Team PBPW Lines

Pyrrha, Blake, Penny, Weiss

As copied and pasted from the description I put on /r/RWBY. Also the team name is pronounced, Purple.



Special thanks to /u/ZurichianAnimations and /u/Soap916 for helping me with the design process. If it wasn't for their feedback, the pic would probably look something like this still.

i.imgur.com/xOVe6FQ.png



The partners consist of Pyrrha and Blake & Penny and Weiss, with Pyrrha being the leader of the team.

I also made up an AU backstory for these characters one time when I was sleep deprived, lying in bed as the sun came up. It's pretty much a copy paste from that AU thread with a few changes plus Weiss.

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Synopsis

When parts of the White Fang began to grow more violent, they managed to splinter off this violent terrorist sect into its own organization. As a result, the reputation of the White Fang wasn't as badly tarnished as it could have been, although the actions of its former members still left a black mark upon the group.

With the "Red Claw" ^(This name is just as dumb as Red Fang. I need that guy from Bleach. The jolly one with the calligraphy brush)

Erm. Anyway

With the Red Claw being smaller and harder to detect, they were able to carry out more guerilla style attacks across many nations without being identified or caught. Being comprised of the more extremist and violent members of the White Fang, these attacks were incredibly brutal in nature, extending beyond scare tactics into bloodshed.

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Pyrrha: The Leader

One of the places attacked included Mistral, where a bomb severely injured Pyrrha's parents, deeply impacting her experience of the world, leaving her more serious and less friendly. Their family subsequently moved to Vale, one of the few places that were mostly free of Red Claw activity. She began throwing herself into her training with more vigor and drive than before, gearing up for her entry into Beacon, the place where she would acquire the tools to stop the Red Claw.



Blake: The Rebel

Without the extremely negative stigma of the White Fang and therefore Faunus on the widescale, Blake continued to flaunt her heritage, even going so far as proudly displaying the White Fang's logo on her chest. Without the need of rejecting her family, Blake was less reclusive and closed off, although more often than not, her family found her curled up next to the fireplace with a good book in hand. With the spectacular failure of Adam's capture in Forever Falls, Blake decided to attend Beacon to acquire the skills she would need to bring her mentor in.



Penny: The Verdant

Atlas was the main target of the attacks due to its links with the Schnee Dust Company. As the viciousness of the attacks increased, Ironwood deemed Atlas too dangerous for the newly created Penny. She needed a place to develop her abilities and skills without the risk of being damaged or worse, captured and turned. Penny was sent to Beacon with her father, so they could keep developing her under the watchful eye of Ozpin.

Having spent most of her life stuck inside labs with no freedom to go outside, she was very naive and inquisitive about the world, often wanting to go out exploring. Without much contact with humans, Penny hadn't built up her insecurities of being an android, and issue that Ozpin decided to prevent by assigning her to a team in his school.



Weiss: The Masquerader

Exposed to the extreme brutality of the world around her, Weiss learned from an early age to hide away her emotions lest they be destroyed in the crossfire. Sequestering herself away from her raging father and conniving family, she honed her skills in combat, channeling all her excitement, sadness and rage into her training, letting out and draining all of her emotions save for one. Whenever her sweat-soaked body finally collapsed in exhaustion, she would carefully slip her mask of nobility on, but beneath it all the only thing that ever remained constant in her life was that overwhelming sense of isolation.

When her wing of the house was destroyed in an attempt by the Red Claw on her father's life, she relocated to one of their properties in Vale. Seeing it as an opportunity to further her skills, she enrolled in Beacon to perhaps find meaning in her lonely existence.

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No, I'm not writing a fic. I suck at writing and especially at completing stories. Just ask anyone who's read Grimm-Slaying Blade Works. On the other hand, I might occasionally draw up other characters in this world or even one page comics involving this team. Who knows?

Also I recorded the process for Weiss' drawing... although personally I think her design was weakest of the four.