Icarus

**Identity**

Icarus is the working name for a man stuck on a spaceship with no one else occupying it besides himself. Icarus has looked for clues of life on the ship, other than himself, and made the discovery of crew members who go by the names of Heracles, Jason, Theseus, Orpheus, and Icarus. Using process of elimination, the sole onboard survivor deems himself to be "Icarus".

**Memory Loss**

There is currently no solid evidence that points to the cause of Icarus' **amnesia**. Usual causes of amnesia are either **head trauma**, **PTSD**, or other similar psychological and physical syndromes. In none of the transmissions are we, the listeners, made aware of any physical injuries. It must be said, however, that in Transmission 007, we can hear a distress signal, most likely sent by Icarus himself. In this distress signal, one can clearly make out alarm sounds in the background and a person, most likely Icarus, heavily coughing. The unknown figure states "*I don't know where [who?] I am*", "*I'm in some kind of spacecraft*" while sobbing and coughing in-between sentences.

This is the first time where the unknown figure, who henceforth should be referred to as "Icarus", references his lack of memory. One might be led to believe that the event that caused the amnesia happened at the same time or slightly earlier than when the distress signal was sent. This does not directly prove or explain the cause (or causes) of his amnesia, but it seems likely for them to be related. Head trauma is a very likely explanation but there's no actual evidence pointing to physical injuries.

As for a non-physical explanation, it has been suggested that his memory loss might actually be explained by him being in a phase of **denial**, which might be a result of several (theoretical) situations. He might've been directly responsible for the possible death of the 4 original crewmen (**Theseus**, **Jason**, **Heracles** and **Odysseus**), or he might've watched powerless as they got sucked out of the ship. Since there is no information about the events prior to his apparent memory loss, there is no discernible way to prove or disprove any of its probable causes.

It seems, however, that some small, fragmented, memories are starting to come back to him. In **Transmission 023**, he reveals that some things come back to him while asleep, although "not a lot sticks when he wakes up". He has some memories of loud noises, ash, chaos and fire, likely memories of the ship's incident. He mentions, as well, that he screams while dreaming or remembering it, which almost confirms without a doubt that he developed some trauma caused by the incident (whether this trauma was the cause of his amnesia is up for debate). However, he also recalls a vivid feeling of loneliness and loss, as well as images of a "a vast blue", above and below, likely referring to the blue sky and the blue sea, which might hint to a previous occupation as airplane pilot or ship sailor. This "vast blue" also correlates with the Greek myth of Icarus, who flew from the island of Crete with his father Daedalus over the Aegean, crashing eventually near the island of **Icaria** (named after him by his father), off the coast of Turkey, because he flew too close to the Sun.

In transmission 049, however, after going through what appears to be a wormhole of some kind, he loses his memory again. Before going into it, in transmission 048, he theorizes that that cosmic object, whatever it might be, could have been the cause of his amnesia. Whatever it might be, the cause probably isn't physiological, since amnesiac people struggle with short-term memory but they don't lose their long-term memory out of the blue. It seems most likely that the event of going through this "light at the end of the tunnel" is the explanation for Icarus' memory issues, and not trauma (either psychological or physical).

**Depression**

In Transmissions 32 and 33, we learn that Icarus's mental health is declining as time continues. He sobs while singing in Transmission 32 and mentions how he could've committed suicide with a gun he discovered on board and how no one would've stopped him. Icarus ends the transmission saying he almost lost himself again how he can't promise if his suicidal feelings are gone; however, he promises to return to transmitting tomorrow.

**Trades/Hobbies**

While stuck in space, Icarus discovers a recording device on board the ship. Icarus believes the device belongs to himself as he found it in a group of items that, supposedly, belonged to Icarus. In Icarus' free time, he tinkers with the device whenever he is available and not fixing the ship's control panel. Icarus can then make music with aforementioned recorder for the "*people of the universe*" to listen to.

Icarus tries his best rewiring the spacecraft to a more operable state. In Transmission 34, Icarus gets the ship marginally functional, charging the almost dead battery with his microphone. After doing this, he begins accelerating towards where the college radio signal seems to get stronger, which is likely the general direction towards Earth.