Crimson inMarble Sort
Crimson
First to the first corner. Every round, without exception.
Crimson says“Someone has to be in front. It may as well be me, and it may as well be now.”
Every race this season
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Crimson is in seven games
Each game gives Crimson a different job. Here is what Crimson does in each one.
Crimson inMarble Sort
Crimson inAngry Marble
Crimson inTilt
Crimson inMarbledoku
Crimson inMarble Blast
Crimson inMarble Survivors
Crimson inMarble Spa
The shard
Where Crimson comes from
Crimson was watching the fire when the Whole came apart, and took the part of it that goes first — the flare off the top of a kiln, brightest before anything has actually burned. It has never adjusted to the idea that a race has a second half.
How Crimson races
The launch is not a tactic, it is a compulsion. Crimson is clear of the field before the first section has finished feeding, leads the opening third of essentially everything, and is running on a debt the whole time. Watch the top of the track and Crimson looks like the best marble on the grid. Watch the bottom and the same run reads as a slow, dignified collapse.
Clear of the pack inside the first third, and gone before the field has decided what kind of race this is.
The voice
Hear Crimson
“ba-da-da-YAY!”
A little victory fanfare up a major chord. Still the leader, now delighted about it. Pick a mood and Crimson says it that way.
In the race mix: D4, 294 Hz. Rising a fourth on the break. The fade is the same two notes the other way round, and the audience learns to dread it.
Rivalry
The Hourglass
One owns the first third. One owns the last quarter.
The same race told from both ends. Crimson is clear of the field before the first section has emptied and is being reeled in from the moment it is; Jade spends twenty seconds going backwards on purpose and arrives with everything it saved. They are almost never near each other until the exact moment it is decided.
Crimson has led into the final section more often than anyone on the grid. Jade is why that statistic exists and means nothing.
3–2 in 5 meetingsThe team
Ember Racing, from the Kiln
Burn the first corner.