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Because I did what I had to do, I helped you, and I still feel like the stupid, self-obsessed little child that let her big brother die. It wasn't conscious, but maybe I felt like I needed to up the stakes. Pull something dramatic. Show that, with these crazy smart capes like Alexandria and Faultline around, I could still be the smartest person in the room.

—Tattletale to Taylor, Scourge 19.7

You'd rather die. Than see people you love die.

My life is defined by regrets. [...] I don't trust the people who are pushing for status quo, and when people are taken from you… it's not noble or good or pretty. There's no heroism to fighting cancer or hurling yourself against an Endbringer and hoping it goes away. It's just an ending.

Victoria and Tattletale, Last 20.9

Lisa Wilbourn (born Sarah Livsey), known in her cape persona as Tattletale, is a member of the Undersiders.

Personality[]

Lisa is often perceived as an arrogant "know-it-all" by those around her. She values her intelligence and perceives any threat to that as a challenge. She is reticent to admit she doesn't know something.[13] She draws a large amount of entertainment from "messing" with people and being unnecessarily abrasive. Additionally, it serves as a method to reveal more information about the target. In private, with people she cares about, she is a more mild person, which is related to her guilt over her brother's suicide. This is also what led her to reaching out to Taylor when initially meeting her.

She describes her role in the Undersiders as "Ops" (although she does a lot of intelligence work as well). She goes in the field rather than simply acting as mission control because, first, Bitch insisted that everyone fight when she originally joined the team, and second, first-hand observation enhances what she can do with her power.

Initially, Lisa struggles with intimate relationships, since her power supplies turn-offs so fast that any possible attraction can be dismantled in five minutes.[14][15] Later, she views herself as aromantic and asexual, and accepts that it's not a shard influence.[16]

She hated being alone, making sure she was around people even when she was homeless.[17]

After seeing Lisa use her power to break someone, Taylor noted that she could have been a cult leader that would make Heartbreaker look amateurish.[18]

Tattletale is a manipulator type who is in her element with smaller scale situations (e.g., taking care of the Undersiders). According to her teammates, she stuck to Coil's setup as a warlord and then manipulated its parameters: she is much less effective at running a city the farther a situation strayed away from his setup.[19] Running and looking after a city brings out her worst traits and drains her,[20] leading to big screwups such as not knowing what her own mercenaries are doing.[21] Ironically for Tattletale, Cradle successfully bought out her mercenaries right under her nose.[22] Indeed, when Tattletale is out of her element and forced to invest more of herself into larger scale situations (e.g., running a city), she ignores things that are in her element.[23]

Reputation[]

In Ward, Victoria Dallon initially believed Tattletale was primarily responsible for taking over Brockton Bay as a mastermind.[24][25] However, the rest of the Undersiders strongly disagreed with this assessment. They do not believe Tattletale is a chessmaster or a real warlord: their overall belief is that it was mostly Coil (and partly Skitter after his death) who was responsible for taking over the city.[26]

Although Tattletale claimed she was a major player in New Brockton as a information broker,[27] the Wardens considered Tattletale a mid-tier power.[28] March's Megacluster forced her and the Undersiders to flee from New Brockton[29][30] and desperately seek refuge with Faultline's Crew.[31]

Relationships[]

Brian[]

Lisa and Brian had a recurring argument over the fact that he lived separately from the team, leaving him nowhere to go when he was injured. Given that she can sometimes infer incorrect information with her power, Brian also took to calling her a 'dumbass' on occasion.[32][33]

Taylor[]

Lisa was aware that Taylor was a hero even before she met her, but pushed to recruit her regardless. Taylor reminded her of the brother she failed to save.

Aiden[]

After the events of original story, Lisa takes Aiden under her personal patronage. She is quite protective about him.

Appearance[]

Lisa is noted as having a particular contrast between her costumed persona and her civilian persona, with a number of details accumulating to throw people off.[34][35]

Lisa[]

In civilian guise, Lisa is described as a seventeen year-old girl with dark blonde hair, mildly above average in appearance, with vulpine facial features, freckles on the bridge of her nose, and "bottle-glass green" eyes.[36][37][38][39] She favors a more subdued or traditional style of dress, and makes a habit of having her hair tied back, knotted or hidden in a bun.[35][34][7]

Tattletale[]

As Tattletale, she wears a skintight black-and-lavender outfit.[37][40][41] The bodysuit is primarily lavender, with black lines; one horizontal stripe across the upper chest, a vertical stripe slashing down from that, another horizontal line jutting out from halfway down that vertical one, followed by another vertical line piercing that horizontal line. The whole forms a large, stylized "Tt", although it's in such broad strokes that many miss it.[42] Other black lines were present on her arms and legs. There is a barely-visible emblem of a stylized eye on her chest, dark gray on black.[35]

She also wears a black domino mask[43] that hides her freckles and disguises the lines of her face and usually wears her hair down in costume.[34][35]

Sports a "utility belt" diagonally across her hips[35] with a small gun in one of the larger pouches.[44] Later she gets a hold of a PRT laser pistol.

After being attacked by Jack Slash she had major scarring ala a Glasgow Grin, severing facial muscles and damaging salivary glands. However, after Grue went through a second trigger event he used power copying to use Othala's ability to heal his teammates from the effects of Bonesaw's poisons. This also dealt with Tattletale's scar, she was left with only faint scars and no damage to the interior of her mouth.[45] Most people don't even notice them.[46]

At some later point, she adopted a version of her costume that used the same design but with inverted colours; primarily black with royal purple lines and insignia.[42]

Abilities and Powers[]

Lisa is best described as a "pericog"[47][48], or short-ranged clairvoyant[49][11], having the ability to accurately infer and extrapolate an incredible wealth of information from the smallest piece of data. She needs to have some information about the target to begin with, and from there her enhanced intuition fills in the gaps in her knowledge, allowing her to (among other things) crack computer passwords, profile and "cold read" people around her, and make predictions about the most likely outcome of a given situation.[7] She's very accurate, although not infallible. She has to consciously direct her power, needing to refocus and starting again if she gets useless information.[50] She can become mentally overloaded if she tries to take in and analyze too much information all at once. Further overuse of her power leads to severe migraines, a common issue for many thinkers.

It should be noted that although Lisa's ability allows her to extrapolate information, she finds extrapolating information about people very difficult. At one point she tells Skitter: "Reading people with my power is hard, reading into their motivations or emotions is harder"[51] although this was while Taylor was still pretending to be an undercover villain and Lisa was aware of this, making it highly unlikely this was a genuine limitation. Still, her passenger drives her to try and reveal secrets.[52] Her power developed over the course of the story but she continued to struggle with headaches.[53] Following periods of intense headaches she was unable to use her powers.[54]

Like Taylor she has inexplicable finesse with a gun.[55][56] At a much later point she was even able to accurately read lips.[57]

According to Glaistig Uaine Lisa hosts the "negotiator" shard.[5]

Equipment[]

Lisa keeps files and charts on many threats.[58] Her computer files are kept in quadruple variations with multiple inaccuracies between them, her inherent power allows her to intuit the correct information from it.[59]

History[]

Background[]

Near the time that Sarah started high school, she noticed her older brother only spent time with her because it was his duty. She stopped accepting his attempts and they drifted apart. She began to resent him for acting like a brother than not being a real brother, being the popular kid, and being the favorite child.

Eventually, Sarah started noticing something going on with Reggie. He got increasingly distant until he committed suicide. She mentioned that she had noticed something going on to her parents and they started blaming her for his death. To Sarah, it seemed like she was in a pressure cooker and that everyone knew that she had known something and hadn't spoken up. She triggered in her sleep, dreaming about it,[60] about a year and a half before the start of Worm.[6]

Her father caught on and started to use her power for the family's benefit. It became too much for Sarah and, eventually, she stole some of their money, ran away from home, and changed her name to "Lisa Wilbourn".[60]

Later, Lisa traveled to Brockton Bay. She used her power to drain the accounts of several rich men while making sure she covered her tracks. She then went to a clothes store and inspected some clothing. She sent an employee running after telling her that her boyfriend could be cheating on her. She was then apprehended by a Boardwalk "Enforcer" who took her to a nearby alley where Coil called her and said that he would like to "buy" her services.[61]

Lisa met with Grue, Bitch, and Regent at the Train-yards. She was told to get a costume by Grue after revealing she didn't have one before offering to serve as their contact. Bitch refused and told her that she would have to 'get her hands dirty' if she wanted an equal share. She agreed.[61]

Story Start[]

Lisa arrived with the other Undersiders and got off Bitch's dog. When Grue asked what happened to Lung, she told him what insects Skitter had bit Lung and said that he wouldn't feel so good tomorrow. She then told them that Skitter was shy before alerting her teammates to the fact that someone was coming. She got back onto one of Bitch's dogs, asked Skitter her name, and then told her that she should get out of there before they left.[62]

Later, a 'Tt' left a message in the Connections section of the PHO message board for Skitter saying that she owed her a favor and would like to meet.[63] When Skitter replied back, asking for proof of her identity, Lisa sent a reply a few minutes later and offered to meet with her.[64]

Lisa later went with Brian and Alec to meet Skitter. She made a bet with Alec on if Skitter would come in costume or not and won. Then, after Brian introduced himself, she did so as well before giving Skitter a lunchbox containing two thousand dollars. She said that Skitter could take it as a gift for saving them or the first installment in the monthly allowance as a member of the Undersiders. She then told Skitter what she had done to Lung before Brian stopped her.[38]

Once Skitter agreed to join the Undersiders, Lisa asked Brian what they were going to do. She suggested that they go to their place and, if Rachel was there, fill her in. She asked Skitter if she wanted to change in a normal alley before descending the fire escape. After Skitter came down and introduced herself as Taylor, Lisa pulled her into a one-armed hug before they left.

When Taylor expressed that she was jealous of their place, she told her that it was her space too and then showed her the rooms. She suggested cleaning out the storage closet and turning it into a room for Taylor and groused about how Brian had ruined their nine hundred dollar couch by bleeding all over it. When Brian joked about her 'knowing everything', she said that she did and told Taylor about her power.[65]

Post-Leviathan[]

Like all the Undersiders, Lisa took over a territory, and helped plot against Coil. She setup her territory in a shelter. Essentially hidden in plain sight, this allowed for better information gathering and a place for her mercenaries to operate.

Tattletale assisted Skitter in locating a runaway that was part of the merchants.

Post-Echidna[]

With the removal of Coil she was effectively the power behind the throne that Skitter sat on. With the abdication of Skitter to join the Protectorate she would take her orders from Grue at least nominally.

Sent a letter to her former boss and current friend while they were in prison.

Survived being targeted by the Simurgh.

Post-Timeskip[]

Took care of Brockton bay. Welcomed Weaver when she came to visit.

Provided ops support when fighting the Slaughterhouse Nine-Thousand.

She realized the source of superpowers just before the End of the World.

Gold Morning[]

At the meeting about the event she fills in the rest of the gathered parahuman leaders about what they faced.

She and her team were instrumental in the ending if the event, though not in the way that other parahumans were instrumental.

Early Ward[]

In the two years since Gold Morning Tattletale secured her position as a power player. She even lent favors to certain groups to gauge their potential. She convinced the Wardens to leave 'Hollow' Point alone when the villains moved in.[66]

When the restored Victoria Dallon came to 'Hollow' Point for a visit, the villains there contacted Tattletale, who passed on a note saying 'Turn around and fly home, Glory Hole'.[3]

Later on, she met with her in New Brockton. Tattletale tried to encourage Vicky not to interfere with 'Hollow' Point. As it meant she would be tapped as a resource. When Glory Girl asked if she regretted her role in Amy Dallon's fall from grace Tattletale tried to avoid the question.[67] Later Tattletale and the Undersiders came to Hollow Point to discussed a proposed offensive option against the Fallen, she discovered the surveillance Victorias team had and told them to leave while they could since she was about to share their location with her clients.[68]

She was later part of this concentrated attack on the Fallen during the Mathers Compound Assault. Strangely she seemed to have ducked out during the attack,[69]likely because of Looksee's attentions.[70]

Post-Goddess' Takeover[]

Lisa and the Undersiders went on the run as they were being targeted by March.

Lisa assisted Breakthrough in tracking down Cradle. Unfortunately, she had her body dismembered by him and her head was taken as a hostage.

She was rescued from Earth N.

Post-Time Bubble Pop[]

Victoria went to Lisa for help when she discovered an incriminating diary that had been written in her name. The two went on a detective mission, and ultimately figured out that Teacher was behind it.

She was present during the assembly of the second team aiming for Teacher's stronghold.[71] Through Kenzie, she got a look at all the raw data Teacher had been collecting on everyone.[72] Lisa consoled Kenzie immediately after Swansong's death.[73]

Post-Attack on Teacher[]

Tattletale agreed to Antares' deal with Deathchester. She gets accidentally pulled into the dream room of Rain's Cluster together with Breakthrough.[74] She was able to snipe the initial devices of tinker-guardian,[75] successfully bluffed it to reach Cradle, and took some knife-wounds from him to protect her wards.[76]

Seeks out the Negotiator in Shardspace.[77] Agrees to cooperate with the Wardens after the incident[78] and is left in supervision of Lookout.[79]

She was overseeing the second Shin crisis alongside the Wardens and helped to control the situation.[80]

The Ice Breaks[]

Lisa was alongside the Undersiders and Breakthrough during the oversight duty of Titan Oberon and Eve. During the battle of titans she stayed with the rear group and made some guesses about the inevitability and fatality of this kind of situation.[81] She stayed at the Wardens' camp for the remainder of the battle. Once the majority of capes had withdrawn from the fight she insisted on another, last push to cover for Eve's retreat, saying that it will be a "draw" option, that will minimize the losses.[82]

Tattletale continued to assist the Wardens during the continuation of the crisis.

Lisa directed Breakthrough to the Contessa's seat of power inside the Shardrealm.[83]

Faced with Lookout's mental breakdown Tattletale decided to put Kenzie to sleep with her medication.[84]

Tattletale stayed in the Wardens' HQ and skipped the initial engagement with the Simurgh together with the majority of Undersiders.[85] However, they were dragged into the battle after Simurgh captured the Mathers Giant and went after Dinah Alcott.[86]

After Simurgh was driven out of the Wardens' Complex, Tattletale confronted Victoria Dallon about her mass murder plan. She also brought in Semiramis to remove Victoria's recent wounds.[87]

Lisa had not infected herself with the parahuman plague.

She welcomed Victoria back at the Wardens' Complex.[88]

Ward Epilogue[]

Tattletale continued working with the Wardens' in an attempt to differentiate herself from more troublesome villains.[89]

Chapter Appearances[]

Worm Chapter Appearances
Gestation
1. Gestation 1.1 Absent
2. Gestation 1.2 Absent
3. Gestation 1.3 Absent
4. Gestation 1.4 Absent
5. Gestation 1.5 Debut
6. Gestation 1.6 Mentioned
x. Interlude 1.x Absent
Insinuation
1. Insinuation 2.1 Absent
2. Insinuation 2.2 Mentioned
3. Insinuation 2.3 Mentioned
4. Insinuation 2.4 Absent
5. Insinuation 2.5 Appears
6. Insinuation 2.6 Appears
7. Insinuation 2.7 Appears
8. Insinuation 2.8 Appears
9. Insinuation 2.9 Appears
x. Interlude 2 Absent
Agitation
1. Agitation 3.1 Mentioned
2. Agitation 3.2 Mentioned
3. Agitation 3.3 Appears
4. Agitation 3.4 Mentioned
5. Agitation 3.5 Mentioned
6. Agitation 3.6 Appears
7. Agitation 3.7 Appears
8. Agitation 3.8 Appears
9. Agitation 3.9 Appears
10. Agitation 3.10 Appears
11. Agitation 3.11 Appears
12. Agitation 3.12 Appears
x. Interlude 3 Mentioned
Shell
1. Shell 4.1 Appears
2. Shell 4.2 Appears
3. Shell 4.3 Appears
4. Shell 4.4 Appears
5. Shell 4.5 Appears
6. Shell 4.6 Appears
x. Interlude 3.5 (Bonus) Absent
7. Shell 4.7 Appears
8. Shell 4.8 Appears
9. Shell 4.9 Appears
10. Shell 4.10 Mentioned
11. Shell 4.11 Appears
x. Interlude 4 Absent
Hive
1. Hive 5.1 Appears
2. Hive 5.2 Appears
3. Hive 5.3 Mentioned
4. Hive 5.4 Appears
5. Hive 5.5 Appears
6. Hive 5.6 Mentioned
7. Hive 5.7 Absent
8. Hive 5.8 Mentioned
9. Hive 5.9 Appears
10. Hive 5.10 Appears
x. Interlude 5 Absent
Tangle
1. Tangle 6.1 Appears
2. Tangle 6.2 Appears
3. Tangle 6.3 Appears
4. Tangle 6.4 Appears
5. Tangle 6.5 Appears
6. Tangle 6.6 Appears
7. Tangle 6.7 Appears
8. Tangle 6.8 Appears
9. Tangle 6.9 Appears
x. Interlude 6 Absent
Buzz
1. Buzz 7.1 Appears
2. Buzz 7.2 Absent
3. Buzz 7.3 Mentioned
4. Buzz 7.4 Appears
5. Buzz 7.5 Appears
6. Buzz 7.6 Mentioned
7. Buzz 7.7 Appears
8. Buzz 7.8 Appears
9. Buzz 7.9 Appears
10. Buzz 7.10 Appears
11. Buzz 7.11 Appears
12. Buzz 7.12 Appears
x. Interlude 7 Absent
Extermination
1. Extermination 8.1 Appears
2. Extermination 8.2 Appears
y. Interlude 8.y Point of View
3. Extermination 8.3 Mentioned
4. Extermination 8.4 Absent
5. Extermination 8.5 Mentioned
6. Extermination 8.6 Mentioned
7. Extermination 8.7 Appears
8. Extermination 8.8 Appears
z. Interlude 8.z Mentioned
Sentinel
1. Sentinel 9.1 Absent
2. Sentinel 9.2 Absent
3. Sentinel 9.3 Absent
4. Sentinel 9.4 Absent
5. Sentinel 9.5 Absent
6. Sentinel 9.6 Appears
Parasite
1. Parasite 10.1 Appears
2. Parasite 10.2 Appears
3. Parasite 10.3 Appears
4. Parasite 10.4 Appears
5. Parasite 10.5 Appears
6. Parasite 10.6 Appears
x. Interlude 10 Appears
x. Interlude 10.5 Mentioned
Infestation
1. Infestation 11.1 Absent
2. Infestation 11.2 Absent
3. Infestation 11.3 Appears
4. Infestation 11.4 Appears
5. Infestation 11.5 Appears
6. Infestation 11.6 Appears
7. Infestation 11.7 Appears
8. Infestation 11.8 Appears
a. Interlude 11a Mentioned
b. Interlude 11b Absent
c. Interlude 11c Absent
d. Interlude 11d Absent
e. Interlude 11e Absent
f. Interlude 11f Absent
g. Interlude 11g Absent
h. Interlude 11h Mentioned
Plague
1. Plague 12.1 Mentioned
2. Plague 12.2 Appears
3. Plague 12.3 Appears
4. Plague 12.4 Appears
5. Plague 12.5 Mentioned
6. Plague 12.6 Mentioned
7. Plague 12.7 Mentioned
8. Plague 12.8 Mentioned
x. Interlude 12 Mentioned
y. Interlude 12.5 Absent
Snare
1. Snare 13.1 Appears
2. Snare 13.2 Appears
x. Interlude 13.5 (Donation Bonus) Mentioned
3. Snare 13.3 Absent
4. Snare 13.4 Absent
5. Snare 13.5 Appears
6. Snare 13.6 Appears
7. Snare 13.7 Appears
8. Snare 13.8 Appears
9. Snare 13.9 Appears
10. Snare 13.10 Mentioned
y. Interlude 13 Mentioned
Prey
1. Prey 14.1 Appears
2. Prey 14.2 Appears
3. Prey 14.3 Appears
4. Prey 14.4 Appears
5. Prey 14.5 Appears
6. Prey 14.6 Appears
7. Prey 14.7 Appears
8. Prey 14.8 Appears
9. Prey 14.9 Mentioned
10. Prey 14.10 Mentioned
11. Prey 14.11 Appears
x. Interlude 14.x Mentioned
y. Interlude 14.y Absent
Colony
1. Colony 15.1 Appears
x. Interlude 15.x Mentioned
2. Colony 15.2 Appears
3. Colony 15.3 Appears
y. Interlude 15.y Mentioned
4. Colony 15.4 Appears
5. Colony 15.5 Appears
6. Colony 15.6 Mentioned
7. Colony 15.7 Appears
z. Interlude 15.z Absent
8. Colony 15.8 Mentioned
9. Colony 15.9 Absent
10. Colony 15.10 Appears
i. Interlude 15 Appears
Monarch
1. Monarch 16.1 Appears
2. Monarch 16.2 Appears
x. Interlude 16.x Absent
3. Monarch 16.3 Appears
4. Monarch 16.4 Appears
5. Monarch 16.5 Appears
6. Monarch 16.6 Mentioned
y. Interlude 16.y Mentioned
7. Monarch 16.7 Mentioned
8. Monarch 16.8 Mentioned
9. Monarch 16.9 Appears
10. Monarch 16.10 Appears
z. Interlude 16.z Absent
11. Monarch 16.11 Absent
12. Monarch 16.12 Mentioned
13. Monarch 16.13 Appears
Queen
1. Queen 18.1 Appears
2. Queen 18.2 Appears
x. Interlude 18.x Absent
3. Queen 18.3 Appears
4. Queen 18.4 Appears
y. Interlude 18.y Absent
5. Queen 18.5 Appears
6. Queen 18.6 Appears
z. Interlude 18.z Mentioned
7. Queen 18.7 Appears
8. Queen 18.8 Appears
f. Interlude 18.f Appears
i. Interlude 18 Appears
Scourge
1. Scourge 19.1 Appears
2. Scourge 19.2 Appears
3. Scourge 19.3 Appears
x. Interlude 19.x Absent
4. Scourge 19.4 Appears
5. Scourge 19.5 Appears
6. Scourge 19.6 Mentioned
7. Scourge 19.7 Appears
y. Interlude 19.y Mentioned
z. Interlude 19.z Absent
Chrysalis
1. Chrysalis 20.1 Mentioned
2. Chrysalis 20.2 Mentioned
3. Chrysalis 20.3 Mentioned
4. Chrysalis 20.4 Mentioned
5. Chrysalis 20.5 Absent
x. Interlude 20.x Absent
y. Interlude 20.y Appears
Imago
1. Imago 21.1 Appears
2. Imago 21.2 Appears
3. Imago 21.3 Mentioned
4. Imago 21.4 Mentioned
5. Imago 21.5 Mentioned
6. Imago 21.6 Mentioned
7. Imago 21.7 Appears
x. Interlude 21.x Mentioned
y. Interlude 21.y Mentioned
Cell
1. Cell 22.1 Mentioned
2. Cell 22.2 Mentioned
3. Cell 22.3 Mentioned
4. Cell 22.4 Mentioned
5. Cell 22.5 Absent
6. Cell 22.6 Appears
x. Interlude 22.x Appears
y. Interlude 22.y Absent
Drone
1. Drone 23.1 Mentioned
2. Drone 23.2 Absent
3. Drone 23.3 Mentioned
4. Drone 23.4 Absent
5. Drone 23.5 Appears
x. Interlude 23 Appears
Crushed
1. Crushed 24.1 Mentioned
2. Crushed 24.2 Mentioned
3. Crushed 24.3 Appears
4. Crushed 24.4 Absent
5. Crushed 24.5 Appears
x. Interlude 24.x Appears
y. Interlude 24.y Mentioned
Scarab
1. Scarab 25.1 Absent
2. Scarab 25.2 Absent
3. Scarab 25.3 Mentioned
4. Scarab 25.4 Absent
5. Scarab 25.5 Appears
6. Scarab 25.6 Appears
x. Interlude 25 Absent
Sting
1. Sting 26.1 Appears
2. Sting 26.2 Appears
3. Sting 26.3 Appears
x. Interlude 26.x Appears
4. Sting 26.4 Absent
5. Sting 26.5 Appears
6. Sting 26.6 Mentioned
a. Interlude 26a Mentioned
b. Interlude 26b Appears
y. Interlude 26 Appears
Extinction
1. Extinction 27.1 Appears
2. Extinction 27.2 Appears
3. Extinction 27.3 Appears
4. Extinction 27.4 Appears
5. Extinction 27.5 Absent
x. Interlude 27.x Appears
y. Interlude 27.y Absent
Cockroaches
1. Cockroaches 28.1 Appears
2. Cockroaches 28.2 Appears
3. Cockroaches 28.3 Appears
4. Cockroaches 28.4 Appears
5. Cockroaches 28.5 Appears
6. Cockroaches 28.6 Appears
x. Interlude 28 Appears
Venom
1. Venom 29.1 Appears
2. Venom 29.2 Appears
3. Venom 29.3 Appears
4. Venom 29.4 Appears
5. Venom 29.5 Appears
6. Venom 29.6 Mentioned
7. Venom 29.7 Mentioned
8. Venom 29.8 Mentioned
9. Venom 29.9 Appears
x. Interlude 29 Absent
Speck
1. Speck 30.1 Appears
2. Speck 30.2 Appears
3. Speck 30.3 Appears
4. Speck 30.4 Appears
5. Speck 30.5 Appears
6. Speck 30.6 Appears
7. Speck 30.7 Appears
Teneral
1. Teneral e.1 Absent
2. Teneral e.2 Mentioned
3. Teneral e.3 Absent
4. Teneral e.4 Mentioned
5. Teneral e.5 Absent
x. Interlude: End Point of View
Ward Chapter Appearances
Flare
1. Flare 2.1 Absent
2. Flare 2.2 Absent
3. Flare 2.3 Absent
4. Flare 2.4 Absent
5. Flare 2.5 Absent
6. Flare 2.6 Absent
7. Flare 2.7 Mentioned
x. Interlude 2 II Absent

Quotes[]

  • (To Glory Girl): "Oh honey, now who's being stupid? I've got the most powerful weapon of all... Information."

Fanart Gallery[]

References[]

  1. "I apologize for the manner of our meeting, I hope my soldiers were not too rough on you, Lisa Wilbourn," the voice on the other end was smooth, calm, unruffled, "Or is it Sarah Livsey?"

    "Either or," she replied, "Lisa these days." - Excerpt from Interlude 8.y
  2. The message was titled, simply, "Bug"

    I clicked it and waited impatiently for the outdated system and overloaded school modem to load up the page. What I got was brief.
    Subject: Bug

    Owe you one. Would like to repay the favor. Meet?

    Send a message,

    Tt.
    The post was followed by two pages of people commenting. Three people suggested it was something important, while a half dozen more people decried them as tinfoil hats, Parahumans.net's term for conspiracy theorists.

    It was meaningful, though. I couldn't interpret it any other way; Tattletale had found a way to get in contact with me. - Insinuation 2.2
  3. 3.0 3.1 With all that in mind, I still stopped in my tracks when I read the note.
    Turn around and fly home, Glory Hole
    -TT
    They'd asked around, huh? - Flare 2.7
  4. "Well that's really fucking inconvenient," Tattletale said.

    "Really fucking sorry to inconvenience you, Tats," he retorted. - Last 20.6
  5. 5.0 5.1 "Testing. Testing." It was a young woman.

    "I'm here, Tattletale," he spoke, letting his power alter his voice.

    [...]

    "You're talking to the negotiator," Glaistig Uaine observed. Eidolon nodded. - Excerpt from 27.x (Interlude, Eidolon)‏‎
  6. 6.0 6.1 Tattletale is a year older than Taylor, 16. tested out to claim her GED. Counting backward, before 1.1, she had one year with the Undersiders, maybe four or so months living on/around the Boardwalk, and two months existing at home post-trigger. Triggered 1.5 years prior. - Private email conversation with Wildbow, archived with permission on Spacebattles.
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 Tattletale, Lisa Wilbourn (Also Sarah Livsey) – Controls central Downtown, though she doesn't show much presence. Seventeen years old, Tattletale possesses enhanced intuition, with the ability to close gaps in her knowledge or draw natural conclusions from related areas of knowledge. This renders her a master at obtaining information, cracking encryption and playing head games with her enemies.

    Lisa (Tattletale's civilian guise) favors a more subdued or traditional style of dress, and makes a habit of having her hair tied back, knotted or hidden in a bun. Described as fitting somewhere in the middle of the scale between average and pretty, Lisa has straight blond hair, a smattering of freckles across her nose and a perpetual vulpine grin.

    Tattletale wears a black mask around her eyes, covering her freckles and leaves her long blond hair down, in contrast to her civilian self. Wears a lavender and black costume with thick vertical and horizontal bars of black, with the emblem of a stylized eye on her chest. Sports a belt with a holstered gun. - Cast (in depth)
  8. 8.0 8.1 "I don't know who to call, Rex," she mumbled, and her voice was small, timid. "Ambulances are for people who are alive. Police are for investigating deaths, but it's obvious who did it. I feel so stupid."

    Tears blurred her vision, and she blinked to clarify it, looking at the names: 'June Livsey'. 'Fred Livsey'.

    She didn't press the button. Quietly, she hung up the phone, and headed out the door, head hanging. - From Within 16.8
  9. "I'm sorry," I said.

    "So am I," Lisa sighed. "I've spent so long trying to figure it out, but I couldn't. You'd think the star athlete might be gay, but it wasn't that. Something else. I let on to my family that I'd noticed something, after, and they started blaming me. They were grieving, but that doesn't excuse it, does it?"

    I shook my head.

    "Calling me stupid, an idiot," Lisa looked away. "It got to be too much, like I was in a pressure cooker, everywhere I went, it was about him, and there was always this feeling, like everyone was aware that I'd known something and hadn't spoken up, hadn't done something to help. I think I had my trigger event while I was asleep, tossing and turning and dreaming about it all. And then, boom, I wake up and I start figuring stuff out, with killer migraines on the side. Maybe if I'd caught on that it was powers sooner, I might have been more secretive, but my dad caught on. Did a complete turnaround. Faked affection, hid the real feelings, all to get me to use my power for the family's benefit." - Scourge 19.7
  10. "His name was Reggie, but he got into sports in high school. They started calling him Rex, until everyone used the name. I don't mean this to be insulting, but you were kind of opposites in a lot of ways. He was this popular guy, charming."

    "Your boyfriend?"

    She laughed, a short sound. "My brother." - Scourge 19.7
  11. 11.0 11.1 "The one that is speaking is Tattletale, member of the Undersiders," Armsmaster spoke, his voice a hair away from being a growl, "A master manipulator, penchant for head games, likes to pretend she's psychic but she isn't. We don't know her power, possibly clairvoyance, psychometry, or some combination thereof, but we've got her pegged as a Thinker 7."

    "Seven? I'm flattered," Tattletale replied, grinning. - Excerpt from Extermination 8.7
  12. "She could be full of shit," Sveta said.

    "She could be," I admitted. "Trouble of dealing with masterminds is you can't ever know." - Glare 3.4
  13. "Coil sent the Travelers to me for help. She's had some physical changes," Tattletale said. She traced one of the creases in the crumpled vault door with her gloved fingers. "They wanted to get a better idea of what was going on, so they could maybe change her back."

    "And when I asked about her before, you brushed me off."

    "Don't like admitting I don't know something," she said. "And I don't know the full story. They were working on the assumption that she's turning into an Endbringer."

    That gave us all a moment's pause. - Excerpt from Queen 18.1
  14. "My power kind of takes the mystery out of things. Relationships are hard to get off the ground unless you can get the ball rolling with a healthy dose of self delusion and lies... Give me a few years, maybe I'll lower my standards enough to be able to overlook what my power's telling me about the guys' more disgusting and degrading character quirks and habits." - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/tangle-6-2/ Excerpt from Tangle 6.2
  15. If you stripped away Lisa's powers, she'd be straight. With them, she's basically like someone in Seinfeld, only she finds out that turn-off quirk in the first 30 seconds to five minutes [...] the stuff keeps piling on, and it comes in fast enough that it cancels out the good. -Wildbow on Spacebattles
  16. She'd come to terms with the fact that her lack of interest in the romance or the physical stuff wasn't because of one excuse or the other. She was pretty sure it wasn't because her power preferred her this way. It was just her. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/11/24/interlude-10-x/ Excerpt from Interlude 10.x II
  17. She'd never been able to stand being isolated, had always had her family, with roommates, friends and fellow squatters living with her after she'd run away. Taylor, though, seemed to gravitate towards solitude. She pushed people away, and when it came down to the nitty-gritty, when their group had found out the details with the kidnapped girl, Taylor had left. Tattletale couldn't imagine doing the same thing, and she had strong suspicions Taylor was closer to the others than she was. - Excerpt from Interlude 8.y
  18. The look was utterly defenseless. I was put in mind, for just an instant, of just who Tattletale could have been. I had a mental image of her as a cult leader, tearing people down with an almost surgical precision, then molding them into who she wanted them to be when they were emotionally and mentally unable to mount a defense. - Excerpt from Prey 14.3
  19. "She's a manipulator!" Foil called out, raising her voice in response.

    "She's an idiot, but if you start talking shit about her-"

    "I'm not, Bitch! It's not shit," Foil said, the latter half of what she said was a normal speaking volume. "She took over what Coil started and she steered that. She's good at that, but the farther we get from that setup of his, the harder it is. She steered the group, helped Skitter, helped Imp!"

    "And Rachel?" I asked, looking at Rachel.

    "You don't manipulate her, or you get your head torn off!"
    [...]
    "She was always at her best dealing with the smaller scale and the biggest, most abstract stuff," Foil called out. "Fights and powers, conspiracies, not running cities! That was always her sticking to someone else's game plan, manipulating the parameters. She was best when she was taking care of the Undersiders. When she had to look after herself, because not being at her best meant she might not be able to manipulate and steer her friends." - Blinding 11.10
  20. "I don't know if you can relate," Foil said, "But sometimes you get stuck in a place that isn't you. Where everything you do is a drain on you. It brings out your worst traits."
    [...]
    "Tattletale's in that place, trying to help the city," Foil raised her voice. - Blinding 11.10
  21. "She has no purpose?" I asked. My hand was cold where it was holding my hood up. I pulled it down, using my other, and drew closer so I wouldn't have to strain my throat yelling. "How does that lead to a screwup like not knowing what her own mercenaries are doing?"

    "She has a purpose, but it's killing her," Foil said. "She looks after the city. It's that thing that drains her and brings out the worst in her. It doesn't fill that need she has, but she does it because she has to."

    "She did it, past tense," I gritted out the words. I'd have to bail in a second to throw the Wretch up. "She keeps talking about how she's bailing, she's out, she doesn't want to get involved."

    "Yeah. What's she doing instead?"

    "Looking after Chicken Little. Do you mean he's her project now? Like the Undersiders were before?"- Blinding 11.10
  22. The wall fell away, and Cradle advanced, head low, passing between the four segments of Tattletale,

    "Cradle- the most intact part of Tattletale said. "You have a mole. Someone who tipped you off."

    "Learn your own lessons. Mercenaries follow the highest bidder," Cradle said. - Interlude 11.c II
  23. "She looks like she's in her element but she's not. So she puts more of herself into it-"

    "And ignores the things that are in her element?" I asked.

    "Yeah. Just so you know, I don't have the most charitable view of her, though I'm really trying here, I'm glossing over a lot of general bitchiness," Foil said. "Take what I say with a heaping of salt."

    "I don't-" I winced at the cold air that rushed its way to my sore throat, colder than most of the air I was intentionally taking in. "I don't have the best view of her either, I don't know if that means there's no need for any added salt, or if I need an extra heaping. But it makes sense. What you say makes sense." - Blinding 11.10
  24. "The Undersiders took over Brockton Bay, and they did it with Tattletale on point for most of it. I'm not a hundred percent sure on any of this, but you can look at the events in the city starting with her taking power. Bank robbery, Undersiders succeed, they run into the Wards, me, and my sister. Tattletale insinuates knowledge of my sister's deepest secrets, and mine. My sister goes off the deep end. ABB are provoked following an arrest of their leader and an interaction with the Undersiders, with Tattletale. They're toppled with a concerted effort on the part of the villains, with intel passed to the heroes by the villains."

    "By Tattletale," Tristan said.

    "In large part. Empire Eighty-Eight get outed, secret identities revealed. Undersiders are the focus of the blame, and a number of people die in the ensuing rampage. Weeks and months of violence and chaos in Brockton Bay feed into the Endbringer attack on the city. Half of my family died because of that." - Glare 3.4
  25. "Okay," I said. "It's just one data point in a series. The last remaining mastermind of the city falls, Coil. The PRT directors die. Twice, in quick succession. Weaknesses are targeted and capitalized on. Alexandria dies in Brockton Bay, at the hands of a girl who had apparently wanted to be a hero, but who was converted to the villains' side. Flechette, a hero, a minor friend of mine? Apparently converted. Accord edges into the Undersiders' turf. He dies when the Behemoth fight happens. What do you think happens with his resources and power? Because I'm betting it's the same as what happened with Coil's."

    "And now she runs one of the major settlement points," Rain said. He still sounded spooked.

    "Yeah," I said. "I don't have all of the information, but she got to that point by being one of the masterminds and playing the game well. She was aggressive when the city was vulnerable and she was passive when it wasn't. The moment Gold Morning came around, I get the impression she mobilized hard, she was ready to expand and capitalize on the situation with more of that aggression. Again, I'm not 100% on all of that. But I can say with reasonable confidence that she's one of the most dangerous, capable people on Gimel." - Glare 3.4
  26. "She took over Brockton Bay!" I had to half-shout to be heard over the rush of wind.

    "She didn't! Not like you're thinking! Coil took most of it over, set most of that stuff in motion! Skitter did a lot of the rest of the work when it came to the taking over part! Tattletale isn't a warlord! She isn't a chessmaster!"

    Eerie to hear one of her allies say it. More uncomfortable to have to recontextualize my mental picture of her.

    "What the hell is she, then?"

    "She's an idiot!" Rachel shouted.

    I was surprised she could hear. - Blinding 11.10
  27. "I'm one of the major players now. The other major players call me for a hint when they're stuck on something. I'm wealthy, well-positioned, and safe. I'm now sharing the love and bringing some of that security, stability, and safety to others, in my very, very roundabout way. It's part of why I'm having this conversation with you." - Glare 3.1
  28. "It makes sense. But you can't avoid seeing her forever, Foil. Lily."

    Foil looked surprised at the mention of her name.

    Narwhal gave her a sympathetic look. "We thought about recruiting you. We looked you up. It was determined it would be too antagonistic with a mid-tier power."

    "Tattletale?" Foil asked. She sounded angry.

    "We can talk about options after if you want. Don't hold it against Tattletale. Please don't hold it against us. I'm distracting you from what you were talking about. You're avoiding Parian?" - Heavens 12.x
  29. "Heartbroken," I said. "And luggage. They've left the New Brockton area."

    "Were they driven out?"

    I had trouble imagining another reason for them to be gone. New Brockton was their territory. They'd put everything into it for years and now they'd left it? What had happened there, or what was happening here that was pulling them together?

    Worrying to imagine, that my old enemies might be cornered or desperate. - Polarize 10.3
  30. Tattletale had fled Brockton Bay with the other Brockton-Bay Undersiders, namely Imp and Imp's gang, they'd stopped at one place to regroup and wait for the stragglers, and then had immediately set to getting themselves prepared. Hired mercenaries, bought not with cash, but with a store of weapons. From there, they'd met up with Parian and Foil, retiring for the night, all packing up together in a manufacturing area for Parian's clothing line. - Polarize 10.4
  31. How desperate were you, that you went to her? I thought, looking at the image of a retreating Tattletale. The Undersiders had met with the Palanquin mercenaries, despite the fact that Tattletale's feud with Faultline was common knowledge. I'd heard it had something to do with Tattletale getting beaten out by Faultline on an early job, and then never really getting an opportunity to even the score after. I wasn't sure if that had been pure speculation from Crystal. - Polarize 10.4
  32. Insinuation 2.7
  33. Agitation 3.8
  34. 34.0 34.1 34.2 Tattletale – Gifted with superhuman intuition, the ability to fill in gaps in her knowledge, Tattletale is a member of the Undersiders, their information specialist and one of their better tactical thinkers. Wears her blond hair straight, and has a lavender and black costume with a stylized eye on the chest. - Cast (spoiler free)
  35. 35.0 35.1 35.2 35.3 35.4 I admired the sheer change she was capable of pulling off when donning her costume. Rather, I should say, I admired the effort she'd gone into as Lisa, that made her so different from her Tattletale persona. Her mask was narrow, only really surrounding her eye sockets, covering her eyebrows, some of her nose and some of her cheekbones, but it hid the freckles on the bridge of her nose and changed the apparent lines of her face. Her hair was down and loose, damp from the rain, in contrast to how it was always in a ponytail or braided when she was 'Lisa'. Her costume was skintight, beaded with droplets of water, lavender with bands of black across the chest and down the sides of her arms, legs and body. An image of a stylized eye, only visible in the right light, given it was dark gray on black, was worked into the costume's design. A compact 'utility belt' sat diagonally across her hips, sporting a variety of compact pockets and pouches. - Agitation 3.7
  36. I recognized them even without their costumes. Two guys and a girl. The girl had dirty blonde hair tied back into a loose braid, a smattering of freckles over the bridge of her nose and the same vulpine grin I recognized from the night prior. She wore a black long sleeved t-shirt with a graffiti-style design on it and a knee length denim skirt. I was surprised by the bottle-glass green of her eyes. - Insinuation 2.8
  37. 37.0 37.1 She was dressed in a skintight outfit that combined black with a pale shade of blue or purple – I couldn't tell in the dark – and her dark blond hair was long and windblown. - Gestation 1.5
  38. 38.0 38.1 Insinuation 2.6
  39. The girl beside him smiled, and brilliant green eyes settled on Cody, stark contrasts to her pale purple costume. ---Excerpt from interlude 23
  40. Turning my attention to Tattletale, I searched the wiki. The result I got was disappointingly short, starting with a header reading "This article is a stub. Be a hero and help us expand it." There was a one sentence blurb on how she was a alleged villain active in Brockton Bay, with a single blurry picture. The only new information for me was that her costume was lavender. A search of the message boards turned up absolutely nothing. There wasn't even a hint as to what her power was. - Insinuation 2.1
  41. Teenage girl, dirty blond, costume of black and light purple. - Crushed 24.3
  42. 42.0 42.1 Tattletale had reversed her costume colors from black on lavender to a more royal purple on black. The same pattern of lines slashing across her costume remained- horizontal line across the upper chest, vertical line slashing down from that, to form a stylized 'T'. Another horizontal line jutted out from halfway down, followed by another vertical line piercing that line, a smaller 't' nestled under the right arm of its big brother. She wasn't the type to get photographed or caught clearly on video, and it was painted in such broad strokes that I suspected many people missed it.
    It kind of smacked of narcissism, I felt, to wear one's initials. The more black costume, at least, looked more distinguished.
    [...]
    She turned. With the way the light came through the tunnel, I could see the eye symbol on her chest in a slightly different shade of purple, hidden where the vertical bar met the horizontal, and the shadows meant I could no longer see her eyes or expression. - Glare 3.1
  43. She had one of those vulpine grins that turned up at the corners. Behind her simple black domino style mask, her eyes were glittering with mischief. - Gestation 1.5
  44. Tattletale [...] raised her good hand from her belt and trained a small handgun on Glory Girl. [...] With one of her arms around my shoulders, we hurried out of the bank, together. She shoved the gun into one of the largest pouches of her belt. - Agitation 3.12
  45. Tattletale still had faint scars at the corners of her mouth, regenerated by Brian after his second trigger event, but she'd mended almost to full. -Excerpt from Crushed 24.3
  46. Subsets who think Victoria deserved it. Subsets who think Amy smokes, Fortress Construction is canon, and Tattletale has a scar at her cheek at endgame. Subsets who think Worm was rationalist fiction done badly and the sequel will do it right. - [https://www.old.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/xqv1nw/_/iqc0pu5 Wildbow on Reddit
  47. wildbow:
    Tattletale isn't a precog, but a pericog.

    Toast:
    "Pericognition:" the ability to know around things. I like that. She builds a framework of inference around the subject at hand, and her power fills in the gaps, working inward towards complete understanding. Except when she misses her target from the start and the circle forms in the wrong place, resulting in bad times for Lisa. -Wildbow comment on Cockroaches 28.5
  48. What does peri mean?
  49. As there's myriad types & conventions of, say, invincibility, there's a number of subcategories and focuses of precognition or clairvoyance. Tattletale, for example, could theoretically be classified as a subtype of clairvoyance.

    So I'd recommend one not jump to any conclusions about what the thinkers out there could do to monitor the use of powers in relation to economic manipulation.

    That said, it's noted in this chapter that precogs tend to be somewhat unreliable. I don't think it would be too ridiculous a notion to imagine them working in small groups, supporting one another's weaknesses and expanding on one another's leads. All it takes is for one to notice an anomaly and then the others can expand on that. - comment by Wildbow on Interlude 14.y
  50. - Excerpt from Interlude 8.y
  51. Tangle 6.2
  52. A Tattletale who's inclined to pick at people's issues says just the wrong thing. - Wildbow on SpaceBattles
  53. A thinker can take several forms:
    Endeavor Thinker
    Domain Thinker
    Complex Thinker
    [...]
    The lines between these cases may be blurred as the thinker develops their power. Tattletale is a case of someone who can push, but who also taps into several upgrades. - THINKERS, document by Wildbow.
  54. Interlude 11.a II
  55. Buzz 7.10
  56. Scourge 19.1
  57. Interlude 10.x II
  58. Imago 21.7
  59. Interlude 10.x II
  60. 60.0 60.1 Scourge 19.7
  61. 61.0 61.1 Interlude 8.y
  62. Gestation 1.5
  63. Insinuation 2.3
  64. Insinuation 2.5
  65. Insinuation 2.7
  66. Glare 3.6
  67. Glare 3.1
  68. Shadow 5.5
  69. More deaths. Tattletale had broken away while the other Undersiders had ventured into the fight, and Jeanne had no idea why. What was Tattletale doing? - Excerpt from Interlude 5x II
  70. Pitch 6.8
  71. Dying 15.1
  72. Tattletale broke the silence. "The last time you connected to Teacher's systems, you were close to the gallery. She got a look at files and what they were keeping track of." - Dying 15.4
  73. From Within 16.1
  74. From Within 16.8
  75. From Within 16.9
  76. From Within 16.10
  77. We emerged from the worst of the thicket to a spot where a tear across the landscape had felled most of the crystals and sent them somewhere else. And to our left, head the size of a house, was the thin, tall woman, with spikes radiating from her head to infinity in each direction, empty eye sockets staring us down.

    [...]

    "Hello there, you shitty bitch," Tattletale said, her voice low, angry.

    I looked over, and I could see that past the tear in the landscape, Tattletale's agent was an extension of the landscape, built almost like a cone poised on another cone, except it was a person's body in a toga-cut dress, twisting and rotating in jerks, like every movement snapped its own spine. - Excerpt from From Within 16.12
  78. Sundown 17.1
  79. Sundown 17.7
  80. Sundown 17.8
  81. Radiation 18.4
  82. Radiation 18.6
  83. Infrared 19.7
  84. Infrared 19.f
  85. Last 20.2
  86. Last 20.6
  87. Last 20.9
  88. Last 20.11
  89. Tattletale snorted. "I didn't take the dreaming death, and I've got a deep hole of bad reputation to dig myself out of, as a result. This helps. Too many villains who didn't take the dreaming death have proven uncooperative for what they're trying to do, now. The blunt ones like Lord of Loss, who jumped straight back into bad habits. Then the ones like Marquis, who schemed and made a plan before doing stuff. Him, Bitter Pill, Midas. They're having trouble getting traction, which makes them desperate and dangerous. I can't get lumped in with them." - Excerpt from Last 20.end

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