Altair

Altair was a citizen of a different Reality, which became Unreality 13. She was known as a deranged melancholic genius.

## Personality

Altair struggles with a heavy level of melancholy, and quickly bores with activities, ideas, and people. She is shown to frequently obsess over a particular person, quickly learning everything about them in a short period of time, usually growing close to them during this time. While Altair is easily able to form deep connections with people, she has little interest in maintaining them beyond their benefit to her. Altair’s melancholy is the driving force behind her immoral actions  and delusions. Altair has no issues with deceiving, harming, or killing others, though she prefers to do so indirectly, in the interest of remaining innocuous.

Altair is an extremely manipulative, calculated, and narcissistic individual. She possesses an extremely advanced intellect, and has sharp intuition. She quickly grasps situations, and formulates a decisive plan of action in an equal amount of time.

## Manifestation and Artifacts

Altair was a Manifestation User present in Reality 13 before it became an Unreality.

Altair possessed the Study Manifestation, which is theorized to play a part in her melancholic mindset.

Altair has appeared as an Artifact that bears her Soul in multiple instances.

## History

Altair’s life is relatively well-documented, due to extensive conversations with Informant. Much of the information was confirmed with supernatural means. However, given Altair’s manipulative nature and wholehearted belief in their own deceptions, this information cannot be completely trusted. In early life, Altair was plagued by her intelligence. Her parents-initially proud of their child’s success in academic pursuits-quickly became concerned about Altair’s actions toward others. Altair was shown to exhibit symptoms consistent with conduct disorder, such as manipulation of her peers, use of alternate personas, and-occasionally-violence. Despite this, Altair was reported to be extremely popular in school. After she was made aware of the condition, such symptoms quickly stopped. Altair continued to increase in social and academic standing, attending a prestigious private high school. The rest of her immediate family-her father, mother, and two older sisters-supported this decision financially, with the latter two delaying their own attendance of college to work. Shortly before Altair graduated from her high school, all four of her immediate family members committed suicide via various methods, within the same night. Altair graduated regardless, and she performed her original song about the tragic incident at her graduation. After graduation, Altair attended an unnamed university as a research assistant to Aquila-who taught as a professor in the same university-investigating Users, Manifestations, and Resource (see: Potential) in Reality 13’s scientific circles. It is theorized that the two characters met in this way.

In the university, Altair and Aquila quickly entered an unhealthy, mutually-obsessive relationship. It is theorized that Altair manipulated Aquila into the relationship in order to gain access to more scientific resources, as well as for personal pleasure. Altair maintained the persona of a victim in order to quell suspicions about her activities, and to further obsess the late Aquila with her. Altair was shown to have an immense amount of control over Aquila, being responsible for the scientist’s descent into madness and subsequent ejection from the scientific community. After Aquila’s fall, she had no one left but Altair. During this time, Aquila proposed to Altair with the ring that would later be the host for Altair’s Soul. Through further manipulation of not only Aquila, but also several other individuals, including the Split User, Altair sought to self-medicate her melancholy through becoming Split. It is unknown how much of Altair’s decision to be Split was logical.

After being Split, Altair entered the “Simulation Loop,” and experienced many different fates as Informant explored the simulation.

The only fate that is sustained beyond one of the loops is her amalgamation into an Artifact, referred to as Altair Prime, which contains her Mind and Soul in the Body of an engagement ring. This ring was given to the Sin Greed for safe-keeping, with a return phrase only known to Informant.

## Trivia

Altair’s IQ is reported to be exactly 200, with the examiner reporting that she seemed to deliberately get questions wrong.

While attending university, Altair spent more time on average with Aquila during the week than one would normally work at a full-time job (46 hours).

Altair is directly responsible for fourteen deaths, four of which are family members: her parents, and her two sisters.

Altair idealizes suicide, and hates the idea of dying at someone else’s hands. The belief likely stems from envious delusions of her family, whom she drove to suicide. She has expressed a desire to kill herself before she loses her intelligence, which she estimates would happen at around the age of 25.

Altair is a lucid dreamer.

Altair has tried many hallucinogenic substances, but reports enjoying none of them.