(using they to refer to past/future simultaneously)
I do have the idea outline for his character and wanting to make him the deuteragonist of the story, however- he is the character I am most hesitant to write for as I do not want to fall into stereotypes- or at least using overdone tropes in an easy way, however the more I imagine and daydream for my story- AK is certainly obsessed with Nicky and her ability to change, but they start being influenced by magic spirits (who influence/enhance the magic of the feelings around them) In his story, just like the others who can only observe Nicky becoming powerful and all knowing- barely able to get a crumb of info between "resets", Nicky can only guess what AK is up to on their adventures in Hyperreality, it just drives her nuts that AK is also aware too that everyone is in a show. Unlike Nicky, AK wants to repair the world but also allow hyperreality to merge with the reality so anyone could be whoever they wanted. Nicky doesn't want that to happen, believing if the show doesn't continue, even if the situation becomes serious, everyone will die. AK believes the preservation of the show taking priority will put everyone in danger, if it ends, they aren't going to pull the plug if they truly respect the "sentience" of the dream world.
AK has a bit of a predicament in the main half of the story, they suddenly get sucked into a hyperreal vortex after trying to stop Nicky from abusing the powers of the hyperreality. Suddenly, this ends up trapping them in a world where they cannot physically interact with the rest of the world, but can interact with the hyperreality spirits. AK's family unfortunately, are always on "business trips" to the HR, neglecting AK. Unfortunately, despite the hyperreal spirits friendliness- the powers they materialize in AK make them extremely observant yet extremely aloof, as well as unnecessarily perceptive of peoples feelings (seeing emotions like an X ray sort of thing from time to time, in very wacky ways). Taking on more of a "spirit accent" in voice (this is something I am not sure if I fully want to add to canon since it is strange) and slowly becoming more of a mad magician than a mad scientist, AK really admires Nicky, but hoping to make amends with Nicky before she knew the truth so they keep pestering and annoying her (only Nicky can see them), Nicky blocks out AK's presence and shuts them out, not wanting to speak with them. AK is both rageful and empathetic at this part of the story. AK tries different experiments to make Nicky see, changing the world is good- "after all, if everyone knows, they'd still love you- you're a legend" sort of thing. But every time AK feels like he has to prove this point, he makes a mistake that almost endangers everyone in Hazelnut, Nicky's recklessness somehow ends up working out each time- leading him back to his self imposed exile to a secret world of hyperreality.
The number one thing AK hates the most? Not being able to be who they want. AK actually doesn't like being P-Ann's #1 enemy, that was all an act, theatrics (this is all based on Alice Kane went to Calcutta). Acting is fun but realizing the thing you apparently loved doing wasn't genuine is not fun acting. But unlike Nicky, the embodiment of change - who believes it can only happen for short times before it is reverted- he's like, "why should we put up with this?" so he steals Nicky's interdimensional gear to find ways of breaking the world in a way that won't force everyone to relive their traumas when the anomaly comes back into Hazelnut.
But when it comes to the hyperreality, are you more magic or human? The main difference between AK and Nicky? AK likes to have fun, Nicky's so hard on herself that she denies herself fun, but it's also because the type of fun was meant to be intellectual fun, meant to instill an intellectual appetite, but eventually she was doing it just to please people without knowing it, to not explore and learn for learning's sake- which later became coping, comfort. They become a "couple" post The Finale (with later terms, some sort of undefinable attraction) and in AK, even if he seems sort of detached and so does Nicky, in a way they need to be together to explore who they are during the timeskip with the residual magic, their memories unchanged. The more dark things happened in the story, the more the hyperreal spirits intent on correcting the damages, sent the world into a surreal dreamscape.
How I intend to continue the story, it's gotten very weird, but I'm playing around with harpy/bird people in my current storyline- who are benelovent yet flawed, aspects of the dreamlike world. Their storyline created by the hyperreality, isn't resolved, so it travels to the smaller timeskip world- orbiting the glass simulation world on a thread.
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