Poppy Li

 is Mythic Quest’s technically savvy, lead engineer and co-creative director. She is equally as ego-driven as Ian, but doesn’t see it that way. She started working at Mythic Quest right after she graduated from MIT.

Poppy is an expert coder who connects better with her computer terminal than her co-workers, employees, and fellow humans. Poppy just wants to contribute creatively, and she knows how to make a good idea cool, but struggles to procure cool ideas herself. That Ian excels in this very thing only serves to further her frustrations.

As time goes on, Poppy become just as skilled at manipulation as Ian. This is seen in the way she "inspired" Ian and Dave to help her with her speech at the Women for Gaming event ("Grouchy Goat").

She's Australian and frequently uses Australian slang that other people at the office don't seem to get.

Raven's Banquet
The production of Raven's Banquet was particularly stressful on Poppy. At several points, she seemed set to walk away from Mythic Quest Studios and to Cold Alliance Studios. At one point, she even had a firm offer for Creative Director at the other studio.

At the end of the day, however, she stayed at MQ and was rewarded by being made a co-creative director there.

One of the last bits of major coding she did for Raven's Banquet was to introduce an in-world virus called Blood Ocean and its vaccine into the game.

During Quarantine
During the COVID-19 quarantine period, she swiftly had to remove Blood Ocean from Mythic Quest (game), since it was obviously in poor taste following the rise of the COVID pandemic ("Quarantine"). Once she had finished this task, she found herself with little to do, completely isolated in her apartment. When Ian unexpectly showed up at her house one night when she was particularly down, she found his non-sexual companionship a buoying force.

After Quarantine
In the early aftermath of her being made a co-equal to Ian, she presided over the company's Everlight festival as queen. In Titan's Rift, she was soon thereafter faced with the challenge of coming up with the name for the new expansion, when Ian skipped town for a "sabbatical". To arrive at the new name, she had to go through several tortuosu sexual dreams that largely involved Ian ridiculing her sexual prowess.