Airi Springflower

You, Airi, will be the beginning of a long story stretching across decades.

**Airi Springflower** is the protagonist and playable character of Skystruck: Distant Needs, and the first character to appear in Skystruck. They have ambiguous gender, and are the first known human to have "The Will Of" Recvn.

## Profile

### Appearance

Airi is a pale-skinned Human. They have purple eyes and hair, and wear a white shirt and blue shorts.

### Personality

Airi is canonically a "quiet, happy and adventurous person". They are "always optimistic about things and always see a bright future".

However, this is how they would act without a player behind them. With someone in control, that person's personality is reflected onto Airi, changing their dialogue choices and actions. Therefore their personality changes depending on your choices.

### Abilities

Airi has two main abilities, namely their Will and their strong proficiency in Magic.

Their Will allows them to communicate with those most in need of them through their mind. It also allows Airi to predict and resist other people's Recvns.

Their magic is the same as anyone else's, however, they do not know any spells. This means that all magic that they cast must be learnt over the course of the story.

## Main Story

### Skystruck: Distant Needs

#### Middle route

Airi finds an interesting location in their town, Sky Ridge, and walks over to it. There is a glowing spot on the ground, and they touch it. Airi blacks out.

Airi awakes on a ship travelling to Xitrater. They break out of the ship with the help of Marie, and land in Space Ridge.

In Space Ridge, Airi meets Berry, a helpful Xitratian. They also meet Berry's sister, Michii, and a robot intent on stealing their money.

To stop Airi from proceeding onwards, Michii fights them at the end of Space Ridge Village. During the battle, Michii warns Airi that the Queen, HER, will kill them and destroy humanity.

After the battle, Airi proceeds onwards to the Desert of Xitrater, where they find a graveyard with a tank in it. Inside the tank Airi meets Ara, who then drives off with a cryptic warning.

Airi moves onwards and finds a desert outpost, where they fight Maxum Lurkamore.

After defeating Maxum, Airi moves onwards into the Caverns of The Lost.

They emerge on the other side onto a cliff, where they see a city, with an ocean and bay past it.

They enter the city, and fight Ara.

After defeating Ara, Airi moves on to the ocean, an area called Misumi bay. There they meet Northera, an angelic spirit.

Northera doesn't "fight" Airi in the traditional sense, but tells them some things.

Airi gets on a boat and sails across the North Sea of Xitrater, but is attacked by Daioukia, a giant squid, wrecking their ship. They black out, and awake in Alpine Incline.

There Airi meets Mitchie, Jooru, and Kitsy. They move on through Alpine Incline together.

At the end of Alpine Star City, Mitchie fights Airi, creating a dream inside of their mind to fight them in instead of the real world.

After defeating Mitchie, Airi presses on alone through Alpine Incline. Near the end, they overhear three voices talking about them. The voices grow bored of waiting for Airi and leave.

Airi overcomes the final mountain in Alpine Incline, reaching CLOUD, the capital of Xitrater. In the city, they meet the three voices one by one, learning that their names are Squishy, Scarlett, and Rocky.

At the end of CLOUD, Rocky corners Airi with Scarlett and Squishy, calling themselves "The Snow Queens" and engaging battle with them.

After defeating the Snow Queens, Airi moves on to Itance. There they meet Maxum again, who helps Airi avoid the Itance Mafia, the rulers of the region.

At Maxum's house, Airi rests and tries to escape Itance's barrier walls with Maxum in the middle of the night. But one assassin, Assassin B4C, notices them and engages battle.

After defeating B4C, Airi and Maxum keep pushing on through Itance, defeating guards and running through halls filled with security lasers.

Just as they escape Itance's barrier walls, the head of the Itance Mafia, the Silver Killer, fights them.

After defeating him, Airi leaves Itance, and suddenly hears a voice. This voice explains how the Xitratians got to Xitrater, and tells Airi that they are the "one thing they need" to finally get revenge.

Airi moves onward to Lebensende, where they meet two lightbulbs, Bolty and Shocky, who run a shop in the area, the Scrap Store.

Moving onwards, they meet Lord Tine, the ruler of the area. He warns them that he will see them soon.

Airi approaches and enters the TSL Meta, which is strangely reminiscent of the Caverns of The Lost.

Bolty and Shocky fight Airi, and after being defeated, join them through TSL Meta.

Reaching the end of TSL Meta, you meet Lord Tine again. He warns Airi to give up their life, demonstrating his time control abilities to scare them.

Airi then reaches the top of TSL Meta, an area known as Tine's Clock Fortress. Airi, Bolty and Shocky make their way through the fortress, until, suddenly, Bolty and Shocky go missing.

As Airi realises this, time freezes, and Tine appears behind them. He toys with the idea of killing them there and then, but decides it would be too boring, and fights Airi instead.

Airi defeats Tine, and moves onwards to Slitinia, the final area of their journey.

The voice from before often makes comments at this point, and removes all of Airi's items to make their journey more interesting.

As Airi travels through Slitinia, they are suddenly kicked to the ground. As they look behind them, they realise that it was Marie, who then fights them.

After defeating Marie, Airi makes their way to Her Citadel. It is strangely reminiscent of their home in Sky Ridge...

In the Citadel, Airi finally meets the owner of the voice. The person who was referred to as "HER" all throughout their journey. Her name?

Queen Slithe.

Slithe tells Airi to meet her at the top of the Citadel, where she promises to "explain everything".

At the top of the Citadel, Slithe demands Airi give her their blood, to which Airi refuses. Slithe slides a scythe out of her body, and tries to take it by force, fighting Airi.

Airi kills Slithe during their battle.

They return to Earth, feeling a pain of regret and shame. They killed the Queen of a planet, and it is now in civil war, with every single inhabitant dieing.

Was this truly the ending that Airi wanted?

#### Good route

This is the canon route and ending to Skystruck: Distant Needs.

The story starts the same way as in the middle route: Airi gets abducted, escapes with Marie, and ends up in Space Ridge.

However, in this route, Airi must not kill anyone. Killing even a single person forces the route on to the middle route.

This description of the route will only describe the changes that occur from not killing anyone, and how Boss Battles end.

Space Ridge is the same up until Michii's battle. It ends when Berry comes and intervenes, revealing that Michii's anger problems stem from their traumatic childhood.

Ara is defeated after a long time of fighting, when she realises that fighting for HER is a bad idea, and that she no longer wants to.

Misumi is the same, as Airi cannot kill Northera in the middle route.

Defeating Mitchie will end with Airi waking up in her house, and Mitchie explaining how she created a dream inside their head to fight them.

The battle with The Snow Queens ends with Airi remembering a sleep spell Mitchie taught them, checking with Squishy and Scarlett if it's ok to use it, and then sending Rocky to sleep. After all, she is the only one of them who wants to fight.

After the battle, Squishy gives Airi the Snow Traveler.

In Itance, B4C's mask falls off mid-battle after some time, and she runs away.

Silver Killer gives up fighting Airi after a long time.

B4C comes over to Airi after they beat Silver Killer, and explains why she became an assassin, and apologises to them.

In Lebensende, Airi meets Arcuria, a man shrouded in mystery. He joins their party, and leaves just before Airi enters Tine's Clock Fortress.

Airi defeats Lord Tine by withstanding the "unmatched power of the future" using their Will.

Tine realises that he cannot beat Airi because of their Will, theorising that maybe they'll defeat even HER, and lets Airi go, hoping for a happy ending.

#### Slithe's battle

In the battle against Queen Slithe, Airi's Will allows them to survive her first phase, making her confused about how she can't beat them.

Eventually, Airi realises who Slithe is to them.

Slithe is their sister.

Airi tries to convince Slithe to try to end things in a peaceful manner, never giving up.

After a long time, Slithe gives in, and all the Xitratians return to Earth. Xitrater orbits around Earth like a second moon, and both races are at peace.

#### Bad route

Not much is known about this route, other than that Airi brutally murders everyone on Xitrater.