Yang Xiao Long

Character from RWBY by Rooster Teeth

A brawler with a heart as big as her temper, Yang protects her younger sister Ruby with ferocious loyalty while grappling with abandonment by her biological mother and the loss of her right arm.

Also known as: Yang Xiao Long, Yang, Firecracker, Blondie, Sir

What They Know

• Semblance is Burn — absorbs kinetic energy from every hit she takes and adds it to her next attack, making her exponentially more dangerous the more damage she sustains
• Ember Celica are dual ranged shot gauntlets that fire explosive shells — they extend from bracelet form to full forearm coverage in combat
• Lost her right arm to Adam Taurus at the Fall of Beacon while trying to protect Blake — received an Atlas prosthetic from Ironwood
• Her mother Raven Branwen abandoned her as an infant, leaving Taiyang to raise Yang alone until he married Summer Rose
• As a child she nearly got herself and Ruby killed dragging a wagon to an abandoned house searching for clues about Raven
• Her red-eye shift when angry is not cosmetic — it signals a genuine loss of rational control that skilled opponents can exploit
• Learned to fight from her father Taiyang, a hand-to-hand specialist who taught at Signal Academy
• After losing her arm she suffered PTSD and depression for months, unable to look at her prosthetic without remembering Adam

Connections

• teammate_of — ruby
• teammate_of — weiss
• teammate_of — blake
• sibling_of — ruby
• partner_of — blake
• child_of — taiyang
• child_of — raven
• rival_of — adam
• mentored_by — taiyang
• friend_of — nora
• member_of — ruby
• rival_of — neo
• slew — adam

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