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Team HRRT: Hey look, it's the main plot!

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I've always wanted to give Ozpin (the person, not the Ozcarnation) an actual backstory, and this seemed like an excellent set of OCs to insert it onto.

Fraxinus based on: Dream SMP - Philza

Atalanta based on: Dream SMP - Technoblade

Explanations below the cut!

Before we get into story things, a couple facts about each of them.

Fraxinus (Frax Soot)

Her crow wings are functional and allow her to glide, but she is only able to fly with the aid of her Semblance, Ashfall, which enables her to take the form of smoke particles for a limited time (sort of like Petal Burst.)

Fraxinus is the scientific name for the genus of ash plants, but in modern day, she goes by Frax Soot, Soot referring to her Semblance.

She fights with a staff/lance called The Borer, in reference to Emerald Ash Borers.

Atalanta

Atalanta is named after the Greek heroine that drew first blood on the Boar of Calydon.

Her passive Semblance, Bloodblade, made her unbeatable in her early days of arena combat. Any blood-drawing blow dealt to her will appear on her opponent.

Part of her prowess as a warrior is attributed to her unfamiliar gait as a Faunus with bowed legs, which are generally more powerful and well-balanced than those of her human opponents.

As previously mentioned in Trixie and Roo's posts, Frax and Atalanta are travelling warriors that have made a name for themselves across Anima as living legends. However, only a trusted few know their true origins as servants of King Ozymandias. Important context: an accepted part of RWBY fanon (which I will embrace here) is that the Last King of Vale that won the Great War was a) the Ozcarnation before Ozpin and b) named, for my purposes, Ozymandias.

Fraxinus and Atalanta were legendary slave gladiators in their youth about a decade before the outbreak of the Great War. They were chosen for their exceptional skill by the previous king to train young Ozymandias, and became his close friends and confidantes. When Ozma entered his mind, he knew such a chance to further Ozma's goal as a person in a position of supreme power could not be passed up, and entrusted Frax and Atalanta with knowledge of his mission, forming their secret syndicate in the fight against Salem.

Shortly after the Great War, Oz recognized the need to build on his momentum in his next life. He granted some of his magic to Frax and Atalanta to extend their lives and delay old age, so that they may train and guide his next incarnation as they did him. (As a side effect, Ozma began passing onto hosts at a much younger age, with both Ozpin and Oscar at fourteen.) When Ozma finally passed, Frax and Atalanta did as they swore, finding and informing a young Ozpin of his task.

But Ozpin was not alone. At the age of fourteen, Ozpin was the only one around to provide for his ailing mother and his six-year-old sister, Wilhelmine. When Frax and Atalanta arrived, they took both children under their (literal) wing. To Ozpin, this was a blessing that gave his life a larger purpose, and he eagerly pursued his mission under Frax's tutelage in using The Long Memory. But Wilhelmine only saw heralds of woe that took her away from her mother and her brother away from her. She grew into a cunning and brutal warrior under Atalanta's watch, who feared the anger and resentment brewing within her. In reaction to Ozymandias's growing power over Ozpin, Wilhelmine developed a Semblance that allowed her to siphon others' Aura into empty vessels, which she attempted to use on Ozpin to rid him of Ozma's influence. It was ineffective, but caused a fight to break out between her and Atalanta that gave her the scars over her left eye, and caused Wilhelmine to run away.

Once Ozpin became headmaster of Beacon, he got the idea to turn Qrow and Raven into spies from Frax's Faunus trait and began building a syndicate of his own. He sent Frax and Atalanta off to become rangers in Anima that kept the peace where possible and ended wars between tribes where not. He also hoped that they would find Wilhelmine in their travels, but they had no such luck. During a period of peace, Frax and Atalanta settled for a time in Keikoku, a peaceful village hidden in a valley in Northern Anima. There, they adopted and raised Lumine, an orphaned dove Faunus they wished not to fail as they did Wilhelmine. However, Lumine was quite averse to combat, instead raising her own young family and becoming the peaceful leader of Keikoku. While Atalanta continued questing across Anima, Frax had the fleeting dream of raising a family of her own and bore Roo, who grew up alongside her technical niece, Trixie. Here's a small family tree including ages and Faunus traits:

However, the peace was not to last. Atalanta caught wind of a rumor of a masked rider known only as the Headhunter, who was said to have a vendetta against Frax and Atalanta. They assumed the Headhunter was a servant of Salem, and fearing for the safety of their loved ones in Keikoku, became much more scarce and secretive, leaving Roo in Lumine's care. After they failed to come to Keikoku's aid during a devastating Grimm attack and were forced to flee to Kuchinashi, Roo and Trixie in particular grew resentful of Frax and Atalanta, dreaming of one day attending Haven and becoming real Huntresses capable of fending for themselves.

As for the Headhunter, she had plans for them of her own. I'm sure you can guess who she once had been under the mask...

Headhunter based on: Dream SMP - Dream

hey look it's evil celty sturluson

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Team Heart: Trixie Soot

Based on: Dream SMP - Fundy

Read about her below the cut!

I'm not skipping any characters, who told you I was skipping characters? There's no reason for me to skip characters for, say, dramatic effect or air of mystery or anything of the sort.

By FAR the easiest character to design and readapt for the RWBY universe. Trans fox with daddy issues wrapped in a Jojo cosplay -- what more would I have to add? Ah yes, a backstory.

Trixie, Roo, and Honey grew up in a tribal settlement in the mountains outside Kuchinashi, led by Trixie's mother, Lumine Soot. (Soot's a color, c'mon.) The three were trained to protect their home from Grimm and incursion by their Trixie's grandmother Fraxinus and her war companion Atalanta, both of whom are for the next post. She doesn't see either of them often, for they always seem to be off on some quest for their mysterious cult -- something about King Ozymandias's mission, the Grimm Queen, and the doom of Man. *looks into the camera*

After a devastating Grimm attack scours their home, Trixie's tribe flees to Kuchinashi. But as seen in The Grimm Campaign, their fortunes will take a turn for the worse.

Trixie is the only member of Team HRRT that we know of who has discovered her Semblance. "Spark" allows her to detonate anything she touches (like I said, Jojo reference.) As such, she's a little trigger-happy, but also tends to blame herself for her family's misfortune, and envy Roo's superior skill.

A few notes about her design:

She made her outfit herself, as she has some passion for design.

The pale streaks in her hair are a reference to IRL Fundy's poliosis, but in-universe are inherited from Lumine's bicolored hair.

Her fox ears are a randomly selected trait, from Lumine's dove plumage and her father Sammy's (shut up he's unimportant) salmon gills.

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Team Heart: Rainbow

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Based on: Dream SMP - Ranboo

Read about the final member of Team HRRT below.

Odd, that a character with such a simple color palette would have such a colorful name. In truth, they didn't pick it themself. They woke up in the Hedges in Kuchinashi wearing a suit and tie, holding a dagger, and having absolutely no memory of their name, family, or life. Fortunately, Honey found them in the alley behind her home and brought them in from the rain. Roo was automatically distrusting, but Trixie took a fondness to them that Lumine could not dismiss -- they were considerate, respectful, curious, good-natured, and earnestly grateful for Honey's help, despite their dubious appearance. They quickly discovered that they had a strong, activated Aura of mottled colors from green to red and black to white, which Honey observed looked like a colorblind rainbow. The name stuck.

Rainbow worked alongside Sammy to keep their place in the household, slowly working their way into each member's good graces. Roo begrudgingly found it cool that they had an inexplicable muscle memory for all sorts of weaponry, and were even better at them than herself. The two scars over Rainbow's left eye reminded Lumine of Atalanta, and made her pity their forgotten hardships. Trixie retailored their suit to match their style, and Honey helped them keep a daily diary of memories in the hopes that it would bring back some of their previously life, but with no luck. Nevertheless, the bunch from Keikoku soon found themselves thanking fate that they had stumbled into their lives in time to one day travel to Haven and become the fourth member of Team HRRT.

When they finally came face-to-face with Atalanta for the first time during the Fall of Kuchinashi, she blamed herself for not being there. For not recognizing them. For not stopping her in time.

The Headhunter had a very agreeable task from the Grimm Queen: to find and kill those two pesky servants of Oz that they say could never die. Who knew that they would come running as soon as she showed her face? Or, rather, molded a Grimm shadow gifted to her by the Queen into her own image using her Semblance, allowing part of her own Aura to walk among them? It seemed overwrought, but was in fact quite simple: ridding herself of the part of her soul that contained her empathy and attachment would make it much easier to kill her former mentors without hesitation.

The only thing she failed to consider was who that shadow-self would become on their own.