Hello everyone, I’m Xiaoyun~Continue to share some of my thoughts in the character design process~
[h2]【New Background Story】[/h2]
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Story 3[/h3]
During Aliéno's childhood, there was a gardener in the family, and Aliéno had a very good relationship with her. The two often spend long afternoons together in the greenhouse of the earl’s mansion. Those days are full of splendid adventure stories, Aliéno also learned about the existence of the "Black Guards" from the story told by the gardener sister, and looked forward to and admired them.
One afternoon when Aliéno was ten, she came to the greenhouse and wanted the gardener to tell her a story, but the gardener was not there. After waiting for a while, she wandered aimlessly around the mansion. At this moment, she suddenly found that the antique clock in the hall seemed to be abnormal, so she leaned forward and observed it carefully and found a secret tunnel hidden behind the clock. She was impatient and curious, so she walked in.
After Aliéno walked in the secret tunnel for a long time, she found a strange wild rose on a hidden secret door. Aliéno leaned in the door to listen, but nothing happened. When she wanted to leave with a sense of bored, she inadvertently noticed the gardener sister stood at the fork in the secret tunnel. She couldn't help and called out, "sister!", but the gardener fled to the depths of the tunnel with a look of terrified.
At this moment, the secret door with wild roses suddenly opened. Several crossbowmen sprang from the door and fired in the direction of the gardener. After the shooting stopped, Aliéno's father walked out the door slowly, showing a triumphant smile. Aliéno was taken aback and hurried to the direction where the gardener was, only to find that the gardner had already been stuck a few arrows in the body. Aliéno was about to ask, but was controlled by the gardener with a sharp dagger. She takes Aliéno as a hostage and threatens the earl to let her leave.
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Story 4[/h3]
Aliéno could feel the gardener sister behind her trembling constantly. Aliéno was worried about the gardener's injury, but she did not dare to act rashly. She didn't even know why her father ordered the attack on the gardener sister. The gardener held Aliéno and walked out of the secret tunnel. Finally, after leaving the mansion and entering a dense forest, the gardener sister behind her finally got exhausted and fell down.
Aliéno has never encountered such a situation. She wanted to check the injury for the gardener, only to find that the wound on the gardener's body had already burst, and the blood was flowing. Aliéno kept crying, her trembling hands trying to cover the blood flowing out of the gardener's body, but it didn't help.
In this uninhabited, dense jungle, how can there be someone to give a hand? Aliéno burst into tears.
Looking at the little girl who was being held hostage by herself, but crying helplessly because she couldn't save her life, the gardener shook her head helplessly and pleased. She was holding on her last breath and intermittently explained her true identity and purpose to Aliéno.
The gardener is a bounty hunter, and she sneaked into the earl's mansion to search for evidence of the earl's secret trade. She comforted Aliéno, she didn't have to feel sorry for herself. On the contrary, the gardener felt sorry for letting the young Aliéno witness bloodshed and death. In the last moment of the gardener's life, she recalled her years of fighting side by side with the Black Guards in a very nostalgic tone, and quietly closed her eyes.
After a day and a night, the soldier sent by the earl only found the unconscious Aliéno deep in the forest...
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Story 5[/h3]
After Aliéno returned to the mansion, her relationship with the earl fell to a freezing point because the earl refused to communicate about the kidnapping incident. A servant recalled that the earl and Miss Aliéno had a fierce quarrel. After that, she moved away from the room very close to the earl's bedroom, insisted on living in a remote small room next to the mansion's greenhouse, and declined any visits.
Since everyone in the earl’s mansion knew that Miss Aliéno had been kidnapped by a gardener spy before, the servants took good care of her and did not dare to make any mistakes. But Aliéno didn't have any pretensions in front of the servants, and she didn't see anything unusual. As an earl's daughter, her courses remained the same every day, but besides that, she took the initiative to add gardening courses and medical research courses for herself.
Since then, she has been more openly not to participate in any social occasions such as tea parties, banquets, and dance parties. Moreover, the earl's mansion never hired any gardener after the kidnapping. Until many years later, Aliéno left a wild rose and a letter, and went to the distance.
[h2]【Background Design Ideas】[/h2]
In the process of rewriting the background story, I kept the background setting of Aliéno as an aristocratic daughter. Because just like every girl who grew up in a deep boudoir, Aliéno at the beginning was a protected "deep court rose." In the deep courtyard, the acquaintance with the gardener sister in the family, accompanied by her, has become the best memory of Aliéno's childhood. The adventure story of the gardener sister not only made her yearn for freedom outside the mansion more, but also made her aware of the existence of the "Black Guard".
That's because Alieno experienced the despair of being unable to do anything about life passing before her eyes, that made her persistently take the rescue of life as her own mission in her entire life. As the saying goes: "Unfortunate people use life to heal childhood, lucky people use childhood to heal life." She is unfortunate, but also lucky. Whether it is gardening or planting, or treating every injured black guard, it is a manifestation of Aliéno's self-salvation after her miserable experience.
Quietness and exaggeration, softness and spikes, life and death, these binary oppositions, together form Aliéno's past. Perhaps, she has met my expectations. As a character, she gets rid of the rigid judgment standard and truly has her own character arc, which is three-dimensional and flesh-and-blood.
Well, that's all sharing of Aliéno's story. For more background story design ideas of more Black Guard, please look forward to next time~
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