Rebecca Bergman Character Profile

Random detour before I start work on chapter 21. In some of the earlier design documents I mentioned that I potentially wanted Mia to have a shy friend because all of the currently planned heroines are feisty to extent. Mia is chill, but she's very passionate and Oliver doesn't have anyone who is meek and submissive. Stacy will be, but not in the same way I'm speaking of. Anyway, I had this idea for the last couple of days and decided to fully flesh it out so that she can be referenced and potentially introduced early on as an unassuming side character.

Rather than relying fully on koikatsu to make her, I made a mood board to show what kind of clothing she wears. Her hairstyle will also probably look a bit different whenever we get an artist to draw her.

I think this heroine has a lot of potential for funny interactions with the cast and of course will bring some interesting sexual dynamics that the others don't.

Let me know what you think!

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Rebecca Bergmann

21 Years Old, Dec 1st

Interests - Wargaming (40th Space Reich), Tabletop games (Dungeons and Dice Rolls), TCGs (Sorcery the Consumption, Monsters of Duel), fantasy novels, occasionally anime, miniature painting, making dioramas, model kit building, collecting (obsessive), wizardposting

She likes all of these things but the one that will be played up most is her obsession with 40th Space Reich, an obvious parody of Warhammer 40k that is even more explicitly fascist than the original. It's going to be a running joke that the fascist overtones are completely lost on her and she looks so dopet and harmless yet her head is full of ultraviolence and sci-fi gore.

Despite her interest in the story and borderline Nazi aesthetic that the game has, she does not subscribe to any of the beliefs clearly being espoused by the game. The subtext is clearly lost on her, even when pointed out.

Personality - A little gloomy. Quiet. Slow, but not in that sense. More of a 'dreamy' slow as she permanently marches to her own pace. Very absorbed into her hobbies and has little interest in anything else- similar to Zoe except Zoe does so out of a defense mechanism and will grow better to a degree whereas Rebecca is just autistic. Not very aware of social norms and frequently does or wears weird things. Doesn't have a very high opinion of herself and constantly beats herself up for being 'stupid'. She's actually very smart, but only with things that she is hyper-fixated on. She second guesses herself when playing her games which makes her think she's a much worse player than she is.

Appearance - Rebecca is four foot six, chubby (pear-shaped), with a dull face. She has freckles and buck teeth. Brown hair that covers her face and eyes and that is always worn in a braid swung over her left shoulder. B cup breasts. As stated, she often wears a few odd accessories that make her stand out. She wears a dice bag around her neck, fingerless gloves from an anime, a hip pouch which she carries a couple of miniatures, her money, some snacks, and whatever fantasy or 40th Space Reich novel she is currently reading. Clipped to her pouch is a couple of deck boxes carrying her current decks for the various card games she plays. Rebecca secretly hopes one day that someone will see these and challenge her to a game like they do in the anime. Thus far, no one has. One of her strangest features that she likes wearing snow boots because they make her feel like a fantasy hero. This is despite the fact that she lives in California.

This is all when she's not at work, though. At work she dresses like a respectable human being and hates every second of it.

Family - Rebecca is a mix of British, American and German. Specifically her paternal grandparents were German and British, her father was British, and her mother/maternal grandparents was American (read Caucasian). Her father has a British accent because he was born and raised over there, she does not.

She is close with her father, Harold, who is a software designer. She got her love of tabletop games from him, and it's a long-running thing in their family to like wargaming. Specifically it's a thing among the boys, and she is kind of an outlier when it comes to that. She probably has uncles and cousins in the UK who she is close with because this is just a thing her family. She and her father visit a couple times a year and these are her best memories.

Her mother left at a young age because she couldn't deal with the difficulties of raising an autistic child. Holds some resentment towards her for that. She had a stepmom for couple years but it didn't work out between her and Rebecca's father. He had a few girlfriends in the years since but has kind of settled into the single lifestyle now that Rebecca is old enough to mostly care for herself.

She still lives with him and he's pretty rich so they have a nice place.

Very close to her paternal grandparents but especially her grandfather. She, her father and he often play games together through the internet on the weekends. Her grandfather is an official model painter for the people who make 40th Space Reich and he gets big discounts on things so at least one of her expensive hobbies has a way she's able to afford it.

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Right off the bat I should say yeah this is pretty much obligatory at this point. I can't help it. I like autistic girls and there's been one in all of my series. Zutiria (coded), Tammy (also high coded), Shizuka, and now Rebecca. Rebecca is very high functioning, however. She has a job and can take care of herself so it's not going to be as bad as I wanted to explore with Shizuka. I just find it funny that for a while I was trying to deliberately not add one to Love Addict's RPG but I can't win against myself and went so far in the opposite direction that I probably made the most autistic one yet. My bad.

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Rebecca had a difficult childhood that I believe mostly speaks for itself. She is set up to be a parallel for Oliver to see himself in. She has a lot of traits that he did, struggling to fit in, always feeling like the leftover kid that no one wanted anything to do with.

Rebecca was a freshman when she first met Mia, who was a year older. Mia recognized a chance to stand up for someone who was in a similar position as herself and defended her from some bullies the same way that Oliver did for her, and Rebecca has just sort of idled on the sidelines of Mia's life ever since. Mia goes out of her way to include Rebecca in things but it's very hard to break through to her and there is a disconnect between them that she doesn't have with Zoe who also has her own communicative problems. She's present a few times when Oliver is hanging out with Mia and she doesn't really do much while she's there other than her own thing.

Unlike Mia and Zoe, Rebecca got a two-year degree for general studies at a community college after high school. No student loans, her family took care of that for her. She currently works as a call center employee for a bank. It's an incredibly bad job but it pays really well. She essentially just sits there for eight hours listening to people yell at her as she tries to help them solve things with their account. She often daydreams about the characters of 40th Space Reich brutally murdering the people she's on the phone with.

You would think she wouldn't be good a job like this, but it's mostly just repeating phrases that she had to memorize and then routing people to appropriate channels and the people they actually need to talk to. Either way she's at a very low point in her life currently because of her job. It's not working out at all and her mental health keeps spiraling. That, and she is very lonely.

Her friendship with Mia isn't incredibly meaningful, and that's not from Mia's lack of trying (Mia feels bad about it and will want to improve it). Zoe is more of an acquaintance who she only rarely sees when she's hanging out at their apartment. She's too nervous to go to in person events for her games.

She wishes she could be a professional player of 40th Space Reich and her card games, which is where her story with Oliver will lead her.

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Rebecca does not initially register as a heroine the moment Oliver meets her. Even so, he still feels somewhat drawn to her as if he has a feeling that there might be something there even if he can't say why. She only becomes available when she realizes that Mia is okay with sharing him- which will probably only happen after Zoe is already conquered. Rebecca is oblivious to what's going on until then and when Mia suggests that Rebecca could maybe borrow him if she wants, that's when the doors are blown open.

Rebecca has no experience except for a couple of humorous failed attempts at ERP. She tried to ERP with fellow 40th Space Reich fans on a dedicated server for that but never made it past a few lines because she is very deadpan and unimaginative with the way she types. It's kind of a joke because someone will point out how low the standards are for people looking for ERP and Rebecca still couldn't make that work somehow.

She is very in touch with what she likes, however, and what she likes will prove challenging to Oliver. Even more so than Mia, who encourages Oliver to be rough and dominant, Rebecca likes rough stuff that call to mind a lot of the bad games he used to be a fan of. Slave role-play, verbal abuse, humiliation, hard-core bondage, outright masochism. By exploring these with Rebecca, Oliver will come to terms with more of his past self and be better off for it.

She's also into role-play regarding her special interests and this will make for some good humor as she will want Oliver to wear fascist-looking cosplay. Even though he gets into 40th Space Reich because of her, that doesn't mean he be totally comfortable leaned into it the way she wants him to. It's mostly played as a gag. Not sure what the content guidelines are for consensual nonconsent role-play content but if I ever do go that far it would be extremely goofy shift like Rebecca wanting Oliver to pretend he is a member of the Communardic Elygium(see below) and she is a captured member of the 40th Space Reich. I don't think the scene could be taken seriously but it would show how much she means to him if he's willing to do that for her.

Rebecca is pansexual and down for pretty much whatever, in group stuff she is just happy to be included and told what to do. Won't take the initiative unless ordered to do so.

Her heart events will be centered around helping her fit in with other people, Oliver helping her get comfortable going to events for the games she plays, helping her cope with her terrible job, and ultimately giving her enough confidence to win a major tournament and start playing her games on a professional level.

A big struggle that Oliver will face when trying to court Rebecca is that it costs a lot of damn money to play these games and that learning how to play them takes a lot of smarts, plus he has to paint and construct all those minifigures.

As they are both gamers, I will need to put special attention into making sure Zoe and Rebecca's problems and character development don't overlap, especially since Rebecca is planned to go after Zoe. It should be fine since I specified Zoe is specifically not interested in becoming a 'pro gamer' and her story is more about content creation and streaming whereas Rebecca does want to be a pro (tabletop) gamer.

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Games that Rebecca is Into

40th Space Reich - Her hyper fixation since childhood.

The plot of 40th Space Reich is that in the far distant future, humanity has splintered into two major factions. The titular 40th Space Reich, a human supremacist group not so subtly based on Nazi ideals, and the Communardic Elygium, who have mutated into hundreds of 'impure' sub races because of their disgusting freelove space communism which openly sees them accepting alien races into their fold and then procreating with them. In the lore, they are presented as disgusting, subhuman filth- called 'newmans'- compared to the 40th Space Reich who seeks to return humanity to a state where only 'puremans' exist by any means necessary.

Warhammer 40k has the whole 'there are no good guys' thing going for it and this parody strips it of that nuance purposefully, presenting a very clear black and white scenario where the 'bad guys' are just trying to spread peace, love, and free healthcare throughout the galaxy while the 'good guys' are a splinter group of Space Aryans who wage a neverending race war to purge the newmans.

It's essentially 'Dogwhistle: the Wargame' and Rebecca is blissfully ignorant of how blatant it is to the point where pointing them out to her is a running joke.

Rebecca: My favorite part of the book is when Blitz Officer Otto Helmunskull declared to the Communardic Horde, "I must secure the existence of my people and a future for pureman children". *

Mia: *slumps over in resignation*

*If you know, you know.

Also there are space demons or some shit that forces the two halves of humanity and the alien factions to work together sometimes maybe.

When she is playing 40th Space Reich, she always wears a hat that parodies a commissar's hat from Warhammer, which is in turn based on an eastern Germany military thing from World War II if I'm not mistaken. It's another thing that used to tease her because she openly wears fascist looking things but in the words of They Might Be Giants, the fascists have the outfits.

Her army is probably going to be an equivalent to the ultramarine chapter of space marines, though she dabbles in the equivalent to the imperial guard. I'll probably have to put some time and make a document for all of the official terms in 40th Space Reich so that there is consistency but that's not important right now when Rebecca is just going to be a background character for the first couple of volumes.

Sorcery the Consumption

Rebecca's original favorite card game. An obvious parody of MTG, full of high fantasy themes and magic. The consumption part of the name is making fun of how addictive it is to buy cards.

Monsters of Duel

Rebecca's other favorite card game, a straightforward parody of Yu-Gi-Oh. The mechanics will be similar. It was also Rebecca's gateway into anime. She's not as big of a fan as some of the other cast members but she still likes a good handful of series, especially ones in the genre of 'children getting tortured while playing psychological card games'. The gloves she wears as well as the deck boxes on her pouch are inspired by Monsters of Duel.

Dungeons and Dice Rolls

I shouldn't need to explain what this is parodying. Rebecca enjoys tabletop role-playing but has no friends in real life that play so she is part of several online groups and she plays at least twice a week if she can help it. She is not close to any of these groups and she wishes she had a group to play with in real life. She's tried before but got the sense that she wasn't wanted. Rebecca will have multiple role-playing characters who she references. Ultimately, this will become a group activity when she is better integrated into the harem and Oliver will learn how to DM for her.

Video Games

I don't think Rebecca plays any games at the start but I'm noting it down here because I think it would be cute if after she gets closer to Zoe she gets introduced to some video games from her favorite franchises. Zoe has probably played a handful of 40th Space Reich games and is familiar with the setting through them, so they will actually get along well once Zoe's problems are fixed and she starts leaving her room more often.

There's are a few obvious exceptions to Rebecca not playing video games, and those are a stand-in for virtual tabletop simulator, which she uses to play 40th Space Reich online, and then phone games which are the official clients for playing Sorcery the Consumption and also Monsters of Duel. Buying packs of either of those card games gives her digital packs, adding another layer to her collection habits.