Reala

Full Name: Reala
Nicknames Right Hand of Wiseman, Dream Demon
Apparent Age: Teens to Young Adult (based on how he acts, his appearance makes it unclear)
Real Age: ? (around the age of nightmares themselves, and the realm of Nightmare)
Height: ? (when compared to teenagers, he seems roughly the height of a male teenager)
Weight: ? (about average, perhaps due to what appears to be musular development)
Gender: None (rather masculine voice)
Race: Nightmaren
Alliance: Wisema...er, Evil
Home: Realm of Nightmare within the Night Dimension
Franchise: NiGHTS into Dreams

Physical Description
Reala appears to be a stylized halequin jester with a dominance of red in his design. He has these elongated head pieces that extend backwards and to the side known to jesters of his style. The are striped his standard shade of red and a darker crimson-like red, but the stripes are rather thick. They are part of a head piece. As with the rest of his "outfit" it is unclear as to whether that is his skin or an actual costume. His head actually floats just above his body, but it can be hard to tell thanks to the frilly dark pink/magenta collar around his neck. Coming out from the collar is what appear to be dark indigo feather down. The down frames his shoulders almost like a shoulderguard might.

He has no true signs of gender, which fits because he has none. He has a face that is the same white you might see on a clown in full makeup. His eyes are freakishly large by human standards, and almond shaped. They point downwards slightly, the point ending just above the front point of his head piece. They are a vivid blue-green in color, with the "pupils" being thick cat like strips of a much darker blue. His eyes are lined in black and a pointed slightly curved line comes down from near the back of the bottom. He also has on dark indigo "lipstick" over his somewhat large seeming mouth, but it goes well with his general "halequin makeup" feel.

Over his face is a gold Mardi Gras style mask. It weighs about as much as a quality costume mask but is quite indestructable. Even if it were to somehow be destroyed, Reala could summon it back and it does not need to be visible for its powers to be accessed. Reala is pretty much never seen without it on, wearing it for its main purpose as a symbol of his loyalty to "Master Wizeman". The upper points of the mask have the same dark indigo feathering as his collar. A pink gem is set just up from the center, and three small claw-like gold points come up from the same general area.

Around his neck is a gold pendant of sorts, but it looks to either be part of his body or his vest - then again, where his body begins and his outfit starts is all rather hard to tell and doesn't really matter. Set into the pendant piece of the thick gold "chain" is a rather large pink gem, similar to the one on his mask. It is rounder and larger, however.

He wears what looks to be a stiff red vest piece. From the center it splits outwards a bit, revealing a tight black underpiece.The main vest's material seems rather heavy duty, and actually has a relief design in it. The parts that dip down are black and the design itself resembles a highly stylized flame.

Over his lower arms, wrists, and palms are gauntlet like gloves. They are of the same basic material as the sturdier parts of his vest, and they shine a bit like hardened leather. The main part of the gauntles is black, but over the back of his lowe rarms is a red reliefed pice lined in gold. It has the same basic stylized design as his vest. Over the back of his hands is a dark red piece with a raised area of a lighter red that looks like a stencield flame. His fingers come out from under the gauntlets, and have rather long pointed nails of a very pale pink. The nails are sharp and could be used to cut.

Around his waist is a gold-like belt. The "buckle" as it is has an relief design the same as on his vest. Hanging from the side of the vest on both sides is a gold bordered red armor-like piece. It has a similar design as his vest and gauntlets, but the tip of the "fire" points downwards.

His legs have disproportionally large feet and ankles. His "boots" as they are are the same red and crimson red combo as the majority of his outfit. They have a stripe near the "ankle" and a thick strip at the top with jagged flame like parts coing down from there. He appears to wear black leather "socks" that cross over each other like wrapped fabric. The "socks" rest about halfway down what appear to be his legs.

Weapons
The mask that Reala wears, while a symbol of loyalty to Wizeman, is also the source of some of Reala's abilities. It is known as "Persona" or "Persona Mask" and grants its owner a various number of abilities listed in the abilities/powers section. It should be noted it doesn't have to be worn/visible for Reala to access its powers.

His "nails", as they are, are more than effective as weapons. He can use them as a cat might use claws and do just as much (if not more) damage with them.

Abilities/Powers
Reala's most basic ability is that of flight. He's probably second only to NiGHTS in the whole of the Night Dimension for his ability to do so. He flies better than most people can walk. He tends not to be very showy with his flight unless there is an extra purpose behind it.

His flight is much like a person would move in outer space, except that he has complet and total control. He can technically walk, but his body isn't designed for it. He also generally loathes the idea. He is basically uneffected by the law of gravity as he flies, but he would be subjected to it if he were to put his "feet" down. The only time he would be truly grounded is if he were knocked totally unconscious.

His ability in the air grant other various abilities. He can spin rapidy to perform a "screwdriver" type move. It can also speed him up a bit, but if he does it constantly, it takes him a bit of time to "recover". It basically means he slows down a bit and can't use the move for about ten seconds, give or take.

He can perform a "Paraloop", which takes advantage of his all directional flight pattern to circle around his opponent. He can release energy onto the enemy to harm them this way. Unlike NiGHTS, he has not developed the ability to use this skill in a helpful way.

He tends to prefer to summon tools to fight with. He works with the power inherent to nightmare, so these tools can be just about anything. He is also more than willing to use his nails as claws, and is fairly dexterous with attacks in this manner.

Reala does have one extra power, which would theoretically allow him to assimilate with any Visitor to the Night Dimension. This is known as the power to "Dualize". It requires the consent of both parties under normal circumstances. Also, Reala refuses to "lower" himself to the level of borrowing power form a visitor. As such this ability is all rather hypothetical. If he didn't find it a weakness to Dualize, Reala might have found a way to use it as an attack, as technically the Nightmaren initiating it has full control unless otherwise granted. Pretty much the only thing that could get him to attempt this is a direct order from Wizeman. Either way, it is only possible within the Night Dimension.

Reala is able to shapeshift, like his "twin" NiGHTS. He is able to shapeshift to useful "vehicle" forms, such as a rollercoaster or rubber raft-like boat. His other power is a result of the Persona Mask. Unlike his main ability to shapeshift, the power of Persona can be used in the waking world - not that Reala has ever been there. Like NiGHTS, he has three powers of Persona: Dolphin, Rocket, and Dragon. All the forms keep his same basic design scheme.

In his Dolphin Persona form, his powers are identical to those in his true form, just in the water. In a world with normal physics, the water would react normally, such as a spin giving off waves. It also possesses the power of echolocation. This form automatically activates when he enters water and can not be accessed outside of it.

In his Rocket Persona, he can greatly boost his speed for about ten seconds at a time. This power is constantly regenerating, although it takes about ten seconds to recharge if he fully drains it. At full drain, his flight speed is dropped just below his standard speed. However, teh speed gained is so drastic he more than makes up for any delay the recovery time requires. It puts off flames, though, so it is rather unadvised to stand behind him when he uses it.

In his Dragon Persona, he resembles an oriental dragon. All hsi powers are the same, except that he is completely immune to the effects of wind. He could fly through a tornado like it wasn't even there in this form.

Reala has no ability to maintain himself in the waking world. Its possible that he could if he harnessed some strong outside force, but that has never occurred. In fact, NiGHTS is the only known inhabitant of the Night Dimension to ever leave.

Reala doesn't have to breath. He's basically a spirit, a glorified thought, after all.

Skills
Reala doesn't have much in the way of skills. One could say his abiltiies of intimidation and manipulation are skills, though.

Personality
Reala is cruel and ruthless. He's also blindly loyal possesses the odd quality of doing anything he is told by his master to do. He is a good little henchman and tends to keep any opinions he might have to himself. He's judgmental of those that turn their backs on their masters. He's also extremely sadistic, favoring emotional sadism far above physical.

The Nightmaren is easy to rile up, but tends to work his annoyance at his opponents rather well into his strategy. He is cold and manipulative, loving to string people along and crush them at the last possible moment. He likes to "play" with his victims, and tends to only draw back from his games at Wizeman's order.

He is completely subservant and more than a little fearful of his master, the king of Nightmare known as Wizeman. If Wizeman says jump, he'll jump and hope to high heavens he jumps high enough. He is fearful of talking back, and always tries to remain on Wizeman's good side. NiGHTS is known for making this more than a little difficult.

Reala speaks in no true language. The very nature of dreams and the mind causes people to hear him speak in their language even when he is in a real/waking world. In languages that allow it, he speaks in a fairly rude manner. If a language has no gender self pronouns, he'll use the arrogant male ones. He also shows little care for what gender pronouns people use towards him unless it is intended as an insult. He'll react equally to "he", "she", and "it".

History
Reala was created as one of two 1st level Nightmaren by the figure known as Wizeman the Wicked. Wizeman is the creator of Nightmare and the orchestrator of those awful things that plague people in their sleep. He takes the fears in the hearts and memories of a dreamer and manifests them into "realitiy". On rare occasions, he can cause those realities to actually kill a dreamer. It is his orchestration that has caused the "if you die in your dreams, you die for real" not quite rumors to begin.

Wizeman created Reala and his twin, NiGHTS, to serve as his right hand men. He wanted them to help in capturing the Ideya of dreamers so that he could use their near limitless potential to destroy Nightopia, take over the Night Dimension, and eventually plunge all reality into Nightmare. Reala was everything Wizeman had hoped for. Strong, obedient, and loyal despite his best interests. The red-themed Nightmaren may have had a mind of his own, but he gladly pushed it aside to serve "Master Wizeman".

Then came the case of Reala's twin, NiGHTS. NiGHTS served Wiseman for a while, but eventually got bored. He began to goof off, much to Reala's chagrin. Reala tried to warn NiGHTS away from the path he was on, insisting that he didn't want to earn their master's wrath. NiGHTS ignored him, and was eventually sealed within a prison known as the Ideya Palace for his efforts.

At some point, NiGHTS harnessed the powers of two visitors, teenagers by the name of Elliot Edwards and Claris Sinclair. NiGHTS rose up again with their power, and was able to defeat all the Nightmaren Wizeman threw at him. This included Reala, and eventually Wizeman.

Time passed, with Reala constantly attempting to capture NiGHTS. Ideally he wanted to pull his twin back to Wizeman. Not so much for NiGHTS, but so Wizeman would stop punishing him. He would always be thwarted. Whenever he got close, more Visitors would arrive to the Night Dimension plaza created by a friend NiGHTS had made after the Elliot/Claris incident. To this night it is Reala's goal to crush NiGHTs at the behest of Master Wizeman.

The Night Dimension, Ideya, and Visitors
The Night Dimension is a lynchpin dimension similar to Dimension Island, except its not as universally connected. NiGHTS' home dimension can only connect to worlds where there are powerful dreamers, meaning only worlds where at least one Visitor possessing all five Ideya (rather rare) exists. The connection can be severed if only one such Visitor exists and they die.

The Night Dimension is not a place where one is immortal. Any damage suffered in the Dimension will not transfer to the Visitor, but if they truly die in the Night Dimension they will appear to have died in their sleep in their world. Nightmaren and Nightmare seem the only forces capable of truly killing visitors, and even then only Wizeman, Reala, and NiGHTS have the ability to take a life. Reala is more than willing to do this, as well as use the power as a way of threatening his opponents or forcing them to back down.

The Ideya are orbs of energy that represent the positive powers of a Visitor's consciousness. More than that, they are the source of all power in the Night Dimension and the base upon which Nightopia is created. Their power is limited only by the dreams of the Visitor possessing them, and are in high demand among Wizeman. If mastery over a Visitor's Ideya is possessed, their Nightopia can be corrupted. If enough Nightopias are corrupted, the entire Night Dimension will collapse and become another aspect of Nightmare. Once that occurs, nothing stops Wizeman from leaving the Night Dimension and taking over all realities with dreamers. Each visitor has their own set of Nightopias, which is directly connected to their Ideya. Nightmare's existance seems more dependant on fears an unfulfilled dreams, which are always more abundant than the sterengths and/or potentials of heart that makes up Ideya.

Many Visitors only have one Ideya, and if this Ideya is stolen they can only wander the Dream Gate or simply be stuck in Nightmare. While possessing more than one idea is uncommon, it is not rare. The true rarity comes from those select Visitors who, at least upon entering, possess all five varieties of Ideya. Red Ideya is extremely rare and is of such a power only Wizeman and the two first level Nightmarens in existance (NiGHTS and Reala) even stand a chance of stealing it. This powerful Ideya allows many wonderous things, and only those that have it can even think about standing up to Wizeman and truly vanquishing Nightmare... at least for the night.

The five Ideya are color coded according to power. White is the Ideya of a pure heart aka Purity, Blue is the Ideya of intelligence and learning aka Intelligence, Green is the Ideya of the potential to grow or the realization of said growth aka Growth, and Yellow is the Ideya of never giving up on ones ideals aka Hope. The extremely rare Red Ideya is that of those willing to fight for what they believe in and help others, often seen as a combination of all the other Ideya aka Courage.

A Visitor is merely a person from some dimension or another that comes to the Night Dimension.
Only those with access to at least one Ideya can enter Nightopia. All can be forced into Nightmare, and it is often easier to force one completely lacking in Ideya to do so. A Visitor does not have to be human, they must merely be capable of dreaming. Truly lucid dreamers have at least the potential for all five Ideya, but it is no guarantee they can access it.

Other
The Night Dimension is rather hard to explain. Time doesn't flow the same as it does in most dimensions, one could even say it doesn't flow at all. This phenomena is what allows years to pass by in a dream during seconds of waking world time. There is an order to the events in Reala's history, but how long each event takes and the time between them is quite impossible to nail down. To Reala, everything "just happened", there is no "long ago" or anything of the sort. In fact, the concept of time is a bit baffling to the Nightmaren, and even with his visits to the real world is not something he seems capable of truly grasping. He can handle "before" and "after" with some decency, but beyond that has very little grasp of time. Even time travel and paradox wouldn't make his mind trip. He also doesn't really care.

It also appears that Reala can exist in many places at the same time in the night Dimension, and that each Visitor manifests their own version of the Dream Gate above and beyond their own Nightopia's manifested by their Ideya. Only Visitors with a complete set of Ideya stand a chance of remembering their adventures in the Night Dimension, and they are the only ones that can cross from their Nightopias to another Visitor's Nightopia. Both Visitors must possess a full set of Ideya, although they don't have to have the Ideya on them for the crossover.

And yes, much of the application was CaPed from my application for NiGHTS. It was saner.

Pictures
Official Art (Journey of Dreams): www.nightsintodreams.com/NiD/violet/journey/artwork_reala.jpg
Concept Art? (Journey of Dreams): wiimedia.ign.com/wii/image/article/835/835439/nights-journey-of-dreams-20071114055344272.jpg