Quartz Rose

"He's just like his mother: strong, hopeful, cheery... But he's also his own man. Simply because he was thrown headfirst into a war of his own time does not mean he has been raised as a warrior. Rather, he aspires to become one who protects others, even at the risk of becoming a rose that will one day wilt and scatter with the wind."

- The Author, about Quatz Rose Quartz Rose is the main character and protagonist of the story, "RWBY: Second Generation," and leader of the second generation of Team RWBY. His weapon of choice is his mother's High-Caliber Sniper-Scythe (HCSS) known as Crescent Rose, which was repaired and enhanced, adopting the name Crescent Rose Mk-II.

He is voice by Newton Pittman.

Appearance
Quartz has been stated to look almost exactly like his mother in terms of hair color, eyes, and personality. He has shoulder-length black hair with a red tint, and wears a gray sleeveless, long red jacket with a hood that reaches down to his calves, a gray sweater with a black collar with the sleeves rolled up to the elbows, and red gloves. He also has on baggy black cargo jeans with gray boots with red straps and highlights, complete with a belt at his hip with a white rose buckle.

Personality
Quarts shares many traits with his mother. He can be brash, hard-headed, and very naive and quite impulsive in his actions, but when necessary, he can be serious and dependable. His greatest aspiration is to become a Huntsman, much like his parents, but above all else, he is someone who greatly values his family. He is described to be rather innocent, as he does not understand sexual innuendos until it has been pointed out to him, and like his father, is something of a dunce when it comes to romance.

Perhaps the greatest trait he inherited from Ruby is his love for weapons. He is quite intelligent, having managed to repair and enhanced a damaged Crescent Rose, though he feels that he has gone a little overboard in it's features. Also like Ruby, he compares seeing weapons as meeting new people, though he takes it a step further by looking at the weapon's design and features, likening it to the wielder, easily able to tell what sort of person they are just by analyzing the weapon. He also likes to describe himself as a "weapons nerd," going just as overboard as Ruby when looking at new weapons, such as the Atlantean Knights that James Ironwood presented.

Due to how his parents raised him, Quartz is a very moral person, and has a strong sense of justice. He is also a very diligent person, studying harder than most students at Beacon Academy.

Quartz seems to have inherited his father's knack for bonding with others, establishing a large social circle in little time at all. He is a very social person, but he mostly spends his time with his teammates and his family. His best known trait is his closeness with his teammates, as well as his mother and father, and his willingness to throw himself into harm's way just to protect them, even at the expense of his own life.

Quartz is also something of a "learning as you go" sort of person, as he learns via trial and error in combat rather than through books and analytical observations. He quickly adapts to any situation, such as his battle with the Death Stalker with his team. He also demonstrates excellent leadership capabilities, cooperating well with Weiz and his teammates to bring down the Death Stalker with his mother and her team. He is also very loyal, and is unwilling to leave anyone behind, and will do whatever it takes to protect his friends and family. He also strives to better himself, in order to be someone whom his parents can be proud of, despite Ozpin's claims that he has already made his folks proud a hundred times over.

Just like his parents, he is uncomfortable in formal attire, comparing a tuxedo to a strait jacket, and the bow to a noose, despite Yang's comment that he looked good in a suit.

Abilities and Powers
Quartz is very skilled in combat, despite his age when compared to those around him. This is a result of special training from both his godfather and mother, both of whom took him under their wing in order to improve his skills. As a result, Quartzis a master at using her scythe; enough so that Ozpin admits that he is perhaps on the same caliber as Qrow, given enough time to refine and polish his abilities. His fighting style also heavily mirrors his mother's own techniques, despite adding in his own style to it.

Weapon
Quartz has demonstrated and excellent usage of his fighting capabilities, having been able to fend off a Death Stalker by himself before his teammates arrived, and managed quite well in spite of going up against it solo. He was also able to force two Alpha Beowolves to retreat when he wiped out their whole pack, coordinating with Lune.

Quartz's main weapon in combat is the Crescent Rose Mk-II, which was originally designed by her mother during her time at Signal, as all students do. His weapon is a combination of a scythe and a high-powered rifle, which causes a large amount of recoil when fired. Quartz uses the recoil from Crescent Rose's shots to augment the speed and force of his strikes. However, he is also able to spin Crescent Rose with exemplary skill and power without the recoil, often executing chain attacks with this technique. After repairing it and enhancing it, he gave the scythe additional bonus features, such as a grappling wire that allows him to grab unto his opponents and strike at them quickly, along with the additional scythe blade found at the other end of the weapon. He also added in a feature that allows Crescent Rose to split into two separate, smaller scythes for him to wield, effectively allowing for a broader range of attacks. In addition, he implanted a special, electromagnetic charged barrel into the blade that allows him to fire extremely powerful shots infused with Lightning and Fire Dust Rounds, both of which are extremely potent. The downside is that the recoil of such blasts is enough to knock him off of his feet, thus using the grappling wires to lessen the recoil.

Even without the use of his special abilities, Quartz is quite sharp. He was able to cleanly slice through a large tree with a single, non-recoil-augmented blow, causing the tree to fall. He also uses the weapon itself as a platform from which to attack, shown when he laid down completely on the handle of Crescent Rose while firing at opponents. Sometimes when he plans to fire the rifle from a stationary position, he twirls Crescent Rose's scythe tip into the ground to give him a monopod for stability and a way to absorb the recoil that would otherwise cause him to be thrown backwards.

Quartz carries three types of ammunition: Dust Rounds for his ECB, unmarked rounds, and marked rounds. The unmarked rounds deal considerable damage, and are contained in a simple red clip, where as the marked rounds have a silver cross on the clip, and have a black muzzle blast when fired off, and deal more damage. The recoil behind the blast is also quite strong, using it to his advantage to propel himself and deliver high-speed attacks, even rotating himself to deliver a devastating spinning blow to his enemies.

Semblance
To add to his already impressive battle prowess, Quartz's Semblance is speed, just like his mother's. Because of his Semblance, he is able to move from place to place so quickly that that he appears to be teleporting; almost as if he is able to materialize out of nowhere. However, like his mother, he appears to have trouble controlling it properly, as he is nearly unable to stop when in motion. Just like Ruby, whenever he uses his Semblance, he leaves a cloud of black and red rose petals in his wake that quickly dissipates.

Agility
Quartz also seems capable of jumping extraordinary heights, even without his weapon's recoil. In his confrontation with the Death Stalker, he jumped several meters into the sky (augmented with his Semblance) and took a couple seconds to return to the ground.

Endurance
Quartz has enhanced endurance, showing no signs of fatigue in battle at all. While combating a Death Stalker by himself before the arrival of his team, he showed no signs of fatigue. After running a certain distance to safety, Quartz shows no signs of weariness.

Silver Eyes
Through his mother, Ruby, Quartz comes from a line of legendary warriors who possessed powerful abilities related to their silver eyes, said to be an ultra rare trait. Qrow describes a fairy tale about warriors with silver eyes who are so powerful that even the Grimm fear them.

Miscellaneous
Outside of combat, Quartz has expressed great knowledge regarding weapons, which shows in his complex design and craftsmanship of repairing and enhancing a damaged Crescent Rose. On occasion, he has been shown to be successful as a decisive leader, being able to quickly formulate and execute plans for himsel or his team, which may have contributed to his appointment as team leader.

Trivia

 * Similar to Weiz Schnee, Lune Belladona, and Yin Xiao Long, Quartz has been described to look like the male version of his mother, despite having been noted to have a face similar to his father.
 * His name, Quartz, is in reference to the second most abundant crystal in the Earth's continental crust, after feldspar. Its crystal structure is a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical formula of SiO2.
 * Quartz shares the same emblem as his mother and grandmother.
 * Similar to how Ruby kept her mother's surname, Quartz retained the family name of "Rose," in order to honor her memory, despite addressing himself as Quartz Monochrome Rose to Ozpin when confronted about his parentage alongside his teammates.