Evangelos: Sapphire Dreaming
Designer's Reflection: Sapphire Dreaming
Obtained: Arachnus Flutterby: Into the Deep Blue hell event
Rarity: UR
Attribute: Blue/Cool
Awakened Suit: Cocoon Reborn
Story - transcripts from Designer's Reflection
Chapter 1 - Fragile Hope
Chapter 2 - Endless Experiments
Chapter 3 - Innocent Emotion
Chapter 4 - Unfinished Verse
Chapter 5 - Dream Wedding
Story - summarized
Deep in the border forest of Ninir, two researchers struggle to create a new specimen. Most of them failed, leaving only one bio-pod left. One researcher wants to give up before something else bad happens, but the second researcher forces open the pod like an egg. Inside is Evangelos, living but weak and incomplete.
The cruel researcher experiments on Evangelos every day, scolding it for being independent or liking trinkets. The kind researcher would share his books with Evangelos, who devoured every word. As great as the books were, they aren't the same as the outside world - neither researcher let Evangelos go.
One day, it awakes in a cave filled with spiderwebs. A spider girl snuck into the lab and dragged Evangelos and its broken bio-pod back to her home. She wants to eat the butterfly, but all it can think of is how beautiful the spider is. It wants to feel needed by her, to make her happy.
The spider girl, Nephiliet, decides to let it live. Life together is quaint but sweet. There are just two problems standing in the way of them being happy: first, Evangelos' body is still weak, and since its pod was broken by the researcher, it never had time to develop a strong enough body. Thankfully, Nephiliet's silk cocoons are strong enough to revive Evangelos.
But the second problem is that Nephiliet pours all her power into her silk; the more she weaves, the weaker she gets. At this rate, both of them will perish soon.
Neither wants to live without the other, so Evangelos suggests they have a wedding. They will celebrate their love for each other, and then they will enjoy the rest of their lives.
Connections
-The very first experiment we've encountered in Shining Nikki was through Yexiao's memories in Deep In The Clouds. Yexiao wanted to create life, so she teamed up with a hermit in Cloud. They succeeded in bringing the creature to life, but ultimately Yexiao had to kill it to save the town.
-Evangelos is the first character to use genderless pronouns, but it's not the first nonbinary character. Ai is implied to be genderless, as she had no specific body or sex when she was first coded and only presented herself as a girl after gaining consciousness.
Fun Facts
-The bio-pods act like science-fantasy eggs that "hatch" the hybrid creatures. If someone breaks an egg or forces it to open before the creature inside is ready, it leads to a weak body at best, early death at worst. When the researcher broke open the pod, he doomed Evangelos to death.
-One of the stories Evangelos reads is a retelling of Romeo and Juliet. The two fell in love at a ball, but their families were enemies and forbade the young lovers to meet. However, Evangelos' version has the two of them get married and be happy, whereas the original ending had them kill themselves.
