Agent Carolina

**Agent Carolina** is one of the main characters from the *Red vs. Blue* series.

## **Charactah Account**

A member of Project Freelancer and Allison and the Director's daughter. She's mentioned by name a few times during the earlier seasons, and first appears in person in Season 9. According to the ranking board, she's the best Freelancer at the time the series starts. She's often placed in command of the other Freelancers on missions, or used to bail out her less experienced compatriots. She has a coldly professional dynamic between her and the other members, but seems to treat Agent York as an equal and even speaks to him with some twinges of affection.

Carolina has a very similar personality to Tex, as both are ambitious, strong-willed, and rarely break into humor. This is possibly because Tex is based on her mother, who may have left a large impact on Carolina. During her career at Project Freelancer, Carolina was confident, caring, and somewhat cocky, being able to joke around with her comrades while maintaining a serious and commanding demeanor with them during missions, traits of a natural leader. She is also very open, as she volunteered to talk to South after her outburst in Realignment and constantly displays concern for those she cares about whenever they get hurt, proceeding to take immediate action to prevent any further harm.

After the arrival of Agent Texas, however, Carolina becomes more serious and cold-hearted, as she begins hiding her emotions more so and focused more on her goal to succeed. As a result, she avoids becoming attached to others as she has experienced losing those dear to her multiple times, such as her mother, Allison, her lover, York, and comrades in arms like Maine, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. Unfortunately, Carolina's will to beat Tex indirectly causes the deaths of some of her friends.

## **Appearance**

### **Web-Animation**

* DEATH BATTLE
* Red vs. Blue Season 9
* Red vs. Blue Season 10
* Red vs. Blue Season 11
* Red vs. Blue Season 12
* Red vs. Blue Season 13
* Red vs. Blue Season 14
* Red vs. Blue Season 15
* Red vs. Blue: Singularity
* Red vs. Blue: The Shisno Paradox
* Red vs. Blue: Zero

## **Trivia**

* Carolina is the first character to have a birth year revealed (2523), first hinted in the *Red vs. Blue: The Ultimate Fan Guide* book, being born 29 years before the Alpha arrives at Blood Gulch. This makes her 34 years old during the events of *The Chorus Trilogy*, which is later confirmed in the special episode *Meta vs. Carolina: Dawn of Awesome*.
* Carolina's face and body movements are modeled after the RT user lakeyes.
* Carolina is the fifth character, and third female character, in *Red vs. Blue* to have her face revealed.
* Carolina, along with the Meta, Tex and North Dakota, is one of the few Freelancers to have more than one armor enhancement in their possession at once *(**Carolina**: Adaptive Camouflage, EMP, Healing Unit, BioScan, Domed Energy Shield and Speed Boost; **Tex**: Strength Boost and Active Camouflage; **Meta**: Various abilities stolen from dead agents, **North**: Domed Energy Shield and Enhanced Motion Tracker).*
* Carolina may be considered the main protagonist of the *Project Freelancer Saga*, due to the fact that most of the story from seasons 9 and 10 revolves around her memories and goals.
* It was revealed in the episode *Hate to Say Goodbye* that Carolina was alive and, along with Wash, is one of the few known Freelancers that is still active.
	+ The episode also marks the first time Carolina is seen wielding a weapon other than her usual Magnum.
* Carolina's rivalry with Tex may indicate she had an Electra complex as she competed with Tex (her "mother") to gain the favor of her father, the Director.
* Carolina's armor can be recreated in Halo 3. The required armor is as follows: Rogue helmet, and Recon shoulders and chest piece. It is not a perfect replica of her Freelancer backstory design, however, as the coloring system for her armor is based on *Halo 2's* own system and slight changes have been made to her armor, such as her shoulders, which have had the pieces that stick out removed. In the finale of Season 11, her shoulders have been changed to the Mark VI variant, but return to the Recon variant in the Season 12 teaser trailer.
	+ In Halo 4, Carolina's armor consists of a Recon helmet, Stalker torso, Mark VI forearms and legs, and Stalker visor color. Her shoulders change between Recruit and Mark VI variants. In Cloak and Dagger, her full armor set appears to be Recon helmet, Stalker torso, Recruit shoulder plates, Mark VI forearms and Mark V Legs with the Legendary visor color.
	+ In *Halo 5: Guardians*, her armor consists of Recruit Proven and Recon RSO.
* When Carolina appears in *Halo 2*, her armor is the standard Mark VI, and wears tan instead of her usual cyan due to her enlistment in the UNSC.
* It is highly possible that Carolina may be ambidextrous. For instance, in *The Sarcophagus* and *Spiral*, she is constantly seen fighting with her right hand, using her custom grappling hook and her Magnum pistol. However, throughout Season 10, Carolina is often seen using her left hand, holding her Magnum with it and in the episodes *Fighting Fire* and *C.T.* fights with it using an electric baton. She also appears to have no problems with dual wielding her two Plasma Rifles.
	+ This assumption is confirmed in *Meta vs. Carolina: Dawn of Awesome* as one of Carolina's listed skills/traits is "ambidextrous".
* Due to the fact that Sigma was originally her A.I and the Eta and Iota A.I.s were intended to be implanted with Agents Washington and South Dakota, Carolina can be considered to be indirectly responsible, not only for Maine's rampage as the Meta, but also for Washington's implantation with Epsilon and subsequent mental breakdown, along with South's lost chance to have an A.I. and in turn, North's eventual death.
* It was revealed in *Party Crasher* that Carolina was the very first victim of the Meta's rampage.
* While indirectly doing so, Carolina technically managed to kill the Director by giving him her pistol, which he most likely used to commit suicide.
	+ However, it is unknown whether the Director committed suicide with Carolina's magnum or Washington's. In the previous episode, Washington gave his pistol to Carolina after her fight with the Tex drones, meaning Wash would also be indirectly responsible for the Director's death.
* It is confirmed in *Don't Say It* that Carolina is the daughter of Allison and the Director.
	+ In Reconstruction: Chapter 17, when Wash revealed that Tex got special treatment from the Director compared to the other Freelancer agents, Church responded with "*You sound jealous. What's the matter, daddy didn't love you enough?*". As it turned out, this is literally what was happening for Carolina.
* Carolina is one of only four Freelancers whose name has been on the Freelancer Ranking board in every scene in which it is featured, the other three being York, North, and Wash.
* Carolina is the third soldier to be seen without her armor as seen on a deleted scene for the Season 10 DVD; the first two being York and North.
* In a deleted scene on the Season 10 DVD, Carolina is seen walking into Club Errera, the nightclub where she met York, wearing a blue miniskirt, a white tank top, and brown boots.
	+ Relying on sound over the (distorted) sounds of Club Errara's music, Carolina's boots presumably have stiletto heels.
* Although she was first mentioned in *Biting the Hand*, Carolina did not appear until 4 seasons later.
* Carolina has many similarities to Luke McKay's drawing of Tex, as both have red hair, green eyes, and pale faces.
	+ Carolina's voice actress Jen Brown would later play another green-eyed redhead in a Rooster Teeth-produced web show, as RWBY's Pyrrha Nikos.
* Carolina is one of the few characters in the series with her own distinct theme (others, most notably, being Tex and the Meta). The theme makes its first appearance, along with Carolina's, in *Number One*, and appears to be symbolic of her status as a tragic hero, using a major-minor half-scale motif to create a melancholic and deeply sad theme. It also appears to have some similarities to Tex's theme, and the two are frequently played counterpoint whenever Carolina and Tex interact on-screen.
	+ Carolina's theme also shows similarity to Sharkface's musical motif from Season 13, which reflects both their situations of being tragic victims of circumstance and the fact they are foils of each other. In addition, both themes are played counterpoint in their fight during *Armonia, Part 2*, further reinforcing this theme.
* Interestingly, Carolina is not specified to be either North or South, despite the fact that two different states named "Carolina" exist.
* Like Tucker and his plasma sword, Carolina seems to favor alien weaponry, examples being the plasma rifles and gravity hammer used in Season 10. This is interesting considering the two have similar armor colors.
* Carolina won in the 64th episode of Rooster Teeth's *Death Battle* series against The Meta.
	+ Her partnership with Epsilon proved to be her greatest asset in the fight, as well as her combat skills being able to counter The Meta and her healing unit repairing damage obtained from the fight.
* Carolina has used the most weapons throughout the series.
* Carolina is a light swearer, mostly only using "hell" and "dammit" if anything. *Fall From Heaven*, *Blue vs. Red - Part 2,* *A Time for Hammers, Self-Fulfilling Odyssey* and *Omphalos* are the only instances of her saying "fuck". Even in the PSA RTX 2018, she uses a more censor-friendly version of "fucking".
* It is implied in *Previously On* that Carolina is a terrible singer, yet is so threatening that the other members of the Reds and Blues will not openly criticize her ability for fear of her murderous wrath. The song she recorded, VelociROCKtor, is heard during season finale Epilogues.
	+ In *Battlescars*, it is revealed that she is aware of her bad singing abilities and only joined in the band, in her own words, *"to watch them [the Reds and Blues] squirm"*.
* Carolina is not known for her fluency in pop culture, however, she is knowledgeable of the Transformers franchise as she once referred to Tex when she used her Voice Filter as "Optimus," in *Blue vs. Red - Part 2*, an obvious reference to Optimus Prime of Transformers lore. This indicates that Carolina may be a fan of the franchise. The PSA RTX 2018 indicates she's a fan of Metal Gear as Carolina is ecstatic to learn Revolver Ocelot's voice actor will attend the convention.
* In a Season 9 deleted scene, taking place during the episode Spiral, after Carolina hits the wall, she and the Sleeveless Insurrectionist battle on a subway (Carolina using her Humbler Stun Device and the Sleeveless Insurrectionist using his knife). The battle ends with Carolina using her grappling hook to pull the Sleeveless Insurrectionist's head off. Although the scene was cut, the knife/baton fight animation was recycled into the Season 10 episode C.T., in which Carolina fights C.T. instead of the Insurrectionist. Another recycled portion of the deleted scene is where Carolina crawls away and the Sleeveless Insurrectionist picks her up by the throat; this was inserted into the Season 10 episode Party Crasher.