(Switching Characters) Yang Xiao Long

[Undyne]

Character name: Yang Xiao Long

Character source: RWBY

Character history: Taken from the same universe as Ruby and Weiss of OV.

Yang was born and raised on an island off the coast of Vale. Her father was a Huntsman, whilst her mother disappeared shortly after her birth. However, Yang’s father became romantically involved with Summer, a woman who became Yang’s stepmother and later gave birth to her half-sister, Ruby Rose.
At some point, Summer disappeared on one of her hunting missions and never returned, causing Yang’s father to “shut down” with grief. Yang discovered that Summer was not her biological mother, which led her to search for her real mother for many years later - which put her into hairy situations more than once. She got to training under her uncle, promising to become a Huntress like her father and him, and to find her mother again.
At age 17 Yang enrolled in the Beacon Academy for Hunters along with her sister Ruby, by which point both already were skilled fighters. It was there that she met Weiss and Blake, her future teammates that would compose team RWBY.

However, things rapidly shifted when her sister Ruby mysteriously disappeared one day. With absolutely no trace of her, Yang and the other members of team RWBY invested themselves to searching for her anywhere they could while simultaneously working for school - though of course that became secondary. Eventually they were warned that they would have to choose between being expelled, or cancelling their search. To Yang, there was no question here - this was about her sister.

Then, Weiss left. She apparently snuck out while Blake and her were asleep, leaving Yang and Blake to themselves while she pursued her own leads. Between only the two of them left, they decided to split up and search for Weiss and Ruby. Yang returned to the shadier parts of Vale to meet up with an “old friend” of hers, a club owner called Junior who dabbled with the gray area of legal and had many contacts across the world, as well as a large force of thugs. Yang was straightforward about her issue: she needed his contacts and his thugs to retrieve any information that they could about her vanished little sister, and she offered him her services in exchange. Despite their at best troubled relationship, Junior recognized the potential of a trained fighter working for him, and accepted.

Yang worked for Junior at the club and all over Vale, doing most of his dirty work where his thugs failed. In exchange, Junior pulled what strings he could, sent his goons to pursue every last lead they came across and even went well beyond the frontiers of Vale. But the reports remained the same: there was not the slightest trace of Ruby since her disappearance during the school year - not even reports of corpses that may remotely look like her, or weaponry reminding of her. It was as if she had vanished off the face of the world. Yang was... rather stressed, to say the least.

Then Blake contacted her, and they agreed to meet back up in a Café in Vale. When Yang arrived and saw Blake raising a hand in greeting, her partner was accidentally knocked out by a passing waitress and fell from the chair - but she never hit the ground, instead she disappeared mid-fall. By the time that people noticed, Yang had already moved to the seat and was investigating, but her friend was gone - the only reminder of that she’d sat there being her half-empty glass still on the table. Nobody understood what had happened, save for herself - she had never seen it happen before, but she knew it exactly. Yang ran off, screaming off the top of her lungs, and blasted herself to the roof of one of the nearby buildings before yelling at the sky: “I know you can hear me! Is this how you took my sister? Is this how you took Weiss, too? Are you having fun taking my family and friends from me? Come on! Take me too, I’m right here!” In a helpless fit of rage she balled her fist and ran at the staircase-access to the roof to turn the entire thing into rubble. As she ran, darkness enveloped her...
Let’s just say that the house owner didn’t have to pay for repairs.
Physical Description:[spoiler]




You cut my hair...
Pajamas, just cause.[/spoiler]
Note: Since after my OM Reset I would have 7200 OM and then some (as I was over 8k), I am already spending more than 5k OM at the start. I can trim this down if it’s not okay.

Stats:
ATK: 4
DEF: 1
SPD: 3 => 4
TEC: 2

Starting Proficiencies: 2600
Physical Strength 1000
Ranged Proficiency 1000
Area Attack Proficiency 600

Starting Powers: 1300
Master Acrobat 400
Super Jump - Advanced 500
Burst Movement 800

Starting Moves: 1500
Ember Celica 600
Yanging Legs 300 (only purchasing if it's necessary to have as a move)
(Super T1) Quake Blaster 600

(Moves are explained in detail in Post 2)

Unlocks 1000
Stat Upgrade #1 (SPD) 1000

Items 300
Communicator 200
Mobile DV Device 100

Total initial spent OM:
2600 + 1300 + 1500 + 1000 + 300 = 6700

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I re-confirm it, even

[Undyne]

Moves!

Ember Celica: (600. Requires Physical Strength, Ranged Proficiency)

Yang’s Signature weapon. The Ember Celica, also known as Dual Ranged Shot Gauntlets, are fist weapons with shotgun functions, allowing for melee and range attacks.

Description
The Ember Celica appear as metal bracelets on Yang’s hands by default, but when activated they cover Yang's hands and forearms, acting as arm guards. The gauntlets have a golden color and the shells inside are red and orange. They are made out of metal, thus they offer basic protection against attacks.

Ammunition and Reloading
Each gauntlet has a magazine belt with 12 shells in it. They have mechanisms similar to a pump-action shotgun that allow Yang to eject empty shells after firing them. She must do so before being able to reload. Because the mag holders are magnetic, Yang can reload them by tossing fresh belts into the air and allowing them to fall onto the magazine, as reloading by hand would be very difficult with the gauntlets being on her wrists and arms. Reloading takes about 3 seconds.

The Ember Celica can be loaded with different types of dust shells which have different effects. She currently has Slug Shells (Default).
Note: In the future I will purchase different dust types as moves/upgrades, so this is a placeholder/explanation for that situation.


Attacking Notes:
Yang is able to control if she wants a shell to trigger upon punching a foe, for security purposes (if her hand is in the way, for instance) or if for whatever reason she wishes to deal less or no damage with her punches - or save her ammunition. However, she must meet the following conditions to be able to fire her shots:
-She must have her hand(s) balled into (a) fist(s).
-She must throw a connecting punch with her fist. Backhand smacks, slaps, elbow hits etc. do not work.
-There must be at least one shell in the magazine for the hand she is using, obviously.

Punches with empty mags or without a shell fired for any other reason (the conditions not being met, or Yang deciding to not fire a shell) fall under normal Physical Strength: they’re not moves, and are strictly weaker (same speed of execution, deals much less damage and no special effects) than punches with a shell. For obvious reasons, Yang cannot use ranged attacks with empty mags.

Slug Shells These shells are used by default. They create red kinetic energy pulses which explode in a flash of light when impacting, knocking enemies back. While the pulses themselves function like bullets in that they can be blocked, deflected etc. they do not have the piercing capability of bullets. Slug Shells are used for Slug Punch and Rifle Punch.

Slug Punch (Melee) A basic punch enhanced by a Slug Shell. The pulse leaves the barrel and explodes nearly immediately, creating the illusion of Yang’s fist exploding, and knocks the opponent back. Heavier opponents get knocked back less far. The explosion only affects the original target, it does not cause splash damage.[spoiler] Slug Punch.
Slug Punch 2, because glorious HD gif.[/spoiler]

Rifle Punch (Ranged) A ranged attack where Yang punches the air, firing a distance shot at her opponent. This uses the Slug Shell. The pulse is around the size of a tennis ball and flies at an arrow’s speed. While it explodes and causes knockback like a Slug Punch, the effectiveness at a range is inferior due to the pulse losing energy as it travels.[spoiler] Rifle Punch.[/spoiler]More animations:
[spoiler] Activating the Ember Celica (and ejecting an empty shell).

Ejecting all empty shells at once.

Reloading.[/spoiler]

Yanging Legs (300) (Requires Physical Strength, Master Acrobat, Burst Movement)
While Yang’s signature weapon is the Ember Celica, she is also skilled with her legs. Her feet have some basic protection thanks to her leather boots, but of course it still poses a risk. Yang makes use of her quick movements, acrobatic skills and great physical strength combined with some basic martial arts skills to use kicks, stomps, slams etc.
The name is a pun about “Banging” legs, by the way. Just in case you were wondering.

Note Only purchasing this if it's considered necessary to have a move for it.

Super Move (T1): Quake Slam (600) (Requires Physical Strength, Area Attack Proficiency, Master Acrobat, Super Jumping - Basic or higher. Costs 1 SP)
Yang loads a shell with volatile dust into her Ember Celica, then she leaps into the air, flipping herself to face downwards, and comes back down to slam her fist into the ground with enormous force. The shell in the Ember Celica is then fired, causing a large explosion around Yang and sending a wave motion outwards from the point of impact which sends her opponents flying and causes great destruction in her immediate surroundings. The Wave motion reaches up to 7 meters from the point of impact, gradually losing strength the further it goes.
[spoiler] Quake Slam.[/spoiler]

[Proto Man]

Can she use the gauntet's to bash people's faces in without having to shoot them in the face at the same time?

(you don't need a move for her legs - Master acrobat and Physical Strength serve that purpose)

[Amaterasu]

Can she use the gauntet's to bash people's faces in without having to shoot them in the face at the same time?

(you don't need a move for her legs - Master acrobat and Physical Strength serve that purpose)

Yang is able to control if she wants a shell to trigger upon punching a foe, for security purposes (if her hand is in the way, for instance) or if for whatever reason she wishes to deal less or no damage with her punches - or save her ammunition. However, she must meet the following conditions to be able to fire her shots:
-She must have her hand(s) balled into fists.

[...]

Punches with empty mags or without a shell fired for any other reason (the conditions not being met, or Yang deciding to not fire a shell) fall under normal Physical Strength: they’re not moves, and are strictly weaker (same speed of execution, deals much less damage and no special effects) than punches with a shell. For obvious reasons, Yang cannot use ranged attacks with empty mags.

I'll change the highlighted parts to clarify ^^

I can remove the move for her legs, though I figured that with how powerful they are they would need to be put into one. If it's not necessary, that's great though

[Proto Man]

Okay. Bear in mind that without the slugs, the gauntlets will just be the same as a normal punch. If you want them to be effective as fisticuffs, we'll have to add 300 to the cost of the Move.

Earned OM: 9,425.62 -> 7212.81

Name: Yang Xiao
Level: 1
Spent OM: 6700
Proficiencies (2600): Physical Strength (1000), Ranged Proficiency (1000), Area Attack Proficiency (600)
Powers (1700): Master Acrobat (400), Super Jump - Advanced (500), Burst Movement (800)
Moves (600): Ember Celica
Super Moves (600): Quake Slam (Tier 1 Super Attack - 600)
Transformations:
Assists:
Items (300): Communicator (200). Mobile Dataverse Device (100)
Bases:
Unlocks (1000): First Stat Increase (1000)
Base stats:
ATK: 4
DEF: 1
SPD: 4
TEC: 2

[Undyne]

Of course Thank you for the reminder!

By the way, correction needed: her name's Yang Xiao Long, not Yang Xiao :xd: Or is that too long?

[Proto Man]

Fixed your display name and log title.

The rest you can edit yourself =p

[Undyne]

Haha ^^ Alright, thanks a bunch!