Volume 9

by Rooster Teeth

Stranded in the Ever After — a surreal fairy tale dimension — Team RWBY faces their most personal challenge yet. With a friend transformed by years of isolation and a shapeshifter hunting them through an impossible landscape, Ruby must answer the question she's been running from: who is she without the fight?

12 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Blake Belladonna — A cat Faunus who has finally stopped running — Blake is the steadiest person in the Ever After, grounded by a relationship with Yang she no longer hid
• Jaune Arc — Trapped in the Ever After for years while only moments passed for the others, Jaune has aged into a weathered survivor carrying the unbearable weight
• Neopolitan — Trapped in the Ever After alongside the team she blames for everything, Neo is consumed by grief for Roman Torchwick — a mute assassin whose vendetta
• Ruby Rose — The leader of Team RWBY, stranded in the Ever After after falling through a portal beneath Atlas — Ruby is unraveling, questioning everything she beli
• Weiss Schnee — Stranded in the Ever After with her team, Weiss has grown from the imperious heiress who arrived at Beacon into someone who leads through quiet compet
• Yang Xiao Long — Protective, fierce, and terrified for her sister — Yang is watching Ruby break and confronting the limits of punching your way through a problem when

Locations

• The Ever After — A surreal fairy-tale dimension beneath Remnant — the only setting of Volume 9, a beautiful and deeply wrong place that forces everyone who enters to c

Items

• Crescent Rose — Ruby Rose's signature sniper-scythe — the weapon she designed and built herself, the weapon that defined her, and the weapon she breaks with her own h
• Crocea Mors — Jaune Arc's family heirloom sword — reforged with Pyrrha's armor, then modified again with Ever After materials after years of survival in a dimension
• Ember Celica — Yang Xiao Long's Dual Ranged Shot Gauntlets — shotgun-powered boxing gloves that hit like a freight train, integrated with her Atlas prosthetic arm.
• Gambol Shroud — Blake Belladonna's Variant Ballistic Chain Scythe — a katana, cleaver, pistol, and ribbon-grapple in one weapon, as adaptable as its wielder.
• Myrtenaster — Weiss Schnee's Multi-Action Dust Rapier — elegant, precise, and potentially unreliable in the Ever After where Dust behaves unpredictably.

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