Editing Bakuda (section)

==History==
===Background===
Bakuda was the daughter of a mixed-race couple;<ref name="22.y e2">"And the fact that you, a halfbreed, recruited me, a halfbreed, and built a gang of a bajillion different races, it's totally not a freudian thing, tying back to some childhood issues."<br><br>"No," Lung growled.<br><br>Bakuda only smiled. "And what happens down the road?" - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/21 Excerpt] from [[interlude 22.y]]</ref> her father immigrated to the [[United States]] from Asia.<ref name="15.5 c1">The disaster at Kyushu, the number of refugees seeking living space/work and the pressures on the rest of Asia's pacific [sic] border might have led to some more unrest and tension. [...] Bakuda was born to a Westerner mother and Immigrant father. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/colony-15-5/#comment-5639 Comment] by Wildbow on [[Colony 15.5]]</ref> Given her accent, she likely was born or grew up in or near [[Boston]].<ref name="I6 e1"/> 

Bakuda triggered due to heavy stress after taking a large blow to her immense ego.<ref name="16.4 e1">Bakuda serves as one example. It's implied that her trigger event involved her building up a huge ego with natural genius/intellect, only to have a crushing blow delivered to that ego & her self worth in an case of failure or academic rejection while attending University.<br><br>In a broader context for tinkers as a whole, the trauma would be more likely to be mental strain than anything physical, quite possibly an ongoing challenge rather than an immediate crisis. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/monarch-16-4/#comment-7338 Comment] by Wildbow on [[Monarch 16.4]]</ref> It is suggested she had received a less than perfect grade whilst studying at Cornell University. She then subsequently held the university ransom, placing several bombs in an academic building to destroy it,<ref name="SB1"/> as an act of revenge. Her tantrum was thwarted by the [[New York]] [[Protectorate]],<ref>[[Gestation 1.6]]</ref> and she was later recruited by [[Lung]] and joined the [[Azn Bad Boys]].<ref name="22.y e1">"So petty. And you want me to help?"<br><br>"You ''will'' help," Lung said. "Because you think like I do. In terms of power and fear."<br><br>Bakuda took a seat at the end of the couch. The two whores inched away from her.<br><br>She smiled at that. "Alright. You got me." - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/interlude-22-donation-bonus-1/ Excerpt] from [[interlude 22.y]]</ref>

===Story Start===
Bakuda hired [[Über]] and [[Leet]] to help her deal with the [[Undersiders]]. She initially observed the battle between the two groups, before making her appearance with a bow. [[Regent]] attempted to make her stumble, but she hung on the edge of the roof, chiding the Undersiders and telling them she was smart enough to learn from the mistakes of others. Giving the signal for her henchmen to come out, she proclaimed her status as the new leader of the [[Azn Bad Boys]], and ordered her underlings to attack.<ref name=":0">[[Shell 4.6]]</ref>

[[Grue]] blanketed the area with darkness before the Undersiders retreated. After a brief chase, she caught up with the Undersiders after they found themselves confronted by her underlings, telling them she had put them in checkmate.<ref>[[Shell 4.7]]</ref> [[Tattletale]] accused her of toying with them, and Bakuda confirmed it. She ordered her men to open fire on the Undersiders if Tattletale opened her mouth, speculating on the nature of her power. She explained to the Undersiders that Lung had taught her much, but what she took to heart was his lesson about fear—that it was a blend of certainty and uncertainty. Bakuda proceeded to single out one of her minions, Park Jihoo, and asked him if he had ever held a gun.

Park Jihoo responded in the negative, and Bakuda told him that he was perfect for her demonstration. She ordered him to shoot one of the Undersiders, remarking that they were bad people if he was concerned about morals, and telling him he could shoot in a non-lethal spot. Stepping away, she then told another of her underlings to get out the camera and start rolling. Park Jihoo refused to shoot and dropped the gun, and Bakuda expressed disappointment that he was of no use to her as a soldier. Kicking him down, she activated the bomb in his head and liquified him. Then, she laughed.

Regent remarked that her display was "pretty cool", and Bakuda basked in the attention, telling him she had modelled it off Tesla's work in vibrations. Regent interrupted her to tell her that he didn't care, only that he thought a dissolved corpse was interesting, and asked how she'd done it. At Regent's inquiry, Bakuda confirmed that she had surgically inserted bombs into the brains of every one of the Azn Bad Boys. When Regent asked to get a better look, she told him no before saying that she knew what he was trying to do, and that she could think farther ahead than any of them.

Bakuda singled out another of her underlings, asking if she would shoot someone. The girl in question said that she could, all the while glancing at what was left of Park Jihoo, and Bakuda said that it concluded her demonstration. To show the unpredictability she was trying to cultivate, she set off a bomb in her own group, giving the Undersiders the opportunity to flee.<ref name="4.8"/>

Bakuda and several members of the ABB entered a chase with the Undersiders while in her Jeep. After nearly running over Grue, the driver bore down on the group, only for Regent to mess with the driver. The Jeep spun out, and Bakuda was flung from it. Getting up, she then fired another bomb at the Undersiders.<ref>[[Shell 4.9]]</ref>

Angry, Bakuda told the Undersiders that getting the upper hand on her was something they should be terrified of. Noticing Skitter was awake, she revealed she had spies in the Protectorate Headquarters who had told her about what Skitter had done to Lung, and told the other villain that she would get special treatment.

Trying to distract her from hurting Grue, Skitter taunted her about how she had failed at school, visibly shaking the bomber. Grue laughed at her, and Bakuda kicked Skitter in the face, intending to demonstrate one of her bombs on Grue in retaliation. She threatened to shove the bomb down Skitter's throat if he tried using his powers, and then slid it into his nasal cavity as she explained the bomb's effects. Struggling through searing pain, Skitter managed to bring her knife down on the edge of Bakuda's boot and cut off two of her toes. Incapacitated from the pain,<ref>[[Shell 4.10]]</ref> she fled and the Undersiders regrouped.

The bombing campaign that she started was more then enough of a distraction to allow [[Oni Lee]] to free Lung. While her forced recruitment tactics rapidly expanded the ABB's ranks, her manic phase eventually petered out and with Lung free she gave up her position as leader of the gang. She was eventually captured by the heroes of Brockton Bay with her city-destroying EMP bomb neutralized by [[Clockblocker]] and [[Vista]].<ref name ="IRC1">[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/17045786 IRC comment by Wildbow, archived on SpaceBattles]</ref>

===Birdcage===
Bakuda was sentenced to the Birdcage for her crimes. She was placed in a transport vehicle alongside Lung and [[Paige Mcabee]] and had everything aside from her head and her shoulders covered in containment foam. After Paige woke up, Bakuda asked for her help in breaking free of the transport and, noticing Paige's hesitance, threatened to find her in prison if she refused. While working with the mask, Bakuda was asked by Paige why she was sentenced to the Birdcage, and Bakuda responded by saying she'd killed upwards of fifty people. She demanded Lung help her by heating the metal of the mask. Lung initially refused, but Bakuda goaded him to the point of anger and told him to use it to motivate himself.

Out of the now-heated metal, Bakuda created a makeshift screwdriver which she used to remove Paige's tranquilizing collar. Paige fell asleep, and when she awoke, Bakuda had created a tranquilizing bomb to use on the personnel transporting them. Bakuda told Paige that she would use her power to convince the men to free them, but when the bomb detonated, there was nobody there to hear Canary's song. As the three of them were taken into the Cage by giant metal claws, Bakuda screamed that she had had a plan.

Bakuda was set down alongside Paige and Lung in front of a monitor where a CGI rendering of [[Dragon]]'s face appeared and addressed them. Dragon said that the proper procedures for Bakuda's transport hadn't been carried out, that she had a .000126% chance of escaping from the Birdcage, and then sent her off to be placed in Cell Block C.

Later, Bakuda was met by Lung in her cell. She told him of her time in the Birdcage, mentioning that things seemed grim for her until [[Glaistig Uaine]] discovered that she could repair the cell block's television. Bakuda expressed amazement at the layout and structure of the building, saying that she could spend her whole life trying to figure it out. Lung asked her if she had been in prison before, and explained to her the four ways a person could survive in prison; join one of the gangs, "be someone's bitch", kill someone, or be seen as a madman. Bakuda asked him which of the options he intended to take, and Lung told her he thought to choose the third and the fourth.

Realizing that Lung intended to kill her, Bakuda backed away before asking him why. He told her that she had failed him, in the city and the Cage, and insulted him. She threatened to punch a hole in the cell wall with an assortment of springs and wires, telling him they would both suffocate if he tried anything. Lung responded that she was not fast enough, and Bakuda asked him if he wanted to bet. He did.<ref name="I6"/>

Bakuda was later claimed by Glaistig Uaine.<ref>[[Interlude 10.5]]</ref><ref name="Cast2">'''Bakuda (Deceased)''' – Lieutenant of Lung. Half-asian tinker, member and once-temporary-leader of the ABB. Specialty in advanced bombs, including gravity, time-stop, physical distortion, cryogenic and flesh-to-glass transmutation effects. Imprisoned in Birdcage and summarily killed by Lung. Resurrected as Glaistig Uaine's puppet. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-spoiler-free/cast/ Cast (in depth)]</ref>

Her bombs were used against both Leviathan and the Slaughterhouse Nine with variable results. [[The Scar]] is the result of the latter bombing run.<ref name=Scar>"Tameka Schooley. Lee Pemberton. Tom Kahn. Bakuda's test run and one use when she was terrorizing the city," Jeanne Wynne spoke up for the first time. "Alabaster, Jotun, and Dauntless... Leviathan hurled them into a time stop effect when defenders tried to use one of Bakuda's leftover tinker weapons to stop him. Wanda Fowler, Sarah and Patty Martin. Henry Holmes. They tried to break into what locals termed 'The Scar', an ongoing cataclysm from a bombing run that had been made using more of Bakuda's leftover technology. They entered because someone had told them that The Scar had veins of diamond, gold, and other rare materials inside it, where matter had transmuted to different forms."<br><br>"Did it?" Aleph Wolf asked. "That someone was right?"<br><br>"Yes. Rumors got out while barriers to contain the effect were being put up. The workers saw things. Unfortunately, that area also had a lot of active dangers that hadn't gone off, settled, or stopped. The four risk-takers tripped an inactive weapon and were trapped by a fourth time-stop effect." - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/01/01 Excerpt] from [[Blinding 11.4]]</ref>

===[[Gold Morning]]===
She saw the light of day again and created multiple tinker bombs to use against targets.

===Post-[[Mathers Compound Assault|Fallen fall]]===
Was used to disable a dangerous tower.<ref name="II9.i eDisableTower"/>