Day LaMode

Day LaMode (left) is attacked by Spirit Guard Serenity.

**Day LaMode** is a character in *Magical Girl Policy*. She is a monster created by Platicore, designed to drain Investiture from people as well as battle the Spirit Guard. Initially disguised as a mannequin in Rale Valley Mall, she and her army reveal themselves when she is unable to drain Robert Dreese.

## Appearance

While disguised, Day LaMode has no set appearance, as she may occupy any mannequin within Rale Valley Mall. Once she reveals herself, the mannequin's appearance shifts. She has grayish-pink plastic skin, false black hair, and a face with limited expression, requiring her to move her entire jaw in order to speak. Her limbs are detachable and she can pivot her head about her neck. She wears a black leotard with a turtleneck and thigh-high heeled boots. She speaks in an exaggerated French accent and tends to use her name in place of first person pronouns.

Day LaMode's mannequin drones are mostly identical in appearance to their leader save their faces, which are even more limited in their range of expression. They are not shown to speak, but they do make other sounds such as laughter.

LaMode's core essence and Investiture reserves are stored within her empathic capacitor, an object resembling a black pearl. The capacitor is normally immaterial and hidden within the mannequin she is currently occupying, but it briefly appears when her body is destroyed. She is capable of speech in this state while she is dying.

## Personality

Day LaMode is very proud, believing herself to be invincible within in her domain. She is also vain, getting angry when her appearance is tarnished with injuries. She is led to believe that she is Platicore's first and only creation, seemingly intended to boost her morale. She becomes furious when Rob makes fun of her for this belief and calls her Platicore's nineteenth failure. This, along with Rob resisting LaMode's attempt to drain his Investiture and his subsequent glowing, causes her to prioritize his capture while her army handles the Spirit Guard. LaMode's bravado becomes an act when she is put at Spirit Guard Serenity's mercy.

## Abilities

Day LaMode is capable of draining Investiture from people near her, preferring to drain those who pass by whatever storefront she is currently hiding in. Like other monsters, her draining method is designed primarily to handle will, the most common Investiture component, and struggles with other emotional facets; Robert's complex Investiture repels LaMode from reaching into it with little effort on his part. Her power is directly proportional to the amount of Investiture she has drained.

Even compared to the superhuman attributes uniformly displayed by the Spirit Guard and monsters, LaMode possesses incredible agility. She is capable of precise acrobatic maneuvers and can easily outspeed all but Spirit Guard Serenity. She fights using barehanded martial arts.

LaMode can split her power into other mannequins nearby, which morph into her likeness and form a pack of drones for her. She is shown creating as many as thirty. There is no stated upper limit on the number of drones she can create, but having too many risks spreading her Investiture too thin and thus making her underlings weaker and less focused. The drones share vision with each other and thus can operate as a single unit independently of their master, but they focus on only a single task at a time, which is set either by the pack's instinct or LaMode's mental instruction. LaMode uses her army to split up the Spirit Guard so she can battle one-on-one.

### Special move

* **Follow ze Trend:** Upon saying the phrase, LaMode transfers her consciousness to another mannequin elsewhere in the mall. The mannequin she had been using returns to normal. LaMode retains damage between bodies, apparent by scar-like marks where her wounds were. LaMode uses this to warp around the mall to scout for targets, or to escape a fatal blow from an opponent.

## Biography

### Week 1

After Polygal failed to yield any Investiture, Platicore finds his supply running low. He designs his next monster, Day LaMode, with the ability to project herself to different bodies so her domain may be larger. LaMode is planted in a store at Rale Valley Mall as a regular mannequin, but her projection allows her to shift control to different mannequins around the mall, allowing her to move about to drain Investiture from people all over the area.

Robert, Cory, and Eli as well as the civilian forms of the Spirit Guard go to the mall for some shopping, but Rob and the Spirit Guard periodically sense an unusual empathokinetic humming from seemingly random locations. Rob runs into Angela and Mallory and offers to help search for it, as although he hasn't changed his mind on not transforming into Spirit Guard Serenity, he is willing to use the powers he does have to help protect people. He is turned down and asked to leave the mall, as Mallory fears Cory and Eli might risk their lives for Rob again if there's another monster attack.

As Robert, Cory, and Eli are about to exit the mall, Rob finds the source of the humming: a mannequin in a women's boutique draining Investiture from a group of high school girls. The mannequin fails to do the same to Rob, which causes his glow to appear for a moment and catch its attention. The trio's attempt to reach the exit is foiled by Day LaMode jumping in front of them, who along with her mannequin army give chase in hopes of capturing Robert for Platicore's study. The three stand their ground at a Current Subject storefront, with Rob stalling for the Spirit Guard's arrival by letting his glow signal the heroes while taunting LaMode for believing she's Platicore's only monster. Spirit Guard Tenacity cuts through several mannequins and forces LaMode to transfer to another body, while Valor carries the three friends to the second floor and orders them to the mannequin-free food court. The drones throw the Spirit Guard into disarray, with Felicity and Charity ineffective in close quarters while Valor and Tenacity are split up from them.

Day LaMode transfers around the mall to find Robert again, but is attacked by the lone Tenacity. LaMode turns her attention away from Robert and uses her superior speed and body transfer to escape punishment and beat Tenacity to near death. Eli and Cory break into tears as they can do nothing but watch Tenacity's death approach, which has Robert decide he's the only one who can save her life. He retrieves his Spirit Stick from a Kickers store and has his friends flee so he can transform into Spirit Guard Serenity. As Tenacity's last-ditch surprise attack is thwarted, LaMode is about to land a fatal blow before Serenity attacks with a flying kick. LaMode demands to know who this fifth Spirit Guard is, so Serenity gives a hint by continuing Robert's taunts of calling her failure Number Nineteen. The fight briefly pauses when Serenity senses a guilty conscience from something invisible and confusedly looks in its direction, with LaMode doing likewise. Serenity easily keeps up with LaMode's speed, but finds she'll need a surprise attack to land a killing blow. She uses Placid Mist to turn invisible and unnerve the monster, tricking her into charging at the wounded Tenacity. She then uncloaks, stabs LaMode in the jaw to disable her body transfer, dismembers her, and blows up her head with Geyser of Tranquility.

Trace, who had fled when looked at by Serenity during the fight, returns to the mall to retrieve Day LaMode's empathic capacitor. LaMode had drained a great deal of Investiture, enough to both recharge Trace's stealth band and fuel Platicore's next monster. Trace is surprised to see the remains of LaMode, as the Spirit Guard's special attacks typically don't leave a corpse. She surmises from the carnage that Serenity was either quick or stealthy enough to stab LaMode in the face before using a boiling water move, deciding to tell Platicore later in case it affects his next monster's design.

## Relationships

### Platicore

Day LaMode was created by Platicore, and as is standard for his monsters has unyielding obedience and a desire to please him. LaMode is led to believe she is the first of Platicore's creations, apparently because it was predicted her morale would fall if she learned she is simply the latest in a long line of monsters killed by the Spirit Guard. When Robert brings this up, LaMode fiercely denies the claim, as she refuses to believe her master would lie to her.

### Robert Dreese/Robynne Darling

Day LaMode tries and fails to drain Robert's complex Investiture as he passes by the shop she is hidden in, prompting her to reveal herself and give chase. Seeing his Ardent Resonance and thus dubbing him "glowy boy", she prioritizes his capture for Platicore's study over fighting the Spirit Guard, letting her underlings deal with the heroes. Rob repeatedly taunts LaMode and calls her "Nineteen" for being the nineteenth in a line of defeated monsters and not the first like LaMode believes, using her vitriol to stall for the Spirit Guard to bail him out. Spirit Guard Tenacity rushing at LaMode allows Rob a chance to escape the mall, but he returns as Spirit Guard Serenity before Tenacity can be killed. LaMode is in disbelief at the existence of a fifth Spirit Guard, and even more so when she finds out Serenity is Robert, who gets the new nickname "girly boy". When confronted with Serenity's invisibility, superior speed, and continued provocations, LaMode hides her newfound fear behind her usual arrogance, and gets tricked into charging at the wounded Tenacity and leaving herself open for a kill.

### Spirit Guard

Like other monsters, Day LaMode is given the mission to kill the Spirit Guard, who battle her to stop her from draining Investiture from people. Unlike Polygal, LaMode was apparently not informed on the significance of a specific Ardent Resonance that marks a new Spirit Guard to join the existing four, though the net result is the same in that she tries to capture Robert for Platicore. In her arrogance, she doesn't consider the four heroes a serious threat, as her mannequin army separates the team and ruins their formation-dependent battle plan, allowing her to easily combat any lone Spirit Guard that might exit the crowd.

### Mallory Drake

As Spirit Guard Tenacity, Mallory appears to rescue Robert, Cory, and Eli with a surprise attack on Day LaMode. LaMode's tactic of herding the four Spirit Guards into separate mannequin crowds fails to contain Tenacity, who catches up with her to once again save the boys. LaMode initially considers Tenacity, who she calls "sparky girl", a mere annoyance in her goal of capturing Robert, but comes to admire her refusal to give up. With the other Spirit Guards stuck with the drones, LaMode fights Tenacity one-on-one and easily wins with her superior agility and body transfer ability. Just before she can deal a fatal blow, LaMode is attacked by Spirit Guard Serenity, and at the battle's end moves once more to kill Tenacity, but this leaves herself open to Serenity's finishing moves.

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## Trivia

* Day LaMode's name stems from "à la mode", an adjective of French origin describing something that is in accordance with the latest trends, which matches her fashion theme.
* In Chapter 13's author commentary, Taralynn Andrews says she based the behavior of Day LaMode's mannequin army on ant colonies, where the workers' coordination stems from their pheromones and clicks and not from a queen's orders.
* In Chapter 14's author commentary, Andrews says the idea of LaMode's army of mannequin drones stems from the concept of people losing their individuality by mindlessly chasing fashion trends.