ABOUT CYGNUS...

Since he was a child, Cygnus has loved dolls. How beautiful and fragile they are, how compliant. Each friend and family member of his has been loved and treasured like a perfect, obedient doll.

Which is to say, he's been sadistic since his youth.

Since his situationship with his favorite person from boyhood ended in an attempted murder-suicide, Cygnus has taken interest in a young Lain Amspoker. The boy is close, after all, to the sweet puppet Cygnus had lost some time before.

Cygnus knows how to play with minds. Knows how and when to react, when to praise, when to punish. He's mastered it down to an art; this time, his doll will not slip from its strings. It will not call Cygnus "toxic" or "abusive;" it accepts Cygnus's love for what it is. His sweet little Lainey-doll.