#huntsman Academies

[nightmare-foundation]

The Academies are based on and named after things Oz values.

Beacon- Beacons of hope

Haven- safe havens

Atlas- symbols of innovation, protection from darkness, a light in the dark

Shade- protection from harsh light and heat

[briabooknerd]

[monarchteen]

oh, save me, duel pov romantasy

[everafterhighliveaction]

Hunter Huntsman, son of the Huntsman

hair inspo

everyday clothes

pajamas

formal outfits

shoes

details

*everything can be found on pinterest*

[mahoucored]

redraw of RWBY oc team MADR,, my gremlin rwby ocs— consisting of (1) vivienne westwood nana osaki femcel, a james dean wannabe adrenaline junky, some guy’s cottage core anime waifu, and a medieval archer

character profiles coming soon pls lemme know if u love them or hate them… hate is recommended

[arrestedexgirlfriendafterhigh]

Apple-themed posts bc i need to spill my hyperfixation somewhere

[diaryofamadsunwukongfan]

Nebula Violette

Race: Human

Nationality: Vacuo

Ethnicity: Vacun

Weapon: Shooting Star (A custom made metal crossbow that can shift into a sword mode.)

Gender: Woman

Sexuality: AroAce

Starting Age: 17

Aura Color: Indigo

Handedness: Right

Complexion: light tan

Eye Color: Olive

Semblance: Violet Spider Eye (An extremely powerful Mental semblance that allows the user to recognize all possible patterns in events said user has witnessed. The method to activate this semblance is the same as the Aura Technique: Third Eye.)

Occupation: Shade Academy student

Previous Occupation: Top Student, Waitress, Cashier, Gambler

Born the eldest of seven sisters, and seven orphans, Nebula Violette needed to smarter to support her family. She did everything she could, worked every job she could, won every gambel she could, topped every class she could, everything to support her family. But no matter her efforts, it always seemed like it was never enough... until she met Vacuo's one and only master huntress, Yù Yin. She not only gave Nebula a scholarship to enter Shade, but all of her sisters were also welcomed onto school grounds. For her mercy, Nebula is eternally grateful to her dearly departed mentored, and aims to be her successor.

[valy-gc]

Archer Verdain

Age: 16

Year: 1

Class & Seat: 1-C, Seat 10

Race: Human

Resonance: The Huntsman from Snow White

Legacy Arte: Deceptive Exchange – Swapping the appearance of two objects. The true nature of the object remains unchanged, so the transformation is purely superficial or illusory.

Homeland: Austreim

Best Subject: Tactician’s Lab

Height: 173 cm

Hobby: Free-form Archery

Like: Freedom

Dislike: Unquestioned authority

Club: Chess Club

Personality: A rebellious spirit with a sharp, calculating mind. Though he excels in strategy and precision, he is never content with following the established norms. He is an independent thinker who prizes personal freedom and autonomy, often finding ways to bend or break rules that don’t serve his deeper sense of personal justice. He is not reckless—his strategies are often unorthodox and unpredictable, reflecting his belief that true growth happens when you break free from constraints. Though he can be cynical and sarcastic, he is fiercely loyal to those he believes in, and he’d rather walk alone than follow a path he doesn’t believe in.

Gift: A high-quality bow or a book on strategic thinking.

more infos

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5

[strqyr]

i've had a weird revelation while making a yet another au with writing blake. like, her interacting with ilia, adam, sienna, hell, even yuma? i'm having the time of my life, girl is thriving.

but when it comes to writing her with her actual team i'm here like 🧍‍♂️

[tamyonmyonmyon]

never in my life have I been so saddened over a translation in a game

[etruatcaelum]

He seems very, Osiander observed, motivated.

Isaac swore under his breath as he spun the Long Memory through the air to screen himself as he ran, caught too out-gunned and off his guard to even try deflecting every bullet James was unloading at him. One got through and bounced off his ribs instead—he yelped—a bright jolt of pain, aura crawling erratically up and down his side.

Welt, his stupid backseat driver hummed.

Why are you picking on me!!

No answer. Bastard. Isaac hit the wall, planted one foot, and launched himself around the corner to take cover behind the next stack of hard-light blocks. Okay– okay—Brothers.

He needed to close again. Running around like a maniac letting James take potshots at him would be a completely embarrassing way to lose; of course, that also meant running headlong into gunfire, so. Great.

Okay.

Tightening his grip on the cane, Isaac ducked back out from behind his shelter and charged.

James glanced around the box and saw Isaac run into an open space. Of course he would take such an opening. Immediately he raised the guns and started shooting.

He was in a good position, at perfect distance in his advantage. Isaac could throw his weapon at him, but that wouldn't be an exactly smart choice. Meanwhile, he could unload both of his guns and hide again to reload.

Given such a chance, he would take it and do his very best.

It was supposed to be a friendly sparring, but he was already pissed and would gladly wipe the floor with Isaac's face. In a friendly manner of course.

[rwby-sk]

I'm not defending Salem by any means. But I don't understand how some people say her motives aren't clear, or that she's evil for no reason. As if she's a generic BBEG.

It's all about Ozma. It's always been all about Ozma.

Her initial lie of omission to the Brothers was for Ozma. Her rebellion was for Ozma.

Then?

Ozma and Salem had a fight about how the new humans should live. Salem wanted to rule over them, while Ozma did not. This argument, and Ozma's betrayal, led to a fight.

We've seen Salem and Ozma fight before. Salem uses rainbow colored rays of energy. Ozma is the one that causes explosions strong enough to destroy whales (and castles).

Salem obviously loved her daughters, and blames Ozma for their deaths, as we saw when Salem thought she was meeting Ozma again:

And then, what did Ozma do? He became the king of Vale. And helped build the other kingdoms. He built the huntsman academies to protect the relics. He subtly created a whole organization of powerful allies to influence the councils of every kingdom.

Ozma did what Salem had suggested anyway.

Ozma (secretly) runs the world.

Of course she wants to tear it all down. Of course she doesn't care about anything else. Ozma betrayed her, and at least in her eyes, killed their daughters. Ozma did this so Salem wouldn't run the world with him. And instead did it alone.

Salem could overrun the kingdoms with grimm easily. But that's not what she wants. She wants to undermine Ozma's work. Because it's what Ozma sacrificed their life together for.

So she goes after relics. She kills huntsmen. She destroys huntsmen academies. Because they are what Ozma chose over her, and what she thinks Ozma killed their children over.

I don't agree with it. But like, I get it.

[rwby-encrusted-blog]

~In Vacuo~

Jaune: Hey Pyrrha, Can you go start the Car?

Pyrrha: Yes Honey~

~Pyrrha Walks Away~

Velvet: I don't think that was a good Idea.

Jaune: Why?

~The car Pyrrha got in Explodes with Polarity, along with several other cars being thrown like crumpled paper

Pyrrha: SPIDERSPIRDEPISPIDERSPIERSPIDER

Jaune: PYRRHA! PYRRHA ARE YOU OKAY!

Pyrrha: BABE STAY BACK THERE'S A WILD FUCKING BEAST AROUND! WHERE IS THAT EIGHT LEGGED FREAK!

Velvet: What'd it look like?

Pyrrha: *Aiming down Akouo's Sights, scanning the shrapnel* A spider! Like- Sand and Grey! Weirdly Flat!

Velvet: Came from the Visor?

Pyrrha: Ye- *Aiming at Velvet* How did you know?

Velvet: Ah, Those are Huntsman Spiders! They're pretty harmless. Helpful even!

Pyrrha: WHY is there a Species of Spider named after our profession?

Velvet: Actually they've been called that since long before the academies. They're Hunters of Bugs, so if you've got one in your house, they're eating all the flies and Mosquitoes.

Velvet: And for spiders as large as they are, they're actually Real' timid and fairly gentle- though if it was in your car it was a smaller one.

Pyrrha: How'd it get in my car- A SMALLER ONE!?!?

Velvet: Well, the Sun is hot and Any shade is appreciated, and your Car's visor is a nice spot. They're able to flatten themselves out like Flat Stanley to get into places You really think they shouldn't.

Pyrrha: AGAIN- A SMALLER ONE!?!?

Velvet: I mean, Yeah. They can get to be like, 30 Centimeters.

Pyrrha: THEY WHAT-

Jaune: *Being crushed in his armor, struggling to breathe* Velvet- Velvet stop scaring HER-

30 Centimeters is One Foot/12 Inches. they are BIG Boys.

[everafterhighliveaction]

Head Canon #36

Hunter Huntsman and Rosabella Beauty have a brother and sister dynamic. ever since they were little kids, they acted as if they were siblings; Rosabella messing up his hair or Hunter stealing her glasses. despite not having a blood relation, the pair are incredibly protective of each other.

[anthurak]

RWBY and the Difference Between Combat Schools and Huntsmen Academies

One really interesting aspect of RWBY that I think we don’t discuss or recognize enough is just how long and involved the process of becoming a huntress/huntsman actually is.

Like people love to throw around terms like ‘magic high-school’ to describe Beacon and ���super-powered teenagers’ to describe our heroines or just huntresses and huntsmen in general, but that is just demonstrably NOT the case. Sure, RUBY may have been fifteen when she came to Beacon, but that was only because she’d been bumped up two whole years. It seems that the standard age for a first-year Beacon student (and almost certainly Haven, Atlas and Shade as well) is seventeen/eighteen. And according to Ozpin, students will spend four years at the academy before graduating as full-fledged huntresses and huntsmen. Meaning that the average age for an academy graduate and newly minted grimm hunter is twenty-one/twenty-two.

Simply put, the Huntsmen Academies are NOT magic high-schools, but rather far more analogous to COLLEGES and UNIVERSITIES. Rather, it is the Combat Schools like Signal, Pharos and Sanctum that are the ‘magic high-schools’ of Remnant.

And it’s when we consider those that I think we start getting a sense of just how lengthy and dedicated the process of becoming a huntress likely is.

In her meeting with Ozpin in the first episode, Ruby comments that she ‘only has two more years at Signal’, implying that she’s likely already halfway or more through her expected time there. Meaning that Combat Schools likely run for at least four or possibly five years. Which in turn would mean that the whole process of becoming a huntress or huntsmen starts at age thirteen or even twelve.

Now obviously we can be unsettled by all the ‘child soldier’ implications there, but for one I highly doubt the Combat Schools are throwing thirteen-year-olds against Grimm, and more importantly it could even be NECCESARY for prospective huntresses and huntsmen to start training at such a young age, particularly when it comes to things like Aura and Semblances.

Consider the fact that it’s pretty clear that most people on Remnant DON’T have a Semblance, or rather an unlocked semblance, or an especially strong aura. Because actually training those things to the point where you can go toe-to-toe with rabid darkness monsters is a very long and difficult process. A process that I imagine only gets HARDER to begin the older one gets. Like with so many other skills, I wouldn’t be surprised if unlocking and beginning to train one’s semblance and aura is MUCH easier as a child than as an adult. The same likely goes for weapons and combat training.

I imagine this is one of the real purposes of Combat Schools: to provide students with a safe, controlled environment to unlock and begin training their semblance and aura.

And I imagine the Combat Schools likely serve another, more grim but ultimately necessary purpose: to weed out the kids who simply AREN’T cut out for the whole ‘monster slaying’ business.

Consider for a moment that there are likely several Combat Schools and Academies in each Kingdom, with medium to larger cities having perhaps one or two each, like Signal Academy on Patch, and Sanctum in Argus, with maybe three to five in the capital cities, and several more scattered around the kingdoms in smaller villages. And that with the legendary status of Huntress and Huntsmen in Remnant culture, a LOT of kids likely join these schools, all hoping to become a cool, badass legendary hero themselves.

Now consider just how many Beacon applicants we saw at the start of the show. A few dozen, maybe a hundred, hundred and fifty, tops? And remember that not all of that number even went through the standard Combat School training, as we know from Blake that one can apply for Academy admission directly, albeit through what is almost certainly an EXTREMELY difficult exam process. I mean, out of the eight students we follow at Beacon, we’ve confirmed only THREE actually went through Combat School; Ruby, Yang and Pyrrha. Weiss, Blake and Jaune definitely didn’t attend one, and while Ren and Nora might have, they could just as easily have done what Blake did.

To really put some numbers to this, let’s say that the Kingdom of Vale and Eastern Saunus as a whole has maybe twenty Combat Schools in total, from the handful of big schools like Pharos in the capital and other large cities, to more mid-sized schools like Signal in the larger towns and settlements, to some scattered ‘schoolhouse’-type setups run by one or two retired huntresses or huntsmen. And every year, all of those schools each get a combined average of maybe between fifty to a hundred bright-eyed thirteen-year-olds in their starting classes, each hopeful and positive they’re going to be legendary heroes one day. Putting the total number of huntsmen hopefuls across Vale each year at anywhere between one- and two-thousand.

Cut to four-to-five years later, only about a hundred of those kids will be arriving at Beacon. Which again, isn’t even counting students like Weiss and Blake who didn’t even attend a Combat School, or Pyrrha who came from a different kingdom.

Now that’s not to say I think some dark and grisly fate awaits those kids who can’t make the cut. I don’t think kids are getting killed or horribly maimed and crippled in these combat schools. Rather, they just drop out of the program.

Because it’s all simply too much for them.

Being a professional monster slayer is HARD, probably the hardest, most dangerous job in the world. And very few are truly cut out for it.

I mean, just look at the results of those Combat Schools: At the start of the series, when all those prospective Beacon students learned they were about to be launched into a Grimm-infested forest, the ONLY guy who was scared or even mildly concerned was the one who faked his way in and didn’t actually have any training or experience. Ruby, Yang, Weiss, Pyrrha, Nora, even whats-their-faces in CDRL, all of them were cool, composed and even excited.

Every last one of those first year applicants* arrived at Beacon a highly trained, capable and experienced fighter in each their own right. With an unlocked semblance, a trained aura and a custom-build weapon of their own.

This is one of the big reasons why the Huntsmen Academies are FAR more analogous to colleges and universities rather than the ‘magic high schools’ we so often see in fantasy stories, and one of the things that makes RWBY rather unique.

Basically all of our main characters (aside from that one idiot who thought he could skip the line) enter the story having already completed their requisite ‘training arcs’ and are pretty much READY to become huntresses. It’s why Beacon itself and various ‘school stories’ really WEREN’T a focus of the first three volumes and served more as a safe and comfortable ‘home base’ for our heroines. At least until Volume 3 burned down said home base and thrust our heroines into the real world for the actual story to begin.

*Obviously excluding Jaune who frankly by all rights SHOULD have been dead or at least horribly and permanently maimed within the first thirty seconds or so, were it not for the Grace of Pyrrha.

[cjskribblez]

So me and @rev-pirate cooked up a RWBY au...

We have SO much for it already but essentially we looked at divorce quartet, said: is anyone gonna make them worse?" And then didn't wait for an answer

Quick synopsis- (and if you have no idea what rwby is, the main things you need to know is weapons have multiple forms, semblances are basically their superpowers, dust is a magical sunstance that can be used to enhance weapons, and they all go to this university and get put in teams of 4 to learn how to fight monsters called Grimm.)

-Martyn-

Nobody expected Martyn to be the leader, least of all him. He doesn't see what the headmaster does, and he won't until it's much too late for his team.

Weapon: electric guitar/axe

Semblance: Attacks are stronger when landed to the beat of music. The longer the combo, the higher the strength (He has trouble keeping rhythm without listening to music, which is why he always has his headphones near.) (Yeah just think hifi rush we hit him with Chai beams)

-Cleo-

The de-facto leader after Martyn decides team J.T.R.B are much funner to hang out with, Cleo is forced to attempt to keep a collapsing team from breaking apart. At least before graduation.

Weapon: staff/nunchucks/twin SMGs

Semblance: They can create decoys of themselves or other living things anywhere in sight. Now usually these would be illusions. But in combination with something called Dust in this universe they can be made solid. Which works really well in conjunction with Martyn's semblance. In that if given the opportunity they can make decoys that Martyn can hit to not break his combo between enemies. or to build a combo before going in for the strike for higher damage off the bat. Unfortunately for them. This team is doomed

-Scott-

As the heir of Aeor dust company, the leading supplier of the world's dust, graduating from a huntsman academy should have been one of the easiest tasks to accomplish. Little did he know...

Weapon: wooden longbow with dust enhanced arrows/staff

Semblance: glyphs (yeah he's basically Weiss LOL) The magic glyphs can spoil different things when infused with dust, like a speed or jump boost, and summon avatars of previously defeated Grimm out of dust.

-Pearl-

Pearl thought the worst thing that could happen was her classmates finding out she's secretly apart of the white fang. Turns out she hadn't planned to be grouped up with the heir of the white fangs biggest enemy.

Weapon: scythe/twin sickles/boomerang

Semblance: Anti-gravity. She can levitate any nonliving thing she's touched and control it. Used with gravity dust enhances this, allowing for her to control her weapons without needing to touch them. (As she grows stronger, she'll be able to control more things)

ALSO THIS POST IS SUPER LONG ALREADY SO have some weapon doodles as a treat, next team post soon