Red Hood

## Summary

Red Hood is a private investigator and former sergeant of The Redcaps.

## Appearance

Red Hood has hair that's tied in a bun at the back of the head, she wears a padded red jacket with a blacklined collar, a grey shirt, beige slacks with a leather belt equipped with pouches, combat boots and tactical gloves.

## Personality

Red Hood is a clever and deceptive woman who uses her cunning and wit to help others, she has a thirst for knowledge and information that drives her career as a private investigator. She's wary of the United Alliance of Middlesbrough and refuses to join them. Red is skeptical of Nightshade because she understands her true motives, avenging her family and not really caring for the state of the country.

As a result of her rivalry with The Redcaps, Red's always active and alert when she's on the job because the liutenants are prone to sending enforcers to intimidate her. As a private investigator, she's objective and stoic as she does not care for the omnics and their struggles, she will study every character she meets in order to see their strengths and weaknesses so she can make them perform rash decisions that benefit her investigations.

## Backstory

Red Hood started young when she started her private investigation business but she clawed her way to success and became a highly recommended investigator. She was given a presumably simple case of finding a missing child but this soon became the largest case of her career.

Seven humans and seven omnics had disappeared in town and evidence was dry, after two months of investigation and following any possible leads she discovered where the victims were being taken. She decided to pose herself as one of the captured humans and discovered that an omnic known as BOR15 (pronounced Boris) was kidnapping humans and drafting Omnics into Null Sector so that it can be reinstated, not only that but Boris had merged himself with crusader armour. Using her ingenuity, she was able to free the victims and get them out.

Red's job was far from over however, one of the victims informed her that Boris also had victims in cages but they were in the deeper parts of the factory. She went to the deeper parts of the factory and had to use glow in the dark spray paint to leave a trail for herself and the hostages, she discovered that the victims were hoisted above a large container filled with molten metal. However, before she could release the hostages, she was attacked by Boris who had sneaked up on her. After a lengthy fight, Red was able to stab Boris through the head with a sharpened iron pole (the point going into Boris' exposed chin and out the top of his head) and then his body was destroyed when it fell into the molten metal. Finally killing him.

With her work complete Red released the hostages and went through the files on Null Sector but she discovered links to a global conspiracy. With her new mission discovered, she returned the captured victims to their families and went into hiding so that she could unwind the conspiracy before any more damage could be done.

## Weapons

Red uses a Taurus Model 85 handgun and it holds six rounds and does twenty to eighty points of damage to the target.

## Abilities

* **Behind You!:** Red deploys a holographic decoy of herself and turns invisible, the decoy absorbs damage for 8 seconds and then explodes when Red becomes visible. This redirects all taken damage back at the enemy, this takes 6 seconds to recharge.
* **Snare Trap:** Red sets up a snare trap that pulls targets, this can be used to slam targets into walls or pull them off edges. Alone this can do 30 damage at close range but when targets are pulled from a distance then this can do up to 120 damage when they collide with a wall. This takes 8 seconds to recharge.
* **Hive Bomb:** Red throws a cannister and releases a swarm of robotic bees, these bees circle the area and seek out enemies. Once they detect an enemy, they will continuously attack for 8 seconds, stunning the enemy and slowing them down. This can do up to 85 damage on a single enemy and 50 damage on a group of enemies. This ability also detects invisible enemies and takes 12 seconds to recharge.

## Ultimate

**Bio-Lock**

Red throws a device into the ground and does fifteen points of damage per second, opponents within the ten-meter radius have their movement speed, reload speed and fire rate increased by 2 seconds. The ultimate lasts 6 seconds.

## Trivia

* Red's name comes from Red Riding Hood as well as Jason Todd from the Batman comic franchise.
* Red's backstory was inspired by the legend of Theseus and the Minotaur. Her weapon Taurus Model 85 is supposed to be another connection to the mythology because the Taurus astrology symbol is based on the Cretan Bull which was the father of the Minotaur.
* Boris' death was inspired by the Penguin from Batman Crimson Mist and the death of the T-1000 from Terminator 2. The style of death is similar to how Davy Jones falls into the maelstrom in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
* The fox pin on her coat is a reference to the story "The Wedding of Mr Fox" which involves a fox who fakes his own death. Her horse pin resembles the Bucking Bronco vigor symbol from Bioshock Infinite.
* Her original last name "Artemis" was named after the Greek goddess of the hunt. Her new surname "Rothschild" was chosen for Yiddish meaning "Red coat", revealing that she is of Ashkenazic Jewish descent.
* Red's Shadow Shot ability is best used against squishy heroes due to the amount of damage it deals and it is also best used at long range and against snipers.