Editing Rachel Lindt (section)

==Abilities and Powers==
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Rachel's most noticeable ability is to empower dogs to vastly increased size - on the order of three thousand or more pounds - enhanced strength, durability, agility, and an asymmetrical covering of bony plates, spikes, exposed muscles, calcified flesh,<ref name="Cast1">'''Bitch''' – An acerbic and violent villainess, member of the Undersiders.  Likes dogs, and can give them the ability to grow to monstrous size, with armor plating, horns and exposed musculature. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-spoiler-free/ Cast (spoiler free)]</ref> and prehensile tails.<ref name="3.9 e1">Aegis bolted the second the dog changed course, but it was too late.  As he tried to fly out of reach, Judas leaped, nearly twice as far and high as I might have guessed something as big as he was could.  The dog’s prehensile tail wrapped around Aegis’ torso.  As they all fell, mount, rider and ensnared captive, Bitch shouted something I couldn’t hear, and Judas whipped Aegis straight down, adding the force of the throw to the momentum of the fall. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/agitation-3-9/ Excerpt] from [[Agitation 3.9]]</ref><ref name="14.3 e1">I joined her side, and put one hand on the side of Sirius’ neck, digging my fingertips into a meaty cord of muscle.  I scratched with enough force that I might have left tracks in normal skin.  “Hey, boy.  You’re a good dog, aren’t you?  Yes you are.”<br /><br />His bone-crusted tail lashed behind him in something approximating a wag. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/prey-14-3/ Excerpt] from [[Prey 14.3]]</ref> Her power has affected her ability to socialize with humans, having hardwired it to better understand canines. This wiring may have also given her some resilience to certain [[Master]] effects.<ref name="SB2">'''Does [[Gallant]] decide the emotions he inflicts? It seemed random with Rachel, but you say otherwise on the cast page.'''<br /><br />He decides the emotions. Rachel's wiring is screwed up. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/14658710 Wildbow on Spacebattles]</ref><ref name="9.11IIeE">But Lung was part of the handful I’d fought where I could input fear and get ''anger''.  Dean had run into the same thing, with emotions other than fear returning the same output.<br /><br />Some people, especially those of a more feral stripe, just processed things in a different way.  The upside was the tactical advantage in it, if I could adjust my expectations fast enough.<br /><br />The downside was that I had to make that adjustment.  ''Most'' of my costumed fighting experience was that my enemies would hesitate, get sloppy, or back off, but Lung, like Bitch, like the cooler but still dangerous Krieg or the seemingly unflappable Victor who would still act ''differently'' when under the influence of my power, attacking faster and more recklessly.  They were the people who were angry at the world, or those with the natural predisposition to fight rather than fly. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/09/29 Excerpt] from [[Gleaming 9.11]]</ref> Bitch herself is rated as a [[Master]], given that she is effectively creating enhanced minions.<ref name="8.5 c1">‘Master’ refers to the ability to control others or (in the case of specialized cases of other powers, like Tinkers) to create minons… Taylor, Parian, Crusader, Heartbreaker and Nilbog all fit this classification. Bitch is kind of an outlying case in this category because she doesn’t have absolute control or loyalty from those she creates. She has to train them – of the sixteen or so dogs she had at the one shelter, she only considered eight well trained enough to obey her and come with her in this chapter, and even then she was relying on Brutus and Judas to sort of herd them and keep them in line. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/extermination-8-5/#comment-59978 Comment] on [[Extermination 8.5]]</ref>

Rachel is capable of using her power at range, and on multiple dogs at once.<ref name="I11a">[[Interlude 11a]]</ref> She cannot, however, automatically control the dogs that she empowers. She has gotten around this drawback by training [[Bitch's Dogs|her dogs]] to respond to whistles and specific commands. She is quite adept at a variety of whistles that she uses to command her dogs.<ref name="11ae3" /><!--
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https://parahumans.wordpress.com/page/6/?s=Whistle&submit=Search--> She has also shown some skill with her power; as she participated in more fights her dogs steadily gained more durability, to the point of being able to take lightning bolts from Behemoth.<ref name="24.3">One dog, a person in its mouth, was struck by a bolt of lightning.  It fell, sprawling, then slowly climbed to its feet. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/15 Excerpt] from [[Crushed 24.3]]</ref> The animals maintain some sensation but are largely resistant to pain.<ref name="14.3 e1" /> Though able to create additional mass from seemingly nowhere, the animals Rachel empowers are still bound by conventional physics.<ref name="22.yc1">The dogs don’t get strength at a fast enough rate to compensate for the square cubed law of mass. Get too big, they can’t support their own weight. Bitch uses her power on Angelica like at one point, pushing Angelica further than normal when Angelica was still wounded from Fog’s attentions, knowing that Angelica can’t move that well anyways. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/interlude-22-donation-bonus-1/#comment-24125 Comment by Wildbow] on [[Interlude 22.y]]</ref> Any strength a canine gains from her empowerment is given a disproportionate amount of mass which can end up restricting their movements. As such Rachel needs to be careful how much additional mass she feeds to dogs as they lose agility and other benefits the larger they get.<ref name="e.4 e2">Rachel gave her companion a bit more power.  Size at the expense of flexibility. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/11/12 Excerpt] from [[Teneral e.4]]</ref><ref name="7.3">[[Buzz 7.3]]</ref>  

Her power also affects other canines, such as wolves. In fact, her power seems to work far more effectively on wolves than domestic dogs; the transformations of her wolf were sleeker, stronger, more symmetrical, caused less strain to herself and the wolf even when she worked the transformation faster.<ref>[[Interlude 11a]]</ref> The downside of that, however, is that wild canines take far more effort to train, not having been [[Wikipedia:Origin of the domestic dog|domesticated over generations]]. Rachel kept [[Bastard]], her wolf, with her constantly for the first few years, and even then the training might not have been effective if she hadn't raised it from a puppy. It is not shown how her power would affect other canines, like coyotes or dingoes. 

Rachel feels her power as an internal vibration radiating outward, reverberating in her dogs.<ref name="11ae3">That wasn’t how you were supposed to fight.  Bitch whistled hard, then shouted, “Magic, Lucy, Roxy!  Come!”<br /><br />As the three dogs barreled toward her, she used her power.  She felt it extend outward like a vibration from deep inside her.  She felt that power shudder and reverberate, as if to let her know it was making contact with them.  She could see the effect.  Could see them grow larger, see bone and muscle swell and shift. - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/16 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11a]]</ref> Its use tires Rachel out, and the faster she uses it, the faster she tires.<ref name="5.2c1">Well, it’s mentioned in passing, as they get ready for the bank robbery, that it tires her out to some degree, especially if she does it fast. So there’s a couple of factors. How fast is she pumping them up? How tired or hurt is she? It could be that she could do more, but it wouldn’t last nearly as long, or it would leave her too fatigued to do anything. - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/hive-5-2/#comment-342 Comment] by [[Wildbow]] on [[Hive 5.2]]</ref> Therefore, she prefers having time to slowly increase her dogs' sizes, rather than having to rush the job. 

{{main|Bitch's Dogs}}
At the beginning of Worm, Bitch has three dogs that are trained to obey her while under the effects of her power: [[Brutus]], [[Judas]], and [[Angelica]]. This number increased exponentially as she gained the resources to rescue, care and train more dogs.

===Equipment===
Rachel typically uses chains and similar leads to control her dogs.<ref name="I21.ye2" /><ref name="7.2e1" />