Editing Assault (section)

==Personality==
Smart, witty, and annoyingly good with kids, Ethan is also a highly observant individual, able to see Battery's trepidation about discussing where her powers came from even though she tried to hide it.<ref name="I12½">[[Interlude 12.5]]</ref>

He was one of the heroes who had the best chance of nudging [[Taylor Hebert]] toward the [[Wards]] program, had he encountered her on her first night out, likely making a neutral, low-pressure offer.<ref>I can see Assault, were he to appear on his own, making a sufficiently neutral, low-pressure offer (given his background), but he wouldn't appear alone at a Lung situation. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/640tqt/how_different_would_worm_be_if/ Wildbow on Reddit]</ref>

As the villain Madcap, he claimed to stand against everything that the [[Baumann Parahuman Containment Center]] stood for, leading into his career as a jailbreak specialist. However, when facing a life sentence in the Birdcage he selfishly changed sides and begged to be made a hero instead.<ref>“You spent the last five and a half years getting people out of the Birdcage, claiming to be against it and everything it stood for, but now you’re willing to work to put people in there?” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/interlude-12%C2%BD/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 12.5]]</ref>