Half-Human Hybrid: The Draic-Kin female hinted that April might in fact be one.Fanservice: She's seen in her underwear a few times in The Longest Journey.Dropped a Bridge on Her: She dies highly anti-climatically in Dreamfall-by being stabbed by a random Azadi grunt.Deuteragonist: While she's still a player character in Dreamfall, she's no longer the main character-that's Zoë.When she visits Gordon, and he tells her that the Balance has no further need of her, she's actually a bit sad. However, deep down, April does want to feel important and joined the rebels for that purpose. Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: April wants no part in anything Zoë has planned for her.Evidently, April considered reincarnation to be preferable to living without a purpose. Death Seeker: In Chapters, her ghost tells both Zoë and Kian that her death freed her by allowing her to be reborn.But she wants no part in what Zoë has planned. She'll help out Zoë because Zoë literally has no one else. Chronic Hero Syndrome: Played with in Dreamfall.Chapters finally implies that one of her major roles was to die so that she could be reborn as Saga who would then save the Universe with her shifting powers.At one point, she asks a guard something like "Don't you have a prophecy that I can fulfill? Because that's how this thing usually goes." And, just for the record: the encounter when she says that results in her being named "a wave" in addition to the messianic titles she gained before, which means she'll end up being very important to the future of Arcadia. She accumulates prophecies like dust as the original game goes on - She's the Kan-ang-la, April bandu-embata, the Windbringer, the goes on. She still gets more than her fair share of being Chosen, though. Still, there are hints in the promotional material of Dreamfall that she is yet to receive her fair chunk of destiny. The Chosen One: Subverted in that she assumes that she has been chosen to be the next Guardian of the Balance, but in fact she is only supposed to find the Guardian and shepherd him to his destiny.Understandable, though, since using a picture more resembling the original "colorful" atmosphere wouldn't fit the new graphic rendering. Cerebus Retcon: When Zoë is shown a photo of April and her friends in Dreamfall, April looks considerably more "dark" then in TLJ.The Cameo: In Book 5 of Chapters, Zoë encounters in echo of her in Storytime.Casual Danger Dialog: She in particular takes a lot of her perils with a side of wisecracking.Brought Down to Normal: She loses her Shifting powers between TLJ and Dreamfall, though the White Kin explains that she does still have her powers, but her fear and anxiety about returning to Stark prevents her from using them. Broken Bird: She's clearly depressed in Dreamfall.Action Survivor: In the first game, oh so much.Her journey came to an unexpected end and ten years later, by the events of Dreamfall, she has become a jaded and bitter woman fighting a guerrilla war against the occupying Azadi Empire in Arcadia. The main character of the original game, April was an Ordinary College Student living in Stark when she found herself thrust in an adventure in which she was destined to save both her world and Arcadia, the world of magic, from the machinations of Jacob McAllen and his followers, the Vanguard, using her powers as a Shifter, which allowed her to travel between the worlds.
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