<div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/JzPkiBf.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Demonika van der Lied (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=305472.msg14888953#msg14888953)<br/><strong>Where:</strong>In a park<br/><strong>What:</strong>Having a crisis<br/><hr/><br/>Also wandering that park was another woman in something of a similar situation, although she hadn't been given a box.<br/>Instead, all that Demonika van der Lied had on her was what she usually carried around her hom- her former home with her, which was very little at all.<br/>After a bit of a cry behind a tree, she'd started to wander in search of ... well, she wasn't entirely sure what, to be honest, she'd always had a home and her somewhat unique family situation had made finding employment a thing other people did, nevermind all the sheltering and relentless training to be as evil as she could be.<br/>If only she'd been happy like that, she mused to herself, then she'd be back at home, still with her mother and not stuck in some park somewhere with absolutely no idea what she was meant to do nor or how to do much of anything.<br/><br/>And then the van came, followed by motorcycles and she knew a chase when it happened in front of her. Not to mention Thunderfang, whose ears she'd secretly wanted to scritch for quite a while but had never had the confidence to approach.<br/>Still, if she'd been thrown out for wanting to help people and be more hero-like, then this was her chance! She'd step out, make one of those hero speeches and help!<br/><br/>Admittedly she'd only partially listened in the past to those speeches, but she felt that she had the basics down, she'd just have to not let the stuff her mother had made her practice for all those hours creep into things.<br/>Reaching into her dress, she slipped the Siren's Claw onto her hand, her weapon and transformation item being the one thing she always kept on her and let the darkness wash over her until, taller, less modestly dressed and bearing horns, she emerged from the shadows in time to catch the words of Magical Chroma, who was also here somehow.<br/><br/>A moment of hesitation saw Monika slip back into old habits just a little bit, rather ruining the parts of her speech tht she'd taken from the usual hero tendencies to tell people not to be afraid and that they were here to both help and to stop the villains.<br/><br/>"<strong><em>OH HO HO HO!</em></strong>" Her old introductory laugh was the first thing to come to mind after her brief pause and, unfortunately the hours spent practicing it in front of a mirror made it come out of her lips, too. "Be afraid-" wait, no, it was supposed to be<em>don't</em>be afraid! "-For I shall help them stop you!" She pointed at Chroma, inwardly panicking at how she'd meant to say that she'd help<em> her</em>stop<em>them</em>, but she'd been so used to the opposite that she'd let the usual words come out.<br/><br/>"I mean ... basically the opposite of all that, I just ..."<br/>Waving her clawed hand in a bit of a panic, she turned instead to her power, knowing she couldn't mess up any more if she was singing and causing a tree behind Chroma to tear itself out of the ground, stomping menacingly towards the chase. And also Chroma.