Ruby Rose

Ruby Rose

Series	RWBY
Age	17
Birthday	October 31st
Sex	Female
Species	Human
Height	5'4" \| 1.62 m
Weight	110 lbs \| 50 kg
Alignment	Chaotic Good

“	I don't care what you say! We will stop them, and I will stop you! BET ON THAT!	„
	~ Ruby Rose

Ruby Rose is the protagonist of the Internet show RWBY. She's the youngest member of her team, but she's also the leader.

Background[]

Ruby is the daughter of Summer Rose and Taiyang Xiao Long and is close friends with older half-sister Yang Xiao Long, with whom she was raised on the island of Patch. Every night before bed, Yang would read her sister stories of great heroes in childhood fairy tales, which would inspire Ruby to become a Huntress.

Summer went missing when Ruby was very young. Yang has said that, whilst Ruby was "really torn up" by her mother's disappearance, she thinks her younger sister was too young to really understand what was happening.

Shortly after Summer went missing, Yang brought Ruby with her to an abandoned building in order to find clues about the whereabouts of Yang's mother, Raven Branwen. Ruby and Yang were almost killed by Beowolves during the search, but were saved by their uncle Qrow Branwen. This event also apparently had a strong effect on Ruby's motivations to become a Huntress.

Before going to Beacon Academy, Ruby studied at Signal Academy, where she built and learned to use her high-caliber sniper scythe, Crescent Rose, under the tutelage of her uncle Qrow.

Powers & Abilities[]

Aura: Continual damage to her Aura will cause it to decay to the point where she can be left open to more significant damage. Aura's durability is cumulative; it will deplete with each attack she takes and can be brought down by characters of similar strength. Semblances drain Aura by a small amount and without Aura they cannot be used until the user's Aura is recharged. Constant exposure to extreme temperature can drain the user's Aura.
Semblance: Semblance is the manifestation of one's innate and personal power as an ability unique to each individual, with the effects varying greatly from user to user. It can be described as a tangible manifestation of one's aura.
- Petal Burst: Ruby's Semblance, an ability which allows her to move at a much greater speed than what she is normally capable of, appearing as nothing but a red blur leaving rose petals in its wake. She is capable of using this ability in midair as a means of flight, using it to repeatedly change directions in mid-air and attack at high speeds, and to create powerful whirlwinds that can suck in and knock away objects and foes caught by it and envelop her enemy in a tornado-like rush of air. She also exhibited the ability to seemingly transform into three separate clusters of rose petals, allowing her to flow around an opponent and their attacks before reforming. It is later revealed by Penny that Ruby's Semblance allows her to disassemble herself at a molecular level and reassemble at a chosen location. With practice, she has proven able to do the same with anyone she is in contact with. This allows her to go around obstacles or through paths that she would not otherwise fit.
Headbutt:
Silver Eyes: Ruby is a descendant of a clan of Silver-Eyed Warriors, who are feared by the Grimm, and can supposedly strike one down with a single look. Very little is known about their powers, but when Ruby first activated them after witnessing the death of her friend Pyrrha, she was able to completely immobilise a gigantic Grimm dragon, causing a bright flash of white light in the process. Ruby's power also managed to greatly damage Cinder Fall, who was also caught in the flash, somehow heavily scarring her face, causing her to lose one of her eyes and arms, and ridding her of speech outside of a barely audible whisper for a whole season. This is implied to be the result of Cinder being the Fall Maiden, possibly giving her a weakness to the Silver Eyes. However, Ruby has no control over her powers, and has only used them twice in a state of extreme shock and this does not make her invulnerable.

Equipment[]

Crescent Rose: Ruby's weapon, a large Scythe/High-Caliber Sniper Rifle hybrid that she wields with expert proficiency. The Crescent Rose possesses a converting frame, allowing Ruby to transform from a compact storage mode, a rifle mode, and an expanded scythe mode. The weapon's rifle mode takes the form of a medium-length, bolt-action rifle. In this form, the absence of the scythe makes for more effective use of the rifle component. In its fully expanded scythe mode, Crescent Rose makes for a deadly mid-to-close-range bladed melee weapon. This form also doubles as a long-barrel sniper rifle for long-range shots without giving up the melee capabilities of the scythe. The Crescent Rose's rifle has a massive recoil, but instead of compensating for it, Ruby harnesses it to enhance her mobility in combat, firing shots to propel herself short distances, simultaneously attacking and evading opponents, and using it to launch herself through the air. In melee combat, Ruby can fire a shot immediately before a swing, using the recoil to increase the force and speed of her attack. She can also embed the scythe's blade into the ground to prevent the weapon's recoil from throwing off her aim with the sniper rifle component, allowing for rapid, accurate shots. If needed, the bottom of the shaft can unfold to add more cutting power in a close-range fight while also rotating the barrel of the rifle, enabling the recoil to rotate Ruby instead of launching her forward, increasing the slicing power drastically. After arriving in Atlas, James Ironwood has Pietro Polendina upgrade Crescent Rose, giving Ruby the ability to activate a trigger on the upper handle that will then rotate the scythe's blade 180 degrees, giving her more control and ease of use of the weapon in cramped spaces.
- Crescent Rose (Scythe Mode):
- Crescent Rose (Rotate Scythe Mode):
- Crescent Rose (Sniper Rifle Mode):
- Crescent Rose (Scythe/Sniper Rifle Mode):
- Crescent Rose Recoil:
- Dust Ammunition/Dust Cartridges: Crescent Rose is able to use different kinds of Dust ammunition, as first seen in the "Red" Trailer when she used Gravity Dust after reloading it with the said magazine, and later demonstrated again in RWBY: Grimm Eclipse and Volume 4.
  - Fire Dust: Shoots fire from the muzzle of Crescent Rose.
  - Ice Dust: Allows Ruby to fire ice projectiles from Crescent Rose capable of encasing foes in ice.
  - Gravity Dust: Increases the recoil effect when firing the Crescent Rose, propelling Ruby at increased speeds.
  - Electric Dust: Fires an electric projectile that briefly paralyzes the target. The discharge from this type of round can also create chain lightning which spreads to surrounding targets.
- Crescendo: Ruby spins her scythe in a circle and damages enemies, pulling enemies closer with each hit and smashing enemies back with the final strike.
- Reap: Ruby jumps into the air and spins downwards with her scythe, damaging the ground and using the debris as projectiles to damage enemies.

Feats[]

Strength[]

Her attacks can knock people through several buildings.
Can swing a heavy scythe around with ease.
Effortlessly cuts through a wooden scaffold filled with crates.
Took out 12 men with a single bullet-jump.
Incapacitated about 20 beowulfs with a single kick.
Knocked a small Nevermore out of the air with a backhand.
Killed a Nevermore during her Initiation. Subsequently learned how to kill more in later seasons much more easily.
Cut a boulder in half.
Sliced through a Grimm made of solid stone.
Cut off the arm of an Atleasian Paladin, the same mech that can bust down a wall by running through it
Sliced through Tyrian's tail.
Ruby staggered the Colossus mech into creating a large shockwave that was felt all the way in Argus.

Speed[]

Downed a horde of Grimm in a matter of seconds
Her semblance gave her enough speed to create a vortex.
Covered 50-60 feet in fraction of a second to catch Weiss.
Can leap several dozens of feet into the air instantly.
Scales to and is likely faster than Emerald and Mercury, both are capable of dodging multiple bolts of natural lightning
Ruby blocked gunfire from Tyrian at close range
Fast enough to run in a circle and make a tornado
Jumped across several missiles mid-flight
Capable of dodging gunfire.
Can keep up with Neopolitan who is fast enough to match speed with Cinder
Ruby dodged the Curious Cat’s purple lightning breath.

Durability[]

Survived a several hundred-foot free fall after getting simultaneously flung into a tree by a sent-flying Jaune.
Tanked blasts from Roman Torchwick
Took a direct hit from the Nuckelavee, which required the combined efforts of Team RNJR to defeat.
Can tank a kick from Mercury Black.
Tanked a hit from Nora Valkyrie.
Her Aura can take a few hits from a casual Tyrian before being depleted.
Ruby got hit by Cinder’s fireball.
Took hits from Harriet Bree.
Endured a beating from Neopolitan's clones even after her Aura was broken.
Was physically unscathed from being blasted in the back by fire from Cinder at the cost of her aura being depleted.
Survived falling into the Ever After.

Skill[]

She can keep up in battle with Cinder Fall.
She can fight off against hordes of Grimm.
Held her own against Roman Torchwick and Neopolitan simultaneously.
Defeated Cinder Fall and took her left eye and left arm.
Designed Crescent Rose by herself. (Volume 1)
Nearly wiped out a group of invading Grimm, including several Beowulves and a Nevermore, from destroying a village.
With Team JNPR, defeated the Nuckelavee Grimm - the same type that was responsible for destroying the village of Kuroyuri.
Displayed a remarkable amount of willpower against the Apathy Grimm, whose catatonic auras began chopping away at her teammates’ and Qrow’s own, before using her Silver Eyes consciously against them for the first time.
Incapacitated Cordovin’s mech by blasting it within its cannon barrel and escaping with her Semblance.
Defended the abandoned Schnee Dust Company mine that the Amity Communications Tower was being set up above from various Grimm and probably bandits.
Defeated Harriet Bree.
Saved Blake from an Alpha Centinel.
Used her Silver Eyes quick enough to weaken the Hound before it could kill Penny.
Outsmarted Neopolitan during the fight at the "Evacuation Central Location" and possibly could've turned the tables had it not been for Cinder's intervention.
Retrieved Penny's sword from Jinxy Peddler's auction.
Beat the Red Prince at his own game.
Helped restore her friends to their normal sizes after they had been shrunk by the Red Prince.
Held her own against Neo's illusions of those who died throughout the series despite their skill and her mental breakdown.
Regained her confidence and will to fight after choosing to Ascend as herself.
Defeated the Curious Cat.
Returned to Remnant.

Weaknesses[]

Her aura is not an infinite resource.
She's defenseless without her scythe.
Has weak hand-to-hand combat skills.
She can be reckless at times.
Always pushes her emotions to the side to focus on her teams well-being or focusing on saving the world, which has caused her emotions to build up.
After she arrived in the Ever After and was informed about Penny’s death, Ruby became less cheerful and more depressed, blaming herself for everything that went wrong in Atlas as all the trauma she has faced started to take a toll on her mentally.
- Her depression only got worse when she confronted her past self, as she wasn’t able to call herself a Huntress and she had no idea what she was supposed to be.
- Had a hard time even picking up Crescent Rose.
- She felt especially burdened by her position as a leader, to the point where, despite normally being open, she didn't feel like she could talk about her current feelings of depression.
- Her mental state only worsened as she was tortured by Neo's clones of her deceased friends and former allies blaming her for her past failures; this, followed by Little’s death right in front of her, caused her to momentarily lose the will to live as herself and drink the tea tainted with the Great Tree's leaf to disappear out of existence.
- Overcame all this, however, thanks to the Blacksmith's help and realizing that she only needed to be herself all along.

Gallery[]

Fun Facts[]

Her design is based on Little Red Riding Hood.