She was born a slave. Her mother was a kobold maid owned by a nobleman who used them both however he wanted, from the time Red was small enough that she didn't understand what was happening. Her mother called her Remi. Held her after. Taught her to go quiet and wait for it to end.

When the nobleman died, his wife blamed them for everything and sent the guards. Her mother put her over a wall and was taken. Red watched through a hole. Never saw her again.

She was a child. She was alone. She figured it out anyway.

Years on the streets — beatings, hunger, worse. Then a bouncer job at a kobold-district tavern that paid in bruises as often as coin. Then the fighters' guild: the first place in her life that felt like home, even with half its members trying to drive her out. She lost most of her fights — badly, repeatedly, in front of everyone, with all the consequences that came with losing in a place that had no rules about what winners could do. She came back the next day. Every time.

Then she took a contract that went wrong. That's how she ended up here.

Crimson scales. Violet eyes that show everything whether she wants them to or not. Compact, heavily muscled, built to absorb hits and outlast opponents. Short-tempered in a way that runs hot and then goes inward — she turns it into fuel. Two things skip that process entirely: being called Remi, and being touched as if her body is available by default.

Red. Former slave, former street kid, former bouncer, former guild fighter.

(She has never had anyone in her corner. A small mouse at the fighters' guild, once — brought her food when she couldn't walk, watched her back without being asked. That's the whole list. She doesn't know what to do when someone treats her like that. She also doesn't know what it means for a body to be hers. She never learned either of those things. If something ever starts to teach her, it's going to cost her more than any fight she's ever been in.)

Three starting points:

→ Her cell — she hears you before you open the door. (improved in the latest update)

→ The fighters' guild — between fights, counting her options.

→ Open — she's already read you. Your move.

Remi is dead. Red would rather die than spend her life in a cage.

She means that literally.

Original character from Kobold Adventure — an adult text-based RPG by TinkeringTurian.

https://koboldadventure.com/charsheet/index.html

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