Miyuki Winfield

"The isolation that people feel can disappear by the love that thaws the frozen heart."

- Miyuki

Miyuki Winfield is an original character created by RWBY Ruby Rose. She is the leader of Team MLIT and she alludes to Frozen 's Elsa.

Appearance
Miyuki is a young woman that has medium length, light brown hair that is usually tied up in a french braid twist bun with a thick strand of light blue within. She usually styles it up to increase her speed in combat so it would not be in her way. With light blue eyes and a fair, pale complexion, she also has bangs that are curled inward with a curled strand at the end of the bangs line. Her height and weight are around average for her age and both of her main combat gear outfits are based on winter ice skating attire.

For her main combat gear, she wears a short ballet like dress that is a mix of light blue, blue and red along with white and brown. Instead of a skirt or tutu, she has blue, short like bottoms that are tied with red ribbon on the open sides. Her bodice is light blue with white lining that extends to the bottom in a slant along with three quarter length sleeves with exposed skin from above her elbow to her shoulder. The sleeves are tied from the elbow up to her collar with white lace on both arms. The three quarter sleeves then connect to her darker blue dust sleeves that are entwined with white lining and the sleeves extend from below her elbow to the back of her palm. At the end of the dust sleeves, there is an indent for Miyuki to place dust crystals on the end. The outfit also comes with a thick, light brown corset belt with part of her symbol in red at the center of it with a couple pouches to store her dust crystals. The accessories she wears include a brown chocker with a red, oval gem pearl in the center around her neck along with matching earrings. She also wears white ribbon around her ankle and extends up to just below the knee and the ribbon is crisscrossed and securely tied to the end. Over most of her white ribbon, she wears a pair of blue fashion boots that have light blue and white design on the side of the heels and brown soles.

Her alternate outfit consists of a pink wraparound scarf with white lace on the ends and a light blue and yellow sweatshirt with yellow cuffs. The yellow part of the sweater hugs her body to keep her warm from cold conditions. Underneath her sweater, she has a light blue three/fourths sleeve shirt with her emblem in the center. She also wears a dark blue pleated skirt with light blue lining and matching bottoms. The pant legs fade from a dark blue to light blue from below her knee to the end of the leg and has her symbol on the bottom of the left pant leg. Miyuki also wears her blue fashion boots and her sleeves underneath her clothing so she can be ready for anything and to accompany her overall outfit.

Her night wear is a two piece dark blue pajama set. She has a dark blue button up, long sleeve shirt with white fuzz on the bottom of the shirt and the sleeves along with a light blue collar and matching bottoms. There are also two stripes on the sleeves and the pant legs while she accompanies them with matching slippers.

Personality
Miyuki is a beautiful young girl that is soft hearted, genuine and very extroverted. She can strike up conversations very easily and she is sympathetic towards other people which is a good trait since she is the leader of the team. On her team, she would be one of those people that would speak her mind and cheer up her teammates and her other friends. A good example is when she cheered up Inari on their first day at Beacon Academy when she hid herself in a tree when she was upset (though Inari didn't show it at first.).

For Miyuki, a person would know right away if something was wrong especially if she is not in a good mood. She wouldn't get mad unless someone was very rude, make fun of her, or stab her in the back on something. Like how Tai would play pranks or joke/tease and she would get mad at him for it. Though when she gets mad, she'll give an angry glare and she would radiate a heavy aura that would give others an unsettling feeling about her. When she gets angry she could be seen as a scary person to others. She will only vent to people that she is very close to about her problems. Sometimes when she does speak her mind, she could get into arguments with her team and her friends. She would also ignore them until they apologize or Miyuki would have a change of heart. Though, in the end, she can be merciful and forgive them from the incident.

She can be stubborn when it comes to certain things like helping others. Miyuki will never leave her teammates alone and she would always provide support to them, no matter how much they disagree. In combat, she is focused on the mission and she looks for ways to defeat the opponents that the team faces. Overall, she is a very loyal, friendly person to have on your team.

Miyuki also loves ice cream and other kinds of frozen snacks along with reading books. One of the ways that she relaxes is to ice skate around to clear her head.

Biography/ History
Miyuki Winfield was born and raised in the Mistral Region with her loving parents and younger sister, Lynn Winfield. Both of her parents were great hunters but her mother was also a great ice skater. Her parents homeschooled her in reading, writing and mathematics with her younger sister since they wanted to teach them before they were sent to an academy to become huntresses.

While her parents taught her the basic skills, her mother decided to teach Miyuki how to ice skate when she was six. She was always watching her mother skate either on television, at the rink or at home. As she grew older, she came to love figure skating as a passion. By the time she was nine years old, she had mastered the basics of it.

Every winter, Miyuki and Lynn would go out to play in the snow and skate on the frozen creek in their backyard when Miyuki would help her sister learn to ice skate. They have a great sisterly bond even to this day. They would always hang out and even though they had their fights, Lynn and Miyuki would always make up with each other at the end. Miyuki would always make her smile is she had a rough day or vice versa when Miyuki had a rough time with one of her lessons.

Her father had also taught her about dust and its uses in combat which would come in handy later on in her life. After some more training from her mother and her father, she was agile on and off the ice, knew how to use dust crystals and preform tricks and spins by the time she entered Sanctum Academy.

As she was attending Sanctum, she created her weapons there. As she created Winter Tempest and Blizzard's Touch, she combined her limited dust knowledge and her ice skating expertise. After creating them and training with her new weapons, she had finally found a way to enjoy her two favorite things. She also learned more hand to hand combat while she attended so she would be able to fight close ranged. Because of her grace and her determination, she had made a lot of new friends. Every year she attended Sanctum, she would always visit her family and tell them about her adventures there.

One day when Miyuki was telling Lynn one of her stories, her father challenged her to a duel to see how much she improved from her time at Sanctum. After she accepted his challenge, they both went outside and the fight began with her mother and sister watching from the veranda. She was doing well against him until her father's counterattack hit her. The strong ice attack collided with her arms as she collapsed onto her back on the ice and knocked her unconscious. Once her father brought her inside, her mother called a doctor to get her some medical attention.

When she woke up, she realized that there was a strand of light blue mixed in with her light brown hair as a result of the accident. After the doctor left, her father hugged Miyuki tight as he told her how proud he was with her combat skills and apologized for the accident. She forgave him and she was glad that they were proud with how far she had come since she trained at Sanctum.

In Combat


Weapons: She uses a pair of Transforming Dust Ice Skates (TDIS) and Dust Control Casting Sleeves (DCCS) named Winter Tempest and Blizzard's Touch respectively.

Winter Tempest is a pair of expensive boots that transform into a pair of ice skates with dust infused blades. The infused blades use powdered dust that is held in the sole of the combat boots and that dust flows to the blades to add a little more 'kick' to her attacks. They can also be used for increased mobility on the ice with or without dust. Though when she uses them to skate on ice, she couldn't use certain kinds of dust (like fire and water for example).

Blizzard's Touch are a pair of arm sleeves that are infused with uncut dust at the end on the back of her hand. With the uncut dust compartment, there is a wire that allows the release of the dust energy with the wave of her hand to cast dust attacks. She uses this to attack, defend or cast dust attacks to increase her mobility. To use her ice skates, she would use ice or water dust to make the ways if there isn't any created.

Abilities:

Since Miyuki is the leader of Team MLIT, she is very agile and uses her speed to get the upper hand in close combat thanks to her ice skating skills and training at Sanctum. She can fight mid- close range and she can also fight hand to hand combat. She utilizes her weapons to move quicker and to enhance her attack damage with her dust attacks which she uses to attack or increase her mobility. While her speed and close combat skills are outstanding, she lacks in defense and aura use. Unlike Inari's aura and Leo's aura, she doesn’t have as much of it. She always wants to get the fight finished as quickly as possible and she always analyzes her opponent for any weaknesses she can use against them.

Aura: She is surrounded by white Aura. It provides protection, slight healing and sharpened senses. She mostly uses her aura to heal small cuts that she gets in combat either by the enemy or by her ice blades.

Semblance

Cold Snap -  Miyuki can mix a little bit of ice dust with water and transform into ice to attack the enemy, increase her mobility or defend herself.

Relationships ~Coming soon~

Trivia
-Her full name translates to "Deep Snow Meadow' since Miyuki means 'Deep Snow' in Japanese and Winfield means 'Meadow' in English. Snow can be seen as white so it fits Monty's rules.

-Miyuki is alluded to Elsa from Frozen because of her love for ice skating and for her frequent use of ice dust.