Editing Victoria Dallon (section)

===[[Ward]]===
She had two years after being mutilated by her sister to reexamine how she did things before,<ref>Were it my old self, without the two-year long reality check, I wouldn’t have been able to just stop after being on that verbal offensive.  I would have pressed. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/03/06/shadow-5-4/ Excerpt] from [[Shadow 5.4]]</ref> leading to her changing approach. She struggles with the (ir)reality of her restored body<ref>I floundered for a moment, then said, “I guess, just as an example, I remember taking a shower and having a moment where it really woke me up and I felt grounded in reality again.  There were a few days of painfully cold and hot showers, trying to wake up and stay fixed in the present.”<br/><br/>Sveta reached over to touch my arm.<br/><br/>There had been other moments, too.  Scrubbing myself until my skin broke, among other things.  Too personal and raw to really share. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/05/05/pitch-6-7/ Excerpt] from [[Pitch 6.7]]</ref><ref>“Just, you know, I should be careful about giving or getting transplants.  There’s a chance it wouldn’t be compatible with humans.  Understand?”<br/><br/>[...] “My maybe-not-one-hundred-percent-human self is going to fight like hell..." - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/05/19/torch-7-2/ Excerpt] from [[Torch 7.2]]</ref> and had to re-learn day to day life.<ref>“I am, if I’m honest. Do you want to eat somewhere we can warm up and catch up on details, or…”<br/><br/>She stopped.<br/><br/>“Vic?” she asked. She rubbed Victoria’s back with her hand.<br/><br/>No change in the tightness of the hug, no change in breathing, barely a movement.<br/><br/>She looked at Aunt Carol, helpless, not sure what to say or do. Aunt Carol didn’t have anything to offer, her head turned to look at others, and Crystal had no idea if that was on purpose or by happenstance.<br/><br/>“Vic. You okay?”<br/><br/>Victoria broke the hug. Crystal got a better look at her cousin, and saw a hundred-yard stare, gaze averted, fingernails digging into the coat sleeve over forearm. The Victoria she’d seen after Gold Morning, who was still re-learning day to day life.<br/><br/>By herculean measure over a span of a second or two, a rapid-fire set of tiny step-by-steps, Victoria adjusted posture, body language, and reasserted focus, then eye contact. To reassert the facade Victoria of last week, instead, if a more tired one. -[https://www.parahumans.net/2019/07/02/dying-15-a/ Excerpt] from [[Dying 15.a]]
</ref> By [[Y1]], she had abandoned her Glory Girl identity, and stated that the identity could stay dead.<ref>“I don’t want to be Glory Girl,” I said.  “Someone remarked yesterday that they’d thought she died and… good.  She can stay dead.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/01/daybreak-1-8/ Excerpt] from [[Daybreak 1.8]]</ref> She has stated that she didn't believe in forgiving and forgetting.<ref name="P.9">[[Glow-worm P.9]]</ref> She is very self conscious.

She was willing to help a self-described supervillain figure out the PHO interface, describing herself as "unfortunately afflicted with desire to help people" and noting that "you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar".<ref name="P.3">[[Glow-worm P.3]]</ref>

She was understandably upset when she was rejected from university. She wrote a list of fourteen "unreasonable ... semi-possible" reasons she might have been rejected, although the rational part of her knew that it was likely because there simply were not enough places. She described herself as having "gotten good at effective brooding".<ref name=":0" />

During the [[Ward]] she slowly regains her ability to function as a super-heroine, although at the cost of moral compromises and personal day-to-day happiness.