Frederic Scorch

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- Frederic Scorch's usual greeting. Frederic "Fred" Scorch is the leader of Team FLME and son of Abraham and Rouge Scorch, younger brother of Isaac Scorch. Fred's weapon of choice are two bladed gauntlets with flamethrowers called "The Scorch Blades". Fred was accepted into Beacon Academy with his Step-brother, Ember and the two later partnered up in Beacon's initiation and later made into Team FLME with May Fumi and Leia Burns.

Early Years
Frederic Scorch was born as the younger son of Abraham and Rouge Scorch, ex-members of Team AMER of Haven Academy. Fred live a good childhood with his best friend and neighbor, Ember Ignis, child of the other two members of AMER, Mason and Evie Ignis. Fred was unique in that he some how unlike his aura at a young age, around four. Abraham and Rouge agreed not to train him so quickly and thus waited until he turned 10, like his brother Isaac. One day however, when Fred was six years old, a fire came across his town. Though his home was safe, the Ignis home was not, resulting in Abraham and Rouge to go in and save their old friends.

Fred, not wanting to lose his best friend either rushed in. The three saw Ember at the first floor and rushed to the second only to see both Mason and Evie pinned under a fallen beam and fire surrounding them. As Abraham and Rouge went to help their friends, fire surrounded them all, leaving the boys scared for their life. Then, Fred began using his semblance for the first time, and was clearly struggling to use it. As Mason and Evie fled, another beam came down on Rouge and soon, Fred couldn't keep ahold of his semblance anymore, and engulfed his parents in fire.

After that day, Mason and Evie adopted Isaac and Fred as their own and continued to rise them. However, Fred was forever scared by the event, but continued to learn and began training with Ember by their father Mason. However, the worse was yet to come, as throughout Fred's years in schooling, he was bullied by Solomon Noir and other classmates, effectively making have no friends aside from Ember and another girl, Olive Pine. Due to the consent bulling, Fred refused to go to Sanctum Academy for combat school and thus desire to go to Signal in Vale. Though Mason and Evie were originally opposed to the idea, Ember offered to go with him and thus they accepted. However, the two could not accompany them to Vale and thus the two lived in a hotel on Patch for four years were Fred's bullying continued.

Eventually, Fred and Ember were both accepted into Beacon Academy by Ozpin himself and began their Huntsmen careers. However, before he entered the Academy, Fred was able to stop a White Fang robbery along Patch's North Docks and get almost the entire attack squad arrested. Later that night, Fred met with Ember within the city of Vale outside a nightclub where he told him "a long story".

First Semester
After Fred and Ember moved out of their home in Patch, they arrived at Beacon and began exploring the school grounds. After the two explored the campus, they attended Ozpin's meeting and got introduced to the school itself. The two joined the other first-year students in the ballroom for the night where Ember trained off to find someone while Fred was hit in the head by a cork. Originally annoyed, Fred met with the person behind the cork, Leia Burns of the Burns Industries Corporation. The two formed a stable friendship right off the bat and shared a loved of science and dust infusion. After Ember returned, the three returned to their beds and went to sleep.

The following day, Fred and Ember along with the other first-years began Beacon's Initiation. Once Fred was on the ground, he went for a simple walk and encountered Ember who had seen the temple on his way to the ground. The two proceeded to run through the forest and soon encountered a Grimm pack. The duo quickly became overran and executed Steamroller to escape the pack and continue towards the temple. Once there, the two met with Leia and her partner, May Fumi. After the group realized Grimm were inbound, Fred quickly grabbed the White Bishop piece along with May and the four ran back to the cliff. As the four ran through the terrain, they encountered several Grimm and fought their way back to Beacon. Once back, the four were forever bound by Ozpin as Team FLME, lead by Fred.

After the team was formed, the following day, the team began their classes, starting with Professor Peach and later Dr. Oobelck. However, during the entire day and the days following, Fred noticed that May seemed uncomfortable with her surroundings. Eventually, he found her on the roof during the middle of night. Fred greeted her and brought sodas for them to share together. While the two were on the roof, Fred told her about his past and claimed it as a "ghost story". He told her that "We all have our ghost stories, its a matter of when or how we tell it."

About a week later, May and Ember went missing from Beacon during the weekend and seriously concerned Leia and Fred. As a response, the two went on a hunt for them throughout the city of Vale and questioned shop owners and and pedestrians alike. Fred decided to go to Patch to find Ember there and see if he could track May through her scent. While Leia and Fred were driving through Patch, they noticed White Fang Bullheads heading towards the docks of Patch. Putting their search on hold, they decided to investigate the Bullheads. When the two arrived, they saw Ember and May battling White Fang and May's stepfather, Shadow Ombre. Fred and Leia moved in to assist and engaged the White Fang and their commander, Nolan Runderen.

As Fred and Nolan dueled, Nolan revealed that he knew of the Scorch Family name and desired to kill him. However, the White Fang were pushed back by the rest of the team and Nolan escaped, but Ombre was arrested again. The team were then reunited and decided to celebrate in their victory with one another and returned to Beacon.

Second Semester
During the final day before the start of the next semester, Fred was within the Emerald Forrest, training and using his semblance heavily in the battle. Upon returning, he joined his team who was in a heated argument with a team from Shade Academy, Team VILE, mostly their own Faunus, Eadwulf Fenrir. While Ember and Eadwulf were at each other's throats, Fred began talking to the team's leader, Violet Eclairage. The two also seemed to get off on the wrong foot, insulting each other and their teams, ultimately calling for a sparring match between Ember and Eadwulf to get them to shut up.

As the two Faunus fought, the remaining members of the teams watched from the stands, with Violet and Fred placing bets on who would win. Eventually, the winner emerged, and Ember won and shocked Team VILE while Fred and the rest of FLME were not surprised at all with the victory. After the duel, the team encountered Olive Pine again in about a decade time with her team from Haven, Team WIOW. The reunion lasted for a short few minutes due to Fred running off after having a memory flash. When his team questioned what happened, Fred reviled what Nolan said to him the night they met and was always on edge since then, constantly thinking of what the lieutenant said. After the rant Fred went on, Leia suggested that they do a small crime hunt and try to find a way to stop Nolan to get Fred back on track and the team agreed.

Crime Hunt
After class a week after they established their plan, the team went to the motor pool in order to enact their plan. However, before they could go, team VILE came and forced themselves into the plan, much to Fred's dismay. While Ember and May went to the CCT to contact and old friend and spy within the White Fang, Leia and Eadwulf would go the VPD HQ to investigate evidence from the robbery last semester, Llew Glas and Ing Pugno would search White Fang activities and Fred and Violet went into Vale to met with Skyler, Fred's informative.

Fred and Violet would arrive at the club Skyler ran where Violet would ask for a dance, with Fred shutting her down and told her to stay focus on the mission. The two would talk with Skyler and get some information of Nolan, until he attacked the club resulting in a small fight. While Violet would take on the White Fang goons, Fred would rematch Nolan and knocked him out and kidnapped Skyler. Violet stopped Nolan before he could escape and the two also had a duel. Fred later joined and together, the two students pushed the White Fang out and sent them on the run, Fred giving chance with Crimson Dynamo. Fred would be joined by the rest of his team and Team VILE and the eight would attack the White Fang camp led by Nolan and Lavender Kristal with the two escaping. The group relayed their findings and returned to Beacon.

Beacon Dance
After the investigation, Fred continued to be on edge about everything that transpired with his team wanting to relax a bit and not to worry so much with Fred brushing off the words of wisdom. Two days prior to the dance, Ember ask Fred to come and join the team in having some fun and to "cut loss" for a bit. Fred brushes off the sentiment claiming he has addition work for Oobleck to get done. Ember, knowing Fred all to well, pushes beyond his leader's lie and states he needs a good wingman since he asked May. Fred reluctantly agrees to join, but states that he won't have fun no matter what. As the night of the dance comes around, Ember drags Fred out of his dorm to where the rest of the team is located. The four then go to the ballroom together and Ember and May almost immediately begin dancing and enjoying themselves while Fred heads to the upper balcony. While he was up there, Violet came to join him. Fred thanked Violet and her team for joining them on the hunt with Violet responding with some flirty banter, again to Fred's dismay. Eventually, Violet brings up Fred's parents unaware of his history, which made him snap with rage at her and storm off making Violet both frightened and saddened.

As the nigh progresses, Fred mets up with Leia clearly saddened but what happened between he and Violet. Fred also sees Violet, also clearly saddened but what happen. Leia encourages Fred to go talk to her again, but he says he's getting fresh air and leaves the ballroom for a bit. Once outside, Fred is greeted by Professor Ozpin and the two begin a conversation about both identity and Team FLME. Ozpin reviles that he is fully aware of what team FLME and VILE did recently and approves it to Fred's surprise. Ozpin also states that they were not the only ones to sneak out of Beacon recently to hunt the White Fang. Ozpin gives a small speech to Fred about how he should not blame himself for everything and that his father would be proud of the man he is today.

After their talk, Fred returns to the ballroom and makes his way to the balcony again and sees Ember and May. After hearing their words, Fred is finally convinced to talk to Violet and so he does. He asked Violet if she would still like to dance in an awkward way, but still gets her to join with much enthusiasm. Both team FLME and VILE met and watch the two leaders dance, with Ember and Eadwulf still at each others throats. However, the two decide to push it aside and let their leaders enjoy themselves for the night.

The First Mission
The following day, the first official mission for first-years begins. Ozpin gives a speech, wishing luck to the students before they select their missions. Team FLME decides to do Crime Investigation in the Southeast side of the city. As the team prepares to leave, they are greeted by teams VILE and WIOW who wish them luck and FLME in return wishes them the same luck. As the team approaches the Bullhead, Fred is overwhelmed with joy when he sees that the Huntsman they are working under is his brother's old teammate and friend, Bazaar Hiltzaile. The two exchange some banter and Fred introduces Leia and May to him, though he seems to already have an understanding of the team.

The team then arrives at a crime scene with the investigation being spearhead by Detective Lagoon and Bazaar himself. Team FLME gets to work and discoveries a few pieces of evidence pointing to the White Fang. The area was known for White Fang attacks so Bazaar orders a stake out with each member of the team taking shifts while watching the streets below them. After Fred's shift is completed, Ember takes over and the leader falls asleep only to be awaken later by Leia who states that there is a White Fang attack. Fred quickly joins in and leads the team Against the fang. After a few minor skirmishes with goons, one reviles that there is an active bomb somewhere in the area. Bazaar then interrogates a few other goons who confirm the claim and the five along with the VPD begin the hunt.

Fred and his team find out the location via a White Fang lieutenant and the team runs toward the area. However, while on the way, they encounter Lavender Kristal. Fred orders everyone to keep going while he dealt with the bounty hunter. The two engage each other and at first, Fred appears to have the upper hand, but he soon realizes that she is toying with him. Lavender then using her full potential and knocks Fred out cold, giving him is first true loss in years. Nolan then comes to join Lavender in killing the young Huntsman but is stopped by a masked figure who saves Fred's life and chases Nolan and Lavender away from him. After the figure leaves, Fred gets up and dashes towards the location of the bomb and his team.

Once Fred reunites with his team, he sees that the bomb is about to go off. He then has Leia use her semblance to create a shield around the bomb which he hopes should contain the blast. Leia does so and the bomb goes off, forcing Leia to make multiple shields and layers around the explosion. Eventually, the blast stops and Leia is knocked out cold, being caught by Fred. Afterwards, the team returns to Beacon to place Leia in the infirmity and joins the huntsmen in defending Vale from the Grimm. After Leia comes around, Fred and the rest of the team fills her in on what happens and states that Nolan and Lavender are still out there and still planning.