Space Gangster Mask Red

> The shining red light will guide me to victory! Alien Gangster Mask Red!
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Space Gangster Mask Red (宇宙暴力団員マスク・レッド, *Uchū Bōryokudan-in Masuku Reddo*), known also as Jo Redderman (ジョー・レッダーマン, *Jō Reddāman*), is the leader of the Alien Gang Vigiman (宇宙人暴力団ビジマン, *Uchūjin Bōryokudan Bijiman*). He is a direct enemy of Space Crime Syndicate Wanduri (宇宙犯罪組織ワンデュリ, *Uchū Hanzai Soshiki Wande~yuri*).

## Appearance

When not actively fighting against rival gangs, Jo is an outwardly human-looking young man in his mid 20s, with predominantly Asian features. His dark hair is kept in a very 80s perm style, just the right kind of fluffy. On his body, he usually wears unassuming bomber jackets, most commonly one with black cuffs, underneath which he usually wears white t-shirts with a red collar, as well as a pair of jeans and leather boots.

When he has completed the Crystal-Body-Process\*, turning into Mask Red, he is seen wearing a suit of armor. Before his eyes, a black visor appears, though when he charges up his special attacks, yellow lights resembling eyes can be seen shining through the visor. The top of his helmet is covered in a metal-looking red material. Before his mouth is a simple, metallic faceplate. Along his equally red chest piece are several buttons and status indicators, including the Crystal Indicator, which blinks red when he is running low on energy. His shoulders have simple pauldrons in the same tone of red. Silver, metallic armguards lead to equally silver gauntlets with black, flexible material on the palm side. Around his waist rests a futuristic-looking belt with more status indicator lights and a sheath for his bladeless sword-handle on his left side, and a holster for his VigiDictator laser pistol on the other side. His legs are covered in semi-flexible silver plating all the way down to his ankles, and metallic, red boots finish up the appearance. Underlying the metal is black, flexible material.

When activating his Flame God form, he grows from his usual height to 46 meters, and his armor changes, taking on strongly robotic cues and black stripes on all the red portions. A shield-like plate appears over his chest, with the Crystal Indicator now nestled in the center of the shield. His helmet's visor and faceplate retract to reveal a metallic, humanoid, silver face with yellow eyes. Crowning his head is what appears to be a red tiger head. His pauldrons remain relatively simplistic in this form, but now shine silver. Red metallic armguards cover his upper arms in this form, silver guards appear over his lower arms, with wrist-mounted buttons on his left arm to activate auxiliary functions of this mode. Rather than his belt, his stomach appears flat, covered in basic armor (as basic as it can get for a 46 meter robot, anyway). His leg armor becomes blocky, solid black on his upper thighs, and turning into huge metallic, red blocks on his lower thighs. Similarly, his boots are wide proportionate to his size, the better to keep him in balance, and red with silver striping along the sole and vertically down the middle.

In Flame God form, Mask Red can also fold in on himself, turning into a fucking 50 meter long, red and silver robot tiger with yellow eyes.

## Personality

Jo is an easygoing guy, but he is aware of the pressure of his situation. He tries to keep up the relaxed and fun-loving appearance, anyway, regardless of him being on a world that should be alien to him, but as long as the rest of his gang are not fully recovered, he will continue to internally worry while carrying on their fight. Of course, much of this goes out the airlock in his most vulnerable, private moments, when he is haunted by flashbacks to his old group of friends' callous murder.

His self-assuredness shows in his willingness to carry on by himself, reasoning that he is the strongest and most experienced of his team - whether that is in fact true or not is subject to debate.

In an active combat situation, he turns cool and collected where needed, able to use feriociousness to his advantage other times. With his back to the wall, his cunning - and large arsenal - really shine.

Mentioning his teammates' current blight in a distasteful manner or threatening children are the two things that will send him flying off the handle. To protect the smiles of children anywhere, he would go to the ends of the world, and the same is true of his attitude towards his gang.

## History

Hailing from Planet Burman, Jo Redderman lived a life of ease and little complications. He studied martial arts under a master, and loved to spend his time up in the air, hang-gliding. On one such tour, hanging out with his friends, he saw a scientist pursued by aliens he had never before seen. He managed to save the scientist, who disappeared, but returned only to find his friends murdered by one of the monstrous aliens. Going in for revenge, he was soundly beaten, but the scientist whom he rescued before turned out to be actually in league with these aliens who identified themselves as belonging to "the great Wanduri". The professor professed to being able to determine that Jo might "be the one".

Taking his beaten body to a secret lair the aliens established on his world, he was taken before what he was told to be one pieceo of the Quad-Crystal. Shining a bright red, it seemed to pulse with power. Power, Jo determined, he could use to try and beat back these villains.

Seemingly, the gem resonated with his desire, and covered him in a strange light, allowing him to teleport out of the cavern - equipped with a highly effective combat suit, and gaining him access to Super Dimensional Battle Mothership Ramon, as well as a host of tools.

Soon after he learned to control these mighty gifts, he swore to himself to traverse the galaxy in search of other existences ruined by Wanduri's forces. He wanted not just to ruin them, but to actively make them fear for their space turf. So it was he travelled to planets Lucay, Coopei and Tsubu, finding allies with similar backgrounds who took well to his idea.

Battles erupted over ground which the Vigimen, as they would soon call themselves, would first liberate from Space Crime Syndicate Wanduri, so they could then turn it over to their rightful owners or others in need.

A year of fighting Wanduri lead to hints that the collective Wanduri forces - including their leader, Ahrimasatan, have picked out a new lair underneath a specific area on a planet, a Zone already rife with gang warfare.

On approach to the planet - some backwater place called Earth, according to locally sourced starmaps - a force of Wanduri ships came out of hiding from behind the planet's moon, striking Ramon in the rear, the weakest part of its shield grid, and causing severe internal damage. Not only did Jo have to perform a stealthed emergency landing, he also had to ensure the safety of his gang - and to do so, he put them into regenerative stasis pods, keeping them stable until their condition would improve again.

Until such a time, he had resolved to repairing the ship and taking up the fight against Wanduri on his own, lest they try and recruit from the local gangs.

What will he encounter on this strange world? Will he make new friends? Further foes? What will this lone hero do to stop his nemesis? And will he have his revenge?

## Forms

* Mask Red
* Flame God
* Flame God - Tiger Formation

**Statistics:**

**Height:** 183 cm

**Weight:** 87 kg

**Maximum Jumping Height:** 434 m

The Crystal Body (晶身, *Akimi*) Process allows Jo to tap into the power of the Red Quad-Crystal. First, he has to put his arms angled outwards to the left from his body, arcing them over his chest to the other side. This will spawn his belt. Then, forming a fist with his left hand, he puts it near the Transformation Belt Maskeroizer, while his right moves vertically up above his head, all fingers aimed at the heavens. This materializes the Right Gemnizer Bracelet. In the next step of the process, his right arm returns to the side of his body, and he puts his left fist before his chest, materializing the Left Gemnizer Bracelet. Then, he moves his right fist to the left side of his body, turning his torso accordingly, before rapidly moving himself facing back forward again, his fists crossing before his body, then lowering down to the height of the belt. This energizes the Gemnizer Bracelets. At this point, he yells out the phrase "Akimi!" Then, he bends his knees down, his right fist hanging low, before rising up again into full standing. He then puts the two bracelets crosswise over one another before him, and finally, he raised his left fist towards the sky. At this point, his combat suit is transferred onto his body from Superdimensional Battle Mothership Ramon.

It takes Mask Red less than 0.598417 seconds to complete the Crystal Body process.

In this form, his defensive prowess are heightened by a suit of metallic-looking armor created from nano-level interwoven crystal sheets interlaced with adamantium-duranium alloys. A good-enough blow to the nogging could still knock him out and undo the transformation, but when does *that* ever happen?

Similarly, his offensive powers are heightened even without the use of his arsenal. He can punch and kick with the best of them, though there are limits to this strength.

**Statistics:**

**Height:** 46 m

**Weight:** 32,700 t

The Flame God (炎神, *Enshin*) form is accessed only in times of great need. Normally, Jo's code of honor forbids him from ever using it against opponents that are significantly smaller than this form, and if possible, he further tries to limit usage in urban areas directly. He takes on robotic traits in this form, including the capacity for docking with other combatible robotic forms. His equipment grows along with the rest of him, allowing him continued use of his weaponry in this form.

Tiger Formation (タイガーフォーメーション) is an alternative battle mode in which Mask Red in Flame God form folds in on himself, reshaping into a giant tiger robot for a more feral battle style. He can freely switch back from one to the other as the situation demands. In this form, he has access to the Solar Flare Breath (ソーラーフレアブレス) attack.