I thought you'd pick Gwen n' Richard over Aglaia. I know she presents as a more unique and interesting character but a big part of that is that I had to reveal more about her for what she is to be understood. Aglaia has a pretty rich background story and character development in store, too.

Regardless, I'm happy to use her, as I said I became more fond of her as I wrote out her story and I'd hoped I might be able to use Aglaia as a side character later on so I'm glad you mentioned that, I'll be happy with that possibility in mind.

So yeah, I present Gwen n' Richard as my character for your consideration. Pretty funny that Shard and I only posted second characters because of the possible conflict of our fist choices, only to both end up choosing the other one, haha.

As for knowing of each other, Richard's antics at the mansion would have been fairly recent, thus, while new to the game, I think any character who pays any attention to the news would know of Richard and the fact that he claims to have the comatose body of a prominent heiress thought dead for four years contained in his chest :P

Whether they believe it or not, though, I'unno, I think Richard would be a pretty controversial addition to the team at first.