"Mature Content!" |
“ | I’m an animal, you can see that I’m an animal. I have no words, they haven’t taught me the words; I don’t know how to think, those bastards didn’t let me learn how to think. But if you really are - all powerful, all knowing, all understanding - figure it out! Look into my soul, I know - everything you need is in there. It has to be. Because I’ve never sold my soul to anyone! It’s mine, it’s human! Figure out yourself what I want - because I know it can’t be bad! The hell with it all, I just can’t think of a thing other than those words of his - HAPPINESS, FREE, FOR EVERYONE, AND LET NO ONE BE FORGOTTEN! | „ |
~ Red's most famous dialogue, and the final line in the novel. |
Redrick Schuhart is the main protagonist of the 1972 novel Roadside Picnic. He serves as the main protagonist of Sections 1, 2, and 4, as well as a minor character in Section 3. He is a former employee of the International Institute, who is revealed to be a regular, albeit illegal stalker at night, in the search of alien artefacts to profit on it, as seen in the first two chapters of the novel.
His Good Ranking[]
What Makes Him Admirable?[]
- He is especially close to his wife and daughter, despite the latter suffering from mutations, as a result of his his constant visit to the Visitation Zone.
- He was willing to give himself up to the police, as shown in Chapter 2 of the novel, in exchange for two or three years of prison sentence, after smuggling a specimen of Hell Slime, which turned out to be used as a weapon of mass destruction. It was done, so that the proceeds he would obtain from selling it would help his financially ailing family.
- He was willing to protect his family, albeit rather through drastic means, such as when he stopped the nurses and orderlies from experimenting on his own zombified father.
- In the final chapter, after the boy known as Arthur Burbridge was killed by the anomaly known as the Meat Grinder, Red took it upon for himself to fulfil the boy's wish by approaching the Golden Sphere, a mysterious artefact that is said to grant a person's wish, wishing happiness for everyone, which included him wishing to the Sphere to turn his mutated daughter, Monkey Schuhart, back to normal.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- Red has shown to have a violent temper in many parts of the novel, and can be fiercely protective to his family, such as when he threw two doctors and three orderlies out of his home without hesitation for attempting to experiment with his zombified father, which later led to the van driver running away for his life.
- He has too many severe corrupting factors to be Near Pure Good, including being an anti-hero, a grey-zoned character and a textbook heroic criminal, all of which are severe preventions to begin with. It is shown when he was willing to constantly break the UN's laws regarding the prohibition of visiting the Visitation Zone as an illegal stalker at night, despite working as a former lab assistant of the International Institute in the first chapter. It was done for him to locate extremely alien artefacts for profit in the first two chapters, leading to him being arrested multiple times in the past, and lately in Chapter 2 for smuggling a WMD known as Hell Slime in an attempt to gain profit for his financially poor family, despite realising the true danger of it.
- Despite his selfless act of granting everyone happiness through the Golden Sphere, Red, without warning Arthur regarding the Meat Grinder, allowed him to be sacrificed by letting the boy to run towards the anomaly for rather pragmatic reasons.
Trivia[]
- Redrick Schuhart is the only character in Roadside Picnic that is Inconsistently Admirable.
External Link[]
- Redrick Schuhart on the Heroes Wiki