Editing Colin Wallis (section)

==Personality==
Colin is exemplified by a stern and uncompromising personality, one which frequently serves as a source of friction between him and the people around him - including professional subordinates. Colin sees himself as being part of a war; a soldier of law and order fighting against the chaos of supervillains.<ref name="16.y">[[Interlude 16.y]]</ref> Because of this, he can be rude and abrupt to people who aren't on 'his side'.

Colin is defined by his tunnel vision.<ref>I dunno if he cares about friendly staff. He'd go to a place where the staff barely talks, just because the food is good and he can sit and eat. Just a loner with messy (helmet) hair sitting in the corner with a bowl and some bread, taking in much needed raw calories after a day of working out and inventing. Wifi doesn't matter - it's almost better without. He can just tap out notes on his phone as ideas come to him.<br/><br/>He's defined by tunnel vision, so for just that moment, the world is defined by that 3-foot diameter space which is him and the table and the food. - [https://www.old.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/2rtidb/_/cnj9y5b Wildbow on Reddit]</ref> He's a man who wants to be self-reliant at all times and to excel at everything he does, pushing himself to his absolute limit to a point that might be considered obsessive. He prided himself on this spartan existence which allowed him to take up any job and perform any role the Protectorate required of him.<ref>[[Interlude 24.y]]</ref> He deliberately went without a family, friends or a personal life in order to be that much better at his life as a cape and to not give any enemies additional ammo to use against him.<ref name="I11d">[[Interlude 11d]]</ref> In fact, until he developed a relationship with Dragon, he had no personal life to speak of whatsoever. Any time not spent on his official duties was spent training or working on his equipment. Despite his powerful drive to be a heroic cape, Colin's pride and anger can get the better of him, leading him to make errors in judgment or exhibit elements of narcissism. Along those lines, Colin also has difficulties with understanding people.<ref name="I10.5">[[Interlude 10.5]]</ref> As Colin himself puts it: he never knows what to say, how to say it, or who to say it to.<ref name="I11d"/> [[Miss Militia]] noted that he "didn’t have a head for this sort of thing" when discussing interrogations.<ref>[[Cell 22.6]]</ref>

He was known to prepare for things well ahead of time even against threats he hadn't met yet.<ref>[[Interlude 13]]</ref>
===Relationships===
====[[Dragon]]====
They have been colleagues for several years and Dragon notes that she and Colin have the same taste in movies and television shows.<ref name="I10.5"/> As part of their professional relationship Colin shared his electric pulse technology, an effective counter to Skitter, with Dragon, much to the teenaged villain's exasperation.<ref>[[Monarch 16.1]]</ref>

His later romantic relationship with [[Dragon]] (and his new identity as Defiant) leads Colin to be slightly less stern and belligerent, although he still exhibits many of the same traits and habits that make him difficult for most people to deal with for an extended period. As [[Taylor]] puts it, Dragon is the only person on the planet who can stand him for more than ten minutes at a time,<ref>[[Sting 26.4]]</ref> and Dragon herself admittedly needs a break sometimes.<ref name="I24c1">Colin was commenting on how society tends to demand that women be pure and virginal but at the same time sexualizes them. He says Dragon is possibly the only entity that could possibly be both and satisfy society, and he’s happy to have her.<br/><br/>And if that isn’t misguided enough, he says it in a ham-handed way. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/interlude-24-donation-bonus-1/#comment-29920 Comment] by Wildbow on [[Interlude 24.y]]</ref> 

====[[Hannah]]====
Besides Chevalier and Dragon she is one of the only people who considers Colin a friend.
====[[Taylor Hebert]]====
Got off to a bad start with the young would-be hero. Taking credit for her and the [[Undersiders]] taking down Lung led to the first blemish on his record, and, in turn, led him to recklessly try for a win against Leviathan. 

As Defiant, after having some time to recover and with somebody to help change his mind, he has officially retracted his statements calling Taylor a "manipulator and a liar".<ref>[[Drone 23.1]]</ref> Further he empathized with her over their time as leaders. He used her time as Weaver to make a new start in their professional relationship.<ref>[[Drone 23.5]]</ref>
====[[Chevalier]]====
Saw each other as old friends.<ref name="I24"> - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/interlude-24/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 24.x]]</ref>
===Reputation===
Armsmaster was featured in photoshoots of the "core group of the top [[Protectorate]] members". He had his own action figures.<ref>Brockton Bay's team was officially ‘The Protectorate East-North-East', and were headquartered in the floating, forcefield-shrouded island that you could see from the Boardwalk.  This guy, Armsmaster, was the guy in charge of the local team.  When the core group of the top Protectorate members from around Canada and the States assembled in that classic ‘v' formation for the photo shoots, Armsmaster was one of the guys in the wings.  This was a guy who had his own action figures.  Poseable Armsmaster with interchangeable Halberd parts. - [[Gestation 1.6]]</ref> He appeared on magazine covers and did interviews on TV, so you could find almost anything about Armsmaster through various media, short of his secret identity. [[Taylor Hebert]] compared him to Michael Jordan and referred to him as "one of the top heroes".<ref name="1.6" /><ref name="SBWoh">Parahumans IRC said:<br/>Wildbow: Armsmaster appears in the posters and such of the top Protectorate heroes.<br/>Wildbow:When they do the image of everyone standing in a 'v' formation<br/>Parahumans IRC said:<br/>Wildbow: Nah. Legend in front, Alex and Eidolon to the left and right, respectively. Then Myrddin, Chev, Cinereal, Narwhal, Rime, Exalt, Armsmaster, Dragon suit silhouette in the background, wings echoing the wings of the PRT logo over their heads. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/21173580/ IRC conversation archived on Spacebattles]</ref>

Armsmaster is mentioned as being under 'retirement' and presumably the public thinks this.<ref>[[Interlude 18.z]]</ref> He was allowed to operate as Defiant; with full knowlege of the PRT establishment,<ref>[[Interlude 20.x]]</ref> by being under several severe prohibitions.<ref>[[Interlude 20.x]]</ref>