Isaac Dermapaedia

An Common European Earwig whose home remains unknown to many throughout the story, Isaac has spent quite a decent chunk of his life exploring the landscape of MantaLand alone, and eventually encounters and tags alongside Amelia on her journey to explore.

### History

Prior to meeting with Amelia, Isaac lived as the only remaining child with his mother in an unknown location, far away from any civilisation due to the rough, long ongoing relationship Earwigs have with insect civilisation. Sometime afterwards Isaac is given permission to leave home and explore the world, wearing his mother's drape neck cloth as a way of remembering her.

Sometime along his journey his lower right arm was ripped off due to a situating involving other arthropods hunting and chasing him down. He has since gone on to replace it with a stick coated in 'paint' similar to his actual arm colour, coupled with a string attached to his working arm to give the impression that his arm is just fine from a far away distance, detracting predators from targetting him even more (as those who have visible missing limbs are more likely to be targetted due to the impression of them being more vulnerable).

Eventually he found himself in The Forest, waiting at Polly and Helena's travel services to potentially travel somewhere else for research when he came across Amelia who introduced herself to him. Seeing as she's completely new to a lot of the world, and wished to go exploring, he decided to accompany her just to teach her about the greater world of MantaLand and also get the chance to explore any unexplored territory as well.

### Personality

Isaac, on a surface level, is skittish and shy, preferring to stay away from the crowd and spends his time alone doing his own thing. He's also very nervous and anxious, worrying a lot about how his impressions are on people and overworrying even about the smallest of things. He is rather acute to his surroundings due to prior experiences through his travels, and as such can be very atune to the environment and its noises. He is also fully aware of the history between Earwigs and Insects, and hence tends to also stay at a relative distance from towns and civilisations, instead finding foods using other methods.

However, when a friend, Isaac is extremely kind-hearted, soft, and supportive, and attaches himself to anyone he cares about deeply. He is also incredibly nerdy but tries to conceal that a lot of the times, only to let it all out given a subject matter he is incredibly passionate about. He loves getting to know about another person he is on friendly terms with, and loves deep conversations about any sort of topic and isn't afraid even getting to know the nitty gritty of a subject. He is very open-minded despite possessing very strong opinions, and loves to hear the other side to maybe balance out his own views if they seem logical and reasonable to him. He does possess a particular disdain to the way how Earwigs are still being treated by modern society and has always wished he could change that view.

Because he is extremely soft and anxious, often times when someone is mistreating him or he is doing something he doesn't want to do, even if the other person has good intentions, he doesn't want to mention it and has a hard time trying to voice out his discomfort, but learns to eventually stand up for himself more as the story goes along. He also has a hard time opening up about his more personal life, matters, and troubles, but eventually learns to also do this more too as the story progresses. He also possesses a broken limb, masked by a small branch coated in paint similar to his limb colours, which is deeply defensive of if it's examined (this is due to the instinct he has developed over travelling alone with the hinderance). He also acts similarly if there is intent to steal the drape neck cloth as it is has deep personal value to him, as it is from his mother.

### Abilities

Isaac possesses great intellect which can be used to guide, and warn others about the surrounding areas. He also has an incredible survival instinct, and is rather tuned into his surroundings. He initially starts as relatively weak combat wise, having been mostly on the defence rather on the offence, but over time he finds his skills in using objects creatively and mixing concoctions together for combat skills.

### Relations

#### Main Cast

##### Amelia Solarsis

Amelia and Isaac are on fairly good terms with one another, often enjoying each other's company. Isaac always admires how outgoing and extraverted Amelia is and always wishes he could achieve that level of confidence. He is also extremely appreciative of her supportive nature and willingness to learn from him and get to know him more.

Although, on occasion she may push him to do something he doesn't really want to do, and although he appreciates the effort his hides his discomfort. Somewhere along the way though, he does admit to her that he doesn't really like certain activities she's pushed him into despite knowing that her intentions aren't bad, and learns to be more open with things he is uncomfortable with, or things he feels like needs to be spoken out about as a result if it involves his discomfort.

### Design Development Gallery

Isaac (Bottom Middle) Design 1, July 2020Old Concept art of Isaac (right), done sometime in July 2020Amelia (Top Middle) Design 2, July 2020Amelia (Bottom Middle) Original Colour Palette, 26th July 2020Amelia (Top Middle) Soft Shaded attempt 1, 29th July 2020Amelia (Top Right) Soft Shading Attempt 2, October 11th 2020Old reference sheet for Amelia, November 5th 2020Amelia (Middle Left) Redesign 1, Jan 10th 2021Amelia (Top) Redesign 2, June 23rd 2021