Ori

(Ori, not Orion, that was a title error we can’t edit)

### Origin

Ori doesn't know how they got into Lostfield and has complete memory loss of anything before Lostfield. She shows signs of something happening to her before Lostfield, such as oddly-coloured scars. Ori has figured out they're Endarian, but seems to have somehow lost any abilities they might have had except being harmed by water. Ori is also completely mute and is unable to speak, but it isn't known why yet.

### Appearance

#### With Filtering

Ori is an 8'6 Endarian with dark blue skin with a soft, velvety fur-like texture, dark blue hair, horns, pointed ears, a thin tail, and paw-like feet. They have bright blue eyes that glow slightly and wear a skull mask of unidentifiable origin. Ori wears blue earrings and white flowers around her tail, wrists, and one on their head. Ori has a chip on the back of their neck labelled E-1, which is surrounded by burnt skin and electricity scars. Ori is also covered in scars. They wear blue clothes with white flecks like stars. Ori used to have claws, but they were removed by William.

#### Without Filtering

Ori knows what they look like without the perception filtering. Their mask is what causes the filter and is in reality Frank's skull. Ori is unsettlingly tall because they've had their legs fused with stilts to artificially increase their height. A robotic tail is attached to their spinal chord to help with balance. Ori's skin has been replaced with something like short blue fur sown onto skin. It is patchy in places with the underneath skin showing through where they've been cut, explaining their oddly coloured scars. The fur is held in place by sowing and pins, leading to constant pain, especially when moving without the help of painkillers or the perception filtering. The filter causes a buildup of pain when its on, which hits immediately in 1 big go when taken off. Ori is filled with wires similar to an employee, its used for control albeit it doesn't seem to work properly due to the chip being slightly faulty from being fried and stabbed by Sneeg. Some wires are exposed and frayed, causing pain when Ori touches water and some damaged wires go off on their own. Their hands used to be in the shape of claws, which were removed by William. Ori's ears were reshaped to give them better hearing and has had bone fused onto their skull to give them horns. Ori's voicebox is partly mechanical after being messed up and can be switched on and off. Ori is mostly a test on how far Showfall could push the human body, and then used for combat testing and finally repurposed to be used on set after Ori attempted an escape and Showfall surged their chip with energy in an attempt to kill her, which ended up just resetting them instead.

### Story

#### Beginning

Ori randomly showed up in Lostfield one day, without any memory of how they got here and even missing bits of information about how the world works. Ori stumbled around aimlessly for a bit, before Box noticed her and approached. Box filled Ori in on information about Lostfield, and when Box mentioned making a government to give law and order to the town Ori signed up to help without a second thought. Box took Ori around some plots of land to build a house on, Ori picked one, then Box built Ori her house. Box suggested the name Orion for them, but she preferred it shortened to Ori.

#### Banquet 1

Ori began planning a banquet to try to get the village together and meet everybody. Ori bumped into Glitch and ordered food for the banquet, and later asked Glitch to help read things aloud for them during both banquets. Glitch showed Ori a weapon that was named in Endarian, whilst Ori couldn't read it it was familiar to her, hinting at their origin. The first banquet went smoothly, with Ori meeting Jay, Mrow and a few other people. They played a few games of hide and seek, before trying PVP which got messy and moved onto tag. It started to rain, which ended the banquet and Ori went home. Box had given Ori drugs earlier, and not knowing what they were, ate them all at once which sent her into a panic.

#### Banquet 2

The following day, a second banquet was hosted which also went smoothly. Ori talked to Box, brought up a letter that about the first Phantom Syndicate task and signed up to help with it. Ori met more people, such as Doom, Kel and Que, Alchem, but namely Frey. Ori recognised Frey and approached him, asking if they've met before. Frey denied ever knowing Ori but claimed to remember how he got to Lostfield. Ori immediately went over to Glitch and told her about this, and they agreed to investigate more later. The banquet continued, but Ori caught Frey staring and went over again. Ori pressed further and Frey revealed he might know Ori, claiming to know the truth about what happened but that it'd be too much for Ori to handle. Slightly panicked, Ori told Glitch they needed to talk and played hide and seek and tag again to give herself time to think. Afterwards, Ori spoke with Glitch alone, telling Glitch Frey knows what happened but refuses to say anything. Glitch is worried, which unnerves and panics Ori but Glitch comforts them. Ori heads home to spend time alone.

#### Digging deeper

Ori got a letter from Frey, telling Ori to come to Frey as soon as she got the letter and hand it to them and he'll say as much as he knows. Ori contacted Glitch to bring her along for support and help if anything went wrong, and told Glitch to stay hidden. Ori found Frey and gave them the letter, and they started to speak. It began to rain and Ori and Glitch were split up, Glitch hiding inside the church and meeting Memphis and Ori sheltering in Frey's treehouse. Ori and Frey talked, Ori putting slight pressure on Frey to give them as much information as possible when it turned out Frey didn't know as much as Ori thought. It stopped raining, so Ori pulled Frey outside where Glitch and Memphis could watch them. Ori learnt from Frey that Frey was an intern at a company, and caused some kind of incident that changed his appearance. Ori was seen by Frey at the company and was kept separated/locked up. Ori asks if Frey knows anything more, which Frey claims not to remember anything more, thinking they blacked out after the incident. Ori asks Frey if a chip on the back of somebody's neck could block memories and asks Frey what the one on her neck says. Frey tells her it says E-1 and mentions a project to do with the End, and Ori puts pieces together to figure out she's Endarian. Memphis is caught watching by Frey. Frey is upset and leaves, and Memphis, Ori, and Glitch follow Frey to apologise. Memphis catches Frey digging down into the ground and disappearing, so the trio follow and find a secret basement. They find Frey, apologise and leave. Frey gives each of them a button and says if they're ever in danger they can use this place to hide. Ori begins planning to find a way to take out the chip in their neck or see if its connected to her memory, and builds a hidden room dedicated to trying to uncover her past.

#### Further into the rabbit hole

Ori starts their day as usual, leaves the house but spots a Showfall Employee who's obviously watching her. Ori is mostly just curious as to who it is so heads over to say hi, albeit its slightly unnerving. They're a little confused since they disappeared and she looks about for a bit and finds them again. Ensue Ori and the Showfall employee spooking each other as they peek round the corner of Shard's home. The employee ends up fleeing and hides. Ori is *right there* next to them but ends up heading home instead, deciding to leave them alone instead and flee into their basement, being slightly unsettled by being watched. The employee follows them inside and she's vanished. They end up taking her diary instead and when Ori comes back out, she heads to write in her diary but finds it missing. They check their home for it and leave the house to find the employee again. Ori can feel she's being watched again and notices the employee again. She heads directly to them this time and doesn't leave time for them to flee. Ori asks them who they are and what they're doing, to which she gets vague answers of not being able to give that information away. Ori mentions they're missing their diary, and the employee comes to 'help find it.' They slip the diary back into place whilst Ori is distracted and she notices its magically reappeared. Odd. Ori is getting slightly more unnerved and suspicious of this whole situation and by this point is aware something isn't quite right. She picks up on the fact the employee knew their name without ever saying it and kept referring to 'we.' The employee tries leaving and Ori decides to continue questioning further and asks them for help to take out the chip in the back of her neck to see their reaction. It starts raining again and Ori is forced inside their home by the rain but manages to bring the employee inside. They keep talking. Ori is persistent in the idea of taking their chip out (which would cause Showfall to lose control over her and may have other side affects like Ori's mechanics failing to work properly) and ends up grabbing a knife, putting the idea forward they could do it right now with the employee's help. Its not Ori's intention to scare the employee, so ends up backing down and offers help instead, thinking although not entirely believing they might be new and were just watching because they were curious. Ori gives the employee a spare axe to help them and they're free to leave. At this point Ori is curious although slightly uneasy and makes the decision to track them down and follow from a distance. She finds them, ends up being distracted by something for a second, loses them, and finds them again at Taxit Brewery acting strange. Ori stays hidden from view and watches them try head into the employees only section of the store and get caught by Kel. Ori watches them talk and finds the employee to be suspicious. They keep trying to enter the employees only section and stall by looking around the shop. Ori scares the daylights out of them when they turn the corner and find Ori there. Ori approaches Kel to ask if he knows who that was. Kel doesn't, says they don't know much but find them suspicious too and point out the fact they placed two cameras down in the shop. Ori says bye and runs back to their home, heading straight to the basement. Ori paces around their basement, freaked out by the whole situation, moves their diary into the basement and writes stuff down to try figure out what is going on. Its an odd situation and Ori doesn't like the feeling of being watched constantly.

#### Dug too deep

Ori wanders around for a bit. They spot another Showfall employee watching them and approaches again to ask who they are. Ori doesn't get any definite answers, only vague replies and 'thats confidential' in response to her questioning. Ori asks again about taking their chip out to see his response and doesn't get any help. She's just getting more curious and a little bit unsettled the more she talks to these people. Ori spots another person, John Office. She overhears a comment he makes regarding Ori and William is slightly unnerved by whatever this means. Ori points John out to the employee and the employee doesn't seem that bothered at first but when he realises John is watching them both heads off to find them. Ori trails them and watches from a distance. She hears everything. Ori is surprised to hear William, the employee, talk, since he'd only used signs up until this point. William asks what the fuck John is doing. Ori listens into the conversation by William and finds out that John and William work together, William is looking for the person thats been setting off the rain and that John knows who. They say its one of the cast members and mention Niki, Sneeg, Memphis, Jerma, and Sterling's and Artemis's brothers. John mentions resetting and that Jerma has now found a way onto the set. At this point Ori is silently freaking out. What the hell is a cast member? Resetting? A set? John motions for Ori to hide subtly and they do before John points her out to William. Ori full on panics and runs home as fast as possible. She slips into their basement and hide out for a while. They know its not safe anymore and desperately scramble things down onto the wall and her diary. Ori stays in there for a while, panicked, not wanting to risk getting caught. Ori knows she knows too much.

#### The Holding Portal

Ori knows she's in danger. They've started preparing. Ori frantically wrote and sent messages to Box, Glitch and Frey warning them and asking for help. Ori also decided to put up missing persons posters for Box and filed a missing persons report out of fear of what the employee's might have done to Box. Whilst she's doing that, they're being watched by Spencer. Ori catches glimpses of him and tries losing him a few times, ending up bumping into Sneeg instead. Ori watches cautiously from a distance but ends up being spotted. Sneeg approaches and Ori backs away, afraid of the new person. Sneeg reassures them its okay and Ori does calm down once they realise its one of the people the employees mentioned, but keeps checking behind her back. Ori asks for help with the chip and leads Sneeg to their home, ending up panicking and rushing home when she spots Spencer again. Ori leads Sneeg into her basement, Sneeg comments on their mask, Ori gives him a knife and he tries taking the chip out. It hurts. A lot. It feels like every nerve is in pain and they're interrupted by Ori hearing somebody outside. The two panic and flee. Ori's caught by Spencer and distracts him for a moment, allowing Sneeg enough time to successfully break line of sight. Ori returns to their home, setting up a sign in the front of their home telling the employees to leave and prepares. She shoots one and flees out the window, albeit messily. Ori runs as fast as they can, spinning around to occasionally shoot at them but they're brought to exhaustion and the distance is closed. William swings and knocks out Ori, with Spencer hurt in collateral damage. Ori wakes up, confused, afraid, and in pain in their basement. They come to their senses and realise William is there. William tells Ori to hand over their stuff. She refuses, telling William to 'make me.' He does, bringing down his axe on Ori and injuring her further. Ori hands it all over. William demands to know what Ori knows about Sneeg. Ori says as much as they know... which isn't very much. Eventually Spencer comes down into the basement too and Ori begs him to let them go. Ori brings up the axe and William snaps for Spencer to hand it over. They leave and in a last ditch effort to do *something* Ori attacks William, clawing him to near death. Spencer drags him out leaving Ori alone for a while. Then Spencer comes back, covering what he's doing with the idea 'he's giving the sign he took back.' They talk on the signs at an angle the camera can't see. Ori pleads to be let go, but comes to understand Spencer isn't doing this in his own free will and apologises about the axe. They're friends now and Ori promises to get him another axe. Somehow... Spencer leaves and Ori's left alone, clinging to the piece of string Sneeg gave them, Frey's button and writing in their diary to keep them occupied. Ori's not sure how long they'll stay down in the basement, or if they'll even manage to escape before she's reset. They don't want to be reset. They don't want to lose their memory again. Ori's all alone... afraid... and helpless.

#### Glimpses

Ori's spent nearly 2 weeks in the basement bored and scared out of their mind. Any moment they worry they might be reset. Ori jumps as the piston door opens and Spencer walks in. Ori is spooked, not recognising his cast clothing for a second but recognises his voice. He's panicked by the camera watching and hurries to get what he needs done, done. They don't have much time before somebody realises Spencer is in there, talking to Ori and helping her. Ori is a little confused at first but goes along with what he's doing. Spencer has the remote to Ori's controls and turn their voice back on for the first time in months, possibly even a year or more! Ori tries their voice for the first time they can remember and thanks Spencer. Ori is taken outside the basement and is told to run. She tries convincing Spencer to come with, but he can't. Ori grabs their most important stuff and prepares to leave, but Sneeg starts a storm and Ori can't leave during the rain and search for Sneeg, its too dangerous with the employees on the hunt and Ori being hurt in the rain. Ori's forced inside, shut away and Spencer leaves.

The door opens again. Ori is hoping to find Spencer again but sees its Sneeg instead. He comes in hoping to help Ori. They talk for a bit before Sneeg realises Ori can talk now and Ori explains that she's being helped by Spencer. Sneeg gives them the knife back and they try to plan a way to get Ori out of the basement and out of the show. Sneeg mentions the show and Ori catches on. Everything is explained. The show, the cast, the resets and reruns, Showfall Media, programming. Ori descends into a panic as their worldview shatters even more, eventually shakily holding onto the knife and asking if death would end it. Sneeg confirms it won't, Showfall would just revive her. Ori sobs for a while, pacing and trying to come up with some idea on what to do despite the overwhelming hopelessness. Sneeg brings up the idea of removing Ori's mask to turn off whats keeping her from seeing reality. Ori.. hesitantly agrees whilst theres still this chance and Sneeg takes it off. It's really Frank's repurposed skull. Immediately Ori is hit with 2 and a half months of built up pain from being filled with wires and having something like fur sown onto skin and held in place by pins, causing constant pain especially whenever Ori moves. Ori's legs have been fused with stilts to give them their artificial height and her hands reshaped to be claws. Ori freaks out and collapses from the pain and panic. Sneeg panics, hurriedly puts the mask back on and rushes to leave before he's caught. Ori contemplates life, silently sitting on the floor, shaking and crying to themself for a while.

#### Empty Freedom

Ori is alone, going through their diary again for what feels like the hundredth time and clinging to the memories. The door opens and Ori is hoping to see Spence, but finds only William. Its the moment Ori's been dreading. Ori starts pleading with William but it devolves into a quick scuffle thats ended with Ori getting hit over the head with an axe. Ori's held down on a chair and William painfully declaws them to prevent anymore use of her claws. Will grabs Ori to drag them away and Ori instinctively lashes out, unintentionally knocking the mask off Will's face. Ori panics, grabs their hidden crossbow and tries threatening Will with it. He doesn't care and looks for the mask. Ori collects as much as they can to prepare to run and Spence runs in after hiding his diary in Ori's home. Spencer hurries Ori out and tells them to run. Ori begs for him to come with, but he can't and eventually William catches up to them. Ori is forced to flee and Spencer is dragged away to get reset... Spence gets emotionally reset and both Will and Spence go to collect their things and prepare to chase Ori. Will has to take a moment.. though.

Ori hasn't gone very far. They hear Spencer and approach him hopefully, only to get shot in the stomach. Will arrives seconds after and Ori is pushed into the forest. It starts raining and the sun sets.  Ori is really injured but loses them for a bit and decides to head to Frey's and try to find Frey's basement and wait out the rain. Ori's nearly caught by Spence but makes it to Frey. She can't find the entrance and walks right into Spence again. Ori hides by the church. William stares at them and they make eye contact. Ori panics and tries to run but Spence is cut off. They're forced to make a split second decision and plunge into the river to escape. Ori drags herself out and keeps running. They keep chasing. Ori's pushed to exhaustion and stops. Ori tries threaten them with her crossbow again. They fire a warning shot and nearly kill Spencer on accident. Whilst Will deals with Spence Ori takes the opportunity to flee into the forest. They collapse but manage stay hidden for this night.

#### Hiding again

Ori gets through the night and drags themself back to their home. They hastily try to get as much as they can and grab their most important stuff. Ori puts together a cloak and sort of bandages themself up. Glitch shows up at her house and hands Ori a health potion. Glitch takes her to their stand and give them a few more health potions. Ori's health stabilises and then Memphis shows up. Ori remembers Memphis's name being mentioned by an employee and asks to talk to him. Glitch takes them to the greenhouse where they can talk alone. Ori tries explaining as much as they can, giving only basic details and not going into depth for fear of putting Glitch in danger. Memphis offers to hide Ori in his bunker and Ori agrees. Memphis and Ori talk further alone in the basement, where Ori can explain slightly more but ends up spiralling. Memphis tells Ori he'll find people to help her and that he'll hide her. Memphis leaves. Later, Ori leaves to try check up on the people she knows. Ori ends up finding Box. They're happy to see Box is back and asks for help. Ori doesn't explain a whole lot, only explaining the basic details of what happened. Box keeps trying to push for answers but Ori's afraid to put Box in danger. Box explains where he's been and that now he's back he can help the Syndicate. Ori's given a compass to the Syndicate Base. The rain panics Ori and they flee as soon as it ends.

#### Uncertainty

Memphis enters the bunker in a mild panic, explaining to Ori Showfall now knows where he lives. Initially the plan is to build a secret room or exit out of the bunker, but Ori brings up moving to the Syndicate and they decide that's the safest option. Memphis accompanies Ori on the journey to the Syndicate, but as they arrive night falls. Ori convinces Memphis to stay at the Syndicate for the night despite him being an enemy of the Syndicate. Whilst Ori checks the Syndicate is empty Kel arrives and catches Memphis. They try to explain the situation and Kel hesitantly lets Memphis go. However, Kel follows Memphis and confronts him outside. They have an argument and Ori eventually finds them arguing. She watches as it gets more intense, with Memphis yelling the Syndicate doesn't care about anybody besides themselves and Kel swinging at him with an axe. Ori hurries over to Memphis when it ends and awkwardly tries to patch him up. He tells Ori to not let the Syndicate change them, gives her his mask, and then leaves.

#### Close call

Ori is heading to check in on Memphis and bumps into Box. They have a brief conversation, but Ori spots Spencer lurking and quickly leaves before she's spotted. She blatantly walks in front of a camera on their way, freaks out and hurries into Memphis' bunker. Instead of finding Memphis, Theory unintentionally teleports to them and they scare each other. Ori nervously introduces themself to Theory and asks if he's seen Memphis. He hasn't and Ori leaves in a hurry, but its too late. Ori steps outside only to find Spencer waiting. He tells them to come with him, but Ori refuses. Box stumbles upon them and Spencer leaves. Ori and Box head back to the Syndicate, where Box gifts Ori a set of metal claws for Taxmas.

Ori heads back out to find Spencer again and try talk to him. She finds him and they have a conversation. Ori is eventually convinced to come with to be reset and gives in, thinking it would be easier to forget everything. Spencer leads them to William's house, but the sight of William sends Ori into a panic and they realise what they were about to do. Ori flees, they chase and Ori is cornered by Spencer. They lash out with their new claws, knocking his mask off and manages to escape into the Syndicate. Spencer follows her in. She runs to Box for comfort, tearful and afraid. Spencer realises that Box is here and gets confronted by him. Box knocks down the scaffolding out of the Syndicate down and demands to know what's going on. Spencer refuses to say anything and Box threatens to kill him. Spencer doesn't care, remarking that nothing Box would do would matter. Box stabs Spencer and he's killed in front of Ori. Ori is taken down to their dorm and comforted until the alarms go off. They check the entrance and find Spencer's body is gone.

Don't make me do this