Editing Amy Dallon (section)

===Post-[[Slaughterhouse Nine]]===
To avoid responsibility for what she did to [[Victoria]],<ref name="reddit eAmyBehavior">By a similar token, Amy doing what she does is understandable in the moment, but what's problematic is that in the face of guilt and people (Tattletale) telling her to change course, she twists her thinking around and doubles down and later avoids responsibility (Birdcage). The entire system, the edifice, is telling her ''no'', and outside of the heat of the moment, calm and subdued, she does it anyway. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/88522224 --><ref name="reddit eAmyFlaw">Just about every character in-setting who wears a mask and has powers (and even many who don't) are also pushed to their breaking point. It's a conceit of the setting. That's not an excuse.<br><br>It's a theme of Ward that healing and getting better only works if you can get over & get past ''yourself''. Amy remains an antagonist throughout because this is her major flaw - it's not a flaw introduced in Ward. We can see it in action when she talks to the Undersiders in Worm, in the language she uses and the approach she takes, ultimately taking Victoria away when everyone else is saying it's a mistake. And it's a mistake.<br><br>Amy is someone who decides what she wants and then rationalizes her way to it. This, when what she wants is a person, when she has a massive amount of power, is scary.<br><br>Going to the birdcage is ultimately something she does for ''herself''. Getting tattoos as a personal symbol is something she does for ''herself''. Fixing Victoria after the fact is something she does for ''herself'', when it immediately follows that she wants to reconnect.<br><br>In the course of doing these things she does massive harm. She abandons Victoria to her state for years, and Victoria has to live the rest of her life with the ramifications of what happened. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/93021530 --> she demanded and succeeded at being birdcaged.<ref>“She went to the birdcage because she wanted to,” Jessica said.  “And we let her because there were serious concerns about her unleashing an epidemic if she had another psychotic break.” - [[Interlude 18.z]]</ref><ref>One of the motivating factors would be the risk of Panacea snapping once again and unleashing an epidemic. If she can create a counter-plague as easily as she did, how easily could she brew up an actual plague? There's plastic eating bacterium out there. It's possible she could create something for glass, for stone or metal. How do you hold someone like that?<br><br>Not easily.<br><br>There's two places that could manage it. There's the asylum and the Birdcage. The former's a no-no given the fact that Glory Girl's in there and it's opening a pretty ugly can of worms. The latter's a place she actually wanted to go.<br><br>And of course, let's not forget that Dragon and other people in charge of the Birdcage project have likely considered many of the same angles and still agreed that Panacea should go there. They have their flaws, but are they 'boneheaded'?<br><br>Maybe they are, maybe not. - [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?c-Worm-The-best-supervillain-web-serial-that-you-aren-t-not-reading-yet&p=16098711#post16098711 Wildbow on RPG.net]</ref><ref>People keep dwelling on that.<br><br>Amy: "I want to go to the Birdcage."<br><br>Authority: "We have uses for you. We can get you help."<br><br>Amy: "I want to go to the Birdcage. I don't want any part of any of this."<br><br>Authority: "The birdcage is permanent, no, that's unreasonable."<br><br>Amy, dull monotone: "I can make plagues, I ''will'' make plagues, I can make organisms that devour plastics, metals, glass, and stone, there is ''nothing'' you can do to seal me away, unless you put me ''there''. Please put me in the Birdcage before I snap again. I'm done."<br><br>Do you ''really'' want to tell her 'no'? - Comment by Wildbow on Sufficient Velocity, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/17113315 -->

There she met her father and saw [[Lung]] again. She attended a meeting with the cell block leaders of the birdcage and shook hands with [[Glaistig Uaine]].

Together, they figured out what was really going on with the [[Passenger]]s.

During her stay there, she dated [[Paroxysm]].<ref name="II16.y eParoxysm">When the woman didn’t say anything, Amy went on, asserting her voice, trying to sound confident, “It was my first kiss, with Paroxysm, and a few first other things, but that ''numbness'', knowing it wasn’t what I really wanted?  We broke it off about as amicably as you can, when you’re stuck in the same place.  I saw a girl after Gold Morning, too, but that was… not fun.  She was still mourning, I couldn’t help her through it.”<br><br>“Okay,” Jessica said.  “I don’t want to lose sight of my suggestion from earlier.  It doesn’t change that you and Victoria would be better off if you both tried to avoid each other.” - [[Interlude 16.y II]]</ref>