🌧️ Rayne 🌧️

This ask game is to give people the opportunity to absolutely gush about their f/o's lore!

There are questions both for your f/o's actual canon as well as questions in regards to your selfship lore as well!

Note that I use the term s/i throughout but you can use oc x canon for this as well! Doesn't necessarily have to be an s/i.

I made this with my romantic f/o in mind but this also could be used for platonic, familial, etc f/os!

Be sure to practice reblog karma! <3

Introduce us to your f/o! Who are they, and what's their source?

Was there a specific canon moment that made you fall for your f/o?

Does your f/o have a love interest in canon? How do you navigate around that with your selfship?

Does your s/i meet your f/o before, during, or after canon?

Is your selfship canon-compliant, canon-divergent, or a full AU?

What's a piece of canon lore you refuse to change about your f/o, even for the sake of your selfship?

What's a piece of canon lore that absolutely had to change for your selfship to work?

What part of your f/o's story felt like it was missing something that your s/i was able to fill?

What's a piece of canon lore about your f/o do you happily ignore?

What canon event your f/o was involved in would have gone differently if your s/i had been there? (positive or negative)

What part of your f/o's backstory hurts the most to think about?

What's an important event in your f/o's canon to help others understand them better?

What quote or scene from your f/o's canon lives in your head rent free?

Does your f/o die in canon? Did you change that, or keep it tragic?

Go to your f/o's wiki page. Give us one fact from the "trivia" section! If they don't have one, share a random fun fact about them many may not know!

1. Introduce us to your f/o! Who are they, and what's their source?

My f/o is Lawrence “Rayne” Petrovsky from the 2018 FMV game called “The Shapeshifting Detective”! He prefers to go by Rayne.

2. Was there a specific canon moment that made you fall for your f/o?

No specific moment, but his general politeness, his smile, and how he can be such a nerd at times! He’s also just a very silly guy in general when he wants to be :)

3. Does your f/o have a love interest in canon? How do you navigate around that with your selfship?

No! Well, kinda?? [Obligatory spoilers for the ending]

At the end of the game, if Rayne isn’t the killer in your playthrough, he and his friends will leave and as you both say goodbye, you can choose to kiss him! In this case, you, the player, are the protagonist named “Sam”.

It was really surprising to me (in a good way) because there’s absolutely NO foreshadowing of a romantic route for him! However, there was one for Lexie; things like telling her (as other characters) that Sam likes her, and her talking about Sam throughout the game.

Idk why D’Avekki Studios went with a romantic end for Rayne, but I’m really glad they did! Haha

4. Does your s/i meet your f/o before, during, or after canon?

During canon! My s/i would be given the alias, Sam, by Agent X like the game’s cannon. But over time, Sam would begin to “deviate” from Agent X’s programming and expectations (like DBH I suppose). Since we don’t know WHAT exactly Sam is, I’m HCing that they are some sort of Traveler-variant who can shapeshift, since that’s their main ability in the game!

Since Rayne becomes friends with Bronwyn and Lexie before the start of the game (and assumably have already been friends for a few years before the investigation), I’m gonna say that Bronwyn and Lexie met in college, while they met Rayne at a bar. Then Rayne and I met on April 9th, 2018 (in-game) during the Dorota Shaw investigation!

5. Is your selfship canon-compliant, canon-divergent, or a full AU?

I LOVE the game’s canon, so I make sure my lore and headcannons as close to the source-canon as possible!

However.. since we don’t really get a lot of info on the Tarot Gang (Rayne, Bronwyn, and Lexie) and stuff like how they met, what Sam is/does, Agent X’s organization, the town of August, etc, I have to make stuff up, which is completely fine by me!



6. What's a piece of canon lore you refuse to change about your f/o, even for the sake of your selfship?

I guess the setting! We don’t really know where the three live, so I just kinda stuck them in London, England, where the three live together!

A better answer would probably be Rayne being the true murderer of Dorota Shaw- a young woman who died in the town of August.

Since Dorota’s killer is randomized each playthrough (which can be either Violet, Zak, or Rayne), my specific lore involves Rayne being possessed by a Traveler, blacking out, the Traveler strangling Dorota, then Rayne waking up in Dorota’s house.

All of that, up to Rayne waking up right after she dies, is mainly canon-compliant. In the actual game, he wakes up in his guesthouse-bedroom, but my interpretation is more fun, heh heh.

7. What's a piece of canon lore that absolutely had to change for your selfship to work?

Uhh, none I guess?? Although I do have to make up a bunch of headcannons and assumptions about the characters.

8. What part of your f/o's story felt like it was missing something that your s/i was able to fill?

I’m not really sure! I guess having another person to talk to and to provide emotional support (besides Bron and Lex)!

9. What's a piece of canon lore about your f/o do you happily ignore?

I don’t think this is canon because it’s mentioned literally NOWHERE in the game, but an LGBT-posting account on here said a long time ago that Rayne is MLM sexuality-wise. I literally have NO idea if that’s true, or how that assumption was made, but since I’m nonbinary (like the protag ig), I just ignore it.

10. What canon event, which your f/o was involved in, would have gone differently if your s/i had been there? (positive or negative)

I suppose none! Well, no event I would want to change. The trauma he’s experienced from Hong Kong and Birmingham are both too significant to his character, imo. Both locations reaffirm his best character traits, as in how he’s loyal to his friends, his devotion as a Traveler-hunter, and how willing he is to bend the law to save people (which then asks question’s like “is it morally justifiable to break the law to feed your starving family?”).

Also, trying to keep a possessed person from killing themself is too insane of a lore-canon event to change!

11. What part of your f/o's backstory hurts the most to think about?

Definitely when he was in Hong Kong! Bronwyn and Lexie weren’t with him for some reason, so he was on the roof of a skyscraper chasing a possessed woman (her name is stated to be Victoria Cheng).

Since the Traveler was caught and thus unable to complete their Rite, it jumped off the building! It’s so insane- Rayne was holding onto her foot and other passerby’s thought HE was trying to kill HER! In the end, he couldn’t hold onto her for long and she died..

After the word of her death, he was deemed a suspect in her murder, which is why he now goes by “Rayne” instead of Lawrence. He was never arrested or sent to jail, but he is always wary of going to prison. Because of this, he will avoid any talk of “Lawrence Petrovsky” and if questioned about his name, he denies any connection to “Lawrence”. This is all cannon btw.. my poor baby 😭

In due time, he would eventually feel comfortable with telling me his real name (even though Sam already knows, from Dupont telling them about it).

12. What's an important event in your f/o's canon to help others understand them better?

I guess Hong Kong and Birmingham..?? He is very dedicated to his “duty” of hunting down Travelers, even though if he ever talks about their existence, others would think he’s crazy! It’s an unspeakable job that never ends, since basically millions of people are killed by Traveler’s every day.

13. What quote or scene from your f/o's canon lives in your head rent free?

I have a few! Hehe

“Quantum physics is real, didn't you know?”

“BOO! Haha, sorry.. Couldn't help myself” (There are a handful of jumpscares in-game, and this is one of them!)

“My hands hurt” (I haven’t gotten this specific dialogue yet, but this is if you shapeshift into Lexie when he’s the killer in your current playthrough)

“Scream if you need me!” (One of my favorites, lol)

“Been feeling possessed lately?” (When you shift into Bronwyn and deliberately choose wrong dialogue options. It’s an achievement!)

“Wow, Sam- I didn’t know! This changes everything.” (When you choose to kiss Rayne at the end of the game)

(This convo bc it’s so funny!)

Rayne: “We’re trying to save people

Sam: “It’s not working.”

Rayne: “I said we’re trying.. :(”

14. Does your f/o die in canon? Did you change that, or keep it tragic?

Thankfully not! Although I do HC him getting a chronic illness of Cerebral Hypoxia after the Traveler possesses him.

It’s kind of tragic since he wouldn’t be able to run for long periods of time, which is sometimes crucial to catching possessed people.. and among other things like more frequent headaches, brain fog, possibly not being able to drive, etc.

15. Go to your f/o's wiki page. Give us one fact from the "trivia" section! If they don't have one, share a random fun fact about them many may not know!

He doesn’t have any wiki pages, unfortunately (besides one mention in the TV Tropes page for the game!) 😭

But a random fact of his is that he spills trivia facts when he’s nervous! It’s so silly and I love how he knows the most obscure trivia <3

Another fact is that he’s not religious, but does believe that anything is possible! He also believes in time-travel, space-travel, and the multiple-realities theory!

16. FREE REIGN - Infodump about your f/o's lore, your selfship lore, or literally anything related!!

I suppose I could rant about Travelers and my theories about them! :)

“Travelers”, shortened from “time-travelers” are spirits of dead people who used to live in a different reality from ours. They are people from the future who have figured out how to use time/space-travel. If they die in our reality while time-traveling, their spirit is permanently stuck in our reality!

Since their goal is to get back to their reality, they must complete a Rite (rite of passage) by “wreaking havoc in our world,” which is rewarded in theirs. I think, once they complete their Rite, they receive enough energy to return to their reality! However, I also think they kill people for sport, but they mostly do it to complete their Rite.

They always kill 3 victims which share a common attribute (like hair color, skin tone, etc). Travelers “body-surf” from victim to victim via “inter-dimensional time travel”. You can’t force them to leave your current timeline, since they could theoretically inhabit the victim’s body indefinitely. But to see if they’ve truly left a victim’s body (and the current timeline), you’d need to do a reading with Mercury, the sentient(?) tarot deck that belongs to Bronwyn. Mercury will let you know from a reading when a Traveler’s left our timeline.

Also, since Sam is employed by the mysterious “Agent X” (humorously named Jared, after the characters actor), I have a theory that Sam is a TYPE of Traveler! Since Sam is a shapeshifter, and can be given different powers via “augmentation” by Agent X, there must be different types of Travelers, too! :)

There could also be rogue Travelers, aka those who aren’t employed by Agent X or another mysterious org. So there are good Travelers (like Sam) and ones who kill people, I guess. It’s very interesting to think about!