Erica Outback

Sucker (Fury)

Erica Soreback (Fury)

The Police Lady (Leopard)

Outback (Katana)

Crazy Police Lady (Rattlesnake)

**Erica Outback** is a police officer and ex-spy who is one of the two major antagonists of the game Christmas Time with Nick.

## Story

### Backstory

From several sources, she is said to have formerly worked at a spy agency before quitting and becoming a police officer. She has a fascination for demons, hence this is her motive to kidnap Dizzy prior to the events of the game. She had a demon before Dizzy that she captured in Lowda, Rubbish, however it is unknown what happened to that demon. She is also stated to have been alerted of Dizzy's existence because of Blazer's crimes. It can be inferred she may want to arrest "Nick" so that "he" doesn't try to find Dizzy.

In her phone call, she also tells various stories of other events that happened in her life, including using defibrillators on herself, removing glass from a pool of tar with her bare hands, jumping off of a bridge in a harbour and landing on nine electric eels, having a plane she flew blow up and surviving a 30,000-foot fall, escaping the crater of an active volcano with her bare hands and feet, and escaping a gang.

### I Have A Habit of Doing Things People Say I Can't Do

During this route, Erica Outback is phoned by Blazer in order to report Dizzy as missing. Erica seemingly disbelieves him, and lets Blazer know about her knowledge of all of his crimes (however she is unaware of Evie's existence and does not know about the existence of the clones). She comes over to arrest him, so Blazer and Protagonist hide upstairs. Erica breaks into the house, finding Tortilla locked in one of the upstairs bedrooms of Evie's house. Unaware that Tortilla and Blazer are separate people and accusing him of making a prank call to the police, she arrests Tortilla. Blazer and Protagonist follow the two of them to her police station, where Blazer notices that she had Dizzy with her the whole time. Protagonist decides to break into the police station, but Blazer is quickly captured and Protagonist then enters her office. Erica contemplates allowing Protagonist to leave and take either Blazer or Dizzy with them, but she decides against it, arresting Protagonist for trespassing. Protagonist, Blazer, and Dizzy are all taken into custody.

### Saved Dizzy

This ending follows the same path as "I Have a Habit of Doing Things People Say I Can't Do", however, instead of immediately going after Erica after arriving at the police station, Protagonist decides to temporarily hide in a prison cell. Even after hearing Blazer has been captured, they hide in the cell, and free themselves by picking the lock. This time, Erica lets them choose between saving Dizzy or Blazer, to which Protagonist chooses to save Dizzy. Erica reluctantly agrees, but quickly changes her mind. Blazer distracts her while Love comes forward in Dizzy's body. Love attacks Erica after she (Erica) breaks the fourth wall by questioning why Love was made into a character for the game. Love fires love hearts at her, while Erica defends herself with a tranquilliser gun. Erica ends up winning, and Protagonist and Love leave the police station in order to figure out a plan to save Blazer.

### Saved Nick

This ending follows the same path as "Saved Dizzy", except Protagonist instead chooses to save Blazer. Erica gives the two an hour before she calls a police team to go after them, but changes her mind. Similar to the last ending, Blazer distracts her, but instead of Love appearing, Fury appears instead. Fury attacks Erica by spitting tridents from her mouth, but once again Erica wins. Protagonist escapes with Blazer while Fury is set to be experimented on by Erica.

### Buried Alive

Erica takes the same actions as she does in "Saved Dizzy"/"Saved Nick", however Protagonist never confronts Erica because they try to escape their prison cell by digging through the floor, but the escape attempt fails and they end up suffocating to death underground.

### Beatrice and Keep Your Possessions With You

Both of these endings split off from the previous four after Blazer's phone call with Erica. Instead of hiding upstairs, Protagonist and Blazer decide to get out of the house to make a run for it. Protagonist ends up knocking themself out by running into a telephone pole, but is ignored by Erica in favour of Blazer, and Leopard kidnaps Protagonist instead. Erica arrests Blazer.

### Last One Left, Void Ab Initio and Katana Got Court

Erica does not physically appear or speak in this ending, however she is mentioned by Katana, who locked Tortilla in the upstairs bedroom as bait to lure Erica into the house. Katana intended to attack Erica with a knife, but Blazer and Protagonist found her first. Erica never comes to the house and isn't mentioned again in any of these endings, however she is erased from existence at the end of "Void Ab Initio" due to Protagonist pulling the lever of the Deus Ex Machina.

### Maximum Insecurity, So Fun It's Criminal and Not the Best of Ideas

Erica is mentioned briefly by Katana, however before she can explain why she's hiding in Phillip's Office (since she's hoping Erica will come to the house), Protagonist grabs her knife and stabs her in the chest, killing her. Erica isn't mentioned again in any of these endings.

### Fitness Protection Program and Murder, Murder, Murder!

During the conversation between Rattlesnake and Blazer, Blazer threatens to call the police on Rattlesnake if he doesn't explain why he's hiding in the pantry. Rattlesnake announces his fear of Erica, and explains what is happening. Rattlesnake attempts to bring him and Protagonist to Katana so the four can go to the Deus Ex Machina, but they find Katana has been killed by Pepper. In the latter ending, Rattlesnake, Protagonist and Blazer are all arrested over Katana's death, however the game does not mention if it was Erica who arrested them.

### True Ending

Erica doesn't physically appear during the True Ending, however the game says that as punishment for kidnapping Dizzy, Jolly Redsuit originally transformed her into an elf to work for him, however Fury attacked her after her transformation, giving Jolly the idea to transform Erica into a dog toy for Dizzy.

## Trivia

* She is a parody of the character Rick Ford from the movie Spy.
* Her first name was chosen for this reason, due to Erica being similar to Rick.
* Her surname is derived from the Subaru Outback, as Rick Ford's surname shares a name with another car brand.
* The reason for her appearance is that the developers of the game forgot to give her a proper design.
* Before her appearance is revealed, her dialogue box icon is a white question mark on a black background, secretly foreshadowing her appearance.