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Reba Silo Walltalker is a member of the Walltalker family through adoption, and the main antagonist in The Man Who Talked to the Wall, a minor character in Annie and the Blue-Eared Kid, and the main protagonist in The Woman Who Talked to the Hand. She stole the Wall. After her adoption, Reba became a police officer. At one point, Janice and Roy adopted Binoculars, an otherwise unwanted robot left on the streets. After Reba was deposed, she became a homemaker and tried to help her adopted family adjust to a normal life. Things changed forever when Roy was lured by Suzie to her private island under the ruse of an assignment. Reba learned that Roy was in danger (as Suzie intends to kill him) after Roy was captured by Suzie, who turned out to be an enemy. She borrowed a jet to journey to the island, though Janice and Binoculars stowed away. Then Reba left the kids to find Roy. However, Binoculars and Janice were driven out of their sanctuary, and met up with Reba, who had just saved Roy. Tragically, she was speared by the Basketball prototype. Her death was not in vain, however, as her family was re-motivated to return to Colorado, where they destroyed Suzie and Reno for good.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Reba Silo Walltalker was born in 2007. From the start, she was not treated well at home, and her parents eventually threw her out for good, assigning robots to raise her instead. Her robots found a fancy house for them to live in. At some point, Reba, who suffered from extreme loneliness and depression, came into the possession of the famed Cuffs of Energy, a legendary artifact that allowed the user to cast lightning, laser beams, and other attacks, when they were entrusted to her by the evil Mykew Hadeline. However, Reba grew attached to the priceless artifact and eventually decided she would never return them. When Hadeline returned for her, intent on destroying a girl named Annie McCallin, Reba initially refused to return them. Enraged, Hadeline broke the girl's arm, telling her that her reward was keeping her life. She then pursued the McCallins, only to lose the cuffs in Glabrous Mountain.
Finding a new family[]
Clash with the Walltalkers[]
On a Friday night in 2011, Reba Silo kidnapped the wall, leaving behind an ominous gap where the wall once was. The kidnapping left no other signs of a struggle. It was later revealed that the wall was held prisoner on the west coast of Nebraska.
After this, Reba hijacked the Walltalkers’ GPS, then paid a squad of police to arrest them and bring them to her alive. However, the Walltalkers escaped and went to her house. Roy Walltalker rang the bell. Reba peered through the peephole, then turned to leave. Roy rapped on the knocker; this time, Reba answered the door. Roy immediately asked if she had stolen the Wall, although he already knew she had. Reba lied, denying any involvement. She allowed them to leave afterward.
The Walltalkers started down the road for their car, but Roy heard the Wall calling for help, and rallied Janice to break into Reba’s house. However, they were discovered by a robot patrol inside a multi-purpose turbolift. After rounding a corner, Roy and Janice noticed the robots Reba had sent to find them, and hid in the same turbolift. Reba noticed them, but chose not to hint this at the time. Janice was able to transport herself and Roy through a small portal which jettisoned them upstairs. From there, they quickly found two massive doors at the end of a hall. After walking over, Roy tapped the door handle, and the doors opened automatically. They both stepped inside. It was in the room that they found the wall tied up. They freed it and rushed downstairs under Reba’s survelliance. Once in range, she slammed an enormous net on them, trapping them temporarily. Robots surrounded the rescue party as Reba confronted them. Twirling a sword, Reba stood at the center. Janice began to tremble. Utilizing a special gadget, Roy reached for a sword and used it to cut down the net, freeing the Walltalkers. As Janice and the Wall engaged the robots, Roy struck out at Reba, only to have his blow intercepted.
Roy and Reba then began to duel atop the dais, with neither of them able to gain any sort of advantage for a certain time. After a time, Roy suddenly intensified his attack, forcing a surprised Reba to the head of the stairs. Taking advantage of Reba’s position, Roy kicked her in the chest, sending the girl careening down the stairs to land in a heap on the floor below. Seeing the power of Roy’s anger, Reba regained her feet for a more serious confrontation. However, Roy calmed himself and put his sword away, not wishing to kill a child for stealing. He told Reba this, but was rebuffed. Reba ascended the staircase towards her quarry. Reaching him, Reba immediately attacked, forcing Roy to fight back. After a brief flurry of swordplay, Roy leaped away from Reba into the center of a data pod in the room. Reba slashed at Roy, but the young man backflipped onto a catwalk behind him. Safely away from Reba, Roy attempted to sway his enemy from the dark side, telling Reba she was unstable and questioning her motives. However, Reba denied this and asserted that if Roy would not fight, he would die. Reba then hurled her sword at Roy. Roy managed to duck quickly enough to avoid his opponent’s bladed weapon, but the sword sheared through several of the catwalk’s support struts, weakening the section where Roy was standing. As the gantry fell, Roy slid down it and directly into a net. Reba strode down the stairs to where Roy had fallen, drawing her reclaimed weapon. As Reba reached the entry to the underside of the dais, she proceeded to handcuff Roy. She then took him and Janice to the Slide Room.
Redemption[]
In the Slide Room, Reba tied the Walltalkers to a sled and was about to send them downhill into a deep ravine when the wall arrived with a robot soldier he had forced information from. The robot immediately put its hands up in apology. The Wall threatened her, and pretended to advance on her in hopes for the truth. Reba immediately revealed that she wasOverjoyed, Reba quickly repented the errors of her ways. However, she accidentally bumped into the control panel, accidentally sending the sled with Roy and Janice on its fateful course in the process.
As the wall looked on with concern, Reba immediately dove after the sled. The doomed robot turned on the alarm, and the other robots arrived and intervened in the following chase. However, the tables turned when Roy used his pocketknife to free him and his wife and hook onto a lightning rod, diverting the sled’s course and stopping it in its tracks. This left Reba alone racing toward the ravine. Janice immediately rallied the robots to rescue her from her doom, and joined them in saving Reba. Meanwhile, Reba neared the edge of the roof, and immediately accepted her death. However, as she fell, Janice and the robots caught her, bracing her above the ravine. However, this left them all dangling off the edge of the ravine. Luckily, Roy was able to get help. A friendly local helped them get to the top of the roof, putting the skirmish to an end.
Adoption[]
Together, Reba and the Walltalkers climbed back up the slide. There, Janice agreed to adopt her despite the thievery she had committed. Reba accepted, and they went home through a slide leading directly to Provo.
After they arrived at the bottom of the slide, they rode the Walltalker car home. When they arrived, Janice gave Reba a tour, while Roy reinstalled the Wall to its socket. Janice and Reba then went to watch TV together, and Janice revealed that she was unemployed and there was much time she could spend with Reba. Roy always returned from work as an anatomy scientist at 6 o’clock in the evening. Reba stayed home with her new mother, Janice, and they played together and just hung out for several weeks. Reba also received a call from her robots, who asked what they would do without her. Reba reminded them of her original parents and she told them to rejoin them and tell them she had been adopted.
Later on, Roy and Janice Walltalker declared Reba needed to go to school and finish her education. Thanks to the robots’ training of her, Reba was also able to skip four grades when this happened, immediately advancing to the twelfth grade two months after her adoption. She was generally liked by the other students, thanks to her change of heart.[1]
Interrogation by Charity Hirz[]
Charity interrogating a defiant Reba in her home.
In August, a few months after her adoption, Reba Walltalker was interrogated in her home by Charity Hirz, who was searching for the lightning cuffs for herself. It was only during the confrontation in the Walltalker house that Charity learned Mykew Hadeline had claimed the cuffs long ago. Reba showed no fear during this confrontation, taunting Charity and laughing at her desire for the cuffs. However, Charity still managed to acquire the information she required by pressuring Reba with her newly acquired sword and forceful tones, and as such left Reba to her business. Soon after, Charity would acquire the cuffs.
Police career[]
Adoption of Binoculars[]
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Later on, Reba Walltalker became a police officer, taking after Damon Walltalker, her adopted father's biological cousin. Sporting an easily recognizable uniform, she became a lithe and dexterous enforcer. At one point, Janice and Roy adopted Binoculars, an otherwise unwanted robot left on the streets, and Reba helped to care for him. In 2024, Suzie Rockwell tried to join her and was rejected. She eventually had a son named Jackson.[1]
Demotion[]
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After she was fired, Reba became a homemaker and tried to help the family adjust to a normal life. Despite telling herself she was fine, she knew she was struggling. Hence, she began to sneak out with her friend Wilbur Eat and fight crime covertly.[1]
Conflict with Suzie Rockwell[]
The Barriers of Qualogros[]
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Suzie Rockwell, who claimed she now worked for the government, offered her a large sum of money to stop a robot in a covert job for the government. Reba was able to complete the task successfully, and was then invited to dinner with Suzie.[1]
Manhattan[]
Using her new powers, the ghost of a superhero Suzie Rockwell had killed swooped in and attacked the two of them, though Reba did not know who it was. Suzie managed to escape, teleporting herself and Reba to a nearby island, away from the chaos. When Reba and Suzie arrived on the street, Suzie directed them towards an alley, where she revealed that her beaded bag had several essential supplies. Both of them changed into more practical clothing. The two then headed past some workmen who whistled at Suzie, and into an all-night coffee shop. There, they briefly discussed trying to find out what had happened at the base, and ultimately decided to go back in 15 minutes. While conversing, Suzie said Reba’s name, unknowingly triggering the Taboo that the ghost Super had placed upon it when he attacked the base.
Jeremiah Soule and Bryce Yearsley, two possessed guards, soon entered the shop, while the waitress brought Suzie and Reba brownies. As Suzie moved to get money, Reba noticed that the guards were drawing guns. He drew hers as well, and then pushed Suzie into her bench just as the guards’ bullets hit nearby. As Suzie took cover, Reba shot Bryce. Jeremiah cast a death beam at Reba, and it struck the table in front of him; the explosion slammed Reba into a wall, and made him lose her grip on her gun. Suzie then struck Jeremiah with a freeze ray from under the bench from where she was hidden.
Suzie Rockwell identified the two reinforcements, then she and Reba debated what to do with them. Although Suzie suggested killing them, Reba argued that wiping their memories would be more effective. Suzie used a gadget to erase the memories of Jeremiah, Bryce, and the waitress while Reba cleaned up the café. The two then headed back to Suzie’s base. Reba and Suzie stayed there for two days afterwards. While there, Reno told them that the guards at the base were safe. Afterwards, Reba returned home.[1]
Discovering the truth[]
Reba took off, but not before calling on a service to watch Jackson for the night. Reba's next assignment turned out to be a trap. She was captured by Suzie, who intends to avenge herself after being shunned by law enforcement agencies. Suzie blamed Reba for not admitting her as an assistant. Reba learned that the robot fights had simply been a ruse to discover flaws in the design for a greater plan, and that Suzie intends to fake being a superhero by defeating the Barriers of Qualogros in a rigged crisis. Reba was able to escape through an underground waterway, though barely. Later she tripped an alarm and was recaptured and was led to believe that her family had been killed after Suzie shot down their plane.
Later, Reba reunited with her adopted mother, after being freed by Reno. Reba and Janice bickered for a bit, then regrouped with the others. They were immediately intercepted by Suzie, who seized them up before they could fight her. Once imprisoned, Reba used a lock pick she had hidden to break her bonds and made for a nearby computer terminal where she easily freed her family.
Mongolian Incident[]
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The family eventually raced back to the town with help from Reno who turned against Suzie Rockwell and helped them. When her parents shared some moments together, Reba realized that the Basketball’s claw was pointing at their van and crushed it, but Reba and Binoculars managed to run at the time. When they were running, the robot’s claw nearly hit them, separating Reba and Binoculars from their parents. The Basketball attacked again, but Binoculars defended himself and Reba with a shield. The Basketball went mad and punched Binoculars’ shield several times until it dropped its body entirely to Binoculars’ shield, crushing it and hit him straight on his head, knocking him unconscious. Before the Basketball could kill Reba, however, Roy fired a grenade, tearing off one of its arms. Meanwhile, Binoculars recuperated very quickly. After Janice caused the robot to trip, Reba acquired the remote used by Suzie to control it. After a drawn-out fight, the family waited as the Basketball approached. Reba remained with Janice and Binoculars and remained by her side when Roy finally pierced the Basketball’s shell.
The Walltalkers returned home, where they found Suzie was attempting to abduct Jackson. After Suzie attempted to jet into her plane, Reba leaped upward and used her jetpack to intercept Suzie, who had already been bitten in the hand by Jackson. Reba and Suzie began fighting until Jackson fell from Suzie’s hands and Reba had to rescue him. Afterwards, they were able to stop Suzie from finishing her task and the evildoer was apparently dispatched by a robot.
Legacy[]
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Physical description[]
Reba Silo Walltalker was tall, overweight, and hardly had any muscle at all. She was almost always seen in the same long-sleeved blue-and-pink sweater or a hooded black cloak. In the cloak, she sometimes let herself open, revealing her bra and underwear shorts underneath. She had light brown hair done up in pigtails and sparkling blue eyes.
Personality and traits[]
- "I suppose I'm just an awful person in general."
- ―Reba[src]
Reba Silo was intelligent, calculating, and unpredictable. She had a considerably solemn demeanor about her. Although several people knew Reba was an immoral preteen by nature, she used her deception tactics perfectly on those who did not yet know. She believed her actions before she was thrown out were necessary, and viewed her parents as "old fools" after the robots took command of her. In addition, by the time of the Rescue of the Wall, she also strongly believed that her life would never change, and that she was irredeemable. Shortly after her adoption by Janice Walltalker, however, she admitted that Roy was indeed right about her still being an inherently good person who many bad things had happened to. Even so, she continued to label herself as a "screw-up".
In the end, Reba broke away from a dark path, becoming whole once again. After her adoption, Reba had a change of heart, becoming much more social and considerate of others. She still maintained her rebellious side, however, laughing in the face of Charity Hirz, and she seemed to be insensitive to the feelings of people she saw as different from her, making her somewhat bigoted. As she began to embrace puberty, she also experienced the normal emotional instability with it. However, she eventually became just as calm and secure as ever before, willing herself to sacrifice her own life just to deny Suzie Rockwell what she desired.
Abilities[]
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- Master deceiver: Although several people knew Reba was an immoral preteen by nature, she used her deception tactics perfectly on those who did not yet know.
Relationships[]
Family[]
Janice assisted Roy in tracking down and stealing back the Wall from Reba, though neither of them knew it was her they were working against. Janice first learned about Reba when Roy had a vision about her. They first met in Reba’s house, where they found the Wall. Although Janice hated Reba, she did not think she deserved to die for her thievery. She even rescued her, and after learning of her lineage, accepted her reason for stealing the Wall and adopted her. Afterwards, they were on much better terms.
Trivia[]
- Suzie Rockwell is written as a contrast to Reba Silo Walltalker.
- Reba is a large, muscular woman more than capable of fighting despite having no powers, and she operates solely with her adoptive family. Suzie, on the other hand, is slim, heavily reliant on her non-physical power and she operates as the head of a large criminal organization.
- Reba has semi-defensible motivations, if not methods, while Suzie is all about her momentary wants and petty desires.
- Reba has a number of people he cares about and makes no secret of this, while Suzie cares about nobody but herself despite her insistence otherwise.
- Reba loves her adoptive mother and would do anything for her, while Suzie hates her biological mother.
- Reba regrets the damage done by his actions and even goes through some positive character development, while Suzie refuses to even take responsibility for her actions and only gets worse as the sequel novel progresses.
- Reba redeems herself and her tragic past makes her sympathetic, while Suzie is irredeemable and had a relatively peaceful upbringing.
- Reba does not even come close to being Pure Evil while Suzie has been approved.
- In the end, Reba is adopted and does what she is fated to do in the heroine role while Suzie is killed off for her crimes against humanity.