#mob character

Neiram is absoutely not happy with the part assigned to him in this story. You see, like some other students, he is also the type to get envious when someone is better than him - but nearly everyone at the school is better that him in some way. Neiram has to repeat first year, because his attempts to solve studying for the test that could help him pass after the summer holidays through developing an UM that just gets him the info, did not get him the result he intended and he still failed that tests. So, he basically envies and despises everyone at school, because they are all better than him and it isn't fair that others study so smoothly while he struggles to get anything to stick in his memory and that others are rich while he has to work on the side to get some finances and that others are magically powerful while he is just mediocre. And that others are "Main Characters" while he is so irrelevant, that not even his name is displayed is just outrageous! Grr! 😡

Only one person, he doesn't envy: Yuu. But Yuu just puzzles him. Looking at them, he sees Yuu as a myriad of possibilities, constantly shapeshifting through potential forms, different features overlaying in a fluidity that makes it impossible to see a concrete appearance. It is unsetteling. Just WHAT sort of creature is Yuu? "A regular human", yeah, no way Neiram is buying that. Humans don't look like that!

That is in the near-canon timeline. But in others, across the "Yuuniverse", Neiram can see a concrete appearance of the Yuu of a world he is inhabiting (in these "lower" worlds he can also see if someone is an OC and knows even that about himself, he tries to not think too much about it, because it's confusing, like, does it make him less real?). When he is not scared of Yuu being something really strange, he tries to get closer to them, because he can see that they are at the centre of the plot and he hopes that by getting into the plot he can become a "main", not just because "mains" have a more interesting life, but mostly because he has noticed that "mains" are much more powerful magic-wise than NPCs and he wants that to happen to his as well.

He shows up at Ramshackle like: "Hey, I saw you are renovating the place and I LOVE renovating, it's like a hobby of mine, I see shows about it on TV, would you like some help?" 😁 And most Yuus agree. Neiram then proceeds to fail fixing stuff most of the time, sometimes even breaking it more, because he actually has no idea what he is doing and he doesn't enjoy it either, he just thinks it's important for his future career as mage somehow.

Depending on the present Yuu, he may get to like them. Despite thinking romance is silly and cringe, there are AUs where he even gets a crush on Yuu. Then there are some worlds where he really doesn't like Yuu. One of the most incompatible Yuu-characters, for instance, is Undine Eisner (another of my OCs). They just hate each other, without any chemistry that could turn it e-t-l even.

Another thing he can do is access other characters' profiles. He can see them pop up as floating boxes, but he needs to touch the person to get these pop-ups to open. And he can see which magic spell a "main" is going to use in a battle, shortly before they cast it. Perhaps he will see even more as his UM evolves...?

Behind the scenes: I wanted an OC that matches with my profile pic, so Neiram is a wild sheep beastman. What he is not is my persona, SI or me in any way, like: eww, no.