Editing Victoria Dallon (section)

===Background===
As a kid of known superheroes she was welcomed in the circle of elite students. Unlike her sister she was more receptive to this, although it made her question her social position. Later she recalls this situation as the starting point for her growing disillusionment with life at the time.<ref name="Ward9.2">[[Gleaming 9.2]]</ref>

Prior to gaining powers, Victoria wanted to be a superhero more than anything. This led her to play sports, an area she could finally shine, as well as to begin dating a hero.<ref>Wildbow: @ the topic - Glory Girl wanted to be a hero more than anything, she couldn't, she was frustrated, joined a sports team where she could give her all and actually shine, and connected with another hero in a romantic sense, out of that deep-seated need.<br/>Wildbow: Which isn't to say she didn't care about him, mind you.<br/>Wildbow: Took a bad hit, pent up frustration came to the fore, bam - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/worm-quotes-and-wog-repository.294448/page-12#post-20697825 Wildbow on IRC]</ref><!--19.9 implies them dating before her trigger--><ref name="II19.9">[[Infrared 19.9]]</ref>

Victoria [[Trigger Event|triggered]] in 2009, at 14<ref>“Hold on,” I said.  “I was asked, I’m answering.  I triggered at fourteen, I was patrolling within six months.  I had three years of time as Glory Girl, one Endbringer fight, and-” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/26/flare-2-6/ Excerpt] from [[Flare 2.6]]</ref><!--19.9, thus her birthday is closer to the second half of the year-->, when she was fouled in a basketball game.<ref name="4.3">[[Shell 4.3]]</ref><ref name="Story Arc" /> When she jumped to make a shot, another player slammed into her mid-air bruising her sternum, and she began flying.<ref name="PH1">Unsportsmanlike conduct between players. She jumped to make a shot, someone else slammed into her in mid-air, and she didn’t fall to the ground until she stopped flying. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/interlude-18-donation-bonus-2/#comment-10201 Comment] by Wildbow on [[Interlude 18.y]]</ref><ref name="II1.8 e1">“My entire life leading up to that basketball game, I wanted so horribly badly to be a hero, you know?  It felt like I thought about it every ten minutes.  My parents were heroes, my cousin was, my aunt and uncle were, and everything revolved around it.  I wanted it all so badly it hurt, and I didn’t have it for years.  Then that basketball game, and I wanted to have something where I was the hero, where I got to stand out.  Because sometimes it felt like my parents didn’t see me.”<br/><br/>“That’s been a recurring idea.  You talked about their missed visits.”<br/><br/>“They came a lot,” I said.  “I know that.  My dad more than my mom.  But every missed visit was a horrible thing, and the little things mattered so much when I had nothing else.  Um.  And this basketball game, I know I’ve talked about this before.  But this one girl kicked my freaking ass.  In my face, knocking me over, intercepting every pass, blocking every shot.  She didn’t have any powers or anything, she was just… good.  Better.”<br/><br/>“A lot of things came into focus in that moment.”<br/><br/>“Every time she or one of her teammates beat me, I could see the look of disappointment on my parent’s faces.  In the other moments, they looked so bored.  And it was boring, you know.  No parent wants to go sit through amateurs doing badly at a high school sport.”<br/><br/>“Some do.”<br/><br/>“Anyway, she hit me hard, she said something about me being overrated, and it was the last straw.  Realizing I stood so far from family, that I didn’t want to be there, but I had no other choice, my sternum was hurting where she’d driven her elbow into me.  I got my powers.”<br/><br/>“Years of wanting, leading up to that.”<br/><br/>She’d caught the thread I’d wanted to lay out.  It helped.  “And then just under three years as Victoria-slash-Glory-Girl.  And then… hospital.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/01/daybreak-1-8/ Excerpt] from [[Daybreak 1.8]]</ref> Around a year after triggering, Victoria had been hurt in an attack by a gang called the [[Chorus]]. Amy triggered as a result, and healed her.<ref>Even the day she’d triggered, now that I thought about it.  Almost a year into me having my powers, a gang called the Chorus had attacked a mall in Brockton Bay.  I’d gotten hurt, Amy had triggered, and she’d healed me.  The gang didn’t endure our retaliation or Coil’s expansion of activities as he’d claimed more of downtown.  It had seemed like such a rare, clear-cut case of a trigger event providing an answer to the problem at hand, no fuss, no muss. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/06/18/breaking-14-10/ Excerpt] from [[Breaking 14.10]]</ref>

It was publicly known that she was dating [[Dean Stansfield]]. It was something of an open secret among the heroes that Dean was actually the secret identity of the hero [[Gallant]].<ref name=":0">'''*Who's Victoria Dating, Gallant or Dean? I imagine it'd have to be one or the other in public or else his identity would have come out by now.*'''<br/><br/>Dean, but it's sort of open knowledge among the heroes that Gallant is Dean, and Tattletale succeeded in connecting the dots. The Wards and New Wave don't necessarily cross paths all that much. Jurisdictions.<br/><br/>[...]<br/><br/>Aegis is 17, very nearly 18, old for his grade level, he's already graduated high school and is taking prelim college courses (not the same courses as Faultline & Glory Girl). He triggered at 15. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/17584328 Answer by Wildbow]</ref>

At one point she met [[Madison Clements]], [[Emma Barnes]] and [[Sophia Hess]] at a photo-shoot. Despite initially being friendly she was put off when they made fun of a disabled girl (never quite getting along with Emma afterwards.)

Victoria was taking college courses as other parahumans did, though she did not cross paths with [[Aegis]] or [[Faultline]].<ref name=":0" />