"Family isn’t just about blood, to me my family are the ones who will stay with me when things go wrong. It doesn’t matter if they are my parents, my siblings, my friends, or my team. They’re all family to me, and I will fight for them."

Character Information





Name:

Lavender Opius

Alias’:

None

Age:

17

Gender:

Race:

Human

Affiliation:

Beacon Academy - Team SLAG

Outfit:

Codenamed "Pestilence", Lavender wears a tight, dark grey jumpsuit, under a looser, v-neck grey robe with a hood, split to her hip down the middle. Purple shoulder pads, and a mask of a Nevermore, which covers her nose to prevent inhaling any toxic fumes. Additional breathing apparatus also used occasionally to cover the mouth. The mask was her mother’s, and was handmade. She has no affiliation with the White Fang.





Physical Appearance:

Towering over the rest of her team at 6'1", Lavender is a tall, slender, well-endowed young lady. She has long lavender hair, often tied in a pony tail, falling over her shoulders and down to her waist. She also has fair, clean skin. Quite simply, many see her to be beautiful, drop-dead gorgeous by everyone, and she knows it, often emphasizing her physical features.

Psychological Profile:

Her most notable trait is her strong familial instincts, a desire to always look out for her friends and family. Her strong belief in the importance of family can also lead her to being overprotective of her team and her friends, more than happy to threaten death upon people who wish to give her ‘family’ grief. She also tries her hardest to keep her ‘family’ together. It is unlikely that she will be able to pick a side should her family or team fracture in some way.



These familial instincts can be traced back to her childhood, where her real family were unfortunately unable to be present in her and her brother’s lives for much of their childhood due to the nature of their work. She does not want those she deeply cares about to go through the same experiences of loneliness like she did. Curiously she holds no ill will towards her parents, which shows an unexpected level of maturity for her age.



She constantly tries to act mature and elegant, speaking very formally and politely to others such as fellow students, teachers etc. and engaging in more “grown-up” activities such as attending high tea, and engaging in intellectual discussion. Within her circle of friends, and her team however, she loses the elegant demeanour, conversing with them in a much more casual tone. She is also known to be a bit of a flirt with everyone.



This polarising behaviour is curious. One possible conclusion is that her mature and elegant demeanour is traced back to her having to grow up without a real parental figure in much of her life, having to care for her younger brother had caused her to mature much sooner than the average child. On the other hand, her switching to a casual and even flirty behaviour in the presence of her friends could easily be traced to her wishing for conformity and personal connection with her friends, wanting to be able to connect to their level, which draws back to her wanting to build a network, a family, with her friends.



Biography:

Lavender comes from a middle-class family, living in the middle levels of Mistral with her parents and younger brother. She has lived in Mistral all her life, but moved to Vale with her father.



Her mother was a huntress, who worked with the Mistral Police Force, often undercover to slowly disassemble the drug smuggling rings that ran rampant in the lower levels of Mistral, from securing deals between dealers and suppliers on behalf of other dealers and suppliers, to acting as a drug runner, to running sting operations, overall doing whatever it took to finish her mission and get back to her husband alive.



Her father was a Vale doctor, who met her mother when one of her last sting operations went wrong. The operation was a success and for the most part the drug ring was apprehended, but she was severely injured in the fight. Her mother was taken to the emergency room, where her father saved her life by performing a life-saving emergency operation. Since then the two have been together.



After she was born, her mother went back to work with the police, undertaking understandably safer operations in dealing with the slowly resurging drug problem. Her father also worked more hours at the hospital. As such, her parents were unfortunately absent for extended parts of the day and was not there for her and her brother for a good majority of their lives.



No one wanted it, but there was no other way. As such, her parents instilled the importance of always being there for family, and the importance of always being there for others so they wouldn’t feel loneliness like she did. She doesn’t blame her parents, that was just the way things were. As they grew older, they both withdrew from their work, and were able to spend more time with their children.



Much more recently, her father had been called to work in Vale, but her mother was still preoccupied with work in Mistral that she couldn’t step away from. She was forced to choose between going to Vale with her father and staying in Mistral with her mother, which tore her apart inside. She eventually went with her father when she was assured that their parents would not be separated and they would still be a family.

Weapon Name:

Thistle & Phlox

Weapon Description:

Two lightweight, folding SMGs, which also houses a blade between the weapon grip and the fold-out stock which can turn it into a machete. Its nature allows it to be used for concealed carry, able to be disguised as a small package. The blades pop out when the handle at the top of the SMG, which itself acts as iron sights, is gripped. When the grip is released, the blades telescope back into the hollow stock. The SMG itself can use any SMG caliber ammunition and dust variants of the same caliber.

Semblance Name:

Psychosis

Semblance Description:





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Artist Notes:

This was actually the first character I actually drew on paper. Although Sin was my first OC, he was the last in the team to be drawn. This was also the first female character I've ever drawn.

Lavender alludes to plague doctors in the 14th century (I think this is around the time they were a thing in Europe). This is mainly seen in the mask that she wears, which is similar to that of plague doctors. Her emblem draws inspiration from SAS Operator "Smoke" from Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege.

Both weapons are based off the FMG-9, which is the SMG "Smoke" from Rainbow Six Siege uses.

There were quite a few ideas surrounding the conception of Lavender. Firstly, I was very divided as to whether I wanted Lavender to be male or female. Regardless of gender, this character would have kept the plague doctor motif, but instead he would have a semblance which would involve blending into shadows, and his weapon would have been a dagger.



Another idea was that this character would be a full fledged huntress, whose main weapon were hallucinogenic drugs, either by injecting it into her targets or blowing it into their face, leaving them to inhale it. I realised this was a problem since RWBY or CRWBY has never made any mention of any sort of drugs of that nature in Remnant, and I don't like to go against canon by adding my own things like that. In the end I made her semblance somewhat like Emerald's where she causes hallucinations, but Lavender's simply shows her target their fears, much like DC Villain Scarecrow. In all honesty, I can't tell if this semblance is considered OP or not. Another idea I have for a semblance that I thought of as I'm writing this up is for her to have the ability to generate and manipulate smoke. I may change it.



As for the other idea about making this character a male, I'm split as to whether or not I should make that character as Lavender's younger brother, or a genderbent Lavender.

Another idea was that this character would be a full fledged huntress, whose main weapon were hallucinogenic drugs, either by injecting it into her targets or blowing it into their face, leaving them to inhale it. I realised this was a problem since RWBY or CRWBY has never made any mention of any sort of drugs of that nature in Remnant, and I don't like to go against canon by adding my own things like that. In the end I made her semblance somewhat like Emerald's where she causes hallucinations, but Lavender's simply shows her target their fears, much like DC Villain Scarecrow. In all honesty, I can't tell if this semblance is considered OP or not. Another idea I have for a semblance that I thought of as I'm writing this up is for her to have the ability to generate and manipulate smoke. I may change it. As for the other idea about making this character a male, I'm split as to whether or not I should make that character as Lavender's younger brother, or a genderbent Lavender. I realised now that the brush size I used for Lavender's outline is bigger than the brush I used for the other characters.

Out of all the hair I've done for the other characters, Lavender's is the one I'm most proud of. I do have an alternate head which removes the mask and the hood, which I may post an image of at a later date.

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RWBY OC & Art by me, Tesrod.



RWBY is the property of Rooster Teeth. Preying on her enemy’s deepest fears, Lavender forces her opponents to see their worst nightmares in front of them. This semblance does have several limitations. Only the target of her semblance can see this illusion, and she can only target one person at a time as her semblance takes a heavy toll on her Aura, having to penetrate her opponents mind. She cannot control exactly what her target sees, only whatever their deepest fear is. Her semblance can only target people, her semblance having no effect on creatures of Grimm, robots, machines, or androids, not having any emotions or minds of their own. She also cannot control how her opponent reacts from seeing her illusion. They may run away, scream in fear, shut down emotionally, lash out violently, freeze up, or be indifferent. Despite the apparent drawbacks, her semblance is still powerful, if used on the right person.----------------------------------------------------------------RWBY OC & Art by me, Tesrod.RWBY is the property of Rooster Teeth.

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