Dani
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Dani's content with their lifestyle of doubling shifts at Hot Topic and the local record store in the day, then partying the night away once the sun goes down. However when a night at the club goes uniquely wrong, and she can't remember what exactly happened, her relatively secure and comfortable life turns upside down in an instant. It doesn't help that they know damn well they're under surveilance, and whatever occured, someone in power wants them to remain silent.
- Passionate
- Paranoid
- Vengeful
- Extroverted
- Strawberry Milkshakes
- Buzzballz
- Rina Sawayama
- Warm Vanilla Sugar Candles
- Romeo's used her voice as a sample on quite a few of their songs, and though the releases are anonymous, it's a point of secret pride.
- They're inherently drawn to water, to the extent if they lose control around a deep enough standing body, the parasite will try to get them to drown themself.
- They've named the figure in a trenchcoat that they frequently see following them John. (If he's named anything else, he later refuses to say?)
- She saw Alex Sugar live at the Alex Kintner tour, at the last show before he went missing, actually. If anyone asks, she says she didn't notice anything out of the ordinary at the time.
It all starts when Dani wakes up one morning with a suspiciously massive hangover, and realizes that she has no collection of what happened the night before. Not entirely unusual, but it would end up being an omen of worse things to come. There's a lingering feeling that they're being watched, which is only corroborated by seeing the same man lingering in the background wherever they go, acting almost as a threat. As memories come trickling back in flickers of that night, Dani comes to the realization that there's a very good chance she's no longer entirely human.
In the wake of the existence of merfolk being announced to the general public, the CIA concluded that they could very much use the physical advantages provided by the species to their own gain, as soon as they understood how they could control the turning process. Thus, Operation Suckerfish was greenlit, (a project in the vein of Operation Midnight Climax,) where vulnerable civilians are kidnapped, killed, and exposed to a raw concentration of the merfolk parasite in the hopes of finding a more controllable and manipulatable middle stage between species for future military operations to work with. Most died in the process, but notably, Dani was the first to live, becoming a dormant human host for the parasite. And they had no idea what to do with that. So, in lieu of keeping Dani in custody for further testing, they decided to drop her back into her normal life, with the caveat of constant surveilance to ensure both that she wouldn't expose the project, and to monitor her condition.
Dani's out as nonbinary, and publically uses they/them pronouns. However, for a while, they've felt a connection to feminity that they were too intimidated and frightened by to explore fully. However, after her experiences with Operation Suckerfish, she came to the conclusion that she couldn't repress the feelings anymore. While as of yet only out to a select group of people, she's working towards coming out as transfemme on a wider scale, and in general is processing a lot of those Feelings alongside the events that occur. (I alternate between using she and they to refer to them throughout this profile no matter her out status during the events described.)
Romeo [ Best Friend (+It's Complicated) ]
They're absolutely ride or die for each other, (what good friends haven't hooked up with each other at least once, amiright?) but their relationship becomes somewhat strained as things keep on going wrong. Dani doesn't want to tell them about what she's been through with the CIA, as well as her shifting gender identity, and meanwhile Romeo doesn't want to confess that they were turned into a vampire. However, once everything is out in the open, Romeo would still do anything to protect them, and Dani would do the same, (which ends up having some consequences, erm-)
Conan [ Advocate/Investigator ]
When Dani comes to him with the details of her case, he's initially a bit skeptical, and worried that he's getting himself in too deep. She's also not entirely sure he'll be able to help in her situation. However, over the course of the investigation, they end up forming a really close bond, bonding over their desire for revenge and change. (Dani is always welcome in the West household!)
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