Duchesse (Alt)

**Duchesse**, better known for her moniker as **the Butcher**, is a Yin-associated alternate version of Duchesse.

## Story

A mayor's assistant in the city of Clearview, who followed an alternate path when Leona McMillan deemed her a predator instead of a prey, Duchesse lived an uneventful and quiet life when regularly killing people to satiate her personal urges. Living for a long time unimpeded thanks to Leona's blessing, Duchesse kept to the shadows, killing while helping fulfill the conditions to Leona's ritual. She was, however, found out when another world's Duchesse came to investigate her.

Quite displeased with the interference, the serial killer nicknamed by the news as the Butcher used her abilities to disapear from Duchesse's view several times, evading her until she was cornered. Still refusing to give up on her life, she took a part of Hayley Llujah's Yin powers to awaken newfound abilities, **Bohemian Rhapsody**, creating an illusory world in which to hide. This almost fulfilled the conditions for the enigmatic HAYLEY's ritual, which would have consumed the Butcher if not for Duchesse's influence, defeating HAYLEY and protecting her double.

## Appearance

Duchesse is a youthful, innocent-looking blonde woman with amber eyes, dressed in clean, humble gold and green clothing.

## Personality

A level-headed, mature and responsible young woman who only attempts to do good for those around her, Duchesse is quiet, soft-spoken, polite and respectful, with the professionalism of a talented mayor's assistant. However, Duchesse also has the urges of a serial killer, and murder is a part of her routine, without much of an ulterior motive - Duchesse's victims are chosen by chance, although she favors those with a clean or beautiful neck. Duchesse, of course, finds this completely natural, and greatly dislikes being disturbed in her routines, going to great lengths to be left to her own, murderous devices.

## Powers

* **Predator's Blood:** Duchesse is blessed with immortality due to a contract with Leona, whose conditions are unclear.
* **Enhanced Physical Abilities:** After awaking her Singularity, Duchesse's physical ability naturally increased as the result of developed Ki.
* **Singularity:** Duchesse's Singularity, **Dangerous**, allows her erase her own existence from the world, disappearing from people's memory. The minds of those around her will be forcibly rewritten in order to hide her actions, making them believe someone else did it, following the most plausible route. It is a **Manipulation/Projection**-type Yin Singularity.
	+ **Evolved Singularity:** Duchesse, after taking part of Hayley's essence, unlocked **Bohemian Rhapsody**, which allowed her to imprison an entire town in a perfect illusion, where a 'normal day' would constantly repeat, without anyone being able to interfee with the sense of normalcy this day would provide : murders and supernatural events would naturally go unnoticed, as though erased from memory. It is a **Manipulation/Projection/Transmutation**-type advanced Yin Singularity.

## Trivia

* Duchesse's appearance is a reference to mayor's assistant Isabelle from Animal Crossing.
* Bohemian Rhapsody's lyrics are written from the point of view of a killer, possibly referring to Albert Camus's Stranger, whose eerie motivations mirror Duchesse's own.