Rebecca Lee

Rebecca Lee, mainly referred to as Revy and sometimes Two Hands, is the main female protagonist of the Black Lagoon series and one of four members of the Lagoon Company. Revy is a Chinese-American, slightly tan-skinned woman of moderate height in her mid to late twenties. She has upper back-length burgundy hair (brown hair in the manga) that she typically keeps in a 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 on her upper right arm that reaches all the way up to her neck, a medium-sized bust and a slightly muscular build that she doesn't conceal in the least. 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. She has stated on at least one occasion that she dresses in such a manner because such clothes are easy to move in and do not cause her to overheat, rather than because the outfit is revealing. For colder climates, such as winter in Tokyo, Revy resorts to something a little warmer, including a red beanie hat, a white fur-lined brown coat, her regular fingerless gloves, a horizontally striped red miniskirt (plaid in the manga), black tights and brown cowgirl boots. Revy is a troubled, loud, rude, sarcastic, deadly, 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. Out 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 being humorous and witty, and she can be quite a talker when she isn't mad. Another aspect of her personality is her racial insensitivity. Although most people call her "Revy", she usually addresses herself as Rebecca to elderly people like Sister Yolanda and Praiyachat. At the beginning of the series, Revy was a merciless, sadistic and skilled killer without conscience, more than ready to kill anyone at the slightest provocation, even unarmed civilians (as demonstrated in the U-boat rampage), and she kills in cold blood as seen when she murders a wounded FARC soldier after promising him to take him to a hospital in exchange for him disclosing Roberta's location. She takes maniacal glee in killing anyone she fights or otherwise comes into conflict with, while having very little remorse for her victims. Whilst appearing to be driven by general bloodlust, it is shown throughout the series that Revy subconsciously uses violence as a dysfunctional and destructive coping mechanism and outlet for her deeply repressed emotional and psychological issues. An example of this is when she becomes uneasy at the idea of accepting Rock into the Lagoon Company; Revy then vents her trust issues by becoming particularly unpredictable during several ensuing missions and getting what Dutch refers to as "Whitman Fever", going on indiscriminate shooting rampages and executing hostiles and innocent bystanders alike. It should be noted however, that the above incident was indicated by Dutch to have been concerningly out of character for her, and he rather harshly chastised her for it. The inhabitants of Roanapur tend to take Revy at face value as an incredibly destructive, volatile, sadistic, 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, as opposed to immediately backing off or enabling her, that she begins to develop some reluctant introspection and to 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 at first 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 Company 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" arc, 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 Volume 10, Revy suggests, though doesn't outright confirm, bisexuality by telling Jane that she has "won over some sex-starved dykes by playing the man's role." It should be noted however, that this statement was given in the context of a threat; she was in no uncertain terms telling Jane to back off of Rock after Jane revealed that she wanted to involve him in an orgy. Somewhat ironically, in Omake 4, she is actually changed into the opposite sex, which also happened to the other characters. Outside of these instances (one of them being an out-and-out joke), Revy does not seem to have either a sex life or any visible interest in sex, most likely due to the trauma she went through when a corrupt policeman raped her. She has also complained on a few occasions about Jane's overt love of sex. Despite this, in the manga, 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 (or simply as an easy way of making money). Conversely, Rowan states in the anime that he wanted Revy to return to his employment as she was an S/M dancer previously, to which she retorts, "Forget it, Rowan. I'm not coming back. Even if there is whipping." Revy has a particular degree of comfortability around Rock wherein she is comfortable wearing lesser clothing around him, indicated in various chapters.