Looking at the script in his hands, Schiller let out a long sigh. Chris unexpectedly got straight to the point. "Doctor Schiller, I think you have split personalities... I mean, some kind of dissociative disorder. And you can control this ability of yours, right?"
"Not exactly," Schiller said. "We aren't independent personalities, just different personality traits."
"Oh? Tell me more."
"We're the same person. We have the same memories and mostly the same abilities. It's just that a certain trait is more pronounced in each personality."
"Then which trait is more pronounced in you?"
"Greed."
"What about the one from yesterday? I mean, the one who got every take right while filming."
"My personalities are divided into a normal side and a pathological side. The one who came out yesterday was from the pathological side. That side isn't divided so clearly. Yesterday's was probably Manipulation. He's better at acting."
"How interesting," Chris said with a sigh. "No wonder you can be friends with so many superheroes. You're just as strange as they are."
"I'm much stranger than they are." Schiller smiled. He actually found it rather odd. He had a whole string of superhero friends, yet not one of them had ever asked him so bluntly that they probably still had no idea what exactly was going on with him.
"All right, I think this setup is very interesting. It could help us create a highly distinctive and well-rounded character. Are you willing to work with us?"
"I just want to know what's really going on. Is Mephisto the Black Hand behind it all? Then why is the first movie about vampires?"
"In the backstory, Mephisto had always wanted to invade Earth. But because of the magical defense network, he had never succeeded. So he made a deal with Cain,