Luna Wyndell

* Original
* Remake

The main character of *Midnight Train*, Luna is a traveler that is looking for a certain place. She is a mute girl that communicates with other characters using a notebook. She meets Neil in the train and protects him during dangerous situations.

## Appearance

Luna is a young girl of average stature who has long white hair tied into a low ponytail with a blue ribbon and light blue eyes. She wears a white collared shirt and shorts under a dark blue coat, black pantyhose, white boots and black gloves.

When she was young, her hair was shoulder length and had the half-updo hairstyle. She wore a short-sleeved white shirt and blue pinafore dress.

## Personality

Luna’s muteness makes her seem serene and reserved at first, but in reality, she is assertive, energetic, and a little rash. Without Neil’s supervision, her first course of action when encountering an obstacle is to try to break it, as shown by her smashing the train’s window to get out at the start of the game, though she gradually learns how not to always do that. While her bravery is a great virtue, it can make her do impulsive and reckless things like crossing a thin path across a spike field to flip a switch even when Neil warned her not to do it just seconds ago. Nonetheless, her willingness to sacrifice herself for others and general kindness still draw people towards her. She can be ditzy sometimes and is terrified of maths, so puzzle-solving tends to be Neil’s job. At the same time, she’s very quick-witted and creative, and across the game, she has been using fists, kicks, and improvised weapons in astonishingly inventive ways to deal with various problems.

Beneath her bravado, Luna hides many problems that are slowly eating her psyche from the inside, which reaches its breaking point in Chapter 4. She is conscious of her muteness and becomes embarrassed when she bursts out laughter that is just air going through her nose, but that’s only the tip of the iceberg about how she wants to be normal. Her troubled past, Justice’s taunt, and the number of people she killed give her a lot of guilt complex, and she’s implied to have depression during her time in Black Gear. After learning about Selene’s entrapment, Luna falls into despair and repeatedly tries to commit suicide in the fourth building, thinking she does not deserve a new life. In Chapter 4's "Neil's Deduction", if Neil makes a single wrong choice, Luna apparently will think he’s blaming her for her own suffering and immediately take Neil’s gun to shoot herself, showing that her suicidal tendency is at its peak. However, she starts to calm down and gains back her will to live again once Neil gives her a new goal, which she complies faithfully in the timeskip, and bids farewell to her past by subduing a clone of her past self with non-lethal force.

## History

***Spoiler Alert! Proceed with caution.***
Luna was born into a normal family with loving parents. When she was six however, her parents were killed with bomb by a terrorist right in front of her eyes, and she was only spared because the terrorist wanted her to suffer from the trauma. She was sent to the Steamfort orphanage and became close friend with Selene, who defended her from bullies. Some times later, Purity approached her and invited her to join Black Gear, and Luna was convinced after Purity offered to make an anonymous donation to the orphanage so that the children can eat better and Selene needed not to steal food anymore in compensation for their hasty departure. In Black Gear’s headquarters, she met Justice II, who assigned her to the action team and gave her the codename "Serenity".

She underwent inhumanly harsh trainings for years and became the most feared assassin in Black Gears, having taken 108 lives. Her first kill was the terrorist in her childhood, yet it did not bring her any satisfaction, and the more people she killed the more miserable she felt, so in the end, she made the decision to leave the organization. Justice didn’t allow her and intended to keep her locked in her room, but her roommate Copycat helped her escape to the front door, where she encountered Justice who tried to convince her to change her mind once again. Failed, he taunted her that she would never be able to live normally after all the murders she committed before letting her go. After defecting Black Gear, she became a traveler in hope of finding a place where she could start a new life.

## Relationships

### Neil Lawton

Luna first meets Neil when they both trapped together by the Midnight Express, and they work together to find a way out. Though they only spend a few day together, they soon to share an inseparable bond.

## Trivia

* Luna is congenitally mute, but she can still make sounds that doesn’t require vocal chords.
* Her first name, "Luna", is Romanian for moon, and also the Roman Goddess of the Moon itself.
* Luna’s surname, Wyndell, means "friend" or "white". Lydia chose it because she has white hair and is a kind girl.
* Luna’s birthday is the date of the first post on Midnight Train’s official development blog.
* She shares her voice actor with Cynthia and Delia Miller.

## Reference List

1. ↑ https://midnighttrain-project.tumblr.com/post/187052128863/will-we-see-the-design-of-the-clothes-luna-wears
2. ↑ https://midnighttrain-project.tumblr.com/post/188405096913/neil-lawtens-second-name-contain-the-word-law