Nina

Nina is a boss character introduced in Melodramatic Museum, which is a hidden nightmare found in Dark Deception: Unchecked Limitations.

Appearance
Nina resembles an animated dinosaur skeleton similar to the Ectoraptors. She has green and red eyes that glow in the dark, sharp teeth, long legs, and a bony tail. Nina looks to be about 13m in length.

Personality
Nina is the main attraction of the Museum and is very similar to a house pet to Venessa. Nina is very aggressive toward the player and attempts to kill them.

Powers
Nina has immense physical strength, and she can move very fast on those strong legs when she needs to. She can shoot lasers from her eyes and breathe fireballs. Nina, although not shown in-game, is capable of self-regeneration, as when she was presumably killed in Melodramatic Museum, it is shown she is still alive and recovering.

Behaviour
Nina will always start the battle by charging at the player, and the player must quickly get out of the way. Nina has several attacks, shooting fireballs from her mouth, shooting lasers from her eyes, lunging at the player, running at them, and spinning around her tail. Venessa also joins in, creating bone spikes and teleporting. The player must pick up a bone spike in order to fight back. The bone spike can be used to hit Venessa, which can delay her attacks, but most importantly can be used as a baseball bat to hit the fireballs Nina shoots. Doing this will damage Nina. Nina must be damaged 9 times, after which she will collapse and fall to the floor.

Nina's moveset consists of:


 * Firestorm: Fires a barrage of 6 fireball projectiles in rapid succession. It is telegraphed by the purple indicator across the ground, where the projectiles would eventually collide.
 * Eyes of Despair: Shoots out a laser from its eye after momentarily charging it, inflicting heavy continuous damage to the player. It is telegraphed by a visual cue accompanied by a charging noise, alongside a small red targeting laser that aims towards the player as an indication that they're being targeted. When the laser is charged, there is a brief moment before it fires where it produces a spark accompanied by a "pling" sound, and the Face will turn to fire at the direction V1 is moving toward. The laser beam itself will also automatically locks onto the player everywhere they go.
 * Lunge: Lunges at the player in high speed. It is telegraphed by her scratching the ground with her legs and observing the player's movement carefully.
 * Charge: Rushes at the player in an attempt to butt them and follow up with highly damaging chomp at close range. Her charging attack will always be accompanied by a loud guttural roar similar to a dinosaur. However, this attack can also be exploited to the player's advantage by getting her into charging and slamming against walls, stunning her briefly, or distracted with the Hallucinations power to allow easy access to its backside.
 * Tail Spin: Spins her skeletal tail to knock the player onto the ground, which temporarily stuns them for a second.

Trivia

 * Defeating Nina without failing to reflect her fireballs unlocks the achievement "Batter Up!"
 * Nina is not a T-Rex, and Venessa gets really annoyed at small children mistaking Nina for one. Nina is a Giganotosaurus, a species of Dinosaur that belongs to the same group as the T-Rex (Therapods) but is not closely related albeit their similar sizes and behaviors.
 * Nina's theme consists of xylophones and ancient drums as well as a low ominous chant.

Lore
The dinosauroid phantom named Nina is a proud and fierce monster within the halls of the museum. During the day, the creatures of the Paleoscope aren't much but dino fossils, but at night they re-animate into an amazing reconstruction of the world a hundred million years ago. The Ectoraptors, Carnoshers, and Cannibal Pigs are examples of these creatures. The reason is that they were given life by the Protozoan Necrotics, a fossil cult of necromancers that aim to bring back the old days. But Nina wasn't created in this way, she was re-animated by none other than Venessa herself. Due to Venessa's power, Nina was given not only massive strength but the ability of pyromancy. This made Nina a formidable and fearable foe, and when she roars, the nightmare shakes below her power.