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Team Heart: Rouge "Roo" Soot

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Based on: Dream SMP - TommyInnit

Read about her below the cut!

Roo (Rouge in life-or-death situations only) is Honey's childhood best friend and self-proclaimed sidekick. She seems possessive and self-centered, but actually is the one who brings the team together by being the most enthusiastic to go to Haven, after her rebellious attitude and teenage-typical sense of invincibility. She also grew up under the pressure of the mentorship of some of the most legendary warriors in Anima (gifting her Punchliner, her weapon), but they'll get their own post in due time.

"Hey, Frax?" "Yeah mate?" "Are we side characters, Frax?"

More about Roo's backstory in that post and T's announcement. *eyes "Soot" nervously*

A few notes about her design:

She borrows a lot of her design out-of-canon from Tommy's skin/IRL looks (the imitation of the iconic red raglan shirt being the most obvious) as well as within-canon from her aforementioned warrior mentors (slash parents?)

"Punchliner" is a reference to both her lighthearted disposition and the Minecraft "punch" enchantment on bows.

Of Team HRRT, she is the best at fighting people ostensibly because of her more thorough training and her lower-power weapon, whereas Honey is the best at killing Grimm.

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2017 BikeFlights.com Brand Ambassadors Announced

BikeFlights.com is pleased to announce its Brand Ambassadors for the 2017 season, including 38 individuals and eight teams.

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BikeFlights.com Ambassadors range from grassroots riders to Olympians and include roadies, trackies, mountain bikers, cyclocross racers, BMXers and triathletes.

BikeFlights.com’s Brand Ambassador Program is celebrating its third year.

Elite Team Ambassadors

LA Sweat (including Anna Grace Christiansen, Becca Schepps, Brenna Wrye-Simpson, Christa Ghent, Erin Goodall, Kelli Samuelson, Melanie Beale and Tiffany Pezzulo)

Maverick Multisport Pro Team (including Clayton Fettell, Dan Wilson, Jon Shearon, Lesley Smith and Rudy von Berg)

Stan's NoTubes-Kenda Women's Team (Alexis Skarda, Jenny Smith, Nina Baum and Sarah Kaufmann and Vicki Barclay)

Stan's-Pivot Pro Team (including Chloe Woodruff and Rose Grant)

National and Regional Teams, Clubs and Organizations

Green Line Velo

Ladies AllRide

Maverick Multisport Amateur Team

Napleton Elite Cycling Team

Individuals

Adam Ward (Wicked Wash) - Fairfax, VA

Allie Dragoo (Cervelo Bigla) - Grand Rapids, MI

Allison Linnell (Team Sirius) - Miami, FL

Amber Pierce (Team Colavita-Bianchi) - Mansfield Center, CT

Andrew Rizzi (HRRT) - Niskayuna, NY

Anna Janas (Razzle Dazzle Racing) - Palo Alto, CA

Beth Ann Orton (Hagens Berman-Supermint (road) & Sellwood Cycle Repair p/b Kona (cross) - Portland, OR

Beth Hernandez (Jakroo Track) - Oakland, CA

Blake Anton (Herbalife p/b Marc Pro - Nature's Bakery Elite Cycling Team) - Arroyo Grande, CA

Cecilia Davis-Hayes (Blue Ribbon Cycling Team) - New York, NY

Christina Birch - Los Angeles, CA

Cody Kaiser (LangeTwins / Specialized) - Sacramento, CA

Daniel Holloway (Texas Road House) - Boulder, CO

Douglas Torres (University of New Mexico-High Desert Bicycles) - Albuquerque, NM

Emily Shields (Ken's Bike Shop) - Advance, NC

Eric Oberg (Team Rev3) - Eliot, ME

Heather Leiggi - Milton, DE

Ivy Audrain (Hagens Berman-Supermint) - Bellingham, WA

Jon Hyde & Kimberly Sultze - Colchester, VT

Justin Lindine (Apex-NBX-Trek) - Ogden, UT

Justin Mauch (Herbalife- Nature's Bakery) - Sterling, VA

Katie Araujo (Castelli US) - San Marcos, CA

Kayley Burdine (Eastern Shore Cycles) - Mobile, AL

Kerry Werner (Kona Endurance Team) - Advance, NC

Kyle Trudeau (CZ Racing) - Tucson, AZ

Lesley Paterson (Scott USA/Braveheart Racing) - San Diego, CA

Lia Westermann (Summit-Competitive Cyclist) - Salt Lake City, UT

Lindsay Bayer (Hagens Berman-Supermint) - Chantilly, VA

Liza Rachetto (Hagens Berman-Supermint and Liza Coaching, LLC) - Boise, ID

Matt Gittings (Marian University Cycling) - Indianapolis, IN

Mike King (Felt Bicycles-Glukos Energy-Turbine-Vittoria) - Fort Mill, SC

Mindy McCutcheon (Visit Dallas DNA Pro Cycling (road) & DNA-Cotton Sox (cross) - Salt Lake City, UT

Nicole Mertz (NoCoast Racing powered by Intelligentsia) - Columbia Heights, MN

Payson McElveen (RideBiker) - Durango, CO

Rebecca Rusch (Niner-Red Bull) - Ketchum, ID

Robert Mayfield (Holtey Law p/b Peak Condition) - Saint Louis, MO

Sebastian Colon (NorthwestBMX & Jakroo Track) - Fort Mill, SC

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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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You know how I always make new RWBY OC teams in June?

EBNE in 2020, CHLC in 2019, and HAIL in 2017?

This is Team Heart, coming June. Guess what new adoration of mine they're based on in my ask box and I'll draw you a free OC.

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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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Goodbye, my follower count.

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Team Heart Masterpost

- Honey - Roo - Rainbow - Trixie -

- Fraxinus, Atalanta, and the Headhunter -

Team Heart is a cast of RWBY OCs based on the characters and events of the Dream SMP. Set during the Fall of Kuchinashi as depicted in RWBY: The Grimm Campaign, the once Haven-bound team is divided -- Roo escaping the cataclysm with Atalanta and Lumine to the ruins of their home in Keikoku, Honey and Trixie falling into the warring factions' struggle for power, and Rainbow fighting to save their friends from a disaster of their own making.

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The Grimm Campaign?

Oof, you're correct, but you're not right. It's set in Kuchinashi during the events of TGC (the setting worked out perfectly for needs of story cross-pollination), but the characters are based on a non-RWBY-related property, like EBNE and CHLC.

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highkey thought the new team name was HRRT bc of like. HRT. team Trans Rights.

disregard that last ask i realized Team Trans Rights is actually just jnpr

I actually thought about that when I was coming up with the acronym fdklfjs T is trans tho so I suppose there is SOME truth to it

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Could it perhaps be Shadow and Bone?

...because if it’s not, I’m off to go make a Shadow and Bone based team Right Now

Oh, you should definitely do that! It's a great idea, even if it's wrong. All those fancy weapons and abilities... *dreamy sigh*

Also, not a book/adaptation!

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Okay, this is a stab in the dark so please don’t kill me. Is it Dora?

NO BUT OH MY GOD CAN YOU IMAGINE

You thought dear ol' T was Swiper, didncha? And H was Dora, as the leader-- wait holy shit that was actually a really good guess with available information.

No, this is something I would reasonably get obsessed with. For better or for worse.

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Miraculous Ladybug???

No, but similar scope and scale. Some fan cross-migration; it's newer than ML. Even so, I never got into Miraculous Ladybug, so...

This is fun!

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Hmmm....how about Frozen/Frozen 2?

Not a film! But I do actually unironically like Frozen II, good movie.

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Fuck it I’m swallowing my pride and asking for a hint. Please?

The medium is hitherto uncategorized, and it's trended on tumblr in the last week today.

*makes direct eye contact*

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Okay I feel like I maaay know what it is, but I'm scared to admit it in case I'm wrong. B/C you've made a whole point that you're slightly embarrassed by it and yet somehow I'M the clown for my suggestion, at least in my head.

Oh no, that attitude means that it's probably EXACTLY what you think it is.

Although, no, it's not Ninjago.

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Is it Fullmetal Alchemist?

EXCELLENT guess, especially with what is known from the teaser (little + yellow Al, braid + red Ed, and see the BNHA entry from the previous ask). Unfortunately, FMAB is, like, the least cringe anime out there, so you're gonna have to dig deeper than that. Also, not an anime! Yet.