OVERSEERS: CONCEPT BOOK

Overseers Yan Castelo

Table of Contents Overseers World...........................................................................8 Utopia .........................................................................8 Terreneum...............................................................18 Miasma.....................................................................28 The Utopian Creator.............................................30 Overseers.................................................................32

Characters Overseers..................................................................41 Svent Fortuna.........................................................42 Terah Miguel D. Frisco........................................46 Ray.............................................................................50 Inigo J. Del Rosario................................................54 Ysabelle Tan............................................................57 Kyle Tan...................................................................60 Athena.......................................................................63 Gaius..........................................................................66 Noah Domini...........................................................70 Isha Hadid.................................................................71 Laurence Hou.........................................................72 Alisha Joshi..............................................................73 Zara Fuentes...........................................................74

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Terreneum...............................................................79 Lucan.........................................................................80 Owais..........................................................................81 Tia...............................................................................82 “Grandma”................................................................83 Ma. Felicidad D. Frisco.........................................86 Gabriel the III DS. Frisco......................................87 Kenneth Tan...........................................................88 Fei Hong Tan..........................................................89 Utopia........................................................................91 Col. Valencia Koenig.............................................92 Lt. Byeol Choi..........................................................95 Caelum Elton...........................................................98 Lyra Coleman..........................................................99 Gen. Cathia Riegel...............................................100 Lt. Zeke Hawk......................................................101 Gen. Leon Heliodoro...........................................102 Marcus Dunford..................................................105 Stella Dunford......................................................107 Claudia Dunford..................................................109 Neil Dunford..........................................................110 Julio Del Rosario...................................................111

Overseers is set in post-apocalyptic Earth, year 2118.

Two cities above and below earth were created; Arbelos, the underwater globe and business district and the Ouranos, the city of the skies and the political district. Around the year 2112, the world slowly became enveloped in a fatal, star-like gas called miasma. As the miasma became worse, this made more and more wealthy people move to Arbelos and Ouranos and eventually founded the country comprising the two cities– Utopia.

For Utopia to thrive despite its isolation from earth’s resources, they deemed themselves those chosen by their god, “The Creator” and governed those left on earth; Terreneum.

With their unjust governance, Overseers was founded by Gaius to revolt against the Utopian Empire.

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Utopia

A religious-imperialist nation that comprises two cities; the sky metropolis of Ouranos and the underwater globe of Arbelos. Loosely based of American and religious imperialism/ capitalism.

Ouranos • Government central; the sky is kind of a metaphor for their uppitiness. Led by Superior Dunford.

• More religious. Gaslights Terreneans into thinking they’re sinful and that Utopians are their superior saviors.

• Thinks they’re chosen by God because they were blessed, when really they just have stolen money.

• Tends to promote white/cishet supremacy; thinks POC and LGBT people are in need of “saving” from their “sins” • Characterized by light blues and teals, reds for “Roman”-ness digital Sistine fresco and cloud projections, wings, heavenly skies and water fountains that come from Arbelos.

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Ouranos, Utopia Ouranos, Utopi

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Ouranos Cathedral

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Ouranos Cathedral, Interior

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Utopianism/Creatorianism •

The Utopian creator magically built the Utopian cities and they believe that citizens of Utopia are favored by God (the creator) as they were saved from the miasma.

• Vaguely based on Catholicism/Christianity and its cooperation with Capitalism.

• Reeks of self-importance, messianic complex and elitism amongst Utopians.

• Colonies are colonies because of this religion; a lot of Terreneans believe in it as well through propaganda and etc…

Ouranos Cathedral, Council room

Arbelos, Utopia

Arbelos •

Economic central; has lots of sea resources; still privatized water despite being in the literal sea. Led by superior Dunford.

• More capitalistic and dehumanizing in nature. Media shows how hard work is valued.

• Characterized by its futuristic teals and ocean blues, with modern blocky, mirror buildings. Reminiscent of American Imperialist propaganda.

Terreneum

Contains Utopian colonies on Earth that were formerly countries. Colonies feel the effects of the miasmatic apocalypse more depending on their circumstances (financial, climate, etc…). Mostly exploited/looked down upon

by Utopians.

Depends on the area, pretty much just looks like Earth but some post-human natureinfested buildings, Chernobyl-esque.

Global Summit City • A Utopian colony that is crucial to trades between Terreneum, Arbelos and Ouranos, as it contains the physical bridge between the three and the rest of the world– The Utopian Elevator.

• Vaguely New York-like. Combination of red and blue to resemble it being “neutral” Territory • Dark and wet, it’s often rainy and hidden from the sun, making it less ideal for miasmatic conditions, however, is heavily populated due to its proximity to the elevator.

Terreneum

Global Summit City

GSC Elevator train

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Abandoned Church, Terreneum

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Bridgetown • It also is the bridge that connects Utopia to its nearest colonies, this is a hub of criminal activity for the Terrenean Underworld.

• Criminal activity is actually heavily handled by Utopians.

• Due to the big gap between rich and poor in GSC, this is the “poorer” area. The rich people need to have a common area with the people they’re exploiting.

Kaiser Bridge

Bridgetown Terreneum

Bridgetown motel

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Miasma

A mysterious and lethal gas that had gradually started to manifest over time all over the world.

Properties • Tends to be hard to understand as it does not conform to standard laws of physics.

• Remains in gaseous state under most conditions • Thus, is most reactive in this state.

• When breathed in, tends to release energy (from the life it sucks) and cause internal burns/damage, eventually death.

• Later revealed to be reactive to life force itself via blood, the reason why ordinary humans are incompatible with it.

• Characterized by the way it makes it look like there are stars around the place, and looks more like a galaxy in higher concentrations.

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Effect mitigation • Concentration and death rate varied by the following: • Weather/climate • Tends to attract towards hotter places because it’s attracted less density and heat (as it is reminiscent of life) • Rain makes it better, hot days make it worse • Economic status • Richer Utopian colonies tend to have better protection against miasma.

• Means of mitigation/prevention • Tends to vary depending on economic resources, culture, etc…

• Richer colonies control weather (planting rain, etc…)

• Richer individuals tend to have high tech filtration masks • Poorer people just put a handkerchief over their nose and mouth, though sometimes they’re more creative.

• Lower/middle class people use disposable means, like a spray of some sort etc...

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The Utopian Creator

Has the power to manipulate space and time for as long as he has Polaris.

• This means he can speed up, slow down and reverse the process of things; explaining the existence of the Utopian cities.

• He uses his own life force for this; but it’s no problem or incompatibility since he’s god.

• If humans use their own life force, it gets damaged by miasma.

• For Creator-aligned visuals in particular, mostly use pre-Roman Chrstianity, vaguely looks pagan too. Mosaic art, Byzantine Christian churches, muted brownish tones and blues.

• Generally brown + a deeper aquamarine blue to match Utopia. Not the same shade as it is the “purer” version of Utopianism.

• Instead of the cross, use Polaris.

• Grants Gaius the power to manipulate time and space.

Catalyst/Polaris • The Utilization of the Catalyst by human hands; the cause of the miasma apocalypse.

• The miasma is just the Catalyst material in gaseous form. Since human life force is not fully compatible with it, the reaction becomes stuck in gas form to look for more life force to take in order to complete it.

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Overseers •

A rebel group that aims to retrieve the catalyst.

• Founded by Gaius Kaiser, with Terah Frisco as captain • Visually aligned to revolution documents the Spanish/American period Uses fonts historically used in revolutions on “Overseers” itself.

• Color palettes switch from blue (Gaius’ leadership) to red (Terah’s leadership) and use more propagandic imagery.

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Overseers Bar “The Den”

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Overseers Underground Base, Main Hall

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Night and day mode

Gaius’ Office

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Pantry

Bedroom

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Gaius’ Lab

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Characters

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Svent Fortuna Ace & assassin A clever and cunning thief to fund their daily coffee. They are cheeky and playfully rude to keep people at a distance.

Description Age: 24 (12/1/2094) Gender: Non-binary (they/ them) Nationality: Terrenean Personality: Clever, brash, snarky and emotionally unavailable Themes: Changing to be better for others, getting in touch with your feelings and having hope Melee weapon: Knife Ranged weapon: Throwing knife Vehicle: Motorbike (based on 2020 Honda CB500X) Fighting style: Svent is skilled with a knife, for both ranged and melee combat. They make up for their lack of physical strength with clever tactics and target precision.

Other Info: - They are non-binary and switch around presenting femininity and masculinity.

- They enjoy pop-punk and alternative music.

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Svent also wears long hair, depending on the part of the story.

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Terah Miguel D. Frisco Captain The friendly, handsome and valiant captain of Overseers. He is constantly relied on and loved by everyone surrounding him. He feels a little far above everyone with how perfect he seems to be.

Description Age: 25 (08/22/2093) Gender: Male (he/him) Ethnicity/Nationality: Filipino Terrenean Personality: Friendly, cool, level-headed, seems lax, is actually dorky, repressed, selfcritical and petty Themes: Vulnerability and finding self-worth in the right places Melee weapon: Baton Ranged weapon: Rapidfire pistol Vehicle: Sedan car (based on Honda Civic SiR 2000) Other Info: • He is bisexual.

• He did arnis when he was a student.

• He is good at playing guitar and singing.

• Terah’s birthday is the same as the day he was created, though obviously a different year (8/22/2015) Fighting style: He uses a baton as he used to do arnis, and uses a rapidfire pistol due to his unreliable aim. His fighting style focuses on strength, speed and defense. His lack of accuracy and dexterity is made up for his powerful counters and steadfast guard.

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Terah also wears short hair depending on the part of the story.

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Ray Ace & frontliner Despite seeming mysterious and being in a disguise, she overshares, is cheerful, jocular, a bit of an airhead. Despite seeming friendly, her primary goal appears to be revenge.

Description Age: 44 (7/18/2074) Gender: Female (she/her) Ethnicity/Nationality: Terrenean, British and Italian Personality: Bubbly, hedonistic, emotional, impulsive and careless Themes: Accountability and acknowledging one’s feelings Melee weapon: Hand-to-hand combat Ranged weapon: Magnum pistol Vehicle: Motorcycle Fighting style: She does hand-to-hand combat and uses a magnum as her gun. She is very good instincts, thus is incredible at countering and has excellent dexterity. A great fighter, but easy to fool.

Other Info: - She has a heavy British accent.

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Horatia Fortuna, Her true identity.

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Inigo J. Del Rosario Writer On the outside overbearing, little prickly, but it’s quite easy to see he doesn’t think highly of himself. Despite his negative qualities, through his writing, one can see his heart of gold.

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Description Age: 26 (09/28/2092) Gender: Male (He/Him) Ethnicity/Nationality: Filipino Terrenean/ Utopian Personality: Values justice, creative, fakearrogant and self-deprecating Themes: Power in creativity, loving yourself despite everything, how being loved won’t “fix” you Writing style: He tends to use parodies and satire a lot in his writing as a way to take power away from Utopians and expose their hypocrisies.

Other Info: - He was heavily inspired from Philippine revolutionary writers.

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Ysabelle Tan (Fenghuang) | Ace,& frontliner On the outside overbearing, little prickly, but it’s quite easy to see he doesn’t think highly of himself. Despite his negative qualities, through his writing, one can see his heart of gold.

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Description Age: 38 (06/09/2080) Gender: Female (She/her) Ethnicity/Nationality: Filipino-Chinese Terrenean Personality: Cautious, calculated, realistic, stubborn and protective Themes: Living for yourself and your dreams instead of others’ Melee weapon: Bat Ranged weapon: Grenade launcher Fighting style: She uses a bat and grenades as her melee and ranged weapons respectively. Has incredible physical strength with speed as a tradeoff.

Other Info: - She is a lesbian.

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Kyle Tan (Kong Long) | Upper cadet He is earnest and kind, but isn’t the brightest.

He seems a little intimidating at first because he threatens anyone that seems like a threat to his friends, though is fast to get along and makes everyone around him smile.

Description Age: : 27 (04/20/2091) Gender: Male (He/Him) Ethnicity/Nationality: Filipino-Chinese Terrenean Personality: Dense, dull, emotionally perceptive, optimistic and kind-hearted Themes: Striving for more Melee weapon: Brass knuckles Fighting style: He does not use any ranged weapons but punches very hard and fast, and has good dexterity. He tends to be fooled easily and is vulnerable to tricks.

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Athena 椎菜アルヴァ(Alva Shiina) Recruiter, Editor & Firearms Being an underground singer and celebrity, she tends to get her way with her looks and uses it to her advantage. Doing whatever she has to do to get a relatively easy life, she became too lazy to ever focus on using her talents to make something good, rather than something that pleases her audience.

Description Age: 23 (1/28/2095) Gender: Female (She/her) Ethnicity/Nationality: Latina and Japanese Terrenean Personality: Tries to appear soft spoken, useless, pretty and stupid, actually insightful, strong and slobbish.

Themes: Self growth instead of pleasing others, how celebrity culture is not right Ranged weapon: Switch sniper-rifle-machine gun, RPG Fighting style: She is very bad at melee combat, but is excellent at firearms. She is able to use different kinds of guns for the best occasion.

Best fights from a distance.

Other Info: - She is a trans woman, Her rifle switches, But her RPG is a separate entity.

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Gaius Founder and leader The leader of Overseers. Whimsical and curious, but his ethreal aura is inherently mysterious. He seems to know a lot about the catalysts and asks Overseers to give him its fragments to give him the power to help them fight against Utopia’s oppression.

Description Gender: Agender (Primarily he/him, uses any) Ethnicity/Nationality: Utopian, Terrenean Personality: Cautious, calculated, realistic, stubborn and protective Themes: Small vs. collective, gray morality, the intervention of the powerful and lack thereof Melee weapon: Polaris Ranged weapon: Polaris abilities Fighting style: Gaius is an excellent and graceful swordfighter that is capable of using spaceand-time-manipulating magic which can create waves of matter and reverse attacks.

Other Info: • He is agender, though chooses to present masculinely, but is inherently fine with being called anything.

• He likes Astronomy, astrology, archeology, architecture, • alcohol • He dislikes lottery and anything that relies on luck.

• He chose “Kaiser” as his pseudo surname.

• “Gaius” is shorter version for a longer name.

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Noah Domini Communications head & lower cadet Age: 22 Gender: Male (he/him) Ethnicity/Nationality: Black American Terrenean Personality: Lax, friendly, cheerful, defensive.

Weapon: Combat knife, taser Notes: Former sneakerhead, f-boy and clout-chaser. There’s a lot of substance and knowledge in his words, though says a lot of irrelevant things too.

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Isha Hadid Medical head & lower cadet Age: 23 Gender: Female (she/her, trans) Ethnicity/Nationality: GS Citizen Personality: Sassy, whiny, honest, analytical and genuinely caring.

Weapon: Metal water bottle, healing gun Notes: Former med student who wanted to be in the health industry because of how terribly they treated minorities, including LGBT people. Genuinely caring behind all the sass.

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Laurence Hou Logistics head & lower cadet Age: 21 Gender: Male (he/him) Ethnicity/Nationality: Hongkongese GS Citizen Weapon: Explosives Personality: Pretentious, realistic, compassionate Notes: Token cishet. Likes adult cartoons.

East Asian vape carboy. Former upper-middle class. The voice of reason, but also constantly made fun of for being the way he is.

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Alisha Joshi Weapons and research head Age: 18 Gender: Female (she/her) Ethnicity/Nationality: Indian Singaporean GS Citizen Personality: Innocent, nerdy, overlyenthusiastic Note: Engineering genius that loves to mod gadgets and her video games. Also likes practical but elegant fashion. Really gullible and most likely to be the victim to pranks.

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Zara Fuentes Base guard & bartender Age: 39 Gender: Female (she/her) Ethnicity/Nationality: Mexican Terrenean Personality: Tired, listener, caring.

Weapon: Shotgun Notes: Guards the base entrance by being the bartender. Loves to listen to drunk people rant as entertainment.

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Lucan Age: 16 Gender: Male (he/him) Ethnicity: Polynesian Personality: Edgy, easily amused, values justice Note: Trans man. Sees Svent as model figure.

Very vocal about social issues and loves to (successfully) bully ignorant white teens.

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Owais Age: 16 Gender: Male (he/him) Ethnicity/Nationality: Indonesian and Black Personality: Kind, pious, Lax Note: He is Muslim.

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Tia Owais’ (figurative) little sister.

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“Grandma” Lucan’s grandmother.

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Ma. Felicidad D. Frisco Gender: Female (she/her) Personality: Doting, caring, passiveaggressive, conservative, self-victimizing Note: She is Terah’s deceased mother. While showing she genuinely cares about Terah, she psychologically damaged him with her excessive devotion to Catholicism and traditionalism.

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Gabriel the III DS. Frisco Gender: Male (he/him) Personality: Jocular, supportive, affectionate, pushover Note: He is Terah’s father. While he was more emotionally supportive, he wasn’t as present as his mother, and was always unquestioning and a pushover to Felicidad’s abusive tendencies.

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Kenneth Tan Gender: Male (he/him) Personality: Naive, dim, altruistic Story He fell in love with Kyle’s mother.

He became Kyle and Ysa’s father by accident.

On the time Utopia was being created by Marcus, he was aware of the consequences that using the catalyst would incur. He ended up being one of the people killed for the creation of Utopia.

Note: He is Ysa and Kyle’s lost father.

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Fei Hong Tan Age: 60+ Gender: Female (She/her) Personality: Power-hungry, sharp, commanding, has a soft spot for younger loved ones Ethnicity/Nationality: Chinese GS Citizen/ Utopian Note: Ysa and Kyle’s grandmother, and also the woman that monopolized the clean and potable water supply of Utopia. She’s also a highly religious Utopian.

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Col. Valencia Koenig Colonel of Unit 6-6 Valencia is an earnest Utopian colonel with great skill. While good-hearted, she is very self-important and tends to speak over people. She also tends not to understand the systematic oppression Utopia does, as her patriotism makes her oblivious to it.

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Description Age: 35 Gender: Female (she/her) Ethnicity/Nationality: White (German) Utopian Personality: Overconfident, brash, messianic.

Weapon: Laser baston, Laser machine gun Themes: Being part of a system that inherently oppresses is being complicit Fighting style: While her luck is incredibly bad, she makes up for it with her great ability to disarm and counter opponents with great force.

Note: A white feminist in every meaning it could entail. Looks to empower minorities in inherently oppressive structures. She’s kind of uppity in terms of taste but is overall terribly unfashionable.

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Lt. Byeol Choi Lieutentant of the Unit 6-6 An incredibly lax lieutenant that constantly gets into trouble, but his intellect, skill and charm is what keeps him indispensable.

Highly against the Utopians, he licks boots to help out those who are victimized by his fellow Utopians. He would have gotten a higher position if only he weren’t always causing trouble.

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Description Age: 28 Gender: Male (he/him) Ethnicity/Nationality: Korean Utopian Weapon: Pistol and rapidfire laser handguns Themes: Proper allyship Personality: Lax, sneaky, unfiltered when he can be, balanced.

Fighting style: He is quite clumsy, though has incredibly good luck and knows how to use his luck and speed to his advantage.

Note: Token cishet. Decided to go to the militarypolice to be a snitch on them and rob its facilities. Constantly criticizes the system, has gotten in trouble several times for being suspicious and bailing people without warrant/unjustly detained. Knows how to get out of tough situations and win. He has cats to feed and gachas to roll. He’s known to start a lot of trouble, but has grown indispensable due to his skill.

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Caelum Elton Cadet of Unit 6-6 Age: 19 Gender: Male (he/him) Ethnicity/Nationality: Utopian Weapon: Laser pistol Personality: Posh, uppity, performative, selfcentered.

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Lyra Coleman Cadet of Unit 6-6 Age: 19 Gender: Female (she/her) Ethnicity/Nationality: Utopian Weapon: Laser pistol Personality: “Neoliberal white feminist�, soft, earnest, tone-deaf.

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Gen. Cathia Riegel General of the 6th Legion Age: 41 Gender: Female (she/her) Ethnicity/Nationality: Utopian Weapon: Laser baston, combat laser knife Personality: Strict, structured, disciplined, realistic.

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Lt. Zeke Hawk Colonel of Unit 6-7 Age: 22 Gender: Male (he/him) Ethnicity/Nationality: Utopian Weapon: Laser machine gun, laser canon Personality: Violent, gullible, stupid, grumpy.

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Gen. Leon Heliodoro Military-Police Superior of Utopia The military council head and the top general of the Utopian Military Police. He is cold and calculating and incredibly intolerant of bad behavior. He dedicates himself reverently to the Utopian creator.

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Description Age: 40’s-50’s Gender: Male (he/him) Nationality: Utopian Personality: Obsessive, strict, introverted Themes: Centricsm doesn’t help anyone but the oppressor Melee weapon: North Star Fighting style: He is an incredibly skilled fighter in every aspect, though his weakness is that his age holds back his stamina, and he does not possess ranged weapons..

Other Info: • Note: As he becomes attached to Marcus’ family, he becomes the kids’ babysitter.

• Everyone finds it weird he’s still wielding a sword at this day and age.

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Marcus Dunford Council Superior of Utopia Charming and handsome for his age, the people of Utopia are incredibly fond of him.

He is sad and self-pitying, so he pays much attention to his reputation and looks to satisfy his compulsive desire to be liked.

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Description Age: 50+ Gender: Male (he/him) Ethnicity/Nationality: White Utopian (Formerly American) Personality: Extravagant, self-centered, lonely Themes: Having a hard life doesn’t justify being evil

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Stella Dunford Economic Superior of Utopia Extravagant and loud, Stella Dunford outwardly enjoys the wealth she gets from Marcus Dunford, despite thinking of him as incredibly pathetic. She hates Utopianism and thinks of it only as a tool, and loves to have fun through hedonism.

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Description Age: 50+ Gender: Female (she/her) Ethnicity/Nationality: White Utopian Personality: Entitled, extravagant, “typical rich tita�

Note: She is the best mom and spoils her grandchildren rotten. She is the wife of Marcus; a co-imperialist. Occasionally indulges in the vices her economic policies control. Is fully aware that Utopianism is nothing but a political tool thus is not religious at all.

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Claudia Dunford First Daughter of Utopia Age: 14 Gender: Female (she/her) Ethnicity/Nationality: Utopian Personality: Spoiled, adventurous, hardheaded.

Note: She is Marcus’ daughter. Try-hard influencer that always ends up being offensive.

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Neil Dunford First Son of Utopia Age: 17 Gender: Male (he/him) Nationality: Utopian Personality: Probably spends a lot of time in 4chan and Reddit; insufferable white teenager.

Note: He is Marcus’ son.

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Julio Del Rosario Stella’s employee Age: 50+ Gender: Male (he/him) Note: Inigo’s corrupt uncle. Constantly tells Inigo to follow him to Utopia and can get him a high-paying job there but he is always refused.

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Credits Creator Yan Castelo |@terahsvent Main editors Cato Pii Proofreaders Cato Pii Zeph Emblem Designer Maegan Thank you guys for helping me make this project <3 I would also like to thank everyone whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s excited for this hehe <3 -Yan

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