Editing Lisa Wilbourn (section)

==Personality==
Lisa is often perceived as an arrogant "know-it-all" by those around her. She values her intelligence and perceives any threat to that as a challenge. She is reticent to admit she doesn't know something.<ref name="18.1 e1">"Coil sent the Travelers to me for help. She's had some physical changes," Tattletale said. She traced one of the creases in the crumpled vault door with her gloved fingers. "They wanted to get a better idea of what was going on, so they could maybe change her back."<br><br>"And when I asked about her before, you brushed me off."<br><br>"Don't like admitting I don't know something," she said. "And I don't know the full story. They were working on the assumption that she's turning into an Endbringer."<br><br>That gave us all a moment's pause. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/queen-18-1/ Excerpt] from [[Queen 18.1]]</ref> She draws a large amount of entertainment from "messing" with people and being unnecessarily abrasive. Additionally, it serves as a method to reveal more information about the target. In private, with people she cares about, she is a more mild person, which is related to her guilt over her brother's suicide. This is also what led her to reaching out to Taylor when initially meeting her.<!--remember to work "audacious" in there, it fits so well

never gives herself 100% to a relationship so was okay about Taylor's 'betrayal', find and cite

And say that despite this she still forms close friendships

Use witnesses interlude to talk about Tt hatred of arrogant men and why she does not like accord

https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/interlude-20/
He drew in a deep breath. Too much at stake, to say such things. In his most patient tone, as though he were speaking to a well meaning but misguided eight year old, he explained, "I'm talking about the way things are meant to be, Tattletale, understand?"-->

She describes her role in [[the Undersiders]] as "Ops" (although she does a lot of intelligence work as well). She goes in the field rather than simply acting as mission control because, first, [[Rachel Lindt|Bitch]] insisted that everyone fight when she originally joined the team, and second, first-hand observation enhances what she can do with her power.

Initially, Lisa struggles with intimate relationships, since her power supplies turn-offs so fast that any possible attraction can be dismantled in five minutes.<ref>"My power kind of takes the mystery out of things. Relationships are hard to get off the ground unless you can get the ball rolling with a healthy dose of self delusion and lies... Give me a few years, maybe I'll lower my standards enough to be able to overlook what my power's telling me about the guys' more disgusting and degrading character quirks and habits." - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/tangle-6-2/ Excerpt from [[Tangle 6.2]]</ref><ref>If you stripped away Lisa's powers, she'd be straight. With them, she's basically like someone in Seinfeld, only she finds out that turn-off quirk in the first 30 seconds to five minutes [...] the stuff keeps piling on, and it comes in fast enough that it cancels out the good. -[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/12848233 Wildbow on Spacebattles]<!--pre-ward WoG, also hetero ace is not a strong contradiction, since spectrum, duh--></ref> Later, she views herself as aromantic and asexual, and accepts that it's not a [[shard]] influence.<ref> She'd come to terms with the fact that her lack of interest in the romance or the physical stuff wasn't because of one excuse or the other. She was pretty sure it wasn't because her power preferred her this way. It was just her. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/11/24/interlude-10-x/ Excerpt from [[Interlude 10.x II]]</ref>

She hated being alone, making sure she was around people even when she was homeless.<ref>She'd never been able to stand being isolated, had always had her family, with roommates, friends and fellow squatters living with her after she'd run away. Taylor, though, seemed to gravitate towards solitude. She pushed people away, and when it came down to the nitty-gritty, when their group had found out the details with the kidnapped girl, Taylor had left. Tattletale couldn't imagine doing the same thing, and she had strong suspicions Taylor was closer to the others than she was. - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/interlude-7%C2%BD-bonus/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 8.y]]</ref>

After seeing Lisa use her power to break someone, [[Taylor Hebert|Taylor]] noted that she could have been a cult leader that would make [[Heartbreaker]] look amateurish.<ref>The look was utterly defenseless. I was put in mind, for just an instant, of just who Tattletale ''could'' have been. I had a mental image of her as a cult leader, tearing people down with an almost surgical precision, then molding them into who she wanted them to be when they were emotionally and mentally unable to mount a defense. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/prey-14-3/ Excerpt] from [[Prey 14.3]]</ref>

Tattletale is a manipulator type who is in her element with smaller scale situations (e.g., taking care of [[the Undersiders]]). According to her teammates, she stuck to [[Coil]]'s setup as a warlord and then manipulated its parameters: she is much less effective at running a city the farther a situation strayed away from his setup.<ref>"She's a manipulator!" Foil called out, raising her voice in response.<br><br>"She's an ''idiot'', but if you start talking shit about her-"<br><br>"I'm not, Bitch! It's not shit," Foil said, the latter half of what she said was a normal speaking volume. "She took over what Coil started and she steered that. She's good at that, but the farther we get from that setup of his, the harder it is. She steered the group, helped Skitter, helped Imp!"<br><br>"And Rachel?" I asked, looking at Rachel.<br><br>"You don't manipulate ''her'', or you get your head torn off!"<br>[...]<br>"She was always at her best dealing with the smaller scale and the biggest, most abstract stuff," Foil called out. "Fights and powers, conspiracies, not running cities! That was always her sticking to someone else's game plan, manipulating the parameters. She was best when she was taking care of the Undersiders. When she ''had'' to look after herself, because not being at her best meant she might not be able to manipulate and steer her friends." - [[Blinding 11.10]]</ref> Running and looking after a city brings out her worst traits and drains her,<ref>"I don't know if you can relate," Foil said, "But sometimes you get stuck in a place that isn't ''you''. Where everything you do is a drain on you. It brings out your worst traits."<br>[...]<br>"Tattletale's in that place, trying to help the city," Foil raised her voice. - [[Blinding 11.10]]</ref> leading to big screwups such as not knowing what her own mercenaries are doing.<ref>"She has no purpose?" I asked. My hand was cold where it was holding my hood up. I pulled it down, using my other, and drew closer so I wouldn't have to strain my throat yelling. "How does that lead to a screwup like not knowing what her own mercenaries are doing?"<br><br>"She has a purpose, but it's killing her," Foil said. "She looks after the city. It's that thing that drains her and brings out the worst in her. It doesn't fill that need she has, but she does it because she has to."<br><br>"She did it, past tense," I gritted out the words. I'd have to bail in a second to throw the Wretch up. "She keeps talking about how she's bailing, she's out, she doesn't want to get involved."<br><br>"Yeah. What's she doing instead?"<br><br>"Looking after Chicken Little. Do you mean he's her project now? Like the Undersiders were before?"- [[Blinding 11.10]]</ref> Ironically for Tattletale, [[Cradle]] successfully bought out her mercenaries right under her nose.<ref>The wall fell away, and Cradle advanced, head low, passing between the four segments of Tattletale,<br><br>"Cradle- the most intact part of Tattletale said. "You have a mole. Someone who tipped you off."<br><br>"Learn your own lessons. Mercenaries follow the highest bidder," Cradle said. - [[Interlude 11.c II]]</ref> Indeed, when Tattletale is out of her element and forced to invest more of herself into larger scale situations (e.g., running a city), she ignores things that are in her element.<ref>"She looks like she's in her element but she's not. So she puts more of herself into it-"<br><br>"And ignores the things that ''are'' in her element?" I asked.<br><br>"Yeah. Just so you know, I don't have the most charitable view of her, though I'm ''really'' trying here, I'm glossing over a lot of general bitchiness," Foil said. "Take what I say with a heaping of salt."<br><br>"I don't-" I winced at the cold air that rushed its way to my sore throat, colder than most of the air I was intentionally taking in. "I don't have the best view of her either, I don't know if that means there's no need for any added salt, or if I need an extra heaping. But it makes sense. What you say makes sense." - [[Blinding 11.10]]</ref>

===Reputation===
In [[Ward]], [[Victoria Dallon]] initially believed Tattletale was primarily responsible for taking over [[Brockton Bay]] as a [[mastermind]].<ref>"The Undersiders took over Brockton Bay, and they did it with Tattletale on point for most of it. I'm not a hundred percent sure on any of this, but you can look at the events in the city starting with her taking power. Bank robbery, Undersiders succeed, they run into the Wards, me, and my sister. Tattletale insinuates knowledge of my sister's deepest secrets, and mine. My sister goes off the deep end. ABB are provoked following an arrest of their leader and an interaction with the Undersiders, with Tattletale. They're toppled with a concerted effort on the part of the villains, with intel passed to the heroes by the villains."<br><br>"By Tattletale," Tristan said.<br><br>"In large part. Empire Eighty-Eight get outed, secret identities revealed. Undersiders are the focus of the blame, and a number of people die in the ensuing rampage. Weeks and months of violence and chaos in Brockton Bay feed into the Endbringer attack on the city. Half of my family died because of that." - [[Glare 3.4]]</ref><ref>"Okay," I said. "It's just one data point in a series. The last remaining mastermind of the city falls, Coil. The PRT directors die. Twice, in quick succession. Weaknesses are targeted and capitalized on. ''Alexandria'' dies in Brockton Bay, at the hands of a girl who had apparently wanted to be a hero, but who was converted to the villains' side. Flechette, a hero, a minor friend of mine? Apparently converted. Accord edges into the Undersiders' turf. He dies when the Behemoth fight happens. What do you think happens with his resources and power? Because I'm betting it's the same as what happened with Coil's."<br><br>"And now she runs one of the major settlement points," Rain said. He still sounded spooked.<br><br>"Yeah," I said. "I don't have all of the information, but she got to that point by being one of the masterminds and playing the game well. She was aggressive when the city was vulnerable and she was passive when it wasn't. The moment Gold Morning came around, I get the impression she mobilized hard, she was ready to expand and capitalize on the situation with more of that aggression. Again, I'm not 100% on all of that. But I can say with reasonable confidence that she's one of the most dangerous, capable people on Gimel." - [[Glare 3.4]]</ref> However, the rest of [[the Undersiders]] strongly disagreed with this assessment. They do not believe Tattletale is a chessmaster or a real warlord: their overall belief is that it was mostly [[Coil]] (and partly [[Taylor Hebert|Skitter]] after his death) who was responsible for taking over the city.<ref>"She took over Brockton Bay!" I had to half-shout to be heard over the rush of wind.<br><br>"She didn't! Not like you're thinking! Coil took most of it over, set most of that stuff in motion! Skitter did a lot of the rest of the work when it came to the taking over part! Tattletale isn't a warlord! She isn't a chessmaster!"<br><br>Eerie to hear one of her allies say it. More uncomfortable to have to recontextualize my mental picture of her.<br><br>"What the hell is she, then?"<br><br>"She's an idiot!" Rachel shouted.<br><br>I was surprised ''she'' could hear. - [[Blinding 11.10]]</ref>

Although Tattletale claimed she was a major player in [[New Brockton]] as a information broker,<ref>"I'm one of the major players now. The other major players call me for a hint when they're stuck on something. I'm wealthy, well-positioned, and safe. I'm now sharing the love and bringing some of that security, stability, and safety to others, in my very, very roundabout way. It's part of why I'm having this conversation with you." - [[Glare 3.1]]</ref> [[the Wardens]] considered Tattletale a mid-tier power.<ref>"It makes sense. But you can't avoid seeing her forever, Foil. Lily."<br><br>Foil looked surprised at the mention of her name.<br><br>Narwhal gave her a sympathetic look. "We thought about recruiting you. We looked you up. It was determined it would be too antagonistic with a mid-tier power."<br><br>"Tattletale?" Foil asked. She sounded angry.<br><br>"We can talk about options after if you want. Don't hold it against Tattletale. Please don't hold it against us. I'm distracting you from what you were talking about. You're avoiding Parian?" - [[Heavens 12.x]]</ref> [[March's Megacluster]] forced her and [[the Undersiders]] to flee from New Brockton<ref>"Heartbroken," I said. "And luggage. They've left the New Brockton area."<br><br>"Were they driven out?"<br><br>I had trouble imagining another reason for them to be gone. New Brockton was their territory. They'd put everything into it for years and now they'd left it? What had happened there, or what was happening here that was pulling them together?<br><br>Worrying to imagine, that my old enemies might be cornered or desperate. - [[Polarize 10.3]]</ref><ref>Tattletale had fled Brockton Bay with the other Brockton-Bay Undersiders, namely Imp and Imp's gang, they'd stopped at one place to regroup and wait for the stragglers, and then had immediately set to getting themselves prepared. Hired mercenaries, bought not with cash, but with a store of weapons. From there, they'd met up with Parian and Foil, retiring for the night, all packing up together in a manufacturing area for Parian's clothing line. - [[Polarize 10.4]]</ref> and desperately seek refuge with [[Faultline's Crew]].<ref>''How desperate were you, that you went to her''? I thought, looking at the image of a retreating Tattletale. The Undersiders had met with the Palanquin mercenaries, despite the fact that Tattletale's feud with Faultline was common knowledge. I'd heard it had something to do with Tattletale getting beaten out by Faultline on an early job, and then never really getting an opportunity to even the score after. I wasn't sure if that had been pure speculation from Crystal. - [[Polarize 10.4]]</ref>

===Relationships===
====[[Brian Laborn|Brian]]====
Lisa and Brian had a recurring argument over the fact that he lived separately from the team, leaving him nowhere to go when he was injured. Given that she can sometimes infer incorrect information with her power, Brian also took to calling her a 'dumbass' on occasion.<ref name="2.7">[[Insinuation 2.7]]</ref><ref name="3.8">[[Agitation 3.8]]</ref>

====[[Taylor Hebert|Taylor]]====
Lisa was aware that Taylor was a hero even before she met her, but pushed to recruit her regardless. Taylor reminded her of the brother she failed to save.

====[[Chicken Little|Aiden]]====
After the events of Worm, Lisa takes Aiden under her personal patronage. She is quite protective of him.