Editing Flechette (section)

===Primary Ability===
Lily has the ability to temporarily imbue nonliving material<ref name="12.6c1">Thirty might be too generous. Look at Brockton Bay's Protectorate/Wards, living or dead. Who is explicitly affected by the (conventional interpretation of the) Manton effect?<br>[...]<br>Flechette? Yes. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/07/14/plague-12-6/#comment-2973 Comment by Wildbow] in [[Plague 12.6]]</ref> with the power to ignore select laws of physics. Most notably, they could punch through virtually anything.<ref name="Cast Page (In Depth)"/><ref>Her power wasn't Shadow Stalker's, from back in Brockton Bay. It went through everything, yes. Shadow Stalker could do something similar. But it left a hole, where Shadow Stalker's hadn't. One shot, then two- it created an aperture with the same diameter as the bullet. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/03/19/heavens-12-8/ Excerpt] from [[Heavens 12.8]]</ref> It is able to go through any defence and materialise inside of a target, fusing to it, and can ignore various forms of conventional superhuman durability as if the opposition was like "warm-butter".<ref name="RedSting">Sting unerringly reaches every dimension, including the one you're in. So against Superman, The Hulk, Thor, etc, it goes right through any defenses. When it rematerializes, it can rematerialize inside them, and functionally it does very much the same thing it would if you shot them and they had the durability of warm butter- pushes everything out of the way, and settles in place. Fuses to bone, etc, so bleeding is limited, but can still do a horrendous amount of damage. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/x0ds0x/comment/im7mz89/ Comment] by Wildbow on Reddit</ref> She is not restricted to her hand when she uses this power. When imbuing an object with her power, Lily could tune the effect; for example, she could alter the time limit so that her charged ammunition would glue itself to a place (at the molecular level) if she timed the effect to wear off at the right time.<ref name="9.2 e1">Flechette wasn't a breaker, though her power came close. Technically, she was a striker, a cape with the ability to apply some effect by touch or at point-blank range. The striker classification could include certain breaker effects as they were applied to things other than the cape themselves, but not always. Other strikers included those who used energy weapons, those who had certain kinds of superstrength that weren't accompanied by durability and those with pyrokinesis or such that didn't extend more than a foot around them. The way she used her ability, coupled with the intuitive understanding of angles, trajectories and timing she got from her secondary powers, gave her a low rating as a 'blaster'. A cape with a ranged attack.<br><br>She infused the three-foot length of sharpened metal that was mounted in her arbalest with her power. The more power there was in it, the less it was affected by the natural laws of the universe. Focusing more power into an object meant gravity, air resistance and general physics held less and less sway over it. She could tune it, make the effect longer lived, shorter lived or bias the effects to allow for more of one element or less of another.<br><br>She could do other things, but the primary benefit, the easiest thing to do, was making her ammunition punch through anything. It would glue itself in place on impact, if she had the effect wear off at the right time, and she was very good at timing things.<br>[...]<br>She fired the needle through the corner of the roof just in front of her, and it passed through without resistance. It continued on to strike the rooftop below and in front of her, nestling in deep as the effect wore off, bonding on a molecular level to the material around it. The chain stretched down at a fifty degree angle, taut. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/sentinel-9-2/ Excerpt] from [[Sentinel 9.2]]</ref> She could use her ability on her costume to reduce the effects of friction or make her shoes bite into surfaces.<ref name="26.b e1>The defending capes moved in. Foil slid down, her cleats digging into the surface of the building to afford her some drag, then leaped off to stab a Crimson through the skull. - [[Interlude 26b]]</ref> Another trick she could do was to make her costume frictionless and allow her to slide around.<ref name="9.2 e2">She could charge the metal of her cleats so they bit into any surface, and though it was too slow to be used defensively unless her foe telegraphed their attacks, she could make her costume frictionless.<br>[...]<br>Flechette stepped forward, onto the chain. The space between the spikes of her cleats made for a groove the chain could run through. She slid down, one foot behind the other, arbalest held behind her with the chain reeling out, a safety measure in the event she slipped or was pushed off, with the added advantage that it allowed her to control the speed of her descent.<br><br>When she was close to the rooftop below, she cut the chain, let herself drop down. She was running the second her feet met the surface, using the momentum from her slide. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/sentinel-9-2/ Excerpt] from [[Sentinel 9.2]]</ref>

[[Scion]] described her power as "charging objects with energy [...] the small pieces of alloyed metal unfolded, taking shape in not just this world, but all realities, at the same space and time, bristling with an effect that would sever their attachment to most physical laws."<ref name="26.x e1">A female, standing just outside another time distortion, walked around the effect, charging objects with energy. The entity could see as the small pieces of alloyed metal unfolded, taking shape in not just this world, but ''all'' realities, at the same space and time, bristling with an effect that would sever their attachment to most physical laws. - [[Interlude 26]]</ref> Said power can unerringly reach into every dimension, including the one the target is in.<ref name="RedSting"/> Although this is widely interpreted to mean that they extend into every [[Alternate Earth]] and hit things that are present in one Earth but not in another, this may not be the case.<ref>'''Is Foil accidentally killing people on other earths when she uses her power?'''<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' Nope - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/4ny7ko/is_foil_accidentally_killing_people_on_other/ Discussion on Reddit featuring Wildbow]</ref>

Using her power on [[Chevalier]]'s sword would have broken it.<ref name="R1">'''natsugo:''' Hell, she [Foil] could have used her power on the blade of Chevaliers sword, then he could go 1v1 against an Endbringer.<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' Using her power on Chevalier's sword would have broken it, like the space warping around the Endbringer core did.<br><br>The issue was that after they discovered the full ramifications of her powers, the Endbringers changed their methodology. Leviathan made hit and run attacks that meant he was gone and attacking another city before Scion/Foil/anyone else reached a location, Simurgh attacked abstract targets, Khonsu teleported, and Tohu/Bohu were difficult to pin down or find easy answers to. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/3bwjv7/why_didnt_they_use_foil_to_the_fullest_extent/ Comment by Wildbow on Reddit]</ref> 

Lily's charged shots can pierce right through an [[Endbringer]],<ref name="Cast Page (In Depth)"/> as demonstrated against [[Leviathan]]<ref name="8.5 eFar">One of crossbow-girl's shots, like a needle several feet in length, speared under the side of Leviathan's neck, out the top. Shadow Stalker's shots, at the same time, failed to penetrate Leviathan's hard exterior.<br><br>"Flechette! I'm getting closer!" Shadow Stalker called out, looking back at her new partner.<br><br>"Careful!" the crossbow-girl – Flechette, I took it – replied, loading another shot. - [[Extermination 8.5]]</ref><ref>Flechette fired a needle through Leviathan's knee, and the Endbringer's leg buckled. He collapsed into a kneeling position, the knee striking the ground. - [[Extermination 8.5]]</ref> and [[Behemoth]].<ref>He clapped, and a shockwave tore through the area. Rachel was already directing the dogs; they moved so there was cover, buildings between them and Behemoth. The chain, imbued by Foil's ability to shear through anything, cut through the buildings as though there was nothing there.<br><br>And just like that, they made it. The dogs passed Behemoth, a hundred and twenty feet of chain maintained between them, and the chain cut through him as easily as Foil's arbalest bolts had. - [[Crushed 24.4]]</ref><ref name="24.x eFoil">Something flew past him, shearing straight through Behemoth's chest. A wheel of metal, thin, with two bars sticking out of the center. It cut through the Endbringer like he wasn't even there. - [[Interlude 24.x]]</ref> She can kill one with a direct hit to their core.<ref name="Reb e1">'''Nekron-akaMrSkeletal:''' I guess that works. I was actually wondering about sting. If Foil had been at the behemoth fight could she have finished [[behemoth]] when his core was exposed?<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' Yep. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/3ofej1/endbringer_versus_endbringer/cvwxx13 Reply by Wildbow on Reddit]</ref> After discovering the full ramifications of her power during the [[Battle against Behemoth]], the Endbringers changed their methodology to better avoid situations where Lily could set up a killing blow.<ref name="R1"/>