The story will follow a Faunus Girl named Canela Raxa, after being adopted by the Nikos family during a Faunus Civil Rights Protest that deteriorated into chaos, after push back from Humans, a slowly reforming White Fang organization and a GRIMM attack.

This is my first, fully realized story. I know major plot points I want to hit. The story will be timed by using Volume 1, Chapter 1 of RWBY as the main Year, Before/After Volume 1 Chapter 1, (BV1C1 and AV1C1), while also Altering it slightly, to follow American Education Standards, and Real-Earth Chronology, to make the the timing more logical. Will it be perfect? No, but I'll certainly try my best.

Character: Canela Raxa, "Ca-Nel-Ah Ř-ax-a," is based of Honduran warrior and leader, Lempira. Canela was born from a lineage of strictly Dog-Like Faunus people, due to the lack of knowledge on Faunus bloodlines, Canela possesses more than one animalistic trait. White Dog ears, top canines are longer, Heightened Smell and Hearing and Low-Light Vision. She is of a cinnamon complexsion, a baked brown hair with lines of white that is tied into a stylized wolf-tail, falling 18" from the tie and her eyes are gold-yellow. Also Canela is 15, with a birthday in December 21st.

Traits: Being saved by Pyrrha during the disastrous Civil Right Protest and furthermore learning to appreciate Humans and Faunus people, Canela takes a lot of inspiration from Pyrrha, putting Pyrrha in a position of an older sister and role model. Yet, she also has this ideal of protecting Pyrrha, mainly in battle, but also as a person. Taking the moral of helping the defenseless, Canela will take that as one of her core pillars.

Clothing: Keeping in theme with Lempira and Pyrrha, she wears a gold circlet, not as ornate as Pyrrha's, but a simple thin and circular Circlet. Going down, she wears an off-the-shoulder dress much like traditional Honduran dress, that fits tight to the torso and that ends only 4" longer than Pyrrha's skirt. Her legs are covered up stockings that come from under the skirt and end over the knees, which come to gold lined-wooden shin guards that go over brown, laced ankle-high boots. A leather brown strap goes from her right shoulder to her left hip, connected to a belt that goes over a red-knee length sash, like Pyrrha's but jutting from the left side rather than the right.

Weapon: Xolotl "SHOH-lot" Inspired by the Aztec Macuahuitl, Canela carries Xolotl primary of a 40" sword, 10" of that is a handle and the main body is a bronze-copper colored, with red engraving. The serrated by gold colored 1.5" blades dot up the length that is tipped with a point of a blade, secondary, the handle extends as the bottom 24 serrated blades retract into the body becoming a spear. Lastly, the top overall body can bend, and a hard-light string will form, shooting hard light arrows.

Canela hasn't unlocked her semblance, but I do have two ideas in mind that I haven't seen before in other OC's.