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Fog’s wife and Purity’s staunch follower. --> | Fog’s wife and Purity’s staunch follower. --> | ||
Has a liking for high heels, a parallel to the insectile limbs she walks on in her other form. | Has a liking for high heels, a parallel to the insectile limbs she walks on in her other form. | ||
<ref name="Cast2">[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-spoiler-free/cast/ | <ref name="Cast2">[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-spoiler-free/cast/ Cast (in depth)]</ref> Has an unerring morning routine with planned dialogue, that she and her husband so through without fail. | ||
===Relationships=== | ===Relationships=== | ||
List characters they liked, hated, or worked alongside. | <!--List characters they liked, hated, or worked alongside. | ||
==== Geoff Schmidt ==== | ==== Geoff Schmidt ==== | ||
"ritually pantomime the mannerisms of a happily married couple from tv tropes" | "ritually pantomime the mannerisms of a happily married couple from tv tropes" | ||
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== Appearance == | == Appearance == | ||
Out of costume, Dorothy dresses a little too well for the situation, wearing a dress, lots of makeup, and jewelry.<ref name="18.y" | Out of costume, Dorothy dresses a little too well for the situation, wearing a dress, lots of makeup, and jewelry.<ref name="18.y"/> | ||
<!--Costume and distinguishing features go here. Worm descriptions tend to be sparse, so include as much as possible.--> | <!--Costume and distinguishing features go here. Worm descriptions tend to be sparse, so include as much as possible.--> | ||
As a cape she dresses entirely in black complete with a with a cowl, mask, hood, high-heeled boots, and a heavy cloak.<ref name="Cast1" | As a cape she dresses entirely in black complete with a with a cowl, mask, hood, high-heeled boots, and a heavy cloak.<ref name="Cast1"/> | ||
==Abilities and Powers== | == Abilities and Powers == | ||
Classified as a [[Breaker]] 9, Dorothy can transform into a horrifying monster when unseen. This is summed up by [[Tattletale]] as an inversion of the [[Manton Effect]], though she admits that it is not an accurate description<ref name="7.9">[[Buzz 7.9]]</ref>. Whenever Night reverts back to her human form she is instantly "healed", effectively "resetting" any damage she takes and | Classified as a [[Breaker]] 9, Dorothy can transform into a horrifying monster when unseen. This is summed up by [[Tattletale]] as an inversion of the [[Manton Effect]], though she admits that it is not an accurate description<ref name="7.9">[[Buzz 7.9]]</ref>. Whenever Night reverts back to her human form she is instantly "healed", effectively "resetting" any damage she takes and restoring her to a "pristine" condition<ref name="Cast1">[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-spoiler-free/ Cast (spoiler free)]</ref>. | ||
=== Breaker State === | |||
Doratheys | |||
monster form has inhuman speed, strength, and durability from the nigh-invincible exterior<ref name="Cast2"/> of an amourphus "ink blot" body<ref name="7.10">[[Buzz 7.10]]</ref> that is paradoxically composed of sharp edges<ref name="list"/> and to many long insect like legs that end in claws<ref name="15.2"/>. The most consistent description given to Night's other dimensional form is that it has this plethora of legs. These angular legs do not have proper "joints" but can bend and stretch and turn inside out as it moves around.<ref name="15.2"/> | |||
Based on the admittedly inexpert opinion of [[Taylor]], this form does not have any identifiable sensory organs analogous to sight or hearing. This dos not seem to impede Night however.<ref name="15.2"/> | |||
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Night using her power: | |||
Buzz 7.9 said: | Buzz 7.9 said: | ||
While our attention was on Angelica, Night took the opportunity to blindside Brutus. He was thrown bodily into our group with enough force to to bowl us and even Judas over. Night just stood there, standing straight, heels together, one arm outstretched in front of her. I hurried to my feet, my legs and knees aching, putting one hand on Brutus’ shoulder to steady myself. It was then that I saw the damage she’d done to him. | |||
A dozen gouges criss-crossed his side, each wider than my handspan. One of the gouges had even shattered some of the protective bone plating. Brutus exhaled slowly, shuddering. | |||
I | She’d done that? | ||
Buzz 7.10 said: | |||
Night was already moving. My bugs were my only sense that still worked, but they couldn’t get a grip on the surface of her body. She moved too fast, and her skin was smooth and oily, slick with some sort of lubricant. The result was that I couldn’t really make her out in the darkness. I only got flashes, the vaguest sense of how she was put together. I was reminded of the ink blots I’d seen during my brief stay in the mental ward. Every fraction of a second, it was a different set of ink blots, a different shape, all edges and angles and sharp points, entirely up to interpretation. | |||
She struck at Judas a half-dozen times in the span of a second, her limbs flashing out and striking hard enough that I could feel the vibrations in the air. Judas staggered away from her, colliding with me and one of my teammates. I felt Judas’ crushing weight against my own body, the raw meat feel of his flesh and the stone hardness of his bones smothering me, before he shifted his weight and lurched back her way. | |||
From the way Judas’ movements followed Night’s as she moved back, and the rigidity of his face and neck, I knew he’d managed to get a grip on her with his teeth. He weathered the hits as she continued to thrash him. He seemed to be getting the worse end of the exchange, but he’d taken away some of her leverage. | |||
Blinking, I tried to focus on Night, but I saw double. For several long, terrifying seconds, I was unable to bring what I was seeing into focus. | |||
Judas was thrown against a wall, and went limp. The furrows Night had carved into his face left more gouges than untouched flesh, his face a mess of shattered bone and hamburger meat. With Judas’ bulk out of the way, I could make out Night, backing away. My bugs settled on her, and she pulled her cloak up to shield her face, still walking backward. | |||
Buzz 7.10 said: | |||
She wrestled me to one side of the alley, perhaps to try and push me away and buy time for the smoke to build up, maybe for another angle. I wouldn’t find out, because I brought my baton against the side of her face. I got a sense from the feeling of the hit that she didn’t wear any armor or protective wear beneath the cowl and mask. | |||
Night staggered from the blow, and I drove my shoulder into her. It wasn’t as effective as I’d hoped, but I did get her far enough away from the canister that I could duck down and scoop it up in one hand. | |||
I | |||
I dashed away, past her, and she struck me from behind. I knew from the magnitude of the impact that she wasn’t in her human shape as she hit me, and for one paralyzing moment, I suspected I’d made a terminal error. | |||
The blow was enough to knock me to the ground and make me roll a half-dozen times before I could stop myself. I cast a glance over my shoulder as I stopped. Night was there, and the residual smoke from the canister that surrounded her had apparently been sufficient to block my teammates’ view. Stupid of me to turn my back. I was lucky that she hadn’t had more than a second or two in her transformed state to act. | |||
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As official sources describe it, Night can transform into a "powerful four-dimensional entity"<ref name="list"> [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pgn9rgYutpBqJg1lSBP3NHnq9WK4ToLq9K4ys_I4cRc/edit#gid=0 Wildbow's Parahuman List]</ref> when unobserved. But does not elaborate if it is psychological or some form of the Observer effect<ref name="Explanation">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq69-MI9TA0 The What?]</ref>. | As official sources describe it, Night can transform into a "powerful four-dimensional entity"<ref name="list">[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pgn9rgYutpBqJg1lSBP3NHnq9WK4ToLq9K4ys_I4cRc/edit#gid=0 Wildbow's Parahuman List]</ref> when unobserved. But does not elaborate if it is psychological or some form of the Observer effect<ref name="Explanation">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq69-MI9TA0 The What?]</ref>. | ||
== Equipment == | == Equipment == | ||
As her transformation only occurs when she is unseen, she uses an assortment of tools to blind her foes, including flashbangs, smoke canisters, and a large black removable cloak, embedded with mini-hooks on the outside, designed to cover and catch on her enemies, essentially a net.<ref name="15. | As her transformation only occurs when she is unseen, she uses an assortment of tools to blind her foes, including flashbangs, smoke canisters, and a large black removable cloak, embedded with mini-hooks on the outside, designed to cover and catch on her enemies, essentially a net.<ref name="15.2">[[Colony 15.2]]</ref> | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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===Story Start=== | ===Story Start=== | ||
She and her husband were seen later among the newly reassembled Empire Eighty Eight at.<ref name="5.1">[[Hive 5.1]]</ref> | She and her husband were seen later among the newly reassembled Empire Eighty Eight at.<ref name="5.1">[[Hive 5.1]]</ref> | ||
When the [[Empire Eighty-Eight|E88's]] were revealed they took part in a rampage through the city following Child Protective Services removing Purity's [[Aster|Daughter]] from her mothers care. They humbled [[The Undersiders]] when they fought, only letting them go when [[Tattletale]] offered to take their leader to her daughter. | |||
Fought against the Endbringer. | Fought against the Endbringer. | ||
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Tattletale theorizing about Night and her power: | Tattletale theorizing about Night and her power: | ||
Night might be capable of staying underwater for long durations with her monstrous form: | Night might be capable of staying underwater for long durations with her monstrous form: | ||
Plague 12.2 said: | Plague 12.2 said: | ||
Night stepped out of the lake, between our parked boats and onto the roof, water streaming from her cloak. Had she been the just-in-case measure if an incoming boat hadn’t known the signal? She would be invisible in the pitch black gloom beneath the water’s surface, which would mean she wasn’t in her human form. | Night stepped out of the lake, between our parked boats and onto the roof, water streaming from her cloak. Had she been the just-in-case measure if an incoming boat hadn’t known the signal? She would be invisible in the pitch black gloom beneath the water’s surface, which would mean she wasn’t in her human form. | ||
colony 15.2 | |||
My bugs gave me a way of tracking Night. I could sense her change as she escaped the line of sight of both her allies and our group. I didn’t hurry after her, but I kept my attention turned in her direction as she transformed into that multi-legged, hyper-agile, lightning quick death blender of blades and claws and moved to flank us. | |||
agility | |||
With my swarm sense, I could feel her creating some distance, breaking away and heading for the general direction of the others, moving faster than any car, with far more raw mobility, turning on a dime and easily navigating obstacles. Even before the flashbang went off, I was turning to follow. | |||
Revision as of 20:14, July 8, 2016
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Dorothy Schmidt, usually known as Night, was a member of Empire Eighty-Eight and the wife of Fog.
Personality
Has a liking for high heels, a parallel to the insectile limbs she walks on in her other form. <ref name="Cast2">Cast (in depth)</ref> Has an unerring morning routine with planned dialogue, that she and her husband so through without fail.
Relationships
Appearance
Out of costume, Dorothy dresses a little too well for the situation, wearing a dress, lots of makeup, and jewelry.<ref name="18.y"/>
As a cape she dresses entirely in black complete with a with a cowl, mask, hood, high-heeled boots, and a heavy cloak.<ref name="Cast1"/>
Abilities and Powers
Classified as a Breaker 9, Dorothy can transform into a horrifying monster when unseen. This is summed up by Tattletale as an inversion of the Manton Effect, though she admits that it is not an accurate description<ref name="7.9">Buzz 7.9</ref>. Whenever Night reverts back to her human form she is instantly "healed", effectively "resetting" any damage she takes and restoring her to a "pristine" condition<ref name="Cast1">Cast (spoiler free)</ref>.
Breaker State
Doratheys monster form has inhuman speed, strength, and durability from the nigh-invincible exterior<ref name="Cast2"/> of an amourphus "ink blot" body<ref name="7.10">Buzz 7.10</ref> that is paradoxically composed of sharp edges<ref name="list"/> and to many long insect like legs that end in claws<ref name="15.2"/>. The most consistent description given to Night's other dimensional form is that it has this plethora of legs. These angular legs do not have proper "joints" but can bend and stretch and turn inside out as it moves around.<ref name="15.2"/>
Based on the admittedly inexpert opinion of Taylor, this form does not have any identifiable sensory organs analogous to sight or hearing. This dos not seem to impede Night however.<ref name="15.2"/> As official sources describe it, Night can transform into a "powerful four-dimensional entity"<ref name="list">Wildbow's Parahuman List</ref> when unobserved. But does not elaborate if it is psychological or some form of the Observer effect<ref name="Explanation">The What?</ref>.
Equipment
As her transformation only occurs when she is unseen, she uses an assortment of tools to blind her foes, including flashbangs, smoke canisters, and a large black removable cloak, embedded with mini-hooks on the outside, designed to cover and catch on her enemies, essentially a net.<ref name="15.2">Colony 15.2</ref>
History
Background
Night was trained, or more specifically, "made" by Gesellschaft as a "weapon"<ref name="18.y">Interlude 18.y</ref>. Dorothy first appeared as Nacht in Hesse, Germany, she was sent to Brockton Bay by Gesellschaft where she and her husband joined Empire Eighty-Eight. They left for Boston shortly after Purity split from the group, but Kaiser thought she would gladly rejoin the Empire if Purity did<ref name="5.1"/><ref name="3.5B">Interlude 3.5 (Bonus)</ref>.
Story Start
She and her husband were seen later among the newly reassembled Empire Eighty Eight at.<ref name="5.1">Hive 5.1</ref>
When the E88's were revealed they took part in a rampage through the city following Child Protective Services removing Purity's Daughter from her mothers care. They humbled The Undersiders when they fought, only letting them go when Tattletale offered to take their leader to her daughter.
Fought against the Endbringer.
Post-Leviathan
After Kaiser's death during the battle against Leviathan, Night and her husband followed their former leader kayden into forming the Empire splinter group named the Pure.
Post-Slaughterhouse Nine
Were eventually forced to leave Brockton Bay due to pressure from outside Villan groups.
Trivia
- Name comes the Nazi program Nacht und Nebel, Night and Fog.
References
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