- For the member of the Happy Huntresses, see May Marigold.
May Zedong[1] is a member of Team BRNZ. She fought alongside her team against Team JNPR as part of the Vytal Festival Tournament in the episode "New Challengers...".
Appearance
May is a young girl with light tan skin, dusky rose hair and gray-blue eyes.
She wears a red and white jacket over a white shirt with blue tracksuit pants and a distinctive black beanie that covers her left eye. She also wears a large black scarf and red canvas sneakers.
Powers and Abilities
She is integral to the tactics of her team, forcing enemies to seek cover and retreat as her teammates give chase. She also interferes and distracts enemies when her teammates enter into close-quarters combat.
She is highly adept at maneuvering into high locations to gain a better firing position, using her rifle as a climbing axe for leverage. However, she tends to be less effective when deprived of cover and a favorable vantage point.
Unlike the rest of her team, she is not shown entering into close combat with opponents.
History
May and her team are students at Shade Academy, from the kingdom of Vacuo. She journeyed with her team to participate in the 40th Vytal Festival combat tournament, hosted by the kingdom of Vale. They were defeated by Team JNPR of Vale's Beacon Academy in the team round of the tournament.
May and the rest of her team went missing, during the Battle of Beacon, presumed to have been killed in the panic.[2]
Trivia
- She makes a brief cameo appearance at the fairgrounds during "Round One", just before Team RWBY are shown eating.
- The name "May" is another name for the hawthorn flower.
- On the AfterBuzz TV for RWBY Volume 3 Episodes 1 & 2 Review, Miles Luna and Kerry Shawcross stated that her name was Zedong. Miles said, "She's a purple mushroom I think", suggesting a color allusion for her name.[3]
- Miles and Kerry also stated that her name is not related to the Communist Chinese leader Mao Zedong, and the similarity in names was purely coincidental.[4]
References
- ↑ Kerry Shawcross' Twitter
- ↑ RWBY: After the Fall
- ↑ AfterBuzz TV
- ↑ Volume 3 Directors Commentary