Nightheart

"Humorous. *begins chanting* Queueing for erchius, queueing for errrrchius, queueing for erchius, but I'm on a horse! I'm on a horse, I'm on a hooorse! I don't need erchius, cuz he runs on carrots!"

- Nightheart teasing everyone while there’s an erchius fuel shortage. "Reassuring. It's alright, I like talking. Maybe because I don't have any vocal chords to strain! Informative. So... Us glitch are weird. We were built in an attempt to simulate organic life and society, but then something in our code fucked up, and we were trapped in a loop, unable to shake our medieval beliefs, and completely oblivious to the outer world around us. But some of us are lucky enough to break free from that curse, and become self aware. It happens sometimes, and to me, it happened when I realised that I was happily... plug on plug, not plug on socket."

- Nightheart on how he gained sentience, and how the glitch programming works. Nightheart is a major character in Starbound: The Black Nebula. He is a humorous glitch who gained self awareness, but was shunned by his kind for his new awareness. So, he tried to spread self awareness to help free his kind from being trapped in their delusions. He met an injured and outcasted Tatasia, and gave her a new robotic arm to replace her old one, and became her friend ever since. He currently serves as the engineer for the Black Nebula.

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Personality
Nightheart is a friendly, charismatic glitch with a good sense of humour. He will always try to fit a joke into a situation, and rarely takes things seriously, as he is pretty easygoing in general. He is sociable and friendly to talk too, as he rarely acts aggressive, as he will try to make people feel safer or easier. He always tries to make everyone laugh by doing crazy things or telling jokes.

Even though he jokes a lot, Nightheart is good for emotional support. He is understanding of bad situations, such as when he first found Tatasia and immediately felt remorse for her, despite only just gaining sentience. He helped fight against the Miniknog, as he found their control over the apex similar to the glitch’s error in their code. But he never drops his charisma, and will still try to be a little jokey.

Heroic Deeds

 * When he found Tatasia injured and missing an arm, he made her a new robotic arm.
 * He helped rebel against the Miniknog. (GOODNESS ZONE)
 * He tried to reason with Tatasia, and tried to stop her from attacking ex-miniknog, but at the same time, he didn’t abandon her.
 * He tries to spread self-awareness among the glitch, seeking to free his race from the curse.
 * He agreed to track down Desert.
 * When Desert attacked a town, he helped get civilians to safety.
 * While Robin was distracting Mika and Ethyl was killing agents silently, he and Lexie rescued all the florans from their homes, resulting in zero casualties. (GOODNESS ZONE)
 * He helped fight against the floran extermination order.
 * He opened the doors to the superweapon fuel supplies by tampering with the code, allowing Katsu and Tori (and later Ethyl) to get into them, allowing them to save the planets. (GOODNESS ZONE)
 * He fought against Desert directly in the climax.
 * He helped defeat Mika Aikawa.
 * After the events of the story, he continues to protect and rescue people.

Allies

 * Tatasia Offentus (Best Friend)
 * Ethyl Countrisyde (Captain)
 * Katsu Umino
 * Tori Spearleif
 * Robin Reklaw
 * Lexie Ventus

Enemies

 * Mika Aikawa
 * Desert Tumbler

Appearance
Nightheart is a male glitch in his early twenties, with a black paint job, 2 antennas with electricity in between them and green eyes. He wears a blue merchants outfit.

Trivia

 * Nightheart is Gay.