Editing Crane the Harmonious (section)

==Personality==
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Her diving motivation seems to be building a martial arts legacy, an ambition entirely her own even if it was greatly aided by her power. She knows how her actions might hurt her students.<ref name="SB1.3">nju8: Tell us more about her methodology with her students? Why physical intimacy? Why abuse?<br>A deeper understanding of the subject's body gives her a deeper understanding of the student's capacity for movement. Teaching-wise, she wants to be a true teacher, but she has very little empathy for her subjects (or for people in general). She's exceedingly self aware. But she doesn't give a damn. She's not going to strangle a student. She will make them kneel on a block of ice to build their pain tolerance or hold a pot filled with sand over their head for an hour. Some people have kids and those kids are their legacy. Some people write an epic length series about superheroes while they're dying of a degenerative disease. Crane has her martial arts. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/14350865 Wildbow IRC archived on spacebattles]</ref> These methods begin with kidnapping and scale up from there into harsh methods of martial instruction.<ref name="SB1.2"/> She saw no issue with aligning with villains to have these goals met.<ref>PLACEHOLDER </ref>  Her interests and larger strategy was apparent to anyone who knew of her for any length of time.<ref>
Ouroboros says, "The Western Zodiac are more mine to oversee. The Eastern are Kilkenny's. Should you decide to take on a contract, I would be your primary contact. Half now, half later. You would get either the benefit of Kilkenny's work, which you might appreciate given your recent injuries, which look nicely healed up... or my help, to expand your options, which might assuage any....worries with your power."
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Kilkenny speaks up, "A woman named Crane the Harmonious has allied with local villains. She trains martial artists. I would not ask you to fight her. I would suggest you attack her 'dojo', for lack of a better word, her headquarters, and perhaps target any adult staff and scare the youths. She is trying to build something, and it puts her at odds with us.
<br>[...]<br>"Then we will have you target the troublemakers, so our newest hire can sleep well at night." Kilkenny holds up a finger.  [...] A second finger, "Crane's proteges and dojo. She works with the villain establishment, the rumors surrounding her are unpleasant, and she is an avowed enemy of ours."[...]And a third, - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ivJwhb2IK5Xw36lw1wzqbbsJAHl-MQ0rf6DnLpF9KYQ Excerpt] from [[WD Lausanne]]</ref>

This focus on martial arts also meant she was disdainful of technology, at least when it came to using [[tinker]] tech to enhance ones powers, much preferring to rely on martial discipline and related arts.<ref name=LRP>One woman [...], her blond hair cut short, wears flowing black clothes, with the largest group that isn't the Suits present - four young men and women, teenagers, flanking her.<br>[...]<br>"The technology is only a gimmick," the blond woman speaks in English.  "The fundamentals, solid training, will make you far stronger in the end, long after the power source dies or the technology is taken from you."<br><br>"She would know," Prince Lutin murmurs, leaning back in his chair.  His voice is most likely audible to only the Suits around him.  "Word on the street is she and her students have killed five of the armored ones.  Refusing the technology."<br><br>"Five?"  Durandal says, sounding skeptical.<br><br>The other heroes are starting to pack up, gathering their things.  They write their names and contact information, and one picks up Prête's card.<br><br>"But none were the one she wanted to kill," Prince Lutin comments, as he watches the blond woman leaves.  "She wanted to kill the armored one who is using her name.  Crane." - [[Weaverdice]] [https://pastebin.com/ziUYssvp 2014 Sept 17th] of the [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15176926 Early Leussane RP]</ref>

Has a great appreciation for tea.<ref> You reach Crane's place, which is broad, with hardwood floors and walls, one room vast and empty, with youths ranging from ten to sixteen, all sleeping in sleeping bags in the near-darkness, with only light from the hallway filtering in. Crane and Malin lead you to a separate room, a kitchen, where they prepare tea, with Crane being very particular about the methods of warming the cup...<br><br>...first, with a spoon within, waiting until the tea has reached an exact temperature before pouring. She gives you your selection of about 90 herbal teas, many of which you've never heard of, and has opinions on the benefits of each. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XWK9abumRbdfQQnEJ0EYSVpGX9oIUZmO1Ame4nIz854 excerpt] from [[WD Lausanne]]</ref>

===Relationships===
====[[Malin the Fox]]====
Cranes' colleague; the extent of what their relationship is, outside of it being between professionals, is unknown.  

====Students====
She does seem to care for her students,<ref name="27.3"/> even if her motivations for recruiting and training them were suspect.<ref name="SB1.2">Q: Why the kids?<br>She's got a habit of kidnapping children with powers and effectively wrapping them around her finger (or vice versa) through a combination of harsh discipline, physical intimacy and the martial art style she teaches them, which sort of becomes an anchor for them at a juncture where they often feel very lost. She cares about them primarily as vehicles for her teaching. It's not a compulsion. She's interested in martial arts as an art in the same way Bonesaw is interested in her 'art'. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/14350865 Wildbow IRC archived on spacebattles]</ref> They are part of her legacy.<ref>If you hop on over to IRC (I think there’s a link somewhere), I dished some backstory on Crane there, for one of the people who’re writing fanfiction. Long story short, she’s a martial artist who uses her keen awareness of movements to craft martial arts perfectly suited to a given power, body type, personality and so on. In attempting to perfect her art, she kidnapped children with powers. They weren’t soldiers, but students. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/21 Comment] by Wildbow  in[[Venom 29.2]]</ref>
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<ref name="WDA">They lead the way through, onto a rooftop. The wind blows, the sky is dark and roiling, and something about the city feels -off- somehow.<br/><br/>"I know that it's strange to say the PRT is minor, when it's the largest group of capes in the world, but..." the man trails off. He indicates the world before you.<br/><br/>The architecture is odd. There's a goal or a design behind it all. A regality, like the ornamentation of a grandfather clock. You're pretty damn sure that this isn't architecture you've seen in any photos about Earth. 


 - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XWK9abumRbdfQQnEJ0EYSVpGX9oIUZmO1Ame4nIz854 excerpt] from [[WD Lausanne]]</ref>


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