Alchem

**Appearance**

Alchem's Suit has a brown paper-bag over their head with circular holes cut out to see through, pink circular pieces of paper below their eyeholes glued on with tree-sap, and a piece of tape in place of their mouth. They always carry a whiteboard marker to draw a mouth onto the tape, and a dirty rag to wipe it off when they want to change it. Their Suit's outfit consists of black overalls, black faux-fur boots with golden accents on the sides, and a white jumper with grey accents. Alchem is a small papillon dog with and brown eyes

**Hobbies**

Alchem enjoys picking flowers (their favourite flower being the Oxide Daisy), learning Endarian and playing ukulele. Their ukulele has a floral design all over it, with the holes being in the middle of the flowers instead of in the middle of the ukulele behind the strings. The ukulele itself is mainly beige with dark brown accents.

**The Showfall Story**

An employee working for Showfall Media was instructed to present a new idea for a character based off trends as of recent, as well as trends that have been consistent in their audience. The employee noticed a substantial increase in the audiences love for sci-fi cyborg characters as well as a consistent appreciation for animal companions. The idea goes as follows: 'a dog with cybernetic enhancements who controls a human-looking robot-suit'. It includes the audiences love for animal companions and the public's appreciation for sci-fi content, it would bring in new viewers as well as keeping their current audience hooked.

**Origins**

There was once just a dog and their owner, and they were best friends! The owner, an engineer, the dog, a therapy Animal to comfort the owner. The owner, without anyone knowing why or even that they were doing so in the first place, began building a life-size robot made to visually look like themselves. They began programming it to have AI able to follow the dog, they began gathering materials to make its skin look more human. They put in a control system, similar to the cockpit of a plane, in the stomach and made a hatch in the middle of the stomach for it to open up, although the control panel was questionably small, around the size of the dog?

This is explained when the owner begins making cybernetic enhancements to the dog itself, making its learning much quicker and its eyesight more colourful. Then one day the owner left the house for a couple hours and returned with babies English and Endarian learning pages? storybooks from the library? these strange occurrences were only warning signs of what was soon to come.

One day the dog woke up, and the owner was just gone, no notes left or anything, but all their shoes were still at the front door? and they never did return, no matter how long the dog waited.. So after a while, the dog decided waiting wasn't worth its time.

It started looking around, and it found all the pages and books its owner had left behind, so it began to look at the pages, and because of its enhanced learning abilities, it had learned basic English within roughly a month and Endarian around a week later.

It one day decided to hop into the open stomach hatch of the in-progress robot its owner had left behind, and as it presses buttons on the control panel, the robot would move! Using the joystick would make the robot walk, buttons on the left and right let it interact with anything in front of it! and with some buttons in the middle, it was able to scroll through audio clips it could play out loud through its speakers! For a long time, the dog would cycle through playing with the functions of the robot, reading the educational materials that were left behind by its owner, and gathering food, until it would be able to blend in with the other people in the area!

The robot itself, although functionally complete, was not finished design-wise, specifically the head did not have the materials required to make it look human. the dog could never blend in with the other humans with such a robot looking face. It began looking around the house to find something that could mask the face of the robot, and it eventually found a simple paper bag, all the dog needed to do was carefully rip some holes for the eyes to be able to see! It also decided to add 2 pink circles next to the eye-holes to make it more personable, and a piece of tape where a human's mouth would be. This was for 2 reasons, 1, so that it somewhat explains why it doesn't talk, and 2, because it can use a whiteboard pen to draw on a mouth to show emotion and be able to wipe it off with a rag when the dog wants to change how it looks! With all that time and effort, the dog was ready to blend in with everyone else!

**Banquet**

On the day of the Banquet, Alchem took its first step into communication with the rest of the cast, and immediately noticed some differences between what it thought they would be like and what they were actually like. For starters, there was far less humans at the Banquet than Alchem would have expected. The whole reason it came here in the robot was so that it would blend in with the other humans, but there was much more species variety at this event than it originally thought there would be. Second of all, in the space between the stage and the shelter, was a group of tamed wolves tied to a fence with a lead. Alchem's previous owner had always treated them much more as a best friend rather than a pet, so this seemed odd to it, therefor it would keep coming back to the group of wolves out of confusion and interest.