Team COTN

"Time to face the musicwait, does everyone still think we're fluffy 'lil rookies or something?! I, for one, am a first-rate musician, this hunting stuff is just my warm up!"

- Ochre Lancelin, entering a spar.

Team COTN (pronounced "Cotton") is a team of second-year Hunters that hail from different regions of Remnant. The team is comprised of four musicians named Cygnette ("Cott") Lake, Ochre Lancelin, Thorne Peredur and Nericcia ("Neir") Faye. The four are registered under Haven Academy, but currently attend abroad programs that involve traveling to Vale and Vacuo.

This RWBY fan-team has been created/drawn by BloodyRosalia on deviantArt. This is her second team, with Team SYRA being her first.

Each member is a well-known or upcoming instrumentalist in his or her own respective field of music. However, each individual has different reasons for becoming a Hunter/Huntress rather than pursuing promising careers in the musical arts and entertainment industry.

'''The fourth member is still under development and is predicted to come out before the end of the year (projected to be released late December or early January). Information and fullbody art on the first three members can be found in the links and descriptions below. '''

Theme
"Clear as crystal, she's clean as a whistle,

Orange and yellow, he fiddles with all fellows,

Twine thick as trees, there's a boy with such brass,

Night nearing ebony, the noblest strums for none."

"Not the most finely-tuned ensemble I have been a part of, but I suppose...as a band of fighters, we'll do."

- Cygnette ("Cott") Lake, on the matter of her team.

Members
''Nericcia's art will be up when it is. Keep an eye out on the team creator's gallery for it!''

Allusions & Trivia
The team has multiple motifs beyond music.
 * First motif: Town Musicians of Bremen, which is a story by the Brothers Grimm.
 * The order of the members of the team are the orders of the animals in the story from the lightest to the heaviest: Rooster/Cott, Cat/Ochre, Dog/Thorne, Donkey/Neir.
 * Although a rooster can't necessarily fly, it's the only bird mentioned in the tale. Cott is capable of sustaining mid-air movement. Her flute can also create the most irritating noise with its range.
 * Ochre, a weasel-like Faunus, is referred to as a cat for his ability to walk (rather than climb) on walls.
 * Besides being the most loyal, Thorne is also the most dependent of the team. Out of his team, he is most akin to a hunter and tracker.
 * Neir, a Faunus, originally had a donkey-like tail. She now wears a brush-like accessory on her side that has an appearance of a tail.
 * The children's game "Pin the Tail on the Donkey" alludes to her use of this accessory.
 * Second motif: Arthurian Legend, however only certain characters from this legend were selected. The last names of each member in the team represents one such character.
 * Cygnette Lake refers to the Lady of the Lake; she, as the leader, is the most graceful and has the strongest work-ethic.
 * Ochre Lancelin references to Sir Lancelot; he has the most trouble with women and is quite popular.
 * Thorne Peredur alludes to Sir Percival; being opposite of Ochre, Thorne remains far from romance and is more loyal.
 * Nericcia Faye is based off of Morgan le Fay; she is most reliant on dust and could be considered a sorceress if not for her weapon.
 * Third motif: Music genres. Each member represents a different genre of instrument and music.
 * Cott covers classical music and wields a woodwind instrument, the flute. Her semblance deals with wind and movement.
 * Ochre covers jazz music and uses a string instrument, an electric violin. His semblance involves mobility on walls and transitioning from one platform to another...much like chord progression.
 * Thorne represents folk and other ancient types of music as he holds a modified war horn of Roman descent, a brass instrument. His semblance circles around nature, coincidentally invoking the romantic nature of song/music.
 * Neir owns a guitar to symbolize the acoustic instruments as well as pop/rock and other contemporary genres of music. Her semblance involves weight and immobility, as a play on the words "heavy metal."
 * Fourth motif: Fabric/Cloth types.
 * Cott's name itself obviously resembles the team name, "cotton." She has a hair accessory based on it.
 * The upper design on Ochre's suit uses a thin material called "organdy." It's silk-like in nature and easy to wrinkle.
 * Thorne's cape is rough and composed of a woven material called "tweed."
 * Neir's longboots are flexible and uses nylon to achieve this.
 * Other, lesser motifs are listed under the individual pages for the character artworks in the creator's dA gallery.

Development
This team was originally planned to be called Team ARIA, with the four members being based on types of song pattern/schemes. their original names also shaped by this. (ex. Ayre, Rondeau, Idyll, Anthem as names) However, this was not a color-based team, thus it was changed to "Cotton," and consequently the names of the members were changed to better suit Monty Oum's character creation guide.

Unlike BloodyRosalia's first team, Team SYRA, which was based on traits of her friends from school, Team COTN was inspired by just her short career as a musician/composer/transcriber at school. With schematics from the old plans for team ARIA, each member represents a position in the music-performing system: Cott is the conductor, Ochre is the concertmaster, Throne is the composer, and Neir the instrument technician.

The third member was originally planned to utilize a weapon based off of a lyre/harp, but to avoid colliding with the Greek influence already on the main RWBY series, this was changed so that he now represents the brass instruments instead.

The development of this team and its creation began in November, 2014.

Gallery
Since this team is rather new, the fullbody concept art and such shall be listed here rather than in individual wikia pages. These are drawn and designed by BloodyRosalia from dA.