Editing Dinah Alcott (section)

==Personality==
Prior to triggering, she led a relatively normal life.<ref name=12.2/> Without [[Coil]]'s interference, she might have just stopped trying to use her power.<ref name=14.1c1>Not so much that precogs are rare, but that they’re limited. The future is awfully big.<br/><br/>Look at Dinah – her ability crippled her early on, and if Coil hadn’t kidnapped her, she might have abandoned it, avoided using it, because it was that hard. As it stands, she has to search the myriad futures to prune away realities until she finds the answers to very specific questions. AND she’s the third most powerful precog in the setting.<br/><br/>As Coil notes in his interlude (Interlude 8), there’s two major classifications of serial murderer. The controlled one that sticks to rituals and routines, and the unpredictable ones that are hard to catch because you don’t know where they’re going to strike next. The Nine are the latter.<br/><br/>Add the fact that you can’t exactly stick a police tail on them, and any attempt to get in their way is liable to end up badly, and it can be hard to keep track of them. Figure they’ll retire for weeks at a time (see Aisha’s interlude where they’re kicking back in the apartment) and only really cut loose in areas where there’s chaos, and visibility might be low as well. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/04/prey-14-1/#comment-4025 Comment by Wildbow] on [[Prey 14.1]]</ref>

Her personality was obscured by her forced drugging and was instead obsessed with her 'candy', her understanding of her addiction and she had also resolved to obey Coil over experiencing the pain from excessive power use and drug withdrawals.<ref name="11f" />
 
After her release, she became focused on humanity's survival in preparation for the [[End of the World]], and was willing to do morally questionable things to increase the number of lives saved.<ref name="22.1">“Why, Dinah?” Miss Militia asked.  “Why do this?”

“For everyone.  Because we got this far, it makes the numbers a little better.  Whatever happens from here on out, it makes the end of the world a little less bad.”

“A little less bad,” Triumph echoed her.

“But it still happens,” Tagg said.

“Almost always.  The world ends, in two years or in fifteen or sixteen.”

[...]

“You seem to be playing a dangerous game,” Tagg said, “Testing our goodwill, manipulating us for your own ends.”

“''Everyone’s'' ends, and I didn’t manipulate you.  You asked for a number, I gave it.”

He ignored her.  “Helping her when you should be helping us.”

“I don’t ''have'' to help you,” she said.  “I’m not a good guy.  I’m not a bad guy.  I’m ''done'' working for other people, answering their questions when I don’t want to.  I work for ''me'', and for ''everyone''.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/04/cell-22-1/ Excerpt] from [[Cell 22.1]]</ref>
===Relationships===
====Parents====
Presumably healthy and was willing to return to them.

====[[Coil]]====
Her captor. Was completely fine with his death.

====[[Taylor Hebert]]====
She met her a few times but had only two possibly three conversations of note with her. She was protective towards her, both for being grateful for Taylor's assistance and her role in saving the world.

After being returned home, she tried to keep away from Taylor due to the numbers changing when communicating with her.<ref>“She turned on me, you know,” I said.  “The girl I saved.  And I think I sort of know why she did it.  I understand the rationale.  I don’t even blame her.”

[...]

“And I save a girl from the clutches of an evil, scheming crime lord, and ''this'' is my reward.”

I held out the papers for the tombstone.  Two squares of paper.  Each had a number in the upper left corner, circled, to indicate the order the notes should be read in.  Two words for the first note, two and a half for the second.

1.  Cut ties.

2.  I’m sorry. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/13/imago-21-2/ Excerpt] from [[Imago 21.2]]</ref><ref>“Arthropodaudience,” Miss Militia said.  “She’s fully aware of everything that’s been going on in this building.”

“I’m gone,” Dinah said.  “I can’t communicate with her or the numbers change." - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/04/cell-22-1/ Excerpt] from [[Cell 22.1]]</ref><!--https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/70vpar/weekly_worm_character_discussion_14_dinah_alcott/-->