Ruby Rose

### Residence(s):

* Xiao Long-Rose House, Patch, Patch County, Columbia, Kingdom of Vale (Formerly)
* Team RWBY's Dorm, 1st Year Dorms, Beacon Academy, Beacon Independent Zone, Kingdom of Vale (Formerly)
* Qrow's House, Mistral, Mistral Prefecture, Yamato, Kingdom of Mistral (Formerly)
* Atlas Academy, Military District, Atlas, Kingdom of Atlas (Formerly)
* RRAYNBOW Manor, Vale, Vale County, Columbia, Kingdom of Vale (Formerly)
* Ren and Nora's Apartment, Vale, Vale County, Columbia, Kingdom of Vale (Formerly)
* Jaune and Ruby's Apartment, Vale, Vale County, Columbia, Kingdom of Vale (Formerly)
* Arc-Rose House, Patch, Patch County, Columbia, Kingdom of Vale

### School(s):

* Signal Academy
* Beacon Academy

## Physical description

### Height:

* 5'2" (Volumes 1-3)
* 5'4" (Volume 4-Onwards)

## Notable Paraphernalia

### Weapon(s):

* Crescent Rose (Formerly)
* Sword of Destruction/Caliburn (Formerly)
* Crescent Rose MK. II
* Scattering Thorn
* Pandora

**Dame Ruby Garnet Rose-Arc** was a Huntress from the Island of Patch in the Kingdom of Vale. Ruby was born to Taiyang Xiao Long and Summer Rose, and was the younger half sister of Yang Xiao Long. Ruby is known as the greatest huntress in all of history

## Biography

### Early Life

Ruby was born on the island of Patch to Taiyang Xiao Long and Summer Rose on October 31st. Ruby was raised in her parent's cabin on the island along with her older half-sister Yang (though they would not learn they were half-sisters until years later). Ruby and Yang were also frequently visited by their uncle (though he was technically only Yang's uncle) Qrow Branwen, who Ruby formed an instant connection with, though he usually did not stay at their home long.

At an early age Ruby decided that she wanted to be a Huntress when she grew up, as her parents and (honorary) uncle were huntsmen and the fairy tales that Yang read to her told stories of heroes that inspired her.

### Summer's Death & Aftermath

When Ruby was six years old, her mother went on a mission that she never returned from. While Ruby was initially confused on why her mother never returned, after a few weeks in became clear that Summer was not going to return and likely died on her mission. While Ruby was too young to properly understand what happened, she was still distraught by the notion that her mother was never coming back.

## Appearance

### Physical Appearance

#### General

Ruby is a female with back hair that fades to red at the tips, silver eyes, and pale skin. Ruby is somewhat short. Despite her strength, Ruby is not muscular, in fact being rather petite. Ruby looks exactly like her mother, Summer Rose, though Ruby prefers short hair in contrast to her mother her prefered long hair. Ruby got a small scar near her right eye from Salem's failed attempt to cut her eyes out. While it faded somewhat with time, it is still noticeable.

#### Child

As a child, Ruby was quite small. Ruby's hair was longer than it would be when she became a teenager.

### Outfits

#### Childhood

As a child, Ruby wore black shoes, a black skirt, white tank top, a red sleeveless hoodie, and a red cape.

#### Signal Battle Outfit

Ruby wore a black long-sleeved blouse with a high collar and red trim on the sleeves, over which is a black waist cincher with red lacing up the front, and a matching skirt with red lining. She also wore a pair of thick black stockings and black combat boots with red laces, red trims around the top, and red soles. Additionally, Ruby wore a red hooded cloak fastened at her throat. On her belt is a a large silver cross, a pocket, and a row of bullets.

#### Beacon Battle Outfit

Ruby's Beacon outfit was near identical to her Signal one, though she fastened the hood at her shoulders with cross-shaped pins and replaced the cross on her belt with a silver version of her emblem.

#### Beacon Pajamas

During her time at Beacon, Ruby's pajamas consist of a black tank top featuring a heart-shaped Beowolf design on the chest and long white pants decorated with pink roses. She also wears a black sleeping mask decorated with triangular red eyes.

#### Beacon School Uniform

Ruby wore a modified version of the female Beacon Uniform. It consisted of of brown shoes, red tartan skirt, white blouse with maroon trim and thin red bow, a brown vest with gold buttons and maroon blazer with gold trim, alongside full-length black stockings. The modification she made was that she added her cloak.

#### Slayer Outfit

While investigating the White Fang, Ruby chose to wear a different outfit (having been inspired by Blake donning a disguise). Ruby wore long-sleeve, light gray shirt with black belted cuffs near the ends of the sleeves. Over top of the gray shirt is a black pinafore with two vertical lines of red stitching that resemble the lacing on a corset. She wears a red skirt with a large black print of her emblem on the side and matching black tulle underneath. Her stockings and shoes remain the same as her original outfit, though the boots lack the red trim that decorated the top. A few pieces of metal arranged in the shape of a rose are attached to the shoulder of her left sleeve, and her cloak's hood has been wrapped around her neck in a scarf-like fashion, while the rest hangs down like normal.

#### Prom Dress

During the dance, Ruby wore a short, red, sleeveless dress with a thick black sash around the waist and black trim along the bottom. The bodice of the dress is split vertically to the sash and laced with black lacing. The yoke of the dress is transparent mesh with an opaque collar and hem, as well as opaque lines connecting the collar to her shoulders. She also wore black stockings and pumps.

#### Patch Pajamas

At her home in Patch, Ruby's pajamas are a matching dark-gray long-sleeved shirt and pants with faded-red polka dots and a white lining at the front and the collar.

#### Anima Outfit

Ruby's Anima outfit is rather different from her original one. Ruby began wearing a white high-neck décolletage blouse with brown studded wristbands on the arms. Her outfit retains the use of a black skirt with red tulle underneath, somewhat similar to her original outfit, but her waist cincher has been replaced with an overbust corset with red strip holding it in place. A black belt bordered in red holds the magnetic clip for Crescent Rose and its ammunition. She also has brown straps on her blouse that allow her to wear a small brown backpack. In lieu of her usual full black stockings, Ruby wears thigh-high stockings reaching to a few inches below the hem of her skirt, decorated by an image of a long-stemmed rose. Her red-soled black boots contain four straps and buckles apiece. Her cloak has a singular clip on the right shoulder in the shape of her emblem, replacing the cross-shaped clips from her original attire.

Because of frequent travel on foot, Ruby's clothes were often in dirt and grime. Additionally, her stockings had holes in them and her cloak saw significant wear. Upon arrival in Mistral, Ruby bought new sets of stockings to replace her ruined ones and had Jaune repair most of the damage done to her cloak.

#### Mistral Pajamas

Ruby's Mistral Pajamas consisted of a black t-shirt and red flannel pants,

#### Atlas Outfit

Ruby's new outfit consists of a black red lined lace-up corset with four buckles hanging loose over a mesh sleeveless top over a white low cut long-sleeved blouse, as well as a black choker around her neck. She wears a red pleated skirt that is split at the side with a small brown belted strap across the gap, and bright red shorts under it. On her arms, she wears black bracers with large brown buckled straps around the wrist as well as black fingerless gloves. Around her waist, she now has a brown belt with several bullets with a buckle of her emblem on it alongside a pouch on the right side with a Zwei based emblem and she wears black, thigh-high steel-toe boots with red soles and heels, a single buckled strap, rear seam and a large brown buckled strap with attached pouches near the top, over a pair of brown mesh tights. In addition, her old cape is replaced with a new one.

#### Atlas Pajamas

While in Atlas, Ruby wore the standard Atlas Academy Pajamas. This consisted of a white t-shirt that had the Atlas symbol adorned on the chest and blue/gray sweatpants.

#### Vacuo Outfit

While in Vacuo, Ruby changed her outfit for the new climate. Ruby's new outfit consisted of black, laced-up boots that reached her calves with red soles, strings, and heels, knee-high stockings, a black skirt with red trim, a brown belt with several bullets with a buckle of her emblem on it, a black blouse with white stripes, her cloak, black bracers that reach her elbows, and reddish-black gloves.

#### Vale Outfit

While in Vale, Ruby changed her outfit to something similar to her Beacon Battle Outfit and Anima Outfit. It consists of black, laced-up boots with red lining on top and red soles that end just under her knees, full black stockings, a black skirt with red tulle underneath, a black waist cincher with red lacing up the front, a black belt bordered in red holds the magnetic clip for Crescent Rose and its ammunition, a black, long-sleeved blouse, and red gloves.

#### Huntress Outfit

Ruby's outfit as a huntress consists of black combat boots with red laces, red trims around the top, and red soles, thigh-high stockings, a black skirt with red tulle underneath, a black corset with red trim, a white blouse, black gloves, a black belt bordered in red holds the magnetic clip for Crescent Rose and its ammunition, and a red rose that she wears in her hair.

#### Wedding Dress

Ruby's wedding dress consists of a white dress with a slit on the side, white stockings with blue lining, a cyan ribbon on her side, chest, and hair, a white shawl on her shoulders, white gloves with black lining, a white choker, and a tiara. (Arturia Pendragon formal dress from Fate/Grand Order.)

#### Casual Attire #2

Ruby's casual outfit consists of a red hoodie, black shorts, full, black stockings and red shoes.

## Attributes

### Magic

* **Silver Eyes**
* **Fall Maiden Powers**
* **Weapon Tracing/Projection**: Ruby has the ability to "trace" any weapon that she sees. This allows her to create an exact replica of the weapon and gain the ability to wield it with the same skill as the owner. Through this Ruby is nearly unstoppable. Ruby is unable to copy "divine weapons" like the Sword of Destruction.
* **Reinforcement**
* **Mana Burst**
* **Magic Resistance**
* **Inventory**
* **Enchantments**
* **Animal Transformation**

## Paraphernalia

### Weapons

#### Copied Weapons

* **Myrtenaster**
* **Gambol Shroud**
* **Ember Celica**
* **Crocea Mors**
* **Magnhild**
* **Milo & Akouo**
* **StormFlower**
* **Wallace**
* **Red Hilt**
* **Durandal**
* **Luminosite Eternelle**
* **Arondight**
* **Clarent**
* **Gram**
* **Ascalon**
* **Secace**
* **Joyeuse**
* **Rhongomyniad**
* **Carnwennan**
* **Rose Blanche**

## Relationships

### Family

#### Taiyang Xiao Long

Taiyang Xiao Long was Ruby's father. The two had a loving father-daughter relationship. When Ruby was six years old, her mother Summer died which caused Taiyang to shut down in depression. As a result of this, Taiyang began neglecting Ruby and Yang, and he threw himself into his work at Signal Academy. When Ruby was seven years old, Yang took her to find Yang's birth mother which nearly got them killed by a group of Beowolves. The sisters were saved by their Uncle Qrow who brought them back home. This incident caused Taiyang to snap out of his depression and take an active part in his daughter's lives again.

Taiyang once again became a loving father, though Ruby would describe as being slightly overprotective of her. A testament to this was that Taiyang had a habit of grilling Ruby's male friends as to the nature of their friendship. Taiyang was also somewhat apprehensive about Ruby's want to be a huntress, though he supported her efforts.

Taiyang was one of Ruby's teachers at Signal Academy. While Ruby was initially somewhat embarrassed about this, she took solace that Taiyang didn't treat her any differently than any of his other students in class.

After the "From Dust Till Dawn" robbery, Taiyang reprimanded Ruby for endangering herself and others by getting involved. At the same time, Taiyang showed pride in Ruby for successfully defeating criminals and standing up for those who couldn't defend themselves, noting that her actions were the same that he and her mother would have done were they in her place. Taiyang also learned that because of her involvement in the robbery, that she would be allowed to attend Beacon Academy two years early. Taiyang was apprehensive of Ruby being sent to Beacon early but felt that she was in good hands and was capable enough to succeed there.

While in Beacon Academy, Ruby often called and wrote home to check up on her father as well as to pass on messages to her old friends at Signal. During Ruby and Yang’s second semester at Beacon, Taiyang sent Zwei for them to take care of while he left Patch for a mission.

During the Vytal Festival Tournament, Taiyang was busy with a mission and thus was unable to watch the tournament in person, however he watched Team RWBY's matches from his scroll. When the Battle of Beacon occured, Taiyang abandoned his mission to help his daughters in Vale, but was too late to reach the city. After the Fall of Beacon, Taiyang watched over Ruby as she recovered from her coma. Taiyang was at Ruby's bedside when she awoke and he explained some of the details of the situation in Vale and Beacon. Despite this, Taiyang was apprehensive to divulge some information (mainly pertaining to Ruby's silver eyes) out of fear that she would endanger herself. Taiyang continued watching over Ruby after she recovered.

Months later, Ruby left Patch with the remaining members of Team JNPR to stop another attack on Haven Academy. Ruby decided to leave a note behind for her father rather than explain the situation in person out of fear that Taiyang would stop her from leaving. When Taiyang found the note, he attempted to run after her but she had already left and he was stuck looking after Yang. Taiyang later tasked Qrow with tailing Ruby in order to make sure that she was safe while he continued watch after Yang.

After Yang recovered and left to find her mother and reunite with Ruby, Taiyang decided to let Ruby continue her mission as he felt she was old enough to look after herself and would have her friends, Qrow, and Yang to watch after her.

About a year later, Taiyang watched Team Ruby's broadcast from Atlas. Taiyang was distraught after the broadcast shut off, as it was the only time he was able to see Ruby after about two years of traveling.

Months later, Taiyang saw his daughters again when they returned to Vale to protect the Relic of Choice. While there Taiyang got to properly meet Ruby's teammates, friends, and allies including her boyfriend Oscar Pine. While Taiyang was initially apprehensive of the relationship (both because of his overprotective nature and Oscar being the host of Ozpin's spirit), he later approved of the relationship as he thought that Oscar brought Ruby genuine happiness and though they were a cute couple. Taiyang later assisted Ruby's group against a Grimm invasion, though he got injured in the process. Ruby's group soon left to fight Salem in the Land of Darkness. Before leaving, Ruby promised her father that she would stay safe and return to Patch.

After the end of the war, Ruby returned to patch to meet with her father. The nations of the world held a festival in honor of Ruby's group on the island of Vytal and Taiyang was in attendance. Sometime after this, Taiyang comforted Ruby after Oscar broke up with her when he fully merged with Ozpin. While Taiyang offered to let Ruby stay with him back at Patch, she declined and instead decided to share an apartment with her best friend Jaune Arc. A few months later, Ruby informed Taiyang that she and Jaune had started a relationship. After getting to know Jaune better, Taiyang approved of the relationship (which was helped by Taiyang being friends with Jaune's father Nicholas during his time at Beacon). Four years later, Jaune asked Taiyang for his blessing to marry Ruby which he agreed to. Taiyang was present at the marriage and was also present for the birth of Ruby and Jaune's children. One of Ruby's children was named after Taiyang.

#### Summer Rose

Summer was Ruby's mother. Ruby loved her mother, though Summer died when she was six years old. Ruby was devastated by the news, though she had trouble fully comprehending what death meant. Summer served as partial inspiration for her goals of being a huntress.

As Ruby grew older, she continuously made visits to Summer's grave and often spoke to the gravestone as a way to process her own feelings about the events of her life.

One of Ruby's children was named after Summer.

#### Yang Xiao Long

Yang was Ruby's older half-sister and her teammate on Team RWBY. The two cared about each other immensely, and the two initially were unaware that they only half-sisters. As a child, Yang used to read Ruby fairy tales, which would later influence Ruby to want to be a huntress.

After their mother passed and Taiyang shut down emotionally, Yang began caring for Ruby. When Ruby was seven and Yang was nine, Yang took Ruby to find her biological mother, Raven. During the journey, the sisters were attacked by a pack of Beowolves, but were saved by their uncle Qrow. Yang grew a guilt complex regarding the incident, and became somewhat overprotective of Ruby as a means of making up for the incident.

Ruby and Yang both attended Signal Academy, though Yang was two grades above Ruby. Yang encouraged Ruby to come out of her shell and make friends. Yang also defended Ruby against bullies. Yang also began realizing that both her and their father's overprotectiveness was impacting Ruby's social skills. Ruby was proud of Yang's acceptance to Beacon Academy, though she was secretly worried about being left alone at Signal.

During the break between school years (and before Yang left Patch for Beacon), Ruby found Yang in a ruined nightclub after she got in a large fight there. Yang explained the situation to Ruby, who reprimanded her for being so reckless. Ruby later defended Yang against their father, who was incensed that Yang had gotten in a fight with known criminals and caused untold amounts of property damage.

Following the Dust 'Till Dawn robbery, Yang was happy that Ruby had taken it upon herself to defend the store against criminals and was impressed that she held her own against Roman Torchwick. Yang was also excited that Ruby was being admitted into Beacon early as a result of her intervention. Yang also listened to and gave advice to Ruby regarding her fears about being seen differently for being admitted early.

#### Blake Belladonna

Blake Belladonna is Ruby's sister-in-law and teammate on Team RWBY.

#### Sunny Xiao Long-Belladonna

Sunny Xiao Long-Belladonna was Ruby's niece.

#### Qrow Branwen

Qrow Branwen was Ruby's (honorary) uncle and mentor.

#### Jaune Arc

Jaune Arc was Ruby's husband and teammate on Team RNJR.

### Teammates

#### Weiss Schnee

Weiss Schnee was Ruby's partner, best friend, and teammate on Team RWBY.

### Nora Valkyrie

Nora was Ruby's friend and teammate on Team RNJR.