Editing Flashbang (section)

==History==

===Background===
He had a concussion as a teen, which had lingering consequences.<ref name="concussion"/> He did not found therapy helpful.<ref>“Mark Dallon, on one of his visits, made a remark to me that [...] he didn’t like therapy.  That it hadn’t done anything for him.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/09/24/from-within-16-y/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 16.y II]]</ref>

Neil triggered when he and, presumably, other members of [[Brockton Bay Brigade]], were attacked during a boat ride.<ref>“Neil had the accident, which you know about” my Aunt Sarah said. [...] “Mark-”<br/><br/>“I was on a boat when we were attacked,” my dad said. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/08/infrared-19-9/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.9]]</ref>

Mark convinced Carol to have their biological daughter Victoria, a point which [[Lady Photon|Sarah]] later used to convince her to adopt Amy.<ref>Brandish shook her head.  “I… you know I never planned to have kids?”<br/><br/>“I remember you saying something like that.  But then you had Vicky.”<br/><br/>“I only caved to having Vicky because Mark was there, and I had to think about it for a while.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/interlude-15-donation-bonus/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 15.x]]</ref>

With the rest of New Wave, he was present in [[Boston]] to help manage the [[Boston Games]].<ref>“Heroes, like the PRT, and like my family’s team, followed, to try and keep the peace until things settled.  My family’s team was Lady Photon, Manpower, Flashbang, Brandish, Lightstar and Fleur.”<br/><br/>“The heroes without masks,” Ashley said.<br/><br/>“Yeah,” I said.<br/><br/>“I remember them.  I was one of the villains who flocked,” Ashley said. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/23/flare-2-5/ Excerpt] from [[Flare 2.5]]</ref>

===Story Start===
Started the story as a member of New Wave.<ref name="Cast1">'''Flashbang''' – Member of New Wave, Flashbang can create orbs of energy that bounce and explode with a measured degree of light and power. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-spoiler-free/ Cast (spoiler free)]</ref>

Fought the ABB during their insurgency.

Fought the [[Empire Eighty-Eight]] when they were freaking out.

Protected [[Brockton Bay]] with his family and most of the city's other capes when Leviathan attacked. 
===Post-[[Battle against Leviathan|Leviathan]]===
24 days after the [[Battle against Leviathan]], Mark was still laid up in bed due to a head injury<ref name="I13c1">Three weeks and three days. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/01/interlude-13/#comment-3947 Comment by Wildbow] on [[Interlude 13]]</ref> when [[Bonesaw]] with her minions came to try and recruit Panacea. Bonesaw injected acid into Mark, coercing his adopted daughter to heal him. Mark immediately forced Bonesaw and [[Hack Job]] away. After the fight he recognized [[Mouse Protector]] in one of the minions, and after Amy's confirmation, that she is beyond saving, finished her off.<ref name="11h e3">Mark flicked his eyes in one direction, offered the slightest of nods, his forehead rubbing against hers. Amy flung herself to one side as Mark stood in one quick motion, flinging the glowing orb at the little girl.<br/><br/>Hack Job flickered into existence just in time to have to orb bounce off his chest. It exploded violently, tearing a hole into his stomach and groin. The villain flew backward, colliding with Bonesaw.<br/><br/>But two more copies of Hack Job had already appeared, and the scalpel spiders were responding to some unknown directions, leaping for Mark and Amy.<br/><br/>Amy grappled with one spider, struggled to bend its legs the wrong way, cried out as the scalpels and needlepoints of the other legs dragged against her skin.<br/><br/>A blast sent her tumbling, throwing her into the couch and dislodging the spider. Mark could make his orbs concussive or explosive. He’d hit the spider with the former, nothing that could seriously hurt Amy. She climbed to her feet, picked up the oak side-table from beside the couch and bludgeoned the spider with it.<br/><br/>More explosions ripped through their living room as Mark continued to open fire, hurling the orbs with a ferocity that surprised Amy. When Hack Job tried to block the shots with his bodies, Mark bounced them between Hack Job’s legs, off walls and off the ceiling. Almost as if he could predict what his enemy would do, he lobbed one orb onto the couch. It exploded a half-second after one of Hack Job’s duplicates appeared there.<br/><br/>More duplicates charged from either direction, and Mark dropped a concussive orb at his feet, blasting himself and one of the duplicates in opposite directions. He quickly got his footing and resumed the attack, fending off one duplicate that turned his attention to Amy, then going after Bonesaw.<br/><br/>Bonesaw had retreated into the hallway that led into the bedrooms at the back of the house, the basement and the kitchen at the side. Mark threw an orb after her, obliterating the hallway, but Amy couldn’t see if he’d struck home, not with the clouds of dust that were exploding from Hack Job’s expired duplicates. Between the time it had taken to create the orb, throwing it and the lack of a scream after it had gone off, Amy knew Bonesaw would have gotten away. -[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/interlude-11h/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 11h]]</ref> He also tried to calm down Panacea before she ran off.

He had an argument with Carol when both of their daughters were sent off; eventually, Mark accompanied Victoria to the Asylum in Pennsylvania, while Carol went with Amy to see her off to the Birdcage.<ref name="Interlude 15" />
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===[[Gold Morning]]===
Flashbang looked visibly grim when [[Marquis]] was released from [[The Birdcage]] during Gold Morning.<ref>In the moment she slapped him, I drew the connection.<br/><br/>Lady Photon.  Sarah Pelham.<br/><br/>Flashbang and Brandish were with her, looking just as grim. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/20/extinction-27-3/ Excerpt] from [[Extinction 27.3]]</ref> He and the other members of New Wave did not participate in the fighting.<ref>The bystanders began filing away as their destinations were called out.  I was surprised to see New Wave among them.  Brandish said something to Panacea, squeezed her hand, and then turned to leave.<br/><br/>Had they retired?  Given up on fighting?  Or was this simply a fight on a scale they weren’t prepared or able to participate in? - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/22/extinction-27-4/ Excerpt] from [[Extinction 27.4]]</ref>

===Early-[[Ward]]===
He ended up separated from his wife; while Carol lived in a house, Mark lived in an apartment with Victoria.<ref>He looked relaxed though.  As relaxed as I’d seen him in a while, really, and I’d seen him passed out on the couch back at the apartment.<br/><br/>I was aware that my mom had seated herself so that two neighbors sat between her and my dad.  Where my dad had dressed in a t-shirt and sports pants for the occasion, she had dressed up.  Just a bit of lipstick, her hair short and styled, a ruffly sort of white blouse and pencil skirt.  She’d kicked off her shoes earlier in the evening, leaving them beneath her chair.<br/><br/>I was aware of the distinction in how they’d dressed, too.  In another time, before everything, there would have been more… connection, I supposed.  Each influencing the other, until they matched more. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/11/30/daybreak-1-7/ Excerpt] from [[Daybreak 1.7]]</ref> At a reunion barbecue for the Dallons and their extended family, he was told of Amy's presence beforehand, but later tried to warn Victoria about her sister's presence.<ref>In the background, my dad was trying to get my attention.  He’d sat up, and didn’t look relaxed anymore.  He offered me a small smile.  I acknowledged him by lifting one hand up from where it sat on my elbow, in a mini-wave. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/11/30/daybreak-1-7/ Excerpt] from [[Daybreak 1.7]]</ref> However, following the reunion, Victoria refused to go back to his apartment.<ref>Point_Me_@_The_Sky: I absolve you on the condition of one get together where we have some good eating, your treat, and you need to let me know if you hear of any good apartments or things because I am not good going back to my dads - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/01/daybreak-1-8/ Excerpt] from [[Daybreak 1.8]]</ref>

He later apologized for the incident at the reunion,<ref>He took a seat on the armrest of the armchair, one foot on the ground.  “I want you to know that what happened at your mom’s house, I’m sorry about that.  It wasn’t right.”<br/><br/>“I appreciate that.  I… I wish I could tell you that I was sorry for how I reacted there.  But I don’t know if I can.”<br/><br/>“I wouldn’t ask you to,” he said.  “I think any and all of us should be understanding when it comes to old wounds.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/01/20 Excerpt] from [[Glare 3.5]]</ref> and offered advice to Victoria regarding [[Breakthrough|her team]]. Victoria later used some of his spare costume materials when making her own.<ref name="II5.6">“Spare stuff from dad,” I said.  I pulled out some equipment.  It was the right kind of material, all in a matte gunmetal, but the texture was all wrong.  Dad was ‘Flashbang’ and the armor panels, mask, straps, and guards were all in the style of a grooved grenade exterior. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/03/17 Excerpt] from [[Shadow 5.6]]</ref>

===Post-[[Mathers Compound Assault|Fallen fall]]===
Rejoined Carol in her modest, off-time team and changed his costume a bit.<ref>[[Beacon 8.1]]</ref>

===Post-[[Goddess' Takeover]]===
Flashbang joined his [[Breakthrough|daughter's team]] on a revenge mission to [[Earth N]]. At the end of it he gets taken out of fight by wounds.

He brought his wife to [[Earth Shin]], to seek help from [[Amy]].

===Post-[[Time Bubble Pop]]===
Mark met [[Breakthrough]] during their visit to Shin, and became unwilling hostage and enforcer.

Once [[Shin Diplomatic Crisis]] was resolved Mark stayed on Shin to keep an eye on Amy.

===Post-[[Attack on Teacher]]===
He asked Amy to heal his old brain trauma, but she refused.<ref name="concussion">Mark sat with a phone resting on his knee, looking tense.  He had asked yesterday if she would heal his lingering mental issues.  Dysthymia and lingering effects of a concussion he’d had as a teen. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/09/24/from-within-16-y/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 16.y II]]</ref>

Mark was present during [[The Red Queen]]s negotiation with [[the Wardens]] during [[The Second Shin Crisis]].<ref name="II17.5">[[Sundown 17.5]]</ref> Later in the day, [[Victoria]] demanded from him in private conversation to enforce the agreement with Amy by any cost and even kill Amy if she backs off from it.<ref name="II17.9">[[Sundown 17.9]]</ref> Mark was shocked by the intensity of it and reported their conversation to the Wardens.<ref name="II17.10">[[Sundown 17.10]]</ref>

===[[The Ice Breaks]]===
After the [[Hunter]]'s rampage started, he, however, was able to persuade then-defeated Amy to return under the Wardens' supervision.<ref name="II17.z">[[Sundown 17.z]]</ref>

Mark and [[Brandish|Carol]] offered [[Victoria]]'s plague to [[Amy]].<ref name="II20.10">[[Last 20.10]]</ref>