Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. - Mark Twain

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details!! - original by Milleto

I DOODLE HER A LOT WHEN I'M FEELING HAPPY OR SAD SO THERE'S ONE BILLION DOODLES OF HER IN MY FOLDERS
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Name: Alexandria
I usually call her Alex or Colonel (because Colonel Xanders..................)
Age: Teens?

High-levelled Genesis player (though not competitive), generally hangs out with Trin (IRL schoolmate) and Aludra.

There's a lot of stuff typed up all over the place so I'll just paste them here

Theme: courage.
She's very stoic, almost nothing freaks her out (on the other hand, her brother is rather a lot more high-strung)...I think she manages to convince herself that it's not real, so even when she's watching horror movies, or standing before Roy in VR she can keep her cool...until she learns that WE (or rather WE-related things?) can actually physically affect people (Aldric to be specific), and then runs into WE/Rei herself...
I want her to think about how she's distancing herself from everything by telling herself it's not real (sort of) and how to deal when it actually is real and she has to face up to it in order to protect the people she cares about.

story

I was thinking about this in terms of how it'd look in a game...so ye I'm not sure if I'll actually make a game I WANT TO DO IT!! but just in case spoilers.

A week or so ago
- Aldric was found unconscious and alone in a secluded place, no trace of what happened to him
- He was still online (AR) at the time
- Discovered by Aludra, who went to look for him - she can check up his GPS location ok, this is totally a feature, your friends can see where exactly you are (if you let them + you're online)

Shortly before start of summer
- Aludra talks about it to Trin and Alex, she's obvs upset and wants to look into it
- Stuff above can be flashback
- She had a quick look around at the time but didn't see anything
- Suggests they meet up and have a better look around the place when the holidays start
- ^this would also be Aludra's first IRL meetup with both of them, might as well do it since it's the holidays

Last day of school
- Test of courage activity with Alex/Trin/their classmates. The supposedly haunted school building at night
- Not actually haunted, but has some AR props set up
- WE coincidentally shows up at school that night. Unwitting classmate wanders in thinking it's part of the setup, gets KO'd.
- Alex also wanders in, but only catches sight of Rei escaping. Between the somewhat unnerving environment and an unconscious classmate she logs out of AR, calls for help
- When her classmates catch up, she mentions the AR world being weird, but no one else currently logged in sees anything and it's gone when she logs in to check again.

Start of holidays
- As it happens the meeting's called off because Trin and Aludra both happen to be busy on the scheduled date
- Alex decides to pop down and have a look anyway
- It's an abandoned place that's overrun with wild plants, somewhat well known to urban explorers. See Helensburgh (abandoned train station) for visual reference, I'd love an underground/below ground level station with skylights (for the plants to grow) though...
- She doesn't see anything particuarly weird there, the AR system still works there though
- She runs into Roy there though, he's sniffing out Rei's trail pretty much
- After some discussion (the specific content of which I haven't decided upon) Roy decides to follow Alex because 1. a human who has a clue about what he's looking for; 2. if he keeps wandering around in normal form people are gonna fight him in VR, he can't go into heavily populated areas

Somewhere in the middle of the story...
- Alex encounters WE again and finds, of all people, Aldric wandering about in it.
- She talks to him and he responds normally, albeit a bit confused.
- He doesn't recall how he got there. Unsure how he should respond if asked about being in a coma. He gives the impression that he got separated from his body but can't seem to wake up.
- Up until now, aside from the initial unfortunate classmate, she hasn't had any particularly upsetting experiences in WE, but for caution's sake she wants to get both of them safely out of WE before deciding how to handle the situation.
- I'm not sure if I want to drag this out over a few days' worth of activity (that is, WE (in its usual fickleness) reappears consistently in the same place over the span of a few days; Alex logs out to exit and comes back to help Aldric find a way out into normal VR space)
- Alex warms up to Aldric a little; as odd as it might seem walking around in a virtual junkyard with a comatose patient he's great to talk to, it's really calming even in such a creepy place
- Then something attacks - possibly Rei or Eve herself, and Aldric's avatar is destroyed, possibly by defending Alex, who manages to escape.
- She didn't have the strength to save him. She thought there was hope of waking him up, but if what she met was Aldric's soul (of some sort), then he's probably never going to wake up again ever, and it was her fault that she couldn't save him. It's more than just a digital problem that can be solved by logging out now.
- Sometime soon she meets up with Aludra to visit Aldric in hospital again and she thinks she should mention that this happened, that Aldric is actually gone now but she doesn't have the heart/courage to.

- Eventually it's revealed that it's some digital Aldric clone (an AI) and not the guy himself. No particular idea why or how that phenomenon occurred, it's probably happened more than once. Maybe it happens to everyone who's been sent into a coma by WE?

people

@Trin
BFFs

@Aludra
Also BFFs

@Casper
Her elder brother