Team JNPR

JNPR (pronounced "Juniper") was a team of students at Beacon Academy. In "Players and Pieces", the team had its first fight together against a Death Stalker.

Later in the same episode, the team was officially formed. During initiation, the team brought back the White Rook pieces.

With the death of Pyrrha in "End of the Beginning", this team is now disbanded. However, the three remaining members continue to work together, along with Ruby Rose, former team leader of the similarly disbanded Team RWBY.

Team Attacks

 * Flower Power (Nora + Ren)
 * Arkos (Jaune + Pyrrha): Described as "that thing, when we take our shields...?" by Jaune

Trivia

 * The members of Team JNPR allude to characters who are said to have disguised themselves as the opposite gender in their original stories.
 * Jeanne d'Arc, upon whom Jaune Arc is based, is known to have disguised herself as a man.
 * Achilles, upon whom Pyrrha Nikos may be based, is said to have disguised himself as a red-haired girl, assuming the name Pyrrha upon doing so.
 * Thor, upon whom Nora Valkyrie may be based, disguised himself as the goddess Freyja to infiltrate the giant Þrymr's fortress and retrieve his hammer, Mjölnir.
 * Hua Mulan, upon whom Lie Ren may be based, disguised herself as a man, in order to serve in the army in place of her aging father.
 * JNPR (Juniper berries, blue) is a possible allusion to Rooster Teeth's other series, Red vs. Blue, when compared to their rival Team RWBY (Ruby, red gemstone).
 * Juniper bushes are also known to turn bright yellow, which helps to explain its connection to leader Jaune (as with Ruby to RWBY, Cardin to CRDL, and Coco to CFVY).
 * Team JNPR's members' fighting styles are based on archetypical warriors from a different culture: Jaune's is Frankish/Norman, Pyrrha's is Greco-Roman, Ren's is East Asian, and Nora's is Nordic.
 * Team JNPR is the only group to be made up of names that each lends itself phonetically to the team name: Jaune, No(ra), Pyrrha or Pyr(rha), Ren.
 * On November 6th, 2014, Monty Oum discovered that he was allergic to juniper.