McQueen

The subject's power allows her to make replicas of objects. For her power to work, she needs to possess an adequate knowledge of the object she wishes to replicate. As a rule, McQueen can only replicate a work of art or herself, with the replica and the original being slightly different.

The subject awakened her power on account of the strong emotions she felt when she was betrayed and almost lost her life, an experience that left her both traumatized and disillusioned.

The subject suffers from a medium level of Maniac corruption. No visible abnormalities have been found on her body, but she is mentally unstable, troubled by occasional nightmares. The Maniac energies inside her seem to have magnified her dark side, leading her to destructive actions that defy comprehension.

An art dealer active among the rich and famous of Eastside, but in private, she gets involved in all manner of shady activities that concern art and money, including appraisal of collectibles, proxy buying of masterpieces, job placement, selling of forgeries, and plagiarism. McQueen's studio engages in innumerable illicit dealings, and McQueen has cultivated quite a reputation for herself in the black market in recent years.

Besides her special power, the subject also possesses masterful art forgery skills. She has a more profound gift for art than regular art forgers, but she will never admit it. Compared to when she's interrogated by other staff, the subject definitely appears more cooperative and more willing to talk about herself when interacting with Chief. Under the MBCC's strict supervision, the subject's art forgery business has entirely ceased since her detention.

The subject crosses paths with MBCC Sinners during the Witching Hour Exhibition in the Belphegor Art Museum. She escapes when it's discovered that she's a Sinner trying to make replicas. As soon as the exhibition ends, the MBCC carries out a search and arrests McQueen; the MBCC is also able to gather evidence of McQueen making forgeries.

The subject, who used to go by the name of Jennie, was an art student at a college of art in Eastside. During her school years, she stayed on the straight and narrow and had a great passion for art. But the collectors in the profession doubted her talents and potential as an artist, despite complimenting her on her efforts.

The negative reviews sent her down a spiral of depression. It was when she was at rock bottom that she met an art dealer called McQueen in an art gallery and was unknowingly led onto the path of art forgery by the art dealer's lies and deception. When she found out, she had a falling-out with the art dealer, awakening her power in the process, which directly led to the death of the art dealer.

This experience left Jennie disillusioned about the entire art scene. She abandoned her old name and gave up her career as an artist, going deeper into the forgery market as an art dealer under the new name McQueen. Ever since then, she has been making forgeries that are passed off as genuine, in an effort to get back at the Eastside art world that has failed her.

Armed with Lisa's testimony about their encounter during the Witching Hour, the Chief interrogates McQueen about her criminal history creating forgeries, allowing them to change hands a few times, and then reappearing as an art dealer to broker sales for her own fake paintings. They reveal that McQueen succeeded at making and selling copies of every work on display at Witching Hour, aside from Sosia.

Pretending to be telling a story about someone else, she tells the Chief about how, as a young painter still going by Jennie, struggling to make a name for herself, she was taken advantage of by an influential art dealer named McQueen. McQueen manipulated her into producing forgeries by promising to have her paintings displayed at Belphegor Art Museum. She eventually awakened as a Sinner and took revenge by murdering McQueen, adopting the woman's identity for herself. Learning that McQueen is adopting this persona which embodies everything she hates about Eastside, the Chief reminds her of her fears that appeared during the Witching Hour and urges her to set it aside and resume painting for herself.

At this, McQueen laughs and mocks the Chief for apparently not having discovered all of her illegal activities. She reveals that, like the McQueen before her, she is also coercing young artists to make forgeries for her; this despite the fact that her ability allows her to make them effortlessly herself. Embittered by her own past, McQueen now takes sadistic pleasure in participating in the ruination of the next generation, believing that this is a natural role in an art world that is rotten to the core. The Chief refuses to believe this, so McQueen offers them an invitation to find out for themself.

McQueen comes clean about her past and purposes, but denies that she still has a dream of art, as if she really enjoys her current state of lingering about the edge of chaos.
Is the reality as bad as she describes? Perhaps you'll find an answer in this invitation.

McQueen is the auctioneer at a charity event in Eastside. She begins the auction by offering two covered paintings; unveiling the first, she reveals a painting called The Rising Sun by an unknown artist, which is impressive to the Chief, but too amateurish to impress the crowd, especially at the exorbitant 1 million DisCoin rate where she begins the bidding. She fabricates a story about the painting being from DisSea, which garners some interest, but still not enough for the stated price. McQueen then reveals the second painting, which is an exact replica of The Rising Sun made by a once-beloved, now retired, artist named Maureen. The crowd is willing to bid on the forgery, and the Chief believes that this was the point McQueen wanted to make: that the art buyers don't care about the content of the art, only the name attached.

However, McQueen goes further, and plays a shell game with the two identical paintings, then destroys one of them with her knife. With nobody now knowing whether the surviving painting is the one by an unknown artist or the one by Maureen, McQueen resumes the bidding: now at 30 million DisCoins. To the Chief's shock, the crowd goes wild and the price quickly rises. Feeling McQueen's M-Value rising, they begin to put an end to the display, but are stopped by Maureen herself, who is in the audience, who says that she made the forgery of her own accord, not coerced by McQueen, because she wanted to be a popular artist and live luxuriously again.

As the price continues to rise, McQueen suddenly sets fire to the remaining painting. She says that a beautiful thing is fragile and can be lost, but tragedy is the ultimate art that will never die. She then re-offers the burning painting, now taking bids at 300 million DisCoins.

The painters who break their own wings for fame and wealth. The buyers who lose their sanity for elusive lies... McQueen has successfully proved the absurdity of Eastside's art circle, but she doesn't seem to want to stop there.
The maniacal farce is still going on.

The auction goes wild, with fights breaking out between bidders and some in the crowd attempting to rush the stage to grab pieces of the ruined paintings. Trying to prevent the Mania levels in the hall from rising further, the Chief attempts to stop McQueen, but is again prevented by Maureen, who begs them to let it be. The Chief attempts to convince her that what's really on auction is her dignity and reputation, and she allows them to approach the podium.

McQueen tells the Chief that there is nothing wrong with selling out when the alternative is having one's dreams crushed by cruel reality. The Chief refutes them, saying that there is always the chance to change the future regardless of any regrets one may have. Since McQueen can't let go of her traumatic past, the Chief says that they will help her be rid of it, and finishes burning the remains of The Rising Sun. McQueen is awed, and then overjoyed at the Chief's actions in denying the crowd their fun and forcing them to go home empty handed.

The enraged crowd attacks them, and the Chief and McQueen flee while Maureen holds back the pursuit, and the two are rescued by MBCC reinforcements. On the way back to the Bureau, McQueen agrees to stop seducing new artists into the same destructive pattern that destroyed her, because one way or another, she is under the Chief's control. McQueen still believes that anybody who is able to put the past behind them and turn over a new leaf is an exception, not proof that the world is any less rotten than she believes -- but she wishes that rather than having met the real McQueen all those years ago, Jennie would have met someone like the Chief or Lisa, and wonders how different her life would have been.

McQueen has promptly agreed not to lure other painters into giving up their dreams again, but later investigations show that her firm in Eastside has not completely ceased its operations.
The last sentence she said when she left the interrogation room seems to have already explained her later decisions.
Vain, chaotic, and fickle... That is the real McQueen. That is how Eastside's high society functions.

McQueen keeps in her room a few Klein blue ornaments and decorations, which she takes great care to wipe immaculately clean. When she notices that many MBCC staffers and Sinners show interest in them, she insists that they come over to take a look and asks to them guess if a particular item is fake or genuine. And as it turns out, all of her collectibles are fake.

Every time McQueen goes to Eastside for a mission, she almost always encounters someone she knows, from upper-class customers to black market brokers. Man or woman, young or old, they all have a good rapport with McQueen. On a few occasions, McQueen even managed to quickly sell one forgery or two to a passerby when the MBCC's staffers' backs were turned.

McQueen is easy-going, stylish, attractive, and a people person through and through. Her popularity within the MBCC is climbing into the stratosphere. This pleases her so much that she creates several clones of herself to cater to a growing fan base.

McQueen insists on using such saccharine terms of endearment as Darling, Baby, and Beauty to address the Chief, and tries out such acts as head-touching and Kabedon on the Chief time and again. These tricks don't work on the Chief, but that doesn't discourage her in the slightest.

[McQueen is facing an astronomical fine for an art scheme]

McQueen: Don't worry. I can deal with it.

Chief: ......

• Prompt: Time to pay your fine.
• McQueen: Gee. I didn't expect you to be so righteous.
• McQueen: 😓😓

• Prompt: Ahem, I'll help you this time. But it's just this once.
• McQueen: Oh, do you want me to say thank you? Or do you want me to give you a little extra "thank you"...?
• McQueen: 😏😘

[McQueen invites you to an art auction.]

McQueen: So, are you interested?

Chief: ......

• Prompt: Alright then, I promise you.
• McQueen: Trust me, you will be the guest that brings the biggest pleasant surprise.
• McQueen: 😘

• Prompt: No, there's a mission today.
• McQueen: That's okay. I'll invite you again next time.
• McQueen: 😉

⚠ Rare Moments of Solitude

What does McQueen do in her rare moments of solitude?

System Notifications: McQueen quietly sat by the window reading a book, the afternoon sun shining on the side of her face and the pages of the book. The scene was as beautiful as a painting.

• Prompt: Not disturb

⚠ Special Appraiser

McQueen received an invitation.

System Notifications: The Eastside Artists Alliance's art auction is about to begin, and the organizers have invited McQueen to attend as a special appraiser.

• Prompt: Approve

⚠ Unstable Emotions Around

McQueen always causes a commotion wherever she goes.

System Notifications: When McQueen was first taken in the MBCC, it caused a lot of unrest in the bureau. From staff to Sinners, she flirts with everyone she sees. Everywhere she goes, she causes a commotion, and the impact is really bad. Not until after you sternly warned her did she restrain this behavior for a bit.

• Prompt: But...

System Notifications: After that, she shifted her target to you.

⚠⚠ Fake At First Sight

A staff member showed Chief some paintings purchased from an art store.

System Notifications: You hear a staff member calling your name.

Staff: Chief, you're just in time! Come and take a look at this painting.

• Prompt: Go take a look

Staff: I recently bought this from an art store, and it's a new work by a new pioneering artist who has recently become popular.

Staff: Not bad, right? And there should be a lot of room for appreciation.

Chief: Wait. Something's off.

System Notifications: You receive the exquisitely framed painting from the staff, only to find residual reactions of Sinner ability on it. In order to verify your suspicions, you called McQueen.

McQueen: Ah, oil painting apprasing? That's my specialty.

System Notifications: She looks at the painting in your hand for a second, and then gives a sly smile.

McQueen: You have indeed been tricked, the painting is a fake.

Staff: What? This painting has a certificate of authentication from a professional institution!

McQueen: I produce the top forgeries, and it's normal that those incompetent fools can not identify them.

Chief: You made that?

McQueen: Yes, but I didn't expect you to be able to identify it.

McQueen: You know what, do you think it's because you've been with me for a long time that your eyes have also become sharper?

⚠⚠ Letter Opener

Supervision System has detected a lost item in Training Room.

System Notifications: Supervision System: A lost item was detected in Training Room. Go and take a look?

• Prompt: Yes

System Notifications: You find McQueen's letter opener left on the table in the Training Room. The knife is exquisitely ornate and dated, and it looks like it's worth a lot of money.

Chief: I'll give it to her in a bit...

System Notifications: You're reaching for it, but someone holds your wrist from behind.

McQueen: Be careful. Although my knife looks like a decorative item, but it is actually very sharp!

McQueen: If my dear got a cut in the hand, I will be so very heartbroken.

Chief: ...Please talk properly.

McQueen: Alas, Chief, you are still the same. How unromantic.

McQueen: But that's ok. I like you the way you are. I can't help it.

McQueen: I'm not going to give up, you know.

System Notifications: She winks at you, collects the letter opener on the table and leaves.

⚠⚠⚠ Klein Blue

McQueen seems to have a special fondness for the color Klein Blue.

System Notifications: You recently happen to have seen an introduction to Klein Blue, and then remembered that McQueen seems to have quite a few clothes and room decorations in that color.
And she happens to be wearing a Klein Blue top today.

• Prompt: Go and say hi

Chief: Good morning, McQueen, you look great in that today.

McQueen: Oh? Are you saying that I was dressed ugly for the last few days?

Chief: That's not what I meant.

McQueen: Haha, don't be nervous, I was just kidding. How did you think of complimenting me on my clothes today?

Chief: I just think this color really suits you.

McQueen: "Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract. Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions."

McQueen: Klein blue is the purest, unadulterated blue, symbolizing the pursuit of the ultimate purity of art.

McQueen: After knowing the meaning of this color, do you still think it matches me?

• Prompt: Silence
• Chief: ...
• McQueen: Maybe it was once. And that was my dead dream.

• Prompt: Goes well
• Chief: Of course it matches you.
• Chief: The love for art in your heart has never been extinguished, I can clearly feel it.
• McQueen: I see...

Everything she wears are from high-end luxury brands, but there are both real and fake items.

This disturbing and mundane forgery painting of the world, might as well... be added by me, a few more strokes.