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What I do find interesting overall is that Grey has essentially "relocated" one of the game's key plot items...Which in this particular case just happens to be little Ariamel. I wonder if the priest will go to the slums first still to find her.@BirdLaw
I think she might tie in more with the "original story".
On page 6 of chapter 1, there are 5 silhouettes of the heroines from the game. Two of them are obviously Ariamel and Fio. Two of the others are very similar to Emilia and Kasha--perhaps how they look in a decade. That only leaves one silhouette left. I believe that is intended to be Nina.
That raises the question of why Stella wouldn't be a heroine. The answer is simple--the church KILLED her when kidnapping Ariamel. Logically, it makes sense that a church would kill a vampire child, and the panel we've seen of Iska killing the "hero" makes it clear that, years ago, someone he was close to was killed by the church.
So her being a vampire never being addressed again could simply be the result of the alternative timeline--she died in the original timeline, so there was no need for further events in her character arc.