Rwanda

SPOILERSMAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD FOR "FROM THE RED FOG" MANGA.

## History

### Beginnings

Rwanda is the only known child of Miranda Bailey and Clive Herbert. He spent his early years being withheld in his mother’s basement, raised with not the slightest bit of affection and to only know murder. His maids acted in place of his mother, but Rwanda tended to kill every single one that bored him - his mother is shown to be supportive of these actions, calling him "her Good Little Devil".

One day, Rwanda heard a commotion upstairs and went to investigate, only to find his mother lying on the floor. Terrified and thinking she was dead, he ran out of the house until he reached the streets of London. There he encounters a man who offers him help, to which he agrees. At the man’s house, Rwanda, out of habit, knocks his food away, causing the man to grow angry and leads to him raping Rwanda. In the dinner afterwards, it’s revealed that the man is a serial sex offender. Rwanda’s frustration leads to him stabbing the man’s eye out with a fork and slitting his throat, killing him.

Back on the streets, Rwanda meets a man named Will who offers him a place in his orphanage. Rwanda joins, and makes friends with a girl called Cheria, but quickly gets bullied by the other boys there, including Billy and Rodg. Rwanda starts to find the orphanage boring, and begins using the abandoned building on the other side of the grounds as a place to kill the orphans. Rwanda has Cheria burn the orphanage down where he corners and wounds Will - fatally as he sees it - before walking away.

After leaving the orphanage, Rwanda meets Miss Sylvie and stays with her in exchange for the valuables he stole from the building. During his time at the house, he gets rids of bodies and buries them in the forest, which is where he meets Macalo. The two become friends as Rwanda connects to her killing of animals. Upon returning to Miss Sylvie’s house, Rwanda meets Midwinter and he asks the boy to come to London with him to perform a job.

The next day, Midwinter presents Rwanda with a smart outfit, causing the boy to be confused. Midwinter elaborates that he needs to steal a certain medicine from the parents of Macalo and kill them. Rwanda’s job causes him to go to the theatre where he once again meets Macalo, as well as her parents, who offer to let him stay at theirs for the night.

While asleep in the house, Rwanda has a nightmare of the orphanage burning and Will trying to redeem him. He wakes up in a different room, chained and naked. Macalo’s parents arrive and it is revealed that they plan on sexually abusing him. If he chose not to comply, he would be tortured - and that they have also done this before to other children, the last of whom died. Rwanda snaps and kills them both, taking an axe from the equipment for himself. In the corridor, he encounters Macalo, and attempts to kill her to silence her. She survives, but she doesn’t know who had attacked her. Rwanda steals the medicine needed for his job and leaves the mansion.

Arriving at the meeting place, Rwanda meets a mysterious boy called Ivan who was sent to escort him. The two run off while talking on the way. They fight by the pier, causing each other to become soaked. They soon arrive at their destination, where Rwanda is informed about the hitman agency and is taken in as a member.

### Working for Midwinter

Midwinter asks Zoe to train Rwanda, and he learns quickly. Shortly after joining, Rwanda attempts to kill Ivan as revenge for being called a “spoiled rich boy”, but fails, and the two have a short heart-to-heart where Rwanda reveals his goals of meeting his mother again, believing her to still be alive.

Upon his unofficial entry into the agency, Rwanda is entered into a school set up by Zoe alongside Ivan. One month later, Midwinter declares a final test that will let Rwanda become an official member, though questions when best to give it. That afternoon, May Glickman and Kevin come back to the agency, causing Rwanda to have a strange feeling in his chest. He soon decides the best way to deal with the feeling is to kill them both. That night he sneaks out of the room to their bedroom, attempting to kill Kevin first. May notices and attacks him back, pinning him and letting him leave the room. Rwanda smugly thinks that next time, he’ll target May first.

The next morning, Midwinter calls Rwanda into his office to discuss his attack on May. Rwanda during this conversation declares his dislike for the agency, calling them a “bunch of thugs playing house”. Midwinter answers that he, as well as the organisation, is his property, and he shouldn’t be disobeying his orders. Rwanda attempts to leave the room, only for Midwinter to chain him down, saying he is like his mother. He reacts negatively to this, realising Midwinter knew his mother, and attempts to know more, but is shut down. He is punished through the skipping of meals and being locked in a cell for a while.

In the cell, Rwanda dwells on Midwinter’s words, and he decides to find out what he knows about his mother, while plotting to kill May. He tries to consider the meaning of May and Kevin’s relationship, only to have the strange feeling in his chest again. That afternoon, Rwanda and Ivan are talking in the agency canteen when May comes in, forgiving Rwanda for what he did. He elaborates that the agency are preparing to go on a raid of a gang, and Midwinter says that Rwanda and Ivan will be brought along on their own team, with them being on Zoe’s for the beginning.

TBC.

## Personality

Rwanda is nimble and quick to dispose of his prey, but does have his moments of fun with them. While his murders may be vicious and brutal, Rwanda's mindset is still that of a child’s. Due to his mindset, instead of processing his emotions, he simply kills things that bother or get in his way. That is his immediate trauma response as seen in the series. He does not like being contested and is not fond of familial acts of love, and gets jealous very easily due to that matter. He is apathetic, following Darwin’s survival of the fittest.

As an adult, Rwanda seems to have the mind of a child, very impulsive and reckless. He seems almost the same, though has more control over masking his emotion more than before. It has shown that he has got more impulsive, as he goes out and rents a prostitute, Kathy. He does not think things through often or have any second thoughts for his final decisions. He is lost most of the time emotionally, and needs guidance with handling them.

Rwanda sees children as “simple-minded” and “weak”. He also isn’t greedy like Ivan, as he believes money isn’t the only important thing. He has a twisted view on relationships, seeing death as the way to connect with people truly.

Rwanda is also most likely to have BPD, Bipolar, RTS and more along with other disorders, though these are the most common traits to be seen throughout the manga. This isn't fully canon though these traits are heavily implied.

## Appearance

Rwanda is a skinny, slim though average boy with black hair and green eyes. He has short, damp messy black hair. He has a fringe that splits twice in the middle, and side bangs that curl inwards to define his face. His common attire is a white collared shirt and thin black suspended trousers, occasionally with a black bow tied around his shirts collar. However, his usual work attire includes; a white dress shirt with a black ribbon bow laced around its collar, high waisted black shorts, kneecap-length black socks, and a black jacket with golden embroidery lines in his jackets lapels, and high heeled boots

Post time skip he is noticeably taller and matured, however, he maintains his skinny frame. After the time skip he wears similar clothes, typically a black trench coat (as seen in his fight with the “Devilish Ripper”) and gloves with a white collared shirt.

“*Rwanda’s hair constantly appears as wet, when dry it tends to “shrink” and as appears a coil like texture and is almost a small afro; him keeping it wet seems to come from his strong disliking for said shrinkage and texture.*” Was stated in a tweet.

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