One of Liari's clones!
(PL reduced down to 5,000)

After the tournament (that had gone COMPLETELY belly up), Liari had sent clones all across the earth to not only set up shop subtly, but to keep an eye on things, to be the eyes of the original. Dark plans were brewing inside of the majin, something beyond kill, fight, and destroy. Strength was one thing... POWER was another. Zero's and Ryme's plans of galactic domination played across Liari's mind, the ambition to rule, to control, to manipulate and mold a population to their liking. 

...Liari couldn't help but smile at that plan, now that she fully understood it. Only... her dominion would begin here, at Earth, rather than on some off-world backwater. Their warriors were powerful, the rate of their birth, incredible. If she were to tame this world, drag it under her foot, the rest of the universe was only a matter of time. 

OF COURSE, this was why Liari (or rather, one of her many clones) was here today! North city was one of the four (three...?) Liari needed to control before her plan could truly be set into motion... and it just so happened that she had gotten a craving for the fermented plant-juice Earthlings here called "wine." T'was the changeling in her, her tastebuds trembling at the idea of drinking that swill... The majin herself couldn't understand WHY she'd want such a thing, but, as was her nature, her impulses drove her to a local bar to satisfy them. 

Liari had to shrink herself down to about the size/proportions of young adult/teenager-on-the-older-side human girl, lest she walk face-first into the door-frame on the way in. Her long, red, crystalline tentacles shrunk back to about her mid-back in length, her black bio-armor (curtesy of the changelings) twisting around her body to resemble a short tube-top over her front. The eyes of many were upon Liari as she made her way to the bar, some with bewilderment, others with recognition... and some still with hunger. Liari ignored them all and placed her order, the bartender merely nodding and getting to work. Apparently, he had seen stranger in his time. 

...Unfortunately, what Liari had HOPED was a quick snack-run turned wild, a man and a women SPATTING over... what? a compliment? Flirtation? Was that woman so easy to set off? Liari turned, drink now in hand, watching with minor surprise and amusement as this strange rabbit-like woman started spouting off insults the majin had never HEARD before! ...And with HEART too! She REALLY didn't like the guy! 

"Oh dear." She sighed, taking a sip of her drink. "This is gonna get ugly." 

...And it did. 

In a matter of seconds, the man was sent FLYING end-over-end towards the opposite wall, Liari suddenly appearing between him and it, CATCHING the man with her free arm! ...If he had collided with that wall, he would have died, to say nothing of RUINING that bartender's life with debt. 

...Huh... What was this feeling...? Did she actually CARE about these humans...? 

...Whatever. Maybe she just didn't want a building to fall on her this day. Maybe Liari just wanted a place were she could drink in peace... Yeah, that was it. And this girl was ruining her peacetime. The woman stormed out... and Liari followed, leaving a few dozen zeni for the drink on the bar before she went. 

"Hey. 'Bunny-lass.'" Liari called after her once they were a good distance from the bar. "...You normally try to kill the people you drink with?"

WC: 594