Roz Quarzo's Faction

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- Roz Quarzo

Roz Quarzo's Faction is a group of antagonist in Team FLME. The group is lead by Roz Quarzo with its members including; Shadow Ombre, Nolan Runderen and Lavender Kristal. Due to Roz and Nolan's ranks within the White Fang, they have strong ties to the terrorist group as well as Cinder's Faction due to Roz and Cinder both answering to Salem and Onyx.

They assisted in the destruction of Beacon and other numerous attacks throughout the Kingdom.

Roz Quarzo
Roz was the leader of Team RBIE. She was the only Faunus on the team and thus was faced to minor discrimination but was defended by her team and partner, Isaac Scorch. In her later years at Haven, she was known and feared all around the academy due to her skill and abilities. She later joined the Lower Cabal and formed her own faction to assist Cinder Fall and Adam Taurus in destroying Beacon. Her weapon of choice is a rapier called Quartz. Her semblance is allows her to generate either bubbles and or circular shields on her arms. This allows her to build up her defenses and build up her offensive and catch her foes off guard during a duel.

Lavender Kristal
Lavender is an ex-huntress turned country hunter hired by Roz to assist her in the plans to destroy Vale with Cinder Fall. Lavender is quick and efficient at her job and obeys orders without question. Her weapons of choice are a sword called the Crystal Cipher and a pistol called Slytherin. Her semblance is currently unknown.

Shadow Ombre
Shadow is a fellow member of the Lower Cabal recruited by Roz to assist her in leadership of the Faction and to act as an aid for her. Shadow was a brutal enforcer for the Lower Cabal and used his military prowess to lead Roz's White Fang soldiers into battle. He is a power hungry official and is never afraid of getting his hands dirty from a fight. He is also the adoptive father of May Fumi. His weapons are two cutlasses that are also able to become rifles.

Nolan Runderen
Nolan is Roz's brutal enforcer and her top lieutenant within the White Fang. He is her enforcer and brutal executioner and serves her loyally to the point of death. He has unique super human strength and durability and can easily shrug off hits from the most powerful of foes. His weapon of choice is a shotgun that can become a sword or a Kusarigama. He normally runs Roz's missions for her within the city walls and is easily capable of leading his own forces.

Formation
After Roz joined the Lower Cabal she was introduced to the other members of Lavenza Volt, Shadow Ombre and Damson Shade. She was the introduced to Salem and swore her allegiance to her. Afterwards, she was given an assignment of keeping a watchful on Adam Taurus of the Vale Branch of the White Fang. Through her investigations, she began a close relationship with Adam that resulted in a positions of one of his lieutenants.

Afterwards, she reported her discoveries to Salem and Cinder Fall and thus waited for Taurus to join their cause. Once Cinder recruited Adam, Roz formed her own group to continue operations within Vale as well as prepare to kill Isaac Scorch and Frederic Scorch due to their ties with Ozpin.

She easily recruited her top White Fang lieutenant, Nolan into the group to be her enforcer and conduct missions for her. She also recruited her fellow Lower Cabal member, Shadow Ombre, to act as a aid for her as well as a secondary leader. Roz needed a third member and thus looked to Mistral to hire a less than respectable huntsman or huntress and found Lavender Kristal in a bar and quickly hired her based on what she heard from another attendant.

Missions in Vale
Roz had Nolan operate with Adam in assist Cinder in her dust shop robberies. She then had Nolan break Shadow out of prison which he was placed in a few weeks prior. After Ombre's rescue, the two headed to Patch's Industrial Docks to rob it of dust as per the plan. However, they were stopped by Team FLME and Shadow was again arrested by the VPD. Afterwards, Nolan returns to Roz and Lavender to report his failures but was brushed aside and continued their plan.

During the events of Team FLME Volume 2, Nolan attacks Skyler's club to capture her due to the information she knew. This resulted in a fight between he and Frederic Scorch and Violet Eclairage. Though Skyler was saved, Nolan escaped with the two giving chase. He lead them to a White Fang Camp were Nolan and his men along with Lavender attacked the eight students. Lavender and Nolan eventually escaped the compound with their earnings from around Vale.

Boarder Activities
Following the failed capture of Skyler and the loss of a camp, Roz began her "Phase 2" and moved her forces to the boarder of Vale and continued their dust shop robberies. Eventually, Team FLME made their way to the boarder with Roz's old teammate, Bazaar Hiltzaile. When Roz learned of this, she initiated the bomb warning and planted a bomb within the boarder to destroy half the city. FLME then attacked the Fang and moved towards the bomb's location.

Roz then sent Lavender and Nolan to stop them. Lavender engaged Fred while Nolan attacked Ember and the girls dealt with the bomb and the surrounding Grimm in the area. Lavender was able to knock out Fred while Nolan lost Ember who passed him. Nolan then returned to Lavender who almost killed Fred if it wasn't for Isaac Scorch protecting his brother. The bomb was then deactivated and the faction left the area.

Battle of Beacon
During the Vytal Festival Tournament, Roz had Lavender and Nolan to break Shadow out of prison in order to get a member of the Lower Cabal out. Nolan and Lavender got the general out but were stopped by Isaac Scorch, Bazaar Hiltzaile and Elsa Inverno. The three were unable to stop the breakout the failed in their mission to stop Ombre.

Roz arrives at Beacon just after Adam and she orders the attack to bring the innocents of Beacon to her knees or to their graves. She then eagerly jumps out of her Bullhead with Nolan and the two began their attack on Beacon. During the battle, she catches eye of her former partner Isaac who addresses her as Kitty, her old nickname. She then begins a monologue of how Onyx was right about Ozpin and Isaac as both displayed great arrogance and thus wishes them to die for their failures.

The two then engage one another in a impressive display of swordsmanship with each blocking or parrying one another's strikes. Roz then knocks Isaac into a tree, which he effortlessly cuts down and kicks it towards her, which she jumps, but is then thrown into a wall by Isaac resulting her in crashing through it. Isaac then proceeds to attack her which she uses her semblance to knock him off guard.

Ember, May and Eadwulf began to evacuate the dorms but were stopped by Nolan Runderen. The three attacked Nolan but stood little chance against him as he easily overpowered them with his sheer strength. May was soon pinned to th ground with glasses on her abdomen. Nolan then crushed her glasses, with some glass breaching her skin and stomach, making her cry in pain. Ember then again used his semblance to save her and push Nolan back, but again stood little chance. Before Ember was killed by Nolan, he was taken by a Nevermore and eaten in two.

Later on, Isaac gets the jump on Roz with a surprised ariel attack, but she is able to avoid and block his strikes. The two continue their duel with one another with Isaac pleading to Roz to return to ally herself with them and with him again. Roz refuses and states that the Roz Isaac loved was dead and this was the true Roz forever. Isaac then swore to avenge Roz and thus attempted to kill her. As the two clashed for the final time, Isaac apologized to Roz who returned with a rejection and thus Isaac stated he meant it for the one he loved and thus used his remaining strength to launch Roz into the city of Vale.

When she was founded by Adam, he banished her from the White Fang and attempt to kill her as well. She was able to escape with assistance from Lavender Kristal and Shadow Ombre who took her back to Onyx and the Lower Cabal.

Aftermath
Following the Fall of Beacon, Roz and Shadow retuned to Salem's Domain to report to Onyx about the battle and the failure to kill Isaac and Frederic Scorch. Prior to the meeting, she introduced Lavender to the realm and let her witness the birth and taming of Grimm but Volt and Ombre's forces. While their, she was scolded by Lavenza who claimed that she should have died at Beacon due to failure to kill Isaac. Damson then joins stating that she should hunt Isaac down a rip out his heart for destroying her's. Ombre then joins in stating that it was shameful that she lost to Isaac.

However, prior to her backlash towards the three, she is interrupted by Onyx entering the room and silencing Lavenza's unneeded "belittlement" of Roz. Despite her failing to kill Isaac, she is hailed by Onyx for her efforts in Vale and the role she played in having Taurus' allegiance to Salem. However, due to her defeat by Isaac, she is instructed to remain with Onyx to continue her training to hopefully kill Isaac and later Frederic. This leads Lavender to take over for Roz and Damson to now hunt down Frederic and kill him.

Trivia

 * Each member of the Faction is based on a military leader.
 * Roz Quarzo is based on  Rose Quartz  from the animated television series,  Steven Universe.
 * Lavender Kristal is based on Bellatrix Lestrange from the Harry Potter series.
 * Shadow Ombre is based on Bull Connor.
 * Nolan Runderen is based on Darth Vader from the Star Wars series.
 * Every member of the faction is considered the archenemy of a member of Team FLME.
 * Roz Quarzo and Frederic Scorch due to leadership and main pro- and antagonist.
 * Lavender Kristal and Leia Burns due to Lavender hired to kill the Burns Family.
 * Shadow Ombre and May Fumi due to Shadow abusively raising May.
 * Nolan Runderen and Ember Ignis due to how Nolan attempts to show Ember how they are similar.