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Atlas Government and Military
James Ironwood
General James Ironwood
Headmaster of Atlas' academy and the general of the Atlas military.Tropes:
- Adaptational Nice Guy:
- As shown in Reasonable Authority Figure below, Ironwood is a much kinder man than in canon. He and Glynda get along much better because of it, and he actually openly wishes Qrow could join the Vytal Festival Dance, despite his belligerent personality still being intact.
- His behavior after the Fall doesn't seem to fall into the paranoid authoritarianism that he displayed during that same time in the show.
- A Father to His Men: Especially towards Winter, though he also promises Watts to put a bullet in him for every Atlas soldier who dies at a base he had attacked.
- Good Is Not Soft: Kraken says that he has permission to use "military interrogation techniques" on Trifa when she is captured. As seen with Ciel interrogating Roman, this is a standard procedure.
- Nice Guy: Despite moments of stoic professionalism, Ironwood is shockingly affectionate towards his troops, and trusts his allies a lot more than canon.
- Not So Stoic: Breaks down and cries with Winter after telling her her family is dead.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Knowing about Winter's issues, he tries to be accommodating to her to give her time to recover. He is also more open about letting Penny out in public, despite being cautious about it. He also asks for permission to bring his army to Vale instead of just barging in with it like in canon.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: He does not restrain his displeasure knowing that Jacques will be a fellow council member.
Winter Schnee
Special Operative Winter Schnee
An Atlas specialist who is close to Ironwood and the oldest Schnee child.Tropes:
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Not only is the abuse suffered by Jacques more pronounced, but she's also dealing with the death of her wife and adopted baby daughter. During the Fall of Beacon, she watched the one person that gave her hope to move on getting ripped to pieces.
- Adaptational Curves: While the models in the show for female characters typically don't show muscles, Winter performs a Battle Strip before fighting Qrow to show off her very well-developed arm muscles.
- Adaptational Jerkass: While cold and professional in canon, this Winter is snarky and abrasive to others at best, and downright nasty at worst.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Despite the above, she lacks her strict, authoritarian relationship with Weiss, and is much more warmer and appreciative of Ruby and her friends.
- The Alcoholic: Delved deep into the bottle after the deaths of her wife and baby.
- And I Must Scream: She views living after the deaths of Daisy and Tulip to be this. She begs for Penny to kill her, speaking about how every second she continues to live without them is agony while her eyes scream to be released from this tortured existence.
- Angst Coma: Seeing Penny being brutally murdered on live TV ends up causing this after the Fall of Beacon.
- Anti-Hero: Was more traditionally heroic before Daisy and Tulip died. Afterward, she’s become more ruthless, perfectly willing to interrogate goons with a gun barrel to their forehead.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: Wore her wedding tuxedo to the Unveiling of the Atlas Knights and Paladins. Despite being hungover and suffering a PTSD attack, manages to take out a group of mercenaries who were trying to abduct a woman and her baby.
- Broken Ace: Winter is seen as the greatest hero in all of Atlas, the people have nothing but admiration for her, and most criminals fear her wrath. Yet, underneath it all, Winter is a woman thoroughly broken by her abusive childhood and the deaths of her wife and baby.
- Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: Justified since she is a Death Seeker. When Penny saves her from Nightwalker, she scolds her for not staying put as Winter ordered. Though she does apologize and thank Penny after the latter dresses her down.
- Cosmic Plaything: Has an existential fear that this is why her life is so terrible, but death never seems to come to her.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Good God this entire woman’s life is misery. Raised by a horrifically abusive father. Just after she got away from him and was taking steps to move on from her childhood, Winter’s wife and baby are killed by Adam out of spite, driving her deep into alcoholism and PTSD.
- Death of a Child: When she agreed to adopt a baby with Daisy, she made it no secret she was terrified of becoming the same Abusive Parent as Jacques. After Daisy and Tulip are killed, she ends up coming just like her mother instead. The event surrounding her family’s deaths. Coming home to find her apartment had been invaded, and failing to save Daisy and Tulip despite how close she was.
- Death Seeker: Ever since the death of Daisy and Tulip, she has been having suicidal thoughts and displays self-destructive behavior. She starts to get better after the attack on the Atlas military tech unveiling.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Warms up to Penny and Pietro faster than Weiss warmed up to her friends at Beacon.
- Disabled in the Adaptation: She suffers from PTSD in this story, along with suffering substance abuse issues and suicidal thoughts.
- Drunken Master: Despite passing out drunk not even an hour before, Winter manages to take down a group of mercenaries when the unveiling is attacked.
- The Dreaded: The criminal element of Atlas was scared shitless of her back when she was a patrolman. Now an Atlas specialist who travels the world of Remnant with a new level of ruthlessness caused by the death of her family, Winter is feared by any criminal she comes across who isn’t crazy or an idiot.
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: Towards Penny when the two first met, she’s softened on her since then.
- Driven to Suicide: She would’ve done it, too. Thankfully, the gun was out of bullets.
- Fate Worse than Death: Feels she's trapped in living a horrible life by some incompetent or malicious God who sees her as a Cosmic Plaything.
- Handicapped Badass: An alcoholic who also has PTSD, being hungover while simultaneously suffering a panic attack didn’t stop her from singlehandedly taking down a group of mercenaries during the Atlas Unveiling.
- Heroic BSoD: After seeing Penny get mutilated, she turns into a catatonic wreck who can barely form words. Ciel had to drag her out of her apartment after seeing her in this state.
- Hidden Depths: Is a fan of Slasher Movies, and references Michael Myers at one point.
- Jerkass Realization: When Ash, Canvas' dad, asks if Weiss had talked about their sons, Winter realizes just how much she’s been neglecting her siblings while wrapped up in her own self-pity. Ash reminding her how much Weiss looks up to her leads her to drink so much that she passes out.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Anti-social, snarky, and incredibly embittered by the cards life has dealt her, but Winter cares about her siblings, protecting the people, and softens up on Penny.
- Kick the Dog: Coldly denies a call from Weiss and turns her scroll off to ensure she won’t have any more “distractions”. It’s later revealed she has stopped reaching out to her siblings and won’t answer a call from them if she thinks she’s busy enough. She comes to regret this.
- Knight of Cerebus: A rare heroic example. Her arc includes some of the darkest content in the entire story. Where she goes, angst usually follows.
- Like Mother, Like Daughter: Is bitterly aware she’s become the same drunken mess as her mother.
- Sour Outside, Sad Inside: Winter is anti-social towards others at the best of times, but she’s a woman who feels she had lost everything after her wife and baby were killed, with only her desire to protect others and her siblings keeping her going.
- She's Back: After spending the entirety of Volume 4 in a coma, she finally wakes up when Penny is reassembled.
- Stepford Snarker: An incredibly bitter, and sometimes entirely unfunny one.
- Terror Hero: More than aware of how terrified criminals who know of her are of her, and goes about interrogations with minimal effort, knowing the fear will be helpful enough.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Despite her abusive upbringing, Winter was, by all accounts, a Nice Girl. Then Daisy and Tulip were killed, leaving only a bitter, nihilistic cipher in her place.
- Took a Level in Kindness: With Penny’s good influence, Winter is on the path to stop viewing her life in such an existentially terrifying way and is opening up her heart to friends and family.
Penny Polendina
Penny Polendina
An android with the ability to generate Aura.Tropes:
- Back from the Dead: Thanks to being an android, Pietro was able to revive her after retrieving her core.
- Beware the Nice Ones: When pissed off enough, she scared Winter when she was a Death Seeker.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: It’s confirmed Penny has nerves in this universe, so she felt every single second of her being torn apart by her own strings.
- Endearingly Dorky: Her naiveté makes her a delightful character. Even Winter can't help but be endeared towards her despite how hard she tries not to be.
- Extremely Protective Child: She's willing to put up with Winter's cold behavior all day, but Winter threatening to have Pietro investigated is what triggers her first-ever feeling of anger.
- Foil: To Winter. Winter was a woman with an abusive relationship with her father, and just when she was moving on from her horrid childhood, lost her wife and baby. She also chooses to isolate herself out of the self-loathing belief she’ll hurt the people she loves. Penny, by contrast, had a happy upbringing with a father who loves her dearly, is still a young woman, and doesn’t like having to be on the down-low to better hide the fact she’s a robot.
- Innocently Insensitive: When bringing up Winter's family, she thought she was extending a hand for help to let her know she's not at fault for what happened. All it did was make Winter angry and drive her deeper into despair.
- Kill the Cutie: One of the most (if not the most) wholesome characters in the entire series. And she ends up brutally murdered during the fall of Beacon.
- The Lost Lenore: Ruby still mourns her loss in Volume 4, even hallucinating her during a fight and almost getting killed at one point.
- Love at First Sight: Shares a mutual one with Ruby.
- Nice Girl: Penny is cheerful, outgoing, and willing to help people she barely knows for nothing in return.
- Rage Breaking Point: She is a sweet and gentle soul, but the minute Winter threatens to have Pietro investigated for teaching her to not always follow orders, she launches into a Tranquil Fury that actually scares Winter, making her feel anger for the first time in her life. She put up with Winter being an extreme Ice Queen, but this was the moment that launched her into giving her one heck of a dressing-down.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: When Jacques performs a coup to get a stronghold over Atlas, Penny stops him from taking Winter and Ironwood while intending to keep them in hiding for the time being.
Pietro Polendina
Dr. Pietro Polendina
An Atlas scientist and the main creator of Penny.Tropes:
- Fatherly Scientist: He is incredibly doting towards Penny.
- Good Parents: Penny has nothing but nice things to say about her Papa.
- Nice Guy: He was a good influence on Penny.
- Truly Single Parent: Built Penny himself, though he did have assistance from fellow scientists in the creation and raising process.
Ciel Solei
Ciel Solei
Penny's new team member for the Vytal Tournament.Tropes:
- Adaptational Nice Guy: What little of Penny and Ciel’s friendship we see in canon, the latter was shown to be a stickler for the rules and time. Here, Ciel is pretty friendly to Penny right away.
- Ascended Extra: In contrast to how she barely had a presence beyond being Penny's keeper, this story gives her a ton of depth and a backstory.
- Cannot Spit It Out: Her biggest regret is that she never got to tell Dawn how she truly felt about her.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Was horrifically burned on the face by Adam Taurus, and lost her partner and crush, Dawn, in the same incident.
- Lipstick Lesbian: She enjoys painting her nails with Penny as well as talking about cute girls.
- Nice Girl: Befriends Penny right off the bat.
- Precision F-Strike: Despite not being known to swear, Ciel blurts out, "The fuck's you two's problem!?" when Sky and Russel start mocking her scar.
- Scars Are Forever: She has a burn scar over her right eye from an incident with Adam Taurus.
Commander Blade
Police Commander Simon Blade
A corrupt Atlas police officer.Tropes:
- Arch-Enemy: To May. As the killer of her brother, her whole motivation to join the Happy Huntresses, she wants to help Robyn get a seat specifically so she can take him down.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He seemed like a humble Nice Guy when interacting with Winter, then he revealed he was the one who gave Watts the insider info that lead to the assault on the unveiling, and kills three unarmed criminals to keep them quiet.
- Dirty Cop: Working with Watts is a recent example of his corruption.
- Faux Affably Evil: Puts up a decent facade when around people who don't know of his corruption, and is mockingly causal to his victims.
- Hate Sink: A Dirty Cop who is both elitist and transphobic while being willing to work with terrorists under the table.
- Hypocrite: Despite killing Henry and warning May to keep drugs and crime out of Atlas, his first (not-chronological) appearance has him handing over insider info to Watts, knowing he'd plan on killing everyone at the unveiling of the Atlas Knights and Paladins, for money.
- Jerkass: When dropping his Façade, Blade reveals himself to be a smug and transphobic bastard.
- Kick the Dog: His murder of Henry. Full stop.
- Killer Cop: Very trigger-happy and willing to kill without much provocation.
- Knight Templar: Is murderous towards criminals, especially ones from the lower class, like criminals from Mantle.
- Politically Incorrect Villain:
- He is openly transphobic when Henry says that May is his sister, not his brother. Blade responds by saying that Henry is going to die because "[his] brother wanted to play dress-up."
- He also doesn’t look upon Mantle very highly, calling Atlas the “city that actually matters”, with a disparaging view of the lower class.
- Sadist: He seems to have some hints of bloodlust with how easily and eagerly he is willing to kill criminals or those he views as criminals.
- The Sociopath: While he's able to put up a front to look good for the public, he's an absolutely ruthless and corrupt cop willing to kill Mantle's citizens from his own sense of elitism. Blade is also willing to help Watts sabotage the Atlesian Knights' unveiling ceremony for his own greed. When it goes awry, he kills the three terrorists involved to cover his tracks, all with a smile on his face.
- Villainous Friendship: He and Jacques seem to be on good terms since he's willing to reignite May's trauma to get the Happy Huntresses to stop grilling him. As equally corrupt men, this isn't surprising. Less surprising is that he joins Jacques' coup to take over Atlas.
- Villain with Good Publicity: He is still a relatively respected member of the force. May sees him on the news and at Jacques' fundraiser after the Fall.
Caroline Cordovin
Special Operative Caroline Cordovin
A member of the Atlas military without any significant accomplishments. She is stationed at Argus during Volume 6.Tropes:
- Adaptational Jerkass: Even at her worst, she was not as openly awful as she is in this story. She is openly confrontational and picking fights with people to show off how superior she is.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: Ironwood notes that despite her decades of service in the Atlas military, she doesn't have anything to show for it. Thus, she takes it out on others while trying to prop herself up.
- Jerkass: Cruelly mocks the huntsmen-in-training who died, got injured, or were traumatized due to the Fall of Beacon out of nationalism.
- The Napoleon: What she lacks in height, she makes up for with a confrontational and dismissive attitude.
- No Sympathy: She doesn't think much of Beacon and shows no sign of actual sympathy for it after the Fall.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Not only does she look down on the Faunus and anyone who sympathizes with them, but she is also rather elitist.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Potential pun aside, she thinks of herself as hot shit of the Atlas Elite despite not having any substantial military accomplishments.
- Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: Compared to Jacques being a horrifically vile dictator, Cordovin is a bumbling fool who thinks far too highly of herself.
General White
General Hayden White
A general of the Atlas military who is in league with Jacques.Tropes:
- Sociopathic Soldier: A mix of the Jingo and the Psychopath. He has a record of hostage-taking, killing civilians, torture, rape, and murder. He says he does these things to show the superiority of Atlas. Jacques sees this as a positive.
The Schnee Household
See Winter above.- Big, Screwed-Up Family: Their entire family dynamic is even more fraught than in canon.
Jacques Schnee
Jacques Schnee, née Gelé
The Schnee patriarch and current CEO of the Schnee Dust Company.Tropes:
- Abusive Parent: Same as in canon, he's emotionally and psychologically abusive to his children. He also escalates to physical abuse.
- Adaptational Jerkass: Jacques wasn't any less a bastard in canon, but he only hit Weiss once in a fit of rage. It's mentioned that corporal punishment was regular in the Schnee Household, and both Weiss and Winter say he used to beat them. In canon he also only told Willow he didn't care about her and their children, here he also threatens to leave them high and dry to keep Willow from leaving him.
- Adaptational Villainy: While he definitely got his hands dirty, Jacques wasn't the head of a criminal empire in canon. Also, while Ilia's parents were killed in a cave-in at the Schnee Dust Mines, it wasn't stated to be regular occurrence like here.
- Arch-Enemy:
- To his own children. Jacques is the root cause of their issues (though Winter has the added baggage of the loss of her family) and all of them are aware they'll have to face him if they want to fix the Schnee name.
- To Robyn, Fiona, and especially Joanna of the Happy Huntresses. He's caused the deaths of their loved ones, and his continued freedom is what enraged them enough to start pulling apart his criminal empire and taking him down in the coming election.
- Bad Boss: Jacques treats his workers with abuse and slavery. Cave-ins happen regularly despite how easily they can be avoided, but he can't afford to take even a dime out of his account.
- Control Freak: It's not enough for him to be the head of a criminal empire or the Schnee Dust Company. He needs to micromanage every aspect of his family's lives and needs to get a seat on the Atlas council. So much as not entering his office when he says is enough for him to blow up on Weiss. He also sees nothing wrong with invading his family's privacy by having cameras placed everywhere. After gaining the help of Watts, it doesn't take him long to start falling into the role of a dictator.Willow: Isn't the power you have now enough?
Jacques: It'll never be enough! - Corrupt Corporate Executive: A CEO, and very corrupt.
- Corrupt Politician: He is running for a seat on the Atlas Council while also running a criminal empire. With Watts' help, he succeeds in getting his spot on the council.
- False Flag Operation: Played-with. While the White Fang did genuinely attack Mantle's Mall, he was the one who gave them info, only to call in advance to screw them over.
- Fantastic Racism: He already treated his Faunus workers like trash, but the White Fang screwing with his profits left him with a burning hatred he wanted to pass down to his children.
- Freudian Excuse: Incredibly weak because he was already a bastard beforehand and it doesn’t excuse his actions, but his hatred of Faunus stems from White Fang attacks costing him profits, which lead to many moments of stress and rage.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: He's such a Control Freak that even the littlest things can set him off. Weiss entering his office before he tells her to (even though she called him there in the first place) is enough for him to backhand her.
- Hate Sink: While already loathsome in the original show, he goes above and beyond to be detestable. His corrupt ways are so shameless that he seems to be proud of what a horrible person he is behind closed doors. His abuse of his children is even more pervasive than it is in canon by both physically abusing and psychologically scarring them. And the fact that he throws his lot in with Faunus traffickers for slave labor and supports false-flag terrorist organizations shows how low he will sink.
- It's All About Me: All that matters to him is furthering his own profit.
- I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure: Since beating her doesn't do anything to Weiss anymore, he instead threatens to beat Whitley and fire Klein if she tries to leave.
- Jerkass: Jac is just a flat-out bastard to everyone.
- Kick the Dog: Made a seven-year-old Weiss watch board members be executed to teach her to hate the Faunus.
- Lack of Empathy: If his other exploits didn't prove how little he cares about others, his disdain for his family's grief during Winter's coma certainly will.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: He offhandedly deadnames Ruby when discussing her with Team CARD.
- Pragmatic Villainy: He is willing to throw a fundraiser for the people of Vale after the fall only because it will make him look better. And he holds off from scolding Weiss at the fundraiser until she starts causing a scene.
- Smug Snake: He’s not as good a manipulator as he thinks he is, and the only reason he was able to manipulate Willow into handing over the Schnee Dust Company is that he did it while she was distraught as it was on the same day her father died.
- The Sociopath: Jacques has no understanding of people outside of what they will do to benefit him. He's cruel and manipulative to his family, and willing to let people die for the chance to make more profit. He has a public face that can hide his atrocious nature even though the rumors about his corruption persist. And his mood can shift abruptly from irate to calm with little provocation.
- The Usurper: He works with Watts to kill the rest of the Atlas council and use the emergency powers to take over from Ironwood.
Willow Schnee
Willow Schnee
The Schnee matriarch.Tropes:
- Alcoholic Parent: After Jacques reveals that he never loved her, she turns to drinking.
- Parental Neglect: Has given up on protecting her kids from Jacques and just drinks her days away.
Weiss Schnee
See tropes here.
Whitley Schnee
Whitley Schnee
The youngest Schnee child and the only son.Tropes:
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Is overall a nice kid when compared to canon. He's even willing to help her escape her father when he was initially going against her in canon.
- Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: Instead of the initially antagonistic relationship he had with Weiss, they supported each other from the very beginning.
- Nice Guy: It's a miracle he's as empathetic as he is given the household he’s trapped in.
- Taking the Bullet: When Jacques threatens to hurt Whitley if Weiss leaves the manor without his permission, he says he will gladly take the beatings to make sure his sister can help her friends.
Klein Sieben
Klein Sieben
The Schnee family butler.Tropes:
- Parental Substitute: With an abysmal father like Jacques and an absentee mother in Willow, Klein stepped up to keep everyone together.
- Split Personality: He has different alters seemingly based on the Seven Dwarfs.
The Happy Huntresses
- It's Personal: All four of them had someone they loved killed by Atlas.
- My Greatest Failure: With the exception of Fiona, The Happy Huntresses blame themselves for their losses just as much as they blame Atlas.
Robyn Hill
Robyn Hill
The Leader of the Happy Huntresses.Tropes:
- Adaptational Heroism: Downplayed, but she works with the law instead of breaking it.
- Arch-Enemy: Set on a warpath against Jacques for his role in her wife's death.
- Broken Ace: Robyn is a great huntress who was met with nothing but ending support from the people of Mantle when she reveals she plans to run on a seat to the council. However, the death of her wife, Wren, has broken her, and she suffers from heroin addiction in an attempt to deal with the loss.
- Crusading Widow: She is out to get Atlas for their role in her wife's death.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Lost her wife, Wren, when Jacques Schnee assassinated business rival Nova Ivy by way of a bomb at the event she was holding. The painkillers she was given as a result of her grave injuries, mixed with the trauma of losing Wren, is what caused her heroin addiction.
- Disabled in the Adaptation: She has a heroin addiction after being on painkillers after the attack that killed her wife.
- Kick The Son Of A Bitch: She has Joanna break Percy’s arm for his hand in the attack that killed her wife. Though she later regrets it.
- The Lost Lenore: Her wife was killed during an event she was guarding.
- Nice Girl: Robyn cares greatly for the other Happy Huntresses and the people of Mantle.
Fiona Thyme
Fiona Thyme
A sheep Faunus who is Robyn’s second-in-command.Tropes:
- Beware the Nice Ones: Singlehandedly took out a base of thirteen guards with a six shot revolver. She kept count the whole time.
- Blood Knight: Likes lethal force because it gets the job done faster, and smiles at the satisfying click her revolver makes.
- The Cutie: Definitely not to be trifold with, but the rest of the Happy Huntresses absolutely adore her.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Her parents were killed when a Schnee Dust Mine collapsed caused by Jacques' negligence.
- Deceased Parents Are the Best: In her own words, her parents were the best people she knew.
- Endearingly Dorky: Definitely one of the reasons the rest of the Happy Huntresses love her so much.
- Good Parents: One of the reasons their loss stung so badly.
- The Lancer: To Robyn. Robyn has the mask of a cool, confident huntress, but is utterly broken by the loss of her wife, slipping into heroin addiction in an attempt to deal with it. Fiona is much more shy and timid but has confidence she can take on a security force with a single chamber in a six-shot revolver and hasn’t let her parents' deaths drag her down.
- Nice Girl: Fiona is a sweet, charitable thing.
- Taking the Bullet: She protects Robyn from Tyrian's attack when the lights go out.
- You Killed My Father: Jacques' complete disregard for the lives of his miners caused a cave-in that killed Fiona’s parents.
May Marigold
May Marigold (formerly Matt Marigold)
A huntress working with Robyn.Tropes:
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Zig-zagged. On the one hand, her relationship with her family is a lot better, with Henry being a good big brother and her parents accepting her gender identity. On the other hand, she was born so dirt poor her family had to steal in order to survive, and her brother was executed right before her eyes.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Much more sociable than canon.
- Arch-Enemy: Commander Blade, a dirty, murderous excuse for a cop who killed her brother in front of her.
- Big Brother Worship: Especially after Henry died.
- Blood-Splattered Innocents: When Henry is shot in the head, his blood gets on her face, which causes her to start screaming hysterically before Blade barks at her to shut up.
- Dark and Troubled Past: May was born into a family so poor they had to steal food and water in order to survive. Then, when trying to steal drugs to help her transition, her loving and supportive older brother is murdered before her very eyes by Commander Blade.
- It's All My Fault: Guilted Henry into helping her find the drugs she needed to transition, and blames herself for his death as a result.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Before breaking into the drugstore, Henry tried to talk her out of it by wisely pointing out they never robbed a place with an alarm, only for May to guilt him into helping. This alarm is what alerts Blade and his men to their presents, and leads directly to her brother's death. May blames herself to this day.
- My Greatest Failure: She blames herself for her brother's death just as much as the cop that shot him. If it weren't for her guilting him into helping her rob the pharmacy and him sticking up for her, she thought that maybe he'd still be alive.
- Seen It All: Expresses no shock when walking in on Joanna's orgy, simply asking how many women she bedded this time.
- Tragic Keepsake: The small scarf Henry brought her.
- Trans Tribulations: She confided in her brother Henry and didn’t tell her parents for a while. While they were thankfully accepting when she came out to them, she didn’t have the money for her to transition, so she drags Henry along to steal what medications she needs to do so. That's when the police found them and clearly was insensitive to her identity and Henry was killed for helping her.
- Trauma Button: Being around Blade at Jacques' fundraiser is enough to send her into a panic attack. Something that he very well knows.
Joanna Greanleaf
Joanna Greenleaf
A huntress fighting with Robyn to protect Mantle.Tropes:
- Action Mom: Was a huntress while also raising her daughter, Maple.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Lacks her canon counterpart's abrasive nature
- Adaptational Villainy: While Joanna in canon could be abrasive, she wasn’t a berserker who killed people with her bare hands.
- Anti-Hero: Very brutal to her enemies, breaking bones and killing them in rather painful ways.
- The Berserker: When she lets loose, she shows absolutely no mercy.
- Big Damn Heroes: When May is found out while sneaking through Percy’s base and about to be killed, Joanna jumps in and breaks the goon’s neck.
- Blood Knight: After the death of her daughter, fighting is all she has left.
- Bruiser with a Soft Center: A strong woman who nonetheless was a loving single mother.
- Butch Lesbian: She is definitely the most masculine-looking huntress of the bunch and she is a lesbian.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Trounces three goons in her first fight scene. Expertly and brutally taking them down until two lie dead, and one gravely injured.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Lost her daughter in a White Fang attack planned by Jacques Schnee so he could spread anti-Faunus propaganda.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: Joanna was shot with a high-powered sniper rifle while carrying Maple. When the bullet shot through her, it pierced Maple’s heart and she died in her arms before Joanna even noticed
- Due to the Dead: The tattoos she adorns are in respect for her daughter since she drew her like that as a superhero. She has them as a reminder of what she drew.
- Establishing Character Moment: When Percy sends three goons to attack the Happy Huntresses, Joanna asks Robyn to let her deal with the goons on her own, and absolutely brutalizes them when given the OK. She kills two of them, one by slamming his head into the corner of a crate, and the other by kicking him so hard his neck broke. The one who lived had his throat punched in. Joanna is a woman with a lot of rage.
- Freudian Excuse: The death of her daughter, mixed with the rage of knowing Jacques Schnee orchestrated the attack that got her killed but won’t face justice, made her the angry, brutal woman she is today.
- Good Parents: Was a loving and supportive single mother to her daughter, Maple. Her death absolutely shattered her.
- Heartbroken Badass: The death of her daughter has left her broken beyond repair, and she’s perfectly happy to take her rage out on her enemies.
- Kick The Son Of A Bitch: Broke Percy’s arm on Robyn’s order. While Robyn grew to regret this, Joanna seemly hasn’t.
- Mama Bear: Shot a White Fang member who attacked her and Maple dead.
- Nice Girl: While brutal towards her enemies, Joanna is friendly to her friends and civilians.
- Not So Stoic: Was said to be stoic and tough as nails, but Robyn's scream of utter despair when she was forced to leave Wren's body in a collapsing building shook her to her core. After the death of Maple, she became this permanently.
- Outliving One's Offspring: She and her daughter are caught in the middle of a White Fang attack on the Mantle City Mall. Despite her efforts, Maple is killed.
- Please Wake Up: Begs Maple to come back after she had been killed.
- Tragic Keepsake: Carries around the drawing of herself as a superhero Maple had given her.
Other Citizens
Henry Marigold
Henry Marigold
The late brother of May Marigold.- Adaptational Nice Guy: He is a genuinely nice guy compared to canon where he was just a sleazy Atlas elite. He even accepts his sister coming out as transgender whereas the rest of the family wanted anything to do with May. He even helps her get the medicine she needs for transitioning, one time at the cost of his life.
- Death by Adaptation: It can be assumed that he is still alive in canon, but he dies in May's backstory here.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Despite being terrified out of his mind and seeing Blade execute unarmed criminals, he tells Blade that robbing the drug store was his idea.
- Nice Guy: Was a loving and supportive brother.
- Posthumous Character: The way we learn about him is through May's retelling of her motivation for becoming a Happy Huntress, and by that point, he's long dead.
- Related Differently in the Adaptation: He was May's cousin on the show. Here, he was actually her brother.
SDC pilot
The SDC Cargo Pilot
A man helping Weiss on her way to reunite with her friends.Tropes:
- No Name Given: He still doesn't have a name.
- Spared by the Adaptation: He died in the crash in canon. In this story, not only does he survive the crash, but Weiss manages to negotiate for his survival when the Branwen bandits find her in the crash.
- Straight Gay: He has a husband, but he otherwise shows no signs of being gay.
Harry Johnson
Harry Johnson
A pilot contracted by Jacques to take Team CARD to find Weiss.Tropes:
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: He gets killed when their plane crashes without much ceremony.
- Undignified Death: Not only does he fly out of the window of the ship, he also doesn't get much respect in death when Team CARD buries him in the middle of nowhere without thinking.
- Unfortunate Names: Revon immediately notices this, and the rest of CARD can barely contain their laughter. Canvas then decides on the nickname "HJ", which is a lateral move at best. Harry himself seems oblivious to the problem.
Minor Criminals
Nightwalker
Nicolas Shade
A former Atlas soldier turned Serial KillerTropes:
- Anti-Villain: Had no control over his actions on account of being brainwashed.
- Ax-Crazy: Kills criminals, but also slaughters everyone at the scene regardless of innocence.
- Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: He did manage to stop a White Fang attack, and Winter mentions he's conducted successful investigations before.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: He was actually abducted and brainwashed into becoming a killer by Watts.
- From Camouflage to Criminal: Not by his choice, however.
- His Name Is...: Just before he's able to say who attacked and brainwashed him, Watts sets up a kill switch to stop him from doing so.
- Serial Killer: Of criminals and anyone unlucky enough to be at the crime scene.
- Tragic Villain: A well-respected Atlas soldier Watts brainwashed into a monster just because Ironwood thought highly of him.
- Unwitting Pawn: He had no idea what happened to him and had no recollection of his time as Nightwalker.
