Finale

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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>Finale is young woman trying to be a hero with her friends, the Major Malfunctions.

Personality

Finale acts younger than she is; Withdrawal said that she had been immature when they were young, and didn't grow up with the rest of them. Victoria raised the possibility that this was case of a power influencing its host mentally, but was wary about putting all the blame on the power.<ref name="8.8 1" /> She seemed to have some difficulty understanding certain things, and Withdrawal offered to explain anything she didn't.<ref name="8.8 2">“Cary’s smart like that,” Finale said. She walked over to Caryatid, stepping on a rigid crag of dress hem to get close enough to give her teammate a one-armed hug.

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“If you’re confused about any of it, I’ll explain after,” Withdrawal said, again, his voice muffled slightly by his mask.

“I think I got it,” Finale said, with a smile. She gave Caryatid another hug before hopping down. Behind her, her teammate resumed a more mortal form, everything about her relaxing and transitioning to its regular variant. - Excerpt from Beacon 8.8</ref> Finale seemed to look up to her teammates, and did not think very highly of herself.<ref name="8.8 2" /><ref>“I don’t even know what we’d do with a favor,” he said. “Just give us a chance to get put on the map. We’ll show the world how awesome Finale is.”

“No, don’t.” Finale was suddenly self conscious. “I’m lame and stupid.”

“No,” Caryatid said. “No, Finale.”

“But I am.”

“We’ll talk it out,” Caryatid said, gentle and firm. “But we’ll do it away from company. If you’ll excuse us?” - Excerpt from Beacon 8.8</ref> She gets annoyed when things aren't done in a specific order.<ref> - Excerpt from Gleaming 9.4</ref>

When using her power she tends to speak gimmick sound effects, her power provides more then enough sound.<ref name=9.4e3/> Similarly she has a childish enthusiasm for things.<ref name=9.4e2>“How was your stakeout?” I murmured, while Byron stepped a bit away, plugging a jack into his phone.

“Cold, wet, strangely exciting for there being so little happening for hours. We kept each other company.” Withdrawal said. “Listened to music when we weren’t watching out.”

“Withdrawal has recordings of a really funny radio musical,” Finale said, suddenly effuse, just over the mention of this thing she’d enjoyed. I smiled a bit, seeing it. - Excerpt from Gleaming 9.4</ref>

Relationships

The Major Malfunctions

Her family

Appearance

Finale wears a costume that looks like it was adopted from a marching band, comprised of a glittery baby blue military uniform and a flat-top cap. She wore a simple domino mask, and had her reddish-brown hair free. In addition, she wore stylized music notes on the front of her top and her cap.<ref>The third member of the group, at least, seemed a little bit more sane. She wore a flat-top cap with a brim that overshadowed a simple domino mask, her auburn hair was wild, and her costume was a cute variation on a military outfit, all in glittery baby blue and a fabric with some stretch. I suspected it was something like a dance uniform for a particular number or event that had then been claimed from thrift. A stylized music note sat on her breast and the front of her cap where badges or medals might otherwise be.

Which wasn’t to say it wasn’t cute or cohesive. These guys had apparently spent years without much luck on the villain hunting front, but they’d at least spent the time to find costumes that were pretty darn good for the slapdash sort. That her costume was simple and effective was a point for her, in particular. - Excerpt from Beacon 8.8</ref>

Abilities and Powers

Finale creates sonic orbs that concussive detonation when they connect. The more she uses them the stronger her blasts become.<ref name=9.4e3>“Bam. Bam. Bambam, zaap!”

Finale. She used her blaster power to less effect than even the tinker-one ray guns and rifles. The air distorted in front of her hands every time she fired- with more distortion each time. The ‘zap’ was characterized by a distant sound of a whipcrack or thunder. Her mouth moved and she made sounds as she used her abilities, even though there should have been zero need. It put me in mind of people who could read, but who moved their lips as they did.
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Finale dropped as she took a shot.

“I’m okay!” she shouted, as she got back to her feet. She swung her arm like she was throwing a fastball, then threw a sphere of distorted air. - Excerpt from Gleaming 9.4</ref> She can use the power by pointing and shooting or with throwing motions.

She may have some innate durability.<ref name=9.4e3/>

History

Background

Like her teammates Caryatid and Withdrawal, she had her trigger event as a child, a year later than the others. She eventually got in touch with her friends online.<ref name="8.8 1">We got in touch online. All of us got our powers young- it was Caryatid and me at first. Finale a year later. We had different names then, obviously,” Withdrawal said.

“Yeah.”

“We were fine, got along great, she was a bit immature when we were ten, eleven, twelve, but we grew up and she… didn’t. Not mentally.”

“Because of her power?”

He was startled by that, and the sudden shift in position forced one of his legs to take on additional strain. It wobbled precariously, metal straining on each flex to the extent that I could hear it creak and pop.

“That’s a thing?” he asked, once he’d found his stability.

Geez. These guys needed to take a powers 101 class.

“Could be,” I said. “I guess it doesn’t make sense as a thing powers would do. Powers tend to steer clear of the suicidal, the helpless, the invalid, or people who are limited. I wouldn’t rule it out one hundred percent, but I wouldn’t blame the power either.” - Excerpt from Beacon 8.8</ref> She dropped out of school to become a hero, and wandered the Midwest with her team for around four years before Gold Morning, though without much success.<ref name="8.8 3">A painfully slow search online brought up some images of kid heroes with terrible costumes. They’d been small timers before Gold Morning, small town ‘heroes’ who’d rotated between three middle-of-nowhere towns in North Dakota looking for villains or criminals. Four years of activity and they hadn’t found any.

It would have been easy to dismiss them, or to disparage them. They had dropped out of school to be heroes and had no wins. The lack of education was clear in the spelling errors. It worried me a bit that their referral had come from ‘Super Magic Dream Parade’, the loopy team from Boston, who had apparently heard about what we were doing and passed on word. - Excerpt from Beacon 8.8</ref>

Gold Morning

Finale survived, but was presumably forcibly recruited like everyone else to end it.

Post-Fallen fall

The Major Malfunctions had settled near a tent city following Gold Morning.<ref>My destination was a tent city. Most in the tent cities had already departed for more secure accommodations, but new people were coming in regularly, and there was a stubborn holdout. As I flew over, I could see the efforts that were being made to patch the problem. Rigid black sheets of insulation were being laid against the sides of tents with yellow fabric, tents were being moved together and connected, and equipment was being brought in- truckloads of what might have been heaters or furnaces. - Excerpt from Beacon 8.8</ref> When Breakthrough contacted the team and offered them to work within their network of hero teams, Finale was present at their in-person meeting with Victoria.<ref name="8.8 3" />

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