Blake Belladonna

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**Blake Belladonna** is one of the four main characters of RWBY, an animated web series created by Monty Oum for Rooster Teeth Productions.

## Background

Blake is a Faunus, a human with animal traits. Unfortunately for her, Faunus are under discrimination by the humans. As a kid, Blake joined a group called the White Fang, a Faunus group who claimed they were going to stop the discrimination. However, they planned to do that through fear, by getting the humans to be afraid of the White Fang. Once Blake figured out what the White Fang was doing, she defected from them and decided to go to Beacon Academy and become a Huntress. While there, she was grouped up with Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, and Yang Xiao Long, the four girls becoming Team RWBY.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Aura:**Aura is the manifestation of one's soul, and can be used for many purposes in battle. It can act as a force field to defend the user against attacks, send out shockwaves, and heal minor injuries.
* **Semblance:**The innate, personal power of a person that manifests as a different ability for each person.
	+ **Shadow:** Blake's Semblance allows her to create Shadow-clones. These clones can be used by Blake to either distract, shield, or hide herself from the enemy for a brief amount of time. These copies are not just illusions and have some substance to them, as Blake has demonstrated the ability to jump off of them and use them to exert force on herself as a means of reaching greater heights. It is unknown exactly how long a shadow copy can appear for or how far away from Blake they can exist. So far, they have only appeared in Blake's immediate area, normally right next to her.
* **Enhanced Senses:**As a Faunus, Blake has night vision and enhanced hearing.

## Equipment

* **Gambol Shroud:** Blake's weapon is the Gambol Shroud, a set of two swords consisting of a katana, used as a primary sword, and a large cleaver, which is used as a sheathe. The essence of the two weapon components is that they fit together as one, but come apart to be two, so that they are compact for easier carrying. The katana also has a compact, striker fired pistol built into its hilt, allowing it to be used as a ranged weapon or for the recoil to be used to swing or anchor the blade. When in pistol form, Blake wraps a black ribbon tied to her right arm around Gambol Shroud's trigger, allowing her to freely swing it around in a way similar to a kusarigama. In this form, her fighting style is somewhat similar to that of Ruby Rose, as both girls use the recoil from the firearm to increase the velocity of their weapon. The ribbon has been shown to be very strong, durable and elastic, as it has been reliably used as both a slingshot and a grappling hook. However, at the end of Volume 6, it was destroyed by Adam Taurus.
	+ **Dust:** Specialized Dust cartridges can be inserted into Gambol Shroud to modify the effects of her bullets, giving them elemental properties based on the type of Dust being used. This Dust can also alter Blake's Semblance, changing her Shadows into more than just mere afterimages, in a manner not dissimilar to Weiss Schnee's weapon, Myrtenaster. The form her Shadows take on depends on the element of Blake's choosing, significantly increasing her Semblance's tactical applications.
		- **Fire Dust:** Changes Blake's Shadow into a fire bomb that explodes violently when it detonates, damaging enemies.
		- **Earth Dust:** Changes Blake's Shadow into a stone statue, which can be used as cover and defense from attacks, or to create a small earthquake that knocks back and stuns enemies.
		- **Ice Dust:** Changes Blake's Shadow into an ice sculpture, which with correct timing can trap enemy weapons inside, or freeze them entirely if they are close enough.
		- **Violet Dust:** Changes Blake's Shadow into a dark haze, lingering longer than her normal clones and blocking people's vision.
	+ **Shadow Strike:** Blake dashes at the enemy, slashing them and creating clones that deal followup slashes, up to five times in a row.
	+ **Blade Beam:** Blake launches a horizontal beam from her sword that passes through and stuns enemies. She can fire up to three of these beams from her sword simultaneously.

## Feats

### Strength

* Effortlessly sliced through large robots.
* Can easily slice through steel.
* Killed an Ursa with one hit.
* Hit Nora with a sausage link hard enough to send her flying into a soda machine with the force to break it.
* Cut off the arm of an Atleasian Paladin, the same mech that can bust down a wall by running through it, with Ruby's help.
* Sliced three Beowolves in half, each with one strike.
* Backhanded someone so hard they went flying.
* Travelled hundreds of metres with a single leap.
* Broke out of a spider web trap
* Able to slice through multiple Atlesian Knights and swing Gambol Shroud to slice through large groups of them
* Sliced through a volley of missiles with her technique Untouchable Beauty
* Scales to Ruby’s feat of staggering the Colossus mech into creating a large shockwave (498.8 tons of TNT)
* Scales to Weiss’ feat of staggering the Colossus mech with her ice
* Impaled Adam Taurus’ chest with a broken piece of Gambol Shroud
* Used Gambol Shroud to hold back The Hound and kept it from flying away
	+ Earlier, Lie Ren tied the Hound to a boulder. While it did slow down the Hound a bit, the Grimm was still able to continue its flight destination
* Briefly held down a Winter Maiden Penny using Gambol Shroud with help
* Drop kicked a Fall Maiden Cinder Fall in the face, knocking her off balance

### Speed

* Dodged bullets from a gatling gun.
* Can deflect machine gun fire.
* Outran cars on foot.
* Dodged lightning from a Grimm dragon.
* Kept up with the prototype Atlesian Paladin, which was able to outrun cars on a freeway
* Rushed several Atlesian Knights while deflecting rapid gunfire
* Dodged energy blasts from the spider mech
* Dodged multiple gunshots from Roman Torchwick
* Can react to missile fire from the prototype Atlesian Paladin
* Blocked gunfire from a revolver
* Scales to Emerald Sustrai & Mercury Black, who dodged natural lightning (nearly 80x Speed of Sound/Mach 77.94)
* Scales to Weiss & Yang, who moved in tandem with lightning
* Can keep up with Adam and Ilia, both of whom can dodge and deflect rapid gunfire
* Dodged strikes and gunshots from Adam Taurus
* Dodged acid shots from a Cenitaur
* Scales to Grimm reaching the City of Atlas from the ground in a matter of seconds (Mach 99.6)

### Durability

* Tanked a laser blast that had enough power to blow through a blast door.
* Wasn't injured by a point-blank explosion from Roman's cane.
* Tanked getting pelted with metal cans.
* Fell from a radio tower several stories up without destroying her Aura
* Withstood a headbutt from a spider mech
* Took a couple of hits from Roman as well
* Survived a raven-like Grimm called a Nevermore crashing into her on a stone bridge and later a stone building (4.27 tons of TNT)
* Fought Grimm for hours on end.
* Withstood getting smashed through a wall of ice
* Survived getting stabbed by Adam, and mostly ignored her injury
* Blocked Adam's Moonslice
* Scales to Yang who fell at terminal velocity into the cafeteria
* Scales to Weiss, who survived getting hit by a plume of lava (Most lava is about 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit)
* Took hits from Elm and Vine, the former was able to stop a rampaging Megoliath, lift it up, and throw it into the air (The Megoliath are Grimm based on the Woolly Mammoth, which can weigh up to 6 tons)
* Took hits from a Fall Maiden Cinder, without her Aura breaking

### Skill

* Destroyed several robots and fought against the Spider-Droid.
* Casually kills Beowolves and Ursai.
* Killed a Nevermore with her teammates.
* Teamed with Sun Wukong to stop Roman Torchwick’s dock heist.
* Defeated Roman Torchwick and the White Fang Lieutenant in Volume 2
* Defeated Illia Amitola.
* Defended Sun and her family from Iiia Amitola and several members of the White Fang.
* Led a reformed version of the White Fang in the defense of Haven Academy in Mistral.
* Overpowered and killed Adam Taurus alongside Yang.
* Defended the abandoned Schnee Dust Company mine that the Amity Communications Tower was being set up above from various Grimm and probably bandits.
* Member of Team RWBY and partner to Yang Xiao Long
* Killed countless Grimm throughout RWBY as a huntress-in-training
* Eliminated Reese Chloris in Team RWBY’s match against Team ABRN in Round 1 of the Vytal Tournament in Volume 3
* Teamed up with Yang to defeat Ace Ops members Elm and Vine in Volume 7

## Weaknesses

* **Finite Aura:**If Blake takes too many hits that are shielded by her Aura, her Aura will eventually run out and she will be much more vulnerable.
* **Stubborn:**When Blake puts her mind to something, she won't stop until she puts her mind to it, even to the point of losing sleep, food, and other basic needs.
* **Scared of dogs:**As a cat Faunus, Blake is afraid of dogs, though in the RWBY Chibi series, it is implied that she eventually makes peace with Zwei.

## Gallery

Blake's design throughout the first three volumes of RWBYBlake's signature weapon, Gambol Shroud
## Fun Facts

* Blake means "black" in Old English, and Belladonna means "fair lady" in Italian.
* Monty Oum said that Blake's name was the hardest to come up with.
* Her design is inspired by the classic fairytale *Beauty and the Beast*.