Editing Alexandria (section)

==Abilities and Powers==
{{quote|Eidolon, we possibly could have dealt with.  Or Tattletale could have.  Even Legend, possibly.  Alexandria was something else.  The heroic equivalent of a cruise missile.|[[Taylor]]|[[Cell 22.4]]}}
Alexandria is considered the epitome of 'flying brick' capes. The triad of flight, strength, and invincibility reoccurs often enough, in enough variations, that it's frequently referred to as 'the Alexandria package' in honor of her.<ref name="Cast2"/> According to [[Doctor Mother]], Alexandria is one of the strongest parahumans that [[Cauldron]] recorded as of 1988.<ref name="15.z e3">The Doctor spoke, “She’s as strong as any parahuman we’ve recorded.  Flies at speeds that match your own, Legend.  Near-perfect memory retention, accelerated processing and learning.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/11/08 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 15.z]]</ref>

===Invincibility===
Alexandria's body is virtually invincible.<ref name="Cast2"/> She is bulletproof<ref>Miss Militia took aim with her rifle and shot.  The bullet sparked as it clipped Alexandria’s forehead.<br><br>Alexandria shook her head. - [[Scourge 19.5]]</ref> and, unlike [[Echidna]], could survive for nearly a minute inside [[Sundancer]]'s orb without injury.<ref>The sun flew forward, melting pavement as it traveled, before it enveloped Echidna, Alexandria and the prison of ice and stone.<br><br>It hung there for nearly a minute, deafening with its sizzling and crackling.<br><br>The sun flickered and went out. Echidna wasn’t there any more.  Only sections of her feet were still in contact with the ground, bones and claws scorched black, crumbling and decaying like any part of her did when disconnected from the core that supplied her with power.<br><br>Alexandria was there in the midst of it, panting for breath.  Her costume had burned away, and only the metal pieces remained, including helmet, belt and metal underwear, each so hot they were melting and running over her skin. - [[Scourge 19.7]]</ref> [[Behemoth]]'s kill aura, which can ignore the [[Manton effect]] and produced a flame hot enough to melt sand into glass, did not burn her.<ref name="15.y eKillAura">He struck her and drove her into the ground.  His flame burned through her, the sand was turning to glass around her, burning her costume, but it didn’t burn ''her''.<br><br>But she couldn’t breathe.  She flew back and out of the way until she had air again.  She stared at the scene that was unfolding, the heroes beating a hasty retreat as that thing advanced, slow and implacable. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/11/08/interlude-15-donation-bonus-3/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 15.z]]</ref> She can even tank [[Scion]]'s Stilling attacks to an extent.<ref name="27.3 e1">Nothing short of Alexandria or an Endbringer would stand up to Scion’s sustained laser beam for even a heartbeat, but there was hope that Galvanate would render some people capable of surviving a glancing blow. - [[Extinction 27.3]]</ref><ref name="30.4 e1">It took excruciating minutes to get my head out of that sludge, and to make sense of what I was looking at.  ''Minutes'', as Scion tore into Alexandria, to convince myself that it was all in my head, and that Scion wasn’t actively tearing apart reality. - [[Speck 30.4]]</ref><ref name="30.5 e2">The tougher capes I had fell into two categories.  There were ones who could take the fight to Scion, like Alexandria or the late Ash Beast, and there were ones who couldn’t, like Lung, Menja and Chevalier. - [[Speck 30.5]]</ref>

Alexandria's seeming invincibility derives from her body being in a form of stasis.<ref name="List">Rebecca Costa Brown	Alexandria	'''Invincibility via. body in stasis, flight and vastly enhanced strength, with perfect eidetic recall and consequent mastery of many skills'''	Protectorate/Cauldron	Brute Mover Thinker - [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pgn9rgYutpBqJg1lSBP3NHnq9WK4ToLq9K4ys_I4cRc/edit#gid=0 Parahuman List], bolded edit by Wildbow</ref> Although she continued to age and grow when she first gained her powers, Alexandria eventually stopped aging shortly after adolescence.<ref name="SB3" /> Her nails and hair then stopped growing;<ref name="I24.y"/> [[Khepri]] described the broken fragments of her body as being more like a statue than flesh.<ref name="30.5 e5" /> [[Pretender]] believed Alexandria's body was as warped as any [[Case 53]].<ref name="I24.y"/> That said, [[Wildbow]] speculated that her skin is still soft to the touch.<ref>'''Tayyy:''' are Scion's teeth white or gold?<br>[...]<br>i have so many dumb questions<br>and Wildbow never answers them<br>like if Fenja/Menja can birth a giant baby<br>or is Alexandria's boobs are hard like a statue or soft yet indestructible<br>or how the hell Lab Rat's backup thing worked<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' White, yes, not so, probably not, the latter, tinkers are bullshit. - Conversation with Wildbow on Cauldron Discord</ref>

Alexandria does not have [[All-or-Nothing]] invulnerability as she is vulnerable to [[Sleeper]]'s storm<ref name="II16.2 e1">Naphtha was striding down the hallway, coming in our direction.  He stopped us.  “Changers?”<br><br>“No changers in our team,” Tristan said.  “Why?”<br><br>Naphtha getting close enough meant I felt the oil touch my skin, as it touched everything in a certain radius of Naphtha.  He pulled it away from me as it touched me, but my skin crawled with the memory of the feel of it.<br><br>“Another crisis.  Similar to the others.  Going to announce it to the dining hall,” Naphtha explained.  “I don’t suppose any of you feel brave enough to go up against Sleeper?  Absolute invulnerability better than Alexandria’s, special brains, absolute annihilation powers?” - [[From Within 16.2]]</ref> and did not pop the [[Siberian]].<ref name="15.z eEyeLoss" /> Although she normally feels no pain, she still experiences pain from attacks that injure her.<ref name="15.z eEyeLoss">Alexandria moved in close, hoping to stop Siberian, to catch her and slow her down, saw Siberian swing, pulled back out of the way.<br><br>Her visor fell free, clattering to the ground.  Then she felt the blood.<br><br>Saw, in her one remaining good eye, the chunks of her own face that were falling to the ground around her, bouncing off her right breast, the spray of blood.<br><br>It had been so long since she’d felt pain.<br><br>Legend called out the order and buried her in containment foam, hiding her from sight. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/11/08 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 15.z]]</ref><ref>Mortars, bombs and air-to-ground missiles rained down around her. It had been a decade and a half since she had really felt pain, and she still couldn’t help but flinch as they struck ground in her immediate vicinity.  Still, she continued walking, her cape and hair fluttering behind her. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/11/08 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 15.z]]</ref> Abilities that make heavy use of inter-dimensional phenomena or are All-or-Nothing, such as Siberian, [[Flechette]], [[Damsel of Distress]], [[Scrub]], [[March]], and [[Grey Boy]], can penetrate Alexandria's defense.<ref name="R5qn">Siberian, Damsel, Scrub, Flechette, and Grey Boy are Worm capes at the 'if anything can penetrate that defense, these guys penetrate that defense' level of attack. Eidolon and Glaistig Uaine have such attacks in their toolkits.<br>[...]<br>Alexandria is basically a superman expy with top tier (beaten only by people in the first paragraph) durability and a super brain that's picked up martial arts. - Wildbow [https://redd.it/5qnn3s on Reddit]</ref><ref name="R527">'''HamiltonsGhost:''' Obviously we don't know the mechanics of Alexandria's powers, but I have always guessed that it was some kind of interdimensional or multi-dimensional attack. Not that I have any evidence, but the all-powerful nature of Sting combined with the fact that all powers are cross-dimensional in nature to some extent (because the power source/computing substrate is in another dimension) makes me think that it had to be something like that.<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' This would be an accurate guess, though the bit in brackets is a little off.<br>The likes of Scrub, Damsel, Foil, or March would be able to damage Alexandria. - [https://redd.it/527ql6 Wildbow on Reddit]</ref> [[Eidolon]] made use of this vulnerability to destroy [[Apocrypha|her clones]].<ref name="19.7 e1">A series of neon green concentric circles exploded outward from a point in the sky above, rippling out to disappear over each horizon.  Eidolon had engaged one Alexandria-clone, and whatever he’d done seemed to have finished her off.  One left.<br>[...]<br>Another circle exploded across the sky.  Alexandria-clone-two was down.  Legend and Eidolon descended in Echidna’s direction, keeping a healthier distance.<br><br>Whatever Eidolon had been hitting the clones with, considering the area it was covering and the fact that it was apparently taking ''Alexandria'' out of action, it suggested a kind of attack that couldn’t be used near the ground, because it might have leveled whole sections of the city. - [[Scourge 19.7]]</ref><ref>'''Cvde:'''  What power did Eidolon equip to defeat Alexandria's clone so quickly?<br>[...]<br>'''Wildbow:''' Something along the lines of a damsel, scrub, or foil shot, cede - Conversation with Wildbow on Discord, [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/17497077 archived on Spacebattles]</ref><ref name="R5qn" /> [[Scion]]'s Stilling attacks could eventually destroy her.<ref name="30.5 e3">He was tearing into Alexandria.  Literally.  But she doggedly held on, delivering one crushing blow for every pound of flesh Scion ripped from her midsection.  He was roaring as he did it, teeth bared, face contorted.<br><br>The nature of his attack, the stilling, it didn’t fit.  Not in tune with the anger.<br><br>It had been another use of his ‘automatic victory’ power.  Looking to the future, seeing how he could do the most damage, then following through.  A feint, followed by the critical blow. - [[Speck 30.5]]</ref><ref name="30.5 e5">Scion emerged from the other world, having broken down the barrier we’d set.  Fragments of Alexandria’s body tumbled to the ground, more like a statue than flesh.  He had to flex his hand and use his power to free it of the left side of her skull. - [[Speck 30.5]]</ref>

She is not an immovable object as she can be pushed around by external forces:
* [[Leviathan]] grabbed Alexandria and whipped her around before pinning her to the ground.<ref name="8.y e2">Whatever advantage Alexandria had gained, it didn’t last long.  Leviathan’s tail snaked up and around the heroine’s neck, catching her.  He whipped her into the ground, beside him, up into a wall, then back down.  This time, he held her beneath the water, using one claw to help pin her. - [[Interlude 8.y]]</ref>
* [[Behemoth]]'s physical strikes could slam her to the ground.<ref name="15.y eKillAura" /><ref>Alexandria charged, trying to drive it home, and Behemoth struck out with one claw, a swipe.<br><br>He must have captured all of her forward momentum and motive impact and redirected it at her, because he didn’t move an inch in response to the hit, and she crashed into the ground at a shallow diagonal angle.  Her body carved a trench a few hundred feet long, judging by the cloud of dust that rose in her wake. - [[Crushed 24.4]]</ref> Without cover, the force of his roar could throw her flight off course.<ref>She shook herself free of glass and dirt and threw herself back into the fray.  A bad situation was suddenly critical.  The creature roared again, and the force of the noise threw her flight off course.  Eidolon’s makeshift walls collapsed and more heroes fell, bleeding from heavy internal damage. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/11/08/interlude-15-donation-bonus-3/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 15.z]]</ref>
* On one occasion, [[the Simurgh]] telekinetically grabbed Alexandria's cape when Alexandria dove at her and then took advantage of this momentum to force Alexandria into the street.<ref name="17.2 e1">They ran, putting distance between themselves, Grandiose’s remains and the fighting with the Simurgh.  One wave of capes was retreating, backed up by another squad.  A woman with a black costume, a heavy cape and straight black hair flowing from the back of her helmet led the charge.  ''Alexandria''.<br><br>The heroine dove at the Simurgh, and the Endbringer was quick to fly to one side, reaching out to catch Alexandria with her telekinesis and use her momentum to force her into the street.  The road caved in, sections of pavement with accompanying drifts of snow falling into a sewer or storm drain beneath the street. - [[Migration 17.2]]</ref>
* A glancing blow from [[Scion]]'s Stilling blast slammed her body towards the ground.<ref name="27.4 e1">Galvanate reached out and touched a select few capes.  Layering invincibility over invincibility for Alexandria, for Gavel, Gentle Giant, and a Birdcage cape I didn’t recognize.<br>[...]<br>An enemy that hit too hard to defend against, too tough to hurt.  Eidolon teleported rather than try to stand up to his lasers, Alexandria took a glancing blow and plunged to the ground.  Legend peppered Scion, paused, then hit him with a bigger laser. - [[Extinction 27.4]]</ref>

===Flight===
Alexandria can fly at incredible speeds, fast enough to appear as a blur to viewers.<ref name="19.5 e2">Alexandria flew low to the ground, striking and catching hold of a traffic light.  In one second she was a blur, the next she appeared to be moving as fast as a person did when they ran.  Charging into the effect’s area, Alexandria made a beeline for Echidna.<br><br>The swing was slow motion, but Echidna was too.  Alexandria struck her with the metal pole, and Echidna moved like she’d been hit full strength. - [[Scourge 19.5]]</ref> She can fly so fast when zig-zagging between buildings that people couldn't follow her with their eyes, though [[Skitter]] could still sense her movements with her bugs.<ref name="22.4 e1">Alexandria had found an alley and promptly took to the air, zig-zagging between buildings and flying with enough speed that people couldn’t follow her with their eyes. - [[Cell 22.4]]</ref> Even in [[Eidolon]]'s time-distortion bubble that slows objects to a tenth of their speed,<ref name="19.5 e1">Eidolon was making his move before Alexandria was even free.  He cast out a bubble that swelled as it moved through the air.  By the time it reached Echidna, it was twice as big around as she was, enough to reach from one sidewalk to the other.  The colors around her became muted, and her movements slowed to a tenth of the speed.<br><br>It was a time-distortion effect. - [[Scourge 19.5]]</ref> Alexandria could still fly as fast as a running person, though her arms moved in slow motion.<ref name="19.5 e2" />

<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%">While being choked by bugs, she broke through a barrier in the roof of the [[PRT ENE Headquarters]]  and then left Skitter's range by flying roughly 1100 feet in moments.<ref name="22.4 eMoments">Alexandria, in the basement, still choking, drowning on dry land with lungs full of dragonflies, spiders and cockroaches, soared.  She flew through the closed barrier in the roof, and debris showered down on the Wards who’d approached her, wanting to help but finding themselves unable.<br><br>In moments, she was out of my range, too high in the air.  I wasn’t sure it mattered. - [[Cell 22.4]]</ref><div class="mw-collapsible-content"><small>(Skitter's range is about 1500 feet at the time;<ref>My power’s range was about five blocks.  It should have been larger, going by the running theory that feeling ‘trapped’ extended my reach, but I was in here by my own device.  I couldn’t necessarily force it. - [[Cell 22.1]]</ref><ref>I was in the PRT offices.  I was back in my cell.<br><br>As far as I could tell, the building was empty.  My power reached five blocks, and… nothing.  There were no people. Computers were active, television screens were glowing with shifting images, and cars sat in the middle of the road outside, but the people were gone.<br><br>Evacuation?  When my power hadn’t stopped, the PRT would have ordered people to clear out of the area.<br><br>Maybe they weren’t sure if my power would keep going if they shot me. - [[Cell 22.5]]</ref><ref>She’s described her range as [...] city blocks. A city block is about 300 feet long. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/chrysalis-20-1/#comment-13946 Comment by] Wildbow on [[Chrysalis 20.1]]</ref> Skitter is on the second basement floor<ref>“It’s time,” I said.  “I’m at the PRT headquarters, second basement floor.” - [[Cell 22.2]]</ref> of an office building<ref>The main floors had open areas with desks and areas with blocks of cubicles, packed with officers working elbow to elbow.<br>[...]<br>The area was some kind of office, filled with desks, chairs, cubicles and computers.  More like an office building than I’d expected from a law enforcement facility. - [[Monarch 16.2]]</ref> with a helipad on the roof.<ref>It wasn’t halfway up when the heroes arrived to collect their prisoner.  A vibration through the building as a heavy vehicle landed on the helicopter pad on the roof.  Four legged, with turbines in the place of wings, and a neckless head.  A man stepped out.  Defiant. - [[Cell 22.5]]</ref> This building is almost indistinguishable from other [[downtown]] buildings<ref>The building housing the local Parahuman Response Team division didn’t really stand out. The exterior was all windows, reflective enough to mirror the mottled dark gray of the sky overhead.  Only a shield logo bearing the letters ‘P.R.T.’ marked it apart from the other buildings of downtown Brockton Bay. - [[Interlude 3]]</ref><ref>She returned Downtown.  It was hard to navigate the streets from so high up, even if they were roads she traveled on a daily basis as her uncostumed self.  From here, the buildings all looked the same, with mirrored outsides and gravel rooftops.  Twice, she circled around the top floors of the wrong buildings, looking for the logo set on the side of the building would mark Max’s building apart from the others. - [[Interlude 3.5 (Bonus)]]</ref> that are roughly 30 stories tall.<ref>Thirty two stories down, the cars on the street were visible only by the yellow and red points of their headlights and taillights.  I felt Tattletale clutch me tighter, from where she sat behind me.  Judas’ front paw rested on the stone railing of the rooftop, clutched it hard enough that the points of his nails bit into the concrete.<br><br>Getting up here had been easy enough – Tattletale had cracked the employee access door and we’d taken the supply elevator to the roof.<br>[...]<br>Three stories down from the roof, there was a patio.  As Bitch whistled and pointed from her position below us, Judas kicked against the wall just behind us, pushing out and away from the building.<br>[...]<br>The Forsberg Gallery was twenty six stories tall and was one of the more recognizable buildings you could find downtown. - [[Tangle 6.5]]</ref> The calculation of 1100 feet assumes the distance from the containment cell to the hole in the roof is roughly 400 feet.)</small></div> Alexandria could also fly fast enough that when entering the headquarters via the roof, photography or being spotted wasn't a risk for her.<ref name="22.4 e2">Alexandria arrived the same way she had after her last two excursions, through the hole in the roof.  With the speed she moved, she didn’t risk being spotted.  Even photography wasn’t in the cards.<br><br>With the speed she moved, she didn’t seem to notice the bugs that followed after her as the aperture began to close behind her. - [[Cell 22.4]]</ref></div><br>[[Doctor Mother]] claimed in 1988 that Alexandria could fly at speeds that matched [[Legend]].<ref name="15.z e3" /> However, Legend in 1988 has not yet tapped his full speed, developed his powers, or tested his limits.<ref name="SB4">Legend hadn't tapped his full speed at that point in time, probably out of reticence. He's had time to develop his powers and test his limits. - Comment by Wildbow, archived [https://spacebattles.com/posts/16845961 on Spacebattles]</ref> During the [[Battle against Echidna]], [[Apocrypha|Alexandria's clones]] could not catch up to Legend when he purposefully flew in loops and circles to find opportunities for taking aim and firing at [[Echidna]]'s clones.<ref name="19.6">Legend and Alexandria still fought above us.  I could, when he passed into my range, note how he got faster the longer he flew, giving him the ability to put distance between himself and Alexandria, but he couldn’t stop to take aim and shoot without losing that acceleration and giving her a chance to close the gap.<br><br>The result was that he was flying in loops and circles, using the turns to find opportunities to take aim and fire on her.  She dodged most, but the hits that did land bought him distance and time to stop and laser down clones who were attempting to escape. - [[Scourge 19.6]]</ref>

During the [[Battle against Khonsu]], [[Pretender]] in Alexandria's body, as well as other capes, managed to get from [[Japan]] to Cape Verde in under ten minutes.<ref name="25.4 e3">“Japan,” Wanton said.<br>[...]<br>Now he stood still, weathering attacks with the same durability the other Endbringers had.<br>[...]<br>I tore my eyes from the screen, marching towards the emergency doors.<br>[...]<br>The dragon-craft was waiting for us outside, ramp doors open.<br>[...]<br>We stepped inside, entering the center of the craft.  I found a seat by a monitor, with a laptop ready and waiting for use, login screen displayed.  The monitor was showing the battlefield, roving over the dead, the buildings that had collapsed under the weight of years.  Oddly, the cameraman wasn’t focusing on Khonsu or the defending heroes.  A few heroes were fleeing, but most weren’t in view.<br>[...]<br>The craft hadn’t taken off.<br><br>My growing sense of dread was confirmed as the image on the monitors changed.<br>[...]<br>The monitors showed him in a different city.  A caption on the bottom of the screen showed the words ‘Cape Verde’.<br><br>He’d teleported halfway around the planet.<br>[...]<br>My phone vibrated to alert me to a new text.  I didn’t need to read it to guess what it said.  I read it anyways.<br>[...]<br>The heroes were engaging, now.  Legend and Eidolon had caught up.<br>[...]<br>Five minutes, six, as he leisurely tore through the forces he’d caught off guard.<br>[...]<br>Alexandria and other capes joined the attack.  Too few.  Everyone else retreated. - [[Scarab 25.4]]</ref> However, Pretender (and presumably these other capes) specifically required the help of [[Doormaker]].<ref>'''Tessa Did Nothing Wrong:''' I remember someone did a calculation of how fast Alexandria had to fly in one feat<br>Does anyone know where I can find it though<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' Which disregards that doormaker portals exist.<br><br>'''Kyakan:''' it was specifically about her travel time in a situation where Doormaker portals were explicitly not something Doctor Mother wanted to use<br>(the first Khonsu attack)<br>unless they used them to cut the distance in half without actually making either portal anywhere near Khonsu, I guess<br><br>[Wildbow reacted with :agree:] - Comment by Wildbow on Discord, [https://spacebattles.com/posts/53539480 archived on Spacebattles]</ref> [[Wildbow]] confirmed that Doormaker cut the distance down significantly without dropping Pretender directly at [[Khonsu]]; he did not specify the portal's location.<ref>'''Kyakan:''' As the person in that conversation, yes, Wildbow was agreeing to me saying Cauldron used Doormaker to cut the distance down significantly without dropping her directly at the battlefield. Just to clarify. - Comment by Kyakan [https://spacebattles.com/posts/67499076 on Spacebattles]</ref>

===Enhanced Strength===
Alexandria has vastly enhanced strength;<ref name="List"/> only a few capes such as [[Parahuman Characters#Chort | Chort]] could surpass her in strength.<ref name ="II15.z">“Come, look up at me,” she told Chevalier.  She put a hand at his chin, and Chort helped her, forcing Chevalier’s head up until it couldn’t move any further.  Chort wore a wolf pelt with goat horns over head and shoulders, and despite being only sixteen, was strong on a level that surpassed even heroes like Alexandria.  When he moved, he did so with care.  To him, Chevalier was like eggshell. - [[Interlude 15.z II]]</ref> She is strong enough to crush concrete in her hands,<ref name="15.z e2"> She set her hands on the wall, dragged her fingertips through the concrete, then crushed it in her hands.  It should have ruined her skin, left scrapes or torn her fingernails, short as they were, but it hadn’t. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/11/08 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 15.z]]</ref> catch modified fire trucks,<ref>The noises of panic as some of the strongest capes in the United States realized there was nothing they could do, adjusting their tactics to try to save people, staying one step ahead of Siberian to minimize the damage she did as she waded through any defense they erected, tossing the PRT trucks -modified fire trucks, then- as though they were as light and aerodynamic as throwing knives. - [[Interlude 13]]</ref><ref>The ensuing moments were frantic, filled with screamed orders and raw terror.  Alexandria chased Siberian to try to scoop bystanders out of the way, to catch the PRT vehicles that Siberian flung like wiffle balls. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/11/08 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 15.z]]</ref> and lift the 9-ton [[Leviathan]] into the air.<ref name ="22.y">Legend caught him square in the chest, and Leviathan slowed long enough for Alexandria to catch him by the tail.<br><br>She flew straight up, holding the monster by the tail.  Between Leviathan’s dark scales and Alexandria’s black costume, they disappeared in the gloom.<br><br>Leviathan fell, and the resulting impact was oddly out of sync with his mass.  The water in particular seemed to react, a single ripple extending outward, clearing an area around him of any and all water. - [[Interlude 22.y]]</ref> Alexandria in [[Battle_against_Leviathan | Brockton Bay]] slammed Leviathan hard enough onto the ground to cause an earthshaking crash.<ref name="8.3 e1">It was Alexandria who speared forward to confront Leviathan.  He saw her coming, ceased his onslaught to rear back and then lunge ahead to meet her.  When they were only fifteen feet apart, he stopped, let his water echo rush forward to meet her.<br><br>Anyone else might have been staggered in the face of several tons of water moving forward at the speed of a locomotive.  Alexandria intertwined her fingers, swung her arms forward as though she were holding a baseball bat, and cracked her hands against the image a second before she disappeared headlong into it.  There was a sound like a bomb going off, water spraying everywhere, followed by an earthshaking crash as Alexandria used the crook of her arm to catch Leviathan around the neck and heaved him backwards and onto the ground. - [[Extermination 8.3]]</ref> 

Using Alexandria's body, [[Pretender]] toppled [[Behemoth]] hard enough in [[Behemoth vs New Delhi | New Delhi]] to tilt the nearby lightning rod created by the [[Chicago#The_Wards | Chicago Wards]].<ref name="24.1">A crash heavier than any we’d had yet made the dogs stumble, falling.  It very nearly overturned the sleds.  Bitch had fallen from where she sat on Bentley’s back.<br>[...]<br>The lightning rod had tilted, leaning against an adjacent building, the supports Golem had raised had crumbled.  Behemoth, too, had fallen.<br><br>Eidolon and Legend hovered in the sky, flanked by four dragon-craft.<br><br>Another figure was there as well, hovering where Behemoth had been standing an instant ago.  The Endbringer had been toppled with one massive blow. - [[Crushed 24.1]]</ref> At the [[Cauldron Compound]], he also held up a full third of a ceiling made out of steel, concrete, and granite over a single room; this ceiling section that looked ready to collapse was a relatively insignificant part of a 1.73 million-ton structure currently being held up by walls and a column.<ref name="29.8">“The structure isn’t going to hold.  Even with the reinforcements she put in… no.”<br><br>“So?” Rachel asked.<br><br>“When the walls break,” the Number Man said, “one million, seven hundred and thirty thousand tonnes of steel are going to drop on our heads.”<br>[...]<br>My bugs told me the ceiling was arching slightly.  I could see where the ceiling met one wall, how a crack was forming along the edge.<br><br>“Ceiling falling,” I said.  I moved my arm to point, and I only wound up moving my stump, suppressing my reaction to the pain so I wouldn’t provoke Lung.<br><br>Golem reached into the side of his suit.  A hand began emerging.<br><br>Too slow.  A full third of the ceiling over this room looked ready to collapse, and it was big enough and close enough to wipe us out.<br><br>Alexandria flew forward.  She caught the shelf of steel, concrete and granite.<br><br>Buying time, even as the slab continued to crack and break down where the stress of her holding it warred with the sheer weight and lack of support in other spaces.<br><br>Golem’s hand propped it up, fingers curling around the edge to secure it.<br>[...]<br>Golem began creating the hand.  The entire room shook as fingertips emerged.  Each a small building unto itself.  Cupping over, a protective barrier.<br><br>Nothing that would hold out against the kind of weight the Number Man had been talking about.<br>[...]<br>We brought the column down.  One and three-quarter million tonnes, dropping down on our heads. - [[Venom 29.8]]</ref> Pretender could only buy time for [[Golem]] to build the necessary supports for this ceiling section because the ceiling slab continued to crack and break down due to its own weight and lack of support in other spaces.<ref name="29.8" />

===Other Abilities===
Alexandria has near-perfect memory retention, and accelerated processing and learning.<ref name="15.z e3" /> She virtually never forgets a detail and can absorb information quickly, such as reading two pages of a book with a glance and retaining everything she quickly picked up. She knew most commonly spoken languages, no less than ten styles of martial arts, and could match some of the best non-tinkers in the world when it came to computers.<ref name="14.y eLibrary" /><ref name="List" /> However, her [[Trigger Event#Trigger Vision|trigger vision]] memory slipped away before she could think to recollect it.<ref>'''August 21st, 1986'''<br><br>“I think we can mark this as a success,” the Doctor spoke.<br><br>Rebecca opened her eyes.  She’d seen something fragmented but profound, but it slipped away as fast as she could think to recollect it.  She staggered to her feet, wobbled.  The girl in the school uniform caught her before she could fall. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/11/08/interlude-15-donation-bonus-3/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 15.z]]</ref> At high speeds of up to around 30 mph <small>(disregarding whether dragonflies could fly at maximum speed while carrying spiders)</small>,<ref>The maximum speed of large species like the hawkers is around 10-15 metres/sec, or roughly 25-30 mph. Average cruising speed is probably about 10 mph. Small species, and especially damselflies, are generally slower, although many medium-sized species can probably keep up with the largest ones. - Frequently Asked Questions, British Dragonfly Society</ref><!-- https://british-dragonflies.org.uk/odonata/frequently-asked-questions --> [[Skitter]]'s presumably loud swarm of dragonflies, cockroaches, and spiders<ref name="22.4 eMoments" /> could fly into the nose and open mouth of a surprised Alexandria before she could even take a single action.<ref>She got as far as the Wards HQ before she stopped and the bugs had a chance to catch up to her.<br><br>As though I’d thrown a javelin, they speared right for her nose and open mouth, the fastest moving bugs I had at my disposal, and spiders.<br><br>She was invincible, the flesh inside her throat untouchable.  The flap that kept food out of her lungs kept the bugs at bay.  At first.  They bound themselves together, spiders fixing themselves and others to the inside of her throat with adhesive.<br><br>As strong as she was, air didn’t move past the mass of bugs that filled her mouth, as they ''fought'' to move into positions where they could block her throat.  She coughed in an instinctive attempt to dislodge them.<br><br>Even with super strength, even with a diaphragm like hers, the coughs didn’t remove every bug, and the greedy gasp of air allowed those who remained to find their way inside, filling her lungs.  They were just as impervious inside, but the bugs arranged themselves side by side, forming a layer that blocked the flow of oxygen to the membranes of the lung itself.  Spiders drew out silk, filling gaps.<br><br>If she could choke, if Leviathan saw submerging her in water as a viable tactic, if Tattletale saw fit to try to do the same, then I could drown her in insects. - [[Cell 22.4]]</ref>

Alexandria can also leverage her power to effectively sense emotions based on body language.<ref name="Cast2">'''Alexandria''' – Second in command of the Protectorate.  Flies and has enhanced strength, a virtually invincible body, eidetic memory, and senses emotions.  The triad of flight, strength, and invincibility recurs often enough, in enough variations, that it’s often referred to as ‘the Alexandria package’. Runs the team based in Los Angeles.  Member of the now-disbanded Triumvirate. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-spoiler-free/cast/ Cast (in depth)]</ref> However, those who could hide their emotions through expert training or the use of abilities of their own could still fool her.<ref name="SB1"/> She could also disbelieve the evidence of her own senses as any human could.<ref name="15.z e4">“So long as he’s active, people will be flocking to join the Protectorate-”<br><br>Alexandria slammed her hand on the stainless steel table beside her cot.<br><br>Silence rang between them in the wake of the destruction.<br><br>“I will not condone the loss of life for your ulterior motives.  I will not let monsters walk free, to profit from the fear they spread.”<br><br>“You’re right,” the Doctor said.  “I… must be more shaken by Manton’s betrayal than I’d thought.  Forget I said anything.”<br><br>If Alexandria saw a hint of falsehood in the Doctor’s body language, she convinced herself it was the strain of one eye compensating for the job she’d used to perform with two. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/11/08/interlude-15-donation-bonus-3/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 15.z]]</ref>

Her [[shard]] is the source of her [[Thinker]] abilities;<ref name="15.z e1">Rebecca allowed herself a smile, letting go of the girl’s hand.  She could stand under her own power.  Everything around her appeared sharp.  She hadn’t realized how bad her vision had become.<br><br>Even her ''mind'' seemed to be operating like a well oiled machine.  Had the drugs and poison made her stupid?<br><br>No.  She’d never been like this.  It was like her brain had been a bicycle and now it was a Ferarri.  Even as her eyes flicked over the interior of the warehouse, she could tell she was processing faster, taking in details and sorting them better, as if her thoughts were no longer limited to the confines of her skull. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/11/08 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 15.z]]</ref> her power offloads processing power to the shard.<ref name="Reddit eAlexandriaImmune" /> The offloading of her mental faculties renders her immune to [[the Simurgh]]'s psychic pressure and influence:<ref name="SB2"><keyonte0> Why is Alexandria immune to Ziz, exactly?<br><br><Wildbow__> Her mental processes are offloaded to shard - Conversation with Wildbow on IRC, [https://spacebattles.com/posts/19466282 archived on Spacebattles]</ref><ref name="Reddit eAlexandriaImmune">'''Protikon:''' The difference would be whether or not powers that somehow protect your brain make you immune or not.<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' Some do, some don't.<br><br>Alexandria's power offloads processing power to the passenger, because an unchanging brain as a part of an unchanging body is a recipe for brain death. It isn't 100% effective - her brain remains her Achilles heel, but she's at the very least immune to the Simurgh. - Conversation with Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://spacebattles.com/posts/33939646 --> like other immune individuals, Alexandria presumably does not hear the Simurgh's active scream.<ref>There was no scream in my head.  For the moment, for this final batch of attacks, she wasn’t fighting, she was barely trying to defend herself, and she was taking a lot of punishment.  To see it, I could imagine the Simurgh had vacated the shell of her body, and this was a Simurgh-shaped statue we were so focused on taking down. - [[Last 20.7]]</ref> That said, Alexandria's brain is not special enough to be a countermeasure to [[Sleeper]].<ref name="II16.2 e1" /> She also is not immune to body control powers such as [[Pretender]] and [[Khepri]].<ref>I took control of Alexandria, instead, Pretender.  ''Controlling the person who was controlling the manipulative bitch Alexandria''.  I took Legend, who was part of that fight, two foreign capes and Moord Nag.<br><br>They were the ones running interference, buying us time to breathe. - [[Speck 30.4]]</ref>