Director

## Physical description

### Height

5'8"

> Welcome to OPIA HQ. I am...the Director. I'm here to The Direct you.
>
> The Director, Above and Below

The Director is an NPC in Reflection. He is played by Jay. An experienced Coda diver with vast esoteric knowledge, the Director fulfills a variety of invaluable administrative and practical roles within OPIA.

## Appearance

### Appearance

The Director wears a white hooded cloak, seemingly at all times. The cloak is connected to tubes that also connect to a thick metallic mask on the Director's head. The mask and tubes both are both full of a mysterious glowing liquid that can change color. The mask itself is part of a larger metallic bodysuit. It is unknown what the Director looks like underneath.

### Personality

The Director technically has two personalities. The cloaked bodysuit that he is constantly wearing is in truth piloted by a rudimentary AI, which is the personality that more frequently interacts with people. The AI is very eccentric, often reaction to entirely mundane events with joy, while at the same time treating horrifying, dangerous, or otherwise extraordinary situations as completely mundane. It tends to speak with a low-toned but jovial voice. Despite it's eccentricities, the AI is an extremely efficient Codan navigator, able to traverse the Coda's second layer back and forth multiple times without being harmed.

The "real" Director, the body wearing the suit, mostly sleeps while the AI pilots the suit. This Director has a far more humanlike personality than the AI, showing a far wider range of emotions than the AI's constant monotonous joy. He is somewhat of a daredevil, taking great pleasure in the thrill of dangerous situations and people. He is easily irritated by beauracracy and will frequently attempt to evade his responsibilities, even going to such lengths as to instill a similar aversion in the AI's personality.

## History

### Early Life and Station One

Some time after the opening of the Coda beneath Fuse City, the Director became a Coda diver, even after the beginning of the Demonic incursion. During the early years of the incursion, he worked with the various medics and mercenaries operating out of Station One to suppress the Demonic threat. Following the discovery of Reflections, the Director began to retrieve large quantities of them from the Coda, delivering them to the researchers at Station One for further study.

After the death of Willow Wisp, the Director retrieved her idle Flame while on the third layer of the Coda. Upon returning to Station One, the Flame had torn away at his armor enough to reveal one of his eyes. He asked Willow to hold on just a little while longer, and he managed to return her to Station One with both of them mostly intact.

Following the founding of OPIA, the Director joined the organization alongside most of the former crew at Station One. Within OPIA, he mostly continued the same duties he had before, although he was forced to engage in much more corporate politicking with GEIST, which he greatly disliked.

### FLOW Wave Two

The Director greeted the members of Wave Two of FLOW upon arriving at OPIA for their first day on the job. He conversed with the coffin containing Basilisk Id before she was transported to the Reflection hall. The following day, he was reprimended by an anonymous GEIST CEO alongside Dr. Verona and Ridill Arondite. He then attempted to hide in the OPIA lunchroom to avoid further meetings, but was discovered.

After Wave Two communed with their Reflections for the first time, the Director once again attempted to hide in the lunchroom to avoid another meeting with GEIST, but was eventually dragged in to hear Willow and Ridill recant their fight with a large Demon on their second Coda dive. The day after Wave Two's mission to implant probes on the first layer of the Coda, the Director spoke to Wave Two. He told them a brief story about how Isaac Newton created the color of indigo in his spectrum of light to balance out the other colors, and advised Wave Two to find their own "indigos" in their own relationships and lives. The conversation caused a sizable amount of Burn due to its topic.

### The Court of Death

The Director joined the forward team that entered the second layer of the Coda to retrieve Basilisk Id following her disappearance. Before departing, he revealed his unique ESP to the team. Upon arriving in the second layer, the Director attempted to explain the alien geometry of the area, but was not entirely successful. In order to expedite the journey down, the Director used several explosives to blow a hole in the bottom of the second layer, disrupting the alien geometry and allowing the forward and supply teams to drop down all the way to the third.

Upon arriving at the third layer, the Director joined Ace Galatine's team in retrieving Ruth Galatine's Flame from a village of autonomous constructs that attended to idle Flames on the third layer to keep them stable. Upon arriving at the village, the Director was attacked by several constructs and dragged away to a prison for unknown crimes. Some time after the conclusion of the battle against the Court of Death, the Director reappeared on the surface, helping The Rangers with various tasks around Station One.

### Act Two

The Director approached Ace while he was looking for a room at OPIA's new dormitories. He spoke as if he was going to recommend himself, but then recommended that Ace room with Robin instead. Some days later, he visited the Abandoned District to investigate a mysterious entity made up of a horde of featureless bodies that attacked Basil. During the Court of Compulsion's attack on Cialla, the Director suggested that OPIA exploit Compulsion's hijacking of long-range teleportation abilities to invade the Derelict and cause as much havoc as possible. After Willow was trapped in a vision by a powerful Compulsion Demon, an apparition of the Director appeared to motivate her to find a way forward. Following the end of the battle, the Director had a meeting with Gram at a noodle shop in Cialla. He brought Ace and Willow with him to try to out-compete Gram in terms of whose subordinates were more impressive.

## Abilities

The Director's metallic armor is incredibly durable, able to make contact with raw Flame for an extended period of time and still remain mostly intact. The AI within is extremely skilled at exploration and navigation, able to navigate the alien geometry of the Coda with relative ease. The Director himself has acquired vast stores of otherworldly knowledge, including even knowledge of certain figures from Earth such as Sir Isaac Newton.

### ESP

The Director is an ESPer. His ESP is unnamed, but it revolves around "ignorance". Essentially, when the Director projects his Anima, any matter within the field that exhibits any kind of function the Director does not understand stops working. The best example of this is the human body. When a human being enters the Director's Anima, their body will immediately begin to unravel, as the Director is not well-versed in the functioning of human biology or the atomic forces keeping individual atoms bound together into molecules, tissues, and organs.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Night Ride
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Above and Below
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Tumbling Down
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Beachside Burn
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Forgotten Hero
6. ↑ Sum of Experiences
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 For Today
8. ↑ For Tomorrow
9. ↑ Lock And Key
10. ↑ No Options
11. ↑ Strong Enough
12. ↑ Uneasy Future