[center]Perni watched the chaos with a deadpan stare. "[color=red]Okay...[/color]", she mumbled. Nobody had had time to acknowledge her existence before some clown buggie showed up and started blasting flames everywhere. The goddess herself knew that she would be fine here. The mortal's fire had little chance of actually hurting her, but it did raise a few problems with keeping her false identity as a [i]totally normal human[/i] if she came out of a fire completely unscathed. The best chance she had to avoid conflict with the guy, since she doubted totally normal humans would be able to take on a guy like this, even if she wasn't too worried about her own safety. Choices, choices... what to do, what to do? Her eyes flickered around the scene, searching for something that she could use to her advantage without giving away her divinity. She needed to employ subtlety.

Subtlety. [i]That was it![/i] She needed to use her powers in such a way that they wouldn't be noticeable to the other combatants around her, and definitely in a way that wouldn't draw attention to her. Turning towards Firefly, she narrowed her eyes at him, breathing as she called upon her powers, ancient forces that she hadn't drawn upon in a while. Her true form responded in kind as she began to strengthen any and all negative emotions he might be feeling. She'd read somewhere that angry folk tended to make mistakes, right? That [i]should[/i] apply to most negative feelings in turn, she concluded. Whatever negativity that the fire powered supervillain had been experiencing prior to Perni's focus was intensified a hundredfold, the power of the goddess of conflict falling upon him. 

As she exercised her authority over emotion on the supervillain, she closed her eyes, taking manual control of her breathing in order to calm herself and focus. She was a bit rusty with her abilities, after all. It had been a good amount of time since she'd last used them seriously, and she knew that allowing them to go haywire might not end well for anyone involved in this whole debacle. She used her power to dull her own negativity. Fortunately, nobody was focused on her specifically, meaning that stepping out of the way of wayward attacks wasn't too big of an issue without revealing her abilities. A few falling chunks of the wall trembled overhead, causing her to sidestep a bit to dodge it absentmindedly, most of her focus on controlling her emotional amplification power.
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