Trigger Warning: Slight hints of child abuse.
The old man with brown hair that’s slowly turning gray enters the door to his dark pitch black empty house. He opens the door of his refrigerator and pulls out a bottle of beer. He walks over to the living room recliner to sit down when all of a sudden he hears the sounds of an old music box playing.
It was a song that he hadn’t heard in almost 8 years. A young girl comes out of the shadows. The man recognizes her from the news as the supervillain terrorist known as Chrysalis. She’s holding an old beat up music box that used to belong to the man’s daughter. She has a glow stick necklace tied around her neck.
Chrysalis(evil smile): “Hello father!"
Cerise’s father: “Lilith? Is that really you?”
Chrysalis: “So you do remember me!”
Cerise’s father: “Of course I remember you Lilith.”
Chrysalis: “DON’T CALL ME THAT!!!”
For a moment there are no words being said between daughter and father. The only sound in the house is the sad melody coming from the music box that Chrysalis is holding.
Cerise’s father: “What do you want me to call you?”
Chrysalis: “You can call me Cerise.”
Cerise’s father: “Sure whatever you want me to call you. We can be a family again. I’ll even quit drinking.”
Chrysalis: “How stupid do you think I am? I remember hearing the same crap back when I still lived here. By the way I’m amazed that you’re still alive after I set our house on fire!”
The music box stops playing. Chrysalis winds it up again.
Chrysalis: “I know the truth now. I know that I’m a sentimonster!”
Cerise’s father goes to walk towards her. He loses his balance and falls down, and his beer bottle also falls to the floor causing the beer to spill all over the floor.
Chrysalis laughs at her father’s misfortune.
Chrysalis: “I want some answers. Why did you create me?”
Cerise’s father starts to cry.
Cerise’s father: “Your mother and I wanted to bring her back.”
Chrysalis: “Bring who back?”
Cerise’s father: “Our daughter! For so long your mother and I wanted a child. Finally we were able to have a child, only for the baby to have leukemia. There was nothing that the doctors could do. Then we meet a man who said that he could help. I wanted nothing to do with it, but our marriage was failing so we agreed. The man said that we could bring our daughter back. Your mother didn’t hesitate. You were born a complete copy of our daughter who had died, but your mother died giving birth to you.”
Chrysalis: “Mom used the broken Peacock Miraculous to create me!?!”
Cerise’s father turns his head to avoid looking at his daughter.
Chrysalis: “So I’m just a copy of a dead infant!?”
Chrysalis notices that her father is avoiding looking at her.
Chrysalis: “Did you ever really love me?”
Cerise’s father: “I tried!”
Chrysalis(sadly shakes her head): “No! No you didn’t!”
Cerise’s father: “This wasn’t easy for me either. My whole world ended after your mother died!”
Chrysalis(annoyed look on face): “That’s it isn’t it! Mom died from using the broken Peacock Miraculous, and you blame me!”
Cerise’s father(crying): “It wasn’t a fair trade!”
Chrysalis smacks her father’s face with the music box which breaks the music box.
There’s now a cut under Cerise’s father’s left eye.
Chrysalis(angry): “How dare you! I was a good daughter! I did everything right! I remember that time I got an “F” on my spelling test and you threw an empty beer bottle at my face! It was your fault that I got the “F”. I wanted to study with you, but you were too drunk to help me!”
Chrysalis turns off her glow stick necklace which makes the house become pitch black.
Chrysalis(evil smile): “Don’t worry father. I’m going to give you something to really be afraid of!”
