Hera Kairis

"I'd rather burn into the flames of regret than live a mediocre life."

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Hera Kairis is a fictional character featured in the videogame Dry Drowning. She is the personal assistant of Modred Foley and the main female character of the story.

## Psychological profile:

"Due to her sweet and kind but also insecure personality Hera was hit very deeply by the psychological trauma connected to the Jennifer Kingston and Robert Herrington incident.

Compared to her colleague Hera is extremely empathetic and easy to hurt. As such, she is also somewhat susceptible to be deceived despite her remarkable intelligence."

## Biography:

"Hera Kairis was originally born in Greece but emigrated to Nova Polemos at the age of 5. She was lucky enough to pass the border right before its closure, which caused the death of thousands of other refugees who had departed in search of hope just like her.

Ever since young age she worked hard in order to afford her studies in law, eventually succeeding in obtaining a degree at the age of 25 with highest honors. Her relationship with Mordred (romantic? professional?) remains unknown, much like her involvement with other cases on which Foley Investigations has worked in the past.

Her greates passions are classic Greek literature and playing the piano (though her colleague doesn't have any interest whatsoever in neither of those)."

## Character overview:

Hera is often animated by her strong sense of morals, which sometimes causes her to question Mordred's actions as well as her own. In Chapter one for example she thinks back at the early days of Foley Investigations and realizes she and Mordred have become the very monsters they had swore to destroy. Being the memories of what she was forced to witness as a little girl still vivid, she despises the Black bands above all, claiming she feared their return more than Pandora himself or the risk of losing everything and living a life of misery.

The Pandora case has likely impacted Hera even more deeply than Mordred (unsurprisingly given how Chapter 3 reveals that she herself had at some point been kidnapped too). In the wake of the discovery of Chapter 1's murder scene the simple possibility that the killer might be back in action is enough to cause her a mental breakdown, strong enough to prompt Mordred to wonder whether he should just hang up the phone call and leave her out of it.

Contrary with what's stated in her official biography files there is plenty of evidence that suggests her involvement with Mordred is also a romantic one. One particular hint is the fact she keeps playing on her piano a song she herself composed when the two launched their investigation agency together, suggesting her attraction towards the detective could possibly date back to said period or even before (though said period is also referenced pretty often as some sort of long gone golden age regardless). The two have since then lived together and shared quite a lot of disadventures, factors that would progressively bring the two of them closer to each other quite inevitably. Since the same feelings seem to be reciprocated by Mordred, it is likely the two of them had merely found themselves unable to properly express them in the wake of the disaster that followed Mordred's evidence tampering. Moral regret would be in this sense the most important factor for Hera (a hypothesis furtherly corroborated by how she will only kiss Mordred in endings that involve a moral redemption on his part). The psychological turn taken by Hera's character at the end of Chapter 4B is also directly connected to her feelings towards Mordred (it's worth nothing that such a turn will occur even if instead she previously rejected Mordred due to a moral downfall). Hera herself mentions briefly in Chapter one she fears losing Mordred more than death itself given he was the only one to always stand by her.

## Trivia:

* The drowning girl featured in the opening sequence of the game alongside Mordred's monologue is actually Hera, though said sequence has no connection with the plot whatsoever (it is rather just a visual remark of the oppressive condition she lives in, which Mordred himself sometimes contributes to as well).
* The surname Kairis represents metaphorically the tide and more generally change.
* The name Hera is a reference to ancient Greek's goddess of women, marriage and family.