RedManta

**RedManta**, or just Manta, and formerly known as **The Ghost**, is a member of the Ink Tank Discord Server. He is a time traveler and dimension-hopping robot with a mysterious origin that he himself is unfamiliar with. However, that doesn't stop him from enjoying his time on the server. Even before he was a robot, he took several different forms, such as an Ectonurite and a demon skeleton.

## Appearance

He is a thin tall black and blue-colored robot, with the only body part shown is his face occasionally. He wears a white vest with yellow details, a yellow and golden chest armor with a blue diamond in it, white pants with yellow details, a white, yellow and gold skirt and a white cloak with yellow ends. He also sports a helmet with a visor and a mouth plate, along with a silver belt, metal gloves and metal boots with golden straps, both with blue lights across them.

### Other Appearances

Before he found his current identity, he was Rs'Skall, a short Ectonurite with a chain on his neck and buckles on his wrists. His sun-protective skin covered his whole body, forming some sort of hood on the head, however not covering his hands and tail. He also became Sypher for a while, a relatively tall skeleton with a scythe, a black cloak with red marks, blue and yellow eyes, a purple hoodie and brown pants.

For the "Heroes vs. Villains" event, he adopted a twisted color scheme for his clothing, with darker yellow and gold, black instead of white and orange-ish red lights to replace the blue ones, which he dubs as Dark Ghost or Dark Manta.

Through a short amount of time in the month of September, he became his Spidersona self: Spider-Ghost, sporting a classic red and blue outfit with a hood, a Spider-belt, Spider-goggles and dark blue baggy pants, along with his yellow Symbiote partner, Killstreak.

In the Halloween of 2021, he became a Headless Horseman with a classic brown 1800's clothing, sporting a red cape and riding the Pokémon Spectrier.

Rs'SkallSypherDark GhostThe Headless GhostSpider-Ghost & KillstreakManta as drawn by Alter
## Personality

Manta is a chill guy most of the time, rarely losing his cool on the server. He often responds in a joking manner to some messages, but still serious in their meaning. However, he hopes that people get when he's sarcastic or not, as he doesn't mean to upset or insult anyone on purpose. Despite being bright in some aspects, Ghost often makes some stupid actions, such as forgetting to turn the ping off when replying to people who mind getting pinged and constant mistyping on his messages. He is also pretty insecure of his place in the server, as he doesn't want to have a bad rep amongst other users and just wants to befriend them. Ghost can come off as a bit competitive; he talks about leveling up and getting high ranks, and fears he might be too demanding whenever asking for anything there. He is also terrible at making some decisions.

## History

Before Discord, Manta often used YouTube and played games on his phone on his free time, with a little of Facebook. However, those things were all toned down after he discovered Discord and got addicted to it.

Initially, Manta didn't join that many servers. He did join The Ink Tank's server before the Ben 10 15th Anniversary event, but even then he wasn't as active as he is now. However, starting from around April to May, he got very active within the server, and have ever since met and befriended several people there.

Manta's path to VIP was relatively long, but with time he managed to do it. However, near the VIP role, he slowed down due to going very active in the r/Ben10 server during that time.

In Fro's special "Heroes vs. Villains" event, Manta was conflicted on which side to pick. He initially went to the Hero side, however later on changed to the villain side due to the people who formed the group, feeling a sense of guilt after.

Due to personal reasons, he got out of Discord for a week, however returning with a special drawing to celebrate 15K members of The Ink Tank Discord server, which includes himself, Beta, The Heat, Chicken and several other members.

In the hype for 5 Years Later: Chapter 11 and to celebrate the Ink Tank server's 4th anniversary, he created an art piece labeled as "The Chronian Time Army", where several members of the server, including himself, were transformed into Chronians to serve as Eon's personal squad. Some few members include: Your Local Splixson, Alter, DrezenDragon, Temporal Anomaly, etc.

Nowadays, Manta isn't as present as he used to, but he's fairly known for his avatar drawings of other users and for really liking baggy pants in a few designs. He's also the owner and creator of the ATU Henry "Ren" Tennyson, and has drawn several of his alien forms.

Some of his best friends are Kenom, Mat and Just Josh.

## Trivia

* His favourite alien is XLR8, with Jetray being his 2nd.
	+ Although he claims that to be the case, he oftenly speaks more about/shows more apreciation towards the latter.
* Originally, he was known as The Ghost, but has since dropped the name as he felt it did not suit him anymore.
* Despite being named The Ghost, unlike The Heat and The Rath, the name isn't inspired by nor named after a Ben 10 alien, in this case being Ghostfreak
	+ However, that statement might be contraditory, as he called himself The Ghost while under his his Ectonurite form, Rs'Skall.
* Kenom is the one responsible for his Dark Ghost look.
* Manta made the special 15K art inspired by Tempo's art of many different Omnitrix wielder ocs from the server's users.
* He sometimes wonders what would have been like to have been part of The Great Tank War, even when The Ink Tank themselves and several other members wish of not having another one to happen again.
* Manta made a mock fanart from 3 of the Ink Tank members (Fro, Kuro and Ash) inspired by the Powerpuff Grls Z anime.
* He drew Staw and Ultimate Z's current profile pictures on Discord. He claims those to be some of the most badass art he ever made.

 Joined in 2019
 Joined in 2021