Ruby Rose

personal information:

Nickname Little Red Riding Hood (by Roman and Cinder) Pipsqueak (by Qrow and Robyn) Child (by Qrow) Miss Hero (by Emerald) Rubes (by Yang) Career Human Weapon Crescent Rose Scarecrow's Scythe (formerly) Gender Female Age 15 (Volume 1-2) 16 (Volume 3-5) 17 (Volume 6-Current) Birthday October 31st Affiliation Ruby's group Previous affiliation Academy of Signals Beacon Academy Occupation Huntress Previous occupation Student State Asset Relatives Summer Rose (Mother) † Taiyang Xiao Long (father) Yang Xiao Long (Paternal older half-sister) Qrow Branwen (honorary uncle) Attire Red, black Cream (Volume 4-Volume 7) Grey (volume 7-current) Accessories Pin with emblem, ammunition clips, bag, hooded cape, gloves. Laterality Ambidextrous Complexion Pale white Height 5'2" (1.57 m) (Volume 1-6) 5'4" (1.62 m) (Volume 6-8) Hair color Black (Volume 1-Volume 3) Black and Red (Volume 4-current) Eye color Silver Aura color Red Appearance Explosion of petals

appearance:

Ruby is a young girl with fair skin, silver eyes, and neck-length black hair with red tips. During her time at Beacon Academy, she wears a black dress consisting of a long-sleeved blouse with a high collar and red trim on the sleeves, over which is a black sash with red laces down the front, and a matching skirt with red lining and a red petticoat. She also wears a pair of thick black tights that fade to red near the bottom, and black combat boots with red laces, red trim around the top, and red soles. His outfit is topped off by a red hooded cape fastened to his shoulders with cross-shaped pins. His emblem appears as a large silver buckle on his wide black belt, which hangs around his hips at an angle. Attached to his belt are a pouch and a row of bullets. In the "Red" trailer, Ruby's cape was fastened at her throat and a large silver cross was pinned to her belt in place of her emblem. In Ice Queendom, she wears a light pink lipstick. During her stay at Beacon, Ruby's pajamas consist of a black tank top with a heart-shaped Beowolf design on the chest and long white pants decorated with pink roses. She also wears a black eye mask decorated with triangular red eyes reminiscent of the Beowolves from the "Red" trailer. In her Patch home, Ruby's pajamas are a long-sleeved shirt and matching dark grey pants with faded red polka dots and white lining on the front and collar.

personality:

Ever since she was little, Ruby has had a romantic view of the profession of a Hunter. She is quick to reveal that she wanted to become a Hunter to be like the great fairy tale heroes, and has described being one as much more "romantic" than being a police officer. Her mindset is described as "I don't have time for my emotions. I have to make sure everyone else is okay." Lindsay Jones states that Ruby's mindset is "selfless, but that means she's not dealing with her own problems. Compartmentalizing and internalizing her pain is what could eventually destroy her." She has also shown a distinct lack of ability to pick up on social cues due to being a very open and honest person. This results in her inability to pick up on Weiss's sarcasm in "The Shining Beacon" and her struggle to act formal in "It's Brawl in the Family". Ruby considers herself a bit of a goofball when it comes to weapons; she is actually quite intelligent, having designed and built Crescent Rose during her time in Signal, though she admits that she went "a little overboard" with her design. She feels that seeing new weapons "is like meeting new people, but better." Oum has said that she relies on Crescent Rose quite often in battle. Ruby has a strong sense of moral justice, a trait she gained from the stories about heroes and monsters her sister read to her, as well as the way her parents raised her. These stories are what gave her the ideals she wanted to follow and uphold throughout her life and are the reason for her love of books. Ruby is shown to be naive, as while she doesn't like being the center of attention, becoming a Huntress would effectively put her in the spotlight. In addition to her aversion to attention, Ruby prefers to be alone or with Yang. However, she has become comfortable with Team RWBY and Team JNPR. She doesn't lack social skills, but she does have trouble meeting new people. This is due to her lack of social skills.

personality 2:

mainly due to her childish nature and lack of social graces, as she can be rude (just out of ignorance) and sometimes speaks without thinking. However, due to her enthusiastic personality, she can become very good friends with people who share her enthusiasm. Despite this, Ruby's leadership skills make her a worthy teammate. While she may occasionally act without thinking, she sometimes seems to understand the situation better than most. She is then able to use this skill to quickly formulate plans. This was seen during Team RWBY's battle with Nevermore, in which her teammates' positions allowed her to come up with a successful plan. After Ozpin assigned Ruby as Team RWBY's leader and spoke to her in "The Badge and The Burden, Pt. 2", Ruby took her new role seriously, studying so hard and so late, that she fell asleep in the middle of the task. She has grown into a resourceful and reliable leader and was also able to pass on her beliefs as a leader to Jaune Arc, thus helping him find a new sense of responsibility for the safety and well-being of his own team. Ruby is also shown to care for all of her teammates equally, despite their backgrounds. This is seen in how she expresses sympathy for Weiss's poor childhood after she explains her family's history with the White Fang, before showing the same concern moments later for Blake Belladonna as she runs away, having blurted out her previous 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. She also shows some concern for Penny, telling the latter to stay out of the fight between Roman Torchwick, Blake Belladonna, and Sun Wukong.

personality 3:

While Ruby has no trouble interacting with her friends, she does have trouble crafting them, and once admits that seeing new weapons "is like meeting new people, but better." This could have been a result of being accepted two years early into Beacon Academy, forcing her to leave her friends from Signal behind, as well as interact with people who are older and more experienced than her. Regardless, both she and Jaune Arc toast to being socially awkward during the Beacon Ball. In the second chapter of the manga, it is revealed that Ruby originally had enochlophobia, a fear of large crowds, as shown when she freezes up during a sparring match against Cardin Winchester. However, she manages to overcome that fear with some encouragement from her teammates long enough to win the match, and by the Vytal Festival, she has completely surpassed them. Despite her social awkwardness, Ruby is far from shy: she is enthusiastic and often eager to speak her mind. She is capable of being assertive, when necessary, as she has verbally held her own against many people who have tried to dissuade or humiliate her, including Weiss Schnee before they became friends, Roman Torchwick, Neopolitan, Caroline Cordovin, and James Ironwood. Despite her usual kindness, Ruby can also be stern with her friends and close ones when she feels it necessary, such as arguing with Qrow on Argus or Yang on Mantle. Ruby also has a sweet tooth, preferring five spoons of sugar in her coffee and devouring a large plate of cookies in "Ruby Rose". She is even seen with a plate of cookies in "Jaunedice", while her friends eat more nutritious meals. This is shown again in "Alone Together", where Ruby rejoices and accepts coffee after learning that Weiss put "blasphemous amounts of cream and sugar" in it.

personality 4:

In combat or dangerous situations, she is shown to be quite impulsive and eager for battle, such as when she attacks a Death Stalker on sight before learning of its high resistance to bullets and blades. This trait contrasts with her adaptability, as she is quite capable of forming attack plans with others to defeat stronger enemies, such as the Nevermore in "Players and Pieces" and Roman on the Atlesian Paladin-290 in "Painting the Town...". Ruby has been shown to be ruthless at times when it comes to protecting those she loves, such as when she nonchalantly cuts off Tyrian Callows' stinger in "Punished" after he manages to injure and poison Qrow Branwen. When Neopolitan knocks Yang off the edge of the Central Location in "Worthy", Ruby attempts to slice Neo in half using the same move she frequently employs on Grimm. In "Lost", Ruby further develops as a leader whenever she and her friends find themselves in trouble. This is evident when she leads the group when they are attacked on the Argus Limited and when she stands up to Qrow after he rejects Jaune's proposed idea of stealing a military airship to get to Atlas. In this, Ruby is a great source of inspiration and admiration for her team. In "Dark", Blake recounts that Ruby's determination and optimism is something that has always inspired her, and she continues to admire her despite being older. In "Risk", Yang notes that while Ruby's optimism and determination had occasionally been blinding, it was also necessary in many situations, to provide hope for the team when they took risks. In "Tea Amidst Terrible Trouble", Weiss mentions that Ruby has always been the one to help them through tough times. Ruby prefers to be open and not keep secrets from her teammates and friends. Despite this, she feels it is necessary on some occasions. In "A New Approach", she lied to Ironwood and kept her secret from him.

personality 5:

Ozpin's disappearance, how many questions remained regarding the Relic of Knowledge, and Salem's immortality, though she obviously felt uncomfortable doing so. She later expresses doubts about this decision, as she feels it makes her just like Ozpin. Eventually, after Ironwood agrees to tell the populace about the Amity project, Ruby has Oscar reveal the truth to her in hopes that they can finally trust each other. However, when Ironwood decides to leave Mantle due to Salem's impending arrival, Ruby realizes that he can no longer be trusted to make the right decisions and begins preparing to support her friends. As the team's leader, Ruby consistently maintains a brave, determined, and positive attitude. However, when she's down or under intense pressure, she needs the same emotional support she often gives to her friends. At Atlas, having to make difficult decisions began to weigh more and more on Ruby, especially when her plans failed or her team splintered. She also became disturbed after seeing The Hound's core, worried about what Salem might have done to her mother. After falling into Ever After and learning of Penny's death, Ruby's resolve temporarily wavered as she grew more depressed, blaming herself for everything that went wrong in Atlas. She had a hard time even lifting Crescent Rose up and felt like she was not living up to her mother's legacy. Despite normally being open and understanding, at the time she felt too much pressure to be able to talk about her current feelings of depression and yelled at her friends for seemingly taking her support for granted. These issues came to a climax when, after being tortured by Neo clones of her deceased friends and former allies blaming her for their past failures, Curious Cat revealed to have manipulated her so that she could possess her, as well as seeing the deaths of Little, Ruby.

personality 6:

She momentarily wished she could stop being herself. She decided to drink the tea mixed with the Great Tree's leaf in order to ascend and become someone better. Eventually, after speaking with the Blacksmith, Ruby realized that her own mother was not as perfect as she thought, and remembering his encouraging words from her childhood, she was able to gain closure and accept her failures, deciding to ascend as herself, regaining her cheerful attitude, confidence, and will to fight, as shown in her altercation with the Curious Cat, and remaining unfazed by his attempts to break her again. In Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen, Part Two, following her experience in Ever After, she is plagued by the reality of her mortality and the fear of a lack of a legacy. Thus, Ruby begins to fight relentlessly to the point of recklessness that worries her team. It isn't until Superman advises her that she is willing to slow down and learn to value her health more in order to defend her ideals rather than die for them.

powers and abilities:

To become a Huntress, Ruby trained at Signal Academy, where her skills and capabilities far surpassed those of her peers. Wielding a dangerous weapon like Crescent Rose required strength, balance, and adaptability, all of which she demonstrated the night she stopped the robbery of From Dust Till Dawn, a Dust store in Vale. This led to Ozpin accepting her into Beacon Academy two years earlier than the usual age of admission. While at Beacon, Ruby developed skills as a decisive leader, being able to formulate and execute tactical plans with others to defeat tougher enemies, such as the giant Nevermore the team encountered during initiation, and later in coordinated attacks against Roman in an Atlesian Paladin-290. Perhaps Ruby's greatest strength, however, is her ability to give hope when it is most needed, something described by Ozpin as "Something unquantifiable... a spark." She always sees the best in people and has a knack for finding the right words in the right situation, whether it be cheering up her teammates, comforting demoralized or suffering allies, or trying to convince enemies to take her side. While Ruby's willingness to negotiate has occasionally backfired (such as with Raven in "The More the Merrier" and Ironwood in "Gravity"), she has inspired many with her words, actions, and perseverance as a leader and a Hunter. Ruby's sense of balance comes to the fore, particularly in precarious situations such as perching on a taut ribbon in "Players and Pieces" or running away from an exploding airship in "Heroes and Monsters." Despite her small size, Ruby's physical strength is considerable, given the skill with which she wields the large, bulky Crescent Rose. Perhaps one of the best displays of her strength was during her initiation, when she used Crescent Rose to drag a Nevermore Giant vertically up a wall.

powers and abilities 2:

cliff, at high speed (although she was assisted by Weiss's glyphs and Crescent Rose's recoil). Ruby's fighting style relies heavily on her creative uses and methods of gaining momentum, relying on a combination of her Semblance and Crescent Rose's recoil to allow her to achieve massive impact force, then accelerating to avoid counterattacks and set up her next strike. She can also throw her opponents off by creating wakes and even small whirlpools using her Semblance. At close range, she will attempt to overwhelm her opponent with a barrage of lightning-fast slashes, often giving them no time to dodge or stop her attack. Ruby also has some skills as a seamstress. According to RWBY: After the Fall, she made her original outfit herself.