Editing Darlene Vasil (section)

==Abilities and Powers==
Darlene can form connections with anybody within her range,<ref name=laby>She felt out with her power.  Found the Cretan.  The Minotaur that was making this maze.  He moved so quickly through it that it seemed impossible, though it was possible he was undoing the effect as necessary.  His head turned her way.<br/><br/>The power that let her find people also let them find her.  She had to be careful. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/01/22 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11.c II]]</ref> these connections need to be anchored on pieces of anatomy her power can immediately recognize.<ref>Tress spoke up.  She was making her way down the stairs, her hands out to the sides, sliding down the railings.  “If you don’t think it’s going to be a problem, and if it doesn’t affect my movements or yours, you could try connecting to me.  Don’t be-”<br/><br/>Darlene connected, missing outright on her first attempt, then aiming for the face and finding the connection there.<br/><br/>The others had been gradual, a handful of sensations at a time, as each body part made contact with something.  Tress felt like a hundred sensations at once.  Limbs as thin as pencils and as strong as small caliber gunshots were fumbling, reaching, thumping against her shell, and groping blindly for rings and switches, hauling back on cords, gripping those cords, tracing the seams of the hollow metal shell, and straining against bondage where metal bands cinched them together into groups, leaving them to rustle faintly against each other.  The longest groupings were extended out to and through the metal arms, where they strained and worked, providing a lot of the mechanical movement for the added limbs.<br/><br/>She felt Tress’s lips part, the words barely audible over the screech of the alarm.  “Oh wow.”<br/><br/>“You okay?” Capricorn asked.<br/><br/>Tress nodded.  “It’s… nostalgic.  The sensations of a normal body.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/01/22 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11.c II]]</ref><ref>She’d felt a boy’s body, with her brothers and Aiden.  Capricorn felt like a ''man’s'' body, in a way that even Samuel didn’t, and Samuel was close to the same age.  Strong, burdened by armor, breath hot inside his helmet.  That was the Capricorn who was walking down the stairs.<br/><br/>Another Capricorn was overlapping that, frozen like a robot with the power switch thrown off, suspended and moving along with the Capricorn she saw.  Frozen as it was, she could feel the heat of the brain against the skull.<br/>[...]<br/>She reached for him, grabbing the lower half, and dragged it closer by inches.<br/><br/>Unnecessary.  It just took time.<br/><br/>Capricorn with the blue armor, now.  Intact.  With her power, she felt the two separated parts, floating superimposed around him. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/01/22 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11.c II]]</ref> While connected to people, she can feel everything they feel and they can feel everything she does, this allows unfettered communication, coordination,<ref>Not sight, not really- but the sensation of touch that bubbled gave him a good idea of where those people were looking, and why this was happening.  He peered past crowd to see the security officer at the end of the hallway.<br/><br/>There were two more members of the group, straggling.  There was no need to say ‘wait!’ or ‘we have to take care of this security officer!’, which was good because it was noisy inside.<br/>[...]<br/>She bent down to whisper in the ear of the last member of their squad, and he could feel the air go out and feel the air against ear as the sound was received.  Try as he might, he couldn’t make out the words.<br/>[...]<br/>He felt the emotions running through Darlene’s body, and looked back, “Are you okay?”<br/>[...]<br/>He was heated enough that Darlene and Candy roused a bit, paying attention.  He waved a hand in their general direction, and the half-asleep Darlene cut the connection. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/12/15 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 10.z II]]</ref> and synchronization.<ref>Lookout moved her ‘hands’, and through the link that Darlene provided, Candy could feel the motions in hand and attached finger, and moved appropriately. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/03/29 Excerpt] from [[Heavens 12.x]]</ref> When connected to multiple people, everybody can sense each other, in what is labeled a network.<ref>“Oh.  Shit,” Capricorn said.  “So that’s a thing.”<br/><br/>He sensed it too.  Part of the network.<br/><br/>“And Sveta’s… wow.”<br/><br/>“Don’t get lost in the network,” Aiden said, quiet.  “As neat as this always is, it’s supposed to help, not distract.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/01/22 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11.c II]]</ref> In addition, these people can sense the locations of one another within the network.<ref name=laby/>

It is unknown how far the range of the network extends once somebody is connected, but it has been seen to work over large distances.<ref>I didn’t get quite why they were suddenly chattering at high speed from the moment they were reunited when they were connected with Darlene’s body-interlinking power and Kenzie’s cameras and microphones for good portions of the day.  Kenzie had fixed her microphones first thing as we’d returned from the Wardens HQ.- [[Black 13.4]]</ref>

This can be used in combat, by forcing her opponent to feel any of the pain they are inflicting on her, or that she is inflicting upon herself. It also greatly enhances her coordination in hand-to-hand fight, but only when tools are not involved.<ref>She’d aimed for fingers, hoped to chop them off, but the knife wasn’t an extension of her or her power.  Had she used her fingernails, she knew she could have gotten them exactly where she wanted them, respective to her opponent. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/01/22 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11.c II]]</ref>

===Equipment===
After starting her formal cape-career she begins carrying a knife.<ref>“Knife,” Darlene said.  “I try to always keep a knife now.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/26/sundown-17-8/ Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.8]]</ref>