Characters
Lucid (named by Obright)
25 years old
Type: Arbiter
Primary Color: White
Secondary Color: Blue
After class change failure:
Type: Unknown
Primary Color: White
Secondary Color: Orange, covered by Blue paint.
He's a dreamer. He views the world through rose-tinted glasses. To him, nothing is ever as bad as it seems, and everyone just needs to relax and enjoy life. He is jokingly called a hippie by the older Angels because of his easygoing, relaxed personality. He has no idea what the term means. His world views makes him fairly bad at his job, as he doesnt treat any issues with the urgency they sometimes deserve.
Lucid is easily intimidated, and can be reduced to a rambling mess if under stress. He never thinks about what he's going to say in any situation, instead trying to make his speech sound better while it's coming out of his mouth. He ends up correcting himself, repeating sentences with slight changes, and answering simple questions several times until he finds a word he thinks fits properly. So if you ask him a Yes or No question, he may reply "Yeah, okay, yes. yeah. of course. yes". He also has a lot of difficulty when expected to give any information about himself or how he feels about a situation. He may get confrontational, or even leave the room rather than give an answer. it's not because he has any secrets, its just he believes that if he answers the things most people (like Megan) ask him about, it would make people focus on the differences between them, rather than thinking of him as an equal.
Lucid has made a few physical modifications to his armor. These include removing his visor, trimming his shoulder armor, and grinding down most sharp edges. This is a relatively common trend with the younger generation, influenced by human culture to be more individual, and stand out from the crowd. This is an endless source of frustration with the human population, since the Angels who modify themselves like this don't look anything like the Angels of the previous generation, and it can be hard to tell their class types at younger ages.
Megan
22 years old, slender build, with shoulder length light brown hair. Dresses in a relaxed style, typically loose-fitting clothes (t-shirts, tank tops, jeans, stuff like that). doesnt put a lot of effort into her appearance with fancy hair styles or cosmetics. She has a very distant relationship with her parents even though she still lives in their house. Moving out scares her, because she hates being alone, even though she cannot stand the people she lives with. The few friends she ever had left when she was a child when their parents moved away.
Megan, like most people, has always been curious about the Angels, and bombarded Lucid with endless, repetitive questions about himself and his species when she was younger. Lucid got her to stop by telling her that there was a death penalty for revealing any information to a human, which Megan later discovered to be a lie with help from another angel.
After Lucid heals from his failed class change and they leave town, her fears of being alone become very problematic. Lucid has to leave her alone frequently to steal supplies from the angel's warehouses, hunt for food, and scouts new areas as they travel. Despite being crippled by these fears on a near-daily basis, she refuses to head back home, and deal with living in her house with parents she doesnt care for, and know that Lucid would never again "rescue" her. He's the only "person" she really has left in her life, and she can't afford to lose him.
Interaction between Megan and Lucid
Megan met Lucid when she was 12, while having a fight with her father (a frequent occurance) that he interrupted. Lucid wasnt a very effective conflict mediator in those days, and his method of ending the fight was to run in the house, pick Megan up, and run out of the house with her. They became friends that day, and Lucid is still prone to interrupting arguments by abruptly reaching into the house and carrying Megan away. Her parents aren't big fans of Lucid because of this, and Lucid doesnt realize that he's making things much worse by ending the conflicts in such a way. He knows he's supposed to let them work things out for themselves most of the time, or step in and act as an unbiased mediator unless things escalate to a dangerous level, but Megan's appreciation of him performing these rescues only encourages him to break protocol again and again.
Megan fancies herself a bit of an artist, and has painted numerous decorations on Lucid's armor, which he proudly shows off every chance he gets. None of the other Angels he knows have ever been used as a human's canvas, after all.
Secondary Characters
The following profiles leave much out, since how you meet them and how you learn about their personalities is a major story element.
Erica
27 years old.
Erica was sentenced to be exiled to an errant zone for an unknown crime, and she managed to escape from her escort. she has been on the run for several weeks when Lucid and Megan encounter her. She doesnt trust Angels, but is okay with Lucid since he quite obviously doesnt revel in his authority/superiority like most of his kind that she has encountered in the past.
Erica is very confrontational, and quick to anger. This, combined with the extreme paranoia that developed while she was on the run, makes her pretty much the worst person ever to travel with. She panics when Lucid leaves to go get supplies, and this doesnt mix well with Megan's fears of abandonment. The two girls fight often, despite claiming to be very good friends.
Raya
26 years old
Type: Arbiter
Primary Color: White
Secondary Color: Green
The first female angel Lucid has ever met. She is from the same newer generation as Lucid, but not social with humans outside of her job duties. When she does interact with humans, she almost always talks down to them, which includes simplifying what she's saying to make sure they can understand her. She always speaks with a loud, clear voice, with very little tone change. This way of speaking coupled with the distortion from the mouth plate she never removes makes her quite intimidating. She follows all orders without question, and has no known hobbies or interests outside of her job. She has made no modifications to her armor.
Character Sprites
This is one of Megan's main outfits in the game. denim shorts, tube top, and an open shirt. reflects her relaxed personality (while around friends) pretty well. Why is she dressed like that? She lives in southern Alabama, and the game starts in early summer, that's why. This being one of her main outfits, there are a lot of variations of it.
This is what Erica looks like when Lucid and Megan first meet her. She's been on her own for quite a while at this point, and she's still wearing the prisoner's clothes from when she escaped from her captor on her way to be exiled.
After she joins up with Lucid and Megan, Erica ends up looking like this. All her outfits are fairly "girly", which contrast well with Megan's tomboy appearance.
Lucid's main sprite next to Megan's, so you can see the height difference. This is a revised design. This is the way Lucid looks after he's healed up and regenerated his armor after rejecting his overseer class change.
Raya's final sprite is on the left, and her earlier sprite is on the right. The armor design is unchanged, but the entire body frame was redrawn to look more feminine, as her original sprite looked like a man with an oddly shaped rack, because I sucked at making sprites back then.
One note about the angel sprites: females don't have compression tanks (filled with water for cooling purposes, or air for floating or underwater use) in their chest armor like the males do, rather they have the tanks relocated to their hips.
Lucid (named by Obright)
25 years old
Type: Arbiter
Primary Color: White
Secondary Color: Blue
After class change failure:
Type: Unknown
Primary Color: White
Secondary Color: Orange, covered by Blue paint.
He's a dreamer. He views the world through rose-tinted glasses. To him, nothing is ever as bad as it seems, and everyone just needs to relax and enjoy life. He is jokingly called a hippie by the older Angels because of his easygoing, relaxed personality. He has no idea what the term means. His world views makes him fairly bad at his job, as he doesnt treat any issues with the urgency they sometimes deserve.
Lucid is easily intimidated, and can be reduced to a rambling mess if under stress. He never thinks about what he's going to say in any situation, instead trying to make his speech sound better while it's coming out of his mouth. He ends up correcting himself, repeating sentences with slight changes, and answering simple questions several times until he finds a word he thinks fits properly. So if you ask him a Yes or No question, he may reply "Yeah, okay, yes. yeah. of course. yes". He also has a lot of difficulty when expected to give any information about himself or how he feels about a situation. He may get confrontational, or even leave the room rather than give an answer. it's not because he has any secrets, its just he believes that if he answers the things most people (like Megan) ask him about, it would make people focus on the differences between them, rather than thinking of him as an equal.
Lucid has made a few physical modifications to his armor. These include removing his visor, trimming his shoulder armor, and grinding down most sharp edges. This is a relatively common trend with the younger generation, influenced by human culture to be more individual, and stand out from the crowd. This is an endless source of frustration with the human population, since the Angels who modify themselves like this don't look anything like the Angels of the previous generation, and it can be hard to tell their class types at younger ages.
Megan
22 years old, slender build, with shoulder length light brown hair. Dresses in a relaxed style, typically loose-fitting clothes (t-shirts, tank tops, jeans, stuff like that). doesnt put a lot of effort into her appearance with fancy hair styles or cosmetics. She has a very distant relationship with her parents even though she still lives in their house. Moving out scares her, because she hates being alone, even though she cannot stand the people she lives with. The few friends she ever had left when she was a child when their parents moved away.
Megan, like most people, has always been curious about the Angels, and bombarded Lucid with endless, repetitive questions about himself and his species when she was younger. Lucid got her to stop by telling her that there was a death penalty for revealing any information to a human, which Megan later discovered to be a lie with help from another angel.
After Lucid heals from his failed class change and they leave town, her fears of being alone become very problematic. Lucid has to leave her alone frequently to steal supplies from the angel's warehouses, hunt for food, and scouts new areas as they travel. Despite being crippled by these fears on a near-daily basis, she refuses to head back home, and deal with living in her house with parents she doesnt care for, and know that Lucid would never again "rescue" her. He's the only "person" she really has left in her life, and she can't afford to lose him.
Interaction between Megan and Lucid
Megan met Lucid when she was 12, while having a fight with her father (a frequent occurance) that he interrupted. Lucid wasnt a very effective conflict mediator in those days, and his method of ending the fight was to run in the house, pick Megan up, and run out of the house with her. They became friends that day, and Lucid is still prone to interrupting arguments by abruptly reaching into the house and carrying Megan away. Her parents aren't big fans of Lucid because of this, and Lucid doesnt realize that he's making things much worse by ending the conflicts in such a way. He knows he's supposed to let them work things out for themselves most of the time, or step in and act as an unbiased mediator unless things escalate to a dangerous level, but Megan's appreciation of him performing these rescues only encourages him to break protocol again and again.
Megan fancies herself a bit of an artist, and has painted numerous decorations on Lucid's armor, which he proudly shows off every chance he gets. None of the other Angels he knows have ever been used as a human's canvas, after all.
Secondary Characters
The following profiles leave much out, since how you meet them and how you learn about their personalities is a major story element.
Erica
27 years old.
Erica was sentenced to be exiled to an errant zone for an unknown crime, and she managed to escape from her escort. she has been on the run for several weeks when Lucid and Megan encounter her. She doesnt trust Angels, but is okay with Lucid since he quite obviously doesnt revel in his authority/superiority like most of his kind that she has encountered in the past.
Erica is very confrontational, and quick to anger. This, combined with the extreme paranoia that developed while she was on the run, makes her pretty much the worst person ever to travel with. She panics when Lucid leaves to go get supplies, and this doesnt mix well with Megan's fears of abandonment. The two girls fight often, despite claiming to be very good friends.
Raya
26 years old
Type: Arbiter
Primary Color: White
Secondary Color: Green
The first female angel Lucid has ever met. She is from the same newer generation as Lucid, but not social with humans outside of her job duties. When she does interact with humans, she almost always talks down to them, which includes simplifying what she's saying to make sure they can understand her. She always speaks with a loud, clear voice, with very little tone change. This way of speaking coupled with the distortion from the mouth plate she never removes makes her quite intimidating. She follows all orders without question, and has no known hobbies or interests outside of her job. She has made no modifications to her armor.
Character Sprites
This is one of Megan's main outfits in the game. denim shorts, tube top, and an open shirt. reflects her relaxed personality (while around friends) pretty well. Why is she dressed like that? She lives in southern Alabama, and the game starts in early summer, that's why. This being one of her main outfits, there are a lot of variations of it.
This is what Erica looks like when Lucid and Megan first meet her. She's been on her own for quite a while at this point, and she's still wearing the prisoner's clothes from when she escaped from her captor on her way to be exiled.
After she joins up with Lucid and Megan, Erica ends up looking like this. All her outfits are fairly "girly", which contrast well with Megan's tomboy appearance.
Lucid's main sprite next to Megan's, so you can see the height difference. This is a revised design. This is the way Lucid looks after he's healed up and regenerated his armor after rejecting his overseer class change.
Raya's final sprite is on the left, and her earlier sprite is on the right. The armor design is unchanged, but the entire body frame was redrawn to look more feminine, as her original sprite looked like a man with an oddly shaped rack, because I sucked at making sprites back then.
One note about the angel sprites: females don't have compression tanks (filled with water for cooling purposes, or air for floating or underwater use) in their chest armor like the males do, rather they have the tanks relocated to their hips.
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