Barbos

Barbos (バルボス, Barubosu), also known as "Barbos the Stormblast" (剛嵐のバルボス, Gouran no Barubosu), is both the fictional character and antagonist of the Tales of RWBY series created by Monty Oum and Yoshiharu Gotanda.

He served as the leader of the Blood Alliance guild, one of the Five Master Guilds. On the surface, it serves as a mercenary guild, doing jobs that no one else is brave enough to. However, their real purpose is the theft and illegal use and distribution of blastia.

Yuri finally confronts Barbos in the Tower of Ghasfarost where Barbos fought Yuri and the others with a new weapon built with the Lower Quarter's aque blastia. Before falling to his apparent death, Barbos warns Yuri that he will make powerful enemies later on.

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 * —Barbos.

Appearance & Biography

 * Voice Actor: JB Blanc (English), Masashi Hirose (Japanese), Not Known (Albanian), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Basque), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Cantonese), Not Known (Catalan), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (French), Not Known (Galician), Not Known (German), Not Known (Greek), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hong Kong), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Indonesian), Not Known (Isralian), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Mandarin), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Tagalog), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Valencian), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish)

Appearance
Barbos is a stout man noticeable by his red captain's coat and scar on his right eye. He has only one hand, which he uses to hold his sword, while the other is replaced with a spinning mace head with protruding spikes.


 * Hair Color: Gray and White
 * Skin Color: Not Known
 * Eye Color: Black
 * Age: 63
 * Birthday: Not Known
 * Height: Not Known
 * Weight: Not Known

Personality
Barbos is aware of his own strength and influence. He works vehemently to achieve his goals, using illegal and dangerous means to do so, earning his guild a shady reputation. For him, it is not a problem to work with both the imperial knights and the Imperial Council, who work against each other, provided that these cooperations serve his goal.

Friends/Allies

 * White Fang
 * Adam Taurus
 * Ragou
 * Cumore

Neutral

 * The Spiders
 * Lil' Miss Malachite
 * Alexei Dinoia

Enemies

 * Team RWBY
 * Ruby Rose
 * Weiss Schnee
 * Team JNPR
 * Jaune Arc
 * Brave Vesperia
 * Yuri Lowell
 * Karol Capel
 * Judith
 * Brave Vesperia's Allies
 * Estelle
 * Rita Mordio
 * Raven
 * Flynn Scifo

Fighting Style
Barbos is shown using a chainsaw-like sword that is powered by the Zaphias' lower quarter Aqua Blastia. The weapon is destroyed by Duke Pantarei before the party battles him, so instead, Barbos uses a large sword with spikes running down the back. As leader of the Blood Alliance, he uses an aggressive fighting style with powerful combinations involving both his sword and mace-hand, such as spinning while extending his mace.

During the battle, he calls reinforcements from the bridges, and will continue to do so as they are defeated, increasing the difficulty of the fight.

Past
Barbos is also known as the One-Eyed Giant, who leads the Blood Alliance guild. This consists mainly of shady figures and sometimes employs Blastia thieves. Barbos says he works with Alexei, from whom he received plans for experimental Blastia. However in reality, however, Alexei used it to build a Blastia network across Remnant.

Barbos sold Alexei Caer Bocram, the former seat of the Blood Alliance, as a place of experimentation. He himself built Ghasfarost, which acts as part of the Blastia network. In addition, through these plans, Barbos was able to create a powerful Blastia, which he wears as an arm prosthesis. Barbos' goal is to gain enough power through the Blastia to submit to Don Whitehorse and become the leader of the Guild Union.

He seems to have known the Don for a long time, as Yuri Lowell reminds him of the younger Don. According to his own statement, the Don is also the only one who is equal to Barbos in a duel.

Notes & Trivia

 * Supposedly only the Don Barbos is supposed to be equal in the fight.
 * Barbos works with both Alexei of the Imperial Knights and Ragou of the Imperial Council to achieve his goal. This is to overthrow the Don and become the leader of the Guild Union.
 * To reach his destination, Barbos had numerous blastia stolen, causing the Aqua-Blastia in Zaphias to be lost. He also provoked a war between the guilds and the Imperial Knights.