Backstory
Red was born the son of two mothers; a transgender witch with the blood of a rat, and a fullblooded succubus. Not wanting to stay to see what she'd created with the half-breed, the succubus left as soon as he was born, leaving Kwi to raise her son on her own.
Having such a mix of genes made childhood hard for Red. He wasn't human, he wasn't demon, he wasn't beast, and kids are mean. His tail was pulled one too many times, his cheek was kissed one too many times, he bared his fangs one too many times. He grew skittish to touch as he got older, mistrusting people's intentions when they're friendly to him. Is it his face and his aura that makes them pleasant, or is it genuine kindness? Burned enough times, he trusted no one.
When he was eighteen, he moved out of his mother's house to pursue his dream of owning a shop, renting out an apartment above an empty storefront and filling it with inventions he'd created over the years. More came after, and when he wasn't in school learning how to be a technological businessman, he was in his little storefront shop living that dream anyway.
When he was twenty, he learned that while he was impressively successful, his mother was a few dollars short of being able to survive in the old house he'd left. He wasn't able to give her money to keep it, so he instead took his mother into his home. While Kwi isn't talented with technology like her son is, she breeds rats and sells brews to help make ends meet. Red seeks to get her her own cabin on the edge of the woods, as she doesn't want to stay in his home forever, not when he's so close to graduating. He'll want his own family some day, without his mother living in the attic.
Twenty-three now, he's comfortable with his life but overworked and tired. He spends most of his time alone and unsocialized outside of his college classes, running his shop alone, too stubborn to find help, too insistent to slow down.