Florence

Florence is a major character in the five first books of the series. She is the protagonist of the main series

Physical Appearence
Florence is a relatively short woman with curly black hair that run down to a little below her shoulders. She has white pale skin, common of all Gasans. She has the same dark blue eyes as her youngest sister.

Personality
Florence is stubborn but also very kind. She is an expressive woman. She is really protective of the people she loves, especially with Octavian, Octavia and Beryl. She follows what is good and moral rather than what she is told. As well as being a good fighter, she is also skilled artistically.

In the books
Florence initially appears in the beginning of the first book when John, her fiancé, introduces her to Jack upon meeting him. During the whole crisis with the Colds, before she turned, she often appears on meetings with John, Frederick and sometimes Jack. She starts gaining an important role in the novel when her sister, Octavia, urges her to turn against the government. with all the information she gathered from meetings, Octavia suggests that she deliver them to the Liberators. When she is tasked to escort Jordan to Tartar, she frees him, as well as all the other prisoners there, and heads for Mars, where she warns the Martians of a surprise attack the Red Light is planning to launch against them.

Shortly before the battle of Svidomad, she meets and befriends Alex and Beryl, who introduce her to the rest of the Elite Soldiers. They give her a lot of respect for having warned the Martians of the Red Light attack. Florence fought down the cliff in the battle of Svidomad. After the battle, she joined a small guerrilla cell led initially by Gangey and later by Dyleia. During the months she spent fighting the Red Light on Mars, she was often shunned and discriminated by the Greencoats. She was eventually abandoned and left to be captured by the Red Light, but that was proven to be a deliberate effort by Dyleia to get her past the enemy lines and place her in Grenna before the Martians could lead their recapture of the capital. She did a good job of distracting the occupying Red Light forces in Grenna to aid the recapture.

Alex and Beryl made her an Elite Soldier shortly after the end of the Invasion of Mars. She was made made the ninth Elite Soldier. (Fluorine, the element after which Florence, as a character, was named, is the ninth element of the periodic table) She wears her Elite Soldier badge like a necklace.

Florence participated in the Battle of Venus and in the defense against the Red Light/Warm invasion of Earth. During the invasion of Earth, Florence was captured by the Red Light and was brought with them to RLSA-Earth. When the Liberators attacked the base, Florence escaped captivity and opened the gates for the Liberator armies.