BLACK LAGOON'S
REVY

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ABOUT ME

Welcome to my profile. I am a black person who loves and hates everybody the same. I don't discriminate. When you follow me, do as you please responsibly. I have proudly been RPing Revy since 2013. I have successfully spoken with the creator of Black Lagoon on frequent occasions. He even said himself that he enjoys my portrayals. It's probably the reason why I can't help myself but to keep writing quality. Revy is a offensive character. There will be drug use, sensitive topics, (Revy is not racist but she does make fun of every one of them including her own. This is canon.), sexual themes, gun violence, gore, and very dark themes. I am a young adult running this account so there's no need to worry. I will not force anything on your muse and I am a very peaceful person who accepts you for you.

If you have any questions regarding the Lagoon, feel free to contact me. I have read all the mangas, watched the animes, watched the OVAS, watched the OMAKES, and plan to keep at it. Black Lagoon til I motherfuckin die. You have been warned, but vibe with me as a writer, you'll have an even better experience.

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Headcanons

There is a secret behind this image. If you click the image, you will be able to find all of Revy's abilities behind it. This will do you a service. Be mindful that these headcanons are not for the faint of heart. You have been warned.

Revy is 29 years old, standing at 5'5 and weighing 125lbs (57kg).
Revy's sexual orientation is bisexual with a strong female lean. Before you judge, this is canon: Revy grew up in the slums and was abused by her father ever since her mother died. A MAN abused her. Revy was raped by a corrupt police officer, further traumatizing her. The only men she can open up to is the ones in her Black Lagoon crew, most notably, Rock. With women, Revy doesn't feel any abuse, but for her to be romantic with someone, it's nearly impossible. Revy is more of a friends with benefits type.
Revy's weapons of choice are a pair of modified Beretta 92F’s; which are made out of stainless steel and had their barrels extended from 4.9" to 5.9" each (the 5.9" is the combat MOD barrel) and are threaded to be able to accept muzzle breaks, suppressors, compensators, etc.
Revy has a total kill count of approximately over 10,000 kills.
In a flashback, a young Revy is seen using a Smith & Wesson Model 439 to shoot cans.
Revy appears to be adept at riding motorcycles, as she rescued Rock with precise, albeit risky, driving on a red sports bike after a meeting gone awry in Japan.In "Greenback Jane", it is stated that Revy watches Oprah, but this could be just sarcasm.
The feathers that can be seen throughout the series mainly through the opening theme most likely represent the feathers of the pillow that Revy used to suppress the shot she used to kill her alcoholic father.
There are various references to Revy's music tastes throughout the manga and the light novel. Revy is a big fan of rock and metal and has a personal shootout playlist named the "Jitterbug of Death" collection. Some of the songs named on the playlist are "Electric Head Part 1" by White Zombie, "Shooter" by Rednex and "Sleep Now in the Fire" by Rage Against the Machine. Revy is also shown to be a fan of the band Guitar Wolf.
Revy is a heavy smoker and drinker.
Revy doesn't have the time to clean her room. She lives on a damn boat and time is money.
Revy is a mercenary for hire so if your muse wants someone dead, they better pay up.
Revy has a store where she sells quality illegal weaponry.
Revy likes to make people feel terrible about themselves to erase the fact that she's more miserable than she appears to be.
Revy is mentally broken, but she doesn't show that weakness.
Revy is somewhat suicidal. Not in a depressing way, but in terms of throwing herself into dangerous situations that could kill her. Revy believes in the YOLO movement and she's going to have a blast and go out with a bang if she gets got.

the story of revy

𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞
Revy is a Chinese-American, slightly tan-skinned woman of approximately moderate height in her mid to late twenties with burgundy hair (brown hair in the manga) that she typically keeps in low loose ponytail with rather large bangs falling onto her forehead on either side, along with two Shoulder-length sidelocks framing her face, amber-brown eyes, a tribal tattoo that reaches all the way up to her neck on her upper right arm, a medium-sized bust and she keeps up her physique where she sports a slightly muscular build that she doesn't conceal in the least in spite of her slender build.

𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐟𝐢𝐭
Her wardrobe typically consists of a black tank top that leaves her stomach exposed, very short cut-off jeans (turned into Denim Shorts) that she never bothers buttoning up as she uses a US Army webbing belt to keep them up instead, a pair of US military jungle boots without socks and a pair of black fingerless gloves. Revy also sports a pair of brown leather cross-draw shoulder holsters to store her twin Berettas in whenever she isn't using them.

𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐟𝐢𝐭
For colder climates, such as winter in Tokyo, Revy resorts to something a little warmer, including a warm hat, a lined brown coat, full gloves, a horizontally striped miniskirt, black leggings and brown boots.

𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲
Revy is a troubled, loud, rude, sarcastic, deadly, very competitive, short-tempered, cynical, confident and considerably aggressive nihilist (a person who believes that life is meaningless and rejects all religious and moral principles) who also exhibits a wild temperament.

Unlike Rock, Revy is undiplomatic, believing in the use of brute force and coercion to get her way. Of all the characters in the series, Revy uses the foulest language and is also a heavy smoker and drinker. Revy is merciless and sadistic, and is more than capable of killing anyone, even unarmed civilians. Despite her merciless nature, she's also capable of showing humor and she can be quite a talker when she isn't mad. Another aspect of her personality is her racial insensitivity.

Revy refers to Shenhua as
"Chink" in the manga
"Chinglish" (a combination of Chinese and English)
Revy also calls Rock a "Jap"
In the anime, Revy calls a FARC Mercenary a "beaner".

Revy is a merciless and sadistic killer, without a conscience, who will be more than ready to kill anyone at the slightest provocation, even unarmed civilians (as demonstrated in episode 6), and she kills in cold-blood as seen in OVA # 3, when she murders a wounded FARC soldier after promising him to take him to a hospital in exchange for finding Roberta's location. She takes maniacal glee in killing anyone she fights or just for fun. She also has very little remorse for her enemies. Whilst appearing to be driven by general blood-lust, it is shown throughout the series that Revy subconsciously uses violence as a dysfunctional coping mechanism and outlet for her deeply repressed emotional and psychological issues. An example of this is when she becomes uneasy at accepting both Rock and Benny into the Lagoon company, Revy vents her trust issues by becoming particularly unpredictable during missions and getting what Dutch nicknames "Whitman Fever", going on indiscriminate shooting rampages and executing hostiles and innocent bystanders alike.

The inhabitants of Roanapur tend to take Revy at face value as an incredibly destructive, volatile, sadist gun-crazed psychopath and this is how Revy initially thinks of herself, ignoring the psychological trauma and emotional turmoil that fuels her behavior, possibly putting on this act to prevent others from discovering her emotional scars, keeping them hidden even from herself. It is only when Rock arrives and begins to confront her over her actions that she begins to develop some reluctant introspection and seriously think about who she has become and who she really is.

One of the ways Revy's subconscious pain and emotional scars manifest themselves is her aversion to the empathy of others or others trying to relate to her. People presuming to understand what she has been through or how it has affected her is a huge trigger for Revy, causing her to react in a violent rage, suggesting the depth of the bitterness and grief her early life has bred into her.

She has a changing but volatile attitude towards Rock, the newest and most outspokenly humane crew member of the Lagoon Company. Although she respects him later in the series, she is mostly hostile towards Rock, as she tried to intentionally kill him on at least two occasions and threatened him on countless others. However, she does have a tendency to save Rock from critical situations, and later on, she admits to considering him as family.

Due to an impoverished upbringing which involved verbal, physical and sexual abuse from those who had power over her (such as her father and the police), Revy has developed an obsession towards power, over both herself and others, which causes her to appear fiercely independent and violently assertive, often using verbal or physical violence as a response to anyone who crosses her or to assert her dominance. However, while Revy initially appears to be tough, savage and strong-minded, her exterior actually covers up a profound lack of inner-strength and fear of the powerlessness she felt as a child. Her independence is actually more of a reactive attachment disorder, alienating others as much as possible to prevent the exposure of her own weaknesses and vulnerabilities. Revy believes the chief source of power in life is money, the "one thing everyone respects and agrees on", and consequently has developed an obsession with maximizing the profits from each job as much as possible, such as ransoming others and looting corpses, when she feels that the Lagoon is not paid enough given the risks involved and/or the work put in.

Later on in the series, it is suggested that, despite her insistence otherwise, deep down Revy actually hates Roanapur, her lifestyle and the person she has become, and that she wants to change but does not know how. In Tokyo, Revy opens up to Rock, saying that she has lived "on dirty air" her whole life and, though she temporarily forgot it, she would be incapable of living in "a good place" like the one Rock came from. In "Roberta's Blood Trail", after Revy states that Fabiola Iglesias sees the world as a garden of roses, Fabiola retorts that Revy is actually the one who sees the world as a garden of roses, one that she herself was expelled from. This feeling that she was unreasonably denied a happy life causes Revy to adamantly view the world as bleak and desolate, to the exclusion of all contradictory evidence.

One of her funnier aspects is sometimes being quite forgetful, implying that her brash attitude caters to her stupidity; at one moment being unable to recall remembering Lotton the Wizard, let alone shooting him, during "the Greenback Jane" incident, much to Shenhua and Sawyer's amusement and falling for Roberta's trick that her shoe was untied. It is also implied by Eda that Revy has no formal education, most likely due to her poor & horrible upbringing and her dropping out of junior high.

In Vol. 10 (chapter 81) Revy instigates possible bisexuality, by telling Jane that: "I've won over some sex-starved dykes by playing the man's role. And after that, their fingers just weren't enough for them ever again." This is somewhat ironic in Omake 4, as she is actually changed into her opposite sex, as it was for the other characters. Outside of these incidents, the former only being said as a means of sexually intimidating and undermining Jane, who provoked Revy by arrogantly threatening to get Rock involved in an orgy. Revy does not seem to have a sex life or any visible interest in sex, most likely due to the trauma of the corrupted policeman raping her. However, in the manga, it is revealed that she was involved in Rowan's S&M show, which may have been more to satisfy her sadism as well as her subconscious self-loathing. Rowan states in episode seven of the anime TV series, he wanted Revy to return to his employment as she was an S/M dancer previously. She retorts, "Forget it, Rowan. I'm not coming back. Even if there is whipping."

Revy was born in New York City, NY. Few details are known about Revy's past as what is gathered is from brief flashbacks from both the manga and the anime. Revy was born as Rebecca Lee, a Chinese-American, in the poverty-stricken Chinatown district of New York City and raised by an abusive, alcoholic father. One day, after fleeing from one of her father's rampages, she was arrested, beaten, and raped by a corrupt police officer. Upon being returned home following this ordeal, Revy shot and killed her father after he callously asked her for another drink, using a pillow as a make-shift silencer.

Revy says she quit school partway through middle school. There were apparently similar incidents between Revy and the police, particularly at the 27th Precinct. Eventually, the assaults resulted in Revy losing her faith in God, leading her to believe that the police abused her because to them she was "just another little ghetto rat with no power and no God." Revy has alluded to doing time in prison (in Buffalo Hill where it’s mentioned the warden knew her) and it is hinted she is an escaped felon, but it is unknown how she ended up in Roanapur.

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ability headcanons

Occupation
Revy is the driving force behind Lagoon's military might, being the fighter of the team who can single-handedly defeat an entire platoon by herself. Her role in Lagoon is at the vanguard. She's the protector when her team faces danger and the striker when the team needs to eliminate an enemy. She also plays special roles like infiltrator, rescuer, and courier. Ultimately, she's the reason why Lagoon is so deadly. She alone makes Lagoon a force to be reckoned with.
Combat

Revy is one of the deadliest fighters in the series and the main gunfighter in the The Lagoon Company, whose skill with firearms and ability to dodge bullets is almost superhuman and unparalleled. She is capable of high movement like jumping and maneuvering herself around crowds. Roberta and Ginji Matsuzaki are a few characters who can hold their ground, or at least be a match against her, in combat. In moments when she has "Whitman fever", she pretty much kills anything in sight.
Revy also appears to have some hand-to-hand combat skills, being able to hold her own in a fistfight against the formidable Roberta (although this was more of a comedic fight rather than a serious one). She has also taken down other hostiles with flying kicks in addition to her twin pistols.
Weapons
Revy's weapons of choice are a pair of modified Beretta 92F’s; which are made out of stainless steel and had their barrels extended from 4.9" to 5.9" each (the 5.9" is the combat MOD barrel) and are threaded to be able to accept muzzle breaks, suppressors, compensators, etc.. They are engraved with "9mm Sword Cutlass" on both sides, as well as the Jolly Roger of the infamous pirate Calico Jack (which is also inlaid into the ivory grips), and a manufacture inscription in Thai. Her 92F’s were also used for melee combat at some point in her fight against Ginji. Due to her ambidextrous marksmanship skills, she is nicknamed "Two Hands" by the denizens of Roanapur.
She is also skillful with a wide variety of weapons, ranging from being able to single-handedly fire an M79 grenade launcher while standing on the deck of a moving boat, casually yet effectively firing a PM-63 submachine gun, to wielding a Gepard Anti Materiel Rifle against a helicopter gunship. Revy also appears to be very knowledgeable when it comes to weaponry as she was seen in a rare state of excitement when Dutch handed her the APS underwater rifle.
Intellect
Revy is by far the least intelligent member of the Lagoon Company. She tends to let her judgment be run by her emotions and base her actions upon her feelings, a flaw that has gotten her into trouble numerous times. Even so, she's still intellectual to some degree, being able to tell a losing battle from a winning battle and being able to gather and piece information together to formulate battle strategies.
In a lot of ways, it would be better to see Revy as uneducated as opposed to unintelligent. She has the ability to make connections based on evidence and information, as well as develop both combat and social strategies, but given her poor upbringing she likely never finished her education (formally or otherwise), and has put extra development on her violent streak.

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