him. The poor girl couldn't look at Jaune for the rest of the day after that.
• Covert Pervert: She tries to sneak a peek when Nora busts into their room while Jaune is getting dressed.
• Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: Her reaction when she realizes that she's talking with Death in the House of Mystery.
• Magnetism Manipulation: Pyrrha's Semblance, Polarity, allows her to control metal. It's why she wore metal all over her body even back on Remnant, as in spite of the added weight, she can still freely manipulate her armor.
• Nice Girl: Pyrrha is extremely kind, courteous, and patient with everyone she meets. This actually proves to be a bit of a problem for her, mostly in regards to her romantic feelings towards Jaune. She was so nice to everybody that her attempts to flirt with him were misinterpreted as her simply being nice, not to mention stepping aside to help Jaune win Weiss over despite the sight hurting her. Played to the extreme when Pyrrha tries to infiltrate a gang as a potential recruit. She overacted severely in an attempt to hide how nice she actually is, and ends up getting kicked out because of it.
• Precision F-Strike: Drops the f-bomb when telling Poison Ivy to let go of her partner.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Brainiac's appearance prevented Cinder's plans from succeeding, subsequently saving Pyrrha from her canon death at Cinder's hands. That said, much like with Yang, Batman knows there are versions that did suffer some form of her canon fate and thus designed her armor accordingly.
• Spirited Competitor: While she's not as enthusiastic about cracking skulls together as Yang or Nora, Pyrrha does enjoy a good competition. She's delighted while taking part in the tournament on Themyscira both because she doesn't have live up to her "Invincible Girl" reputation like on Remnant, and because she can fight with warriors like Artemis.
• Throwing Your Shield Always Works: Justified, given Pyrrha's Polarity Semblance. She'll often throw Akoúo̱ at enemies then pull it back using her Semblance.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: According to Blake, Pyrrha's terrified of spiders. So naturally, when she first sees Fang who literally has a giant spider for a head, she faints on the spot.

Lie Ren — Verdant Lotus

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Birthdate: June 22nd, 62 AGW

Kingdom: Mistral

The only son of Li and An Ren, and partner to Nora Valkyrie, Lie Ren was raised in the Mistrali city of Kuroyuri, whose denizens worked hard to achieve their shared dream of Kuroyuri becoming the next Kingdom of Remnant. But their hopes were shattered when a massive Grimm horde descended on the city, killing everyone including Ren's parents save for himself and the newly arrived orphan Nora Valkyrie, only surviving by Ren unlocking his Semblance in the nick of time. Inseperable ever since, the pair eventually enrolled in Beacon Academy, where they became members of Team JNPR and friends to Team RWBY. When Brainiac invaded Remnant, Ren attempted with all his might to prevent history from repeating itself, only to fail and watch as Remnant was destroyed. Now living on Earth, he is more determined than ever to ensure that his home is never destroyed again.

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• Bare-Fisted Monk: Ren's primary fighting style, used in conjunction with his dual automatic pistols, Stormflower.
• Berserk Button: Scarecrow unknowingly touched this when his Fear Gas made him look like the Nuckelevee that destroyed Ren's village when he was a child. Subsequently, Ren's anger overrode his fear and allowed him to deliver a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on the supervillain.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Gets controlled by Poison Ivy.
• Childhood Friends: With Nora. Eventually upgrades to...
• Childhood Friend Romance: After using the Lasso of Truth, Nora and Ren admit their mutual feelings towards each other and enter a romantic relationship. In Ren's case, the destruction of Remnant forced him to reevaluate the relationship he had with the most important person in his life and found that he could no longer take her for granted.
• Emotion Suppression: Fitting for Ren's more stoic demeanor, Ren's Semblance is Tranquility, which allows him to suppress the emotions of people, including himself. Showed most effectively during Scarecrow's attack on Gotham, where he used his Semblance to shield himself from the effects of Scarecrow's Fear Gas.
• It's All My Fault: Takes Nora's injuries and near death experience from her fight with Black Adam very hard, and he completely throws himself into his training to an unhealthy degree to prevent it from happening again. However, M'gann says that it's really just a coping mechanism for him.
• Official Couple: With Nora Valkyrie.
• Unstoppable Rage: Despite being dosed with Scarecrow's fear toxin, his hallucinations of the Nuckelavee only fuel Ren's rage allowing him to power through the toxin.

Further Escapees

Qrow Branwen

Qrow Branwen

A former member of Team STRQ and uncle to Ruby and Yang, Qrow Branwen is one of Ozpin's most trusted agents. Despite his crass behavior, irreverent personality, and frequent drunkenness, Qrow remains a highly capable Huntsmen whose loyalty to Ozpin is matched only by his love for his family.

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• The Alcoholic: Was already one in canon, but he was at least able to function there. The destruction of Remnant and the loss of his nieces have made it far worse. He was forced to go cold turkey for months after Brainiac finally took him for experimentation, and treats the first beer he gets after his escape like it's ambrosia.
• Badass in Distress: Captured by Brainiac due to Raven's betrayal. Once he finally escapes, things get bad for Brainiac's drones.
• Birds of a Feather: Unsurprisingly, he and John Constantine get along like a house on fire.
• Cain and Abel: He's the Abel to Raven's Cain, condemning her decision to first abandon her daughter and friends then willingly serve Brainiac. It gets worse when Raven outright sells him out to Brainiac for experimentation. Raven impeding Qrow's escape from Brainiac with physical force and trying to bully him into serving the Coluan becomes the final nail in the coffin for what was left of their relationship. To cement that, when Qrow tries to explain who Raven is to Hal Jordan, he stops himself from calling her his sister, effectively disowning her.
• Crippling Overspecialization: When Ruby and Yang convince him to look for a job, he tells them he's been a hunter for all of his life and that those skills would only translate into becoming a mercenary. His nieces quickly veto that, and thanks to J'onn's suggestion he decides to become a private investigator.
• Defector from Decadence: Qrow left behind the Branwen tribe due to them being murderers and thieves, and he quite furiously rejects the idea of them forcing him to serve Brainiac alongside them.
• Despair Event Horizon: After the bottling of Vale, Ruby and Yang are presumed dead. Their loss causes Qrow to double-down on his alcoholism to the point where he is in a constant drunken stupor. Fortunately, he snaps out of it when he learns that they are still alive.
• Entertainingly Wrong: He assumes that Brainiac killed Salem since he doesn't know Salem's unkillable. Unfortunately, this leads him to think that any unusual behavior from the Grimm on Earth is merely a contingency plan she had created in case of her passing.
• Fantastic Racism: Averted. Whilst his past experiences with Ironwood and Brainiac have left him distrustful of cyborgs, he's willing to let Cyborg take a look at Penny, if only because Hal can vouch for him. After arriving on Earth and meeting Victor, he quickly realizes that the Titan has nothing in common with the latter two and mentally apologizes to him.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Tai. Tai even calls him his 'brother' at one point.
• Hired Guns: Defied. After escaping from Braniac, Qrow considered becoming a mercenary on Earth since superheroism doesn't pay. Ruby and Yang veto the option because mercenaries often end up as villains and they don't like the idea of Qrow teaming up with the likes of Deadshot.
• Living Emotional Crutch: To Tai. During the months they believed Ruby and Yang to be dead, it was obvious Qrow was the only person keeping Tai from going off the deep end.
• Manly Tears: Sheds these when he is reunited with his nieces after several months.
• Mr. Exposition: After his rescue, he tells the heroes about Ozpin, Salem, the Maidens, and the Relics, and RWBYJNPR about what's been going on in the bottled cities.
• One-Man Army: Manages to plow through the Brawnen Tribe (except for Raven and Vernal) with ease; despite them being armed with alien weapons courtesy of Brainiac.
• Papa Wolf:
  • Nearly attacked Ironwood after it seemed he was going to leave Ruby to Brainiac's nonexistent mercies.
  • Almost got into a fight with his own sister after realizing she knew Ruby and Yang had been alive for months but let Qrow, Tai, and the others believe they were dead the entire time. Note that this was after learning she was also the Spring Maiden.
• Parental Substitute: To Ruby and Yang. While ostensibly he's their Honorary Uncle, the reality is that Qrow has been their second parent ever since Raven abandoned the family and Summer died. He loves them like they were his own children and considers them the two most important people in his life, along with their actual father Tai. When he thought they were dead, he crossed the Despair Event Horizon, and when he learned they were alive, the only thing he wanted was to hold them in his arms one more time and never let go. His heart literally stops for a moment when he realizes he's going to be reunited with them soon.
• Private Detective: While trying to figure out what sort of job to get on Earth, J'onn suggests that Qrow become a private eye like his own secret identity as the best fit for his skills as a Huntsman and Ozpin's field agent outside of mercenary work.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivers a truly epic one to Raven, Vernal and the entire Branwen Tribe in Chapter 66, after Vernal has the gall to call him a traitor.
  Qrow: Traitor?! Oh, that's a good one!...You're pretty young, huh? I'm guessing you were either born into this, or you were taken long enough ago to not really remember any life before this?... I used to be the same... Raised to be a weapon along with my sister, taught to view everyone else as the enemy, never knowing what life was actually like anywhere else. Until Beacon... Murderers and thieves, that's all that this so-called family is. If anyone's a traitor it's you, all of you! Traitors to humanity, to the whole damn world! As if killing and feeding innocent people to the Grimm wasn't enough, now you're kissing the ass of the monster that destroyed Remnant! All for what? For another day of your empty, stolen lives?... Leaving the tribe was the best decision I ever made.
• Spanner in the Works: He weaponizes his nature as The Jinx to escape from Brainiac's holding cell.
• Took a Level in Badass: Qrow develops some control over his Semblance during his time as Brainiac's guinea pig. He still can't shut it off, but he can focus it to affect certain targets.
• What the Hell, Hero?: A downplayed example of this occurs when he's seen emerging from a liqour store holding a bottle of whiskey in front of Willow, who is a recovering alcoholic. Weiss gives him a very dirty look and is about to say something; however, Willow reassures her that it's fine and that it'll help her learn a little self-control.
• Worthy Opponent: Following a friendly but intense spar between them, Wonder Woman praises Qrow giving her the best fight she'd had in a while.

Penny Polendina

Penny Polendina

An android that was created by an Atlesian scientist, Pietro Polendina, Penny was given a human soul upon her "birth." This allowed her to be able to manifest an aura despite being a machine. Cheerful and inquisitive, Penny went to Vale to participate in the Vytal tournament where she would later meet Ruby Rose. Despite not being human, Penny would become close friends with Ruby during her time in Vale, and she would assist her during their hunt for Roman Torchwick. During the Vytal Tournament, Penny would advance pretty far through the ranks; however, things changed drastically when their world was invaded by Brainiac.

Penny would join with the defending forces of Vale in a desperate attempt to thwart Brainiac's invasion. However, her unique status would also make her a target for Brainiac's twisted curiosity...

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• Betrayal Insurance: In contrast to RWBY, JNPR and Qrow, Penny has no issues with Batman designing countermeasures should she go rogue and even forwards information about herself to him. When questioned about this, she reminds them of Brainiac hijacking her body and would prefer being prepared should something like that happen again.
• Beware the Nice Ones: An incredibly kind and friendly person, but you don't want to truly anger her, especially after she receives Fria's Winter Maiden's powers.
• Commonality Connection: Penny very quickly grows to like and respect Cyborg, not just because he risks his life to save her, but by inadvertently viewing his memories, she sees quite a few similarities between them in terms of cybernetics. Tellingly, she refers to him by his first name, Victor, whereas she typically uses surnames with "Mr." for those she is not that familiar with.
• Demonic Possession: Suffers a technological variant, with Brainiac using malware to take control of her, even speaking through her mouth. Even after she nearly kills herself and is rescued by the Green Lanterns, it takes Cyborg digitally travelling into Penny's mind to completely purge the malware.
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Invoked in the Chibi! chapter "Cursed Innocence". When Penny tries to curse for the first time, she discovers she physically can't; her father had programmed her with a profanity filter. She even says the trope name verbatum after making the discovery. Isolating and deleting the program causes her instead to create a Sound-Effect Bleep In-Universe.
• Hidden Depths: Is one of Remnant's leading experts on nuclear fission, having hoped to design fission plants and was the one to design the nuke Ironwood planned to use against Brainiac.
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: Brainiac refers to her as a 'Gynoid' rather than her name, since she's merely an interesting android in the Coluan's eyes.
• Nice Gal: Very much so. When she learns Fria misses painting, she gives her ink and a support and accepts to pose for the old lady.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Thanks to Brainiac's presence, her original body wasn't destroyed. She end's up suffering her canon fate of being ripped apart by her own Floating Array, although this was done to herself deliberately to free her from Brainiac's control. Fortunately, Kyle is able to prevent her from shutting down completely. She's still alive, albeit in a comatose state until Cyborg manages to help her eradicate Brainiac's virus. This also means that she averts her canon counterpart's second and seemingly final death.
• Take Me Instead: When Brainiac finally comes for her personally, Penny offers herself to him in exchange for sparing Winter, Ciel, and the rest of the forces guarding her.
• Tears from a Stone: Despite being an android that should be physically unable to cry, she is seen visibly distraught upon Fria's death. After arriving on Earth, thanks to Cyborg she now has tear ducts.
• Tranquil Fury: After becoming the Winter Maiden upon Fria's death, she calmly lays waste to a number of Brainiac's drones in a hurricane of power.

Willow Schnee

Willow Schnee

The daughter of Nicholas Schnee, Willow was the heiress to the Schnee Dust Company. Eventually, she would marry Jacques Gele, whom would later take on the Schnee family name, and give birth to three children: Winter, Weiss, and Whitley. After her father's passing, Jacques would take full control of the Schnee Dust Company and would transform it into the largest producer of dust on Remnant through very unethical means and would seek to mold their children in his image. Willow eventually would realize that her marriage to Jacques was nothing more than a sham that took advantage of her to gain control of the family estate. This realization drove her into an alcoholic depression which only served to further alienate her children.

Little did she realize that her life would take a drastic turn when the alien warlord, Brainiac, chose to invade her home planet...

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• Adaptational Badass: Her experiences during her captivity has hardened her and she is more protective of her family. When the Green Lanterns are evacuating refugees, she summons a White Borbatusk to take out several of Brainiac's drones that were attacking them.
  • While teaching her children on the usage of her semblance, she wields a massive claymore which she uses to cleave a Beowolf in half during their training.
• Alcoholic Parent: After her marriage with Jacques fell apart, though she was forced to go cold turkey when Brainiac took her captive. Subverted, when she decides to stop drinking after being rescued with Whitley.
• Awful Wedded Life: With Jacques. It was bad enough when Willow learned he only married her to gain access to the Schnee Dust Company — but then he sells Whitley and her out to Brainiac. After that, Willow basically considers herself divorced.
• Birds of a Feather: With Qrow. Despite starkly different backgrounds, the two are very similar: recovering alcoholics with broken families who were sold out to Brainiac by another family member. It's one of the main reasons why they have such an easy time befriending each other when they meet for the first time.
• BFS: Upon arriving on Earth and getting equipped by the Justice League, she brandishes a massive claymore like her father Nicholas, much to Weiss' surprise and Shining Knight's concern.
• Covered with Scars: Like her son, due to the combat testing she was forced into.
• Forced to Watch: Could do nothing but watch as Whitley was constantly brutalized by Brainiac for his experiments, much to her horror.
• Mama Bear:
  • Very protective of her children. The only time she separates from Whitley is when he's getting checked over by the doctors of the Green Lantern Corps, and when she realizes that Qrow knows Winter and Weiss, she immediately begs him to tell her what happened to her daughters.
  • She even tries to throttle Jacques after he sells them out to Brainiac.
• Parental Neglect: Prior to being taken captive by Brainiac, she was hardly there for her children due to spending her days wallowing in a drunken stupor of depression and self-pity. Even after the bottling of Atlas, she couldn't even bring herself to console her son. However, after being rescued by the Green Lanterns, she is making an honest effort at trying to repair her relationship with her children.
• Parents as People:
  • Willow knows she hasn't been the best parent in recent years, but she still loves her children. Her maternal instincts immediately reawaken after Whitley and her are taken captive by Brainiac to be his latest experiments, and she's very protective of her son as a result, and of her children in general.
  • It's best shown when she's trying to comfort Whitley. Qrow notes that she doesn't exactly know how to comfort him, but she's still making an effort to do so regardless. It provides a contrast to a scene in a flashback of before their capture, where she almost went into his room after Klein to help comfort him, but stopped herself before she could because she felt he was better off without her.
• Riches to Rags: She went from being one of the richest (if not the richest) women on Remnant to dirt poor after the planet fell, and then to a lab rat for Brainiac. She later admits to Qrow that the past few months have been the hardest period of her life by far.
• Sticks to the Back: Willow can keep her greatsword held in place behind her back with a glyph, removing the need for a sheath.
• Suddenly Sober: Justified and Played for Drama. After she was captured by Brainiac, he took her vitals and noticed she was currently drunk and a proven alcoholic. So he injected a "sobriety solution" into her to make her sober. While it cleared her head, it also made the situation worse, because it reinforced that what was happening to Whitley and her was real.
• Sword Drag: When entering the training room for the first time, Willow is happily dragging a greatsword behind her because she isn't accustomed to the weight yet.
• Tears of Joy:
  • She sheds these with her first smile in months after learning that not only are both her daughters alive, but that Weiss had managed to escape Brainiac with her friends.
  • She sheds them again after Whitley and her are reunited with Weiss for real.
• Trauma Conga Line: Willow did not have it easy after Brainiac's invasion of Remnant, to say the least.
  • On top of Brainiac invading and capturing Atlas, her estranged husband sold her and her son out to the Mad Scientist alien to save his own skin. Brainiac then experimented on them for the next several months, including forcing her to watch Whitley suffer brutal Training from Hell to forcibly awaken his Aura and Semblance. All this while completely in the dark about the fates of her daughters. Understandably, Willow has a much harder personality as a result, and is more maternally-inclined.
  • This poignantly seen during the flashback depicting their capture from Willow's POV, which gradually grows into a horrible, endless nightmare that was, unfortunately, very real for her. After being betrayed by Jacques, the two are forced to watch as Brainiac brutalizes Klein for trying to protect them, begging Brainiac to stop hurting him. Then, they are taken to his ship, scanned and then dragged to one of the testing areas, where they're then separated and beset upon by drones. The flashback ends with Willow letting out an anguished scream as Whitley's drone punches him in the gut, beginning the first of his many beatings.

Whitley Schnee

Whitley Schnee

The youngest and only son of Jacques and Willow Schnee, Whitley sought refuge from his father's fury and his mother's neglect by attempting to ingratiate himself to Jacques through emulation. This eventually came to naught when Brainiac invaded and his father betrayed him and his mother, resulting in their imprisonment and torture by Brainiac's drones and his unlocking of the family Semblance. He has since been rescued and relocated to Earth, where he often expresses sheer disbelief at the casual everyday insanity of the DC universe.

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• Action Survivor: In comparison to the rest of his family (sans Jacques). Whitley has no formal combat training and has only recently awoken his Aura, but still manages to at least survive the various trials Brainiac put him through for several months, and destroy a few drones that come after him and the other alien refugees during the GLC's rescue operation. While he clearly isn't a warrior like his sisters or even his mother, he can at least take care of himself now.
• Adaptational Badass: Because of Brainiac's experiments, Whitley's Aura has awoken, and he has developed enough combat instincts to destroy some of the warlord's drones when they start attacking. He also now has access to the family Semblance, though obviously with a lesser proficiency than his mother and sisters.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: While his relationship with Weiss has been difficult over the years, he genuinely does love his older sister. Despite acting like it was "beneath" him, he still watched the Vytal Festival with his mom to silently support Weiss, and, after escaping Brainiac, he's just as eager to reunite with her as Willow is, if more subdued about it.
• Break the Haughty:
  • Weiss mentions that Whitley took after Jacques very well, as seen in canon. When we finally meet him in-story, however, there is no sign of it; the Trauma Conga Line he's gone through after his capture has made him skittish, jumpy, and very quiet, and it's doubtful he has any remaining love for Jacques after the man gave him up to Brainiac.
  • The flashback showing his mother and his capture reveals that he stopped putting up a front after Atlas fell, knowing there was no longer any point and that his father wouldn't care. He is plainly terrified when Brainiac invades, and in the aftermath, is so despondent that he just stays in his room, with his only interactions with other people being visits from Klein to comfort him and deliver him his food.
• Covered with Scars: Courtesy of his Training from Hell from Brainiac, Whitley had to endure months of brutal combat to force him to awaken his Aura. By the time Qrow meets Willow and him for the first time, this is the end result.
• Dirty Kid: Downplayed. He does give Wonder Woman a Male Gaze, but has the decency to know not to stare. He looks in the other direction, sees Black Canary, and quickly directs his eyes towards the floor.
• The Everyman: Unlike RWBYJNPR, Qrow, Penny, or his mother, Whitley has little to no combat training or abilities save for what he learned in Brainiac's imprisonment (and occasional sparring lessons to spite Damien). His expressions of shock and disbelief at the daily madness of DC universe ("What is this planet?") have only recently given way to a resigned acceptance.
• Foil: To Damian Wayne, both of them were groomed to be the successors of their Big, Screwed-Up Family, and both of them can be rather arrogant at times. However, in Whitley's case, he is a Non-Action Guy who was raised to believe that fighting was beneath him, whereas Damian was trained since birth to be a master assassin.
• Harmful to Minors: He was experimented on by Brainiac, which is all that needs to be said. When other characters find out about it, they're horrified, with many considering it a new low for the alien warlord.
• I Have No Son!: Inverted. As far as Whitley is concerned, the only living family he has is his mother and sisters. His father can go to hell.
• Instant Expert: Managed to perform summoning with his Glyphs far sooner than Weiss, despite his sister having been training with it for longer. Unfortunately, that is in part due to the massive Trauma Conga Line he underwent before arriving to Earth.
• Momma's Boy: Justified. His mother was his sole comfort during his imprisonment, so he clings to her as often as he can.
• Riches to Rags: Like the rest of his family, he basically became broke the moment Atlas was conquered and bottled up by Brainiac. Then he became worse than broke when he was forced into Brainiac's... care.
• Training from Hell: After Brainiac captured him and his mother, he forced Whitley into this to see how his Semblance would develop if it was awoken through adrenaline and trauma instead of the traditional way.
• Trauma Button: His Training from Hell during his time as a lab rat for Brainiac allows him to summon one of Brainiac's drones using his Semblance thanks to the strong emotional connection. Unfortunately, this is a double-edged sword, as seeing what he summons almost immediately sends him into a PTSD attack.
• Unskilled, but Strong: He has no formal combat training, but makes up for it with Aura and adrenaline-fueled strength.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: For Jacques, though it's less because he craves Jacques's approval and more to do with avoiding Jacques's abuse. He completely drops this after Jacques facilitates his capture by Brainiac, and now openly despises his father as much as his mother and sisters do.

Earthbound Villains

Salem

Salem

For more information on Salem, please see Hunters of Justice: Villains

Arthur Watts

Doctor Arthur Watts

A brilliant yet disgraced scientist formerly in the employ of General Ironwood. Presumed dead by those who knew of him, Watts lends his genius to Salem to claim the respect and glory he feels he deserves.

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• Evil Genius: He remains an accomplished computer programmer and scientist even after his disgrace. He even figured out how to activate the Mother Box Salem had found... which unfortunately drew Brainiac's attention.
• Hate at First Sight: Even after conversing with him for less than ten minutes, Watts openly voices his hatred for Luthor.
• Hypocritical Humor: Watts considers Lex Luthor "an arrogant son of a bitch with an ego the size of a planet", hence his distaste for him. Hazel privately notes the same could be said for his colleague.
• Too Much Alike: Implicitly the reason he has Hate at First Sight with Luthor.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Watts activating the Mother Box in Salem's domain is what allowed Brainiac to find Remnant and thereby destroy it. He was not very happy when Lex Luthor pointed this out to him.

Tyrian Callows

Tyrian Callows

A deranged faunus Serial Killer recruited by Salem after he was finally caught by the authorities. Tyrian revers Salem as though she were a goddess and serves as her hunter with fanatic zeal and sadistic pleasure.

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• Berserk Button: He does not tolerate people insinuating that Salem is anything less than a goddess.
• Like a God to Me: Tyrian has seen Salem as a goddess for a long time.
• Only One Finds It Fun: Is the only member or Salem’s faction that isn’t disturbed after witnessing the Time Crash in Metropolis, instead laughing his ass off about how much he loves this planet and being envious of Hazel for being at ground zero.
• Undying Loyalty: Even after Remnant's total destruction at Brainiac's hands, Tyrian remains utterly devoted to Salem.
• The Worf Effect: Gets completely bodied by Mercy when he attacks Lex Luthor for his apparent disrespect towards Salem. This should be incredibly difficult due to the differences between Remnantians and Earth-born humans; however, it's Justified in that Tyrian was not at full strength due to malnutrition and also due to the fact that Mercy is an Amazon. Even then, he gets up immediately afterwards and is only stopped by Salem's command.

Hazel Rainart

Hazel Rainart

Carrying a deep personal grudge against Professor Ozpin and the Huntsman institution as a whole, Hazel serves Salem to help tear down an unjust establishment and create something better in its place.

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• Covered in Gunge: After hours of fighting the chaos of the temporal cascade, when he finally returns to Salem, he's completely disheveled and covered in mud, grime, blood, and "Gods know what else".
• Moral Myopia: He hates Ozpin and later the Justice League (especially Batman) for recruiting children to fight for their organizations; however, he conveniently ignores the fact that he works for Salem whose Grimm are single-handedly responsible for the deaths of countless men, women, and children over the centuries.
• Only Sane Man: Hazel's the only one who keeps his cool for the most part while Salem's group is dealing with Lex.
• Pet the Dog: Saves a civilian woman by punching out a Viking that was attacking her during Chronos' time heist.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Among what's left of Salem's compatriots, Hazel is the most willing besides Salem herself to cooperate with Luthor simply because they have no other favorable options at the moment.
• Thousand-Yard Stare: One day in Metropolis is enough to break him after having to endure a temporal cascade as a result of Chronos' time heist. By the time he returns to Salem and the others, his appearance is a complete mess and all he can do is just stare off into space as he calmly asks Salem to give him some time off to recover.
• Token Good Teammate: On top of having sympathetic reasons for working with Salem, he suggests working peacefully with Earth's authorities to take down Brainiac.

Vale

Professor Ozpin

Ozpin

The elderly Headmaster of Beacon Academy, Ozpin is a highly renowned retired Huntsman who oversaw the education of future Huntsmen and Huntresses for Remnant's eternal battles for survival against the Grimm. Secretly however, Ozpin is merely the latest identity of Ozma, a millennia-old human tasked by the Brother Gods to unite humanity and defeat his now-immortal former lover and Queen of the Grimm, Salem. The destruction of Remnant and the imprisonment of its remaining population by Brainiac however have rendered all of his plans for naught. He now spends his days supervising the remains of Vale from Beacon while engaging a series of personal back-and-forth questionings with Brainiac.

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• Arch-Enemy:
  • Salem, his former wife and now immortal foe. That being said, Ozpin would much prefer to deal with her than...
  • Brainiac. For bottling the cities of Remnant and destroying the planet, killing millions of innocents in the process, Ozpin hates Brainiac more than anything and anyone else in his very long life. This hatred is only reinforced by how he's forced to interact with Brainiac personally to sate his curiosity.
• Big Good: For what's left of Remnant, anyway. Ozpin does everything he can to make the best out of Vale's situation, setting up group therapy for others and organizing deals with people like Torchwick to keep its citizens from killing each other.
• Cane Fu: Ozpin's weapon is a cane called Long Memory. Not only has he constructed, held, and maintained it over countless lifetimes, it also serves as a battery to store kinetic energy. He can use this energy to either his own reserves, or use in a last-ditch explosive attack.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Raven convinced Brainiac to spare his life because of his Resurrective Immortality. Instead, thanks to being the most knowledgeable Remnantian alive, Brainiac frequently takes him out of Vale to interrogate him for whatever queries are plaguing his mind at the time.
• The Chessmaster: Ozpin served as this on Remnant before Brainiac's arrival. He later continues this capacity against Brainiac himself through literal games of chess, pretending to give Brainiac what he wants while in actuality probing the Coluan for information and potential weaknesses.
• Chess Motifs: The literal games of chess Ozpin engaged in against Brainiac is a symbol for his overall defiance against him as well as illustrating the vast difference in power between them. Case in point, Ozpin loses his first game against Brainiac very quickly, showing that Brainiac's power far outstrips Ozpin's own.
• Defiant to the End: Every time Brainiac summoned him, Ozpin was purposely as defiant as possible until the invader threatened someone else to force him to talk, feeling that he owed it to the what remained of Remnant to make life as difficult for their conqueror as he could. The one time Ozpin played along with Brainiac's questions, it was to find out the fates of RWBY and JNPR.
• A Father to His Men: He does everything he can to keep the spirits of Ironwood, Qrow and Taiyang up despite the horrible times they're in. He is also elated at the reveal that his students survived despite the odds.
• Foil: To Superman, in the sense that Ruby said that he is Beacon's headmaster and the other academies' listen to him, therefore Ozpin could be considered the leader of Remnant's Huntsmen. Of course, she doesn't know of the Ozluminati until Qrow arrives to Earth and brings them up to speed.
• Guile Hero: Ozpin knows that Braniac could defeat and kill him effortlessly, so instead of fighting him directly, he chooses to probe him for information with chess games.
• "Hell, Yes!" Moment: He noticeably has a skip in his step after learning that Teams RWBY and JNPR are alive and managed to escape Brainiac.
• Manly Tears: In the first chapter, he has to drive back tears while asking Ironwood to give up and stop throwing more lives away trying to stop Brainiac. It's obvious that he would also like to keep fighting, but has long since realized that it would do no good.
• Pals with Jesus: A bonus chapter reveals that he has a very friendly relationship with Death of the Endless, whom he became very well acquainted with in between his reincarnations.
• Spared By Adaptation: His current form was spared since Cinder's plans never came to fruition. As Raven dissuaded Brainiac from killing him, he's currently still Professor Ozpin, Headmaster of Beacon, rather than sharing a body with Oscar Pine.
• Too Awesome to Use: Frequently Ozpin has felt temptation to use Long Memory on Brainiac during their many interactions with each other. The way he figures, Long Memory has perhaps the best chance, second only to the Relic of Destruction, of defeating Brainiac. But, each and every time, he doesn't as he knows there's no guarantee it'll work. Even if it did, there's always the risk that killing Brainiac would destroy every bottled city, and that isn't a risk he's willing to take.
  • The closest he comes to using Long Memory against Brainiac is at the start of the Green Lantern Ambush, noting that using as much of its stored power as he can get away with without the risk of killing Brainiac at the start of the battle while he's hooked up to the ship is his best opportunity to contribute. Even if using it would likely result in him getting sucked out into the void of space, he'd consider it worth it. But, he relucantly doesn't because he knows that using so much of Long Memory's power requires a few seconds to charge, seconds that Brainiac would not give. Had Ozpin been able to convince Raven to help him, the Spring Maiden might've been able to protect Ozpin long enough for him to use Long Memory, but as Raven is unconvinced and still working for Brainiac out of fear, he's forced to go back into Vale and hope that Brainiac can be defeated without his help.
• Unreliable Narrator: The author's notes for "Hand in Hand" points out that Ozpin isn't the most reliable source of information on Salem.

Glynda Goodwitch

Glynda Goodwitch

A Beacon Academy instructor and member of Ozpin's inner circle, Glynda Goodwitch is second in authority only to Headmaster Ozpin. Stern and authoritative, she is committed to the health and safety of Beacon's students.

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• Number Two: To Ozpin, helping him keep together what's left of Vale and acting as a liaison for him between the various factions in the city.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Brainiac's invasion and the aftermath has caused her to let up on being a Stern Teacher, allowing her to express her emotions and compassion more. Notably, when Ozpin reveals that Teams RWBY and JNPR are alive and managed to escape Brainiac, she expresses relief at their survival and worry for them, knowing they are stranded on a foreign world with no support system.

General James Ironwood

James Ironwood

The Headmaster of Atlas Academy and Commanding General of the Atlesian Military, General James Ironwood was providing security for the Vytal Festival when Brainiac invaded, and he now finds himself and his surviving task force personnel stranded in Vale. Although a dutiful member of Ozpin's inner circle, Ironwood's stubbornness and preference for straightforward military solutions often puts him at odds with Ozpin and his allies, now made worse by the trauma of Remnant's destruction and the stress of their collective imprisonment. He now seeks out methods by which to covertly assassinate Brainiac by any means necessary.

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• The Alcoholic: Much like a growing portion of Vale, he's turned to drink to cope with everything that's happened.
• Beard of Sorrow: More of a five-o'clock shadow, but James' facial hair has grown considerably more unkempt post-bottling. This is a symptom of both Vale's lack of resources, causing personal hygiene to fall by the wayside and his general depression over being unable to stop Brainiac.
• Better to Die than Be Killed: How he is able to justify sacrificing all of the captive cities in order to destroy Braniac with his Fantastic Nuke. They would either recieve a quick death, or they would continue to be victims of Brainiac's twisted experiments until he decides to dispose of them after he is done with them.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Flatly admits that he would gladly take Ozpin's place in Ironwood's own Dust Nuke Suicide Attack plan if he could. As it is, the only reason he considered it is because he knew that not only was Ozpin the only person in regular, personal contact with Brainiac, but because Ozpin could reincarnate.
  • He scraps the above plan immediately after Ozpin raises the possibility that killing Brainiac could result in the termination of all the cities he currently has in his possession, massacring trillions. Subverted in the aftermath of the Green Lanterns assault on Brainiac where he continues to draft said plan while acknowledging that the results will damn him to hell for eternity.
• Fling a Light into the Future: He unintentionally did this when he went with Ozpin's plan to use RWBYJNPR as a strike team to take down Brainiac. While they ultimately failed to beat Brainiac and stop Remnant's destruction, they did manage to escape and land on Earth, where they can grow stronger and prepare for Brainiac's eventual invasion there, giving them another opportunity to save the bottled Remnantian cities.
• Foil: To Batman, seeing as Ironwood has secretly commissioned the building of basically Dust-powered Fantastic Nukes without telling anyone of his plans. Qrow notes that they're both secretive, paranoid, and brooding. However, he also notes that Batman has a much stronger sense of honor and restraint than Ironwood.
• It's All My Fault: He blames himself for the fall of Vale and his inability to stop Brainiac's invasion. Ozpin feels he's being too hard on himself because Ironwood had done everything he could; Brainiac was simply too strong for them.
• My Greatest Failure:
  • He regards his inability to stop Brainiac from bottling Vale as this. It didn't help that he was too far away to save his home Atlas from Brainiac, and because of that part of him viewed Vale as his last chance to save anything.
  • It's implied he also felt that way about sending in RWBYJNPR to Brainiac's mother ship in last-ditch effort to defeat the Coluan. Not because they failed, but because they were children and he all but sent them to their deaths. Thus, he's equally relieved as everyone else to hear they're alive and equally worried about Brainiac going after them again.
• Salt the Earth: Was prepared to destroy half the city of Vale in a desperate scorched-earth tactic called Plan G using their remaining munitions just to delay Brainiac further. Ozpin manages to convince him to instead re-appropriate that ordinance to help RWBYJNPR break into Brainiac's ship and rescue Ruby.
• The Unfettered: Is willing to potentially sacrifice trillions of innocent captives of Brainiac if it means freeing his people and eliminating Brainiac for good. He knows that doing so would be crossing the Moral Event Horizon, but he is willing to bear that burden because he believes himself to be the only one with the will to do whatever is neccessary to save what is left of Remnant.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: While he acknowledges that sacrificing all of the other captive cities in order to kill Brainiac would be an unforgivable sin that would damn him to hell in his own words, he is able justify himself by saying that they are not their people and thus not their responsibility.

Winter Schnee

Winter Schnee

The eldest child of the Schnee family and elder sister to Weiss, Specialist Winter Schnee abandoned her heirship to the Schnee Dust Company shortly after joining the Atlesian Military and is now one of General Ironwood's most fiercely loyal subordinates. Following Brainiac's invasion, she now finds herself and the remnants of Ironwood's task force trapped in Vale.

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• Big Sister Instinct:
  • After finding out Weiss is alive, she swears to the Brothers that she'll kill Brainiac if he dares to harm her little sister again.
  • While she doesn't express it outwardly and her relationships with both are strained, she does care about her mother and brother as well. When Weiss reunites with Willow and Whitley, all three agree that Winter will literally kill Jacques when she finds out he abandoned the latter two to Brainiac.
• I Will Find You: She makes a silent, Heroic Vow to herself that she will see Weiss again, even if it's the last thing she ever does.
• Not So Stoic: Winter tries to maintain a mostly professional facade, both on and off the job, but there are moments that show she's not unfeeling, such as her protectiveness of Weiss and her genuine fondness for Penny. And her sheer hatred for Brainiac.
• White Sheep: Like Weiss, to the Schnee family. Notably, she is the only family member Weiss genuinely misses.

Taiyang Xiao Long

Taiyang Xiao Long

Once a member of Team STRQ, Taiyang is a teacher for Signal Academy and the father of Yang and Ruby. Taiyang evacuated the Island of Patch with its other inhabitants and took shelter in Vale during Brainiac's invasion, only to be bottled with the rest of the Kingdom and lose both of his daughters to parts unknown.

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• The Alcoholic: Even worse than Qrow, who still talks with people and shows emotions.
• Despair Event Horizon: Losing Yang and Ruby has pushed him over this, causing him to almost completely shut down, not even talking anymore. All he does is drink with Qrow, and glare at people who annoy him. He breaks out of it after learning his daughters are alive.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Qrow, who he sees as a brother and even calls him as such.
• Living Emotional Crutch: Ruby and Yang. After Raven left him and Summer died, his daughters and Qrow were all Taiyang had left. Their loss shattered him, to the point that it's obvious that Qrow is the only thing stopping him from going completely over the edge. Notably, he snaps out of his funk when he finds out that they're alive.
• Papa Wolf: Attacked Ironwood when it appeared that the general was willing to leave Ruby to die at the hands of Brainiac. Notable for the fact that he had both arms in casts at the time.
• Trauma Conga Line: Hoo boy. As if his life wasn't hard enough with Raven leaving and Summer disappearing, the Fall of Remnant and Ruby and Yang being seemingly dead, nearly shattered him, to the point that it's obvious that Qrow is the only thing stopping him from going completely over the edge. Fortunately, after learning of his daughters survival he snapped out of his funk.

Professor Port

Peter Port

Professor of Grimm Studies in Beacon Academy and professional Huntsman.

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• Big Fun: Averted. The horrors of Brainiac have destroyed whatever cheer this man has.

Doctor Oobleck

Bartholomew Oobleck

Professional Huntsman and history teacher for Beacon Academy.

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• Everyone Has Standards: As a historian, he can see and understand the logic behind Brainiac's 'preservation', but still utterly disapproves of it. As he puts it, Brainiac isn't saving the societies and cultures he's studying, but rather robbing them of their future.

Coco Adel

Coco Adel

The ever fashionable and stubborn leader of Team CFVY, Coco Adel was born and raised in the Kingdom of Vale. Upon graduating from Pharos Academy alongside (unbeknownst to her) Velvet Scarlatina, where she gained a reputation of breaking both girls' hearts and school records, she was accepted into Beacon Academy. She and the rest of her team became good friends with Teams RWBY and JNPR despite being one year older than them. Following Brainiac's invasion, they remain one of the only fully operational Huntsmen teams in the Bottled City of Vale, and one of even fewer who hold out hope of a better tomorrow.

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• Aggressive Negotiations: On the receiving end with her team by Roman Torchwick when they're trading food for metal. Thankfully, it doesn't work in his favor.
• Both Sides Have a Point: While she believes Team's RWBY and JNPR are alive, she doesn't deny Cardin has a point they might have just died.
• The Casanova: Was known to break girls' hearts back at Pharos Combat School.
• Didn't Think This Through: Points this out to Roman Torchwich when he tries to alter the deal by taking more food for less metal. At the end of the day, Roman needs food more than Beacon needs metal, and they're more than willing to let Roman starve rather than give in to his demands. As such, he backs off.
• Hope Springs Eternal: One of the only people left in Vale who believe and hope that, since RWBY and JNPR managed to escape, they'll be able to one day return and help save them.
• Worthy Opponent: Roman regards her at this for seeing past his bluff.

Fox Alistair

Fox Alistair

Partner to Coco Adel and fellow member of Team CFVY, Fox Alistair grew up in the harsh and unforgiving desert of Vacuo. Losing his parents at a young age, he learned quickly how to fend for himself. Eventually leaving the desert for the lush Kingdom of Vale, he attended Beacon Academy where he met his teammates. As with the rest of his team, Fox remains one of the only fully functional Huntsmen in the Bottled City of Vale following Brainiac's invasion, doing everything he can to keep people safe.

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• Benevolent A.I.: Uses an Accessibility Dialogue Assistant, or ADA, to help navigate his environment and study his opponents.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: His weapon, Sharp Retribution, consists of a pair of wrist-mounted blades that angle back to his elbows.
• Deadpan Snarker: When using his Semblance, he reveals himself to be this.
• Disability Superpower: Fox is completely blind, but he has learned to use his Aura Vision and Semblance to see the world around him regardless.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: His body is covered in scars, but he's a firmly heroic character.
• Telepathy: Fox's Semblance allows him to communicate with others, namely his teammates, with his mind.

Velvet Scarlatina

Velvet Scarlatina

A shy and quiet member of Team CFVY and partner to Yatsuhashi Daichi, Velvet stands out from the rest of her team both from her hardlight-emitting camera Anesidora as well as a rabbit faunus. The only faunus on her team, Velvet frequently was victim to racial prejudice despite the best efforts of her team to protect her. Despite her demeanor, Velvet has proven to a highly skilled Huntress, using both her weapon and her Semblance, Photographic Memory, to great effect. Following Brainiac's invasion, she remains one of the only capable Huntresses in the Bottled City of Vale, doing everything she can to protect the people.

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• Camera Fiend: Takes photos at any given opportunity, focusing on weapons in particular. This is because her weapon, Aneisadora, uses her photographs as ammunition to create Hardlight Dust copies of what she photographed. Unfortunately, supply of Hardlight Dust has diminished greatly since the Fall of Remnant, meaning she can't use her weapon much.
• Ditto Fighter: Capable of copying anyone's movements thanks to her Semblance, Photographic Memory. She uses it to great effect while chasing after a Red Fang assassin, copying his every move as he tried to escape.
• Fantastic Racism: Was subject to this due to being a faunus. Luckily it has died down significantly since the Fall of Remnant, but it still persists in isolated pockets such as a racist street preacher who claimed that Brainiac's invasion was a divine message from the Gods meant to punish humanity for trying to live with faunus as equals.
• The Heart: Generally considered to be this for her team.
• Photographic Memory: Not only does it allow her to use her semblance for maximum effect, but she is also able to use it to match the movements of a fleeing Red Fang assassin and eventually capture him.
• Too Awesome to Use: Her weapon, Aneisadora, sadly falls into this. Even before the Fall of Remnant, Hardlight Dust was extremely expensive, limiting her weapon's use. After Brainiac's invasion, the supply of Dust is even further strained, further limiting her ability to use her weapon.

Yatsuhashi Daichi

Yatsuhashi Daichi

A quiet and gentle man from Mistral, and partner to Velvet Scarlatina, Yatsuhashi Daichi stands heads and shoulders above his teammates. Wielding a zweihandler named Fulcrum, his Semblance is Amnesia, allowing him to temporarily erase memories from his victims. Following an incident in his youth where abusing his Semblance nearly led to his younger sister getting killed, he practices a strict form of self-control to prevent its abuse. Following Brainiac's invasion, Yatsuhashi remains of the only fully functional Huntsmen in the Bottled City of Vale.

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• Gentle Giant: Yatsuhashi is one of the largest students at Beacon, towering over the rest of his teammates, yet is generally a very nice and gentle person.
• In-Series Nickname: Often called "Yatsu" for short.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: He can inflict it on his opponents with his Semblance, the effect lasting longer and taking more memories the longer he maintains it but also taking longer to reverse. But he doesn't like using it due to an incident when he was younger where he got jealous that his baby sister was getting more attention than him. Using his Semblance, he unintentionally caused his mother to completely forget his sister's existence for roughly a month, which nearly caused her to die. Following this, Yatsu and his family was completely traumatized, and even after his grandmother helped him learn to control his power, he remains fearful that he could accidentally erase someone's entire mind.
• Willfully Weak: Refuses to use Semblance unless absolutely necessary, causing everyone - including him - to not fully understand its capabilities.

Ciel Soleil

Ciel Soleil

A stiff and no-nonsense cadet from Atlas, Ciel Soleil was assigned to be Penny's partner and handler during the Vytal Tournament, a role she continued after Brainiac's invasion.

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• You Shall Not Pass!: Attempts this against Brainiac in order to buy Penny time to escape. Unfortunately, it doesn't work.

Ilia Amitola

Ilia Amitola

A childhood friend of Blake Belladonna, she was radicalized by the White Fang after the death of her parents. In the wake of Brainiac's invasion, she and several other members defected and joined the defenses of Vale after Adam insisted on continuing his terroristic activities against the humans. In the face of an existential threat, she finds herself fighting alongside the very people she used to call her enemy.

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• Defector from Decadence: When Adam wanted to continue his terroristic crusade against the human population of Vale, she and many of her fellow Faunus defected from the White Fang and ended up joining the defending forces of Vale when Brainiac invaded.
• Enemy Mine: Realized that Brainiac was the bigger threat to her people.
• The Ghost: Has been mentioned in passing, but has yet to actually appear.
• Incompatible Orientation: Neptune tries hitting on her at first, but he respectfully backs off after learning that she's lesbian. He even offers her tips on how to hit on girls.

Sun Wukong

Sun Wukong

The care-free and fun-loving leader of Team SSSN, Sun Wukong grew up in the harsh desert of Vacuo. Immigrating to Mistral, he enrolled in Haven Academy where he met his partner, Neptune Vasilias, and his teammates Scarlet David and Sage Ayana. Frequently heading off on his own, he arrived in Vale well ahead of his team for the Vytal Tournament, where he met and became infatuated with Blake Belladonna, eventually becoming friends with all of Team RWBY. His weapons are a pair of shotgun-nunchucks named Ruyi Bang and Jingu Bang, and his Semblance is Via Sun, allowing him to create clones of light.

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• Beware the Nice Ones: Sun is a decent guy, but he believes Adam Taurus deserves a bullet in the head for all he's done.
• Endearingly Dorky: He's an extremely enthusiastic and energetic guy, allowing him to quickly become friends with most people, even the reserved Blake Belladonna.
• Fun Personified: His cheerful, laid-back, and fun-loving demeanor helps keep spirits up among the survivors of Beacon.
• Lovable Rogue: Fond of breaking rules but remains a very friendly guy willing to help his friends.
• Stepford Smiler: His trademark smiles have become more forced recently. Sun feels he has to keep a brave face so others don't lose hope.

Neptune Vasilias

Neptune Vasilias

A self-proclaimed lady's man and Weiss' ex-boyfriend, Neptune is a member of Team SSSN and is Sun Wukong's best friend and partner.

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• Chivalrous Pervert: Tried to hit on Ilia, but he respectfully backed off when Scarlet informed him that she is a lesbian.
• The Pig-Pen: Not by choice but he hasn't bathed in some time due to water-rationing at Beacon, and he is grossed out by his own body odor.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He still is deathly afraid of water and dreads having to go to the river just to bathe.

Scarlet David

Scarlet David

• Straight Man: To his team, which is kind of ironic phrasing wise considering that he’s gay.

Sage Ayana

Sage Ayana

• Rugged Scar: Received one during Brainiac’s invasion. On his chest at least.

Cardin Winchester

Cardin Winchester

The brutish leader of Team CRDL.

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• Jerkass Has a Point: Disparages Sun's desire to go train and get stronger as a waste of time since there are no more Grimm to fight in Vale and the only threats they face are criminals and bandits that are of little challenge to a trained huntsman.
  • He also refuses to believe that teams RWBY and JNPR survived their escape from Brainiac. When challenged on this, he points out that they have no way of knowing where they could have ended up because the universe is a very big place. For all they know they could have ended up in the middle of space, on a inhospitable or completely uninhabited planet with no support, or they could have ended up on a planet that is hostile to alien visitors. The odds of their survival would be very slim.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Downplayed in that he's not as overtly racist towards Faunus like Sun and Velvet and is less hostile towards the others, but he is still very much an asshole.

Atlas

Fria the Winter Maiden

Fria

The elderly Fria is the latest Winter Maiden who lived her life to protect the people of Solitas with her great magical power. Well past her prime and nearing death's door, Fria was captured by Brainiac so that he could observe and study the nature of her powers.

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• Bequeathed Power: As she's about to die and her powers to be passed on another vessel, Brainiac decides to use her in order to study the Maiden transfer. Just like in canon, she passed her powers onto Penny upon her death.
• Due to the Dead: After becoming the Winter Maiden, Penny cremates her body to prevent Brainiac from dissecting her corpse.
• Face Death with Dignity: As she is dying of a fatal heart attack, Penny tries to save her only for Fria to stop her and calmly reassure her that this was part of her plan and that it's her time. She dies peacefully soon after.
• Heroic RRoD: Because of her advanced age, using her powers puts a strain on her body. During her, Penny, and Qrow's escape, the strain of using her powers to carve a path for them ends up triggering a fatal heart attack that ultimately kills her.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Uses the last of her strength to destroy several of Brainiac's drones so Qrow and Penny can escape, and right after she passes the Winter Maiden's powers to Penny.
• I Will Only Slow You Down: Ultimately why she chooses to sacrifice herself. Fria knew she didn't have much time left regardless of what became of her in the end, so she opted to use what strength she had left to give Qrow and Penny a better chance at escaping Brainiac, along with ensuring that her powers passed on to Penny.
• Intergenerational Friendship: With Penny. Penny is a robot in the form of a teenage girl who is only a few years old at best, while Fria is an old woman on her deathbed.
• Life Will Kill You: Just like in canon, her age is making her physical and mental state to progressively deteriorate, and she doesn't have much time left.
• Unluckily Lucky: Fria is so frail and sick that Brainiac can't physically experiment on her, as she would likely die before yielding useful results. The cyborg thus leaves her alone to peacefully die in her time.

Robyn Hill

Robyn Hill

The charismatic leader of the Happy Huntresses, an organization dedicated to helping the City of Mantle and pushing back against exploitation from Atlas.

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• The Ghost: Mentioned as the de-facto organizer/spokeswoman for Mantle, but hasn’t made a physical apparent yet.
• Living Lie Detector: Her semblance makes her this. It's how she was able to confirm Klein's account of what happened to Willow and Whitley, and it's why Jacques won't dare meet her face to face.
• Rebel Leader: Has been organizing labor strikes and boycotts in Mantle in protest of Atlas hoarding the majority of food, leaving only scraps for the people of Mantle. While her intentions are good, this has the unfortunate result of potentially pushing the two sister cities towards civil war because Jacques Schnee wants to use the military to quell these protests.

Clover Ebi

Clover Ebi

The team leader of the Atlesian Military's Ace Operatives, Clover Ebi now finds himself the highest-ranking commissioned officer to have survived Brainiac's invasion and Atlas' post-bottling chaos. Needless to say, he is completely unqualified and quickly overwhelmed by his new duties.

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• The Chains of Commanding: He is put in the unenviable position of having to manage what is left of the Atlesian military in Ironwood's absence, a position that he is neither prepared nor qualified for simply because there is no one else who can. Now he's probably the only one who is keeping Atlas and Mantle from tearing each other apart.
• Everyone Has Standards: Shows visible disgust when Jacques implies that he still insists on being paid for access to his Dust supply despite the ongoing crisis. Jacques immediately backpedals when he notices this.
• Horrible Judge of Character: More in that he doesn’t know Jacques as well as his family, and thus not seeing the man’s ulterior motives. Later subverted when Klein tries to tell everyone the truth about Jacques giving up his wife and son to Brainiac willingly. Although he is unable to take any action againsts Jacques due to it being his word against Klein's, he sees Jacques for who he is and no longer trusts him.
• You Are in Command Now: The de-facto leader of the Atlesian Military in General Ironwood’s absence as he was the highest ranking officer that survived Brainiac's attack.

Marrow Amin

Marrow Amin

Vine Zeki

Vine Zeki

Elm Ederne

Elm Ederne

Harriet Bree

Harriet Bree

Schnee Manor

General

• Big, Screwed-Up Family: Thanks to Jacques' abusive parenting and Willow's Parental Neglect. Though, things in the family seem to getting better after Willow and Whitley reunite with Weiss on Earth.
• Riches to Rags: They used to be the richest family on Remnant before Brainiac came, bottled up the cities, and destroyed the planet. This lead to a collapse in the value of the Lien, making the Schnees, for all intents and purposes, paupers.

Jacques Schnee

Jacques Schnee, né Gelé

The husband of Willow Schnee and father of Winter, Weiss, and Whitley, Jacques Schnee is the iron-fisted CEO of Schnee Dust Company, the largest Dust mining and distribution company on Remnant. Greedy and unscrupulous, Jacques Gelé increased the SDC's profitability with cutthroat business savvy and a marriage of convenience to Nicholas Schnee's only child. His corrupt monopolization of the Dust industry, poor labor standards, and discriminatory policies however have all but irrevocably poisoned the company and the family name, while his own ruthless and emotionally abusive personality have warped his family into a dysfunctional mess. The destruction of Remnant has long since forced SDC's nationalization and rendered much of his wealth worthless, yet he has remained influential within the Atlesian council in ensuring much of the remaining Dust supplies and food provisions are hoarded by the Atlesian elite, much to the fury of Mantle's citizens below.

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• Abusive Parents: He's emotionally and verbally abusive, as seen by his treatment of Weiss. Winter eventually ditched home and gave up her position of heiress of the SDC just to get away from him, while Whitley modeled himself after Jacques to please him, so his father wouldn't treat him as badly as he did with Whitley's sisters. Then Jacques proves such an action was pointless and that he doesn't love any of them when he gives up Willow and Whitley to Brainiac.
• Awful Wedded Life: With Willow, which eventually culminated in Jacques handing her over to Brainiac. As far as Willow is concerned, that action was basically him divorcing her.
• Beyond Redemption: Any consideration anyone had for him immediately dies when they learn how he all but threw Willow and Whitley at Brainiac when the alien warlord came for them in order to save himself.
• Black Sheep: To the Schnee family. All the Schnees, even Whitley, are at heart good people. Jacques, meanwhile, is an opportunistic Corrupt Corporate Executive who only cares about himself. It's rather fitting, because he's not actually a Schnee by blood.
• Broken Pedestal: To Whitley. Granted, it's stated that Whitley never really held him in high regard but pretended otherwise for fear of his abuse.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Took over the Schnee Dust Company by marrying his way into the family. Then, he created a monopoly on the dust market by ruthlessly driving other companies out of business, even those that were not direct competition to him. He also cut corners which created unsafe working conditions in his dust mines, slashed wages, and has discriminatory policies when it comes to treatment of the Faunus.
• Dirty Coward:
  • When Brainiac requested that he give over his wife and son for experimentation, he agreed without hesitation to save his own skin.
  • He spends the duration of Brainiac's invasion hiding under a table in the family bunker, not even sparing a glance at his wife and son.
• Gold Digger: Outright admitted to Willow that the only reason he married her was for the family fortune and name.
• Hate Sink: He's nothing but a heartless, greedy, and self-centered creep.
• I Have No Son!: Inverted. The subject of this from his entire surviving family — Willow considers them divorced and refers to him by his original name, while Whitley disowns him as his father. Weiss does the same when she hears about how he gave them up to Brainiac, and all three speculate that when Winter finds out, she'll go pass disowning him and into outright killing him.
• It's All About Me: Jacques has no other concern for anything than his own sorry skin. When he hides with his family in the bunker, he refuses to come out from under the table, even to offer his family comfort.
• The Maiden Name Debate: He took on the Schnee name after marrying Willow. In fact, it was one of the only reasons he married Willow.
• Opportunistic Bastard: Weiss describes him as 'Lex Luthor-lite' and a deeper analysis of his character points to this as an apt description. Lex, for all his faults, got to where he is today through his own merits. Jacques, meanwhile, never really achieved anything on his own but rather through taking advantage of others and cutting corners. He attained his company and fortune through seducing Willow, he made the SDC more profitable by creating a monopoly via cheap labor and unsafe working conditions, he spared himself Brainiac's wrath by giving his wife and son up, and then he lied about it to the public to engender sympathy from the population, which he then used to influence the remaining civilian government into hoarding supplies for Atlas at Mantle's expense just so he could keep his privileged lifestyle.
• Parental Betrayal:
  • He betrays Whitley by giving him up to Brainiac in favor of saving himself. As far as Whitley is concerned, Jacques is dead to him.
  • Weiss considers his betrayal of Whitley and Willow to Brainiac to be a betrayal of Winter and herself as well, and disowns him in retaliation.
• Parental Favoritism: Whitley is supposedly his favorite child. That did not stop him from throwing Whitley to the wolves to save himself.
• Rich Bastard: Oh boy. He sells his family out to Brainiac and uses his authority to let Mantle starve while he and his associates live large.
• Riches to Rags: Played with in regards to him. While the rest of his family plays this straight, it's implied that despite the collapse of the value of the Lien, Jacques has managed to mostly retain his privileged lifestyle through hoarding the resources provided to Atlas and Mantle by Brainiac at the expense of the latter.
• Tyrant Takes the Helm: In Ironwood's absence, he has pretty much become the most powerful man in all of Atlas. He and the rest of Atlas' elite have begun hoarding most of the food and provisions provide by Brainiac for themselves, leaving scraps for the people of Mantle. This has caused the people of Mantle, led by Robyn Hill, to rise up in protest of his actions and pushing Atlas and Mantle towards civil war.
• Villain with Good Publicity: If there weren't already plenty enough reasons to hate him, he lied about the circumstances of Willow and Whitley's abduction (namely, omitting the part where he let it happen) to Atlas and leveraged the sympathy he received from the Atlesian populace to propel himself higher up the ranks of the kingdom's government. Even after Klein attempts to reveal the truth, Jacques is able to launch a smear campaign against Klein by painting him as a disgruntled former employee, and the true story is dismissed as Malicious Slander by the people of Atlas.
  • This is actually subverted in the case of Mantle in that the people of Mantle believe Klein's account and Jacques is seemingly universally hated among the populace of Mantle. The Ace Ops also believe Klein's account and are only stopped from arresting Jacques on the basis that all they have is Klein's word against Jacques'.

Klein Sieben

Klein Sieben

The jovial butler of the Schnee estate with seven distinct personalities, Klein was in many ways the only source of happiness for Willow Schnee and her children. Following Jacques betrayal and Brainiac's arrest of Willow and Whitley, he has joined Mantle in openly resisting the Atlesian council.

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• Battle Butler: A subverted example. He desperately tries to fight off both Jacques security guards and Brainiac's drones respectively as they take away Willow and Whitley. Unfortunately, he is not a seasoned huntsman and he's quickly subdued during both attempts.
• Cassandra Truth: Downplayed. The Ace-Ops and Mantle believe him when he tells them about how Jacques sold his own wife and son out to Brainiac, but almost nobody in Atlas believes him thanks to Jacques spinning the truth to make himself appear to be a victim.
• The Jeeves: For the Schnee family. Even after the end of the world, he still faithfully serves the family as if nothing's changed.
• Papa Wolf: When Jacques gave up Willow and Whitley, Klein did everything he could to protect them, including punching out two of the guards that were going to drag them off to Brainiac. He later got electrocuted by one of Brainiac's drones trying to save them.
• Parental Substitute: To the Schnee children. Tellingly, it's him that comforts Whitley after the Fall of Remnant, not Jacques, and he even tries to convince Willow to give up drinking and be the mother Whitley needs. To say nothing of the fact that it is Klein that tries to protect them from Brainiac, where as Jacques simply gives them up.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: After he recovers from his injuries, he leaves Schnee Manor and tries to expose Jacques betrayal to the public. Jacques, however, launches a smear campaign against him, painting him as a disgruntled former employee. Eventually, he leaves Atlas altogether and joins Robyn's Happy Huntresses in Mantle.
• Undying Loyalty: To the Schnees — not to Jacques, who he, much like the rest of the family, does not consider a real Schnee.

Mistral

Sienna Khan

Sienna Khan

The current leader of the White Fang. After Ghira Belladona stepped down as leader, Sienna lead the faunus into more radical and aggressive means to take back power and respect from human kind. After Mistral was collected by Brainiac and Professor Lionheart was found dead, Sienna has taken Haven Academy and its surroundings to ensure a new rule for man and faunus both.

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• Anti-Villain: Ozpin notes that like Adam, she resorted to violent means. But unlike Adam, she was reacting to actual grievances against the Faunus and not just murdering people indiscriminately. Arguably more of an Anti-Hero by many Faunus’s & many in Mistral’s perspective save for her decisions in who to trust…
• The Ghost: Mentioned by Brainiac to Ozpin, but has yet to make an actual appearance in the story proper.
• Horrible Judge of Character: One of her biggest issues, honestly believing that Adam was a suitable successor
• Tyrant Takes the Helm: Downplayed in that she quickly seizes control of Haven Academy in the wake of Professor Lionheart's death; however, the people under her rule enjoy more freedoms than compared to the other warlords vying for power in Mistral. Unfortunately, her pro-Faunus policies wind up alienating some of the human population and driving them towards Lil' Miss Malachite, her rival for control of the city.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: While her policies might favor the faunus first, she is trying her best to establish equality between humans and faunus. Compared to Miss Malachite's territory, her domain will be much more pleasant to live in if not for Adam starting a more extremist faction which causes a few of her men to lack discipline towards humans when enforcing her rule.

Oscar Pine — The Woodsman

Oscar Pine

A simple farm hand from a settlement just outside of the Kingdom of Mistral. Oscar fled to the Kingdom with his aunt during Braniac's invasion and was collected with the rest of Mistral. With the Kingdom tearing itself apart in gang wars, Oscar took it upon himself to become a vigilante fighting back against the wanton violence.

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• Appropriated Appellation: People initially called him the Woodsman because they considered him a pale imitation of a Huntsman. As he's improved in combat, the name is spoken with some level of respect now.
• The Apprentice: to Maria Calavera.
• The Cowl: He's become Remnant's version of a costumed vigilante, striking from the shadows against criminals who prey upon the innocent in the streets of Mistral's Middle-City.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: While his initial attempts at vigilantism were less than stellar, he’s improved so much under Maria’s tutelage that the White Fang and the Spiders consider him a threat.

Maria Calavera

Maria Calavera, the Grimm Reaper

Once a legendary Huntress, Maria Calavera was forced to retire when she lost her natural eyes. Preparing to travel to Argus and then Atlas, Maria was swept up with the rest of Mistral by Brainiac. Finding Oscar Pine attempting to be a hero, Maria decided to train him in combat so he can make an actual difference without getting himself killed.

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• The Mentor: To Oscar Pine, giving him combat training so he can fight the criminals of Mistral properly.
• Never Mess with Granny: Casually kicks the ass of a Spider that was beating up Oscar.
• Refuge in Audacity: Is pretty confident that the Spider that she beat up won't tell anyone that he got his ass kicked by an old lady so she's not too worried about retaliation from the rest of the gang.

Other Cities

Professor Theodore

Theodore

The beloved headmaster of Shade Academy, Professor Theodore was still in Vacuo during the Vytal Festival when Brainiac invaded Remnant, with him and the city of Vacuo being his first victims. Already the most respected figure in the kingdom, he has been thrust into a leadership position where he must do all he can to ensure the Bottled City of Vacuo doesn't tear itself apart.

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• The Leader: More or less seen as such by most of Vacuo following the bottling.
• The Ghost: We haven’t seen much beyond Vale & Atlas at this point, so he hasn’t been seen yet.

Ghira Belladonna

Ghira Belladonna

The father of Blake Belladonna and husband to Kali, Ghira Belladonna was a former leader of the White Fang. Under his direction, the White Fang fought for faunus rights and equality with humans through the use of peaceful methods such as protests, sit-ins, boycotts, and more with the aim of building up grassroots support. But when his methods were proving to take too long and the White Fang as a whole grew disillusioned, he was forced to step down where he became the Chieftain of Kuo Kuana, Menagerie, the center of faunus culture on Remnant. It was a position he held up until Brainiac's invasion. Now trapped in the Bottled City of Kuo Kuana, Ghira and his wife are stretched to their limits as they strive to keep their people safe and fed.

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• The Chains of Commanding: He's doing his best to keep Kuo Kuana together; however, everyone is feeling the strain from the limited available resources as Brainiac only gives them enough food so they don't starve.
• The Ghost: Mentioned as holding Kuo Kuana together, but as yet has not appeared.
• Good Parents: One of the best in RWBY canon, actually.

Other Villains

Cinder Fall

Cinder Fall

Once simply an orphaned girl from Mistral, Cinder Fall's life has been nothing but hardship and strife. Adopted into a wealthy Atlesian family, Cinder was thrust into a role that can only be described as a child slave, forced to work in the luxurious Glass Unicorn hotel under the brutal watch of the Madame and her two cruel daughters, her stepmother and stepsisters. Hope seemed to step into her life when Cinder came under the tutelage of the sympathetic Huntsman Rhodes who secretly trained her over the course of years with the plan of her eventually enrolling in a Huntsmen Academy upon becoming an adult at the age of seventeen, at which point she would be free to chart her own path. But when her adopted family discovered her plans and attempted to stop them, Cinder snapped and killed all three, followed by Rhodes when he attempted to apprehend her. It was sometime after this when Cinder caught the attention of the immortal witch Salem, who molded Cinder into perhaps her most powerful agent. Now striving for nothing less than the power she lacked her entire life, Cinder was in the process of enacting a years-long plan to destabilize and bring down the Kingdom of Vale while securing both the Fall Maiden powers and the Relic of Choice when Brainiac attacked Remnant. With her plans falling apart before her eyes, Cinder was captured by Brainiac early in the invasion, becoming just one of many test subjects at his disposal.

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• Asshole Victim: Knowing what she was about to do to Beacon (and other kingdoms and characters in future volumes) it's hard to feel sorry for Cinder when she's kidnapped and made one of Brainiac's test subjects.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: She killed Amber and became the next Fall Maiden at the worst possible time, as her new powers and energy output immediately caught Brainiac's attention during his invasion. So he singled her out, abducted her, and is currently subjecting her to horrific experiments to study and ultimately control her abilities for his own purposes.
• Beyond Redemption: Ozpin considers Cinder this for what she planned to do to Beacon. While Ozpin is horrified with Brainiac's experiments on her, he's more disgusted with the act than he is feeling any sympathy for Cinder herself.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: The woman who became the Fall Maiden and would've brought about the Fall of Beacon is now a helpless lab rat for an alien warlord and all but forgotten by what's left of her world.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: As the Fall Maiden (or at least half of one, at the time), Cinder was one of the strongest combatants on Remnant, only comparable to other Maidens, Ozpin, and Salem herself. However, that was on Remnant — compared to a threat like Brainiac, Cinder is nothing, and was made painfully aware of it when his robots came for her.
• Strapped to an Operating Table: What Brainiac does to her. Ruby and later Ozpin get to see her this way and are completely horrified and disgusted by her state.
• Unwilling Roboticisation: When Brainiac shows her to Ozpin, much of her body has been replaced by cybernetic parts, much to Ozpin's horror.

Adam Taurus

Adam Taurus

The leader of the White Fang's Vale cell and an aurouch faunus, as well as Blake Belladonna's former partner and mentor, Adam Taurus had amassed a large following among the most disgruntled and extreme members of the White Fang organization. Under his direction, the Vale cell targeted any who took any action that could be seen as oppressive or discriminatory to the faunus. Theft, vandalism, murder, nothing was off the cards for Adam Taurus if it furthered the White Fang's cause. But unbeknownst to his followers, the legitimate plight of the faunus was nothing more than an excuse for Adam to fulfill his need for vengeance against the humans he deemed to have wronged him. Rather than a freedom fighter like he portrayed himself, Adam was nothing more than a spiteful, angry, and abusive terrorist. Prior to Brianiac's invasion, he was hypocritically allied with the human terrorist Cinder Fall in a plot to destroy the Kingdom of Vale and Beacon Academy. Following the Fall of Remnant, Adam's true colors have become known as he continued his spiteful crusade against humanity, leaving the White Fang entirely along with his most zealous followers to form the Red Fang, targeting anyone both human and faunus who stand in the way of his revenge.

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• Ax-Crazy: With the Fantastic Racism against Faunus all but dead in the wake of Brainiac's invasion and bottling of Remnant, the majority of the White Fang in Vale defected to Beacon. Adam is now using what's left of the branch as his personal gang, attacking humans and Faunus and executing anyone he doesn't like.
• Bait-and-Switch: When a facsimile of him shows up when Blake is trapped in Beauty and the Beast by the Queen of Fables, she thinks that he's the Beast, when he's really Gaston, who is impersonating the Beast.
• Dirty Coward: He uses hit-and-run tactics when he attacks his victims, never stays in one place for very long, and will flee when more seasoned huntsman like Taiyang show up to fight him.
• Gangbangers: What's left of the White Fang's Vale branch has been reduced to this under his command.
• The Ghost: Barring the fake created by the Queen of Fables, he has yet to make a physical appearance in the story.
• Hated by All: Aside from the few fanatical followers he has left, after he showed his true colors during the Fall and invasion, basically everyone in Vale hates him, and he's only avoided being hunted down because the remaining authorities have other concerns and can't take the time to do so properly with what little resources they have left.
• Hate Sink: Oh boy. He's become nothing but a hateful beast ready to kill anything and anyone who rejects his demented beliefs.
• Revenge Before Reason: Even when Brainiac's forces were attacking everyone and everything, he still tried to kill Blake before a new drone wave forced him to retreat.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Despite his claims to be fighting humanity, he horribly maims his fellow Faunus for working with humans, proving to everyone that he is nothing but a hateful monster.
• No True Scotsman: While Adam Taurus attacks everyone in the city of Vale, earning everyone's hatred and ire, he saves the worst of his treatment towards his fellow Faunus who decide to work with humans to survive rather than lash out as he has. He brands them as race traitors, then proceeds to mutilate them by cutting off their Faunus traits.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Not that he was a particularly nice person to begin with, but having been robbed of his "revolution", he's lost all pretense of being an honorable freedom fighter, becoming nothing but a hateful butcher and thief.

Raven Branwen

Raven Branwen

Twin sister to Qrow Branwen, mother to Yang Xiao Long, and former member of Team STRQ, Raven Branwen was raised in the brutal world of the Branwen Tribe, a ruthless gang of cutthroats and thieves who plagued the Mistrali wilderness. Enrolling in Beacon alongside her brother with the aim of learning how to fight Huntsmen, Raven instead found herself under the direct eye of Professor Ozpin, becoming embroiled in something far bigger than herself. While she was able to live with the responsibilities of her newfound position for years, following the birth of her daughter Yang, Raven suddenly abandoned her family and returned to the Branwen Tribe, becoming its leader. Now subscripting to a Darwinist point of view, Raven's only concern is amassing strength to keep herself and, to a lesser extent, her tribe alive, such as claiming the power of the Spring Maiden for herself. But not even she could survive Brainiac's onslaught, and in a bid to save herself and convinced that defeating Brainiac is impossible, Raven submitted herself and the Branwen Tribe to his will, becoming his servants.

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• Believing Their Own Lies: Raven likes to preach how all of her actions from being a murdering bandit to the accomplice of a genocidal alien cyborg is all part of some pragmatic ploy, when it's clear that she is only trying to convince herself of that, rather than admit she is afraid.
• Broken Pedestal: She's this to her daughter. Yang originally made herself believe that she had well-intentioned reasons for leaving her family behind, such as either being a secret agent or on a long-term mission. Needless to say, Yang was not happy to learn that she abandoned her family just to lead her bandit clan.
  Yang: You wanna know the most pathetic part? During all that time, I came up with a lot of theories as to why she left us. That she was a secret agent or something that didn’t want us to get hurt, or that she was just on a long-term mission and couldn’t come back. I wanted her to have some kind of justification, an excuse, so that even if it didn’t make it right, it would at least have some kind of meaning behind it. But no, that’s not why she left. My mother left us to go back to being a bandit. She’d rather rob and kill people than raise a family.
  • The pedestal is broken even further after Yang learns from Qrow that she signed up to Brainiac and tried to prevent Qrow and Penny from escaping. After that Yang was so furious that she went straight to the Watchtower simulator to work off her anger.
• Cast from Hit Points: Like all Remnantians, her Semblance relies on her Aura reserves. The farther away her loved one/target destination is from her, the more Aura it takes to form a portal to them. The reason why she never went after Yang is because she doesn't have anywhere near enough Aura to get to Earth, even with her Spring Maiden powers enhancing her. And she did try, remarkably enough.
• Cain and Abel: Qrow doesn't waste time calling her out on her decision to join Brainiac instead of resisting. She repays him by selling him out to the cyborg to be experimented upon, and later by trying to prevent him from escaping Brainiac's clutches.
• Cool Big Sis: Not even close. She didn't bother telling her brother about Ruby and Yangs survival, and later betrays him and gives him to Brainiac to be a lab rat. Ozpin, Tai, and the rest are devastated by this. Raven does try and make up for this...but her idea involves having Qrow serve Brainiac in exchange for a lenient punishment. Understandably, Qrow isn't down for this one bit.
• Cursed with Awesome: Views her ability to become her namesake animal as a curse primarily due to its association with Ozpin, despite it having little to no drawbacks. Garfield is baffled and angered by this, given what he had to go through to gain his powers.
• Dirty Coward: Is working under Brainiac, and is too scared of him to even really think about opposing him. Not only does Brainiac recognize this, he exploits her fear for his own ends.
• Hated by All: Beacon's staff, her own family, and even criminals like Junior can't stand Raven for working with Brainiac. The Justice League have similar feelings about her when they learn of what she's done.
• Hypocrite: Despite selling out Remnant and her own brother, she has the nerve to call him a traitor to the tribe when he tries to escape Brainiac's clutches.
• Jerkass: Aside from working for Brainiac to save her own skin, she has no problem lording her (vicarious) power over others: she willingly takes a drink from Junior's bar and smashes the bottle without paying just For the Evulz.
• Liar Revealed: She knew from the beginning that Yang (and by association, Ruby) were alive, but kept it to herself because she thought it was pointless since Brainiac was too powerful to defy. Qrow and especially Taiyang are understandably furious with her for letting them believe the girls were dead.
• Never My Fault: She refuses to accept any responsibility for her own decisions, instead blaming everyone else for opposing her.
• The Quisling: Works for Brainiac in order to guarantee her own survival and that of what's left of her clan. It's later revealed that Brainiac allowed it because he knew she was the Spring Maiden and wanted easier access to her for his experiments and research. She finally crosses the line from collaborator to outright participant in Brainiac's schemes when she deliberately impedes Qrow from escaping.
• Regretful Traitor: While her working for Brainiac is inexcusable, she only does because she sees no other way to survive. Even Brainiac knows she's not working for him out of genuine loyalty.
• Villainous BSoD: Her and Brainiac's defeat at the hands of Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corp ends up completely shattering her Social Darwinist worldview and she is forced to reevaluate her whole philosophy. When Ozpin is summoned back to Brainiac, she is completely unresponsive when Ozpin brings up Qrow and Penny's escape.

Roman Torchwick

Roman Torchwick

Once just a notorious gangster in Vale's criminal underworld alongside his partner-in-crime Neopolitan, Roman Torchwick was recruited by Cinder Fall into assisting her plan to destabilize and destroy the Kingdom of Vale, bringing him into conflict with Team RWBY. But following Brainiac's invasion, Roman has emerged as a key player in the Bottled City of Vale, becoming a powerful and influential warlord controlling what used to be Vale's industrial district, ruling it with an iron fist that keeps his people barely surviving while himself and his enforcers reap the benefits.

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• Aggressive Negotiations: Attempts this with team CFVY by surrounding them with armed thugs when they're making a trade of metal in exchange for food from Beacon. It doesn't work.
• Bad Boss: His first appearance of the story reveals that he's grown fatter in the wake of Vale's bottling while his workers are in various states of hunger.
• Didn't Think This Through: Once team CFVY arrives to deliver food from Beacon in exchange for his metal, he tries to intimidate them into giving less metal in exchange for all the previously agreed amount of food. That is until Coco points out that Roman needs the food more than they need the metal, meaning that he doesn't have near as much leverage as he thinks he does. He quickly backs down.
• Fat Bastard: Downplayed. He has a bit of a bulge around his gut compared to the last time CFVY saw him, but when there are people in his district that are skin and bones, it highlights that he's hoarding resources while letting people suffer.
• Graceful Loser: Despite his attempt at changing their deal failing completely, he doesn't hold it against CFVY. If anything, he's impressed Coco held her ground the way she did.
• Hope Is Scary: Thinks that Ozpin and co. are cruel for revealing that RWBYJNPR managed to escape Brainiac, thinking it to be false hope since there's no guarantee the eight survived.
• Jerkass: The fall of Remnant has not made him a bit better: he has no problem letting the people in his territory starve and trying to cheat Beacon on the industrial goods he's producing.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Thanks to the events at Remnant, he wasn't eaten by a Grimm like in canon.

Emerald Sustrai

Emerald Sustrai

Once nothing more than a homeless street urchin with a versatile Semblance, Emerald Sustrai was "saved" by Cinder Fall when she was recruited into her team. Promised that she would never go hungry again, Emerald wholeheartedly threw herself into fulfilling Cinder's goals of destroying Vale, believing that she both owed it to Cinder for pulling her out of the gutter as well as enacting some much deserved retribution on those who had everything when she had nothing. But after Brainiac's invasion now trapped in the Bottled City of Vale and working under Roman Torchwick, Emerald now finds herself in a position where victory, even if not by her hand, feels bitter.

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• Co-Dragons: She and Mercury have become this for Roman alongside Neo.
• Even Evil Has Standards: She is absolutely disgusted by Adam's killing spree and believes that Cinder should have killed him long ago.
• Heel Realization: Seeing Beacon in ruins and its people pushed to the edge for survival, Emerald feels remorse for having worked with Cinder to basically do the same thing.
• I Reject Your Reality: She refuses to acknowledge the cold truth that Cinder only saw her as a tool.
• Pet the Dog: Proposes to Mercury that they give more of their food to the people of their district.
• Vengeance Feels Empty: Part of her reasoning for aiding Cinder's plan to destroy Vale was so that others would experience the same hardships that she had to endure as a street urchin. However, upon witnessing the residents of the Industrial district struggling to survive under Torchwick's despotic rule, she feels no satisfaction from it.

Mercury Black

Mercury Black

The only son of the notorious assassin Marcus Black, Mercury Black grew up in an abusive home under his father's tutelage. With his Semblance stolen from him by his father, Mercury finally killed him when Cinder Fall and Emerald Sustrai came to his home with the initial aim of recruiting his father. Instead, Cinder recruited him to become her enforcer, eventually infiltrating Beacon Academy alongside Cinder and Emerald. Unlike the ever-loyal Emerald, Mercury was under no illusion as to how Cinder viewed their purely transactional relationship, understanding that Cinder had no true emotional attachment to any of them. Following Brainiac's invasion of Remnant, Mercury now works for Roman Torchwick as one of his enforcers, both to reap the personal reward of unlimited access to Vale's sparce resources as well as avoiding the hands of Beacon who would love nothing more than to bring him and Emerald to justice for their attempted crimes.

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• Co-Dragons: He and Emerald have become this for Roman alongside Neo.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Thinks Emerald is a fool for wanting to help out the poor and suffering of Vale.
• It's All About Me: Flat out admits that he's only looking out for himself to Emerald...although it is implied his selfish philosophy doesn't actually apply to Emerald.
• Villain Respect: While he admits to Emerald that's only looking out for himself, he does respect her somewhat.

Neopolitan

Neopolitan (born Trivia Vanille)

Roman Torchwick's skilled and talented partner, Neopolitan was originally a wealthy girl from Vale named Trivia Vanille. Born mute, her abusive parents attempted to mold her into an image they deemed appropriate when she eventually enrolled in Lady Browning's Preparatory Academy for Girls, which was secretly a school for assassins. It was here that Trivia was taught how to fight and met Roman Torchwick, the two forming a deep and mutually respectful partnership. After killing her parents, Trivia took the persona of her imaginary friend turned real Neopolitan for her own. Together, she and Roman became two of Vale's most notorious criminals, eventually catching the eye of Cinder Fall who enlisted them into assisting with her plans to destroy Vale. But when Brainiac invaded and captured both Vale itself and Cinder Fall, Neopolitan immediately shifted gears into working with Roman again as his enforcer over the lands he claims as his own, a job she finds much more rewarding and enjoyable than anything Cinder offered.

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• Co-Dragons: Was The Dragon under Torchwick, but now shares this role with Emerald and Mercury.
• Hyper-Competent Sidekick: While Roman is no slouch in a fight, Neo is by far the deadlier of the two. This gap has only widened after the Fall of Remnant where Roman, taking advantage as the leader of Vale's Industrial District, has gotten fatter as a result of hoarding most of the resources for himself and his direct subordinates.
• Master of Illusion: Neo's Semblance, Overactive Imagination, can create physical illusions that can fool everybody.
• Silent Snarker: Neo can't speak at all, yet with the use of body language she's more than able to express her emotions, especially when she's mocking someone.
• The Speechless: Neo is incapable of speech.
• Technicolor Eyes: Neo has heterochromia, with one eye pink and the other brown.
• Villainous Friendship: While she looks down on practically everyone, including her own allies, Neo is genuinely friends with Roman. The feeling is likewise with Roman, and the two of them being, quite literally, thick as thieves.

Vernal

Vernal

A member of the Branwen Tribe, Vernal emerged as the most skilled combatant in the entire gang, second only to Raven herself, rising through the ranks to become Raven's second-in-command.

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• Number Two: To Raven.
• Undying Loyalty: Even with Remnant destroyed and her role as a decoy pointless, she still serves Raven faithfully.

Leonardo Lionheart

Leonardo Lionheart

The former headmaster of Mistral's Haven Academy, Leonardo Lionheart was secretly a traitor to Ozpin and the rest of Remnant after joining forces with Salem out of fear. Thanks to his treason, the quality of Haven's Huntsmen diminished greatly over many years, but after Brainiac's invasion, Salem suddenly found no more use for him and had him killed with the very Seer Grimm they used to communicate, depriving the Bottled City of Mistral of the closest thing it had to a legitimate leader and throwing the city into chaos.

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• Better the Devil You Know: Posthumously. Leo might have been a traitor to Ozpin and his allies, but that doesn't change the fact that he was the most respected central authority figure in Mistral. His death is disastrous for the city, as the citizens no longer have someone to rally around, causing chaos to completely engulf Mistral. Now dozens of people are fighting over control of the city, with the most powerful two, Sienna Khan and Miss Malachite, setting the stage for a massive racial war.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Killed offscreen by Salem, in the same manner of his death in canon.

Lil’ Miss Malachite

Lil’ Miss Malachite

The leader of the Spiders, a powerful gang in Mistral, Lil' Miss Malachite sought to control Mistral's criminal underworld for her own benefit. But following Brainiac's invasion, she has far grander plans in mind as she seeks to control the Bottled City of Mistral, forming a rivalry with Sienna Khan as they fight each other for dominance.

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• The Ghost: Mentioned as the leader of The White Fang’s primary opponent for control of Mistral.
• The Mafia: Or Remnant’s equivalent anyways.

The Grimm

Mysterious creatures of darkness and destruction, the Grimm have plagued mankind on Remnant for its entire history. Not requiring any sustenance and not truely alive, the Grimm seek only to destroy humanity and anything they've created. Taking the forms of various monsters such as wolves, bears, dragons and more, the Grimm were humanity's greatest threat to their survival, forcing the majority to live in the walled Kingdoms of Vale, Atlas, Mistral and Vacuo. But although Remnant was destroyed by Brainiac, their scourge was not eliminated as they were able to spread to Earth both by accident and by those who seek to exploit them for their own ends, threatening its people as well.

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• The Dreaded: Start becoming this to the regular people on earth as their influence slowly spreads out. Even some villains like Deathstroke and Shiva, while not scared, are unnerved by their hostility and actions. The heroes are at a complete loss on how to deal with them, because unlike the alien invasions they have repelled in the past, the Grimm are essentially a new species moving in and no one knows how to deal with them permanently.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: They are the most dangerous threat on Remnant. Yet on Earth, many villains take an interest in them and decide to use them for their own ends. It doesn't end well as they are soon seen all over the world, with those like Luthor and Brother Blood who think they can control them, slowly making things worse.
• It Can Think: Most Grimm act like animals. While rare, some people find out they can do more than just attack. Deathstroke tells Brother Blood one played dead and proceeded to kill some of the cult members with ease.
• Outside-Context Problem: Their very existence is this to Earth and even its heroes. Nobody, not even Teams RWBY and JNPR, know where they come from. And while the Justice League and numerous people are doing their best to contain and kill them, they keep finding odd things about them that makes even villains unsure what they are.
• Quality vs. Quantity: Aside from regular people, the Grimm aren't particularly powerful compared to the vast majority of heroes. However, they are numerous to the point where thanks to numerous villains and Salem's manipulations, they're officially world-wide on Earth. Wonder Woman and the League admit they need to find the source otherwise Earth will become the next Remnant.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Villains who try to use the Grimm, with Luthor being the main offender, are unknowingly making things worse by using them. As the Grimm start popping up all over the planet with the Justice League becoming worried that Earth might become the next Remnant. Worse, Luthor is giving Salem the resources to start manipulating the Grimm on Earth for her own goals with him none the wiser.

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