Li-Po Character Back Stories

Most of these stories will never show up directly in the game. They’re just here as reference and inspiration for dialog writing, voice recording, etc. They might be boring to read, not that carefully written, or just pointless. You might think, back story? Who cares about back story? Just how long are the cut scenes going to be in this game? To which I would say, hey, hey, man. Chill out. These stories may never get told. I told you that. They’re just there as BACK STORY, to get referenced, or not. They help me think. Why are you reading this anyway?

Sorry, sorry. Glad you’re here. I’m sorry. Here, have some red vines, sit back, and relax. Don’t mind me.

The point here is to have extraneous info, more than we need.

Raz

Raz was born into a poor circus family. Well, calling it a circus would be stretching it. The entire act consisted of him, his parents (Augustus and Donatello), his four brothers and sisters (Dion, Frazie, Mirtala, and Queepie), and their one-room gypsy caravan. Raz was trained by his father to be an acrobat. He was a Master Tumbler, Tightrope Walker, Trapeze Artist, and Bar Swinger-Onner. But deep down, Raz new he had other gifts that were strange and powerful.

When he was very young, Raz learned he could lift small things with his mind. He could make his rattle fly into his hand, and make his stuffed animals dance. He could also hear other people’s thoughts. His parents did not like this one bit, and they punished Raz whenever he showed off one of his bizarre talents. They abhorred anything paranormal, but wouldn’t explain any more than to say, “We’re a circus, not a freak show!”

Raz practiced in private, undaunted. He felt that his calling was to use his psychic powers to make a better life for his family, even though they resisted for reasons he couldn’t understand. He secretly collected news clippings on the Psychonauts, psychic superheroes who traveled the world fighting psychic terrorism. He saved clippings of their exploits. Under his bedroll was a stash of photographs depicting famous psychic agents.

Much to his parent’s dismay, Raz stopped wearing the silken gypsy tumbling outfits his mother made for him, and started dressing in mod-looking black outfits. They didn’t know it, but he was styling himself after his favorite Psychonaut, the super cool Sasha Nein. He also started wearing a pair of “official Psychonaut goggles” that he ordered out of the back of a “Psychic Action” comic book. If his parents knew where they came from they would have snatched them off his head.

Raz couldn’t understand what his parents had against psychics. He also didn’t know why they insisted on toiling away at their little one-pony circus instead of joining a real one. Everything Raz has seen in the old scrap books indicates that his family used to be a quite a big deal in the circus. His dad and mom and his brothers and sisters were all world-class acrobats who could work in the best circuses if they chose to, but Raz’s father always said no. That was not their destiny. Because of a horrible curse placed on their family, they could never set foot in the big top again, or else they would die in an agonizing, water-related accident.

Raz wondered if this was also why Augustus never seemed to bathe.

He thought his dad was crazy. He thought the “curse” was all in his head. Maybe if Raz was a world-famous Psychonaut, he could fix his dad and free his family from their one room, rolling prison.

One day, Raz found an ad in “Psychic Action” for Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp. He could hardly contain his excitement. “Do you think you have what it takes to be a Psychonaut?” the ad read, “Come to our special training facility and learn how to unlock the Master Psychic with in you!”

He was not surprised at all when his parents forbid it. Even before they tore up his comic book and told him to forget all about it, Raz had already decided to run away. He took off one night by the light of the full moon, leaving his parents a note that said he would be back someday soon and make everything better.

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