Red

**Person**

 **Body Part**

 **First Appearance**

**Red** is the monster of Nancy de Witte, formed from her blood.

## Biology and Design

Around Red's neck is a "fur ruff" formed from white blood cells.

## Abilities

Red's liquid form allows it to make its way through narrow spaces, such as pipes or sewers.  It appears to be able to achieve some form of near-solidity, however, as it can still support someone riding atop it, or firmly grasp objects. Occasionally, its liquid form can be a hindrance, as it is unable to escape an absorbent material, unless said material is destroyed.

Similar to Kera, Red is capable of some degree of shape-shifting, though not quite as specialized as the hair monster. Red can use this ability to spread itself across vast distances. It appears to have considerably more blood in its body than the average 1.2-1.5 gallons in the standard human body. Red is also capable of generating limbs, shown having as many as twelve limbs in some cases. Red can alter its tail into the shape of a sharp spike to stab foes.

Red is capable of some degree of flight, able to keep up even with fast-flying monsters such as Ayo and Kera.

Red is capable of applying some sort of protective covering to Nancy's wounds, protecting them from infection or further exacerbation.

Red can manipulate its body to keep foreign substances out, even at a microbial level. This allows it to crawl about freely without the risk of infecting itself or Nancy.

Red is capable of some degree of communication with Nancy.

Through a process Nancy calls "blood vision", Red can touch blood and see events that occurred around the time that blood was spilled.  By coming into contact with Nancy, Red can share these visions with her. . It is unknown whether Red could share these visions with anyone other than its host, or whether it can see the past through the blood of something other than a human.

Red can encase humans inside a translucent red crystal, leaving them frozen in stasis with no apparent limit. The stasis can be removed even from a distance.

## History

Some time before the events of *Monster Pulse*, Nancy asked her mother, Agent de Witte, to be allowed to visit SHELL and see the facilities. de Witte was able to get the proper arrangements and brought Nancy with her as she checked the progress of the organization. While they were touring, however, two faculty members dropped a glass chamber containing a ghost. The ghost struck Nancy, and formed Red from her blood.

Embittered by the apparent betrayal of her mother, Nancy used Red's abilities to repeatedly break into SHELL's facilities, subtly weakening the glass containers holding ghosts to release them.  She believed that, with enough children possessing monsters, SHELL would be forced into the public eye, without Nancy herself being found out.

Red made its first in-comic appearance in Chapter 5 alongside Nancy, silently breaking into SHELL facilities to release a ghost.

Red appeared briefly on a bonus page of Chapter 6, waving at the audience.

Nancy and Red first began to interact with the main cast in Chapter 8, catching sight of Julie and Abel crossing under a bridge. Noticing the two were missing an eye and their hair, Nancy suspected they were SHELL agents, and had Red use its blood vision to find where they had come from. Seeing the SHELL logo on the Boat, she became convinced of her mistaken conclusion, and fought a weakened Ayo and Bina, instructed Red to freeze Bina in stasis. After a struggle against Julie and Abel, Abel convinced Nancy they weren't with SHELL, using Red's blood vision to show they had killed the Unnamed Finger Monster rather than keep it for study. Nancy had Red release Bina from stasis, claiming she was "letting them off easy" as they left.

Nancy and Red would not reappear again until Chapter 16, breaking into SHELL's headquarters on the same night the protagonists had broken in to save Nate and Lampwick. Red helped Nancy return West to the group before flying off to avoid detection.

## Trivia

* Red is one of two monsters to be referred to by different pronouns than its human, the other being Rjinder's Unnamed Skin Monster.
* Red is the only named monster to be consistently referred to by the pronoun "it".
* Nobody knows why Red was given its name, because everyone is so stupid.

## References

1. ↑ Description on Chapter 8, Page 5
2. ↑ Chapter 18, Page 5
3. ↑ Chapter 9, Pages 19-21
4. ↑ Chapter 26, Page 48
5. ↑ Chapter 37, Page 16
6. ↑ Magnolia's formspring
7. ↑ Chapter 9, Page 24
8. ↑ Chapter 8, Page 23
9. ↑ Chapter 9, Page 23
10. ↑ Chapter 9, Page 24
11. ↑ Chapter 30, Page 5
12. ↑ Chapter 5: Nancy and Red
13. ↑ Chapter 18, Pages 10-11
14. ↑ Chapter 6, Bonus Page 1