Emerald Sustrai

### Likes

Shiny things, the color green, Cinder (Formerly), jewels, treasure hunting, precious stones, Aladdin, outsmarting others

### Dislikes

Having gems taken or stolen from her, fake jewelry, being kept from gems, having to give up any gems, being outsmarted

## Professional Status

### Previous Team

**Cinder's Team*** Cinder Fall
* Neopolitan
* Mercury Black

## Voice Actors

### English

Katie Newville

**Emerald Sustrai** (エメラルド・サストライ, *Emerarudo Sazutorai*) was an associate of Cinder Fall and the partner of Mercury Black. Her weapons of choice are Thief's Respite, a pair of dual revolvers with collapsible sickle blades which can become kusarigamas.

Following her defection from Salem, she decides to ally herself with Ruby's Group.

## Description

### Appearance

Emerald is a young woman with medium-brown skin and dark-red eyes. Her hair is a light, mint-green with a straight fringe and bangs as well as two long locks on each side in the back and pink colored fingernails.

She also wears a mint green crop top with off the shoulder pulled back sleeves beneath a cropped white quilted leather, double breasted biker jacket contrasted with black notch lapels with matching cuffs alongside her emblem on the back in black as well as a belt loop at the bottom of the jacket's hem. Completing her ensemble are matching white, skinny jeans and brown chaps that end at her thighs, they appear flared with a small open section with straps on the lower calves. The tops and bottoms of the chaps have a mint green trimming to them as well. She also wears a overlong belt, twice-wrapped, to which her chap straps connect to. She keeps her weapon holsters attached the back of the belts. She completes her outfit with a pair of brown ankle boots with metal toe plating. Emerald also wears a red gradient gem pendant around her neck and a beaded bracelet on her right wrist.

### Personality

Emerald initially appears to be affable and disarmingly friendly. However, this belies a darker side of her character. On the whole, she seems to be genuinely outgoing and quick-witted, if a little short-fused. She can also act a little childish or petty, such as when she stuck her tongue out at Roman Torchwick after she stole his lighter to mock him.

In her early days as a thief, Emerald was very cold and serious, only working to survive and not allowing herself to become attached to anyone or anything. She was very confrontational and even violent. She is often stern and even wrathful, angry at heroes for being "Happy all the time" and being easily annoyed by pranks and other antics. She retained much of this personality after being saved by Cinder, though she became open and affable towards Cinder.

After Cinder's apparent death, she fell into mourning. Even when Cinder returns colder and harsher, Emerald tries to be open and happy with her, only to feel rejected by her and Salem. Despite her stern and oftentimes angry personality, she was one of the few servants of Salem that rarely enjoyed the chaos and misery she spread. Though she had her sadistic and torturous moments, she mainly acted in villainy as servitude to Cinder and Salem, feeling hints of remorse upon witnessing devastation. When Tyrian Callows mocks her by saying that she should not be an ally of Salem if she does not enjoy the chaos and misery involved, Emerald surprisingly considers it.

Following Salem's torture of Oscar and witnessing the devastation brought to Atlas and Mantle, along with Cinder's apparent disinterest and Hazel's own redemption, Emerald begins to regret her villainous actions, and when she comes across the heroes, makes the choice to defect from Salem, though her devotion to Cinder is possibly still intact. Despite her inital reluctance to aid her former enemies, as well as her stern and angry personality creating tension between her and them, she insists that she has renounced Salem, and tries, albiet with struggle, to try and better herself to somehow right the wrongs of her past.

## Powers and Abilities

Emerald seems to be quite adept with her weapons, demonstrating skilled swordsmanship and marksmanship, demonstrating the ability to ensnare opponents in her chains and reel them in, even from a great distance, even bringing down Ruby despite the latter using her scythe's recoil for extra speed.

Emerald is stated by Mercury to be a master thief, and she has proven that she is adept at pickpocketing, with one victim being Roman, stealing his lighter to show him that she was a capable thief after he mocked her. As seen in her fight with Coco Adel, her stealth abilities allow her to move silently and attack from an enemy's blind spot.

Though she hasn't engaged anyone on extended close-quarters combat, in "The More the Merrier" and "Vault of the Spring Maiden" it is shown that she's strong and skilled enough to hold Ruby at bay and even temporarily knocked her out at one point (although Ruby was distracted at the time).

### Powers

* **Semblance:** Emerald's Semblance, **Hallucinations**, is individual mental hallucinations - the ability to modify the sensory information in a person's head while their brain is processing it.

Emerald's Semblance is the main reason Cinder first scouted her, having witnessed Emerald use her power to trick a jewel merchant, in order to steal one of his rings - the merchant just smiled at her, as she took the ring right before his eyes.

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Her Semblance is not limited to biological opponents, but can also affect mechanical ones. In "Amity", she is able to cause both Penny Polendina and Maria Calavera to experience visual illusions, despite the first being an android and the latter having cybernetic prosthetic eyes. However, she was unable to affect Penny's heat vision sensors, which she used to locate and defeat Cinder Fall. Emerald's Semblance also seems to limit her mobility, unlike Neopolitan's; she typically remains still or moves slowly and cautiously when conjuring hallucinations.

In "War", Emerald's Semblance even extends towards Grimm, as she managed to make herself invisible from being detected by one of the Seers.

As per "PvP", while Emerald's Semblance was originally limited to two people at her limit, she has expanded that number to at least three without tiring as showcased in "Witch". In "Haven's Fate" she managed to affect nine people with her Semblance simultaneously, though this put her under such strain that she lost consciousness. Her Semblance is also now powerful enough to affect Salem, who remarked on its usage.

With the evolution of her Semblance, she can sense the minds of others within a certain radius of herself and if they were weak or strong.

### Weapons

* **Thief's Respite:**  File:Emerald's Thief's Respite.png   Emerald's weapon of choice is **Thief's Respite**, a pair of dual-wielded pistols that can also be converted into a pair of kama, the blades of which can detach and be swung from chains as kusarigama.

## Etymology

* Emerald is a gemstone that is most often found in green colors.
* Sustrai is the Basque word for "root".

## Trivia

* Emerald alludes to Aladdin from *The Book of One Thousand and One Nights* as well as the Disney movie.
* The 2019 horror film *Doctor Sleep* prominently features Emerald Sustrai through merchandising and allusions. *Doctor Sleep* is based on a book by Stephen King and is the sequel to the 1980 horror film *The Shining*, which was also based on a book by Stephen King. Kyliegh Curran plays Abra, a girl with psychic powers. She has a room adorned with posters and action figures featuring characters from *RWBY*, with a specific focus on Emerald.
	+ A figurine of Emerald is placed on her night stand.
	+ A poster of Emerald is seen on her room, featuring art from *RWBY: Combat Ready*.
	+ Three posters are hanging on the walls around the room.
	+ In the movie, Abra and Rose confront each other in a psychic plane, which can change shape depending on the individual. Throughout the sequence, Abra has adorned a green bob, an homage to Kyliegh Curran's favorite character in *RWBY*, Emerald.