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Username:

Rosalba-Gwendol Blanche

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Alias:

Argibee

Age:

21

Birthday:

February 9th

Gender Identity:

Transfeminine (She/Her)

Race:

Human

Nationality:

Atlasian

Character Picture:

https://i.imgur.com/RUeaqyA.png

Personal Emblem Image:

https://i.imgur.com/16uG7Pm.png

Height:

5'10"

Weight:

179lbs

Eye Color:

Grayish

Aura Color:

White

Physical Description:

Argibee is a woman with a wiry strength that lurks under her willowy build, earned in her years of training to become a Huntress. It is somewhat at contrast with the deliberateness of her femininity, her skin that's soft and moon-pale, unblemished by all but the smallest, faintest scars. It makes a lovely canvas for her makeup, dark eyeliner to emphasize her long eyelashes, concealer along the curve of her jaw. She has glossy auburn hair just a shade darker than chocolate, which dances just past the ridge of her shoulders. Usually worn loose, but sometimes tied back into a ponytail to keep it out of her eyes. When she speaks it's soft, smooth, and deeper than one would expect.

She inherited her stubborn mouth and long, elegant nose from her mother. Her shimmering gray eyes and the graceful curve of her neck come from her father's side of the family. Her square jaw and broad shoulders are her own. She seems mischievous even when she's relaxed, when she smiles it's with all of her teeth, and she has the same wild look about her whether she's laughing, crying, or furious. Her hands are restless, flitting creatures, and she is, as it happens, somewhat tall. Just shy of 5'11", it's often overlooked; in memory, she's usually thought of smaller than she is.

Outfit Description:

Argibee's combat outfit consists of a silk-white blouse under a gray suspender skirt made of a resistant material, the pockets of which are deep and filled with pretty much anything that interests her. There's a loop on the back fashioned to secure her weapon, Ipomoea Alba. On her head is a poofy cap which matches her skirt, and Argibee is always fidgeting and adjusting the way it rests on her head. White tights protect her legs (as well as tights can, anyways) and fashionably gray knee-high boots round off the look.

Personality Description:

It is possible to doubt everything about Argibee except her bravery. She is fearless: not dragons nor monsters nor evil will make her so much as tremble. She believes that it's wrong to run away when one has the strength to fight, and she denies the dangers that await her if she fights until she cannot.

This pretense of hers, that negative consequences do not exist for her alone, leads Argibee only into trouble. She knows that as well, but the truth is that even if she were to be confronted with every terrifying consequence of failure, she would still set all her strength into succeeding, maybe then more than ever. Argibee will never shy from a fight, or a challenge, even if — especially if — she knows she's just going to lose.

Argibee is unafraid of hard work, and intensely curious. Hers is an analytical mind in which the proverbial gears are always turning. She has always been self-motivated and inclined to pursue a thought not just to its end but to as comprehensive an understanding as possible. She is rather good at picking up on what she feels and why, and is surprisingly forthcoming with her discoveries.

Argibee is no shrinking violet, and while she says what she means, she does so with a certain poetic flare rather than bluntly or with a mind to injure — in the end, after all, people are meant to look out for people, and that is a tenet she holds near and dear to her heart. Only slightly second to it is the belief that no one can dictate your life to you, nor judge you for who you are or who you become. When she feels like she has betrayed who she is (or wants to be), Argibee can fall to pieces for some time, withdrawing into herself and making dramatic proclamations that seldom result in any action.

Argibee will never be described as 'sweet' or 'gentle', and only rarely as 'kind'. She sees the world in reds, greens, and blues - in success, failure, and making a point.

Backstory Highlights:

The Blanche family were wealthy weapon engineers. It was a long and noble career, her parents had told her; her father had done it, as had her father's father, and her father's father's father, all the way in an unbroken line to the first Blanche who got his start selling weapons during the Great War.

(A secret: They owned a company which EMPLOYED weapon engineers. The Blanche family were, in truth, merely wealthy.)

Rosalba-Gwendol, second-born with the same shining-pale eyes as the rest of her family and with the name she chose for herself, decided that being a Huntress was more appealing. And continued to think so all through her teenage years, batting away her parents' requests to reconsider, and her older brother's silent judgment.

(Another secret: Argibee was no son of theirs, yet she's always been interested in weapons and combat, but becoming a mercenary meant dying in the middle of nowhere for no reason. She would rather have Huntsmen backing her up if she was in any danger of dying, please and thank you.)

At Quadrant, a small but exclusive primary combat school in Atlas, Argibee's own natural personable nature and steady hands mostly kept rumors out from behind her back. It was at Atlas Academy, after being assigned to a team, while performing security detail at the old capital of Mantle, where the cracks began to show. Argibee was a good Huntress, but she was a terrible soldier. She didn't know when to back off, call for reinforcements, let someone else take the lead, cut losses.

She became a Huntress because she didn't want to be a mercenary and this was the only other acceptable solution, and she'd stayed in it because this — keeping Grimm from wiping out civilization — was important work.

She didn't want to die for Atlas's border security.

She did not tell her family until she was already packing her things, but Argibee had formally put in the request to be transferred to Beacon Academy, and was on the first airship out of Atlas.

Occupation:

Student

Education:

The only thing that she did not refuse was her mother's offer of sending her to Quadrant to teach her how to fight. "If you're going to do it for a living," she'd said as she wrung her hands (and Rosalba-Gwendol refused to feel bad about that, and she succeeded), "we might as well prepare you best we can." It meant that Argibee learnt how to use her fists and duck and roll properly when she was thirteen, and had undertaken the ordeal with such seriousness that she could kick out the knees of the brother older than her by five years and send him to the ground at fifteen.

Semblance Name:

Aura Install

Semblance Description:

Aura Install is a Semblance which consumes the user's Aura, burning it as fuel to create power. Activation is visually indicated by the user's Aura literally burning off of the user's body for the duration, like a full-body chromatic halo. Activation greatly enhances not only movement speed and offensive power, but even sensory awareness is dramatically heightened, like hearing and vision. It's a little overwhelming; Aura Install requires a great deal of sheer skill and concentration to keep under control. Argibee guesses that Aura Install increases her capabilities by a factor of three, maybe four.

All or nothing, the Install state can only be maintained for around ten seconds from full Aura, and that duration only decreases the lower one's Aura level is at the time of activation. Aura Install persists until the user's Aura is fully depleted or they deactivate it, whichever happens first. Deactivation results in a period of lethargy and weakness as the body adjusts back to its usual levels of Aura use, and at no point is the user's defensive or healing capabilities increased.

Argibee is currently trying to develop such a finely-tuned control over her Semblance so that she can activate it for just a second only at the moment of an attack, thereby increasing her strength while conserving her Aura. She theorizes that it should be possible, but she hasn't quite worked it out just yet.

Aura Install is a reflection of its user's nature; Argibee never gives anything less than everything she's got.

Weapon Name:

Ipomoea Alba

Weapon Image:

https://i.imgur.com/vchNfb3.png

Weapon Description:

Ipomoea Alba is a High-Powered Buster-Sniper, and in its ranged mode is a single-shot bolt-action sniper rifle. The component on the top rail contains an adjustable scope, making it useful at most ranges that aren't "close". The rifle is cocked by lifting the bolt, working it again unloads the gun, and the stock compresses when fired, helping to mitigate the recoil into Argibee's shoulder. It was designed as single-shot for safety's sake; it's hard to misfire a gun when you only ever load it before the moment you pull the trigger. But the ability to readily swap ammunition types as needed, such as Dust rounds, makes Ipomoea Alba actually pretty versatile.

Like most weapons, Ipomoea Alba is a transforming-type; its component parts slide up the barrel on a rail and shift into place, and hard-light Dust emitters ignite to create the blade of Ipomoea Alba's buster-sword configuration. The sword has lower impact power compared to a physical sword of similar size, due to its hard-light blade ultimately lowering its mass. This can be made up for in some capacity by Argibee's Semblance, so she's never felt the need to go back and revise the design. If she deactivates the blade at the same time as she swings, she can create a cutting "wave" projectile at the cost of a little bit of hard-light Dust. A little impractical, but she's fond of using it as a finishing move.

(A sizable chunk of her left thumb is gone, from when she was fourteen years old and trying to prove that she was skilled enough to construct her own weapon in the workshop alone.)

Other Gear:

Contents of her skirt pockets are her scroll (clear case with cute anime charms, with wired earbuds) wallet (inside of which is her ID, student ID, money card, and a keepsake photo of her old team at Atlas), a few spare rounds for her weapon, and a retro handheld game system (as well as a few games for it to play). When in combat, she wears belt at her hip that stores ammo for Ipomoea Alba.

Fighting Style:

She walks like a woman, her hips rock from side-to-side with each step. She runs like a child, her arms flailing and her steps clumsy but quick. She fights like a dragon, her strikes whip-quick and aggressive, relying on heavy strike after heavy strike to take Grimm down quickly. She focuses on a style that leverages not only the power of her Semblance, but also the size of her weapon. But she's fragile — she needs as much of her Aura intact as possible to make the most of her Semblance, and the more she spends for defense the less she has spare for offense. A fierce fighter and acrobat, Argibee is weak at close range, twisting and dancing to keep her foes from crossing between the end of her weapon and her body. Argibee is nothing more and nothing less than a breathing contradiction.

Strengths:

+ Highly-analytical mind
+ Overwhelming offensive presence
+ Already powerful strikes can be enhanced by Semblance
+ Passionate about pretty much everything
+ Mechanically inclined, able to maintain and repair equipment
+ Easygoing, able to make friends quickly
+ Mostly instinct-driven

Weaknesses:

- Combat strategy is depressingly straightforward
- Semblance use results terrible endurance
- Lacking in defensive measures
- Extroverted nature sometimes just abrasive
- Has a habit of forcing conversations into a framework that she can easily rehearse
- Extremely low frustration/rage tolerance
- Actually has surprisingly bad vision; weak to bright light
- Mostly instinct-driven

Likes:

+ Girls (and people who look like girls)
+ Karaoke
+ Video games (particularly MMOs, RTS, and RPGs)
+ Giant mecha anime
+ Pudding (She loves pudding!!)
+ The smell of incense
+ Reading (particularly historical literature. and fanfiction)
+ Dr. Piper™ soda

Dislikes:

- Boys (unless they're girls)
- Large crowds
- Cheaters and rulebreakers alike
- Fireworks
- Schadenfreude
- Studying
- Soup, weirdly

Fun Facts:

All art is by me!

All three parts of her name mean "white" in some way or another (Rosalba, Gwendol, Blanche). Her nickname, Argibee, is a phonetic spelling of "RGB" (Red-Green-Blue), also her initials, RGB is an additive color model which creates white by adding together the three primary colors. Her emblem is a stylized depiction of the color model, only, in monochrome.

Designed as a "modern" version of a prior iteration of the same character from when I was younger. On the old site (rwby-rp.com), Argibee actually had silver-colored eyes - she had been created before the end of Volume 3, when that became a huge deal!
(https://i.imgur.com/hn5P9kO.png) for artwork from 2015... really, the only thing they still have in common is the name!

Now just as she was then, Argibee isn't based on any particular myth or legend. She's a little like Neo Politan, in that her old design was actually based on a GameBoy...

Recent Events:

+ Went on an extermination mission to Mountain Glenn
+ Recently poor

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