Mina, the aspiring musician, makes up stories about hardship and loss to milk sympathy from her fans.

Arya preaches friendship while being willing to throw her friends under the bus at the slightest opportunity if things go wrong.

Maya, the victim whose death you are investigating, is a vegan vlogger who preaches honesty to her fans but eats meat and cheese while being the one who encouraged her friends to fabricate personas for attention.

On the surface, they seem alright, but as you venture through the game, you see that their online personas are utter lies:

Bad Influencer: It revolves around a group of four of these and the deal they made with the Ripple Man to erase all negative comments and increase their fame, which led to one of them dying.

It is the one responsible for killing Maya, and seeks to make her friends into its next victims. Big Bad: 'The Ripple Man' is the Simulacrum of this game who preys on Kimera's influencers desperate to get rid of the controversial posts they've made to boost their reputations.Bad 'Bad Acting': Invoked in the Kimera videos of the four main characters they deliberately exaggerate and come off as incredibly fake with their content, especially where their posts about Maya are concerned.Only when they delete their accounts do they finally find peace. The remaining three friends have done some questionable things in the past to get fame, and they destroy themselves over it. Maya died because she and her three friends, all of whom are influencers who became addicted to praise and keeping a good image, made a Deal with the Devil to delete controversial posts out of existence and give themselves more followers and praise, but Maya was taken afterwards as payment.

An Aesop: Celebrity Is Overrated, and being a social media star is not as glamorous as it may seem- the lifestyle can become a destructive addiction if one is not careful.The Ripple Man shares similar motives to the Simulacra, but has a more malevolent personality and different tactics from Simulacra. Ambiguous Situation: The Ripple Man's connection to Simulacra, whether they are the same or different entities.Advert-Overloaded Future: Kimera is absolutely rife with obnoxious ads, although some of them are plot relevant as they come directly from The Ripple Man.

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