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Flores

Santiago Miguel "Flores" Lucero

"In life, you have to commit to the things that make you happy. For me, that’s robbing the rich and corrupt."

^{Click here to see Flores's Elite Skin Master Assassin}

Voiced by: Jason Canela (EN)
Date of Birth: October 2
Age: 38
Team: Attackers
Squad: Ghosteyes

A thief-turned-FBI asset from Buenos Aires, Flores deploys and drives around RCE-Ratero Charges, explosive drones that can enter a bulletproof state and anchor themselves before detonating, either on command or once its timer expires.

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• All Your Powers Combined: As a utility-destroyer, Flores can be seen as a combination of the drone-based precision of Twitch and the destructiveness of Fuze.
• Badass Normal: While he did go to military school and is a brilliant engineer, it is certainly unusual for a person with no military background, much less a criminal background, to be recruited into an elite counter-terrorist unit.
• Dashing Hispanic: A stylish Argentine with a fair bit of flair in his lines.
• Drone Deployer: In addition to two regular drones, Flores can deploy four Rateros.
• Expy: Flores' appearance, especially his glasses, recall Léon from The Professional.
• Gadgeteer Genius: His bio states that he earned a military engineering degree from a military college and that he built the Ratero himself.
• Healthcare Motivation: One reason for his heists was to pay for his mother's medical bills. This particular detail eventually revealed his identity and his mother was killed in retaliation.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: A careless Flores can just as easily hinder or kill his own teammates with poor use of the RCE-Ratero, as it has a short timed life and cannot be stopped or reversed. Additionally, although a rare and unlikely case, if an RCE is immobilized next to a Hostage by one of Mute's jammers, the Mute player can simply destroy his own gadget and cause the drone to blow itself and the Hostage up, netting Flores' team an instant loss.
• Just Like Robin Hood: The other reason was to strike back at crime lords that stole from the poor and plagued the poor neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, redistributing his gains back to charity.
• The Mole: The Crimson Heist animated trailer and Osa's biography on the Rainbow Six website reveal that Flores's real purpose in Rainbow is to spy on NIGHTHAVEN for Ash.
• No-Sell: Despite its One-Hit-Point Wonder nature when running around, once a RCE-Ratero has been primed, very few things can actually stop it. Its armored shell renders it immune to gunfire and melee damage, leaving explosives and gadget deterrent methods like Mute's signal jammers or electrified barbed wire the only options that can put a halt to it when activated (and even then, Mute's jammers will only render an RCE inactive for as long as it's up, and removing the jammer will cause the drone to self-destruct immediately).
• Not the Intended Use: The RCE-Ratero was designed with destruction of Defender utility in mind. However, it's basically a Nitro Cell on wheels, which can and will do a nasty amount of damage to anyone caught within the blast area. This makes it viable as a makeshift room-clearer to quickly gain intel and then flush Defenders out of position.
• Phantom Thief: An elusive, Sharp-Dressed Man with a strong sense of justice that only targets the rich and corrupt using a variety of self-made gadgets and leaves behind a calling card. This is however Deconstructed as the criminals he messed with eventually unmasked him with deadly consequences, forcing him to flee Argentina.
• Player-Guided Missile: The RCE-Ratero is a larger, but just as maneuverable, drone that explodes with the power of a nitro cell. After it's deployed, it can't stop or reverse until it is destroyed or detonated. The developers explicitly wanted to replicate mechanics like the Predator missile from Modern Warfare.
• Red Baron: As a thief, he gained notoriety as 'the Man from Flores' from the district he primarily worked in.
• Shout-Out: His Elite Skin has him dress up as Altaïr from the very first Assassin's Creed.
• Sticky Bomb: Upon being armed, the Ratero anchors itself to any surface, including where it lands if it arms mid-jump.
• Straight Gay: Is mentioned to have a husband in his bio. It has no bearing on his performance in-game.
• Time Bomb: The RCE-Ratero runs on a ten-second timer, where upon reaching zero or at the command of Flores, arms itself and explodes after three seconds, giving Defenders time to reposition. Their range is further limited as they have to deploy at Flores' feet. This balances the amount of intel he is able to gather with the four Rateros and forces him to push up to get to Defender utility in time.
• Trading Bars for Stripes: After crime lords in his native Buenos Aires caught on to his activities and killed his mother, Ash offered him asylum in the United States in exchange for his testimony. He ran a food truck in Los Angeles that he continued to conduct heists from, and when Ash found out, recruited him to use his skills for (legal) good.

STAR-NET Aviation

Thunderbird

Mina "Thunderbird" Sky

"Air or ground, you find your balance or end up with a face full of dirt."

^{Click here to see Thunderbird's Elite Skin Tamer of the White Howl}

Voiced by: Sera-Lys McArthur (EN)
Date of Birth: April 1
Age: 36
Team: Defenders
Squad: Wolfguard

A Royal Canadian Air Force helicopter pilot and medic who is deeply anchored to her Nakoda community, Thunderbird lays down Kóna Stations, automated turrets that heal and revive any operators in close proximity, including the Attacking team.

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• Ace Pilot: Thunderbird is Rainbow's second helicopter pilot after Jäger and has a reputation for daredevil maneuvers. She is credited with rescuing Nomad in Siberia, leading the explorer to recommend her to Harry.
• All Your Powers Combined: She has Jäger's aesthetic, set-and-forget turrets, and fragging capability, and fulfills the healer role like Doc and Finka.
• Auto-Revive: The Kóna Station gives any operator the ability to pick themselves back up at a time and location of their choosing should they crawl into its radius and receive healing.
• Badass Native: She is a member of the Nakoda First Nation from Saskatchewan who joined the Canadian Armed Forces through the Bold Eagle program, and is a skilled medic, pilot, and soldier.
• Balance Buff: In Demon Veil, her stations no longer heal full-health and overhealed operators, allowing those that actually need health to get the treatment they need.
• Bilingual Bonus: "Wagiya" written on the back of her jacket is "Thunderbird" in Nakota. "Kóna" is "Friend."
• Braids, Beads and Buckskins: Downplayed. She has tattoos on her chin and wears a leather jacket decorated with First Nation motifs over her otherwise standard flight suit.
• Combat Medic: The Kóna Station allows Thunderbird to do her work remotely while she's off killing the enemy team, but they still fulfill most of Doc's functionalities regardless.
• Cool Helmet: Her default headgear is a helicopter helmet, similar to Jäger.
• Deadpan Snarker: When Harry asked her about what it is like to be in the air, she responds "it felt like flying."
• Facial Markings: The lines on her chin are Nakoda tattoos signifying a person's transition to adulthood.
• Friend or Foe?: The Kóna Station doesn't care whose team you're on and heals anyone that enters its radius, only prioritizing Defenders and those with lower health should multiple people enter at the same time. This could end up biting her team in the ass should Attackers take control of site.
• Hidden Depths: Not only is she a highly-trained pilot and medic, Thunderbird is also a hydrologist specializing in water and river management, which she uses to help provide her community with clean water sources. In fact, her deep understanding of water is what earned her the nickname "Thunderbird" in the first place, as it is revered by the Nakoda as the bringer of water to all peoples.
• Necessary Drawback: A consequence of the Kóna Station healing anyone that comes within range is denying that healing to anyone else that would come to need it while it is on cooldown.
• Sentry Gun: Her Kóna Station is one that heals people, shooting them with paintballs filled with medicine.
• Shown Their Work: Ubisoft worked with Nakoda consultants to create Thunderbird, and the details, from her backstory to her tattoos, show that.
• The Turret Master: With Combat Medic rolled into one package too. Her Kóna Stations operate like paintball-launching turrets, but instead of harming Attackers with their ammo, they shoot medicinal pellets instead, which do not discriminate between Friend or Foe? and heals both teams equally well.
• Weak, but Skilled: Compared to Doc, Thunderbird is not capable of massive burst healing unless all her stations are close together and is less flexible in where the team can get their heals, but she is able to restore more health in total and can still contribute when on the other side of the map or when dead.
• Wrench Wench: Her father introduced her to engines and helicopters when she was a child, and compares the human body to an engine that needs to be understood to be kept in working order.

NIGHTHAVEN

Osa

Anja Katarina "Osa" Janković

"The best ideas come to me when I exclude rules and guidelines from the equation."

Voiced by: Nicole Maines (EN)
Date of Birth: April 29
Age: 27
Team: Attackers
Squad: Nighthaven

A Croatian engineering and robotics genius, Osa comes with Talon-8 Clear Shields, bulletproof glass shields that function as ballistic shields when held out and can be deployed on the ground or attached to windows and door frames.

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• All Your Powers Combined: Osa's shields are Defender's deployable shields combined with Mira's visibility and weaknesses — but now on Attack. Her clear shields even invoke Blackbeard's, but trade their offensive capabilities (as Osa has to put her guns away when holding the Talon) for durability and defensiveness.
• Attack Its Weak Point: Like Mira's Black Mirrors, there is a red canister on the bottom of the shield that will cause it to collapse if shot. Punching a deployed Talon-8 will also render it opaque and prevent it from being picked up, which could be done by attackers to block an enemy's line of sight.
• Bad Liar: According to Zero, who caught her sneaking into Mira's lab on the night before the 2022 SIX Invitational before she could tamper with the other team's equipment. Per his description, Osa is a good soldier, but also a "lousy liar", who can't lie her way out of a paper bag.
• Creator Cameo: Somewhat. Her design is a dead ringer for Twitch streamer and airsoft player Birdtickler who the developers consulted on her character along with several other trans women.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: Her right shoulder is bare while wearing her bodysuit.
• Foil:
  • To Mira, Rainbow's in-house head of R&D, as their gadgets create strong points that provide information and protection. Mira sees herself as a hero wanting to put her designs to the test on the front line, while also making mechanical art in her spare time. Osa is an artist first, determining an aesthetic for her creations and then working out the details later. While she does go out in the field, Kali guards her golden goose closely.
  • Gameplay-wise, Osa is the diametric opposite of Castle, another doorway-based operator. Where Castle is a Defender whose schtick revolves around barricading multiple doorways and windows to deny entry and prevent Attackers from seeing into the rooms he's fortified (unless they drone), Osa's Talon-8 glass shield is designed to facilitate a single-direction push into the objective, complete with a clear surface to let both teams see what's going on on the other side. Since they both interact with points of entry to deploy their gadget (although Osa can plant the shield anywhere she chooses), Castle can deny Osa by putting up an armor panel, but if Osa got to a door or window first, her Talon-8 will prevent Castle from fortifying it.
• Gadgeteer Genius: She's an engineering and robotics genius, having designed all of NIGHTHAVEN's tech as NIGHTHAVEN's head of R&D. Flores theorizes to Ash that she may have been the creator of Kali's body suit used in the Invitational, which is confirmed by Harry's psychological profile on her.
• Hidden Depths: Her family owns a chain of European toy stores and her work in engineering and robotics was inspired by 60's sci-fi films. She also has an "unbreakable sisterhood" with Kali built on mutual respect.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Unlike regular deployable shields, the Talon-8 is tall enough to protect Osa's head when holding them out, allowing her to act as an ersatz shield operator. She can also hold them out when rappeling. However, the shield can still be melee'd to guard break her. They are also narrower than normal ballistic shields and her feet are exposed when crouched.
• Mechanically Unusual Fighter: She is an Attacker who can entrench her position with deployable shields, previously exclusive to the Defenders. This is no exaggeration in modes such as Secure Area and especially Bomb, whereupon if given a good location to set up in, Osa basically becomes a Defender, as she can just can plop down a shield and sit on the defuser until it runs out of time, provided the enemy team doesn't bring explosives or find a way around her.
• Not the Intended Use:
  • Osa's shields instantly break barricades when attaching them to doors and windows, allowing her fast entry and even leaping across small gaps.
  • The Talon's attractiveness for explosives makes it perfect bait for C4 and impacts that would otherwise be used for objective kills.
• Private Military Contractors: Osa is the fifth NIGHTHAVEN operator, making them one of the most represented organizations in Rainbow alongside GIGN and the Spetsnaz. She was hired by Kali straight out of university, so she even lacks the military or law enforcement background typical of most other operators, though she did receive training and even went on field ops with NIGHTHAVEN.
• Trans Tribulations: Her profile mentions that she was isolated in engineering school due to her unorthodox approach and people's (negative) attitudes towards her transitioning prior to Kali recruiting her. This comes across as slightly odd as Croatia of all countries was one of the earliest to adopt a widespread acceptance of LGBT individuals, and discrimination towards them was declared unlawful in the mid-2000s.
• Wearing a Flag on Your Head: Her bodysuit has a checkerboard pattern alluding to the Croatian flag's coat of arms.

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Thorn

Brianna "Thorn" Skehan

"Pick on someone your own size."

^{Click here to see Thorn's Elite Skin Fearsome Blaze}

Voiced by: Lynn Rafferty (EN)
Date of Birth: June 18
Age: 28
Team: Defenders
Squad: Redhammer

A determined Irish weapons expert and emergency responder, Thorn can throw Razorbloom Shells, sticky proximity mines that detonate after a short delay and deals a great amount of damage to any operator caught within its blast radius.

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• A.K.A.-47: Her primary weapon of choice is the "UZK50GI", a largely fictional weapon heavily based upon the Uzi SMG, but chambered in .50 GI and fires from a closed bolt given that it does have the ability to retain a round in the chamber when a tactical reload is performed. While it has a low ammo capacity, the gun inflicts damage on par with some assault rifles, and it is powerful enough to punch large holes through soft surfaces.
• Amicable Exes: With Sledge, who still holds her in high regard.
• All Your Powers Combined: Her Razorbloom Shells are a combination of Kapkan's lethal EDDs and Ela's flexible (but non-damaging) Grzmot mines.
• Boyish Short Hair: She wears her hair in a short pixie cut by default.
• Down on the Farm: Sledge brings Caveira and Mozzie to Thorn's family farm to train in the High Calibre battlepass animation.
• Fighting Irish: Unlike Thermite before her, Thorn is a native Irish. Her Elite Skin accentuates this heritage even further, being dressed as a Celtic warrior.
• Fiery Redhead: Thorn is noted to be friendly, boisterous, and has quite the temper when provoked.
• Flechette Storm: Upon detonation, the Razorbloom Shell releases dozens of razor-like shrapnel in all directions, which are far more lethal than the explosion itself.
• I Have Brothers: She grew up in a farm with four older brothers, who basically bullied her into standing up for herself and not showing any weakness whatsoever. Despite them giving her a rough upbringing, Thorn also developed a strong sense of justice thanks to her brothers, which eventually inspired her to join the Garda.
• Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: Downplayed in the High Calibre animation, when she wears what look like pearl earrings during training and sparring, while otherwise dressed in her typical military gear.
• Pin-Pulling Teeth: Thorn uses her teeth to pull the pin of her Razorblooms before throwing them. This is somewhat a more believable example, as the "pin" in her case is more of a plastic pull string than a typical grenade pin.
• Redhead In Green: Pretty much describes her default appearance, and also serves to further highlight her Irish heritage.
• Sticky Bomb: Her Razorbloom Shells are throwable anti-personnel mines that stick to any surface and detonate shortly after an enemy draws close.
• Time Bomb: The Razorbloom's delay is long enough that even a fully-extended Montagne can walk out of its radius in time. However, it synergizes well with gadgets and clever placement that prevent enemies from escaping.

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