Egon Watson's Questionnaire

Oh I reside in my game, the one I was formed into. This place wasn't officially open to the public, got canceled, didn't even make it past beta. It was a Monster Dating Sim called 'Claws n' All!' The town here is called Elderfalls, a nice town, I think. The thing is I can't leave my home, I wasn't meant to if I wasn't on a date with the player. It would be nice to live elsewhere, you know? I think it's important to have a sense of community. My home has four rooms, a cozy living room, my study, the kitchen, and the bedroom, I like to keep tidy!

Money? I seem to have some basic income from my programmed job at the library in Elderfalls, it's also the only other place I can go really. I don't spend my money on anything, all of my food and supplies just sort of appears. I hear there's this hospital outside my game, I was thinking of going there perhaps and offering my serves to them. I don't need the money, but I would like to help people. New clothes would be nice to buy, I have two sets of clothing, casual and date, I don't control when I wear either.

To help people.

As a therapist, I diagnose and treat mental health disorders, that's the more mundane way of saying it. I help people fight their own demons, granting them the tools to deal their with their issues and fight by their side when they need support. I'm hoping with this new access outside my game, I can actually do this.

Likewise, I will go as far as my patients will allow me to in order to help them, after all, they have to be willing to accept outside assistance. Though in some more extreme cases, I don't mind putting my foot down to make sure things don't go too far off the deep end. 

I wouldn't want to kill for this, maybe vanquishing some mental constructs, but as for taking lives I'm not so sure.

It was when my game was abandoned by its developers. Up until that point, I was blissfully unaware I was just a video game character, happily going along with the game and it's beta testers. When the game shut down, everything just went quiet, no more people, the other NPCs like myself just vanished, I don't know what happened to them. I believe for some reason I was spared from this odd wipe when things closed down, not sure why though. After a bout of depression, I found comfort in the idea that I was left here for a reason, and dedicated my time to learning about my greatest interest, the mind.

I uh, unfortunately don't know many people as of recent. The only ones I would consider my friends were my fellow NPCs in 'Claws n' All'. I met a few folks recently on my first trip outside my game, but they didn't seem like the type of people who were looking to make any connections. I'm not one for choosing favorites, but if I had to choose it would be…

• Victor Blackwood: A good friend, we shared a deep love of reading and 1800s medical books. He was a vampire, only encountered a night, the first one the player was supposed to meet. He was a favorite among testers, he was so charming.
• Jean Crane: A wild child, so spontaneous, but such a connection to animals. Though, being a werewolf, that would be expected of him. Not the biggest fan of his shedding, however.
• Riley Watson: My sister... I recognize that she was never real, merely a character written for my backstory. That's the funny thing about perception, it feels so real to me, her absence still hurts, but it is artificial…

I didn't exactly have a childhood in a traditional sense. I was created from the cadaver parts of some unknown people, stitched together into what you see before you. Though, my premade memory starts me off at the age of 16. My parent, or creator, was a mad scientist stereotype that I never knew the name of, he went missing shortly after my creation. It would be nice to think he was a good person, but I don't have any facts to back that up.

School was one of those premade memories, but at least they were pleasant memories. My only school experiences were at a high school with all the other dateable NPCs, we all had a stereotype we feel into. I was a quiet bookworm, that at least aligns with how I truly act, at least. The Player was also a part of the class, leaving after high school and coming back years later, and seeing how we all turned out. 

Short answer no, long answer yes. All dateable NPCs like myself were supposed to have a crush on the player in high school. Then as you would expect with a Dating Simulator we are meant to find love, at least some of us, depending on the player action. Not to brag, but I was one of the Top 5 choices for beta players. The player can be anyone, so we are Pansexual in a way. 

Ever since the game shut down, I've had a lot of time to think about love, and what it actually means. Right now I'm not open too much, but maybe someday, I just need to sort out my hierarchy of needs.