Sable Vedova

> Remember that I have almost every possible criminal and mercenary organisation in Remnant under my thumb, so I won't be afraid to kill you if you escape me.
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> Sable Vedova

## Media

### First Appearance

All That Jazz

Sable Vedova is a main antagonist in Team OPRA's story. She is a crime lord and leader of the notorious and powerful Vedova Syndicate. She hires Gilford MacAllister to assassinate the Mayor of Mistral, Mei Lin Xun but is intervened by Team OPRA. After this she swears to kill the four student hunters and sees them as her enemies.

Sable is first mentioned in "Getting to Know You" By Rupert. She makes a full appearance in the post credits scene of Volume 1 when she meets Celia Kelly and the Six Merry Murderesses in a Vale Nightclub.

Sable has a much more prominent role as an antagonist in Volume 2. She begins to orchestrate the assassinations of Team OPRA after they stop Gilford MacAllister from killing Mei Lin Xun. She does so by hiring The Six Merry Murderesses to kill Team OPRA. In "The Confrontation", She attacks Gertrud Festini by stabbing her with an icicle after Gertrud convinces Celia to back off from killing Team OPRA. She then engages in a fight with Team OPRA but is defeated, luckily managing to escape thanks to her bodyguard, Yolanda Zilar's intervention. At some point afterwards, she meets with a White Fang Assassin and puts a target on Ophelia's head for him to claim.

She does not appear in Volume 3 until after the Fall of Beacon when The Assassin comes to confirm his killing of Ophelia, though both are unaware that she survived the ordeal.

In Volume 4, it is revealed she and Erik are acquaintances of unknown origins.

## Appearance

### Physical

Standing at 5’9, Sable is a slender woman with a thin model-like frame. She has ivory skin with dark green eyes and long black hair that is wavy and parted to one side, usually covering one of her eyes. She has a square head shape and usually wears make up such as foundation, blush, black and red eyeshadow and red lipstick.

### Attire

Sable's original attire consists of an white work blouse with several buttons undone tucked into a pair of black trousers. Over her shirt she wears a black blazer with an attached matching black capelet that is lined inside with red fabric and features two diamond shaped talismans on the sides with two circles over it. On her feet, she wears red open-toed stiletto heels.

### Post Time Skip Attire

After the fall of Beacon, she changes her outfit to a black sleeveless jumpsuit with a pair of black and golden block-heeled boots.

## Personality

Sable is a cunning, vindictive, sadistic and calculating woman. She is cold, often showing no empathy to those around her. She sees people strictly as tools to further her own goals, even going so far as to dispose of her own father. Sable's persistence knowns no end, unwilling to give up on a goal once it is in her sights. Sable is an individual who does not tolerate any kind of failure, making threats to those who even make the smallest of mistakes, and threats that are in no way empty as evident with injuring Gertrud Festini when she convinces the Merry Murderesses to drop the job of killing Team OPRA.

Sable is also a woman who values connections and 'friendships' in her field of specialty. Because of this she is more than happy to perform favours for her 'friends'. But when she does you a favour, you should never think that you're off the hook. Sable is someone who will make sure that you will do whatever she says for her, or face the consequences for not obeying.

However when Sable begins to lose control of a situation or is bested she turns into a more aggressive person, her cool and calm persona dropping. Being given so much power in her life, Sable desires *only* to keep that power and if anything were to threaten that she will stop at nothing to have that threat completely destroyed.

## Background

Not much is known about Sable other than at some point, she inherited the Vedova Syndicate from her father Nero after the latter's death as explained by Celia.

## Abilities and Powers

Despite seeing herself as a woman who is above wasting time fighting, Sable can perfectly handle herself in combat situations if one were to arise. Her knowledge of dust-based combat allows her to execute a variety of deadly attacks on her opponents by using the elements to her advantage. Even without her rings, Sable has some skill in hand to hand combat. Sable can also take on multiple combatants at once as evident with her fight against Team OPRA.

### Weakness

Sable can let her emotions take over in a fight and often causes her to ignore certain combatants in favour of taking a certain individual out, as evident with how she neglects Ophelia to kill Pierre which causes the former to take out her aura.

### Weapon

Sable's weapons are called *Três Aranhas.* They are the Sextuple Dust Gem Rings (SDGR). They are a set of gold rings with single dust gems embedded into them. Sable wears these rings on her pointer, middle, and ring fingers of both hands. Each ring allows for Sable to execute different dust based attacks on her opponents. On her left hand, Sable uses Fire, Ice and Electricity dust. On her right hand, Sable uses Rock, Hard Light and Gravity dust.

### Semblance

Sable’s semblance is called *Kiss of the Spider Woman.* At a base level, Sable uses her semblance to deliver poisonous kisses to her opponents, which can be potent enough to kill them in a matter of minutes . A downside to Sable’s semblance is that she must kiss the individual on the lips for the poison to work, meaning that getting in vicinity can prove difficult.

## Relationships

### Associates

* Gilford McAllister: Despite not directly interacting with one another in person, Gilford and Sable originally had a positive employer/employee relationship. Originally Sable thought that Gilford was a competent assassin but that attitude quickly changed to deeming him useless upon failing his mission thanks to Team OPRA. She has now basically forgotten his name after she has him handed over to the police.
* The Masked Man: The Mysterious individual and Sable seem to have a close bond, evident in how Sable gives him the task to kill Ophelia with sure belief that he will accomplish it.
* Celia Kelly: Similarly with Gilford, Sable believed that Celia was the perfect fit to kill the nuisances that is Team OPRA. She had great interest in Celia knowing that she murdered her husband in sister, but inevitably that soon turned to annoyance and disappointment when Celia feigned on ending OPRA's lives after Gertrud convinced her to back down. Now Sable thinks of her as a weak-willed and cowardly woman who would rather run off than face the punishment she deserves.
* The Phantom/Erik: Currently it is unknown to the extent of the relationship between Erik and Sable other than they are on good terms enough that Erik will ask Sable for favours.

### Other

* Team OPRA: Sable has a particular, distasteful hatred towards OPRA. She views below them and thinks of them as nothing but annoying brats who deserve to be punished for interfering with her business. Despite this she is constantly annoyed and infuriated by their persistence. But now that she thinks Ophelia has been murdered, Sable believes that the rest will be easy pickings.

## Trivia

### Allusion

* Following the musical theme of Team OPRA, Sable Vedova is based on the character of the *Spider Woman* from the 1990 musical of the same name.

### Colour Naming Rule

* Sable is a Slavic name meaning *'*black'.
* Vedova is Italian for *Widow*, which can allude to a black widow spider known for its venomous classification. Black Widow Spiders are also red and black in colour.

### Miscellaneous

* *Três Aranhas* is Portuguese for 'three spiders'.