Chameleon

Able to hypnotize and tamper with their memories, create mental illusions, and stimulate the unknown potential of all living beings through touch.

Awakened before puberty, which was a long time ago from now. The precise awakening signs could not be detected, presumably due to her powers acquired during the coma after a great shock.

No physical changes were observed. Experience extremely unstable mental state, worsening mental illness, and frequent nightmares. Aromatherapy and medication are required to suppress abnormal behavior.

The only suspect in the bankruptcy and disappearance of a nouveau riche in the council. Attempted to tamper with the subconsciousness of dozens of people, leading to irreversible and severe damage to their mental state. Opened a clinic while hiding her identity as a Sinner and her psychopathic illness. Suspected of malicious brainwashing hypnosis, causing a threat to the society by swaying people's minds.

The official involved in the missing of a certain bankrupt new councilor has recently been sentenced to death for multiple crimes including crimes against humanity. The subject's complicated history with the said official can no longer be fully traced. Due to her peculiar interest in mental torture, she's been put under Chief's direct supervision since her detention. Currently, the subject works as a psychologist in the Bureau and treats all sorts of psychological issues in the Sinners. Her therapy is highly effective and her role is irreplaceable.

Voluntarily waited at the private psychiatric clinic and actively cooperated with the MBCC. Suspected to have anticipated the arrest. With her encouragement and cooperation, the arrest went exceptionally well.

Admitted to Banyan Medical College with distinction and stayed on as a teacher after graduation. Opened a private psychiatric clinic. Known as the most outstanding psychiatrist and hypnotherapist in DisCity and works as a psychological consultant for the intelligence agencies in secret.

Both parents are reputable psychologists in Eastside, who were murdered fourteen years ago. The case was closed hastily after the clues were destroyed in a fire. Received a lot of attention from the community as a surviving orphan.

Deliberately approached the family and friend of the Eastside Councilor, Oris, to manipulate them and turn them against Oris with hypnotic powers. It is reported that Oris did psychological counseling with Chameleon's parents fourteen years ago and is now being held in secret by the 9th Agency.

The Chief interrogates Chameleon about her motives for hypnotizing the four members of the Jacknal Family, each of whom experienced auditory hallucations and attempted suicide. Chameleon fires back, claiming that there is no difference between her hypnosis and the Chief's use of the Shackles on unwilling Sinners. While Chameleon distracts them from the main topic of the interrogation, they become disoriented by the sounds of her pocket watch. After fifteen minutes that pass faster than expected, Nightingale pulls the Chief out of the Interrogation Room.

Wandering the halls of the Bureau later, the Chief hallucinates visions of many different Sinners, who accuse them of treating Sinners like dogs or slaves and prying into their painful memories, causing pain just because of their curiosity about the Sinners' pasts. Eventually, the Chief realizes that they are having a nightmare, and reawakens in the Interrogation Room.

The Chief Shackles Chameleon, but she shows no fear or hesitation. The Chief then ends the interrogation, ordering Nightingale to put her into solitary confinement under heavy guard and confiscate her pocket watch. Her parting words are that although she and the Chief are the same in causing pain, in these chaotic times, pain may not be a bad thing.

Chameleon didn't directly answer any of the questions regarding the case. Instead, she tried to hypnotize you without your consent in an attempt to break your determination by making you believe that the other Sinners are refusing to cooperate.
Her mysterious nature troubles you. It seems another threat is lurking in the dark and waiting for its chance to jump at you.

The Chief has confused dreams featuring fire, blood, a clock, and a crying girl. When they awake, they instinctively seek out Chameleon, who explains that it was her dream, which the Chief entered somehow via the Shackles' link. She goes on to tell them that as a child, she would hide inside her father's clock cabinet to watch them consult their patients. From this position, she witnessed her parents' murder at the hands of a patient who did not trust that they would keep his secrets. He bashed their heads in with a sculpture of Hypnos, the God of Dreams, and set fire to the office to destroy their records.

In order to learn what else the Chief saw in their dream, Chameleon hypnotizes them again, having been faking vulnerability in order to lure the Chief into her trap. The Chief's subconscious world takes the form of an archive, where they see a vision of a shadowly Langley, who feels familiar but unrecognizable. At Chameleon's urging, the Chief asks Langley for the whereabouts of a hostage that they had seen in their earlier dream. Langley hands them a document detailing Chameleon's family history and the murder of her parents at the hands of Oris, a self-made man who began as the secretary to a councilor, before marrying into the Jacknal family and becoming a councilor of Paradeisos himself. Ten years after the murders, in N.F. 106, Oris's wife and parents cut ties with him; without the support of his wife's family, he lost his residency in Paradeisos. In N.F. 107, Oris was found hypnotized in Chameleon's private clinic by the 9th Agency, which went on to hire her as a special psychology consultant. Ultimately, Chameleon was arrested on suspicion of having tampered with the Jacknal family's subconsciouses after they experienced auditory hallucinations that are sequela to hypnosis. Most importantly for her purposes, the dossier also details that since his discovery, the 9th Agency has held Oris hostage at an old agency depot on the border of Eastside and the Rust.

When Chameleon receives this information, her voice disappears from the Chief's subconscious world. Struggling to escape the dream, the Chief recalls a suppressed memory: while hypnotized the first time, Chameleon implanted in them the urge to go to the 9th Agency's archives and investigate Oris's whereabouts, then forget having done it so that only she could recover the memory from their subconscious. When the Chief awakens from the dream, Chameleon has escaped. The Chief realizes that even with her pocket watch confiscated, Chameleon was still able to use her gold-rimmed glasses as a backup hypnosis prop.

Chameleon's power isn't just any hypnosis. She plants a subconscious thought in your mind that makes you want to check confidential documents, directly manipulating your behaviors and leading you to provide information to her without you realizing it.
To retrieve Oris, the culprit who killed her family, from the 9th Agency, she is resorting to every possible measure. But the enemy that she has been fighting isn't you but the woman hiding in the dark. Having fallen victim to the hypnotist and become the pawn in her hands several times, you decide to never let this happen again.

At the agency depot where Oris is being held hostage, the Chief meets with Chameleon one on one while an MBCC special operations team waits outside, ready to breach the building. Chameleon has tied Oris to a chair and left him in a semi-conscious state. Chameleon reveals that the secret which he murdered her parents to protect was infidelity, as he feared losing the protection of his then-fiancée's family. Having already taken away his wife, status and power with her machinations, Chameleon denies having done enough, saying that she has only made the people around him see who he really is -- she has not yet actually punished him at all. She says that she has not killed him nor run away because she wants an audience as she creates a tailor-made nightmare for him of an endless sea of fire and countless sharp blades. When the Chief expresses their shock at the torture, Chameleon is surprised that Langley did not tell him in the dream: despite all her credentials, the 9th Agency would not allow her near Oris because she is a psychopath who thrives on others' pain. The Chief attempts to end the torture by unleashing the Shackles, but the power fails to activate. The Chief believes that they are unresponsive because of previous subconscious impulses planted by Chameleon, but she reveals that from the second the Chief and their team approached the depot, all of them have once again been tricked into an illusory dream. The Chief fights through the hypnosis to draw a pistol given to them by Nightingale before they entered the depot.

If they shoot at Chameleon, they hit her in the leg and break her concentration enough for the Chief to use the Shackles and force her to end Oris's nightmare. Despite this defeat, Chameleon is ecstatic to learn that, contrary to her belief, the Shackles can connect to the spiritual world. The Chief orders her to surrender, saying they don't want to hurt her any further, but Chameleon correctly denies this, saying that when they fired the gun, they had the intent to kill. Nightingale and the MBCC team enter the building, and the Chief orders her to return Oris to the 9th Agency and never report where he will be hidden. Chameleon says that although the Chief denies it, they wish that she would have killed the hostage, and that like with her the seeds of evil have been planted in their mind.

If they shoot at themself, the pain from their leg wound snaps them awake enough to use the Shackles and force her to end Oris's nightmare. Defeated, Chameleon is incredulous that they would use such a method and says that they are no longer the novice who could be controlled so easily. Nightingale and the MBCC team enter the building and handcuff her. The Chief says Oris will be sent back to the 9th Agency and kept in a place that they will never know about, but Chameleon interrupts them, admitting her loss but saying that she already has a better toy to play with.

Chameleon is brought back to the Bureau and placed under S-class surveillance. In the time since then, she has returned to playing the role of a psychologist and hasn't mentioned anything about Oris or her own psychopathy. Nevertheless, the Chief uneasily feels that their conflict with her has only just begun.

Oris is now a hostage secretly taken into custody by the 9th Agency. And Chameleon is cooperating with the MBCC to continue the detention. Perhaps it is just like what Chameleon said: this is a balancing act of restraint. But it is also acceptable if we continue this balance. Greed, desire, and pain... The seemingly cool-headed psychologist is actually struggling to hold down the impulses deep down. You only have one mission: maintain balance and contain the subject.

The use of a pocket watch and gold-rimmed glasses reinforced her image as a psychiatrist to gain the patient's trust and enable smooth hypnosis. The lenses are not prescribed and no specific item is required for hypnosis.

Occasionally summoned by the 9th Agency as a psychological consultant. Chameleon does not have a proactive attitude towards this and calls this "collaboration" "coercion". Even the FAC has no idea where she goes or does.

Helps the Sinners in the Bureau with some psychological issues, but many Sinner remains scared of her, either by her name or by the hypnosis.

Likes to chat with Chief late at night because Chief is one of the few who is not affected by her ability. She hopes to recover from her growing psychopathic issues from chatting with Chief.

[Chameleon is writing a document for her patient and sighing.]

Chameleon: I have been seeing more patients lately for no reason. Any idea why?

Chief: ......

• Prompt: Perhaps everyone is satisfied with your psychotherapy.
• Chameleon: ...The beasts within our hearts are beginning to awaken.
• Chameleon: 😘

• Prompt: Perhaps it's because the missions lately aren't too stressful?
• Chameleon: Heh. Don't be so sure.
• Chameleon: 😏

[You are invited to Chameleon’s private clinic.]

Chameleon: Have you been sleeping well lately? Do you need any more of my assistance?

Chief: ......

• Prompt: ...Wait, I don’t think you’ve helped me before?
• Chameleon: Hehe. Nice reaction.
• Chameleon: 😉

• Prompt: No, thank you. I’ve been sleeping well.
• Chameleon: So? So that’s what it is. This is perfect.
• Chameleon: 😘

⚠ Coordination

The 9th Agency requested to borrow Sinners.

System Notifications: The 9th Agency asked to borrow Chameleon because they need her psychology expertise regarding a confidential mission.

• Prompt: Approve

⚠ Mean Prank

Chameleon filed a request.

System Notifications: Chameleon requested to stay in the Confinement Cell so she could observe the other Sinners' reactions.

• Prompt: Decline

⚠ Professional Player, Replaced

Chameleon seems to have some talents for hypnosis.

System Notifications: The FAC sent a psychologist to guide the Sinners through their hypnotherapy sessions. But when the psychologist was treating Chameleon, they became the one being hypnotized and have been unconscious since.

• Prompt: Let Chameleon take the shift.

⚠⚠ Audience

Chameleon is obsessed with some TV shows lately.

System Notifications: Chameleon is obsessed with some TV shows lately.

Chief: I didn't expect you would watch TV shows as well.

Chameleon: The script writers always intentionally create plots of crazy conflicts to make things dramatic.

Chameleon: Though I have mastered how human minds operate, I sometimes misjudge how the storyline is going to develop.

Chameleon: Not being in control is something I've never felt before.

Chief: So there are things that even you can't predict, huh?

Chameleon: Yes, and especially you.

Chameleon: Have you come here to find me?

Chameleon: Or is this how fate wills it?

• Prompt: You are overthinking...
• Prompt: I'm just passing by.

Chameleon: Well, now that we are here, you might as well stay a while and watch through this episode with me.

⚠⚠ Secret Guest

Chameleon entered the office without permission.

System Notifications: Chief, the office door has been unlocked. Watch yourself.

Chief: Chameleon, who let you into this office?

Chameleon: The security guards "willingly" opened the door for me.

Chief: So you hypnotized the guards again...

Chameleon: I just wanted to see what has been keeping you so busy, Chief. You look nervous. Are you...

Chameleon: Are you doing something that you don't want others to know?

• Prompt: Out...
• Prompt: This has nothing to do with you.

Chameleon: Well, well, well, are you blushing, Chief?

Chameleon: It's okay. I have already predicted your every move.

Chameleon: I've seen everything about you.

Chameleon: When you were hypnotized.

⚠⚠⚠ Master of Hypnosis

Chameleon demonstrates to you her hypnosis skills.

Chameleon: Kids who don't behave will never wake up.

System Notifications: Chameleon puts her pocket watch away and taps on your nose lightly with her finger.

• Prompt: What did you say?

Chameleon: Chief, you asked me to demonstrate my hypnosis skills just now.

Chameleon: As you wish, you're in a dream now.

• Prompt: That's not possible.

Chief: A dream doesn't feel so real.

Chameleon: Oh, really? Many of my patients that I hypnotized say that too.

Chameleon: See for yourself whether you're in a dream or not.

System Notifications: You look at the surroundings. Everything seems so real, but somehow you feel a little uneasy.

Chief: Wake me up, please.

Chameleon: Haha, you're indeed very smart, Chief. You realized you were in a dream sooner than most other patients.

Chameleon: Alright, alright. As long as you do what I say, you can escape this dream.

Chameleon: Now, repeat after me: "Passing through countless cages, I'm a bird that only belongs to you."

• Prompt: Repeat after her
• Chameleon: See, you're already awake.
• System Notifications: You find yourself lying on the hypnosis chair. Chameleon is sitting on the desk's corner, looking into your eyes with a smile.

• Prompt: Not repeat after her
• [Selecting this prompt will cause the supervision event to reset. This continues until "Repeat after her" is chosen]

⚠ Professional Player, Replaced

Chameleon seems to have some talents for hypnosis.

System Notifications: The FAC sent a psychologist to guide the Sinners through their hypnotherapy sessions. But when the psychologist was treating Chameleon, they became the one being hypnotized and have been unconscious since.

• Prompt: Let Chameleon take the shift.

Chameleon's favourite research attire. When reading articles, she occasionally throws on a coat as well.

The end of the perfect dream is the door to a cruel reality.