Editing The Red Hand (section)

==Description==
The Red Hand are a group of professional thieves, preferring to avoid direct confrontation.<ref name="thief">But she wasn’t a fighter.  None of the Red Hands were, really.  They were professional thieves.  Break in, get out, sell the goods.<br><br>They were, maybe, what the Undersiders might have been with a little more luck, slightly different personalities, and a quieter existence. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/18/sting-26-1/ Excerpt] from [[Sting 26.1]]</ref> They wear red gloves as part of their costume.<ref name="alliance"/>

At first seen as a potential threat by [[Tattletale]],<ref name="threat"/> their eventual arrival in [[Brockton Bay]] involved some aggression,<ref>Heartbreaker making initial forays, decided to pay a visit.  Can’t tell if he’s invading or after Regent.  Red Hands are a little more aggressive but not too bad.  Meeting for negotiations tonight.  Lost Garden approacheth, sending members after us and trying to clear way for Barrow to advance.  Annoying but no problem until they enter city limits.<br><br>Grue wasn’t okay at first.  Worst days since right after Bsaw.  He won’t say in his letter but you would want to know.  Got better when Red Hand and Heartbreaker came.  Busier, something to do other than wallow. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/category/stories-arcs-21/arc-23-drone/23-03/ Excerpt] from [[Drone 23.3]]</ref> but this made way for a potential non-aggression pact<ref>P.S.  To the asshats reading Taylor’s mail, there’s no codes in this message.  Promise.  Don’t bother.  You want to know what we’re up to, call me.  I’ll fucking tell you.<br><br>P.S.S.  Gathering all letters together, 12 hours ltr.  None from Reg, he said to say hi.  Meeting with Red Hands went ok.  No alliance but nonaggression pact mebbe - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/category/stories-arcs-21/arc-23-drone/23-03/ Excerpt] from [[Drone 23.3]]</ref> and eventual alliance.<ref name="alliance">They approached, holding hands, and a bear managed to form itself from the roll of cloth Parian had bound to her back, without anyone, the stuffed creature included, really breaking stride.  They’d barely changed, but for a little more height.  Foil carried the crossbow that the PRT was apparently maintaining for her, and Parian had donned less dark colors, though the hair remained black.<br><br>The two capes with them each wore red gloves as part of their costume.  I knew who they were from the stuff on the forums.  The Red Hands.  The alliance had gone through, apparently. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/scarab-25-6/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.6]]</ref> Tattletale trusted them enough to hire them for a job stealing [[PRT]] files.<ref>“There’re lots of capes who don’t sleep.  About a year ago, I started digging into the PRT files.  Hired the Red Hands to steal a more up to date set, even.  I was looking into clues for understanding this whole thing, y’know?  Best leads at the time were memories and dreams.  Clues popping up here and there, relating to people’s dreams, or gaps in memories.  Dreaming differently, seeing things instead of dreaming, case fifty-threes suffering from their amnesia… Well, there are a number of ‘Noctis’ cases.  Named after a vigilante hero that was up at all hours.  The opposite of what I was looking for, but a good data point anyways: capes who don’t dream because they don’t sleep.  PRT confirmed a few members of their own, Miss Militia included, as examples.  Others have only been marked down as guesses.  Doormaker and Contessa were among them, they said, going by the times the ‘bogeyman’ was showing up.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/category/stories-arcs-21/arc-29-venom/29-01/ Excerpt] from [[Venom 29.1]]</ref>