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Diana Sawyer is unsure of her major and direction in life, and wants to get out and improve her social life. She goes to a party hosted by a friend and unexpectedly stumbles upon vampires. Dragged over to a doctor, she opts to have her mind wiped but ends up immune to the effects of a vampire bite, discovering that while she has a bit of magic in her, so do a ton of other people. Special without uniqueness.

She eventually decides to take more steps in improving her life through means such as going out and making friends, running an advice column, and practicing her magic even if it is worthless because there’s still something to gain in terms of discipline.

She ends up becoming the catalyst for the other vampires becoming decent company for each other, and due to that, inadvertently lets --- die. As they all scramble to figure out who killed --- and the circumstances and implications in their own lives, she keeps pushing forward and ends up becoming more content and confident in herself in more healthy ways by the end of the story. After all, even if you have the death of someone close to you happen, you still have exams to study for and groceries to buy.

She dies early in Everard’s route. It’s not a particularly big deal since we still tag along with her.

Bernard

Dr. Bernard is looking for a way for vampires to avoid having to bite people to survive. He intends to create a pill substitute that will be able to fulfill nutritional needs. Though it will not absolve vampires wholly, it allows for vampires to take longer breaks between feedings — an issue pointed out by Diana in the demo. He hasn’t reached a solution, in part due to the intangibility of magic and its lack of inherent rules. Likely works in collaboration with Seb's ex, among potentially others.

Eventually killed.

The Afterlife
There’s a coup in Hell and no one expected it to succeed. Satan disappeared and now walks the Earth, now a human and a touch amnesiatic. Because demons can die in the human world, the demons mobilized to keep an eye on him until he can return to his place in Hell. Everard, his second-in-command temporarily takes his place. The stakes are suddenly higher when Charlotte decides to go after the highest-ranking magical officials in the pursuit of a redemption of her own.

This is not known to the player in the main route. What is known is people are dying, including Dr. Bernard (albeit not for the same reasons that Yvonne would have you think), and that when Satan does eventually recover he name drops his girlfriend (the same one Diana makes friends with around December to give her a friend outside the main four) and reveals that she basically networked in all the right places..

Charlotte
Charlotte wants to go to Heaven. She receives a test of character that supposedly states that God wants her to blindly kill certain infidels at her discretion. She goes through with it and fails the test, officially after killing the doctor. Since, well, you’d figure redemption would involve not going eye for an eye and killing other people.

The loss of redemption throws her so off kilter that she has a change of plans -- by killing more vampires she can amass more power and get herself out of eternal damnation, albeit forcefully (although perhaps not impossible. She actually doesn’t care by this point.) From there, she begins to get more sloppy in her killings and who she picks off, although she always aims for those with a high concentration of power. It’s due to this that the afterlife people are worried about her accidentally carking off Satan, and officially get involved with mortal life affairs. This saves Diana’s life.

Vampires

Essentially, their character arcs in one bite.

MADISON.
Rough around the edges, but still one of the morally better members of the cast. It’d be easier for everyone if her confidence was mere bluster that hid a lot of insecurity, but alas. She still has her doubts, but for better and worse she’s exceedingly confident in a lot of her circumstances. She wishes others would stop doubting her, though, because even if she acts otherwise she finds it prudent to at least consider what other people think (even if it’s usually garbage.) Even if she’s not wrong in her points, her execution is sorely lacking.

When she does have doubts, they cripple her and her relationships. She may crush on Diana, she may crush on someone else, but either way, she has to realize that sometimes you have to lead in with words before you demonstrate with actions and that communication is incredibly important. During Spring Break, she confesses to Diana and Diana thinks she’s just being used as some sort of stepping stone experimental or whatever, college be like that. She rectifies it within the vacation itself, although she has to work a fair amount for it. Diana may feel a little insecure in relation to her at times (Madison knows her major, has her aesthetic, etc.), even if she knows that at the end of the day they’re on even ground. Reassurance is an important tool.

FORREST.
A hypocrite. He admires a man who doesn’t love him back romantically, and has issues with the age gap between him and Diana as friendship turns to romantic admiration, even though those same issues would exist in the relationship he seemingly wants with the doctor. He’s the only main route that doesn’t have a real relationship upgrade at Spring Break, instead opting for a couple flings w/ her that stay at Spring Break that eventually segway into something a little more soft later on.

Advocates healthy practices both physically and emotionally, but doesn’t allow himself to use them. Doesn’t necessarily feel guilty about the murders that occured when he turned (it’s been 30 years, after all) and he’s a little concerned about not feeling bad about that. Something has to give as he keeps asking for the impossible. Jealous that his best friend has managed to have a romantic relationship, combined with the valid concern that she’s a literal sex demon. In general, a lot of his issues are half him being obstinate and half legitimate concerns.

SEBASTIÁN.
A thrillseeker, he’s done it all and he’s still not content. Forces himself to do things with the intent of developing his character, but because he’s so conscious of it he doesn’t actually change as a person. His ex come back into town and while they’re a great person, they have Seb’s number in terms of his frustration at his own stagnation. Thinks he wants freedom, but can’t even find that as a pirate or similar illegal mercenary. But there is a small hole in the wall book store. He takes more pride in it than he thinks he should. (see: Catherine in Olivine Arc or Dog Days as a whole. “All young men take the League Challenge and grow up because of it, right? I can do that. I have to do that. I need something.”)

When his ex comes back in town, Diana misreads the situation and they get into a fake dating scenario. If she sticks on his route, this ends up bringing a fair amount of frustration and confusion that he enables on  more active but shallow frequency versus Forrest, although they get resolved during Spring Break. Also other dates too of course, but boy needs an ice breaker.

Needs: a confrontation of chasing the dragon versus what ultimately makes him happy so he can realize that’s what it does. (The feeling of staying here with the bookstore or going on another platonic adventure with his ex.)

YVONNE.
Not a hypocrite, but in denial, the easiest to get lost in her passions/frenizes. When she’s so used to the known,  she doesn’t necessarily want the real unknown, nor chases modesty or humbleness when she worked hard for her comfort. She quits while she’s ahead and busies herself with shallow hobbies that still give her a sincere amount of satisfaction, but she also knows she’s just biding time. She also has a sweet, if questionable deal with the devil -- the newbies could use a guiding figure, and Yvonne can use the connections. It’s concerning when she doesn’t have any new requests to visit when the story starts.

At Spring Break, she learns that her brother is tired. She still can’t admit to herself openly that she’s just as tired. He won’t go before her, though, because he cares for her and honestly, she just needs to rip off the bandaid. She just has to work past the apprehension of diving into unknown territory without all the advantages she concretely knows she has. Also, abandonment issues because she’s lost a lot of people, and the doctor was her best friend and her brother is pulling something dirty with his ultimatum (or lack therof.)

When Diana confesses to her at Spring Break, Yvonne says she accepts but she doesn’t necessarily show it. It may get so severe that all they achieve is a bit of hand holding and that Yvonne still treats her like a child. Diana has to put her foot down. Well, at the right time. They’re both busy when the doctor dies, so it’d be after.

CHARLOTTE.
[Redacted]


EVERARD.

He’s done... some very cruel things, and not just to Diana’s loved ones but also they’re the important ones so y’know, lmao. It’s not hard to imagine how well Diana is going to take the fact that they’re basically yanking Yvonne’s chain this entire time while they’re literally catering to the Doctor and trying to nudge him over with a bit of help when Yvonne has been terrified... because she’s a great field agent. But also she keeps insisting she’s doing fine, so, y’know. Also given that he’s coworkers with Diana’s Dad that’s a fair bit of fun.

It’s likely to be a story that focuses on different characters while balancing that Diana still cares about everyone left down below, and she’s spreading herself thin but for us/the readers it makes sense that we don’t do a full in-depth retelling of the game from an afterlife perspective so much as simply commentating on it. And also showing that even if Di isn’t around to finish off their character arcs, they still stumble upon into their own solutions. Diana probably... honestly? She takes that a little poorly. No one wants to be replaceable, after all, and she’s never been the best person.