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Alternate Identities
Rex has a penchant for adopting various identities throughout his adventure. Particularly early on, Rex fabricates a false face for nearly every scheme, which assists him in arranging situations to his liking. At first, it's merely disguise and lies, but as he develops his skillsets, he uses Phantoms and transformations to aid him. As a result, many of his friends know him by another name, and some continue to call him by that name when they learn Rex's real identity. Quite often, his alternative identities are primarily unnecessary to achieve his short term goal, but by adopting them, he prevents observant forces from realising one person is quickly changing the world. Most of his alternate identities start as disguises, but later have a Phantom created to perform the role.
Castle-
Rex's most common alias. Castle is the name he uses as a mercenary. He wears a concealing environment suit modified for combat purposes and reveals next to nothing of himself, but shows extreme competence in whatever he does. His Castle persona has a darker sense of humour, is obsessed with profit and is more aggressive than Rex. He disguises his voice to sound older. Castle's frequent appearances around the world, and displaying radically different skills that few but Rex could possess at once, eventually lead people to believe that Castle is a rank in a mysterious organisation. This is only encouraged by Mel using the alias Knight when working with Castle, her incredible strength but more focused skills, causing people to mistake her for a construct. While not intentional, Rex rolls with it and soon has many of his friends use the Castle moniker or operating under similar codenames.
The name Castle is, in-universe, a reference to one of Helen's favourite callsigns: Queen. She would call Rex her castle, as he was her home and anywhere a queen lived is a castle. Few would understand this link, making it relatively safe. If there is a meta-reference, I can't remember what it was.
Maxim Bind-
One of his first assumed identities. Shortly after leaving their home region, Rex and Mel intend to join and then abandon the Zagorian military after receiving training and resources. On their way, they came across an attacked recruit transport and took the opportunity to steal the identities of a pair of deceased recruits to make both joining and ditching easier. While there the pair discovered they were significantly stronger than they thought, compared to the average person, and were both recruited into advanced intelligence organisations. Rex quickly proved himself to be one of Zagoria's best spies and was given almost free rein to gather intelligence. Through that connection, he has access to the massive Zagorian spy network and can influence one of the largest militaries in the world by manipulating the information they receive. He slowly gains more and more influence over the Zagorian intelligence organisations.
A running joke is that when operating as Maxim, is that he keeps finding himself in James Bond-esque situations. A similar joke is that people seem to find him vastly more attractive as Maxim despite not changing his appearance a great deal. Even if he's just thinking about being Maxim but not acting as him, it still works. It goes on and off like a light switch.
Doofy Dawg-
Hapny Land, the mysterious theme park where people drawn in are transformed into children or mascots, drew Rex's attention. The suit he created to disrupt the mind-bending magic was thus designed to resemble a mascot- in his case, a dog. The suit is cumbersome and largely a hindrance but as it was designed by Mel and her sharply honed sense of cuteness, it is extremely adorable. Doofy is some kind of sheriff or other lawmen, and has huge Pop-Eye arms and a barrel chest, with a popgun on his belt. Naturally, all of this is heavily weaponised and designed with durability in mind. While Hapny Land is not visited often, Rex occasionally dons the Doofy suit for other occasions. He insists he's not a furry.
The name is, of course, a reference to Goofy but the Dawg part is a reference to Desperate Dawg, a classic character from the Dandy (a very British children's comic). Of the two, Doofy Dawg has much more in common with the latter, being a big burly strapping dog.
Old Man Odam-
After Rex's first encounter with the serial killer 'The Smiling Man' (who would later be a member of Rex's group), Rex was left with a broken leg, damaged hands and one injured eye. As a result, he had to walk with a stick, couldn't shave and wore an eyepatch. Thanks to how rapidly he grows facial hair, he soon looked an old man. He quickly discovered that a certain type of person will believe anything a mysterious one-eyed old man says. Later uses of the persona were more elaborate and an actual disguise, with an exceptionally huge white beard and flowing robes (under which Rex crosses his legs and floats, to hide his height). To maintain the illusion of old age and as a result of the difficulty of using physical attacks in disguise, Rex focuses entirely on magic when Old Man Odam. To aid this, he uses an abnormally tall magic staff which is, in fact, a Phantom capable of spell casting while Rex casts barehanded with the other hand. However, the beard (and particularly the huge moustache) is prehensile and surprisingly strong.
The name Odam is a mixture of Odin (who probably exists in some form in the Rexverse, though gods aren't particularly important entities there) and Ramuh of Final Fantasy. The disguise shares some physical traits with both. The name also sounds like "Oh damn" and Edam, a type of cheese. The use of big giant moustache fists, however, is a reference to one of the greatest fictional wizards ever, Headmaster Greystash.
Asque Chateau-
The name Rex took when attending magic school for six months. The original disguise idea was little more than a change of name and a differing preference of wardrobe- Rex understood that keeping up a false identity for a year (as he had initially intended to) would be extremely difficult, he streamlined his cover as much as possible. Unfortunately, he failed the first entrance exam due to having no experience with traditional magic, only his own Atom spells. As a result, following tutoring from a prodigious magical student, Rex took the exam again in full disguise. Specifically, he transformed himself into a woman, using his new knowledge of traditional magic. A small number of faculty detected it was a transformation that made him into a tall, slender, dark-haired woman, but all of them considered it none of their business. After graduating, the Asque identity is used fairly frequently as a convenient alter-ego.
Rex is typically stoic about spending six months living as a woman, since he considers gender such a small part of his identity. He doesn't bother to think about it much, but the experience gives him some minor gender-fluid leanings. He certainly doesn't mind that some of his allies made in this time seem to consider him a woman when they know his true identity.
The name is a reference to Kefka Palazzo, with whom Rex shares a tendency to laugh madly in battle and a nihilistic worldview. Kefka's own reference to Franz Kafka, lead me to take the world Kafkaesque and take was left when you remove Kefka from it. Palazzo means 'palace', and so chateau seemed a suitable swap. By coincidence, Asque is a region of France and sounds somewhat similar to Eske, the woman Rex was named after.
Duke Hound-
A stage persona used by Rex early in his adventure- he arranged for a musical act to become incredibly popular, so he could travel with them on tour (Mel correctly guesses he just wanted to hear good music performed live) and was 'forced' to take the stage himself. He ends up performing with the troupe of travelling musicians who coincidentally appear in his path often. Usually, he finds some excuse for this, though almost everyone sees right through it. A prodigious saxophone player and vocalist, while the troupe is famous and successful without him, whenever Duke joins them, they sell out. As Duke, he bleaches his hair and grows a goatee (or wears a wig and fake facial hair).
The other members of the troupe are themed after a donkey, chicken and cat. Together, they're a new Town Musicians of Breman, and the band is called DCDC (Donkey, Cat, Dog, Chicken) when all four are together. Whenever a member isn't present, they remove their corresponding letter. The band's name is both a shout to AC/DC and Mother 3 's DCMC. The name Duke is a reference to the fact Duke is a typical dog's name and Duke Silvers, the jazz master alias of Ron Swanson- though the saxophone has always been Rex's instrument of choice before I decided on the stage name.
Castle-
Rex's most common alias. Castle is the name he uses as a mercenary. He wears a concealing environment suit modified for combat purposes and reveals next to nothing of himself, but shows extreme competence in whatever he does. His Castle persona has a darker sense of humour, is obsessed with profit and is more aggressive than Rex. He disguises his voice to sound older. Castle's frequent appearances around the world, and displaying radically different skills that few but Rex could possess at once, eventually lead people to believe that Castle is a rank in a mysterious organisation. This is only encouraged by Mel using the alias Knight when working with Castle, her incredible strength but more focused skills, causing people to mistake her for a construct. While not intentional, Rex rolls with it and soon has many of his friends use the Castle moniker or operating under similar codenames.
The name Castle is, in-universe, a reference to one of Helen's favourite callsigns: Queen. She would call Rex her castle, as he was her home and anywhere a queen lived is a castle. Few would understand this link, making it relatively safe. If there is a meta-reference, I can't remember what it was.
Maxim Bind-
One of his first assumed identities. Shortly after leaving their home region, Rex and Mel intend to join and then abandon the Zagorian military after receiving training and resources. On their way, they came across an attacked recruit transport and took the opportunity to steal the identities of a pair of deceased recruits to make both joining and ditching easier. While there the pair discovered they were significantly stronger than they thought, compared to the average person, and were both recruited into advanced intelligence organisations. Rex quickly proved himself to be one of Zagoria's best spies and was given almost free rein to gather intelligence. Through that connection, he has access to the massive Zagorian spy network and can influence one of the largest militaries in the world by manipulating the information they receive. He slowly gains more and more influence over the Zagorian intelligence organisations.
A running joke is that when operating as Maxim, is that he keeps finding himself in James Bond-esque situations. A similar joke is that people seem to find him vastly more attractive as Maxim despite not changing his appearance a great deal. Even if he's just thinking about being Maxim but not acting as him, it still works. It goes on and off like a light switch.
Doofy Dawg-
Hapny Land, the mysterious theme park where people drawn in are transformed into children or mascots, drew Rex's attention. The suit he created to disrupt the mind-bending magic was thus designed to resemble a mascot- in his case, a dog. The suit is cumbersome and largely a hindrance but as it was designed by Mel and her sharply honed sense of cuteness, it is extremely adorable. Doofy is some kind of sheriff or other lawmen, and has huge Pop-Eye arms and a barrel chest, with a popgun on his belt. Naturally, all of this is heavily weaponised and designed with durability in mind. While Hapny Land is not visited often, Rex occasionally dons the Doofy suit for other occasions. He insists he's not a furry.
The name is, of course, a reference to Goofy but the Dawg part is a reference to Desperate Dawg, a classic character from the Dandy (a very British children's comic). Of the two, Doofy Dawg has much more in common with the latter, being a big burly strapping dog.
Old Man Odam-
After Rex's first encounter with the serial killer 'The Smiling Man' (who would later be a member of Rex's group), Rex was left with a broken leg, damaged hands and one injured eye. As a result, he had to walk with a stick, couldn't shave and wore an eyepatch. Thanks to how rapidly he grows facial hair, he soon looked an old man. He quickly discovered that a certain type of person will believe anything a mysterious one-eyed old man says. Later uses of the persona were more elaborate and an actual disguise, with an exceptionally huge white beard and flowing robes (under which Rex crosses his legs and floats, to hide his height). To maintain the illusion of old age and as a result of the difficulty of using physical attacks in disguise, Rex focuses entirely on magic when Old Man Odam. To aid this, he uses an abnormally tall magic staff which is, in fact, a Phantom capable of spell casting while Rex casts barehanded with the other hand. However, the beard (and particularly the huge moustache) is prehensile and surprisingly strong.
The name Odam is a mixture of Odin (who probably exists in some form in the Rexverse, though gods aren't particularly important entities there) and Ramuh of Final Fantasy. The disguise shares some physical traits with both. The name also sounds like "Oh damn" and Edam, a type of cheese. The use of big giant moustache fists, however, is a reference to one of the greatest fictional wizards ever, Headmaster Greystash.
Asque Chateau-
The name Rex took when attending magic school for six months. The original disguise idea was little more than a change of name and a differing preference of wardrobe- Rex understood that keeping up a false identity for a year (as he had initially intended to) would be extremely difficult, he streamlined his cover as much as possible. Unfortunately, he failed the first entrance exam due to having no experience with traditional magic, only his own Atom spells. As a result, following tutoring from a prodigious magical student, Rex took the exam again in full disguise. Specifically, he transformed himself into a woman, using his new knowledge of traditional magic. A small number of faculty detected it was a transformation that made him into a tall, slender, dark-haired woman, but all of them considered it none of their business. After graduating, the Asque identity is used fairly frequently as a convenient alter-ego.
Rex is typically stoic about spending six months living as a woman, since he considers gender such a small part of his identity. He doesn't bother to think about it much, but the experience gives him some minor gender-fluid leanings. He certainly doesn't mind that some of his allies made in this time seem to consider him a woman when they know his true identity.
The name is a reference to Kefka Palazzo, with whom Rex shares a tendency to laugh madly in battle and a nihilistic worldview. Kefka's own reference to Franz Kafka, lead me to take the world Kafkaesque and take was left when you remove Kefka from it. Palazzo means 'palace', and so chateau seemed a suitable swap. By coincidence, Asque is a region of France and sounds somewhat similar to Eske, the woman Rex was named after.
Duke Hound-
A stage persona used by Rex early in his adventure- he arranged for a musical act to become incredibly popular, so he could travel with them on tour (Mel correctly guesses he just wanted to hear good music performed live) and was 'forced' to take the stage himself. He ends up performing with the troupe of travelling musicians who coincidentally appear in his path often. Usually, he finds some excuse for this, though almost everyone sees right through it. A prodigious saxophone player and vocalist, while the troupe is famous and successful without him, whenever Duke joins them, they sell out. As Duke, he bleaches his hair and grows a goatee (or wears a wig and fake facial hair).
The other members of the troupe are themed after a donkey, chicken and cat. Together, they're a new Town Musicians of Breman, and the band is called DCDC (Donkey, Cat, Dog, Chicken) when all four are together. Whenever a member isn't present, they remove their corresponding letter. The band's name is both a shout to AC/DC and Mother 3 's DCMC. The name Duke is a reference to the fact Duke is a typical dog's name and Duke Silvers, the jazz master alias of Ron Swanson- though the saxophone has always been Rex's instrument of choice before I decided on the stage name.