Editing Bitter Pill (section)

==History==
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===Early-[[Ward]]===
Bitter Pill was at the meeting where [[Prancer]] began to organize what would become the [[Hollow Point]] villain group.<ref>[[Daybreak 1.1]]</ref> She eventually settled in Hollow Point, organizing her own subgroup around herself, comprised of [[Bluestocking]], [[Crested]], [[Birdbrain]], and [[Foggy Idea]].<ref>Bitter Pill’s group had Bluestocking, the six mooks, Crested, Birdbrain, and Foggy Idea.  That group was more visually distinct, all but the mooks being tidier, and they hung back.  The mark between them and Prancer’s group was subtle.  They were at the edge of the fog, and they held themselves differently.  Crested with his fan and Birdbrain with a bullwhip were the only ones with weapons. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/03/06/shadow-5-4/ Excerpt] from [[Shadow 5.4]]</ref> Bitter Pill was present when [[Advance Guard]] made an appearance in the town, and participated in [[Skirmish in Cedar Point|the ensuing fight]] between the heroes and the Hollow Point villains.<ref>[[Shadow 5.4]]</ref> She later participated in the [[Mathers Compound Assault|assault on the Mathers compound]].<ref>Hollow Point’s capes were on the fringes, gathered like they had when Advance Guard had turned up in Cedar Point, with a divide marking the distinction between Prancer’s side of things and the others.  Beast of Burden’s group, minus both Beast of Burden and Damsel, a twenty foot gap with only three capes in it, and then Prancer’s assembly, with an injured Moose, an injured Velvet, Bitter Pill’s group with Bluestocking frothing at the mouth, and the Speedrunners. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/04/03/shadow-5-12/ Excerpt] from [[Shadow 5.12]]</ref>

===Post-[[Mathers Compound Assault|Fallen Fall]]===
After the Hollow Point villains were devastated by their attack on the [[Fallen]] compound, Bitter Pill left Hollow Point. She was among the capes gathered in [[Earth N]] when [[Breakthrough]] visited [[Lord of Loss]].<ref>Nursery and Lord of Loss were standing at the path leading between the manor and the dirt road.  Lord of Loss was in his human form, massive.  There were a lot of people standing to either side of the path we had to travel to reach them, and he wasn’t walking forward to meet us halfway.<br/><br/>“Be careful,” Sveta murmured.<br/><br/>Capes aplenty.  I recognized a few.  Bitter Pill was one.  No Prancer, and none of the hyperviolent capes I’d come to think of as being the red-tagged, like the old capes on the parahuman online site who’d had the ‘do not approach’ banners across their profile. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/06/16/torch-7-8/ Excerpt] from [[Torch 7.8]]</ref>

===Post-[[Goddess' Takeover]]===
At some point, [[Parian]] and [[Foil]] reached out to Bitter Pill to help a parahuman kid with body issues, but didn't pursue the relationship due to cost and Bitter Pill's questionable motives. [[Tattletale]] used some of Bitter Pill's black market drugs after the [[Undersiders]] were attacked by [[March]].<ref name="10.x 1">Tattletale raised her feet, closing one eye slightly in a wince.  “Ninety percent better.  Turns out taking untested, black market drugs have their merits.”<br/><br/>“Bitter Pill?”<br/><br/>“Yeah.”<br/><br/>“She’s mercenary.  Doesn’t give anything for free, calls in favors and calls hard.”<br/><br/>“You know her, huh?”<br/><br/>“Reached out to her after Sabah and I ran into a kid in a bad place.  Kid’s powers didn’t do anything to fix their body issues, and really complicated conventional methods to fix it.  We thought Bitter Pill could do something.”<br/><br/>“Too expensive?”<br/><br/>“Is your power telling you that?”<br/><br/>Common sense.  Bitter Pill did temporary work, but that work could be a lot of things.  The only ways it would work were to pay for regular doses over the long term, or pay for her to drop everything and research something long-term.<br/><br/>“Yeah,” Tattletale said.<br/><br/>“She’s dangerous.  We’re pretty sure she was looking to get the kid in a position where they were taking regular doses.”<br/><br/>“Yeah, probably.”<br/><br/>“And get a kind of control over him.  Fucked up, and it says a lot that she was willing.  There was so little to be gained.  With you?”<br/><br/>“I get it.  I know how she is, and there’s no need for warnings.  Yeah, sure, she’s demanding and she’s really hungry to gain some ground right now, but I like having legs.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/11/24/interlude-10-x/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 10.x II]]</ref>

Bitter Pill and Bluestocking were in attendance at the villain meeting at Sherwood Span.<ref>They’d all gathered out in the middle of an open space that could have been a plaza, a parking lot, or a market space in the summer months.  Now it was covered in snow.  It was cold and there had to be a dozen places across Sherwood Span where people could gather, but nobody wanted to be the one to wuss out, so they stood in the cold, ankle or calf deep in snow.<br/><br/>The wounds in her legs made her think of Bitter Pill.  She looked for the woman and found her off to the side, talking to Bluestocking.  Blue had been hurt in the Fallen raid.  It looked like she was back in action. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/11/24/interlude-10-x/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 10.x II]]</ref>

With her group, Bitter Pill broke into a prison where [[Etna]] and [[Crested]] were being held, but Breakthrough and the [[Patrol Block]] interfered. They agreed to stand down and pay for the damages to the prison, in exchange for the two capes.<ref>[[Blinding 11.1]]</ref>

Bitter Pill's group quickly arrived once [[Antares]]' group started causing ruckus in [[Earth N]]'s Frontier Row, but they got talked out of engaging heroes by [[Prancer]]. They recovered half-drowned [[Etna]] and left.

Once Antares' group returned to the portal and Bluestocking struck a deal with them, Bitter Pill and most of her team remained to assist in heroes' fight with [[Cradle]]'s mercenary army.

===[[The Ice Breaks]]===
Bitter Pill was considered as a replacement for [[Panacea]] in [[Breakthrough]]s plan against the [[Titans]], but did not fit the mold.<ref>Panacea?” Brian asked.  “Why?”<br/><br/>“I… she’s strong.  But she’s unwilling.  Unwell, but she realizes that now.  I asked Bitter Pill, Bough’s partner, the healer in Advance Guard, Capricorn Red’s old boyfriend.  None have what Amy has." - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/18/infrared-19-g/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.g]]</ref>

===Ward Epilogue===
Bitter Pill killed around a dozen of civilians with runaway nanomachines in the Byers area, and was forced to abandon her laboratory, when [[Erring Right]] arrived.<ref name="II20.e6">[[Last 20.e6]]</ref>