Alex / Dragalia Lost

Adrift between guilt and repentance.

An assassin dispatched by the Ilian Church. She's a street-orphan turned assassin-zealot turned prince's right-hand-man turned another-prince's-right-hand-(wo)man with a tasty hint of (probably fanon) queer subtext with her childhood best friend Elisanne.

Appears in Chapter 1 Story 3, labeled as "assassin," disappears for like 8 chapters...and comes back extremely plot relevant. I just think her story's so interesting. The theme of her stories all revolve around loyalty: to the Church, to Leonidas, the crown prince, and then loyalty to Euden. She gets screwed over two out of three times, but it's interesting to see her different responses to each new "faction" she's loyal to.

In Japanese / Chinese, her name is Shannon, which certainly...gave me a good amount of whiplash. Oh, and I guess she's the sparking point of my interest in designing girls holding knives.

(bonus Elisanne, just because I think their dynamic's super cute.)

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