The main character in 'Super Cube' is definitely Aris Thorne, this kind of socially awkward engineering student who accidentally merges with the prototype of a dimensional stabilizer shaped like, you guessed it, a cube. Honestly, his motivation started out pretty simple—just wanting to fix his colossal mistake before the universe around his campus unravels. But as the story goes, it gets way more personal. His drive morphs into protecting his friends from the corporate mercenaries trying to weaponize the tech, and uncovering the truth about his professor's disappearance, which is tied directly to the cube's origin. It's less about saving the world at first and more about cleaning up his own mess before it eats the physics building.
What I really liked was that he wasn't some chosen one. He's propelled by guilt, curiosity, and a stubborn refusal to let powerful people control something so dangerous. The cube itself also 'drives' him in a literal sense, giving him weird spatial-awareness headaches that pull him toward dimensional fractures. So his journey is part detective work, part desperate scramble, with his intelligence as his main tool. His motivation feels grounded, even with all the sci-fi craziness happening around him.