Editing Victoria Dallon (section)

===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.