Ivory

Ivory Spoilers for Grimm Fairy Tales presents Code Red #1–5. Ivory spends a lot of Code Red trying to get Britney Waters to turn into a monster. The disturbing part is how convinced she seems that she's doing Britney a favor. She wants her to stop holding back, stop pretending, and embrace the part of herself that Britney is constantly trying to control. Meanwhile, Ivory is torturing people and enjoying every second of it. That's the person offering advice on accepting yourself. She's a werepanther working with the Dark Horde, and she makes a point of correcting the comparison to a wolf. Her appearance changes throughout the fight, from the scarred, partly human woman with the mohawk to a much larger, spotted feline form with claws and a tail. She isn't uncomfortable with that side of herself. She wants Britney to see it. When Britney suggests finding something to help ground her, Ivory rejects the idea that she's stuck. As far as she's concerned, this is who she really is. That makes their conversations pretty ugly. Britney is trying to keep control of herself and get people out alive. Ivory keeps treating that restraint as dishonesty. She doesn't just want to beat Red. She wants to force a reaction that proves her own point, even if she has to torture her to get there. And she makes it clear that she works for the Horde because she wants to. This isn't someone secretly waiting for an opportunity to escape them. Her relationship with Borlock gives you another side of that. They're supposed to be working together to get the Cyclops' Eye, but Ivory's fixation on Britney keeps getting in the way. During the assault on HiboCorp, she uses Borlock as a springboard, grabs a flying creature, threatens to rip its legs out if it stops flying, and demands that somebody get her face-to-face with Red. She treats a military assault like an opportunity to chase somebody she's personally obsessed with. Borlock eventually makes a very bad decision about how to handle her. He's threatening Britney and offering to spare the captured soldiers in exchange for the Eye when Ivory interrupts. She wants Red for herself. Borlock hits her, calls her a mutt, and threatens to snap her neck regardless of how much Alicia values her. A few moments later, Ivory puts a blade through his head. She stands over his body complaining that he called her crazy, then announces that she's in charge. I think that scene does more for her character than another speech about how dangerous she is would have. She kills the commander on her own side in the middle of their operation because he gets between her and what she wants. His authority means absolutely nothing once she decides she's had enough of him. Taking command doesn't make her any more disciplined. She goes right back to trying to force Britney to transform. She also admits that she intends to torture the captured humans because their screams make her happy. There's no need to soften what she's doing here. Her talk about helping Britney discover herself comes from someone who openly enjoys hurting people. Cleese and the wolf pack interrupt that fight, and Ivory takes a nasty shoulder wound. She survives, retreats to a helicopter, and escapes with the orcs carrying the Eye. Britney survives too, but the Horde still gets what it came for. Ivory's ending is hardly a celebration. Alicia has her chained up and reminds her that killing Borlock nearly ruined the mission. Retrieving the Eye is the thing keeping that failure from outweighing everything else. Ivory asks about a reward, and after Alicia leaves, she scratches another bloody tally into her own arm. That's where this story leaves her: alive, restrained by her own side, and still dangerous. She helped secure a major victory for the Horde, but almost sabotaged it because she cared more about breaking Britney than following orders. I'd be considerably more worried about being assigned to work alongside Ivory than about having to answer to most of the people commanding her.