Hey everyone, this is The_SynchroGuy, and I am here to do another “If they played Yu-Gi-Oh” post. This time, I am doing a show that I’ve been following for many years. Like, it started back when I was in high school, and it is nowhere near finishing the story it’s trying to tell. No telling how much longer the show is gonna last, but I’m looking to continue enjoying the journey. Of course, I’m talking about RWBY.
The show focuses around four girls that seek to become huntresses and protect the world from dangerous threats. More specifically, the Grimm (which are monstrous creatures that are drawn to negative energy and seek to destroy humanity). Along the way, these girls will face some of these dangerous creatures, come across tough opponents, and try to overcome some of the greatest hardships the world has to offer. Will these young heroines be up to the challenge? Or are they biting off more than they could chew?
Anyway, for this post, I thought I would have this post figure out the decks for the four main characters of the show. That being team RWBY!
I mean, the show is kind of based around them, so it only makes sense. Each of these girls have their own: strengths, special abilities, weapons and style. I’m gonna do my best not to spoil anything about this show, but there may be a little bit of spoilers, just to help explain why these girls received the decks that I have chosen for them. So let’s start off with this character.
Ruby Rose
Ruby is based off of Little Red Riding Hood, and is the team leader of Team Rwby. She’s about a year or two younger than everyone else on her team, but she has proven herself to be a capable fighter and leader when need be. Her main weapon of choice is scythe, that is also a high-caliber sniper rifle, called the Crescent Rose.
Then we come to her special ability, or “Semblance” as it’s called. (Real quick, a Semblance is like a person’s, or a family’s, personal ability/superpower. They can range to almost anything.)
Her semblance is called Petal Burst. A speed ability that allows her to move at inhuman speeds, and it tends to leave behind rose petals in its path.
There’s more to her than meets the eye, but I am not gonna go in any deeper without revealing a big spoiler here. All I’m gonna say is, unbeknownst to her, she is capable of making darkness itself quiver with fear.
As for her personality, she is a very friendly, kind and caring person. As such, she cares deeply about her friends and teammates. She aspires to become a hero ever since she heard the stories about heroes and monsters. However, given how she is quite younger than everyone, she can be shown to be childish at times, causing her to study by herself.
Not to mention, she has a hard time trying to make new friends. Which may explain why she has a passion towards weapons, as she says “is like meeting new people, but better.” Regardless, she tends to prefer being alone, or being with her sister. However, she does later grow to become comfortable around her teammates and meeting new people.
Anyway, with all of this info, her deck choice is going to be…
Rose Dragon
I mean, wouldn’t it make sense? Her semblance tends to leave behind a trail of rose petals, and she even tends to share similarities with Akiza from Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s. They both were not that great at making new friends, and at a time in their life, they preferred to be alone (though for different reasons). And as I said before, Ruby has a hidden potential that makes the darkness scared to death. And players would be scared of Black Rose Dragon if it meant losing their entire field. Even if I am wrong about this and the Rose Dragon is not a good fit for her, her ace monster at least has to be Black Rose Dragon. Just seems so perfect, you know?
Weiss Schnee
Weiss is based on Snow White, but in kind of the opposite direction. Where Snow White is a kind, gentle person who can befriend practically almost any living being (be it human or animal), Weiss is not. While she is a nice person, she sometimes tends to be, what others sometimes refer to as, an Ice Queen. Oh, and she comes from a rich family, so you can throw this onto the pile. She has confidence in her abilities, but expresses them in a way that makes her come off as a rude person.
Still though, her confidence isn’t just for show. She has shown to be a great fighter many times, and she aims to become better. While she did have a rough start with the team she was with, and how someone like Ruby got picked to be the leader over her, they eventually start to warm up to her and is now a team player.
Her go to weapon is a rapier called Myrtenaster. Besides being a rapier, its other function is like a revolver; letting its user use up to six different types of dust – a source of energy humanity uses to battle against the Grimm, and they come in many different kinds. As for her Semblance, she inhariants the family Semblance called Glyphs.
Glyphs can do multiple different things, from being platforms you can stand on in mid-air, to having multiple different kinds of effects, depending on the type of dust the user uses.
However, the most notable thing Weiss can do with her Semblance is summon allies. Sort of. More like, ice allies. And they’re not exactly just any allies she can summon. These allies are the forms of enemies she has defeated in the past. And in order to summon new allies, she would have to defeat other powerful foes.
Knowing all of this, I decided that her deck will be…
Ice Barrier
I know, some of you are probably thinking Blue-Eyes because of how much she and Blue-Eyes look alike, in terms of color design. While I do understand that, I think Ice Barriers suit her better. Not just because of how she herself is a bit of an Ice Queen, it’s more than that. First off, her summoning ability practically fits with the Ice Barrier theme. Most of this deck’s Synchro Monsters are monsters that the Ice Barriers, in accordance with their lore, are monsters that they have summoned to help them in their battle against the Worms.
Not to mention, many of them have different floodgate-like abilities, which you can say fits with the revolver part of Weiss’s weapon; giving her different abilities to use against her opponent. Plus, it’s noted that Weiss loves to use Ice Dust more than any other type of Dust. So yeah, I think this deck suits her best.
Blake Belladonna
Blake is based on both Belle and Beast from Beauty and the Beast. What this means is, even though she appears human, she is actually a different kind of species called “Faunus”. A Faunus is someone that has human traits, but also possesses animal traits (hence, the Beast part). For her animal trait, she possesses the cat trait, thus causing her to have cat-like ears, and how she can see in the dark.
However, the Faunus are not liked by everyone. Some humans even try to discriminate against them, for whatever reason, which Blake, obviously, does not like. She does the best that she can to defend the Faunus from such harshness the humans throw at them. Yet, despite all that the humans do, she refuses to attack or hurt them, not viewing it to be the correct course of action. (She will even go as far as to help them when they need it, even if they don’t deserve it.) Thus, she has made it her life’s mission to undo the years of hatred between humans and the Faunus.
Blake is someone that appears to be cool, but quite serious most of the time. This doesn’t mean she lacks any sense of humor. She will try to crack some jokes here and there, but they can use some work. Regardless though, she is a very skilled fighter.
She possesses a sword, called Gambol Shroud, as her main weapon, which has three different forms. One where it’s sheathed, one where it’s not and she can use both the sword and the sheath, and finally, it can transform into a gun. However, Blake also carries a black ribbon with her, which is important because she can use it to turn her weapon into a kusarigama, a type of grappling hook.
As for her Semblance, it’s called Shadow. It allows her to create a shadow-clone of herself. This way, she can distract her opponents and hit them once she sees an opening. Heck, by mixing some dust with her shadow-clones, she can have them become booby traps, or trap her opponent’s weapon and cause them to become disarmed. What’s really cool though is how she can even her clones to push her in the direction of her choosing, allowing her to greatly avoid an attack, or reach places that are hard to reach.
For Blake, her deck is one that should be the most obvious…
Tri-Brigade
I mean, seriously, why not? Her main specialty is that she is a Faunus. She wants to be able to defend her kind from those that try to hurt them, and the Tri-Brigade is a group that seeks to help and protect every Beast, Beast-Warrior and Winged Beast monster there is. Plus, they are both being sought to be destroyed by some group of humans when they did nothing wrong. They both seek for their right to exist in their world, and they aren’t afraid to fight in order to defend themselves.
Yang Xiao Long
Yang here is based on Goldilock from Goldilocks and the Three Bears. However, unlike Goldilocks, had she been confronted by the Three Bears, she probably would have had bear meat for tonight’s dinner. Oh, and she is Ruby’s older sister. Unlike Ruby though, Yang is very extroverted and loves to go on adventures and face new kinds of danger.
And unlike her other teammates, Yang much prefers an up close and personal fight. In other words, she rather have her fists do the talking. And her strength is one thing you will have trouble beating. You can hit this girl as hard as you can and she will still get back up to knock you into the ground, face first.
However, one thing that she tends to do is let her anger take over at times. Especially when she can’t hit her opponent. This sometimes leads her to activating her Semblance at the wrong time (which we’ll talk about in just a bit). Even so though, you do not want to be on the end of one of her punches.
Her weapon of choice is a pair of gauntlets called Ember Celica. Of course this suits her since she wants to have a fist fight with her opponents. The twist is that they also part shotgun, in a way. Not so much to shoot things with (however, she can when need to), but more so to use the explosive shot generated by the blast to give her punches a much stronger force. They are even powerful enough to launch her into the air, so yeah, better hope you have good health insurance.
As for her Semblance, it’s called Burn. In other words, it’s the type of ability where someone can transform all of the damage they took from their opponent and deliver it back at double the amount! So, uh…forget health insurance. You better have your Will already written out, because you’re not coming back from that.
Knowing her, I believe her soul deck would be…
Fire First
I mean, why not? Not only are they a Fire-type of deck, which correlates with her Semblance, Burn, but they too like to let their firsts do the talking. Albeit, it’s by creating fire versions of their animal avatar spirits, but still. I know there are other fist fighting archetypes, like Battlin’ Boxer, that might suit her better, but there’s another reason why I chose this archetype. In the beginning of the show, before they were grouped into four person teams, they were each teamed up with just one other person. For Yang, her partner was Blake, and the two became really good friends through their journeys. Kind of like sisters, or best friends. Something like that. As such, I think Yang would want to use a deck that represents her bond with Blake.
Also, at the very least, she could always incorporate the Utopia package in order to get that big damage in.
And with that, I conclude this post! I hope you enjoyed reading this! I wasn’t sure how this was gonna turn out, but I think it turned out alright. I am at least very confident with everyone’s deck choice, but I hope I introduced their character and explained their choice of deck well enough. I also wasn’t sure how much detail I should’ve gone with when explaining the story of the show without revealing too much, so I hope I did a good job.
Anyway, let me know in the comments what you thought about this! Did I do a good job? Do you think there’s a different deck/archetype that’s more suitable for these characters? I would love to hear your thoughts!
I’ll see you guys in the next one! Hope you have/had an awesome day today!