Yang Xiao Long

Personality: Yang is hotheaded and energetic, and is a thrill-seeker above all else. She gains great satisfaction from triumph and combat, and is most often confident and adventurous. She is also among the most lighthearted and fun-loving of her group, actively seeking out fun and jokes and participating in games, activities, exercises, and discussions. She has an affinity for bad puns. Despite this, she is also nurturing and protective, and knows when to be serious and help others out. She is also crafty, finding ways to outsmart others and place herself in favorable situations.

However, Yang possesses a temper, and when she is enraged, her hotheadedness and brashness can lead her to fits of rage and fury, as well as make her more single-minded in eliminating the object of her anger. She is especially touchy about her appearance, as rude comments about her proportions or any damage to her hair will lead to extreme rage.

Following her trauma at the Battle of Beacon, Yang was temporarily reserved and emotionless, as well as prone to panic attacks, nightmares, and overwhelming dread. Despite this, she was able to work with her allies to adjust and heal, eventually gaining back her confidence.

Appearance: Yang is a tall, fair-skinned young woman with lilac eyes and long, thick, wavy bright golden hair that fades to pale gold at the tips with a cowlick sticking out at the top, greatly resembling her mother. When her Semblance is active, her eyes become red[6] and her hair gains a fiery glow.

In "No Safe Haven", Yang begins wearing a new outfit with a tan jacket with orange lining and gold edging, unzipped halfway to show an orange crop top. The coat has darker brown short sleeves, a thick collar that completely encircles her neck, and two long gold-trimmed rectangular tails that are shown to be detachable in "Lighting the Fire". She also wears fitted black pants, and her hair has been let down again like her original outfit.

Around her hips and over the tails of her coat is a brown belt, which has two pieces of dark brown material trimmed in gold attached to it. The first covers from her left hip to the back of the belt and is folded over the belt, and the second is attached from the right hip and almost around to the other piece of material. She wears knee-high brown boots with gold caps on the heel and toe, with the heel cap attaching to a gold strap across the front of her ankle, and a gold zipper on the upper half of the front of the boots. A single small buckled strap is on the upper outside of her boots, and a purple bandanna tied around her left knee. A pair of black fingerless gloves with long brown cuffs reaching to mid-forearm complete the outfit.

Abilities: Yang, having trained most of her life, is an expert combatant, primarily in hand-to-hand. She mainly attacks with acrobatics and punches, preferring a brute-like boxing style. Her weapon, Ember Celica, is a pair of golden bracelets that extend into shotgun-like ranged weapons, allowing Yang to fire blasts of Fire Dust ammunition with each punch. With this, she can create powerful short-range and melee attacks or fire at longer distances.

Yang is extremely strong, able to lift massive items and withstand extreme damage. She uses this with her Semblance, Burn, which allows her to absorb energy from her opponents' attacks and add it to her own strength and striking power as long as her Aura remains intact and she remains conscious. When using her Semblance, her eyes turn red and her hair glows. She originally relied too much on her Semblance, as it had little restrictions, but learned to use it more sparingly after her fight with Adam Taurus.

Like all creatures with a soul, Yang also has possesses an Aura, a physical defense generated by her soul. This durable field is invisible except when it is overtaxed, where it flashes yellow. Her Aura defends her from attack and can even heal minor wounds, but if it takes too much damage it will become depleted and require time to return. A fatal flaw when using her Aura is that it causes Yang to constantly activate said aura if her temper flares at a dangerous level.

Yang also possesses a prosthetic mechanical right arm after losing hers to Adam Taurus. She uses this prosthetic with the same proficiency as her organic one, but with her weapon built-in. She also uses the durable metal for protection, blocking blades and blows, and even bites from Grimm. Additionally, she can force the prosthetic to detatch whenever she needs it to, such as when it is stuck or incapacitated. Yang's voice actress, Barbara Dunkelman, has additionally confirmed that the arm comes with a "vibrate feature".

Yang is also talented at motorcycling, and used her personal motorcycle, Bumblebee, to great effect driving herself and others around before crashing it into Adam to save Blake. She later showed just as much proficiency with Pietro Polendina's custom-made motorbikes.

Yang fought Tifa Lockhart in an episode of DEATH BATTLE and won.

Yang and the rest of Team RWBY crossed over in the videogame; Blazblue: Cross Tag Battle or BBTAG for short. Here, they met characters from Blazblue, Under Night In-Birth, Persona 4 Arena, Senran Kagura, Arcana Heart, and Akatsuki Blitzkampf.

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Yang is 21 in this AU version of her.

Yang likes bondage and latex.