Nia

*"Come with me, and you'll never see your master again."*

Nia is a highly dedicated abolitionist who favours a baseball bat.

### **Characterization and Biography**

Nia is a Common/Lowland Elf (or Alari) with long, dark hair typically worn in a ponytail, and a light tan when compared to Lin, whom she is around the same age as. She has had a horrendous run in life, with barely any education, bad masters every time she was owned, and even an addiction to the drug Nakimia decades ago, which she ran out of money for and so had to quit cold turkey. Nia apparently has landscaping and electrician experience, and particularly enjoys sneaking, climbing, and beating up humans. Lastly, she has about 180 years of melee combat experience - she can use swords, staves, polearms, crossbows, fists, and of course her baseball bat. She says she is rusty with bows. Nia's experiences have led her to become an extremely willful abolitionist, determined to a fault to save her fellow elves from bad masters, often not thinking plans through.

Nia has a network of friends who act as spies - or more appropriately, informants - that work in densely populated areas, such as churches, grocery stores and malls. They let her know who needs help most and where, after which she springs to action, with her iconic line "Come with me, and you'll never see your master again". She also has a human friend in the Happy Home Academy that helps her recycle elves into the system, which while not ideal, usually lands them a better master than they had previously. In fact, during her raid on the Blue Oyster strip club (which acted as a front for black market slave auctions), Nia saved 20 out of 24 total elves housed there, including Peni, who dubs her "The Nutcracker" after how she dealt with the club's boss. This was also a uniquely planned out mission, as she had utilised patterns of data from her network to discover the location and figure out its workings.

Due to a lack of inspirational figures growing up, Nia has always wanted to be a hero. This has perhaps already come into play, as her actions that have been seen by the public have earned her the vigilante title "The Liberator", becoming quite popular among abolitionists such as Vanessa. She also has a strong hate for Queen Jia, "The Fake Queen", for "being a puppet and selling out her people". Before Mr. Jason (Cornwall's influential slaver ally), she was last a slave 33 years ago, before the Elvish Rights Act existed. Nia does not wear anything under her Liberator outfit, and references Batman, having seen some form of media of the character at some point, perhaps inspiring her Liberator attire. In preparation for kidnapping the player, she apparently managed to bug the hotel at some point, likely when she was brought in for the Cornwall challenge, somehow.

Nia frequently uses smoke grenades and throwing knives on her missions, which she acquires from her friend and ally Jena in a secret base within an abandoned subway tunnel. These supplies tend to be expensive, and she always needs more.

### **Relationships**

The player initially meets Nia under the moniker "Sui", where she acts a naive, shy, weak and innocent slave of Mr. Jason, heavily dolled up in makeup. When the player takes her in, they can choose to treat her as an equal - the Love Route - or as a slave - the Slave Route. Under the Love Route, they get to know her as a person, even helping out on her missions. Nia soon develops a crush on the player, and although she stops herself opening up due to her horrific past, she demonstrates extreme trust in the player as time goes on. On the Slave Route, she obeys due to the simple fact that she is still being treated far better than under any other master, even being allowed to continue her missions. Corrupting her enough has her embrace her sexuality, and she begins masturbating when alone.

Nia initially condescends to Lin, even calling her "miss Stockholm", and repeatedly questions her about the player's motives and behaviour. Lin, however, sees exactly what she is, and how to help her, pushing her in all the right ways to have her open up. As of the Syl'iath trip, she even finds herself briefly confiding in her, as well as the player. Lin later often acts as liaison between the hotel and Sanctuary, in particular passing on messages from Nia to the player when needed.

Nia came across Sylvia during an intelligence mission on Cornwall's estate, a major complication among many that led to her discovery and enslavement, where she had to fight tooth and nail not to be chipped. Sylvia's high-and-mighty, prissy attitude irks her very frequently, and so the two for the most part have a neutral relationship, only interacting with a common goal or interest, although Sylvia likes to chime in with jabs now and then on other occasions, usually to condescend.

Peni in particular likes Nia after she saved her from nearly being raped at a black market slave auction, and if on the Love Route (having also joined in that mission), Nia further appreciates the player purchasing her.

Most of the main hotel characters either don't know of or have little interest in the Sanctuary characters, Nia included. Kali, Hana, Maria and Jin have met or had dealings with her personally, and Maria would go on to spy for her after learning her mother's identity.

Two of Nia's friends and allies are Jena, a female Desert Elf (Talvi) mechanic/inventor, and Ghen Tindo, a male Dark Elf (Tindi) legendary revolutionary leader, renowned for his marksmanship skills. Nia is apparently only a few years younger than Ghen. Jena excitedly anticipates Nia's visits to purchase and test out her "toys", aka weapons.