Syren

**Syren** is one of the orphans living at the Lakeside Orphanage, and one of the main characters of Project Parasomnia.

## Biography

A pink, fired-up bundle of joy. Syren is a goofy, restless girl that's always ready for a challenge. Despite this extroverted and energetic front, Syren is a very dependable person and can easily step into a more serious role, should the need arise. Being born blind, she has always felt like the odds were against her - working hard to disprove the assumptions most would make at a passing glance. She may not look it, but she's just as much of an acrobat as her predecessors.

## Soda Galore

In Soda Galore, Syren appears alongside Edgar, Mara, and Kali, trying out the latter's new soda. Although things quickly go awry as everyone except Kali starts transforming into goo-like monsters. After running for a while, the monsters manage to catch up with Kali and doing so wakes her up from her nightmare.

Syren yells out that she's finally awake, and afterwards rudely demonstrates exactly how Kali fainted after drinking her own soda, for which Mara glares at her. In the end, it's Syren's declaration that all her friends know Kali wouldn't willingly put them in harm's way that puts Kali's mind at ease. After which she announces that she's tired, as she's the first to go back to sleep.

## Project Parasomnia

Syren's role in Volume #0 is much larger, as she acts as the main character in this volume. Syren is first seen standing in the food line, asking Vel what today's menu is. Her mood reaches an absolute low once she learns it to be chicken. Trying to smooth talk cafeteria lady Gertrude does not make things any better, and Syren is forced to return to her table, shook by her interaction with Gertrude, as well as displeased by the chicken. She goes to sit at her table with her Mara, Edgar, and Kali, and explains her distaste for chicken. Kali agrees with her stance, while Edgar tries to rationalize it, and Mara simply doesn't see any problem with it. Syren says that her distaste for the food might be linked to her disdain for the animal, a theory which Kali agrees to.

After finishing her food, Syren plops down on the couch of a rec room, still down in the dumps because of the food, when Mara suddenly appears to cheer her up. Mara reveals she traded with Vladimir from the staff in order to get a special sandwich for Syren, in the hopes of cheering her up. The plan works, and now that Syren has regained her energy, she asks to continue her previous sound-based training. With headphones in, Syren tries to separate all the instruments and give them a certain space in her mind. As it seems that her focusing energy is working and she can split the music up, the bubbles which contain the noise burst, as her focus wasn't quite strong enough. Syren confides in Mara that her lack of progress is affecting her motivation, but Mara states that she could ask Kali for help. A proposition Syren rejects, stating she wants to work this out on her own, without special modifications. Suddenly, Todward enters the room with the message that they're requested at Kali's lab.

Once the duo arrives at the lab, Syren states that they shouldn't rely on messengers, but instead on walkie-talkies. Kali quickly cuts her off, reminding her that such a setup already existed in the past, before they messed it up. While Syren notes that it's odd to be sent into a nightmare at a time like this, she still volunteers to go into it herself. The others let her go, although Edgar remains skeptical. At first, Syren manages to fight off the nightmare chickens without a hitch, mostly due to the special swatter made by Kali. However, a certain chicken with a button around its neck reveals the nightmare chicken headquarters, which begins working in overdrive when it notices Syren entering. As a result, a gigantic robotic chicken gets activated, which in turn activates bomb-carrying chicken and other, smaller bombs. As a pure pandemonium for the senses unfolds before Syren, she gets overwhelmed and almost breaks down entirely.

Although only shortly, Kali and Mara manage to broadcast their voices over the chaos, which manages to calm Syren down enough for her to think more rationally. She thinks back to her noise-focusing training and tries to focus her attention on eliminating the noises all around her. Once she manages to overcome this obstacle, she can grasp the layout of the room better. She notices cannons on top of the nearby tribunes, something which she can use to break off the speakers on the big robot which overpower her senses. By grabbing some of the smaller egg bombs and returning fire from the cannons, Syren manages to bust all the speakers and defeat her robotic foe. Syren is transported back to labratory, and the first thing she does is hug Mara, trying to get affirmation of her work. Mara happily obligues the request as she's genuinely proud of her evolution. Afterwards, Syren confirms with Kali that the nightmare she was just in was one of hers, a realization which baffles Kali. While being linked to your own nightmare should be impossible, she's still quite happy with Syren's accomplishment.

Later that night, Syren and Mara are walking back to the dorms, and Syren tells Mara that she feels she's ready to really listen to music together now. Mara blushes, saying she'd like to as well. Before they can continue, however, Syren gets distracted by a pigeon hiding somewhere around the corner. Syren manages to make it fly off, stating that they're still not on friendly terms whilst standing victoriously.

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