Editing Shadow Stalker (section)

==Appearance==
Sophia was dark-skinned, brown-eyed, and slender, with long, straight hair<ref name="19.z">[[Interlude 19.z]]</ref>. She was about as tall as [[Taylor]].<ref name="5.3"/> She was athletic,<ref name="9.1"/> owing to her membership on the track and field team<ref name="1.1">[[Gestation 1.1]]</ref> and likely her nighttime activities in the city.<ref name="Cast1">'''Sophia Hess''' – Emma’s new best friend, one of Taylor’s bullies, more physical than the other two.  She’s an athletic African-American girl with longer hair. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-spoiler-free/ Cast (spoiler free)]</ref> [[Weld]] described her as "pretty"<ref name="9.1"/> and [[Clockblocker]] found her "hot", despite her offputting personality.<ref name="18.z">“She was hot, and when you spend four or five hours a day with the same people, and you’re a guy, and the one girl in the group that’s around your age is that good-looking, maybe you look forward to seeing her.”<br/><br/>“That doesn’t make you sound like a sleazebag.  It makes it sound like a perfectly normal teenager with a mild crush.”<br/><br/>“Maybe?  Not really; I couldn’t stand her as a person.  It still sucked balls, hearing what I did about her going to juvie, on top of everything else.” - [[Interlude 18.z]]</ref>[[File:Winslow_sophia1.jpg|thumb|left|Sophia in civilian clothing.]]

As Shadow Stalker,<ref name="Cast1.5">'''Shadow Stalker''' – A cape in the Brockton Bay Wards.  She is capable of turning herself into a shadow state, where she passes through walls, is lightweight and ignores most incoming attacks.  Somewhat bloodthirsty. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-spoiler-free/ Cast (spoiler free)]</ref> Sophia wears a heavy black cloak and skintight black bodysuit with black-painted metal kneepads, gauntlets,<ref name="19.z"/> belts and pockets.<ref name="I10.5">[[Interlude 10.5]]</ref> Before joining the Brockton Bay Wards, her mask was a modified hockey mask.<ref name="19.z">[[Interlude 19.z]]</ref><ref name="Cast2.5">'''Shadow Stalker, Sophia Hess (Jailed)'''–  Once a cape with a vigilante bent, Shadow Stalker was caught after having nearly killed a man, pinning him to a wall with her crossbow bolts, and chose to join the Wards as a probationary member rather than be sent to juvenile detention.  Capable of shifting herself into a ‘shadow state’, she can pass through walls, is lightweight, and passes these benefits on to her equipment, including shots fired by her crossbow bolts.  Was accused of violating probation shortly after arc 10.  In reality, Shadow Stalker was one of Taylor’s tormentors while in her civilian guise.  See Sophia Hess’ entry for her description.<br/>.<br/>As Shadow Stalker (in costume), she wears a heavy black cloak and a black bodysuit with black painted metal plates and mask.  Her mask was originally a modified hockey mask, but after joining the wards it modeled a woman’s face with a stern expression.  Carries two crossbows, with both lethal and tranquilizer ammunition. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-spoiler-free/cast/ Cast (in depth)]</ref><ref name="9.2"/> After joining the Wards, her mask was made of black-painted metal<ref name="9.2"/><ref name="5.3"/> and took the shape of a woman's face with a stern expression,<ref name="Cast2.5"/> leaving her brown eyes visible behind it.<ref name="5.3"/><ref name="10.1">[[Parasite 10.1]]</ref> Her costume included a "voluminous" cloak<ref name="9.1">[[Sentinel 9.1]]</ref><ref>[[Tangle 6.5]]</ref> in dark gray urban-camouflage, with a hood.<ref name="5.3">[[Hive 5.3]]</ref> She carried two crossbows, and had tranquiliser cartridges for them mounted on the forearm of her costume,<ref name="9.2"/> with some razor-sharp bolts concealed between her shoulderblades, underneath her cloak.<ref name="9.6"/> She also carried two small knives.<ref>Regent put down a second, smaller box next to the one Tattletale had brought.  I switched positions with Tattletale – she began searching Shadow Stalker, removing crossbows, cartridges of ammunition and two small knives.  She found a phone with a touch screen, then reached beneath the unconscious girl's hood to pluck a wireless earbud from the girl's ear.  After rubbing it on Shadow Stalker's cloak to clean it, she put it in her own ear and started fiddling with the smart phone.  After a few seconds she pronounced, "GPS hasn't been activated.  They probably won't turn it on to look for her until she fails to return from patrol." - [[Parasite 10.1]]</ref>

In her [[Breaker]] state, she was described as wispy<ref name="3.3"/> and transparent, as if she was composed of gas.<ref name="9.1">[[Sentinel 9.1]]</ref> She was described as nearly invisible,<ref name="3.3">[[Agitation 3.3]]</ref> a gray shadow among other shadows,<ref name="9.6"/> and had a distorted, skull-like face hidden by her mask.<ref name="bdoc">"Think of Shadow Stalker’s metal mask hiding her face, which is distorted and skull-like in breaker state" — [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B5IJ6M0jl3Qavz5rgCiUhbhnf1LlS5brd54_zc5gysw BREAKERS], document by Wildbow</ref> However, meeting her in daylight, [[Taylor]] described her only as "a little smoky, like she was made of sand and not anything solid."<ref name="5.3">[[Hive 5.3]]</ref>