Roberta is a young Hispanic[2] woman with a skinny build and pale skin, and she has a height of 169.8 centimeters (or 5'7").[3] She has waist-length, dark purple hair that is tied in low pigtail braids with square bangs hanging over her eyebrows, blue eyes and sharp canine teeth.

After she fled FARC, Roberta is seen wearing a long French maid uniform with a cross necklace, white gloves, long white socks, and black shoes. Her large, thick and round glasses are not real as she wears them as part of her maid persona.

Roberta's Blood Trail

Roberta lets her hair loose with the bottom tied up by a white string that shows she has knee-length hair and she no longer wears her glasses.

She wears a sleeveless white shirt, black pants, black gloves, and black shoes. Furthermore, on her gold-colored belt buckle, which doubles as a pistol, is a custom design. Specifically, there is a hammer and sickle symbol inside a five-pointed star, and behind the star is an upside-down dagger with a large heart symbol in the background of the star and dagger. Beneath the heart is a heraldic ribbon and in the upper left corner of the belt buckle is the capital letter K.

On another occasion, she even gave a friendly bow to the Manisarera Cartel as she let tons of grenades fall from her long maid outfit.[8] When she does become angry, she is a truly spine-chilling rival, being seen as virtually unbeatable by her opponents. In contrast, whenever she takes on her Bloodhound persona, Roberta's demeanor shifts dramatically, casting aside her typical reserved and soft-spoken mask in favor of complete, unhinged rage and berserk bloodlust.

History

At some point in the 1980s, Rosarita Cisneros joined FARC as a communist revolutionary guerrilla and trained as an assassin in Cuba, admitting that she had murdered many people in the name of revolution, including politicians, counterrevolutionaries, and even women and children. She was additionally wanted by Interpol for her role in the bombing of the U.S. embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.[1] In 1989, Rosarita assaulted the Magdalena branch of Taisho Electric and abducted and executed two Japanese engineers. Before Roberta killed the engineer Hironobu Satou, she ripped apart his family photograph, and that photo remained in Roberta's mind as one of numerous emotional wounds.[9] Due to her skills, she also became an advisor to FARC founder and leader Manuel Marulanda.[10] In 1990-1991, disillusioned by discovering that she was merely a tool for the drug cartels allied with FARC, she deserted asand joined the Lovelace clan as a maid through her father, who was a close friend of Diego Lovelace. As a servant to the Lovelace family, Rosarita additionally began using the alias Roberta. Because of her desertion, a cartel which FARC was allied with put a bounty of $400,000 on her head, dead or alive.[11]

Abilities

In combat, Roberta is a truly fearsome opponent who has quite a powerful body where her strength, speed, endurance and instincts have been honed to almost supernatural levels so much that Rock sardonically referred to her as "a killer robot from the future"[11] (which is a reference to James Cameron's Terminator movies). She has extensive training in a wide variety of tracking/stealth combat skills, including martial arts. The irony is that while Roberta is one of the most powerful female characters, if not the most dangerous, she is also one of the more humane (having or showing compassion or benevolence) in Black Lagoon. Although she is one of the most powerful warrior-women in Black Lagoon, she is also highly conscientious (a person wishing to do what is right, especially to do one's work or duty well and thoroughly).

Enhanced Strength: Roberta's strength is such that she only needed to grab Dutch's wrist to pull him out of Benny's car window during a car chase.[11] In Roberta's Blood Trail, she is also able to break one of Shenhua's dual knives with her bare teeth and destroy Frederica Sawyer's chainsaw with two of her handguns.[19]

Enhanced Durability: Roberta is able to withstand a few punches from Dutch when he tries to get her to let go of his wrist.

Enhanced Speed: During a bar shoot out, Roberta is able to dodge a row of bullets flying towards her.

Weapons

Roberta has a very high degree of proficiency in the use of a wide variety of weapons. Among the weapons, she has used a Barrett M82A1 anti-material sniper rifle with a grenade launcher mounted underneath the barrel, which she could fire one-handed despite the weapon's size and significant weight—a testament to both her skill and tremendous physical strength. She has also used a combat knife, a SPAS-12 shotgun disguised as an umbrella, a machine gun built into her suitcase, a grenade launcher hidden in her suitcase, spiked brass knuckles, trench spikes, and twin Sistema Colt Model 1927s. She also has a belt buckle that can shoot bullets. In the manga, she uses an IMBEL M1911 pistol (based on the Colt M1911A1) with a drum magazine, as well as an antique Charleville musket that once belonged to early generations of the Lovelace family.