Editing Contessa (section)

==Personality==
How much her [[shard]] has influenced her personality is an open question. 

She built her life, from a very young age, around making sure that [[Zion]] did not complete his cycle.<ref>Not what I'd meant. "Giving too much power to wrong people. To bullies. With powers, bullies without."<br><br>She gave me a slightly surprised look at that. "''I don't see that applying to Scion.''"<br><br>"Doesn't."<br><br>"''He doesn't factor? He isn't a consideration, at the end?''"<br><br>"Fighting him... always more about us than about him. Not a consideration."<br><br>"''And the person who played the biggest role in stopping him doesn't give him a second thought,''" she said. There was a note of emotion in her voice. She was gripping the gun handle tightly enough that her knuckles turned white, but her expression wasn't an angry one.<br><br>I didn't respond. I felt like it might have been rude to. We all had our demons, our burdens, and this was hers. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/29/30-7/ Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.7]]</ref>

Contessa chose her path when she was a young girl and followed it unflinching for decades. Thanks to her power it is reasonable to assume that like [[Zion|her opponent]] she was shielded from the psychological stimulation that lends itself to maturity.

Despite being extremely powerful, Contessa does not lead Cauldron and instead acts as [[Doctor Mother]]'s bodyguard and right-hand woman.<ref name="29.xe1">Easier to have an adult handling the negotiating and person-to-person interaction. Fortuna was young, and people wouldn't be so inclined to drink a strange substance offered by a child.

[include Doctor mother]
 - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/12/interlude-29/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 29]]</ref>
===Relationships===
====[[Doctor Mother]]====
Her partner in crime. They have worked for the balance of their lives to save the world. Because of the things they've had to do she respects her as much as she respects herself; i.e. not at all.

===Reputation===
She is one of the most powerful parahumans in existence and is known as "''her''" or "the Boogeyman" to people high-ranked enough in the Protectorate to know about her. One Protectorate cape classifies her as "Thinker. Don't worry about the number. Just run."<ref name="23.02">"What's her classification?"<br><br>"Thinker. Don't worry about the number. Just run." - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/drone-23-2/ Excerpt] from [[Drone 23.2]]</ref>
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She outdates nearly all other parahumans.
Cite the "don't worry about the rating just run."-further cite other stuff about aaaah the bogey man!-->