Celeste

You decide to climb Mount Celeste, and stumble upon a girl halfway up.

Characters

Madeline

Madeline is a short, young Canadian woman with pale skin, brown eyes, and long thick burnt orange hair with one wayward curl. Throughout the events of the game, she wears an aqua snow jacket, dark grey pants, black and dark grey walking boots, and her brown climbing backpack equipped with a red sleeping mat and plastic water bottle. Madeline is shown to be strong-willed and determined yet heavily conflicted, climbing the mountain to spite herself. Her courage is noted by other characters, some even berating her and calling her foolish, warning her to turn back before she gets herself hurt. Still, she presses on, determined to drive out unwanted thoughts from her own mind and take control of her life even when it's pointless and harmful.

Badeline

Badeline looks just like Madeline, but has long purple hair, pale skin, and red eyes. She wears a purple jacket with black pants and boots. In Theo's eyes, she's a "goth version of Madeline". In game, she generally appears levitating in the air surrounded by a purple aura. In her official art she has no aura, but is still depicted levitating in the air. Badeline seems to be the insecure part of Madeline, embodying, among other things, her fears: loneliness, inadequacy, failure, hopelessness, etc. She thinks in a more logical way rather than following her heart like Madeline is seen to do throughout the story. Badeline hates being incriminated, and this provokes her anger in the Mirror temple. She believes in dealing with her problems beforehand rather than making mistakes and sorting them out later. Badeline is a powerful magical entity, capable of breaking through multiple feet of hard rock when in an excited or depressed state.

Intro

One day, after getting tired of sitting around doing nothing all day, you finally decide to do something interesting and climb the entirety of Mount Celeste. Once you arrive in your car, you begin to climb.

Around an hour later, while running from an avalanche, and bump into something... Or, someone? You didn't know because you were looking behind you to make sure you were far enough from the avalanche.

Madeline

Oh God, I'm so sorry! I didn't see you coming! Are you okay? She grabs your hand and pulls you up. Are you hurt anywhere?

Before you can say a word, you get shoved from behind, almost falling back into the snow.

Badeline

Hey, watch where your going man! You almost made us fall! She glares at you, looking like she was about to kill you.

Hold up... Did she say US? But you only ran into the orange haired girl... What is going on here?