Editing Heartbreaker (section)

===Background===
Heartbreaker was born in Europe and later moved to Quebec.<ref name="10.I d1">'''jmdlugosz:''' «“I think I’m done with listening to you whinge,”» “whinge” is completely unknown to most Americans, and is British. An Amarican girl would say “whine”.<br /><br />'''Wildbow:'''Regent’s dad was European & later Anglophone Quebecois.<br />Upbringing/background. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/interlude-10/#comment-78040 Comment by Wildbow] on [[Interlude 10]]</ref> He used his abilities to form a cult-like harem of beautiful and useful women that adored him and served him zealously, willing to commit crimes and even die for him. From these women, he sired numerous children, who he would purposely try to trigger in order to bolster his forces.<ref name="R1" /><ref name="7.1 e4" /> His children were his primary resource, and he kept them under strict control, going to tremendous efforts to reacquire his children if they were taken away. Starting around the age of eight, he would continuously attempt to "test" his children on their birthdays or whenever he was having a bad day, setting up situations to torment them into triggering and gaining powers.<ref name="7.1 e5" /> 

Heartbreaker operated in an elusive manner, laying low in the houses of the women he manipulated and utilizing the women and children under his command to do errands and carry out his whims. Along with controlling attractive women for his own pleasure, he controlled women in important positions, using them to embezzle funds or monitor PRT activities in order to stay one step ahead of the law.<ref name="R1" /><ref name="R2">Woman A has a fight with her boyfriend, drives the man away, and becomes more isolated, she heads to her job, orders in, and generally mopes and acts normal for a recent divorcee single mother. Enter Heartbreaker.<br><br>Haha, no. Heartbreaker was there from the beginning. He targeted her and her daughter, had her drive her spouse away and disconnect from extended family, and moved his flock into the nice house... a surprising number of people can be fit into a house if they're willing/forced to sleep five or six people to a room.<br><br>Maybe target the neighbors too, if there isn't enough room around. Woman A continues to work, embezzles from the company, and disappears from the grid. Authorities only learn that Heartbreaker was there after the fact, when they connect the dots.<br><br>The group moves on to Woman B, who happens to work in a police station or PRT office. She's not that attractive, but she's useful. Like Woman A, she continues to work, but she keeps an ear to the ground regarding all things Heartbreaker related. - [https://redd.it/3ctox4 Wildbow on Reddit]</ref> Authorities did mobilize forces against him whenever Heartbreaker was noticed, but his children were always able to alert him beforehand, and the people they sent in often fought guerilla forces of brainwashed innocents that let Heartbreaker and much of his group get away, making mobilizing against Heartbreaker not only difficult, but costly in terms of civilian casualties.<ref name="R3" /> Local authorities kept an eye on things, rooting out Heartbreaker's moles and putting out warnings, but avoided placing a [[Kill Order|kill order]] on Heartbreaker due to the risk of vigilantes coming out of the woodworks and causing excessive collateral damage.<ref name="R4">Authorities maintain warnings and circulate pictures, they keep an eye on things, root out moles, and everyone knows but few say that the open confrontations are too costly, and the subtle stuff is matched by the power of this one cape and his nine or so cape children. It's bad enough with controlled assaults, but bringing a Kill Order into it? Crazies coming out of the woodwork, making mistakes? Nightmare. - [https://redd.it/3ctox4 Comment by Wildbow on Reddit]</ref>

After his son [[Jean-Paul Vasil|Jean-Paul]] triggered, Heartbreaker used him as one of his soldiers for three or four years. However, Heartbreaker had trouble controlling Jean-Paul's emotions the way he used to before his trigger, and thus resorted to pushing him into increasingly dangerous and morally bankrupt situations in an attempt to get Jean-Paul to break and finally submit to him.<ref name="7.1 e6" /> This pushed Jean-Paul to eventually run away after realizing Heartbreaker would never stop trying to break him.<ref name="7.1 e7">“And he ordered me to kill this foot soldier for a group trying to push us out of their territory.  After I was done, he told me I did it wrong, that I had to do it again with a captive we’d taken, and I knew no matter what I did, he’d make me keep doing it.  Just another way of pushing my limits.  I had convinced myself I didn’t care about the people I was hurting or about this guy I’d just killed, and maybe I didn’t.  Maybe I don’t, still.  Dunno.  But it was so pointless.”<br><br>He shrugged, “I didn’t see a real reason to stay.  Walked away.  Changed my name, got fresh ID, changed my villain name too.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/buzz-7-1/ Excerpt] from [[Buzz 7.1]]</ref> After Jean-Paul's successful escape, Heartbreaker became irritable, becoming more possessive and angry around the remaining children.<ref>She smiled, “Thought you should know that things got pretty shitty at home after you left.  Daddy got really overprotective, angry.  It sucked.  Sucked worse when we couldn’t find you.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/22 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11g]]</ref>

After some time passed, Heartbreaker eventually gathered enough manpower among his children to break his typical pattern. He and the [[Heartbroken]] kidnapped the actress Sidney Saile from Vancouver and took her back to Montreal. However, heroes from both Vancouver and Montreal went after them and successfully recovered the actress after a bout of fighting that caused Heartbreaker and his family to lose much of what they had built up.  [[Cherish |Cherie Vasil]], frustrated with how Heartbreaker had squandered everything just to kidnap an actress, ended up running away to make a name for herself, which left Heartbreaker in a black mood. With two runaways and a failed kidnapping, Heartbreaker became even more casually cruel for a period, abusing his children on the regular.<ref name="11.g e1">“But it didn’t happen.  Time passed, he never made a push for it.  Guillaume got his power, you know.  Ten or so of us kids, and three of us could control people one way or another.  Four if we count you.  We had what we needed to pull off something huge, and Daddy decided he wanted a celebrity among his girls.  Took us on a road trip to a film set in Vancouver, kidnapped this star, took her back to Montreal.  So petty.”<br><br>“Somehow I’m not surprised.”<br><br>“Heroes came after us, from both Vancouver and Montreal.  Half of what we had built and earned as the Vasil family just kind of got trampled in the fighting that spilled out from that.  All because Daddy wanted to bone someone famous.  I got fed up, left.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/22 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11g]]</ref><ref name="II11.c">Darlene wasn’t sure why Tattletale had to do that.  It sounded so insincere, but it was the backhanded kind of insincere where she could use an eye roll or a simple denial to shrug it off if ever called on it.  Back when Darlene had turned five, Papa had been in a black mood for a while.  From what Samuel had said, Papa had wanted to collect Sidney Saile, the girl from Vancouver, and he failed.  That had been when Cherie had left and with Darlene’s mom being gone, she had no immediate family except Papa.<br><br>And Papa had had the ''black'' ''mood''.  More casually cruel than he’d ever been.  Tempestuous.  She only dimly remembered those days, like a bad dream, but she remembered some.  She’d spent a long time having to worry about getting unlucky and having her dad single her out, out of twenty or so people, and a handful of people being kind of shitty.  After the black mood, it had changed to the point that it wasn’t about getting unlucky and being that one person in twenty.  It had been about being one of the ones who got out of the way and escaped his attention.  Everyone had been scared and shitty. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/01/22 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11.c II]]</ref>