Events[]
Battles[]
| Participants | Episode(s) | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Roman vs. Team RWBY | "Painting the Town..." | Retreated |
| Neo vs. Yang | "No Brakes" | Won |
| Neo, Cinder, Mercury and Emerald vs. Unnamed Team | "Round One" | Won |
| Neo and Roman vs. Ruby | "Heroes and Monsters" | Lost |
| Neo vs. Cinder | "The Coming Storm" | Discontinued |
| Neo vs. Oscar and Team JNR | "The Enemy of Trust" | Won (Escaped) |
| Neo, Cinder and Emerald vs. Maria and Penny | "Amity" | Lost |
| Neo and Cinder vs. Team RWBY, Penny and Jaune |
"Worthy" |
Lost (Betrayed) |
| Jabberwalker Clones vs. Team RWBY and Jaune | "The Perils of Paper Houses" | Retreated |
| Neo's Clones vs. Ruby | "Tea Amidst Terrible Trouble" | Lost (Possessed by the Curious Cat) |
| NeoCat vs. Weiss, Blake, Yang and Jaune | Lost (While possessed) |
Background[]
Neo, formerly Trivia Vanille, was born to the Vanille family in the city of Vale. Her father, Jimmy Vanille, was the city manager for the Vale City Council.
RWBY: Roman Holiday[]
Chapter One: Imaginary Friends[]
In the early morning hours of her eighth birthday, Trivia plays tiptoe tag with another, wilder girl named "Neoplitan" through the halls of a dark mansion. As the two play, Neo enters the family room, which she was not allowed to go into. During this, Trivia inadvertently knocks over an expensive Akaibara vase, shattering it, and alerting her parents. When the two arrive – her father, Jimmy, angry and her mother, Carmel, concerned – Trivia finds Neopolitan has vanished, and cuts her hand on a piece of shattered glass. Enraged, Jimmy pulls Trivia out from under the couch by her ankles, shaking her upside down. Jimmy demands her to speak for herself and tell him what happened, but Trivia is only able to produce a rasping sound. Carmel asks her daughter what happened, so the girl uses a communication board to spell out the name "Neo", blaming the other girl.
At this, the two parents argue amongst themselves about their daughter's condition, Jimmy is impatient with her and Carmel says Trivia has an overactive imagination, and that her doctor, Mazarin, told them to give the young girl space. As her father leaves, ranting about the things to provide for his family's wealth and ordering somebody to clean the mess, Carmel sits with Trivia. She asks her daughter if she knows that a friend who does something bad and leaves her to take the blame is a bad friend. She begs Trivia to say something, but when she gets no response, Carmel leaves Trivia in the room to clean up after herself, leaving her alone once more. However, as she looked up, Neopolitan has returned, and convinced Trivia to leave somebody else to pick up the pieces.
Chapter Three: Painting the Town Pink[]
Trivia, with encouragement from Neopolitan, has left her home without permission while her parents Jimmy and Carmel are busy hosting a large party at the Vanille residence. At first, the twelve-year-old feels apprehensive about disobeying her parents, but the dazzling wonder of Vale's commercial district at night and the fact that she'd have just been held up in her bedroom alone quickly overpowered these feelings.
Trivia freely explores the food carts and was enjoying a milkshake when three older girls, Cookie, Mags and Heather, confront her about her heterochromatic eyes. When Trivia is unable to explain to them that she cannot speak and tries to leave, Cookie trips her and ruins her milkshake - and outfit. In retaliation, Trivia uses her Semblance to frighten the trio, and is surprised when they notice Neopolitan, as her friend had not been so clearly visible to others up to that point. Neopolitan punches Cookie in the nose and the illusory girl shatters from the impact, leaving Cookie's nose broken.
The commotion catches the attention of the police, whom Trivia unsuccessfully flees from. After preventing Trivia from falling into a construction site, Officers Arad and Cloud bring her back to her home where her parents' party is still ongoing. Carmel greets them at the door and is shocked to learn that her daughter had snuck out and gotten into a fight. Her mother instructs Trivia to return to her room quietly, but she instead pushes her way into the party when she notices Neo beckoning her inside. With Neo's encouragement, and frustrated with the lack of attention her parents gave her, Trivia uses her Semblance to trash the party and ruin Carmel and Jimmy's evening. However, when Trivia catches sight of her father, she is overcome with fear and halts her rampage. Realizing that she would need to take responsibility for the things Neopolitan goaded her into doing, Trivia prepares to confront her father. He instead motions for her to go to her room, and she follows his silent order.
Chapter Five: Hard Lessons[]
At the Vanille residence, Trivia is being taught dry history by Aurelia, a former combat school teacher hired by her parents as a tutor. While taking a break from the lesson, Trivia offers Aurelia a cup of tea that has been spiked with sleeping pills. Falling for the trick, Aurelia quickly nods off and falls unconscious. After hiding her under the bed covers, Trivia takes Aurelia's appearance with her Semblance and uses it to sneak past her father and leave the estate. Drawing from her experience playing video games, Trivia takes Aurelia's car to Vale for a "shopping spree".
With Neo's encouragement, Trivia uses her Semblance to rob several clothing stores throughout the day, ignoring her father's calls and acquiring a sizable wardrobe of colorful garments that clashed with the clothes her parents provided for her, as well as a cute pink paper parasol.
When Trivia finally returns home in the evening, she is surprised to find that no one is waiting for her at the door. Quietly making her way through the house, she finds her father in his study, who has just finished speaking with the Chief of Police. When he notices her presence she quickly disguises herself as her mother, a ruse he quickly sees through as he has the automatic door close behind her. After revealing that Aurelia had quit as Trivia's tutor, Jimmy explains that he had paid off all the stores Trivia had robbed throughout the day so as to avoid any legal troubles for the family. He then tells her that he will forgive everything she'd done that day if she simply says something, anything, to him; with her voice. She responds by hurling her parasol at him like a javelin, nearly hitting him in the eye and leaving a scar through his eyebrow.
Chapter Seven: Falling Out[]
An 18-year old Trivia, having been locked in her room, attempts to pick a new lock her parents had installed on her bedroom door in order to keep their daughter contained while they were out on business. After becoming frustrated with the lock's stubborn tumblers, and upon Neo's suggestion, Trivia creates a makeshift flamethrower to heat up the lock, inadvertently setting her bedroom on fire. Possessing no means of putting out the blaze, only material to feed it, Trivia leaps out the window and uses her paper parasol to slow her descent. Not able to reinforce the parasol with her Aura for much longer, Trivia lets go hoping that what is left of her Aura will cushion the landing. Instead she is caught in Neo's briefly tangible arms and breaks through them as her Aura reaches critically low levels for the first time. Not wanting Neo to disappear, Trivia uses what little remains of her Aura to keep her Semblance active and her friend close.
Trivia listens as the sirens get closer and waits for her parents to find her. Her mother is concerned about Trivia, but her father seems more worried about the house, and the police that could potentially search the premises – exclaiming that the family could be “ruined,” to Carmel's confusion. When they ask what happened, Trivia gestures towards Neo. Both her parents become enraged, with Carmel striking Neo, shattering the girl - and the last of Trivia's Aura. Trivia breaks down into tears as she is unable to piece her scattered friend back together. Afraid that she may never see her friend again, another voice sounds off in Trivia's head. It was Neopolitan. For the first time, Trivia felt like herself, like she was complete.
After Jimmy declares that he never wants Neo to manifest again, Trivia wordlessly sasses him much to his own astonishment. When her father’s anger rises again, Carmel intercepts before he can strike his daughter as Trivia's body language dares him to try. Her father storms off, and her mother expresses that it is obvious that Trivia does not wish to be a part of the Vanille family anymore. With that, Carmel coldly tells Trivia there's a place they could send her, where she could find friends and become a whole person. This initially excites Trivia, until her mother mentions that she’d also learn to control her Semblance. It seems that rather than offering Trivia freedom, she is moving her into another cell.
Chapter Nine: Arrival[]
Carmel takes Trivia to Lady Browning’s Preparatory Academy For Girls, much to her horror. When she finds Carmel to be largely unresponsive to her calls, Trivia hardens herself. Noting the expressionless faces of the girls and their proper yet unflattering uniforms, Trivia and her mother are led deeper into the academy. There, Trivia meets the headmistress of the prep school, Lady Beatrix Browning, or Lady Beat. The woman's height and posture at first seem imposing to the diminutive Trivia, but Lady Beat's demeanor quickly disarms her. Trivia learns that Carmel had attended this school in her own childhood, and had continued to donate to it since, at which point Trivia remembers the Triscellion pin that her mother wore on special occasions matched those that the students and Lady Beat sport on their lapels. After her mother gives her a warm farewell, which Trivia does not reciprocate, she is welcomed to her new 'home'.
Chapter Eleven: Trivial Pursuit[]
At Lady Browning's Academy, the initial excitement of living away from her parents quickly wears of for Trivia. The lack of privacy and cramped atmosphere is already starting to grate on Trivia and she was already missing her old bedroom, much to her surprise. She sits alone at meal times, not able to acquaint herself with any of the others she instead passes the time eavesdropping on the overbearing din of shallow gossip constantly emitted by the crowd of girls, much of which was about Trivia herself. Trivia began to analyze the behaviour of the other girls, which she attributed to Neo's mental influences growing stronger.
What enjoyment Trivia got from the more physically-focused classes was overshadowed by the boredom generated by the others. To make matters worse, Melanie and Miltia Malachite, the popular girls, had singled Trivia out and turned the rest of the student body against her. After the pair stole Trivia's uniform, which she simply replaces with her Semblance, they destroyed it after Lady Beat had reprimanded Trivia for using her Semblance. Forbidden from using her Semblance to alter her appearance, Trivia spends the next sewing class and many of the hours following it in her pajamas stitching the torn fabric of her uniform into something new, into a set of garments tailoured for her. Thoroughly satisfied with the results, she briefly uses her Semblance to make half of her hair pink to complete the look.
As Trivia sneaks her way to the shared bedroom she catches sight of Miltia and Melanie sneaking out of the academy. Overjoyed with the prospect of catching the twins breaking the rules and getting them punished for it, Trivia follows them. Making their way into the City of Vale and to the Harmony Club, Trivia employs her Semblance to inconspicuously tail them and gather evidence. Trivia watches them enter the club from a nearby alleyway and is caught off-guard when a man with orange hair is thrown out the front window shortly afterwards, to be cornered by the twins and a large group of thugs.
Chapter Thirteen: New Girl[]
The following day, Trivia arrives late to her class, finding herself subject to judgemental looks from other students. With new hair, she gets odd looks from students, but spends her time in class using her Scroll to look up keywords related to the previous night. After class, Lady Beat tells Trivia to stay, notes that the girl has changed, then asks Trivia why they have a rule about strict uniforms.
When Trivia suggests it is to discourage individualism, Beatrix explains that the principle that she wanted students of her academy to learn to find balance within the rules. She tells Trivia she is not supposed to break the rules, but bend them instead. With this, Lady Beat tells Trivia that Roman Torchwick is a threat to her institution, and that Trivia could be of help to get rid of him. Beat offers Trivia a deal: a new room and new teachings if she helps her kidnap Roman, to which Trivia agrees.
With this, things in Trivia’s life change for the better. She is enrolled in new courses such as Self-Defense, Social Engineering, The Art of Escape, and Fencing. Trivia takes the time to go about shoplifting again, stealing hair dye, spy’s tools, lock-picking kits, and so on. On the streets, she runs into Roman, who asks the girl what her name is. Trivia chooses to identify herself as Neopolitan, and finds herself to like it. With this, Roman asks Neo to follow him.
Chapter Fourteen: Tea For Two[]
In a Mistrali tea shop called the Laughing Dog, Roman asks Neo about the pin she is wearing, a triple spiral. He mentions he recognizes it from the Academy, and sees through her plans. Roman realizes he can use her powers, charming Neo and warning her that others may try to use her. Neo asks Roman about how he’d met the Malachites, so he explains his story to her. When he learns of Neo’s intent to expand her horizons, he offers to show her the ropes. Neo, however, declines the offer, still wishing to be with Lady Beat. Roman understands, and she gives him his iconic hat.
Chapter Fifteen: Fight and Flight[]
At the Academy, Neo trains against a Huntress, Manda Rin. Since becoming a spy for Lady Beat, her schooling had become a dream. She struck a friendship Melanie and Miltia, where she learns more about Lil’ Miss Malachite. The twins invite “Trivia” to go clubbing with them, revealing that they also have assignments from Lady Beat to assassinate Torchwick. Neo realizes she has to get to Roman first, and declines their invitation, planning to look for him herself.
Chapter Sixteen: Partners in Crime[]
Roman hears a knock on the door, and finds Lil’ Miss Malachite waiting for him on the other end. Building up his nerves, he quickly realizes that it was actually Neo, seeing through her disguise by identifying mistakes. After letting her in, Roman and Neo start sparring, where he advises her to use her Semblance less in combat. Later, the two go out to dinner.
Over the next few months, Roman and Neo would strike a bond with one another. Roman eventually gives Neo her signature weapon, Hush, whilst Neo gifts him a dashing outfit. As they discuss plans for future crimes, Roman decides to put Neo to the test: the two would go on a coffee heist together.
Chapter Seventeen: Brewing Trouble[]
The two criminals plan to heist a Magic Beans coffee franchise warehouse, memorizing maps from the warehouse district and planning their route. The plan goes awry when they miscalculate and run into Roch Szalt, who had lost his Huntsman license as a result of Roman’s bank heist. Roch corners Roman in a fight whilst Neo prepares a getaway vehicle. Stealing a truck, she runs into Roch, slamming him against a pillar and knocking him out. The two manage to steal a large quantity of coffee and escape before the warehouse collapses on itself. Feeling as though the heist went the best out of every one he’d done, Roman offers Neo a partnership, who accepts his offer.
Chapter Eighteen: Panopti-Con[]
Neo was beginning to have doubts about the arrangement she'd made with Lady Beat. She was enjoying her time with Roman more than her time at the school, and Lady Beat had become increasingly impatient with her. It was on this night that Neo decides that she will break into The Room, a secluded chamber of the academy that Lady Beat would spend most nights in. The Room was not occupied currently, however, because Lady Beat was out on business. After picking the lock Neo quietly enters to find a large computer station, which she manages to log into by tricking the facial recognition software with her Semblance.
Neo discovers that this station had been monitoring and recording footage from tiny cameras inside of each triskelion pin adorned by every student or graduate of the academy, giving Lady Beat instant access to deeply personal and compromising information on high-ranking members of society all over Vale. With this revelation came the horrifying realization that Lady Beat had been able to see exactly what Neo was doing when she spent time with Roman, and knew where to find him. Neo quickly texts a warning to Roman with her scroll before noticing a pair of cameras, obviously belonging to Melanie and Miltia, heading towards The Room. In a panic she tears the hard drive from the computer and attempted to sneak past the twins, who see through her disguise. The three of them fight briefly, and Neo learns from the twins that Lady Beat's surveillance network was a plot orchestrated by Lil' Miss Malachite to gain control of Vale's criminal underworld.
After escaping from the pair Neo attempts to contact Roman. When he fails to respond, Neo resolves herself and vows not to let this friend disappear.
Chapter Nineteen: Torch Song[]
Roman studies the schemes he and Neo were working on, reminiscing over the fun he and Neo had had with each other. As he considers what their shenanigans had been doing to Hei Xiong's business, Roman hears a knock at the door. Seeing Lil' Miss on the other side, he at first assumes that Neopolitan is playing games with him again and taunts her-only to be greeted with gunfire tearing the door apart. Lil' Miss and Lady Beatrix Browning enter his apartment and he worries that they may have done something to Neo, only to be informed that it was Neo who had led them to him. To prove this they play a recording of Neo agreeing to lead them to Torchwick, without mentioning that it was made before she had befriended him. Feeling betrayed, Roman braces himself for a fight. To his surprise, Honey Wine enters. She owed Lil' Miss a favor, which was being called in now. Honey incapacitates Roman with her Semblance as a pair of Spiders beat him and break his Scroll. Unable to control his actions while being influenced by Honey's song, Roman is led to a van and tied up.
Chapter Twenty: Boss For a Day[]
Neo arrives at Roman's wrecked apartment and ponders what she could possibly do to help Roman. She blames herself for getting him captured, though she makes the assumption that he likely would not come to her aid had their roles been reversed. Unable to come up with any workable ideas, Neo approaches a cop car that was parked outside of Roman's building.
After informing the cops of what had happened and identifying herself as Trivia Vanille, they offer her a ride. To Neo's surprise, they do not take her to a police station and instead go to a nightclub called Junior's. Officers Dunn and Matte quickly lead Neo through the club into a back room where she encounters Hei Xiong and Stella. Hei explains that his men had been searching for Trivia for a while, and that he intends to use her as leverage against her father who had been increasingly cutting Hei out of his business deals.
Neo decides to go 'all in' and informs Hei of Lil' Miss' plot to overthrow his criminal empire and fibs that Roman has the data drive she needs to do it. Hei immediately orders Stella to prepare a team with a Bullhead to go after Lil' Miss and capture the data drive. Once the two are alone, Neo incapacitates Hei and takes on his appearance. She boards the Bullhead and studies Stella as she pilots the vehicle. Using the tracker Neo had installed in Roman's hat, they set off to intercept Lil' Miss' convoy. When they get in range to attack the convoy, Neo opens the cargo bay door and ejects both Hei's men and Stella. Neo briefly wonders if Stella had a parachute before steering towards Malachite's convoy.
Chapter Twenty-One: Fury Road[]
Roman awakens tied up in the back of Malachite's convoy. After getting over his disorientation, Roman overhears the Spiders commenting on an approaching Bullhead with a strange girl hanging out the back. It was Neopolitan, who quickly manages to descend upon and land on top of the van. The Spiders open fire upon her as she cuts a hole through the vehicle's roof, none of their rounds hitting their mark. She manages to break in and cut Roman's bindings. Returning his cane to him, Neo and Roman briefly battle the remaining Spiders shooting at them from across the convoy before grabbing the Bullhead's towline and climbing their way up to the craft. Once they were out of firing range, Neo uses texts to explain the situation to Roman and hands Roman the data drive. When Roman questions where they could possibly go to safely take advantage of this opportunity, Neo steers the Bullhead in a southerly direction.
Chapter Twenty-Two: Two For Tea[]
Neopolitan pilots the Bullhead towards the Vanille estate, seeing her childhood home for the first time in six months. As they get closer, she notices that the damage from the fire had been completely repaired, erasing the mark she'd made on the mansion. As she touches down on the lawn, her father storms out to reprimand whoever is trespassing on his property. When Neo seems nervous about confronting her parents again, Roman reassures her, and encourages Neo to show them who she really is. Jimmy recognizes Roman immediately but takes a moment to realize that the young woman with Roman is his daughter. After Neo briefly explains that she had befriended Roman, Carmel rushes out to embrace her daughter and invites them all inside.
Roman and Neo lounge in one of the meeting rooms, briefly remarking on the delusion of normalcy promoted by an inaccurate family portrait depicting a young Trivia with matching brown eyes. After Neo uses her Semblance to correct the error, Jimmy and Carmel come in and serve them tea, which they accept. Jimmy declares that Roman will leave the manor the next day, leaving Neo behind, to which Roman responds by destroying his teacup. When Jimmy explains that he cannot harbor criminals in his home, Neopolitan breaks out laughing and exposes his involvement with Hei Xiong. Roman chastises Jimmy, who does not react the way Neo would expect. Just as she realizes that something is wrong, the paralysis powder her parents had laced the tea with takes effect and she loses control of her body. She sees Roman on the couch, also unable to move, as her father starts to drag her out of the room.
Chapter Twenty-Three: Meeting the Parents[]
A motionless Roman watches as Jimmy drags Neopolitan away. As Jimmy deals with his daughter, Carmel works to tidy the room showing clear disdain for the effect Roman's friendship has had on Neo. Without prompt Carmel runs her mouth, revealing her involvement in Lady Beat's little operation and chastising her husband's parenting decisions behind his back. She explains that she intends to return the data drive to Lady Beat so that Malachite can ruin Xiong's operation, leaving the Dust trade in shambles and ripe for her husband to seize. Having heard enough, Roman gets up and knocks Carmel unconscious, revealing that he had not drunk the laced tea. After he restrains her, Jimmy enters the room oblivious to the situation announcing that he had contacted Hei Xiong who was coming over to claim the data drive and Roman. He looks up just in time to see his wife tied up before Roman clobbers him with Melodic Cudgel. Taking back the data drive from Jimmy, Roman begins planning his way out of this situation and heads off to find where Neo ended up.
Chapter Twenty-Four: Falling In[]
Shortly after paralyzing his daughter, Jimmy drags Neo's motionless body through the house, and runs his mouth trying to explain how all of his actions have been for the betterment of the family, which fails to resonate with her. He describes the nature of his dealings with Hei Xiong, how those arrangements have been making his life increasingly more difficult over time, and how the data drive Neo stole is the key to getting Hei off his back. He drags her back to her old room, which had been restored to its original condition-save for the heavy blast door operated with a fingerprint scanner-and locked her inside, taking the data drive with him.
Still paralyzed, Neo can do nothing but wait and listen as cars approach and gunfire erupts outside the estate. As her mobility slowly returns, Neo crawls toward the window and sees Xiong and Malachite's forces clashing outside. Finding that the window has been reinforced with a Hard-Light shield, she stumbles towards the heavy door and finds it to be impervious to any attempts at opening from the inside. When door opens unexpectedly Neo launches herself through it, bladed parasol first, narrowly missing Roman who was on the other side. She notices her father's limp body on the floor, which Roman had dragged there to open the door. Roman explains that he has the data drive, and that Xiong and Malachite's little gang war had stopped, suggesting that they were likely to team up and storm the house together.
The only way to get them off of Neo and Roman's backs would be to expose their crimes. To accomplish this, Neo leads Roman to Jimmy's office and gives him access to the computer so that he can upload the contents of the data drive. Neo remembers what her father had said the night she'd set fire to her room and realizes that he was more than likely hiding something there aside from an imprisoned daughter. She runs back to her room to find that her father had opened a secret compartment under her bed and was pulling out crates of extremely valuable-and volatile-Dust crystals. Jimmy, seemingly unconcerned with the threat his daughter currently poses towards him, explains that he had been stealing this Dust from Xiong for some time and currently intends to use it as a bargaining chip to get his family out of this situation. Neo uses her Semblance to create a fake match that she tosses at the Dust to distract her father as she runs out of the room and shuts the door behind her, which can only be opened from the outside by the very person now trapped on the inside.
Chapter Twenty-Five: Smoke and Mirrors[]
Roman works quickly to access the files on the data drive and get them ready to upload to the CCT, and phones the Vale News Network. After revealing his identity Roman is quickly transferred to Lisa Lavender, who is excited to receive a scoop from The Roman Torchwick. Once he had explained what he was sending to her, Lisa has Roman sent the credentials to upload the data drive's contents to the VNN- while throwing away the triskelion pin she had been wearing since attending Lady Beat's Academy, and thanking Roman for the flowers he sent her after his first heist in Vale.
Elsewhere in the house Neo works to distract the thugs searching the house for Roman, taking on his appearance to accomplish this. She comes across Lady Beat and Hei Xiong in the sitting room where her mother was still tied up. Roman texts Neo to inform her that the files were uploading just as Hei and Beat spot her and give chase, thinking it's Roman.
Back in Jimmy's office, the files are done transferring and Roman heard gunshots elsewhere in the house. Thinking quickly, he copies files regarding Jimmy's crooked business dealings onto the data drive, which he wagered would be almost as valuable as Lady Beat's spy-cam footage. After this second transfer is complete, he rushes out of the office and quickly finds Neo, who is distracting Hei with an illusory image of Roman cowering on the floor. Using the sound of Hei's gunfire as cover the two bolt out of the house and through the front door, only to be illuminated by a Bullhead's spotlight. Lil' Miss Malachite was staring directly at them, the craft's weapons trained on the pair.
Assuming that this was the end of the line, Roman is surprised when Lil' Miss doesn't open fire, and quickly notices that Neo was using her Semblance to disguise them as her parents. Not convinced that this ruse will last long enough for them to escape, Roman tries to convince Neo to drop the act so that he can act as bait to let her get away. Neo refuses to let go and extends her Semblance to project images of him and her in the window of her former bedroom. Neo and Roman run to one of the cars in the driveway while Lil' Miss is preoccupied with the fakes that were taunting her from the house. Malachite opens fire on the window with the Bullhead's guns, and after that fails to penetrate the window's Hard-Light shield, launches a missile straight into the room-and the stockpile of very explosive dust it contained. The shock wave levels the house instantly, throws the Bullhead into the tree line on the opposite side of the driveway, and launches the car Roman and Neo are taking shelter in.
Chapter Twenty-Six: Friends to the End[]
Staggering out of the crumpled car, Neo checks on the unconscious Roman, who was flung from the vehicle by the explosion. She sits beside him, watching the sun rise behind the rubble of what was once the Vanille Estate, before he springs to life a moment later. The two confirm that nobody escaped the mansion's destruction, including Neo's parents. Torchwick tries to reassure her, but Neo isn't concerned by her role in her parents' deaths, only feeling a sense of freedom. As far as she's concerned, Trivia died in that explosion too. When she turns to Roman, he catches a lock of Neo's hair and shows it to her. It's now white, through a subconscious use of her Semblance.
With sirens growing louder, the partners in crime decide to make their escape before the authorities arrive. Neo prepares the Bullhead they used earlier but stops when Roman suggests that he can be dropped off anywhere. When she shoots him an anxious look, he asks if she wants to stick together, which is an offer she accepts. When Roman brings up the possibility of her becoming a Huntress, Neo laughs him off.
Roman teases Neo some more, before finally admitting that he couldn't ask for a better partner. In response, Neo kisses Roman on the cheek, causing the smooth talker to blush, much to her delight. With Lil' Miss retreating back to Mistral, and Hei Xiong dead, Torchwick starts making plans to tighten his grip on Vale. When asked, Roman gives Neo the choice of where to go next, and she steers in the opposite direction of approaching ships at full throttle. Riding off into the distance with her partner, Neo is content with a single thought: no one was ever going to catch Roman and Neo.
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RWBY[]
RWBY Investigations[]
Neo is first seen at a gathering of the White Fang, accompanying Roman Torchwick as he addresses the group. She later aids Roman in his escape following his defeat at the hands of Team RWBY, and demonstrates her abilities.
Sometime later, Neo is on a train carrying large amounts of explosive cargo, once again aiding Roman. After Team RWBY boards the train, Neo ends up confronting Yang Xiao Long. Yang holds her attention, allowing Weiss Schnee and Blake Belladonna to pass by Neo without consequence.
Neo about to kill Yang
However, after a brief, rather one-sided fight, Neo bests Yang and attempts to kill her via a blade in Hush. However, before she can, Raven Branwen appears, prompting her to flee.
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Vytal Festival[]
Neo is seen participating in the Vytal Festival Tournament. She conceals her identity by changing her appearance drastically: she wears a predominantly black outfit and also changes her hair and eye colors. In the tournament, she competes as part of a team with Emerald Sustrai, Mercury Black and Cinder Fall. The team has no trouble during their first match, in which Neo is seen mercilessly stomping on a hapless opponent.
After Mercury fakes a broken leg, Neo and Cinder, disguised as paramedics, evacuate Mercury via an Air Bus to an unknown location.
Later, Neo is shown freeing Roman, returning to him his trademark hat and Melodic Cudgel.
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- "Round One"
- "Beginning of the End"
- "PvP"
The Battle of Beacon[]
Neo, freeing Roman from the airship
Aboard an Atlesian Airship, Neo hands Roman a Scroll with Cinder's virus on it. Roman plugs it into a control panel, infecting all of the Atlesian Knight-200 soldiers with a hostile AI. When Roman hears something crash into the top of the airship, he instructs Neo to find out what it is. Neo nods and leaves the room, heading to the airship's roof.
Once there, she uses her power to change back into her original outfit, reports to Roman with a text from her Scroll stating "Guess who?", and engages in battle against Ruby Rose. She easily dodges the swings of Crescent Rose and shatters in an illusion before Roman intervenes in the fight. Together, the two gain the upper hand on Ruby, with Neo quickly yanking Crescent Rose from Ruby's grasp and landing a roundhouse kick, allowing Roman to blast Ruby to the side of the airship.
As Neo slowly walks towards Ruby, she drags her blade along the airship and subsequently holds Ruby at sword point. However, amidst Roman's monologuing, she is defeated as Ruby opens her umbrella, causing the winds to blow her away from the airship. She flies away, clinging to her umbrella at the mercy of the raging winds and the surrounding Grimm, much to Roman's shock and dismay.
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An Unlikely Alliance[]
Neo returns
After the Fall of Beacon, Neo somehow makes her way to the kingdom of Mistral. Around two weeks after the Battle of Haven, Neo pays Lil' Miss Malachite for information regarding Cinder's location. When the Maiden goes to the gangster to get her information on Ruby's group, Neo appears to Cinder standing on the second-floor balcony. She then initiates a duel that eventually takes them outside the bar, where she drops her Semblance to reveal that she was using her illusions to mask her tattered clothes, and she is now wearing Roman's hat, implying she blames Cinder for his death. The battle continues until Cinder becomes frustrated and uses her Maiden powers to stop the fight and confront Neo, saying that they both want Ruby dead, before proposing an alliance.
Neo is then taken to the empty Vault beneath Haven Academy and learns of Cinder's mission to retrieve the Relic of Knowledge for Salem before Ruby and her group gets it to Atlas. Afterward, she is given the offer to kill Ruby, as the Fall Maiden is forbidden to do so by Salem. After taking a moment to ponder, Neo shakes Cinder's hand and seals the deal.
Neo steals a Mistralian airship and reconvenes with Cinder Fall, both of them wearing new outfits. She demonstrates her ability to disguise the airship as an Atlesian one with her Semblance, and it pleases Cinder so greatly that, boarding the airship, she tells Neo she still believes in destiny.
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Stealing the Relic of Knowledge[]
Neo after her infiltration at the Schnee Manor
Following their arrival in Atlas, Cinder and Neo went into hiding in the city, taking a luxury apartment as their base of operations. During their time, Cinder ordered Neo to infiltrate the Schnee Manor during Jacques Schnee's banquet, where she was tasked to find the location of the Relic of Knowledge under the guise of a waitress at the party. Following Jacques' arrest, Neo returned to their apartment with the information needed, informing Cinder she had succeeded in her task.
Later, Neo and Cinder listen to James Ironwood and Robyn Hill's broadcast, revealing they are aware Salem's forces, particularly, Arthur Watts and Tyrian Callows, are in the kingdom's borders, to Neo's surprise. Cinder is angered at the two, calling them idiots, then tells Neo how Salem's original plan was to attack Vacuo next. Cinder confirms with Neo whether Oscar Pine has the Relic of Knowledge, ordering her to take it from him. Neo refuses, transforming herself into Ruby to get her point across, to which Cinder angrily restates they must get what she needs before getting what they want. Cinder smiles, explaining to Neo that she would find the Winter Maiden that night, citing that Ironwood's paranoia would lead her to the Maiden. Neo relents and transforms back into herself as Cinder tosses her the Scroll.
Confronting Team JNR and Oscar
Neo thus then makes her way to Atlas Academy, where upon successfully sneaking into the school's dormitories, begins her search for Oscar and the Lamp and eventually successfully locates and ambushes him inside his Dorm room by using her Semblance to fool him by disguising herself as someone else. Her Battle against Oscar eventually ends with her successfully wrestling away the Relic of Knowledge from him and leaving him considerably tired and weakened after the hard struggle against the Gangster. However upon detecting Team JNPR searching for Oscar and due to not yet having escaped the school, Neo thus then disguises herself as Oscar and proceeds to lure in Nora Valkyrie by using his appearance to her advantage to get her to lower her guard against her and get close enough to attack her.
Neo delivers the Relic of Knowledge to Cinder
However just as the Nora was coming close enough to hug her, the real Oscar bursts in and successfully punches Neo, dispelling her Semblance disguise and reclaiming the Relic as it fell off her belt and upon being identified by Jaune, Neo thus then brandishes her own weapon in preparation for her battle against Team JNPR and Oscar to retrieve the Relic. Their fight is interrupted when Atlas Soldiers begin chasing Team JNPR and Oscar, who are still on a wanted list. Oscar is exhausted from his previous encounter with Neo from before Team JNPR found him, and due to his exhaustion, he is unable to keep up with JNPR and becomes lost. Neo, having disguised herself as Nora, hides Oscar from the Atlas soldiers and steals the Lamp. She then flees, making it past Oscar and Jaune with her agility and then Ren by playing with his feelings for Nora. Due to more interference from Atlas soldiers, she manages to escape.
Neo later meets up with Cinder, gives her the Relic of Knowledge and seems annoyed at Cinder for taking it without a single word.
- Episodes Covering These Events
- "Cordially Invited"
- "As Above, So Below"
- "Out in the Open"
- "With Friends Like These"
- "The Enemy of Trust"
Meeting the Queen and her Pawns[]
Neo first meeting with Salem
Soon after this, Neo and Cinder acquire a Manta airship and make their way to Monstra to meet up with Salem inside the whale. En route to the Grimm, Cinder is reminded of a memory of her past, prompting her to nervously scratch at the airship's chair, clawing at the seat. When the two arrive, Cinder gives the Relic of Knowledge to Salem and takes full credit for retrieving it, much to Neo's annoyance.
Tyrian soon arrives taunting the two, causing a small argument between him and Cinder which soon interrupted when Cinder introduces Neo to Salem, referring to her as an asset, which once again irritates Neo. Soon after, Emerald, Mercury, and Hazel arrive. Emerald is delighted to see Cinder, but Cinder harshly shuts her down. When Cinder declares that she will take the Winter Maiden power from Penny Polendina, Salem stops her, and to Cinder's dismay reminds her that while she's more valuable than a "pawn", she is not to act without Salem's orders. Cinder backs down, telling Salem that without her she is nothing, and makes her leave with the rest of Salem's group as their master summons a Grimm to track down Oscar Pine.
- Episodes Covering These Events
- "Divide"
Disobeying the Queen[]
Neo and Cinder are encountered by Salem. Cinder bows before her queen, formally addressing her as "your grace." Cinder notices the Hound standing beside her master, prompting the Fall Maiden to nervously asks what it is. Salem tells her subordinate it's an experiment, the immortal woman asks what Cinder needs of her. Cinder requests that Salem should allow her in locating the Winter Maiden. Salem immediately denies Cinder's request and sarcastically talks to her pet, telling it of Cinder's thoughts and wants. Cinder scolds her master, saying without the powers of the Maiden, the Vault is inaccessible to them, and they are doing absolutely nothing to progress their victory. Salem coldly tells Cinder to as she says, Cinder tries to make a rebuttal, but the Hound roars at the Maiden, shutting down any further arguments. Salem tells Cinder to know her place, and she reluctantly agrees. Repeating the phrase, "without you, I am nothing."
Neo refusing to assist Cinder
After Salem and Cinder go their separate ways, Cinder rants to Neo, claiming Salem doesn't know of the capabilities Ruby and her friends have. She tells Neo they won't be gone for too long, they're only going to check on something. Cinder then says her enemies wouldn't abandon their ill-guided attempts at saving the world. Neo in turn, due her growing discontent for their "partnership" was shown to refuse to assist Cinder any further. Later Emerald would reveals herself and offers to help the two. Claiming she's been working on her semblance and promises not to tell Salem or anyone. Cinder, in response, angrily demands to know how much she overheard.
Neo, Cinder, and Emerald travel to Amity Colosseum, attempting to sabotage Penny, Maria, and Pietro, and to steal the Winter Maiden powers. As the colosseum is launched into the atmosphere, Cinder exclaims, she wished Penny's friends were with her. She taunts the robotic girl, saying she is just a tool to be used. Penny shouts back at Cinder, telling the Fall Maiden she doesn't know what she's talking about. Cinder proceeds to summon a barrage of black glass swords at Penny. Penny, however, summons her swords, and deflects the projectiles. The swords begin to overwhelm Penny, backing her into a wall. Luckily for her, Maria comes to her aid, and uses the mech she's piloting to shield the girl from the attack. Maria scream at Cinder, telling the woman to get away from her. Maria's sentence is cut short, as Neo rams the aircraft into Maria.
Maria wrestles with the aircraft and pins it to the arena floor. However, Neo puts the aircraft in reverse, releasing her from Maria's grasp. Emerald assists Neo by using her semblance on Maria. The aircraft rams into Maria's mech, rendering it useless. As Neo opens the mech's hatch, Maria impatiently asks what the mute girls wants, and she shape-shifts into Ruby. Still in her Ruby disguise, proceeds to attack Maria, but the elderly woman proves to be more than a match for her, despite being younger and taller. As Maria blocks, dodges, parries, and counters Neo's attacks, she becomes increasing irritated with her opponent, causing her to be more open for attacks. As the fighting progresses, Penny is sent flying to the floor of the coliseum, and Maria abruptly stops fighting Neo to check on Penny. Neo sees the opportunity and knocks Maria away from Penny. However, before she can continue, she is blasted by Penny's beam, causing her to slam into the airship and depleting her Aura.
Neo slowly losing her patience
Right after Cinder's defeat, Emerald demands Neo get them out of there, to which the mute girl gives an angry glare, and pilots the ship back to Salem.
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Assault on Atlas[]
On the bridge, Neo and the rest of Salem's subordinates are present. They learn of Watts' activity and witness Salem punishing Cinder. Cinder is given the task of freeing Watts and locating the Winter Maiden. As the Grimm destroy Atlas' outer defenses, Neo and the rest watch as Monstra touches down on the fields and regurgitate a pool of Grimm.
Neo taking the Lamp and making her move
Later, she uses her Semblance to discreetly watch Oscar call forth Jinn from the Lamp, along with Hazel planning to help Oscar and Emerald escape. After the three leave, Neo deactivates her Semblance, making herself fully visible, and moves toward the Lamp.
Upon Salem finding Emerald escorting Oscar and Yang's Group to the Monstra's exit, Salem revealed that the Lamp has gone missing from her vault, confirming that Neo had taken it for herself.
After Oscar uses the Long Memory to destroy Monstra, Neo skips away from the corpse carrying the Lamp, disappearing into the cloud of debris and dust. Not long after, she sends Cinder a text, remarking that Cinder won't survive unless she has the Lamp to give back to Salem. Having learned Jinn's name from her earlier eavesdropping, Neo adds that, if Cinder wants the password for the lamp, she knows what she owes Neo: the opportunity to kill Ruby.
Later, Neo meets up with Cinder and Watts on the streets of Atlas.
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Falling into the Void[]
Neo falls into the Void after Cinder betrays her
After meeting with Cinder and Watts, Cinder apologizes to Neo for not up holding her end of her deal and help kill Ruby. Neo hands the Relic of Knowledge over to Cinder allowing Cinder to ask the final question and learn the heroes' plan. Neo would take part in the attack on the Atlas command center, seen kicking a stunned worker in the head, knocking them out. She would later be in the Central Location attempting to sneak up and stab Ruby in the back whilst she was distracted with Cinder's attack. However Yang, seeing this jumps in the way of her attack, causing her to fall into the void.
Annoyed she hit the wrong target, Neo continues her attack on Ruby, fighting off an enraged Blake at the same time. After some time, Ruby eventually fakes Neo out and uses her Semblance to get behind her and knock her off. As Ruby attempts to pick up the Staff that was dropped she is blasted off by Cinder and grabs on to Neo who is gripping the edge of the platform with one hand. Approaching her, Cinder takes the Relic of Knowledge from Neo's belt and proceeds to drive the bottom end of the Staff into Neo's fingers knocking her into the void.
- Episodes Covering These Events
- "Worthy"
- "The Final Word"
Falling to the Ever After[]
Neo attempting to kill Ruby even as they fall into the void
While falling in the void, Neo once again attempts to kill Ruby by trying to strangle her. During the assault, Neo would transform into Oscar Pine, Yang Xiao Long and even Penny Polendina in an attempt to psychologically hurt Ruby as she tried to kill her. Eventually, Ruby fended her off and the both of them would end up landing in the Ever After.
Neo eventually lands in the Abandoned Acre. Getting up from the ground, Neo angrily vents her frustration, hatred and contempt for both Cinder Fall and Ruby by uncontrollably transforming into the both of them, due to the first betraying her and the second for once again surviving her attempt on her life.
Neo’s semblance evolving in response to her emotions.
Neo was then approached by the Jabberwalker, who saw her descent into the world. However, her strong emotions caused her Semblance to evolve, developing the new ability to create multiple physical clone-copies of herself. Surprised by her new ability, Neo tested her new power by having them gang up and attack the creature.
Neo’s Jabberwalker clone
Sometime after this, Neo would use her Semblance's new power to create a clone of the Jabberwalker, having them attack Team RWBY in the Garden's Acre as they gathered ingredients to make a Growgurt Parfait. After destroying the clone and realizing it was the work of Neo, Team RWBY were soon surrounded by more Jabberwalker clones, forcing the team to flee.
Neo gunning for Ruby
Neo would later send more of her Jabberwalker clones to track down Jaune and Team RWBY, eventually making their way to the Origami Acre. The clones would then attack the Paper Pleasers Village, where Jaune and RWBY would intercept them. During this fight, one of the Jabberwalkers would come close to devouring Ruby, this clone would later transform into Neo and she would gesture a gun pointed at Ruby, fully showcasing how she was her target.
- Episodes Covering These Events
- "A Place of Particular Concern"
- "Rude, Red, and Royal"
- "The Parfait Predicament"
- "The Perils of Paper Houses"
Long Awaited Revenge[]
After Ruby had run away upset from the rest of her friends, Neo finally made her move. Using her Semblance, Neo constructed a stage for her revenge against Ruby. Conjuring an illusory Tea Room, complete with working lights, furniture and paintings of the most important moments in her life, Neo successfully lured Ruby into her trap.
Neo’s delight at finally cornering Ruby
Using her Semblance, Neo created a highly realistic clone of Roman, who then served as her main "voice" that she used to communciate with Ruby in regards to her reasons for why she hates her. She also revealed that she had also created clones of Penny Polendina, Pyrrha Nikos, Leonardo Lionheart, James Ironwood, Ozpin and Clover Ebi. All people who Ruby had failed to save in Remnant, all people, from a certain perspective, could be said to have died because of Ruby and her choices. Using Roman, Neo described her desire to see Ruby completely broken and wiped from existence, planning to have her drink a cup of tea created from a leaf of the Great Tree and force Ruby to go through Ascension.
Using these clones, Neo begin viciously attacking Ruby while taunting her about her failures and how they all died because of her. She was first taunted by her failure to save Pyrrha, followed by her failure to save Penny and allowing her to die twice, then by Ironwood, who berated her on her reckless plan to save Atlas and finally by Ozpin, who had begun viciously beating her using his cane on Neo’s command. Trying to defend herself, Ruby attempted to destroy Ozpin’s clone, only for it to transform into Oscar, who Neo made to look like Ruby had slashed bloody to death. Taunting Ruby further, Neo transformed her other clones to look like Yang, Blake, Weiss, Jaune, Nora, Ren and Qrow, looking at Ruby with horrified and disgusted looks for her actions. At this, Ruby collapses, hyperventilating and crying as Neo approaches her and offers the tea.
Neo satisfyingly seeing Ruby broken and drinking the Tea
However before Ruby could drink the tea, Neo was blasted away by the Curious Cat, making a hole through Neo’s construct and throwing her outside. During this brief window of time, the Cat tried to possess the mentally broken Ruby. Unwilling to allow her long awaited revenge be disturbed by an unwanted guest, Neo immediately went back in to stop the Cat. Using her Semblance to distract them, Neo snuck up behind and struck them away using Hush. Then noticing Little’s attempt to help Ruby, Neo proceeded to stomp them to death, finally destroying Ruby’s spirit.
Broken Neo
As Neo watches Ruby drink the tea, her friends arrive on the scene, too late to prevent it and helpless as Ruby was soon swallowed into a hole in the ground by the roots of the Great Tree. With her revenge complete, her construct of Roman, delighted at their success, quickly recommended Neo to use her Semblance to take over the Ever After, but she brushed this off as she didn’t want that. Eventually, Neo realized that avenging Roman's death didn't feel any better. She no longer had nothing else to do, to live for.
This realization caused Neo to enter into a state of shock as she numbly stared into space, her constructs crumbling around her, and completely ignoring everything happening around her.
Neo possessed
The Curious Cat soon returned to the scene, horrified that their ideal host had ascended. Angry at Jaune for his continued obliviousness about the tree's true nature, they soon noticed the broken Neo, delighting the Cat due to finding a new host. Blasting Jaune and his friends away, the Cat transformed into a new and more menacing form as they pounced on the still broken and defenseless Neo.
NeoCat
Taunting Neo about how she lost something important and of how she was now empty and hollow without it, they forcibly pried open Neo’s mouth, entering her body and possessing it.
Now possessing Neo’s body, the Cat, delighted in their new form, quickly made use of Neo’s Semblance alongside their own powers to escape and make their way to the Great Tree in order to finally escape the Ever After.
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Possessed and Ascension[]
The Cat repelled from passing through the door despite being inside Neo’s Body
Despite having a host, the Curious Cat was unable to pass through the door that leads outside the Ever After, as they were constantly repelled. The Cat sooned realize that the problem was Neo herself. She no longer had any attachments in Remnant, nothing and no one to return to, resulting in her not being able to pass through the door and thus preventing the Cat from escaping from the Ever After.
After Jaune, Blake, Weiss and Yang’s arrival to the door, NeoCat would end up engaging them in battle after they noticed Ruby was going through Ascension, the Cat intending on abandoning Neo as their host and taking Ruby as originally planned to finally leave due to Ruby having strong attachments to Remnant.
The smoke awakens Neo’s pain and regret, overwhelming the Cat
As the battle continued, Jaune burned the tree's leaves and sent the smoke towards NeoCat. At first confident due to the leaves having no effect on them, the smoke instead reawakened Neo whose rush of emotions and memories overwhelmed the Cat and caused them to escape from Neo's body.
Following Team RWBY successfully defeating the Cat, Neo finished them off with her Jabberwalker clones in vengeance for possessing her.
Neo deciding to try and find herself again
Afterwards, Neo, seeing Ruby with her spirit and self confidence restored alongside her friends while she had no one, realized that revenge wouldn’t make her feel whole, and would only consume her. The Roman clone then asked if this is it. To this, she decides to let go of Roman, who acknowledged he’s wasn't real and disappears. With a friendly bow to her former enemies, Neo jumped into the Great Tree to undergo Ascension into something new. Neo's wooden form then appears on the tree before Ruby and her friends.
After passing through the door into the Blacksmith's workshop, Ruby eventually asks would become of Neo, to which the Blacksmith stated that she will have the chance to return her broken heart and become something new.
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