Ruby Rose

**Ruby Rose** is the main protagonist of *RWBY*. She is a Huntress, having been trained at the now-defunct Beacon Academy. Ruby's weapon of choice is her High-Caliber Sniper-Scythe known as Crescent Rose, which she designed herself. She's the daughter of Summer Rose and Taiyang Xiao Long, the niece of Qrow and Raven Brawen, the younger half-sister of Yang Xiao Long & the girlfriend of Sora.

Ruby Rose

Birthday: October 31st

Gender: Female

Age: 15 (Volume 1-2) 16 (Volume 3-5) 17 (Volume 6-8)

Race: Human

Hair color: Black and Red

Eye color: *Silver*

Height: 157 cm (5'2"), 162 cm (5'4")

Weight: 53 kg (116 lbs)

Sizes: B86-W56-H78

Semblance: Petal Burst

Weapon: Crescent Rose

Family: Summer Rose (Mother, deceased)

Taiyang Xiao Long (Father)

Qrow Brawen (Uncle)

Raven Brawen (Aunt)

Yang Xiao Long (Older half-sister)

Sora (Boyfriend)

Backstory of Ruby Rose: 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.
	+ **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.
	+ Allusion: Ruby Rose alludes to Little Red Riding Hood.