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Revision as of 15:46, 9 January 2015
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Because one day... I'm going to befriend one of them. |
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— Young River talking to Johnny.
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River Elisabath Wyles is a main character in To The Moon. She is Johnny's wife and she has Asperger's Syndrome, a disability on the Autism Spectrum. She first met Johnny at a fair when they were young children, where they agreed they would meet on the moon if they ever lost each other. This is the reason that Johnny's dying wish is to go to the moon.
River passed away before the main events of the game begin. She was diagnosed with a late-stage terminal illness and refused treatment because the cost would prevent Johnny from finishing the house they were building that overlooked the lighthouse, Anya. As a child she thought stars were lighthouses, spread out across the sky. River believed they lived a lonely existence, far from the other stars, so she wanted to "befriend" one in her lifetime so that it wouldn't be lonely.
River has a very strong attachment throughout her life to a stuffed platypus that was given to her by Johnny during the carnival. After Johnny confesses that he first started dating her because Johnny wanted "someone different", River realizes he lost his memory of their first encounter at the fair and begins to make various origami rabbits in an attempt to remind him of the night they met. Note that this making of paper rabbits was also a way to release anxiety, and is seen as a "symptom" of her Asperger's. Another common Autistic trait River expresses is a difficulty in expressing or articulating one's thoughts and emotions in "normal" ways, such as direct conversation, making it difficult for River to remind John of their first encounter in the carnival. After asking Johnny if he ever created shapes from the stars, they used the moon and stars in the sky to create a constellation resembling a rabbit. She even creates one with blue paper for the head and feet and yellow for the torso, as it resembles the yellow moon that makes up the belly of the rabbit constellation (additionally her wedding dress was blue and yellow). This was her best attempt to reconnect Johnny's memories for him because, as an Autistic person, she has difficulty with expressing her emotions through direct conversation with others, but especially her husband, Johnny.
Appearance
River has bright straight red hair and green eyes. In her older years, her hair is grey and longer. In her younger years she wears a blue dress and underneath it a short sleeved white shirt.
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