Editing The Pharmacist (section)

==Abilities and Powers==
The Pharmacist is a pyrokinetic with the ability to manifest purple flames from her hands.<ref>Purple flames erupted in the woman’s hands.  She hurled them at the elegant statue-cape, and the statue burned.  Caryatid’s voice rose in alarm, then a prolonged cry of pain. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/09/01/gleaming-9-4/ Excerpt] from [[Gleaming 9.4]]</ref> She could also manually increase the intensity of the fires she created, and extinguish them at will.<ref name="9.5 2" /><ref>With each pulse of my aura, the flames grew, and the Pharmacist dashed the flames, extinguishing a swathe of the fire around Lung as if throwing invisible water on the area.  I could pulse it, see the response time, repeat, see if it changed.  I could establish a rhythm, then fake them out.  How fast did they respond then? - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/09/29/gleaming-9-11/ Excerpt] from [[Gleaming 9.11]]</ref> However, she could only extinguish fires that she could see.<ref>The Pharmacist extinguished fire, but it seemed she was limited to extinguishing what she could see.  Fire burned in crevices, crept out further with more and more speed.  It hurt him, and where it hurt him, he healed, and the healing made it burn hotter.  With the way it crept along the exterior of his body, she wouldn’t have been able to see all of the flame without being here. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/09/29/gleaming-9-11/ Excerpt] from [[Gleaming 9.11]]</ref>

The Pharmacist's flames ignite nearby active powers, spreading across them like normal fire across oil.<ref name="9.5 1">“Don’t use your power!  The fire ignites powers!”<br/><br/>I saw the woman at the other end of the room react to that.  That observation was blunted by the more pressing fact that I was on fire and I could feel the heat.  My costume had absorbed the worst of it.<br/><br/>Get away, I thought.  The rule for the powered dealing with trumps – especially the ones that screwed with powers.  I had to fight my instinct to get away faster by flying. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/09/04/gleaming-9-5/ Excerpt] from [[Gleaming 9.5]]</ref><ref>I pushed out with my aura, for maximum range.  I wasn’t sure the power mattered, but I gave that my all too.  I squeezed my eyes shut.<br/><br/>The aura reached the woman and reached the flame she held.  The aura ignited- the woman’s fire spread across powers like flame across oil, and I’d filled the space within a hundred feet of me with ambient power.  Gas. Aerosol. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/09/04/gleaming-9-5/ Excerpt] from [[Gleaming 9.5]]</ref> For example, this effect applies to [[Breaker]] forms,<ref>I looked over in Caryatid’s direction.  She’d crumpled over, and she looked like she was alternately trying to stop, drop, and roll and be very still while the flames licked her costume and skin.  The skin I could see at her hand looked angry and red, her other hand gripping her arm at the elbow. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/09/04/gleaming-9-5/ Excerpt] from [[Gleaming 9.5]]</ref> [[Shaker]] effects<ref>“Listen to me!” I screamed the words.  Then, in anger, lashing out in much the same way I might have struck her across the face with the back of my hand, I used my aura.<br/><br/>''This'' time the fire exploded.<br/><br/>Purple flames became purple-white and blindingly bright, filling my vision in the course of filling the room.  I threw up my forcefield on reflex alone, and my thoughts followed a moment later, with a stark awareness of why that was a bad idea. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/09/04/gleaming-9-5/ Excerpt] from [[Gleaming 9.5]]</ref>, and even [[Master]] effects such as [[Goddess]]'s alignment.<ref>Goddess matched him, lifting herself up, the purple fire catching and then tracing the invisible diagrams and forces that buoyed her, only a few feet behind her because she moved fast enough to outrun its pace.  More fire traced other powers she was using, blinding her and burning away the invisible, abstract forces that reached out from her and toward Lung’s brain. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/09/25/gleaming-9-10/ Excerpt] from [[Gleaming 9.10]]</ref> The Pharmacist's flames also ignored power-based invulnerability.<ref>The second place my thoughts kept getting caught on was the master-stranger protocols, because I’d been thinking about them so recently.  What was the law, the rule, the textbook way to do this?  Other protocols, other rules or by-the-books procedures.<br/><br/>This, for all intents and purposes, was a trump power, because it affected or involved other powers.  Penetrating supposed invulnerability? - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/09/04/gleaming-9-5/ Excerpt] from [[Gleaming 9.5]]</ref>

Although the purple fires do not appear to chase after [[Thinker]] powers, they can blind them (e.g., [[Goddess]]'s danger sense)<ref>“I wouldn’t say for sure that it’s over,” I said.  “And if it isn’t over, we won’t have much of an opportunity.”<br><br>“I’d use my danger sense, but the fires blind me,” she remarked.<br><br>“Understandable.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/09/29/gleaming-9-11/ Excerpt] from [[Gleaming 9.11]]</ref> or be painful to perceive (e.g., [[Crystalclear]]'s vision).<ref>There was a detonation near the front of the prison.  I saw the flame leap high.<br><br>“''Fuck'',” Crystalclear swore.  “That fire is ''painful'' to look at with my senses being what they are.”<br><br>“Yeth.”<br><br>The fire.  ''Purple'' flame. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/09/25/gleaming-9-10/ Excerpt] from [[Gleaming 9.10]]</ref>

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