Cress Albane

**Cress Albane** (クレス・アルベイン, *Kuresu Arubein*; literally meaning "Cless Alvein"), is both a fictional character and protagonist from the Project Blazblue's *Tales of RWBY* series created by Monty Oum and Kōsuke Fujishima. He is the leader of his own group.

He is a 17-year-old swordsman from the small village of Toltus. He is the son of Miguel Albane, a famous swordsman and master of the local sword fighting school. As such, he has practiced sword fighting since he was a young child.

He is best friends with Chester. A natural warrior who learned the way of fighting from his father, he is otherwise an earnest and caring individual who develops romantic feelings for Mint.

"*.*"

—Cress Albane.

## Appearance & Biography

*Voice Actor*: Johnny Bosch (English), Takeshi Kusao (Japanese), Not Known (Albanian), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Basque), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Cantonese), Not Known (Catalan), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Croatian), Not Known (Danish), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (Filipino), Not Known (French), Not Known (Galician), Not Known (German), Not Known (Greek), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hong Kong), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Indonesian), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Mandarin), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Tagalog), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Valencian), Not Known (Ukrainian), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish)

### Appearance

Cress is an adolescent male standing at 5 foot 7 with a lean yet athletic physique. He has blond hair, gray eyes and a red headband around his forehead.

#### Original (Volumes 1–3)

His attire consists of a black bodysuit cropped somewhat at the biceps with a cropped breastplate covering his chest and leather around his waist, which allows him to carry his sword and partially surrounds his right leg. At his arms are black fabric and white metal wrist guards extending to his elbow.

He wears finger-less leather gloves. At the back of his armor, a red cloak is attached at the shoulder guards. Finally, his footwear consists of silver sabatons. He is considered to be a handsome youth in the story as Mint, Arche and Ami have all developed a crush on him.

#### Post-Timeskip (Volume 4–Current)

* Hair Color: Blond
* Skin Color: Not Known
* Eye Color: Gray
* Age: 17 (Volumes 1–3), 19 (Volume 4–Current)
* Birthday: Not Known
* Height: 170 cm (5'7")
* Weight: 59 kg. (130 lbs.)

## Personality

Cress is a kind and caring person with a great sense of justice and a strong desire to do good. In the face of the enemy, especially Dhaos, who murdered his family as well as the villagers of his hometown, he is instead ruthless and unforgiving, driven by vengeance. Cress enjoys saying puns. He intends to amuse his fellow party members by saying them but always receives contrary effects. He is a very loyal friend and is willing to risk his life for them.

## Relationships

### Friends/Allies

* Cress' Group
	+ Chester Burklight
	+ Mint Adenade
	+ Claus F. Lester
	+ Arche Klein
	+ Suzu Fujibayashi
* Beacon Academy
	+ Ozpin
	+ Glynda Goodwitch
* Team RWBY
	+ Ruby Rose
	+ Weiss Schnee
	+ Blake Belladonna
* Team JNPR
	+ Jaune Arc
	+ Nora Valkyrie
	+ Pyrrha Nikos
	+ Lie Ren
* Team CRDL
	+ Cardin Winchester
* Team SSSN
	+ Sun Wukong
* Team CFVY
	+ Velvet Scarlatina
* Brave Vesperia
	+ Yuri Lowell
	+ Karol Capel
	+ Judith
* Atlesian Military
	+ James Ironwood
	+ Winter Schnee
* Penny Polendina
* Oscar Pine
* Maria Calavera
* Jinn

### Family

* Miguel Albane (father)
* Maria Albein (mother)

### Neutral

* Team STRQ
	+ Raven Branwen
* Caroline Cordovin

### Enemies

* Dhaos
* Heldalf and Salem's Faction
	+ Salem
	+ Tyrian Callows
	+ Hazel Rainart
	+ Arthur Watts
	+ Cinder's Faction
		- Cinder Fall
		- Emerald Sustrai
		- Mercury Black
		- Roman Torchwick
* Alexei Dinoia
* Blood Alliance
	+ Barbos
* Ragou
* Cumore

## External links

* Cress Albane *Aselia*
* Cress Albane *Heroes Wiki*
* Cress Albane *Tales of Wiki*

## Notes & Trivia

* Cress's puns in later appearances most likely stem from the Japanese dialogue "**I will definitely defeat Dhaos!**" (僕は絶対にダオスを倒す！, "*Boku wa zettai ni Daosu wo taosu!*"), where Dhaos's name when romanized in Japanese and "taosu" sound very identical. Two of the PSX translations translate this through English-worded puns ("I will douse Dhaos!" in particular), which seems to be a bit of a meme associated with Cress from that point on.