Reala

Reala (リアラ, Riara), is both a fictional character and antagonist of the NiGHTS series created by Kazuyuki Hoshino. He is a first-level Nightmaren created to be Wizeman's right hand along with NiGHTS, Reala is obedient towards their creator and leads the Nightmaren army.

Reala and NiGHTS are "siblings" with both equal flying and acrobatic skills. In contrast to NiGHTS' kind and loyal personality, Reala is cruel and insidious. Due to their equal skills and opposing personalities, NiGHTS and Reala are strong rivals.

"I'll deliver your heads to Master Wizeman, myself!"
 * —Reala.

Appearance & Biography

 * Voice Actor: Casey Robertson (English), Atsushi Kisaichi (Japanese), Not Known (Albanian), Not Known (Arabic), Not Known (Basque), Not Known (Brazilian), Not Known (Cantonese), Not Known (Catalan), Not Known (Chinese), Not Known (Dutch), Not Known (Finnish), Not Known (French), Not Known (Galician), Not Known (German), Not Known (Greek), Not Known (Hebrew), Not Known (Hong Kong), Not Known (Hungarian), Not Known (Indonesian), Not Known (Isralian), Not Known (Italian), Not Known (Korean), Not Known (Mandarin), Not Known (Norwegian), Not Known (Polish), Not Known (Portuguese), Not Known (Romanian), Not Known (Russian), Not Known (Serbian), Not Known (Spanish), Not Known (Swedish), Not Known (Tagalog), Not Known (Thai), Not Known (Valencian), Not Known (Brazilian Portuguese), Not Known (European Spanish), Not Known (European Portuguese), Not Known (Latin American Spanish), Not Known (Latin Spanish)

Appearance
Reala is sexless, though appears somewhat more masculine than NiGHTS. Their voice is also more masculine as well. Reala's signature colors are red and black.

Younger
Reala had a purple ruffled collar, yellow fingers (possibly gloves) and a vest that appears to be open with a diamond patterned chest.

Present
In the more recent years, he was redesigned; sporting a mask called a Persona, a symbol of loyalty to Wizeman. It is gold with a pink jewel in the center with black feathers on the edges. Their vest is closed over their chest and has a flame/swirl pattern. They wear arm guards and hip-plates with a similar design and fingerless gloves.


 * Hair Color: Not Known
 * Skin Color: Gray
 * Eye Color: Blue
 * Age: 1000+
 * Birthday: Not Known
 * Height: Not Known
 * Weight: Not Known

Family

 * Wizeman (creator)

Rivals

 * NiGHTS

Enemies

 * Visitors
 * Will's

Abilities and Powers
Like NiGHTS, Reala has acrobatic skills and flight. Shown in Lost Park and Delight City, he summon a cage which traps NiGHTS or he order the underlings called "Goodles" to do so. Same is not Will's Dream, but Helen's Dream as well, he can create a Paraloop by creating a red circle which teleports the visitor to someone else's dream. Some people might call it "Dark Paraloop" or a "Black Paraloop" to some people since this ability itself is still unnamed.

In Delight City and Bellbridge boss fights, Reala can summon Mare Balloons which can attack the enemy. Also like NiGHTS, Reala has the ability to shapeshift. However, that is only seen in Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed.

Etymology

 * Reala's name is a play on the words real and reality.

Notes & Trivia

 * In NiGHTS into dreams... Reala is an Elliot boss maren likely because he is a representation of Elliot's rival, Roger Wilkeah, Reala is to NiGHTS what Roger is to Elliot: a rival with nothing more than the same skills/abilities who's trying to prove to be the best, he is also the boss of Sticky Canyon, which is a level representing Elliot trying to build a new and more confident self, so it's safe to assume that NiGHTS fighting Reala in this level is supposed to encourage Elliot to overcome his fears and face his rival aswell.
 * Claris is the only character from both games that Reala has appeared in who have not met them.
 * If you listen closely to the level music Frozen Bell, [Take The Snow Train], you'll hear notes from Reala's theme song, NiGHTS and Reala, worked into the music score.
 * Reala is one of two characters in the series to have a spoken line in every game they appeared in (barring Sonic Pinball Party), the only character whose voice actor is different with each appearance and the character with the most voice actors (currently 3).
 * Reala seems to bear a resemblance to The Emperor, the final boss in SEGA's House of the Dead 2.
 * Reala and Shadow the Hedgehog also seem to bear a similar color scheme, as well as both representing evil.
 * It has also been confirmed that in an interview with Yuji Naka that the spoken words before Reala's fight are: "Beadichinoa NiGHTS" Which, according to Naka, means "Let's go, NiGHTS" in a fictional language created for the game's setting and partially based on Japanese slang. This caused a lot of confusion and speculation among the English speaking audience as the line sounded like "There are no NiGHTS".
 * Reala's name may be based on the word, "reality", which is considered the opposite of what is dreamed or imagined.
 * In some theories, it is unknown if Reala is able to Dualize with visitors like NiGHTS can. However, they have many skills in common, such as Paraloop, Acrobat Mode, Drill Dash, and Shapeshift.
 * In the Archie comics, Reala did dualized with Elliot's Basketball rival Roger Wilkeah.
 * Reala is the first to appear at the Dream Gate in Helen's story. Wizeman is the other in both stories.