Germaine Saracen

Femme Facade (Alternate timeline)

**Germaine Saracen**, also known as **Madame Moniker**, is a minor supporting character and recurring antagonist in *A Few Cruel Twists of Fate*.

## Story

### Genesis Event

Germaine was affected by the Genesis Event, giving her the ability to mimic the appearance of other people.

### Events of Volume 1

Germaine reveals that despite still having pictures of herself, she can no longer perfectly replicate her original appearance.

## Appearance

Germaine can take on the appearance of anyone, while the accuracy may vary. Sometimes, her looks may be that of two people combined as she transitions between them.

### Outfit

In school, Germaine wears the standard female NCPS uniform, along with a Theater Club badge/pin.

### Costume

At some point, she wears a lined and cracked porcelain, prosthetic mask covering a part of her face.

## Personality

Germaine is a skilled actress and impressionist, and her friends think it's funny how good she can imitate others. She's become more comfortable being in other people's shoes than her own since people praise her for being such a good impressionist. She has a severe identity crisis, manifesting in that she has no real personality and has lost her sense of self since she's become so good at imitating other people.

The porcelain mask that she eventually wears was a part of the costume of her most prominent and celebrated role in her time in the Theater Club. However, it has been damaged since then. Now, it's one of the only things left of her original identity and the only remaining figment of herself, a clue that she was once her own person with her own likes and dislikes and strengths and weaknesses. Nowadays, she's gotten so used to being other people and not being herself because she had so many issues and found it easier to be other people as a form of escapism. She was praised for her imitation skills, which increased her confidence until she almost completely distanced herself from her original identity and would always pretend to be someone else all the time, with different identities at different points in time. She even resorts to using different identities for different purposes.

## Powers & Abilities

### Powers

* **Mimic-Shifter Attribute**
	+ **Tactile Bioscanning:** Germaine can ‘scan’ another person using her hands so that she can imitate their appearance. Her palms read the appearance and texture of the body parts that she touches, and her skin has ‘memory’ that remembers the appearance and texture of body parts she’s scanned thus far, and can mimic it. However, she can only mimic the parts she’s scanned, so she would have to touch her intended target’s body all over to make an exact replica, otherwise, the body parts she did not scan will look different and inconsistent from that of her most recent target. In fact, it’s very common for the generally unexposed parts of her body (thighs, torso, chest, back) to still retain features or characteristics from either her original body or the last target she was able to completely copy as she can’t scan those body parts from other people. Meanwhile, the parts that change the most are her arms, hands, and face, which are the most important and noticeable ones. If you know how her powers work, then you need only look at her rarely-exposed parts to figure out she’s an impostor.
	+ **Identity Mimicry:** Germaine can almost perfectly replicate the parts she has scanned. Her skin retains ‘memory’ of body parts she can mimic, so she can mimic the identity of anyone she’s scanned so far. She can even combine body parts from multiple identities. When shedding a disguise, her skin cracks and falls apart, revealing a new disguise underneath. The old skin blackens, withers, and dies.

### Abilities

* **Acting:** Germaine, as a member of the Theatre Club, is a pretty skilled actress and impressionist. She's very observant and can mimic the personality, habits, and even tics of other people to a tee, and likes to make fun of and exploit her classmates that way.