Red::Devil
Red::Devil is a habbo avatar and is the legend of Battle Ball. There was a mystery going around that the Red::Devil who always won the battle ball games disappeared in a strange way.
You could find his picture hanging behind the desk inside all of the battle ball lobbies.
The Legend of Red::Devil
An air of mystery and stale bread haunts the character of Red::Devil...
When the Habbo called Red::Devil was only a couple of days old, Apparatus and Kyrpov – the official creators of Habbo Hotel – were so enthralled by his virtual coding skills and creativity that they started calling him with such names as “wonder-child” or “precocious genius”. This made all the other Habbo's jealous. But they didn't care, the misery of the other Habbo's was eclipsed by Red::Devil's beauty.
Then, when after a couple of months startled Staff members saw him wearing that bizarre ball-like red hat, they knew that this Habbo was definitely up to something… strange! They didn't know what it was, but they were certainly very curious. Apart from Glitterkat who was busy making the Hotel safe, Dionysus who was busy sleeping, Impetuous who was preparing to lead the RIF on a mission in Korea, Helkat who was experimenting with new types of tea and UKchaseral who was grumpy.
A few days later, Red::Devil locked himself up in a Public Space that he got on loan from Callie in order to stop him asking, and he started coding and coding and building and building with virtual components… The sound of his hammering and typing could be heard everywhere! No one could sleep, the hotel was full of complaints, Ukchaseral was grumpy and Dionysus went to Swindon for a bit (it was that or Singapore). After a long and tiring weeks work, he showed the new room to some of his best friends, asking them to come “testing something really new and challenging”.
The results, judging from the words of the “lucky” testers, were shocking! The fantastic Habbo had created a strange and very exciting game, something unheard of before and involving huge bouncing balls… lots of them, in fact, and squares- but not just normal squares! These squares lit up when bounced upon!
Crikey!
But before the game went live, Red::Devil had to hire himself some assistants. And in true Habbo style, he picked them in a most mysterious way! Originally he wanted to hire a team of Oompa Loompas, but copyright and contractual problems prevented him from doing so. but then, he heard of five very special girls who were rumoured to have had special magical powers. Red::Devil travelled to Siberia to meet them. He discovered that, while they didn't actually any magical powers whatsoever, they were incredibly beautiful. And so Red::Devil, known to his friends as 'Red', 'Devil' and 'Star Trek: Enterprise' hired them, in the hope that one of them may be impressed by his Battle Ball brilliance and agree to marry him. Arriving to Habbo they set to work with red, making the lobbies colourful and a nice place for Bouncers to chill out between games. All in all, Habbo Hotel wasn't as interesting as the Siberian wilderness, but it was a welcome break nevertheless.
Crikey!
After the game’s test period, during which he beat opponent after opponent with almost unearthly skills, Red::Devil set himself the task of writing the Secret Compendium, a manual comprising all winning moves and team tactics for the game. The key to Battle Ball victory!
Ooooooh!
The day the Compendium was ready (and well hidden from curious Habbos’ gazes), Devil decided the time had come to open the Battle Ball Lobby to the public. Just a final test with his best friends, and then the Battle Ball power and fun could be unleashed upon the Habbo world!
Crikey!
But alas, even in the most glorious moments, fortune’s fickle whims can change a Habbo’s destiny in a second! What happened is that, for the first time, during that final test game Devil used all the Secret Compendium’s moves in a row. Boom boom kazoomy! At the end of this unbeatable streak of winning moves, this unspeakable deluge of bounces, this bastion of common sense broke and with with a satisfied smile on his lips, Red::Devil and his huge and faithful bouncing ball Geraldine exploded in a multicoloured blast…
OMGZZZ!
This colourful pixel fountain lasted for a few hours, and when everything was over there were no traces left of Red::Devil!
Crikey X 2 !
Since that fateful event, no one has seen Red::Devil anymore in the hotel. What happened to the most gobsmackingly smart Habbo ever, the creator of the Battle Ball game? Did his account become forever inactive? Did he take a new identity and start building some new game? Did he become a new type of super powered Habbo who had transcended to a new plane of existence? No one knew for sure, but that didn't stop rubbish journalists and and mystics and badly paid Professors from coming up with as many outlandish theories as they did mortgages...
No one knows for sure, however later on many eye witnesses swear they’ve seen a Habbo with a bizarre red ball-like hat lurking around the Bouncer Lobby, and that when no one is playing in the arena, the sound of a single – and huge – bouncing ball can be heard… These ghostly appearances only strengthen the aura of the legend of this Habbo, who will always be remembered for having donated the bouncing game to the hotel!
Red::Devil remains the inspirational figure of all Battle Ball practitioners, and his legendary Secret Compendium is one of the most sought after hidden relics of Habbo Hotel.
A portrait of Devil is stuck on the walls of all Bouncer Lobbies, so that – until the day when Devil will be back - no one will forget who made it all possible. The Battle Ball Babes- Ksenia, Sophiya, Xenia, Zoya and Tanechka work in the lobby, day and night, hoping to catch a glimmer, or the echo of a bounce... So that they may be paid and afford a trip home to Siberia.
The Bouncer Champion’s Badge and the Red:::Devil’s Twenty ongoing championship, as well, are dedicated to him. As are Callie's Tax Returns for 2005.
A deserved memento to his glory and legend, while waiting for his return…