Editing Brandish (section)

==Personality==
Carol was a skilled lawyer.<ref name="I2">[[Interlude 2]]</ref><ref name="8.6">[[Extermination 8.6]]</ref> She worked for the same firm as [[Alan Barnes]], and the two were friends.<ref name="15.x"/> She promised herself that she would strike a balance between her two careers when she joined [[New Wave]].<ref name="15.x e5">“When I agreed to join New Wave, Sarah and I both agreed that I’d keep my job, and I’d strike a balance between work and life in costume.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/interlude-15-donation-bonus/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 15.x]]</ref> She tended to cope with stress by focusing on the business side of her life.<ref name="II1.6"> - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/11/28/daybreak-1-6/ Excerpt] from [[Daybreak 1.6]]</ref><!--

 she grows ever more distant

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 - [https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?682837-Worm-Bet-the-Alternate-Thread-The-Star-Wars-Prequel-Trilogy-Still-Sucks-Though&p=16772221#post16772221 Comment of RPR.net] by Wildbow</ref>

carol is distant and does not reach out o her daughters or anyone

Leaving notes for later: https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/7ua2mp/weve_got_ward_arc_3_glare/dtj7fy6/

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She was sometimes afraid of the dark as a result of her trauma,<ref>She was glad for the sunlight that streamed in through the window, the glare of the florescent bulbs overhead.  Recent events had stirred her old fears of the dark. - [[Interlude 15.x]]</ref>sleeping with the lights on in her room,<ref>“I know it was hard, honey.  I get it, I really do.  But you can’t dwell in the past.  It’s not good for you.  You can’t carry that.”<br/><br/>“You say that, when you still sleep with the lights on,” I said. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/11/30/daybreak-1-7/ Excerpt] from [[Daybreak 1.7]]</ref> and generally keeping the lights on around the house.<ref>Sveta flicked the switch, looking up as the lights took their time coming on.  It made me think of my mom.  Turning on the lights, even when not strictly necessary.  I could remember visiting friend’s houses and feeling like something was odd when other parents didn’t do it. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/02/17/shade-4-6/ Excerpt] from [[Shade 4.6]]</ref>

She disliked using abbreviations such as "lol".<ref name="II.1.1">[[Daybreak 1.1]]</ref>

=== Relationships ===
Carol had severe trust issues, stemming from her [[Trigger Event]] - she had grown to trust one of her kidnappers to an extent, and felt betrayed when he tried to execute her. Something about [[Marquis]] reminded her of him, perhaps the fact that she liked him on a level. He didn't fit with her view of the world - criminal, yet with a code.<ref name="15.x"/>

==== [[Victoria]] ====
Carol felt she was only able to trust her daughter, [[Victoria]], because she was ''hers'' - a part of her from the very beginning.<ref name="15.x"/> She was willing to believe Glory Girl's excuses about having difficulty holding back with her power.<ref name="I2"/>

==== [[Amy]] ====
[[Amy Dallon]], her adoptive daughter, felt - correctly<ref name="I11h">[[Interlude 11h]]</ref> - that Carol never really wanted her.<ref name="15.x"/><ref name="I11h">[[Interlude 11h]]</ref><ref name="I3">[[Interlude 3]]</ref> After her husband received a head injury, she blamed her for not healing him.<ref name="15.x">[[Interlude 15.x]]</ref><ref name="I11h">[[Interlude 11h]]</ref> Carol was constantly wary of Amy.<ref name="RPG2">Treating like a monster might be a little overboard, but they're accurate in reading scenes where Amy was neglected.<br/><br/>Carol's word choice is one hint here - you can read the interlude that was just covered and note how Carol refers to Amy vs. how she refers to Victoria. The words aren't hateful, but Amy is 'amy' and Victoria is 'my daughter'. She says, outright, "I don't want her" while the child is in earshot, and then when Lady Photon says "You could grow to love and trust that little girl, too.” Carol's (later, connecting) thought is "Liar".<br/><br/>Look at Amy's conversation with Gallant... "Carol never really wanted me. Mark is clinically depressed, so as nice as he is, he’s too focused on himself to really be a dad."<br/><br/>Interlude 11.h, ''It had always been Victoria, only Victoria, who made her feel like she had a family here.''<br/><br/>Then later, same interlude, ''What Amy felt from her ‘mother’ was a chill. She knew that she was only justifying the darker suspicions Carol had harbored towards her since she was first brought into the family. It was doubly crushing now, because Amy knew about Marquis. Amy knew that Carol was thinking the same thing she was.''<br/><br/>Carol didn't reach out, she wasn't warm, she wasn't a mother. At best, Amy was a person living in their house. At worst, Amy was someone suspicious, Marquis' daughter. So Amy never really had a 'home', a safe haven to retreat to. If you want to read between the lines, the fact that she'd go out at night to visit the hospital (and that nobody was stopping her) might indicate more about her feelings at home. She wasn't mistreated. She got fed, she got clothes. Mark (Flashbang) even tried to be a warmer dad when he was up to it, but that's something as rare as the sun coming out in the UK - brief and unpredictable bouts of good in the midst of a perpetually overcast setting. In the end, all she really had was Victoria. - [https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?707142-Where-I-Read-Worm&p=17388925#post17388925 Comment of RPR.net] by Wildbow</ref>

====[[Mark Dallon]]====
Carol and Mark were married for around two decades. They still have strong feelings for each other,<ref>"holy hell, Victoria.  I love her.  She brings out the best in me, and I think my being close to her helps her good side shine.  When I’m not with her I don’t feel like a whole person.  So I tell myself that this time, I’ll push her harder, draw a firmer line, call her out.  But it takes resources I don’t always have.”- [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/29/sundown-17-9/ Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.9]]</ref> however their relationship is uneasy, they tend to grow distant from time to time, even split up for a while, only to reconnect again later.

====[[Neil Pelham]]====
Carol and Neil had an affair early in their relationship, both of them were with their future spouses at the time. Carol pleads to [[Victoria Dallon|Victoria]], that she is not his daughter, however Carol struggles to remember completely.<ref name="16.12II">[[From Within 16.12]]</ref><ref name="VicPArentage">“Not your father,” Carol said.  “But I thought once that he might be.”<br/><br/>
“He might be,” I echoed her.<br/><br/>
“You had so much of him in you, and your power… for pretty much the entire year before your sister triggered, I was in dread.  Neil was too.  You-” she looked at Crystal, “-Understand, please, it was that I spent so long unable to trust anyone.  It took me years to warm up to anyone.  Years to get close to Mark.  But we had our rough patches, and then there was Neil, and I could trust him more easily because Sarah trusted him-”<br/>
[...]<br/>
“You can’t give me the one answer?” I pressed her.  “The important one?”<br/><br/>
“I can’t,” she said, tensing up.  “I can’t.”<br/>
[...]<br/>
“The head injury,” Crystal said.  “She really might not be able to.”<br/>
[...]<br/>
“Mark’s your father,” my mother said, to my back. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/01/sundown-17-1/ Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.1]]</ref>