Revrie Solace

Revrie's typical appearance

Revrie Solace is a Human who fell from the sky shortly before the Wildland Update. He is a researcher who has decided to take up residence in The Nether, interested in furthering their own research and recovering from his fall.

## Appearance

Revrie is unnaturally small for a human, at less than a half block in height- hence their categorization as an Inchling. He has the same proportions as a human, albeit frighteningly malnourished, and has a medium-toned skin colour. Their hair is a faded reddish-purple, with similarly coloured eyes and significant bags under them.

His current clothes are a heavy coat, boots, and pants, with a design that suggested being used in an extremely cold environment. Said clothes are also faded and have been bleached white, remaining that way even despite his frequent nether travel.

During moments of "Disconnect," Revrie's appearance becomes unnaturally changed, in a way comparable to datamoshing. This effect is visual, and while it does not change his physical shape, it can make it difficult to touch him or otherwise interact physically.

## Personality

*Revrie is an extroverted and kind person, although he's been alone for a long time now, so their skills regarding interaction with fellow beings has... degraded. He's knowledgeable, but not wise, and is absolutely terrified of large empty spaces. - Excerpt from the Personality section of Revrie's OC intro*

Revrie has a love for learning and for the world that drives many of his decisions and actions. Their desire to know more about the world is only matched by his enthusiasm for doing so, having a strong sense of hope and a generally positive outlook on most situations.

These feelings have, unfortunately, been overshadowed greatly by his recent experiences and fears. He has yet to recover from his Fall, and his current condition has done nothing to help their emotional state. They are easily overwhelmed, despite desperately wanting company, and tend to focus on working on projects to avoid confronting these conflicting feelings.

They have an impressive understanding of redstone, and are willing to share what they have with anyone if he thinks it will help. He also tries his best to follow good social etiquette, but will willingly admit that his standards have fallen dramatically from where they once were.

## Condition

Revrie is currently suffering from an unknown condition that came about because of prolonged exposure to the sky past the build limit. It has had both permanent and sporadic effects on them, some of which are more harmful than others. He has not yet named the condition, nor has anyone else, but the effects are as follows;

* He, and his possessions from before, has shrunk to a significantly smaller size. He doesn't know how or why this has happened.
* Their clothes and body have become faded and pale compared to the colours they were before. This is an active effect, and anything new he wears gradually becomes bleached white as well.
* Their body is cold to the touch, regardless of surroundings or clothing.
* His appetite has lessened significantly.
* They regularly experience extreme vertigo, especially when moving between dimensions or moving too quickly.
* Something that can be best described as "Disconnecting", there are periods of time where Revrie seems to visibly flicker out of view or visually distort. Such moments are accompanied by aforementioned vertigo, dissociation, and potential hallucination of some kind, specifically of feeling or hearing wind. Disconnecting is a highly distressing side effect to Revrie, and they want to find a way to fix or avoid this issue most of all.

## History

Revrie's life can be split into two distinct parts; Pre-Fall, and Post-Fall.

### Pre-Fall

Before their Fall, Revrie was a researcher working out of a notably large village known as Oak Ridge. He worked closely with other people of science, being one of many individuals hoping to further technological advancements and increase knowledge of the world in the town.

While working in this way, their town ended up under attack by illagers, agents of The Grey who were relentless in their attacks on the town. Given Oak Ridge's focus had been trade and advancement for a long time, they weren't able to combat the powerful illagers in battle, and so turned to their smartest people to try and find a way to escape from the illager threat.

Escaping somewhere into the overworld wasn't seen as a viable option, given the immense amounts of resources it would take to transport that many people, and the threat of being pursued by illagers if they fled that way. The Nether, at this point in time, was still overwhelmingly hostile and unable to support any kind of life, rotting those who entered it away to nothing (or worse, undeath). Looking for any possible escape, the town eventually turned to myths and legends to find their solution.

The myth of a place called "The Aether" was what caught their attention. A place described as being higher into the sky than one could see, with floating islands and flying pigs and little in the way of danger. The plan was to create a machine that could send someone extraordinarily high into the air, with the hope being if they were sent high enough, they might be able to find and land at such a place, and then reconnect in some way to the town below.

Revrie was the individual chosen to go up into the sky first and look. Specifically, he volunteered for this role, wanting to prove to others that there was reason to hope, someplace they could be safe and continue to live in peace. He was one of the few who had known of the legend in the first place, and had wanted to try and explore the possibility, if there was even a chance it was true.

The machine they built did work, and he was vaulted billions of blocks up into the air, far past the build limit. Unfortunately, there was nothing there- and this was the start of The Fall.

### The Fall

After being sent up into the sky, Revrie spent multiple years falling back towards the ground. He had been sent up with supplies enough to create a small outpost and keep himself alive as long as possible, So for the first stretch of his fall he didn't struggle with his survival in regards to food or water.

The issues were related to other aspects of the fall. Constantly being at terminal velocity meant that he was exposed to high-speed winds for the entire duration of his fall, and being sent up alone meant that he was essentially trapped in isolation for as long as they fell. The most notable issues, however, were the anomalous properties of the sky that hadn't before been documented, but were now being experienced in full at length.

The sun and the moon was always visible, and the overworld seemed by all accounts to be gone. Weather was able to reach him, but didn't descend from the clouds, instead forming in distorted patterns around them. The worst of these effects was, by far, the instability of his very existence while that high up. Blocks had been known to dismantle themselves at the build limit, rendering them unable to be placed, but the same happening to people positioned too high up hadn't been discovered by that point.

The only way to limit this instability was to look towards the ground- even while unable to see it, doing so seemed to be enough to ground them in reality. It was physically impossible to do this at all times during his fall, unfortunately, and many of the anomalous properties of the sky have left a significant impact on his current state.

### Post-Fall

Revrie's Fall was finally ended after he crashed back down to the ground in The Valley, taking no fall damage and being left dazed and confused as to where they were. The world was nigh unrecognizable to them, especially given his new size, and he immediately tried to find both people and safety, having very little luck with either.

Notably, one of his interactions was with Toasi, with Revrie bewildered and confused by the state of the nether in the present day and how anyone could survive in it. After friendly conversation and a bit of getting to know each other, Revrie asked (and was allowed) to build their home nearby The Hearth in the nether itself, finding comfort in the more enclosed terrain and heat. He is currently working on said home, attempting to find solutions to issues like water and food for himself.

## Relationships

#### Toasi (neighbor)

Revrie's relationship with Toasi is still in its early stages- however, as one of the few people Revrie has met, and someone who has given him some degree of positive interaction, they consider Toasi to be as close to a friend as they have right now.