Zephrion Flagg

"Say what you wish to say, but when the sun sets, I am but a humble merchant. I know this, my people know this, my customers know this. why can't you?"

- Zephrion Flagg

Appearance
Zephrion is an older man with a lanky build. He has a dulled black-and-white head of hair as a skunk faunus and an icy, almost machine-like look to his face and eyes.

He usually wears a specially made bulletproof business jacket and pants, a dark green tie, and gray dress shirt. His jacket is tailored to fit his shoulder properly, but leave extra internal space for storage of his weapon.

As Flagg's medical staff lack confidence in his relatively aged body, he lacks cybernetics and will likely never receive any.

Personality
If there is anything good one can say about Zephrion, it is that he is a master rhetorician and a nightmare in a negotiations board. His restrained emotions give a sense of dread to those he interacts with and allow him to make critical decisions under massive amounts of corporate stress.

Zephrion is intensely cold and absolutely aware of his lack of physical strength and thus sees those beneath him and even himself as merely tools and pawns to be used, particularly the eliminators. It is he that provides the most lucrative and dangerous bounties and contracts. As he understands that his cold demeanor will make him unpopular and untrusted, he assigns professors and engineers to make and post bounties for him. This doesn't mean he has no respect for his people, but quite the opposite. Of the few times he does speak to an eliminator personally (only those contracted as his personal guard), he holds them with regard and appreciation for their willingness to risk life and limb for naught but lien. Aside from that, he refuses to become personal considering that they could die at any moment. In his words: ''death is painful, but a fact of nature. You may mourn if you wish and not lose my respect, but I do not have the luxury of time like you.''

Fishbone
The fishbone is a massive, almost oversized pistol for how lanky the user is. Its manifold is specially designed to use red-green mixture to fabricate 13.7mm high-explosive gyrojets and nothing else. This exotic ammunition type resembles a miniature rocket and leaves the fishbone with negligible recoil but enough stopping power destroy an Ursai Major with a single shot.

Despite its power, the fishbone is a rather weak weapon when compared to other selections in the RWBYverse. It lacks a transformation which severely limits its flexibility and potential. It cannot even accept other dust mixtures which makes the weapon even more of a poor-choice. However, its user is not a career huntsman and nor will he ever be a huntsman, so any additional forms or features would be redundant and lead to make an already comparably expensive weapon even more uneconomical.

Backstory
Zephrion was born to Flagg's founder, Samara Flagg. Samara was a faunus researcher whose formulas and theories on dust would have led to leaps and bounds in Remnant's technological development, but Faunus discrimination meant her work was never considered realistic nor applicable by many corporations. In exasperation, she established a small laboratory in a dilapidated

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