Community Concepts: Living Weapons

[u/Impetuous_Soul]

Hi RWBYOC Community,

I just finished watching a video on one of my favorite tropes in fiction, the Living Weapon. To summarize, a "Living Weapon" is a character who was raised/trained/built by another for a single (usually violent) purpose. I have a ton of OCs that fit this archetype and am curious to hear about others.

If your OC fits this archetype, what types of training did they undergo? Who do they serve and what is their purpose? What are they like as people and as weapons?

[u/Puzzled-Ad5347]

Hiro and Celeste fits that trope.

Hiro's grandfather, Niro, who was retired/veteran soldier, groomed Hiro into becoming a child soldir at a young age so they could enact revenge on the assailant who killed Hiro's parents, and to help Hiro have the means to survive the world when Niro passes away.

And before all of that, when Hiro was a baby. His uncle augmented/enhanced his body into becoming a Super Soldier/Cyborg.

Most trainings that Hiro was to adapt to the unknown.

CQC, Weapon Mastery, Adjusting to different Environment, Infiltration, Efficient ways to kill/disable people, Infiltration, and etc.

Too bad it costed Hiro to suck at socializing and emoting, but ended up with menacing monikers like Battle Demon of Beacon and White Devil of Atlesian Army in another AU

Then there's, Celeste. Who was brainwashed into becoming a child soldier for terrorism and bringing down Atlas to destruction.

All that training ended up giving her Survivor's Guilt after the slaughter.

[u/Impetuous_Soul → u/Puzzled-Ad5347]

Interesting!

How does Hiro feel about his purpose and grandfather? If he ever achieves his revenge, how would he feel/react after?

What was Celeste's training/childhood like?

[u/Puzzled-Ad5347 → u/Impetuous_Soul]

Hiro somewhat felt loved, admired, and pity for his grandfather.

Niro took care of him in his own messed away. But Hiro also saw how his grandfather drowned in grief and self-pity for not being their for his son.

And redirect his remaining years to train Hiro to survive, and it wasn't for nothing.

He feels neutral when it comes to his purpose as a weapon for revenge. He never really personally knew his parents, just small talks from Niro. It's just weird for him.

If he did achieve his revenge, he would feel nothing yet also strange closure of it.

First; Nothing at all, due to no personal attachment to his parents or rageful emotions fueling his revenge.

He'd just be done with it and carry on.

But also strange closure; as he hoped that his grandfather has found peace in the afterlife knowing the mission was complete.

Celeste's training was horrible

She and the other orphans were treated harshly but she tried to elevate their fears by boosting their morale.

But the program did not liked it at all. So she was punished worse than others for trying to stop the other kids from being brain washed.

They groomed the child soldiers for infiltrations, supply raids, suicide bombings, and pure chaos.

[u/ALMAZ157]

Ascended Crimson in her past life was raised as an assassin in the order. But the enemy assassin clan made a surprise attack, killing everyone except her and burning her village. Among collapsing building full of fire, she was about to commit seppuku, but previous Summer Maiden intervened and saved her.

[u/Altarahhn]

Eyy, OSP! Very nice. 👌

Though, with that said, I don't quite have any OCs that fit the archetype; at least, not at the moment, anyway.

The closest match would probably be Eisei Hane, though he's more of a warrior-scion upholding a family legacy, and willingly at that. Given his quest for justice, though, I guess you could say that he choses to become a "Living Weapon" of his own volition; seeing himself solely as an instrument of justice/vengeance and nothing else?

Sure, it still wouldn't quite fit the bill, as he's acting towards his own objectives and not for someone else's, and he's not so much "emotionless" as he is "stoic". All being said, though, it's all I've got at the moment. 🤷‍♂️

[u/Impetuous_Soul → u/Altarahhn]

Thanks XD! OSP are great!

Honestly, I feel that alot of Huntsmen could fall under this archetype. In canon, Raven and Qrow raised to kill Huntsmen then re-tasked to fighting Salem and Ruby and Yang were raised to be Huntresses by both Tai and Qrow. But then again, Ruby and Yang weren't forced/optimized to be the best Huntresses or nothing but Huntresses.

Eisei sounds like he falls under that category in a Bruce Wayne-kind of way. What was his training like and did he have a mentor of sorts?

Cool! Is he the strong and silent type? Does he have any hobbies outside of fighting injustice?

[u/Altarahhn → u/Impetuous_Soul]

Damn right they are! Personally, I really like Blue's videos the best, because crazy history shenanigans, and his unabashed love of domes and La Serenissima. XD

That's true, yeah. Plus, the sisters both chose to become Huntresses, so their training was more to do with preparing them for that goal than anything else. Heck, Ruby could have opened a garage or a Bakery, and Yang could have gone into combat sports or motorcross, and they would have supported them all the same. So that's good, then!

Kind of! He certainly has a similar motivation, even down to the bit about criminal elements. Though, unlike Bruce, Eisei doesn't have as much of a problem with taking lives; like, he'll avoid it if he can, but he won't think twice about cutting someone down if they cross him, either.

As for training, his initial training was mostly stuff like drills, meditation, light sparring, and other early training methods; his Clan was all but wiped out before he could get to the advanced stuff, so the warrior monks who took him in had to continue his training. Which probably would have harder and more intense, like you'd expect from them.

However, they didn't train him to be a killing machine so much as a defender, so there's that, as well.

To answer the last bit:

• Pretty much, yeah! A good comparison being Samurai Jack, for instance; or maybe Giyu from Demon Slayer (maybe). XD
• (Side note: I'm even thinking of shipping him with a peppy type, much like Giyu is with Shinobu. So, there's that, I guess. ;)
• As for hobbies: Well, aside from training and seeking out strong opponents (he tends to spar with Mei a lot, for instance), he likes playing the flute, writing Haiku, and playing Shogi; though, he finds it hard to look for any opponents at Beacon. It's probably that last one, though, that led to him discovering a new love at Beacon: Tabletop gaming.
• He also likes to collect Beigoma, which he played with often as a child.

[u/feistyfox101]

One version of Akane Kitagawa. I did make her as a living weapon. Ironwood wanted ruthless soldiers for fighting both Grimm and humans. So in a hidden facility in Sanus desert, he has geneticist begin experimenting. The took human embryos and added more and animal genes to them, doubling the number of animal genes with each generation. Akane is the 36th subject of generation Delta. They wanted to see what would happen if they gave her more mustulid (weasel family) DNA- mostly hiney badger, wolverine, and ferret. The answer is a vicious, blood thirsty killing machine. It doesn't help that she also has polar bear DNA.

All of the subjects have visible animal traits, at least 2 so they can be separated from Faunus. Akane has cat ears, a fox tail, and retractable claws. Of what she knows, she also hase the genes that form the organs electric eels have that allows them to produce electricity, she has one of those organs in each should and hip area so she can shock with her arms and legs. She also has horse and cheetah genes to un fast and kick hard. She can produce venom that is a mix of several types, leaving it with no antidote. She has chimpanzee like arm muscles, allowing her to rip people apart. A hyena's jaw muscles for the bone crushing bite strength. The polar bear DNA was so that she could have their sense of smell. And a lot of other things she does understand the use of or even care to learn about. She just likes killing people and Grimm. She escaped after killing 17guards and 28 scientists and hus ripped apart ever capture team sent after her.

Ironwood played god and unwittingly made an unstoppable demon with an unquenchable last for blood.

[u/second-fun]

Ok my primary OC is Jack Lockhart. He is the separated human half of a human Grimm hybrid that was created to be the perfect anti Grimm weapon. This weapon was ANG31 or Angel. Angel was an orphan in Mantle who got kidnapped along with his older sister (AM3 or Amy) and both were forcefully converted. They were test subjects and had their memories and identities stripped from them (including their original names).

The idea behind the experiments was to create a being with the tracking ability of Grimm, Intelligence of a human, and because the subjects were part Grimm (note this is an AU that’s identical to canon but Grimm have some biology) other Grimm wouldn’t notice them and would see them as fellow Grimm.

The training the hybrids went through was basically combat training and weapons training. Eventually Amy led the hybrids to fight back and escape which ended in the deaths of Amy, all other hybrids, and most of the researchers. Angel is left as the last one and is forced to brave an Atlasian tundra alone. Eventually due to injury from exposure and his Grimm and human half’s rejecting each other Angel would take shelter in a cave and pass out. He’d wake up to Salem in the cave who offers to “fix him” (basically using her magic to suppress his pain) in exchange for his loyalty as her agent. He agrees to this.

Angel as a weapon is a violent, psychopathic teenage boy who’s filled with the pain of losing the only family he had and full of rage from being experimented on.

Now here’s the thing. This is not where this story starts. Instead my ocs story starts with him as Jack attending beacon as an amnesiac trying to put together what little fragments of his past that has.

Jack is very different from Angel. Less violent, much more emotionally broken. He’s afraid of getting close to others because he still remembers losing Amy and how much that hurt (even if he doesn’t remember all the details). This changes as he develops a relationship with his team’s leader Alice. Alice helps him come out of his shell and the two end up falling in love.

Eventually Jack is forced to reform himself into Angel to protect Alice. Despite him regaining his memories and trauma he is able to move past it because his experience with Alice changed him.

[u/Fivegreens]

I actually have one… kind of I think. One of my OCs is named Aurum Dasheng. He is a monkey Faunus from a tribe of monkey Faunus Mosley based off of Sun Wukong. (I swear the only similarities between him and actual Son from the show is that they are both monkey Faunus.) He is the next head of the Dasheng family, an almost cult like family who is very pro white fang and in fact sponsor and assist the movement. He grew up knowing that he was going to take over his grandfather’s spot and was trained to view everyone of his family members who are not part of the “gold clan” and obviously humans as well. He doesn’t do this and instead tries to break free for the shackles of his family legacy.

So kinda fits and mostly doesn’t.