Red Rider

The **Red Rider**, also known as **Absinthe Welliver II**, is the infamous demiurge tasked with the duty of heralding the Armageddon and was recorded in the Book of Revelation. She is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

## Summary

The **Red Rider**, or **Red Horseman**, is the second of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, also named **War**. He represents war, and his horse is colored "fiery" red and bearing a sword of war. Unlike Conquest, the Red Horseman of War specializes in waging war between nations and people rather than internal strife.

He holds a great sword upwards as though ready to battle or mass slaughter. The sword is meant to suggest that blood will be spilled. The great sword being held upwards can also be viewed as a declaration of war, as typically, crossed swords held upward in heraldry signify entering in battle. He takes peace from the Earth and allows men to kill one another.

The color of the horse, coupled with the rider's sword, symbolizes the great blood shed that must ultimately befall the world, and to some he also symbolizes divine wrath and spiritual warfare, making him even more formidable than he already appears.

## Appearance

Welliver has the appearance of a young woman in her mid-20s, with brown doe-eyes and long, scarlet hair that shines a blood-red aura under sunlight. She has a slender, voluptuous figure like that of ancient Greek statues that can attract all men and women looking at her.

She wears a light steel-and-gold armor on top of a white blouse, a blue skirt, black boots, and diamond-shaped earrings.

When she first appeared, she wore a red leather jacket, a skin-tight black shirt with a white mesh crop top underneath, black skinny jeans, and high-heel studded boots. She also wore a black shawl with gruesome images of people dying in battle embroided and round red-tinted sunglasses.

In Chapter XXX, when she became angered at Team DxD's accusation, she unconsciously warped the reality around her and almost entered her true form. In this form, she was described as a giant wingless Western Dragon with numerous pairs of ethreal-blue eyes and gold-and-crimson scales that make her looked like a giant moving forest fire. From her neck sprouts six move snake-like heads that whisper words capable of making even the sturdiest of men fall into despair and murder. According to Issei, this form of her was so terrifying that all of his senses were screaming at him to kill himself to get himself away from her.

Like all angelic beings, she possesses a total of eight feathered-wings, each with a wingspan of around 13-feet. Her wings resemble that of a hawk's.

## Personality

Welliver is deceiful and highly intelligent. She likes to cause chaos and destruction indirectly from the shadows, manipulating humans with their own emotions and letting them take care of the rest. She has also shown to be a very good actress, able to food everyone into thinking she really was the human reporter Carmine.

Like her celestial aunts and uncles, she has a very low view of humanity, thinking them undeserving of being protected by the Abrahamic Heavens, seeing them as naturally vicious and not requiring a reason to fight and kill. Much like Otis, she believes only a little push is needed to cause people to murder. The majority of her hatred toward humanity is because of her origins, being born from her father's despair over the sinful nature of humanity, thus making her more focused on the wickedness of humanity than their virtuous parts.

She is extremely sadistic, enjoying watching people fighting each other to the death and civilizations crumble down to ruins. Unlike her brothers, occasionally, she would venture out to their next designated planet and universe to play with them for a while, pulling strings so that they'd reach their deadline much faster.

She is also noted to be the most caring out of the Horsemen and becomes visibly upset whenever they are hurt. In Chapter XXX, after Team DxD accused her father of planning to destroy the Earth, she became so angered that the reality around her was unconsciously warped to the point where her true form was revealed.

Along with the other Horsemen, she's looking forward to heralding the Armageddon and bringing forth the end of Earth and the mortal world.

## History

Welliver was one of the first demiurges, alongside Frewer, Otis, and Richings - ancient beings born directly from Raphael's despair over the sinful actions of humanity. She, in particular, was born the moment Cain's hatred toward Abel for receiving God's favor appeared in his heart, though she only came into form the moment the older brother started attacking his brother and drew blood onto the ground.

The moment she came into existence, she and her brothers was summoned to the Abrahamic God and they were tasked with the duty of heralding the Armageddon, releasing END onto the mortal world so that the world may be born again more beautiful, which they accepted with the greatest of honor.

Their first mission was in Earth, with them marking the end of the Edenith era. However, due to the fact thirteen of the original Nephilim managed to survive the Deluge despite the angels' direct order, their mission was deemed unsuccessful. Embarrassed, the four of them vowed to one day killed the last of the original Nephilim and end the remnants of the Edenith civilization once and for all.

Afterward, they continue their duty, heralding the end throughout Creation, bring forth the end to countless planets and universes, as well as the species and civilizations living within them.

When she was about 18,000 years old, she joined the Heavenly Host and quickly rose through the ranks due to her immense angelic powers and fighting abilities. However, because of her work as one of the Four Horsemen, she wasn't able to become a permanent member of the celestial army.

At some point in history, the four of them founded the Apocalypse Alliance, consisting of gods and mythological figures associated with the apocalypse within multiple mythologies and civilizations across mortal world as means of minimizing the paperwork for both themselves and the Abrahamic Heavens.

## Trivia

* Welliver's appearance is based on Erza Scarlet from *Fairy Tail*.
* In plant symbolism, absinthe means "absence, bitter sorrow" or "restless death".
	+ An alternate name for absinthe is "wormwood"; if one use this in conjunction with her last name, it will spell out WW II. It's a reference toward World War II, the deadliest war in human history, having a casualty of 70-80 million people perished.
		- It's also a reference to the biblical Wormwood, which is a star destined to be fallen in the Armageddon and poisoned one third of the world's water supplies, turning them bitter and deadly.
* Her last name is a reference to Titus Welliver, who portrayed War from *Supernatural*.
* She owns a red 1966 Mustang in addition to her red motorbike.
* She is the most human-looking member out of the Four Horsemen.
	+ She's the only one among the Horsemen to have their true form revealed.
* Her true form is about as large as the state of Texas.
* According to Issei, her laugh sounds like "machine-gun stutter" and her teeth are like "rows of silver bullets".