Red

Red is one of the five core members of the Bomb Rush Crew, and essentially the main playable character for most of the game. Named for his red cyberhead, he ends up needing to go All City in order to get his old head back and recover his lost memories.
== Role in the Story ==
After Faux is decapitated by DJ Cyber, Tryce manages to at least recover his body and get it outfitted with a cyberhead. Sometime after this, we can see from the cyberhead’s point of view that he’s fading in and out of consciousness, while watching Tryce and Bel hanging out at the hideout.
Eventually, the cyberhead manages to fully wake up, at which point Tryce greets him and bring him up to speed on where they are, who he and Bel are, and what happened before then. The cyberhead questions if him getting a new head means he died, and Tryce confirms it, mentioning he was decapitated. As Tryce puts it, “It will have to do until we get Faux’s head back”.
When Bel asks what they should call the cyberhead from then on, Tryce jokes that “Pretty Boy” (his nickname for the original Faux) isn’t going to work anymore. Bel comments that she still thinks he looks cute, and suggests the name “Red”.
From there, Tryce gives Red his own skateboard, and Red practices riding around on it with help from Bel. Once Red has also demonstrated his graffiti skills to Tryce, Tryce allows him to be a part of the Bomb Rush Crew. He continues, saying he started the crew with the goal to go All City, though Red questions what they need him for.
Tryce explains that Red’s “previous head”, Faux, was an amazing writer to the point of being one of the Big 3 of New Amsterdam. Faux had promised to join BRC if Tryce helped him, and so Tryce wants to keep his side of the deal by helping save Faux.
Red points out that Faux got decapitated, so then the only thing left of him is the body that Red is using. Tryce further explains that he believes that Faux’s head is still out there, specifically in DJ Cyber’s possession. Thus, he wants Red to help get his (i.e. Faux’s) head back. Red himself admits he wants to get his head back, and that he wants to know what his former self was like.
With that settled, BRC head to Versum Hill. The plan is to first speak with the Franks about where to find the DJ, and then confront him directly about Red’s old head. When they arrive, they find parts of the borough have been barricaded by the Franks, so Tryce suggests they split up and start looking for the rival crew’s hideout.
While Red is throwing graffiti onto a certain spot, one of the Franks actually confronts him for it, especially since he covered up one of their pieces. The Franks member threatens Red and tells him to get out of their turf.
Despite the threat, Red and the rest of BRC continue to get their REP up in Versum Hill, until they’re able to confront the Franks at the basketball court at the top of the hill. Tryce mentions that their leader, the Flesh Prince, “built” the rest of the Franks. The Prince himself also states that people come to him for help whenever they’ve lost an arm, or in rare cases their mind, referring to Red.
Since Prince is the one that helped set up his cyberhead, Red questions if that makes the Prince his dad. The Flesh Prince doesn’t answer right away, but eventually clarifies that he doesn’t create people. He simply rebuilds them from whatever pieces he can find. Thus, he states that Red is not any different from other people the Prince has rebuilt in the past. When Tryce to asks for info on the DJ, the Prince refuses to say anything, simply pointing out that Red is doing fine and they don’t need his help anymore.
One of the Franks ends up criticizing Red for not knowing his own blood, or even where his own head is. The Franks member says he’s always confident in his own skills because he knows his roots, in his case knowing where each part of his body actually came from.
A bit after this, BRC head to a side area that has a whole pile of discarded cyberheads. Red picks up one of the heads that is a disused version of his own, musing that he’s “not any different” from these cyberheads. Fortunately, Bel and Tryce reassure Red that they can still take on the Franks together, especially since they have the REP for it. If they can beat the other crew, BRC can force them to talk about where to find DJ Cyber.
Red agrees and heads back to the basketball court with Tryce and Bel. However, on the way out of the side area, Red is cut off from the others by a police barrier. He thus has to fight off Rietveld, who tries to capture him using a police helicopter.
Once he’s driven her off, Red goes back to the court to help BRC confront the Franks again. One of the Franks laughs at Red, saying he almost got busted by the cops. Still, Red manages to scare him, same as what he did to the cyberhead earlier. Red then calls out the Prince directly for a crew battle for info on the DJ, with Tryce and Bel backing him up.
Working together, BRC win the crew battle, though the Prince still refuses to give any info on the DJ. Red notices that there’s other people watching them from afar, commenting that something’s up. Right after that, DJ Cyber himself shows up in his vehicle, with the people who were watching them being members of his crew, FUTURISM. The DJ declares that the Franks have broken the Code of the Street by refusing to accept the outcome of their crew battle. Thus, he declares their turf is now forfeit to BRC.
While Tryce thanks him for the help, he also accuses the DJ of breaking the Code of the Street himself. Tryce then tries to use this to his advantage, offering to look the other way on the DJ’s own transgressions as long as he is willing to return Red’s old head. This just leads to Tryce and Bel being restrained by FUTURISM in response. Red manages to jump away and tries to charge at the DJ, but is then restrained himself by Vinyl.
DJ Cyber decides to have a close look at Red in particular, by forcing him into the dream machine connected to the DJ’s vehicle. Once activated, the machine causes Red to blackout, sending him into his own mind.
After exploring his own dream for a bit, Red comments on how it looks colder than it actually feels. He also mentions how he recognizes a few people standing around nearby. At this point, he encounters DJ Cyber inside his mind, with the DJ looming over him as a giant. He states that he is simply here as an observer, and that dreams are made up of what the dreamer has already seen, even if they don’t remember it. The DJ encourages Red to have a look around, leading to the cyberhead climbing up a building and spraying graffiti on a spot near the top of it.
At that point, he sees Bel and Tryce at the top of the building, but then Faux appears as well. Red says he’s seen Faux somewhere before, but then Faux pushes Red off of the building. This causes Red to wake up back in Versum Hill. DJ Cyber claims he’s seen enough, and states that, if BRC want him to return Red’s old head, then they should go All City before he and his own crew can. Only then can they force the DJ to grant their request.
Back at the hideout, Red says that the way he sees it, being All City means ruling both the streets and the crews of New Amsterdam. Thus, if they go All City, he trusts that they really can force DJ to give up his old head by that point. Red also mentions how he wants to find out how he ended up like this in the first place, wondering “Who do I owe this body to? This life?”
Red asks Tryce what he knows about Faux. Tryce obliges by explaining Faux’s role as one of the Big 3, a trio of legendary writers, alongside DJ Cyber and another writer named Felix. Felix in particular was able to go All City by himself, but then died soon afterwards. Tryce also mentions that he suspects both the DJ and Faux might know more about Felix’s death than they let on. Bel explains a bit more about FUTURISM, how they and other crews in the city are competing to go All City, thanks to being inspired by Felix’s legacy. In particular, there’s a crew called Eclipse who currently have control over Millennium Square.
Thus Red becomes determined to go All City himself, in order to learn more about his roots. He mentions how, though he can’t explain it, it feels like All City is something he is meant to do. With DJ Cyber being the only link he has to his own past, he feels he has to go along with the DJ’s games. Red proceeds to walk off by himself, until Tryce steps in to stop him.
Tryce makes it clear that they are in this together as a crew, and thus all three of them have to work together to go All City. Red agrees, and they head to the square.
Once they get there and gain enough REP in the area, some of the Eclipse members appear in the square itself. However, they refuse to speak to Red since he is a man. The player has to use a nearby cypher spot to switch to Bel (or otherwise Jay if the DLC was purchased) in order to talk to them. At that point, Eclipse will retreat back to their home turf of Brink Terminal, leading to BRC going after them.
Arriving at the terminal area, BRC see Eclipse talking to someone, or something, inside of a dumpster. Red wonders if they’re keeping some sort of treasure in there, but once it’s opened, it turns out to be just Solace. Tryce introduces himself and his crewmates to Solace, also mentioning how they’re trying to get Red’s old head back and need to challenge Eclipse in order to do so. Solace offers to get the ladies for them and runs off, but Tryce decides that BRC should focus on building up their REP in the area instead.
Later on, BRC end up targeted by Escher, who has been directed to use deadly force against them due to reportedly being armed. He even manages to shoot Red directly in the head, though the bullet seems to just bounce off his cyberhead. BRC try to escape, but Red ends up fighting Escher directly by himself.
In the middle of their fight, Escher demands that Red drop his “weapon”, though Red just drops the spraycan he was holding at the moment. When Escher questions Red about what he’s doing, Red responds that he’s just looking for his lost head, and tells Escher to get out of his way. Escher questions this further, since most cyberheads wouldn’t be bothering to look for their old heads.
Escher then reveals, to Red’s shock, that he’s a cyberhead himself. He continues, saying that if Red puts his old head back on his body, it would mean the same thing as just killing himself. This is because a cyberhead is meant to be a copy of the old head’s mind anyways, so there should not be a need to go back to it.
Red explains that he wants to know where he came from, his roots. More specifically, he wants to know the person that “this body” (i.e. Faux’s body) belonged to. Escher questions this, pointing out that it seems like Red doesn’t have anything to do with the head he’s looking for, other than the body. He insists that people like him and Red should not be judged by their roots, but instead the actions they take for themselves.
If he really is a “new and different person” as Escher says, then Red questions why the sniper is trying to take him down. Escher states that he simply has his orders, which are currently to arrest BRC and recover a stolen body. More specifically, Faux’s body. Red responds that he’s still using it to go All City, and he and Escher continue to fight one another.
Once Escher is finally defeated, Bel and Tryce check on Red, distracting him and allowing Escher to escape. Tryce tells him to just forget about Escher and get back to trying to challenge Eclipse.
Later on, with enough REP, BRC finally head to the top of Brink Terminal’s central tower. There, Red gets to the point and challenges Eclipse to a crew battle. One of the Eclipse members actually makes fun of him for his bluntness, and makes the assumption that his sign is Sagittarius. Still, both crews compete against each other, with BRC being victorious in the end.
With Eclipse defeated, they actually give BRC a prediction on their odds of going All City. One of the members states that BRC are being manipulated, yet what Red seeks and All City are definitely connected.
While Red is trying to claim Brink Terminal as part of their crew battle victory, Red ends up blacking out and slipping into another dream. At the end of this dream stage, he finds a man doing graffiti at the top of a ladder. Red questions who the man is, also mentioning how Red hasn’t seen him before. The man stops and turns to look down at Red, allowing the cyberhead to get a good look at the man’s face, especially the wing tattoo he has on one side of his face. Unfortunately, the dream quickly shifts to Red falling off the building they were on. The man has disappeared, the ladder is knocked down, and Faux is now there watching Red as he continues to fall.
Back at the hideout, Red finally wakes up. He mentions how blacking out the way he did was similar to when DJ Cyber put him in the dream machine. He tries to explain he saw Faux and the other man, but Tryce interrupts him, saying he doesn’t blame Red for taking a “nap”. Both Tryce and Bel complement Red on his skills as a writer, with him being so talented even with just Faux’s body.
Red decides to not dwell on his dreams and asks what’s next. Bel explains that DOT EXE is another crew that has been acting up recently. They currently control Millennium Mall, so BRC decide to head there and challenge them.
While in the entrance area of the mall, they run into Vinyl, who offers to help them out. Both Red and Tryce are distrustful of her, but she does end up helping them get access to the rest of the mall. In the main area, she meets up with them again. Red questions if DJ Cyber sent her after them, but she insists she’s here of her own choice. In particular, she’s looking to get away from the DJ due to his “head cutting business”, and is looking to potentially join with BRC instead.
Vinyl points out that Red has a pretty good chance of getting his head back if he can go All City. She also mentions how she actually used to know Faux personally. She asks Red if she has seen Faux somewhere recently, and more to the point asks if he has seen Faux inside his own mind. Red questions how she would know about his dreams like that, but she responds that she’ll only tell them if they can beat DOT EXE.
Once BRC finally defeats DOT EXE in a crew battle, they’re warned to give up on going All City. The DOT EXE members explain they’ve been picking up signals for a new police project designed to smoke writers like BRC. One of them tells Red to use his own cyberhead to see the signals for himself.
Afterwards, Vinyl appears again and congratulates BRC on their victory. She then addresses Red, saying she wants to tell him something about his head. Red responds that he’s starting to think his head isn’t so “cyber” after all. Before Vinyl can say more, they all discover the dead body of the DOT EXE leader. Upon Red looking at the corpse, he holds his head in pain and screams as he blacks out again.
During the dream stage, Red actually sees the DOT EXE leader, Eight Ball, seemingly alive in his mind though still with the damaged head that his corpse has in the real world. Eight Ball asks Red if he got any signals or intel on the person that shot him. Red responds that he isn’t sure he has the tech to read data like that. Eight Ball tells him to just listen to the police radio frequency, saying it should be easy for cyberheads like the two of them. Red apologizes, saying he’s “still too human” to be able to do that.
At the end of this dream stage, Red finds himself with the mystery man he saw in his previous dream. The two of them are on top of their own ladders, doing graffiti together on the same billboard. Eventually, Red asks who the man is. The man instead tells Red to just keep the ladder steady. Red responds that he can’t do that, because he’s up on his own ladder with the man.
Red points out Faux standing at the foot of both of their ladders, say he’s sure Faux can handle their ladders. Unfortunately, the view switches rapidly between Faux and Red, before the dream ends on a shot of one of the ladders crashing down.
Waking up back at the mall, Red is still in a daze on the floor, though at least he was safely moved to one of the upper floors of the mall by Bel and Tryce. They’re both worried for his state, but since the police are starting to investigate Eight Ball’s death, BRC decide to head back to their hideout for now.
Once there, they find Vinyl waiting for them. She insists on joining the crew, stating she can tell them what’s causing the blackouts and dreams that Red keeps experiencing. She explains that they are memories that are coming back to Red as he does graffiti around the city and conquers its boroughs. He becomes more skilled when more of his memories are restored, and soon he should be strong enough to fight DJ Cyber. Red asks who these memories belong to, specifically mentioning Faux in particular. Vinyl reveals that the memories actually don’t belong to Faux, but someone else.
Before she can explain further, Escher rushes in, shooting Red in the head at pointblank range. The shot seems to damage his cyberhead this time, but shockingly he also ends up bleeding from the wound. Escher is knocked out before he can take another shot at Red. Unfortunately, Red is still in in pain, and it turns out the shot damaged the cyberhead enough to reveal what’s underneath: a human head.
Tryce, Bel, and Vinyl head off to find the Flesh Prince for help, leaving Red at the hideout while he’s incapacitated. Once the Prince is brought to the hideout, he checks on Red and says he’s fine besides a light concussion. He even fixes the cyberhead itself, covering up part of the human head that had been exposed. Tryce gets the Prince to confess that Red is not a real cyberhead, and that the human head underneath was a head given to the Prince in order to keep it alive.
The Prince explains that at first he just kept it in the cyberhead, but eventually the head was starting to rot and lose memories after being without a body for so long. Fortunately, Tryce eventually came to Prince with a headless body, and he took advantage of that to save the head, resulting in Red.
Red admits that this explains his headaches and blackouts. Though he also points out that he recognizes the face inside of his head: it has the same wing tattoo on its face as the mystery man he’s been seeing in his recent dreams. Though the Prince won’t say who the head really is, Vinyl says the head belongs to “public enemy number 1”. He was an amazing writer, and they need to get him back to his old skills before more people find out he’s still around.
Red admits that he doesn’t really care much for all of this. He clarifies that whether he has a new head or old head, their crew is what matters in the end. If Project Algo or DJ Cyber try to get in their way, Red is confident BRC can beat them, and he will find out about his roots one way or another.
With Red back, BRC decide to keep going for All City, with their next target being Devil Theory on Pyramid Island. Despite the hostilities from the rival crew, including snitching to the cops to try and bust BRC, they eventually gain enough REP to challenge the troublemakers to a crew battle. Just before that, Devil Theory accuse DJ Cyber of having broken the Code of the Street by killing Felix. Red calls them out on this, saying they don’t have the right to say anything about any code when they’re willing to call the cops on other writers.
Once Devil Theory is beaten, they warn BRC that DJ Cyber will be coming after them next. Bel wonders if what they said about the DJ is true, but before Red can give an answer, Solace pops up. Seeing a selfie of Bel with Red earlier (where part of his human head was exposed), Solace claims that he knows him. More specifically, Red’s real head is Solace’s friend who had died. Before they can get more answers, they hear Vinyl scream and head off to help her.
Near the top of the island, DJ Cyber traps Vinyl in the central cylinder of the island, calling her a double agent for having worked with BRC against him. Red thus challenges him to a 1 on 1 fight, just the two of them. The DJ agrees to it, leading to his boss fight.
Once he’s defeated, Red stands in front of the DJ while he’s been knocked down to the ground. He unmasks himself while asking when Red is finally going to remember what happened. Seeing the DJ’s face causes Red to clutch his head in pain and start blacking out again. As Red slips into the next dream stage, he calls out to Tryce and Bel for help.
By the end of this dream stage, Red remembers enough to realize that he himself is Felix, the man with the wing tattoo who had been appearing in his dreams. It turned out that DJ Cyber and Vinyl were working together to help restore Felix’s memories and skill. This is because they need his help to take down Faux, who has become part of Project Algo and is thus using the police to kill other writers for him. DJ Cyber insists that only Felix knew of some sort of weakness that Faux had, but Red states he still doesn’t remember anything like that.
Ultimately, going All City should help Red (now being referred to as Red Felix) recover the last of his memories. With Solace also joining the crew at this point, they plan to go to Mataan to formally challenge FUTURISM for their turf.
Once they do so, Faux shows up in a walking tank to continue with his plan to kill all writers and make himself “All City King”. Red Felix fights against him, making him fall off the edge of Mataan’s main plaza. However, he simply comes back in a more monstrous mech, ripping off Red Felix’s head and kidnapping Solace.
Fortunately, Rietveld arrives with Felix’s original body in order to help the writers go after Faux. This results in Felix’s head, still in the Red cyberhead, being reunited with his body.
Towards the end of the fight with Faux, Felix is able to deal the final blow via a headbutt. This results in the Red cyberhead breaking apart and revealing Felix’s whole head again. The pieces presumably fall into the depths of Mataan along with Faux and his mech.
== Outfits ==
See also: Outfits
His spring and summer outfits are unlocked by default.
His autumn outfit is found on one of the higher quad-billboard pillars in Versum Hill. His winter outfit is found over a fence in the very back of Versum Hill's main area, near that borough's taxi stop.
==Gallery==
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==Trivia==
*He was referred to simply as "Runner" early in development.
*In the game's texture files, Red's textures are labeled with the name "metalHead". His model is also named the same.
*During the cutscene where Red is trying to wake up, there is a loading screen for his cyberhead. However, in the lower left corner, there is a message that reads "Error: Can not find AI:main Component". This is likely an early hint towards Red's true nature.
*Even though Red as a character doesn't exist anymore by the end of the game (the red cyberhead is destroyed, and Faux had disposed of his own body), he remains playable even into the postgame. He does not appear at the hideout like the other BRC members, but he still appears as a separate character from Felix at cypher spots.
==References==
Category:Bomb Rush Crew