The various characters found in Team RAIN.
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Team RAIN
Robin Lincoln
Robin Lincoln
The Leader of Team RAIN, born into a somewhat nomadic family that rules over the easternmost swampland of Anima. Despite lack of social skills, Robin is overly confident and doesn't hide her feelings. Raised to hunt animals by her parents, she transferred her natural skill into becoming a huntress and is fairly renowned for her strong instincts.
- Action Girl: Naturally, as a huntress, but her upbringing plays into this too.
- Affectionate Nickname: Marron calls her "Bug".
- Break the Cutie: Between the ongoing angst of Nyssa abandoning them and everything that went down at Knothole, she's an emotional wreck.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Robin's lack of social skills makes her one of these.
- Country Mouse: Robin comes from the far eastern swampland of Anima.
- The Ditz: It seems people have to go over the same thing several times for Robin to understand it, or Akane has to translate it to layman's terms for her.
- The Exile: She was kicked out of her clan at the ripe age of fourteen for having aura.
- Eyepatch of Power: Starts wearing one in Arc 3 after losing an eye.
- Eye Scream: Loses an eye protecting Marron from Kamala's shot at Knothole. Later strips show the eye's still there, but it's ruined beyond all use.
- Half-Identical Twins: To Tobin. The resemblance becomes more acute when Robin starts wearing an eyepatch too, though on the other side as Tobin.
- The Leader: Robin is the leader of team RAIN.
- Plucky Comic Relief: Until the events of Arc 2.
- We Used to Be Friends: She's the only one in RAIN who refuses to want anything to do with Nyssa after the latter returns to the team, blaming her absence for the deaths of her family members and her injuries.
Akane Amaranth
Akane Amaranth
Akane is the second member of Team RAIN, and something of a second-in-command to Robin. In contrast to Robin, Akane is strict and driven by her head instead of her heart, which helps when her leader needs to be reminded to focus. Akane is the eldest child of the prestigious Aramanth family, but is a competent fighter in her own right.
- Action Girl: Comes with being a huntress.
- Cannot Tell a Lie: Her Semblance works even when she lies, so she is physically unable to lie.
- Idiot Hair: Loses it in Arc 2.
- Japanese Politeness: Akane tends to speak formally, avoiding apostrophes.
- The Lancer: To Robin.
- Living Lie Detector: Her semblance lets her know when someone is lying. Note that it only works when they're intentionally being deceptive, they can tell falsehoods all the livelong day and she'll be none the wiser if they believe what they're saying.
- Long Hair Is Feminine: Akane is arguably the most feminine of Team RAIN, and has hair down to her waist.
- Odd Friendship: Develops one with Akane.
- Wrecked Weapon: Her weapon gets smashed by Gardner during their fight at Knothole.
Irving Hawthorne
Irving Hawthorne
Irving is the third member of Team RAIN and commonly regarded as the muscle. Normally quite calm and collected, often acting as a voice of reason, Irving does possess a nasty temper.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Irving is usually fairly calm, but possesses a bad temper when pushed too far.
- The Big Guy: Irving is the tallest and heaviest on Team RAIN, 9 inches taller than the next tallest member of the team, Akane.
- Dual Wielding: He picks up a secondary weapon in Arc 3 in the form of a hybrid pistol-hatchet.
- Extra Oredinary: He can transform himself partially or entirely into metal.
- Gentle Giant: He is often the calmest of Team RAIN, next to Akane.
- Ship Tease: With Nyssa. This is further developed when they go on a date in Arc 3 and talk through the events that led up to her abandoning the team. Though it leads up to them considering a relationship, he agrees that they take it slow before that point.
Nyssa Noirette
Nyssa Noirette
The fourth and final member of Team RAIN, Nyssa is the worst off of the bunch. She isn't as experienced in combat as the others - she thinks she drags them down - and her whole reason for joining Haven Academy was to pay for her mother's medical bills. Despite the other members' support, she suffers from poor self esteem.
- Astral Projection: What her semblance amounts to. With the right dust, she can become solid while doing so and use it to land hits without endangering herself.
- Disappeared Dad: Nyssa is the child of a single mother.
- Important Haircut: After having her talk with Jin-Shi about her worsened self-confidence issues from leaving her team, and the Fall of Beacon, she decides to shorten her hair and wear it in bangs.
- Little Bit Beastly: She's a faunus with the animal trait of canine ears.
- Self-Harm: After the fall of Beacon, she gets depressed and comes close to cutting her faunus ears off. She luckily doesn't go through with it, but it's clear this isn't the first time she's considered it.
- Ship Tease: Between her and Irving. When she goes on a date with him in Arc 3, she's grateful to him for keeping her company. During their talk after that, she apologizes for leaving and confesses that she likes him, and he reciprocates her feelings. But, knowing that things are still awkward between RAIN, they both decide to hold off on starting a relationship for the time being.
- Shrinking Violet: She's very shy and tends to be insecure.
Antagonists
The Braith Family
Kamala
Kamala Braith
The leader of the Braith siblings.
- Arm Cannon: Her primary weapon is a pair of laser cannons mounted on her forearms.
- Armor-Piercing Attack: Her semblance lets her attacks punch right through auras.
- Ax-Crazy: Without question. There isn't a single moment where she isn't at least on the verge of cracking. All her siblings fear what she’ll do if they upset her.
- Bad Boss: She makes it very clear that she'd kill any of her siblings in a heartbeat if they stop being useful, severely punishes Viola for failure, and implies that she's willing to test the Grimm serum on her family.
- Big Bad: The leader of the Braiths.
- Charged Attack: Her arm cannons need a second to charge up before they fire, which prevents her from using them effectively in melee.
- Color Motif: Red.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Something happened to her and her siblings in the past, and while her full plan has yet to be reveled, it involves human-Grimm hybrids and a lot or murder.
- Dual Wielding: She has a pair of short swords for close combat.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Fitting that she represents wrath. She's extremely hot-headed and will blow up over the smallest things.
- Nothing Is Scarier: Whatever she does to punish Viola is offscreen, but Viola is notably more subdued and nervous in her next appearance.
- Revenge: Her goal is to exact revenge against the world for some wrong taken against her and her siblings.
- Seven Deadly Sins: She represents the sin of Wrath.
- The Sociopath: The only Braith Sibling that fits this without a doubt. She's incredibly violent and lacks remorse for anything she does. Along with that, it's clear that she has manipulated her other siblings into the plan and extremely willing to hurt them as well if they screw up or cease to be useful.
- You Have Failed Me: Viola's screw-up in letting Otso escape wasn't enough to get the (very literal) axe, but it was enough to get herself put at Kamala's not-so tender mercies as punishment.
Gardner
Gardner Braith
- Ax-Crazy: Only when he feeds.
- Badass and Child Duo: The Badass to Tahlia's Child.
- Big Brother Instinct: He doesn't fully agree with Kamala's plan, but if he disobeyed or acted against her, he wouldn't be in a position to protect Tahlia from her as well as he can now.
- Color Motif: Orange.
- The Dragon: While the largest of the Braiths physically, Gardner possesses a certain amount of pull with Kamala suggesting he is in fact some form of second-in-command.
- Emotion Eater: When he feeds on an aura he can pick up the emotions of the subject.
- Facial Horror: When he feeds, his mouth gapes open wide enough to tear his cheeks open in a Glasgow Grin, giving him gruesome appearance.
- Handicapped Badass: He has a debilitating condition that constantly drains his aura. If it weren't for his semblance, he functionally wouldn't have an aura at all.
- Horror Hunger: His semblance instills in him a constant hunger that he must sate by draining the auras of others.
- Seven Deadly Sins: He represents the sin of Gluttony.
Sterling
Sterling Braith
- An Arm and a Leg: Loses his left arm thanks to Robin while his right arm is rendered.
- Attack Its Weak Point: His semblance allows him to identify and exploit weaknesses. It's potent enough to nearly deplete entire auras in one or two hits and harm his enemies simply by blocking.
- Ax-Crazy: Downplayed. He isn't as bad as Kamala, but his first scene shows that he's already on edge.
- The Brute: He's all about fighting and not much else.
- Color Motif: Yellow.
- Fantastic Racism: He clearly doesn't have much regard for faunus.
- Greed: The sin he represents.
- It's All About Me: Ego, thy name is Sterling. He thinks every opportunity is owed to him and gets angry when a battle is easier than he feels it should be.
- Knuckle Cracking: Cracks his knuckles when Kamala puts him in charge of the Crazy Bunch.
- Security Blanket: Shown to possess a teddy bear which he values immensely; so much so that, upon realizing he can no longer feel its touch, he loses his mind and is reduced to a sobbing wreck.
Viola
Viola Braith
- Appearance Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Her semblance lets her change what she looks like to others, though different people see different things.
- Brother–Sister Incest: Not actually carried out, but her decision that she needs to get laid is immediately followed by her calling for Viorel who immediately shuts her down.
- Color Motif: Violet.
- Honey Trap: Uses her wiles on Irving, while posing as Nyssa.
- Lust: The sin she represents.
- Maniac Tongue: She tends to loll her tongue out of her mouth, a trait that becomes more prominent the more excited (and less stable) she gets.
- Ms. Fanservice: She's seductive, incredibly sexual, attractive, and dresses to emphasise her looks.
- Of Corsets Sexy: Part of her attire.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: In her opinion, Viorel is just confused about their identity and needs to get laid to figure it out.
- Shapeshifting Seducer: She uses her semblance to pose as Nyssa to seduce Hawthorne. Unlike most examples it's not actually to seduce him, but to screw with Nyssa.
- You Need to Get Laid: Directed at herself.
Zelena
Zelena Braith
- Color Motif: Green.
- Dual Wielding: She wields twin punch daggers with a ranged laser weapon built in.
- Power Parasite: She can steal the semblances of others and keep them until she steals another.
- Seven Deadly Sins: She represents the sin of Envy.
Viorel
Viorel Braith
Their female and male forms
- Admiring the Abomination: Viorel finds Grimm Serum fascinating more than anything else.
- Color Motif: Indigo.
- The Evil Genius: Viorel seems much less combat oriented than other characters, and is more inclined towards science and manipulation.
- For Science!: They don't really have a purpose for trying to get their semblance to work on other creatures, they just want to see what they can learn.
- Pride: The sin they represent.
- Sex Shifter: Viorel can shapeshift into a different gender, and Viola is unaware of what sex Viorel was born as. They're also experimenting with their semblance to use it on others.
- You Need to Get Laid: Viola thinks they should get laid to figure out their gender, though Viorel doesn't really agree.
Tahlia
Tahlia Braith
The youngest of the Braith siblings.
- Badass and Child Duo: The Child to Gardner's Badass.
- Color Motif: Blue.
- Deflector Shield: Her semblance lets her reflect attacks back at their origin.
- Mecha-Mooks: Rather than fight on her own she relies on a small army of old Atlas combat robots.
- Non-Action Guy: She actively flees combat, relying on her robots and semblance to protect her.
- Sloth: The sin she represents.
Others
Otso Umber
Otso Umber
- Agony Beam: His semblance allows him to inflict excruciating pain without even touching his victim, whether human, faunus, or Grimm.
- The Brute: He's a better fighter than Viorel or Viola, but not as intelligent as either of them.
- Decoy Antagonist: He's set up as the main villain of arc one, with Viola and Viorel introduced as fellow employees of a mysterious backer. As it turns out, the Braiths are the ones in charge and Otso is their hired muscle and test subject.
- Evil Is Bigger: He towers over the other characters at 7'8", and does so even more when mutated by Grimm serum.
- Evil Old Folks: He's the initial antagonist and several years past his prime.
- Eye Scream: Gets both of his eyes shot out by Robin when he's a half-grimm hybrid. It's later shown that this does not get fixed after he changes back, leaving him with a bloodied bandage covering the empty sockets.
- Handicapped Badass: Manages to escape the Braith's base while old, wounded, and blind.
- Painful Transformation: When injected with Grimm serum by Viorel.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: He's not as bad as he is misguided. It's more Viola's fault for manipulating him into thinking that the Grimm serum would restore his youth.
The Knothole Grimm
A Grimm created by fusing multiple types of Grimm together into a symbiotic fusion and unleased by Kamala.
- Monster Lord: Big and strong enough to immediately jump to the position of Alpha over lesser Grimm.
- No Name Given: An official name hasn't been given yet, though a few prototype names include the Usurper, the Tyrant, and the Scourge of Knothole.
- Nothing Is Scarier: It hasn't been seen in full, only a shot of an armor clad arm clawing its way out of a pool of Grimm slime.
- Spell My Name with a "The": All of its prototype names include a "the" on the front.
Mercenaries
Gilroy Flanagan
The leader of a group of mercenaries hired by Viorel as muscle.- Boom, Headshot!: Kamala blows a hole through his head large enough that there's more hole than head left.
- Too Dumb to Live: Gets in a pissing contest with his boss's boss, who is obviously unstable and openly taunting him to try and shoot her. It ends as well as you'd expect.
Bianca Alpin
Gilroy's number two.- You Are in Command Now: Quickly promoted after Kamala blows Gilroy's head off.
Rufus, Finn, Rusty, Don, Mason, Rouge
RAIN's Allies and Families
Team NPIR
Nanako Amaranth
Leader of Team NPIR and Akane's sister.
- Boisterous Bruiser: Very loud, very friendly, and very good in a fight.
- Dash Attack: He semblance lets her speed boost in any direction, allowing her to pull this off.
- Trauma Button: Her childhood home brings back bad memories, and coming face to face with her mother leaves her a meek and obviously traumatized wreck.
Jin-Shi Pan
- Clark Kent Outfit: Jin appears to be of pretty average build - until she casually removes her jacket when her team and Nyssa are about to face Sterling, revealing that she is incredibly musclebound.
- Glass Cannon: Given her muscles and weaponry, it's clear Jin packs a punch - but Sterling takes her out in two hits before she can put them to good use.
- Little Bit Beastly: She's a faunus with a lion tail. Or at least she was before the orphanage that cared for her cut her tail off so she could pass as human.
- Right Through the Wall: She hooks up with Finch after Robin's party. As her team comments the next day, they weren't subtle.
- Summon Magic: Her Semblance lets her summon a spectral lion that she can imbue with the properties of Dust.
- Tattooed Crook: Played with. She's on the side of good now, but she got her tattoos when she was running with a bad crowd.
- You Are Number 6: The orphanage she lived at didn't name the kids, identifying them only by numbers. She was 124.
Isambard Nihtholt
- Dark and Troubled Past: Literally in the case of "dark." When he was young, something happened with a Grimm that left him afraid of the dark.
- Light 'em Up: His semblance lets him glow brightly.
- Science Hero: It's noted several times that Isambard has upgraded his team's weapons and even developed new ones for other characters.
Petra Redwood
- BFS: Her weapon is a huge sword, whose alternate mode just splits off a second, smaller sword (that's also a gun). It's melee or bust.
The Lincoln Clan
Orion
Orion Lincoln
Robin's father and head of the Lincoln Clan.- Action Dad: Orion is the first to throw himself into a battle against the Braith Family.
- Character Death: Killed by Kamala during the battle of Knothole.
- Parents as People: While not as open about it as his wife, Orion clearly harbors regrets over having to exile his daughter, but his position as head of the Lincoln Clan forces him to uphold
Artemis
Artemis Garland
Robin's mother and Lady of the Lincoln Clan.- Parental Favoritism: Artemis clearly favours Robin. Upon returning to Knothole she disregards Wil and Lilli and spends her time exclusively with her first daughter.
- Not Quite Dead: Kamala doesn't kill her, but does injure her to the point of needing life support to use as leverage over Roderick.
- You Shall Not Pass!: Stays back to hold off Kamala so Robin and the others can escape. Whether she survived or not is left uncertain.
Roderick
Roderick Lincoln
Robin's eldest brother and first in line to lead the Lincoln Clan.- BFS: One he can light on fire.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: A slash across his nose and one cheek.
- Not Quite Dead: Kamala didn't kill him, but she did take him as her prisoner.
- You Shall Not Pass!: Stays back to hold off Kamala so Robin and the others can escape. Whether he survived or not is left uncertain.
Wil
Willow/William "Wil" Lincoln
Robin's older brother.- BFS: His weapon.
- Establishing Character Moment: Kills a dangerous Grimm in one attack before insulting everyone in the nearby vicinity.
- Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Not evil, but definitely not the nicest person.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: Shoots Carmine in the head while she's holding Maylis at knifepoint, alluding to his namesake William Tell.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's rude, belligerent, and a bully. He's not without his redeeming qualities, however, as he cares for his family and friends (even if he has a bad way of showing it).
- Odd Friendship: Develops one with Akane and later Jin.
Marina
Marina "Woden" Lincoln
Robin's twin sibling.- Eye Patch Of Power: Played with. She has the eyepatch, but she's pretty shoddy in terms of physical might. Intellectually, on the other hand, she's a powerhouse.
- Half-Identical Twins: To Robin. The resemblance becomes more acute when Robin starts wearing an eyepatch too, though on the other side as Marina.
- Invisibility: Unlocks this as her Semblance in Arc 4. Word of God connects discovering her Semblance with embracing her identity, though implies that her ability may be more than mere Invisibility.
- Super-Empowering: Marron awakens her aura to save her life.
- Trans Nature: In Arc 3, she comes out to Robin that she identifies as female.
Lilliana
Lilliana Lincoln
Robin's sister who hates her guts.- Sibling Rivalry: The first thing she does after seeing Robin for the first time in five years is attack her. It's not clear how much of this is zealotry to the clan's "no aura" rule or if it's personal, though comments indicate she was like this even before Robin left.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: To an extent. Where Robin has her father's brown hair and mother's blue eyes, Lilli has her mother's blonde hair and father's orange eyes. Robin wears green and dark brown, while Lilli wears pink and white. Robin is more of a tomboy, Lilli is notably more feminine.
- Throwing Your Shield Always Works: Tosses it like a Frisbee to start off a fight.
Maylis
Roderick's daughter from a short-lived marriage.
- Break the Cutie: Being forced to flee her home when maniacs invade and kill most of the people you know, including your father, tends to do a number on anyone, much less a child.
Kodiak
A bear faunus who's part of the Lincoln clan.
- Little Bit Beastly: He has bear ears.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Only shows up for a few panels before being killed off-screen by Kamala.
Pitch
Right hand and bodyguard to Lord Lincoln.
- The Faceless: He wears a helmet that he rarely removes, and even at night he covers his face with wrappings. This is because this trope is quite literal after a Grimm mauling, leaving his face largely nonexistent. Or so he says. He eventually takes off his helmet in Arc 3, and while he's certainly scarred, it's clear that's not the only reason he chose to hide his face.
- Little Bit Beastly: The other reason for his helmet. He's a faunus, and the helmet hid his canine ears.
- Number Two: To Lord Lincoln.
- The Quiet One: Recognizes that he's there for his fighting skill, not his opinions, so he doesn't do a lot of chatter. People often forget he's there despite the fact that he's a giant of a man in full plate armor.
- Revealing Skill: He has an aura, a trait hated by the Lincoln Clan.
- 24-Hour Armor: Wil jokes that he wears his armor to the bathroom. From what we see of him, it might not be a joke. Though downplayed, as we later see he does take it off to sleep.
Amaranth Family
Yukiko Amaranth
Yukiko Amaranth
The matriarch of the Amaranth family.- Abusive Mom: Manipulative and abusive to her children, to the point that Akane's Semblance went off when Yukiko said she loved her children.
Aka Amaranth
Aka Amaranth
The patriarch of the Amaranth family.- Parental Neglect: He's not as bad as his wife, but by inaction he allows her abuse to happen.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: When Akane comes to warn him of danger, he listens to her and goes along with her plan to protect the family.
Others
Marron Armona
Marron Armona
Not a student of an academy, but a talented seamstress and Robin's girlfriend.- Lipstick Lesbian: Makes clothes, doesn't fight, and is generally more feminine than Robin.
- Non-Action Guy: She's a civilian, so she doesn't participate in fight scenes. No longer the case as of Arc 3, where she's started training in combat.
- Official Couple: With Robin.
- Support Party Member: No combat skills of her own, but her semblance lets her boost the semblances of others and she knows how to awaken auras, making her an effective support teammate.
Professor Kiefer Hemlock
Kiefer Hemlock
A professor at Haven Academy who specializes in aura and semblances. Finch Vogel
Finch Vogel
An ex-member of the Lincoln Clan and ex-boyfriend of Robin.- Amicable Exes: He still gets along with Robin.
- Right Through the Wall: He hooks up with Jin after Robin's party. As Jin's team comments the next day, they weren't subtle.
- Scarily Competent Tracker: His semblance lets him know the location of anyone he cares about just by thinking about them.
Other Characters
The Sisterhood
Murasaki Morado
Team BRUT
A gang of washed-out huntresses. They staked out a construction site as their turf in Arc 1, and return in Arc 3 as part of the Sisterhood.
- The Bus Came Back: They return in Arc 3 after a significant absence and no sign of their return.
- Logical Weakness: When feeding their auras into Bister's, the other three are left without any of their own.
- Polyamory: They're in a collective relationship.
- Starter Villain: The first antagonists of the comic.
- Villain Forgot to Level Grind: Averted. Bister proclaims they'll train for their next encounter at the end of their first, and Arc 3 proves they did. Getting their weapons back from the ruins of Beacon also helped.
Periwinkle Bister
The ringleader.- Combat by Champion: Her Semblance lets her allies feed their auras into hers, greatly boosting her defensive power. To hurt her, one has to deal four auras worth of damage. As a result, BRUT's typical strategy is to let her serve as their champion against a single enemy.
- Revenge: She does not take being made a fool of lightly. Seeing a group with Nyssa in it is enough to immediately earn her undivided aggression.
Kim Rezar
The muscle.- Blood Knight: Disappointed when a fight ends pre-emptively and threatens to continue it later.
- Carry a Big Stick: Her weapon is Mortal Coil, a baseball bat that can transform into a spiked kanabo.
- Fantastic Racism: Openly anti-faunus and mocks Nyssa at every opportunity.
- Mind over Matter: Her Semblance lets her telekinetically shape and move gold.
Blanche Umber
The brooder.- Navel-Deep Neckline: Her outfit in Arc 3 is open from the neck to her belt.
Tawny Bayardo
The Lunatic.- Artificial Limbs: She has a mechanical left arm from below the mid-humerus.
- Axe-Crazy: Someone didn't know it was your turf? Shatter their kneecaps for being so dumb.
- Blood Knight: She's disappointed that she spends fights boosting Bister instead of doing anything herself.
