OOC!
For my own amusement, a more detailed story of Edgar!
Edgar, as you might already know, used to be an astronaut. He left his life behind, expecting to come back in a reasonable timeframe.
He passed through a blackhole, his ship was damaged, and in what seemed to be three days to get back to Earth, 10,000 years had gone by, and the world was reduced to ruins.
However, there was the dust.
The dust grants Edgar psionic powers of a sort. He can reshape the dust into, so far, absolutely anything he thinks of. Some things require more focus, more willpower.
As he went on, he gained greater control of his powers, and he began to rebuilt the planet he remembered. However, he was still the only man left alive.
So, he began to work on people.
Many, many attempts failed, day after day, month after month. They all crumbled into stone, dust, becoming nothing.
Until, eventually, he managed to remake his girlfriend, Freia.
From there, he went on, each person easier than the last. His best friend first. And then, just people.
Masses and masses of people.
The planet was rebuilt, and repopulated.
Yet, Edgar felt quite empty. For everything and everyone he had made was simply a memory. He nicknamed them visions.
Edgar has tried to wipe the slate and unmake everything, since they were all just memories. His friend stopped him. This lead to both of them being sealed away for a prolonged amount of time. The dust, which has an amnesia quality, made them lose all their memories of what had come before, making them completely unaware of the truth. Edgar's locket, which contains a photo of Freia, drove him to obsession with who the woman was until he found her and found out the truth of his past.
This is our Edgar. The game continues on from there, where Edgar tries to unmake the planet again and is stopped, but we need our Edgar alive, don't we?
There's still more to the story.
There is one important secret Edgar still holds. His health was declining, back before he was put into the sleep and forgot who he was. He was not going to recover.
So, he made a copy of himself.
This is the Edgar you speak to. The one who switches between not caring about the copies and hating them. He, himself, is just a memory of himself. A vision. He knows this. He's seen it in the memory boxes.
He refuses to admit it. He refuses to accept it. To him, he is real, he is alive, he is not a fake, it is all the others that are fakes.
This is his fatal flaw. If he delves into the memories too much, or into the nature of reality and falseness, he begins to become enraged and maddened. He is unpredictable in this state.
He keeps it a secret.
A secret he doesn't truly believe.
What's more, this copy was made to take care of the world.
Funny how things work out, huh?
Next - perhaps more detailed character profiles from the game.
Edgar, as you might already know, used to be an astronaut. He left his life behind, expecting to come back in a reasonable timeframe.
He passed through a blackhole, his ship was damaged, and in what seemed to be three days to get back to Earth, 10,000 years had gone by, and the world was reduced to ruins.
However, there was the dust.
The dust grants Edgar psionic powers of a sort. He can reshape the dust into, so far, absolutely anything he thinks of. Some things require more focus, more willpower.
As he went on, he gained greater control of his powers, and he began to rebuilt the planet he remembered. However, he was still the only man left alive.
So, he began to work on people.
Many, many attempts failed, day after day, month after month. They all crumbled into stone, dust, becoming nothing.
Until, eventually, he managed to remake his girlfriend, Freia.
From there, he went on, each person easier than the last. His best friend first. And then, just people.
Masses and masses of people.
The planet was rebuilt, and repopulated.
Yet, Edgar felt quite empty. For everything and everyone he had made was simply a memory. He nicknamed them visions.
Edgar has tried to wipe the slate and unmake everything, since they were all just memories. His friend stopped him. This lead to both of them being sealed away for a prolonged amount of time. The dust, which has an amnesia quality, made them lose all their memories of what had come before, making them completely unaware of the truth. Edgar's locket, which contains a photo of Freia, drove him to obsession with who the woman was until he found her and found out the truth of his past.
This is our Edgar. The game continues on from there, where Edgar tries to unmake the planet again and is stopped, but we need our Edgar alive, don't we?
There's still more to the story.
There is one important secret Edgar still holds. His health was declining, back before he was put into the sleep and forgot who he was. He was not going to recover.
So, he made a copy of himself.
This is the Edgar you speak to. The one who switches between not caring about the copies and hating them. He, himself, is just a memory of himself. A vision. He knows this. He's seen it in the memory boxes.
He refuses to admit it. He refuses to accept it. To him, he is real, he is alive, he is not a fake, it is all the others that are fakes.
This is his fatal flaw. If he delves into the memories too much, or into the nature of reality and falseness, he begins to become enraged and maddened. He is unpredictable in this state.
He keeps it a secret.
A secret he doesn't truly believe.
What's more, this copy was made to take care of the world.
Funny how things work out, huh?
Next - perhaps more detailed character profiles from the game.