#roya

Specifically If roya was in it her butler would be ksapela, that is the demon she'd make a contract with, his end of the bargain being to help roya learn the truth about her father, the revenge aspect comes from how angry she is about it, ksapela really hates her dad normally, bad vibes, but here it could be that or ksapela is simply feeding her desire for revenge so when she learns the truth and gets it her soul will taste better.

Cecilia: why is the Alkhulud's thermostat set to 90 at all times???

Jiahui: i dont know, ask the croc. Its his ship

Aidos: he needs to be heated or else he starts to freeze from the inside out, literally . Some sort of concoction gone wrong a few years ago or smth that still effects him

Cecilia: well tell him to wear a sweater then! Im boiling alive! [Reaches for thermostat]

Sobeknesef, from halfway across the ship like a psychic father: is someone touching the thermostat?

Sobeknesef, remembering that his crewmates arent reptiles like him and cant handle consistent heat: OH SHIT- 0-0;

My idea for now is that Prometheus was an old overseer in the fractsidus, the old head of human experimentation for evolution. Somehow, he ends up in some kind of relationship with tizemt where he keeps roya, still working on those details. The grand architect is a bit displeased by this, because he's becoming incredibly attached and focused on his daughter, to the point that even though her resonance ability hasn't shown signs of the evolution they're after, he's still indulging in her and not looking for ways to force it. In an attempt to get more control over Prometheus the grand architect takes roya away, planning to use her as a hostage and manipulation tactic thanks to their many faces ability. It fails somewhat, as epithemeus takes her and goes to tizemt instead, be it because he was working with the grand architect to take roya away and betrayed them to keep roya or because he saw the plan coming and took roya away to escape the fractsidus and Prometheus as negative influences.

Either way roya is gone, but the plan fails and Prometheus instead becomes quite upset over the loss, resulting in either a one sided leaving from the fractsidus or a mutual leaving. Which is both he and the grand architect want him gone because he's not very useful without his beloved baby.

The reason the GA isn't too pleased with Roya at first is because despite being a born resonator, where she had her tacet mark at birth, her forte didn't quite fully show in the way they wanted. It had signs of being there, as she was supposed to die stillborn but it kicked in and revived her, but it mostly settled after that and Prometheus put the more extreme ways of testing it on the back burner in favour of cultivating roya's growth. It only shows in the way that was hypothesised after her accident with her back, where it kicks in full force and truly starts evolving constantly to frequencies that get too close/ie hurt her.

I'd imagine he tried his best to hide what his daughter has done, at least lying that the bird was fully mechanical, a lie that gets easier the older she gets, as in modern day I'd imagine ksapela is fully robot now, whether that means the original died or roya fully turned the original robotic is up in the air. It kinda takes inspiration from the mad father roya, where her similarities to her dad show in how she "fixes" her beloved pet bird there, plus if I go the wuwa inspired route then this roya will have been under Prometheus's care up until about like... Four years old? Old enough for her to remember things he taught her, but not old enough for her to realize Nasir is different and she was even taken at all, she just thinks her dad got sterner as she got older. Prometheus would absolutely have encouraged his beloved baby to play with his tech and work, better to learn now then later after all, so that probably helped influence roya to do what she did to ksapela and now she has a cool robot bird buddy.

She doesn't necessarily need to be the companion creating mechanic subclass, because if I heard right then any sub class has the option to have a funky little mechanical companion, so she could be that big gun sub class because roya deserves a gun. As a treat. Don't worry about the carnage :D

Oooo her being a gravgunner would be very cool to see! Honestly I love their abilities. Especially since their big gun has a mode where it can shoot out what is essentially a black hole to suck in enemies 😂 (its not a killing thing, mostly just to drag around or stun lock people). Rett, one of the main characters of stardust rhapsody, is a gravgunner. And his combat is SO cool to listen to him describe. He uses it in such creative ways, like hes not primarily a damage dealer (he can deal pretty good damage but its not his main job in the team) he mostly manipulates the battle field with his gravity gun abilities and aids allies (especially since his subclass is "field medic", if i remember correctly.. well, its a skill/backstory attribute - not a subclass, cuz gravgunner is already a subclass to the mechanic class, but yknow). Its fun roya and Sobeknesef are the same class, her being a gravgunner and him being that mad scientist subclass, focusing on tools and concoctions, their similar but also so different...

They could bond over tech :D