GA1A01 - Character Thumbnails and Backstory

Nyssa Farajian Thumbnails (drawn with mouse)

• Sex: Female
• Age: 34
• Job: Diplomat / ???
• Children: One Daughter
• Emotion: Calm initially, then becomes frantic in plane crash.
• Setting: Plane crash

Nyssa Farajian is a 34 year old woman of Armenian descent. Her physical attributes include: 174 cm in height, 62 KGs, long light brown hair, and generally perceived as physically attractive though not by model standards.

Nyssa was born in Yerevan, Armenia Soviet Socialist Republic, 1951. She grew up in a stable middle-class family and was the top of the class in all her schools. She travelled to Moscow and completed a university degree in International Relations and Japanese, and was offered the role of a Soviet Diplomat in Japan. 

From 1976, major political events had increasingly strained the relations between the Soviet Union and Japan. Nyssa was recalled to USSR in 1982 for a year. Without her knowledge, she was targeted and became a victim of an experimental procedure performed by the KGB (Committee for State Security in former USSR). Nyssa has no memories of what procedures were performed on her, and did not notice anything odd as she was redeployed to Japan in 1983.

She has worked as a diplomat in Japan for 12 years, and is fluent in Armenian, Russian, Japanese and English. She has a 5 year old daughter.

In Game

Nyssa Farajian is a foreign diplomat on board the Japan Airlines flight 123. 

She is briefed by KGB Agent Vladimir Putin before departing to Tokyo Japan. On her connecting flight, she becomes one of the passengers of the infamous Japan Airlines flight 123, in which the game will take place. Japan Airlines flight 123 was a real flight in August 1985 and the single most devastating airplane crash in history, resulting in death of 520 passengers who were on-board the aircraft. 

The crash did not happen immediately, as the total elapsed time from the first explosion to the final crash lasted around 32 minutes. Whether or not Nyssa becomes one of the survivors will depend on her (the player’s) choices made during the midst of this crash.

Her “true” role in the crash is not revealed until very late into the game’s storyline.