Rapi — Goddess of Victory: NIKKE

The event story FOOTSTEP, WALK, RUN reveals that Rapi spent much of her human childhood confined to a hospital by a rare illness. She agreed to an experimental drug trial that helped keep the hospital operating and ultimately cured her, but recovery left her unsure what to do with a life she had never expected to live outside its walls. After her discharge, she was fatally shot when she became caught up in a protest and was converted into a Nikke. Memories of heroic Nikkes provided an ideal, but her inability to name ordinary personal wishes persisted into her new existence.

During the Second Surface Reclamation War, Rapi served in the Silver Gun squad. The death of her friend Seira and the destruction of the unit left an enduring wound: Rapi had only begun to understand what it meant to form a bond before losing the chance to know Seira’s life. This experience helps explain the emotional reserve that defines her later behavior, without reducing it to simple indifference.

Stranded on the surface, Rapi encounters Red Hood, a veteran from the legendary Goddess Squad. Red Hood rescues her, and Rapi recognizes in her the heroic ideal she admired as a human child. Rapi asks to become like her; despite knowing her own time is limited, Red Hood agrees to train her. The two spend a brief but deeply consequential period together.

Red Hood eventually dies, and Rapi spends years on the surface trying to return to the Ark. Ingrid later learns that Rapi survived four years away and fought through hundreds of encounters with Raptures. An examination reveals a second core and the possibility of her body taking Red Hood’s form. Elysion keeps the anomaly secret; Rapi receives an upgraded body, but her wish to become the hero she lost continues to define—and constrain—her sense of self.

Rapi later served in Elysion’s elite Absolute squad with Eunhwa, Emma, and Vesti. Her departure left resentment, particularly with Eunhwa. In FOOTSTEP, WALK, RUN, Rapi recognizes that she has come to rely on people who regard her as a friend while treating them chiefly as a way to pursue Red Hood’s strength. She leaves Absolute rather than continue that pattern, and eventually finds a new place beside Anis in Counters.

The campaign also reveals that Rapi does not respond to memory erasure in the ordinary way. That unusual property, and her later agreement to cooperate with Ingrid and Andersen in return for support, underscore why her case attracts the attention of powerful figures in the Ark.

During the crisis in the Ark, Rapi interrupts the Commander’s confrontation with Crow by firing a suppression round, preventing a killing in a moment of anger. Later, when Heretics and Chatterbox endanger the Ark and Anis and Neon are badly injured, Rapi draws on the extraordinary Red Hood power within her. Her instinct to protect her comrades carries consequences far beyond the immediate battle.

In her heightened state she drives the invaders toward an ejection elevator, expelling the threat from the Ark. The process causes Red Hood’s consciousness to surface independently in Rapi’s body. Red Hood subsequently encounters Dorothy and the members of Counters, complicating the question of who is occupying that body.

The search for Rapi culminates in an emotional resolution involving Red Hood and her former companions. After Red Hood relinquishes the body, Ingrid’s examination indicates that the consciousness may no longer return. Rapi’s extraordinary power is entangled with grief, inheritance, and a fear that she will never be able to fulfill the ideal she inherited.

As the campaign continues, Rapi faces threats on the surface while struggling with the feeling that she has no independent mission or identity. She admits to Counters that she had abandoned the idea of truly succeeding Red Hood because she thought herself unworthy. Eunhwa, her current squad, and other allies challenge the isolation behind that belief.

During the confrontation with the Beasts, Grave helps Rapi understand that continuing a predecessor’s work does not mean becoming a duplicate of that person. With support from the Commander, Anis, and Neon, Rapi rejects an attempt by Leviathan to undermine her sense of self. In an inner encounter with Red Hood, she finally accepts that the path ahead must be her own.

She emerges with greatly increased strength and gains Seven Dwarves Zero, a weapon bound to Red Hood’s legacy. The change is not Red Hood replacing her: Rapi accepts what was entrusted to her while rejecting the idea that she must become someone else. Her later playable SSR form, Rapi: Red Hood, represents this turning point and is distinct from both her original SR unit and the historical Red Hood herself.

The transformation does not remove Rapi from the continuing conflict. In Chapter 48, she joins Behemoth and Neon in a coordinated attack against Egovista. Their cooperation is especially striking in a story where alliances and former enemies can shift, yet Rapi remains recognizably the soldier who plans around her team instead of fighting for glory alone.

The campaign continued with Chapters 49 and 50 on October 29, 2026. The publisher describes the expansion as the Third Surface Recapture War and a turning point for the Ark’s larger conflict. These chapters extend beyond the specific Rapi events recounted above.