Parian
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Parian is a parahuman who turned to cape life as an escape from the stress of her studies. She used to study Engineering until a fellow student unwittingly pressured her heavily and she felt she could only escape him by changing to study Fashion instead.
Her goal before the arrival of the Slaughterhouse Nine was to eventually unmask and become a fashion designer. However, when the people she was offering protection to were surgically altered by Bonesaw to look like the members of the Nine, she took up Skitter's offer to join the Undersiders in order to afford good doctors to reverse the plastic surgery.
She was later joined there by Flechette , who changed her name to Foil and became Parian's lieutenant and lover.
Powers
Parian has a form of telekinesis that works best on light, porous materials such as cloth. She describes the process of creating cloth animals (her standard use of her powers) as forming shells full of telekinesis that are difficult to control precisely.
She carries cloth around to use as a base for her powers, but takes a little while to prepare for any conflict.
Trivia
- Parian's costume hid her ethnicity because when she still had intentions of unmasking, she wanted to provoke a debate about assumptions made about capes when you couldn't tell their skin tone.
- She has few ties to her family and no non-cape friends (at least it appears that way in her interlude).
- Parian appeared in earlier drafts of Worm under the name 'Doll'.