Image of Sirena courtesy of Sally Wright
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Sirena is a dark horse. Since she was a small child,
she wanted to follow her love of music into a career, and, ambitious as she
is talented, she soon discovers how to get in with the right people. But
she also has a hidden agenda. Once she discovers all there is to know about
Jewel and who their backers are, she is determined to bring them down, for
she is nursing a secret grudge. Sirena is Pizzazz's daughter, though she
was given up to the Starlight Foundation at birth and the only people who
know of her existance are the other Misfits. Resentful of being abandoned
when Pizzazz so clearly has a fondness for Jewel and their doings, (even
going so far as to buying them Starlight Mansion to live in) particularly
Nancy Pelligrini, she develops a deep hatred of
them and everything which they do. Riot uses Sirena's resentment to his advantage
and signs her to his music company in order to use her to target Pizzazz.
Though Sirena has many of her mother's characteristics
- impatience, insecurity, and a hot temper, there is another side to her
nature which makes her a more difficult rival to have. Sirena is both clever
and cunning, able to see the advantages and consequences of situations when
she choses, and enjoying the secretive art of sabotage just as much as openly
humiliating her rivals. Her loathing of the group becomes so great that she
sees them more as things in her way than she does recognise them as people.
However, her hatred of them is entirely fueled by her resentment and deep
desire for a mother. A child who needed a lot more time and attention than
even the most devoted Foundation employee could give her, the young Emily
learnt to fend for herself, quickly deciding that noone else was going to
do it for her. She was told the truth of her abandonment at the age of six
and it left an indellible mark on her character. Though belligerent to her
carers, inside she began to wonder why she had been given away, and for many
years she would dream up reasons why her mother might have left her. Teased
at school for being a 'foundling', she would often retaliate with remarks
about how her mother was better than them all...but until Riot provided her
with the answer to her identity, she did not feel any real sense of rage
towards the absent woman.
Throughout her childhood the Misfits were Sirena's idols,
particularly Pizzazz, and the fact that her icon was also her absent mother
turned her wondering and awe into resentment and hate. Never one to settle
for substitutes, all of Sirena's actions towards Jewel and Pizzazz are a
subconscious attempt to gain and hold her mother's attention.
Sirena's father is the notorious Eric Raymond, another
bone of contention for her towards her mother, for it was largely the ignominy
of this affair which prompted Pizzazz to keep her daughter a secret. However,
upon meeting her father for the first time, Sirena realises that she will
never have any kind of relationship with him, and this makes her fierce determination
to upset her mother's applecart even stronger. Somewhere inside is the belief
that if Pizzazz lost her music company and her high status, then maybe she'd
be less bothered about her image and would have more time for her daughter.
Though she can clearly see Pizzazz is nowhere near an ideal mother, still
she is the only mother Sirena wants in her life, even if she won't admit
it to herself.
Sirena has little time for falling in love,and only enters
into relationships where she sees there is something material to gain from
it. Her fling with Blade is just one such situation,
for she is in it only for publicity reasons. However, the consequences of
their relationship help to bring out the less bitter side of her character,
and help her to reach out and make friends with those she never thought it
possible to trust.