Denise

Denise (ドニーズ) is a human resident of Spagonia that appears in Sonic Unleashed. She is the proprietor of her own beauty salon, Ricëmia, and is the uofficial adoptive mother of Mauro, who is always pulling pranks on her. She is well known thoughout town for her novel hairstyles.

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''Proprietor of a beauty salon. She's famous in town for her novel hairstyles, and prides herself in always being able to spot the latest fads. Since laying her eyes on Sonic, Denise has been sighted carting home armfuls of mousse. What could she be planning?''

PS3/Xbox360
As a kid, Denise was friends with a young Lucas and they remained close friends for many years. At some point in her life, Denise managed to get her own beauty salon, named Ricëmia, and her skills as a hair stylist became well known throughout Spagonia.

Years prior to Sonic Unleashed, Lucas disappeared in work-related incident and everyone believed that he had died in the incident, including Denise. Seeing that his son, Mauro, now no longer had any parents, Denise decided to help raise the young Mauro. Mauro however proved to be a tough challenge for Denise, as she found herself the primary target of his countless pranks. While Denise was always getting angry and furious at Mauro for pranking her, she also understood the boy's reason to pull pranks, seeing it as a mean for Mauro to forget his own loneliness.

Denise first appeared in Sonic Unleashed when Sonic the Hedgehog and Chip arrived in Spagonia to look for Professor Pickle. Upon seeing Sonic's quills, she tells him that she loves his hairstyle and how much his windswept look fits him, though she worries that Sonic could ruin it when running around.

A while later, Sonic and Chip comes running by Denise and she asks them where they are going in such a rush. When she then hears that they are looking for the Gaia Temples, Denise provides the duo with a hint to one of the temples' location, by saying that she had heard that there should be one in Mazuri.

As time passes, Denise starts to hears from her customers that ordinary people are acting strange at nightfall, and begins to notice that students at Spagonia University, which she is familiar with, is acting quite rowdy at night. She later passes this information on to Sonic when he comes by and tells him to be careful.

Over the course of Sonic Unleashed, Denise is constantly pranked by Mauro, who does things such as stopping all clocks in her shop which extends her lunch break, putting mayonnaise in the shaving cream canisters, changing her price for a haircut from up to 100,000 rings and putting glue on the chairs. For each of these pranks, Denise would get furious at Mauro and chase after him, while yelling out loud to show himself when he escaped, but to no avail. The efforts from these outbursts would then often leave Denise exhausted. Between each of her chases after Mauro, Denise would then tell hers and Mauro's history to Sonic and Chip when they asked her what was going going on, and explain why Mauro keeps pulling pranks on others.

At some point after Sonic restores Shamar's continent, Denise somehow learns that Lucas was still alive and that he had come back to Spagonia. She tells her findings to Sonic and Chip afterwards, but makes them promise not to tell a living soul about this. She later managed to locate Lucas in Spagonia, and began to track him down after closing her shop for the day.

Denise eventually managed to find Lucas and calls out to him, thus drawing his attention. As they stand face to face with each other, Denise is both happy and in disbelief to see her old friend, and asks him if he really is Lucas. It turned however that Lucas had gotten amnesia after the incident, but upon seeing Denise, he managed to remember her. While Lucas is glad to see Denise again however, Denise tells him to forget her for now and that he should go talk to Mauro. Lucas cannot remember Mauro however, and Denise yells angrily at him that “that kid”, as he calls him, is his son and explains that ever since he had vanished after the accident, she has been raising him for him, much to Lucas's shock.

The following day Denise watches on satisfied, as Mauro and Lucas is reunited in joy, and says she is happy for them, and that now Mauro would not have to feel lonely anymore.

Denise later watched on in horror with the rest of her town, as Dark Gaia began to cast the world into darkness, but rejoiced as the world returned to normal following Perfect Dark Gaia's defeat at the hands of Super Sonic and the Gaia Colossus.

PS2/Wii
Denise first appeared in the game, when Sonic the Hedgehog and Chip arrived in Spagonia and asked her if she knew Professor Pickle, but says that she knew was that a famous professor lived in the area. Later during the night when Sonic and Chip returns from Mazuri, Denise tells Sonic that normal, decent people has started acting weird and wild during nightfall and tells them to be careful.

Later on, Denise comments to Sonic and Chip of how busy they seem to be and that they are such a inspiration for her when she watches them, and gives them Secret Soundtrack 39 as a token of her appreciation.

Denise later watched on in horror with the rest of her town, as Dark Gaia began to cast the world into darkness, but rejoiced as the world returned to normal following Perfect Dark Gaia's defeat at the hands of Super Sonic and the Gaia Colossus.