Sage

*"A fiery redhead with an attitude. Sage is President of the HOT and girlfriend to Chad, the president of the tri-alphas. It's her final year at B&R."*

**Sage Morgan-Burke** is a student at Burgmeister & Royce, where she serves as President of The HOTs sorority. She is in her final year at B&R and is the ex-girlfriend of Tri-Alphas President, Chad.

Sage is one of the Main Love Interests in Being A DIK. She plays a key role in the game's central story and becomes a close friend of the Main Character regardless of whether he chooses to have a relationship with her.

## Physical Appearance

Sage is approximately 22 years old. Tall, voluptuous and beautiful, she has bright green eyes, pale skin, freckles and long ginger hair that she wears in a variety of styles. She has a curvaceous figure of wide hips, large breasts and a slender waist.

During a flashback in Episode 5, her hair is shown to have been a deeper shade of red, possibly having been dyed.

## Personality and Traits

Intelligent, assertive and caring, Sage is in many ways a natural leader. But she also has a tendency to bottle up her emotions and can be quick to anger. She attributes her difficulty talking about how she feels to her family upbringing.

She has a strong sense of what she wants out of a relationship, and goes after it full throttle. A flashback scene shows her pursuing Chad despite his obvious disinterest and actual sexual preferences, and later she persistently pursues the MC even if he turns her down. She enjoys sex, becoming frustrated with Chad for not being physical enough with her, and excited by having someone like the MC "to experiment with." She is also revealed to have a "bucket list" of things she wants to try.

She cares deeply about her sisters in the HOTs and is generally shown to be a good leader, imparting valuable leadership lessons to both Quinn as well as Main Character, but at the start of the game is distracted from her leadership duties by suspicions that Chad is cheating on her.

Despite enjoying college life and a party lifestyle, she remarks to the Main Character that it is important to maintain a balance between work and social life. She is also shown to be highly perceptive, intelligent and dedicated to her studies, which surprises Main Character as well as Isabella.

She shows an interest in learning guitar and practices martial arts after Main Character suggests it to her as a remedy to release her anger and frustration.

She likes brutal honesty and hates weather talk.

## History

**Before MC's Arrival**

It is implied that Sage became President of the HOTs quite early on, possibly even in her first or second year. During the party planning scene in Episode 8, reference is made to another HOT sister who she didn't get along with, because Sage wanted to be President and the next in line got annoyed.

At some point she began dating Chad, and was also Quinn's mentor (or "mother") during her initiation into the HOTs. It is suggested that she has met Jill previously but did not get on with her. In Episode 9 we learn this dislike is down to her believing Jill to one of her brother's cronies. She is also known to dislike the Preps.

**After MC's Arrival**

Sage's first appearance in the game is in Episode 1. She is seen sunbathing outside the HOTs house during the scene where Maya talks to the MC about campus life. She is properly introduced a little later when she sits at the MC's table in the cafeteria.

## Relationships

### **HOTs**

The HOTs all seem to respect Sage as their leader and she seems to get along with all of them. However she is not seen administering them as much as Quinn does.

#### **Quinn**

Sage and Quinn were "mother and daughter" during Quinn's initiation to the HOTs, meaning they had a mentor/mentee relationship when Quinn first joined the sorority. There are hints that they also developed a friendship during this period, as Sage later reveals to the MC that she doesn't have to explain herself to Quinn when it comes to feelings because she gets what she's going through. Sage trusts Quinn enough by the start of the game to let her run a lot of HOTs business with little to no supervision, but tension grows between them after the fallout from the DIKs evaluation party (with Quinn not telling Tommy that they had been booked to go to the Preps). The pair fall out again over Quinn's handling of Maya's hazing, after which Sage tries to teach Quinn some lessons about leadership.

They are both open to having a threesome together with the MC in Episode 8, but in the same episode there is a suggestion that they may not be as close as they once were. Sage appears surprised that Quinn has an array of sex toys in her possession and asks if she was always this crazy. Quinn replies: "You'd know if you ever bothered to ask."

#### **Maya Bailey**

Sage develops a stronger relationship with Maya particularly in Episodes 8 and 9. Furious at Quinn for lying to Maya about free tuition if she gets into the HOT sorority, she goes way out of her way to convince Maya to re-join the sorority, which she does. Maya and Quinn are seen hanging out together during the DIKs' Halloween Party in Episode 9.

### **Family**

#### **Jade and Stephen**

Sage's relationship with her adoptive parents is so far unexplored.

#### **Tybalt**

Sage's relationship with Tybalt, her brother through adoption, is one of antagonism and hatred. Sage openly hates Tybalt and actually bonds with Jill in Episode 9 over their hatred of Tybalt. She hates him so much that she created a Rooster account called "Tyballs" to harass, annoy and humiliate him in front of everybody, including the other Preps, as she is all too aware of his narcissism and knows how to hit him where it hurts, and "to put him in his place". Tybalt's feelings seem mutual towards Sage.

### **DIKs**

The DIK's also seem to respect and maybe even somewhat fear Sage, because of her social status, her relationship with Chad and her influence over some of the most beautiful girls at B&R. When Sage is seen making out on the dance floor with the MC, the DIK brother she becomes closest to, the DIKs who witness this are amazed and perplexed. Sage's relationship with DIK's President Rusty Burgmeister has not been developed.

#### **Main Character**

At the end of Episode 8, she admits that she never found a guy who wanted to do romantic stuff with her until she met the Main Character, and admits this is what she wants.

### **Tri-Alphas**

Sage seems to be respected by the Tri-Alphas, largely because she is Chad's girlfriend at the beginning, and because of her social status and her influence over some of the most beautiful girls at B&R.

#### **Chad**

Sage's relationship with her ex Chad, the President of the Tri-Alphas (Jocks) has soured to the point of physical violence. Sage and Chad's rocky relationship is first seen in the cafeteria where he grabs her arm to try to make her come with him, and he fails. At this point, Sage is convinced Chad is cheating on her, largely due to Chad's growing disinterest and his inability to get hard during sex. She is proven right, and his actual sexual preferences are revealed- he is bisexual and is in a secret relationship with Troy.

Just like Isabella, in the end if Main Character rejects her, she is shown to accept rejection with grace and still keeping the door open for him if he changes his mind in the future or his relationship with his chosen girl doesn't end well. However, she also tells him to keep in mind that she won't keep waiting for him.

### **Jill Royce**

Sage initially does not like fellow high-society student Jill Royce, largely because of her association with her hated brother Tybalt. However, in Episode 9, Jill comes to sit with Maya and Jill to say hi to Maya, and Sage ignores Jill during this interaction. But when the topic of Tybalt comes up by Maya asking how their "date" went, where he pathetically proposed marriage- Jill says it was excruciating and that she hates Tybalt and wants nothing to do with him. When Sage hears this, she reveals, completely unknown to Jill that Tybalt is her brother through adoption and that she hates him too, and she also reveals the "Tyballs" social media account that she uses to comment on Tybalt's profile, particularly when he is seen with Jill. Jill and Sage in fact manage to bond over their hatred of Tybalt and when Maya leaves, they continue talking. Later on, they have become firm friends, as Sage invites Jill to the DIKs Thanksgiving Party.

## Trivia

* Successfully choosing Sage's branch at the end of Season 2 gives the Steam achievement "In lieu of a flower".
* She affectionately calls Main Character Tiger at the HOTs party in Episode 7.
* Sage is the only Main Girl that the Main Character can reject early on and still get another chance to pursue later.
* Sage is the first girl, chronologically, to wear the MC's DIK jacket.