Yang Xiao Long (The Golden Dragon)

# The Golden Dragon

## Yang Xiao Long

RWBY

*Description Here ~ Tara*

## History

### Early Life

Yang was born to her loving father, Taiyang Xiao Long, and a less caring mother, Raven Branwen. Raven was the leader of the infamous Branwen Bandit Tribe, and wanted a guard that could take out any threat and protect the tribe. Because of this, she started testing experimental drugs on Yang as an infant in hopes of manifesting supernatural abilities unlike any the world had seen. Unfortunately, Yang showed no signs of gaining superpowers. And after two years, Raven decided there was no reason to remain with the family. She left in the middle of the night, leaving the two-year-old Yang alone with her family. Raven's brother, Qrow, felt terrible for his niece, and took it upon himself to help Taiyang raise the heartbroken girl in place of the mother that walked out on her. Yang spent years wondering why she wasn't good enough for her mother, and desperately wanting to find her to regain her love.

While Yang was still just two years old, just a few months after her mom left, Yang's father married a woman he had been friends with since childhood named Summer Rose. Summer tried to become the motherly figure she knew Yang desperately needed in her life, but Yang rejected all attempts made by Summer. That wasn't her mother, and the blonde child wouldn't let her pretend she was. Though Summer soon became pregnant, and nine months later gave birth to Yang's baby half sister, Ruby. Instantly, Yang felt a purpose in her life. She was going to protect her sister from ever feeling the heartbreak she experienced as a kid. But that wasn't to last.

Upon turning seven, Yang had learned her stepmother, Summer, had been killed by a mugging gone wrong. Her five-year-old baby sister had just lost her mother, just like Yang had. And try as she might, Yang couldn't take away her sister's pain. The same pain Yang was feeling at having lost a second mother. But this time, a mother that had actually loved her. Yang couldn't stand to lose anyone else, so she started training herself how to fight. She watched weekly combat sports with her father and Uncle Qrow, teaching herself the techniques she was seeing on the screen and accepting teachings from her dad and uncle to become the best combatant she could be. She was going to protect whatever family she had left, and hurt anyone that posed even the slightest threat. During this training, she became so enraged after getting knocked on her butt from her dad, that an emotional outburst erupted her hair into flames and brought the crimson eye color of her mother to the surface. The experiments Raven performed on Yang were finally manifesting special abilities, and Taiyang helped his daughter figure them out over the coming years.

The next ten years in Yang's life were rather uneventful. She attended college, and her little sister was smart enough to skip her final two years of highschool and attend Beacon University with Yang in California. They shared a single dorm with two other girls named Weiss and Blake. Yang was quick to hit it off with Blake, and the two became inseparable. Up to this point, Yang had known she was different. She had been with boys romantically and sexually before, but it never really felt right to her. But when she was with Blake, everything just seemed so perfect. The two slowly built up to a romantic relationship, but like everything else in Yang's life, it just couldn't stay perfect forever.

One night, the pair had argued, and Yang left in a hurry. Though after a few hours, she felt the need to make up with the woman she loved. So, she went back to Beacon's campus, and found what she found made her heart sank. Her girlfriend, pleading for mercy while laying on the floor, had a sword stabbed into her side in a nonfatal but torturous act. The attacker stood tall over Blake, a redheaded assassin named Adam coming for revenge on Blake for leaving him. Yang snapped, swinging punch after punch at Adam, but he had her scouted. After tiring her out, he used her anger against her, waiting for her to overextend an attempted punch before using his red-bladed sword to slice straight through Yang's arm at the bicep. He took Blake while Yang passed out from shock and blood loss, and Yang has still not seen her lover since that day.

That experience changed Yang forever. In some ways, for the worst. She was left with PTSD, growing a fear of swords and struggling to sleep at night without seeing that red blade slashing straight at her. When experiencing an episode while conscious, her arm begins to shake as if being pulled into a panic attack. However, there were also some positive changes to come from the experience. Yang was able to craft a sturdy prosthetic arm to replace her missing limb, and learned that she couldn't approach every conflict the same way. She focused on controlling her temper, and studying her opponents during a battle so that she could better adapt to who she was fighting.

Nowadays, Yang doesn't stay in one spot very long. She's always traveling, looking for the man that took her girl away from her. Along the way, she helps defeat bad guys, but not always by the standards other heroes hold themselves to. Yang doesn't make a habit of ending lives, but she's also not afraid to snap the neck of anyone that she believes is too far gone from being savable. Although it's a small amount, there is still blood on her hands. However, she doesn't attack innocent people or bystanders that don't deserve it. Only those that are foolish enough to challenge her, or those that attempt to prey on victims weaker than themselves.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Aura:** invisible barrier surrounding her that only becomes visible as she takes damage. Too much damage will destroy the barrier. Same inner energy that powers this also powers the following offensive powers.
* **Burn Form:** This super power changes her appearance, and allows her to store damage taken from foes and unleash it back twice as hard in combination with her own strength. The more damage her aura takes, the more damage she's able to unleash.
* **Enhanced Strength:** Only in her Burn form.
* **Enhanced Durability:** Only in her Burn Form.

### Equipment

* **Golden Gauntlets:** Advanced Promethium Technology used defensively to block incoming attacks or offensively to add more power to her punches. Within the gauntlets able to act as a shotgun, releasing a powerful blast. Finite amount of Ammunition.
* **Advanced Prosthetic Arm:** During a fight she lost her arm, As a result she got a Prosthetic arm that uses the same technology as her Gauntlets.
* **Motorcycle:** She gave it the name "Bumblebee" and it's just transportation.