Scarlett Wilde

## Scarlett M. "Sonic" Wilde

Commander **Scarlett Madison Wilde**, callsign "**Sonic**", is a character that appears in the *Foxtrot: Foxes in Arms* series. She is a red vixen who currently serves in the United States Navy as a fighter pilot and is considered a love interest in Justin Redding, a fellow naval aviator. Scarlett is a bold and caring sort who is willing to help many of those who may need it.

## Physical Description

Scarlett is a red vixen who has a decent build that suggest she's athletic, decently strong and having something of a gymnast's body. Her body is mostly covered in red-orange fur with cream-colored fur on the front of her torso as well as her muzzle. The insides of her ears also share that cream color. She also has dark auburn fur on her feet, hands, the tips of her ears, and at the tip of her tail. Scarlett's eyes are colored green, and she has darker red hair that runs at least to the top end of her back.

Her attire can vary. While off duty, Scarlett commonly wears a brown leather aviator's jacket with a tan collar, wrists and waistbands overtop a scarlet-red gymnastics leotard; apt for her name. On many occasions, Scarlett can also be seen wearing Aviator sunglasses that she'd likely acquired before or after she'd become a naval aviator.

While on duty, she wears a green flight suit or varying other Navy uniforms, including dress white or Khaki dress uniform, including the shirts, pants, and shoes. And in the cockpit, she'll also wear all the necessary equipment, including an anti-G's garment, flight harness, life preserver, oxygen mask, helmet, etc. Her helmet has shooting star decals with touches of white and red on the sides and her callsign "SONIC" written above the helmet's visor.

## Backstory

### Early Life

Scarlett was born on July 1, 1995 to Brandy and Curtis Wilde in the small unincorporated community of Myra, West Virginia in the United States of America. She was likely raised in a rather rural area and had a decent upbringing for a good chunk of the first few years of her life, and her childhood was a good one.

At the age of 3, Scarlett began to get a fascination with airplanes and aviation. This likely came about because at the time, both her parents were aviators with the US Navy, with them likely serving as a pilot and radar intercept officer (RIO), likely on the F-14 Tomcat fighter at the time. As Scarlett grew older, her knowledge on aviation grew vast, and since her parents worked as naval aviators, that eventually drove her to join the Navy at the youngest recruitment age. Thanks to her advanced knowledge of aviation and how it all worked, she managed to ace her training exams. Her high marks led to several higher-ranked officers taking notice of her accomplishments, and she was quickly accepted into flight school.

### US Navy Service

After graduating the flight school, Scarlett was able to join the fleet as a full-fledge naval aviator. She was qualified as a pilot for the F/A-18 Super Hornet multirole fighter. During her qualifications, she was able to get the top speed in a jet by a female pilot, breaking a record that stood unbroken for decades, and as such, earned herself the callsign "Sonic". Shortly after, her helmet was decorated with shooting stars decals with touches of white and red on the sides and her callsign written above the visor. Due to rapid promotions, plus being accepted into a special program for young officers, she managed to acquire the rank of Commander (O-5) within the span of two years.

Over the course of that time, she was likely sent on her first couple deployments. Specifically, after her deployment, Scarlett would eventually run into and lock eyes with another naval aviator, Captain Justin Redding. For Scarlett especially, it seemed to be love at first sight, as Justin, in all his build and overall looks, he seemed appealing to Scarlett. For a while, things seemed to be kept on a professional level while on duty. Though, things began to change, and their luck turned when Justin and Scarlett would eventually be paired as wingmen in an element of two. In the instances they did so, they worked decently well together, and their bonds continued developing.

Well after meeting on duty, Scarlett and Justin began dating, and that's roughly when Justin introduced her to his little brother Tom, as well as the rest of the Skulk by extension. Scarlett would get on decently well with the Skulk, and soon enough, she was confident enough to call them her friends, and in some cases, comrades. In particular, regarding Tom, Scarlett developed a fairly deep connection with him, almost to a similar level between him and Justin. She basically began acting as a big sister figure to Tom, spending time with him whenever Justin wasn't there for Tom, but Scarlett was there. This especially made him feel better even when he was sad and lonely. Before long, Scarlett had become a fairly close friend and ally to the Redding brothers and the rest of the Skulk.

## Personality

Scarlett is generally a sweet and caring sort of vixen. She's also bold, loyal, ambitious, patient, and supportive. She is the sort to offer help or support to her friends and allies if they need it, and that level of offering help can extend to others as well. When her friends are having problems, Scarlett generally tries to be supportive of them and takes the time to listen to problems and patiently thinks things through. Even with her own problems, she's fairly patient and has no problems waiting to see how things play out.

To get where she had, Scarlett has also proven herself to be bold an ambitious as well. Since seeing her parents be successful naval aviators, she's had a strong desire to fly planes for the Navy and wasn't all that keen on stopping until she got there. Ultimately, her ambitions payed off. And from her time in the skies, she's proven to be quite brave as well. And unlike Justin, who tends to be quite boastful at times, Scarlett displays respect and gives credit to her opponents, much like displaying good sportsmanship in a sporting event. As such, she does gain more respect for it.

## Abilities

Since gaining her advanced knowledge of aviation and piloting, Scarlett has gained a good reputation for her expert flying abilities at the controls of a fighter jet. Her skills there are comparable to Justin, though it can be argued whether or not Justin is the superior pilot between the two. On top of being a good pilot, Scarlett seems to have some decent foresight abilities. She can cut corners quickly and knows when to slow down and/or stop, being able to better protect against danger. It likely has helped her quite a bit in her time. It does seem to be that she has some natural instincts to that effect.

Scarlett is also pretty strong herself. She's not quite as strong as Justin, but she does have some muscle to show, and she can also use her strength to decent results too. She's also got a decent hand in hand-to-hand combat, likely from her USN training, as well as gymnastics. Scarlett is said to be able to perform good somersaults. It can be speculated that she likely had her gymnastic abilities enhanced by joining that team during her school years, but in any case, she's a fairly good gymnast. On top of all that, Scarlett also has some good skills as a mechanic, being able to work with and maintain machinery, more so than most of the other foxes in the series.

In total, Scarlett has the following abilities:

* Flying skills
* Foresight
* Strength
* Hand-to-hand combat skills
* Gymnastic skills
* Mechanical skills

## Relationships

### Justin Redding

Justin is likely Scarlett's closest friend and ally, as the two are also in a romantic relationship. For her, the moment they locked eyes, it was love at first sight, but she did her best to contain herself as best she could. By some way or another, Scarlett found Justin fairly attractive, though they typically kept things to a professional level while on duty. Despite their relatively young ages, they were high-ranking officers, so they did have to be fairly disciplined, even if Justin is a bit of a maverick sometimes. Scarlett, meanwhile, is a bit more of a rule follower, but will be prone to bend the rules too if the situation calls upon it. This quality of Justin probably rubbed off on her in the time they got to know each other.

Off duty, they did spend time for quite a while as simply friends before Scarlett did confess her feelings to Justin, and Justin revealed similar feelings within him. Sometime after this, they officially started dating, making no efforts to hide that they became a couple well after they met officially, and they did go on dates fairly frequently. They do have a strong relationship from the looks of it, and they sometimes have moments of playing around with each other.

### Tom Redding

Tom also seems to have a pretty close relationship with Scarlett, and they get along decently well. Since she was first introduced to Tom by Justin, the pair would go on to have a fairly deep connection with each other, similar to the bond Tom and Justin shared. As such, Scarlett more or less becomes a big sister figure to Tom. And Scarlett did more or less began thinking of Tom as a little brother figure.

How much Scarlett does care for Tom becomes particularly evident when they're seen together while Justin is absent. Since getting together with Justin and her getting closer with him and Tom, if Scarlett is there for Tom when Justin isn't, she'll take it upon herself to spend time and further the bond with Tom, even when he's sad and lonely. This can be seen as the big sister in her coming out, as she cares for Tom when Justin can't be there.

### Vienna North

Vienna is someone Scarlett can really see as someone who's easy to get along with. Despite the fact that Vienna is a Marine and Scarlett's Navy, the two vixens share quite a bit in common. Vienna's fairly outgoing, and Scarlett pretty much is too, so their attempts of bonding and forming a strong friendship is fairly simple for them.

Like most girls, Scarlett enjoys spending time with Vienna, and this can be extended to times with or without the boys around; their strongest bonding moments have commonly been seen in girls' nights/days out. Many have called them as a great example of shared girl power. Scarlett has also likely learned quite a bit when spending time with Vienna, since she is impressed with Vienna's general knowledge. And in some ways, Vienna's also had some learning experiences from Scarlett too.

### Jess Silver

Jess isn't as outgoing as some of the others and is a lot more reserved. Scarlett picked up on this when she first met Jess, and she understands this. Thanks to her patient nature, Scarlett took some time to get to know Jess, bond with her, and perhaps help her become more confident in herself. Granted, Jess wasn't as reserved as she was when she first met the other foxes of the Skulk, but still fairly much so.

Scarlett's attempts were also likely added onto Tom's own attempts to help Jess overcome her nervousness and anxiety. She combined these attempts with genuine attempts at bonding. This does help Jess quite a bit, and this makes her get out there a bit more, which were the steps to Jess becoming a new vixen, and Jess is grateful for the attempts by both Tom and Scarlett for helping her break out of her shell. It could also be said that, since Jess is Tom's girlfriend, Scarlett could've seen her as a sort of younger sister too, but that is up for interpretation.

### Arthur Snow

Arthur is one rank higher than Scarlett despite being younger than her and a normal sailor, but he is still pretty impressed and holds admiration for Scarlett's devotion and piloting skills. Scarlett and Arthur generally have a good relationship with each other, and their respect for each other is often expressed though their interactions. Scarlett could also have some inspiration for Arthur and what he does, and her modesty and respect toward her opponents even in combat situations is also something Arthur respects Scarlett for.

Beyond their military duties, Scarlett and Arthur have a tendency to open up to each other about their personal problems, with Arthur seemingly having enough trust in Scarlett, aside from a few others like Sewell and Vienna, to do so. One topic of such is Arthur's rocky relationship with Tom. Scarlett's patient nature does help here as well, as she would listen and eventually get Arthur and Tom to talk things out on some occasions since she got to know them. Even if they don't fully resolve things, Scarlett does still try to get them to see eye to eye.

### Sewell Snow

Sewell and Scarlett get along very well. She tends to find it cute when he essentially acts like a big kid and tends to see him as just one big giant teddy bear, and uses that thought to justify her liking of giving him hugs. Sewell also likes Scarlett too, finding her nice and a pretty cool vixen. And more often than not, Sewell's energetic nature sometimes rubs off on Scarlett as well, and she always likes to go "Aw...!" whenever Sewell's overjoyed with something, putting her liking of Sewell's young charm on full display.

Something else about Sewell that Scarlett likes is his cooking abilities. She loves many of the different food items he prepares, and even if she doesn't like something, she'll still give it a try and offer the feedback to Sewell, which he appreciates. Scarlett also enjoys doing things that Sewell likes to do, always leaving a smile on her face, and the red vixen has even began to grow an interest in learning about the USS *Kidd*, the *Arleigh Burke*-class destroyer Sewell's in command of since being promoted by Arthur. Sewell's all too happy to answer her questions and it's generally a thing that will get the two talking for a bit.

### Swefred Hayden

Swefred was already held in decently high regard by Justin, and when Scarlett met him, they got on fairly well. Their bond would become a strong one, with Scarlett even become interested in Texan history and heritage, and even grew a liking to Swefred's southern accent. This was especially so, since Scarlett was born in raised in West Virginia, hundreds of miles away from Swefred's home town, and Swefred, being fairly proud of his heritage, was more than happy to talk about it with her.

Once, Swefred even took her to the place where he was raised, getting to see many of the farm animals Swefred would've grown with. This, plus getting to ride horses, meet Swefred's family, and exposed to various other forms of Texan-style life, proved to be quite the experience to her, and further cemented a good bond between her and the Texan swift fox.

### Friends & Allies

* The Skulk
	+ Justin Redding (love interest)
	+ Tom Redding (younger brother figure)
	+ Vienna North
	+ Jess Silver
	+ Arthur Snow
	+ Sewell Snow
	+ Swefred Hayden

### Enemies

* Arian Torres
* Urocyan Dynasty
	+ Flynn Sykes
	+ Kenny Hunter

## Trivia

* Scarlett's overall appearance is similar to Nick Wilde from *Zootopia* (2016), essentially being a female version of him appearance wise as far as her fur patterns and eye color. Her surname, Wilde, is also shared with Nick.
* Her birthplace, Myra, West Virginia, is a sort of homage to the late Chuck Yeager (1923-2020)
	+ Brigadier General Yeager was a pioneer in aviation history, being a flying ace, and record-setting test pilot who in October 1947 became the first pilot in history confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight during his time with the Air Force.
* Her aviator shades are the same kind seen being worn by Maverick in *Top Gun: Maverick* (2022)
* Scarlett is the first character in the series to be confirmed as being left-handed.
* Her callsign and some of her helmet decals are a tribute to Sonic the Hedgehog, from the *Sonic the Hedgehog* franchise.
	+ It could also be seen as a callback to what the series was originally; a fan-series based in an alternate world in the *Sonic the Hedgehog* franchise before the series evolved into its own independent series.