John Fontaine

**John Fontaine** is a recurring character in *The Demon's Light*. Working as an Alchemilia Corporation operative, he hunts down the protagonists throughout Season One before becoming their ally.

## Appearance

John Fontaine is a black man of slightly above-average height, broad of both features and build. His body is flecked with moderately visible scars, most notable around his jawline. Due to an injury sustained in a high school fight, Fontaine has minor, but visible, facial paralysis. Fontaine has buzzed black hair.

Fontaine wears a dark coat and mask in his earliest appearances, due to the covert nature of his career. When he reveals himself to the protagonists, he appears in a hospital gown and a doctor's ill-fitting coat. During the downtime before his attack on Remnant Rock, Fontaine wears plain polo shirts and slacks.

## Personality

Fontaine is seen by most of his peers as taciturn and reserved. He keeps a small social circle and is not especially sociable with them; his first girlfriend left him due to a lack of communication. Despite this, however, Fontaine has a great deal of care for his family and few friends.

Primarily as a result of his training and experience in Alchemilia, Fontaine is capable of committing acts that most would find morally dubious without hesitation. He talks little about these activities, whether with coworkers or friends, and forgoes company-insured therapy. Fontaine enjoys the physicality and objective-oriented nature of his career.

Following his resurrection at the hands of the Dream Eaters, Fontaine's worldview undergoes a drastic change; he begins to believe that he was saved by some supernatural force in order to make amends for the actions he undertook as an Alchemilia employee, and develops a disdain for the company whose orders led to his death. A desire for self-destruction sits at the center of these ideals, reinforced by the Dream Eaters' powers of suggestion into revolutionary tendencies.

Fontaine's few hobbies consist of sports, drinking, and vehicles. He often tinkers with his own car, and harbors a fascination with all things mechanical and tactile.

## Biography

### Background

John Fontaine was born in Silivia as the youngest son of the Fontaine family. He remained in regular contact with his elder sister Mary, and spent much of his teenage years looking after her son Jordan. Due to the family's close connection to the company, Fontaine was accepted into an Alchemilia youth outreach program, which he joined for extra credit. Fontaine found a natural affinity for athletics within himself, and chose to enroll for a training course in corporate security. This was the beginning of an extensive career under Alchemilia's martial branch, which would lead to Fontaine's later role as a clandestine operative.

As a high-ranking agent, Fontaine would lead and participate in numerous black operations, primarily union busting and arrests that Alchemilia preferred under-the-radar. His daylight role as a security consultant granted him a Gimel-tier clearance, among the highest in the company. Fontaine was kept as an advisor on projects such as Project Voight, though the true nature of these undertakings remained obscured to him.