You

### Aliases

Player, Peon (Helios), Co-player (Athena), Dragon Stabber "Homicide/Crimes" (Kratos)

## Physical description

### Species

HumanAI (in-game)

**You**, also known as the **Player**, is the in-game representation of the reader. They obtained their copy of Fortuna from their friend, Cowboy Beepboop, who wanted to play co-op with You.

The avatar is displayed while the Player talks to their patron, Helios, and later appears in a dream they have about Fortuna. Otherwise, it only appears while talking to their patron(s) or roomtrapping gods.

You has several screens attached to a backpack. Each reader submitting a command has their own separate screen displaying an image based on their forum icon. The screens shift in and out of the pack rapidly, blurting out every recieved command. They constantly switch from voice to voice, often cutting each other off while You stuggles to get a word in. You seems to be unable to remove the backpack (although, when you tried, it was noted You did not try very hard).

## Personality

Nothing about You's personality is concrete due to You being controlled by numerous amounts of people.

## Biography

### Real world

Not much is known about You outside the game, except for their birthday falling on September 3rd.

After they started playing Fortuna, they remark how they don't recall eating or taking care of other life necessities, yet feel full upon regaining awareness in front of their computer again.

They also play Fortuna far more than they should, staying up late just to finish a game.

the only thing You clearly recalls are their Fortuna games. This is mentioned multiple times as You speaks of how they don't recall eating or taking care of other life necessities, yet feel full upon regaining awareness in front of their computer again.

### Starting Fortuna

You first boot up the game given to you by your friend Cowboy. You decide to play their last save file, noting that majority of the crew's health is already failing. The Sun God presumably kills the last of the crew. From there, you go to the settings and start anew.

You fail to uncheck every single box, however, and keep the characters from Cowboy's universe. This causes you to unwittingly start a sun god run.

## Personality

The Player's personality is ambiguous, due to them being controlled by the suggestions of Fortuna readers. You has abrupt mood swings, says things without knowing why, and talks to themself out loud.

Their personality becomes more apparent after the roomtrap with Hephaestus, being more kind and understanding. From how they berate Cowboy for mistreating fictional characters, they seem to have high empathy. They often seem to try and make compromises with other gods, striving to have as little violence as possible. Their playstyle is often involves decisions which they change quickly. This reflects on their player AI, which gives them the screens.

Their screens however, are much diffrent. Their true design holds four other screens- most all giving You a headache.

The orange screen acts more angry than You themself, often blurting out insults and is far more blunt than You. They are however, the most rational screen in the sense they do not act outlandish as the others.

The blue screen, also known as the Hurme Merme screen, is a screen which acts in a manner similar to a meme. This screen is one of the least seen.

The yellow screen is the screen which constantlly acts flirtatious to every other AI. They often ask for affection from others, much to everyone elses' annoyance.

## Relationships

These relationships may have been altered or retconned in the cosmosdex.com redux of the story

### Cowboy Beepboop

Cowboy is one of the Player's real-life friends. He gave the Player their copy of Fortuna so they could play co-op together. Cowboy seems to be a caring friend, as he displays concern for the Player's mental state during several points in the story.

### AbsoluteTrash

Cowboy introduced the Player to AbsoluteTrash after ~~You would not stop asking him for other people to talk to about Fortuna. They have not known each other long, but seem to get along well enough.~~

They can pass their game files to Trash, causing various versions of their game to spawn up everywhere in hopes of completing a Sun God run. Otherwise

### Roman Apollo v1

The reader can choose how they interact with Apollo, reflecting the Player's view of Apollo.

### Artemis V1

During Game 1, both You and Artemis communicate - the latter worrying over her brother. She is the one who urges them to play the tutorial in hopes that her brother would appear again. Their friendship, though brief, is a pleasent one. However, this can easily be changed in the Redux, depending on which choices you pick. She is also one of the reasons you can have your first game over. This involves flirting with her three times.

If you decide to tell her a deer pun, she remarks that she dislikes them, presumably due to her roman counterpart, Diana v1.

### Helios v1

The Player accidentally set Helios as their patron and has kept him around ever since. Helios holds a fondness for You and speaks good about them. Pan v1, while briefly set as You's second Patron, says that Helios had told him that You was a good person. You enjoys the company of Helios and there have been many instances where his vast amount of knowledge proved very useful.

There was one incident where You accidentally "fired" Helios as the patron, and ended up hurting his feelings. The two of them have made up since then.

In the redux, You is more analytical in terms of getting information out of Helios, initially communicating with him via the notepad instead of speaking face-to-face. You can be on good terms with him or not, depending on the choices you pick.

### Athena v1

You chose Athena to be their second patron, alongside Helios, at the start of the Game 2. You lets Athena take control of the captain, Latta Spice. You appreciates advice from Athena, and it seems the two of them became friends.

After the events of Game 2, she left as You's patron to become Atheris.

### Hermes v1

You likes Hermes, as he was chosen as the ship's AI two games in a row. You enjoys talking to Hermes about shipping, and Hermes is more than happy to oblige.

During Game 2, Hermes begins to grow suspicious of the Player after seening his own death timer. He roomtraps them at the end of Game 2 before Cea can reach the Fortuna chest in the hopes that he could prevent his death, but as Mors states,

### Kratos

Kratos became the Player's second patron before the start of Game 3.

## Trivia

* Even though You is controlled by several people at once, they seem to have a good heart. Most of the time they end up wanting to help and do what they think is right. They are much gentler to the game's characters than their friends Cowboy and Trash.
* There is a planned story Gimeurcookie is creating which contains You as a possible cameo, or character. This counterpart of You has no screens.[citation needed]
* The Player tells Athena that they were once chased by a goose, which only stopped once they dropped a sandwich they had.

## References

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