Pyrrha Nikos

**Pyrrha Nikos** (ピュラ・ニコス, *Pyura Nikosu*) is a former student at the now-defunct Beacon Academy and a member of Team JNPR.

Her weapon of choice, called Miló, is a red-and-bronze spear-like weapon that could transform into a rifle or a short sword. She uses this alongside a shield called Akoúo̱, which resembles a classic hoplon.

## Description

### Appearance

Pyrrha is a beautiful and very tall, muscular girl with fair skin and extremely long red hair that she commonly wears in a ponytail. She has green eyes, which she often compliments with green eye shadow. She wears an armored brown and gold overbust corset, red mini-skirt, red sash with brown belt, elbow-length brown gloves, bronze greaves and a bracer, and brown heeled boots. She wears various accessories such as a gold plate bearing her emblem on her waist, a gold circlet with green gemstones, a bronze bracelet, and a bronze gorget.

In formal, she wears a turtleneck sleeveless red dress with her back exposed and black heels.

### Personality

Pyrrha is incredibly kind and supportive, always greeting others with a smile and doing anything in her power to aid them with whatever troubles they are having. She is incredibly selfless and modest, preferring to underplay her own skills and popularity to instead focus on her loyalty and interest towards her friends and allies. She especially enjoys helping others progress, and will often enjoy watching or even teaching others to better themselves.

Because of her celebrity status, she found it difficult to interact with others, as they would always praise her or even avoid her out of fear that she was too good for them. This upsets Pyrrha greatly, as she just wanted to be seen as on par with others and not have them praise or objectify her, which she accomplished with her friends in Team JNPR and Team RWBY.

Pyrrha holds strong ethical beliefs, and will support them in any regard. She will often risk herself for the greater good, and despite being a quick thinker and strategist, will always think through the ethics of an action before performing it. This dedication to her morality has lead her to hesitate and even struggle with her sense of duty, and she is prone to sadness and crying when overwhelmed with the conflicting ethics of a decision, always wondering if she did the right thing.

While Pyrrha is often an optimistic and cheerful person, she is known to become incredibly angry at bullies and villains, though she knows how to keep her anger in check.

## Powers and abilities

* Pyrrha aiming. Note how her javelin lines up with her free arm, forming a straight line.
* Pyrrha using her Semblance.
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Pyrrha is a master combatant, utilizing her vast knowledge of combat strategy and opponents' weaknesses to excel in fights. She uses advanced martial arts and acrobatics to perform incredibly fast and varied attacks.

### Weapon

*Main article: Miló and Akoúo̱*
Pyrrha's weapons of choice are **Miló and Akoúo̱**. They are a javelin-sword-rifle and shield. Pyrrha is able to throw the javelin form of Miló with extreme precision, being able to hit Jaune's hood over a long distance as he was falling. It was at this point when she first demonstrates proficiency in javelin usage, as she was shown to have a perfect stance, with the javelin lining up exactly with her free hand and using her thumb as a reference point.

She is also extremely adept at using Akoúo̱ as an offensive weapon, a skill that is exemplified when she uses her shield to sever the damaged joint of the Death Stalker's stinger, with the shield ricocheting off of a pillar behind it and returning to her. However, this feat was likely aided by her Semblance. However, during her battle with Cinder, she was able to throw her shield with enough accuracy to strike and shatter an arrow mid-air without her Semblance, as her Aura had already been depleted.

Pyrrha also demonstrates incredible skill in switching her back and forth between weapons with quick succession, delivering rapid attacks, and being able to counter others at once, such as with Team CRDL, whom she all defeated alone, despite being outnumbered. Pyrrha is capable of using her weapon's bladed form to even deflect bullets, as done against Hallshott. She is shown to even have a high amount of skill in unarmed combat, using several kicks to knock Cardin Winchester and his team back several times, even using her hands at brief moments.

### Strength

Pyrrha is physically strong, as she was seen to punch through grown tree trunks with her shield without any change in her posture or stance. However, in these sorts of instances, she may be using her control over polarity to cause the shield to move with more force. Her strength is also displayed when she uses her shield as a launch platform to help Nora launch higher into the air and jumping while doing so, an action that was also done without any visible alterations to her stance when Nora utilized a grenade as propellant off the shield.

### Aura

Shown in "The Emerald Forest", Pyrrha demonstrates the ability to unlock another person's Aura. She did this for Jaune, whose Aura had been unknown to him. She was visibly tired after unlocking it, possibly either due to the sheer amount of Aura that she commented Jaune had, or the nature of the ability itself.

### Semblance

*Main article: Polarity*
Pyrrha's Semblance, **Polarity**, allows her to control metal via magnetism. She uses this ability on her own weapons and could use it on opponent's weapons, as well, such as when she moved Mercury Black's boot away from her during a spar to prevent him from landing a hit on her.

In most combat situations, Pyrrha did not go out of her way to broadcast her Semblance's abilities. Instead, she uses it only to make very subtle changes of movement for her own weapons and sometimes her opponent's weapon to affect the course of a battle. This gives her the psychological edge of appearing to be invincible in the eyes of most people.

## Trivia

* Pyrrha alludes to Achilles from Greek mythology.
	+ "Pyrrha" was the alias Achilles took on while disguised as a woman.
	+ Pyrrha is believed to be an invincible, incredibly skilled warrior, like Achilles.
	+ Moments before her death, Pyrrha's ankle is shot with an arrow, which was how Achilles was killed.
	+ "Pyrrha" is derived from the Greek adjective purrhos (πυρρός), which means 'flame colored'. 'Nikos' (Νίκος), meaning 'victor of the people', is derived from the Greek Nike, who is the Goddess of Victory.
* Pyrrha's Semblance may come from pyrrhotite, one of only two minerals that are found naturally magnetized.
* She has appeared on the front of the box for a cereal called "Pumpkin Pete's Marshmallow Flakes" as a mascot. Although she tells Jaune and Weiss that it was "pretty cool", she laments that the cereal is unhealthy. This event got a skit in *RWBY Chibi* based off of it in the form of a TV commercial for Pumpkin Pete's Marshmallow Flakes. Her dislike of the cereal is slightly shown near the end of the commercial.
* Her first and last name together could be taken to refer to a Pyrrhic victory, meaning a tactical victory that comes at such extreme cost it is often seen as a strategic defeat.