Scarlet Rhino

## Appearance

**Scarlet Rhino** wears a gray jeans and a sleeveless, dark gray sweater with a white shirt underneath, with a hot pink beetle badge on either side. His most notable design elements are his rhino beetle mask (obscuring her face and giving her eyes a hot pink coloration) and his pair of high-tech wings.

## Personality

Scarlet Rhino is of great ego, being convinced that he can do whatever he so pleases on account of him being “different” in his own head. Naturally, this shines through in Rhino’s occupation, or lack thereof; she’s a thief who believes that she’s capable of getting away with anything. To her credit, she hasn’t been properly caught a single time; he isn’t a master of his craft, but he’s certainly close.

Rhino tends to lean more on general intuition and acting in-the-moment as opposed to calculating plans of action and such, partly influenced by his upbringing. In general conversation, he can lean towards being on the more blunt side- particularly with anybody who gets on her nerves (something that’s not hard to do). Largely speaking, though, he’ll still be able to put on a more level-headed display when in tense situations, and even occasionally drop a line to jab at any opposition.

## Creation

Rhino was originally created while Harvey existed as Sean, but in a radically different form. The earliest trace of the character was from July 18th, 2020 in a Discord group chat. He was named Cell at the time, and was not, in fact, a human; rather, he was a sentient drop of blood. Cell was a thief who was very, very bad at thievery, and rarely got away with anything, despite his inflated ego. Cell would eventually be canned alongside the rest of Sean's current characters (besides Harvey and Count).

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Cell was brought back early into the existence of Eternal Winter with an updated design after Hydro made a joke about Cell (which ended up becoming Cell's origin while he existed). He remained a character until July of 2022, when Sean became dissatisfied with his character direction and splatted him once again saying he'd most likely split the character into two.

A few months later, Scarlet Rhino was designed (with the other mentioned character being scrapped), taking Cell's thievery and little else. The horn was inspired by the two droplet peaks of the Cell redesign, and both are economically-fueled, but that's essentially it.

## History

Rhino was born in Maraton, a northern city located in the Redstained Mountains. He grew up in the city in a low-income household where one's individual monetary status was taught to be the most important thing a person could have. In pursuit of this (as well as just to get by), the family would become no strangers to crime- stealing cars for parts to resell, robbing banks, the works. His family would eventually get sent to prison after being caught, but she'd manage to escape the scene of the crime before being caught herself. As such, by his lonesome- though she didn't really care all too much- he'd continue with his criminal behavior.

Revolution would eventually spark in Maraton, which spelled issue for the type of criminal activity Rhino engaged in- crime was happening more often, so the defending government began to be much more cautious, placing military guard around the city. Rhino figured this would only lead to her eventual arrest, so she decided to silently move to a city prime for profit, via criminal activity or otherwise- Neo Middli, the continent's center for trade, transport, and tourism.

At some point after the DPSS Barrier goes up, Rhino breaks into a shipment of gear from Tyresum that had been blocked at the barrier's edge and finds his soon-to-be staple gear. Though it takes some getting used to, this transforms him from a minor criminal to a major one pulling off heists of incredibly high magnitudes, still only hardly detected by a few people with only vague recounts of a figure in a white beetle mask to tell.

## Abilities and Weapons

* **Crowbar** - Rhino's most trusty weapon, the one he's most experienced with by far. Excellent for breaking and entering or just bashing somebody's head in, among other things.

Aside from his crowbar, Rhino uses a variety of gear indirectly stolen from Tyresum in order to aid him in his heists- combat typically isn't necessary in these situations, but it will be as soon as a certain "team" get involved.

* **Elytra** - Rhino's metal wings, which enable him to hover and achieve liftoff with rocket propulsion. They're also relatively flexible, meaning they can easily be retracted and compacted towards Rhino's back.
* **Yo-Yo** - Rhino's secondary but still very handy weapon. It's used as any yo-yo would be for combat- blunt damage, wrapping people up, et cetera.
* **Cloning** - A common technique Rhino uses in his combat, granted to him by his mask. The mask is powered by magician's blood, specifically from Kalo (Calida's dad). The clones disappear upon being hit, but can damage foes or simply act as distractions.
* **Beetle Swarms** - Beetle swarms produced from the pair of beetle emblems on Rhino's arms, cloned from within the emblems via magician's blood (see above). They're excellent for disruption and distraction, though they won't be doing much actual damage.

## Trivia

* Rhino knows that the color of her gear is hot pink and not scarlet; he just thought it sounded cool based on his last name.
* Rhino's favorite food is thin crust pizza, typically decorated with anchovies and mushrooms (with deviations according to mood).
	+ Do not give him any pizza with a thicker crust. Do not try it. Do not.
* Rhino is aroace.

## Gallery

Initial concept doodles for Scarlet Rhino.Capi somehow getting involved in a heist. (He has no idea what's happening, he's just happy to be here.)