Clef is the master of the System's sound and music. Her body has 4 strings along the back; she can play herself like a violin using her tail as a bow. Clef has a spiritual, mystic air; she believes strongly in the power of a good song to resonate with an audience's emotions.
Sometimes I feel the need to just do a bunch of pencil sketches to feel out a character's emotional range, and who better than the manic and unstable Dopple? The darts are what messages look like flying through the System. Usually invisible, but Dopple's job is to order them where they're going.
Playful and competitive, Viento's day job is to maintain the filters at Spiral Coast that send clean water to Aquatic Park and other stuff elsewhere for processing. He spends most of his time on or under water and often wishes he had someone to share the sights of his underwater world with.
There was a point in Blit's past where this is how he'd present himself. A being of perfect control. A creator of Systems. In a lot of other stories, he'd be a good final antagonist, but there's a reason this version of him is relegated to flashbacks; at heart, this isn't the real him.
Glitch is a pivotal character to the Bitkin story; the whole first part of it leads up to finding her. She's also a very personal character, stemming from some inner voices I've known. She's not evil, but she is intensely cynical and negative, and in bad need of some attitude adjustment.
Dopple needed a redesign, and combining his territory with Jette's solved a few other problems too. It's called the Wave Carrier now, a central launching point for the messages that fly around the System to pop up on terminals. Dopple is still manic, paranoid, and unstable, but now he has a hat.
Fade is the System's garbage collector, but she hates being called that; she prefers "Bitkin of Death". Witchy, spidery, and spooky, she's the one who sneaks around sweeping up stray data to make room for more. It's an essential job, but she's stealthy enough that almost no one ever sees her.
The puzzle-rendering engine now takes player input (A-Z, space, and backspace for now), which means that puzzles have a way of being filled in. This is the shape of a real puzzle going into the game, although right now there are no clues as to what actually goes in those boxes. That comes later.
Chief of Sprocket Mine and inventor of all kinds of pastel-colored and overly elaborate equipment, Gimble is both one of the smartest Bitkin around and one of the silliest. The armor she wears is her own design, and the whole mine is her playground to fill with tracks and rides.
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