Felix

Felix is one of the Big 3 of New Amsterdam, being seen as a legendary writer in the city's graffiti scene. This is especially since he was able to go All City by himself and without a boostpack. His skills and untimely demise inspired writers throughout the city to live up to his legacy, including the Bomb Rush Crew.
However, despite what happened to him, Felix still plays an integral role in this game. The mystery behind his death ends up being key to helping Red get his old identity back.
== Role in the Story ==
The first time Felix is mentioned in the game is when Tryce is explaining who the Big 3 are, a bit after BRC have encountered DJ Cyber in person at Versum Hill. The DJ himself is one of the Big 3, along with Faux and Felix. All three of them ruled over the city’s graffiti scene, with the legendary writers working together but also having a rivalry between the three of them.
Felix in particular is described as being confident and always wearing a mask, specifically a more helmet-like version of the one DJ Cyber wears now. It was also rumored that Felix never used a boostpack, unlike other writers.
In the end, Felix managed to go All City by himself, with DJ and Faux acknowledging defeat once Felix managed to put up graffiti in all of the city’s boroughs. He was thus considered the best writer that New Amsterdam had ever seen up to that point. Felix’s amazing skills as a writer was what inspired Tryce to start BRC in the first place.
Unfortunately, at the height of his REP, Felix was killed. Tryce admits that Felix had a lot of enemies, but he suspects that Faux and DJ Cyber may know more about Felix’s death than they let on. In particular for the DJ, he became more strict about following and enforcing the code of the street after Felix’s death. He even started wearing what was left of Felix’s mask.
While DJ Cyber and his crew have been working towards going All City themselves, Felix has become a major source of inspiration for writers throughout the city. Thus, there’s plenty of competition in all five of the city’s boroughs, and BRC’s own plans for going All City means having to challenge these rival crews.
After this point, during the dream stages, Red begins to see a man wearing Felix’s clothes, just without his iconic mask. Notably, he also doesn’t have a boostpack, similar to how Felix apparently operated as a writer without one.
In the dream stage after beating Eclipse, Red sees the man standing at the top of a ladder, spraying graffiti on a billboard. Red mentions not seeing him before, which causes the man to look down at Red from the top of the ladder. This gives him a full look at the man’s face, including the wing tattoo on one side of his face. However, the dream ends, with Faux appearing and Red seemingly falling off the building. The tattooed man has also disappeared, with the ladder he was standing on falling to the side.
At the end of the next dream stage, after beating DOT EXE, Red is actually doing graffiti with the tattooed man, each at the top of their own ladders. He tries to question who the man is, but the man just responds that Red needs to keep the ladder steady. Red replies that he can’t, because he’s up there with him. Red points out Faux standing at the bottom of the ladders, saying they can trust him to keep an eye on things. Unfortunately, the dream abruptly ends, with a shot of one of the ladders crashing down.
Later back in the waking world, Red is shot in the head point blank by Escher. This causes damage to his cyberhead, which in turn exposes the fact that there is actually a human head inside of it. More specifically, it has the same wing tattoo as the man from Red’s dreams.
Once Red is fixed up by the Flesh Prince, Red mentions the man and the tattoo to the rest of the crew. When asked about it, the Prince explains that he was given a head for safekeeping, placing it in a cyberhead to help preserve it. However, without a body, the head eventually started rotting anyways and losing its memories. When Tryce came to him with Faux’s headless body asking for help, the Prince was able to attach the head to the body, resulting in Red.
Bel asks who exactly is the person inside of Red’s cyberhead, but the Prince refuses to give an answer. Vinyl states that whoever is in there is actually public enemy number 1, with a lot of people wanting to take him out. She also mentions that going All City and Faux are both keys to figuring out Red’s real identity.
After the boss fight with DJ Cyber, Red slips into another dream stage. This time, he’s playing as the man he’s been seeing, though with Red’s own cyberhead replacing the man’s head, and with his own oddly-shaped boostpack. At the end of this stage, there is a sort of flashback to a conversation between Vinyl and Felix, the latter without his mask. This shows that Felix is in fact the same person as the tattooed man.
Vinyl warns him about someone being bad news. Felix responds by explaining how he hasn’t seen Faux since Felix had gone All City. He mentions how “even a guy like Faux can change”. Besides, Felix mentions how he’ll only meet with Faux for a one night session anyways.
The dream shifts to another flashback, with Felix at the top of a ladder and doing graffiti, with Faux holding onto the bottom to keep it steady. Faux asks why Felix doesn’t use a boostpack like him and DJ Cyber. Felix tries to answer, but seems to get a sudden headache. The dream ends soon afterwards, and at one point Felix is replaced with Red at the top of the ladder.
Once Red wakes up, it turns out he has remembered a very important part of his identity: Red is actually Felix. The DJ and Vinyl then explain that they worked together to try and help Felix recover and get his memories and identity back. DJ Cyber also explains that he doesn’t have Faux’s head. Instead, Faux was hooked up to Project Algo by the police. He then gained the police force’s trust by telling them about the city’s graffiti scene, until eventually manipulating the police with misinformation in order to kill other writers.
DJ Cyber mentions how Felix is the only one who knew about Faux’s weakness, and now they need that information to try and stop Faux. Red/Felix admits he still doesn’t remember that. Vinyl says going All City is still the key to getting the rest of his memories, and Tryce promises he’s going to help him in doing so. Solace ends up referring to him as Red Felix, saying he was always nice to him. However, Red Felix admits he doesn’t remember Solace at all.
Continuing with the plan to go All City, Red Felix and the rest of BRC head to Mataan to defeat FUTURISM. Once that’s done, DJ Cyber brings in his vehicle to allow Red Felix access to its dream machine, in order to get back the last part of his missing memories.
This leads into the last dream stage of the game. At the end of that, Felix remembers what happened to him that led to his death. Solace had told Felix about a great spot in the city, so Felix decided to stop by and do some graffiti on one of the rooftops. This is where he had the one night session with Faux. Like the end of the previous dream stage, here it’s shown that Felix was at the top of a ladder spraying graffiti onto a billboard, while Faux was holding the ladder steady at the bottom. In place of where most writers would have a boostpack, Felix has his helmet mask on his back.
Faux asks Felix why he doesn’t use a boostpack, and this time Felix responds by saying he only needs “one wing”, pointing to the wing tattoo on his face. Faux interprets this as meaning that Felix doesn’t need any “help”, and comments on this being the reason that Felix went All City by himself. Felix insists he just works best solo, and that he hopes there’s no hard feelings between the two of them over it.
Unfortunately for Felix, it seems there are indeed hard feelings from Faux about what happened, since at this point he takes the opportunity to kick the ladder away. This causes Felix to fall off the rooftop and into the ventilation fan of one of the buildings below them. Said building contained an indoor basketball court, where the Franks, the Flesh Prince, and DJ Cyber. This is probably the point where the Flesh Prince was given Felix’s head for safekeeping. Meanwhile, what happened to Felix’s body after this is unknown.
Sometime after that, DJ Cyber also started wearing what was left of Felix’s helmet mask, which was seemingly reduced to just the mask part after going through the ventilation fan. The DJ also mentions how this was the reason he tried to kill Faux at the police bureau. Felix admits he never expected DJ Cyber to go this far for him. He also points out that even with getting decapitated, luck was still on his side since he lost his head here of all places, where DJ Cyber and the Flesh Prince were able to find him in time.
DJ Cyber comments that everything at least worked out in the end, though Felix says this isn’t the end quite yet. He’s now determined to deal with Faux. Back in the waking world as Red Felix, he comments on how even with Faux in control of the police force now, Faux is “still someone with emotions and impulses”. Thus, he knows how to stop Faux for good. Before he can elaborate further, he’s interrupted by Faux himself, showing up in a walking tank to thrash Devil Theory near the Mataan plaza.
Before Faux can outright kill them, Solace ends up shielded Devil Theory from him. Solace points out that Red Felix is still alive despite Faux having knocked him off a building. Faux is shocked by this, and also mentions how he will go All City by wiping out his competition, even with Felix trying to get in his way again. Red Felix counters this by saying that graffiti is a competition already, and that it’s shouldn’t be about hurting people at all. He also explains how graffiti still needs the rules of society, because otherwise it would be boring doing what they do as writers if it was legal.
Faux dismisses this, commenting on how he thinks Felix never wanted to be in a crew with him in the first place. He thinks that Felix gained a lot by dropping him, and now Faux will gain the title of All City King by dropping all of them in turn. This leads to Red Felix having to fight Faux himself.
Once Faux is defeated, he drops off the edge of the plaza into the depths of Mataan far below. However, he quickly returns in a much larger and serpent-like tank. He grabs Red Felix and rips his head off, then proceeds to literally toss his old body in favor of kidnapping Solace and taking his body instead. With Red Felix reduced to a head on the ground, DJ Cyber and the rest of BRC are worried about his current state, as well as being unable to go after Faux. Red Felix insists he can still do this, though he’s barely able to even keep his eyes open at this point.
Thankfully, Rietveld shows up with Felix’s old body, revealing it was apparently in police custody this whole time. She helps get Red Felix reattached to his body, and he and the rest of his friends head off to chase after Faux and rescue Solace. At this point, Red Felix’s body is equipped with the same oddly-shaped boostpack that he had in some of the dream stages.
Thus, Red Felix faces Faux in the final boss fight of the game. After defeating him in battle, Red Felix reveals the “weakness” he knew about Faux while hanging onto the serpent tank’s face. It turns out that other writers were framed for Faux’s own graffiti, leading to them being caught and arrested. In fact, Faux’s dad was a corrupt cop that helped keep Faux out of trouble, presumably by handling the arrests and keeping Faux’s record clean. Red Felix accuses him of wanting to be perfect and to never get caught, hence letting other writers take the fall for him. Red Felix admits he trusted Faux, but then Faux tried to kill him just because he found out about Faux’s secret.
Faux literally laughs Red Felix off of him, countering that he was simply making use of his roots. Red Felix accuses Faux of being a coward and killing people “just to hide from reality”. Faux insists that no one would accept him if they knew about his dad, and that he had no choice in doing what he did up to that point.
Red Felix tries to boost at Faux for another strike, but Faux tries to close the serpent tank’s face to protect himself. Fortunately, Tryce, Bel, Vinyl, and DJ Cyber swoop in to keep Faux exposed. During this, Faux accuses Red Felix of betraying him “first”. Red Felix counters that it’s not his problem as he headbutts Faux right in the head. This causes the Red cyberhead to break apart, showing Felix’s full real head for the first time since his decapitation. As Faux and Felix start to fall into the depths of Mataan, Solace manages to save Felix, leaving Faux to continue falling to his presumed death.
Sometime afterwards at the hideout, BRC is officially declared All City by the Oldheads. While the crew celebrate together, Felix is in a nearby alleyway to speak with DJ Cyber. He wants to thank the DJ for his help in saving him and bringing him back to life. DJ Cyber insists that Felix did most of the work himself, and also warns him that their rivalry as writers isn’t over despite what happened. DJ Cyber thus leaves, and Felix returns to the hideout to celebrate with the rest of his friends.
==Outfits==
See also: Outfits
His spring and summer outfits are unlocked by default.
Both his autumn and winter outfits are found in Mataan, specifically in the section with the elephant heads on the way to the final boss. His autumn outfit is under patterned glass on one of the buildings, so you will need skates to slide over and break said glass. His winter outfit is high above the helipad, and requires you to fall from a nearby building in order to get it.
== Gallery ==
Felix Gallery	
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File:Felix Spring Ref.png|Spring outfit
File:Felix Summer Ref.png|Summer outfit
File:Felix Autumn Ref.png|Autumn outfit
File:Felix Winter Ref.png|Winter outfit
File:RedFelix Spring Ref.png|Spring outfit (Red Felix)
File:RedFelix Summer Ref.png|Summer outfit (Red Felix)
File:RedFelix Autumn Ref.png|Autumn outfit (Red Felix)
File:RedFelix Winter Ref.png|Winter outfit (Red Felix)
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File:BelReflex.jpg|Bel suggests "Reflex" as a shortened version of "Red Felix"
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File:FelixLegendTexture.png|Texture for Felix while he has his mask on
File:RedFelixShattered1.png|Texture file for Red while his cyberhead was broken open
File:RedFelixShattered2.png|Another texture file for while Red's real head is exposed
File:FelixSpringTexture.png|Texture file for Felix's Spring palette
File:FelixSummerTexture.png|Texture file for Felix's Summer palette
File:FelixAutumnTexture.png|Texture file for Felix's Autumn palette
File:FelixWinterTexture.png|Texture file for Felix's Winter palette
File:RedFelixSpringTexture.png|Texture file for Red Felix’s Spring palette
File:RedFelixSummerTexture.png|Texture file for Red Felix’s Summer palette
File:RedFelixAutumnTexture.png|Texture file for Red Felix’s Autumn palette
File:RedFelixWinterTexture.png|Texture file for Red Felix’s Winter palette	
==Trivia==
* Given that they share the same voice actor and end up being the same person, Felix has the same voice clips as Red, just without the robotic filter.
* As shown in the gallery above, if Bel is spoken to at a certain point in Mataan, she can suggest shortening "Red Felix" to "Reflex" as a new name for Red/Felix.
* The texture files for Felix are labeled with "legendFace", while his Red Felix textures are labeled with "legendMetalHead". He also has a texture for while he has his mask on, which is labeled just "legend".
* Judging by the order of the texture files for both Felix and Red Felix, and their appearances in the game, it seems Red Felix's summer and winter outfits were swapped by accident.
* There are four models associated with Felix: one for his masked appearance ("legend"), one for his unmasked appearance ("legendFace"), another while unmasked but without his boostpack ("legendFaceNoJetpack"), and lastly as Red Felix ("legendMetalHead").
* Red Felix is not meant to be playable after beating the game. In the initial release of the game, Red Felix would still appear for cyphers during the postgame. This was corrected in a later patch so that he will only appear at cyphers during the endgame (i.e. after being helped by Rietveld and before beating the final boss).One of the patch notes for the game states that Red Felix should only be available at cypher spots "during appropriate sections in the game". (Nintendo Switch version of the patch notes with the same text as the Steam version; Archive Link for the Switch notes)
** Some players may still be able to select Red Felix even after beating the final boss and getting the update patch, but this is just a bug. Besides the bug, players would need to mod the game in order to play as Red Felix in the postgame.
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