Yang Xiao Long

Yang Xiao Long, also known as Blondie, Firecracker, Kiddo, Goldilocks, Sunny Little Dragon and Fisticuffs, is one of the main characters from the RWBY series.
==Charactah Account==
The daughter of Taiyang Xiao Long and Raven Branwen, Yang is an energetic, blond-haired young woman with a violent streak. She is going to Beacon Academy to train to be a huntress, and is overjoyed when her younger sister Ruby is asked to attend Beacon Academy as well. She is partnered with Blake.
Yang is also described as being a cheerful, energetic, and bright young lady. She is arguably the most flippant, carefree and adventurous member of her team, frequently making sarcastic comments and jokes even in the heat of battle and often taking combat and hostile situations lightly. Yang is very sociable and extroverted, even in unfamiliar situations. Yang's love of adventure is the main reason she decided to become a Huntress. Blake considers Yang the personification of the word "strength".
However, Yang's "brawler" fighting style is evocative of her personality. Her anger, one of her main assets in battle, can lead her to act predictably. When her hair is cut during battle, her resulting anger leads her to attack with straight, blunt force. Additionally, a grudge against Neopolitan led to frustration on Yang's part, which quickly cost her the battle and almost her life had it not been for the arrival of Raven, her mother. Her thoughtless anger led to the quick loss of her right arm in a short encounter with Adam Taurus. 
==Appearance==
===Anime===
*RWBY: Ice Queendom
===Comics===
*RWBY
*RWBY/Justice League
===Light Novels===
*RWBY: The Session
===Literature===
*RWBY: Fairy Tales of Remnant
===Manga===
*RWBY
*RWBY: Ice Queendom
*RWBY: Official Manga Anthology
*RWBY: The Official Manga
=== Movies ===
* Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen Part One
* Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen Part Two
===Video Games===
*BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
*Crusaders Quest
*Knights Chronicle
*RWBY
*RWBY: Amity Arena
*RWBY: Arrowfell
*RWBY: Combat Ready
*RWBY: Crystal Match
*RWBY: Deckbuilding Game
*RWBY: Grimm Eclipse
*RWBY: Grimm Eclipse Definitive Edition
===Web-Animation===
*RWBY
*RWBY Chibi
*RWBY Chibi Season 2
*RWBY Chibi Season 3
*RWBY Volume 2
*RWBY Volume 3
*RWBY Volume 4
*RWBY Volume 5
*RWBY Volume 6
*RWBY Volume 7
*RWBY Volume 8
*RWBY Volume 9
==Trivia==
*Yang alludes to Goldilocks from Robert Southey's Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
*Yang's name in Chinese which can be roughly translated to "Little Light Dragon" or "Small Dragon of the Sunshine".
**In "Family", Taiyang fittingly calls Yang his "sunny little dragon".
**Yang's name may be a reference to Bruce Lee, whose given name is also Xiao Long.
**Despite having a Chinese name, Yang's given name and surname are inverted. "Yang" would be the surname and her given name would be "Xiao Long". Furthermore, Chinese surnames are usually only one character. This can be explained by Remnant not following real-world customs.
***Despite this, Yang's name in Chinese was referred to in the now-shutdown RWBY Bilibili mobile game.
**Despite Yang's name being Chinese, it is not pronounced in typical Chinese. This is due to the fact that since there is no China in Remnant, the proper Chinese pronunciation does not apply.
**The characters appears on an official T-shirt released by Rooster Teeth parodying Akira.
*According to Lindsay Jones, a little bit of the power for Yang's Semblance comes from her hair, similar to the story of Samson and Delilah. They said that the reason Yang's hair glows is because "it's basically charging up her energy."
*Yang's Huntress license number is 63600-13592-88610.
*At the RTX Australia 2016 RWBY Panel, Yang's Skype username was Fireballin17.
*During RTX@Home 2020 RWBY Panel, Yang's birthday has been confirmed to be July 28th, making her a Leo. This was also included on some of her merchandise.
*Yang losing her arm was one of the first things Monty Oum revealed to Barbara Dunkelman, and the quote in the "Yellow" Trailer, foreshadows Yang losing her right arm.
*Originally, they were going to do more with Raven Branwen and Yang Xiao Long in Volume 3, but weren't able to due to time restraints.
*Yang Xiao Long getting a hoverbike like the HVB Rhino was a concept they had before Volume 1 was made.
*Yang was a contender in the 54th episode of ScrewAttack's web series Death Battle, where she fought against Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy VII. Her Aura granted the ability to endure Tifa's strongest attacks long enough for her to activate her Semblance, granting her the victory.
**After the fight ends, Yang dons a pair of custom, pixel-shades from the "Deal With It" Meme. Barbara Dunkelman, Yang's VA, owns the same pair of glasses in real life.
**The opening of the fight is similar to the "Yellow" Trailer in RWBY. Yang enters a bar looking for someone and orders a strawberry sunrise with no ice. The only difference is that this time Yang doesn't mention wanting her drink to come with a "little umbrella".
*Yang also appeared in season 6 of One Minute Melee against Katsuki Bakugo from My Hero Academia, a battle of which she won.
**The same matchup happened in DBX, where Yang lost because people voted and it ended 50.1-49.9.
***There was an alternate ending where Yang won the DBX.
*Yang has so far appeared in two Rooster Teeth Animated Adventures episodes. First in "Racial Super Texas" where she can be seen in a bar, with her missing right arm and again in "Spooky Scary Ghost Stories", where a doll of her and her missing arm can be seen on the bedroom floor.
*Yang and Cinder appear in the trailer for Red vs Blue: Zero shown at the Rooster Teeth Comic-Con@Home 2020 Panel as commenters for the characters' live stream, under the handles Yang4Real and Cinder_2u, respectively.
*Yang is a free playable DLC character in BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle.
*On July 19th, 2019, a limited event collaboration between RWBY and SMITE was announced. Team RWBY is confirmed to appear as voiced skins with Yang as a skin for Terra.
*On June 29th Yang joins her team, Salem and Qrow as playable skins in Paladins during a crossover with RWBY. She appears as a skin for Imani.
*Gaia Online has an Avatar item based on Yang called "I Burn Within". She is the second character to have an item, the first being Ruby.
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==External Links==
*Yang Xiao Long at RWBY Wiki
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