Red Dragon

Red Dragon
Characteristics
Species	Dragon
Gender	Female
Age	Adult
Information
Home	Warrior's Castle (Formerly) Shadow Village
Story Role	Minor Character
Occupation	Deputy Mayor of the Shadow Village
Status	Deceased
Game(s)	>

“Can’t we just attack it ourselves? It’s not like we’re both bosses or anything.”

–Red Dragon

Red Dragon is a Dragon adapted by GuyThatExists that appears in the short story Blank Slates 2 and Blank Slates 3 as a secondary character.

She is best friends with Gingerfre, and she temporarily joins the Tree King's team before leaving to fight against the Shadow Squid and establish the Shadow Village. As Deputy Mayor, Red Dragon and Gingerfre have a falling out, though they are unable to patch things up before Tombstone attacks the Shadow Village, where it kills and assimilates Red Dragon. Tombstone would later use Red Dragon's body to attempt to assimilate The Next Chapter Village, though she was stopped by Skate, who transforms her into a scepter for Gingerfre to wield.

Appearance

Red Dragon is a large, red dragon that has sharp claws, small wings, and a large tail.

Story

Before Blank Slates 2

Red Dragon came to life inside Warrior's Castle and was lonely until she met Gingerfre, who had broken in to explore. Red Dragon, currently nameless, approaches Gingerfre, who calls himself Wilfre and offers her a Shadow Stone to become Shadow. However, Red Dragon calls him out, knowing that Wilfre couldn't be in their realm, and Gingerfre names the two of them Flamegale and Frewil, though Red Dragon changes their names to the permanent Red Dragon and Gingerfre. Gingerfre thanks her, and the two of them decide to leave the Castle, emerging in the Drawn to Life Village.

Blank Slates 2

Red Dragon is next seen attacking the Wii Village with Gingerfre and the rest of the Tree King's group. However, Jinxy and Crawler's LARPing Group arrive to stop them, so Red Dragon and Gingerfre decide to escape to the Drawn to Life Village. On their way there, they are spotted by Hoopz and Fox, who shoot them down, knocking Red Dragon unconscious.

When Red Dragon wakes up, she is tied to the ground with her wings bound, and she is interrogated by Hoopz and Fox, who are seeking information about the explosion in the Wii Village. Red Dragon refuses to speak, but Gingerfre gives them the least amount of information he can, escaping his bounds and picking up a Shadow Stone, which he uses to free Red Dragon, and the two of them escape. However, they turn around to see two new threats chasing after them - beams of Shadow and Color sent by the Jungle Creature, and the Droogle Killer, revived with the sole purpose of killing Red Dragon.

The bosses manage to use the beams to their advantage, forcing them to collide with the Droogle Killer, killing the creation. However, they are once again spotted by a Guardian, and Violet shoots them down from the Two Realms Plains. When they land, Violet interrogates them, so they reveal the Tree King's plans, and say that he only way to stop him is to hope the Guardians and screeners can assemble in time. This causes Violet to leave in hopes of finding the other screeners.

Eventually, the beams of Shadow and Color land in the Two Realms Plains, forming many of the cut Shadow and Ink creatures that were sealed in the Shadow Hole. Gingerfre notices the Shadow Stone glowing and pulls it out of his pocket, drawing the Shadow and Ink's attention. Red Dragon urges him to use the opportunity to name himself leader of the Shadow, so he does. However, just after his speech, a piece of the Jungle Creature arrives in the plains, absorbing multiple Shadow and Ink creatures, creating the Shadow Squid and reopening the Shadow Hole.

Gingerfre tries to escape, but Red Dragon refuses to leave, so the two take to the sky and begin fighting the Shadow Squid. After being interrogated once again by Willham, they work together to defeat the Shadow Squid, which eventually goes down thanks to the help of Violet and Lambert. After the Shadow Hole is sealed and the absorbed creatures are rescued, Red Dragon and Gingerfre lead the creatures to the location for the Shadow Village, where Red Dragon is made Deputy Mayor.

Blank Slates 3

Red Dragon is next seen two years later in a meeting with Gingerfre and Shadow Mari about the state of the Shadow Village. In the meeting, Gingerfre complains about not being able to lead the way he wants to, and as he prepares to leave the village in the hands of Red Dragon and Shadow Mari, Tombstone erupts from the Drawn to Life Village. The three of them fly outside to see what the commotion was, and while Gingerfre takes the opportunity to rally his troops behind him, Red Dragon and Shadow Mari teleport to the fight.

When they get there, however, Tombstone had already been defeated by the combined powers of Lambert and Crawler's LARPing Group, so Red Dragon and Shadow Mari discuss the whereabouts of the other Guardians and Willham. The other Guardians appear from their meeting in the Developer's Grove, bringing Aly back with them, and they begin discussing how they could contain Tombstone's Shadow.

However, before they can act, Gingerfre and his Shadow army arrive at the village and begin attacking Tombstone's corpse. Red Dragon tries to stop him, but he leads the army forward, though their attacks simply work to revitalize Tombstone, bringing it back to life. Red Dragon quickly grabs Gingerfre and files into the sky, telling the Shadow army to retreat and taking Gingerfre's Shadow Stone away from him. Tombstone attempts to steal the Shadow Stone for itself, and when it whips Red Dragon and Gingerfre out of the sky, it absorbs the Stone, gaining the powers that it granted. Before Tombstone could fight them any more, Red Dragon scoops up Gingerfre again and flies to the Two Realms Plains.

When they arrive, Red Dragon is able to quiet the crowd for Shadow Mari and Mill, and they tell everyone that they would either need to ascend or prepare to fight Tombstone. After the speech, Red Dragon notices the Five Aldarks speaking with Jinxy, so she asks if everything was okay. Soon after, she grabs Gingerfre again and takes him back to the Shadow Village to spread the word about ascending.

When they arrive, Gingerfre gives a half-hearted speech missing some vital information, so Red Dragon jumps in to correct him, picking him up afterwards and returning to the sky. Red grills him again, though he responds by saying that he's the mayor he would want to be led by, and that she wouldn't know how the lead the Shadows since she wouldn't ever be one. This upsets Red, going against what Gingerfre had first said to her when they met, and she decides to leave the village in her care. However, before she can leave, she is stopped by Abyss, who needs her help.

When Tombstone erupts from the Shadow Village, Red Dragon and Abyss fight it together, and the two of them fill in Willham and Shadow Mari about the fight when they arrive. During the fight, Red Dragon spews fire at Tombstone, though the monster is able to block it with the buildings and rubble it had absorbed. When the fight ends, Red Dragon meets up with Lambert, and the two of them begin cleaning the mess, though they are suddenly trapped by the Five Aldarks, who prepare to sacrifice themselves for Tombstone's sake.

Now being slowly pulled into Tombstone, Red Dragon tried to reach Mizu's Trident on Lambert's back, but couldn't. She then suggests that they use a mantra to ascend, but since they didn't have any, they use a line from Minimus once the Shadow touches them. However, the manta simply lets the Shadow ascend, and the two are forced to accept defeat, being killed and assimilated into Tombstone.

Postmortem

Now a thrall of Tombstone, Red Dragon is not seen again until Gingerfre, Violet, and Hoopz explore the destroyed Shadow Village. They eventually uncover Lambert and Red Dragon's bodies, and Tombstone quickly enthralls the bodies to mock Gingerfre. It uses Red Dragon's body to "forgive" Gingerfre and attempt to absorb him, but he is able to break away at the last second using his Shadow. It then uses her body to knock Gingerfre into a whirlpool and to protect Lambert's body as he made the whirlpool, though Gingerfre is soon able to break free and attack Red's body, knocking her and Lambert over, destabilizing the whirlpool and letting Gingerfre steal Mizu's Trident.

Tombstone next uses abilities gained from Monk to enlarge Red's body and use it to try and attack The Next Chapter Village, though she is stopped and fought by Gingerfre, Fiora, Stocking, Gargoyle, and Skate. During the fight, she is blasted by God Rays and uses her flame to attack the fighters. Eventually, Skate is able to use her abilities from Monk to remove Red Dragon's wings, causing her to fall to the ground, where Skate continues changing parts of her body, distressing Gingerfre, and allowing Fiora to completely purify Red's body of Tombstone.

Now free of Tombstone's influence, Gingerfre mourns his friend's death once more, and Skate offers to transform her into a weapon for Gingerfre to wield, and he asks her to transform Red Dragon into a scepter, which he then takes with him to the final fight against Tombstone.

Quotes

“Hey, Gingerfre, shut it. We’re almost there.” –Red Dragon “Drop it Gingerfre. They’ve got us outmatched.” –Red Dragon “He’s basically a god!” –Red Dragon “Do we really need to do this?” –Red Dragon “Just let me get one good shot in.” –Red Dragon “Ah crap. It figured out the beams.” –Red Dragon “If I don’t shoot at this dude, then we’re gonna get flattened! I’ll shoot fireballs at it, and you tell me which way to roll.” –Red Dragon “I have an idea! When I make this fireball, cover it in Shadow!” –Red Dragon “Used to? Since when do we not?” –Red Dragon “So now what? We just live out our days running from those guys, ‘cause there’s no way we can beat all four of them combined.” –Red Dragon “If you want to take him down, we’re gonna need to find the other three Guardians and pray the screeners get back in time.” –Red Dragon “They’re focusing on that stone. See if you can twist this in your favor!” –Red Dragon “Hey, whatever it takes to get these guys off our back.” –Red Dragon “Can you be any more dramatic? I mean, come on. Portmanteau? I didn’t even know you knew that word!” –Red Dragon “They don’t care about you at all.” –Red Dragon “Sure they won’t. Now come on, let’s get these guys out of here.” –Red Dragon “You just elected yourself as the leader of the Shadow. Are you really gonna leave these guys behind immediately after becoming their boss?” –Red Dragon “Did you seriously forget that you elected yourself leader of these guys? You’re effectively a mayor now!” –Red Dragon

“We say those things because they’re true. If we let you have your way with everything, the village would burn down overnight! We have rules and regulations to make sure that doesn’t happen.” –Red Dragon “Maybe if you were a bit more mature, it would be! You are way too hotheaded to do this job, like it or not!” –Red Dragon “What are you doing?” –Red Dragon “Oh trust me, he’s coming. We thought the other Guardians would’ve been here by now. Any word?” –Red Dragon “Gingerfre! What are you doing?!” –Red Dragon “Why would you say that?! Everyone fall back!” –Red Dragon “See? This is why you aren’t in charge Gingerfre! You don’t know how to just stop and think! If you had just listened to me and Shadow Mari, we’d be perfectly fine! Ow!!” –Red Dragon “Be quiet!!” –Red Dragon “Everything good over there?” –Red Dragon “He’s got the Shadow Village. I’ll make sure of it.” –Red Dragon “That’s not it, everyone. If you need assistance in evacuating, please inform me so that we can get you to someone with a mantra, and if you’d like to fight Tombstone, come find me so we can officially make some sort of army.” –Red Dragon “Making sure no one can hear me when I get onto you. Again!” –Red Dragon “No, you’re not. But you are the mayor, and you need to start acting like one.” –Red Dragon “And why is that?” –Red Dragon “Do… Do you remember the first thing you said to me? I was trapped in that castle, in the Drawn to Life Village, stuck in an endless forest with no one else around but me. I was scared, I was lonely, and I was confused. But then I hear a stick break, and I see you walking towards me. You were covered in your Shadow, and you made me promise that I never forgot. You came up and said, ‘Come with me and you’ll be a Shadow for as long as you live.” –Red Dragon “How did you mean it?” –Red Dragon “If you really feel that way, then I’ll leave the village with you. Good luck Gingerfre.” –Red Dragon “Oh, hello Abyss. Now isn’t really a good time, but I’m sure our mayor would be happy to–” –Red Dragon “I wouldn’t. I know you haven’t been here long, but that thing is made up of hundreds of dead Droogles. If you delete them, their families will have your glasses on a stake for sure.” –Red Dragon “Maybe, there’s no way to tell for sure. All we know is that if we destroy it the same way it was destroyed in the Drawn to Life Village, we can use all of us here in the Shadow Village to dismantle it.” –Red Dragon “Keep attacking those eyes. If it can’t see, it can’t fight. This is just gonna be a war of attrition.” –Red Dragon “I’d give it a day or two. Who knows what’s going on in the Drawn to Life Village right now. We should at least wait for that bubble to pop before bringing everyone back.” –Red Dragon “I’m out of luck. Can you not just summon it to you?” –Red Dragon “Just one, and it’s not good for us.” –Red Dragon “Who all has been absorbed so far? Some Droogles, the Droogle Killer, and a bunch of Shadows. We use the Shadow’s mantra once it touches us. Two Realms, scene eleven-x.” –Red Dragon “Just repeat after me! We wantsss to help you… Free you from your shacklesss… We wantsss to help you… Free you from your shackles…” –Red Dragon “With the hiss! You need the hiss! We wantsss to help you… Free you… from…” –Red Dragon “Lambert. Lambert stop! Don’t use that!” –Red Dragon “Oh god, what do we do! We need to get to the Grove to warn Joe! We need to, we need to…” –Red Dragon “I… I guess we did…” –Red Dragon “What do you mean?” –Red Dragon In Gingerfre's flashback “No it’s not. You can’t be Wilfre.” –Red Dragon In Gingerfre's flashback “I just… know. This isn’t a place for people like him. This is a place for people like us. The lost. The forgotten.” –Red Dragon In Gingerfre's flashback “I was never given one.” –Red Dragon In Gingerfre's flashback “I don’t think that the developers would ever name us that. You can be Gingerfre, and I can be Red.” –Red Dragon In Gingerfre's flashback “I do. Do you know how to get out of here?” –Red Dragon In Gingerfre's flashback “I don’t think I’ve ever been there. I’m excited!” –Red Dragon In Gingerfre's flashback “No idea. I’ve never been over there.” –Red Dragon In Gingerfre's flashback “Only if you are.” –Red Dragon In Gingerfre's flashback “Such a shame, all alone with your demons.” –Red Dragon Tombstone, through Red Dragon “It’s okay Gingerfre, I forgive you! Come with us buddy. You’ll feel better. This is the place for people like us, Gingerfre.” –Red Dragon Tombstone, through Red Dragon “It’s okay Gingerfre, I forgive you! Come with us buddy. You’ll feel better. This is the place for people like us, Gingerfre.” –Red Dragon Tombstone, through Red Dragon

Relationships

Allies

• Gingerfre - Temporary Enemy and Enemy after Death
• Squid †
• Robot †
• Apprentice
• Sorcerer
• SuperRapo
• Four Guardians
  • Warrior/Flash/Mill
  • Ninja/Paint/Sparky
  • Skate/Hose/Violet - Enemy after Death
  • Tank/Ore/Hoopz - Former Enemy
  • Lambert †
• Willham †
• Shadow Mari
• Abyss
• Crawler's LARPing Group - Former Enemies
  • Crawler
  • Rocket Vulture
  • Rata, Tat & Tat
  • Beta King †
  • Pot
  • Jinxy
• Fox - Former Enemy

Enemies

• Droogle Killer † - Victim
• Tree King † - Former Ally
• Jungle Creature/Shadow Squid/Tombstone † - Former Ally and Killer
• Five Aldarks †
• Fiora - Only after Death
• Stocking - Only after Death
• Gargoyle - Only after Death

Trivia

• The Tree King's group could possibly be a reference to Count Bleck's group from Super Paper Mario, with Red Dragon taking the role of Nastasia.
  • They both act as more of a simple ally than a fighter, and they both have a strong relationship with someone else on in the group, Gingerfre and Count Bleck respectively.
• In early drafts of Blank Slates 3, Red Dragon was meant to survive by ascending into the Developer's Grove and would have helped Joseph Tringali find GenericChallenge.

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