Russel Thrush

Russel Thrush is a student of Beacon Academy, and a member of Team CRDL. His weapon appears to be a pair of daggers.

Appearance
Russel is a slim boy of average height. He stands at the same height as all of his teammates except for Cardin. His head is shaved with a light-green mohawk on the top of it.

He wears a hoodie with the sleeves cut off, and two bracers on his arms extending from the wrist to just below the elbow. These bracers have a silver-colored crescent design printed on it.

Beneath the hoodie, Russel wears a pale-green, long-sleeved shirt. He wears a brown strap around his chest holding a spiked spaulder to his left shoulder. He also wears dark-gray pants. His boots seem to be made of a thick brown material and go up to his knees.

Personality
Although he has not had a substantial speaking role, Russel can be seen as a "school bully", just like his leader Cardin, where he calls Velvet Scarlatina a freak because of her rabbit ears.

Just like his team, Russel is seen to be a coward, as he fled from an attacking Ursa.

Trivia

 * He is named after a family of birds called turdidae or, more commonly, thrushes.
 * The English name Russel also means "red."
 * He was originally going to be named "Russell Crow", but this was changed, due to it being too similar to Qrow, and that the name might be mistaken with Russel Crowe, an actor and musician.
 * His bracers each bear the symbol of his namesake.
 * He is the only member of his team that does not wear full body armor.
 * Russel stars in an official non-canon video, That's a Big Ursa. The video consists of Thrush dancing to a heavily auto-tuned version of his lines from Episode 14. This makes him one of two characters to appear in an official non-canon video; the other character being Jaune Arc.
 * This video appears as an Easter Egg on the RWBY Volume 1 DVD. It can be accessed by going to episode selection and holding up while on Chapter 1 for about 3-5 seconds, followed by enter/select, depending on the remote control.