Editing Victoria Dallon (section)

==Abilities and Powers==
Victoria has the classic [[Alexandria]] package of flight, invincibility, and superhuman strength.<ref name="cast">Glory Girl – Member of New Wave, a teenager with blonde hair and a white costume with gold trim.  She has super strength, flight, and invulnerability, as well as the ability to generate an aura of awe around her, encouraging allies and intimidating foes. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-spoiler-free/ Cast (spoiler free)]</ref> She also radiates an aura that makes her allies more inclined to respect and look up to her, while making her terrifying and intimidating to her enemies.<ref name="Cast"><strong>Glory Girl, Victoria Dallon (Incarcerated; Asylum)</strong> – Possessed of flight, invincibility, and capable of deadlifting over a ton.  She radiates an energy that makes her allies more inclined to like, respect and look up to her, while making her terrifying and intimidating to her enemies.  Following the conclusion of the Slaughterhouse Nine arc, Glory Girl was altered by her sister, in both mind and body, and was placed in an asylum for parahumans, where she currently remains. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-spoiler-free/cast/ Cast Page (In-Depth)]</ref><ref name="list">''Victoria Dallon - Glory Girl -'''Emotion affecting aura focused on awe/intimidation, flight, enhanced strength, and personal forcefield that blocks one hit before taking 1-2 seconds to recharge''' - New Wave'' - [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pgn9rgYutpBqJg1lSBP3NHnq9WK4ToLq9K4ys_I4cRc/edit#gid=0 Wildbow's Parahuman List], bolded edit by Wildbow.</ref>

Her [[passenger]] is a bud from [[Manpower]]<ref name="SB6">Wildbow: Victoria's powers resemble Manpower and Brandish on a level.<br/>Wildbow: And because Manpower's shard fissioned off, it was pretty exclusively Photon Mom's power that went to Shielder and Laserdream. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15267907 Wildbow archived on SpaceBattles]</ref> and [[Brandish]],<ref>Q.Is Glory Girl's shard a bud shard from Brandish, or is she a first generation cape that happened to trigger in the Dallon household?<br/>A. Yes. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/12852536 Wildbow on Spacebattles]</ref><ref>Brandish was living more of a life, she had her existence as a lawyer. So Glory Girl was more of a 'push' of a second gen. Less 'let's copy this person who isn't as active right now' and more 'let's mix it up'. - [https://redd.it/51awfy Wildbow on Reddit]</ref> and also pinged off of [[Gallant]].<ref name="II12.all eBud">All others who seek connections with hosts bring more cargo and capability than needed.  Our mother-host discarded the greater shape of her inviolable defense.  Our father-host discarded explosive strength and power. [...] That fleeting contact and the jettison that came with it would be another facet of us.  An emotion power. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/03/02/heavens-12-all/ Excerpt] from [[Heavens 12.all]]</ref><ref>It was my mother, holding a swaddled baby.  Her eyes full of warmth and exhaustion.<br/><br/>It was my uncle Neil, playing with an infant me  He sat cross legged, pushing me over, knocking me off balance, and messing with me.  Sparring, on the most basic level.<br/><br/>And Dean.  Beautiful, sweet Dean, walking beside me.<br/><br/>I watched the scenes change, rotating.<br/><br/>''Is this you?''<br/><br/>There was only one thing connecting those people to me. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/04/infrared-19-8/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.8]]</ref>

===Forcefield===
Victoria's invincibility and strength is the result of an invisible forcefield that extends a few millimeters over her skin and clothes.<ref name="I2" /><ref name="15.x c1">Re: Glory Girl, I’ll just say that her super strength and invincibility are linked. Hard to distinguish hitting something and being hit. There’s still that big impact, so Glory Girl’s invincibility does shut down briefly after she whacks something hard enough. Wearing armor that requires super strength to lift could be problematic if her strength comes and goes. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/interlude-15-donation-bonus/#comment-5169 comment by WildBow] on [[Interlude 15.x]]</ref> She or her [[passenger]] subconsciously controls whether others can make skin-to-skin contact with her<ref name="SB1" />, though she had gained enough control to suppress her forcefield at will.<ref>Being in the bus stop with my mom.  Weird, because it had once been a happy memory.  She’d been stitching up a cut on my forehead while I suppressed my forcefield. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/11/28/daybreak-1-6/ Excerpt] from [[Daybreak 1.6]]</ref><!-- Due to increase in size, forcefield does not just blink-in anymore, but unfurls from Victoria's body.{{cite}} -->

It needs to recharge for 1 to 2 seconds<ref name="list" /> after it receives a heavy impact, or after a few seconds of sustained fire (such as a beam or jet of water.) Even a strong punch can be enough to trigger this effect, and it takes longer to recharge after holding off a sustained hit. Her own super-strong punches and kicks cause it to flicker off and revive.<ref name="R1">Strong enough to tank a shot from Scion. Would hold up to a few seconds of sustained fire (as in, actually sustained; fire hose or beam, but not machine gun patter), but collapse immediately, with recharge suffering considerably for having to take the sustained hit.<br/>A punch/kick probably wouldn't bust it, unless it was delivered well enough to KO, augmented by brass knuckles, etc. But that's about the tier it's at where it starts breaking, and at that point it reacts in almost exactly the same way as it would to a blast from Scion... down for a couple of seconds, then popping right back up.<br/>Delivering a strong punch, kicking a dumpster or landing hard has the same effect, causing it to flicker off, then revive. -  [https://redd.it/58qhpa Wildbow on Reddit]</ref> This makes for a fragile invulnerability.<ref name=WI/> Dealing with sustained fire causes her shield to take longer to regenerate. It does not consider machine-gun fire to be a single sustained attack, but rather a series of individual blows.<ref name="R1"/>

When Victoria first triggered, her forcefield did not protect her clothing. With time, it began to protect her Glory Girl costume as well, although the skirt was only inconsistently protected.<ref name="II1.7 e1"></ref>

While active, it can block even a direct hit from [[Scion]].<ref name="II15.5 eTankScion" /><ref name="R1"/><ref>Glory Girl could take a direct hit from one of Scion's lasers.<br><br>She would not be able to take a second hit, be it from Scion a handgun or a kitchen knife. - [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?695777-Worm-Aleph-Everything-Old-Is-Rotted-Through-Again/page51 Comment by Wildbow on RPG.net]</ref> The field protects her from the cold and bugs during the flying, but still allows her to feel the wind in her hair.<ref name=":1 2">There were very few things, in Victoria Dallon's estimation, that were cooler than flying.  The invisible forcefield that extended a few millimeters over her skin and clothes just made it better.  The field kept the worst of the chill from touching her, but still let her feel the wind on her skin and in her hair.  Bugs didn't splat against her face like they did against car windshields, even when she was pushing eighty miles an hour. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/08/06 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 2]]</ref>
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Certain pockets of air close to the cracks into [[Shardspace]] can slice Victoria's forcefield by sending different portions to different realities.<ref>I landed with enough force it made my knees and hips hurt.  I navigated around the slices in reality, putting out one of my forcefield hands that I could afford to lose.<br>[...]<br>The forcefield died.  I had to experiment to see why.  Certain pockets of air close to the cracks were dangerous, slicing any passing limb by sending different portions to different realities.  Like thickets of nigh-invisible, ultra-sharp brambles. - [[Radiation 18.1]]</ref> The Ripple [[shaker]] from [[the Taught]] can throw out distortions that could tear her forcefield and continue without stopping, though it leaves her forcefield in tatters.<ref>He threw out the power, and it webbed out to every nearby surface before lunging forward.  Before, it had been rings, a pillar.  Always with a way through.<br><br>This time, a wall, impassable.<br><br>I veered hard right, put my foot out, kicking the actual wall, just to stop my forward momentum, then reversed course to get away and get back.  My forcefield was up as part of the kick into the wall, and I felt the wall make contact with an extremity.<br><br>I felt the forcefield ''tear''.  It didn’t die, but it remained in tatters, a body torn two, with limbs scattered.<br>[...]<br>Emboldened, I changed course, driving myself further up into the ceiling until the field finally died.  The shaker’s wall passed beneath me. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/07/09/dying-15-2/ Excerpt] from [[Dying 15.2]]</ref> [[Cradle]], at his strongest, can draw silver lines<ref>His power drew lines, and waited for his targets to meet the lines.  They didn’t serve him when everything was at a standstill. - [[Heavens 12.9]]</ref> capable of cutting straight through her forcefield without collapsing it.<ref>It wasn’t a bullet I had to worry about.  I was flying, thinking I was safe, when lines began to appear.  Silvery, but crisp, like slices in reality, reaching well over the building.<br><br>Not meant for me, but dangerous all the same.  I flew past one, and the Wretch had a limb extended.  I felt the Wretch get sliced, felt the dim sensation that was the Wretch’s extended being part.  The forcefield didn’t collapse.  It cut.<br><br>A gaping hole in my forcefield, now, where there had been a bit of torso and shoulder. - [[Heavens 12.7]]</ref><ref>I took flight, aiming to go over, and saw Cradle move in the same instant he turned his head my way.  I made myself stop, twisting, as the lines appeared.<br><br>Sudden appearance, each one sharper than any blade, and capable of cutting through powered defenses. - [[Heavens 12.8]]</ref> Luckily, if Victoria drops or knocks out her forcefield, her power will recover its original state after it recharges and comes back up.<ref>A bullet clipped the Wretch, striking the very same hand that Cradle’s power had clipped.  Much like my mom’s ball had been cut and then was intact after the fact, my own power had recovered when it had been knocked out and turned back on.<br><br>But I was left momentarily exposed, my back to the enemy, nearly blind in the loose rain of flecks of mud.<br><br>I flew to the underside of the square-shaped porch, my back hugging it, and the moment the Wretch returned, I used her to haul it up and away from the wall. - [[Heavens 12.8]]</ref> [[Rain O'Fire Frazier]] can always do the same as Cradle by drawing a silver line and then activating it; however, if she drops her damaged forcefield, it would take a minute to recharge instead of a bit of time.<ref>I didn’t want to drop the field, not when I needed it, not when it had eben damaged before and taken a minute to come back up, after being hit with Rain’s silver blade.  When Cradle had hit it and knocked it out for a bit of time.  I threw myself into the ceiling tiles, into lighting and wiring, carving a furrow. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/07/09/dying-15-2/ Excerpt] from [[Dying 15.2]]</ref> Note that the Ripple shaker, Cradle, and Rain lack [[All-or-Nothing]] powers,<ref>A silver blade cut through the air.  Precipice’s answer to Love Lost’s scream.  It hit the chains that Hookline had made, but it drew no silver lines.<br><br>''They’re protected by Hookline’s power'', I thought. - [[Blinding 11.11]]</ref><ref>I twisted in the air to watch the ripple.  I could see more of Kenzie’s message appearing in my vision.  My focus was on the others, though.  Ashley blasted the ripple as it raced to her, like a car speeding down the highway.  Caryatid took it head-on, breaker form active.  A spike of it slipped through, but it didn’t look like anyone got clipped. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/07/09/dying-15-2/ Excerpt] from [[Dying 15.2]]</ref> which suggests her forcefield is not All-or-Nothing.

[[All-or-Nothing]] powers such as [[Foil]]'s charged objects, blasts from [[Damsel of Distress]], and headbutts from [[Torso]] can knock out Victoria's forcefield and continue without stopping.<ref>“Any chance you could arm me with your spear?”<br><br>“Specially made bolts, yes, if I had any left.  This?  No.  The power would conduct to the part you held, and you’d hurt yourself.” - [[Radiation 18.5]]</ref><ref>“Even with my forcefield?” I asked.<br><br>“Hold it out?”<br><br>I did.  A bit of falling snow or ash settled on an outstretched hand.<br><br>The spear shimmered, taking on a faint but complex hue like it had been dipped in a puddle with a rainbow sheen of oil on the surface.  She laid it gently across my forcefield hand.<br><br>The forcefield went down.<br><br>I quickly put my mask on, just as a safeguard.  I waited.<br><br>The forcefield took a little while to get back up to full strength.  I flexed my limbs, making sure nothing had been ruined.<br><br>“No luck,” I murmured. - [[Radiation 18.5]]</ref><ref>Damsel used her power, a slow-burning rumble of blackness in her clawed hands, just to my left.  If I’d lowered my arm to my side, I would have touched it.<br><br>I caught her other claw.  The power burned there too.<br><br>If one spark or flicker danced back toward her wrist, it’d hit my forcefield, and I’d lose that protection. - [[Radiation 18.6]]</ref><ref name=":4">I disengaged from my forcefield, visualizing and forming the cocoon shape, the ribcage splayed open so I could fly out.  Then I turned it toward Torso.  Forcefield arms reached out, grabbing him under the armpits, where his arms stuck out of the heavy armor that covered head and upper body only.  I lifted him into the opening in the forcefield-<br><br>His head lolled back, smashing into the forcefield.  I felt it go, dashed to smithereens.<br><br>For what felt like three, four, maybe even five seconds, my forcefield didn’t come back online.  A problem that had only ever occurred with Scion-level hits and Ashley’s blasts. - [[Last 20.7]]</ref><ref>Again, I repeated the exercise.  Lifting him, hands reaching inside to brace his head.<br><br>The area shook.  He flinched, his head moved to tear free of the bracing grip, and he bashed my forcefield into oblivion with a small tap of the back of his head against the ‘shoulder’ of it.<br><br>I clenched my fists. - [[Last 20.7]]</ref> Extreme hits such as those from Torso, Damsel, and Scion also caused her forcefield to take a few seconds longer to regenerate than normal.<ref name=":4" />

====Strength====
Her strength is primarily generated through the forcefield,<ref name="SB4">Her strength is primarily generated through the forcefield. She hasn't actually been tested & is ballparking when she talks about what she can lift. - 
[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/12852536 Comment by Wildbow on Spacebattles]</ref> and operates through a similar mechanism to [[Manpower]]'s.<ref name="SB6" /><ref name="II12.all eBud" /> She's capable of deadlifting slightly above fourteen tons, but functional limits depend on the grip and the distribution of mass.<ref>“How much can you lift?”<br/><br/>“When I was Glory Girl, it was fourteen point six tons.  But it wasn’t easy, and it gets weird when you express it as strength that isn’t straight lifting.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/12/10/radiation-18-8/ Excerpt] from [[Radiation 18.8]]</ref> For example, she could bench press a cement mixer (if she was careful about balancing it),<ref name="I2e1" /> lift a truck, etc.<ref>I hit him with strength that I could have used to lift up a truck- [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/01/15/blinding-11-8/ excerpt] from [[Blinding 11.8|Blinding - 11.8]] </ref><ref name=":3">Anger and instinct fed into my actions, as I went with the flow.  I wanted a weapon and I didn’t even have the buckler or armguard.  I patted pockets, found small change, and extended my hand.  I let go of it, and it collected within the forcefield.<br><br>Then, just as easily, it escaped the forcefield.  A mouth or other cavity yawned open.  The change leaked out and found another invisible trap to fall up into, one or two coins being lost in the process.<br><br>I’d thought about this, a long, long time ago.  As a ‘what if’.  In reaching for the change, I hadn’t even consciously recalled the memory.  It was only when I realized what was happening that I connected the thought.<br><br>The change moved, then disappeared.<br><br>I saw the violence, heard the impact of change striking car doors and icy road.  I’d been plunging toward my caricature and now I changed course.  My caricature was dead.  A coin dropped from the top of the tallest building in the world wouldn’t kill someone.  A handful thrown with the kind of strength and force that could lift trucks had a treatment like a low-impact shotgun.<br><br>''Fuck the ‘wretch’'', I thought, the thought punctuating the full collapse of her body onto the road. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/08/24/from-within-16-4/ Excerpt] from [[From Within 16.4]]</ref> <!-- roughly up to a heavy type of school-bus, yep-->

She was strong enough to casually launch a man or a metal dumpster over seventy-five feet,<ref name="I2e1">She threw him.  Since she could bench press a cement mixer, though it was hard to balance something so large and unwieldy, even a casual toss on her part could get some good distance.  He flew a good twenty five or thirty yards down the back road before hitting the asphalt, and rolled for another ten. - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/08/06 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 2]]</ref><ref>Then she kicked the dumpster below her hard enough to send it flying down the little road.  It rotated lazily through the air as it arced towards the retreating figure, the trajectory and rotation barely changing as it knocked him flat.  It skidded to a halt three to five yards beyond him, the metal sides of the dumpster squealing and sparking as it scraped against the asphalt. - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/08/06 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 2]]</ref> or throw a small object like a mirror or a handful of loose change with bullet-like speed and force.<ref name=":3" /><ref name="II16.4 eWretchMirror" /> (Given that her strength is related to [[Manpower]]'s "explosive strength",<ref name="II12.all eBud" /><ref name="SB6" /> and Manpower imparts additional speed and force to objects he throws,<ref>He twisted his hand around, and the shelf snapped over, the thicker midsection of the shelf slapping into the palm of his hands, fingers gripping it.<br><br>He hurled it, and it wasn’t just that he was strong enough to treat it like it weighed nothing- he used his power to thrust it out.  Damsel aimed to shoot it out of the air, but with the speed it flew, it connected with her hand a moment before the power annihilated it.  Flecks of shelf struck Damsel’s face and shoulders. - [[Eclipse x.5]]</ref> it's possible she may be able to throw objects even harder than her baseline strength would imply.)
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She had not tested the limits of her strength.<ref name="SB4"/> People speculated that she could swing a schoolbus like a baseball bat,<ref>First of all, she’s invincible. Second, again, bad idea to irritate someone who can swing a schoolbus like a baseball bat. - [[Agitation 3.11]]</ref> lift an SUV over her head,<ref>“I’m strong enough to lift a SUV over my head,” Victoria muttered, “It’s hard to hold back all the time.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/08/06 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 2]]</ref> or bench-press a cement mixer.<ref name="I2e1" /><!-- weight is a sustained force, wink-wink-->

====The Wretch====
[[File:Wretch by scarfgirl.png|thumb|Illustration by [https://scarfgirl.deviantart.com/ Scarfgirl]]]

Following [[Gold Morning]], Victoria's forcefield is stuck to her previous form, before Amy corrected it, causing it to extend beyond the bounds of her body in the shape of her mutated form.<ref name="II1.7 e1">Not a second trigger.  I was well aware of that.  When I’d first had my forcefield, it hadn’t protected my costume.  I had two theories as to why.<br/><br/>The first theory was that I’d grown, and the boundaries that the forcefield used to define ‘me’ had changed.  I’d breathe out, breathe in, gain a pound here, lose a pound there, and it would adjust for the maximum bounds.  It didn’t explain how my skirt was often protected, but I’d mused on that too, that my legs moved, my hair had been long at one point, I’d been shorter…<br/><br/>I’d been that, the forcefield had adjusted, and that was the new upper bound of what I was, forever with me.<br/><br/>It felt thin, as theories went.<br/><br/>The second theory was that it was the Manton effect, that broad-as-bells term for the built in protections and limitations of the power.  The theory was that the built-in protections of the power only protected what I saw as a part of me, and it had taken some time before the costume was that much a part of my identity.<br/><br/>That ''that'' was me, now, as much as the costume I wore. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/11/28/daybreak-1-6/ Excerpt] from [[Daybreak 1.7]]</ref> She referred to this phantom-memory forcefield as the 'Wretch', since the extended and misaligned forcefield expressed a degree of independence.<ref>[[Flare 2.4]]</ref><ref>[[Glare 3.3]]</ref><ref>[[Shade 4.3]]</ref> Victoria had to be mindful about it, so as not to wreck surroundings accidentally. However, in some situations, she was able to position it to protect other people.

After sustaining a big hit, the delays for bringing the Wretch back up will be longer than usual.<ref>I backed off.  Sustaining big hits like I had killed the Wretch’s stamina, made delays longer for a while after.  I had to trust they had things handled.  They had Wardens with them. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/07/20/dying-15-5/ Excerpt] from [[Dying 15.5]]</ref>

Eventually Wretch learns to manipulate objects without instantly destroying them. It was able to arm itself with improvised weapons and guns during [[the Attack on Teacher's Compound]], and later throw objects with a great effect.<ref>[[From Within 16.4]]</ref>

After her [[Journey to the Shardspace]], Victoria gained near perfect control of her forcefield. She was able to use it with impressive dexterity, doing things like braiding her hair, carrying a cell phone and picking up a team mate without harming them. She is capable of moving her forcefield independently of herself, adding some rotational power to her arsenal.<ref>I moved the forcefield, with movements of my hand and with my own control over it.  To give it spin, so it hurtled around me.  The force of limbs and irregular shapes cutting through the air actually made flying forward harder, slowing me down.  Titan Eve was creating a wall of hard gas in anticipation of the impact.  I was going to have to deal with that too. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/11/26/radiation-18-4/ Excerpt] from [[Radiation 18.4]]</ref> This can be used as a crude fan in situations involving gas.<ref>Dance with me, I thought.  I made my forcefield spin once again.  I could see the impact of the rotation and hands slicing against air on the gas around me, and maneuvered to use it, hands turning to be flat against the wind and fan it more, driving gas toward Titan Oberon, our most immediate threat. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/11/26/radiation-18-4/ Excerpt] from [[Radiation 18.4]]</ref>

When [[the Firmament]] was damaged in the fight against the [[Titans]], the shape of her forcefield changed once again, decreasing in 3 times. Now with less arms and legs, her forcefield is at a halfway point between its original form and its full wretch form. She also started getting<!--more?--> sensory information through it.<ref>“My forcefield shrank three sizes,” I said.<br/>[...]<br/>Using my forcefield hands to pinch metal together, curl ragged edges, and straighten what was bent, I simultaneously figured out the new limits of my forcefield.  The reach of the arms, the number and position of them.<br/><br/>My forcefield had long hair.  Longer than I was used to.  Less arms, less legs.  Like it was halfway between where my old forcefield had been and where ‘the Wretch’ had been.<br/>[...]<br/>I felt the forcefield’s hair slip over a bare forcefield shoulder. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/01/04/infrared-19-3/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.3]]</ref>

In its new form, the Wretch has less arms but the remaining arms are closer to each other, better enabling Victoria to move things around. She can use her forcefield's fingernails to cut things in combat.<ref>The hands on this form were closer together, instead of being spaced out across a larger body.  I had two less, but it was far easier to pass something from one hand to the other, especially with all the hands being in areas around the torso.<br/><br/>My last ‘fragile one’ hadn’t had a torso, so much.<br/><br/>The fifth one was slow in coming at me.  I didn’t flinch as it lunged for my head, then stopped where it was at.<br/><br/>At my bidding, fingernails ran down the length of its body, head to the stinger it thrust out blindly, and two hands pulled the cut open, practically bisecting it.  Crushed and twisted apart, one by one, the other wasps fell to either side of me. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/01/21/infrared-19-6/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.6]]</ref>

Following the emergency healing from [[Chris Elman]], Victoria loses fine control over the forcefield yet again.<ref>I could feel the forcefield moving, despite my wishes.  Reaching out, heads moving, mouths opening.  The periodic arm was swung, hard enough to audibly cut through the air.<br/><br/>Not as restless as it had been, but this was almost worse. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/02/infrared-19-7/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.7]]</ref>

This lack of control does not last long, as she comes to terms with her shard and gains full control over her forcefield. Victoria is now capable of selectively creating arms and mouths and other parts of her forcefield, without being forced to unleash the entire thing at once.<ref>[[Last 20.1]]</ref> By invoking memories of the time that Amy had turned her into a flesh coffin, Victoria is capable of emerging from inside her forcefield and having it act independently of herself.<ref>The scream latched onto the memory.  Me, wrapped in a cocoon of stray dogs, cats, bugs.  The cocoon had become a coffin, encapsulating me, after Crawler had eaten into me with acid.<br/><br/>But that coffin had opened.  Ribs with flesh strung between them had parted, revealing me within.<br/><br/>I held onto that image, pushing out, trying to capture it.<br/><br/>[...]<br/><br/>“I need you to get me in there!” Sveta called out to me.<br/><br/>“Okay, but- I don’t have my forcefield.”<br/><br/>She gave me a confused look.  Then a golden beam stabbed out, striking the shield the Simurgh was using to protect herself, until Byron pierced it with a spike of stone.  She connected the dots, looking back over her shoulder.<br/><br/>The Fragile One was there, visible in the shadows of dust.  Chest open, ribs splayed, a hole big enough for me to move through.  Her arms were extended, gripping the gun Dragon had given me, aiming it. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/03/03/last-20-3/ Excerpt] from [[Last 20.3]]</ref> In doing so, she is still capable of using her flight and her aura, but is no longer protected physically.

===Flight===
As Glory Girl she could fly at almost 80 mph.<ref>There were very few things, in Victoria Dallon’s estimation, that were cooler than flying.  The invisible forcefield that extended a few millimeters over her skin and clothes just made it better.  The field kept the worst of the chill from touching her, but still let her feel the wind on her skin and in her hair.  Bugs didn’t splat against her face like they did against car windshields, even when she was pushing eighty miles an hour. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/08/06/interlude-2/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 2]]</ref><!-- 80 mph would translate to ~3.6g (assuming 1 second acceleration), slightly above mark (3g) where person could easily make herself unconscious with a wrong maneuver --> She raises that to slightly in excess of 100 mph as Antares, keeping up with a train travelling at that speed.<ref>A train came, traveling west-to-east. I knew Sveta and Tristan would be boarding it. Had I been on foot, it was the one I would have caught.<br><br>When the other train came, traveling the opposite direction, I followed it.<br>[...]<br>The train was old-fashioned in look, cars linked by couplings, and passengers could move between cars, with the space between each car being open to the air. Periodically passengers would step out to smoke or get fresh air. Most were parents with kids.<br><br>At the caboose, a figure had stepped out onto the back. Rain.<br><br>He climbed over the railing and jumped, while the train was going well over a hundred miles an hour. - [[Glare 3.5]]</ref> She is still able to fly even when her forcefield is inactive.<ref name="11a e1">Glory Girl was flying over the stampeding dogs, a cell phone pressed to her ear, in Bitch's general direction.  Ink and Bruno leaped to the side of a building and then leaped from that point toward Glory Girl.  She struck Socks across the head, sending him flying to the ground, and Bruno slammed into her, knocking the phone from her grip.  She brought her knee up into the dog's side and pushed herself away before he could drive her down into the ground.<br/><br/>The heroine went for Bitch, who had only Angelica at her side.  Angelica positioned herself between enemy and master, and Glory Girl hit the dog broadside.  Angelica barely reacted, turning instead to snap at Glory Girl.  Her teeth rebounded off the heroine's outstretched arm, and Glory Girl darted backward, to hover in the air.  Catching her breath? - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/interlude-11a/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11a]]</ref>

As long as her forcefield was active to protect her, she was capable of flying straight through walls.<ref>I flew straight up, through the ceiling.  I felt my forcefield go down, bracing myself in case I brushed up against any wiring. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/11/25/daybreak-1-5/ excerpt] from [[Daybreak 1.5]]</ref>

On one occasion she was able to survive being accelerated into the blur by [[Ballistic]],<ref>Ballistic slumped against her and grabbed at the collar of her costume for support.  A second later, Glory Girl was a blur, disappearing into the skyline. [...] Glory Girl managed to make her way back  two minutes after the Travelers were gone, helped with the last body that still hung on the wall. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/sentinel-9-4/ Excerpt] from [[Sentinel 9.4]]</ref> it is unspecified which powers assisted her in that,<!-- 14g=137.3m/s/s can tear internal organs apart, speed of sound is ~340m/s (when stuff becomes untractable by eye), direction was vertical-ish, e.g. looking at least 2.5x lethal --> but the situation demonstrates that Victoria can handle acceleration way out of non-lethal range.

Victoria is noted by Crystal as being very good at aerial maneuvering, noting that Victoria can spin around in mid-air without getting dizzy, something she is not capable of.<ref>“But you can do that, see?  You just did this thing, you can turn upside-down and right-side up without getting dizzy.”<br/><br/>“I get dizzy.”<br/><br/>“But you can do that,” she said.  “I have to be careful about any serious flipping, or I’ll be green around the gills for five minutes.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/06/12/torch-7-7/ Excerpt] from [[Torch 7.7]]</ref> Victoria has used this to her advantage before, notably when taking out [[Etna]], who has similar middle ear issues to Crystal, that make it difficult for her to perform sharp turns in midair.<ref>I was fairly sure, just by seeing her fly, that she had a bit of the same issue Crystal did.  Middle ear wasn’t adapted to flying, so the sharp turns and anything else gave her one hell of the roller coaster feeling, if it didn’t make her nauseous or threaten to make her black out.<br/><br/>Option two, though, was to catch up to her when the constant turns had fucked with her most, tackle her, and use my flight and her disorientation to flip us both about ten times in three seconds, before arresting our movement and firmly depositing her in the nearest hillside.  The crash landing on her part was more because of her disorientation than any exaggerated force on my end.<br/><br/>She bounced.  It wasn’t a huge bounce, but her flight was still ‘on’ as she rebounded off the hillside and that made her buoyant. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/03/05/heavens-12-5/ Excerpt] from [[Heavens 12.5]]</ref> However, she has no meaningful advantage when compared with [[Colt|some breakers]].

===Aura===
Victoria can radiate an energy that makes anyone within her presence feel an emotional surge of awe and admiration. For those with a reason to be afraid of her (e.g., her foes), it is a feeling of raw intimidation instead.<ref>As she spoke, she ratcheted up her power.  She knew it was working when he started squirming just to avoid her gaze.<br><br>“Fuck you, you can’t touch me.  There’s laws against that shit,” he blustered, staring fixedly over one shoulder.<br><br>She turned up her power another notch.  Her body thrummed with current – waves of energy that anyone in her presence would experience as an emotional charge of awe and admiration.  For those with a reason to be afraid of her, it would be a feeling of raw intimidation instead. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/08/06 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 2]]</ref><ref name="Cast" /> Her aura can bypass cover.<ref>My back to the wall, hands out and pressed to the uneven surface, I waited until I felt the vibrations of Moose’s running footsteps.  It was hardly necessary, because Nailbiter kicked with her legs and screeched something at him, loud enough that Advance Guard and the therapy team could be aware of what was happening.<br><br>I pushed out with my aura, hard, extending it through the wall.<br><br>The thudding footsteps stopped.<br><br>On the other side, I heard Moose’s voice, then a laugh.<br><br>Yeah.<br><br>Gave him pause, at least. - [[Shadow 5.5]]</ref> It can also affect insects created by [[the Mother of Mothers]].<ref>I used my aura.<br><br>It did produce a reaction.  They began struggling, fluttering furously.  Then they came after me.<br><br>There was no telling what the effect was.  Agitation, attraction.  Awe?  Or was it something completely different, but filtered through the bugs’ senses to be something else entirely?  Even with people, the same input could give a dozen different kinds of reaction. - [[Infrared 19.6]]</ref>

Victoria's aura is not a true [[Master]] power;<ref>If it helps, Glory Girl’s not a true Master in the classification sense. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/interlude-18-donation-bonus-2/#comment-10208 Comment by Wildbow] on [[Interlude 18.y]]</ref><!-- https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/interlude-18-bonus-2/#comment-10208 --> it is a [[Shaker]]/[[Master]] power.<ref name="reddit eClassification">Brute forcefield & strength.<br>Master-shaker aura.<br>Mover flight. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/fd80aj/last_203_parahumans_2/fjfvcfu/ Comment] by Wildbow on Reddit</ref><ref>Shaker/master, but not straight master - Comment by Wildbow on Cauldron Discord</ref><!-- https://imgur.com/a/bdrFnOi --> No instances exist in [[Worm]] and [[Ward]] where a character compared her power to that of [[Heartbreaker]] or [[Cherish]]; for example, [[Taylor]] compared Heartbreaker with [[Amy]] (i.e., when Victoria's mind was modified<ref>“No!  That’s- that’s not her.  That’s the change I made doing the talking, or the aftermath of it.  Even if I removed all the neural connections that have been made since, there’s so much more in the emotional cocktails and hormonal balances.  She’s channeling it into anger instead of… instead of love.”<br><br>''Love''.  The implications were so fucked up.  It was the sort of thing ''Heartbreaker'' did. - [[Prey 14.6]]</ref>) and [[Gallant]] (i.e., unlike Gallant, Heartbreaker lacks a visible attack vector and his effects are long-term or permanent<ref>Heartbreaker was what you got when someone had a power like Gallant, the ability to manipulate emotions, and absolutely no compunctions about using it selfishly.  Unlike Gallant, Heartbreaker didn’t need to shoot you with any blasts of energy to affect you.  He just needed to be near you, and the effects were long term or permanent. - [[Buzz 7.1]]</ref>). Her aura does not have long-lasting effects; it was not a factor behind Amy's issues.<ref>'''Brett3572:''' She’s probably a lot less messed up considering there’s no factor of bad parenting (at least Sarah seems to be a good mom) and no constant aura. Also, she maybe doesn’t repress her powers as much. All in all, probably less messed up. She might not even be obsessed with Crystal.<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' Aura wasn't a factor. - Conversation with Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/97110089 --><ref name="II17.8 eRebuttal">Sveta said my words.  “You never went out into the field, Amy.  You hated caping.  She used her power around her mom and her dad, around Crystal, around Shielder, and even her boyfriend more than she used it around you.  At higher and lower intensities.  If it had that effect, it wouldn’t have been you.”<br><br>It was Amy’s time to freeze, to consider.<br><br>“I’m vulnerable.  Weak.  Pliable.  I was alone.  They were actual family, and Gallant was emotion resistant.”<br><br>I typed.<br><br>“Family doesn’t mean anything to the agents, Amy.  Second triggers don’t follow family lines.  They go by association.  Who’s closest and who’s most convenient.  Do you think Crystal and Eric weren’t vulnerable in the years around their triggers?  They triggered too.  They were second triggers like you.  They had their bad moments.  They felt alienated, capes among regular citizens.  They had trouble making real friendships.  Mark- you know Mark had his own struggles, weaknesses.”<br><br>I watched Amy’s expression through Sveta’s eye.<br><br>I watched her turn. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/26/sundown-17-8/ Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.8]]</ref> Note that Victoria used her aura around [[Brandish]], [[Flashbang]], [[Laserdream]], [[Shielder]], and even Gallant more than she used it around Amy; Amy did not go out patrolling.<ref name="II17.8 eRebuttal" /><ref>“Hmmm,” Lung spoke, “The healer.  A young heroine in New Wave.  Brown haired, like you.  When I was in custody, my flesh blackening and falling off, they had her come in and mend the worst of it.  As I understand it, she does not patrol as the others do.” - [[Interlude 10.5]]</ref> [[Wildbow]] explicitly confirms that Victoria's aura had no effect/influence on Amy's behavior and sexuality.<ref>Untrue, the premise Victoria's aura has affected Amy on that level has no basis in the story, WoG, or otherwise, and is in fact contradicted in the very first chapter they appear. Removed as this is misleading misinformation stated as fact. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/102530253 --><ref>'''Wildbow:''' I wondered if anyone would pay any attention to that.<br><br>'''Edited to clarify:''' But no, none.<br><br>It was never my intention to have this comment read as a confirmation of the theory. It’s probably my most regrettable comment, made in the adrenaline rush after writing a rather difficult chapter I’d looked forward to releasing, after 7 straight days of releasing chapters in my most intensive writing binge to date (as of then). I was pleased that someone was actively considering power interactions and I made this comment I thought (and frankly still feel) was vague. In the years since, many, many people have taken it as rock solid confirmation that Victoria was at fault for what happened. I wouldn’t give that kind of confirmation to begin with and put off clarifying the inverse for the same reason, but it remains pretty clear that it’s having a pretty damaging effect on the fandom so I’ve edited it to better reflect my original mindset. - Comment by Wildbow on [[Interlude 21.y]]</ref><!-- https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/interlude-21/#comment-20604 --><ref>I think you're really reaching with the 'general propensity'.<br><br>I think you're reaching more with 'all those WoG posts about how Vicky's Aura did affect her sexuality'. If 'all those' posts existed then they would have been posted a ''lot'' in the amy defense threads. But the only one people cite is a "that's interesting, isn't it?" type post that people seem to be taking and running with.<br><br>My early-in-my-writing-career reticence to outright and directly say "This was rape" in conjunction with Amy not wanting to outright admit what she did is being twisted. Failure as a writer, maybe. I make mistakes.<br><br>At the same time, I do think it's a mark against people's character when they leap strenuously to the defense of Amy, when what she did was rape anyway. Take the most charitable interpretation of what she did, disregard everything I said in the link above and you still have gross bodily violation (literally violating and warping the body) against someone who had protested, resisted, and been incapacitated. Done for selfish reasons, as Tattletale outlines an alternate path that Amy ignores.<br><br>To say ''that's'' not rape, Victoria didn't remember, is little different from saying 'it's not penis in vagina sex so it's not rape' in conjunction with 'she was sleeping/drugged so it doesn't matter what I did.'<br><br>If you take the aura thing and run with it, it translates so easily to the same kind of sentiment that says, "She dressed provocatively, so she kind of deserved it/she owns some of the responsibility." As a recent chapter outlines, a lot of people were in the area for Victoria's aura over time. Only one violated her.<br><br>That ain't great. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/62667076 -->

She is able to turn this aura off<ref>She can shut this off, but the effect is described as being fairly subtle, and it is implied she usually has it on to at least some small degree. - [http://worm.wikia.com/wiki/Victoria_Dallon?oldid=4592 Wiki edit by Wildbow]</ref> because it is a power that she has to willfully turn on.<ref>“What are the restrictions?  Minimal power use?” I asked.<br><br>“The powers you can use are restricted based on the power,” he said.  “Powers you willfully use or turn on are a no.  That would be your aura, Antares.  Probably your power, Capricorn.  Sveta should be fine.  Lookout should be fine.  Precipice…”- [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/08/20/from-within-16-3/ Excerpt] from [[From Within 16.3]]</ref><ref>The man looked over his shoulder, as if gauging his escape routes.<br><br>“Don’t even think about it, fugly,” she told him, “You know I’d catch you, and trust me, I’m already pissed off enough without you wasting my time.”<br><br>“I didn’t do anything,” the man snarled.<br><br>“Andrea Young!” Victoria raised her voice.  As she shouted, she exercised her power.  The man quailed as though she’d slapped him.  “A black college student was beaten so badly she needed medical attention!  Her teeth were knocked out!  You’re trying to tell me that you, a skinhead with swollen knuckles, someone who was in the crowd watching paramedics arrive with an expression bordering on glee, you didn’t do anything!?”<br><br>“I didn’t do nothing worth caring about,” he sneered.  His bravado was tempered by a second look over his shoulder, as though he’d very much like to be elsewhere right that moment. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/08/06 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 2]]</ref><ref>I activated my aura. - [[Daybreak 1.3]]</ref> Indeed, Victoria has full control of her aura; no instances exist in [[Worm]] where she accidentally used her aura or lost control. For example, she did not use her aura during the [[Battle at the Gallery]],<ref>[[Tangle 6.5]]</ref> class PARA-103 at the [[PRT_ENE_Headquarters#Facilities|PRT conference room]],<ref>[[Sentinel 9.3]]</ref> the fight between [[the Wards]] and [[the Travelers]],<ref>[[Sentinel 9.4]]</ref> the fight against [[Bitch's Dogs|Bitch's dogs]],<ref>[[Interlude 11a]]</ref> her meeting with [[Amy]] who ran away from home,<ref>[[Interlude 11h]]</ref> and her meeting with [[the Undersiders]] and Amy group.<ref>[[Prey 14.3]]</ref><ref>[[Prey 14.4]]</ref> She also did not use her aura on Amy at Spayder and Rock.<ref>“Hey sis?  Yeah, I found him.  That’s, uh, sort of the problem.  Yeah.  Look, I’m sorr- ok, can we talk about this later?  Yeah.  I’m at Spayder and Rock, there’s this little road that runs behind the buildings.  Downtownish, yeah.  Yeah?  Thanks.”<br><br>Victoria returned to the unconscious skinhead, checked his pulse, and listened intently for changes in his breathing.  It took a very long five minutes for her sister to arrive.<br>[...]<br>Victoria abruptly pulled Amy into a hug.  Amy resisted for a moment, then let her arms go limp at her sides.<br><br>“This isn’t just a team, Ames,” Victoria told her, “We’re a family.  We’re ''your'' family.”<br><br>The man lying just a matter of feet away stirred, then groaned, long and loud.<br><br>“My adoptive family,” Amy mumbled into Victoria’s shoulder, “And stop trying to use your frigging power to make me all squee over how amazing you are.  Doesn’t work.  I’ve been exposed so long I’m immune.”<br><br>“It hurts,” the man moaned.<br><br>“I’m not using my power, dumbass,” Victoria told Amy, letting her go, “I’m hugging my sister.  My awesome, caring and merciful sister.”<br><br>The man whined, louder, “I can’t move.  I feel cold.”<br><br>Amy frowned at Victoria, “I’ll heal him.  But this is the last time.”<br><br>Victoria beamed, “Thank you.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/08/06 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 2]]</ref>

Only in rare atypical circumstances has Victoria used her aura in domestic family environments. At a family reunion in [[the City]], when Victoria learned about [[Amy]]'s invitation, had a PTSD episode, and intentionally used her aura in an attempt to dissuade those following her escape, [[Carol]] was shocked that Victoria actually used her aura on her here.<ref name="II1.7 eAuraCarol" />

When turned on, Victoria can dial the power of her aura up and down: its minimum setting is fairly subtle in effect.<ref name="SB1">Shaker, not stranger.<br><br>She can dial it up and down. See interlude 2 and Yamada's interlude.<br><br>Minimum level is B, max level is G. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/12852536 Comment by Wildbow on Spacebattles]</ref> She can also push out or pull in her aura<ref>My focus in the moment was on Kitchen Sink.<br><br>I landed so I was a foot behind him, pushing out with my aura.<br><br>“Run,” I said.<br><br>He turned, wheeling around with hand drawn back, a rather large, full bottle of alcohol gripped by the neck-<br><br>I smashed my forehead into his nose.  When he didn’t immediately go down, I did it again.  I didn’t give him a chance to recover from there.  My forcefield was down throughout the process, as I stayed within a foot of him, my aura buzzing with the range pulled closer to me, active and focused on him. - [[Shade 4.5]]</ref> to control its range (i.e., radius);<ref>“Swansong,” I said, my voice stern.  I used my aura, the radius just wide enough to catch her and none of the audience.  She snapped her head around.  “No.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/05/25/breaking-14-3/ Excerpt] from [[Breaking 14.3]]</ref> her maximum range is at least 100 feet.<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. - [[Gleaming 9.5]]</ref> The closer one is to Victoria, the more powerful the effect of her aura.<ref>Blindside was pressing against my back, and my aura was stronger the closer people were to me.  I controlled the aura’s expression to keep it small and more concentrated.<br><br>Awe.  Catch them on an emotional level.<br><br>Blindside stumbled back. - [[Daybreak 1.4]]</ref><ref name="II3.3 e1.5">I stopped only a few feet short, hitting [[Strange Mammal|him]] with my aura instead of my fist.  Full-strength, point-blank, a hit to the emotional rather than the physical.<br><br>The reaction was much the same as if I’d punched him.  Forward movement stopped, reversed, an off-balance stumble backward.<br><br>“Holy fuck,” I could hear Tristan.<br>[...]<br>As with Chris, I used my emotion aura.<br><br>As had been the case with Chris, the effect was immediate and profound.  [[Mangled Wings|She]] stumbled back much as if I’d flown into her and given her a strong shove, her eyes wide.<br>[...]<br>I used my aura, which was more effective when people were close, and she was wrapped around my head.<br>[...]<br>I left her to limp toward the wall while I flew to Tristan’s side.  I landed beside Kenzie, hard, pushing out with my aura.<br><br>She twisted around, gun in hand, and I caught the gun, snatching it out of her hand. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/01/13/glare-3-3/ Excerpt] from [[Glare 3.3]]</ref><ref>A blast of her power made the other two men back off, but that meant they moved closer to me, and deeper into my aura, which was more intense as they drew closer to me.  Caught in the middle, they stopped, paralyzed.  Swansong turned to look at the contents of the car, one hand still out. - [[Dying 15.1]]</ref> By taking actions that complement the emotional charge, she can also enhance her aura's effect (e.g., breaking a table to better intimidate her foes).<ref> Imagine a therapy session with Jessica, Victoria talking through her past. The fact she put herself in that situation, the times she lost her temper, her personal pride, and all of that, weighing it against the need of a cape to do as animals do and flash bright colors, make noise, and make dramatic displays to scare away opposing animals, to do a little property damage because the demonstration of a broken table is better overall than the demonstration of a caved-in face, and because her aura works better with some action behind it? Throw in family shit and social pressures and institutional pressures, just to fog things up? - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/88522224 -->

It is possible for one to resist her aura if they notice/understand what they are feeling and put themself in the right headspace (e.g., [[Carol]],<ref name="II1.7 eAuraCarol">Whirlwind of fucking chaos and emotion indeed.<br><br>“You invited her,” I said, again.  More emotional this time.  “She’s in the house?”<br><br>My mother rallied, composing herself.  ''Now'' she looked confused.  “I told you I invited ''everyone''.”<br><br>“She’s actually in the house,” I said.<br><br>I backed away again, and my mother threw the gate open, taking several steps on the driveway, stepping on crushed gravel with bare feet.<br><br>I raised my hand, indicating for her to stop.  She continued forward.<br><br>I threw my aura out, one push.<br><br>My mother stopped.  Crystal stopped in her tracks, already at the fence.  People rose from their seats.<br><br>“I thought you knew,” she said.  “I very clearly said ''everyone''.  It was supposed to be a family reunion with everyone getting together again for the first time in… in a really long time.”<br>[...]<br>I turned to go.<br><br>I heard the gravel under her feet as she gave chase, and I pushed out with my aura, hard.<br><br>“Do ''not'' use your power on me, Victoria Dallon.  That has never been okay, and it doesn’t work anyway.” - [[Daybreak 1.7]]</ref> [[Tattletale]] at the hospital complex<ref>“Tell me,” I told her.<br><br>“No.”<br><br>“''Tell me'',” I told her, again, rising to an upright position, my toes a half-inch off the floor.  I used my aura, pushing at her.  Big.<br><br>All throughout the hospital complex, conversations stopped.  Everything went quiet.<br><br>Tattletale stood strong.  “You haven’t convinced me.  You’d take Rachel from me?  Grue?  Again?  Imp?  Chicken fucking Little?  The Heartbroken kids?”<br><br>“Potentially.  People will die no matter what happens, Tattletale.  It’s a question of whether it’s one hundred percent or sixty or twenty five percent.  If we do nothing it’s one hundred percent.”<br><br>“If we do nothing the Simurgh might win.  We live.”<br><br>“We won’t be us and you fucking know it, Tattletale,” I told her.<br><br>She was silent.  There wasn’t a hint of a grin on her face. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/03/24/last-20-9/ Excerpt] from [[Last 20.9]]</ref>), especially if she makes the effect obvious.<ref>“Stretcher or surrender?” I asked, amping up the aura in a subtle way.  Too big of a push could scare, but it also was a ''thing''.  Something people could push back against.<br><br>I could use it here to play it subtle, drive the moment home. - [[Pitch 6.8]]</ref> Some individuals such as [[Lung]], [[Bitch]], [[Krieg]], and [[Victor]] process her aura differently and get angrier instead; however, Victoria can use this to provoke them on an emotional level and distract them.<ref>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.<br><br>It meant I had his attention.  Even before I activated my aura, it still meant he was keeping an eye on me, because he had experienced it before.  Actually using my aura helped, provoking him on an emotional level. - [[Gleaming 9.11]]</ref>
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 Long term exposure is believed to have severe consequences.<ref name="I21 c1">'''Mrmdubois:''' Right, so the power kicked in when Glory Girl and Panacea where hitting or had just hit puberty. Panacea is introverted and would have spent most of her hangout time with Glory Girl anyways meaning she’d be getting blasted with this power…pretty often going by the way Glory Girl used it on her with no compunction during the assault/repair on the skinhead. Chuck in the changes in biology from growing up and awakening sexuality and it seems pretty likely to me that this was going to go weird places right off the bat<br/>[...]<br/>'''Wildbow:''' I wondered if anyone would pay any attention to that.- [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/interlude-21/#comment-20604 Comment by Wildbow] on [[Interlude 21.y]]</ref-->

After [[Gold Morning]], Victoria starts trying to be more deliberate with how she uses her aura.<ref>“It does,” I said.  “Not necessarily in the ways you’d expect, pushing people away or any of that.  It makes a ''mess''.  It makes people unpredictable.  I have an awe-fear aura so I’ve seen this at work.”<br><br>“I almost envy you,” Ashley said.  “To have something you can so casually employ.”<br><br>“It’s not casual,” I said.  “Because like I said, it’s complicated in terms of the mess it makes of things.  I’ve been trying to be more deliberate about how I use it.” - [[Flare 2.6]]</ref> For example, she starts using it with physical contact or at point-blank range to more effectively stun her targets.<ref>The one who had given Jasper the finger, though, he had just a little bit more to prove.  I put my hands on him.  I pushed him, and he resisted.<br><br>I pushed him with my aura, small, closer to center, a pulse of intimidation just for him, to break his posture and resolve.  My hands pushed him the rest of the way.  He landed on his ass. - [[Daybreak 1.3]]</ref><ref name="II3.3 e1.5" />
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After [[the Firmament]] was damaged, her aura was altered.<ref>“Coming down!” I shouted, as I saw a spot.  I flared my aura a bit, which made some people stop in their tracks.  The reaction wasn’t shock and fear like I expected. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/01/04/infrared-19-3/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.3]]</ref> Instead of forcing people to feel fear or awe, her aura now forces people to feel something akin to interest or attraction to her.<ref>I hesitated, and then I asked, “Is it awe, fear, or something else?”<br/><br/>“It’s always been fear.  I’ve never felt your awe, exactly,” he said.  “So maybe it’s the awe?  I don’t know.”<br/><br/>I frowned.  “If you had to give it any label at all, what would you call it?”<br/><br/>“Interest?  Attraction.  Like when I noticed Erin for the first time.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/02/infrared-19-7/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.7]]</ref> Following a revelation during her second visit to the Firmament, Victoria gained the ability to choose what emotion her aura projects, based on her own feelings and memories.<ref>I could choose what emotions I put out there, now, but it wasn’t as simple as choosing from a tidy little list.  Just the opposite.  I dug into memories and the rawest, deepest feelings I had.  A moment of clarity midway through therapy at the hospital.  Moments, my thoughts wandering at night, where I’d jolted awake with a realization.  The feeling after I’d smeared my mother against a wall, and realized it was my fault.  Each of those memories was like an exposed nerve, and the screaming in my head was salt on those nerves.<br/><br/>I’d wanted ‘wake up’ but the feelings I dug into as I broadcasted weren’t quite that. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/03/07/last-20-4/ Excerpt] from [[Last 20.4]]</ref>

====Emotion Resistance====
As Victoria gained her aura by triggering in [[Gallant]]'s vicinity,<ref name="SB2">'''Andrew Greaves:''' We know that Glory Girl is a second generation Cape, and the origins of her force field power are rather obvious. But what about her empathic aura? Where did that come from?<br><br>It's well known that second Triggers involve polling any other Shards within range and such, but does this also happen with first Triggers? Could Gallant have already been a cape and nearby when she Triggered?<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' You're thinking along the right lines, re: the source of her aura, Andrew. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/14796522 Another comment by Wildbow on Spacebattles]</ref> her power makes it difficult for him and some other emotion-based parahumans to read or influence her (e.g., Gallant,<ref>'''20:05 Ridtom:''' I wonder what Dean sees when she uses her aura? Just a spotlight?<br>'''20:05 Prothean:''' A really angry/impressive/sad/whatever person<br>'''20:05 Prothean:''' ?<br>'''20:07 Wildbow:''' Maybe he's interested in her because he can't get a perfect read on her - Comment by Wildbow on IRC, [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/17029118/ archived on Spacebattles]</ref><ref name="II1.5 eResistance" /> [[Crystalclear]],<ref name="II1.5 eResistance">As someone with the ability to control emotions, I was supposed to be harder to read and affect.  It was why I’d deflected Crystalclear earlier.<br><br>It was why Dean and I had gotten along.  Even why we’d been possible. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/11/25/daybreak-1-5/ Excerpt] from [[Daybreak 1.5]]</ref> [[Snag]],<ref>He threw a trio of fat shurikens at me.  My forcefield blocked them, saw them bounce off, one landing on the bed, two falling to the floor beside me.<br><br>I kicked the bed to bring the more solid bedframe to where I could grab it, and rammed the end of the bed at the corner where he was.  The shurikens detonated behind me, and on the bed in front of me.  Something that wasn’t fire or anything of the sort.  Something jumped between them, like electricity but not.  Where it touched me, my heart jumped, my mind stumbled, and feelings welled.<br><br>All of the doubts, fears, and hesitations inside me magnified, multiplied.  It paralyzed me for the moment.<br><br>This, at least, was something I’d been trying to get a handle on.  Here, my resistance applied. - [[Daybreak 1.6]]</ref> [[Love Lost]],<ref>I could feel the effect of it, even from a distance.  My heart rate picked up, and for a moment my thoughts and feelings spooled out.  There were a hundred things I was holding in my heart and head that had to sit there.  There were worries, irritations, traumas, and causes for outright ''fucking'' fury that I couldn’t do a damn thing about.  Just being on the periphery of the effect made them swell up and jostle together.<br><br>Sveta’s arm tightened around me.  I could hear the ''thump'', ''thump'', ''thumpthump'' of her tendrils against the inside of her body.<br><br>I met her eyes.  I could instantly tell that she’d been affected more than I had.<br><br>I was resistant to emotion effects, because I generated them.  Snag had hit me hard because he’d hit me where it hurt the most.<br><br>My rage?  It was there, beneath the surface, but it wasn’t a weak point.  It was a regular point. - [[Shadow 5.3]]</ref> [[Cradle]],<ref>I closed my eyes.  I was aware that Cradle probably wasn’t keen on picking a fight with me because Lionwing had called his emotion power a kind of emotion reading or feedback response.  If my resistance to emotion powers factored in, I might seem a little fuzzier.<br>[...]<br>But for the rainfall patter of Sveta’s tendrils on the walls of the station, we were silent, as we darted after Cradle.<br><br>He stood at the threshold to the portal, and he seemed genuinely surprised to see us.  If Cradle wasn’t as quick or effective in assessing me and how to target me, it might have had to do with my emotion resistance.  If he had difficulty with Sveta, it might have had to do with the fact that there were no veins for her emotions to run through, her brain maintained a different construction. - [[Heavens 12.9]]</ref> [[Roman]]<ref>I lifted him.<br><br>He used his power on me for just a second, inflicting rage.  The effect was dampened, half-strength, but I still dropped him, and he writhed on landing.<br><br>We stood, huffing at each other, glaring.<br><br>I reached for him again.  Again, he used rage, and my grip on his collar was fierce. - [[Last 20.5]]</ref>).<ref>The little benefits of powers, like Byron’s cold resistance and my relative resilience to emotion powers. - [[Heavens 12.8]]</ref>

===Connection to Shard===
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Victoria has a very strong connection with her shard, as shown from its own [[Interlude 12.all|perspective]]. Her shard has expressed a strong desire to help her achieve anything she would set out to achieve.

Victoria believes that her shard is enforcing her intuition around certain events, in almost a pseudo-[[Thinker]] ability.<ref>But I was aware I was part of a partnership.  And I’d be damned if I entertained even the notion that Amy was overcoming her own partner’s pressures, while succumbing to my own.<br/><br/>Nudges, intuitions, feelings.<br/><br/>Influences.  I was aware I was acting different, since the connection had come back up.  That I had hints, I had benefits.  A kind of security.  A new kind of vulnerability. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/26/sundown-17-8/ Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.8]]</ref>

===Equipment===
[[File:Victoria Gun by Nocturne.jpg|thumb|Gun by [https://twitter.com/SereneNocturne/status/1232853775628419072/photo/1 Nocturne]]]

Victoria frequently makes use of tech gifted to her by [[Kenzie]], specifically a camera that she can place in her eye that provides her with a HUD.

Later in the story, Victoria is gifted an enormous fourteen ton laser cannon by [[Dragon]]. This cannon shoots a golden beam that is capable of damaging [[Titans]] and knocking down buildings.<ref>I might have been borrowing against the future to buy time in the present, but I aimed for areas of the city that were shaky.  Breaking down road with shots from the laser cannon.  Knocking down buildings. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/12/24/infrared-19-1/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.1]]</ref> It has no appreciable recoil, allowing her to use it alongside her forcefield without her forcefield popping.<ref>I didn’t have forcefields in that same sense.  I saw a damaged section of her armor, blasted it, and continued blasting as I plummeted.  In the last few seconds of my descent, I twisted in the air to get to where I could kick my laser cannon up and away, and carried on down without reorienting myself.  I could only dive while shooting because the weapon had no appreciable recoil.  No real Newton’s Law of Motion at play here.  No bullet being fired forward, gun kicking back in response. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/12/24/infrared-19-1/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.1]]</ref>