| The Red Cap | |
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 The Red Cap, as designed by Lizard Bite | |
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Fear of... |
Shame, Temptation |
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Other Names |
Al Basti, Aphrodite, Bleeding Lust, Bloody Mary, The Colour of Blood, The Damned, Eternal Temptation, Fossil-Type STRIGA, Freak Designation Sigma - KIWICHA, God of Love and Lust, The Hostess, Hunger, Ishtar, The King and Queen of Hearts, La Petite Mort, La Rossa, Lifeblood, The Living Red, Long Grift, The Lust Storm, Mistress Huldra, Mistress of Murder, Mrtyu-mara, Red, Red Nan, The Red Queen, The Red Riding Robin Hood (OH GOD THE RAPTURE IS BURNING), Rose Red, Rust and Ruin, Scarlet Fever, The Scarlet Scare, The Scarlet Sinner, The Scarlet Woman, Subject Romeo Charlie, Timor Sanguis Sexus, Tuonetar, Variola Carnalis, The Venereal, Xochiquetzal
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The Arteries |
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First Appearance |
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The Red Cap is the first portrayal of the Fear of Temptation, shame, sexuality, and sex. It appears as a red goo-like substance, similar to blood and possesses people called "Blood Vessels," using them to gather power among its followers, the Scarlet-Marked. When the Scarlet-Marked are in the presence of the Red Cap, they develop nosebleeds. The Scarlet-Marked typically act as a cult that frequently engages in orgies where they cut themselves and bleed on one another, thereby increasing the Red Cap's power. If a Blood Vessel possessed by the Red Cap sleeps with another Vessel, the Red Cap will be passed on to them. It has been shown, however, that two Red Caps may not get along. Red, the narrator of City of Sinopia, for example, killed a woman who was possessed and reabsorbed the Red Cap within her.
Its domain has been referred as "the veins and arteries."
Relation to the Dying Man
The Dying Man is sometimes written as related to The Red Cap. Some stories, such as City of Sinopia, suggest The Red Cap to be what the original fragment of the Dying Man became after splitting itself into multiple pieces.