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Atlas Intelligence Profile: BAS #788
Classification: Bright-Blue
Additional Restrictions: Stark-Black, Eyes-Only
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Subject: Ruby ‘The Red Reaper’ Rose
Hunter Team: RWBY (Team Leader) (Disbanded)
Born: 31/10/66, New Era
Age & Sex: 24, Female
Eye Colour: Silver
Hair Colour: Brunette (With Red Highlights)
Height: 5ft 6 inches
Employment: Licenced Free-Roam Huntress (ID: 22-D-50)
Augmentations: Cybernetic Correction to left kneecap (Injury caused by {Classified}, unable to be healed via Aura or conventional medicine.)
Significant Other: Weiss Schnee (Fiancée) (Deceased)
Relevant Lineage:
Mother: Summer Rose (Deceased)
Father: Taiyang Xiao-Long (Active)
Half-Sister: Yang Xiao-Long (Active)
Uncle: Qrow Branwen (Deceased)
Semblance:
Speed Enhancement/Transmutation: (Use of Semblance causes the Subject to move at speeds up to Mach-2, with the side effect of disintegrating into Rose Petals, likely in order to handle the extreme g-forces such speeds generate.)
Addendum : [The Subject appears to be able to vibrate in such a way to transmute her entire person into petals, whilst also able to maintain the ability of moving omni directionally. The infiltration and stealth applications of this have been used by the Subject to great effect.]
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Weapons of Choice:
Primary: A War Scythe/Great Sword/Sniper Rifle combination named Crescent Rose. (The sword (Crescent Luna) and sniper rifle (Limitless Rose) are kept as two separate pieces, and are combined together to create the scythe.)
Addendum : [The Sword and Sniper are generally used when facing human/faunus or smaller Grimm, while the Scythe form is mainly used when facing Elder Grimm or opponents the Subject deems extremely dangerous.]
Secondary: A Six Cylinder Revolver/Combat Dagger named Argent Thorn. (Primarily used in Close Quarters or when Crescent Rose is unavailable, this weapon is less of a conventional pistol/knife combo and more of an oversized handcannon/short sword.)
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Notable Features/Means of ID:
I: Typically wears a hooded Red Cloak, though also known to wear Black or White variants depending upon local environment (Note that the cloaks are made out of a bullet and stab resistant material, providing light and flexible protection.) and should be the primary means of visual identification.
II: Hair is a natural mix of dark brown and red, known to be kept long in a braid at the back whilst cut far shorter towards the front.
III: Scarring over Left Eye (Damage correlates to that of a Five clawed animal. Possibly Faunus.)
IV: Subject has silver eyes, which is a highly distinctive eye colour and should be a secondary means of visual identification.
V: When expecting active combat, Subject typically wears light-weight combat leathers, with chrome armour-plating over the shoulders, arms, legs and chest. (This plating mostly covers vital organs and appendages, designed to allow for maximum mobility in combat.)
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Mental & Psychological Summary:
Subject falls into the Passive-Expressive quadrant of Combative personalities. She does not like engaging in combat against humans or faunus, (This does not include Grimm, which she seems to have a pathological hatred towards) and has a proven track-record of attempting peaceful negotiation before resorting to violence. (However, once the violence starts, she can be startlingly aggressive and brutal.)
She also registers 122 on Atlas’s IQ scale, which is above average, and is considered a near-genius in mechanical engineering and weapons design. (She has built, customised, and/or modified the weapons of all her teammates/friends. In most cases, the Subject has a fondness for high-calibre high-impact weaponry, but is more than capable of engineering more subtle/compact designs.)
Motivations:
Her Primary motivation is – and always has been – the protection of and continued relationships with those she considers family. (This is not limited by blood relation, as Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna and others have been verbally termed such.)
Her Secondary motivation appears to be the wholesale slaughter and total destruction of the Grimm. (This is not an uncommon secondary or tertiary goal of a career Huntsman, but the almost religious determination to see any and all Creatures of Grimm she may come across killed is… abnormal.)
Finally, her Tertiary motivation, from what we have managed to observe, appears to be the preservation and continuation of humanity and faunus-kind. (This is an unusual and somewhat rare motivation, as the Subject seems to have no real loyalties to any one kingdom or race, instead choosing to roam and take on a mixture of the most dangerous and least paying hunts.)
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Silver Eyes: {Classified}
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Historical Summary:
The Subject has been involved in a large number of world events that will no doubt go into the history books, (as well as a few that won’t) if for no other reason than the sheer power herself and her team have displayed in defence of humanity and faunus-kind.
Her first notable appearance was when she was accepted into Beacon Academy a full two years earlier than standard. It would only be a few months later that the Subject would next reappear during the Breach; in which herself and her team were credited as those responsible for uncovering the plot to break a hole in Vale’s perimeter defence, and being the first ones on scene to respond to the breach.
She was also present for the Fall of Beacon, in which a number of close friends and classmates of hers died, and it is believed to be the death of a close friend (Pyrrha Nikos of Team JNPR) that caused her to manifest her {Classified} and {Classified} the High Drakon assaulting Beacon Tower.
Addendum : [She would later return to Beacon during the Reclamation Project in order to finally slay the Drakon. The beast having settled into the ruins of Beacon Academy proper.]
After the Fall of Beacon, the Subject and the remaining members of Team JNPR travelled to Haven, looking to finish their schooling and become legitimate Hunters. (It is also believed that they were searching for information on {Classified}, who was responsible for the Fall of Beacon, as well.)
However, almost a year later – and a month before the end of Haven’s third semester – Teams RWBY and JNPR were credited as two of the primary reasons it didn’t fall to the Grimm during the Haven Incident.
Both the Subject’s team and Team JNPR were credited as being the primary force behind the defence of Haven Academy, and while the main campus building was destroyed by the White Fang, the majority of the student body and teachers managed to escape unharmed. (With the exception of Headmaster Lionheart, who we believe died in the explosion caused by the White Fang.)
Following this attack, Teams RWBY and JNPR travelled to Atlas, with the two teams spending an entire week recovering from their journey at General Ironwood’s personal estate, before officially joining Atlas’s Military Institutional Academy as ‘exchange students’ from Haven.
They would spend the remainder of their time during their first year making a name for themselves as recluses, with both teams considered cursed due to their presence at the Fall of Beacon and the Haven Incident. (Not made any better by having a high-profile Faunus within their group.)
A year later, and this supposed curse would reappear again with the Atlas Assault, where the Schnee Estate was levelled, the Great Ice Wall sustained its first breach in fifty three years, and Atlas’s Military Academy was assaulted by the White Fang in an attempt to breach the Academy’s {Classified}.
Whilst her team was successful in preventing the destruction of the school, and preventing the theft of the {Classified}, Yang Xiao-Long lost her left leg after encountering Adam Taurus, who was in the process of retreating from his failed attack on the Academy.
Taurus and the remainder of the White Fang still loyal to him fled Atlas following the failure of the Assault, choosing to hide in the deserts of Vacuo, where he would be eventually hunted down by Team RWBY a year later, with the assistance of Team JNPR, FNKI and a select number of Menagerie’s General Guard.
The Subject was also there alongside the whole of her team for the Incursion at Shade Academy, where the entire academy was levelled to the ground by {Classified}, who had acquired the powers of the {Classified} in Atlas.
The wanted woman fled the area with both the {Classified} and the powers of the {Classified} believed to be in her possession, but only after the Subject and her team confronted her directly and succeeded in capturing her subordinate: Emerald Sustrai.
A year later, Teams RWBY, JNPR, SSSN, FNKI, numerous other Hunters from across the globe, and a full three fourths of Atlas’s Specialist Operatives were drawn upon in order to finally defeat both {Classified} and {Classified} in the {Classified} Assault on {Classified}, with heavy losses incurred.
Since then the Subject has remained by her sister’s side, the two of them briefly working with the remains of Team JNPR, SSSN, CFVY and a number of Veteran Vale Hunters to retake Beacon, before settling into a pattern of traveling across Remnant, hunting the more dangerous Grimm to have become active in the recent years.
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Hunter Team Summary: {See Hunter Team Report: BA-813 for details}
Hunter Team RWBY was formed on 08.04.80, New Era. Legitimised as Trainees by Beacon Academy’s Headmaster: Professor Allanon Ozpin.
Made up of three Humans and one Faunus, they were one of the few Beacon trainee teams to remain whole following the Fall of Beacon. Although one member was critically injured and the Subject herself suffered a short-term coma, they otherwise came away relatively unscathed.
Originally, they were registered as one of the top preforming trainee teams of their year, even outperforming some second year teams, and were competing for the top spot in their year with Team JNPR. (See Hunter Intelligence Report BA-814)
They would continue this impressive trend as they attended both Haven Academy and Atlas’s Military Institutional Academy, making a name for themselves as a well-rounded powerhouse of a team.
Tactics:
Ruby Rose, the team’s former leader, is an expert in hit-and-run guerrilla combat. When facing human/faunas opposition, she will typically use one of two strategies; either setting up in a sniping position in order to support her sister, or use her speed enhancing semblance to rush in and assault directly.
As a close combat and hand-to-hand specialist with an enhancement/elemental type semblance, Yang Xiao-Long should be treated as an assault tank. She will typically react to hostile intent by launching aggressive pressure tactics and force her enemies to engage in attritional combat.
Xiao-Long will also attempt to search out and engage any counterparts her opponents may have, whilst using the shotguns built into her gauntlets and boots to take out those around her. (On her own, this wouldn’t be too much of an issue to plan around. However, her sister complicates such plans.)
Rose will typically stay at a distance and pick off enemies that may prove difficult for her sister to counter, or else utilise her semblance to ‘pop in and out’ of the battlefield, striking at targets of opportunity before disappearing again.
Addendum : [As of 20.08.85, Hunter Team RWBY was disbanded due to the deaths of two of its members. Even so, this document is regularly updated to include information on the last two remaining members.]
Together, the two remaining women of Team RWBY are some of the best travelled and most combat experienced Huntresses still alive to date. With the two sisters both having exceptionally strong auras, well developed semblances, and a host of allies and contacts in all major kingdoms, the two are considered the most dangerous beings currently alive on Remnant.
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Warnings:
Subject has been documented eviscerating an Elder Goliath with just one swing of her War Scythe, while the .55 calibre custom-made APD Rounds that she utilises for her sniper rifle can and have punched through 250mm-thick tank armour with ease.
In addition to this, the Subject has been recorded travelling up to 690 m/s, which is almost a full two times the speed of sound, which when combined with her primary weapon in its complete form, makes her an utterly terrifying prospect to meet on the battlefield.
On top of all this, rumours that the Subject has been personally trained by The Grimm Reaper (See Hunter Intelligence Report F-724) continue to circulate the greater Hunter Communities.
We haven’t been able to attain definitive proof of these claims, but small hints by members of Team RWBY over the years (Both by those now deceased and still active) and comments made by Qrow Branwen leads us to believe there may be some serious truth behind the speculation.
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Notice for all Readers:
Currently, the Subject is considered an ally of the kingdoms, and a Living Legend amongst the remaining Hunter Communities. Psychological summaries from independent sources indicate the Subject does not like combating Human or Faunus, and has so far remained content to solely hunt the Creatures of Grimm alongside her sister.
Unless this changes, standing orders are to remain passive in the Subject’s presence and to provide whatever assistance they can if prompted. (Unlikely, when you really think about it. But having her owe one of us a few favours can’t hurt.)