Painted Girl & Wall Breaker (Self Control; Raff, Laura Branigan)

NAME/ORIGIN
Character name	Painted Girl, Wall Breaker
Song/Album	"Self Control"/ (single)
Act	Raff, covered in the US by Laura Branigan
Writer	Giangcarlo Bigazzi, Steve Piccolo, and Raff
Release Date	1984 (both versions)
ABILITIES
Powers	Wall Breaker: -Break through walls "Through the walls, something's breaking" -Live inside someone else's soul "You're walking down the street of my soul" -Overtake victim's identity and sense of self-restraint, to act on all impulses "You take my self, you take my self-control" "I never stop myself to wonder why" "I haven't got the will to try and fight" -Disrupt victim's sense of time, circadian rhythms; they become nocturnal "You've got me living only for the night" "I guess I'll just believe it-- that tomorrow never comes" "I'll make myself believe it-- this night will never go"
Skills	N/A
Attributes	Painted Girl: is aware of the fact of her mind being manipulated "I've living in... my dream/ I know the night is not as it would seem"
Vulnerabilities	N/A
Formidability	Powerful enough to control others; not powerful enough for them to not know they are being controlled
Attractiveness	High
Source	Wall Breaker: May be inter-dimensional
Goals	Assume control of others
POSSESSIONS
Weapons	N/A
Amulets	N/A
Objects	N/A
Clothing	Wall Breaker: "Wearing white"
Vehicles	N/A
Dwelling	Painted Girl: "City lights"
Milieu	Painted Girl: "The night is my world... In the day, nothing matters"
BIOGRAPHY
Gender	Wall Breaker: may not have a gender Painted Girl: female
Age	Wall Breaker: N/A; our concept of "time" may not apply to it Painted Girl: Adolescent, 16 or 17
Physique	Wall Breaker: May lack a physical form Painted Girl: Slender, or perhaps heavy since her impulses have no restraints  (speculative)
Ethnicity	N/A
Origin	N/A
Ancestry	N/A
Profession	Painted Girl: prostitute
Education	Painted Girl: less than high school
SES	Painted Girl: Low
Relationships	Painted Girl: "I live among the creatures of the night"
Pets	N/A
PERSONALITY
Morality	Wall Breaker: Amoral Painted Girl: Good-hearted but driven to illegal acts due to poverty
Intro/extrovert	Extrovert
Intelligence	Wall Breaker: impossible to measure Painted Girl: getting smarter by the day
Emotions	Painted Girl: Exhausted with trying to resist Wall Breaker's manipulation
Sanity	Shaky
Enemies	Wall Breaker: Those with strong wills Painted Girl: the police
Narrative Function	Wall Breaker: antagonist
Other Notes	An entity that can only be described by what it does is among us, invading not our physical space but that realm we call "consciousness." It may live only as energy, and enjoy feeding on the electrical impulses of the human mind. Because it can break through the wall between the subconscious and conscious mind, those few who even know it exists call it Wall Breaker. In our world, it looked for easy prey, and found it in the mind of a teenage runaway wearing too much makeup, whom the Wall Breaker refers to as Painted Girl; this is now the only name the host has for herself as well. She was extremely vulnerable already. Wall Breaker learned easily that stimulating the pleasure centers of the brain released dopamine and other tasty hormones, and it quickly became addicted to these. Further, it learned to stimulate the production of these hormones by having the body experience certain sensations, like sweet foods and physical exertion. All it had to do was remove the two barriers preventing the human host from wallowing in its every pleasure-granting desire-- her self-control and societal controls. It overcame the first obstacle easily; a teenage brain is not fully formed, as far as impulse control, anyway. To make it so that others would not stop her, it made sure she was only active at night so as to reduce the chance of being seen. It did this by overcoming her natural sense of time. Painted Girl resisted at first, but has since stopped from sheer exhaustion. Now, she is in the living nightmare of knowing she is being controlled by another force... but having no way of stopping it. For instance, she knows she is in her own city, yet feels like she is lost in a "forest" that is her permanent dream state. She knows that what she sees is not real, but has no other reality to interact with. Her only other friends are other "creatures of the night." We may guess that Wall Breaker is only one of many of its kind, and they meet up to discuss with each other ways they have learned to enjoy their human toys.