Red-Eye
From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe
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| Former Soviet Hero | |
| Red-Eye | |
| Player: | |
| Origin: | Science |
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| Archetype: | Blaster |
| Security Level: | 50 |
| Personal Data | |
| Real Name: | Aleksei Shade (Formerly Vincent Aleksei) |
| Known Aliases: | Red-Eye, Alex, Alek. |
| Species: | Human |
| Age: | 38 |
| Height: | 6’ |
| Weight: | 178 lbs. |
| Eye Color: | Blue (Glowing Red obscures this) |
| Hair Color: | Black |
| Biographical Data | |
| Nationality: | Russian |
| Occupation: | Owner/Operator of Bar and Grill. Former KGB Special Section 8 Field Commander. |
| Place of Birth: | Saint Petersburg, Russia. |
| Base of Operations: | 2531 Main Street. Talos Island, Paragon City. |
| Marital Status: | Married |
| Known Relatives: | Savannah Shade (Wife) |
| Known Powers | |
| Super Strength, Super Speed | |
| Known Abilities | |
| Confidential | |
| Equipment | |
| AK-2000 Multifunction Rifle. Hostile Environment Armor. | |
| No additional information available. | |
Red-Eye is a soviet hero, formerly of the KGB Special Section 8. In some ways, he is the Anti-Communist, while still believing and fighting for the Communist cause. He could be compared to John Preston (Tetragrammaton Cleric) if he had the social skills of Shinji Ikari.
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Affiliations
Red-Eye was the original Field Commander of the KGB Special Section 8, second only to the Komisar. He eventually ceded authority to Comrade Smersh after the first Komisar incident. He remained second in command until his retirement in 2006.
Personality
Red-Eye was a non-military type who, despite this, adapted (sort of) to a military lifestyle. He relies heavily on his powers to make up for his occasional lapses of judgment, and frequently pokes fun at life and the situation in general. He’s completely hopeless in romantic situations, and wound up with a wife as shy as he is. He’s not confidant in his abilities, and frequently takes the blame for some things he shouldn’t, while ignoring the blame for things that he should own. He is also, notably, something of a coward when compared to most heroes, though he has to be given credit for heroing at all.
Powers
Red-Eye’s powers were bestowed upon him as a result of a successful experiment conducted on him by the 5th Column in their search for super soldiers. Effectively, he can push his body into overdrive, allowing him superior strength and speed for the duration of this push. Surprisingly, Red-Eye uses these powers to aid in ranged combat rather then taking advantage of their melee potential.
Red-Eye’s rifle is an advance prototype designed by Soviet scientists and improved over the course of his career. It produces its own variable ammunition (Which can be real or rubber) as well as producing an extreme skin irritant whose spray rather resembles a flamethrower. He also carries regular pistols on or off duty.
During the Return of the Komisar, Red-Eye was revealed to be a latent psychic like a small percentage of the population. However, beyond minor tricks, he lacked the resolve and ability to push any further into this skill. He technically qualifies as a psychic, but most ‘real’ psychics would consider him merely a ‘sensative’
Primary Suit
Assault Rifle
Utilizing his AK-2000, Red-Eye fires with supreme accuracy while on the move, showing his opponents with various forms of ammunition. While this can be devastating when concentrated, Red-Eye prefers to spread his fire, destroying many weak enemies and distracting stronger ones for other teammates. This rifle can utilize either rubber or genuine rounds depending on the situation, and sprays an extreme skin irritant in order to disable human opponents (This irritant looks remarkably like the fire from a flame thrower for some reason)
Energy Melee
Red-Eye’s boosted physical prowess allows him to dispatch enemies who become too close for his rifle with the minimal amount of time. There is no grace and little skill to this combat. He utilizes only the basic of military hand-to-hand fighting and, while he's better at it then most civilians, it is not his most impressive skill. It is simply very fast and very hard.
Super Jump
By turbo charging his body, he can easily push himself into feats of extraordinary speed and strength, including leaping over tall (Well, medium) buildings and suffering few ill effects from bouncing off the ground afterward.
Super Speed
Red-Eye utilizes a motorcycle that can transport him quickly to the scenes of criminal activity. Equipped with anti collision software, this vehicle can drive itself almost as well as he can do, thus leaving his hands free to fire personal weaponry if needed.
Weaknesses and Limitations
Incompetence
Red-Eye, to put it gently, is a very specialized person. He’s very good at the things he practices every day, but is otherwise extraordinarily limited in imagination. He will almost always screw up the first time he does something.
Socially Inept
If Huey Grant, Peter Parker, and Shinji Ikari had a kid. Yes, it’s that bad, but generally only around the ladies.
Wishy-Washy
Red-Eye never wanted to be a soldier at all, and he certainly doesn’t want to die for his cause or his country. He’d much rather enjoy himself. This is not a very good attitude for a hero.
Equipment
Aside from his usual weaponry, Red-Eye is often better dressed in ‘casual’ situations, preferring vests and suit coats. He is also rarely without a blue or red beret, unless his wife makes him put it away for a week. He’ll always manage to sneak it back on, however.
Character History
Little is known about Red-Eye's history before joining the KGB, only that he was born somewhere around St. Petersburg and was the son of another KGB agent. In his stint as a KGB operative, he specialized in counter-intelligence and spent nearly all of his active career watching and dealing with other Russian operatives. His rifle skills found occasional use in dealing with defectors or other high risk activities, a time of his life he rarely speaks of today. He did, however, manage to make high level enemies who wished to deal with him to get back at his father.
Eventually, Aleksei was sent on a mission intended to remove him entirely from the KGB. He was asked to provide himself as a guinea pig for a German super soldier project and to find ways to report his findings. This mission was chosen because any sane agent would likely have disappeared himself before actually following through, but Aleksei had recently been through heartache when his young love had been arrested before she could defect. Recognizing it was a suicide mission, he took the opportunity to die with honor. Instead of perishing, however, the super soldier project succeeded.
Aleksei's body was put into a form of 'hyperdrive' by which he could produce extra energy to perform feats and strength, speed, and dexterity needed on the front lines. However, the project was deemed a failure because of unexpected side effects. The subjects treated were prone to eating a great amount of extra food to replace the burned energy, thus making them expensive to keep. Too, the energy they generated could be seen in their eyes, which glowed an eerie red color that made them very easy to identify and eliminate. Finally, this treatment tended to kill even young man through old age in perhaps 10-20 years making them, again, expensive. Before the project, and the subjects, could be canceled however, the camp was raided by KGB officers who had caught wind there might be something worthwhile there. During the course of the rescue, Aleksei was shot in the head and later outfitted with a shiny prosthetic that covered the area around one of the glowing eyes he would later take his name from.
Codename Red-Eye continued his work until the end of the Cold War, and reported to the KGB Special Section 8 project in Paragon City, which has since detached itself from the real KGB. He reached the end of his lifespan in 2005, but was rescued by the valiant efforts of other heroes. He has participated in several notable conflicts in heroic, and occasionally unheroic, fashions. He was a mind controlled servant of the Komisar during the Return of the Komisar incident. He retired in late 2006 when his wife became pregnant, but has recently rejoined the Special Section 8 on an occasional basis.
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