Rixis

**Person**

 **Body Part**

 **First Appearance**

*“Abel's eye monster. Can fly, shoot lasers, and share his sight with Abel, even from very far away. Rixis is a skilled fighter and fiercely loyal, but has his own sense of right and wrong.”*
    —Cast page description

**Rixis** is the monster of Abel Flores, formed from his left eye.

## Biology and Design

Rixis is intended to resemble a quetzalcoatl.  Magnolia Porter has stated that, when designing Rixis, she actually didn't know that the pupil was a hole in the eye, and likely would have designed him differently had she known.

## Abilities

As he still functions as Abel's eye, Rixis can share what he sees with Abel, with no apparent limit to how far he can transmit this information. Rixis has more control over this link than Abel, as Rixis can choose not to let Abel see what Rixis is currently seeing.

Rixis' lithe body and wings give him the ability of flight. However, his small form is not equipped to carry much more than himself- even carrying Abel a few feet resulted in him plummeting from exhaustion.

After being struck by Rjinder's skin monster, Rixis's wing became damaged, and he was unable to fly. When he and Abel fought ghosts for SHELL, Rixis would curl up around Abel's arm to be used as a makeshift weapon, functioning as a sort of blaster or even a sword, if he fired a short beam continually.

Rixis is able to gather light and transform it into powerful lasers to attack, capable of scorching trees and even killing small monsters. These lasers are not necessarily fatal, however, as shown when Rixis attacked Red in Chapter 9. It is unknown whether this was due to Red's own durability or Rixis holding back as to not kill. While this leaves him vulnerable in the dark, he is capable of storing some amount of light to use later.  When these lasers make contact with Guuzy's goo, the goo will explode.  Though they are not formed from Arma, they can still be used to destroy ghosts in the same fashion as any other Arma weapon.

Abel eventually discovered that Rixis was capable of creating not only lasers with light, but also holographic images.

Rixis is capable of absorbing all the light in a room. When he does so, he glows with a bright intensity.

Rixis is capable of granting Abel the ability to see through illusions in a mindscape created by Violet and Anima. However, this ability seems to rely on Abel being present in the mindscape to begin with.

After Bina and Ayo were recombined into one body, Bina's new powers included the ability to perform a scan with Rixis' abilities, providing she was holding him. It is currently unknown whether Rixis can also see the results of the scan, or if it is only visible to Ayo and Bina.

## History

After killing a monster that seemed to be attacking his sister Irene, Abel overheard a conversation between nearby SHELL agents, and learned the terrible truth: The monster was formed from Irene's lungs, and by killing the monster he killed his sister as well. He sought out another ghost in the hopes that he could make himself suffer the same fate. Instead, however, he found himself with a new companion, and he decided to remain alive for his monster's sake.

## Relationships

### West

Rixis appears to be fond of West. During a Secret Santa exchange, he caught a fish for West, priing happily as he delivered it.

### Kera

Though not often seen interacting, Kera and Rixis seem to be on good terms with each other. During a Secret Santa exchange, Kera gave Guuzy the Greathouse family cat, Mr. Skinnybody. Rixis would have been delighted by the gift, but Julie had to take him back to her family.

### Ozzy

Despite their first interaction being an attempted kidnapping, Rixis seems to recognize that Ozzy is simply an innocent child caught up by SHELL. When Rjinder's Skin Monster moved to attack Ozzy, Rixis swooped in to protect him.

## Trivia

* Rixis' name is "the letters in the word 'iris' mixed up, with the x added in to sound cool".
	+ This same naming method is used by Organization XIII in the game series *Kingdom Hearts*.

## References

1. ↑ Magnolia's formspring
2. ↑ Magnolia's ask.fm
3. ↑ Chapter 14, Page 15
4. ↑ Chapter 3, Page 18
5. ↑ Chapter 9, Page 3
6. ↑ Chapter 9, Page 4
7. ↑ Chapter 16, Page 30
8. ↑ Chapter 25, Page 30
9. ↑ Chapter 27, Page 23
10. ↑ Chapter 20, Page 29
11. ↑ Chapter 21, Pages 27-28
12. ↑ Holiday Special, Page 2
13. ↑ Holiday Special, Page 5
14. ↑ Chapter 29, Page 12
15. ↑ Chapter 6, Bonus Page 1