[u][b]Homeworld:[/b][/u] The Spirit Plain, in the world of Jade Empire

[u][b]Name:[/b][/u] Dani

[u][b]Age:[/b][/u] Appears to look 24 or 26; as a manifestation, she's ageless.

[u][b]Species:[/b][/u] Manifestation of Rage

[u][b]Gender:[/b][/u] Female

[u][b]Alignment:[/b][/u] Evil

[u][b]Personality:[/b][/u]

For the most part, Dani appears to be a stoic, rarely ever putting an expression on her face. However, that's not to say that she's emotionless; she has her own sense of humor, usually when she's mocking others though never going too far with it. She is incredibly vain, thinking highly of herself in appearance and mind, and looking down on those she considers 'lesser' than her. In spite of her conceited nature, however, she is very polite and more or less prefers to avoid violence and conflict, even if she has some subjects fighting for her. Depending on the situation, Dani is also very willing to negotiate before acting, whether it's using her powers or discussing other matters with friend or foe, not always using her hypnosis on a whim just because she could.

Dani considers herself a seductress.  Towards most men she considers worthy of her time, she is very flirtatious and would try to sway them to her side. Though she will often manipulate women as well, she is very scornful to those of the same gender as her, and would rather make them do humiliating things when under her spell. However, she can be merciful, knowing where to draw the line. Even though she is seductive to men, she has some sense of class, usually going for a more subtle approach, not always putting them under her spell, as well as having certain tastes.

Dani is surprisingly very calm, despite the fact that she is the manifestation of Audrey's Rage. Insults rarely faze her, and she considers it childish and petty to try and provoke her. However, should Audrey or anything related to her become involved, she may lose self-control or, at her most worst, her inner nature will be unleashed in full force. Though Dani has learned to keep her anger in check, to the point of repressing it, there are times where it begins to slip. Lately, however, her rage has begun to lessen, her hate towards her Other beginning to wane.

[u][b]Powers:[/b][/u]

In part with Dani's magic power running on the spiritual energies of the world of Jade Empire known as [url=http://jadeempire.wikia.com/wiki/Chi]Chi[/url] and by influence of the [url=http://jadeempire.wikia.com/wiki/The_Ritual_of_Binding]binding ritual[/url] placed on Audrey's soul, Dani wields her own magic set known as Spirit Magic. Contrary to popular belief, "Spirit" Magic does not solely refer to actual ethereal entities, but rather the manipulation of minds and souls of the living. This magic revolves around mind control, primarily through hypnosis and control of memory and thoughts, but also in ways that can allow for spiritual augmentations to the subjects, or even long-lasting contracts if utilized with her magic systems as ink. Experienced with this magic, she works through careful manipulation, causing minor changes that expand into longer lasting trains of thought that are less noticeable by the victim. Such as it is, this magic relies heavily on spoken word aside from just the mana itself, and as such, Dani has studied the human mind for her influence to be greater, and language barriers can still exist. Thanks to the augmentation provided by the Mad Hatter's tea, this control extends to other controls of the subject, whether they be situationally-activated states known as "mind bombs" implanted within the neural framework of the victim, tracking devices usable only to her, or even, in some very extreme cases, limited control of machinery and even control of the bodies of conscious subjects. This magic also allows for visualization of mental worlds at high levels, and even a certain degree of illusion immunity. Although this magic includes mind control and memory erasure, there is very little actual knowledge of the mind itself being altered except in the highest levels of the augmented forms, requiring psychological intuition to tease out possible responses and resistances instead of forcing her will. It has very few physically damaging spells, and mental fortitude can be enough to force off spells. This magic is weak to Dream Magic, but strong against Nightmare Magic. The manifestation of this magic type comes in the form of navy-violet light, usually in the eyes, but is far more often invisible, only taking that form when used in augmentations or the implementation of "mind bombs."

Spell List:

- Enthrall: The most basic use of this type of magic, this spell causes Dani's eyes to glow with power, stunning those who look into them and leaving them susceptible to hypnotic suggestion. This power is able to be strengthened or weakened at the expense of proportionate amounts of power, with the highest levels of it burning her out for several days, but leaving the victim helpless until released through other types of magic, especially Dream. The more blunt the use, however, the more likely the effect will be both quick acting and with a short duration, requiring patience and careful manipulations to work. If given enough internal motivation from the subject, she can even alter their moral codes and affiliations.

- Siren: A beacon spell, this allows her voice to bring potential allies or thralls to her. It is especially potent when in the form of a singing voice, though it is weaker on knowing targets. This skill is so basic that she may use it subconsciously when singing, possibly leading to unwanted attention.

- Miasmic Mirror: Dani manipulates her own appearance through illusion, giving the look of someone else entirely. This technique can be used to simulate voices as well, but requires intense concentration and intricate knowledge of the individual. Furthermore, actual acting skill is required, as those who know the person well may see through the ruse.

- Harmonic Pulse: Dani can infuse their magic into items, augmenting elements of their existing properties or the existing properties of herself through the manipulation of her spirit. Will not work on those used by soulless beings. Proper application of this skill can even allow it to be melded with others' magical energies, either tying their souls to the objects, or even, if used on a paper with another magic as ink, causing the implementation of binding contracts that cannot be altered by any but herself, and supernaturally enforce adherence regardless of the signers' desires.

- Serene Touch: Dani can heal mental ailments, so long as they are not genetic or lifelong, restoring the recipient's spirit to a state similar to when they did not have that ailment. This includes removal of status effects such as Berserk or Fear, and requires physical contact.

- Lost Memoir: Dani can remove several minutes of the target's memory through suppression of the associated feelings. In her experience, including augmentation, she can even, if carefully, implant false memories in their place. This skill requires physical contact.

- Thought Blast: Dani causes an overload of information, emotions, or thoughts in the victim, causing significant harm and likely stunning or incapacitation, but unlikely to result in death.

Augmented:

- Cat's Paw: If the subject drinks the tea that gave her her heightened power, Dani can, for up to an hour after the last taking, control the physical movements of the victim, with them consciously aware, but unable to resist any of the commands. However, sufficient willpower may overcome it, though this is very difficult.

- Companion's Caress: By touching the subject, Dani can look into their mind or brain directly, allowing for precise manipulation or perhaps simply a kind of scrying. This skill does not, on its own, allow manipulation, but is a facet that makes other skills potentially more powerful.

- Restraining Force: Through a touch, Dani can place a situational command on the subject, making it faster, harder to resist, and longer lasting. Primarily used as a threat to ensure obedience, since she can set it off at will later.

- Fond Hearts: A long distance maneuver, this skill consists of Dani creating a collection of visually attractive pseudo-spirits of the magical energy, most typically that of an attractive woman, which seek out users over longer distances. The specters then wrap themselves around the victim, swirling around and distracting them while giving her commands mentally, one command per spirit. In the case of a machine, the victim simply performs a predesignated task, such as spitting out money or turning on a sink.

- Mesmeric Weave: A heightened version of Enthrall, this allows Dani to project "weaves" of their power through the mind of the subject, potentially altering memories or behavior, or even instilling lasting devotion. Unfortunately, too much use of this skill can cause the victim to suffer brain damage, which, if too extensive, can lead to their death upon its removal. There are no outward effects after such a skill is in place, though a Dream user may be able to scan them for the differences in the mind, given enough knowledge of it. That said, high degrees of Dream Magic (or, in extremely painful cases, Nightmare Magic) can wipe away these compelling webs.

Aside from that, Dani can summon threads of darkness. These act as her weapons, as well as a means of teleporting from place to place across the worlds. They can also provide a form of healing, acting as "stitches" for open wounds. This was given to her upon her rebirth along with Spirit Magic, from the leftover traces of Audrey's rejected darkness. However, the use of these threads drain her power more quickly, so she frequently needs to recover to keep from running out. Her magic can be restored either naturally with reserves, or by sapping it out of others with a touch, similar to the [url=http://jadeempire.wikia.com/wiki/Spirit_Thief]Spirit Thief style.[/url] This can only be done on those who are neutral or allied with her.

As mentioned, when her rage is broken out, Dani will transform into a large monster, resembling [url=http://jadeempire.wikia.com/wiki/The_Mother]the Mother[/url] and a giant reptile. Retaining only her dark threads in this form, she also has wind powers of her own, sending out blasts and tornadoes. The monster form is a last resort, so long as her anger is kept in check, though it may slightly break out every once in a while (via eyes and/or skin changing). However, as her rage begins to diminish, her transformation is becoming to work of her own accord, resembling that of a [url=http://jadeempire.wikia.com/wiki/Fox_Spirits]Fox Spirit[/url] instead (retaining the same powers).

[u][b]Abilities:[/b][/u]

Dani is very charismatic; though usually relying on her powers, she can still do without them by manipulating others through words. She is also very musically talented on the piano (a trait that carried over from Audrey's own talent), and unlike her Other, she has the voice to go with it.  Dani is exceptional at learning other languages, though she's only started after a few incidents where some hypnotized subjects wouldn't follow her due to not understanding (incidents that she would never mention. Ever). Though adept at Italian due to being Audrey's manifestation, she is very fluent at Chinese and Japanese, due to being native to the [url=http://jadeempire.wikia.com/wiki/Tho_Fan]Old Tongue[/url] in the Jade Empire.

Despite the fact that she doesn't fight much, Dani does in fact retain some skill with a sword and martial arts, due to her previous history. Whenever she's forced to combat, she fights with grace, hardly ever falling to dirty tricks and reserved for quick blows that don't draw too much blood, preferring not to get too messy. The reason why she doesn't fight as much is because she prefers to play the 'helpless female' card, though she has been lessening that role as of late.

[u][b]Appearance:[/b][/u]

Dani is a tall, slender woman, appearing to be about six feet in height. Her skin is very pale, and her platinum hair is long and very full, fluffed up on top of her head somewhat, and wavy down to midway down her back, with curled tips at the end and curls going down to rest on and go slightly past her shoulders in front of her. She once wore a long and flowing dark blue dress, sleeveless and strapless, and matching high heels. Along with the augmentations to her powers, her dress has changed to one much more revealing: a navy halter-like top with very thin silver straps to hold, barely covering her chest with a slit open at the navel, and her back bare all the way down to her lower back, the skirt also navy with one large slit for her left leg, which also reveals the inside to be silver, and high-heeled boots to match with the rest of it. The only thing kept from this are the pair of shades over her gray eyes, lifted when she uses her powers through her eyes, or when she simply wants to.

When in the case she has to fend for herself, her clothes change with the use of her threads. Opposed to a revealing dress, she instead dresses more conservatively, her [url=http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090810021554/jadeempire/images/9/93/ScholarLing.jpg]outfit[/url] (though navy and silver as usual) allowing for more movement with her style. Her hair also ties up into a bun to keep it out of the way in battle.

Her monster form is a huge contrast. As mentioned, it resembles the Mother and a reptile, with three pairs of arms and legs, and the eyes of a [url=http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Hakutaku_Physiology]Hakutaku[/url, sporting three pairs even on her body. Her body is large, half a mile in length from head to tail. The skin is a pale color, claws make up her many hands and her teeth are incredibly sharp. Her platinum hair becomes a long and wild brown mane, going from her head to all the way down her back, nearly ending at the tail. In this form, she's always snarling and screaming among the likes of 'don't look at me!' Over time, however, as her form begins to be controlled by her own will, its appearance is slowly changing to a silver-furred Fox Spirit. At the moment, only fur is beginning to sprout in place of its scaly skin.

[u][b]Weapons:[/b][/u] After securing a "Thaneship" for the Collective, Dani now holds an [url=http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Ebony_Dagger_(Skyrim)]ebony dagger[/url] known as the [url=http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Blade_of_Haafingar]Blade of Haafingar[/url], being trained by Azumi (read: forcing her to) in order to defend herself with it, though still retaining her own form of combat. Though she continues to rely on her dark threads most of the time, she keeps the blade hidden beneath her dress, using it when she finds reason to.

[u][b]Equipment:[/b][/u]

After the events at Arkham City, Dani has received [url=http://arkhamcity.wikia.com/wiki/Mad_Hatter]Jervis "Mad Hatter" Tetch's[/url] mind-controlling tea from the Scarecrow. As an addition to her powers, anyone who drinks the tea will be under her control, first with their body moving against their will with them conscious of it (though unable to speak more than a mumble), and then, if forced to drink more, losing their consciousness and being totally subject to her will. However, like her hypnosis, it can be broken out of should one see it coming or have the willpower to do so. Like Scarecrow's Fear Toxin for Ignis, the tea also enhances and amplifies her powers, sometimes restoring them when her hypnosis is out of use. However, she only drinks it when she absolutely needs to (such as in the aforementioned occasion of her hypnosis running low, which rarely happens on most days), doing her best to avoid addiction, unlike her partner.

[url=http://www.halopedia.org/Chatter]Chatter:[/url] A primarily video-based communication device that's been given to her by Azumi, originally meant to keep track of her. Through the soldier's technological aid following their budding friendship, it's been given a [url=http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130702081933/rememberme/images/c/cc/Pick-Socket_Profile.jpg]holographic modification[/url] and fitted into an opera-style glove sans the fingers, allowing for her to detach the screen used in a talk and project it in front of her to allow her to show her entire body if need be. This is used not only to keep a track on her aide, but also to contact those outside of the Collective's knowledge using a private, secure channel of communication.

[u][b]History:[/b][/u]

Dani was merely a manifestation of Audrey's Rage, confronted when she, along with Gregory Zivaku and Kynthia Usagi, went through Dirge in the world of Jade Empire, after all three were killed. Although Audrey initially rejected her sin, the lesson she learned from it didn't stick, and her Rage lied dormant within her, waiting for the next moment to strike. It was during the Soul Bind incident that the energies used to bind the girl reformed the manifestation and allowed it to take over her, filling her with memories of bullying peers, her manipulative brother, and her fighting parents, all things that brought her anger into full force. The result was the massacre in Traverse Town; even after the redeemed Isaac Zivaku lifted the Bind off of her, her Rage would not let her stop.

However, after an unconscious use of the Dream Walker ability, the Interferences involved (her boyfriend and his brother, Sorin and Pyro Mireu, the aforementioned demon, and her best friend Cheryl "Heather" Mason) ended up facing this Rage, who had taken the form not of the doppelgänger before, but a large and hideous monster who wielded Audrey's wind powers at the time. However, with the aid of the formed counterpart named Akyra, who took the powers back from her, and with Audrey's obtaining the more benevolent Dream magic, the Dream Mage rejected her sin once more, allowing her and the Interferences to finally defeat her. The Rage was forced out of Audrey's being, supposedly bringing an end to her and allowing Audrey to walk a new path to clear her conscience.

However, this was not the case. Though Audrey was able to redeem herself, the manifestation was given another chance by the Chi released from the Bind and the leftover traces of her Other's darkness, reforming her with her own consciousness. Over time, with threads of darkness and spiritual energies weaving into this new being, she had taken another form, this one of a silver-haired woman with the ability to hypnotize others and form dark threads. At the time, however, her powers still needed time to develop. She remained in hiding in that time, taking the name "Dani" for herself, naming herself after a character in a game called [i]Haunting Ground[/i], through her Other's knowledge, that she felt she shared her role in a way, and occasionally took the role of a singer and pianist in several clubs and fine-dining restaurants across the worlds. There was even one instance where, back in the town that brought the massacre, she had watched Audrey and Sorin while they were on a date, the encounter adding an influence to her focusing on love, lust, and attention. With this, she decided that she would eventually take the girl's precious boyfriend away from her in revenge.

Eventually, her powers had finally developed to its fullest, allowing her the chance to show the worlds what she could really do. However, even with this, she knew she would not be strong enough to handle things on her own, even with hypnotized subjects fighting for her. She began to seek out willful allies, starting with a fellow manifestation who had also gained a consciousness for himself, the Nightmare Illusionist Ignis Fatuus. Finding him trapped in his own illusion after a failed attempt to take Kalas (and eventually Xelha) as his personal slaves, she released him by knocking him out, taking him to another world to recover. When he awoke with a newfound resolve, Dani finally introduced herself, revealing their similar origins and their connections with their sibling hosts. Also revealing that their respective powers (his illusions and her hypnosis) would not work on each other, and that they both shared a common goal in going after Audrey Jones (though for different reasons), along with a promise to bring him followers with her powers, they had formed a mutual alliance. A simple partnership that would soon evolve into a villainous organization known as the Collective.

Not long after this, Ignis met up with Dani before she would set off in search of followers, introducing a third ally by the name of Rikka Masami, the twin sister of an Interference named Yuki. Though finding her powers useful, the Hypnotic Seductress, as she would call herself from then on, took an immediate annoyance towards the Light of Destruction, taking every chance she had to shatter her massive ego. Because of this animosity, Ignis, being the manipulative bastard that he was, sent them on a mission to Radiant Garden to acquire a ship for Rikka, a task that neither women were looking forward to. Nonetheless, the villainess had no point in arguing, and thus took their new ally to Radiant Garden.

There, she hypnotized Cid Highwind to construct Rikka's ludicrously expensive ship that would become the [i]White Night.[/i] However, before the task could be finished, a black-armored soldier attempted to assassinate them. Though Dani was rendered helpless after a few shots, she had only managed to bring their assailant out of hiding before allowing Rikka to fight them off. With the Light of Destruction's powers and Yu-Gi-Oh! abilities, the soldier was rendered incapacitated, and Rikka, admiring her strength and guts to take on two magically-inclined people, offered her to be her personal servant aboard her new ship. Unsurprisingly, the woman refused, and Dani decided to test her powers on an Interference. Upon hypnotizing her, she revealed her name to be Azumi Emily Ian, explaining who she worked for and her position as Corporal at the time. Following this were orders to accept becoming a servant, followed by several humiliating tasks. However, Azumi managed to break out of the spell and escaped, attacking them before they could try to take her back. In spite of this, the endeavor had earned a somewhat mutual trust between the two villainesses, though still not liking each other. Once Rikka acquired her ship and left, Dani spoke with the still hypnotized Cid, receiving further background information on Azumi for whenever she would encounter her again.

With that done, Dani had set upon her task in gaining followers for herself, Ignis, and now Rikka. Her first destination was Lior, hypnotizing the desert inhabitants and taking them out of their world to go to their new masters. Before she would move on, to her surprise, she had run into Sorin Mireu, wandering on his own. Reminded of the one task to take him away, the Hypnotic Seductress greeted him, attempting to seduce him naturally before she would use her powers. When that showed little success, the Solar Samurai completely faithful in his feelings for the Dream Mage, Dani, having grown frustrated, attempted to bring him under her spell, to forget his feelings for the girl and love her instead. Though Sorin resisted her powers, she put them to full force, the stunt almost damaging herself and leaving her unable to use her hypnosis for a while. Nonetheless, the Solar Samurai fell completely under her control then, forced to loving her and completely forgetting about Audrey. With this victory, Dani left the world, taking her new "lover" with her.

The hypnotist briefly met with Ignis shortly after, bragging in her obtaining the samurai and noting in on holding off her search for followers until her powers were restored. She also explained the background of Azumi to him, should he encounter her for a new Interference to torture. With a final warning for the Nightmare Illusionist to stay away from "her" Sorin (accompanied with a minor transformation that even frightened the fellow manifestation), she and the hypnotized swordsman left, off to a world where she could have him to herself.

Ending up in Wonderland, Dani, noticing Sorin's monotone behavior, attempted to have him show more emotion under her spell. She also used her slightly restored hypnosis to turn the scouting card guards away from them, keeping away any possible interruptions between her and her warrior of the sun. However, that wasn't likely; they were found by a demon dog, a "Mauthe Doog" as they would discover. Though the canine didn't trust Dani, sensing her evil, it couldn't avoid her gaze as she hypnotized it into acting as her own personal guard dog. However, her attempt had caught the attention of two Interferences, a young External named Damien Reid, and the apparent owner of the Mauthe Doog, the Baten Kaitos hero Kalas. Unfortunately for them, with Sorin warning her beforehand, she managed to capture them with her dark threads and, after revealing who she was working with to them, once again used her hypnosis, Damien to become a messenger boy, and the one-winged boy to become Ignis' personal servant, as the illusionist originally aimed for, though she had displayed a personal interest due to her Other's feelings. However, though Damien was under her control, Kalas had tricked her, his willpower stronger against what little power she had left than she had anticipated. Sorin and the demon dog, Lucifer, fought him off in their droned states, while Damien, unable to fight due to Dani's direct orders, eventually broke out, though failed in trying to stop the hypnotist. However, in her distraction in trying to retake the young boy, Kalas had used a devastating attack on her that left her greatly wounded, Sorin and Lucifer stopping in their attacks to come to her aid. With this defeat, Dani left the world with her hypnotized victims, unaware that one of the two Interferences would be off to find aid in the form of her most hated enemy.

Appearing on the world that brought her defeat years ago, Sorin helped Dani recover from her wounds, while Lucifer stood guard for them. With the two of them finally alone, Dani attempted to move in even closer with the Solar Samurai, until her breath was unexpectedly stolen away by a spell. With the Mauthe Doog's warning, she found not only had Kalas followed her to save his dog, but so did Cheryl Mason to aid a friend...as well as said friend, the Dream Mage that rejected her so long ago, that she aimed to kill to become her once more. Filled with the rage that she represented, she ordered Sorin to, in her words, "tear her heart out." The couple fought, once more under her influence, whilst she faced against the Holy Mother and the Mauthe Doog against his former master again. But once again, the fight had turned against her favor. With the combined efforts of the Holy Mother and the Divine Child, Lucifer broke free from her spell, turning on her and viciously mauling her in her focus to have Audrey killed. As a result, Audrey had used her Dream Walker spell, rescuing the Solar Samurai from within, a complete reverse of what had happened before. With these failures added up, the Hypnotic Seductress, in a surprising display of grace and dignity, retreated calmly, her final word simply being that it wouldn't be long before her warrior of the sun leaves the Dream Mage for good.

Wounded, low on her power, and her samurai lost to the girl she had aimed to kill, Dani was at a loss. To her dismay, Ignis had found her in her sorry state, and though helping her, he mocked her in her weakness, but was also angered to find that she had failed to take in his precious raven as promised, along with not even trying to take in the Holy Mother despite there being no discussion on her at the time. However, Dani quickly reminded him not to reprimand her at that time in another minor transformation, silencing him once more. With a final word from the Nightmare Illusionist to meet at the Hollow Bastion in Radiant Garden the following day, Dani left her partner to recover on her own.

Revitalized and her powers restored, Dani arrived at the meeting where Ignis Fatuus, Rikka Masami, and a new ally, the Batman villain Doctor Jonathan "Scarecrow" Crane, had gathered. With an alliance of four, the villainous quartet would from then on be known as "the Collective," working together to achieve their own goals. With Dani acting as a secondary leader alongside Ignis, Rikka offering the [i]White Night[/i] as a base of operations so long as they followed her rules while aboard, and the Scarecrow proving himself useful with his fear toxin and Yellow Power Ring, this new villainous group was well underway.

Not long after this alliance, Dani went to the world of Atlantica to relax away from her allies (and to get away from the over-extravagance that was too much even for her). Though disliking her mermaid form with its anglerfish tail, she had put it to good use when she met the Interference Gregory Zivaku while on this short trip. Having recognized him from that time in Dirge and gaining an interest due to their similarities (somewhat), she at first tried to seduce him, only to have it backfire when the angel proved to be completely faithful to his love, Kynthia Usagi. To this, Dani, still bitter after losing Sorin, immediately went to hypnotizing him, her form giving an enhancement to her powers. However, rather than try and make him forget the demigoddess, Dani instead made him believe that she was her, instantly bringing him under her control. Just before she could make the next move, she was suddenly intercepted by Azumi Ian, angered by her putting the young man under her spell. However, sensing the anger was beyond the typical morality of a heroic Interference and taking advantage of the soldier's relative lack of weaponry in her mermaid form, the Hypnotic Seductress trapped her in her dark threads, beginning to leave the world with the hypnotized angel out of spite. Right before she could leave, Azumi made a desperate last minute offer for the villainess to take her in his place. Knowing that the Light of Destruction had made claims for her as a servant, Dani agreed to her request, along with making Greg forget everything that happened between them upon releasing him from the spell. However, before she did so, she gave the angel a final warning by giving Azumi a small cut on her arm, spilling some blood before they left for the [i]White Night.[/i]

Returning to the palace in the stars, Dani had given the news to the Collective about Azumi's place among them, though as a servant only to Rikka as intended, and Dani on certain occasions. A contract was then signed by the group, using Rikka's light as the ink, naming the soldier's terms, mainly that she would not give away information on them at her expense, and for them not to go after the Zivaku family or any of their romantic partners. In spite of her interest in Greg, Dani herself had no qualms in following the contract's terms, having no other further interest in the Zivakus or any of their partners aside from him. With that, she had used her chi energies to magically bind the contract to herself and the villainous group.

However, her partner did not share the same sentiment. Not long after setting the contract, when the Hypnotic Seductress returned after collecting a few more followers, she found that Ignis not only kidnapped Kalas, who wasn't protected, but also Cheryl Mason, who was said to be with Isaac Zivaku. Though he asked in her help to bring them to their side once their minds were completely shattered by the mental prison he had trapped them in, Dani gave him a warning that he was going against the contract's terms by kidnapping the Holy Mother. The illusionist merely waved her off, stating his justification that the Silent Hill heroine and the demon would likely not take their relationship any further. Annoyed by the lack of concern, Dani stayed out of the ensuing conflict as the rescue team, with Scarecrow's help, infiltrated their base. Even as Audrey and Sorin were among them, the hypnotist set her personal hatred for her Other aside to allow them to take back their friends, knowing that Ignis brought this on himself. However, she found out that Ignis had assaulted the maid in the worst of ways after the escape. To her own surprise, she was disgusted in his antics, reminding him once more that what happened was his own doing. She did not let Azumi know this, however, knowing that the soldier woman would not want her pity. Instead, she allowed Rikka to handle her servant, the hypnotist continuing to do her own objectives within the Collective.

Some time later, following Azumi and Crane's visit to Arkham City, Dani was given the mind-control serum of Jervis "Mad Hatter" Tetch by the Scarecrow. Upon drinking the serum herself, her hypnotic abilities were enhanced beyond the use of her eyes, now allowing her to control even machinery and a person at a distance, as well as forming permanent "weaves" within her victim's minds. For the latter, she borrowed Crane's notes on the human brain to better her expertise.

Before she could test out her improved powers, Dani first traveled to the world of [i]The Elder Scrolls,[/i] in the Skyrim timeline, to secure a "Thaneship" for the Collective. However, on the way to Haafingar Hold, she had been attacked, a hit placed on all Collective members by Azumi's second-in-command within her own organization, the Crimson Dawn. When the soldier showed up, however, Dani forced her into acting as her bodyguard, or "housecarl," for the entirety of the mission. With the servant doing most of the work (though Dani also did some of her own, mostly with assisting some of the citizens in Haafingar), the Collective had been given Thaneship together (with the exception of Azumi, remaining as the housecarl), due to hypnotizing the "Jarl," Elisif the Fair. The effort was rewarded with a secondary base in the Proudspire Manor, and the Blade of Haafingar.

Staying in Tamriel, Nirn for a little longer, doing some work with the College of Winterhold to make some additions to the manor (via hypnosis) and being trained in her use of the blade, coupled with her own knowledge, the hypnotist's dark threads had then made their own additions after drinking more of the Mad Hatter's tea, giving her a more provocative dress to attract more attention. Deciding to test her improvements on her temporary maid, Dani tricked her into drinking the tea while eating dinner, the housecarl discovering the serum, but too late to stop herself, already under the villainess' control. Forcing her to do humiliating things (though not to the same level as she had done in their first meeting), she then explained the rest of her augmented powers to her, displaying her use of the spectral image and explaining her weaving into her mind if she wanted to. However, she did no further, merely letting the soldier know should she ever turn against her. All that was purposely left out was the possibility of avoiding her powers, should one see it coming.

Following this, after hearing of Kynthia's irrevocable death, Dani had decided to discuss a minor alteration to the contract with Azumi, to allow a sort of a friendly competition between them over Greg's affection. Though she wanted him for herself, she expressed her wanting to help him out of the shell he had put himself in, without using her powers this time. Though Azumi expressed suspicion, Dani had convinced her by finally revealing her sympathy for the soldier following Ignis' actions in the botched kidnapping, as well as her disgust towards the Nightmare Illusionist for believing he was justified. Touched by her sudden bout of compassion, Azumi agreed to the alteration, allowing the chance for the Collective members to befriend those protected in the contract, but on the word that it had to be genuine and not through the use of any form of manipulation. As well, Dani had also shown her respect for her temporary maid for the first time, her mutual disdain giving away to a more friendly rivalry with her.

After modifying her deal with Azumi, Dani quickly got started on seeing Greg, visiting him where he had cooped up in his forge.  As promised, none of her tricks were preformed, and she even instilled some of her magic in the set of armor he was creating to help.  To both's surprise, they accidentally started speaking in the language of Dani's homeworld, which led to explaining her origins.  With some parting advice from Dani, the two left on good terms.

For now, Dani continues to collect followers for the Collective, even moreso with the augmentations to her powers. Though having yet to bring an Interference under her complete control, she feels confident that her improved hypnosis would keep them from breaking free, without the intervention of her Other. And soon, very soon, the manifestation of Rage will see the end of Audrey Marianna Jones' life and become her like she always should have, even if it means having to do away with her herself.

However, over time, her hate for her manifestor has begun to diminish, her rage waning in favor of compassion and love. And the more her hate becomes subdued, the more uncertain she becomes in her goals to become human...

[u][b]Hobbies:[/b][/u] Smoking, singing and playing the piano, and seducing men.