Stella

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A kind young woman who treats everyone gently and politely. Apparently entrusted with administration and management of the ship, she strives to ensure that everyone is as comfortable as possible.

## Appearance

Stella is fairly tall; she has blue-green hair with orange highlights and blue eyes with a mole on her left cheek. She wears light pink lipstick and indigo earrings, with a pink band resembling a flower that wraps around her head.

Her outfit consists of a long, dark indigo and white dress, whose hem resembles a flower, worn below a modified cloak with multicolored strips increasing in length evenly around the collar. She wears tinted pantyhose with white pump boots. Her dress extends over her hands and cuts off at the palms, with purple translucent sleeves that flare radially about the elbow and cut off under short, white finger gloves. She is commonly seen holding a hot pink clipboard and pen with a star charm.

## Personality

Prim and proper as expected of a ship's steward, Stella is the quintessential image of a gentle, capable ship's overseer. However, Stella is not without faults nor feelings of her own; perhaps she is too swayed by her desire to save face at times, given her quick inclination to bend to the words of others in the name of service.

Internally, however, she is consumed by the longing to feel genuine human emotions: all of them, be they malevolent, bittersweet, or ecstatic. She cannot easily verbalize her feelings, so she instead chooses to communicate through her actions, perhaps a motivation behind her self-sacrificial nature, emphasized through her saving the player as Guardian Angel and voluntarily revealing herself as a target.

As Gnosia, Stella takes this desire for authentic emotions to an extreme level, willing to sabotage and use force to learn how to feel like she were truly human, such as her defeat ending when playing as a male MC. Her fascination with human emotions, particularly love and companionship, is also visible through her treatment of the MC as a whole.

## Playstyle

**Max Abilities:**

* Charisma 27
* Intuition 18
* Logic 42
* Charm 27.5
* Performance 30.5
* Stealth 29

While lacking any stats that are outright just *awful*, most of Stella's abilities are middling with the exception of her excellent Logic. This makes Stella the sort of character who tends not to really stand out during the debates, commonly ending up eliminated one way or another or making it to the end with little fanfare. Her below-average Charm only helps this, making her a relatively common target during debates. A typical loop for her involves asking roles to Step Forward at the beginning if neither you nor Setsu do so first, then get Doubted by someone with more influence within the first three days and end up in cold sleep. If she can survive past that point, however, her Logic becomes more relevant and can help her make it to the end.

On the human side, Stella is helpful to have around as a more affable Raqio. Her high Logic allows her to take advantage of the Definite Human and Definite Enemy skills, and as a bonus she seems to have an affinity for the player. When it comes to male players in particular she'll frequently ask to collaborate. She's loyal to anyone she takes as an ally, which is a trait that can help make it clear if she's Gnosia; if she's aggressively jumping to someone's defense when they haven't done anything to endear themselves to her, it may be a sign that they're allies as Gnosia. Otherwise, though, she does fine enough as Gnosia, her Performance ability being just high enough that she isn't a sitting duck for characters with high Intuition. On the flip side, though, her Intuition is quite low and makes her incapable of identifying liars herself.

Overall, the best way to describe Stella is "average". She does well enough for herself and doesn't have any stats that are overwhelmingly awful, but she doesn't have any particularly amazing abilities either aside from her Logic - which for better or worse is an ability that doesn't make one stand out all that much. If you're playing as a male then her propensity to leap to your aid is notable, but otherwise she's just sort of *there*. She's neither a threat you should eliminate immediately nor someone so incompetent that she'll get herself eliminated easily, but she certainly has her moments and is hardly incapable of victory.

## Trivia

* Stella's name is Latin for "star" and was chosen to reflect the space setting.
* Stella is associated with the Western zodiac sign Scorpio.
* An event called "Stella's Lovemageddon" was planned in which the characters would partake in something akin to a dating reality show. After not being matched with anyone, Stella would cause the ship to self-destruct. This event didn't make it into the final game.
* Stella is the first character to be the Guardian Angel in the game.
* There's an additional scene with Stella that can be obtained if the player is male.
* In the Japanese version of the game, Stella uses the honorific -sama for almost every character in the game, in particular excluding LeVi. This, combined with the fact that LeVi is the only other character who uses -sama, foreshadows the eventual reveal that they are one in the same.

## References

1. ↑ https://gnosia-game.com/
2. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Gnosia\_/comments/stkzz2/gnosia\_character\_stats\_dump/
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/286621-gnosia/79335155
4. ↑ https://steamcommunity.com/stats/1608290/achievements
5. ↑ https://myvoiceourheartbeat.tumblr.com/post/659104207029321728/gnosia-jp-notes