Editing Bijou (section)

==Abilities and Powers==
Bijou is classified as a brute, <ref name="LIG">
* She had seizures from infancy, and medication only helped a little. They were almost under control until late childhood, and it was then that a seizure hit and did enough damage that she didn't come back from it... for years, anyway. She came to as if from the deepest sleep, and realized that while she was aware and conscious, she didn't have control over her body. [[Wikipedia:Locked-in_syndrome|Locked-in syndrome]]. Unable to communicate, or even to move her eyes, she quickly realized the fate she had been consigned to, and the horrors of the fact that even if she did somehow recover, she had been made what some termed a 'pillow angel' - surgically and hormonally altered to stunt her growth, prevent puberty, and consequently make caring for her as easy as possible. Unable to communicate her desire for this paralyzed existence to end, unable to envision a future for herself with her body being what it is, she triggers.<br>[...]<br>
'''Examples: Locked-In Girl (see above for trigger)'''<br>
The locked-in girl yearns to get away, wants nothing more than for people to realize she's awake and aware, and they stubbornly refuse to see. There's something of a changer aspect to her power, something of a breaker one, because of the complicated nature of her mind-body connection. Her mouth yawns open and her body moves, if only in convulsion, and she crawls forth as a parasite. She crawls forward as a doll's head on doll-joint limbs, trailing ghostly material and a curtain of cords, ribbons, and strings behind her, and she knows instinctively what to do. She can alter the form, reconfigure the fingers into longer limbs or more skittering legs, she can pick up objects and attach them to these limbs, and she uses this to gain access to another, similar girl in the hospital, one who was denied oxygen for too long during birth, with no mental faculties at all. She works her way inside, through crude surgery and a generally tight fit, and seamlessly closes the way behind her, before working the strings and cords through the host's body and finding a place for the crude tools she'd used to get the door open. She ran away, hopping onto a train and crossing the border. They never really looked for her, because the girl she wore as a host wasn't supposed to be mobile, and another body -her old self- had been so badly mutilated by her exit that it painted another sort of picture, prompting a hunt for a macabre killer.
She pretended to be an orphan, until a bully at the orphanage provoked her and her retractable tools, uncanny strength and zombie-like durability became apparent. That led in a roundabout way to people discovering her first host. Rather than be captured and discovered, she faked her death, instead, and managed to get the hero that was hottest on her trail implicated, his position taken from him. He was transferred elsewhere and she was free to start again.<br><br>
She's learned the rules since. She can spend up to an hour inside a corpse before emerging. She has roughly ten minutes to collect every item she thinks she might need, because she can't collect more after accessing her host, and that same ten minute window is time she needs to access that host. As she approaches the edge of the time limit, she feels as though she can't breathe, and she starts dropping parts in a trail behind her. Ten minutes is her best guess as to her real limit. The host has to be a child, it's most comfortable psychologically if it's a girl, and going by her longest stint in a host -one and a half years-, they stop aging when she's within them, among the other, smaller physiological signs.<br><br>
When she started, she told herself she would only use those who had no ability to think, communicate, or move. She would research ahead of time to know where she needed to go and who would work, she would wait until she was in the morgue, autopsy imminent, and she would slip away, collecting scalpels and syringes on her way to her host. Those days are behind her - her fifth rebirth saw her emerge from a corpse into a morgue far and away from the hospital, in the medical examiner's home and office. There was only the medical examiner's daughter, lying in bed listening to music - and the locked-in girl crossed the line she had set for herself. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/6dbh19/_/di1ivt6 Resurrection Brutes]</ref>



Bijou is a body-snatcher, she can take over recently deceased corpses and maintain them in a lifelike state.<ref>The doll head, forcing its way into the mouth of a civilian’s corpse, dusty. Fingers pried and dug into flesh, cracked bone, and drove wedges in, parting the face down the middle as she squeezed in. The ‘rookie’ he’d seen in the house, before they’d all gone under and come here. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/01/14 Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.c]]</ref>