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A/N: What is a person without at least some amount of an ego made manifest? When you find out, let me know. Meanwhile, I'll be throwing in another character of my own into the fray. Admittedly, I also wanted to get a RWBY character in here somehow.
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The Moment No Pony was Waiting For
Season 4
(Side)
Wait, but the English translation for Weiss Schnee is... uh-oh. This will get really confusing, really quickly.
Fire is hot. There's no denying that. But there are times where one must acknowledge that ice is cool.
Such as these two swordswomen that wield the cold... among other things.
Weiss Schnee: The privileged, yet hardworking student in RWBY!
White Snow: An aspect of Tundra that got away from him and became a new mare of her own.
Now, the research doesn't show everything that we'll need, so we've taken the liberty of appropriating some secret files tucked deep within the mind of our ugly director.
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A/N: What? Hey! Give those back!
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Do you want an awesome fight or don't you?
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A/N: I... ugh. Fine, go ahead.
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*Ahem* Anyway, he's F and I'm N, and it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to find out who would win a Death Battle.
---Death Battle---
Weiss Schnee
-Heir to the Schnee Dust Co.
-Has a... complicated history with the Faunus
-Attends Beacon Academy as a student Huntress; second member of Team RWBY
-Weapon of choice: Myrtenaster the Dust rapier, with fire and ice options for bullets
-Talent in Glyphs: Ice, push, pull, speed
-Her aura is strong enough to withstand hits from a giant mech
-Somewhat lacking in physical strength, and tires easily
-Patience is limited in regards to her leader's antics
"Aren't you a little young to be attending Beacon Academy?"
Weiss Schnee is one of a few heirs to the Schnee family, and was going to be in line to take over her father's Dust Company.
Whilst there, she sort of developed a... cautious attitude toward Faunus, people with visibly animal-like body parts.
Though, her story quickly brings her into attending Beacon Academy so that she could learn to be a Huntress.
Just to make things all the more confusing, her first initial became the second initial in a color-coordinated team called RWBY, which just so happened to be led by a scarlet-dressed girl named Ruby. Oum darn it!
You're not the only one who is frustrated. Weiss was initially frustrated by every last thing that Ruby did. There still is some of that, though she seems to be a bit more used to it rather than shouting out her annoyance.
Can we just skip ahead to the sword and elemental *ess*?
Sure. Weiss is a left-handed duelist and wields Myrtenaster, a rapier that also doubles as a gun. Additionally, its revolver-esque chamber carries Dust for some extra offensive options such as fire and ice.
And she can do some weird magic-like stuff!
A common trait among Huntresses is their ability to manipulate their aura, allowing them to defend against fatal attacks and heal minor wounds. On top of that, Weiss is naturally gifted at using various forms of Glyphs during combat.
You think seeing Twilight break gravity is impressive? Try bouncing off of thin air like Pinkie Pie bounces off of walls! In addition to jumping around like Mario if he had more weed than usual, she can also push enemies away, hang them like the British, or rip-off Sonic's super speed.
She is also quite calm in battle situations, easily out-strategizing enemies wielding chainsaws or giant mechs. However, this does not always translate to the rest of her life where she tires out easily. She is possibly the weakest of her team when it comes to pure strength.
Hey, you don't need bulging biceps to sing a lovely high note.
"It's exactly as you said. I'm a Schnee. I have a legacy to uphold. Once I figured out I was capable of fighting, there was no longer a question of what I should do with my life. It was my duty."
---Death Battle---
White Snow
-Winged unicorn
-Age: 25+ years
-Relationship status: Married to Zephyr Ward, a "pegasus" changeling (no horn)
-Special talent: Singing and guitar playing
-Also a Soul defender; wields Sode no Shirayuki, a katana capable of ice and wind powers
-Adept at Kido incantations: fire, lightning, full-defense
-Her Flash Step technique makes her nearly invisible by running so fast
-Final Release: "Kazekage, Sode no Shirayuki"; her sword takes a form similar to Kitana's fans, while her two consciences merge into one
-Has no earth pony super strength
-Has a tendency to use up too much of her energy in certain fights
"How's it going, Zephy?"
At first glance, you might think this is nothing more than your standard, bad alicorn OC... and you'd be right. White Snow and the unoriginal character dubbed "Tundra Stanza" were once one and the same. But things quickly changed when one of them became the focus of a role-playing crossover universe.
The re-written backstory of White Snow starts her out as an innocent young filly, who gets promptly ripped from her comfortable life by a still unnamed enemy. Whoever it was, they were interested in re-creating the Nightmare that infected Luna and forced her to be banished nearly one thousand years prior. To this end, the entity ripped White's very soul in half, creating two byproducts.
The first product was a pseudo-Nightmare that went on a little destruction spree, tearing up most of White's birth home, including her childhood friend Sweet Blizzard. The other was the equivalent of the zombie that Roxas was during his first week in Organization XIII.
Yet, this half of White managed to survive her empty wandering for twenty years before stumbling into a town full of friendly ponies. After being welcomed by the local charismatic pony and a musical number, White breathed in new life and discovered her talent for singing.
But the pseudo-Nightmare half wasn't quite done yet. Its quest eventually took it into the town's local library, where it possessed the sole unicorn resident. Then, Spider-Man took the Symbiote back from Eddie and faced a mental trial.
Well... you're close. After White Snow's two halves were reunited, she managed to pull a new source of power out of the sea of her soul, the blade known as Sode no Shirayuki. Later on, she would find out that it was actually the will of her late mother, dedicated to protecting White and it was responsible for helping keep the mind-numb half of White alive for so many years.
Then they fought some skeletal horrors, formed a superhero team with some other ponies, and went on several tours performing her songs. Oh, and White Snow got hitched to a changeling and they had a kid.
Um, aren't you oversimplifying things just a bit?
Hey, we barely gave any backstory to her canon character of an opponent. We should really get to her killing potential sometime this century.
Alright, fine. Contrary to her appearance, she's actually a winged unicorn as opposed to a full-fledged alicorn. While she can use some magic and fly fairly comfortably, she doesn't have the strength that could directly be tied to that of an earth pony. A princess, she is not.
Still, she's got a bunch of powers I swear I've seen somewhere else before. She can run faster than the eye can track, shoot fire and lightning with a couple Japanese words, conjure up an invincible shield that only faces one direction, and use her own spiritual pressure to minimize damage that she takes.
Additionally, Sode no Shirayuki grants her control over moves that utilize ice and wind, so much so that extremely weaker enemies can be frozen solid.
And that power can be jacked up to 11 with her final form!
The final release allows White to tap into the full power she inherited from her mother. Her weapon becomes Kazekage, Sode no Shirayuki, or the "Wind Shadow, Sleeve of White Snow". Along with its deadly twin-fan blade appearance, this power also adds a white kimono to her outfit and fuses the minds of White and Shirayuki into a new mare with the sole purpose of finishing off her foe.
Basically, whatever gets in the mare's way during this release is going to die a cold, miserable death. Is there anything that can overtake this alicorn wannabe?
Well, she has had trouble when enemies could match or surpass her high speed. Additionally, she has a tendency to use up a lot of spiritual energy all at once when she's fighting more challenging foes, which is usually when her friends have had to step in and help her out.
Sounds like she's got a Tony Stark complex. Well, let's see if she can beat the competition before she tires herself out.
"Things keep coming up. They're kind of unpredictable like that."
---Death Battle---
All right, the combatants are set. Let's settle this debate once and for all.
It's time for a Death Battle!
---Death Battle---
Shoes step loudly against a dark-tiled floor. While that goes on, the camera pans across a large stained glass window, depicting several snowflakes. The first contestant passes by a pillar when the sound of something large crashes from above. It's a Grimm. The girl draws her sword and takes her stance. Her expression depicts one whose time is being wasted. The beast raises its giant paw.
Cut to black. There are two slashing curves that flash against the dark backdrop. The external skull cracks in several places as the beast falls over itself. Two swords of different build shine brightly as the scene of the big room comes back into view. The girl turns around as the chamber of her weapon spins.
"Identify yourself!" she demands.
The other figure appears to be of opposite colors. A long purple mane flows to the side of a black pony. She slowly turns around, balancing on three legs while using one hoof to hold her katana. She lets out one quick chuckle.
"Wow, rude much?" she retorts.
"Oh, that was quite polite actually," argues the girl. "Would you like to see rude?"
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The stands get crazy with several creatures from many different universes all somehow sitting together. Two of which happen to resemble their holo-weight simulations about to do battle. However, the pony motions with her hoof before she walks away from the crowd. The girl in white hesitates before following after her. Soon, they're in a hallway where the fans' shouting isn't so overpowering.
"You don't want to find out how the battle turns out?" wonders the girl.
"Nah," dismisses the mare. "Seeing an alternate version of myself get decapitated once is enough." She points over to a room with a few flashing arcade games that aren't in use. "Battles only make up one aspect of us. I hear you're also a pretty good singer. I wanted to see how good you really are."
One of the machines displays the name "Soloist Hero" in flashy font. A couple toy microphones are set up on either side. The pony trots up to one of the microphones and adjusts the angle.
"So, would you be up to the challenge, Ms. Schnee?" The pony smiles.
The girl walks over and takes hold of the other microphone. "Perhaps I would be, Ms. Snow."
The song gently begins with a piano's solo. The singers' inquiries toward a mirror start out just as gently. Soon, however, the singing prompts for either player get more intense.
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"FIGHT!"
A careful sidestep from Weiss soon turns into a charging thrust. White Snow gallops forward in response. Their blades cross and swing around. From there, it becomes just as much of a battle for the camera to track the speed of each of their swings as it is for the combatants to keep the other from getting in a solid hit.
Metal clangs against metal. Thrusts are parried. Feints are twirled around. White even flies over while swinging downward as Weiss does a back flip to keep her own weapon in a strong defensive hold. More spins and hits like this make this battle seem like a dance. Speaking of which...
"Dance, Sode no Shirayuki!" White's blade seems to grow paler, and emitting an aura that chills the very air around it.
At the same time, Weiss triggers her power to create white circles underneath her feet. She pushes herself forward with newfound speed. White's next few katana swings release some waves of snow-filled winds. Circles appear on either side of the aisle as Weiss uses them to bounce from side to side, narrowly dodging White's cold attacks. The girl clicks her weapon's chamber to a set crystal, and pulls its trigger.
White's eyes open wide just as she cries out, "Danku!"
A sheet of see-through void splits the air, barely stopping the incoming gunshots from reaching her. Weiss only seems slightly miffed as she bounces off another white circle to dash around the barrier. She thrusts with her rapier. It nicks White against the neck before the pony manages to push it away with her katana. The two of them exchange some more sword clashes. Although now, a few of those thrusts are peppered with gunshots. A couple of those blasts hit White in some painful places.
"Shakkahou!"
White conjures a few red fiery orbs and launches them. In a shocked response, Weiss fires a few icy bullets that explode on contact with the incoming fire blasts.
Weiss follows up by conjuring several circles around the sanctuary-turned-arena. It seems she has a plan to attack rapid-fire from multiple angles. White grunts a little... and vanishes.
Weiss's eyes open wide. "What the-?"
The pony reappears from above and slashes against the girl, interrupting her strategy. This technique makes it next to impossible to track her movements as her sword swings come in from all over the place. Weiss barely manages to correctly block two of the strikes. The rest leave her with some bleeding gashes as she tumbles along the floor. Slowly, and struggling, she uses the support of her weapon to stand back up.
White reappears in front of the snowflake windows. She isn't looking too hot either. The gunshots from earlier now give her a couple of bleeding holes to worry about. She's also breathing pretty heavily from using her Flash Step so many times at once. They both need to release just a little more of their potential, or risk falling dead on the floor.
The pony holds up her weapon at a sideways angle. "Bankai!"
There is a rush of extremely powerful spiritual pressure emerging from that pony. It's enough to shatter the stained glass behind her, and displace a lot of the floor underneath. After a surge of frigid cold winds leave, a somewhat different pony stands in White's place. It's still her... and yet it isn't. She is now clothed in white robes, and her weapon has taken the form of two fold-up fans tipped with blades. She opens her eyes with a forest green burning sensation.
Weiss is confused, but not enough to distract her completely. She holds up her rapier, and her aura glows brightly around her. The bleeding slows down near her big wounds, while a smaller cut on her cheek closes up completely. Her faded blue eyes stare unflinchingly at her opponent, in spite of the thin and bloody trail running down the left side of her face.
The mare opens her fans and makes a sweeping motion, filling the entire chamber with the force of a blizzard. Weiss runs around and rolls around the sides of several pews to avoid the worst of the snowstorm. A slightly different spin is made by the pony, creating a large tornado to form in the center of the arena. Its incredible wind speed pulls in everything but its caster.
After a few dizzying spins, Weiss squints and manages to catch sight of her opponent. She casts forth her power, summoning several small circles. But instead of creating bounce pads, these circles somehow lift the pony off her hooves and hang her upside-down. The tornado subsides and Weiss aims her weapon straight into the floor. The impact sends a shock wave of ice to surround the hanging victim.
She pulls her sword up and spins its chamber one more time. "Allez!"
Her gun fires with a force twice as large as it was before. It shatters her conjured ice, along with the pony's head. What's left of the body falls onto the ground on top of the Grimm's corpse. Weiss sighs as her extra aura fades.
"K.O.!"
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White falls to her knees, breathing heavily. The score shows a higher amount on her singing partner's side of the screen. Weiss gently sets her microphone down.
"Better luck next time," she says with care before walking away. She mutters, "I need some water."
White sits with her head lowered. She sighs at her defeat. A changeling that was off screen trots over and gives her a hug.
---Death Battle---
I guess the Frenchmen can brag to the Samurai order now.
Technically, White is older and has more years of fighting experience than Weiss. However, the younger girl didn't make it to second on a Huntress team for nothing. Her aura and Glyph powers were more than a match for White's spirit-based moves and Flash Step.
While both of them have contended with creatures with external face bones on a regular basis, the key difference rested in where their fatigue was most obvious. While Weiss tires herself out in other aspects of life, she doesn't let that show when she's in the midst of an important fight. This gave her a slight edge while White was busy using up too much energy during the fight.
And although White's biggest threats that she's overcome are nothing to take lightly, none of them quite stack up to the force thrown by the giant mech that Weiss was able to defeat by herself.
White was hanging in there... but then she had to Schneeze.
The winner is Weiss Schnee.
---Death Battle---
Next time on Death Battle...
"Sorry lil' guy. Beating up you is like stepping on a little kitten."
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