Editing Winter (section)

==Personality==
[[Bonesaw]] described her as "sadistic, ruthless, cold." She was driven, rising above her roots, but "stagnated" once she reached the top.<ref name="25 e1">How to model Winter? She wasn’t truly a person who created or manipulated cold. It was a different power. A ''dampening'' power, causing objects and people both to lose inertia. The ambient effect was one of altered physics, the effect on people was one of will. The woman had gained power, money and more, and she’d found she liked tormenting people as much as anything else. She’d turned to the slave trade, then crossed paths with the Nine.<br/><br/>How to make the Winters with the materials she had? A child that had a gun in her hand before she could read, someone who had found the drive necessary to rise above her roots, meeting all expectations. She’d taught herself numbers and business, she’d ruthlessly eliminated competition, and then when she had everything she’d wanted, she had stagnated, rotted like an overripe fruit.<br/><br/>Searches for keywords in Cranial’s notes failed to turn up any of the necessary elements.<br/>[...]<br/>Melanie, the girl’s name was.<br/><br/>A week and a half ago, it had been so commonsense. A solution to her problems. The girl had been right there. So easy to approach. A tranquilizer shot to the neck, calculated on the fly to fit with body weight and overall health. Recalibrating the teleporting remote with the unconscious girl in the back lot had been a little riskier, but it was a quiet town.<br/><br/>Bonesaw had found herself busy enough that the girl could be left here, an IV in her neck, catheter and poop tube inserted. Now that she had free time, she could handle the Winter issue.<br/><br/>She needed a child soldier. This was a way to make one. To insert the wartime memories from Cranial’s database into the girl, let it steep, then harvest the results. The rest could be tweaked, rebalanced, fixed. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/16 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 25]]</ref> She would torture people she caught in her power,<ref name=26.2e1>I could feel the effect as my bugs entered the radius of Winter’s power. She wasn’t concentrating it, so it was mild at best. Slowing the movements of molecules, cutting down the ambient temperature, to the point that the moisture in the air froze. It also affected my bugs. Torpor.<br/><br/>For anyone within, it would include a mental torpor.<br/>[...]<br/>I advanced, but I didn’t step into the mist. The closer I got, the more of the affected area I could sense. The torpor forced me to be efficient, to manage where bugs went and how, to check areas in a cursory way. There were a number of people still in Winter’s area of influence. People were standing utterly still, slowly dying as the cold ate away at them. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/20 Excerpt] from [[Sting 26.2]]</ref> which recommended her to the Nine.<ref name="26.2 e3"/>

Winter was heedless of the [[Unwritten Rules]] concerning guns, likely due to her background.

[[Weaver]] believed that she was one of the few Nine members who would immediately report cheating up the chain, rather than seeing it as fun.<ref>They'd been okay with a little bit of involvement on our part.  Tattletale had speculated they would.  There were only a few who were so regimented they would report it to Jack at the first opportunity.  Winter was among them, but she was largely in the dark, here.  Screamer wouldn't fill her in if it meant spoiling the fun.<br><br>In truth, the only ones who wouldn't let us get away with this were Mannequin and King. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/20/sting-26-2/ Excerpt] from [[Sting 26.2]]</ref>

=== Relationships===
====[[Crimson]] ====
Her equally murderous lover before his timely death.<ref name="25e2">Winter, white-haired, with white irises edged in black, nude, her eyes peering. ''Madeline’s eyes'', Riley thought. Winter would need guns, of course.<br /><br />Crimson, Winter’s brief-lived lover. Riley had taken the time to program their relationship into them. Crimson had been one of the first members in the group, Winter one of the more recent ones to die. Winter had been followed by Hatchet Face -there he was, over there, nine of them- and Hatchet Face had been followed by Cherish. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/interlude-25/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 25]]</ref> The two usually operated as a team. They had synergy, with him operating as a front-line fighter so she could attack at range, while her power slowed people down so he could feed on them.<ref name="26.2 e2" />