AE3803

AE3803, Red Blood Cell (赤血球 Sekkekkyū) is one of the main protagonist in Cells at Work!

She is a new red blood cell who is unfamiliar with the blood vessels, causing her to get lost often while delivering goods. Her main task is to deliver oxygen, carbon dioxide and nutrients all over the body like the rest of her kind.

Appearance
She is an average sized red blood cell with amber brown eyes and short red hair with a lock pointing outwards. She wears the red blood cell uniform.

Personality
Despite being clueless and ditzy most of the time, she is a determined worker who strives to get her tasks done. She is very lively and cheerful, although she can be overly apologetic whenever she makes mistakes and easily frightened even by speech. She will offer help when needed and generously put others first in difficult situations.

History
AE3803 was suggested and chosen to be a red blood cell because she was born with red hair. After sorting, she was raised with other erythroblasts in the bone marrow. Due to her clumsy nature, she was teased by her classmates.

During a training session consisting on escape practice, she accidentally ran off too far and got lost in the bone marrow. As she wandered further, she was caught and chased by a pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria. A myelocyte (presumably young U-1146) jumped in to save her despite being no match for the bacteria. The bacteria toyed with the young cells unknowingly long enough for help to arrive. A neutrophil killed the bacteria immediately and the two were brought back into their specific bone marrows. Before they left, they agreed to meet each other again when they grew up even though the chances of reunion were unknown.

After all her efforts and training, she went through enucleation and officially became a full-fledged red blood cell.

Abilities
As a red blood cell, she is a worker that is unable to protect herself. Therefore her job is to only transport goods.
 * Overall Abilities: Despite having no abilities to defend herself, she is capable of transporting goods into all corners of the body with high acceleration.
 * Reversible Jacket: All red blood cells wear a reversible jacket that helps them indicate their speed when moving around in either vessels or arteries.

Trivia

 * All red blood cells are red because they contain hemoglobin. However, AE3803 seems to be the only RBC to have red hair.
 * Some fans had speculated that AE3803's cresent-shaped ahoge (single lock of hair that sticks out) is an indicator that AE3803 is possibly a sickle cell due to the similarity of the shapes. Fans also point out that AE3803's clumsiness and tendency to get lost is similar to how real-life sickle cells have trouble supplying oxygen throughout the body. Sickle cells also have lower life duration than normal red blood cells, which fans speculate why AE3803 is usually present at antigen attacks.