Lucinda "Lucy" Deville

"A rebellious cryptid known for her love of breaking the rules. For some reason, she recently decided to try her hand at being... a superhero?!"

Lucinda Deville is a young cryptid belonging to the very elusive species known as Homo diabolus. To the broader public, her kind is far better recognized by the moniker of their most infamous representative: the legendary Jersey Devil. According to regional folklore, this creature terrorized the Pine Barrens of New Jersey since the early 18th century. The original beast was widely presumed killed in 1928 within the ruins of an old mill near Greenwich, reportedly gunned down by a mysterious hunter possessing a strange French accent. However, the corpse publicly paraded as the "Devil" was quickly exposed as a taxidermy hoax, and sightings persisted well into the 2000s. Modern cryptozoologists theorize that a small population of Homo diabolus has been living in the Pine Barrens long before European settlers ever reached the Americas.

While the Pine Barrens remain the epicenter of Homo diabolus lore, a much stranger, lesser-known urban legend emerged in the 1990s: the "New Mercury Devil". For a brief period, the smog-choked alleys of New Mercury — one of the most crime-ridden cities in the United States — were stalked by a bizarre humanoid entity. Terrified witnesses described a winged "devil girl" who ambushed people in the dark, brutally beating them with a baseball bat. During one notable incident, a battered victim claimed his demonic assailant proudly declared herself a "superheroine" determined to save the city, just like Batman or the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Unfortunately, subsequent police analysis revealed that the witness was a local drug dealer experiencing severe substance abuse. As a result, his testimony was dismissed by authorities as a drug-induced delusion. Lacking any concrete proof or further credible sightings, the New Mercury Devil slowly faded back into the obscurity of local urban myth around the year 2005. Today, it's legacy survives only in the neon signage of a local dive bar with the same name.

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TIME: November 9, 1992, ~11:00 PM
LOCATION: New Mercury, New York, USA
CRYPTID: The N