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Sophia Bellamy (The Red Rook)

Color Character: The Red Rook
Composite Character: Sophia Bellamy has characteristics of both Percy Blakeney and Marguerite St. Just (as does René Hasard).
- Like Percy, Sophia is English and she has a secret identity. Like Marguerite, she's female and her brother is captured and used as bait to lure the Red Rook.
Dating Catwoman: Sophia is forced into an engagement with René Hasard, a Frenchman who is a cousin of Albert LeBlanc and may be working for him.
Hidden Depths: Sophia seems like the unimportant daughter of a noble family fallen on hard times, but she's secretly the Red Rook.
Missing Mom: Sophia and Tom's mother died many years ago
Two Aliases, One Character: Sophia and the Red Rook

Agent Peacock: Sophia notes that even covered in dirt and grime, he still looks like a Parisian fashion plate.
Composite Character: René Hasard has characteristics of both Percy Blakeney and Marguerite St. Just (as does Sophia Bellamy).
- Like Percy, René is tall, thin, blue-eyed, fashionable, foppish, seemingly air-headed and male. Like Marguerite, he's French, red headed, he doesn't know the woman he's engaged to is the Red Rook, he was forced by LeBlanc to help identify and capture the Red Rook, and he apparently denounced the Bonnards.
Fiery Redhead: A somewhat rare male example
Genre Savvy: He's usually one step head of everyone else.
Hidden Depths: René seems like a rich, fashionable idiot, but he's secretly a brilliant smuggler and thief.
Identical Nephew: René and his uncle Émile
Idle Rich: René's family owns a glass business, but René lives the life of the idle rich.
Lady Killer In Love: Much to Benoit's concern
Meaningful Name: René's last name, "Hasard," is French for "luck" or "fate," both important themes within the story.

Arch-Enemy: LeBlanc is this to the Red Rook
Creepy Blue Eyes: Their eerie paleness is noted several times.
The Fatalist: LeBlanc worships Fate as a goddess.
Heads or Tails?: How LeBlanc sometimes makes decisions. (He also has other methods of allowing Fate to make her will known.)
Meaningful Name: LeBlanc's name means "the white" and his character has a white streak in his hair, as well as an obsession with black and white.