"Why hello there, Anne! Do you need anything from me today? I'm happy to help you so you can count on me!" ~ Noctis' in-game text when talking to him.
"A loner like me has to play the role of the heroine's best friend informant or something...? I didn't do something to deserve this torture after dying... did I?" ~ Alain, after finding out he has reincarnated as Noctis, of all characters available.
Character Name: Noctis Alegretto
Isekai'd Human Name: Alain Willows
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Character Type: Ally / Non-Routable
Alignment: Lawful Good
Personal and Historical Information (Noctis)
As a character, Noctis is a pretty sympathetic, friendly, and intelligent young man that quickly becomes friends with the heroine
Anne Marielle from the first meeting between them. He'd always be ready to give her any information necessary regarding the route she (being controlled by the player) selected, as well as some tips on how to progress with that character, what exact gifts to buy, and what to talk about with the selected character.
Outside of his role, he is a studious and prestigious young man that has a high interest in the pursuit of the magic arts, especially in the control of the elements to aid people. He's a hard worker that always spends most of his hours chasing after theoretical and practical knowledge in order to master the control of magic. His dream was always to pursue the role of a scholar and a teacher, helping other people to use and control magic without any fear.
Original Role and Background: Noctis is the 9th and youngest son of the Alegretto family, known to house some of the best mages and scholars who graduated from Starveil Academy. As such, he is now continuing the family tradition by also pursuing the same goal, though the only difference is that he wants to work AT Starveil Academy and not outside of it, like the rest of his older siblings who ended up working on different places like [CONFIDENTIAL_INFORMATION_UNLOCAKBLE_AS_YOU_PLAY].
His original role in
Cross Heart Academy was as a member of Starveil Academy's Student Council, as well as the heroine's ally and friend. Noctis is programmed to give the heroine information on the character selected by her, tips on how to make said character happy, what he likes to receive as gifts, as well as some sidequests that would improve the heroine's stats that were desirable by the selected character, although not at a regular pace, but long intervals.>/list>
Other:
Personal and Historical Information (Alain)
: Alain is a pretty reserved person that was never used to having many friends, and just play games all day on his own. He wasn't fond of talking to people and was just so reserved that people actually believe that he was depressive or anything of the sort. But it wasn't that he had sad thoughts 24/7, it was just that Alain wasn't exactly fond of growing to people because of circumstances that made him feel different from the rest of the people his age.
But those who were close to Alain know that he's just a shy but kindhearted person that's a good listener before a talkative friend. He talks... not too much, but he does. He's reserved, and thinks more than he talks, but isn't a bad guy. The two friends Alain had in school were really close to him because he was a big support, especially whenever they were in a bad mood.
The reason why he feels different from others is that Alain is a PwD (person with a disability), specifically on his legs, so he has to walk in a wheelchair, which gives him an inferiority complex compared to people who can walk normally. Also, he is gay, so he likes men, which is something his own family has a prejudice against, as well as the LGBTQIAP+ community in general.
He's a visual novel and an otome game aficionado that loves playing these games to have that feeling of a more innocent romance, considering his community's romance games most likely include something "spicy" that isn't Alain's preferable aspect when playing VNs. He was drawn by the
Cross Heart Academy through the game's anime style, the story, and some of the characters. Speaking of which, he has already completed the game's "delinquent" and "burly but cute" routes, which are his favorite trope when playing these games, and is drawn to the characters of this route like a fly to a lamp.
Reincarnating as Noctis left Alain mostly in shambles because he's nowhere near being comparable to Noctis as a person, and that has led him to develop a habit of overthinking at least 10 situations at once because he's the friendly Ally that the heroine/player speaks most of the time to get ways of progressing their route further. The only things that made Alain happy with this reincarnation is that he can walk like a normal person and that he can use magic.
History: Alain is the youngest of two sons from a simple and traditional family living in São Paulo, Brazil. Despite being American by nature, his father was relocated from his job in the U.S. when he was just a 1-year-old baby, so he rarely lived in his country of birth. Ever since he was born, Alain was diagnosed with a disability on both his legs, not having one of them spared. So he had to use wheelchairs from his childhood beyond, and no physiotherapy did result despite his and his family's efforts.
Alain's problems only got bigger when his father began to mistreat him because he couldn't walk. Despite his mother and his brother being at his side, the misogynistic, prejudicial, and harmful attitudes coming from his father affected him greatly, and he started to develop an inferiority complex. Also, because he would often lash out at his wife and his other son because they were helping him made Alain worry for their safety, which is why he began to distance himself from them in order to guarantee their safety.
Alain never had many friends at school, but the two he had at his side were his second family for him. They would play games, hang out a little and keep him safe from bullies who threatened and tried to abuse Alain because of his disability. This is what prevented Alain from losing hope and becoming depressive since he had people to count on outside of his family.
However, because of his limitations, Alain settled on video gaming as a hobby. To fill some of the voids he felt as a person, he started to binge on RPGs and visual novels where he could play protagonists being heroes and able to save the world from danger with their friends. Then, he dwelled on the more romance-centric part of visual novels and jumped directly onto Otome games. He started to get passionate and ended up discovering his own sexuality through these games. He tried the LGBTQIAP+ side of visual novels, but the "spiciness" of their content was a big turn-off for him and he just settled for the Otome games in general.
When he came across
Cross Heart Academy, he fell in love with it and played it happily. Taking the control of
Anne Marielle, he started to dwell in the world of the game as he played the "delinquent" route and ended up falling in love with it. Once he completed it, he started to play other routes, completing the "burly but cute" route as well and starting the "student council president" route, while also dwelling a little bit on regards to the lore.
Normally, in these types of stories, the person dies a rather normal death such as a car accident and gets sent into another world. However, Alain was a victim of a brutal tragedy. While he was playing the game, his father, exceedingly drunk and out of control, started to violently tear the house apart at the sight of the "family's failure" playing a "girly" game, which ended up leading to him getting a knife and harming both wife and son... while killing Alain in the process. The last sound he heard that day was sirens as his eyes closed and he only saw the darkness.
When he opens his eyes back to reality, he's in an unusual room that he never saw before. And when he looks at the mirror, a shocking revelation comes to his life, as he reincarnated as Noctis Alegretto, one of the important supporting characters in
Cross Heart Academy...
Abilities and Skills: As a character in-game, Noctis is an offensive mage-type ally, specialized in casting different elemental magic. Think of him as a classic "Black Mage" type character. He is a recruitable character by the player and is an ally in every route taken by them, without exception (until new routes are created where he becomes a permanent enemy), only being fought against in some tutorial events if the player chooses to take magic lessons and is the reward character for completing the magic lessons tutorial.
Noctis starts with only the basic spells for
Water and
Wind elemental magic, but as the player trains him within the game, he later learns
Fire,
Earth,
Lightning and
Ice elemental spells, making him a versatile character against every element. He cannot learn
Light,
Dark,
Divine and
Demonic elemental spells, as these elements are exclusive to special characters.
He comes with a special battle passive called
Elemental Learner, which grants him a considerate resistance to all elemental magic except
Light,
Dark,
Divine and
Demonic elemental spells.
Outside of battle, Noctis returns to his role as the heroine's/player's route helper, indicating information necessary for the route to progress, as well as granting hints and tips to improve the relationship between the heroine/player and the selected route main character/love interest.
Strengths and Weaknesses: As often discussed by players throughout the
Cross Heart Academy fanbase, Noctis is considered a beginner-friendly character for those who like to use magic, and a good character, in general, to use against enemies who aren't good against mages and have low character resistance. Because of his versatility, with an array of elemental magic at his disposal, he's also pretty good against anything since he can hit elemental weaknesses except
Light,
Dark,
Divine and
Demonic elemental affinities.
However, this comes with the problem of Noctis being a jack of all trades that is good at a lot of stuff, but focuses on nothing and is unable to excel at his work. At later levels in the game, depending on the route taken, Noctis is completely replaceable by other characters that are better at his job and can deal stronger damage by learning spells that he can't learn. This makes him get easily forgotten at battles near the endgame, where his skills become insufficient to deal with late-game bosses and the final boss of each route.
It's also important to notice that Noctis has very low to abysmal physical resistance, meaning that classes that take advantage of physical attacks can and will deal deadly damage to him, if not outright kill him in battle.
Noctis' Music Theme: Berry Berry Cue (CounterSide)Alain's Music Theme: Mary, the Magician (Ghostly Field Club), recreation by Artifex
