#xia chenglong

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Here's art of a younger ChengLong and Narange!

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Concept art for RNBW!

When Rusty first meets ChengLong, it's the first time the leader of Team RNBW matches up against someone bigger than her. ChengLong very easily demolishes the young Huntress with heavy and precise blows, without even having to use her weapon or her Semblance!

I wanted this scene to be quite reminiscent of the part of Infinity War where Thanos tactically beats down the Hulk. And the drawings themselves used panels from the PuriPuri Prisoner Vs DeepSea King fight in One Punch Man as reference!

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Finally in digital color- the main villain of RNBW: Xia ChengLong (pronounced “Sia Chung Loang”)

(Xia is her last name, because that’s how Chinese works. Could you imagine if anyone at RT was dumb and careless enough to give a character a one-syllable first name and two-syllable surname? Or even worse, two syllables for both? Man, that would be embarra-sing, especially if that character was a main protagonist with no Chinese affiliation whatsoever!)

I know it’s a bit cheesy to make a Dragon Faunus OC have two animal traits because of how “special” they are, but it’d feel wrong to not honor the dragon of the zodiac like that.

ChengLong was a Faunus general in a massive civil war that took place in Remnant thousands of years ago, specifically in the era before Ozma was reincarnated the first time. Through cryogenic statis, she has now re-awakened in the modern day to rejoin the pro-Faunus movement, now the White Fang, and to fully dismantle the human government of Remnant.

Name origin: “Xia” comes from the first recorded Chinese dynasty, and it coincidentally means “Summer” too! “ChengLong” is just Jackie Chan’s Chinese name- it “Long” means “Dragon” and “Cheng” is homonymous with the Chinese word for orange too!

Height: 8ft Tall

Gender: Female

Influence: The dragon of the Chinese Zodiac

Personality: Despite having an intense hatred of humans for razing her village in her youth, she still has enough compassion to want to minimalize civilian and Faunus deaths as much as possible. She feels a sort of sadness in the fact that so many modern Faunus have accepted the status quo of human privilege.

Weapon: She wields a meteorite blade that amplifies her flame semblance. When swung, it generates a delayed yet immensely powerful slash over long distances.

Semblance: Thermokinesis. She has full control of temperature and flame, able to shoot powerful jets of flame, manifest fireballs in thin air, superheat metal into liquid, increase the temperature of an area, and even absorb the temperature out her surroundings to a freezing cold level.

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Since I haven't posted a digital colored version of them ever, here's the admins of the White Fang's Zodiac group, with Adam and a bunch of my OCs!

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Dragon Lady (S) meets Dragon Lady (XXL)

My OC ChengLong meets @astroma-arts ' OC, Flare!

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RNBW Vol 3c Episode 3!

Sorry for the delay! A lot of things have been going on- with actual RWBY, with my studies, and with the world as a whole. I may have to set up another hiatus in a few weeks but I’ll try my best to get this series wrapped up asap!

Episode 3:

·        Ori catches Nappa up on their recent projects, as they walk past something covered by a giant tarp.

·        Icter and Ori introduce themselves to each other.

·        Ori says she can track ChengLong by observing global heat spikes via the mini satellites they set up. A ping gets set off in Mistral.

·        ChengLong asks Team ROYL to peacefully return her sword. They refuse. “We’re Huntresses. Killing monsters is what we do.”

·        ChengLong opens her attack with a huge burst of fire, but Robin, leader of Team ROYL blows it back with her Reflect semblance, catching ChengLong off guard

·        Robin tells her teammates to attack in formation.

·        Orchid manages to bind ChengLong up in her energy ribbons, but another blast of flame forces her to let go. Yucca and Lavender start wailing on Chenglong, but she bats them aside.

·        ChengLong is caught off guard by a powerful lance strike from Robin, knocking her back.

·        ChengLong dashes at Robin to punch her behind the shield, but Lavender uses her Damage Transfer semblance to pass her and Yucca’s Aura damage onto ChengLong, shattering her Aura. ChengLong recoils from the sudden shock and pain of this.

·        As Team ROYL pummels an Aura-less ChengLong, she flashes back to memories of losing her home, losing her troops, all the humans who have oppressed and taken from her.

·        Orchid binds ChengLong’s arms again, holding her in place. Robin turns her lance into a grenade launcher and fires several shots, but ChengLong perks back up from rage and breathes fire at them, blowing them up early and knocking Robin back.

·        As the fight goes on, the surrounding temperature gets higher and higher, draining Team ROYL’s stamina. They really feel it once ChengLong actually mentions this aloud.

·        Yucca goes to revert Robin’s injuries with her Reverse semblance. Lavender slashes at ChengLong to give them cover, landing a few good stabs, but ChengLong grabs Orchid’s ribbons and hurls her at Lavender.

·        Unbound, ChengLong sprays fire at both pairs of huntresses. Orchid dodges barely, Lavender is blasted back and knocked out, and Yucca reverts the fire’s combustion before it hits her and Robin, who has mostly recovered.

·        ChengLong releases a wave of fire to drive the huntresses back and goes for the sword.

·        Orchid uses her ribbons to pull it away, and Robin lands another powerful lance thrust in ChengLong’s abdomen, halting her with a huge puncture wound in her side.

·        ChengLong prepares another flame blast and Robin puts her Reflect up again, but ChengLong shoots it at an angle this time so the ricochet hits Yucca, taking her out.

·        Angered, Orchid lashes at ChengLong, whipping her with all four of her ribbons.

·        Try as she may, she doesn’t have enough ribbons or time to bind ChengLong’s arms, legs, and wings. Regardless, ChengLong breathes another concentrated jet of flame at Orchid, fazing her long enough for ChengLong to dash within range and chokeslam Orchid, taking her out too.

·        ChengLong then retrieves her sword. With a dramatic beat, the moment she grabs it a rush of power flows through her, and all the flames in the area change from orange to blue.

·        ChengLong quickly deflects another grenade shot at her by Robin, the last huntress standing.

·        Robin says she’s not going down without a fight.

·        ChengLong calmly states that it doesn’t matter how much Aura Robin has left. Aura can’t protect a person’s insides. She raises an arm at Robin and concentrates, as the blue flames around them start to burn an even brighter white.

·        Right as Robin is trying to process what this means, she stops. Something’s wrong. Robin drops to the ground as smoke pours from her mouth and nose. We hear flames crackling nearby but don’t see any until fire erupts from Robin’s face and she lets out an agonized scream.

·        Now at her full strength and reunited with her sword, ChengLong has full control of her combustion Semblance. The heat and flames she makes don’t have to shoot out from her body. She can make a tree burst into flames on its own, summon an individual fireball 20ft away, or… create fire inside the bodies of others. It no longer matters how much Aura anyone has, because now ChengLong can burn them to a crisp from the inside out.

·        Robin drops, motionless and smouldering, as ChengLong flies away.

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RNBW Vol 3c Episode 1: The Imperial Race

Happy Chinese New Year, everyone! In the spirit of the Zodiac, Vol 3c premiers with a flashback episode to the origins of the White Fang Zodiac group, specifically the origins and backstory of their leader, Xia ChengLong!

·        Flash back thousands of years ago.

·        A Faunus village is being burned down by human attackers.

·        A baby girl with tiny wings and horns is passed to a young Faunus man who runs off to safety.

·        Flash-forward 17 years and a teenage Narange and his other Faunus friends are running through the jungle, being pursued by human hunters.

·        When they get cornered, a teen ChengLong shows up and scares the hunters away.

·        She asks her friends why they keep stealing from the humans.

·        They show her their stolen loot and while ChengLong is impressed, she reiterates that human-faunus relations are already bad and shouldn’t be made worse.

·        Narange says he doesn’t think they’ll ever be good.

·        ChengLong and friends return to their Faunus village located in the centre of a large asteroid crater.

·        Walking through town, they greet many of the residents by name.

·        When they get to ChengLong’s place, her adoptive father and village elder reprimands Narange and his friends for their recklessness.

·        ChengLong defends them and ensures they don’t get punished too harshly.

·        At dusk, she goes to hang out with her friends by the crater’s edge.

·        Days later, ChengLong is walking through the jungle when she hears a ruckus far off.

·        Going to investigate, she sees that a bunch of Grimm are attacking a human city.

·        The city’s human army is struggling against the Grimm, until ChengLong decides to step in and help, and we see her fight for the very first time.

·        After the Grimm are defeated, the people of the city cheer ChengLong for her work, but their general, Yagaan, is offended that she thought her help was needed and tells her to leave, much to the townsfolk’s dismay.

·        She laughs this off and heads back.

·        When she gets back, she eagerly tells her friends and family that it’s possible to be liked by the humans.

·        Back in the human town, Yagaan expresses how he feels it speaks poorly for them to rely on Faunus help, and how the loss of faith this will cause in their citizens will eventually lead to civil disruption.

·        The other members of the government are on the fence but tell him that the obvious solution is just to find a better way to deal with the Grimm.

·        Over the next few months, ChengLong has taken to being a hero of the people, going from town to town to kill Grimm and redistribute the food and money she gets as thanks.

·        Yagaan is more and more upset at her success throughout this montage.

·        We see ChengLong after another recent victory, happily chatting with townsfolk of all races.

·        She takes off into the air with her wings and prepares to head home.

·        But as she gets closer, she sees an unsettling amount of smoke coming from the crater.

·        She flies there as fast as she can and arrives to see the village has been burnt to the ground.

·        Even worse, the panic of the villagers have attracted enough Grimm to burst through a weak point in the crater wall, broken open by cannon fire.

·        ChengLong tries to fight off the Grimm and rescue the villagers, but there’s too many.

·        Back in the human city, Yagaan stands before the citizens and points to the smouldering Faunus village, saying that the Grimm are attracted to the Faunus for being an “unclean” race, and that humans should avoid contact with them.

·        As the last wave of Grimm descends on ChengLong and her friends, she unlocks her Semblance and a powerful jet of flame shoots from her hand, incinerating all the Grimm.

·        Yagaan returns to the city council, who commend his plan to divert the Grimm away from the humans, which will eventually be expanded to other Fanus settlements around the continent.

·        A devastated ChengLong looks through the wreckage to find survivors, but to her horror, she finds her adoptive father, dead.

·        Slowly filling with rage, she vows to her friends that she will make the humans pay.

·        Flash forward to years later. Metal from the meteorite in the Faunus village centre is being forged together with Dust crystals into a large blade in the shape of a dragon’s wing.

·        An adult ChengLong is using her flames to stoke this forge and tests the sword with a swing.

·        The combined strength of her and the sword lets her slice apart obstacles dozens of feet away.

·        She meets with her allies to discuss plans for the Faunus resistance.

·        They mention that the other 11 factions are preoccupied but the estimate meetup date is within a month.

·        At the border of a walled human city, many Faunus refugees are being turned away by the guards.

·        Suddenly, ChengLong flies by and uses her sword to slice down the wall at several points, letting the refugees in. Her allies distribute supplies to them too.

·        Montage of ChengLong and her 11 generals of the Chinese Zodiac providing relief to impoverished Faunus and warring against human forces. Their main logo is a dragon version of what would eventually become the White Fang Logo

·        We also see ChengLong get more and more used to using her flame powers during this montage.

·        Eventually the human and Faunus armies both arrive at a large seaside plain.

·        ChengLong reiterates to Yagaan that she only wants the humans to leave the Faunus alone.

·        Yagaan replies that too much blood has been shed at this point, and ChengLong solemnly agrees.

·        The two armies charge into battle, ChengLong flying right for Yagaan in his battalion of DaVinci-style tanks.

·        Dodging his tank shells, she eventually destroys it and he crawls out to continue fighting.

·        He attempts to call out her hypocrisy as they swordfight, but she’s had enough and simply melts his armor to his skin, the tank, and the ground, sealing him alive.

·        Just as ChengLong’s forces look like they’re winning, the military forces of Mantle arrive from the sea with powerful Dust cannons and other weapons.

·        They coldly dispatch ChengLong’s forces in massive numbers.

·        Just before Narange gets hit with a cannon blast, ChengLong dives in to take the hit, shielding him. Her sword gets blown away in the blast.

·        Furious and broken, ChengLong unleashes a massive blast of flame at the Mantle forces, destroying a good chunk of them.

·        With the last of her strength, she carries Narange and flies off.

·        They take shelter in a large Faunus temple, lost on what to do next.

·        ChengLong tells Narange that she doesn’t want to prolong a war that will only produce more casualties than change.

·        After a bit of thinking, she gets an idea, and tells Narange her plan.

·        Heading to the lower chamber of the temple, ChengLong tells Narange that the ideal moment for her return will be when human infrastructure is collapsing from civil conflict.

·        She infuses a dragon talisman with her aura and passes it to Narange.

·        Narange is shocked at this plan but agrees to it, as they agree to spend the following days preparing to enact it.

·        On the fated day, ChengLong and Narange have returned to the temple and exchange tearful goodbyes. She heads to the temple’s lower chamber and absorbs all the heat in the room, cryogenically freezing herself.

·        Soon after, Narange heads to another chamber in the temple and activates his time dilation semblance, accelerating time forward by millennia while he only ages a few decades.

·        Only when we reach the near-modern day, does Narange awaken and venture into the world to see a young Sienna and Ghira at a protest, does he smirk and realise the time of the Faunus will soon arrive. He walks over to join them.

·        Back in the present day, Narange is standing beside ChengLong as he and the rest of the Zodiac depart from the bullheads. He tells her he’s glad to have her back. She says she’s glad to be back.

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Huevember Day 22: Xia ChengLong!

Huevember character trivia: RWBY hasn’t revealed the origins of the Faunus yet, but I like to think that being a dragon Faunus automatically gives ChengLong stronger physicality, and 2 different animal traits instead of just 1 (The horns and the wings)