"There was no long-term, and trying to cling to one would only spoil it all."
This article contains spoilers regarding the ending of Worm and plot of the sequel.
| “ | So many long hours spent around sick people, and I got numb to it, I stopped caring. Do you know how many hours I’ve spent awake at night, wishing my powers would just go away, or that some circumstance would come up where I’d make some excusable mistake where they would eventually forgive me, but where I couldn’t visit the hospitals anymore? | ” |
—Amy to Skitter, Snare 13.2 | ||
| “ | If you heal thousands of people and you mutilate twelve or so, you’re a healer who mutilates people. You don’t give me an hour’s worth of abstract interpretations of the big picture and buy fifteen minutes of me being happy to spend more time with you. | ” |
—Victoria Dallon to Amy, Breaking 14.10 | ||
Amelia "Amy" Claire Dallon, Panacea, and later The Red Queen, is a parahuman with the ability to reconfigure biology with a touch. She is the biological daughter of Marquis and was adopted as a child by Carol Dallon and Mark Dallon under the team of New Wave.
Personality[]
Panacea felt a gnawing sense of guilt, as every second she took to herself was a second where she was not helping other people, while at the same time growing to resent her patients.[17][18]
Like her absent biological father, she held herself to a strong code that governed her behavior and use of her power.[19] She refused to kill using her power or interfere with human minds, even to heal them. Breaking these guiding tenets caused her considerable mental stress.
Amy has bad coping mechanisms and natural inclination of absolute black and white morality. Once her coping fails due to stressful events, like her time with the Slaughterhouse 9, she falls back hard on her black and white thinking and doesn't try to stop herself from doing so. Her line of thinking is rather backwards and rooted in a downright toxic faith, where instead of using logic to reach an appropriate conclusion, she will start from the endpoint she wants and conclusions she worked out in advance and work backwards from there. She is incredible stubborn-minded, and will throw up total unthinking, uncompromising and inflexible resistance when she comes across a flaw or obstacle in her thinking to reach her desired conclusion, instead of correcting her stance. If she believes you are a Villain, she will never change her mind. If she believes she is a Villain, she will decide she might as well be selfish and take what she "needs", before giving herself up and going where bad people go(i.e the Birdcage) to make amends.[20]
Amy felt extremely lonely; her adoptive mother, Carol Dallon, never really wanted her and treated her coldly and suspiciously,[21] while her adoptive father, Mark Dallon, suffered from clinical depression and found it difficult to look after her. The only person who consistently showed her affection was her sister, Victoria Dallon.
She also felt a strong attraction to Victoria. Although she kept this a secret, fearing that it would ruin their relationship, it caused her to feel extreme jealousy towards Victoria's boyfriend Gallant.
During her time in New Wave Amy was terrified of combat and avoided it completely.[22]
As a result of these various sources of stress, Amy was "steadily crumbling" at the start of Worm.[23]
Reputation[]
Panacea is an admittedly powerful cape that has already drawn international attention.[3] As such she was targeted by various nefarious organizations.
Relationships[]
Victoria Dallon[]
Amy loves her sister dearly, they grew up together after all. However in a moment of weakness, she changed Victoria's brain chemistry to reciprocate her romantic feelings. She was prevented from correcting her mistake due to her sister's understandable revulsion to the idea.[24]
Her attempts to fix things only making things worse.
When she was placed in the Birdcage, Amy got her first tattoo in remembrance of her crime against Victoria.[25]
She eventually was able to restore Victoria's body,[26] but their relationship was irreparably damaged.
Amy continues being obsessed with Victoria, stating that nothing ever could compare.[27]
Wildbow explicitly confirms that Victoria's aura had no effect/influence on Amy's behavior and sexuality.[28][29][30][*]
Tattletale[]
Following the Battle at the Bank, she had a deep-seated dislike of Tattletale stemming from her attempts to manipulate her.[17][23][31]
Amy did not like her at all, and considered her the sole cause of her life unraveling, to the exclusion of other factors.
Taylor Hebert[]
It is unknown if they actually trusted each other. Amy ultimately appreciates the fact that Taylor attempted to help her during her breakdown, even if she didn't succeed.[32]
Appearance[]
Amy is described as "mousy" with frizzy brown curly hair and freckles from forehead to chin, packed densely enough that there was as much brown freckles as pink skin.[33] Her similarity to the father is very obvious.[34]
As Panacea, Amy wore a robe with a large hood and a scarf that covered the lower half of her face. The robe was alabaster white and had a medic’s red cross on the chest and the back.[35]
Because of the Siberian's tests, she lost several joints of her fingers.[36] She was able to restore them later through unknown means.[37] During her time in the Birdcage, she would acquire several tattoos as mementos to her life before the birdcage. She also had a growth spurt, and Taylor described the result as not attractive, but not unattractive.
Abilities and Powers[]
Amy is a biokinetic with an innate understanding of,[16] and the ability to modify, the biology of any living organism she touches. This is not limited to humans but encompasses all carbon-based life based on what is seen in the story. For much of her life, Amy primarily restricted her use of the power to healing. She was one of the greatest healers in the world.[38]
She has demonstrated the ability to render parts of a person's body numb and threatened to give Skitter time-delayed obesity or to make everything she ate taste like bile for the remainder of her life.
Her power was too slow to be much use on Leviathan.[39] It took her "some time" to modify tissues for transplant to avoid rejection, and she can't perform any changes without an appropriate supply of material to use; she can't "conjure material out of thin air".[40][41] Any changes she makes are not immediate, requiring several minutes to do so and which can increase depending on how massive the change. She also cannot work directly with "dead" tissue, such as hair or fur,[42] and presumably corpses.
Amy is capable of modifying brains. For a long time, she had a firm rule against it, fearing what may happen once she crosses this line.[43] Changes she does make are deep and not easily corrected compared to other master effects.[24] According to Amy, any attempt of neural diagnostics also puts her into the state of, at least, partial shared consciousness.[44]
Weaver compared her in power to Contessa, Glaistig Uaine or Labyrinth.[12] She was not related to Bonesaw.[45]
She was capable of modifying life into entirely new organisms:
- Scramble[46][47] and Relay bugs[48][49] to interact with Skitter's power.
- Atlas
- A coffin-like "cocoon" filled with clear liquid for an injured Glory Girl.[50]
- Pheromones that attracted stray dogs and cats.[51]
- An airborne plague.[52]
- A contagious parasite that counteracted Bonesaw's own parasite derived miasma-mist effect.[50]
- Khepri
Shard[]
Amy's powers are the result of receiving a bud of the Shaper shard from Marquis;[53][54][55] Amy calls her shard Princess Shaper.[56] However, Amy's powers have fewer limitations and are more broad in comparison.[53] Thus, Glaistig Uaine claimed Amy's shard in particular (i.e., not Marquis's shard[57]) was on par with her own shard and Taylor's shard.[58] Glaistig Uaine also believed Amy's shard, which she called the shaper, would be partly responsible for cleaning up the cycle in its end stages.[59]
Glaistig Uaine speculated Marquis's shard was an artist;[60] the same presumably applies for Princess Shaper. As Amy does not really participate in conflict, her shard is dissatisfied with its host.[61] Princess Shaper appears to express its unhappiness with subtle nudges such as Amy's intrusive thoughts about leaving patients to suffer or die.[62] Amy's powers are also more leashed to the goodwill of her shard than others, especially since her powers are relatively unbounded.[63] For example, Amy believed it was easier to create the Gibborim Knight than to fix her sister.[56] That said, she was not sabotaged to the same degree as someone like Leet; Amy is not a good example of a shard forcing their host to do new things even if they do not want to.[64]
Although Glaistig Uaine did not imply Amy's shard was from Eden, the appearance of Victoria's mutated form (i.e., reminiscent of Eden's flesh garden) might have been inspired by something Amy saw during her trigger event.[65] As Amy triggered near Victoria,[66] her shard presumably got a memory from Fragile One about Eden (i.e., Victoria's shard pinged off Gallant's shard).[67]
History[]
Background[]
Amelia was born to a woman who had had a onetime tryst with the Marquis of Brockton Bay, her mother found out she was pregnant and raised her daughter from there. After her mother found out she had cancer she checked on the father; deeming him acceptable she sent Amelia to live with the father.[10] She was raised in Brockton Bay from there.[68]
During the Brockton Bay Brigade's battle against Marquis, the Brigade discovered his daughter hiding in the closet. Brandish and Flashbang adopted her to keep her safe from the media and those who would exploit her due to the high chance of her manifesting superpowers. This was requested by Marquis.[68] She was six years old at the time, and retained vague memories of her previous life, but did not remember her father, likely due to their relatively short time spent together.
Amy was a quiet, unassuming kid without any particular passions. Despite that, as a kid of known superheroes she was welcomed in the circle of elite students. She had not displayed interest to this either.[69]
Panacea triggered two years before the story began,[70] when Glory Girl was injured by a gang, called the Chorus, attacking a mall.[23] She would visit hospitals for two or three hours at a time every evening, curing people. Sometimes she would visit again during the night because she couldn't sleep.[17]
Her power meant she was granted an honorary medical license.[71] She was not able to do as much as she could with her abilities due partially to rules governing the exploitation of minors.[72]
Story Start[]
She was called in to heal Lung after he was poisoned by an unidentified Parahuman and Armsmaster claimed credit.[73]
Glory Girl called Panacea in to heal a suspect she had injured in a fight. The two argued about Victoria's use of excessive force, but she eventually acquiesced. She helped her sister interrogate the man.[35]
Amy was present for the Battle at the Bank without her costume; she briefly incapacitated Skitter by interfering with the feedback she received from her bugs. At one point, Tattletale threatened to expose her secrets in front of Glory Girl.
Afterwards, she healed the Wards of any injuries they had and told them of her observations regarding Tattletale's power to help them in future fights.[17]
When Leviathan came to Brockton Bay, she was presumably held back at the secure location such as the Hospital.
Post-Leviathan[]
She healed a lot of injured parahumans in hospital following Leviathan's attack. One of them was Skitter, the girl who was part of the bank robbing team. Amy messed with her verbally while repairing her injuries and then left her alone despite the scared villains protestations.[74] Afterwards, she and New Wave were visited by the director of the PRT, Legend and Miss Militia where they were reprimanded.[75] She was there when the villain turned out to been a "hero".
She and New Wave were visited by the director of the PRT, Legend and Miss Militia
Weeks later Amy was chosen as Bonesaw's nominee for the Slaughterhouse Nine. She was forced to break a number of her rules, and in her distress, she modified her sister's mind to be attracted to her.[76]
Panacea was hunted by the Siberian who bit off a joint of her finger for each time the beast women caught the healer. After Glory Girl was injured by Crawler, she encased her sister in a biological pod made from stray cats and dogs.[50]
She modified Glory Girl to the point she lost track of what she was supposed to look like. Amy also sexually assaulted her sister while mutating and mutilating her.[77] The result was possibly inspired by something she saw during her trigger event.[78]
Post-Slaughterhouse Nine[]
To avoid responsibility for what she did to Victoria,[79][80] she demanded and succeeded at being birdcaged.[81][82][83]
There she met her father and saw Lung again. She attended a meeting with the cell block leaders of the birdcage and shook hands with Glaistig Uaine.
Together, they figured out what was really going on with the Passengers.
During her stay there, she dated Paroxysm.[9]
Gold Morning[]
Panacea was one of the prisoners released from the Birdcage.[84]
Amy made victory possible by modifying Taylor into Khepri. Khepri largely left her alone,[85] although several people were sent to her for healing.
After these events, Amy was reunited with her sister.[26]
Early-Ward[]
Panacea was still assisting The Wardens by overseeing Riley's work, like the maintenance of Ashley's hands.[86] She offered her services against theMachine Army, but was denied by thinkers.[27]
She started meeting with Bianca, planning to leave for Earth Shin.[27]
Amy tried to go to a family reunion that did not go well. When she tried to follow her sister she was almost attacked.[87] In subsequent meeting with Jessica Yamada Amy declined any professional help, suggested that Victoria should be invited back into super-heroics, albeit with a better support, and warned Jessica about her impeding burnout in the most invasive way possible.[27]
Following the advice to stay away from her sister, Amy ended up meeting a new friend.[88]
Post-Fallen fall[]
According to Dot, Amy provided help for other survived goblins.[89]
Amy continued making ill-advised friends, and brought some heat on the Breakthrough.
She was able to easily identify Chris Elman as Lab Rats successor. Chris convinced her to give him an opportunity to act.[90]
Once Goddess was subjected to sudden, but inevitable betrayal, Amy usurped her army of villains and departed with them as the Red Queen of Shin.
Post-Time Bubble Pop[]
Leaders of Earth Shin, while still being extremely wary of parahumans, allowed Red Queen to settle on the Alleghenian Ridge with strict conditions.
Amy used her powers to "fix" ex-villains that followed her to Earth Shin, as well as local warlords, and installed into them loyalty rules related to her and Shin rulers.[91] After that she attempted to heal the victims of capes, which led to several slip-ups, including mutilation of a kid from the new Parahuman Asylum.[92]
Using the situation resulted from power posturing of Shin rulers, Amy forced Victoria into private meeting.[93]
Post-Attack on Teacher[]
She declined to cure Flashbang of his old brain-injury.
She argued to accept refugees from The City's evacuation,[94] and allowed Chris to proceed with his plan.[27]
Amy negotiated with the Wardens, demanding from them to let her super-weapon through The City. She was manipulated by Victoria Dallon to recall Gibborim Knight and change the method of attack on The Machine Army.[95] Later she is forced by her Shin allies to attack heroes, that attempted to oversee her, but gets reasoned out of it by Victoria again.[96]
The Ice Breaks[]
Following the breaking of ice and Hunter's rampage Amy felt completely defeated and Flashbang successfully insisted on her returning under Warden's supervision.[97]
Amy was placed in the old Cauldron prison and assigned to Wayne Darnall's care.
Victoria attempted to recruit Amy for disrupting The Cycle, but Amy was believing that nothing good could ever come from her power and confessed to destroying Victoria's clone skin-patch and deciding not to use her power ever again.[98]
Amy was wounded during the fight with The Simurgh.
Amy accepted Victoria's plague from her adoptive parents, despite Marquis' disagreement. She broke her promise not to use power in the process.[99]
Ward Epilogue[]
Amy lived through winter of 2015-2016 on the outskirts of The City, willingly avoiding Victoria.
On Crystal's suggestion she moved to the European settlement of Gimel and returned to hospital work.[100] With powerful players insuring that she stays there.[101]
Chapter Appearances[]
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Trivia[]
- Many readers have the misconception that Amy's attraction to her adopted sister was, at least in part, due to Victoria's aura. As support, they point to an ambiguous statement made by Wildbow during the writing of Worm.[102] This comment was later clarified several years later - after Victoria became the main character of Ward - to make it 100% clear that Victoria bears no blame for Amy's attraction or later actions.[103] Her aura does not have long-lasting effects; it was not a factor behind Amy's issues.[29][104]
- Another misconception that some readers have is Jack Slash's secondary power brainwashing Amy into sexually assaulting Victoria. However, when he tried to recruit Amy, Wildbow explicitly confirms that Jack and the Broadcast shard had no real influence or push on her. What Amy later did to Victoria was ultimately her decision alone.[105]
- Amy and Victoria were considered early on as protagonists for a story called 'Guts and Glory'. The story would have alternated between each of their perspectives on a chapter by chapter basis and covered many of the same events that were covered in Worm.
- She was named Annie in early drafts of Worm, but was changed to Amy prior to the publication of Interlude 2.[106]
- In early drafts of Worm, Amy triggered when Glory Girl was injured by the Slaughterhouse Nine.[23]
- Panacea was the name of the Greek goddess of universal remedy, from which the word and concept "panacea" is derived. The panacea was said to be a substance that cured all diseases and granted eternal life.
- "Red Queen" is reminiscent of an event in the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It is referenced in turn by the Red Queen evolutionary hypothesis, which perceives the evolution as primarily competitive race as opposed to an event theory, that prioritizes catastrophism.
- Modern theory combines the two and this is just a scratching the surface.
Fanart Gallery[]
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References[]
- ↑ “What’s holding you back? You’re capable of so much, of changing the world, of destroying it, but you’re so very small, Amelia Claire Lavere.”
His voice was almost mocking as he said her name.
“That’s not my name.”
“It’s the name you were born with." - Excerpt from Prey 14.10 - ↑ I could put the pieces together before the image appeared on the screen, and it was still a slap in the face. Still an impact that caught me off guard.
A scene, caught through a window. Goddess, eating lunch in Earth Gimel. Somewhere not too far from where she and her portal were situated. If it were that alone, it would have been unremarkable, except maybe remarkable because of the clarity of the shot.
Amy Claire Dallon was in the scene, along with what might have been a pet squirrel, lurking within her sleeve, biting into her sandwich while Goddess sat across from her, holding a sandwich off to the side, her finger stabbing at the table. - Beacon 8.12 - ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 “But I got them anyways, and I got international attention over it. The healer. The girl who could cure cancer with a touch, make someone ten years younger, regrow lost limbs. - Excerpt from Interlude 3
- ↑ “Hmmm,” Lung spoke, “The healer. A young heroine in New Wave. Brown haired, like you. When I was in custody, my flesh blackening and falling off, they had her come in and mend the worst of it. As I understand it, she does not patrol as the others do.” - Excerpt from Interlude 10.5
- ↑ Slowly, she’d pieced them together, created profiles, discerned which ones had powers and described them to the other members of the Slaughterhouse Nine. Each had made their picks:
The buried girl. The arrogant geek. The dog lover. The daydreamer. The warlord. The scaredy cat. The broken assassin. The crusader. - Interlude 11g - ↑ “Whenever I’m with Carol and Mark, it’s hard to think,” Crystal said. “There are dynamics, there’s things left unsaid. It’s… heavy. I feel like I’m always waiting for the other shoe to drop.”
“My life from age six to seventeen, pretty much.”
“Yeah,” Crystal said. She wasn’t sure how to sustain this conversation. - Last 20.e6 - ↑ Marquis frowned. “My daughter, she would be… what year is it? 2010?”
“2011,” Lung replied.
“She would be seventeen. - Excerpt from Interlude 10.5 - ↑ “This woman I’m dating is… she’s beautiful, she’s smart, not- not educated, but she’s had to learn about a lot of things, and she picked it up fast. She’s passionate and stylish, she’s interesting, and… it’s like those television dramas.”
“Numb, you said,” Jessica interjected.
“It’s enjoyable, it has its moments, don’t get me wrong. But those moments pass, and… it feels like there’s a bit less of everything to everything. We started it off as an experiment, I was upfront about things, and maybe we’ll taper it off, I don’t know. I think we could remain friends.”
[...]
“Of course it is. But it’s not wrong either. The bullet points are the same. It’s romanticized because I fantasize about it a lot. How things would have gone. How things could go. There are weeks I work twelve hours every day and when I’m not working I dream of what could have been. There’s more life and feeling in that than in anything else. Than in B- In B, the woman I’m dating.”
“That doesn’t sound healthy.” - Interlude 16.y II - ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 When the woman didn’t say anything, Amy went on, asserting her voice, trying to sound confident, “It was my first kiss, with Paroxysm, and a few first other things, but that numbness, knowing it wasn’t what I really wanted? We broke it off about as amicably as you can, when you’re stuck in the same place. I saw a girl after Gold Morning, too, but that was… not fun. She was still mourning, I couldn’t help her through it.”
“Okay,” Jessica said. “I don’t want to lose sight of my suggestion from earlier. It doesn’t change that you and Victoria would be better off if you both tried to avoid each other.” - Interlude 16.y II - ↑ 10.0 10.1 Marquis[...] hooked up with a groupie that had freckles, then they parted ways. A while before canon, said groupie finds out she has cancer, goes to Brockton Bay to find Marquis, and after verifying that he's not an utter monster and he has resources to take care of her kid, gives him custody. Panacea was not born in Brockton Bay. - Wildbow on reddit
- ↑ Was it okay to say whatever, if it meant we could get her to Wardens Headquarters? Get her into that building, up to the stairwell, and then have a portal open. Push her through as we’d done to Tattletale, but without any humor in the action. Maybe using one of Rain’s mechanical hands, to avoid touching the dangerous striker-class cape.
And after that just… not open the door again. - Excerpt from Breaking 14.6 - ↑ 12.0 12.1 I could only think of one powerful individual who was on a par with the others she’d named. Contessa and Glaistig Uaine were easily twelves or higher on the power-ratings scale, and I could look to others with powers in that neighborhood to figure out who she was referring to. Panacea, Labyrinth… - Excerpt from Extinction 27.4
- ↑ “But you’re still concerned,” he said. “You said it’s possible.”
“Trigger phrases, in case I cross her and she decides she has no other way to have me? She’d put something like that in. A tweak to memories? I’ve gone over stuff, nothing jars, and I remember the PRT worksheets and guides on resisting Master influence. Nothing stands out there. But it’s possible. By the timeline, I don’t think she had me long enough to do something comprehensive or take her time with me and then erase memories after. But… possible.” - Sundown 17.4 - ↑ The man moved. A giant, now. And as he moved, she could feel how he existed in three places at once. Overlapping, shifting qualities between forms. She could feel through him how he touched the floor and sensed its qualities, reached out for the wall-
“Don’t!” she called out. She pulled away, stepping back.
The giant obeyed. Second by second, however, it continued to come apart. She worried it would collapse into constituent parts, but it didn’t. A storm of overlapping identities and bodies. And one piercing eye, as it focused its gaze and looked down at her.
With every step she took backwards, the figure seemed to clarify. She took a step forward, and saw it separate apart again.
Not wholly of this world’s rules. Closer to Chevalier’s power than Chevalier himself.
One giant leap closer to having their hands in the meat and gristle of this alien biology. When she looked at Chris, the man was smiling. Her own heart pounded, and she didn’t not feel like smiling, herself. - Interlude 16.z II - ↑ “She can do this,” my voice didn’t sound like me. “Change powers by changing the host’s physiology. She made the Class-S threat that took control of everyone, bringing them to the battlefield. That’s who’s going to be at the meeting today.” - Gleaming 9.1
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Amy took hold of the hand. Elizabeth Bagley’s biology, top to bottom, even vague brain structure, cell life, the cultures in her gut, all flooded into Amy’s awareness. - Excerpt from From Within 16.z
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 Interlude 3
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 The Star
"Upright: Hope, spirituality, renewal, serenity
Reversed: Lack of faith, despair, discouragement"
Panacea
Panacea is hope, but for others, not herself. She is renewal, spirituality, and serenity when she finally does find herself, reinventing herself within the Birdcage. Her crisis is one of a lack of faith/uncertainty in her abilities, falling into the depths of despair, and hopelessness. - Major Arcana, bolded addition by Wildbow. - ↑ “You’re your father’s daughter. Both of you are bound up in rules you’ve imposed on yourselves. His rules defined his demeanor, the boundaries he worked within, the goals he sought to achieve and how he achieved them. They were his armor as much as his power was. I would guess your rules are your weakness. Rather than focus you, they leave you in free fall, nothing to grasp on to except your sister there, and we both know how that has turned out.” - Excerpt from Prey 14.10
- ↑ DemoIceBoss: Dang ok, I've heard that before. Do we know the actual reason as to why she did what she did? Or is an entire mountain of issues caving all at once?
Wildbow: She's someone with bad coping mechanisms and a natural bent toward absolutist black and white thinking. When her coping mechanisms fail, she nosedives into the 'black' in her black and white thinking without even really trying to stop herself.
All of Amy's behavior is framed even before she takes Victoria to the abandoned house and alters her in mind and body. You can see it in effect in the frustrating Undersider conversation where she's healed Victoria. She's rooted in a toxic kind of faith, where rather than start from logic and then work her way to an appropriate conclusion, she starts from the endpoint she wants and the conclusions she's worked out in advance and works her way backward.
Confronted with an impassable obstacle between where she is and that conclusion, she stonewalls, throws up a total and complete, unthinking resistance, rather than amend her stance. This is uncompromising and inflexible. She decides you're a bad guy? Nothing you say will really change her mind. She decides she's a bad guy? Might as well be selfish then, take what she really 'needs' (her intent, not mine) from Victoria, then make amends by going to the Birdcage, where bad people go.
This is not, I find, an especially uncommon way for people to be & to think. I know a lot of people with that kind of mentality, but most of the time, their lives don't really provide many opportunities for people to really see it in action. At most, a few wonky life events might bring out the worst in them, where reality and the conclusions they're clinging to get far enough apart you can see the disordered thinking between A and B. For Amy, the S9 definitely count as a wonky life event, and she has the power to stray well away from healthy thinking. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles - ↑ Wildbow on RPG.net
- ↑ Amy perhaps most of all. She’d never been a fighter. She’d hated the idea of appearing on the battlefield. - Excerpt from Sundown 17.8
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 Wildbow on Spacebattles
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 “I can find someone else to fix it. Or maybe, at the very least, I can show some fucking self-control and realize it’s my sister I’m having those feelings about.”
“You can’t. I- Oh fuck. You’re underestimating what I did. Please. If you never ever give me anything else, if you never talk to me or look at me again, just let me fix this.” - Interlude 11h - ↑ Amy gets a tattoo so she has a reminder of Victoria and the crime Amy committed against her, without having to dwell so heavily on it. - Comment by Wildbow regarding Story Arc
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 I watched the individual members of the swarm touch ground. The girl with healing powers had been placed deliberately next to a living pool of flesh with multiple heads of golden hair. The healer’s hands were covering her face, but she didn’t step away.
Her hands slowly lowered, and she laid her eyes on the monster, which was actively, ineffectually reaching out for her. - Excerpt from Speck 30.7 - ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 27.3 27.4 Interlude 16.y II
- ↑ Untrue, the premise Victoria's aura has affected Amy on that level has no basis in the story, WoG, or otherwise, and is in fact contradicted in the very first chapter they appear. Removed as this is misleading misinformation stated as fact. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 Brett3572: She’s probably a lot less messed up considering there’s no factor of bad parenting (at least Sarah seems to be a good mom) and no constant aura. Also, she maybe doesn’t repress her powers as much. All in all, probably less messed up. She might not even be obsessed with Crystal.
Wildbow: Aura wasn't a factor. - Conversation with Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles - ↑ I think you're really reaching with the 'general propensity'.
I think you're reaching more with 'all those WoG posts about how Vicky's Aura did affect her sexuality'. If 'all those' posts existed then they would have been posted a lot in the amy defense threads. But the only one people cite is a "that's interesting, isn't it?" type post that people seem to be taking and running with.
My early-in-my-writing-career reticence to outright and directly say "This was rape" in conjunction with Amy not wanting to outright admit what she did is being twisted. Failure as a writer, maybe. I make mistakes.
At the same time, I do think it's a mark against people's character when they leap strenuously to the defense of Amy, when what she did was rape anyway. Take the most charitable interpretation of what she did, disregard everything I said in the link above and you still have gross bodily violation (literally violating and warping the body) against someone who had protested, resisted, and been incapacitated. Done for selfish reasons, as Tattletale outlines an alternate path that Amy ignores.
To say that's not rape, Victoria didn't remember, is little different from saying 'it's not penis in vagina sex so it's not rape' in conjunction with 'she was sleeping/drugged so it doesn't matter what I did.'
If you take the aura thing and run with it, it translates so easily to the same kind of sentiment that says, "She dressed provocatively, so she kind of deserved it/she owns some of the responsibility." As a recent chapter outlines, a lot of people were in the area for Victoria's aura over time. Only one violated her.
That ain't great. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles - ↑ “You sound like Tattletale. That’s not a compliment.”
“My ability to read people is learned, not given, I assure you.
[...]
I suspect you’ve never been around someone who actually paid attention to you.”
“Tattletale did. And Skitter.”
I startled at that.
“I meant on a long-term basis, but let’s talk about that. I imagine they were telling you ‘No, you aren’t. You can be good.'”
“Yeah.” - Excerpt from Prey 14.10 - ↑ Cockroaches 28.3
- ↑ She saw a face that had looked in through a window earlier. Freckles from forehead to chin, densely packed to the point there was as much brown as pink. Hair in brown curls with less frizz than Hunter - Excerpt from Radiation 18.z
- ↑ ...it was Marquis, and I saw how similar he was to Amy. In hair type and even the way the hair fell across their shoulders, in face shape, and the cast of eye and nose. - Excerpt from Breaking 14.6
- ↑ 35.0 35.1 Interlude 2
- ↑ “No, I’m not okay.” Her head trembled a little as she turned to glance at the others. She returned her attention to me. “She bit off my fingers.”
[...]
"My fingers,” she moaned, as she looked at her hand. “I ran as fast as I could, but it wasn’t fast enough. She kept catching me.” - Excerpt from Prey 14.3 - ↑ Tattooed hands, with two fingers left untatooed, replacements for what she’d apparently lost in her fight against the Slaughterhouse Nine.
I wondered if there was a meaning there. She’d tattooed blood onto her hands, either consciously or not, but that little addition was like a ‘but not here, not with this excuse’. - Excerpt from Breaking 14.6 - ↑ I can’t do anything for the people with more serious brain lesions unless I attend to them directly. There’s other healers out there, I know they’re not as good, but maybe they can do something to fix that. - Excerpt from Prey 14.10
- ↑ Comment on Extermination 8.4
- ↑ She can regrow missing body parts. She can't conjure material out of thin air, however. Even donor material is tricky because the body is liable to reject it unless she invests the time to alter it on a deep level. This is time she wasn't able or willing to spare when Armsmaster was in custody.
Atlas was made from an abundance of raw material. One key hurdle that they didn't have to cross. - Wildbow on RPG.net - ↑ “Can you grow us wings?” Trickster asked, in a wry tone.
“I can’t generate flesh from nothing, and it’s slow to convert something into a part your body won’t reject.” - Prey 14.3 - ↑ Her power didn’t work past hair, fur, and body hair. - Excerpt from Interlude 16.y II
- ↑ “You don’t understand. I can’t cure brain damage.”
My heart fell.
“I- my- the last time I did it, the last time I broke my rules, everything fell apart. You’re asking me to do the exact same thing Jack was. To break my rules again.”
"They’re just rules.” Where was Jack?
“They’re the only thing holding me together.”
He’s getting away. This stupid girl. “You were willing to die if he took you hostage. I’m asking you to sacrifice yourself in a lesser way. Fall apart if you have to. But undo what Bonesaw’s started.”
“This is worse than dying,” she said, her voice quiet. - Excerpt from Prey 14.10 - ↑ “I checked you. I got a read of your system. Um. That includes the neural connections- [...] I get it now,” she said. “How you’re disgusted by me, how you feel betrayed, the hate, the pain. Crystal clear now. I felt it, realized what it was and that it was all real, and I pulled my hand away like it was a hot stove. I did use my power, but it was like pulling my hand off a hot stove.” - Excerpt from Breaking 14.9
- ↑ I’ve mentioned that I went through a lot of drafts before settling on Taylor’s story. One of the drafts was ‘Guts and Glory’, and that’s the same point in time I came up with the Slaughterhouse Nine and Bonesaw (by a different name, same concept). There was involvement between ‘Bonesaw’ and Panacea, and I’m thinking that’s something I’ll want to touch on at some point. - Comment on Interlude 10.5
- ↑ Agitation 3.11
- ↑ Agitation 3.12
- ↑ Prey 14.3
- ↑ Cockroaches 28.3
- ↑ 50.0 50.1 50.2 Prey 14.10
- ↑ “I used pheromones to lure stray cats, dogs and rats to us, then I knit them together. Victoria didn’t have enough body fat to stay warm, and she was wearing out faster than I could get her nutrition.” - Excerpt from Prey 14.10
- ↑ “I’ve been turning every microbe that touches my skin into an airborne plague, Jack,” Panacea spoke, her voice low. “You should be dead now.” - Excerpt from Prey 14.10
- ↑ 53.0 53.1 Wildbow: Amy's power is related to Marquis'
Wildbow: Just broader
Gundor: Right
Wildbow: Minus the limitations that were put on the Shaper shard - Conversation with Wildbow on IRC, archived on Spacebattles - ↑ Marquis got the power that fit best at the time of his trigger. Panacea was more of a slow play in the midst of a promising situation. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit
- ↑ WyldCard4: Is Panacea's shard a bud shard from Marquis or is she a first generation cape?
Wildbow: Yes. - Conversation with Wildbow on Spacebattles - ↑ 56.0 56.1 We did it.
Did you want me to do this, Princess Shaper? she asked, knowing her power would never answer. Was that why it was easier than fixing my sister’s body?
Of course there was silence. - Interlude 16.z II - ↑ “Your daughter, too. Your faerie is kin to the one that sleeps inside the girl. I have no doubt this Amelia is a healer, but that’s only a facet of her true strength. I have decided I will not bargain with you, Marquis.“
Marquis used his hands to prop himself up as he leaned back. “A shame, but understandable. You don’t need healing, and your people are a secondary concern.”
“I will collect them as they fall. But you are mistaken, Marquis. I am not expressing disinterest in her talents. I am saying that I will only deal with her as an equal.“ - Interlude 16.z - ↑ “You view us both as queens, Faerie Queen?”
“I do. But let us drop the titles when we talk.”
“Okay… Glaistig Uaine. Anyone else?”
“There are others who stand shoulder to shoulder with us, but queen is the wrong word, Administrator. The champion, the high priest, the observer, the shaper, the demesnes-keeper. Why do you ask?” - Excerpt from Extinction 27.4 - ↑ “Yes. The other nobles, their tasks are more immediate, shorter in term. What makes us truly noble is our role before and after this act. The others sleep, and we toil. We’re practiced, stronger, for that constant effort. The champion and observer ensure the next act goes on without a hitch. The shaper and demesnes-keeper clean up after we are all done here, one way or another. So it goes.” - Excerpt from Extinction 27.4
- ↑ “Rest assured, Glaistig Uaine, you’re scary enough on your own,” Marquis replied, smiling, “I don’t need a whole army of your kind chasing me down.”
“There will be no chasing, for they are already in position to strike you down the moment they wake, three hundred years hence. You’re nothing more than the dream of the faerie. I can see it, so vivacious, so creative in its movements, even in slumber. I think it might have been an artist. I want it for my collection.“ - Interlude 16.z - ↑ There's more, Pitae - there's the underlying fact that capes who 'retire' do tend to run into trouble sooner or later
Leet/Panacea effect in play. - Comment by Wildbow on Discord, archived on Spacebattles - ↑ She sighed again, “The last person I really remember? It was maybe a week ago, I was working on a kid. He was just a toddler, an immigrant from Cairo, I think. Ectopia Cordis. That’s where you’re born with your heart outside your body. I was putting everything in the right place, giving him a chance at a normal life.”
“What made him so memorable?”
“I resented him. He was lying there, fast asleep, like an angel, and for just a second, I considered just leaving him. The doctors could have finished the job, but it would have been dangerous. He might have died if I’d left him on the table, the job half done. I hated him.”
Gallant didn’t say anything. Scowling, Panacea stared down at the ground.
“No, I hated that he would have a normal life, because I’d given up mine. I was scared that I might intentionally make a mistake. That I might let myself fuck up the procedure with this kid. I could have killed him or ruined his life, but it would have eased the pressure. Lowered expectations, you know? Maybe it would have even lowered my own expectations for myself. I… I was just so tired. So exhausted. I actually considered, for the briefest moment, abandoning a child to suffer or die.”
“That sounds like more than just exhaustion,” Gallant replied, quietly. - Excerpt from Interlude 3 - ↑ Some powers are simply more leashed to shard goodwill than others. Often the case with breakers (Moord Nag's pet is breaker-ish) and the more unbounded powers such as Eidolon (who has a dead shard, for the record), Leet, Glaistig Uaine, and Panacea. People who were slated to fall pre-powers are set up to fall in a bad way.
[...]
Working with the passenger's wishes means the ongoing effects and the bounds that form around the unbounded effects as they take hold (success rates and accuracy, power, efficiency, collateral damage, etc) are more to the parahuman's wishes. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles - ↑ shadowmist321: If the person is bad at using the database, doesn't try to use all that they have access to, such as only making spaghetti (the metaphor is breaking down somewhat) then database will force them to do new things (Garrot, echidna, panacea?, leet) even if they don't want to
Wildbow: I wouldn't put most of those specific names on the list. Garotte and Echidna are C53s/Deviations and the C53s in this analogy get the database & kitchen setup stuff dropped on them and emerge from the wreckage as a part human, part kitchen hybrid. Panacea wasn't sabotaged to the degree some paint it. Leet is a good example. - Conversation with Wildbow on Reddit - ↑ Ascaloth: Wait.
Wait.
Wait just a darn minute here.
Eden is described as “A garden of body parts, hands, stretches of flesh, a maze of parts, all interconnected, all flowing from the piece in the center. All of it alive, this time.”
Is it just me? Or can not the same be said of GLORY GIRL?
wildbow: Funny how parallels appear. Almost as if Panacea had been recreating something from something she saw in a trigger event. - Comment by Wildbow on Speck 30.5 - ↑ “No,” Amy said. “No, Vicky. Maybe before, but when I got my powers, it was to save you from being hurt. You don’t get hurt, not in a way that lasts. You will be a top heroine, a champion, beautiful and awe inspiring, and I will be behind you, keeping you in that fight, keeping you beautiful and perfect.” - Infrared 19.3
- ↑ And another, dead and broken, consumed and connected anyway, was so vainly trying to broadcast that it communicated as my host and I connected and ‘went live’. On air. Power button pressed. That fleeting contact and the jettison that came with it would be another facet of us. An emotion power. The host of that dead and broken thing would later connect to my host. Fuck her. Make love to her. Whisper to her. Fight with her. Hold her. Laugh with her. Talk to her of vulnerabilities. Of hopes and dreams. Of identity. Of school. Of costume. - Heavens 12.all
- ↑ 68.0 68.1 Interlude 15.x
- ↑ Amy had been the odd one in more than I had. Purely average in appearance, quiet, she hadn’t been passionate about hobbies or about anything in particular. She’d liked movies from Aleph and when she was twelve she’d break her usual reserved, quiet composure to get way too excited if she checked the change slot of a vending machine or pay phone and found a quarter. And yet when we got to high school, she was automatically included in the group of popular students. - Gleaming 9.2
- ↑ Do you understand what it means, to cure some of these people? I feel like every second I take to myself is a second I’ve failed somehow. For two years, it’s been this… pressure. - Interlude 3
- ↑ Interlude 2
- ↑ Amy bent down and touched her sister. Glory Girl stirred and sat up. With Amy’s help she stood.
“You’re lying to yourself,” Tattletale said. “And you’re making things worse.”
“Just- I’m just keeping her complacent. I’m okay with it if she doesn’t forgive me for it. Don’t deserve it anyways. I do this, and then I’ll go somewhere I can be useful. Only reason I haven’t made more of myself and my power is because of the rules and regulations about exploiting minors with powers. Either go into government or don’t work at all, and didn’t want to go into government because they would have made me a weapon. And because I needed to be with my family.”
She smiled, but it wasn’t a happy expression. “Burned that bridge. But I’m sixteen now, I can get a job somewhere, start making a real difference with my power.” - Excerpt from Prey 14.6 - ↑ Interlude 10.5
- ↑ Extermination 8.6
- ↑ [...] Instead of giving you a second chance, I was spiteful, I toyed with your feelings, and things spiraled out of control. You know how much trouble that caused for my family? The director of the PRT and Legend and Miss Militia were all at my house, lecturing all of us about how serious these events were and how sensitive relations between the various factions were.” - Excerpt from Snare 13.2
- ↑ Like a flame at the end of a long fuse, leading to a stick of dynamite, her power traveled from the side of Victoria’s neck to her brain. It was barely a conscious action on Amy’s part.
[...]
“Anything stupid. Like what? What did you do?”
Amy’s voice was a croak as she replied, “…make it so you would reciprocate my feelings.” - Excerpt from Interlude 11h - ↑ “I mean, it’s obvious that that kind of side of me is going to be bigger and more pronounced in comparison. You took all the parts of me you liked and mashed it all together into a big pile of lovey-dovey ‘Vicky’ you could cuddle with, kiss, use-”
She shook her head, violent. - Excerpt from Breaking 14.9 - ↑ Funny how parallels appear. Almost as if Panacea had been recreating something from something she saw in a trigger event. - Comment on Speck 30.5
- ↑ By a similar token, Amy doing what she does is understandable in the moment, but what's problematic is that in the face of guilt and people (Tattletale) telling her to change course, she twists her thinking around and doubles down and later avoids responsibility (Birdcage). The entire system, the edifice, is telling her no, and outside of the heat of the moment, calm and subdued, she does it anyway. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles
- ↑ Just about every character in-setting who wears a mask and has powers (and even many who don't) are also pushed to their breaking point. It's a conceit of the setting. That's not an excuse.
It's a theme of Ward that healing and getting better only works if you can get over & get past yourself. Amy remains an antagonist throughout because this is her major flaw - it's not a flaw introduced in Ward. We can see it in action when she talks to the Undersiders in Worm, in the language she uses and the approach she takes, ultimately taking Victoria away when everyone else is saying it's a mistake. And it's a mistake.
Amy is someone who decides what she wants and then rationalizes her way to it. This, when what she wants is a person, when she has a massive amount of power, is scary.
Going to the birdcage is ultimately something she does for herself. Getting tattoos as a personal symbol is something she does for herself. Fixing Victoria after the fact is something she does for herself, when it immediately follows that she wants to reconnect.
In the course of doing these things she does massive harm. She abandons Victoria to her state for years, and Victoria has to live the rest of her life with the ramifications of what happened. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles - ↑ “She went to the birdcage because she wanted to,” Jessica said. “And we let her because there were serious concerns about her unleashing an epidemic if she had another psychotic break.” - Interlude 18.z
- ↑ One of the motivating factors would be the risk of Panacea snapping once again and unleashing an epidemic. If she can create a counter-plague as easily as she did, how easily could she brew up an actual plague? There's plastic eating bacterium out there. It's possible she could create something for glass, for stone or metal. How do you hold someone like that?
Not easily.
There's two places that could manage it. There's the asylum and the Birdcage. The former's a no-no given the fact that Glory Girl's in there and it's opening a pretty ugly can of worms. The latter's a place she actually wanted to go.
And of course, let's not forget that Dragon and other people in charge of the Birdcage project have likely considered many of the same angles and still agreed that Panacea should go there. They have their flaws, but are they 'boneheaded'?
Maybe they are, maybe not. - Wildbow on RPG.net - ↑ People keep dwelling on that.
Amy: "I want to go to the Birdcage."
Authority: "We have uses for you. We can get you help."
Amy: "I want to go to the Birdcage. I don't want any part of any of this."
Authority: "The birdcage is permanent, no, that's unreasonable."
Amy, dull monotone: "I can make plagues, I will make plagues, I can make organisms that devour plastics, metals, glass, and stone, there is nothing you can do to seal me away, unless you put me there. Please put me in the Birdcage before I snap again. I'm done."
Do you really want to tell her 'no'? - Comment by Wildbow on Sufficient Velocity, archived on Spacebattles - ↑ Extinction 27.3
- ↑ Others… who was I leaving behind?
There was a group still in the settlement. They hadn’t all moved through the portal. I reached for their names. Right. Tattletale. Rachel. Imp. Panacea. I’d taken the others, collected the wounded. - Excerpt fromSpeck 30.5 - ↑ Eclipse x.4
- ↑ - Excerpt from Daybreak 1.7
- ↑ Interlude 3 II
- ↑ “My Red Queen has fixed a few of my kind. Big ones, weird ones. She could fix you. She can make you just as wonderful in shape and strong enough you don’t need the body.” - Excerpt from Gleaming 9.8
- ↑ Interlude 10.y II
- ↑ “I am,” Seir said. “Shin set their own rules and imperatives, remember? You struck your deal with them, you gave us the rules they dictated. We can do whatever’s necessary to protect Shin. Including if we think a mass murdering little shit like him might pull something.” - Excerpt from Sundown 17.8
- ↑ Amy shook her head.”We’ve taken one hundred and fifty dangerous parahumans who, believe me, could have gone to the Birdcage, and we rehabilitated them. Addictions removed, impulses tweaked, emotional balances adjusted.”
[...]
“I checked over all of the prisoners from the prison on your Earth and the leftover parahuman warlords from here. Put things in place, mental checks, emotional controls, whatever they needed. Chris handled information gathering, interviews, collected a handful he thought would be useful to keep around as…”
“Lieutenants?” I asked.
I saw Chris shrug.
[...]
After I was done with the capes I started on other people. Victims of capes. People like, um, like the people at the Parahuman Asylum. There’s a facility in your Earth’s Europe. Not really like the Asylum, more like a big farm, where they do their best to get everyone set up to contribute to society and give them therapy, medical care, and anything else they need. For some it’s just somewhere warm and clean with animals to cuddle.
[...]
“Her name.”
“Her- oh,” she said. “Hunter.” - Excerpt from Breaking 14.6 - ↑ Breaking 14.9
- ↑ From Within 16.12
- ↑ Sundown 17.5
- ↑ Sundown 17.8
- ↑ Radiation 18.1
- ↑ Infrared 19.10
- ↑ Last 20.10
- ↑ Last 20.e6
- ↑ “No. Amy Dallon is gone, for good. [...] Off to a hospital on the other side of the ocean. It’s not a quick trip, either. She won’t be coming back. She didn’t have anything here. Even her goblin was fed up with her.”
[...]
Tattletale’s voice was quiet. “She’s not coming back because there are people who don’t want to let her. Shin just dealt with their Giant Goddess problem, they wanted assurances from your leadership that they didn’t have to worry about her. I helped secure the guarantee. The Wardens got the cooperation from the hospital and the heroes over there.” - Excerpt from Last 20.end - ↑ Mrmdubois: Right, so the power kicked in when Glory Girl and Panacea where hitting or had just hit puberty. Panacea is introverted and would have spent most of her hangout time with Glory Girl anyways meaning she’d be getting blasted with this power…pretty often going by the way Glory Girl used it on her with no compunction during the assault/repair on the skinhead. Chuck in the changes in biology from growing up and awakening sexuality and it seems pretty likely to me that this was going to go weird places right off the bat
[...]
Wildbow: I wondered if anyone would pay any attention to that.- Comment by Wildbow on Interlude 21.y - ↑ Edited to clarify: But no, none.
It was never my intention to have this comment read as a confirmation of the theory. It’s probably my most regrettable comment, made in the adrenaline rush after writing a rather difficult chapter I’d looked forward to releasing, after 7 straight days of releasing chapters in my most intensive writing binge to date (as of then). I was pleased that someone was actively considering power interactions and I made this comment I thought (and frankly still feel) was vague. In the years since, many, many people have taken it as rock solid confirmation that Victoria was at fault for what happened. I wouldn’t give that kind of confirmation to begin with and put off clarifying the inverse for the same reason, but it remains pretty clear that it’s having a pretty damaging effect on the fandom so I’ve edited it to better reflect my original mindset. - Comment by Wildbow on Interlude 21.y - ↑ Sveta said my words. “You never went out into the field, Amy. You hated caping. She used her power around her mom and her dad, around Crystal, around Shielder, and even her boyfriend more than she used it around you. At higher and lower intensities. If it had that effect, it wouldn’t have been you.”
It was Amy’s time to freeze, to consider.
“I’m vulnerable. Weak. Pliable. I was alone. They were actual family, and Gallant was emotion resistant.”
I typed.
“Family doesn’t mean anything to the agents, Amy. Second triggers don’t follow family lines. They go by association. Who’s closest and who’s most convenient. Do you think Crystal and Eric weren’t vulnerable in the years around their triggers? They triggered too. They were second triggers like you. They had their bad moments. They felt alienated, capes among regular citizens. They had trouble making real friendships. Mark- you know Mark had his own struggles, weaknesses.”
I watched Amy’s expression through Sveta’s eye.
I watched her turn. - Excerpt from Sundown 17.8 - ↑ shadowmist321: Jack slash's power lets him send popup ads that influence the users behavior, such as being really into body modding (panacea?) or skeptical about using something they have access to (skitter: maybe I shouldn't choke him to death with bugs)
Wildbow: Jack Slash's power specifically utilizes the network side of things to sabotage the people who'd work against him.
It's largely defensive, but his personality (goes back to breadth, he grew up with this power and filled in the blanks around it) lends itself to being manipulative and finding weaknesses. It's him as a human that gets to Panacea in a weak moment, while the broadcast part of things utilizes the network to hold her at bay and keeps her from going on the offensive. There's no real influence or push here and (I feel the need to stress) her decisions over the following days and weeks are hers and hers alone. - Conversation with Wildbow on Reddit - ↑ Some names have changed since. I recall that Amy would have been Annie if I hadn’t changed my mind a few minutes before Interlude 2 went live, in Worm. The nature of the story would have involved a stronger relationship between Amy/Annie and Brett/Gallant, her finding her way, and ultimately led up to her incarceration. It was too dark, though, and there wasn’t anything to salvage it. All those people who talked about what would happen if Amy had gone to the wrong prison? The other drafts (which are unfortunately handwritten) went into that, and it was ugly, with her basically going full-on Class-S threat. - Wildbow in Snippets: Before Worm
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| Leader | Lady Photon (Unofficial) |
|---|---|
| Members | Brandish • Flashbang • Fleur † • Glory Girl ‡ • Laserdream • Lightstar ‡ • Manpower † • Panacea ‡ • Shielder † |
| Warden | Dragon |
|---|---|
| Cell Block Leaders | Acidbath • Black Kaze • Blood Diamond † • Crane the Harmonious • Galvanate • Gavel • Glaistig Uaine • Ingenue • Lab Rat • Lustrum • Marquis • String Theory • Teacher |
| Prisoners | Bakuda † • Canary • Cinderhands • Crock o’Shit • Knot • Lizard Prince • Lung • Murderbeam • Nailbiter • Panacea • Ramrod • Spruce • Trickster • Whimper |
| Leader | Red Queen ‡ • Cryptid |
|---|---|
| Members | The Gibborim Knight • The Mother of Mothers • The Giantess • The Mathers Giant |