Redd

### **Appearances**

Coach Conversations: The Sequel - Coach Conversations: 5th Part - Coach Conversations 10: Message Wall Edition

## Cyber

**Redd** is a coach created by DynamoDerp11.

## Backstory

### Pre-Coach Conversations

From a young age, Redd showed an interest in technology and programming, often disassembling and reassembling random mechanical objects in his house. When he was [AGE REDACTED], he graduated college and devoted his life to manufacturing and inventing.

Redd fell in love with a girl named Iris. They both shared an interest in many things-- the color orange, programming and circuitry, and Diet Pepsi. Soon, however, Redd's programming hobby spiraled into an obsession. He wanted to preserve Iris as a robot forever so he'd never lose her. Iris found out about this, and she got her friend Ricky to help her stage an intervention. Ricky drew his weapon, and he and Redd battled for a few minutes. Then Ricky's katana lodged into one of Redd's many computers. It started sizzling and popping. Iris and Ricky ran into a long steel tube for safety, and Redd tried to no avail to fix the problem. He was electrocuted and merged with various projects he had been working on.

When the issue was resolved, Iris and Ricky found themselves as robots. Now i2 and r4, they found a new mission in their minds-- to serve Redd whole-heartedly.

Meanwhile, Redd was devastated. His experiment had worked, but now Iris was a cold, unfeeling automaton. He tried to create replacements, but all of them failed. So then he had an idea-- an emotional-capability chip. He worked for countless days, and he finally created one. To test it out, he inserted it into a new robot he was creating-- v20. The chip worked, and v20 behaved just like a human. But soon, he began to question why he had to take orders. One morning, while Redd was trying to create a duplicate chip for i2, v20 led a jailbreak against him and took all of the robots with him except for i2 and r4.

Loveless and almost completely robot-less, Redd decided that he needed more control over his robots.. He began work on a mind-control chip based off the ones inside i2 and r4. Before he went through with this full process, however, Celestina walked into his life.

The two of them clicked right away, and soon enough they both counted down the days that they could visit each other. Celestina reenergized Redd's creative flow. With her help, Redd created an artificial intelligence assistant, naming it Duo as a reflection of his bond with Celestina.

Celestina loved Redd, and the feeling was mutual. But she reminded him too much of the love that he had lost. He didn't want to remember his old self or his old love, so he started going by the name Cyber. One night, he realized that if he could control Celestina, he could possibly get his failed creations back and finally have some semblance of control in his life. So he began work on something he called the Ultra-Chip. It would render him almost invincible, but without emotion. After his fifty-seventh attempt to gain control went awry, he decided to go through with the almost-invincibility process, forgetting about the consequences. As he lost each emotion, Cyber dove more and more into the mindset of finally capturing every robot. He typed new and important code into r4 and i2's systems, forbidding them to share the truth of their former selves.

One night, Cyber completed his mind-control chip. He didn't want to test it in any of his machines, because that didn't go so well the last time he tested a chip. The other possible host was Celestina. Duo tried to steer him away from this, knowing that it would demolish any emotional ties she still had to Cyber. Ignoring his assistant's warnings, Cyber tried to implant it in Celestina, which led to her running away and hiding.

Cyber wanted her back. He didn't know why, but there was something inside that didn't want to fail this time. He made a vow to himself that he would never stop pursuing her, as well as all his other robots. He decided to abandon Duo in his old lab and take his obedient creations on a horrifying worldwide hunt for Celestina.

### Coach Conversations

Cyber made his first appearance in CC, searching for Celestina in order to take her away. Over the course of the Coach Conversations threads, he began to grow in power. He gained an ally in Qiana, who shared his desire for control. The two of them got far, even being able to regain control of v20 and Celestina. Cyber underestimated Celestina's new allies, and together they freed her from Cyber's grasp. Shortly after, Cyber was purified and returned to being Redd.

### Redd-emption

After all the events in the past, Redd returned to CC to try and amend his mistakes. He was met with harsh backlash from all angles and retreated into his workshop. Shortly after, he found one of the Artifacts of Quaduni-- specifically the Rhythm Mp3 player. Redd worked with Duo, Olivia, and Marisol to use the music and Marisol's vocals to repurpose his JDA-14 robot into a virtual singer known as JADA. In an attempt to gain some friends, he tried to premiere her at the mall, using a song he himself had wrote about his dejected state after everyone distrusted his redemption. The release was a flop, only garnering a few audience members and ending in Tristan confiscating the artifact.

Once again, Redd was in a funk. He had given up all hope that people would ever come around. Duo tried to snap him out of it, which led to a huge argument that ended in Redd declaring Duo as nothing more than "a mixture of code" and emphasizing the fact that he isn't human and didn't know what Redd was going through. Angered by this treatment, Duo left all of Redd's devices.

Redd is currently hanging around with Olivia, trying to gain a new friend or two.

## Personality

When he was Cyber, Redd was a manipulative and calculating technologically advanced human who stopped at nothing to reach his goals-- no matter who he hurt along the way. After being purified, Redd is back to his normal self. He's bright and intelligent and loves finding new ways to do things. However, he often feels drained due to many coaches not believing that he has changed. He gets frustrated easier than he did before, but he continues to persevere and try to find creative solutions for his current problems.

## Friendships

### Benji

Redd first met Benji when he was Cyber and deemed him an incompetent idiot. He also did not have many positive feelings towards him since he was the one who befriended Celestina and hid her from Cyber. Post-purification, however, Benji's stubborn determination to see the good in people broke through to Redd. The two of them have a good friendship, and Benji is usually the first to speak up on Redd's behalf.

### Olivia

Post-purification, Olivia simply saw Redd as a guy who desperately needed someone to be there for him. She's been doing her therapist thing in the meantime, supporting him and encouraging him to get out more.

## Enemies

### Qiana

Qiana was Redd's closest ally when he was Cyber. She agreed with his anti-emotion philosophy and has requested for Cyber to remove emotional capabilities from Robo-Friend. However, once Redd was purified, he cut ties with her. Currently Qiana and Redd are not in contact.

### Haven

Haven is one of Celestina's best friends who despised Cyber. She tried to snap him out several times, to no avail. Nowadays, she still bears many ill feelings towards him.

### Samuel

Samuel has expressed a deep hatred for Cyber because of his roboticization of i2 and r4, which he sees as slavery, which he sees as positively un-American. It is unknown if this hatred stayed after Redd was purified.

### v20

v20 had been Cyber's enemy ever since the emotion chip incident. Cyber tried for months to get him back, and he succeeded in Coach Conversations 18. He was Cyber's most trusted minion, until he was freed by Duo. He is currently running wild and free, and he has openly ranted about how much he hates his creator.

### Iris and Ricky

Iris and Ricky hated being roboticized, and they still have not gotten over it.

### Tony

After the Cyber era, Tony is deathly afraid that Redd's robots will kill him, and he takes any opportunity he can to remind Redd of his unsavory past.

## Neutral/It's Complicated

### Celestina

Celestina, once Redd's lover and confidant, is still dealing with trauma inflicted upon her during the Cyber era. She has never outright stated or acted like she is Redd's enemy post-purification, but she avoids him due to her needing time to heal.

### Duo

Duo has been Redd's most constant friend. He holds a deep regard for his creator and wants to see him succeed, since without Redd, he wouldn't exist. During the Cyber era, Duo actively fought against Cyber to get his creator back to his normal state. Afterwards, the two were on good terms again. However, Duo is consistently annoyed by Redd's occasional stupidity and does not understand his burnout, being an AI and all. He sees Redd's human flaws as problems that can be logically fixed, even when that isn't the case. After the argument mentioned above in the Backstory tab, Duo left Redd's devices and has not returned yet.

## Trivia

### Creation

* Cyber's name and personality was originally going to be for the coach for Bangarang (Ext.). However, when DynamoDerp11 found out that he was claimed by Kanetrealms, she shifted everything over to thatPOWER (Ext.).