Grey-ish Blue = True to the AltFuture Timeline; an alternate universe where things just carried on without intervention from Akeidat's wish.

  Green = True to the Present/Prime Timeline; which is where Akeidat returns to after their adventures in the AltFuture after having learned the lessons needed to prevent such a depressing fate. Both timelines will carry on separately; the Prime timeline being a little happier than the AltFuture.

  Pink = General character info, true to both.

  (...The joys of time-travel that isn't in a closed loop, haha.)

  Fiera Byrde is/was Akeidat's Primary School classmate, occasional study-partner, & a prefect at their school.

  In the Alternate Future timeline where Akeidat is transported to a version of their older self's body, Fiera is a secretary for Kasie's music law firm. She is also the future Akeidat's estranged roommate.

  She is severely depressed, often to the point of derealisation, but doesn't realise it because she assumes her symptoms are normal things that everyone experiences. (Wait, so you don't feel disconnected from your body & the world around it? Feeling like you're just distantly puppeting your own movements & feeling like an outsider to yourself isn't normal??? You don't feel like you're not actually a person but some other non-euclidean entity possessing a stranger's corpse???)

❤️Personality

  Intelligent, compassionate, eager to please & deathly afraid of letting people down, apathetic. Once a bright spark with passionate dreams of changing the world for the better, Fiera's cold & reserved demeanour appears a far cry from the friendly & ambitious girl she was as a kid. She lives her days in a routine, half-aware daze; barely feeling much of anything pertaining to her surroundings, other than doing whatever she's told.

  Internally, though, she's a lot less emotionless than she seems. Even since she was a kid; she's a huge worrier; who's simultaneously constantly stressing out about everything & trying not to worry at all, leaving her stuck in a weird unsatisfactory limbo of always feeling like something's wrong, somehow, but there's probably nothing she can do about it. She kind of... invalidates her own feelings & shoves everything aside, refusing to even address any of it, for the sake of remaining the most productive, helpful, professional person she can be.

  So instead of letting herself process any of her emotions, she just... doesn't. Too exhausted to maintain the upbeat & cheerful persona of her childhood; now, she's running her body like she's an outsider puppeteering an empty corpse from backstage on autopilot, disconnected from everything else, retreating further in her own head.

  But with her... everything going on internally, she doesn't exactly have the energy to focus on anything outside her own head. As a result, she often ends up blindly parroting others' words & actions to seem 'normal', without thinking critically about what those words mean. ...But considering the type of company she feels obligated to keep; she can often come off as unfairly judgemental, dismissive, or even meanspirited- the exact opposite of the kindness she wants to show.

✅Likes

  Bro she doesn't even know herself, helping others, summer, warm temperatures, birds, singing, fireworks