Reala

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“I’ll deliver your heads to Master Wizeman myself!” ~ Reala, NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams Reala (リアラ Riara) is the secondary antagonist of the NiGHTS series. Reala is a first level Nightmaren as well as NiGHTS’ rival and Wizeman’s right hand man. He was created along with NiGHTS by Wizeman the Wicked. Both were supposed to be Wizeman’s strongest creations as well as his right hand man. In the cutscene prior Memory Forest’s first mission in Journey of Dreams, Reala says “You can cut the act now, my dear sibling” to NiGHTS when he appears, which means NiGHTS and Reala consider each other siblings. He was always very obedient and loyal to his creator, NiGHTS on the other hand, wasn’t, and eventually, they decided to rebel against the Nightmarens. Since then, Reala became responsible for capturing and imprisoning NiGHTS for his master. Much like Wizeman, Reala tries to turn NiGHTS to the Nightmarens’ side again. The two Nightmarens are rivals, with both being equal in flying and acrobatics. In contrast to NiGHTS’ kind and playful personality, Reala is cruel and insidious. His signature colors are red and black. In the original SEGA Saturn game, he had a purple ruffled collar, yellow claw-like talons for fingers and a vest that appears to be open with a diamond patterned chest. He also has a red and black-striped jester’s hat that is, presumably, a part of his body and not, in fact, a hat. In NiGHTS into Dreams, very little of his personality is shown. However, his Japanese bio states that Reala is cruel, brutal and very loyal to Wizeman. In NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams, he’s shown to be very cruel and aggressive, capturing and making a black hole under William Taylor in Lost Park and pinning NiGHTS against the door to Aqua Garden in Helen Cartwright’s story. He’s also greatly respects and fears Wizeman, as it is possible to notice fear in his voice every time he speaks with his creator and he even takes control of the Cerberus, a Nightmaren Reala fears a lot, just to please his master. Reala both hates and pities NiGHTS for his betrayal to Wizeman and the likely punishment that awaits. Often in NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams, he will attempt to talk them into rejoining Wizeman before imprisoning them and has no qualms about manipulating them or the Visitors to do so. Their relationship prior to the betrayal is unknown but is made quite evident that they were partners in crime under Wizeman’s rule, and perhaps even close before NiGHTS left. As they are both the only First-level Nightmaren, they share similar abilities; making any clashes between them a close match. Much like NiGHTS, Reala possesses the abilities of Flight, Dualizing, Drill Dashing, Touch-Dashing, Strength, Transforming, Paralooping, and Touch-Looping, but cannot use the Dream Flute.