You work to preserve your friendship because when all is said and done nothing on this Earth is more satisfying than looking into their eyes one day and seeing the hope drain from their face and in one fell swoop you destroy them and all they hold dear.
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~ Red 2015
Red is one of the two content creators for Overly Sarcastic Productions. Red is a college graduate with a degree in math. She primarily focuses on covering literature and stories in general in her videos. She does summaries of books and plays, explains different myths, and explains various literary tropes. This love of reading was largely inspired by her parents. Red is a talented artist and her artwork features heavily in her videos, as she frequently uses drawings to portray herself and the events of the story she's talking about.
Outside of Overly Sarcastic Productions, she also writes and illustrates a fantasy webcomic called Aurora. She also sings and plays guitar, and her covers appear at the end of some of her videos and the occasional musical interludes.
But if I wanted to read about an insufferable small child mistaking math skills for having a personality, I’d just read the “early life” section of the wiki [...] page I don’t have.
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~ Red in "Fables and Folktales: The Snow Queen", 2021
Only a few anecdotes are known about her private life, but she originally started her channel while in high school, continued to be active through college and it's now her main focus after graduating with a math(!) degree from the University of Chicago. We also know that she was a city kid and that her school took her to the Mid-west when she was in 3rd grade.
Trivia[]
Red has trypophobia, the fear of clusters of small holes.
Red's only weakness is unliving unthinking robot pirates.
Has mispronounced 'bolgia' (Italian) more often than correctly pronouncing it on video, much to Blue's chagrin[1].
Has made several references to 'those stupid Percy Jackson books', which is often misinterpreted as a hatred for them.
In a Q&A, Red clarified that she liked them in middle school but now finds them dumb.[2]. (4:30)
Favorite books to read as a kid were comic books, and Artemis Fowl.[2] (7:48)
Learned to draw from life-drawing, with a realistic style. Developed the chibi style on the fly when animating the Illiad video, which was more developed by the aeneid video.[2] (13:12)
Favorite Shakespeare play was the Tempest.[2] (16:55)
Played the role of Romeo's mother in a highschool production of Romeo & Juliet.[2] (24:14)
Red knows some tai chi chuan, and did eskrima with Blue in highschool.
Some of her favorite superheroes are Superman and Batman.
In the eighteenth Overly Sarcastic Podcast, when asked if she and Indigo have any pets, she says that her greatest goal in life is to live in a cabin in the woods with seventeen dogs, which specifically have to be samoyeds.
According to the nineteenth Overly Sarcastic Podcast, the dinosaur dig she went on was part of a class at the University of Chicago, which Red attended.
She set herself on fire once. According to her, it had something to do with superglue and cotton, as they "don't mix".
Red identifies as asexual, and while she is unsure of her exact romantic orientation she has described it as not really mattering to her. [3]
