I've put together a simple introduction template for my PC, Ophelia! It's still a work in progress, but I wanted to share it.
Ophelia is someone who deliberately keeps involving herself with Remy in order to bring about her downfall. Regardless of my actual gameplay, I personally consider Ophelia to have no romantic relationships with any NNPCs. (Although a relationship with Avery would be inevitable for her to be adopted by Avery.)
I'll share more story about her over time! There are still many sections left to fill out in the template I used, after all. This is only a small part of it.
The images were taken from my own DoL+ gameplay screen. Ophelia is primarily a PC, I also included a "People of Interest" aa her role to show what kind of relationships she might develop if she were to meet other PCs as NNPC.
You can read a little more about Ophelia in the linked post below! I'm sure you can easily find where to press.
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You feel something ghostlike pass by your side. A faint scent of milk lingers in the air.
Ophelia's actual eye color is closer to the one above, but I made another version as her pupils were too prominent.
These are made by a mobile game that offers character customizing like a dress-up game. It's a shame that the colors from the game don't come out exactly when saved as a file. I put so much effort into recreating Remy's pale brown hair, but I don't think the image reflects that well.
I've seen a Q&A saying that Remy would consider a cow bikini vulgar but sexy. Since then, I always make sure to dress Opjelia in a cow bikini inside her outfit...
Thinking again about how Ophelia keeps choosing to go back to Remy, even though she knows it would be safer to walk away and build a different life entirely.
Because at some point, it stopped being about escape.
She wants Remy to acknowledge her as an equal, and she knows the only way someone like Remy could ever do that is through hatred, resistance, and conflict.
So instead of disappearing, she keeps returning just to become something unbearable for her.
Remy’s own cow becoming the thing that ruins her.
I wrote down the moment Ophelia first decided this.
It’s just a short little thing written with my non-native English skills and a translator, so I hope it still comes across well.
Stud Horse
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Because she no longer had the strength to resist, Ophelia forced herself upright on trembling legs. Ignoring the dizziness brought on by starvation and exhaustion, she slowly lowered herself to her knees and pressed both palms against the cold floor.
A position on all fours.
The posture of an obedient cow — the kind Remy liked best.
Humiliation seeped into her bones, but Ophelia kept her expression blank. For now, she would perfectly play the role of livestock that followed her master happily. It was too early to free herself through death. She wanted to destroy her first. Remy — arrogant, composed Remy — had to be broken by her own hands.
“Moo…”
The sound slipped from her throat again. Once, every involuntary moo had made her want to claw her own vocal cords apart and force the noise back down her throat. Now she was producing it willingly, drawing in breath and shaping the sound herself.
Ophelia closed her eyes. She remembered the endless cycle of escape and capture at the farm. The terror. The humiliation. And yet, instead of simply running far away and never becoming involved with Remy again, she kept returning to this hellish relationship of her own accord.
Why?
Had the humiliation truly been severe enough to justify this obsession? Severe enough to risk experiencing it all over again, again and again, just for the chance to repay it? Even she could not fully answer that question.
The traces of Remy’s conditioning filled the darkness behind her closed eyelids. The way Remy had viewed her as nothing more than cattle. The rewards. The punishments. Every act of affection and cruelty had been carried out as though tending to a prized dairy cow.
And worst of all—
There had been moments, brief and shameful moments, when Ophelia had almost wavered beneath the warmth of Remy’s approval. When behaving obediently had earned her gentleness, praise, careful hands.
The feeling of Remy’s fingers scratching gently behind her black cow ears still seemed to linger there. The memory came easily to her — juicy apples Remy had carefully turned in her hands to make them easier to eat; the quiet voice that had soothed her while petting her for a few brief minutes in the morning; even the look in Remy's eyes after milking her by hand, as though she were something precious. Ophelia could recall every single one of those moments with humiliating ease.
But that only made it more miserable. The kinder Remy became, the clearer it was that she was not cherishing Ophelia as a person — she was only cherishing her livestock.
'…wanted her acknowledgment? As an equal?'
How absurd. Remy was cruel beyond redemption — a scum of a human being who transformed people into cattle, altering their bodies to harvest milk from them by force. There shouldn't be any reason to care whether a woman like that saw her as human.
And yet she did.
If even these twisted feelings had been planted inside her by Remy, then Ophelia would make sure Remy understood exactly how disastrously effective her conditioning had been.
Finally, Ophelia accepted her warped desire. She wanted Remy to see her as an equal. And she also understood that this could never be achieved through affection or kindness.
'Remy will be broken by her own cow.'
Her own cow.
Ophelia was speaking about herself. She decided to break Remy. Her plans. Her business. Her cult. Everything she built. Ophelia would interfere with all of it and become a constant thorn in her side. She would become something unbearable, ruining and sabotaging, making Remy hate her as deeply as she hated Remy at last.
Because that was the only way Remy could ever see her as an equal. Becoming a constant irritation made just for her master — that was Ophelia's choice. The first choice she had made after admitting that Remy had tamed her, at least a little bit.
Slowly, Ophelia opened her eyes again.
'If I am livestock, then you are a stud horse.'
The thought made her smile to herself in grim satisfaction. The role suited Remy perfectly — with her pride in her bloodlines and her love of horseback riding.
'And if you are human… then so am I.'
Perhaps it was the closest thing to her true feelings.
I finally decided my PC, Ophelia's other titles(I'm not sure how the words followed after the name like other NNPCs in DoL are usually called)
Since Ophelia is basically a PC created with a focus on her relationship with Remy, her basic title is "Ophelia the Runaway cattle." Yes, it is indeed taken from the achievement name! That is why my Tumblr username is like that as well.
However, people who do not know about the Underground Farm will not(actually can not) perceive Ophelia in that way. They will regard Ophelia as "the unbroken." (I decided on this to reflect the PC's life in DoL's strange town, while also considering that if PC act disobediently on the farm, Remy's one-line review of PC is "Remy thinks you need to be broken.") The nuance may differ depending on how good and bad reputations are built, but I think it will be perceived as a grouping, like "the unbroken one and only."
Meanwhile, Ophelia is highly conscious of the influence Remy has had on her and harbors a desire to destroy her to become equal to her, just as I roughly mentioned in this blog before. That is why, even though it would be safer for her to stop getting involved with Remy and find a different way of life or purpose, she repeatedly interferes with Remy's work or angers her, and even dreams of a plan to bring down the cult led by Remy. That is clearly a dangerous thing to do! As I mentioned before, it is no different from walking into the water. With this in mind, I thought of the title "Ophelia the drowned."
I personally really like it because it is also related to why I named my PC "Ophelia." Think about Ophelia's ending in Hamlet! And I really loved a painting that beautifully depicted it (I posted it here before. I remember it was a post related to Ophelia's wreath). Also, considering that Remy's college major is literature and her tastes are classical(based on what I saw in the Q&A), I feel that naming my PC, who'll be hopelessly entangled with Remy, after a character from a classic literary masterpiece was a really appropriate choice.
People who understand Ophelia's complex feelings toward Remy and can view her actions in connection with Remy (probably Gwylan, Robin, or Wren? And Alex, of course) will perceive Ophelia this way. You could also imagine her nickname in game screen shows like "the drowning" but then changes to "the drowned" if she completely breaks down for Remy (which would likely become an AU).
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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 6 · The idea of placing a wreath on Ophelia's head or giving her a fondness for playing by the water is related to Hamlet's Oph
💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 2 · Ophelia enjoyed spending time near the river when she was imprisoned in UFarm. Since she was always there, approaching the
