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Antares Vale Designs: Redux edition!

I was inspired by @rwbyazre and their willingness to go back and tackle their designs. While I still like a lot of my old ideas, the Beacon designs back then were mostly just the Beacon designs as they were in the show with a few tweaks, and that's not as fun. This time around, I wanted to push the designs a lot more, try add more flair. I'm happy with how they've turned out! (rambling under the cut)

"You wouldn't understand, I owe Cinder everything. I have to."

A few reasons! Firstly, how is May Maid Marian beyond the initials, same as Fiona Thyme being Friar Tuck? I don't really see it, and I couldn't think of a way to make it work.

So instead, I started looking a bit more into personalities, and the whole idea of a firebrand swordswoman, youngest of the group, but loyal and outcast from a noble family. I also thought that having her colour scheme be distinctly red and blue would help differentiate her somewhat from the others, who are majority green, but would also tie her closer to Robyn, who has red as her secondary colour with her waistcoat. It's very clear who May idolises the most in the group, who she styled herself after.

She's also paralleled with Marrow, who also has a red/blue colour theme, but he leans more blue, so they're that contrast of hothead and cool-tempered (they were on a team together in Atlas, now they're mortal enemies over petty ex-roommate things)

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

Interesting questions, I might break it down by category.

Fully Pacifist (no fight only talk)

Whitley, Ilia

Mostly Pacifist (self-defence or defence of others is an exception)

Oscar, Joanna, Fiona, Arslan, Iris, Ozpin

Pacifist Fighter (won't start the fight, but can fight)

Jaune, Taiyang, Hazel, Marrow, Penny, Ciel, Flynt, Summer

Neutral Fighter (willing to start the fight but absolutely does not kill)

Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang, Pyrrha, Harriet, Tortuga, Neon, Emerald, Velvet

Willing Fighter (enjoys a fight, tries not to kill but accepts it as a possibility)

Ren, Nora, Qrow, Raven, Clover, Elm, Robyn, James, Sun, Roman, Sienna

Lethal Fighter (willing to kill)

Winter, Adam, Watts, Mercury, Vine, Ozpin, Glynda, Oobleck

Bloodthirsty Fighter (violence is their existence)

Tyrian, Marcus, Salem, Neo, Cinder, Vernal

Meanwhile the second line on this graph I'm going to just pick the characters that most exemplify these options, noting that some characters are more willing to slide up and down the scale depending on the situation and the severity of a fight (i.e. Winter would fight fair-ish in a spar, she would not in a real fight)

Fights Fair

Weiss, Pyrrha, Arslan, Adam, Hazel, Penny

Fights Pragmatically

Ruby, Blake, Yang, Sun, Tyrian, Taiyang, Summer, Watts

Fights Dirty as Hell

ooo this one is fun! I ended up grabbing a lot of characters because honestly the dynamic is entirely up to interpretation, so I'm just going to give the characters and their epithets, I think!

Also on a lot of these, I actually decided by just rolling random word generators a whole bunch of times until something jumped out as interesting or distinctive to tie to a character, I'll be honest. It made it a lot more fun, having that randomised element rather than specifically worrying about tying things in. A lot of these are based really on vibes, or on the fun that could come from the secondary meanings of words, or how the powers could work.

RWBY Ruby Rose: Starjump Weiss Schnee: Chromatic Blake Belladonna: Bombshell Yang Xiao Long: Heart

JNPR Jaune Arc: Contraindiction Nora Valkyrie: Berserker Pyrrha Nikos: Arrow Lie Ren: Oilslick

STRQ Summer Rose: Ghostwriter Taiyang Xiao Long: Cook Raven Branwen: Stagehand Qrow Branwen: Undertaker

WTCH Salem: Fossil Arthur Watts: Diagram Tyrian Callows: Carnival Cinder Fall: Mundie Hazel Rainart: Salt

ASSORTED #1 Sun Wukong: Spooky Emerald Sustrai: Wish Mercury Black: Doppler Adam Taurus: Beartrap Roman Torchwick: Charm Neopolitan: Lovebug Vernal: Obnubilate

FANCIV Flynt Coal: Cool Arslan Altan: Shoelace Neon Katt: Poptart Ciel Soleil: Binoculars Iris Marilla: Dirge Velvet Scarlatina: Snapshot

ACE OPS Clover Ebi: Champion Elm Ederne: Hazelnut Vine Zeki: Herpetology Harriet Bree: Orchid Kelpie Tortuga: Snail Marrow Amin: Paint

ASSORTED #2 Penny Polendina: Helpful Polly: Fairy Oscar Pine: Staircase Whitley Schnee: Soap Winter Schnee: Vampire Ilia Regnbue: Tidepool Robyn Hill: Vessel Sienna Khan: Queen Shion Zaiden: Net