Editing Brandish (section)

==Abilities and Powers==
Carol Dallon has the ability to create various simple weapons and martial shields out of burning 'hard' light, or light augmented by concussive or kinetic force.<ref name="15.x e4">She charged forward, manifesting energy in the shape of a lance, driving it toward [[Marquis]].<br/><br/>He cast a glance her way and stuck one foot out in her direction. His toes mutated into a jagged, uneven ripple of bone that stretched out beneath her. Unable to maintain her footing, she had to cancel out the lance, using her hands to brace her fall.<br/><br/>Spikes of bone poked out of the ground in a circle around her, rising to form a cage.<br/><br/>She created twin knives out of energy, slashing out to cut through the bars.<br/>[...]<br/>She looked down. She’d unconsciously pressed the blade closer. When she lifted it, she could see the burn at the base of his throat. - [[Interlude 15.x]]</ref><ref name="WoG1"/> Further she can condense herself into a bouncing sphere of hard light, effectively invincible and untouchable at the cost of all mobility.<ref name="19.5 c1">Ranked 1 powers mentioned thus far include Shadow Stalker and Brandish (Mover 1 and Shifter 1, respectively).<br/><br/>For Shadow Stalker, that’s the ability to float or jump a good distance (12-15 feet from a standing position). Somewhat more versatile than an olympic athlete might be able to maintain.<br/><br/>For Brandish, it’s the ability to become an immobile, nigh-invulnerable sphere. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/05/scourge-19-5/#comment-12048 Comment] by [[Wildbow]]</ref>

She described her ball form as "condensed into a point, surrounded by a layered, spherical force field".<ref name="15.x e3">Manpower and Brandish charged. They didn’t get two steps before Marquis turned himself into a sea urchin, bone spears no thicker than a needle extending out of every pore, some extending twelve or fifteen feet.<br/><br/>Brandish planted her heel on the ground to arrest her forward movement and activated her power. In an instant, her body was condensed into a point, surrounded by a layered, spherical force field. It meant she didn’t fall on her rear end, and she could pick a more appropriate posture as she snapped back into her human shape. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/interlude-15-donation-bonus/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 15.x]]</ref> It could fly away whenever it was hit, or she could exercise some control over the direction.<ref name="I11h">[[Interlude 11h]]</ref> She could choose what posture she was in when transitioning between forms, allowing her to more easily recover from falls.<ref name="15.x"/> It was orange-yellow in color.<ref name="I11a">Brandish flicked her hands out, and beams of light drew into vague sword shapes. As the dogs stampeded towards her she flicked them out to double the length. They drew closer, almost reaching her, and she reconsidered, banishing the weapons to condense herself into a beachball-sized ball of orange-yellow light. The dogs hit her, there was a spray of sparks, and the ball was sent careening down the street and through the wall of a building. - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/interlude-11a/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11a]]</ref> While in her ball form, Brandish is in a kind of 'stasis'. This allows her to do a combination attack with [[Flashbang]], in which she takes some of his timed grenades into her ball form and unleashes them when she comes out.<ref>The ball ricocheted off the ground, hit the ceiling, then, in the center of the room, expanded into Brandish, who was loaded with pre-prepared Flashbang grenades.   While she was in her ball-state, she was in total stasis.  The grenades had a timer, but the timer didn’t count down while she was frozen and not of this world.  She scattered them, throwing them wide. [[Heavens 12.1]]</ref> While in her Breaker form, Brandish cannot see or hear anything, only able to track the world around her with another kind of awareness. This essentially meant she was trapped in the dark whenever she used this form, which just so happens to be her exact phobia.<ref>My dad didn’t answer.  I knew.  Even after all this time, Brandish hated being in the form.  It left her blind and deaf, sensing and tracking the world around her with another kind of awareness.  In the ball, she was confined in the dark.  And she hated the dark.- [[Heavens 12.9]]</ref>

Brandish is martial combatant capable of delivering explosively powerful strikes or letting her weapons shear through flesh and bone without resistance, burning and cauterizing any wound.<ref name="15.x e2">A weapon appeared in her hands, forged of light and energy and electricity. Crude, unrefined, it amounted to little more than a baseball bat.<br/><br/>When she struck him in the leg, the weapon sheared through without resistance. That’s good, her thoughts were strangely disconnected from everything else, because I can’t hit very hard right now.<br/><br/>He screamed as he fell to the ground, his leg severed.<br/><br/>She hit him again, then again, much like Sarah had with the other man. Except this wasn’t simply beating him to a pulp. It was more final than that.<br/><br/>When she was done, the weapon disappeared. Sarah hugged her, and she hugged her sister back.<br/><br/>When she cried, it wasn’t the crying of a thirteen year old girl.  It was more basic, more raw: the uncontrolled, unrestrained wail one might expect of a baby. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/interlude-15-donation-bonus/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 15.x]]</ref> They could slash through [[Marquis]]' bone plates<ref name="15.x"/> and could even shear through steel.<ref name="WoG1"/> The weapons "looked as though they were made from lightning."<ref name="8.5">[[Extermination 8.5]]</ref> They could be a sword,<ref name="15.x"/> a pair of swords,<ref name="I11h"/> a crude bludgeon,<ref name="15.x"/> or a pair of axes, among other things.<ref name="8.5">[[Extermination 8.5]]</ref>. Brandish can control how damaging the specific instance of weapon is.<ref>My mother produced a coruscating spike in her hand.  I knew the energy she made could be diffused or left ‘sharp’, and I imagined she’d picked something that would burn at worst, if someone were to walk fast enough into it. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/06/08/breaking-14-7/ Excerpt] from [[Breaking 14.7]]</ref>

She has some resistance to blinding lights,<ref>
Not a flashbang, but a flash.  The light was blinding.<br/>[...]<br/>But in the midst of the light, a shadow loomed.  Brandish hurried her way, weapon held high.<br/><br/>To an extent, it made sense.  A person who manipulated fire often had protections from fire.  This woman created weapons out of light- and she’d bounced back faster than some. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/05/30/eclipse-x-5/ Excerpt] from [[Eclipse x.5]]</ref> likely so she isn't blinded by the light of her own creations.