Origin: Persona 4
Appearance: A complex and elaborated design for a interesting and innovative creature. The main figure is a female woman, wearing a yellow revealing bikini and high-heeled boots. The head is covered by a bizarre and creepy triangular hood with a smile on it. To highlight her mistress-like nature, the woman is also wielding a red whip. A long black mantle is going down from her shoulders, taking the form of feathers mixed to shadows. The most disturbing feature of this creature is the throne of unnaturally pale schoolgirl-like mannequins supporting her. The girls are clearly suffering while trying to support the mistress, bending in tiring positions. The mistress is also imprisoning them with a leash made of chains, highlighting their submissive role.
Symbolism: Everything in this creature is focused around the concept of a master and slave relationship, a complex bound based on dependency and ego. The dominatrix figure is bounding the other under her control, forcing them to suffer just to please her, just to keep her in a comfortable position. The schoolgirl-mannequins are clearly in an uncomfortable position, both physically and mentally, in contrast with the smiling face on the hood of the dominatrix. They are unnaturally white, like if they were wiped out of any personality and expressive feature, simple objects abused by a dominant personality. This is also reflected in the choice of the colors, having the dominant character to be highlighted by the color yellow, while the victims are almost part of the background, losing what is making them humans.
The concept behind this creature can also symbolise the bullying at school. This is supported by the school uniforms worn by the submissive characters, and by the fact that the videogame Persona is set in a high-school environment. Bullies tend to build their personality on the fears of the others, represented here by the throne-like structure physically build on the submissive characters. Bullies need to intimidate and to command to feel important, without having submissive and scared people around, they will just fall on the ground. Bullied students tend to lost their personality, to live in fear just to limit the abuses their are suffering.
Surreal and Creepy 