Narwhal

<infobox> <title source="name"><default>Narwhal</default></title>

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Alive

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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> Narwhal is the head of the Guild and the leader of the Protectorate's Toronto branch.<ref name="Cast1">Narwhal – Head of the Guild and the Protectorate’s Toronto branch. A masterful forcefield user who can create forcefields that intersect (and thus cut) the bodies of nearby opponents. Appears nude, but covers herself in an intricate carpet of tiny forcefields, with a long horn of the same material. - Cast (spoiler free)</ref><ref name="Cast2">Narwhal – Leader of both ‘The Guild’ and of the Protectorate station in Toronto, Ontario. Narwhal is an unparalleled wielder of forcefields. - Cast (in depth)</ref>

Appearance

Narwhal is seven feet tall with long, glossy, pale hair. She uses her power to create a single, three-foot horn on her forehead and coat her skin with fine crystalline scales.<ref name="8.1">Extermination 8.1</ref>

After the timeskip her look had been redesigned somewhat, with her horn now curving backward over the top of her head.<ref name="28.2">Cockroaches 28.2</ref>

Abilities and Powers

Narwhal creates crystalline force-fields and can move them at high velocities. She is able to, if the target is within fifty feet of her, create a forcefield that bisects part of the target's body, such as an appendage or even cleave through the upper thorax.<ref name ="24.3C1">Narwhal was one of the named examples. Despite people’s impressions, she didn’t demonstrate this against Leviathan.

She creates crystalline forcefields and can move them at high velocities. She can also, if you’re within fifty feet of her, create a forcefield that bisects part of your body. Bling, you’re missing an arm. Bling, you’re missing an upper body. - Comment by Wildbow on Prey 14.3</ref>

She also has much finer control, able to use her force fields almost in lieu of telekinesis to manipulate small objects or similar.<ref name="28.2"/>

Narwhal can bypass the Manton effect as a result of her second trigger. Prior to that, she was unable to create force-fields that bisected people.<ref>“It’s not like there isn’t precedent for this.  We know for a fact that some capes who were once held back by the Manton effect have figured out a way around it, or past it.  Narwhal being the most obvious case.” - Excerpt fromInterlude 5</ref>

History

Background

Triggered. And then triggered again. Joined the then failed guild and was responsible for it being revamped into the elite organization it is today.^{[citation needed]}

Story Start

After Armsmaster and Dragon's program predicted that Leviathan would attack Brockton Bay, Narwhal traveled to the Protectorate E.N.E.'s base. She listened as Legend addressed them with a pre-battle speech.<ref name="8.1">Extermination 8.1</ref>

Narwhal then received an armband from the Brockton Bay Wards. When the ceiling started to cave in, Narwhal flicked two fingers towards the ceiling and shored it up with forcefields. She was later teleported out of the building by Strider.<ref name="8.2">Extermination 8.2</ref>

Narwhal later manifested a dozen forcefields and flicked them towards Leviathan. She redirected the forcefields that glanced off Leviathan's skin; having them press against the edges of his body and get in the way of his legs moving. After the dumpster that Ballistic launched at Leviathan forced him backwards, Narwhal sent another forcefield into Leviathan's neck.

Moments later, Narwhal was alerted to an approaching tidal wave by her armband. She created forcefields in-between the defending capes and Leviathan before it hit. She was listed amongst the losses after the final tidal wave hit,<ref name="8.3">Extermination 8.3</ref> this was later shown to be the casualties list as her name did not appear on the Brockton Bay Memorial.

Post-Timeskip

She recovered and was seen two years later,<ref name="26.2">Sting 26.2</ref> and was active during Golden Morning.<ref name="28.2"/>

Trivia

• One common misconception is that Narwhal was able to create her force fields inside Leviathan's body, and by extension any Endbringer's body, but this wasn't the case.<ref name ="24.3C1"/>
• Narwhal took book recommendations from people, commenting that she liked Weaver's recommendation to her.<ref name="28.2"/>
• A common fanon joke is that she uses her forcefields to substitute clothes
• Narwhal is considered one of the top heroes in the protectorate.<ref name="SBWoh"> Parahumans IRC said:
  Wildbow: Armsmaster appears in the posters and such of the top Protectorate heroes.
  Wildbow:When they do the image of everyone standing in a 'v' formation
  Parahumans IRC said:
  Wildbow: Nah. Legend in front, Alex and Eidolon to the left and right, respectively. Then Myrddin, Chev, Cinereal, Narwhal, Rime, Exalt, Armsmaster, Dragon suit silhouette in the background, wings echoing the wings of the PRT logo over their heads. -

IRC conversation archived on Spacebattles</ref>

References

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