[Character] Qrow Branwen

[Feathers]

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[Appearance]

In his official design, he has graying black, spiky hair, faded pink eyes, and slight stubble along his jawline. Along with a red, tattered cloak, he wears a gray dress shirt with a long tail, black dress pants and black dress shoes. In an old picture of him with his former team, Qrow looked exactly the same but lacked stubble.

He also wears a ring on his right index finger, two other rings on his right ring finger and a necklace with a crooked cross-shaped pendant.

Qrow's bangs are down most of the time, but he sometimes pushes his hair back when fighting. In addition, his hair is made to look like it is composed entirely of feathers.

After arriving in Atlas, Qrow retains his torn cape and black wristband, except he loses his necklace and old rings and now wears a new outfit. He wears a dark gray collar shirt with a black vest that has cross-shaped buttons, and a white v-neck shirt underneath, dark gray dress pants and black dress shoes. His old rings are replaced with black ones worn in the same place as his previous rings were.

[Personality]

Qrow is a seemingly rude, blunt, cynical, sometimes crass, yet cool-headed and nonchalant human man, who appears at first glance to be somewhat immature, insensitive and stand-offish, but actually has a heart of gold.He is an alcoholic and is usually seen taking swigs from his hip flask. Qrow has a habit of giving people nicknames, as he refers to Ruby as "Pipsqueak", but his preferred nickname for her is "Kiddo". Other examples include "Firecracker" for Yang, "Oz" for Ozpin, "Jimmy" for Ironwood and "Ice Queen" for Winter Schnee.

This childish and maverick facade, however, belies the demeanor of a veteran Huntsman. He hinted to his nieces that his time out in the field had hardened him, which made them much safer displays of strength on the broadcast seem tame and benign in comparison. Qrow is shown to be tender at heart despite his rough demeanor and cares for both of his nieces dearly. He also has a mercurial attitude towards his age: disgusted at the notion of being called old by his nieces Ruby Rose (adoptive niece)
and Yang Xiao Long, but willing to use it as an excuse to leave uncomfortable conversations.

He is also very self-conscious about his Semblance to the point self-loathing, aware of its possible impact on the people around him, he makes a point to keep his distance from those he cares about. Qrow regards his life as being cursed due to his misfortune Semblance. Seeing himself as a burden to friends and family because of the bad luck he brings to everyone around him, he tries to spend most of his time living and working alone.

[Backstory]

Qrow Branwen (pronounced "Crow") is the younger twin brother of Raven Branwen, biological uncle of Yang Xiao Long and honorary uncle of Ruby Rose. Qrow's weapon of choice is a scythe called Harbinger.

He is a former member of the Branwen Tribe as well as a former teacher at Signal Academy. In his youth, Qrow attended Beacon Academy with his sister Raven, and together they were on a team with Summer Rose and Taiyang Xiao Long, known as Team STRQ.Qrow is also involved with a secret brotherhood led by Ozpin, whose purpose is to protect Remnant and is privy to knowledge kept secret from most of the world.

Raven stated that she and Qrow attended Beacon to learn how to kill Huntsmen, implying that he once shared her brutal nature in the past. By comparison, when Qrow realized that Leonardo had the Mistral Huntsmen killed, he expressed pure disgust and anger towards his former ally, showing how far Qrow has come since his youth, fully embracing the responsibilities of a Huntsman and developing a strong sense of right and wrong. Although he has made strides to better himself, Qrow nonetheless holds a double standard regarding secrets when it comes to his family.

[Powers and Abilities]

Qrow is strong enough to smash a crater into the ground with his sword, cut through metal poles, as well as release Aura arcs. Qrow has also shown proficient accuracy with Harbinger as a throwing weapon, as seen in his fight with Tyrian when he launched his sword into the ground in mid-fall to act as a foothold to regain traction and control of the battle.

In addition to strength and durability, Qrow is shown to be extremely fast and agile, dodging an attack from someone as fast and mobile as Winter. He was also able to keep up with Tyrian, whose own speed proved difficult for someone as quick as Ruby.

Qrow has been shown to be incredibly resilient and durable, to both toxins and physical force. It took a substantial amount of time for Tyrian's venom to work its way through his bloodstream, even with Qrow drinking alcohol, which would make the venom spread even faster. Also, Qrow was seen taking powerful Dust-enhanced blows from Hazel Rainart, an incredibly strong unarmed fighter capable of battling multiple trained huntsmen simultaneously, and yet managed to keep fighting.

Qrow is a master scythe wielder, having taught Ruby how to use her scythe. Crescent Rose is confirmed not to be a copy of Harbinger, as Ruby stated that she designed Crescent Rose herself. Like most Huntsman weapons, his blade also contains a gun component.

Qrow is able to perform a slash with his scythe that is too fast for the eye to see, even when everything is viewed in slow motion. Moreover, during his fight with Winter, Qrow wields Harbinger proficiently with either hand, revealing himself to have trained to be able to use it whether it is in his dominant or weak hand.

[Semblance]

Qrow's Semblance, Misfortune, causes bad luck around him and unlike most Semblances, it’s eternally active and can never turn off. Its effects can lead to incidents as small as a glass being knocked onto the floor in or as significant as impacting an entire fight.

His Semblance does not discriminate on who it affects, which causes him to keep his distance from the people he cares about. According to Kerry Shawcross, he can also choose to amplify his Semblance in a fight to amplify the chance of his opponent getting hurt. This can be an advantage to him against unprepared opponents, but he is forced to fight alone as to not cause problems for his allies. His Semblance can be helpful in a fight, such as when Tyrian falls through an old roof, but can cause problems as when a piece of wood almost fell on Ruby.

[Corvid Form]

As a corvid, Qrow has black feathers, red eyes and a feathery crest on the top of his head. Qrow is able to cover large distances and for stealth purposes. Raven states Ozpin gave the twins their shapeshifting abilities. Ozpin validates this claim, stating he granted them this power with both of their consent, to aid him against Salem.

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(Info pulled from the RWBY, which is admitted a MESS of information. I tried to clean it up a bit..but there's a lol scattered info there.)

[Feathers]

Too bad he doesn't have wings in human form. His ability was granted to him so he's not really true birdman (err, Faunus). Too bad! Makes him less interesting. He's just an unlucky bastard who happened to get a bird form (though that part IS lucky, haha).

Saw this "Ozpin" name so many times, gonna have to look up that one next. He sounds quite powerful.

[Pierce]

I'll just say the 'Wizard of Oz' and his 'wife' has a long origin story. (You will find that in Volume 6)

Don't forget Qrow's older twin sister: Raven Branwen.

[Feathers]

Don't forget Qrow's older twin sister: Raven Branwen.

She's mentioned in the Backstory section. So Pierce/Flare, going to post your favorite characters?