Editing Amy Dallon (section)

===Shard===
Amy's powers are the result of receiving a [[bud]] of the [[List_of_Shards#The_Shaper|Shaper]] [[shard]] from [[Marquis]];<ref name="SB2">Wildbow: Amy's power is related to Marquis'<br>Wildbow: Just broader<br>Gundor: Right<br>Wildbow: Minus the limitations that were put on the Shaper shard - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15267907 Conversation with Wildbow on IRC], archived on Spacebattles</ref><ref>Marquis got the power that fit best at the time of his trigger. Panacea was more of a slow play in the midst of a promising situation. - [https://redd.it/51awfy Comment by Wildbow on Reddit]</ref><ref>'''WyldCard4:''' Is Panacea's shard a bud shard from Marquis or is she a first generation cape?<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' Yes. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/12852536 Conversation with Wildbow on Spacebattles]</ref> Amy calls her shard Princess Shaper.<ref name="II16.z ePrincess">''We did it''.<br><br>''Did you want me to do this, Princess Shaper''? she asked, knowing her power would never answer.  ''Was that why it was easier than fixing my sister’s body''?<br><br>Of course there was silence. - [[Interlude 16.z II]]</ref> However, Amy's powers have fewer limitations and are more broad in comparison.<ref name="SB2" /> Thus, [[Glaistig Uaine]] claimed Amy's shard in particular (i.e., not Marquis's shard<ref>“''Your daughter, too.  Your faerie is kin to the one that sleeps inside the girl.  I have no doubt this Amelia is a healer, but that’s only a facet of her true strength.  I have decided I will not bargain with you, Marquis.''“<br><br>Marquis used his hands to prop himself up as he leaned back.  “A shame, but understandable.  You don’t need healing, and your people are a secondary concern.”<br><br>“''I will collect them as they fall.  But you are mistaken, Marquis.  I am not expressing disinterest in her talents.  I am saying that I will only deal with her as an equal.''“ - [[Interlude 16.z]]</ref>) was on par with her own shard and [[Taylor]]'s shard.<ref>“You view us both as queens, Faerie Queen?”<br><br>“I do.  But let us drop the titles when we talk.”<br><br>“Okay… Glaistig Uaine.  Anyone else?”<br><br>“There are others who stand shoulder to shoulder with us, but queen is the wrong word, Administrator.  The champion, the high priest, the observer, the shaper, the demesnes-keeper.  Why do you ask?” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/22 Excerpt] from [[Extinction 27.4]]</ref> Glaistig Uaine also believed Amy's shard, which she called the shaper, would be partly responsible for cleaning up the [[cycle]] in its end stages.<ref>“Yes.  The other nobles, their tasks are more immediate, shorter in term.  What makes us truly ''noble'' is our role before and after this act.  The others sleep, and we toil.  We’re practiced, stronger, for that constant effort.  The champion and observer ensure the next act goes on without a hitch.  The shaper and demesnes-keeper clean up after we are all done here, one way or another.  So it goes.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/22 Excerpt] from [[Extinction 27.4]]</ref>

[[Glaistig Uaine]] speculated [[Marquis]]'s [[shard]] was an artist;<ref>“Rest assured, Glaistig Uaine, you’re scary enough on your own,” Marquis replied, smiling,  “I don’t need a whole army of your kind chasing me down.”<br><br>“''There will be no chasing, for they are already in position to strike you down the moment they wake, three hundred years hence.  You’re nothing more than the dream of the faerie.  I can see it, so vivacious, so creative in its movements, even in slumber.  I think it might have been an artist.  I want it for my collection.''“ - [[Interlude 16.z]]</ref> the same presumably applies for [[List_of_Shards#The_Shaper|Princess Shaper]]. As Amy does not really participate in conflict, her shard is dissatisfied with its host.<ref>There's more, Pitae - there's the underlying fact that capes who 'retire' do tend to run into trouble sooner or later<br>Leet/Panacea effect in play. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/37024231 Comment] by Wildbow on Discord, archived on Spacebattles</ref> Princess Shaper appears to express its unhappiness with subtle nudges such as Amy's intrusive thoughts about leaving patients to suffer or die.<ref>She sighed again, “The last person I really remember?  It was maybe a week ago, I was working on a kid.  He was just a toddler, an immigrant from Cairo, I think.  Ectopia Cordis.  That’s where you’re born with your heart outside your body.  I was putting everything in the right place, giving him a chance at a normal life.”<br><br>“What made him so memorable?”<br><br>“I resented him.  He was lying there, fast asleep, like an angel, and for just a second, I considered just leaving him.  The doctors could have finished the job, but it would have been dangerous.  He might have died if I’d left him on the table, the job half done.  I hated him.”<br><br>Gallant didn’t say anything.  Scowling, Panacea stared down at the ground.<br><br>“No, I hated that he would have a normal life, because I’d given up mine.  I was scared that I might ''intentionally'' make a mistake.  That I might let myself fuck up the procedure with this kid.  I could have killed him or ruined his life, but it would have eased the pressure.  Lowered expectations, you know?  Maybe it would have even lowered my own expectations for myself.  I… I was just so tired.  So exhausted.  I actually considered, for the briefest moment, abandoning a child to suffer or die.”<br><br>“That sounds like more than just exhaustion,” Gallant replied, quietly. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/interlude-3-2/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 3]]</ref> Amy's powers are also more leashed to the goodwill of her shard than others, especially since her powers are relatively unbounded.<ref>Some powers are simply more leashed to shard goodwill than others. Often the case with breakers (Moord Nag's pet is breaker-ish) and the more unbounded powers such as Eidolon (who has a dead shard, for the record), Leet, Glaistig Uaine, and Panacea. People who were slated to fall pre-powers are set up to fall in a bad way.<br>[...]<br>Working with the passenger's wishes means the ongoing effects and the bounds that form around the unbounded effects as they take hold (success rates and accuracy, power, efficiency, collateral damage, etc) are more to the parahuman's wishes. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/36173443 Comment] by Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref> For example, Amy believed it was easier to create [[the Gibborim Knight]] than to fix her [[Victoria|sister]].<ref name="II16.z ePrincess" /> That said, she was not sabotaged to the same degree as someone like [[Leet]]; Amy is not a good example of a shard forcing their host to do new things even if they do not want to.<ref>'''shadowmist321:''' If the person is bad at using the database, doesn't try to use all that they have access to, such as only making spaghetti (the metaphor is breaking down somewhat) then database will force them to do new things (Garrot, echidna, panacea?, leet) even if they don't want to<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' I wouldn't put most of those specific names on the list. Garotte and Echidna are C53s/Deviations and the C53s in this analogy get the database & kitchen setup stuff dropped on them and emerge from the wreckage as a part human, part kitchen hybrid. Panacea wasn't sabotaged to the degree some paint it. Leet is a good example. - [https://redd.it/nt15eg Conversation] with Wildbow on Reddit</ref>

Although [[Glaistig Uaine]] did not imply Amy's [[shard]] was from [[Eden]], the appearance of [[Victoria]]'s mutated form (i.e., reminiscent of Eden's flesh garden) might have been inspired by something Amy saw during her [[trigger event]].<ref>'''Ascaloth:''' Wait.<br><br>Wait.<br><br>Wait just a darn minute here.<br><br>Eden is described as “A garden of body parts, hands, stretches of flesh, a maze of parts, all interconnected, all flowing from the piece in the center. All of it alive, this time.”<br><br>Is it just me? Or can not the same be said of GLORY GIRL?<br><br>'''wildbow:''' Funny how parallels appear. Almost as if Panacea had been recreating something from something she saw in a trigger event. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/speck-30-5/#comment-48316 Comment] by Wildbow on [[Speck 30.5]]</ref> As Amy triggered near Victoria,<ref>“No,” Amy said.  “No, Vicky.  Maybe before, but when I got my powers, it was to save you from being hurt.  ''You'' don’t get hurt, not in a way that lasts.  ''You'' will be a top heroine, a champion, beautiful and awe inspiring, and I will be behind you, keeping you in that fight, keeping you beautiful and perfect.” - [[Infrared 19.3]]</ref> her shard presumably got a memory from [[Fragile One]] about Eden (i.e., Victoria's shard pinged off [[Gallant]]'s shard).<ref>And another, dead and broken, consumed and connected anyway, was so vainly trying to broadcast that it communicated as my host and I connected and ‘went live’.  On air.  Power button pressed.  That fleeting contact and the jettison that came with it would be another facet of ''us''.  An emotion power.  The host of that dead and broken thing would later connect to my host.  Fuck her.  Make love to her.  Whisper to her.  Fight with her.  Hold her.  Laugh with her.  Talk to her of vulnerabilities.  Of hopes and dreams.  Of identity.  Of school.  Of costume. - [[Heavens 12.all]]</ref>