Aileen Makerfield

> This industrial complex won't forget you.
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> Chapter 251

**Aileen Makerfield** is a returnee and the owner of the Etika clock store in the 73rd Demon Realm. She was originally a magic engineer on planet Lindberg and is one of the only incarnations who has the attribute of Story Expert. She is the true revolutionary of the main scenario in the Demon Realm.

## Appearance

Little is known about Aileen Makerfield's appearance. She is described to have white skin and to wear a wrist watch as well as glasses. Upon being entrusted with managing the industrial complex she appears haggard.

## Personality

Aileen Makerfield is a highly strategic woman who is described to be an "experienced schemer" by Kim Dokja. She displays remarkable understanding of the political situation in the Demon Realm (e.g. originally wanting Kim Dokja to interfere with the alliance between Syswitz and Gilobat). Furthermore, she knows the rules of the main scenario inside-out. Similar to Kim Dokja, it is heavily implied that she takes many different eventualities into consideration when trying to solve a problem. Aileen Makerfield is quick-witted both when it comes to assessing new people as well as their medical conditions. She is able to accurately gauge a person's strength just by briefly looking at their stories. Generally speaking, her evaluations tend to be realistic and fair. Despite her dreams of revolution, she is pragmatic and under no illusions about the status quo. Her decision to help exiles isn't purely altruistic in nature and she appears to have a recruitment procedure in place to ensure their trustworthiness and strength.

When it comes to her emotions, Aileen Makerfield demonstrates a bit of a temper and struggles with controlling her reactions when strongly surprised or angry, going so far as to nag or physically drag Kim Dokja away from a dangerous situation. She seems somewhat embarrassed when comforting him and attempts to hide her tears upon believing him to die. This implies that she has difficulties with being openly vulnerable. Nonetheless, Aileen Makerfield is capable of great self control, opting to stay calm rather than curse her opponents, despite her desire to do so. Kim Dokja remarks that her ability to quickly regain her cool after being thrown off balance is how she managed to survive in the Demon Realm for so long.

Still, a lot of stifled anger and despair simmer beneath the surface. Aileen Makerfield is deeply resentful of the nobles in the Demon Realm and yearns for a social upheaval. However, she has grown resigned and disillusioned by the incarnations' unwillingness to clear the scenario. Furthermore, she values safety and has become risk-averse after witnessing countless failed revolutions. This isn't only evidenced by her attitude towards Kim Dokja but also by her mixed feelings about the continuation of the scenarios after the Revolutionary Games concluded. Kim Dokja describes her as someone who "wanted to hide and also wanted to run away". Thus, she also hid the fact that she was the true revolutionary.

Even so, when confronted with the idea that she might be misjudging the people of the industrial complex, or when implied that she has already given up, Aileen Makerfield grows distraught. Despite her reservations and obsession with past failures, she retains hope for the future and is willing to fight, much like Yoo Joonghyuk. Her contradictory nature is also revealed by her occupation as a watchmaker in a city that "lost time". Even though she acknowledges that keeping tracking of it is useless in the Demon Realm, she insists on wearing a wrist watch.

Aileen Makerfield is shown to be a capable and responsible leader. She commands a lot of authority within her community, as other Civil Council members respect and trust her enough to listen to her orders. In fact, her "strong heart" has lead her to become their chairman in the first place. Choosing to live in the Syswitz Industrial Complex despite being oppressed, she feels a strong sense of loyalty towards her new found home and laments the blood shed in previous failed revolutions. Aileen Makerfield will refuse to comply with other people's demands if it endangers the lives of many. Unlike incarnations like Anna Croft, she is uncomfortable with the idea of sacrificing others for the greater good and wants to avoid human casualities at all cost. She is seen treating and evacuating incarnations both in the Demon Realm as well as later on in Seoul.

Aileen Makerfield appears to be somewhat tidy. She is vaguely upset by her destroyed shelves and is seen cleaning up or arranging tables. In Ways of Survival, she is shown to have melancholic tendencies, often reminiscing about her lost home planet in rounds where she didn't get to meet Yoo Joonghyuk.

## History

Originally stemming from planet Lindberg, Aileen Makerfield used to be a magic engineer. After studying for a long time she learned that the "essence of this world was the 'story'". Though not a transcendent and weaker than a duke of the Demon Realm, she was a powerful incarnation in Lindberg. It is strongly implied that she received the Dimensional Movement scenario but was unable to return home after her planet "disappeared". It is unclear whether it genuinely ceased to exist or if she couldn't return for a different reason. Nonetheless, she still seemed to be in touch with constellations that originated from her planet.

At some point in the past, Aileen Makerfield arrived in the the 73rd Demon Realm and opened the Etika clock store. It is implied that the shop was introduced in Ways of Survival as a plot device to alleviate the exile penalty. Her shop was notoriously difficult to locate, as no clocks existed in the Demon Realm. For presumably the same reason, and the fact that coins were difficult to come by in the Demon Realm, it seemed like she had run into financial troubles before.

However, she wasn't just a watchmaker: Aileen Makerfield was also the chairman of the Syswitz Civil Council for an undisclosed amount of time. The Civil Council appeared to be an underground resistance group that planned to stage a revolution and consisted of powerful returnees and masters from the First Murim. Kim Dokja described the organization as "the last conscience against the duke's ambitions". It is implied that the Civil Council was somewhat isolated from the general population, who had opted to follow the orders of the duke instead. Though later criticized for these beliefs, Aileen Makerfield falsely assumed that the native incarnations had given up on the Revolutionary Games and would never join forces to rebel. Thus, she tried to get help from the outside by routinely treating stranded "exiles", who had been expelled from their home scenarios, and recruiting them as new members of the Civil Council.

Despite going largely undetected by the authorities, Aileen Makerfield repeatedly ran into trouble with the nobles of the Syswitz Industrial Complex. They visited her three times and proceeded to vandalize her store and extort her when she refused to build giant soldiers for duke Syswitz. Furthermore, it is implied that she raised suspicions and that the nobles were doubting her occupation as a normal watchmaker.

Nonetheless, her original fate in Ways of Survival was often mundane. Aileen Makerfield lead a presumably peaceful life in turns where she didn't meet Yoo Joonghyuk. According to Kim Dokja, she "quietly made clocks that told the time of her home planet and reflected alone on the disappearance of her planet". Sometimes she would "struggle with Jang Hayoung or go out to eat dishes made by Mark".

Her exact age is unknown. However, considering that the last revolutionary scenario was thirty years ago and Aileen Makerfield reportedly experienced many failed revolutions after having studied for an extended period of time, she appears to be far older than one might assume.

## Abilities

#### Personal Attributes

* **Story Expert:** Aileen Makerfield is one of the only incarnations in Ways of Survival to gain this attribute. The skill seems to grant her medical abilities concerning stories, i.e. it allows her to resolve conflicts between different stories within the same being. It should be noted that Aileen Makerfield is not originally a doctor.

## Stories

Aileen Makerfield possesses the story "Person Who Repairs the Story" which allows her to perform surgery on a patient's soul. According to Kim Dokja, there are less than five incarnations in Ways of Survival who are capable of this feat, among whom Aileen Makerfield is the most remarkable one.

## Items

* **Story Pack:** Prepackaged stories (in what appear to be IV-bags) that can be used to stabilize a patient's condition by inserting them via a catheter. Aileen Makerfield treats Kim Dokja, among other characters, with this medical product. However, picking the wrong Story Pack that is unsuited to a patient's general story composition can prove lethal.
* **Story Repressor:** Kim Dokja borrows it from Aileen Makerfield when interrogating Han Myungoh. It is unclear what exactly it does but is implied to act as a restraint of some kind.
* **Smartphone:** Kim Dokja asks Aileen Makerfield to create a replacement for his destroyed phone. Despite being unfamiliar with its technology, she succeeds in assembling something similar within three days. Unfortunately, the phone shows very poor performance.
* **Pocket Watch:** Kim Dokja commissions Aileen Makerfield to create a pocket watch for Yoo Joonghyuk. It was originally meant to remind him that he belongs to this world and its time, i.e. that time does move forwards for him as well. Kim Dokja hoped that this present would alleviate his regression depresion. The final product is small and "designed with very fine circuits". Originally presented in a box, one can feel light vibrations when holding it.
* **Uriel Doll:** Kim Dokja asks Aileen Makerfield to repair a doll that used to be Uriel's symbolic body before it was destroyed by Asmodeus.

## Relationships

### Jang Hayoung

Jang Hayoung is an employee of the Etika clock store. Aileen Makerfield has known her for so long that she is capable of knowing Jang Hayoung's true feelings, despite the latter's bravado. It appears that they are aware of each other's true identities and origins. Jang Hayoung's alias, Aslan Makerfield, implies that they might have pretended to be related in the Demon Realm.

### Kim Dokja

Kim Dokja trusts and respects Aileen Makerfield's abilities greatly, seeking her help specifically. Furthermore, he greatly sympathizes with her and the Syswitz Civil Council's goals. Aileen Makerfield is initially highly suspicious of Kim Dokja and shocked by both his stories and the information he possesses. After treating him, she initially keeps him strapped to an operating table to perform an interrogation. Though he breaks free easily, she is only mildly surprised. Nonetheless, she is quick to accept his help as a potential lifeline, when he agrees to her conditions, such as making an Oath of Existence, and fulfills her expectations.

TBD

### Mark Javier

Aileen Makerfield knows him as a local pub owner and chef. Though initially upset at him for not disclosing his identity as the Guardian, she quickly grows to trust him. After the Revolutionary Games conclude, both of them proceed to manage the Syswitz and the Gilobat industrial complexes.

TBD

### Lee Sookyung

Aileen Makerfield performs major surgery on Lee Sookyung when her soul is damaged. With the help of a small brush and Soma she gathers fragmented stories and rearranges them in the right context, i.e. "recovers the meaning of lost sentences". The operation lasts over fourty minutes, is shown to be highly exhausting, and requires the help of multiple incarnations including Kim Dokja, Han Sooyoung and members of the Nouvelle Vague. Though strongly implied that Lee Sookyung and Aileen Makerfield know each other personally, the nature of their relationship beyond "doctor and patient" remains unclear.

### Lee Seolhwa

Lee Seolhwa and Aileen Makerfield are often seen working together in the second half of ORV. After the industrial complex was transported to Seoul, it can be assumed that they consolidated their respective medical wards and joined forces to treat injured incarnations. Both of them repeatedly administer drugs to and supervise the medical condition of various members of Kim Dokja's Company. Little is known about their personal relationship, though they seem to be amicable colleagues at the very least.

TBD

## Quotes

* …There are always good things. A good owner rarely appears.
* I have seen many revolutions in this industrial complex. How many revolutions have failed and how much blood has been shed?
* Can they change their fate if they know when Night comes?
* Do you know that everyone's soul is made up of stories?
* In every soul, there is a core theme that penetrates it. The most important story that forms the essence of the soul.
* Only the person who best understands this soul can touch the thema.
* Think of it as a book. Imagine all the stories in front of you becoming a book.

## Trivia

* Up until the events of ORV, the Etika clock store was exempt from taxes.
* It is implied that only thanks to her help, Kim Dokja was able to safely retain the story fragments "The Right Arm of the Poor Sword Master" and "Broken Heart of a Young Gold Dragon".
* Aileen Makerfield does not know what smartphones are.
* In Ways of Survival, Aileen Makerfield performed surgery at least once.
* Crossing both wrists is considered a greeting on Lindberg, Aileen Makerfield's home planet. Kim Dokja describes it as follows: "Crossing two veins and conveying the vibrations to the other side. As if the second hand of the clock was moving, Aileen's pulse was conveyed to me".
* Patching Kim Dokja up was the first time she was forced to use five historical-grade stories for treatment.
* Aileen Makerfield is capable of crafting story weapons.
* At some point in the epilogue, Aileen Makerfield got Han Sooyoung's phone number.
* Aileen Makerfield did not participate in the group regression.
* The name "Etika" might be a reference to "Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata", a philosophical treatise written by Baruch Spinoza.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 ORV Novel Chapter 197 (read original)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 ORV Novel Chapter 195 (read original)
3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 ORV Novel Chapter 207 (read original)
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 ORV Novel Chapter 221 (read original)
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 ORV Novel Chapter 251 (read original)
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 ORV Novel Chapter 201 (read original)
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 ORV Novel Chapter 196 (read original)
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 ORV Novel Chapter 200 (read original)
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 ORV Novel Chapter 211 (read original)
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 ORV Novel Chapter 220 (read original)
11. ↑ ORV Novel Chapter 217 (read original)
12. ↑ ORV Novel Chapter 205 (read original)
13. ↑ ORV Novel Chapter 226 (read original)
14. ↑ ORV Novel Chapter 202 (read original)
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 ORV Novel Chapter 342 (read original)
16. ↑ ORV Novel Chapter 224 (read original)
17. ↑ ORV Novel Chapter 276 (read original)
18. ↑ ORV Novel Chapter 204 (read original)
19. ↑ ORV Novel Chapter 504 (read original)
20. ↑ ORV Novel Chapter 551 (read original)
21. ↑ ORV Novel Chapter 528 (read original)