I'll need help working out the details of his Shadow, but feel free to talk on Plurk or Discord. But to summarize this character from a dumb canon:
The Glade of Dreams was created by Polokus "The Bubble Dreamer", who sits around in the middle of the forest and is just...there. Being wise and lazy. And if the nightmares he unintentionally creates or pirates or overlords try to attack, he leaves the duty of saving the world to the resident heroes. Ales started out as a neutral NPC who helped out the heroes at a price. At the end of the first game, the villain is defeated, but Ales couldn't help but admire his sense of style and the intensity he put into conquering the Glade.
Having grown up a disappointment to his magical race, Ales turned to machinery and merchantry. His only known friend was Betilla the fairy guardian of the forest (who is really important and is known to be kind), but as time went on and more villains arrived without Polokus doing anything, he grew bitter. Why was everyone lazy? Was it the over-reliance on magic? The uncritical praise of Polokus, of whom the popular opinion was that he could do no wrong?
His solution: take a page from the villain of the first game and take over the world. Overthrow Polokus, start a rule of order and machinery. He was willing to sever his ties with Betilla and have his henchmen kidnap and imprison her. He played the heroes similarly to how Palitutu played the Heroes: by presenting himself as a helpful if snarky NPC who was totally not using the collectibles given to him for a nefarious purpose. He justified building an airship army by saying it was for the greater good. He could let his mechas kill the heroes because they were preventing much-needed change.
He failed, of course, but the only thing he regrets is not being able to follow through. The Glade is just the same as before.
Ales knows that he is ruthless, but he feels he is completely justified in it, avoiding the reality that his methods in making the world a better place paints him as a worse substitute. He'll ignore that he is at any fault and tells himself that he is sole bastion of sanity in his world. His grievances are not wrong; there are legitimate issues he brings up, but the way he went about addressing them...not so much.
However, he does have difficulty in forming bonds as, in Harry Potter terms, he is a Squib in a race of ultra-magical creatures. Bullying got him to resent a lot of society in general, and it's possible that he wants to be considered important and cool because of it. Perhaps all he wants is to do something that will lead him to being respected.
Ales wants to be among the first to confront his Shadow, but he's going to have a hard time accepting it once he realizes what it's like.
Plotting for Ales Mansay
The Glade of Dreams was created by Polokus "The Bubble Dreamer", who sits around in the middle of the forest and is just...there. Being wise and lazy. And if the nightmares he unintentionally creates or pirates or overlords try to attack, he leaves the duty of saving the world to the resident heroes. Ales started out as a neutral NPC who helped out the heroes at a price. At the end of the first game, the villain is defeated, but Ales couldn't help but admire his sense of style and the intensity he put into conquering the Glade.
Having grown up a disappointment to his magical race, Ales turned to machinery and merchantry. His only known friend was Betilla the fairy guardian of the forest (who is really important and is known to be kind), but as time went on and more villains arrived without Polokus doing anything, he grew bitter. Why was everyone lazy? Was it the over-reliance on magic? The uncritical praise of Polokus, of whom the popular opinion was that he could do no wrong?
His solution: take a page from the villain of the first game and take over the world. Overthrow Polokus, start a rule of order and machinery. He was willing to sever his ties with Betilla and have his henchmen kidnap and imprison her. He played the heroes similarly to how Palitutu played the Heroes: by presenting himself as a helpful if snarky NPC who was totally not using the collectibles given to him for a nefarious purpose. He justified building an airship army by saying it was for the greater good. He could let his mechas kill the heroes because they were preventing much-needed change.
He failed, of course, but the only thing he regrets is not being able to follow through. The Glade is just the same as before.
Ales knows that he is ruthless, but he feels he is completely justified in it, avoiding the reality that his methods in making the world a better place paints him as a worse substitute. He'll ignore that he is at any fault and tells himself that he is sole bastion of sanity in his world. His grievances are not wrong; there are legitimate issues he brings up, but the way he went about addressing them...not so much.
However, he does have difficulty in forming bonds as, in Harry Potter terms, he is a Squib in a race of ultra-magical creatures. Bullying got him to resent a lot of society in general, and it's possible that he wants to be considered important and cool because of it. Perhaps all he wants is to do something that will lead him to being respected.
Ales wants to be among the first to confront his Shadow, but he's going to have a hard time accepting it once he realizes what it's like.