Red Ordonia

"The idea of love is overrated, that's why. Once a person figures out they're done with someone, it's done. Why else would my father bail on me like what Leigh's dad did to them?" - **Red** to Léa and Cameron about Martín in Beyond Worlds: Azul

## **OFFICIAL BIO**

*A loyal friend who is always there to help and support you, **Red** is a best friend for every person. What's there not to love; with her tough persona to her unexpected humor- she's more than what meets the eye. She may come off as petite and dependent with everyone around her, but in reality she's more down-to-earth and sane than most people. - Character dossier*

## Biographical Information

### Other Name(s)

Little Red (Riding/Robin Hood) (by Léa), Daredevil (by Gogo), Meri (by her friends, Azul)

### Home

Manila, Philippines (formerly), Pasadena California

## Relationships

### Family

Martín Buenavista (father), Meredith Ordonia (mother), Léa Navarro (older half-sister)

### Friends

Léa Navarro, Cameron Mendes, Hiro Hamada, Julian Navarro, Tadashi Hamada, Oliver, Big Hero 6

### Enemies

Kenji Katagiri (formerly), Robert Callaghan (Beyond Worlds), Martín Buenavista (Azul, formerly), Lia (Azul)

### Love Interest(s)

Gogo Tomago (Beyond Worlds), Mirabel Madrigal (admirer; Amarillo)

## Production Information

### Actor

Naomi Campbell

**Meredith "Red" Ordonia** is the 16-year-old deuteragonist of Beyond Worlds, and the tritagonist of both the reboots, Azul and Amarillo. She's revealed to be the child of **Meredith Ordonia** and Martín Buenavista, making her the half-sister of Léa Navarro. She's a third-year student attending Caltech along with her best friends Léa and Cameron Mendes. Red wants to be a doctor when she grows up as she takes biology and biological engineering in the university, hinted by remaking bioluminescent mice that Kenji Katagiri, one of their classmates and sees a competition in, disapproves of.

**Belle Bello** serves as the inspiration for Red, taking her personality, though her personality changes in the reboot and its sequel. **Naomi Campbell** provides the voice of Red in the reels and animatics.

## **EARLY LIFE**

#### **Original**

Red was born to Robert Callaghan and Meredith Ordonia, making her the half-sister of Abigail, and Callaghan bails on her the second he knew Meredith's pregnant with Red. Red meets Léa in 8th grade in the Philippines where they became best friends, and they even competed in badminton tournaments together and wins first place. When Red tells Léa about her missing father and that she's trying to find him, Léa immediately volunteered to help, even going as far as to hack into the police's official records with Julian's help. Léa and Julian gets caught by officers, which would then result to Julian taking the fall instead of her. After the incident, Red and Léa kept the hacking a secret, until she accidentally blurted it out when Hiro helps them.

#### **Reboot**

Martín Buenavista sexually assaulted **Meredith Ordonia**, resulting to the birth of Red on November 5. Martín went back to his actual family, leaving Meredith to take care of her daughter and raise her on her own- and Red grows up taking her mother's names.

## **PERSONALITY**

Red is your typical run-of-the-mill girl who isn't at all interested in the fancy stuff in life nor the luxuries of being born into a rich family. She's a tomboy who just wants to be comfortable. Red is good with technology and is a very trustworthy friend; she hates letting anyone down and tends to keep her promises. Red also seems to have a strong sense of justice, helping others through kindness and not expecting anything in return. As a friend, she's very loyal and has been with Léa for three years. She looks rough on the outside but is actually soft on the inside, as she describes herself.

She's not exactly a "friendly" person and would sometimes come off as a little rude, even to new people. Red sides on the more logical and Science side of things, resulting in her killjoy nature. She doesn't care what others think about her and usually takes criticism as compliments in disguise.

## **PHYSICAL APPEARANCE**

#### **BEYOND WORLDS**

Red has mid-length brown hair which she parts to the side. She has hazel eyes and is recorded to be standing at 5'0". In Season 1, she's wearing a red shirt over a black long-sleeve, and she wears a belt around her waist to secure her black jeans in place; her jeans are rolled up past her ankles. Red has ankle-high black boots, and she has a silver chain hooked onto her pants and belt. She lets her hair down.

In the second season, Red is wearing a black jacket with white buttons over a hot pink turtleneck and denim jeans with the same boots she wore for her second outfit. She's also wearing a yellow star necklace, matching her earrings. Her hair is tied into a high ponytail, making it tamer and somehow longer than her look in Season 1. For Léa's birthday, Léa mentions Red is wearing something androgynous.

#### **AZUL**

Red's outfit consists of a black hoodie sweatshirt under a red shirt, and she adds the orange and yellow-colored varsity jacket of Caltech on top of her clothes. She wears black jeans with a belt chain connected from her pants and belt like she wore on the first season of the original Beyond Worlds, and her shoes are all-white trainers. Unlike the original, her hair is chopped off to a pixie cut and has an added highlight. She now wears a couple of black earrings on her right earlobe matched with the same design of choker.

## **GALLERY**

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## **CHANGES IN THE REBOOT**

* Red is no longer the main comedic relief of the story; Cameron is. This is because Red's personality is different from the original Beyond Worlds and its reel.
* Her hair is chopped off to a pixie cut, giving a more "tomboyish" look. It grows out a little in Amarillo, and she ties it with low pigtails.
	+ She was also given highlights.
* Robert Callaghan being Red's father is cut from the version of the reboot; her father is now Martín Buenavista, Léa's biological father- making her the half-sister of Léa. Because of this, Oliver will no longer be a part of the family.

## **TRIVIAS**

* She was almost named Scarlet Feliciano, with the nickname of Felicie. This was scrapped because writers think the name is too girly for the character and **Belle Bello** herself.
	+ In one of the final cuts of the first season, Red's last name was originally "Aihara", it was then changed to "Ordonia" for unknown reasons.
* Red is a mix of Player and Carmen Sandiego from the Netflix series with the same name, even taking Player's nickname for Carmen, which is Red. She's had the same color palette as Carmen, as well as her personality and attitude.
* Léa was the one who coined in "Little Red" as her nickname because of her stature, and also "Little Red Robin Hood" for always barging into her apartment and stealing snacks and food.
	+ She barges into Léa's apartment twice in the original's first season, first is in the prologue, when she needs Léa's help for the parallel universe project. As mentioned by Léa, *"She even barged in here with snacks from our kitchen cabinets without even ringing the doorbell*.*"* The second time was in *Chapter 8: Orthoepy*, when she just entered the apartment without even greeting Léa, making her say sarcastically, "Who is it? Red, come in, sorry for the mess."
* A few years back, her nickname is "Meri" and her favorite color is blue. This changed, however, when she transferred to Léa's school in 8th grade, changing her nickname and favorite color (although her redraw in the second season has more of a pinkish tone to it rather than red).
	+ "Meri" is now coined in as one of Léa and Cameron's nicknames for her in the reboot and its sequel.
* Writer **Stefen Sanchez** concluded that Red's overall appearance is inspired by the E-girl aesthetic, though she doesn't wear too much accessories. She's also never dyed her hair before, and is not planning to.
	+ In **Parriss Bell**'s drawing, however, **Kath Aguinaldo** points out that Red looks a lot like Bolt's Penny Forrester in a tweet.
	+ Red's redraw for Season 2 is based on Aguinaldo's drawing of Louise Hillman, also Belle Bello's character from the TWICE Songfix Series.
* She references Grey's Anatomy solely because she wants to be a doctor and that she shares the same name with the series' protagonist, Meredith Grey.
* Aside from Léa and Hiro, Red is an obvious crowd favorite, and she's had many fanboys and fangirls overnight, surpassing Hiro but only a few short after Léa.
* **Parker Trinh** pointed out that Red uses the tactic to be on her phone whenever she has to be out of that scene (In *Chapter 6: Sociology*, Gogo calls her for an unknown reason and leaves Léa and Hiro in the lab to talk; and in *Chapter 8: Orthoepy* she gets a call from her mother before leaving Léa and Mudpie in the park and eventually meets up again with Oliver).
* It was initially planned for Red to have green eyes. The reason for the change is because her mother has brown eyes and Robert Callaghan has blue.
* It was unknown why the writers decided to not include the fact that Red and Gogo are love interests in the reboots, although **Austin Dy** and Kath Aguinaldo want to have Mirabel Madrigal as Red's admirer.