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Guess who?
~ Neo sending a picture text of Ruby to Roman.

Your boss won't stay dead...but you will without this. If you want her name, you know what you owe me.
~ Neo's text to Cinder Fall, blackmailing her with the Relic of Knowledge.

I'm going to enjoy watching you break.
~ Neo speaking to Ruby through illusions of the latter's deceased allies and foes.

Neopolitan
Vol2 Neo ProfilePic Normal
Series RWBY
Age 23-25
Birthday Unknown
Sex Female
Species Unknown
Height 4'10 | 1.47 m
Weight Unknown
Alignment Neutral Evil

Nepolitan is an antagonist from the online series RWBY.

Background[]

Born Trivia Vanille and often nicknamed "Neo", Neopolitan was Roman Torchwick’s closest associate, often accompanying him on his most important missions. When Team RWBY attempted to stop a train filled with explosives, Neo fought Yang Xiao Long, easily defeating her. As a matter of fact, Neo was only prevented from killing Yang by the timely arrival of Yang’s mother, Raven Branwen.

During the 40th Annual Vytal Festival Tournament, Neo disguised herself, and competed as part of a team that also included Cinder FallEmerald Sustrai and Mercury Black. Later, Neo rescued Roman from his imprisonment aboard an Atlesian Airship, and assisted him in downloading a computer virus into the AK-200 soldiers’ system.

When Ruby Rose arrived on the Airship, Neo defeated Ruby, nearly throwing her off the ship. Before she could finish her off, however, Ruby successfully opened Neo’s parasol, dragging her off the ship and into the Grimm-filled air.

Since that time, Neo has been looking for revenge on those who cost Roman his life. She caught up with Cinder Fall, and engaged her in a battle, but the two combatants seemed reasonably well matched. Finally, Cinder called a halt to the battle, and invited Neo to accompany her on a mission to get revenge against the real cause of Roman’s death, Ruby. Neo would assist Cinder in the fall of Atlas and the theft of the Relic of Knowledge, but was betrayed by the Fall Maiden and sent plummeting into a strange fairy tale, the Ever After, alongside Team RWBY and Jaune Arc. After seemingly getting her revenge against Ruby, Neo lost the will to go on, but after helping Team RWBY and Jaune kill the Curious Cat, Neo made peace with Roman's death and the heroes before allowing herself to be absorbed by the Great Tree, choosing to ascend and become someone new and better than who she was for most of her life.

Powers & Abilities[]

  • Aura: Aura is the manifestation of one's soul and can be used for wide range of abilities. The specific abilities and their strengths differ from individual to individual and are dependent on a number of factors, such as experience, training, and innate skill. Aura overall can be used to enhance offense, defense, and healing.
  • 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. Neo's semblance is creating illusions, allowing her to wear disguises and creating convincing illusions which can fool enemies. After being betrayed by Cinder at the end of Volume 8, her Semblance evolved, allowing her to create multiple illusionary copies instead of just one previously. These copies are semi-autonomous, able to either copy the movements of Neo or perform commands given by her. She can also control them at will and the clones themselves retain the ability physically attack others.
  • Hand-to-Hand Combat Skills: Neo also showed herself to be very acrobatic and exceptionally skilled in hand-to-hand combat, relying on her agility to dodge and misdirect enemy movements and attacks, before retaliating with her own kick-based attacks, as her combat style is mostly relied on kicks, similar to that of Mercury's combat style. 

Equipment[]

  • Umbrella: An umbrella with a long thin blade hidden in he umbrella's tube. And if opened, the umbrella could be used to fly in the wind or block projectiles with the canopy of the umbrella. Unlike most weapons in RWBY, it hasn't been confirmed whether or not it can fire projectiles.

Feats[]

Strength[]

  • Blocked explosive shells from Yang Xiao Long with her umbrella with one hand.
  • Strong enough to knock down Yang with her kicks.
  • Tossed Yang in the air knocking her out.
    • Yang tanked a punch that knocked her through a stone pillar from a giant mech.
  • Sent Ruby Rose flying with a kick.
  • Traded blows with Cinder Fall.
  • Spin kicked Roman across the room of his apartment
  • Pierced the roof of a moving vehicle with Hush’s blade and cut open a circular hole like a can opener
  • Launched herself with enough force to embed Hush’s blade into wall despite her body still recovering from paralysis
  • Kicked down a locked door
  • Smacked Ruby.

Speed[]

  • Reacted and blocked shotgun fire from Yang.
  • Casually dodged hits from Yang.
  • Reacted to a surprise attack from Raven Branwen.
  • Kept up with Ruby Rose.
  • Dodged a fire punch from Cinder.
  • Absolutely styled on near everyone she’s fought, from a speed and skill perspective
  • Dodged and blocked gunfire from characters like Ren and Ruby, and missiles from Nora and Yang
  • Blocked a fireball from Cinder
  • Assisted by her illusions, seems capable of extremely fast short range movement
  • Dodged gunfire while staying on top of a moving vehicle
  • Dodged gunfire at point blank range

Durability[]

  • Her umbrella can block shots from Yang's Ember Celica.
  • Tanked a kick from Cinder.
  • Took a direct hit from Oscar Pine.
  • Survived an explosion powerful enough to kill the Monstra.
  • Survived falling into the Ever After.
  • Took a knee to her spine by Melanie Malachite
  • Tackled down a flight of stairs by Melanie
  • Survived crashing directly into a mech in an aircraft at ramming speed
  • Was blasted across Amity Arena by one of Penny’s beams into an airship
    • Penny’s beam can slice apart airships like a hot knife through butter (9:50)
  • Survived ramming a truck into the metal door of a loading dock, smashing it and the huntsman Roman fought into a pillar hard enough to crack it and break pieces of the warehouse’s ceiling
  • Survived an explosion that not only destroyed her family mansion but was also caused by an amount of Dust enough to level the whole neighborhood

Skill[]

  • Was Roman Torchwick's trusted right hand.
  • Defeated the Malachite Twins
  • Helped Roman escape from Team RWBY.
  • Stomped Yang Xiao Long and would have killed her if Raven Branwen hadn't interfered 
  • Acted as a fourth team member for Cinder's faction during the Vale Festival
  • Took over an entire Atlessian Ship all by herself.
  • Help Roman Torchwick break free of military custody.
  • Along with Roman Torchwick, infected the Atlesian Knights with a virus making them turn rogue.
  • Along with Roman Torchwick, stomped Ruby Rose, and had the young Huntress at their complete mercy.
  • Survived the Fall of Beacon.
  • Confronted Cinder and kept up the Fall Maiden on her toes until she brought out her Maiden powers.
  • Teamed up with Cinder to get revenge on Ruby for Roman's death.
  • Infiltrated Atlas alongside Cinder.
  • Fought Team JNR and Oscar Pine.
  • Retrieved the Relic of Knowledge and brought it to Cinder.
  • Secretly stole the Relic of Knowledge from the Monstra after Oscar activated it to show Jinn to Hazel and Emerald.
  • Sent Yang falling into the Ever After.
  • Defeated most of RWBY (alongside Cinder) in the Battle of Atlas
  • Cloned and took control of the Jabberwalker upon landing in the Ever After.
  • Broke Ruby's spirit into drinking tea made from the Great Tree's leaves and sacrificing herself to it by crushing Little.
  • Killed the Curious Cat for possessing her.
  • Made peace with Roman's death and decided to ascend instead of returning to Remnant.

Weaknesses[]

  • Psychotic and sadistic.
  • Will run away in fear if she knows she's outmatched.
  • Lightweight.
  • Strong winds.
  • Aura runs on limited reserves.
  • Had nothing to live for after getting her revenge and became catatonic enough for the Curious Cat to possess her, also causing her to lose her attachment to Remnant.

Fun Facts[]

  • Neo is obviously inspired by the type of ice cream.
  • She is the shortest character in the entire series.
  • Although Neo is currently the only character known to have complete heterochromia, Blake Belladonna was originally going to have it as well, as evidenced by early concept art in which she had a yellow eye and a blue eye.
  • Neo's full name has been written in two different ways.
    • It was originally spelled Neopolitan by Monty Oum in an image album that he uploaded to Facebook, which featured images of her model from different angles. This spelling is used in all media directly created by Rooster Teeth, including merchandise and RWBY Chibi.
    • The staff of the mobile game, RWBY: Amity Arena, later revealed that the reference files they received from Rooster Teeth labeled her as Neo_Politan, leading them to question Rooster Teeth on the matter. They incorrectly spelled her name Neo Politan, with Politan being her last name, a spelling also used in BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle.
    • The debate was resolved by The World of RWBY: The Official Companion, which settled on the single-word spelling of her name.
  • It has been confirmed that Neo does not allude to the Cheshire Cat; the Curious Cat alludes to it instead. Neo's actual allusion in the series is to Hecate (also known by her Roman name Trivia) from Greek mythology.
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