Neon Red

*"Wait, I wasn't paying attention. What'd he just say?"*This page contains story spoilers for Neon White; proceed with caution.

> *Can't believe God Himself decided to bless me with the thing I love most: a completely clueless boy.*
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**Neon Red** is one of the Neons competing with Neon White in *Neon White*; Her preferred gift is Perfume.

She balances flirtatiousness with caution, opting to keep most others at arm's length; while she has a headstrong personality, she chooses to hide it from others to mask her intentions, remaining affable with most people. Despite this, she is still a caring person underneath, with a very strong moral compass.

## Role

Like other Neon characters, she is an assassin from Hell recruited to deal with a demon infestation in Heaven. The fastest of these assassins will win the Mechanical Halo and will be able to stay in Heaven.

Neon White first sees Neon Red at the very first sermon just before Movement in **Chapter 1**, though he first encounters her proper just before taking the ferry, after Glass Port, eliminating stray demons White had missed. She teases him, though still keeps him in the dark on what she knows about him.

She keeps this coy distance from him, teasing him and sidestepping the details of his past. She shows a big sister-like relationship with Violet, taking joy in teasing her too and brushing off her rebuffs, though is touchy on the subject of Neon Green, becoming quiet and closed off when White broaches the subject with her at the sermon in **Chapter 2**.

Red becomes a lot more insistent that White stay away from Green in **Chapter 3** upon hearing of his plans to go to The Old City, telling him he will lose any duel with Green.

Against her wishes, White goes to The Old City regardless, where Neon Yellow is killed by Green in **Chapter 4**. White apologises to Red in **Chapter 5** for ignoring her advice, but she can tell he still intends to go after Green. Opting still to keep him in the dark, Red urges White once more not to go after him, though White, in an attempt to find a middle ground, asks Red for intel on Green. Red tells him about the nature of Green's Mechanical Halo, and how it both drives him feral and keeps him under the control of the Believers. She expresses serious doubt on the nature of the Ten Days of Judgement, and asks White for her help to find the Book of Life to uncover the truth, to which White obliges.

The two complete missions in secrecy for several chapters, and Red shrugs off attempts made by Violet to kill her after her rift with White, dismissing them as harmless. At the end of **Chapter 6**, Red keeps White in the dark once more on the truth about Green.

In **Chapter 7**, Red intercepts Green during White's next encounter with him, landing a shot to his mask and cracking it; he holds Red by the throat, though frees her, and tells White to head to Heaven's Edge for the answers he seeks. However, White catches on to Red hiding the truth on Green, and a confrontation ensues; Red tells White it was to keep him from becoming obsessed with seeking revenge on Green. Eventually, Red agrees to tell the truth, and tells White everything on his past as an assassin under Green.

The two proceed through Heaven's Edge in **Chapter 8**, growing much closer as well as finding a page from the Book of Life. Later on, they find themselves at the very edge, at the walls of Heaven - The Firmament; here they find that Heaven as they know it is a construct as Mikey shows up and tells them the truth about the Believers, confirming Red's suspicions.

Their search continues in **Chapter 9**, this time with Violet joining them on Red's suggestion after she patches things up with White, though after a while, Violet betrays the two and stabs White after Fortress, telling them both of her plans to retrieve the Book of Life to appease Green, and of her sole devotion to Green.

Red patches up White, and sets out to The Third Temple with him to retrieve the Book of Life in **Chapter 10** after he receives visions from God; they encounter the book in the inner sanctum of the temple in God's Hand, though Violet sets off explosives, destroying the floor around Red. Red falls through the temple and does not witness any of the ensuing fight with White and Green, nor Violet's death and subsequent destruction of the Book of Life.

Red spends the rest of her time being patched up by Raz while White sets off to restore the Book of Life and stop Green in **Chapter 11**, as well as snapping White out of it during his despair over Violet's death and Green's rampage, urging him to forgive himself. Red appears just after White has completed the Book of Life, wherein Mikey explains to the two of them that they need more than the Book of Life and Book of Death to bring back God; they need the Inkhorn, which is in God's other hand, sealed underneath the Firmament.

Red returns to the fray proper in **Chapter 12**, where she encounters Green once more in the Glass Port; she learns of Green's plan to use his collection of Neon masks as explosives to blow a hole in The Firmament large enough to expel God. Green states a soul is needed to detonate the masks, though is not willing to give his, and so, Realising this plan uses the same mean as White's plan to use that hole to bring back God's other hand and retrieve the Inkhorn, Red steps forward and volunteers herself, and White chases her through Glass Port, urging her to abandon her plans.

White fails, however, and she gives her life to blow a hole in The Firmament, taking her mask off and making a large hole in The Firmament.

In the Book of Life ending of the game, it is revealed that her name is written in the Book of Life.

## In Life

Neon Red participated in a relationship with White before her death; she was part of a small group of assassins led by Green, along with White, Violet and Yellow.

She was a much more stubborn student than White, and so Green favoured him over Red as he found her difficult to mold into his image of a perfect student. After a life of odd-jobs, Red started to doubt her and White's place in their lives as assassins; this came to a head when Green proposed the group carry out a heist on the mansion of his former partner, Blue.

Red saw this as dangerous and suicidal, and disagreed with taking part in a job based on a grudge that had lingered before she had even joined Green; like White, she had noticed Green had been acting increasingly erratically and told White she wanted out of the assassin life, and that she wanted to run away with him to a normal life. However, White doubted himself and despite his own reservations with the plan, decided to go through. The rest of the group followed White, placing their faith in him.

However, when the plan was carried out, Blue was more than ready for them as Green had tipped him off; every single member of the group died, and Red died alongside White and Green, surrounded by Blue's guards. Red harbored resentment towards White for getting them all killed, but eventually decided to forgive him.

## Sidequests

Neon Red's sidequests can be unlocked by reaching certain levels of Insight in White's relationship with her, either through completing her previously uncompleted sidequests (beyond the first one) or by gifting her Perfume.

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## Theme

Neon Red's theme is Light in the Fog by Machine Girl from Neon White OST 2 - The Burn That Cures.

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## Trivia

* Neon Red dislikes horror movies.
* Her birthday is on the 27th of September.
* Red enjoys window shopping, something she did frequently as a teenager in life.
* Red likes cute things.
* Red drove a motorcycle in life.

## Gallery

Red, Violet and White ingame graphicWhite and Red promo artFull body character artNeon Red ingame graphicNeon Red masklessFull body render - rightFull body render - leftFull body render - frontFull body render - backFull body character art 2Conversation artAnimated trailer stillUntextured render from ArtstationMask render close-upPolypaint textured T-pose renderFull "realtime" T-pose renderRealtime render close-upConversation art - EngagedConversation art - HappyOld photo of the teamSteam achievement iconSteam achievement icon - Heaven Rush completedSteam achievement icon - Heaven Hell completed

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/PlayNeonWhite/status/1539791516654358531?t=iX\_8k\_YzNQj0E-mkQn961g&s=19
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