I commissioned @harleysart for the cover of my second book after they did such a good job on the first, and boy did they deliver!
You can read the book HERE if you're interested. Individual characters below the cut.
First up is Adalia Milbank, aka Ada. She's the protag of my first book, and is sort of protag in the second, but now shares the limelight with her friends more. She's pretty smart, but still traumatized and kinda filled with rage after the events of the first book. Her role in the team is sysop, programming, and system management. She's also the only true mage on Earth, after she was granted a boon by a Goddess from another world that allows her to siphon mana from there. With her is Cinnabun - one of the GMs and a being that lives in the rift between worlds. They and their colleagues are the ones who first created the Fantasy Isekai Simulator VR game in order to allow other worlds to use people from Earth as champions in a more sustainable way. They helped rescue Ada in the first book, and now work closely with Ada and her friends to manage the back end of the game.
Next is Ophelia Campbell, aka Lia, and her game avatar Liana_Sunblood aka Sunny. Ophelia is the shortest in the group, and petite with it. But she has a pretty steady personality under pressure, and is basically their leader. She's good at people management and keeping everyone moving, but sometimes feels kind of useless since her talents are less tangible than those of the others. Still, they would be lost without her watching over them. Her avatar Sunny is a knight archetype, of average height and solidly built. Her weapons of choice are a sword and her flexible buckler shield, but she's trained at least a little with most types of weapons and with unarmed combat, and has lead armies before in the game.
Then we have Bronwyn Jones, who everyone calls Fishy after her gamer tag Hi_Im_Fish. She is taller than Lia, but shorter than Ada, and chubby with curves. She has a degree in Chemistry from a well respected university, and really enjoys her area of expertise. She applies said expertise to her avatar, which is an alchemist build. Where most consider the alchemist archetype to be a craft job not suited to fighting, Fishy has managed to make it into a solid support/damage class. No one else has yet been able to truly match her level of skill as an alchemist, and those in the know consider her a mad genius. She tends to wear her heart on her sleeve, is witty and mischievous and fiercely protective of her friends, and would throw hands with anyone, up to and including god. She is in a relationship with Moon, who she adores deeply.
Finally, we have Moon and their avatar Sleepy_Moon. Due to certain circumstances, they basically abandoned their surname with their deadname, and are now just known as Moon to everyone. Moon towers over the others at over 6 ft tall, and their large with it. They are androgynous in the way that most features people would use to gender them are obscured by their weight and their preference for comfortable worn baggy clothing. They are socially anxious and pretty shy around people they don't know due to finding it hard to read other people, but open up around their trusted friends. They have a deep love and interest in magic, researching it in all literary and fictional contexts and then studying the realities of it after discovering the existence of magical worlds in other dimensions during the events of book one. As a result, their knowledge and mana control are near perfect, though they can't use magic on Earth unless Ada lends them some mana. When dealing with magic, they are at their happiest and most confident. They chose to match their avatar to their real appearance as much as possible because it took so long for them to feel comfortable in their own skin and now they are not comfortable looking like anything else. They have been with Fishy since they were both in university together, and their relationship is going strong.
And that's everyone! If you actually read all that, please do drop me an ask, message, or reply and let me know who is your favourite. I'm open to answer any questions you like about any of them.
