May Marigold


 * For the member of Team BRNZ, see May Zedong.In case what? Oh, funny. That's why we're here! So feel free to take a hike.

May Marigold is a member of Robyn Hill's Happy Huntresses. She made her debut in "Sparks". She is a cousin to Henry Marigold.

Appearance
May is a fair-skinned woman with medium blue hair, a long ponytail, and yellow eyes. She wears a tan jacket over a grey shirt and brown pants. She also wears an orange scarf and a brooch with the Happy Huntresses' emblem on the right of her coat. May wears brown gloves and silver gauntlets over her arms.

Personality
May has a direct and confrontational personality, having no qualms against being aggressive towards Atlesian personnel such as Marrow Amin. She appears to show both distrust and disdain towards the military. However, around the Happy Huntresses, May shows a more positive side to her personality, being supportive of Robyn's political aspirations and displaying loyalty towards her, to the point of being willing to use both legal and illegal means to accomplish her goals.

History
May was born a Male, and at some point before his appearance he started identifying as a girl, and went under hormonal therapy and surgery to gain a female look, changed his name & started using female pronouns.

Prior to the start of the series, May attended and graduated as a top student from Atlas Academy. Rather than joining the military, she decided to help Robyn Hill pursue a career as a politician in Mantle.

In "Sparks", while Robyn Hill and Fiona Thyme blocked a barricade in the tundras of Solitas, she had been waiting for the vehicle that Ruby Rose, Penny Polendina, Clover Ebi and Qrow Branwen were riding in, in order to find out why large sources of Dust were being transported to Amity Colosseum. After a stand-off, the Happy Huntresses agreed to let them through, deciding they would find out why all the Dust is being transported to Amity, no matter what it took.

Powers and Abilities
May is a skilled fighter as one of Atlas Academies' top graduates. Through an unknown method, May is able to turn herself seemingly invisible, being capable of sneaking on others without being detected.

Her weapon is one of the Happy Huntress' standardized weapons; two bladed crossbows connected by a staff.

Trivia

 * On December 17th, 2019 a tweet from May's voice actress stated that she is the first onscreen transgender character in RWBY.
 * The name "May" is another name for the hawthorn flower, which comes in various colors.
 * Marigold is a yellow-orange flower.