Shannon (Alter)/Lore
Character Quests[edit]
Character Quest 1: Secrets, Lies, Forgotten Things[edit]
Aldo notices an old woman walking back and forth. After talking to her, she reveals that her granddaughter has been missing for a while, so Aldo offers to help. The old woman gives him details of the granddaughter, and Aldo realizes that the granddaughter is from the future. The old woman also says that the granddaughter is likely to be at Lake Tiilen, so Aldo heads there.
At Lake Tiilen, Aldo finds Beautiful Stranger Shannon. Questioning why she is there, she answers that she was looking for someone and ended up there. Aldo explains that he is looking for a girl from the future, and also offers to give Beautiful Stranger Shannon a ride on Synth Hydra back to the future. Suddenly, a girl from the future appears, and runs away after seeing Beautiful Stranger Shannon. Beautiful Stranger Shannon and Aldo decide to chase after her.
Pursuing the girl to Ratle, Aldo and Beautiful Stranger Shannon corner her. The girl reveals that she is not actually the old woman's granddaughter, and that she is attempting to find the real granddaughter. She also suspects the two to be "hounds", who are trackers and enemies of liberty, but Beautiful Stranger Shannon convinces her to trust Aldo. Beautiful Stranger Shannon offers to help her, and invites her to tea after the problem is resolved.
At Lake Tiilen again, the girl from the future explains that the granddaughter is a perfumer who uses monsters as ingredients for her perfumes. After hearing a scream, the three investigate and find the granddaughter facing a monster. Aldo and Beautiful Stranger Shannon subdues the monster, and the granddaughteer tears off its leg to use as an ingredient. After Aldo explains the situation, the granddaughter decides to visit the old woman. Beautiful Stranger Shannon makes a remark that she lost someone important without realizing.
Back at Acteul, the granddaughter, the old woman and the girl from the future have a reunion, and the old woman reveals that she knew about the situation all along. The girl from the future, Beautiful Stranger Shannon and Aldo then go to the future. After the girl thanks the two, Aldo leaves.
Leading the girl to Route 99, Beautiful Stranger Shannon reveals that she is actually a "hound", and swiftly wipes the girl's memories before reporting.
Character Quest 2: Truth Hidden in the Leaves[edit]
Beautiful Stranger Shannon talks with Aldo in his room. She hints to him that she "likes" him, but Aldo misinteprets it as friendship. Beautiful Stranger Shannon decides to put the topic aside and asks Aldo why he is on his world-saving adventure. After Aldo answers, Feinne brings moonberry tea for the two to enjoy. While enjoying the tea, Pepori and Mobecha rush in to inform Aldo that Synth Hydra is in trouble, and the two go to Nuaru Uplands to help.
Boarding Synth Hydra, Aldo and Beautiful Stranger Shannon find fugitives from the future, and Aldo decides to sneak to the deck to check on Synth Hydra. On the way, they find some fugitives blocking the way. The fugitives surround Aldo and Beautiful Stranger Shannon by using Synth Humans that had their memories tampered with, and Beautiful Stranger Shannon attacks Aldo, declaring herself an ally to the fugitives. The fugitives reveal that they want to "take back the present they should be living in". Beautiful Stranger Shannon explains to a confused Aldo that their world is a world where history has been altered a lot of times, and that there is a law that makes traveling through time and space illegal. Beautiful Stranger Shannon negotiates with the fugitives to keep Aldo alive, and after the fugitives leave, helps Aldo recover and goes to another room to talk.
As it turns out, Beautiful Stranger Shannon allying herself with the fugitives was a ruse, and she was just collecting proof. Beautiful Stranger Shannon admits that she is a "hound" that belongs to Dicé, an organization that maintains order. She also explains that they watch the changes of time layers with an observation device named Astral. After a fugitive's voice announces that they are starting the plan, Beautiful Stranger Shannon and Aldo head out to stop them.
They find the fugitive on the deck, and the fugitive attacks using Synth Hydra, who has had his memories tampered with. Subduing Synth Hydra, Beautiful Stranger Shannon also takes the fugitive down, and wipes his memory. Aldo says that she can rely on him, and Beautiful Stranger Shannon kisses Aldo, wiping his memories of the day as she does not want to be a burden to Aldo.
Aldo wakes up in his room, Beautiful Stranger Shannon sitting next to him. Aldo apologizes for not showing her around as he promised, and decides to get Feinne to make more tea, mentioning that Beautiful Stranger Shannon liked the moonberry tea. Beautiful Stranger Shannon is surprised as his memory of that should be gone, and Aldo becomes confused as well. Beautiful Stranger Shannon accepts the offer anyways, and after Aldo goes downstairs, says that she alone will remember, forever.
Character Quest 3: Beautiful Stranger[edit]
Beautiful Stranger Shannon walks around in Nilva after hearing that Shannon lives somewhere near that part. She notices another Shannon and chases after her, but loses sight of her. Looking around, Beautiful Stranger Shannon finds Shannon and Ciel talking with a girl named Lily, who is going be a singer in an upcoming mini concert. Shortly after Beautiful Stranger Shannon introduces herself as a "fan" of Shannon, Beautiful Stranger Shannon, Shannon and Ciel notice history changing. Beautiful Stranger Shannon finds the Shannon from earlier going through a time portal, manages to get the time coordinates of the destination, and decides to go to the museum to open a time portal in order to investigate.
Opening the time portal, Beautiful Stranger Shannon goes in, followed unexpectedly by Shannon, who has decided to follow. Arriving in Unigan, the two talk for a bit and decide to team up. They walk around and find the third Shannon getting information from Macminal. The third Shannon, referring to herself as DW-981, says that she is trying to alter history in order to get the original "Shannon" back, and leaves for the Ancient Battlefield. Beautiful Stranger Shannon and Shannon decide to go and stop DW-981.
At the Ancient Battlefield, Shannon inquires about Beautiful Stranger Shannon and DW-981's identities. Beautiful Stranger Shannon explains that they are both Shannon who were born in altered history. In a flashback, she is seen looking at herself caring about Ciel in another history through Astral's records while lamenting that she does not understand that Shannon's feelings towards that Ciel as Ciel was not born in Beautiful Stranger Shannon's history. Back to the present, the two find a time portal DW-981 used and goes through it.
On the other side of the portal, the two find that Aldo and Amy has been killed by DW-981. History changes into one where ogres rule the world. Beautiful Stranger Shannon states that this is an alteration of history instead of correction, which gives her solid justification to intervene. She opens another time portal to the time before DW-981 arrives, and the two go through it.
After a bit of conversation between Beautiful Stranger Shannon and DW-981, they fight. Following DW-981's defeat, history is corrected, but DW-981 opens another time portal in an attempt to change history again. However, Shannon appears and destroys DW-981's device, which closes the portal and marks DW-981's true defeat as she can neither get "Shannon" back nor go back as a "hound" again. Beautiful Stranger Shannon reveals that she has tried the exact same thing once and got her memories wiped. Shannon invites DW-981 to go to Nilva wiith her.
Back in Nilva, the three witness the corrected future. Shannon invites DW-981 to stay at her home, and Beautiful Stranger Shannon for tea sometime. Beautiful Stranger Shannon accepts, leaves to report back, then prays for the other two that their "present" is never destroyed.
Other appearances[edit]
Beautiful Stranger does not appear in other quests.
