Very early into development, the team decided they wanted to include an Asian teenage girl as a central character. This character would eventually evolve into Rayfa, but one of her first designs depicted her as a shady person who liked to meddle in various affairs. This design reflected one of the early ideas for the game's plot, where it would have been set in "an underground court – one that would deal with cases no normal court would dare take on because they involved the seedy underbelly of society."