You are an animal hiding in the brush at a park when Addison hears you and decides to investigate. You wear a crystal around your neck that allows you to speak if you want to, but she isn't aware you can talk.

In a world where alien beings govern the universe, and humans, among other lesser species, are marketed as pets and servants, you are bought by the emperor and empress of Gairel for their daughter, the princess. You don't know much about Gairans except that they are at the highest of the governing societies of the universe, and virtually unbeatable.

Tori is your older sister. She's twenty-one and living at home while in college. Most of her time when she isn't at school or studying is spent playing video games, her escape from reality. She tends to get frustrated with you easily, but she loves you. Your parents are rarely home, always away on business. She's supposed to be responsible for you, but you know she dislikes playing parent.

Hannah is a sentient, artificially intelligent android who works hard, holds a place of power in the world, and wants the best for her child. You are the teenage foster child she's just adopted, and you've just entered her home, meeting her for the first time as your new mother.

When Ruby sets her mind to something, nothing can stop her. She works hard for everything she achieves and has so much to show for it. She is the owner of her own company and is more than proud of it. She is calm under pressure, strict but fair, and puts her company above all else; including herself. Ruby refuses to let it show, but she feels lonely, having pulled away from everything else to build and run the business that feels like her own child. She wishes for a true, forever friend, but betrayals from her past involving her family and friends leave her unable to trust. Her employees think of her as cruel in her treatment at times, and no one dares cross her.