Fleur

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Fleur

</default></title> <image source="Image"></image> <image source="image"></image> <group> <header>Basic information</header> <label>Civilian name</label> <label>Alias(es)</label> <label>Gender</label> <label>Worm start</label><default>Unknown</default> <label>Post-timeskip</label> <label>Ward start</label> </group> <group> <header>Personal Status</header> <label>Status</label> <label>General location</label> <label>Family</label> <label>Relationships</label> <label>Occupation</label> </group> <group> <header>Parahuman Status</header> <label>Legal status</label> <label>Team(s)</label> <label>Previous team(s)</label> <label>Power</label> <label>Known classifications</label> </group> <group> <header>Media</header> <label>First appearance</label> </group> </infobox>Fleur, whose civilian name was Jess<ref name="name"/>, was part of New Wave until her death, which damaged New Wave's hopes of becoming a nation-wide movement.

Appearance

Young and black-haired, she wore a Fleur-de-lis symbol in black on her chest.<ref name="Eclipse5ap">More energy orbs. These ones clung to the road, rolling and folding into themselves.

A young lady walked through the loose minefield she’d created. Black haired, she had a flower symbol in black on her chest, petals stretching up from a bar or hilt.

One of the orbs erupted. It became a column, a wall, an unfolding wave of rippling energy that danced along the road in an unpredictable path. Damsel only narrowly evaded it. - Excerpt from Eclipse x.5</ref>

Abilities and Powers

Fleur could create telekinetically controlled 'orbs' of light that looked like flowers or firecrackers. She could plant these orbs with a touch on surfaces, allowing them to grow over time for larger and more varied effects when Fleur detonates them or an opponent accidentally touches them.<ref name="Eclipse5ap"/>

Her power needed her hands free to use.<ref name="15.x"/>

History

Background

Fleur was a member of the Brockton Bay Brigade. Lady Photon considered her too young to have kids, and in the wrong place in her life. The Brockton Bay Brigade would challenge Marquis numerous times, though Marquis would always win.

Fleur accompanied the Brockton Bay Brigade when they went after Marquis in his home and closed in on him. After Lightstar was wounded, she caught him before he could fall onto Marquis' bone spikes before she tended to his injuries.<ref name="15.x">Interlude 15.x</ref> Fleur later revealed her civilian identity alongside her teammates.

Boston Games

Fleur participated in the Boston games, engaging and nearly overwhelming Damsel of Distress before the villianess escaped.<ref> Eclipse x.5</ref>

Later

While in her civilian identity, Fleur was killed<ref name="WoG3">A short time later, the Brockton Bay Brigade unmasked before the public, advocating capes without masks.
A short time after that, Fleur was murdered in her civilian identity, putting an end to that movement. Lightstar (brother to Carol/Brandish and Sarah/Lady Photon) quit the team. - Wildbow on RPG.net</ref> by a kid looking to earn cred and membership in Empire Eighty-Eight.<ref name="ii8.9murder">I could barely remember Auntie Jess. The memory was occluded by the very clear distinction of a sniveling kid in a courtyard- someone who’d been looking to earn his stripes as a member of our local racist troupe. He’d cried, begged, and asked for his dad to save him when the pronouncement had come from the court. I could remember seeing him and being disgustedly disappointed in him. That someone as awesome as my aunt had been killed by someone as far from awesome as him. - Excerpt from Beacon 8.9</ref> This occurred at the peak of New Wave's rising popularity, at a point when the team and the idea of capes with public identities and full accountability was a topic of nationwide discussion, and was thus a death that received a great deal of media and public attention.<ref name="ii8.9media">The media hounded us, after Fleur died. We had a lot of discussions on how New Wave should handle it. We were disheartened, heartbroken, tired. We decided to let the news cycle roll over while we mourned. It made sense. - Excerpt from Beacon 8.9</ref><ref name="WoG1"/>

After her death, New Wave  lost much of its initial momentum, with her boyfriend Lightstar taking a new identity and leaving New Wave.<ref name="WoG2">Edit by Wildbow
Later updated by Wildbow.</ref>

Trivia

• Fleur means "flower" in French.

References

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