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Whoa! Your Semblance makes you super fast, just like me!
Ruby Rose, comparing Hare's Semblance to hers.

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Super-Speed[2][3] is Harriet Bree's Semblance. It was revealed in the episode "Ace Operatives" of Volume 7. Aside from allowing her to move at high speed, her Semblance also generates electricity.

Description[]

Harriet's Semblance allows her to run at very high speeds, leaving behind a trail of electricity. Her eyes also become an electric gold when using her Semblance, rather than their usual byzantine.

It appears to match Ruby's speed when both Huntresses are using their Semblances.

Through the use of her Semblance, Harriet is able to safely land from great heights, such as when her Manta begins to crash after a pair of Teryxes attack the ship.

While speed Semblances are common, the speeds which Harriet can reach are of an unsurpassed caliber.[4]

History[]

Hare's Semblance makes its debut in "Ace Operatives", where she uses it to outspeed and help defeat the Centinels in the mine, where she also states she believes has a better reaction time than Ruby when the younger girl compares their Semblances. Hare later uses it in combat with the Frosted Petra Gigas by catching an unstable Dust crystal out of midair, distracting the Grimm for her teammates, and ultimately landing the final blow on the Geist itself.

During the training montage in "Sparks", she trains with Ruby Rose and Weiss Schnee for them to improve their own Semblances and reaction time by racing Ruby directly while Weiss tries to keep up in reaction time.

In "As Above, So Below", she uses her Semblance to run on top of the plummeting Manta ship, able to safely land using her high speed.

She dispatches Grimm during the Battle of Mantle using her Semblance in "Out in the Open", where she first kills a Sabyr and later unsuccessfully uses it to try to stop an Alpha Megoliath on her own.

In "With Friends Like These", her Semblance proves very troublesome for a fugitive Ruby, who is forced to continually use her own Semblance to keep up with the Ace-Op's movements. Her Semblance eventually becomes her downfall however, when Ruby proves able to keep up with her long enough for Weiss to intervene and create an ice wall that Hare runs into at full force, breaking her Aura and resulting in her defeat.

Hare also proves troublesome for Penny Polendina during her fight with the Ace-Ops in "Strings", able to make progress against a wind tunnel created by the Winter Maiden powers, break through Penny's defenses at several points and eventually get close enough to steal one of Floating Array's blades for Arthur Watts to use later in hacking the android. She again uses her Semblance in the same episode to safely land when she jumps off the bridge.

In "Witch" during the Battle of Atlas, she uses her Semblance to defeat a Beringel trapped by Marrow Amin's Semblance.

Hare is about to use it to chase down escaped fugitives Qrow Branwen and Robyn Hill in "Ultimatum", but James Ironwood stops her.

Upon finding escaped fugitives Qrow Branwen and Robyn Hill in "Creation", she attempts to charge into battle to fight them, only to be caught by surprise and trapped in Marrow's Freeze.

In "Worthy", when Marrow is knocked unconscious by an exploding Atlesian Knight, Hare uses her Semblance to escape the hangar by getting into the ship containing Ironwood's bomb, aiming to drop it and prove her loyalty. She later uses her Semblance to start the bomb's countdown when Vine Zeki fails to talk her out of it before knocking him out of the airship.

She uses her Semblance in "The Final Word" to break the straps holding down the bomb and force it to start sliding towards the open door and stop Qrow from continuing to fight her.

Trivia[]

  • Her Semblance is a part of her allusion to the Hare from The Tortoise and the Hare.
  • Her super speed being accompanied by a yellow lightning effect is similar to DC Comics' The Flash, the best known fictional speedster.
  • Harriet's Aura is pink while the lightning-like energy produced by her Semblance is yellow showing the colors of someone's Aura and Semblance can differ from each other.
  • Harriet's Semblance was originally going to be first emphasised during the fight between the Centinels by taking out one of the Centinels after it evolved into a Cenitaur.[5]

Image Gallery[]

References[]

  1. RWBY: Amity Arena Harriet Bree Card
  2. Ranking RWBY Semblances in Daily Life #TopTier​ | RT Animation Reacts
  3. Harriet Semblance Screenshot
  4. RWBY: Amity Arena Harriet card bio
  5. RWBY Volume 8 Directors' and Writers' Commentary chapter 8
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