Characters / Of Elder Scrolls and Huntsmen: Dragon Rose

Team RWBY

For applicable canon character tropes, consult the Team RWBY character pages. Note that in "Of Elder Scrolls and Huntsmen: Dragon Rose," Team RWBY ends up in Nirn between Volumes II and III of RWBY, so tropes Volume III onward may not apply.

Ruby Rose

Ruby Rose

• Beware the Nice Ones: A sweet and kind girl who doesn't like killing people if she can help it... unless they hurt her friends and/or innocents. Then they die.
• The Blacksmith: Having created Crescent Rose herself, Ruby is an extremely competent metallurgist. This proves very useful in Tamriel, where non-magical technological development is at an Iron Age level. She's so skilled, in fact, that her loss to Eorlund Grey-Mane is a shock to her and Yang.
• Chosen One: As revealed after killing Mirmulnir, Ruby is the Dragonborn, a hero of Nordic Prophecy, which they find further clues about shortly after in the book The Prophecy of the Last Dragonborn, which details to them the importance of Ruby's role, if vaguely.
• Combo Platter Powers: She has her Semblance, Silver Eyes, Shouts, and a few other tricks she's gained since coming to Skyrim.
• Hidden Depths: She's quite interested in music, is a decent singer, and used to play guitar until school work and huntress training started taking up too much time. She ends up joining the Bards College and getting music lessons from them. So far she's only learned how to play the lute, but she wants to learn other instruments if she has time. She also has an interest in literature that includes the Remnantian equivalent of A Song of Ice and Fire.
• Metal Head: According to Yang, she's been one since she was old enough to operate a radio. She listens to bands like Squareknot, Kernal, Metalla, Seven Times Vengeance, White Hot Ghost Peppers, Beringalz, and Azure Starry.
• Your Soul Is Mine!: Her being Dragonborn allows her to absorb the souls of dragons she's involved in the process of slaying, killing them permanently. Each dragon absorbed this way gives her a boost to her Aura reserves.

Weiss Schnee

Weiss Schnee

• Daywalking Vampire: Weiss becomes a vampire after being infected with Sanguinare Vampiris and as a result can be out in the day without being hurt, though she is weaker and her skin and eyes are more sensitive to sunlight. In contrast, the more common Porphyric Hemophilia creates vampires for whom sunlight is fatal.
• Horror Hunger: If she goes without drinking blood for too long, the compulsion to feed becomes almost unbearable and plagues her with increasingly disturbing impulses. It's how she and the rest of the team discovered she was a vampire in the first place. After days failing to quench her thirst with water (and a healing potion), she goes into a frenzy after accidentally drawing blood from the bandit Arvel and she ends up killing him by exsanguinating him.
• Incompatible Orientation: Several women reveal they are attracted to her, while she is only attracted to men.
• Kleptomaniac Hero: In an effort to keep up their finances after learning that Lien is worthless in Tamriel, Weiss begins collecting pretty much everything of value for later sale to the point it's become somewhat comical to everyone else.
• Living Mood Ring: When hungry or enraged, Weiss' eyes change from her normal blue to a burning orange.
• Magic Knight: Still uses her sword even after learning magic. She's also begun experimenting with using Bound Armor.
• Super-Strength: As a vampire, her strength has been boosted tremendously. Whereas before she would need Myrtenaster, her Glyphs, and/or Dust to hurt an Aura-enhanced being, she's now strong enough to damage them with her bare hands.
• Vegetarian Vampire: Rather than give in to her (new) base instincts to feed on the living without remorse, Weiss tries to satisfy herself with more easily obtainable animal blood, noted to not be nearly as satisfying as that from mortals. She also on occasion gets a willing donor, like her teammates.
• Wrecked Weapon: Her sword's blade is destroyed in a particularly difficult fight, and Ruby makes an orichalcum-quicksilver alloy replacement called Strahlendjuwel.

Blake Belladonna

Blake Belladonna

• I Am Not Weasel: Most people assume she's some type of Khajiit, though she usually doesn't bother correcting them as almost nobody outside of her team knows what a Faunus is, and at times claims to be a Khajiit for various reasons.
• Karmic Thief: Despite having officially joined the Thieves Guild, Blake isn't usually one for petty thievery. However, she has stolen items from people more or less deserving of retribution, including the Quill of Gemination from Maven Black-Briar, a rebuilt Dwemer droid from an annoying wizard apprentice, and many items of value from Mercer who had attempted to murder her
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge:
  • She helps wipe out the Dark Brotherhood as revenge for them trying to kill her teammates and for Astrid kidnapping her and trying to force her to make a Sadistic Choice. She even channels her father and actually roars at one point during the rampage.
  • Later, when she realizes that a cannibal cultist gave her Fake Memories of having unwittingly been in a No Party Like a Donner Party situation in an attempt to convert her, she flies into a rage again.

Yang Xiao Long

Yang Xiao Long

• Died in Your Arms Tonight: Kodlak dies in her arms after a Silver Hand attack, despite her best efforts to heal him.
• Living Mood Ring: Like in canon, Yang's eyes change from lilac to red when angry, but it's also been revealed that her eyes change to a different hue when she's sad.
• Our Werebeasts Are Different: Yang gets infected during a fight with a Werelion. To help make the transformation more controllable, the Companions induct her into their inner circle. This results in her becoming a golden blonde werewolf that Aela notes is not the usual blonde wolves are. Yang was also previously attacked by a werebear and although no infection took hold it still seems to have resulted in Yang having larger claws than normal for a werewolf.
• Punny Name: Downplayed, but after they find out that Ruby is a Dragonborn, she jokes that she must have gotten it from their father, and wonders if that means she has it as well. Her name roughly translates as "Little Sun Dragon", while her father's name, Taiyang Xiao Long, roughly translates as "Elder Little Sun Dragon", meaning Ruby and Yang are both the daughters of a "dragon".
• Required Secondary Powers: As a side effect of her Semblance, Burn, Yang's hair can produce flame. This would make Burn a huge liability if being immune or at least highly resistant to heat and flame wasn't part of the package. This secondary power becomes extremely useful when Alduin tries to kill her with a Fire Breath shout.
• She Is the King: Becomes ruler of the Reach after defeating Red Eagle, but is called "King" despite her gender.
• These Hands Have Killed: Is rather horrified when she punches the head off of a bandit, not realizing that he didn't have Aura to protect him.

Followers and Companions

Lydia

Lydia

• Badass Normal: Despite being just a normal warrior of Skyrim, Lydia proved herself capable of the task on more than occasion. She eventually upgrades, thanks to the Team's efforts and a life-threatening situation allowing her to unlock her Aura.
• Bodyguarding a Badass: Ruby is a skilled Huntress in-training with unlocked Aura and Semblance, Shouts, some magic, and various deadly weapons. Is it any wonder that Lydia feels outclassed?
• Can't Catch Up: Part of why she wants to unlock her Aura and eventually succeeds is because while she's a skilled Badass Normal, she simply can't compete with the Aura-empowered feats that Team RWBY is capable of, even disregarding the boosts they've each gotten since coming to Skyrim.
• Cool Big Sis: Fills this role for Ruby whenever she needs comfort and Yang isn't around.
• Shield Bash: Likes to use her shield to attack, enough that Ruby adds a hidden spike to a new shield that she makes for her for exactly this reason.

Inigo

Inigo

• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Despite normally being a joker and having silly habits, Inigo is an accomplished warrior and expert archer, capable of going toe-to-toe with bandits and pirates with little to no help, and even being able to keep up with Team RWBY for short bursts.
• Speaks Fluent Animal: Not exactly fluent or spoken, but he can hear the thoughts of animals and seems to get them to understand him better than the average person. He is especially good at communicating with Mr. Dragonfly, who used to be a person before being turned into an insect.

M'rissi

M'rissi

• Animal Jingoism: M'rissi is afraid of dogs to the extent that even Blake thought it was a bit much. Justified when one finds out what the fate of her younger siblings was.
• Cat Girl: Originally, she was a Suthay Khajiit, but Isael's experiments changed her form into something more aesthetically pleasing to the wicked sorceress. She now fits the trope almost perfectly.
• Kick the Dog: Or in this case, the cat. And she was the one kicked. Or in this case, brutally psychologically tortured and experimented on.

Yngvarr

Yngvarr

• Our Werebeasts Are Different: Yngvarr is a werebeast like the Circle of the Companions, but unlike them, he's a werebear.

Others

Capric Thorn

Thorn

A mysterious high-ranking Bosmeri Thalmor agent who seem to assist Team RWBY in their adventures, despite his faction. Is actually half deer faunus, half Bosmer who was one of Ghira's companions during his youth, mysteriously whisked to Nirn from Remnant during the Faunus War. Similarly, his mother mysteriously appeared on Remnant from Nirn before disappearing years later.

• Shipper on Deck: Is overjoyed when he learns from Blake that Ghira managed to win the heart of Kali.
• The Spymaster: His role for the Thalmor at Skyrim.

Vertina

Verty

A young, scatter-brained Harpy who works as part of Capric's retinue as a scout.

• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: When helping out the team on a mission, she manages to get the drop on a vampire and beheads him in one fell swoop
• Forgetful Jones: Part of it may have to do with Lydia's ability to just disappear into the background without intending to, but Vertina seems to constantly forget she's around
• Supreme Chef: Bakes a massive cake for Capric's birthday. It' a good one too, since Harpies as a race have a Sweet Tooth.

Maarah

Maarah

An older Harpy woman and aunt to Vertina. Said to have a figure comparable to Yang's.

• Battle Butler: Despite being described as a secretary, Maarah is also primed for conflict.
• My Master, Right or Wrong: Stands up for Capric when accusations are thrown at him, no matter how accurate the accusations are.

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