u/Natural_Born_Madman

CRDL? Hmph. Better be CANS.

(After the first encounter with CRDL)

Then try it. And you will be Team Cadavers.

(A direct warning to Team CRDL)

Move with your swine, Wormchester. I won't say it twice.

(Final warning to Cardin Winchester)

• Tandred Winterer

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Daphne Bonita, from nowhere in particular.

(First encounter with her partner—Tandred—in the Emerald Forest)

What brings you into my orbit today?

(Meeting with members of the neighboring team—Ruby & Weiss)

Your opinion is as unwelcome as it is uninformed, Winchester.

(Objecting Cardin Winchester)

• Daphne Bonita

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You heard the Boss. Don't spook our Foxy.

(Protecting her partner—Aradia—from the neighboring team—RWBY)

Gear up, Boss. And out.

(Pushing the Team Leader out of their dorm room for the ladies' talk)

I’m not taking orders from some damn General. I listen to Beacon. And I listen to Boss.

(Declining Atlas Academy's offer—the Cadet Internship)

• Roxanne Plumbay

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I-it's too many...

(The first day of Beacon, scared by the crowded corridor, fox ears flattened.)

Y-you are not that... You n-never were...

(Empathizing with her partner—Roxanne—who was insulted by CRDL)

Roxy... Please...

(Attempting to stop her partner when she is doing something embarrassing)

• Aradia Duskwing

Hi everyone.

I wanted to introduce my ongoing Wizarding World fanfiction project, **Project BLAZE**.

Project BLAZE is a long-form, OC-centered Harry Potter spin-off written in English. It is planned as a multi-part novel-length series, centered on two original Hogwarts students: **Tandred Blaze** and **Magnolia Everstream**.

The story takes place in an alternate version of the Wizarding World, beginning around the time Harry Potter and his friends are in their third year. However, it does not retell Harry’s story. Most canon student characters appear only in the background, as cameos, or as part of the wider Hogwarts environment.

Instead, the main focus is on original students, Hogwarts professors, ancient magic, magical research, and the development of original spellcraft.

Some of the major AU differences include:

- Remus Lupin remains Defense Against the Dark Arts professor for two years.

- Severus Snape becomes Defense Against the Dark Arts professor earlier than in canon.

- Horace Slughorn returns to teach Potions earlier.

- The Triwizard Tournament does not take place.

- Voldemort, Death Eaters, and dark wizards have a much smaller role.

- The Second Wizarding War and the Battle of Hogwarts do not occur in this timeline.

Because of these changes, Project BLAZE is not meant to replace Harry’s story or rewrite the canon plot beat by beat. It is more of a parallel branch of the Wizarding World: a Hogwarts-based story about magical theory, defensive spellcraft, professor mentorship, ancient Founders-era mysteries, and the emotional growth of two original protagonists.

The main original magical concepts include:

- **Spellblade magic** — a hybrid combat discipline combining swordsmanship and Protego-based defensive magic.

- **Consortio Patronum** — a rare Patronus phenomenon involving compatible or symbiotic Patronuses.

- **Concordia Patronum** — an unprecedented higher form of Patronus compatibility.

- **The Founders’ Suite** — a hidden sanctuary within Hogwarts connected to the four Founders.

- **Skyreach** — an ancient sanctuary of the Founders, introduced later in the series.

I am intentionally keeping the detailed lore summary short here, since the full setting notes are fairly extensive. If readers are interested, I may make separate posts later introducing the lore, spell systems, original characters, and major AU changes in more detail.

The tone I am aiming for is closer to the original Harry Potter novels than to a modern action-heavy AU, although the story does include original combat systems, magical research, and large-scale magical sequences.

The major themes include:

- defensive magic as identity

- restraint, healing, and trust

- magical compatibility without simple predestination

- professor mentorship

- ancient Hogwarts mysteries

- slow-burn emotional intimacy

- original students growing within a familiar magical world

This is very much an OC-centered story, so I want to be upfront about that. Canon characters, especially the Hogwarts professors, play important roles, but the emotional core belongs to Tandred and Magnolia.

I would especially appreciate feedback from readers who enjoy:

- OC-centered Harry Potter fanfiction

- Hogwarts-based magical research plots

- Founders-era lore

- professor mentorship

- slow-burn relationship development

- spellcraft, dueling theory, and magical worldbuilding

- AUs that change the timeline without simply retelling canon

Thanks for reading. I would be grateful for any thoughts on whether the premise sounds interesting, whether the summary is clear, and whether separate lore or character introduction posts would be useful.

# Project TUNDRA

## Meta Design Philosophy & Character Motif Notes

I wanted Team TDRA to feel less like a standard “friend group that learns to fight together,” and more like four already-dangerous individuals learning how to exist beside one another without falling apart.

At their core, they were designed around asymmetry.

Not only asymmetry in combat roles, but also in silhouette, emotional expression, social presence, and the way other people misread them at first glance.

The team is composed of one large, visibly intimidating male leader and three girls who, from the outside, can be underestimated for completely different reasons. That imbalance is intentional. I wanted TDRA to visually invite the wrong conclusion from other students—especially from a team like CRDL.

From a distance, they may look like “the leader and his smaller collection.”

In practice, they are the opposite of that.

As a combat structure, they are somewhat comparable to a team like CFVY: highly capable, individually distinctive, and immediately dangerous. However, TDRA is far more unstable. They are not polished veterans or naturally cohesive friends. They are a combat unit built on non-overlapping battlefield roles:

- Tandred as the only true heavyweight vanguard

- Roxanne as the diagonal pressure and flank attacker

- Daphne as the silent opposite-side flanker

- Aradia as the long-range controller and anti-air anchor

Even though they do not naturally communicate like a refined team, they can still fall into functional cooperation because none of them obstructs the others’ roles. Their teamwork is not elegant. It is not soft. It is not even especially healthy at first.

It works because they are shaped like four different answers to violence.

Their story was never meant to be about “learning how to fight.”

It was about learning how to live in the same shelter.

As a side note, all of Team TDRA’s motifs are inspired by characters from video games. This is because the writer was formerly a lore designer at a game company, and that background naturally shaped the way these characters were constructed.

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# General Team Design Philosophy

The core emotional idea behind Team TDRA is this:

**They are not bonded by friendship first. They are bonded by conditional coexistence.**

They begin as wounded people, not as a found family.

They do not trust easily.

They do not confess easily.

They do not even socialize properly.

What they slowly build is not warmth in the usual anime-team sense, but a quieter form of loyalty: routine, distance, observation, restraint, and repeated unspoken acts of protection.

That is why I wanted their visual design to avoid a unified “team look.”

They are a team in function, not in aesthetic harmony.

Each member’s outfit reflects a different survival style and combat philosophy:

- Tandred = brutal functionalism and battlefield endurance

- Daphne = elegance masking danger

- Roxanne = urban motion and impact

- Aradia = stillness, discipline, and precision

TDRA is meant to look slightly mismatched on purpose.

Because they are.

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# Tandred Winterer

## Core Design Intent

Tandred was built as a character defined by violence given structure, not violence glorified.

He is the team leader, but not because he is the most charismatic or emotionally stable person in the room. He is the leader because Beacon deliberately built the team around the possibility that someone this dangerous might change if given something to protect.

That idea became the center of his design.

## Main Motif References

- **Varian Wrynn / Lo’Gosh side** — *World of Warcraft*

Appearance and character inspiration

- **Robert “Shank” Torres** — *Shank*

Outfit influence and brutal street-level physicality

- **Yatsuhashi Daichi** — *RWBY*

Heavy physical presence and large-weapon silhouette reference

- **Tandred Proudmoore** — *World of Warcraft*

First-name inspiration

- **Boris Zinneman’s sword, Winterer** — *TalesWeaver*

Surname inspiration

- **Gundam Astray Blue Frame Second Revise / Tactical Arms** — *Mobile Suit Gundam SEED*

Weapon concept inspiration for Separator

- **Theme Song:** “Vigilante” — *Gundam Narrative OST*

## How Those Motifs Translate

The biggest influence on Tandred was not “kingly Varian,” but **Lo’Gosh-era Varian**: the gladiator, the survivor, the man shaped by brutality before dignity had a chance to return.

That version of Varian lined up naturally with Tandred’s origin as a pit fighter from Wind Path.

His outfit was designed to avoid looking too knightly or too military. I wanted him to feel like someone who still dresses for survival first: a torn white shirt, heavy boots, partial armor, asymmetry, and a harness meant to support an absurdly heavy weapon.

Separator was heavily inspired by large transforming tactical weapons like Tactical Arms, but adapted into RWBY logic: a massive brutal melee weapon that also converts into a braced artillery platform.

The point was to make Tandred feel like a siege weapon forced into human shape.

His theme song choice, **“Vigilante,”** reflects the fact that he is not a clean heroic figure.

He is closer to controlled catastrophe.

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# Daphne Bonita

## Core Design Intent

Daphne was designed around the contrast between fragility, isolation, beauty, and hidden lethality.

She is the member most likely to be mistaken for harmless.

That mistake is intentional.

I wanted her to feel like someone who looks almost too delicate for violence, but whose entire combat style turns grace into danger.

## Main Motif References

- **Columbina** — *Genshin Impact*

Appearance and outfit mood, reinterpreted through sepia and caramel tones

- **Amy Plie** — *Grand Chase*

Weapon type and dancer-like combat feel

- **Elegy for the End** — *Genshin Impact*

Weapon naming inspiration

- **Bone / Ivory imagery**

Surname and symbol-color association

- **Theme Song:** “My Long Forgotten Cloistered Sleep” — *Xenosaga unreleased OST*

## How Those Motifs Translate

The Columbina influence was less about copying her directly and more about borrowing a kind of soft, enclosed, uncanny stillness.

I wanted Daphne to carry the emotional impression of someone who had been kept apart from normal life for too long.

That tied directly into her clinic upbringing.

Her weapon choice draws more from Amy Plie and dancer-type ring-blade combat than from standard RWBY melee archetypes. I wanted her movements to feel circular, fluid, and almost musical rather than aggressive in a straightforward way.

Her outfit follows the same logic: ivory silk, bronze accents, dancer-like motion, exposed grace, and very little visual heaviness.

She should look elegant first and threatening second.

The Xenosaga track reference matters because Daphne’s emotional tone is built around distance, enclosure, and a life that feels like it began late.

She is not written as tragic in a loud way.

She is written as someone who spent too long asleep inside a quiet room.

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# Roxanne “Roxy” Plumbay

## Core Design Intent

Roxanne was built as motion, defiance, and urban survival.

If Tandred is the team’s visible threat, Roxanne is its restless momentum.

She was designed to feel like someone shaped by a city that hurt her, but who responded not by becoming passive, but by becoming harder to pin down.

## Main Motif References

- **Bibi** — *Brawl Stars*

Outfit direction

- **Faith Connors** — *Mirror’s Edge*

Core character arc and survival logic

- **Yang Xiao Long** — *RWBY*

Anti-thesis appearance concept

- **Fate & Fortune** — *World of Warcraft: Legion*

Weapon naming inspiration

- **Livia sas Junius / Gun-baghnakhs “Aglaea”** — *Final Fantasy XIV*

Weapon appearance inspiration

- **Plum + Bruise imagery**

Surname and symbol-color logic

- **Theme Song:** “Still Alive” — *Mirror’s Edge OST*

## How Those Motifs Translate

Visually, Roxanne carries some of the cropped-jacket, athletic, punk-adjacent energy that made Bibi a useful reference point.

Narratively, however, Faith Connors was far more important.

Roxanne is not rebellious because rebellion is stylish.

She is rebellious because unjust authority and institutional violence are part of her personal history. That is why I wanted her to feel like a survivor of urban conflict rather than a generic delinquent.

Her “anti-thesis Yang” concept was also important: blonde, high-energy, impact-oriented, and physically expressive—but rougher, angrier, less socially bright, and more bruised by her environment.

Her weapon system had to match that.

So instead of a clean duelist weapon, I gave her forearm-mounted pressure weapons that feel invasive, kinetic, and aggressive: guns and blades fused directly into motion.

**“Still Alive”** captures her best because Roxanne is fundamentally a survival character.

No matter how much damage she carries, she keeps moving.

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# Aradia Duskwing

## Core Design Intent

Aradia was designed around fear, restraint, and precision.

She is not the fearless sniper archetype.

She is someone who is afraid, visibly so, and still manages to do what needs to be done.

That distinction matters a lot to me.

## Main Motif References

- **Aradia the Witch** — *Night of Revenge*

First-name inspiration

- **Kasumizawa Miyu** — *Blue Archive*

Character temperament and talent

- **Akeshiro Rumi** — *Blue Archive*

Fox-eared visual inspiration

- **Dusk / Wing imagery**

Name and symbolic color logic

- **Theme Song:** “Within” — *Goblin Slayer OST*

## How Those Motifs Translate

The Miyu influence was probably the clearest one: shy, awkward, timid, but highly gifted in the specific role of precision shooting.

I did not want Aradia to read as a cool sniper in the usual sense.

I wanted her to feel like an anxious person whose clarity only emerges once she has a scope, distance, and stillness.

Her fox-trait appearance was shaped partly through softer visual references, but the more important part was the naming logic.

“Duskwing” is not literal flight.

It is a name built around twilight, distance, and the symbolic tension between skyward fear and long-range control.

Her Semblance, White Noise, fits that concept perfectly: it does not make her braver. It simply strips away interference and lets her focus.

That is also why **“Within”** felt like the right musical reference.

Aradia’s strength is inward, not outward.

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# Why CRDL Underestimates Them

A major part of TDRA’s design is that they are easy to misread from the outside.

CRDL sees:

- one big violent leader

- one dreamy noble girl

- one loud delinquent-looking girl

- one timid fox Faunus sniper

So they reduce the team to “the leader and his small collection.”

That is exactly the wrong reading.

Tandred is the most obvious threat, but he is not the entire structure.

The others are not decorative, protected, or secondary.

They are the actual reason the team works.

Daphne stabilizes angles no one else covers.

Roxanne turns space into pressure.

Aradia controls the field from distance.

And Tandred alone, without all three of them, is just concentrated force without proper spread.

The team was intentionally designed to make shallow observers underestimate where its real danger is located.

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# Final Notes for Team TDRA

If I had to summarize Team TDRA’s design philosophy in one sentence, it would be this:

**They are not a team built out of harmony. They are a team built out of incompatibilities that happen to lock together.**

That is true visually.

That is true emotionally.

And that is true in combat.

They are not meant to look clean, balanced, or ideal.

They are meant to look like four different kinds of damage learning how not to destroy the same home.

Project TUNDRA v.1.2

This is my OC TEAM Project LORE.

And now I am currently writing a long-form fan fiction.

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Team TDRA (TUNDRA)

Team Name: TDRA

Pronounced: Tundra

Partnerships: Tandred + Daphne / Roxanne + Aradia

Symbol colors: Steel-grey, Ivory, Bruised-plum, Midnight-Blue

Team Overview

Team TDRA was not formed by chance. While reviewing incoming applications, Beacon’s faculty deliberately selected four students who each carried both serious risk and unusual potential, then bound them into a single team. The name TUNDRA had already been chosen before the team itself officially existed, reflecting four survivors of separate personal winters brought together under one banner.

Ozpin intentionally appointed Tandred Winterer as leader under a simple principle: the most violent one may yet change if given something to protect.

TDRA is an unstable but highly capable combat team. All four members possess above-average individual combat ability, and all four are already functionally complete fighters in their own right. Their weakness is not a lack of skill, but a lack of emotional cohesion. They do not naturally communicate through detailed tactics, briefings, or conventional command structure. Instead, because none of them overlap in battlefield roles, they fall into instinctive formation and engage in silent, functional cooperation.

Their typical combat flow is as follows:

Tandred drives straight through the front as the team’s only true heavyweight vanguard.

Roxanne attacks from a diagonal angle or one exposed flank.

Daphne slips toward the far side or remaining flank.

Aradia holds a position and provides long-range control and aerial denial.

They are, in effect, a team of vanguards with no duplicated positions. Their teamwork is unpolished, conditional, and often wordless, yet accidentally effective. Over time, their mutual trust enables them to evolve from a collection of difficult individuals into a cohesive tactical unit.

TDRA’s internal dynamic is defined by trauma, imbalance, dissonance, conditional coexistence, and excessive protectiveness toward perceived threats. They do not begin as a bonded team. They begin as four wounded people learning what coexistence inside a sanctuary is supposed to mean.

Outside of class and training, they usually separate and spend time alone. Even so, their bond gradually forms during their Beacon period, before any later transfer. Over time, the three girls develop a relationship resembling sisterhood, while the partnership between Tandred and Daphne slowly deepens into one of dependence, trust, and restrained affection.

Admission and Initiation

Team TDRA entered Beacon during the general timeframe of Volume 2, appearing to the student body as late-arriving first-years.

Only Aradia Duskwing entered through ordinary admissions.

Tandred Winterer, Daphne Bonita, and Roxanne Plumbay were all admitted conditionally.

Tandred in particular had previously been rejected by Haven.

Because Beacon’s faculty had already decided to group these four, they were given a separate Modified Initiation rather than participating in the normal intake. The exam itself followed standard Beacon initiation structure, but the participants were limited to four of them alone, observed only by faculty. Its real purpose was not to determine whether they should become a team, but to evaluate their natural synergy and determine the partnership pairings within that team.

During this initiation, the relic chess pieces were all white, with no black pieces present. Each member retrieved a different white piece of the same set, symbolizing both deliberate faculty design and the idea of a second chance.

Their assigned dorm was Room 318, housing three girls and one boy.

Team Character and Beacon Standing

All four members are dangerous in their own ways. Their combat effectiveness is already mature at the time of entry, but their emotional equilibrium is not. They can function as a team in battle before they truly learn how to function as one in daily life.

They do not make an effort to socialize widely. Other students quickly recognize them as strong, but also as a group best left undisturbed.

Their relationships with other Beacon teams are limited:

Team RWBY gradually comes to understand that TDRA is not hostile by default.

Team JNPR has no real connection to them.

Team CRDL becomes their open enemy.

Team CFVY has little direct contact with them, but regards them as an interesting team to observe.

All four members eventually receive insulting nicknames from CRDL.

Beacon Rules and Internal Atmosphere

Shortly after their formation, Tandred establishes a few simple rules for the dorm:

1. Everyone has a past. Do not ask unless they choose to speak.

2. Team bonding is not mandatory, but it will not be prevented.

3. Do not fight inside the room.

These rules shape Room 318 into a neutral sanctuary rather than a place of pressure. For a team like TDRA, the absence of internal conflict is already a kind of success.

Later Development

TDRA succeeds, at least initially, in adapting to Beacon life and forming a degree of internal loyalty. The unresolved problem is their hostility toward Team CRDL.

Before the Vytal Festival, CRDL’s ongoing provocation and TDRA’s escalating overprotective response culminate in an armed confrontation between both full teams. No one is killed, but the incident makes it clear that TDRA is too volatile to remain at Beacon without consequence.

As a result, the team is removed from Beacon and transferred to Shade Academy before the Vytal Festival. Their transfer is earlier than Team CFVY. And becoming an earlier precedent for inter-academy reassignment.

Before this transfer, Atlas expresses interest in observing and potentially recruiting them, but Beacon’s approach remains unchanged and the offer is refused. After TDRA’s reassignment to Shade, Atlas is later permitted to observe them in exchange for logistical and material support.

At Shade, Team TDRA matures into a high-risk response tactical unit suited for total annihilation engagements against extreme threats.

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Team Members

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Tandred Winterer

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Role: Team Leader / Forward Bruiser

Symbol Color: Steel-grey (#C6CDCC)

Initiation Artifact: White Rook

Height: 186 cm / 6'1

Weight: 94 kg / 207.2 lbs

Tandred Winterer is the leader of Team TDRA and its most visibly dangerous member. He is a large, heavily built young man with long, coal-black hair usually tied back in a wild ponytail, steel-grey eyes, and a hard, severe gaze. Crimson tear-streak war paint runs beneath his eyes. To outsiders, it is often mistaken for a kill mark or some savage tribal custom, but in truth, it serves as a warning tied to his Semblance.

His clothing reflects function rather than elegance: a torn white shirt, broad black trousers, heavy boots, and a stripped-down armor arrangement consisting mainly of plated forearms, shins, and a single left pauldron. His weapon is carried on a harness across his back.

Weapon — Separator

Tandred’s weapon, Separator, is a massive tapered greatsword built around battlefield brutality and staged destruction. A barrel runs through the center of the blade, allowing it to convert into a manually loaded 40mm mortar-like cannon firing high-explosive shells infused only with fire Dust.

When transformed, the blade splits vertically and folds into a grounded bipod firing platform. Because of its tremendous weight, the firearm mode can only be used when fully braced; it cannot be fired while being carried or while moving.

Separator has no inactive compact form and no sheath. It is secured magnetically to a plate on Tandred’s back harness.

The weapon originated with the Arena Masters in the underground arena circuits of Wind Path in Mistral, built for spectacle and formation-breaking force. When Tandred won his freedom, the weapon left that life with him.

Semblance — Unhinge

Tandred’s Semblance, Unhinge, does not enhance his strength directly. Instead, it alters his mental state.

When triggered, the whites of his eyes turn red. Fear, hesitation, ethical restraint, conscience, and even self-preservation are stripped away, leaving only ruthless combat intent. Against Grimm, this makes him terrifyingly efficient. Against human opponents, it makes him a catastrophe.

While Unhinge is active, Tandred becomes incapable of using Separator’s ranged mode effectively due to loss of aiming discipline, forcing him into pure melee combat.

The Semblance is not voluntarily controlled. It triggers automatically when rage or fear rises too sharply. It cannot be ended at will; it only subsides after sufficient time has passed, the situation ends, or his Aura is exhausted. He is not entirely mindless while under its effects, but any capacity for reconsideration becomes thin and unreliable. His thoughts narrow toward destruction first, judgment second.

Unhinge first manifested as a survival adaptation during his years as a pit fighter. It kept him alive, but it also became a lifelong curse. At times he remembers very little afterward.

After entering Beacon, an accidental discovery changes how the team deals with it: Daphne’s silent approach and physical contact can calm him even mid-episode, giving Team TDRA its first real method of de-escalation.

Background and Personality

Tandred comes from The Pit, an underground gladiatorial arena in Wind Path, Mistral. There he fought as property rather than as a person. He survived through repeated violence, killing, and maiming in matches because survival allowed no gentler path. Since the fighters of the Pit were treated as assets rather than legal citizens, he carries no formal criminal record despite his past.

When he finally won his freedom, the arena’s masters made him one final offer: the chance to become a Huntsman and the surname—Winterer.

Years of arena survival left Tandred aggressive, rough-edged, and deeply conditioned toward violence. He is the most openly dangerous member of TDRA and does not hesitate to use threatening language toward enemies. Yet he does not mistreat those he does not consider enemies. With teammates, he is protective in ways he rarely expresses aloud.

He did not seek leadership and has little taste for managing others. As a leader, he gives only the commands he feels are necessary and otherwise leaves people alone. Even so, he quietly builds boundaries, safety, and structure around the team.

Before Beacon, he fought in the arena under the ring name The Iron Reaver, wearing a full gladiatorial helmet that concealed his entire head. At Beacon, he dons it again during a spar against Cardin Winchester as an unmistakable threat display and as a symbol of lethal intent restrained only by circumstance.

CRDL’s nickname for him: Madman

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Daphne Bonita

Gender: Female

Race: Human

Role: Silent Flanker / Dust Melee Specialist

Symbol Color: Ivory (#808000)

Initiation Artifact: White Bishop

Height: 158 cm / 5'2

Weight: 51 kg / 112.4 lbs

Daphne Bonita is, at first glance, the least threatening member of Team TDRA. She is petite, graceful, and soft-spoken, with hazel eyes and sepia-brown hair fading toward caramel blonde at the ends. Her appearance is refined, almost delicate, and her formal bearing reveals a noble upbringing immediately to anyone perceptive enough to notice.

She dresses in an ivory silk dancer’s dress with bronze trim, designed for movement and symbolic of wind Dust. It is elegant, airy, and formal rather than overtly armored.

Weapon — Anemo Elegia

Daphne’s weapon, Anemo Elegia—also known as Wind’s Elegy—is a pair of steel chakrams inlaid with intricate white energy lines from wind Dust infusion.

They are purely melee and Dust-based weapons with no firearm mode. When thrown, the wind Dust allows them to arc in wide trajectories, curve unpredictably, and return to their wielder. Their movements resemble a dance more than a conventional assault.

They were custom-made in Mistral for Daphne, reflecting both her refined background and her love of song and dance.

Semblance — Windwalk

Daphne’s Semblance, Windwalk, silences the sounds she herself produces, including footsteps and even breathing. It does not mute the environment around her, nor does it suppress her speaking voice. It grants no invisibility. What it does grant is unnerving quiet.

Because she can approach without sound and move through others’ blind spots without warning, Windwalk shaped both her childhood and her isolation. It is one of the reasons she spent most of her life in medical confinement.

Daphne was born with this Semblance. The cause of its early manifestation is unknown, but through long adaptation, she gained unusually fine control over it.

Background and Personality

Daphne comes from the Bonita family, an old and wealthy noble house in Vale. The Bonitas are not overt political rulers, but they have long preserved quiet influence, tradition, and considerable wealth.

From birth, Daphne was considered difficult to place in ordinary society due to the complications surrounding her Semblance. As a result, she spent most of her life confined to a clinic. She was not abused there, and within those walls, she was allowed freedom of movement, but her life remained socially narrow and heavily sheltered. During that time she developed a love of singing and dancing.

As a result of her upbringing, Daphne is formally polite, but socially underdeveloped. She often comes across as dreamy, slow to respond, and detached in a way that seems almost vacant. In reality, she is innocent, curious, and fundamentally kind. She is easily drawn to food and simple pleasures. For reasons she cannot fully explain, she instinctively dislikes Grimm.

The Bonita family judged that Daphne would benefit more from integration through Huntress training than from clinic isolation, and thus applied for her to join Beacon.

Daphne is often mistaken for harmlessness. This becomes a dangerous error. Because she looks gentle and because she is Tandred’s partner, others sometimes assume she is easy prey. In truth, if she genuinely decides she hates someone—especially enough to say she dislikes them more than Grimm—that person is already in terrible danger.

Her partnership with Tandred becomes one of the emotional cores of Team TDRA. He notices that she does not fear him. She, in turn, discovers that she can reach him even when others cannot.

CRDL’s nickname for her: Damsel

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Roxanne “Roxy” Plumbay

Gender: Female

Race: Human

Role: Mobile Assault / Flank Vanguard

Symbol Color: Bruised-plum (#3C1925)

Initiation Artifact: White Knight

Height: 164 cm / 5'4

Weight: 55 kg / 121.2 lbs

Roxanne Plumbay—usually called Roxy—is the team’s most kinetic presence. She is a fast-moving, restless fighter with azure eyes and long blonde hair worn in a deliberately messy, untamed style. Her build is athletic rather than heavy, and her posture always suggests motion.

Her clothes are functional and urban: a plum-colored cropped jacket, grey tank top, tight white athletic trousers, and split-toe shoes built for speed, traction, and sudden directional change.

Weapons — Fate & Fortune

Roxanne fights with a pair of forearm-mounted weapons called Fate and Fortune.

Each arm is fitted with an exposed gauntlet system carrying a compact machine gun and a wing-shaped wrist blade. The firearm triggers are built as a throttle form into contact surfaces rather than traditional grips, allowing her hands to remain free when she is not firing. The result is a flexible close-midrange kit built for movement, pressure, and relentless harassment.

The left weapon is Fate. The right is Fortune.

Semblance — Ricochet

Roxanne’s Semblance, Ricochet, amplifies her leg power explosively, granting jumps far beyond normal human capacity. It is not a direct speed or dash ability, but a jump-based mobility Semblance. By kicking off walls or environmental structures, she can chain leaps together into rapid, violent movement across complex terrain.

In combat, Ricochet allows her to convert vertical and lateral space into attack routes, making her a natural diagonal flanker and pursuit fighter.

Background and Personality

Roxanne is from Vale and carries trauma from violent suppression connected to housing redevelopment protests in her home district. The experience left her with both behavioral instability and a deep hostility toward unjust authority. She wanders, resists confinement, and speaks with a rough, vulgar edge, but her rebellion is not mindless. She does not resist all authority—only the kind she sees as illegitimate.

At Beacon, this means she causes trouble, but rarely the kind born of cruelty. She runs across campus, climbs where she should not, and treats rules as negotiable. Even so, once she recognizes someone as worth following, she can become surprisingly loyal.

Among the team, she uses nicknames casually and without shame. She understands Tandred’s blunt orders better than anyone. What begins as irritation gradually becomes functional trust. She may bristle at being told to fall back, but she quickly learns that when Tandred gives a short command, it is rarely because he doubts her strength. It is because he sees a battlefield need.

For all her restlessness, Roxanne is deeply tied to the idea of shelter. Left alone, she tends to return to the dorm before anyone else, guarding the team’s room almost by instinct.

CRDL’s nickname for her: Rioter

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Aradia Duskwing

Gender: Female

Race: Faunus

Faunus Trait: Fox ears

Role: Markswoman / Air Defense

Symbol Color: Midnight-blue (#18196D)

Initiation Artifact: White Pawn

Height: 161 cm / 5'3

Weight: 52 kg / 114.6 lbs

Aradia Duskwing is the quietest and most conventionally disciplined member of Team TDRA. She has indigo eyes, auburn hair worn in twin braids, and a reserved, watchful manner. Her fox ears are never concealed. She is shy, stammers when nervous, and prefers silence to attention, but she is by no means weak.

Her clothing centers on a midnight-blue hooded cloak lined in dark grey, with the hood shaped to comfortably cover and accommodate her ears. Beneath it, she wears a tactical combat outfit suited for desert travel and fixed-position firing, with a kneepad on her right leg for a stable shooting posture.

Weapon — Skywarden

Aradia wields Skywarden, a high-caliber sniper rifle that transforms into a harpoon-like polearm for close-quarters defense.

She is at her strongest from a fixed or elevated firing position, where she can dominate long sightlines and intercept airborne threats. In melee she is capable of self-defense, but not of prolonged close-range engagement against specialist opponents.

Semblance — White Noise

Aradia’s Semblance, White Noise, removes distracting sensory clutter and sharpens precision to an extreme degree.

When active, wind, noise, erratic motion, and other environmental disturbances fall away from her perception, allowing her to enter a hyper-focused state ideal for precision shooting. The Semblance does not improve courage, only clarity.

Background and Personality

Aradia is from Menagerie and is the team’s only Faunus. Unlike some Faunus students, she does not hide what she is. Her family was not formally licensed Huntsmen, but local militia-type defenders who later became ordinary laborers after relocating to Vale.

As a child, Aradia survived a Nevermore attack that destroyed her family’s home and forced them into a period of wandering displacement. No family members were killed, but the fear remained. Since then, she has carried a severe fear of flying Grimm, especially Nevermores.

Eventually, her family settled in Vale’s Faunus district, where she lived more peacefully before applying to Beacon through normal admission.

Aradia knows little about the White Fang and has no ideological connection to it. She is timid, hesitant, and often visibly anxious, but her skill as a sniper is exceptional. Among the four, she is the closest thing to a morally ordinary student—someone frightened, decent, and earnest rather than volatile. This makes her an important balancing force within TDRA.

After entering Beacon, a practical exercise against a Razorwing allows her to land a decisive shot, marking the beginning of her slow recovery from her aerial Grimm trauma.

Her relationship with Tandred is quiet but important. He initially understands their teamwork only as shared hostility toward common enemies. Aradia, by contrast, interprets it as what a team is supposed to be: people protecting one another. Over time, that difference begins to affect him.

CRDL’s nickname for her: Fox

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Summary of Team Dynamics

Team TDRA begins as a deliberate experiment by Beacon: four capable but damaged students placed together not because they are safe, but because they might become more than the sum of their instability.

They are not a team that learns how to fight.

They are a team that learns how to live beside one another.

They begin with no obligation to bond, no habit of trust, and no appetite for confession. Yet through battle, routine, mutual observation, and repeated acts of unspoken protection, they slowly become something real.

Their cohesion is never soft, never ordinary, and never entirely stable.

But it is genuine.

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Other Original Characters and Organizations

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# Atlas

Benedictus Bozz

Gender: Male

Hair: Black, with a few grey strands

Eyes: Pale-grey

Affiliation: Atlas Military Intelligence

Initial Rank: Captain

Later Rank: Major

Benedictus Bozz is an intelligence officer attached to Atlas Military Intelligence. He initially holds the rank of Captain.

He first becomes aware of Team TDRA during their first field mission, which is conducted under the supervision of Professor Bartholomew Oobleck. Recognizing the unusual combat potential and instability of the team, Bozz later visits Beacon Academy as an official envoy in order to observe them more closely.

After reporting his observations to General James Ironwood, Ironwood extends an offer for Team TDRA to participate in an Atlas Academy Cadet Internship program. However, this offer ultimately fails when Team TDRA declines.

Even after the rejection, Bozz continues to monitor TDRA carefully, wary of both their potential value and the danger they represent. Later, when the team is transferred from Beacon to Shade Academy, Bozz proposes a new arrangement to General Ironwood: Atlas will provide a limited amount of material and technical support in exchange for permission to conduct non-interventionist and non-invasive observation of Team TDRA in Vacuo.

As part of this offer, Atlas also proposes that, should TDRA accept, the team may receive an official tour of Atlas, along with a limited examination and possible modification support for their equipment.

General Ironwood accepts Bozz’s proposal and orders him to present the offer to Team TDRA. The agreement between Atlas and TDRA is eventually finalized.

For successfully securing this arrangement, Ironwood promotes Bozz from Captain to Major. Bozz is then assigned to the Vacuo branch, where he continues observing Team TDRA after they become affiliated with Shade Academy.

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# Mistral

Team ARIA

Team ARIA is a famous Huntsman team that graduated from Haven Academy. Within the story, they are only mentioned by name and reputation, so detailed information about them remains limited.

Their current whereabouts are unknown, though they are still believed to be active Huntsmen.

According to in-story references, Team ARIA graduated from Haven fifteen years ago. None of its members use firearms; instead, they rely entirely on cold weapons and Dust.

Before Team TDRA was formed, the Bonita family temporarily hired Team ARIA as instructors and bodyguards while preparing their only daughter, Daphne Bonita, for Huntress training and eventual admission to Beacon Academy. Their whereabouts after this period are unknown.

Daphne’s chakram techniques are revealed to have been learned from Team ARIA’s leader, Amethyst Coralia. Daphne also mentions that the leader had pink hair.

In practice, only Amethyst served as Daphne’s true instructor. The other three members primarily fulfilled bodyguard duties.

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Members

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Amethyst Coralia

Gender: Female

Role: Team Leader / Dancer

Weapon: Twin Chakrams, *Cantabile*

Color Basis: Coral pink

Amethyst Coralia is the leader of Team ARIA and the member most directly connected to Daphne Bonita. A dancer and chakram wielder, she served as Daphne’s instructor during the period when Team ARIA was employed by the Bonita family.

Her combat style later becomes the foundation of Daphne’s own chakram techniques.

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Reymond Saffron

Gender: Male

Role: Close-quarters striker / Disciplined martial combatant

Weapon: Quarterstaff, *Enlightment*

Color Basis: Saffron-orange

Reymond Saffron is Team ARIA’s close-quarters striker. He is known as a disciplined martial combatant who fights with a quarterstaff rather than a firearm.

During Team ARIA’s time with the Bonita family, he primarily served as part of Daphne’s protective detail.

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Isla Laurel

Gender: Female

Role:Long-range specialist / Ranger

Weapon:Greatbow, *Galeweaver*

Color Basis: Laurel green

Isla Laurel is Team ARIA’s long-range specialist. Rather than using a gun, she fights with a greatbow named *Galeweaver*, maintaining the team’s shared preference for traditional weapons and Dust over firearms.

During Team ARIA’s employment by the Bonita family, she mainly performed bodyguard duties.

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Arcturus Sterling

Gender: Male

Role: Defensive vanguard / Knightly frontline

Weapon: Arming Sword and Heater Shield, *Lawbringer*

Color Basis: Sterling silver

Arcturus Sterling is Team ARIA’s defensive vanguard. With an arming sword and heater shield named *Lawbringer*, he fills the role of a knightly frontline protector.

During the team’s time guarding Daphne Bonita, he primarily served as part of the defensive escort rather than as one of her instructors.

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# Vacuo

Zatu Raiders

The Zatu are desert bandits rooted in Vacuo, commonly known as “sand raiders.”

They are recognizable by their desert-warrior attire and their use of short javelins, each roughly under two feet in length. The javelin heads are infused with Dust, and the raiders are known for their skilled throwing ability. Individual Zatu members carry multiple javelins in long quivers worn across their backs.

Recently, the Zatu have appeared in Vale. Their method of operation is particularly predatory: they deliberately release captured Grimm into civilian districts, then personally defeat those Grimm in front of the locals. Afterward, they extort and plunder the civilians under the guise of offering protection, security, and “deals.”

Beacon Academy dispatches Professor Bartholomew Oobleck and Team TDRA to respond to these incidents. This mission becomes Team TDRA’s first field assignment.

At the scene, however, the Zatu release their trump card: a captured Beringel. They use the chaos caused by the Grimm to shake off Oobleck and Team TDRA, then escape.

Team TDRA successfully evacuates the civilians and defeats the Beringel, but the Zatu themselves avoid capture. As a result, TDRA’s first field mission ends without fully resolving the threat.

Later, Qrow Branwen investigates the matter alone and discovers the organization’s name: Zatu.

When Team TDRA’s transfer to Shade Academy is eventually decided, Qrow quietly passes this information to them. With that, Team TDRA chooses to pursue the Zatu after arriving in Vacuo.