Sidepiece
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<infobox> <title source="name"><default>Sidepiece</default></title>
<image source="Image"></image> <image source="image"></image> <group><header>Basic Information</header> <label>Civilian Name</label> <label>Aliases</label> <label>Gender</label><default>Unknown</default> <label>Death</label> <label>Age</label><default>Unknown</default> <label>Post-timeskip</label> <label>Ward start</label> <label>Relations</label> <label>Family</label></group> <group><header>Professional Status</header> <label>Occupation</label> <label>Classification</label> <label>Unique Features</label> <label>Alignment</label>
<label>Status</label><format><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>Sidepiece is a villainess trying to grab her own bit in a post-armageddon world.
Personality
Sidepiece is chronically unserious, immature and crude. She prefers to think about it as a defiance in the face of the world, but for bystanders it mostly comes off as obnoxious.
She continually uses horrible catch phrases that satirize her powers weaponization of herself. Furthermore, her way of speaking comes across as some twenty-somethings bad attempt to sound like a teenager.<ref name=5.10e1>“You wanna piece of me!?” Sidepiece screamed out the words. She put too much pitch in the higher sounds, and managed to get some vocal fry in the mix.
“You’ve got to stop saying that,” Disjoint said.
[...]
“You want some of this!?” Sidepiece screeched.
[...]
“Backup would be awful nice,” Sidepiece said. She had a really annoying voice. I’d noticed it earlier. A bit of the teenage vocal fry, trying a bit to sound cute, but she wasn’t a teenager and I didn’t think she was cute. - Excerpt from Shadow 5.10</ref> Was generally amiable and could get along with others.<ref name=5.10e3> “I don’t know if you qualify as a friend, when I barely know you, but I don’t mind your company, Sidepiece, and I can respect a lady with the discipline to have a… twelve inch waist?”
She smiled a bit. Her arm sparked, her power ripping between the wound at her forearm and her fingertips. and she stumbled into Disjoint. Frowning, she backed away until she was a short distance from everyone else.
“Sixteen inches, last I checked, but thank you. You’re a dear,” Sidepiece said, ignoring the power misfire and maintaining her intentionally frayed voice as she feigned higher class. - Excerpt from Shadow 5.10</ref> She finds heroes annoying, and prefers to just blow stuff up to complete her bingo sheet. (She has an organ explosion bingo sheet.)<ref>“Holy shit, heroes are annoying,” Sidepiece said. “Let’s go. I’ve got a bingo sheet to fill out, and I’ve gotta land a direct hit with a bit of uterus or set off a combo explosion with a spleen toss if I want to clear a row.” - Excerpt from Shadow 5.11</ref>
There is no anesthetizing effects in her power, which can be somewhat incapacitating to Sidepiece. This, however, does not stop her from enthusiastically running into the fray.
Relationships
She is bisexual<ref>Ascimator:That would be one explicitly bi person, as in someone who stated out loud that they like not just one but both sexes. Those who have not at any point in text stated anything about their preference might be straight, gay, bi, ace or whatever.
There is also at least one other explicitly bi character I can name off the top of my head, which is Sidepiece.
Wildbow: Moose as well -Comment by Wildbow</ref> and contrary.
Disjoint
The two were long-term sweethearts, and one of the most serious relationships Sidepiece has ever had. Though Sidepiece is unsure, that DJ can keep up with her long term.<ref>Interlude 11.a II</ref>
Ashley Stillons
They became friendly when Ashley was inflitrating the villains at Hollow Point, hitting it off during the Assault on the Fallen Compound.<ref name=5.10e3/> Sidepiece somewhat admires Swansong, though she still thinks of her Damsel, and considers her a friend material, but only after getting her from the high horse.<ref>Interlude 11.a II</ref>
As an example she will complement her and insult her within the same conversation.<ref>“Fuck you,” Sidepiece said, turning to Swansong. “The short hair looks good, hon, but you looked way better in black and fuck you.”
“The white is growing on me,” Ashley said.
“Is the ‘fuck you’ growing on you too? Go fuck yourself with the business end of a broken bottle, yeah?” Sidepiece retorted. - Excerpt from Polarize 10.9</ref>
Breakthrough
She was generally antagonistic towards the members of Breakthrough. Sidepiece referred to Tress as a cyborg when she's clearly not a cyborg, along with targeted criticisms of Lookout for being a orwellian voyeur and Precipice to being a repentant murderer. <ref>“Oh fuck off, you sanctimonious cyborg,” Sidepiece said.
“Clearly not a cyborg,” Damsel said. [...] - Excerpt from Polarize 10.9</ref> In short she's terrible.
Appearance
Thinks fem-phantom of the opera is a legitimate costume choice, what with mask and black eye makeup.<ref name=5.10e2>She had hair over one side of her face, but she didn’t take very good care of it, and a mask in the same cut as the phantom of the opera one, albeit cruder, covered part of her face. Black makeup filled her lower eye socket and distorted the impression of her eyeshape. - Excerpt from Shadow 5.10</ref> she kept to this look even when she updated her <ref name=mask>She put on her mask, a new one that had been provided by Love Lost. It was in the shape of a skull, but limited to a cut that only covered the middle third of her face. The mask attached with glue and stayed stuck where it was. A mouth portion covered the portion of her face between lips and chin. The teeth of the mask were modified, as were the shapes of the eye sockets, but it worked.
Damsel had fucked up and bailed when it mattered, but she’d had other things on point. Sidepiece had a compact filled with black grease paint. With her thumbs, she applied it to upper and lower lids, with a little curl up at the edges, like exaggerated eyelashes. Nothing so delicate as Damsel had been, but Sidepiece didn’t consider herself delicate. - Excerpt from Interlude 11.a II</ref>
What really draws ones attention is the commonly gaping wounds of her torso, which is unusually thin,<ref name=5.10e3/> one that would make a rotting corpse envious, if that were possible.<ref name="5.4 e1"/>
Abilities and Powers
She can tear any piece of her torso<ref>Evirua: Does Sidepiece throw eyeballs
Ridpiece: WHY WOULD YOU GIVE HIM THE OPTION
Evirua: I'm just a newbie I don't know what I'm saying
Evirua: Please, guidance and patience
Evirua: 3:)
ktgrey: That's the wrong way to deal with Ridtoms
DoubleFried: please continue what you're doing Evirua
Wildbow: She's midsection-focused. Spleen, bits of stomach, ovary... - Comment by Wildbow on IRC</ref> off and use it as a projectile.<ref name="5.4 e1">Sidepiece hurled something at me, and it exploded against the wall, a foot from my head. I glanced at her, saw her tear one of her exaggerated ribs out from beneath a cutoff t-shirt with so much cut off from the bottom it was indecent, above a stomach that looked like a zombie’s, with flesh bloody, raw and open where literal pounds of flesh had been torn away. The spine and area around it were intact, as was the navel and stomach on the opposite side, but the sides were completely gone.
[...]
“Don’t fucking hit me, ‘piece!” Nailbiter screeched the words behind me, but the manner of speaking was even worse, as her teeth were retracting. - Shadow 5.5</ref> Her 'ammo' is dependent on the amount she can tear from her stomach and how quickly she can tear the tissue away.<ref>Sidepiece, too, clawed her navel away from her midsection in an effort that took a second tug to separate some strings of still-connected skin, and then hurled that flesh to strike the ground a moment before the biker landed. It detonated, and the biker bounced to the ground ten feet from their vehicle. - Excerpt from Shadow 5.9</ref> Anything in her torso is fair game, bones, skins, organs, everything. Regeneration rates and effects are dependent on the tissue type, they no not follow the law of conversion of mass.<ref name=Organs>With a practiced throwing motion, she cast the gallbladder out and over the employee’s head.
It exploded outward without much noise, but with a visible puff of smoke and a spray of fluid, with a volume far exceeding what the tiny organ should have held within it spreading out over pavement and ice.
[...]
Aiming wasn’t a guarantee, but her throwing arm was well practiced.
[...]
Even on an ordinary day, most of her organs had another effect. The blood they shed and the bits of flesh they carved out were activated, much like her kidney had been. - Excerpt from Interlude 11.a II</ref>
| Organ | Effect |
|---|---|
| Ovary | Fragmentation effect |
| Rib | Boomerang |
| Gallbladder | Quiet detonation leaving behind a puddle of caustic acid.<ref>“Listen carefully,” Sidepiece said. “That acid’s nothing compared to what I can do to you if I hurl something bigger at you. And I will. I’ll throw something at you that will make you a greasy smear.- Excerpt from Interlude 11.a II</ref> |
| Kidney | Noxious napalm-like stink sludge, alternatively huge cluster bombs<ref name=Kidney>She lobbed it, and her timing was perfect, because it went off while over the heads of the crowd. On any ordinary day, the kidneys produced a chemical blast, concussive, congealed, and activated- like napalm with something more noxious instead of fire. That was on an ordinary day. Her kidneys were packed with kidney stones, which would have better been described as sea urchins that chose to dwell in the kidneys. Her power translated that quality into a kind of aggressive shrapnel. Ten people were cut down. Three of them hadn’t even been in the radius of the initial detonation. - Excerpt from Interlude 11.a II</ref> |
| Spinal sheath | Concussive detonation, great for enclosed spaces.<ref name=Sheath>“I want a lawyer before we go any further,” Sidepiece said. “Oh wait, they’re all dead. The fucking world ended. So let us fucking have our fun and kick some ass and go focus on the stuff that actually matters.” “You’ve killed people,” Capricorn said. “Allegedly. And in this alleged situation I might have tossed a bit of spinal sheath into a moving vehicle and allegedly killed a bunch of people who got high off of my drugs that I’d already paid for. They tried to give me seven tenths of what I ordered and tried to pass it off as all the tenths. Allegedly. They didn’t deserve to draw breath.” “I didn’t think you used,” Swansong said. “Only a bit, and never my own supply. But I’ll sell if people want. It’s more samaritan shit than what you fucks are pulling right now. Letting some poor, hurting people numb the pain for a while.” “Allegedly,” Disjoint said. “Allegedly,” Sidepiece added. - Excerpt from Polarize 10.9</ref> |
Sidepiece also has slightly enhanced strength in her hands and forearms, to help with the tearing and throwing,<ref>Interlude 11.a II</ref> she has a lot pf experience with the throwing.<ref name=Organs/>
She may also be resistant to her own explosions.<ref>“Cease,” Valefor called out.
Both Nailbiter and Sidepiece were affected.
Nailbiter stopped, then withdrew her fingers. Breathing hard, Sidepiece held a chunk of what might have been appendix or ovary in her hand, blood dripping freely down her arm and off of her elbow. More blood flowed from the fresh injury in the roadkill mess that was her gut, over her pelvis and the rise of her low-rise jeans, and splattered onto her sneaker.
She dropped the bit at her feet. It detonated, and she was flung to one side. - Excerpt from Shadow 5.10</ref>
Equipment
With her consistantly concave midsection she can store items without interrupting her profile.<ref>Interlude 11.a II</ref>
History
Background
Presumably a natural trigger. Had a history of drug use, drug selling, and murder.<ref name=Sheath/>
Early-Ward
Sidepiece settled in Hollow Point as part of Beast of Burden's "hurter" faction. She participated in the raid on the Fallen compound.
When Beast of Burden attacked Damsel of Distress for up staging him Sidepiece tried to defend Damsel right before the blackclad villainess killed BoB.<ref>Shadow 5.10</ref> SP's main concern was that she had not been monetarily remuniated before he was killed.<ref>Shadow 5.11</ref>
Post-Fallen Fall
With BoB dead Sidepiece joined up with Love Lost's group.
Post-Goddess' Takeover
When Breakthrough infiltrated the Lyme Center to apprehend Love Lost's gang, Sidepiece and Disjoint showed up as reinforcement, but were captured by Shortcut and Spright of Advance Guard.<ref>Polarize 10.8</ref> They were interrogated, but were not imprisoned due to a lack of prison space.<ref>Polarize 10.9</ref>
She and Disjoint spied on Breakthrough's meeting with the Undersiders, had a run-in with the patrol block, and reported back to Love Lost. Sidepiece remained suspicious of Cradle.<ref>Interlude 11.a II</ref>
During ambush on Tattletale-led group she was paralyzed by Juliette Vasil and shoved into flames from her own projectile by Darlene Vasil.<ref>Interlude 11.c II</ref>
Post-Time Bubble Pop
She was not mentioned among captured villains, and likely disappeared alongside Nailbiter.
Trivia
- Side piece can be slang for a low end mistress.
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References
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