![]() ![]() ![]() Both Cortez and Benrime Salmin tell April she is important and 'strong in the Balance'.īenrime also claims that April is strong in Magic, and that she could become a powerful Artisan with the proper training. She fulfils many of the prophecies held by the magical races, and is told by Vestrum Tobias that she is the Thirteenth Guardian. Voyaging from the bottom of the ocean to the depths of space, April learns that she is vitally important both in Stark and Arcadia, though for much of her journey she does not know why. She also meets the wisecracking, kindhearted Crow, who acts as her sidekick and becomes her close friend. which also becomes a journey to confront the demons from her past. Under his guidance, April learns of Arcadia, passes through the Divide on her first Shift, and begins her quest to restore the Balance. The only person who seems to know what's happening is a local man named Cortez. "I didn't really have that much to drink.did I? No.but I did travel through a Shift into a parallel universe, which would explain this weird compulsion to curl up into a fetal position and go back to sleep." ―April Ryan Īt this point, with a secure job and a place at VAVA, April begins to suffer bizarre dreams and notice corresponding strange goings-on in her neighbourhood. April arrived at the Border House soon afterwards - Fiona remembers seeing her come in, dragging her suitcase - and, after becoming a student at VAVA, eventually got a job waitressing at the Fringe Cafe to cover her student bills and rent. The first person she met upon arriving in Venice was Charlie, who eventually became one of her best friends. ![]() April packed everything she could carry (including her childhood drawings), withdrew all her money and, during a final argument with her father, pushed him down the stairs causing him to break his arm. ![]() Meanwhile, her home life was growing more and more unbearable. In her final year of school she began planning to stay with her friend Sarah who had moved to the city the previous year. There was a pond behind her house that she tried fishing in several times (unsuccessfully) as a "wee lass". Life was not all doom and gloom for April, however, and in many ways her upbringing was typical for a country girl. She forgot about them over the years, but kept her love of art and began dreaming of studying at VAVA in Newport. She produced many colourful sketches, which she kept hidden under a loose floorboard in her room so her father wouldn't berate her for "wasting her time". It is possible that her years of disability caused a withdrawal into her imagination. She also began making detailed diary entries at the age of 5, and perhaps around the same age discovered her love of drawing. She had no knowledge of her biological parents, and her new family raised her Catholic, although April admits she hasn't been to confession since 2206/7. However, April's resilience began early, and she slowly recovered, which actually made her father more resentful. The day she was adopted, April's new father accidentally dropped her because he was drunk, and for many years it looked like she would never walk. She was also portrayed by Katja Koopmann in the pre-release promotion for TLJ.Īpril Ryan in The Longest Journey The Country Girl īorn on the 14th of April 2191, April spent a short time in an orphanage before she was adopted at an early age by the people she thinks of as her family - her father, mother, and brothers Danny and Owen, living in the countryside somewhere near Greenvale. When strange things begin happening in her neighbourhood, events soon sweep her away on a dangerous and exciting journey, where she must use her wits and courage to survive, friend can turn foe, and not everything is as it seems.Īpril discovers that not only is she a Shifter, one able to travel between the twin worlds of Stark and Arcadia through the Divide, but that she is also a key figure in the prophecies of many of the magical races, and a force against Chaos.įor a detailed account of April's journey, see Chapters of TLJ. April is troubled by vivid dreams and suppressed memories from her difficult childhood, when she had to deal with her abusive father. She is an 18 year-old art student who recently moved to the big city, Newport, to study at VAVA. There are things happening, yes, and I came here because I thought - maybe you're crazy enough to believe me, to help me." ―April Ryan Īpril Ryan is the main protagonist of The Longest Journey. "You talk about art, and truth, and dreams, and illusion, and I still don't understand what it all has to do with me. ![]()
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