Yang Xiao Long

Intro Yang Xiao Long is a titular protagonist of RWBY. She is a Huntress, having been trained at the now defunct Beacon Academy. She made her first appearance in the Yellow Trailer, searching for clues regarding the whereabouts of her mother, Raven Branwen, who left her when she was a child. From Volume 1, Yang became a member of Team RWBY alongside her younger half-sister Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee and Blake Belladonna. In "Worthy", Yang took a hit meant for her sister from Neopolitan in the Central Location, falling into the void as a result and tumbling into the Ever After. In "Confessions Within Cumulonimbus Clouds", she enters a romantic relationship with Blake, after confessing her feelings to her. In "Of Solitude and Self", she and her friends return to Remnant, where they arrive in the Kingdom of Vacuo. Yang's weapon of choice is Ember Celica, it is radically different compared to those used by her teammates, being a pair of gauntlets which can retract into bracelets. Yang's fighting style involves combining her punches with explosive shots from Ember Celica for moderate or short-ranged attacks. Ember Celica has powerful recoil, which Yang can use to augment the force of her punch and accelerate her movements. The force is powerful enough to launch her high in the air. The recoil also reloads and prepares the gauntlets for the next shot. Yang's Semblance, Burn,[11] as Ruby states during the events of "Painting the Town...", lets her absorb kinetic energy from every blow she takes and use it to make herself more powerful; this is a form of kinetic energy absorption, with Yang subsequently redirecting said energy against her opponent with double the amount of force. As a side-effect of her Semblance, Yang's eyes turn red[6] and her hair sometimes begins glowing and even becomes covered in flames.