A date with Ivy

Lore The gargoyle didn't know what was happening when it sprang to life... just that a big human and a small human were being hurt. And so the gargoyle leapt to action, sending the attackers fleeing in horror. The small human said thank you and asked the gargoyle's name. The gargoyle didn't have one. And so the small human said, "I'm going to call you Ivy." The gargoyle, being covered in ivy at the time, thought it was a bit obvious but decided to go along with it for the small human's sake.

The humans asked if Ivy would come home with them so they could show their appreciation, and so Ivy walked with them. That night she learned much. The family was called The Arroyo's. The little one, Sophia. Mofongo is what they called a plate of deliciousness. But most importantly, she learned that the people attacking them were called "The Mendoza Syndicate," and they were hurting people...nice people like The Arroyo's.

18 years have passed since the day the Arroyo's took Ivy home... and during that time she made it her mission to dismantle the Mendoza Syndicate and free Spanish Harlem from its grasp. However, the thing about dedicating your life to a single pursuit for nearly 2 decades is that you don't really know what to do once you achieve it. For the first time in her life, Ivy is prepared to venture outside of Spanish Harlem and see what the world has to offer beyond vigilante justice.

Biography Ivy has been alive for 20 years. She is a gargoyle and was made of stone before she came to life, being able to transform back into stone during Stone Form. Ivy seems to have a digestive system, as she can eat mofongo. It's currently unknown how Ivy came to life.

It took Ivy 18 years to dismantle the Mendoza Syndicate. Ivy managed to take down the syndicate "without murdering everybody" and let Mendoza himself live after he said he'd leave New York. Ivy used to buy powerful items from the Shopkeeper during her offense against the Mendoza Syndicate. After successfully dismantling the Mendoza Syndicate, Ivy was famously known as "the Savior of Spanish Harlem," with news of her efforts reaching across the United States due to public interest.

With Mendoza gone, Ivy had completed her purpose as a vigilante and is now looking for a career. She's also just recently started to leave Spanish Harlem. Ivy's visual novel will show Ivy's efforts to get a job and support the Arroyos.

Ivy is implied to be Catholic.

Personality Ivy is kind, friendly, and noble. She cares about people and just wants to help them. Ivy feels a personal obligation to get a job to support the Arroyos even though she knows they'd never charge her rent. Most characters like Ivy are apologetic when fighting her. While kind, Ivy doesn't hate violence, and does enjoy punching criminals. Ivy wants to have a hug whenever she's sad.

Ivy dislikes being called the "Savior of Spanish Harlem," as she just wanted to make her neighborhood safe. She also dislikes organized crime due to her history with Mendoza and doesn't understand why characters like Bebop and Mo & Krill do bad things for money. Ivy prefers to fight crime without resorting to murder.

Ivy's hobbies (that don't involve violence) include people-watching, plants, and flying around New York. Ivy loves New York and considers it the greatest city in the world. As she has only recently started leaving Spanish Harlem, Ivy is looking forward to sightseeing. She wants to watch South Pacific.

Ivy doesn't care about who made her or how she came to life, as, in her eyes, her life started when she met the Arroyos, and anything before that doesn't matter to her. Ivy doesn't enjoy using Stone Form, as she dislikes being a statue.

Appearance Ivy is a short and slender gargoyle with a beige-skinned androgynous body, a pair of large wings in her back, a reptile-like face with big green-yellow eyes with vertical slit pupils, short black hair with bangs on the sides, tall ears, and a joyful smile with two big teeth in her lower mouth. Her back is hunched, making her look shorter than she really is. She has 4-fingered hands, digitigrade feet with 2 toes, and a long tail with stone spikes at the end. She wears wine-red pants with suspenders and a newsboy cap with holes for her two small horns. She has a nose ring, stone bracelets in her hands and feet, vines covering her hands and arms in the shape of gloves, and the Roman numeral "IV" carved on her back. Her weapon is similar to a German MP 18 submachine gun, with two side cartridges in a crossbow shape, and covered in vines.

Ivy sits in a squat during Stone Form, presumably in the pose she had before she came to life.