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RWBY AU;Heroes of a Different Story (Mission terminated. Wishing you all well.)

If anyone wants to do a class or anything involving teachers, let me know, I'll see what we can do.
Lan is also available for whatever.

RWBY AU;Heroes of a Different Story (Mission terminated. Wishing you all well.)

we now have a week and a half in RP to kill, assume we are currently mid week that gives us two weekends to do whatever, gloss over classes because that's pretty much super boring. (note, if you WANT to do a class for some reason, let me know and we can throw something together. Like if Russ wanted to upgrade her swords and/or return them to the person she stole them from)

RWBY AU;Heroes of a Different Story (Mission terminated. Wishing you all well.)

@mcmolly@knight of doom I did a brief couple sentences to skip over assembling the bunk beds, left an opening at the end to have a short conversation or some-such before bed then we can get moving towards (hopefully) getting back to some freaking action.

RWBY AU;Heroes of a Different Story (Mission terminated. Wishing you all well.)

Happy Halloween kids, anybody up for some roleplaying? If so, we have decided to simply narrate the room scenes and throw a conversation in at the end to save time.

RWBY AU;Heroes of a Different Story (Mission terminated. Wishing you all well.)

@Mcmolly If you happen to come online again this evenng, we could work on the dorm scene a bit. you as well, @knight of doom

RWBY AU;Heroes of a Different Story (Mission terminated. Wishing you all well.)

Team LamBRusCo

It was perhaps an hour later, after the newly minted teams had eaten their dinner and taken their time to introduce themselves to each other. For most of the students the concept of a 4 man team wasn’t introduced to them up until the ceremony; there were those suspicious of the fact that every sword they could chose had a matching sheath, but in their rush to pass initiation even the most savvy applicants didn’t have the time to fully comprehend the implication.

Among all of them though, it was perhaps team LBRC that had the most ground to cover. Three of them have both worked and fought together during initiation, while the fourth was slow to talk. They all had a lot of explaining to do with one another, so much so that they couldn’t cover everything during lunch. The quartet agreed to talk along the way, as they began their search for their new home for the coming years.

”Looks like we’re pretty close to the ground.” The newly appointed leader noted, skimming a map of the dorms. Playing with her scroll as she deciphered the device’s navigational tool, ”Closest elevator is…” She trailed off as she noticed a small building near the main campus.

‘Why is she turning the map upside down?’ thought Berry while trying hard to mask his worry, having a small inner conflict on whether he should antagonize his new leader or not.

”Beacon has a gardening club?” she noted.

”I…uh...how can you tell with the map flipped over?” Berry decided to prod carefully.

”I can read upside down, pretty easy actually.” the red haired girl responds automatically, still trying to find the directions to reach their dorm.

”Doesn’t help that this map makes no sense…” she complained, attempting to decipher it.

Russ thought about lending Lan a hand in reading the map, but a quick glance over her partner’s shoulder quelled that idea. Too many words denoting places she wasn’t familiar enough with yet to know by shape, and the font was small. She took a look at the map on her own scroll before finalizing it, and with a sigh wondered if they’d have to ask for directions right off the bat.

With a resigned nod, Berry took out his own scroll and checked his own map. Once satisfied, he raised his right finger while looking at Lan’s scroll...before turning his scroll upside down and taking another look. “I think that,” he said, while pointing to the inverted elevator on the lemur Faunus’s scroll, “should be the closest elevator.”

After a slight pause Berry took another look at his scroll...before turning it rightside up. “It should be that way,” he said, while pointing in the general direction of the elevator.

”Thank you” she responded sleepily, stowing her scroll and taking a turn towards the bank of elevators.

Tsuki wanted no part in getting them lost, so she watched the three on them as they pulled up the map on their scroll. The tigress, on the other hand, was simply messing with the functions of her newly acquired device. There were so many cool hidden features and not-so-hidden features for the faunus to play around with.

All said and done, Lan gestured for the team to follow towards the elevator. As they waited for the lift to arrive an older boy with shaggy silver-blonde hair arrived behind them, standing silently for a moment as he examined the four.

Russ felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand up. A life spent making sure she wasn’t seen had left her with a keen sense of “what the fuck is watching me”. She tossed a glance over her shoulder, at first content to just see the single boy there, but at length she realized he wasn’t simply standing, he was observing.

“Uhm, hey dude, got something in my teeth or…?”

”Nah you’re good.” he said softly, smiling at Russ, ”Speaking of which,” he looks at the rest of the team once more, ” I’m writing a term paper on the finer things in life, and I was wondering if I could interview you?” the boy added.

She cocked a brow and turned full-on. Well, the guy was pretty smooth, she’d give him that, at least way smoother than tiger had been. Russ gave a shrug, but couldn’t help the smirk that tugged at her lips.

“Not interested,” replied Berry, not even turning to face the stranger. He wasn’t fond of being interrogated by people older than him, and he planned to avoid having to talk to one as much as possible.

It took a moment for Tsuki to fully grasp what mystery boy was implying. When she did though, she couldn't help but roll her eyes, with a slight smirk on her face. “Nice try,” The white faunus scoffed.

The boy half shrugs to Tsuki’s rejection.

”Boring bunch sorry to say.”

”Sorry to hear that, you seem pretty interesting to me.” he joked, offering a hand, ”Argento Caden, team Vulcan.” the short boy added warmly, waving to the rest of team Lambrusco.

Russ saw no harm in matching hospitalities, and took Argento’s hand, giving a firm shake in return. ”Russ, pleasure,” she said, looking to the rest of her team.

”Zhu Chun Lan” the leader responded, halfway between grinning and glaring for a split second before giving a half-assed wave.

”Ey sour puss, be a bit polite, guy seems like he means well,” Russ said, giving Lan a little nudge with her elbow.

”Oh, hush.” the red haired faunus whispered back, swinging her tail back and forth behind her. The girl stepped forward to shake his hand, attempting to slip the other hand into the pocket where the edge of a scroll could just barely be seen.

Russ kept herself from grinning when she saw what Lan was doing. Well, the guy was nice, but nice guys made the best marks. Besides, it was another chance to see the girl in action, get an idea of how she picked pockets, how sneaky she could really be in broad daylight, face to face with her mark.

“Vulcan, you said?” she asked calmly, pinching two fingers over the top of the scroll and deftly sliding it up into her palm, ”Sounds familiar, but I don’t think I saw you in the naming ceremony.” she said, shaking firmly and watching his eyes, making sure to keep contact as she retracted her other hand quickly, passing the scroll to a partially open pouch on her belt as she did so.

”You prolly weren’t looking hard enough,” Russ said, stepping in to try and pull Argento’s attention. ”Then again, you look all gussied up. What year are you?”

”Third, I believe my leader helped bail out one of the other teams from initiation so you might recognize the name if you encountered him.” The teal eyed boy replied, unaware. ”I would have been in the field with him but I was otherwise occupied.”

Russ shot Lan a subtle wink, then rolled her eyes back to Argento. ”Heroic, you guys do a lot of helping out around here? I’m sure we newbies need it all the time.

At this point she was more or less buffering. The further their conversation went after the pocket had been picked, the better. Less suspicious that way. Besides, the guy was interesting enough, she’d held much more boring conversations before.

Argento released Lan’s hand, ”Not as much as you may think. We tend to take away missions, the big guy gets a bit claustrophobic from time to time.”

“You can choose your missions?” Berry finally turned to eye the older one, curiosity written on his face.

”Yeah, starting second semester they send you on missions from time to time.”

“Don’t the teachers choose the missions for you?” Berry pressed on.

”Sometimes, for the really important stuff. Otherwise they tend to give teams free pick when mission assignments are put out.”

It wouldn’t change much in the end. He wasn’t team leader and he barely had any sway on the team's decision since he hadn’t helped them during initiation. Still, he had a chance, slim as it was, to go somewhere he would like, and that thought alone brought a silly smile on Berry’s face. “Nice,” he murmured, eyes looking away from Argento to stare nowhere in particular.

“Yea, great conversation and all, but the elevator’s here and I'd like to set up shop before midnight,” The slightly annoyed tiger grumbled. Her lack of sleep the night before was getting to her.

”I’m sorry to have bothered you, miss, unfortunately I’m going up too.” Argento apologised curtly, stepping towards the elevator.

As the door opened, a well dressed blue haired girl stepped out. ”Argento, I was just looking for you. We need to clean the room up before-” She noticed the other students and turned towards them, giving a friendly wave while also revealing the blinking light on her throat. ”He wasn’t bothering you too much, was he?” The girl inquired, a slight metallic tone to her voice, ”Come on Argento, we’ll take the stairs.” She said, and the two departed for the stairwell opposite the elevator.

The members of team Lambrusco made the elevator ride up in relative silence. Arriving on their floor after a few short moments, they began the search for their assigned room.

“What was the number again?” asked a now only slightly distracted Berry, stepping in front of the team to check the numbering on the doors.

Lan stopped in her tracks, wearing a puzzled look. ”Not sure, let me check.” The red haired girl withdrew a scroll from her pocket, opening the device and staring intently at it for a moment. She paused, eyes shifting as she slid it shut and replaced it before withdrawing her own. The girl once again opened her scroll, looking for a number, ”Looks like… 205?”

“Hold up, since when did you get two scrolls? I know you’re the leader and all, but do you even need two scrolls?” Tsuki asked, a bit annoyed. Was there something on the other scroll that was special? If so, the tiger faunus wanted in on this two for one deal that was going on.

The lemur faunus tilted her head, feigning innocence, ”I found it lying on the ground earlier. Haven’t had a chance to turn it in.”

“Maybe it’s the third years,” noted Berry as he made his way to the group, “I think if we hurry we can still catch them...what was their name again?.”

Lan shrugged and pulled the stolen scroll from her pocket, offering it to Berry, ”Feel free to take it to him then, I think third years are two floors up.”

“Right, catch you guys in a bit.” Wasting no time Berry made a beeline for the stairs...but stopped just short of the first step before turning back to his teammates. “His name was Argent, right?!”

”I think it was Argento.” Lan responded, checking the number on the latch for the nearest door as she did so and shaking her head slightly when she determined it was not their room.

Berry muttered a quick thanks before dashing up the stairs in hope of catching the duo before they got to their room.

”Good luck finding him, Berry!”

“If he doesn't come back quick he's gonna end up with the leftovers,” Tsuki observed, raising an eyebrow.

”What leftovers?” Lan wondered aloud.

Tsuki sighed, slightly annoyed that she had to explain herself. “Ya know, whatever bed is left over, the closet nobody wants, the desk that's probably broken, those kinds of things.” The feline shrugged.

A look of recognition crossed the lemur tailed girls face, ”Oooooh… I thought you meant food, but we just ate, so…” She shrugged and moved to the next door, checking the control panel for a number. ”If anyone wants to help me find our room, that would be great.” Lan stared at her first target a moment, ”Actually, I think this is it.” she mumbled, pulling out her scroll and waving it past the sensor. With an affirming click the bolt released.

”Great, I’m ready to lie down,” Russ said, stretching her arms out wide, a satisfying pop bringing a quiet hum from her lips.

The quiet of the hallway was suddenly banished by the bubble of four girls chatting very loudly as the elevator opened, the conversation making no sense to anyone who was listening. As they turned the corner, they group revealed themselves to be the cheerleader-themed team as they alternatingly skipped, danced, walked or jogged slightly to keep up with their leader; a slim auburn haired girl with a pair of sugar glider ears poking out from the top of her head.

“So I was saying we should like totally-oh!” The sugar glider faunus came to a halt suddenly as she noticed LBRC standing outside their doorway. “Hi! My name’s Cinnamon!”

The red haired faunus slowly turned towards the source of the noise, a slight look of concern on her face, ”Uh, hi?” Lan muttered, unsure of what exactly was happening.

The smallest member of their team, one with a small amount of armouring on her outfit and a platinum blonde pixie cut glanced at the latch beside her. “Cinna, what room were we again?”

“203, Vanilla,” The tallest replied instead, her raccoon tail swishing slightly.

“Then this is it.” Vanilla responded, pointing at the doorway they were standing outside of.

The last member, a curvaceous girl with hundreds of different coloured ribbons braided into her lavender hair, spoke, “Oh! That was lucky!”

Russ blinked. Oh boy, this would be something else, the four girls looked like they contained a good share of Beacon’s energy. Fair split of faunus too, from what she could tell. Made her grin thinking of what the pugnacious folks from the other day might have to say about it.

Lan looked over the four before suppressing her concern over the sudden change in the atmosphere, ” Zhu Chun Lan , but you can call me Lan.” she greeted, tail twitching nervously.

“Lan?” Cinnamon squinted at her, obviously thinking hard. Beside her, the curvaceous girl sighed.

“Lambrusco. Lan is probably the team leader.” She told her with a slight smile.

“Oh, right! Thanks, darl,” Cinnamon flashed her a grin as the red haired faunus waved her scroll on front of the latch and unlocked their door. Cinnamon gestured at the curvy lavenderette, the fiery haired raccoon faunus and the petite platinum blonde in turn. “These are my girls, Honey, Maple and Vanilla. Which room are you guys in?”

”Russ,” she said, offering a slight wave to the four girls before squeezing past Lan and into the room.

“We’re in this one,” Tsuki said rapping two knuckles on the frame of their newly found room. “I’m Tsukiko by the way, but it's easier to call me Tsuki,”

”I am the leader as well.” The lemur confirmed with a nod as she extended one hand, ”You’ll have to forgive me, but what was your team?”

“Chamomile!” Cinnamon chirped and shook the proffered hand quickly, even as Maple and Vanilla slipped into the room with a small wave. Honey glanced between the quieter pair and her leader before giving the trio a friendly smile.

“Nice to meet you, neighbours.” She stated pleasantly. “Though, where is your fourth member?”

Cinnamon blinked, before visually counting the number of Lambrusco members. “Huh. Where are they?”

”Berry is… indisposed at the moment, should be back shortly.” Lan answered, ”Nice to meet you four as well.” With that, she ducked into her own dorm, leaving Tsuki alone with the remaining cheerleaders.

Honey gave an amused smile to the tiger faunus that had just been abandoned by her teammates in the face of the overexcitable Cinnamon, “We’ll let you join your team.”

“See ya,” Tsuki waved them off with a fake smile plastered on her face. How can people smile all the time? It's so much more work. But hey, when you gotta be a decent person, it's the best way to go about it.

Honey entwined her fingers through her auburn haired team leader’s, tugging the girl into the room next door. Cinnamon waved enthusiastically to Tsuki, “Goodnight! Nice to meet you all!”

The door shut behind them with a definitive click.

Inside the dorm, Lan looked around the room carefully, spotting a sheet of paper on one of the desks bearing a simple diagram. Sitting with the paper are several sturdy wooden pages, ”Bunk…. beds?” A grin crossed her face and she looked over at Russ, ”Hey! Russ! how do bunk beds sound?” She asked excitedly.

After being left in the hallway by everyone else, the laid back first year took a quick survey of the hall. She noted the number of windows, the number of dorms, and all the exits. Then, she slipped into her new living quarters.

”Holy shit,” Russ muttered at her first sight of the room. It was massive, absolutely massive, even the beds looked like they could fit multiple people. These were the kinds of rooms people painted, or --she presumed-- wrote about in stories, not actually live in. And yet it was theirs.

She nearly missed Lan’s question, turning to her partner with a quizzical ”hm?” before shaking the sense back into her head. ”Bunkbeds? Sure, why not, love a bird’s-eye view.”

Lan looked between the beds, her partner and the conversion instructions, ,”I wanted top bunk…” she muttered half-heartedly. ”Wait, bad, Lan no sleep.” the crimson haired girl reminded herself.

”No sleep? How could you go through a day like this and not wanna just crash?” Russ asked, going over and peeking at the instructions. Ugh, more words, but at least the pictures helped get the idea across. ”Alright how do we do this?”

”That is a question I ask myself every day.” she sighed, ”Fine line between want to and can’t.”

“Well what does the first step say to do? Instructions are helpful ya know.” The faunus girl asked.

”I think we just… put these pegs onto the posts and lift the other bed on top of it. Seems simple enough.”

“Then, let's get started!” The tiger faunus grinned, grabbing one set of pegs. She headed towards the two beds on the right hand side of the room. “I call the top bunk over here.”

With a slight look of disappointment, Lan picked up the other set of pegs, moving to insert them on one of the other beds, ”So, you two have anything you want to do with this place other than bunk beds?” the lemur asks politely.

Taking silence as her answer, the red haired faunus continued to assemble the bunk beds, a simple task in and of itself, but exhausting and time consuming due to the absence of their fourth member. By the time they finished, it was growing late and the girls were exhausted.

Lan flopped on one of the bunks, physically drained, and muttered something with her face buried in a pillow.

Russ as well was fairly beat by the time the three had assembled their beds. She clambered up to the one above Lan, hearing the girl mutter something as she passed.

”Wassat?” she asked as she pulled herself up onto her bed. It took about five seconds for her to realize it was the damned coziest thing she’d ever been on.

The red haired faunus turned her face out of the pillow just barely enough to speak clearly ”I’ll measure the closets tonight”

During this time, their 4th member was making his way down the stairs. He was a bit frustrated the elevators were locked, but realizing he only had to go down the stairs helped alleviate his nerves.

‘Why are those things locked though? They worked fine when we got here,’ Berry couldn’t help but muse as he made his way to the elevator, using his scroll again to try and activate it. Much to his annoyance, it was still locked, ‘whatever,’ he thought turning back in search for his room.

As the red haired student made his way to his room, another quartet were already halfway through the hallway. The four made their way down the hall, stopping at each door so their leader -A tall red eyed youth- could check the numbers on the latches.

‘Kitchens...we have a kitchen? 201 and 202... 205 is probably the second set of doors down,’ though Berry as he made his way towards what he hoped was his room.

While the team moved closer to their dorm, the other male in the group eyed Berry cautiously, a wisp of smoke escaping his mouth as he mutters something to one of the two females. The fox tailed girl shot Berry a sideways glance before tapping the shorter of the two men on the shoulder to get his attention.

‘The hell is their problem?’ thought Berry as he removed his right hand out of his pocket. Students at beacon were given lockers to keep their weapons in but Berry would have been damned if he took it off and placed it somewhere he couldn’t see it. Of course thanks to his hoodie only he really needed to know that. Not wanting to overreact he took his eyes away from them but kept moving along.

The gap between Berry and team Nightshade closed gradually, with the team spreading out to check dorm numbers more efficiently. Berry for his part took a slow intake of breath, one that wasn’t looking like it would stop, as he centered himself in the middle of the hallway and made his way past the other four.

The four students passed by Berry wordlessly, finding their dorm at last before stepping inside. The leader paused to watch the red haired student for a moment before slamming the door behind him.

Letting out a long breath strong enough to send a gust of wind through the hallway, Berry used his right hand to search for his scroll. “Well that was anticlimactic,” he mused as he reached his room and waved the scroll in front of the lock, “guess i got tensed over nothing,” as he made his way inside the room, “...again.”

Lan rolled onto her back as she heard the door open, pulling herself into a sitting position ”How’d it go?” she asked cheerfully, cocking her head to the side.

“No one tried to punch me,” Berry absentmindedly replied as he closed the door.

”Strictly speaking that is better than the alternative.” the faunus noted, ”Hope you’re okay with bunk beds, too late to change now.”

“Huh?” said Berry as he took a look around, “Was I gone that long? Shit, sorry you did everything.”

”It’s fine, got a lot more to do overnight anyways. Anything interesting happen while you were out?”

“Thought another team was picking up a fight, some dude with red eyes was giving me the stink eye earlier, but nothing happened...which bed is mine?”

Lan pointed at the other set of bunks, ”Lower one over there I think.” She looked back to Berry, ”Get that scroll back home okay?”

“Huh, oh yeah,” supplied Berry as he was preparing for bed, “met Argent...o’s entire team before i could give it back though.”

The blue eyed girl nods in interest ”How were they?”

“...Nice?...”

We're All Going To Die! (Cycle 1)

Fun while it lasted, guys. If you need me I'll be GM-ing my RWBY thing

RWBY AU;Heroes of a Different Story (Mission terminated. Wishing you all well.)

Don't forget Vedran in EETZ

RWBY AU;Heroes of a Different Story (Mission terminated. Wishing you all well.)

Team CHamoMile

Cinnamon Muscovado

1) Basic info:
Name:Cinnamon Muscovado (A spice as well as a shade of brown; A type of brown sugar)
Species: Faunus (Sugar Glider)
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Symbol: pink lollipop shaped like a sugar glider head
Handedness: Ambidextrous (right dominant)
Physical traits: sugar glider ears, enhanced agility
Misc traits: Almost always eating lollipops
Nickname(s): Cinna, Sugar
Team/occupation: Leader of Team CHML, First year student at Beacon, Graduate of Sanctum
2) Appearance:
Aura/Effects: cinnamon color, grainy effect on outer edges
Height: 5’9” 175cm
Weight: 143lbs 65kg
Eyes: Dark brown
Skin color: Pale olive
Face: Pointed, with a button nose and large eyes
Hair: Auburn, wavy, long, kept up in a messy ponytail
Physique: Slim, toned, gymnastic
Combat Outfit: A crop singlet with built in sports bra, white with cinnamon brown edging and her symbol on the back. Arched over the symbol is her last name in blocky, black lettering. A white inverted box-pleated skirt with the insides of the pleats cinnamon brown, and dark brown bike shorts underneath. Short white fingerless gloves, simple white elbow and knee support braces, white ankle socks and running shoes with dark brown laces. Minor reinforcement on elbows, gloves and knees for protection and a utility belt slung hap-hazardously around her hips.
Casual Outfit: A dark brown tennis dress with white straps and trim around neck and under bust, symbol printed on bottom left side of the skirt, white bike shorts underneath. White running shoes with dark brown laces, and a cinnamon brown purse on a gold chain.
3) Characteristics:
Background: Cinnamon was born in Mistral as an only child to a middle class family. Her parents were often described as married to their jobs, as they ran a small, local patisserie and made all their products themselves. Consequently they weren’t around much to raise Cinnamon beyond the basics, and her early youth was lonely. When she was old enough to help around the shop, doing things like washing non-breakables and no knives, or wiping down counters and tables, she threw herself into the job wholeheartedly, glad to be able to spend time with her parents beyond a few minutes snatched here and there, or when they were bone tired after work. Her parents spoilt her slightly to make up for their lack of time, often baking extra batches of sweets and desserts for her or spending what money they could put aside on things that she wanted. She grew used to being able to get her own way when it came to her home life, though Cinnamon knew that her parents workplace was not somewhere she could get her way.
When she was eleven, still helping out around her parents patisserie, though with the customer side rather than the cooking side of things, she signed up for a Pen Pal Program offered by the CCT. Though they did offer a pairing program, where she would be given the details of one child her age, she instead signed up for the quartet program, which would put her in contact with a child her age from each of the other kingdoms. She was put in contact with Honey Clover, Maple Arboretta and Vanilla Legume.
When she was thirteen, Cinnamon enrolled in Sanctum to become a Hunter after listening to tales from Vanilla, who had always dreamed of being a Hunter. Her own natural excitement and habit of throwing herself head first into things meant that she didn’t think the course through, and once enrolled she refused to drop out even at the urging of her parents. Her Sanctum life was then spent mostly on the side lines cheering other students on during the combat tournaments, and obtaining only middling grades and combat effectiveness - enough to pass, but nothing spectacular.
At the end of the girl’s first years at combat school, they arranged to go to the Vytal festival which was being held in Atlas, to meet for the first time and stay at Vanilla’s house. Cinnamon was extremely excited at the prospect and afterwards declared that the next year, when the summer holidays rolled around again, they would all come to stay at her place in Mistral. Her parents supported the friendship, hoping that the other girls would be able to dissuade her from pursuing the career of a Huntress, but were sadly disappointed when they found out two of them were enrolled in combat schools and the third was being privately trained in dust use.
When the girls were all almost 16, they entered into a four-way romantic relationship with each other. The first months were full of drama as expected of a group of girls entering a polyamorous relationship while they found a balance between each other.
Cinnamon graduated Sanctum with middling grades, and when Maple had a throw-away idea to team up at Beacon, she leaped on it. Cinnamon was the driving force behind organising the girls to teaming up, setting each other member of the quartet on a job, and designing the uniforms for each girl herself, with input from the others.
When initiation came, they made sure their team stuck together by pairing up mid air. Cinnamon paired with Vanilla through the use of one of her nine tails, snagging the girl right out of the air as they were falling, and Vanilla used her semblance to slow their fall together.
Personality: Particularly hyperactive and cheerful, even for a cheerleader, Is a morning person if ever there was one, and rarely seen without some sort of sugar laden food or drink in her possession. Her preferred morning drink isn’t coffee, but hot chocolate with six large spoonfuls of extra sugar. Always cheerful and optimistic, throwing herself into everything she does wholeheartedly.
Likes: sugary and sweet foods, baked goods, her teammates
Dislikes: bitter or spicy foods
4) Trivia:
Relationships:
CHML: the four of them are a somewhat complicated polygamous relationship, Vanilla is her team partner.
Hunter Extension
I) Weapon
Name: Marzipan
Maker/Smith: Cinnamon Muscovado
Type: Nine Tailed Pom Poms (NTPP)
Weapon Derivation: Cheerleading pom-poms, Cat o’ nine tails
Holstered/Sheathed Appearance: A pair of pom pom, tucked into holsters on either hip.
Form 1: A pair of pom poms with a stick handle made of flexible leather imbued with ice dust. A pair of triggers on the handle either retract or extend the pom-pom frizzles, which work on a series of strings to fold the tails into the frizzles shape.
Form 2: A pair of cat of nine tails. She generally only uses one at a time when extended.
Features/Capabilities: Imbued with ice dust, which creates spikes and hooks on the pom pom frizzles/tails. Can also be used to cast ice dust spells.
Usage: Quick punches/boxing style with the pom poms, using the whips to bring her enemy in closer to allow her to deal devastating attacks which her punches
Planned/Possible Upgrades: More types of Dust, spread throughout the individual nine tails.

II) Semblance:
Name: Rush
Type: Physical
Purpose: Utility
Short description: Converts sugars and glucose she eats into pure physical speed
Visual effect: Trails of aura from her ankles and wrist, flying behind her like ribbons
Range: Personal
General limitations: Only gets the boost if there is sugar or glucose in her bloodstream or liver. Makes her lethargic and slow after prolonged use, and dangerously lowers the sugar levels in her bloodstream.
Passive ability(s) (if any): stores large amounts of sugars without ill effect
Active ability(s) (if any): She converts any sugars in her body into a pure speed boost.
III) Combat info:
Position/Class: Rogue/Striker
Landing strategy: Extend one of her nine tails to grapple a nearby tree or pillar
Fighting style: uses the nine tails to pull enemies towards her, then punches them with an ice-serrated pom-pom. Uses the pom-poms like boxing gloves to deal quick damage, dodging in and out of close range combat
IV)Stats:
Strength: 2
Agility: 3
Aura reserve: 1
Aura manipulation: 1
Dust Manipulation: 2
Dust use: 3
Weapon Skill (Primary): 2
Weapon Skill (General): 0

Honey Clover

1) Basic info:
Name:Honey Clover (A golden syrup made from pollen; A plant known for its purple or white flowers and green leaves)
Species: Human
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Symbol: side view of a cartoon clover flower, lavender
Handedness: Right
Misc traits: Never goes anywhere without her dust-ribbons.
Team/occupation: Team CHML, First year student at Beacon, Heir to Clover Couture
2) Appearance:
Aura/Effects: golden glow, scrawling runes can sometimes be seen floating in the glow of her aura
Height: 5’8 172cm
Weight: 154lbs 70kg
Eyes: Honey yellow
Skin color: Dark brown
Face: Round, downturned eyes
Hair: Lavender, put up in hundreds of carefully done plaits with dust infused ribbons threaded through each plait, then gathered into two large pigtails with hair bands sewn with dust infused ribbons. Each plait when pulled straight reaches her mid back, hair when pulled straight out of plait reaches her hips, ribbons are the same length as hair. Ribbons are multicoloured, giving her the illusion of rainbow coloured hair. She has about 120 plaits in her hair, exact number is unknown.
Physique: Curvy, Voluptuous, wide hips and thin waist
Combat Outfit: A crop singlet with built in sports bra, white with honey gold edging and her symbol on the back. Arched over the symbol is her last name in blocky, black lettering. A white inverted box-pleated skirt with the insides of the pleats honey gold, the skirt is held close by a series of press-studs down one side rather than a zip, to allow for the material to be used for her semblance. A pair of bike shorts in lavender underneath, short white full fingered gloves, white knee high socks with honey gold line around top of socks, white running shoes with lavender laces. A dust infused ribbon around her hips acts as a belt, not attached to her skirt and tied in a bow with long loops and ribbons trailing behind. A square silk shawl loosely tied to either side of her belt-ribbon, honey gold and one square metre in size. Her symbol is printed in one corner of the shawl.
Casual Outfit: The square shawl from her combat outfit around her neck as a loose scarf, over a fitted lavender, long sleeved knitted shirt and black jeans with white over the knee heeled boots.
3) Characteristics:
Background: Born in Vacuo, Honey is the heir to Clover Couture, a popular chain of tailoring shops specialising in marketing to Hunters, including the production of dust infused clothing and accessories. She was privately home schooled all her life, though when she indicated an interest in dust and it’s uses her schooling shifted to focus on that aspect due to Clover Couture’s own policy regarding dust infused clothing. Her parents saw it as a way to encourage her to stay in the family business if she learnt how to recharge cloth for customers.
Due to the lack of common social interaction she had growing up, when Honey was eleven and she heard of a Pen Pal Program the CCT was offering, she signed up for the quartet program in hopes of gaining a few friends she could talk to. She was put in touch with Cinnamon Muscovado, Maple Arboretta and Vanilla Legume. She also started helping around the shop in Vacuo, talking to customers and taking orders and measurements down.
When she was thirteen, the girls organised to go to the Vytal Festival to meet for the first time and stay at Vanilla’s house. Honey’s parents were fine with the idea, as it gave her a social life and something to do outside of studying or working constantly, and gave their blessings when Honey approached them with the idea of going to Cinnamon’s house the next year.
When she was fifteen, Honey was introduced to the idea of becoming a huntress when a Huntress came into the store for a dust recharge on a combat outfit. Whilst her mother recharged the clothing, Honey sat with the Huntress and listened to her tales of fighting Grimm and seeing the world. It sparked a sense of excitement in Honey, and she contacted her friends who were all already in training to become Huntresses. The next time they met, which was also when the quartet began their romantic relation, was the beginning of Honey’s physical training, as she started fitness training. It was too late for her to learn a weapon sufficiently for any entrance exams to Vacuo’s Hunter school, but the hope was that she would scrape by with her dust training and pick up a weapon later.
At the age of 15, almost 16, the four girls entered into a four-way romantic relationship with each other. The first months were full of drama as expected of a group of girls entering a polyamorous relationship while they found a balance between each other.
When Maple made the throwaway idea of all the girls going to Beacon and teaming up, Honey was surprised by how much Cinnamon pushed for it to happen, but found herself excited at the prospect. Though her parents weren’t very supportive with the idea, Honey used her own contacts she had built from helping out with the shop to find out as much as she could about Beacon and its entrance exam and initiation. She discovered the method used to assign teams and put in the order for the team uniforms after Cinnamon handed them to her.
When initiation came, they made sure their team stuck together by pairing up mid air. Honey used the wind dust infused into her belt to manipulate Maple and herself so they ended up flying near each other, which also led to them landing together and pairing up.
Personality: Perfectionist and meticulous with the smaller details, she sometimes loses sight of the larger picture, instead focusing on the here and now being perfect. She refuses to move to the next step until she has completed the current one perfectly, which can result in her being left behind in group projects, and she hates changes in plans. She prefers water with her breakfast and loves a sleep in, though she never lets herself stay asleep. Instead she wakes up extra early to make sure everything is perfect for whatever she has to do in the day.
Likes: Fashion, origami, needlework
Dislikes: Plan changes, shoddy work
4) Trivia:
Relationships:
CHML: the four of them are a committed but complicated polygamous relationship. Maple is her team partner.
Hunter Extension
I) Weapon
Type: Assorted Dust Infused Ribbons (ADIR)
Short Description: Innumerable long, thin, three use dust ribbons plaited into the hundreds of plaits in her hair. A pair of hair bands with multiple short, single charge dust ribbons sewn onto the band by one end. A long ribbon tied in a bow around her hips, acting as her belt, infused with wind dust, with long loops and trails.
II) Semblance:
Name: Loom
Type: Glyph
Purpose: Utility
Short description: She infuses cloth with her aura and animates it.
Visual effect: Scrawling runes light up over the cloth she animates.
Range: Short
General limitations: Can only support ten pounds of weight per square metre of cloth, practise with increase the weight she can support. Range limit of seventy five feet, will increase with practise.
Passive ability(s) (if any): Can determine all aspects of cloth at a glance - things like thickness, how easy it is to tear, where any weak points in the cloth are, etc.
Active ability(s) (if any): Animates the cloth, allowing it to move freely and levitate by using her aura to direct its movements. Cloth generally takes the shape of an origami critter through folding itself, her personal preference is a bee.
Dust interaction (Wind): Increases the amount of weight it can carry by 1.5x
Dust Interaction (Earth): Increases the strength of the cloth, making it more resistant to tearing and cutting
Dust Interaction (Fire): Lights on fire, will consume cloth after five minutes of constant burning per square meter of cloth
Dust Interaction (Lightning): Cloth moves faster through the air, and has minor paralytic effect on people it touches.
Dust Interaction (Ice): Cloth becomes transparent, and camouflages with its surroundings
Named after the ancient machine used to make cloth

III) Combat info:
Position/Class: Summoner/Mage
Landing strategy: Uses her semblance with wind dust to animate her shawl and skirt, using them as parachutes to slow her fall along with wind dust from her belt to safely land.
Fighting style: Dust Mage, using elemental attacks against her enemies and keeping her distance through dust manipulation when necessary. Primary fighting style is to hide behind her summons and buff them with dust. Uses the hair bands and wrist and ankles ribbons before she uses the plaited ribbons.
IV)Stats:
Strength: 1
Agility: 2
Aura reserve: 3
Aura manipulation: 2
Dust Manipulation: 2
Dust use: 3
Weapon Skill (Primary): 0
Weapon Skill (General): 1

Maple Arboreta

1) Basic info:
Name: Maple Arboreta (A tree known for its red leaves and golden syrup made from its sap; Latin for tree with an Italian diminutive suffix)
Species: Faunus (Raccoon)
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Symbol: Stylised raccoon head with whiskers, red
Handedness: Ambidextrous (left dominant)
Physical traits: Raccoon tail
Team/occupation: Team CHML, First year student at Beacon, Graduate of Signal
2) Appearance:
Aura/Effects: golden brown, flows slowly around her, but moves fluidly
Height: 6’ 182cm
Weight: 160lbs 73kg
Eyes: Dark brown
Skin color: Lightly tanned
Face: Oval, with a straight nose
Hair: Naturally red, with blonde highlights giving it an fiery effect
Physique: Flexible, toned, gymnast’s build
Combat Outfit: A crop singlet with built in sports bra, white with red edging and her symbol on the back. Arched over the symbol is her last name in blocky, black lettering. An inverted box-pleated skirt with the inside of the pleats red and dark orange bike shorts underneath. Loose white knee socks that gather around her ankles, white running shoes with red laces, and white elbow length fingerless gloves with minor reinforcement. A utility belt slung around her hips.
Casual Outfit: A tight red t-shirt with her symbol printed on one side of the chest in white and dark brown shorts, her belt slung around her hips. her white running shoes and loose socks.
3) Characteristics:
Background: Born in the heart of Vale, Maple is the oldest child of a lower class docks worker and a stay at home mum. One of three children, she learnt rather early on that trying to stand out from a crowd of strangers brought discrimination upon herself, so instead she became a follower, always watching and cheering on her younger siblings and any others who stepped forward in their endeavours. When she was eight, her father died in a workplace accident involving a crate that hadn’t been tied off properly on a crane. Her mother got a job doing junk mail delivery and running messages between anyone who needed it, Maple helping out wherever she could and being the stay at home carer for her younger siblings.
When she was eleven, Maple heard of a program that was free to enter being offered by the CCT. Desperate for something fun to call her own after helping her mother and looking after her siblings that she could do without having to buy extra gear or learn a new skill that would take away from her other commitments, she entered the quartet pen pal program and was given the details of Cinnamon Muscovado, Honey Clover and Vanilla Legume. She found the stress relief offered by talking with the other three girls helped her cope with helping her mother and siblings.
She enrolled in Signal Academy to follow the footsteps of her friends, leaving the care of her mother and siblings to the second oldest child, who by that time was more than old enough to help around the house. Though her mother was sad to see her spending so much time away from the family, she was glad Maple had found something she wanted to do for herself and worked overtime to get enough money together to kit her out in basic gear.
When the girl’s turned thirteen and the Vytal Festival came around, Maple was unsure about being able to go to Vanilla’s house and the Vytal Festival, but the other girls chipped in to get her there and she found herself enjoying the time they spent together. She was excited to go to Cinnamon’s house the next year, though felt kind of bad that her friends seemed to be paying for her trips around the world and resolved to work as many jobs as she could between home and school to earn money to pay them back with.
At the age of 15, almost 16, the four girls entered into a four-way romantic relationship with each other. The first months were full of drama as expected of a group of girls entering a polyamorous relationship while they found a balance between each other.
She graduated Signal with more high practical scores and middling theoretical scores, and in the break between years made the throwaway idea of the four of the quartet teaming up to enroll in Beacon together. She was pleasantly surprised at how much Cinnamon pushed for it. She did most of the on-scene legwork for the enrolments, often acting as a scout for locations and people around Beacon and Vale itself.
When initiation came, Maple allowed Honey to manipulate her with wind dust to insure that they would fly nearby each other, using her greater physical skills to catch the mage and make sure both of them landed safely on the ground.
Personality: A quieter type than her friends, she is much less inclined to take the lead and follows along at a sedate pace, going with the flow. She doesn’t believe in rushing through things, and figures that once something works it doesn’t need improvement, even if it’s not perfect. She tends to ignore most harmful remarks, though people accusing her of thievery will always rile her up and get her to lash out, as she wants to prove that not all raccoon's are thieves. She drinks iced coffee in the mornings, and loves to lie in, even if she’s not actually sleeping.
Likes: Pancakes, blackberries, receiving gifts (especially if they’re really simple and small)
Dislikes: acidic foods, being forced into the spotlight, being called a thief
4) Trivia:
Relationships:
CHML: the four of them are a somewhat complicated polygamous relationship, Vanilla is her team partner.
Hunter Extension
I) Weapon
Name: Sapling
Maker/Smith: Zaruciti Foundries, modified by Maple Arboretta
Type: Collapsible Weighted Hanbo Staff (CWHS)
Holstered/Sheathed Appearance: A baton, 30cm long, overall weight of 12kg and tucked into a holster on her hip
Form 1: A Bo Staff, baton extends to 120cm long
Form 2: Hanbo, Bo staff splits in two, becoming a pair of Hanbo 60cm long each
Features/Capabilities:
Usage: Hanbo and Bo jutsu, twirling them to deflect ranged attacks. Quick and sudden attacks, feints and utilising the extra weight of the staff to do large amounts of damage.
Planned/Possible Upgrades: Dust channelling capabilities, or perhaps a ranged mode.
Notes: Sapling is a small tree.
II) Semblance:
Name: Mimic
Type: Physical
Purpose: Utility
Short description: Allow for the replication of multiple fighting styles and utilitarian abilities.
Visual effect: Eyes become entirely golden brown and glow when heavily used
Range: Personal
General limitations: Any ability the user has not spent time to train in and actually memorize will have to be relearned the following day.
Active ability(s) (if any): The user can replicate any physical ability they observed within the last 24 hours as long as they are physically able

III) Combat info:
Position/Class: Ranger/striker
Landing strategy: Parkour down trees (a bit generic, but the system works)
Fighting style: Hanbo and Bo jutsu, twirling them to deflect ranged attacks. Quick and sudden attacks, feints and utilising the extra weight of the staff to do large amounts of damage.
IV)Stats:
Strength: 2
Agility: 2
Aura reserve: 2
Aura manipulation: 1
Dust Manipulation: 0
Dust use: 1
Weapon Skill (Primary): 3
Weapon Skill (General): 1 (varies when she uses her semblance)

Vanilla Legume

1) Basic info:
Name Meaning: The flowers are pale yellow, vanilla flavoured objects are cream or white, vanilla beans are dark brown, almost black; A seed, pod, or other edible part of a leguminous plant, used as food
Species: Human
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Symbol: side view of stylised megaphone with three sound waves exiting it (like the volume symbol), pale yellow outlined in black
Handedness: Right
Nickname(s): Nilly
Team/occupation: Team CHML, graduate of Atlas Combat Academy
2) Appearance:
Aura/Effects: Cream, squiggly lines emanating from her in pulses, imitating sound waves
Height: 5’1” 157cm
Weight: 108lbs 49kg
Eyes: Dark green
Skin color: Caucasian
Face: Heart shaped, perky nose and upturned eyes
Hair: Platinum blonde, cropped short in a pixie cut
Physique: Slim, petite
Combat Outfit: A crop singlet with built in sports bra, white with cream coloured edging and her symbol on the back. Arched over her symbol is her last name in blocky black lettering. A small amount of plate armour protects her chest and shoulders. A white inverted box-pleated skirt with insides of pleats cream coloured, and black bike shorts underneath. Mid-bicep long white, full fingered gloves. Full plate armour down right arm, with armoured gauntlet. Left hand has minor plating across back of hand and around wrist. Knee high white socks and running shoes, with greaves and knee cops. Armoured utility belt carefully buckled around her hips. An armoured head band with a cream coloured plexiglass visor that can be moved up or down depending on the situation. Visor acts as a simple hud, linked to her scroll, and possesses a wireless microphone for Gelato
Casual Outfit: Tailored pant-suit in black, with a cream coloured silk blouse and small heeled business shoes.
3) Characteristics:
Background: An Atlas native and the second child of a pair of higher ranking military personnel, Vanilla focused on supporting others and honing her weapons skill over anything else and dreaming of being a Hunter, resulting in slightly stunted social skills. Her childhood was rather quiet and in an attempt to break the monotony of structured and militaristic life, when Vanilla was eleven she signed up for the Pen Pal Program being offered by the CCT nearby. She entered the quartet pen pal program for no real reason other than the idea that more people to talk to would mean less structure, at least in this one area of her life, and was soon put in touch with Cinnamon Muscovado, Honey Clover and Maple Aboretta. She found her flagging social skills were quickly picked up and polished by the three other girls, two of whom were naturally talkative and excitable people.
When she turned thirteen Vanilla enrolled in the Atlas combat academy, following her childhood dream with the support of her parents. Her grades in anything that didn’t involve a weapon flagged due to study habits she had picked up as a child. At the end of her first year at the Atlas combat school, Vanilla offered for all three of her pen pals to stay with her for the Vytal Festival, which they all gladly accepted. Vanilla silently revelled in the sheer chaos three girls her age could cause for her parents. When Cinnamon suggested making it a yearly thing, Vanilla was excited at the prospect of seeing other parts of the world and readily accepted.
At the age of 15, almost 16, the four girls entered into a four-way romantic relationship with each other. The first months were full of drama as expected of a group of girls entering a polyamorous relationship while they found a balance between each other.
Vanilla graduated by virtue of her technical skills alone, her theoretical scores being rather abysmal in anything that didn’t involve a weapon in some form. When Maple made the throwaway comment of all four joining Beacon together, Vanilla took it as a chance to get away from her parents and older sister, and the follow her dream in a premier school. Though she mostly followed along, not really able to contribute much to the task of getting all four to Beacon, she did add the armour to her own outfit from Clover Couture and make whatever pep talks she could when energies flagged and things looked like they weren’t going to work, encouraging the other three to push through it.
When initiation came, Vanilla allowed herself to be grabbed by Cinnamon’s nine tails, and used her semblance to slow the pairs fall, forming a partnership quickly.
Personality: Focused and driven, she always encourages others to be the best they can be as well. Methodic when working through a problem, refusing to give up until she has worked her way through every task. She prefers juice in the morning, and is one of those people who wakes instantly, instead of taking time to wake up.
Likes: music, shopping, combat training
Dislikes: improper weapon care, perverts
4) Trivia:
Relationships:
CHML: the four of them are a somewhat complicated polygamous relationship, Vanilla is her team partner.
Hunter Extension
I) Weapon
Name: Gelato
Maker/Smith: Vanilla Legume
Type: Force Amplifying Sonic Lance (FASL)
Weapon Derivation: megaphone, dubstep gun (SRIV), lance
Holstered/Sheathed Appearance: a standard megaphone
Form 1: the speaker cone extends somewhat and dust battery activates, massively amplifying any sound input to the microphone on her visor
Form 2: center of the speaker cone telescopes out into a lance handle, while the megaphone handle folds into the side. panels slide out around the input end of the megaphone, forming a standard 16 foot long lance
Form 3: lance shortens to 10 feet in length, used for some rather interesting combination attacks
Features/Capabilities: powered by wind in form 1 to amplify sound projection range. Microphone attached to HUD for sonic attacks.
Usage: used for crowd control via sonic shockwave or one hit kills on mid-sized grimm through high impact piercing damage in forms 2 and 3
Planned/Possible Upgrades: none at this time
Notes: Gelato is italian style ice-cream, which can come in vanilla.

II) Semblance:
Name: Banshee
Type: Conversion
Purpose: Utility
Short description: Alters the magnitude of soundwaves
Visual effect: Cream coloured pulses of aura arcing up and down along a straight line from the point of origin, imitating sound waves. The louder her attack, the larger the soundwaves.
Range: Medium
General limitations: Can only affect the sound waves emanating from her own voice, however she can still manipulate it if they are transmitted through external devices. Has to recognize that it is her own voice, or she can not manipulate it. More practise will allow her to manipulate old recordings of her voice; for now she can only manipulate live sound waves. Can only manipulate sound waves up to 50ft around her. Targeted conical area of effect only.
Active ability(s) (if any): Creates a knockback effect, pushing herself or her opponents around. Can affect the inner ears of people, disorientating them, and shatter fragile objects.
Dust interaction (Wind): Increases the knockback effect, pushing herself or her opponents around with more force.
Dust Interaction (Fire): A blast of fire, dramatically increasing the knockback effect and acting as a turbo engine for herself. Harder to change direction when using it.
Dust Interaction (Lightning): Directional EMP
Dust Interaction (Shield/Cyan): Creates a wall of white noise around her, preventing anyone from listening in on conversations taking place inside the area of effect.
III) Combat info:
Position/Class: Lancer/Knight
Landing strategy: Aim her semblance at the ground, creating a buffer between herself and it and pushing herself away from the ground slightly as she grows nearer, slowing her fall.
Fighting style: Quick, lancing attacks mixed with sonic attacks to disorientate her opponent to give herself opportunities and move herself in for lightning quick attacks.
IV)Stats:
Strength: 1
Agility: 2
Aura reserve: 2
Aura manipulation: 2
Dust Manipulation: 1
Dust use: 2
Weapon Skill (Primary): 3
Weapon Skill (General): 1

CHML dorm

RWBY AU;Heroes of a Different Story (Mission terminated. Wishing you all well.)

@mcmolly@knight of doom I'll be available most of tomorrow except for early afternoon if we want to work on the room scene a bit, and a couple more hours this evening