Ruby Rose

**Ruby Rose**, is the leader a huntress-in-training, and leader of Team RWBY. She serves as the titular protagonist of the web-series *RWBY*, where she is voiced by Lindsay Jones. Ruby is a young, optimistic, and friendly young girl who longs to become a huntress like her parents. During her time in Beacon Academy, she become the leader of Team RWBY, which consists of of her partner Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and her older half-sister Yang Xiao-Long. In the *RvBvRWBY* series, Ruby serves as the secondary protagonists of *Retribution*, *A Soldier's Debt*, *and Shattered Eclipse*. She also serves as a minor protagonist in *Beyond the Stars*.

## Ruby Rose

### Aliases

* Ruby
* Dolt (by Weiss Schnee)
* Rubes
* Little Red (by Roman Torchwick & Cinder Fall)
* Little Red-Riding Hood
* Pip-Squeak
* Kiddo (by Qrow)

### Relatives

* Summer Rose (Mother; deceased)
* Taiyang Xiao-Long (Father)
* Yang Xiao-Long (Half-sister)
* Qrow Branwen (Honorary Uncle)
* Michael J. Caboose (Boyfriend)

### Affiliation

* Team RWBY
* Reds and Blues
* Beacon Academy
* New Republic (Main Timeline)
* Coalition (Remnant Timeline)

### Occupation

* Huntress-In-Training
* Operator (Remnant/Rebel Timeline)

## Biographical information

### Place of birth

Island of Patch, Kingdom of Vale, Remnant

## Appearances

### Appears in

* Retribution
* A Soldier's Debt
* Insurgence
* Shattered Eclipse
* Beyond the Stars

## Appearance

### Physical Appearance

Ruby is a fair-skinned, young girl, with silver eyes, and neck-length black hair that naturally fades to red at the tips. She stands around 5'2" initially, but in the Remnant Timeline, she's grown to about 5'4".

### Outifts

#### Original Red

In most of the Main Timeline, Ruby wears a black long-sleeved blouse with a high collar and red trim on the sleeves, over which is a black waist cincher with red lacing up the front, and a matching skirt with red lining. She also wears a pair of thick black stockings and black combat boots with red laces, red trims around the top, and red soles.

Her outfit is topped by a red hooded cloak fastened to her shoulders by cross-shaped pins. Her emblem appears as a large silver buckle on her wide black belt, which is slung around her hips on an angle. Attached to her belt are a pocket and a row of bullets.

#### Blue Variant

In A Soldier's Debt, Ruby's red color scheme is replaced with blue. She wore a skirt similar to her old design but the color scheme was inside out, being blue with a black outlining. Her waist clincher was the same except the laces were now blue. Her shirt was blue as well, but the sleeves were outlined in black. She had thick black stockings and new combat boots that replaced the red with blue. A gold belt was fastened around her waist along with a *new* emblem. A gold rose, the same design as her old one to be exact, in its center was an image of a funny-looking blue helmet. The red tips in her hair were dyed blue as well.

This change was accepted by her friends and the Reds and Blues, though Sarge was a bit upset at the color swap.

#### Formal Attire

During the Beacon Dance, Ruby wears a short, red, sleeveless dress with a thick black sash around the waist and black trim along the bottom. The bodice of the dress is split vertically to the sash and laced with black lacing. The yoke of the dress is transparent mesh with an opaque collar and hem, as well as opaque lines connecting the collar to her shoulders. She also wears black stockings and pumps.

Her was also dyed back to red to match her dress.

#### Beacon Uniform

Ruby wears the same uniform as every other girl attending Beacon, consisting of brown shoes, red tartan skirt, white blouse with maroon trim and thin red bow, a brown vest with gold buttons and maroon blazer with gold trim, alongside full-length black stockings. However, she also wears her red cloak pinned to her blazer.

## Personality

Ever since she was little, Ruby has had a romanticized view of the Huntsman profession. She is quick to reveal she wanted to become a Huntress in order to be like the great heroes in fairy tales, and she has described being one as far more "romantic" than being a police officer. Initially, prior to dating Caboose, her mentality is described as "I don't have time for my emotions. I've gotta make sure that everybody else is okay."

Ruby is a self-proclaimed dork when it comes to weapons; she is quite intelligent, having designed and built Crescent Rose during her time at Signal, although she admits to going "a little overboard" with its design. She feels that seeing new weapons "is like meeting new people, but better." Even the Reds and Blues stated that her love of weapons rivals that of Caboose.

Like the rest of her team and even Team JNPR, Ruby has a strong sense of moral justice, a trait she obtained from stories about heroes and monsters that her sister used to read for her, as well as the way her parents raised her.

As the leader of Team RWBY, Ruby's leadership skills make her a worthy teammate. While she may occasionally act without thinking, sometimes she seems to understand the situation better than most. She can then use this ability to quickly formulate plans. Her qualifications as a leader also greatly impress Sarge and Lavernius Tucker.

Ruby is also shown to care for all her teammates equally, despite their background. This is seen in how she expresses sympathy for Weiss' bad childhood after she explains her family's history with the White Fang, before showing the same concern moments later for Blake Belladonna when she runs away, having let slip her prior involvement with the group, and by extension indirectly revealing that she was a Faunus. Ruby's concern is further expressed in her desperate search for her teammate. This sense of care is later shown not to be limited to her teammates.

Ruby's personality has been greaty influence by the Reds and Blues, in some twisted good way in a matter of speaking. Despite this, her moral often clash with the sim-troopers use of violence and military tactics.