Cuff

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<label>Location</label> <label>Teams</label> <label>Previous Team(s)</label> <label>Base of Operations</label></group> <group><header>First Appearance</header> <label>Worm Debut</label> <label>Ward Debut</label></group> </infobox> Ava<ref name="26.b">26.b (Interlude B, Golem part 2)</ref>, known to the public as Cuff, is a member of the Chicago Wards.

Personality

Ava can weaponize "niceness" when needing someone to do things. Naturally nervous and lacking in confidence, she is not well suited to the battles she participates in as a cape. She has been called a coward for her skittish personality, but the memory of her parents keeps her going despite this.<ref name="playtest">Playtest Capes</ref>

Appearance

Ava has platinum blonde hair. As Cuff, she wears a blue-black metal costume that includes a breastplate, heavy gauntlets, boots, and a white-lensed mask etched with a feminine face, and metal bands running down each arm and leg and binding her three braids.<ref name="23.5">Drone 23.5</ref>

Abilities and Powers

Ava is a ferrokinetic, capable of shaping most metals to some degree or another. As a Striker, she can more easily manipulate metal in direct contact with her skin, able to wear metal in a semisolid state as Cuff. She can also manipulate metal for several seconds after it leaves her vicinity, giving her the ability to control metallic objects in flight.<ref name="comment">Cuff is more of an agility/aim sort of metallokinetic. She can hurl metal objects and control their flight to a limited degree (her ability to manipulate these objects lingers for several seconds after they leave her vicinity) and shape metal as it hits an enemy. Throw/swing a metal pipe and have it form a shackle or binding around a foe on impact. Further, so long as she's wearing metal armor or is within arm's reach of metal, she can fling or slide herself using metallokinetic pushes. This can augment ongoing movement. She also has a passive, secondary brute power that enhances her physique slightly and increases her resistance to damage for a little while after she gets damaged (it's part of why she survives Behemoth's lightning).Comment by Wildbow on Reddit</ref>

Ava also has a passive secondary Brute power that slightly enhances her physique and increases her resistance to damage for a little while after being injured.<ref name="comment"/><ref name="playtest"/> She uses her powers to enhance the strength of her gauntleted blows as well as her agility<ref name="list">Wildbow's Parahuman List</ref>, and is even able to deflect metallic objects as they speed toward her.

After the timeskip, Cuff's skill increased to the point of being able to open vault doors with her Striker powers.

History

Background

Ava lost her parent during a plane crash<ref name="playtest"/> in Hawaii caused by an Endbringer.<ref name="24.y">Crushed 24.y (Interlude 2; Aftermath)</ref>

Post-Echidna

Ava saw her first combat when deployed against Behemoth at New Delhi. She performed admirably, although she suffered a burn that would take a good deal of time for her to recover from.

Golden Morning

Ava started dating Golem around the time of the Golden Morning.

She was chosen to be part of Taylor's strike squad for investigating the disappearance of Doormaker by infiltrating the Cauldron Base.

Quotes

• "You’re doing that crazy mastermind thing again," ~ Ava to Weaver<ref name="29.6">Venom 29.6</ref>

References

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