Rachel Lindt

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Rachel Lindt, also known as Bitch by her allies and Hellhound by her enemies, is a member of the Undersiders.

Appearance

Rachel has a squarish, blunt-featured face with thick eyebrows, auburn hair, and a muscular build being naturally inclined to fitness, with constant activity needed to force around her dogs when they are grown to monstrous size. She wears heavy jackets with thick fur collars and/or hoods, heavy boots, and a dollar store Rottweiler mask. Taylor was of the opinion that Rachel was rather butch. Later, she began to wear a mask Skitter made for her that resembled one of her enhanced dogs, Brutus.

In the years since she relocated to Earth Gimel she has put on more muscle mass, height, a tan, toughened feet, and had let her hair grow out longer.

During Golden Morning, she was wearing a black jacket, tank top and pants, with a white fur ruff on her hood.<ref name="29.3">Venom 29.3</ref>

Personality

Rachel's personality is obfuscated by several factors. One is her lack of education that has left her largely illiterate and forced her to adapt to the world in other ways. Another is her relationship with her dogs. Possibly as a consequence of having triggered at a young age,<ref name="2.2"/> her already weak social skills and empathy were overridden refocusing on her power's target: Canines.

As such the bearing of teeth and direct eye contact commonly used in normal human interaction seemed threatening to her.<ref name="I11a"/> While frequently and erroneously labeled a sociopath due to this adaptation, Rachel has gained an unparalleled grasp of dog handling for her age. She can easily distinguish individual dogs of the same breed.<ref name="28.6>Cockroaches 28.6</ref> Rachel continues to struggle to communicate with others but makes an effort nevertheless.

She approaches many of her relationships as a struggle for dominance, though she holds on to her relationships with those who she actually trusts with every fiber of her being. The personality she presents as Rachel and as Bitch are almost indistinguishable. This likely stems from her homeless years where her identity was known to the public and was actively hunted by Protectorate teams.

Rachel was heterosexual,<ref name="SB1">Spacebattles</ref> and, as an adult, was in a casual sexual relationship with Biter. She was happy that he didn't "make it more than it should be".<ref name="e.4">Teneral e.4</ref>

Relationships

Taylor Hebert

Rachel tried to hurt Taylor in her first meeting in an attempt to keep an "outsider" from joining her group. Rachel gained respect for Taylor after she retaliated for this assault.

Following the Undersiders falling out with their employer, and proving that Skitter had not actually betrayed her, for what Rachel thought was the second time, she held Taylors hand was they went to the hospital to check their injuries.She likely referenced Taylor when she said that she could stand one or two of the Undersiders.<ref name="16.13"/>

They ended worm as close friends. With Bitch having a private memorial to her on earth gimel.<ref name="e.4"/>

Lisa Wilbourn

Though Lisa can get along with Rachel it is Taylor that makes the connection that rachels power has changed her mind into focusing on dogs.

Brian Laborn

Rachel respected Brian as the leader, and Grue as leader of the Undersiders. but she did not have much connection with him simply following his orders

Abilities and Powers

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Illustration by sandara on deviantart

Rachel has the ability to empower dogs to vastly increased size - in the order of three thousand or more pounds - enhanced strength, durability, agility, and an asymmetrical covering of bony plates, spikes, exposed muscles, and calcified flesh.<ref name="list">Wildbow's Parahuman List</ref> Her power has affected her ability to socialize with humans, having hardwired it to better understand canines. She was capable of using her power at range, and on multiple dogs at once.<ref name="I11a">Interlude 11a</ref>

Rachel cannot, however, automatically control the dogs that she empowers. She has gotten around this drawback by training her dogs to respond to whistles and specific commands. She has also shown some skill with her power, as she participated in more fights her dogs steadily gained more durability, to the point of being able to take lightning bolts from Behemoth.^{[citation needed]}. Though able to create additional mass from semmingly knowwhere the animals Rachel empores are still bond by conventional physics.<ref name="22.yc1">Comment by Wildbow on Interlude 22.y</ref> Any strength a canine gains from her empowerment is given a disproportionate amount of mass which can end up restricting their movements. As such Rachel needs to be careful how much additional mass she feeds to dogs as they lose agility and other benefits the larger they get.<ref name="e.4"/>

Her power also affects other canines, such as wolves. In fact, her power seems to work far more effectively on wolves than domestic dogs; the transformations of her wolf were sleeker, stronger, more symmetrical, caused less strain to herself and the wolf even when she worked the transformation faster. It is not shown how her power would affect other canines, like coyotes or dingoes. The downside of that, however, is that the wild canines take far more effort to train, not having been domesticated over generations. Rachel kept Bastard, her wolf, with her constantly for the first few years, and even then the training might not have been effective if she hadn't raised it from a puppy.

Using her power tires Rachel out, and the faster she uses it, the faster she tires<ref>Comment by Wildbow on Hive 5.2</ref>. Therefore, she prefers having time to slowly increase her dogs' sizes, rather than having to rush the job. The size increase does not last forever, and when her dogs decrease in size again they shed the extra muscle and bone like an outer coat, meaning the dogs have to be extracted from the mound of flesh. She feels her power as an internal vibration radiating outward, reverberating off her dogs.<ref name="I11a"/>

Her ability also has a restorative effect on it's subject, while it cannot correct old injuries that have already healed. It can deal with cancers, parasites, poisons and other damage and disease, it's use generally increases the overall health of the subject, and will usually heal any damage the dogs take when they are in monstrous form.<ref name="7.3>Buzz 7.3</ref>

At the beginning of Worm, Bitch has three dogs that are trained to obey her while under the effects of her power: Brutus, Judas and Angelica. This number increased exponentially as she gained the resources to rescue, care and train more dogs.

History

Background

Rachel was neglected by her parents until they abandoned her and she was put into the system. She was passed along several foster families. Until, when she was fourteen, her abusive stepmother tried to drown a puppy Rachel had found to punish her and she triggered.<ref name="I11a"/> The puppy wasn't actually a dog.<ref name=WoG1>Comment on Reddit</ref> The empowered puppy then killed her stepmother, maimed her foster siblings and destroyed the house.<ref name="2.2">Insinuation 2.2</ref>

Rather than go to a parahuman detention center and be institutionalized, Rachel ran. Not knowing how to read, interact with people, or having any other skills, she survived by resorting to crime and being the meanest thing around to protect herself and her new family. She survived on her own despite pursuit by the authorities for close to two years.<ref name="2.2"/> Quickly gaining a reputation as a super-villain she was christened Hellhound by the media, though she preferred Bitch. she eventually came to rest in Brockton Bay and volunteered at near by animal shelters to get the chance to work with dogs.<ref name="7.3>>Buzz 7.3</ref> Rachel was eventually approached by a proxy for Coil that said if they worked for them she would be provided with safety and security for herself and her dogs.<ref name="16.13">Monarch 16.13</ref> Joining the Undersiders, Rachel worked with them for a few months engaging in robberies and similar crimes. Rachel would later chase off Spitfire, and try to keep the Undersiders from expanding.<ref name="2.6">Insinuation 2.6</ref>

Story Start

She would fail to do this effectively when they recruited Taylor. She tried to size her up as her own test for the new member.

Post-Leviathan

Rachel allowed Taylor to rejoin the Undersiders despite her betrayal of the group. Later, during the assault on the PRT Headquarters to steal information, Bitch intentionally sabotaged Skitter in hopes of getting her arrested. She failed and after a confrontation allowed skitter back into the group.

Post-Slaughterhouse Nine

Rachel and her group, were attacked by one of the Dragon suits.

Post-Echidna

Rachel had her newest minion send a letter to Weaver, she expresses thanks for all that taylor did for her while saying that while she did not know when she will she her again they should both try to remain alive until they can see each other again.

New Delhi

Meeting Weaver for the first time in Largely part of search and rescue efforts she was

Rachel uses her dogs to carry one end of a chain imbued by Foil's power, cutting through Behemoth's lower leg. She goes back for a second run, only making partway through the leg before the power runs out.

Post-Timeskip

She spent much of her time in the unoccupied earth before coming to see Taylor on her birthday. She would later assist in the collective action against the Slaughterhouse 9000.

Golden Morning

Bitch assisted during the conflict of the Golden Morning; Scion severely injured several of her dogs. Bastard was severely mutated when the heroes tried to save him using a Lab Rat formula while he was under the effects of her power.

Quotes

• "Words" ~ Rachel in response to most platitudes
• "Everyone likes the manipulative assholes after they’ve had a chance to do their manipulating." ~ Rachel to Satyrical

Trivia

• There are inconsistent sources on the age Rachel was when she triggered, twelve or fourteen. It should be pointed out that Rachel herself did not really keep track of her age.

Fanart Gallery

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  Illustration byDrunkfu on deviantart
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  Illustration by Holocene from spacebattles

References

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