Velvet Scarlatina

Velvet Scarlatina is a Faunus, as well as a student of Beacon Academy.

Appearance
Velvet is a small girl with long brown hair and brown eyes. She also has a pair of long, brown rabbit ears, making her easily identifiable as a Faunus.

Personality
Velvet is a very shy and quiet girl that tends to keep to herself, either by choice or because she is isolated by others for being a Faunus. Even when being picked on by others, she tends to act very reserved and refuses to fight back, either by fear, or by choice. One can say that she is very timid.

Later, when Dr. Oobleck asked if anyone had been discriminated against for being Faunus, she was hesitant to even raise her hand, and only did so after seeing another member of the class raise their hand first. Monty describes her as having modest fashion tastes.

Abilities & Powers
According to Monty, Velvet is an extremely adept mage with skills highly valued by her teammates, as well as having a significant amount of experience in working with her team in the battlefield but never mentions if her team actually value her.

She is agile, athletic and fast on her feet. It is possible that Velvet has excellent night vision and hearing, as this is stated to be a common characteristic of Faunus.

Trivia

 * Her name and appearance are most likely a reference to the story The Velveteen Rabbit, while her surname may refer to the color scarlet, a shade of red. It could also refer to the fact that the boy in The Velveteen Rabbit was sick with scarlet fever, which is sometimes called 'scarlatina' in older literature.
 * She is the first confirmed Faunus to appear in the series outside of a Vale News Network broadcast. Blake Belladonna is also a Faunus and appeared prior to Velvet, but was not revealed to be a Faunus until Episode 15.
 * She is the only character in school uniform during Episode 11.
 * Being a student at Beacon, Velvet should be part of a team of four, much like Teams RWBY, JNPR, and CRDL. As of yet, she is the only named student whose team has not been named or revealed, though Monty has stated that her team "will show up eventually".
 * Velvet's battle gear was designed by fans as part of a contest held by Rooster Teeth. The winning entry of the contest was announced in the RWBY Volume 2: Production Diary 1 on March 6th, 2014.