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Hey there ~bartender, hows your day going. If you have annother glass of water, please give it to me. I am already relaxed enough already.

So, my exams are done. Now, I am ready to send out the character descriptions, and their relations to the main character “Louq”

Louq: Louq is part of a 1 man band. He makes songs by sampling other songs to make better songs. He was a major, but invisible person in the NSR. But he gained a cult following. He is more like Sayu, with his design but more calm and collective.

Louq’s area:

Louq’s area is usually a monochrome

hologram. Similar to Sayu, there is

DJ Subatomic Supernova:

Character in-lore: DJ Subatomic Supernova is a deeply self-important and self-centered person. He does not care about small details and is quick to dismiss Bunk Bed Junction when they arrive to crash his concert, already having forgotten who they are despite having seen them perform in front of him and his fellow artists less than a few hours prior.

His dismissive attitude also affects his allies, as he insults one of the people in charge of launching the NSR Satellite, stating that it is "not rocket science", before hanging up and immediately complaining about his ice pop having melted and ordering someone to fetch him a new one.

In Cassette Tape #1, DJSS can be heard giving a speech to an audience of three, excluding the janitor. The speech is long-winded and only concerns himself and his plan to have his music to travel the farthest corners of the galaxy. DJSS acts as if he is the center of everything, and speaks in a grandiose, exaggerated manner about the vastness of space and the multitudes of stars it contains. Despite this, his gratitude towards his 3 attendees and even the janitor seems Genuine.

In Cassette Tape #2, DJSS speaks about the sense of peace he feels when looking up at the stars, which he had almost forgotten because of his constant arguing with "people of lesser intellect" back in his former career. It is here that he gets the idea to combine his passions of space and melody.

In Cassette Tape #3, it is revealed he has no real loyalty or love for NSR and just considers it a stepping stone for his personal goals. It is also revealed he secretly planned to

attach drones to the NSR satellite to continuously broadcast his music throughout Earth so he would truly never be forgotten.

Louq’s relation to DJSS:

Being a teacher with literal idiots around him leads him to form a prideful personality with the exception of Louq who was practically the “Teacher’s child” of the class. (DJSS is not Louq's father) DJSS taught Louq about astronomy a long time ago. DJSS was the major inspiration with the infrastructure of NSR through a series of stargazing conversations. Once NSR was established, Louq guided DJSS into having a district of himself. This led him to leave teaching in its entirety and lead him to making music.

During the first NSR Christmas, legend has it that he gave Louq a cube that harnessed the power of NSR, allowing him access to all facilities, and power stations. Louq also uses this as his primary weapon, stunning and killing enemies by overcurrents.

Voice tape 1:

L: Oh, I found a supernova.

DJSS: Good for you, by then it is a dead star. The light has shifted beyond the point that heat could be considered light.

L: How are stars sustained?

DJSS: Well it's a balancing act, the pressure of a star is balanced by the number of hydrogen atoms, or other fusionable elements. The star expands if fusion speeds up. If fusion slows down, the pressure takes hold until fusion speeds up.

L: What about larger stars?

DJSS: Well, some stars continue to

fuse heavier and heavier elements

L: Could we harvest the energy of the pressure?

DJSS: Well, we can't harvest the sun or any star directly, but we can use other ways of harnessing pressure. I heard about piezoelectricity and how it could charge a city.

L: Yeah, that could work.

DJSS: Maybe a town filled with music will satisfy the need or maybe even give it to the rest.

L: Yeah, it could happen.

DJSS: If that exists, then I would leave my teaching job to make music.

L: Hmm, let's see what happens.

Sayu:

Character in-lore:

Sayu is a digital idol, one of the megastars in NSR, and the charter of Akusuka District who is the representative of cutecore. She is created, programmed, designed, and animated by a group of four adolescents, named Remi (main animator and designer), Tila (voice actress), Dodo (motion capture), and Sofa (video editing). Sayu is the 2nd boss in No Straight Roads.

Sayu is bubbly, friendly, and cheerful. She peppers references to the ocean, fish, and water in her speech and in her singing, and she frequently repeats the catchphrase "Love Love Sayu Pyun!", as well as the onomatopoeia "Pyun". She has a strong belief in the power of love. After she starts to glitch, Sayu begins to develop a split personality becoming more hostile and unpredictable.

According to Zuke, Sayu is famous for younger audiences, presumably in a range from children to adolescents.

NSR gave the 4 creators of Sayu a chance to perform and show their talents to a wider audience than one they had on their normal online spaces. It's made clear by Mayday following their fight that they're not actively aware of the power situation or the overall attitudes against NSR, though they are certainly thankful for the opportunities the company has given them and show that by defending them.

Until they battle her and make her

creators panic, Sayu doesn't seem

There's little information about Sayu's origin, other than being the original creation from a video game called Doki Doki Mermaid Club.

Tila, who is a fan of the game (if

not, the character) created a

Relation with Louq:

Remi, Tila, Dodo, and Sofa are extremely loyal to Louq as he brought them all together to build and formalize the project.

Louq, having friends with Tila and Remi, and also being the first playtester of Digital Idol Cyberspace, took an interest with this new project and decided to help.

Louq, as an semi-electrician and a

semi-low level programmer built up

He manages his own abode by using his technology he made while in the group, allowing him to create music in peace.

One day, Tila found Louq’s work, and they loved it. The group plans on returning him back as a side character of Sayu. Allowing him to keep his autonomy while at the same time, letting a new generation see his work.

The mystery of the side-character

led to many theories forming. Many

On One Christmas night, Akusuka

legend has it that Sayu enters

Eventually, Louq cuts all communication from the crew due to political friction. The crew understood why, but was never informed of any new news that was going to unfold. Thus they were ignorant of the power situation that is unfolding and the eventual cultural split that is going to happen.

Sayu fabric log 9:

Remi: Ok, this has gotten a bit too far.

Tila: You think, our creator just left from NSR in its entirety. Just because of some auditions.

Remi: Well, we haven't had any new bands in 8 years, that is very worrying.

Tila: The constitution of NSR states that auditions should be just, but it is really vague on how “just” the auditions be.

Remi: Yeah, she might be manipulating us. She wants us to obey. Because she is basically the head of NSR, we are forced to.

Tila: It's strangely specific to rock.

Remi: It is more like an umbrella of many things. Louq told me that he wanted to exempt heavy metal, because it conflicts with other rock bands.

Tila: Yet, Tatiana wants to remove rock in all of its forms. I'm worried that this could restrict our freedoms. Maybe we shou-

Remi: Hush… We can't let Tatiana see our actions. We have to show it in a different way, maybe show it as a different character or maybe even different themes.

Tila: Maybe our next songs will show unity and survival against oppression.

Remi: Maybe we could show Louq in our shows.

Tila: We can't blow his cover. Doing so will cause unwanted attention to him and Tatiana. If we did that, Tatiana's threat is going to be literal.

Remi: Let's just put the character on the back burner for now.

Sayu fabric log 10:

Tila: Look what I found.

Remi: What is it?

Tila: Turns out, Louq is making new songs.

Remi: Huh, we should have added him to the team as the musical if we found it sooner.

Tila: He makes songs by sampling other songs. This makes him unique from the other artists.

Remi: So he made his own meta-genre?

Tila: Yes, he did.

Remi: I'm a bit worried about copyright. He could get into trouble.

Tila: Well, he does sample songs that are more than 20 years old. So he is okay. Even so, NSR’s copyright clauses are so loose that these songs exist.

Remi: Well, that makes sense.

Sofa: Could we try to make him as a side character? Besides, he gave us the district, we should honor his work.

Remi: I'll make the designs, let's see the reaction in our next stream.

yinu:

Yinu, aka. The Golden Maestro of Vinyl City, is a child pianist prodigy, one of NSR's megastars, and the charter of the Natura District. She, with the help of her mother, represents neoclassical. Yinu is the third boss in the NSR company, and the fourth boss overall in No Straight Roads

Yinu is a highly acclaimed piano prodigy, a fitting Charter for the sophisticated crowd at Natura. While often seen as cute and innocent by the public, she can be bratty at times due to her young age.

Yinu's motif design is based on the environment of nature, hence her golden hair resembles a rose bush, and her white signature piano has a leaf-shaped lid. Her advertisement and possessions in Vinyl City also fit her physical motif. Compared to Yinu, who represents the innocent side of nature, her mother symbolizes its violent side.

Yinu is supremely confident in her

skills as a pianist, and was

Yinu’s mom:

The Mother is a giant red-skinned

woman with yellow eyes and a heart

In connection to Yinu's character motif of nature, the Mother represents the tree, and she also provides the theme of security and safety for her daughter. In additional words, the thorn-studded gate with a heart-shaped lock appears in the first phase. As the Mother becomes more infuriated towards Mayday and Zuke for crashing her daughter's concert, the environment around Natura Concert Hall transforms into a creepy, red-tinted forest, compared to the tranquil side of the nature theme of Yinu.

Relation to Louq:

Louq knows that to have a country,

you must have a culture. In this

Louq’s disappearance unfortunately lead to no new lyrical songs being made.

NSR Ratings:

Bryan - 10/10: The song is perfect, with each song Yinu shows the history of NSR better than any other star.

Leo - 10/10: I never looked into the lyrics of her songs. Once I did, I realized the tapestry of the work. Her latest work showed BBJ’s effect on the city, with a poem representing their struggles. I would recommend listening to those who are ignorant of the situations of NSR.

1010:

In-game character(s):

1010 is a boyband group made by Neon J. Their motif is a navy crew. If one member of the band gets destroyed, it is reproduced by Neon J.'s factory.

All members of 1010 have grey skin and wear black sailor suits

with white highlights, colored glowing lights on their cheeks,

and colored ties. Each has his unique hairstyle, eyebrows, eye

shape and color scheme.

The red android has a mohawk, the white android has short wavy hair, the blue android has straight hair and an undercut, the yellow android has a tall, pointy hairstyle and bangs covering his right eye, and the green android has curly hair and a large hoop on his head. The blue android wears round black sunglasses.

When damaged from the factory explosion, their faces become "melted", revealing the endoskin which resembles a dark-blue flayed human head with bare teeth and exposed circuits. Their eyes and mouth begin to glow with their respective colors, and their voices become distorted.

All members of 1010 share the same

charismatic and flirtatious

Relation to Louq:

While creating Sayu's physical body and her setting, he created a framework that works with the music called the fabric engine. It is very portable and can be implemented easily, it is also very easy for even the tech illiterate to use. One day, he decides to use the fabric engine and make it distributed towards other robots. However, there has to be one runner that handles the fabric engine itself.

Unfortunately, one of Louq's

closest friends, Neon J was drafted

Many scientists wanted in with this “Life extension” technology, hoping that it could bring in a future. Louq was cautious at first, however he agreed under an open source license. This led to a new wave of musicians being formed.

Tatiana, seeing how powerful it is and capitalizing on the new wave of music, decided to talk to him in secret. There the idea of NSR was born.

After receiving an honorable

discharge, Louq shows him the ideas

Military logs:

Day 100: 3:14 pm - Soldier, Neon J is now connected to the experimental fabric controller. No signs of brain damage are seen. Will check later.

Day 105: 7:15 am - Neon is ready to enter the military again. He is considered to be the first cyborg known to all of mankind. News publications are now spreading about this advancement of technology.

Day 110: 10:20 am - We lost control over the artillery due to an extensive hack. The enemies might have taken control over critical infrastructure yet it is unconfirmed. Will check up later.

Day 220: 3:00 pm - We took over critical enemy territory due to excessive military fire in their military bases and resource deposits despite notifying the high command about these plans. Their resources are cut. Due to this, the enemy's military power is crippled. We are now winning the war.

Day 225: 12:00 am - The enemy’s army and citizens revolted against their leader in a coup d'état due to hacks of the propaganda sector of the enemy's government. They are now under our territory now.

Day 225: 3:00 pm - Security results are now in. Neon J. managed to infiltrate our infrastructure, and directed all artillery to the enemy's critical infrastructure. It is also assumed that Neon also triggered a revolt by hacking into the enemy’s propaganda system. The last enemies are now gone, peace is now established.

Neon J if you are reading this… We salute you.

Eve has a stern personality and demands a lot. She is shown to be possessive of those she considers rightfully hers, though this results from a fear of solitude.

She is particularly possessive of Zuke, as he was the only person who understood her and gave her purpose until he left their band.

She's known to be dramatic and emotional. Her expression is

ever-present in her actions and designs, with everything she

does oozing with her emotion in some way, be it sadness, terror, or anger. She is also scared of the world and how it sees her, blaming that everyone is just jealous and scared of her. She's also terrified of things she cannot understand, like how Mayday and Zuke are compatible but she is not. When she loses control of a situation, she is quick to lash out at those around her, even the ones she cares about. Her behaviors can be seen almost like gaslighting, but she lashes out due to her intense fear of being abandoned.

Eve sees Mayday as inferior to her and struggles to understand why Zuke would "abandon" her for Mayday, especially when it comes to understanding art. Her envy is shown in the fight as well, where Mayday's side is visually harsher and more violent than Zuke's side. She refers to Mayday as "fire", the polar opposite to Zuke's "sea", implying that to her logic, they are not compatible.

Eve and Zuke met when the two were

in college. Zuke, who was a loner

Her 1st hand mirror collectible

reveals that Eve used to hate the

Relation to Louq:

After building NSR, Eve and zuke was the first band to join NSR, and was its foundation of success. As Zuke and Eve both experimented and created songs that are under the new “Punk” genre, Louq began to sample them, creating new songs in the process. As Louq adds more members to NSR, Zuke and Eve's relationship begins to deteriorate.

Louq’s original songs were inspired by Zuke and Eve's albums. However, the fall of the relationship made Louq realize the precarious position he is in. Seeing as no one is helping her in her sorrow, he tries to comfort Eve. Eve grew on Louq’s kindness. She dug in to Louq, and they both unknowingly formed a relationship.

Louq modifies the fabric controller

for her and lets her mind

Eve’s voice diary #20:

It has been a couple of days now since zuke left me. Louq comforted me and he indeed softened the blow for me. So, I took a liking to him very quickly. He is very kind and gentle. We tried to make a song together, but unless he has something to be used as a scaffold like a sample, he can't make anything. Louq’s plan to make music is to add variety by adding more artists to NSR. I agree with that statement.

Eve’s voice diary #21:

Louq had set up the fabric

controller in my realm. He told me

Eve’s voice dairy #22:

Auditions are now opening up. Many rock bands want to join in. Including my Boyfriend's band called “Bunk Bed Junction”. We both questioned why zuke has to be with a person who can cause a fire all of a sudden. Yet, Louq wants variety and quality. Bunkbed Junction helps with this.

Eve’s voice dairy #23:

Unfortunately, Tatiana is restricting the genres of music. More specifically rock based bands… Every single time Louq likes the band, the rest of them dislike it. I believed that Tatiana was exerting too much control over her stars. Thus making the judges unjust by the constitution he co-authored. He tried to warn them multiple times, yet they never listened. This isn't what Louq wanted and it's taking a toll on him. The balance is falling. Hopefully, this situation blows over and we can get a single person to join NSR.

Eve’s voice diary #24:

He left. He can't handle the stress anymore. He gave me a note saying that he left due to the fact NSR is breaking. His voice is snuffed from the rest of them. I believe Tatiana has forgotten about his dream now…

Our Eden crumbled when he left… And I'm scared that it would happen to NSR too.

If this keeps up and Tatiana goes unchecked, a revolution will spark. Besides, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Home recording 1:

Louq: Hello this is my first

recording. I've decided to record

Louq: As I explain what Tatiana is doing, I inadvertently pestered her. Even though I wanted to get a fair audition and at least get one of them in, I felt I picked a scab of someone else. During one judgement, I called out tatitana’s actions and I knew I almost broke her breaking point. So, I left to let her calm down. Yet I felt some kind of regret about that decision.

Louq: Some of them try to hide

their faults yet some of them try

Louq: I believe that Eve is going to suffer all alone, while I alone will suffer the fear that Tatiana is going to remove auditions in their entirety. Eventually choking out all rock bands… Let's hope that someone can break Tatiana's lens of total control.

tatiana:

Tatiana is a snooty perfectionist

that heads NSR and rules Vinyl

Back when she was the lead

guitarist of the Goolings, Tatiana

Tatiana used to go by the name "Kul

Fyra", and was formerly the lead

Relation to Louq:

After the disbandment of the

Goolings, Tantiana met with Louq

After its formalization, rock bands flocked to join NSR. And with Tatiana being anti-rock, Louq is in the middle of a rock and a rock. One of the bands, Bunkbed Junction, was Louq's favorite rock band and wanted them to join. Yet Tatiana rejects all of them, due to them being a rock band. Resulting in a deadlock. This has led to unintended tension between Louq and Tatiana, and sometimes leading to her losing her temper. This led to Louq departing from NSR to avoid internal friction and stress.

Eventually, due to multiple deadlocks between voting and no new people joining, future auditions were canceled and thus Tatiana had set a new precedent. Disallowing many new people to become part of NSR. BBJ was the only band that appeared in the final audition.

This leads to any chance of variety to be snuffed out. With that, people begin to cluster into the remaining bands. Leading to sectionalization. Those fans eventually became loyal and disillusioned believing that their band shows NSR the best. This threatened the structural balance of NSR as a whole.

When BBJ joined in, Louq watched through everything they did. Even though BBJ actions make some semblance of sense, he is concerned about the damage they are doing to the city. BBJ’s damage to Sayu is severe to the point that the fabric’s self repair procedures can't even start up.

After the events of NSR, Tatiana cooled down, lifted the rock ban, and even embraced rock culture… However, Tatiana regretted the precedent she had made, and wants it to be revoked but can't due to the laws they both set. Kliff, seeing that Tatiana can't change it, decides to sabotage the messages hoping that they can repeal it by force.

BBJ's second inadvertent sabotage of the stars, including her friend Louq, made her furious, unreasonably furious.

Home recording 2:

Louq: Hello this is my Second

recording. Anyone else hearing this

Louq: I believe that this event is going to happen again… And it would be expected… Lets just hope they survive.

Lights Up Audition Background recording 9:

Louq: We never elected any one in the past 8 years. Why didn't you accept any?

Tatiana: It's because you picked the ones that I hate.

Louq: You think so, we need variety if NSR wants to survive. Most EDM bands don't have any semblance of quality, while rock bands surpass the quality that NSR wants.

Tatiana: NSR is stable as it is!

Louq: You were the governor while I helped with the others. Did you manipulate the votes?

Tatiana (with eyes looking back and forth): No, I did not. I did my work. I worked justly.

Louq: sighs Screw it. You are going to damage NSR as a whole!

Louq closed the door and left the judgement building.

Sayu: You shouldn't have done that… Maybe you should give us some swimming room or -

Tatiana: SAY ANOTHER THING OR I WILL CLOG YOUR GILLS WITH FIRE. UNDERSTAND?

Sayu: … Yes… Ma’am…

Tatiana: Good…

Eve watches silently with all of the commotion as his ex-boyfriend leaves the building. Eve knew that the NSR that Louq knew was dead…

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