Scarlet Scarlet is an antagonist in " Final Fantasy VII " , who also appears in the prequel " Before Crisis - Final Fantasy VII - " . She is the Head of Weapons Development in the Shinra Electric Power Company . She is ruthless and will use any means necessary to fulfill her goals . She has a characteristic laugh ( " " kya ha ha ! " " ) , much like her colleague Heidegger . The two often work together , despite feelings of mutual contempt . Profile . Appearance . Scarlet has blond hair and blue eyes . She wears her hair tied up . In " Before Crisis - Final Fantasy VII - " her earrings are blue , and in " Final Fantasy VII " they are red . In " Final Fantasy VII " she has a necklace she does not wear in " Before Crisis " . Scarlet dresses in a long red satin dress that has a plunging neckline and a slit on the side and matching high heels . Under her dress she wears black thigh - high stay - up stockings . Personality . Scarlet is the only female Shinra executive , and is cruel and ambitious . She is blunt and does not care if her remarks hurt others . Scarlet is unbothered by violence and often resorts to violent means as her first choice of how to deal with problems facing herself and Shinra Inc . She is passive towards the atrocities the Shinra Company commits and only looks after her own status within the company . As the head of Weapons Development within Shinra , she appears to have a fascination with machines and weapons of mass destruction . Story . " Before Crisis - Final Fantasy VII - " . Scarlet works under President Shinra as a Shinra Executive . She is ordered to capture Veld after the Turks refuse to take in their commander , and is ordered to assassinate the Turks . She leads the army against them , but fails in her mission . " Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII - " . Scarlet is mentioned briefly by one of the scientists in the Materia Room of the Shinra Building , who claims Scarlet wanted to close down their department and was humiliated at the next board meeting . " Final Fantasy VII " . Years before the start of the game , Scarlet ordered for the Shinra soldiers to attack the town of Corel due to sabotage at the newly built Corel Reactor , which she blamed on the residents . She shot both Barret and Dyne in their arms , rendering the arms of both men useless . When Cloud Strife and his friends storm the Shinra Building to save Aeris , Scarlet participates the executives ' meeting on Sector 7 ' s state and the plans for Neo Midgar . She is unsympathetic toward Reeve who would like to see Sector 7 rebuilt , a futile endeavor . Scarlet is the only one to act suspicious , gazing at the vent at the ceiling where Cloud and his friends are eavesdropping on the meeting . Later , Scarlet embarks to Gongaga where she searches for a Huge Materia to build an ultimate weapon , but considers the ruined Gongaga Reactor a dud . After Shinra deduces Sephiroth is heading towards North Crater , the new president of the company , Rufus Shinra , arranges an expedition to the area on the " Highwind " with Scarlet , Heidegger and Professor Hojo accompanying him . After the Meteor has been summoned , she tries to publicly execute Tifa in a gas chamber at Junon , but this scheme fails when Sapphire Weapon attacks and gives Tifa a chance to escape . Scarlet ends up in a slap fight with Tifa on the Mako Cannon but Tifa escapes onto the " Highwind " . After Sephiroth erects a barrier around the North Crater Scarlet plans to move the Mako Cannon from Junon to Midgar , hook it up to the Mako Reactor s , and unleash its Mako - powered energy at the crater to destroy the barrier . She dubs the new cannon the Sister Ray ( even if the name was previously seen written on the cannon in Junon ) . After Diamond Weapon is destroyed and Rufus presumed dead , Scarlet and Heidegger take over the company and have Reeve arrested . When Cloud and the others return to Midgar to stop Professor Hojo from overloading the Mako Reactors , Scarlet and Heidegger reveal the ultimate in weapons technology ; a robot called the Proud Clod . Scarlet ' s plan fails as the Proud Clod is defeated and explodes . It is unknown if Scarlet and Heidegger died in the blast , but as she is neither seen nor heard from again , it is a likely conclusion . " Dirge of Cerberus - Final Fantasy VII - " . Scarlet is mentioned briefly with her old files being Reeve ' s primary source of information on Deepground . She was one of only three Shinra executives to know of the Deepground project , and presumably outfitted them with the high - tech weaponry they use .