Editing Dinah Alcott (section)

==Appearance==
Dinah is described as a young girl with straight, dark brown hair.<ref>Twelve years old or so, she had dark circles under her eyes, and straight, dark brown hair that was in need of a trim.  She wore a white long sleeved shirt, white pajama bottoms and white slippers. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/buzz-7-11/ Excerpt] from [[Buzz 7.11]]</ref><ref>The others looked at her.  I couldn’t see her, but I had a pretty distinct mental picture.  A pre-adolescent girl, thin, with straight brown hair.  Cursory inspection with my swarm suggested her hair was tied into a braid, but many strands were coming loose.  Unless a lot had changed since I’d last seen her, Dinah would be pale.  My mental picture of her was of a girl that was almost ''ghostly''.  It said something that she was still able to command our attention with a few quiet words. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/queen-18-1/ Excerpt] from [[Queen 18.1]]</ref> While in Coil's custody she was heavily drugged,<ref name="11f"> She could see those futures unfolding.  He ''would''.  She could see the pain and the sickness she experienced, the full brunt of her power without her candy to take the edges off, complete with all of the details she didn’t want.  Worst of all were the feedback loops.  To go through withdrawal from the drugs, from her ‘candy’, while simultaneously being able to see and experience echoes of the future moments where she was suffering much the same way?  It was a massive increase in the pain and being sick and mood swings and insomnia and feeling numb and skin-crawling hallucinations.  There was no limit to these echoes, the feedback from her futures.  It would never kill her, knock her out or put her in a coma, no matter how much she might want it to.

She had come close to experiencing it once, early on in her captivity.  Never again.  She would obey Coil in everything he asked for before she risked that happening again. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/interlude-11f/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11f]]</ref><ref>“Hurts all over.  Painkillers didn’t do anything.”

“Yeah,” I said.  They couldn’t give her anything narcotic, not with the way the doctor was suspecting that Coil had dosed Dinah with a mixture of opiates and tranquilizers to keep her artificially content and mellow. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/queen-18-2/ Excerpt] from [[Queen 18.2]]</ref><ref>“Before I go get her,” I said, “You should know.  There’s no sign he touched her.  He didn’t hurt her, not physically.  He did everything he could to take care of her, in a utilitarian sense, but she was still a prisoner.”

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“She was drugged, often and heavily.  She’s in the middle of recovery, and it isn’t pretty.  No narcotics, no painkillers, and no tranquilizers, maybe for the rest of her life.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/queen-18-2/ Excerpt] from [[Queen 18.2]]</ref> and visibly malnourished.<ref>''“And as for you, little miss, you seem undernourished.”''<br/><br/>''“I haven’t had much of an appetite for a while.”'' (Medical examination describing her condition after being released from Coil's confinement) - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/19 Excerpt] from [[Queen 18.1]]</ref>

After being freed from [[Coil]], she cut her hair short.<ref name="22.1 e1">A family made their way to the lobby.  I assumed them to be tourists, until the guards let them into the building.  Two adults and a young girl.  The Alcotts.<br><br>Dinah had cut her hair short.<br><br>Reinventing herself?  Distancing herself from being Coil’s ‘pet’? - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/04/cell-22-1/ Excerpt] from [[Cell 22.1]]</ref>

During her meeting with the [[Wardens]] after the [[Attack on Teacher]], Dinah wore a blindfold and a nice-suit dress, both with a wild pattern to it.<ref name="II16.2 e2">Dinah Alcott was speaking, sounding annoyed or upset.  She wore a nice suit-dress with a wild pattern to it, and a similarly patterned cloth as a blindfold.  “You can’t trust her.  I’ve run the numbers, I can’t see past her but I can see everything around her, and I can at least see things that have yet to happen that are right behind her point of influence, understand?” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/08/17/from-within-16-2/ Excerpt] from [[From Within 16.2]]</ref>