Meva was working jobs across dimensions for months at a time, making hundreds of thousands for a mother of 2 with a very dangerous past, and a very dangerous set of skills, yet undying loyalty to her friends and family.
Unfortunately, across Meva’s jobs, another dimension’s version of his girlfriend wanted him for herself, and only got as far as totalling the relationship that he had, before his ‘employer’ silenced the problem. Quite a kick down, as he was engaged in his first life, then just had all of that ripped away from him, so he was a bit… PTSDish? About trying to marry, again. Here he is, in his second life, getting over it, very much considering getting over his fear, and popping the question again, to his lovely gal of the now, and it’s all ripped away from him,
again.
He knew the dangerous friends that his now ex-girlfriend had, so his ‘employer’, who knew she owed him massively at this point, dropped him into a dimension where the owner of the letter was already dead. Take the letter, and hit the farm. He’s due some karma, as the jobs he was put on, usually also benefitted the locals. At least 3 corrupt police forces sorted, and a superpower formula mystery solved in the benefit of good. The valley would have enough to get him back up, after life had kicked him down, hard. Right?
In his first life, Meva had Stardew Valley as a video game, now, in his third life, he’s actually there. This means that he already knows to plant Cauliflowers in Spring, that the Travelling Cart has Rare Seeds, and the shy nature of ‘Penpen’ that hides a lot of inner beauty, albeit, with quite a lot of days of Jas and Vincent leaving her coming home wound up. Leah also tempted him, but she can handle Kel on her own.
None of the people from his second life, except for his two employers (one finds out the tasks, and assigns them, the other is the mother of 2, and she keeps an eye on him from a distance, as he does his work) knows he’s in Stardew. He keeps up with his best friend from his last job, Motoya Iwasaki, aka King Speed, but Motoya thinks he’s living in a garage in that dimension’s Tatsumi, Tokyo.
“Not much of a motivation.” Look, his girlfriend and her friends live somewhere that magic is the norm. If you knew you had an occult magic using gal chasing you down, you’d want to vanish too, right?
As to personality, Meva’s quick to make one-liners. “Nice shoes. Are they made of plastic?” “Plastic worked out well for your hero, Barbie.” The look he got from Haley.
“Oh dear, a tiny crab appears to have made its home in my pocket.” “Glad you’re not crabby about it.” Elliott let off a tiny bit of a laugh, to be fair. When Abigail and Meva got tangled up in the bush (her 6 heart, I think) and Meva’s untangling her, he goes “better get some sleep after this, so you’re brigh-eyed and Bush y-tailed for your next class.” to which she was very :| about. Ah well, can’t win ‘em all. Besides, as a gal who likes her books, Penny would appreciate the intelligence shown.
Right?
As I was writing mine, I wished that if you maxed out the money counter, you could do a leveraged buyout/hostile takeover of Joja.
Buy a chunk of Joja, and get the Golden Parrot to work as many Golden Walnuts as necessary, for free. How cruel would it be, to lock it behind the Joja membership route.
