Team ARTE (Artery) & Comic

"What separated my team was not bad blood. It was Atlas and the demons hiding within it."

- Aorta

Team ARTE (pronounced "Artery") is a team of four huntsmen that graduated Atlas Academy at the top of their class two years before the Fall of Beacon. The team is comprised Aorta Flavus, Rokh Mikhail Chlorosis, Noelle Twilight, and Ebonille Reverie-Mortem.

ARTE has unexpectedly disbanded upon graduation, with three of its members fleeing from military service and now traveling various regions of Remnant.

True to the team name, each member has an anatomy theme and is also a hobbyist or former artist in a different field, but has different reasons for becoming a Hunter/Huntress.

This RWBY fan-team was originally a collaboration team of persona OCs from 4 artists in 2016 before being given a full-color comic produced and story by BloodyRosalia on deviantArt in 2019.

To prevent spoilers from the comic, the team members will not have individual pages and information provided on this wikia page is limited.

Comic Project
When the team was formed in 2016, the only additional media created for it was a commemorative piece by BloodyRosalia in the same year.

in the summer of 2019, BloodyRosalia launched a full-color comic project, "ARTE Volume 0." featuring the circumstances that caused them to disband.

Volume 0 was produced in the span of 2 months and features 4 episodes, one named after each character, for a total of 42 pages. It also incorporates many of the images from the piece made in 2016.

Volume 1 is slated to be produced in 2020 only if the producer determines there is enough support.

The pages can be read on deviantArt, saved to the gallery of a group named ARTE-of-RWBY.

Volume 0 ("Loss")
Each episode of Vol. 0 is listed below. To read, follow the link and then use the navigational links in the description of each page.

Themes & Allusions
Although Team ARTE formed as a simple collaboration persona OC team, much of the designs and future store elements are based on themes surrounding anatomy and specific allusions selected by their respective artist.

Warning: There are potential comic spoilers below, so please read the comic first!

Anatomy
BloodyRosalia, having been the first to design a character, based her OC on the pre-medical student life she was familiar with, resulting in a character and eventual team using anatomy themes.
 * Blood Components
 * The aorta is the largest artery in the human body. Aorta's thematic blood component is the red blood cell and notably she wears a belt shaped as a line of red blood cells.
 * Red blood cells carry oxygen. Suffocation plays a factor in her episode.
 * Rokh's design has ideas from the white blood cell, part of the immune system. Such cells are born in the marrow of bones, and Rokh's anatomical system theme is the skeletal systems.
 * Noelle's blood component theme is platelets, known to stop wounds by clots. Platelets are not cells, but rather just clones with clotting factors; repetition is a concept hated by Noelle.
 * Ebonille's blood component is plasma, the fluid that holds all the components together. Oddly enough, the other 3 teammates still split up after leaving Ebonille in Atlas.
 * Body Systems & Diseases
 * Aorta's theme is the circulatory system, as suggested by her first name and design
 * Aorta's last name, "Flavus" means yellow in Latin but alludes to a virus to be detailed in the Penname section below.
 * Rokh's theme is the skeletal system, with bone motifs in his design.
 * His last name, Chlorosis, is a disease/condition that causes plants to lose color due to structural problems.
 * Noelle's theme is the nervous system, with memory playing a role in her semblance.
 * Twilight syndrome comes from "Sun-downing" syndrome, which is a cognitive condition experienced by patients with diseases such as Alzheimer's.
 * Ebonille's theme is the skin, specifically bruises. One was seen in the first page of her episode.
 * Her full name, Ebonille Mortem-Reverie, refers to the Black Plague, in which scabs were a telling factor.

Storybook Allusions

 * Aorta is based on the Little Match Girl.
 * The events of Episode 4 parallel the story, as well as her other names.
 * Rokh is based on the mythological bird, "Roc."
 * His emblem has feathers, and while he is not a thief, his Demo story and current profession as a collector hints to it.
 * Noelle is based on the holiday carol, the First Noel. Her weapon is directly named "Christmas Carol."

Two-Sided Artistry
Each member of ARTE has a hobby that the pursued before or their Atlas Academy days. Each character is also paired with a darker art, as part of their episode theme.
 * As a musician turned writer, Aorta represents both the music and literary arts. Her episode references the art of murder.
 * As a painter and treasure hunter, Rokh represents the fine arts and the world of collectors. His episode ends with a call to the art of thievery.
 * Noelle was a former actress. Although she quit, she helps design some assets needed by those in the performing arts. Her episode battles with the art of forgery.
 * Ebonille liked crafts, working with knitting and jewelry. As the only member remaining at Atlas, she learned the art of war.

The Creator's Penname
At first, no long-term project was planned for ARTE, thus the collaborators freely used their penname as an inspiration.
 * Aorta was based on the roots of BloodyRosalia's penname. The penname arose from a character named Rosalia in Trauma Team, a surgery simulator game from the Trauma Center Series.
 * The character is a natural host of a virus that causes a viral hemorrhagic fever. Real diseases classified as these belong to the family of Flaviviridae viruses, which include yellow fever.


 * Rokh's creator has multiple names, including Quattron-Cyclone and mintfoxmimi. Regardless, Rokh's creator, who previously used bird motifs, applied one to Rokh as well, along with setting Rokh's default Dust element to be wind.
 * Rokh also prefers painting birds, as seen in the comic.
 * Noelle's creator used the penname "Winter-Edition" but was also known as Flora and ThanhnuFia.
 * Noelle has a strong Christmas theme, with her emblem resembling a poinsettia.
 * Ebonille's creator, BlissLioness (now BlissTheLioness) included "reverie" in the characters name to reflect the username.

Development
The concept of a team ARTE was not born until after the first character, Aorta, was designed and published on deviantArt. From there, the creator thought to recruit three other fellow artists from the Warriors of Remnant artbook series to form the collaboration team.

This RWBY fan-team became a collaboration team of persona OCs from 4 artists previously seen on the RWBY Fanon. In order, the characters belong to and were designed by:
 * 1) BloodyRosalia, creator of SYRA and COTN
 * 2) quattron-cyclone, creator of KAZE and STAR
 * 3) winter-edition, creator of CIST and KEST
 * 4) BlissTheLioness, creator of PRDT