Today's theme is redemption, and I got a strange bit of inspiration when I noticed that Redcap was among the list of legendary creatures starting with the letter R.

Redcaps are faery who kills people in a compulsive need to paint their titular caps red with blood, as if their hat ever lost their luster, they will die, and blood turns brown quite fast too, so it's a vicious cycle.

Thus I got this idea for a redcap who decided to try and break the cycle, and tie his cap around his sickle, only using it for self defense, and curbtail his violent tendency as his life slowly comes to an end. Sometimes blood spills to the cap and keep him going for a bit longer, but never shall he seeks it on his own. Eventually, after one dawn, all that's left of him were his iron boots and his sickle.