Demi

Demi is a student at Rodriguez & Xanthe's University and is the leader of the MC's Fan Club.

## Background

### Early Life

Demi is the child of a senator from Sector 1. They were born with albinism which prevented them from being in the sun too long.

Demi went to middle school with Clover and a group of girls who pretended to be their friends, playing incredibly cruel pranks on them while Clover would help them recover afterwards.

### Empowering

Eventually the groups leader got sick of Clover taking care of Demi and decided to pull a particularly bad prank. After sneaking onto the school's grounds after hours, they stripped Demi naked and "had some fun" with them while recording the whole thing. They then left Demi tied up, which is when the monster came for them. The monster cradled Demi in it's arms for awhile before biting them. Demi lost consciousness after this, and woke up several weeks later in a field near a farm.

### Return to school

After Demi returned their power made their friend group be genuinely nice to them, while Clover would remain distant and only apologize if Demi attempted to talk to her. Eventually all of Demi's friends would start disappearing, with only Clover reappearing. Clover started being friends with Demi again, but also prevented anyone else from talking to them. When Demi tried to force her to stop Clover used the footage from when when Demi was tied up to blackmail her.

Demi changed schools after middle school, where they met Jake and Mia.

### MC fan club

Demi transferred to R&X University following the frat massacre, and meets MC after one of his counselling sessions. The player can decide Demi's biological gender at this point.

Demi begins a fanclub for MC's hero identity, with the intent to "spread his glory" and prevent the authority's from interfering with him. Clover transfers to R&X to follow them and tries to get them to shut it down, believing it to be too big of risk the Demi's safety. MC joins the club to keep an eye on it, and in doing so finds out that Demi is a superhuman.

### Training

MC visits Demi in his hero form to find out more about their powers, while also teaching them how to control their powers while they were supposed to be on a date with Clover.

Demi's training made them aware of the strain their powers put on them, and the increased strain they felt around MC caused them to figure out his secret identity. The player can choose to kill Demi at this point, which ends the storyline. If Demi lives, they reveal all of the backstory about their friends and receiving their powers.

### Kidnapping

Being stood up for their date was the last straw for Clover, who kidnaps Demi and take them to her father's hunting cabin to better protect them. Clover then reveals that she had hunted down and killed all of their middle school friends in retaliation for what they had done to Demi.

Eventually Demi gets their hands on a phone and calls MC to come rescue them. If the player chooses to kill Clover, then they also must kill Demi after they denounce MC as a murderer and threaten to expose him. This ends this story line here.

If Demi and Clover live, then Demi frees Clover from their power. Clover demands to be taken to jail for her crimes, which Demi begs her not to do. MC can choose to either talk her out of it or agree with her.

### Aftermath

If Demi lives, the player is allowed to choose what he wants the fanclub to focus on, which will result in a massive change to his public or government opinion depending on what the player chooses.

After MC's identity was revealed, he checks up on the fan club. If Clover isn't in jail she reveals that she wishes to be a paramedic, which causes Demi to decide to be a nurse. If Clover is in jail, Demi assaults an officer and gets sent to join her.

### H.E.R.O.

Demi registers with H.E.R.O. after they go public. They initially intended to simply register in accordance with the law, but is soon forced into a non-combatant role in the organization. If Demi was arrested previously, then they were released on the condition that they join H.E.R.O.

If Angelina is still alive, the two end up becoming friends at the R&X bonfire party. They later help MC and some soldiers hunt a monster using Angelina's milk and Demi's illusion powers. After the hunt, the two discuss how they were both forced to give up their dreams by being forced to join H.E.R.O., and resolve to train harder to help cull monsters to the point that they are no longer needed.

## Powers and Abilities

### General Superhuman Abilities

Demi's powers manifest almost purely supernaturally so they are physically weak when compared to other superhumans. Their superhuman ascension cured their photo-sensitivity and has enhanced their strength, durability, and speed to peak human levels.

### Powers

Just like other superhumans with mentally presenting abilities, Demi's power has active and passive components.

#### Passive

Passively their power subtly effects and alters the perceptions of everyone around them. Everyone looking at Demi see someone that they are naturally attracted to. These people want to be near Demi and feel protective towards them. It is difficult to consciously hurt Demi and being around them for a prolonged period can warp the thought patterns of people towards obsessiveness- making them susceptible to their influence. Despite being passive, maintaining this has a power cost, which increases the more people observe Demi. When not actively kept in check, overexposure can make the target dangerously unstable and obsessed with Demi, to the point of changing how they perceive their own memories of their actions under the power's influence. This is seen with Clover, who became a kidnapper and serial killer thinking she was protecting Demi, and suffered immense remorse after the lifting of the power stopped her from perceiving her actions as justified.

After the MC helped Demi start to master the basics of their power, they began to display the ability to passively project their own desires onto others, as shown by Demi's desire to protect Clover causing the MC to subconsciously pull back a punch.

#### Active

Actively their power can warp the perception of targets, making the target see an object as whatever the target is consciously or subconsciously attracted to. For example, they made the MC see a T.V remote as a bar of gold, their mother see her phone as a chocolate bar, and a monster see the MC as something attractive instead of dangerous.

There are limitations to the active effect of Demi's power, in that it does not alter how someone perceives the physical properties of an object. Despite seeing a T.V remote as a bar of gold, the MC notes that it doesn't weight as much as gold should. Furthermore, Demi themself cannot control nor know what the target actually sees, and what the target perceives depends on both their desires and the environment rather than Demi's actual intent.

With training at H.E.R.O Demi has gotten better at directing both the passive and active parts of their powers.

## Trivia

* Demi and Clover were created by WeirdWorld Patron Dominosaur.
* Despite Demi having deep connections and wealth available to them, they state that they had no help or funding setting it up. This infers that the vast effect that the MC fanclub has on public and government perception to the point on effecting is purely through Demi's hard work.
	+ Their role affecting the way the public and government sees the MC's heroic persona aligns with their Superhuman powers, that being the ability to change the perception of a target.