In RWBY Volume 5 episode 1 the once tight-knit team were split apart – here’s how Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang went their separate ways. The brainchild of the late Monty Oum, RWBY is an anime-style animation produced by Rooster Teeth, the same company behind the animated shows Red VS. Blue and gen: LOCK. Set in the futuristic fantasy world of Remnant, the series focuses on four protagonists - Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna and Ruby’s half-sister Yang Xiao Long. Together they make up Team RWBY who train as huntresses to battle the various evil forces that plague Remnant, including the malevolent Creatures of Grimm.

Although they weren’t close at first when they met at Beacon Academy, Team RWBY quickly became close-knit as they trained and battled together. Until, that is, the villain Salem orchestrated the Battle of Beacon – a devastating raid on the Beacon Academy that left Team RWBY’s classmate Pyrrha dead, Yang’s arm severed and the academy itself in ruins.

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In the aftermath of the battle, Team RWBY disbanded and took separate paths in Volume 4. Ruby took Pyrrha’s place in her old team and became Team RNJR alongside fellow Beacon Academy students Nora Valkyrie, Jaune Arc, and Lie Ren. Her sister Yang was training with their father Taiyang Xiao Long and adjusting to her new prosthetic arm. Weiss, meanwhile, was back with her family in the kingdom of Atlas and Blake Belladonna was in her homeland Menagerie with her family and fellow Faunus Sun Wukong. By the time RWBY Volume 5 episode 1 came around, the group remained separated.

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Titled “Welcome To Haven”, the episode saw Team RWBY split up but it also set the scene for their paths to converge once again. Weiss was on her way to Mistral having hitched a ride on a cargo plane and Yang was in the wilderness of Anima on the outskirts of Mistral searching for her long-lost mother Raven Branwen. Meanwhile, Ruby and Team RNJR were already in Mistral at the Haven Academy, preparing to protect the academy’s relic from oncoming attacks.

The only member of Team RWBY not in or on her way to Mistral was Blake who was in still in Menagerie. Though having discovered plans to attack Haven Academy on her former friend and White Fang member Ilia Amitola’s scroll, RWBY Volume 5 episode 1 suggested Blake’s fate would soon lead her to Mistral as well and a long-awaited reunion with her former teammates.

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