Extended Character Insight – Aclysia

Ah, Aclysia. My personal second favourite in the story. For lots of reasons.

Aclysia is based on two things:

This picture: http://nanomortis.deviantart.com/art/Howl-At-The-Universe-604771045

And

This Songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_me0K7gSAdc

Now the picture is not actually representative of what she looks like (Although she could with the whole body morphing thing) but it was the base from where I started to create her. For the song, it really has this eerily but fascinating vibe to me that I want to try and capture with this character. I hope I can partly share that with you, if you don’t feel it by Mid-Season 3 I have failed in that aspect.

With Aclysia I ran into problems a couple of times. She was intended to be one of the earlier introduced characters but the way the world was designed I had no way to bring her back from the dead easily and if I had her alive and well the reverence Uklag had for her would have been warped into a different direction, which I didn’t want. So she was kept in the dark for a long time, literally. I kept to mentioning her works and revealing that living metal ahead of time. At that point I didn’t know if I could use it for her specifically but I wanted to get the pieces in place already, I had a backup plan ready involving some other cult of five shenanigans in case I needed to get cut the living metal from the story.

Luckily however the chapter-master informed me about the existence of spirits. Little balls or thingies of nature energy, of low intellect but potentially powerful. From there on I started to formulate a convoluted plan to her requiem that boiled down to a three-step plan.

1. Aclysia created the living metal (Now called Eclys because I have no creativity an neither does she)

2. Aclysia bound her soul to the living metal and a spirit

3. The ritual to bring it all together failed due to low magical energy

With all of that in place I could have brought her into the fray. It felt however like cheating to have Uklag have enough magical energy to actually be able to measure up to this challenge. Aclysia is a massively important character to the storyline and I feel that even the introduction I gave her was too short to sell that.

However, with the problem of the ‘How’ taken care of I now needed to design her. Although the face you see in the picture is reminiscent of what I was going for hair, ears and body all needed to be described. I went for a more classy, elegant approach as I already had Alratha for the hourglass, Catherine for the normal, athletic size and the twins for the small tits, nice arse combination. Lastly, I changed her eye colour from red to light green because I didn’t want a second albino and it created a parallel to Uklag.

Fun fact she actually had blue hair in life (Which is weird enough) But she went with the last hair colour she saw in the mirror for her revival. Remember she died at the age of >70.

Now came the hardest part: Character. I knew what I wanted. I wanted a mixture psychopath and autistic genius. Not the crazy kind, no, the quiet, keeping to herself not understanding morals kind of deal. I said that her alignment is ‘True Neutral’ and that holds true to me.

Aclysia doesn’t care about morals all that matters to her is results. She will do everything to gain knowledge, she will swipe away any obstacle, she will walk every path, she will dissect every last thing in existence if she needs to. Aclysia is supposed to be the true monster of this story and stands opposing to Uklag.

Uklag did things for himself and himself only. He was extremely selfish in his approach and only took risks if he thought the outcome to be more favourable. Aclysia doesn’t chase knowledge for herself, she does because she feels that she HAS to on an instinctual level. What Aclysia does is terrible but has an ultimately positive outcome for the communities she works for as sciences rapidly advances wherever she works. Yet still Uklag wasn’t as much of a monster because he knew that what he was doing was for himself and immoral. Aclysia straight up doesn’t understand morality and she would **** millions without a care to find an answer.

The problem I have with writing Aclysia is that I want to have her show as little emotions as possible without making her boring. She should feel alienating, but still human. Just because she suppresses her feeling doesn’t mean she doesn’t have any. It is important to me that people can identify with Aclysia on some level. After all if you don’t you can be alienated when she does something truly out of line.

That was the extended character insight for Aclysia. If you have any further questions please write a comment or send me a direct message.

Funatic OUT!