Robbie Tai

Robert “Robbie” Tai is an original character created by Hyper Zergling for the RWBY universe.

Appearance
Robbie is a moderately-tall male teenager with blue eyes and short brown hair in the shape of a fauxhawk. Robbie is an American bison faunus and possesses a pair of horns near his temples. Robbie wears a white baseball cap, a white scarf, a green t-shirt, and green pants. Doug normally wears the Waveblades, his armored rollerblades, as his day-to-day footwear, and he keeps Firebomb, his wrist grenade launcher, on his left wrist.

Personality
Unlike his brother, Doug, Robbie appears to take few things seriously, often to the dismay of his teachers and some of his peers. Robbie is well-humored and enjoys verbally with both friends and rivals alike. This may cause some to consider him to be a rude individual, but those who know Robbie well do not really pay any mind to his banter.

Although a faunus, Robbie heavily disagrees with the White Fang and its methods.

Abilities & Powers
Like many of the other students of Beacon Academy, Robbie possesses a great degree of speed, strength, and durability. Robbie’s weapons of choice consist of a single-shot left-wrist mounted grenade launcher named Firebomb, and a pair of armored rollerblade-boots called the Waveblades. Robbie loads Firebomb, as its name would suggest, exclusively with incendiary grenades. The Waveblades provide Robbie with impeccable mobility, allowing him to surpass most in grounded speed. In addition, the Waveblades possess thrusters that can propel Robbie up to three consecutive bursts in relatively quick succession. Armored, the rollerblade-boots also augment the power of Robbie’s kicks and work to serve as melee weapons for him.

Robbie’s semblance is named Limb Augmentation. For a split second, Robbie can drastically strengthen and/or triple the volume of one of his hands or his skull in order to reinforce the power of melee strikes with said limbs without injuring himself. Like Ren, Robbie can use his aura to further increase the power of his attacks and generate protective fields.

History
Robert Tai was born to a family of faunus, and grew up alongside his brothers, Samson and Douglas. As his parents possess different animalistic traits from each other, Robbie and his brothers do not share the same animalistic traits with each other; Sam possesses the tail of a peregrine falcon, Robbie has the horns of an American Bison, while Douglas’ lower canines are longer, akin to a Wild boar’s tusks. Sam was the first in the family to train to become a huntsman, inspiring both of the younger brothers to walk in the eldest’s footsteps. When ready, Robbie and Doug both applied to Beacon Academy and were subsequently accepted as a huntsmen in-training.

Beacon Academy
Robbie is a first year student at Beacon Academy.

Team SDRM
Robbie is a member of of Team SDRM.

Events
List of events participated by Robbie:
 * Beacon Academy Initiation

Trivia

 * The name “Robert” comes from Proto-Germanic *Hrōþi-, “fame,” and *berhta-, “bright.”
 * Robbie Tai's surname is the Taiwanese spelling of the Chinese surname, Dai. The spelling of Tai, however, is a reference to Taiji or yin and yang.
 * Thematically, Robbie represents the yang, or the light, while his brother, Doug represents the yin, the darkness.