Glaive
Rhiannon Reeve
The #3 Top Ranked Hero of the era. A magical girl in her 30s who is the current biggest name in Frontline Academy's specialist staff, whose instruction focus is team synergy, cooperative tasks, and networking. Her codename comes from her trademark weapon, a glimmering polearm made of light that she calls forth with a chant of faith to protect the world.
Outside of teaching, she is the sole active Coastguard for The IRA, a specialist position explicitly dedicated to hunting and exterminating monsters classified as Kaiju that threaten the shores of the Pacific every few months.
Outside of teaching, she is the sole active Coastguard for The IRA, a specialist position explicitly dedicated to hunting and exterminating monsters classified as Kaiju that threaten the shores of the Pacific every few months.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Rhiannon is in 'serviceable' health. In her initial decade as Coastguard, she avoided basic self-care in many small ways that needed her handlers to remind and nag her constantly to avoid making habitual, such as not eating, not bathing, etcetera. Thanks to the diligence of those around her, she's passed 30 without any major lifestyle health incidents.
Body Features
Rhiannon is perfectly in-shape for someone of her stature, if a little underweight, but her fitness levels are maintained by staff enough for it to not be an issue.
Special abilities
Rhiannon's Metahuman trait was believed once to be Empathic Projection, as cheering crowds and belief in her Royal Suite teammates seemed to empower her spear, but following the absorption of the power of her three comrades, she's uncertain.
Whatever it is, she can create forcefield barriers, energy weapons, and other basic shapes out of the same source she once called the wishing power of her heart. Her forcefields are one of the greatest enduring forces in the world, and her weapons, thrusted effectively, can penetrate solid material with smooth ease.
Whatever it is, she can create forcefield barriers, energy weapons, and other basic shapes out of the same source she once called the wishing power of her heart. Her forcefields are one of the greatest enduring forces in the world, and her weapons, thrusted effectively, can penetrate solid material with smooth ease.
Apparel & Accessories
Rhiannon tends to dress informally, a far cry from the ornate styles she used to don as Diamonds Reeve. Nowadays her only real forms of uniform are a flotation vest just in case and a wetsuit, if even that. She's killed plenty of Kaiju in chucks and jeans with a hoodie on.
She doesn't like to wear much makeup, and rarely does her hair, though she has a braid she does every morning as a ritual. Her handlers tricked her into doing so in memoriam for her comrades, so if she isn't doing her braid, they escalate all warnings about her behavior. The bow she ties her braid with used to belong to Wilde Hearts and damaging it may as well be the same as willfully stepping on a landmine.
She doesn't like to wear much makeup, and rarely does her hair, though she has a braid she does every morning as a ritual. Her handlers tricked her into doing so in memoriam for her comrades, so if she isn't doing her braid, they escalate all warnings about her behavior. The bow she ties her braid with used to belong to Wilde Hearts and damaging it may as well be the same as willfully stepping on a landmine.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Glaive wasn't always a solo-operative atop the world. Her debut as a Ranker was as Diamonds Reeve, alongside Clubs Castille, Jack of Spades, and Wilde Hearts. Four young heroes who shocked the world by entering battle with monsters amid the Kaiju Craze as mere plucky teenagers with something to prove: The Royal Suite. Armed with strong hearts that formed their dazzling weapons of light, the quartet proved immensely popular despite the questionable morals of letting children fight military-response Defcon monsters.
In 2034, tragedy struck. Kaiju-126, ordinance-resistant and spiteful, breached the shores of Puerto Vallarta, and amid the chaos, Diamonds Reeve was left a sole survivor for her Royal Suite.
What Rhiannon didn't know about the power she shared with her four closest friends was that the value was not scaled between them the way they thought: her teammates' faith in her in their dying breaths gave her power beyond the scope that any of the four independently could ever demonstrate, even with audiences worldwide cheering their names back home. With the conduit power of four metahumans surging within her, and the world watching in horror as she came to rise in shellshock and blood, her weapon formed pierced Kaiju-126's hide instantly, goring it, blending it's insides, and leaving it to writhe and die on the beaches of Mexico, a cruelty her fallen teammates were mostly spared. She alone brought the beast low, a new scale for raw power channeled into a single individual.
Diamonds Reeve died that day with her team, her next Kaiju breach handled in a t-shirt and jeans with no ceremony or public support. When asked if she had all this kind of special power from the start, if Diamonds Reeve just wanted to share the glory with her fallen friends, she materialized her weapon to show the camera clearly. Her Diamond spear, a symbol of her heart's state, reflective of her beliefs, had a new shape. The diamond tip was a curved blade now, a simple glaive. For this, she made the public declaration that she's just her weapon from that moment forward. Just Glaive.
Some marketing teams frustratedly cited that she may as well have put that glaive through their careers. Kaiju-141, the whip-armed Hurricanrana, was the final kaiju to be featured on a Battlestation Broadcast.
In 2034, tragedy struck. Kaiju-126, ordinance-resistant and spiteful, breached the shores of Puerto Vallarta, and amid the chaos, Diamonds Reeve was left a sole survivor for her Royal Suite.
What Rhiannon didn't know about the power she shared with her four closest friends was that the value was not scaled between them the way they thought: her teammates' faith in her in their dying breaths gave her power beyond the scope that any of the four independently could ever demonstrate, even with audiences worldwide cheering their names back home. With the conduit power of four metahumans surging within her, and the world watching in horror as she came to rise in shellshock and blood, her weapon formed pierced Kaiju-126's hide instantly, goring it, blending it's insides, and leaving it to writhe and die on the beaches of Mexico, a cruelty her fallen teammates were mostly spared. She alone brought the beast low, a new scale for raw power channeled into a single individual.
Diamonds Reeve died that day with her team, her next Kaiju breach handled in a t-shirt and jeans with no ceremony or public support. When asked if she had all this kind of special power from the start, if Diamonds Reeve just wanted to share the glory with her fallen friends, she materialized her weapon to show the camera clearly. Her Diamond spear, a symbol of her heart's state, reflective of her beliefs, had a new shape. The diamond tip was a curved blade now, a simple glaive. For this, she made the public declaration that she's just her weapon from that moment forward. Just Glaive.
Some marketing teams frustratedly cited that she may as well have put that glaive through their careers. Kaiju-141, the whip-armed Hurricanrana, was the final kaiju to be featured on a Battlestation Broadcast.
Sexuality
A harsh topic for Rhiannon. When she was young and naïve and full of heart, she and the Royal Suite were frequently in media talk about dating potential and what kind of boys they might like. It was an act for the cameras, of course, but with the death of that life came a thunderous silence from the reborn Glaive. She doesn't care, and doesn't care about how she doesn't care. Ten years have come and gone with only passing interest in anyone at all, let alone the thought of romance or otherwise. She can probably go her whole life without changing this. She isn't sure how to feel about that realization, but she embraces it regardless.
Education
Courtesy of the IRA, Rhiannon received rudimentary accreditation and testing done to earn her GED as a legal adult. She never pursued higher education.
Employment
Getting into Ranker and Coastguard business in her youth has led to a situation where Rhiannon has never needed to work for a living, but her compulsory situation and need to be permanently on-call means she won't be taking any vacations from the idea, either.
Her recent stint in education at Frontline Academy isn't a new idea to her; she's tried to take various part-time jobs through the years just to kill the boredom of waiting for another Kaiju breach, but she fears the IRA tactically made demands of her to make her miss follow-up interviews more often than maybe once or twice to call it coincidence.
Besides, if you can get money by just existing in the Big Ten, why work for it regardless?
Her recent stint in education at Frontline Academy isn't a new idea to her; she's tried to take various part-time jobs through the years just to kill the boredom of waiting for another Kaiju breach, but she fears the IRA tactically made demands of her to make her miss follow-up interviews more often than maybe once or twice to call it coincidence.
Besides, if you can get money by just existing in the Big Ten, why work for it regardless?
Accomplishments & Achievements
Glaive is single-handedly the omega figure of the Kaiju Craze of the 2020's. Her growth in tragedy made her powerful enough to invalidate any force the Pacific Rim's trenches could muster. For her efforts, not another life was lost facing the Kaiju for a decade, and normalcy returned to the Western North Americas.
Mental Trauma
Rhiannon's therapists are all but certain that her battle with Kaiju-126 was more Pyrrhic than even she lets on. What was left of the youngest and least outgoing member of the Royal Suite is a collection of memories and a deadpan glue holding them together. Though capable of smiling, sharing moments, and encouraging others, her heart has never been in it. The weapon that she once claimed reflected her heart's will continues to be a weapon of mass destruction in her gripping palm, but she knows she's harrowed still, a decade later. The person she became formed through grief, and that person remained without an urge to want to change or return.
Morality & Philosophy
"If you can do a job, just do it. No use thinking about it so much."
Glaive, operatively, is a cut-and-dry agent who does what she's told and leaves things at that. She often lacks interest in nuance, and only acts nice towards younger Rankers, especially the sprouts of Frontline Academy.
Some of her superiors worry she's a powder keg, ready to act without hesitation against anything she might disagree with, so part of the reason she never seems so argumentative is that her assignments are tactically done to keep her contented. After all, her main focus will always be Coastguard duty.
Glaive, operatively, is a cut-and-dry agent who does what she's told and leaves things at that. She often lacks interest in nuance, and only acts nice towards younger Rankers, especially the sprouts of Frontline Academy.
Some of her superiors worry she's a powder keg, ready to act without hesitation against anything she might disagree with, so part of the reason she never seems so argumentative is that her assignments are tactically done to keep her contented. After all, her main focus will always be Coastguard duty.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
What motivation?
The kids at Frontline and the insistently courteous friendliness of the staff on site have probably done more for her motivation than 10 years among the Big Ten have ever done. There's something about watching youths try their best to aspire to be like her that manages to even warm HER spirit a little.
The kids at Frontline and the insistently courteous friendliness of the staff on site have probably done more for her motivation than 10 years among the Big Ten have ever done. There's something about watching youths try their best to aspire to be like her that manages to even warm HER spirit a little.
Social
Social Aptitude
Of all members of the Big Ten, Glaive is easily the least social, least outgoing, and least courteous, though her responsibilities are a sordid reminder that every member of the highest ranks carries part of the world on their shoulders.
If she were to be invited to a party, she'd awkwardly stand next to whoever invited her constantly while only leaving to refill drinks.
If she were to be invited to a party, she'd awkwardly stand next to whoever invited her constantly while only leaving to refill drinks.
Mannerisms
Her sense of self-presentation is more of a blank to fill in than an earnest effort. Since she's one of the most famous and powerful people alive, she tries to stay humble by not hyping herself up so much, and downplaying times where others do.
She has a habit of joking and talking bluntly with staff and Ranker taskforce members. Keeping it real, she would say with crossed, guarded arms. She just isn't sure what an ideal role model should be for the situation, but others are good about reminding her that they're the first to ever try it on the scale they're attempting, so all that matters is heart.
With students, she tends to act more as a real-spit big sisterly type. After all, despite being a technically-functioning adult, there's a part of her that's felt crystallized since Puerta Vallarta when she was 17.
She has a habit of joking and talking bluntly with staff and Ranker taskforce members. Keeping it real, she would say with crossed, guarded arms. She just isn't sure what an ideal role model should be for the situation, but others are good about reminding her that they're the first to ever try it on the scale they're attempting, so all that matters is heart.
With students, she tends to act more as a real-spit big sisterly type. After all, despite being a technically-functioning adult, there's a part of her that's felt crystallized since Puerta Vallarta when she was 17.
Wealth & Financial state
Her credit score is nonexistent, but the IRA generally takes care of her.
Secretly, she has an impressive collection of anime figurines kept in her suburban home in Vancouver.
Secretly, she has an impressive collection of anime figurines kept in her suburban home in Vancouver.
Current Status
Educator at Frontline, On-Call Kaiju Exterminator
Current Location
Species
Ethnicity
Honorary & Occupational Titles
Diamonds Reeve (Former)
Currently Held Titles
Age
Early 30's
Date of Birth
February 3rd
Children
Gender
Female
Eyes
Hazel, glow cyan when energized
Hair
Auburn, Mid-Length and Braided
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
White, Freckled
Height
5'8" (173 cm)
Weight
107 lbs (48 kg)
Aligned Organization
Character Prototype
Imagine a depressed mahou shoujo smoking a cigarette.
らくがーき (1/37) by くろだ
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