CHAPTER [[GARY]] : NEXT GEN AU

Paige

Paige is a lightner and one of the protagonists in the NextGen Au. She's presumed to be "THE GUARDIAN" mentioned in the New Prophecy.

In the DarkWorld, Paige works as the leader of the party. She's controlled by the Player throughout most of the game, seemingly unaware of it. During battle, she weilds a giant paintbrush.

Profile

Appearence

Paige is a small humanoid Lightner. Her body is a light brown color, with the left half of her head, right lower arm, and left lower leg a light beige. Her right cheek also has a dull red blush. Despite no visible hair, she seems to have her hair tied into two pigtails on the sides of her head. She has brown eyes with yellow sclera, and her mouth is a simple, toothless smile of the same brown color. She wears a baggy, white tank top tucked into baggy, dark brown cargo pants that connect to her feet. On the outer side of her right pant leg is a stripe split into four dull colors (from top to bottom): red, yellow, green, and blue.

Personality

Paige is creative, stubborn, and protective. As the oldest of her team, she exudes older sister energy, trying her best to make everyone get along and make sure nobody gets hurt either. She's the type of person to try and deescalate a situation so that nothing extreme happens. Even so, Paige is someone who likes to do things her way out of being secure in herself. Because of that, she can come across as inflexible in some situations. She prefers to fail by her own hands instead of having someone tell her her idea won't work, seeing it as the "creative liberty" to try and fail without judgment. She will, however, only let herself fail on her own terms, trying not to get anyone dragged into her own messes if possible.

Main Story

History

Paige moved into HomeTown when she was around 6 years old, attending the HomeTown school and exhelling at arts. Due to her parents not having the money to buy her many art materials, she'd improvise with whatever she had around the house. She's said to have made her own sketchbook by hand, using scrap office paper from the Library and sewing the pages by hand with the help of Toriel. She treated said sketchbook as her closest friend, preferring to write and draw out her feelings rather than talk to kids her age. When visiting the Library's computer room, she was scared by something she saw on the computer and ran out of the Library, losing her sketchbook in the process.

Chapter [[GARY]]

Paige is never namedropped in Chapter [[GARY]], though older versions of her sprite are found inside the game's files. She's also thought to be the owner of Kinder, a darkner from Chapter 1 who claims to have been separated from his Lightner by Gary.

NextGen

CHAPTER 1 : In the NextGen Au, Paige is seen waking up in her room. She panics about waking up late for school and quickly runs out the door to head to the HomeTown school. We learn that she helps run an extracurricular art program in school that mostly younger children attend. As she's helping everyone, one of the kids - Becky - spills paint on herself, so Paige takes her to the bathroom so they can try to wash it off. As the bathroom doesn't have soap, they go into the school's supply closet to find some. Once they enter the closet, it turns out to be an entrance into the Dark World. While entering, Paige and Becky are separated, leaving Paige to fend for herself for a while until finding another kid in an abandoned town in ruins. The other child introduces themselves as Cherry. She explains how they fell into this DarkWorld for a reason, and how they're meant to save both the Dark and Light worlds together. Together, they go off to find Becky and restore whatever peace they can to RuinTown. At the end of the chapter, Paige and Becky escape the DarkWorld and land back in the school hallway, Becky's dress having been cleaned, the only proof that the DarkWorld was real. They agree to keep this a secret from the other kids, though Paige warns Becky not to return inside without her present.

Relationships

Becky

Her best friend, practically a little sis. Being one of the people responsible for their school's art program, Becky and Paige see each other almost daily. During these classes, Paige would indulge Becky's ramblings about the magical girls and cartoons she'd see on her bedroom TV. Paige thought it to be harmless fun that fuelled her drawings, comparing it to how she got her inspiration when she was Becky's age. Their bond grew stronger as they visited more and more DarkWorld, Paige being more protective and careful with Becky, but also slowly learning that the kid had enough guts to not need constant monitoring. Even so, Paige is still like a big sister to Becky.

Cherry

The first Darkner befriended. Paige and Cherry grow a fast friendship as they spend a lot of time working together during Chapter 1 to find Becky. They both bond over their appreciation for things to have a certain order and reason, though Paige isn't as extreme as Cherry, believing that art is inherently emotional, and how one can't exactly control that. Even so, they get along well despite their age gap matching Paige and Becky's. The latter fact worries Paige sometimes, how Cherry seems to act pretty mature for her age already.

In-Battle

Stats

Spells

• Conjure : Requires 20% TP. Adds a necessary ACT to a party member's ACT menu. If all necessary ACTs are unlocked, it'll heal 10HP of a specified party member.
• PaintBlue : Requires 35% TP. Only available for enemies with type COLOR or PAINT. Can instantly turn an enemy tired.
• PaintYellow : Requires 35% TP. Fills 50% of an enemy's empty SPARE bar.

Weapons

• PaintBrush : Default weapon. "A paintbrush with a wooden handle and yellow bristles.."
• BucketBrush : Chapter 2 "A sharp brush that quickly fills empty areas."
• TheaterBrush : Chapter 3 "Usually made for face paint. Spreads paint evenly."

Trivia

• Despite much speculation amongst her peers, it is still unknown what animal Paige is based on as a Lightner. During an interaction with Becky, she theorizes Paige could be a cahmeleon since "she's always playing with colors".


• Paige's role as the party leader and vessel for the SOUL places her in a similar position to Kris in the original DELTARUNE story.
• Also like Kris, Paige's color palette changes dramatically from her LightWorld variant to her DarkWorld. However, opposite to Kris, Paige is mostly blue in the LightWorld, and turns a brown shade in the DarkWorld.

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