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CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Faith Less
Age: Late 30s/early 40s
Canon: Leisure Suit Larry
Canon Point: The end of Wet Dreams Don't Dry.
Character Information:

So, fun story. Faith's page on the Leisuire Suit Larry Wiki is completely blank, because for some reason, the Leisure Suit Larry Wiki isn't a high-traffic and well-maintained site. I'll be writing out her history myself, so if you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask.

Thanks to the epilogue, we know what was up with Faith prior to the events of Wet Dreams Don't Dry. Sometime presumably in the early 2000s she was a visionary young programmer with a crazy idea: phones with touch screens that you could use to connect to the internet and which had a built-in AI to help users navigate the technological world. She called this AI, which she programmed entirely herself, 'Pi' and the phone was therefore called the PiPhone. She was laughed off the stage by the group of male investors she was pitching to. Surely there was something very wrong with her company if a woman was at the top!

Determined to pursue her dreams and prove those men wrong, Faith hired an actor named Bill Jobs (BJ) to redo her pitch. She reinvented his look and coached him on what to say-- and despite saying the exact same things as Faith had, his pitch was a smash success. The two formed a partnership from that point on where BJ would be the face of the company (dubbed 'Prune') and enjoy all the fame and perks that came with it. Meanwhile Faith would continue work on the PiPhone, secure in the knowledge that it would reach the hands of the public.

This partnership worked out very well for them and Prune soon expanded to a global company that was producing not just PiPhones but also other accessories like cameras and in-house apps. As the years went on the company expanded from a start-up fueled by dreams to a data-mining megacorporation. In the same way, Faith went from a bright-eyed visionary to a bitter woman whose entire life revolved around the company and its continued success. While she grew to enjoy pulling the strings from the background, she never forget the reason why she had to stay there. Not only that but BJ became increasingly more and more difficult to manage. The carefully-manicured persona she had set up for him was more than he could maintain 24/7, and he often had to be picked up from dive bars and cleaned up after. He also caused several snafus by trying to actually mess with the products, causing headaches for Faith and her programming team.

This all culminates in the inciting incident for Wet Dreams, which is BJ losing a prototype for the newest model PiPhone in Lefty's bar. Larry finds it and delivers it back to headquarters, which leads to him meeting Faith and immediately deciding he needs to get a date with her (in true Larry fashion). Faith, in an effort to get him to leave now that she has her precious prototype back, tells him that she'll go on a date with him if he can gather 90 points on the dating app Timber. The assumption is that he'll never be able to manage on account of his Larry-ness. He leaves, and Faith goes back to work fixing the delicate prototype to get it ready for the keynote speech scheduled for later that night.

Larry, meanwhile, sets to work getting those 90 points. Faith watches as his score climbs, bemused and then a little alarmed, and stressed from having to juggle BJ and recalibrating her AI. This culminates with Larry infiltrating the Prune offices and hacking into the secret database that he thinks is BJs but which actually belongs to Faith. His accomplice Anu Singh winds up leaking all the information they stole, including data about Faith's real involvement with the company, to the public. Combined with a disastrous keynote where the new prototype PiPhone explodes thanks to Larry's tinkering, Prune's stock and public image both take a rock-bottom nose dive. Faith takes BJ and flees to Cancúm where they have a villa in order to weather the storm and plan her next move.

Now that her real position in Prune is revealed and she is officially done with having to wrangle BJ only for him to ruin things for her, she tosses him in a cage in the villa basement and starts planning to step back into the spotlight. Being a puppetmaster was fun until it tanked everything she'd worked for. She and BJ have a very heated argument, which is interrupted when Larry shows up (again! The nerve of this man!) and she throws him in a cage as well. When confronted with the fact that her PiPhone was siphoning a ton of personal data from customers, she points out that customers hand over all of that data willingly. Sure, the PiPhone was a data kraken, but it wasn't like any of that data was hard to get to. There was no evil plot. To her that's just business.

She almost considers giving Larry BJ's old job considering his clear devotion to her, but decides that she'd rather just do things herself at this point. This means leaving the two men to die in the basement, something Faith doesn't seem to have much of an issue doing. She leaves the villa and ascends up to the cliffs outside, where she has a phone conversation with the board of Prune. While we only hear her side of the conversation it becomes clear that a forcible takeover of Prune is happening and Faith is being forced out. She counters that the AI is hers alone and she's not handing it over, or the company.

Before we get more clarity on what she planned to do about that Larry shows up. He continues to try and woo her, and as the villa explodes he saves her life by telling her to dodge a falling statue. Amazed by his persistence and dedication even after she was all set to straight-up murder him, Faith finally decides to give Larry that date he was asking for. She closes her eyes to embrace him -- aaaaand then she'll wake up in Ryslig. Oops.

Personality:

Faith is the main antagonist of Wet Dreams Don't Dry even if Larry and the player don't realize this until later on. Almost all of the actual plot leads back to her and her manipulation of BJ and Prune. Thanks to reasons mentioned in her backstory she had to run her own company from the shadows and trick everyone into believing she was just BJ's assistant/nanny. Not only did she manage to keep that charade up pretty much up until the point someone hacked her private files to reveal her, but she freely admits that she enjoyed manipulating things from the shadows. She is adept from a business standpoint and is shown to always be the one smoothing over issues and holding things at the company together.

Faith has incredibly high standards for herself, her company, and her sexual partners. She is 'on' at all times until pushed pretty much to her breaking point, maintaining a cool exterior and shifting immediately into damage control mode when she needs to. She is clearly disgusted by BJ's partying ways and his inability to take his job (which is really her job, that he's taking the credit for) as seriously as she wants him to. The image of the company comes before having fun! She also gives herself no time for friendships or romantic relationships and does all of her hooking up through a dating app called Timber. There she doesn't even consider a person for a hookup unless they have an incredibly high score, because if she's going to set aside time for sex it better be the best sex around. The main plot of the game revolves around Larry trying to get enough points to hit that threshold, something she only told him to do on the assumption he'd never be able to manage it. She just wanted him to leave her alone. It's lonely at the top, after all, and Faith made it that way by design. The fact that she bothers with hookups at all speaks to the fact that she wants some form of companionship, but her past experiences with men have made her far too bitter to want to attempt anything past casual sex. She would rather not deal with anything messier or more complicated, because being vulnerable is not something Faith does well or, frankly, at all.

While Faith is presented for most of the game as this calm, calculating person, we are shown her in a much less guarded moment. Once Larry tanks her company completely and she flees to Cancum to try and mitigate the damage, all bets are off. She goes from nannying BJ to locking him in a cage in his underwear. The basement with the cages also has fire, lots of skulls with swords in them, a chair with arm restraints, and an entire table dedicated to multiple jars of pickles and a little pickle guillotine. You know, symbolism. Faith is going through some stuff just under the surface and once it comes out it really, really comes out. She's been harboring a grudge against that group of men that laughed her off the stage pretty much since that night and it's fueled her through the entire rise of Prune. Every success is just more vindication, leading her to pursue even greater success in a vicious spite cycle. She also curses a lot more the more angry she gets, where previously her words were very measured and thoughtful. In fact she may be the character who curses the most in the game and with the strongest language; even Larry never says 'fuck' but Faith does.

Originally Prune wasn't just about revenge and control and data collection. The Faith we're shown in the epilogue is younger and much more bright-eyed. What we see is that she used to be genuine visionary who wanted to share her ideas and skills with the world and make people's lives better. Her drive used to come from the simple joy of innovation: smart phones were her idea, and the original learning AI within them entirely her invention. She is a master programmer in her own right.

The problem was once she realized no one would take her seriously with her face and gender attached. Her drive stopped coming from the urge to create and started coming from the simple desire to prove them wrong. It still produced outstanding innovations and a global technological empire, but it was at its core about petty vengeance. When she was younger Faith dismissed the idea of making a ton of money off of her invention, chastising BJ for focusing on that, but by the end of Wet Dreams it's BJ asking her what happened to her and when it became all about the money and the data-farming. Faith hardened to the extreme, the point where she expresses annoyance that BJ didn't just have Larry killed before he could cause them so much trouble and is fully willing to leave both BJ and Larry in cages to starve to death. Once it comes out that she was more involved with Prune that anyone was supposed to know, her damage control strategy is to forcibly attempt to take the CEO position herself because clearly no one else can be trusted to do it right.

Everything else became secondary to the company and the point Faith wanted to make, which is how we wind up with a calculating and closed-off woman whose closest thing to a friend is the man she hired to be her puppet. Because she was so instrumental in shaping his entire persona as Bill Jobs, CEO of Prune, she essentially created an image of him that didn't really exist outside of his people-facing role (hence being so annoyed when he didn't act the way that she wanted him to by going out and getting drunk in dive bars). It's implied in the epilogue that she may have even developed feelings for this persona she created, feelings that BJ didn't return, which further contributed to their argument in the basement. As mentioned previously Faith doesn't do 'vulnerable' so putting herself out there enough to mention feelings to BJ and being rebuffed likely just reinforced her desire to build those walls and never take them back down. Also, you know, 'all men are pigs'.

Speaking of, let's talk about Larry. Larry, who Faith originally thought was a nobody and who she tried to get rid of by sending him on an impossible quest and not being genre-savvy enough to know that was a horrible idea. Her relationship with Larry is an interesting one because on the one hand he's directly responsible for wrecking the company that was her entire life, and on another, she's impressed by the drive he exhibited that got him to that point. She's also bizarrely flattered that he's still romantically interested in her after she leaves him locked up in a basement that's on fire and full of skulls. No one had ever worked that hard for her before, and her alone, not BJ or her company but just her. Deep down beyond all of the things she's working through Faith is a woman who desperately wants to be seen and appreciated, and getting that from Larry is what turns around her opinion on him. Well, that and he clearly presents himself as a doormat, and with BJ no longer useful she's in the market for a new one. Unfortunately she never gets a chance to really explore that, because she gets conked on the head and knocked off a cliff a couple of seconds later. One of the things I'm hoping to explore with her in Ryslig is what their relationship would look like out of the confines of their genre, with more time to actually get to know each other properly.

5-10 Key Character Traits:
Manipulative
Exacting
Guarded
Embittered
Vengeful
Driven
Visionary
Lonely

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