Hey everyone,
A few months ago, we introduced one of the playable characters, Brae, the hermit philosopher of Wolf Prime. If you missed his story, you can catch up here.
This month, we’re really excited to introduce you to someone new—Floxxy! Floxxy is a fish out of water, an outsider in an unfamiliar world, armed with powerful abilities that can break through enemy defenses. She has a unique mechanic called 'Flux,' which amplifies her powers.
Background
Floxxy is a member of the fish-like species chronozoa that evolved on the radioactive ocean planet of Bryne. Like all chronozoa, Floxxy was born in the Midwater region just below the surface of the ocean. Before she was captured by Mining Guild agents, Floxxy had never been out of sight of her shoal (tribe). She had never seen dry land, or even the ocean floor.
During her long transport from her home world of Bryne to the Guild’s hub world of Obsidia V, she was kept in a small hydrocell with a handful of others. For that terrifying month, instead of the vast sunlit sea, she found herself surrounded by darkness and metal walls. Upon reaching Obsidia V, she was transferred to a Guild freighter, where she was fitted with a mech suit and trained for mine work. During her time on the freighter, she learned the particulars of her new reality: she was to be stationed on a desert planet, where she would spend the remainder of her life working in the solium mines. Beyond that, no future was articulated except that, as a Level Three work animal, she could be “released” by her Guild masters at any time. Although the word release was never defined, it was clearly a euphemism for something undesirable.
Early concept art explorations for Floxxy. In early iterations of Floxxy, we called her “Jinxy”.
Cowed and confused, she and other new arrivals began their new lives in the solium mines of Wolf Prime, wondering what had happened to the workers they had been brought to replace. Over time, Floxxy gained the respect of her fellow workers by bargaining with her superiors for various rights and benefits, most of which were granted in exchange for harder work, their only real bargaining chip. While this trade-off made life in the mines more arduous, it also made it more bearable. During her years in the mines, Floxxy never stopped chafing at the mistreatment of her species, nor dreaming of the freedom to return to her homeworld.
When catastrophe strikes Wolf Prime, Floxxy hears about it through whispered rumors. Most of what the workers know has been gleaned from overheard conversations between GSEC officers, most of whom seem worried. Still, something important is happening, and she hopes that it might lead to favorable circumstances for her and her coworkers.
When the opportunity arises, it is a simple matter of luck. Non-Guild infiltrators offer her an escape from the mines if she will help them locate what they are seeking. She decides to accept their offer, and joins their party, even though it means going deeper into the mines than she has ever been.
Abilities
In battle, Floxxy is a powerhouse. Her mech suit is heavy and slow but designed to take a lot of pressure. Floxxy accumulates Flux whenever a card is exhausted, turning it into energy to power up her abilities. She can spend Flux to increase damage or push enemies, gain movement points, or play cards for example. As a miner, she’s equipped with tools designed to extract valuable resources that can be exhausted in battle and repurposed as Flux, or kept as crafting materials out of combat. Her kit also makes her great at breaking things open, allowing her to easily breach enemy defenses.
Focus: Tanking damage. Exhausting cards to power up moves and defense breacher.
- Slow movement, highest HP pool with Block generation over time.
- Generates Resources with various effects.
- Great to breach defenses.
- Can exhaust cards to enhance her abilities.
We hope you enjoyed getting to know Floxxy - we have more character blogs coming up and can’t wait to share more about this colorful cast of characters. If you want to talk to us about the characters or anything at all join our Discord!
- Team Dark Sky