Alethea Luke

**Alethea Luke** is one of the main protagonists in Synodic Reboot. She enjoys music and relaxing activities in general, and serves as a sort of oracle to the group due to her early awakening on Prospit. She wears a tanktop and jeans.

She was the fifth adlet introduced, and has yet to enter the Medium.

## Biography

### Background

As a Sverb player, she has most likely arrived on Nobriel via meteor. The newspaper scrap left to her by her mother centers around a meteor crash, possibly documenting the very meteor Alethea arrived on as it mentions a young adling "immediately wandering onto said meteor" and subsequently being registered to a raising center; she, like most other adlets, grew up there as opposed to with any parents. It's relatively common for adlet parents to leave behind various possessions, which her mother did in the form of the aforementioned newspaper scrap, as well as assorted "personal notes and mysterious trinkets."

One of these such trinkets is the timeline tracker, which she and her friends Zariyah, Kristan, and Xzavier once set off on a road trip to retrieve, following a map left by her mother because the item itself was too large to directly leave for her.

Alethea was also an early awakened dreamer on Prospit, giving her knowledge of her and her friends' fates along with small bits of advice for her to pass on to others according to what she sees in the oracle clouds. At some point in the past, she used to visit Prospit with executorTaciturn, who was also awakened early, likely around the same time. The two of them have initially decided upon a sort of secrecy about what they learn here, keeping the upcoming end of the world and existence of this dream world hidden from their friends for the time being, as they weren't sure how they'd react. However, they did keep Rennard in the loop on the dream world itself. She also has been friends with the Sworn Protector for a long time during her presence on Prospit.

At some point in the past, Alethea, ET, and SP traveled to Prospit's underground via The Descent and explored the Cathedral of Deep Sight, a place where certain Prospitians drink a substance that alters their perception to allow them to see visions that Skaia doesn't normally show people and record what they see. It's here that ET made some sort of discovery that sent him into a depressive spiral, at some point losing his ability to dream on Prospit. Since then, Alethea has had a hard time contacting ET to help him through this, leading to the two drifting apart.

### Sverb

In spite of her knowledge of the future, Alethea was unaware it was Sverb in specific that facilitated the group's entry into the Medium. Early on, she helped guide Zariyah and Kristan in the right directions, such as telling Kristan to look up at the meteor and inspire him to stay focused and succeed at his entry. After doing so, she decided to take a nap and visit Prospit.

While on Prospit, xylemTheologian's dream tower began to erupt with a high amount of Hope energy which posed a structural threat to the dream moon. The Sworn Protector showed up, urging Alethea to return to Nobriel to see if she can stop XT from unleashing energy, at the conclusion that she was subconsciously doing so. She did so and spoke with XT on Nobrial via Prattlepal, but wound up panicking and lying to her that they were all going to die just to bring her excitement levels down. It worked to keep Prospit safe, but deeply upset XT, which Alethea felt awful for.

Before she could get back to sleep on Prospit she was contacted by Braiden and later re-contacted by Kristan, deciding between the two conversations that telling everyone what would happen would have been a better idea. She and Braiden vowed to help each other out with their respective entries in any way they can.

Alethea also had a conversation with Zariyah while the latter was preparing for her Sverb entry, not fully realizing she didn't have anyone lined up as a server player yet. Realizing that Xzavier was currently downtown, she decided to contact him and set him up as Zariyah's server player, also leading to his involvement in the game. However, she did not know to inform him that he would need both a server and client disc, putting a bit of a wrench in his entry process.

However, Alethea was still clueless on how she's going to attain the game for herself on such short notice, as her house is very far from any place she could buy the game. She retrieved a scarab from her inventory to try asking it for guidance, but notes that it's probably not quite ready yet, likely basing this inclination off of some sort of vision she saw. Once it was clear the scarab had no help to offer at present, she decided to go outside and take a nap to visit Prospit again in search of answers, deliberating on how to approach ET again and talking with evaluatedEntablature to pass the time until she drifted off to sleep.

After awakening in a Prospitian infirmary after her injuries dealing with XT's subconscious outburst earlier - which have already healed thanks to the properties that dream bodies have - she immediately set off with a specific destination in mind, eventually arriving at the Descent and heading back down once more into the Cathedral of Deep Sight, intending to learn what ET saw to try helping him better; she hides out of sight of the Sworn Protector who has been looking for her, concerned, with Alethea feeling guilty for worrying her.

The building has since been sealed off via bricks over the windows and a huge vault door on the front, which she summoned one of her orbs to "reshape" into an entrance, walking in and somberly reminiscing on the sights before walking over to the statue that ET's discovery was likely near.

## Personality and Traits

Alethea is a very chill and easygoing adlet. However, she can get quite annoyed when her attention is demanded by one thing for too long, such as being spoken to at length without getting to a point, and can be prone to saying abrasive things if she feels panicked or cornered, in an attempt to change the situation faster before fully thinking about it. She also has a bad habit of ignoring problems while hoping they'll just fade away until her focus on them is absolutely necessary, easily slipping into anxious overthinking when she does bring up old problems she's previously let sit.

Alethea very much enjoys music - particularly jazz, classic rock, and some forms of metal. She is also an aspiring guitarist, but is not yet confident in her abilities. However, she is much more confident in her talent on Prospit where she plays the guitar much more openly; it's unknown if this is just an idealized trait of her dreamself or not. She also enjoys watching television, but has hinted at a tendency to rewatch the same series that she already knows she enjoys, having a hard time delving into newer things because she has no idea what else would interest her.

## Abilities

Alethea has proven quite apt at deducting the visions she sees in the oracle clouds of Skaia, piecing together when they occur and how various events might be interconnected, being clued in by such minute details as her tail resting on the side it usually isn't on. This suggests her to have very good reasoning skills and attentiveness.

As a player of Sverb, she also possesses some sort of ability relating to her title as the Fool of a currently unknown aspect. She has displayed an ability to summon several purple orbs on multiple occasions on Prospit. The first instance was her using three of these orbs on XT's burst of Hope energy, reshaping it into a beam which mistakenly fired into Alethea's own face due to her inexperience with how the orbs will react.

Her second use of this power, however, was met with much more success, as she sent just one through a thick vault door, causing it to restructure itself into an open entryway that Alethea could walk through. This is heavily suggested to be a manifestation of her aspect power.

## Relationships

### executorTaciturn

Alethea and ET were once good friends and both early Prospit dreamers, but a discovery that ET made in the Cathedral of Deep Sight while venturing there with Alethea has caused ET to spiral into a depressive state. Since Alethea had no idea what it was he discovered, she was unable to help him and the two gradually drifted apart. However, recently Alethea has been deliberating on how to approach and try helping him again, intending to find out what he learned for herself.

### Rennard Rush

Rennard and Alethea are close friends, with Alethea being concerned for Rennard's wellbeing, trying to comfort and encourage him to give himself the sleep he needs and gradually help overcome his nightmares. Rennard is the one outsider that she and ET kept in the loop regarding their dreams on Prospit, until the change with ET.

### xylemTheologian

Alethea and XT seem to have a somewhat strained friendship, with Alethea finding XT's long-winded ramblings rather annoying, along with her firm misconception as to how Prospit works. In her panic to get XT to stop destroying Prospit with her unintended outburst of subconscious energy, Alethea has deeply upset her and feels terrible about having done so.

### Zariyah Gunn

Zariyah and Alethea are close friends who look out for each others' well being. Alethea has been known to occasionally help Zariyah out with her vague knowledge of the future from Prospit.

### Xzavier Rexx

Alethea and Xzavier are on good terms, as she clearly had no issue asking him to be Zariyah's server player and doesn't antagonize him during conversation. The two are rather open with one another, both not fearing to be rather blunt in conversation.

### evaluatedEntablature

Alethea and EE are good friends; the two like to talk for Alethea to relax while EE likes bouncing ideas off of her during such times.

### Kristan Gunn

Despite not talking a whole lot, Kristan and Alethea get along pretty well. There was a brief moment when Kristan had become suspicious of Alethea's knowledge about the game's events (which he later learned was due to her dreams on Prospit), but they have since spoken and cleared things up, helping each other figure things out a bit better.

### Braiden

Alethea and Braiden are very good friends who like to joke around together. Braiden was fully accepting and trusting of Alethea's recent reveal of her prophetic knowledge, almost taking Alethea aback with how quick he is to accept this. The two have promised to help each other out through the whole ordeal.

### twinjetXanthic

Though Alethea and TJ have yet to be seen conversing in the comic, Alethea remarked on previous conversations with her when examining the chainkind augmentations (a weight and a hook); at one point, TJ convinced her to get them for self-defense living out in the middle of nowhere, but Alethea has yet to have to use them.

### Aera

Alethea and Aera have yet to be seen speaking in-comic, but Alethea has displayed familiarity with her by bringing her up while speaking with EE.

### Mirgonsprite

Alethea and Mirgon have not yet spoken, but when Kristan told her about them, her immediate response was "tell mirgon i love them."

### Quintin Trey

Alethea is still unaware of Quintin's state as a sprite, only previously knowing him as the Vengeful Spirit. She used to give Zariyah guidance when it came to avoiding confrontations with him.

## Trivia

* At some point in the comic, Alethea's sprite has been redesigned to improve the art quality and readability of her hair. However, unlike the other characters who have been resprited, older panels with Alethea were not edited and still feature her old sprite, as her redesign was much more subtle.