Parian
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Parian is a Rogue operating in Brockton Bay. In the aftermath of the Slaughterhouse Nine's attack, she ends up striking a deal with the Undersiders in which she holds territory in the city without officially joining the group
Background:
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.
Appearance:
Parian wears a costume reminiscent of a Victorian-style porcelain doll, with golden curls. Underneath the costume, she stands just over five feet tall and is of obvious Middle-Eastern descent, with dark skin, full lips, and large, dark eyes. After joining the Undersiders, she changes her dress from white to black in order to appear more intimidating.
Abilities and Powers:
Parian has the ability to control cloth and threads. As a Rogue, she used her powers for tasks as animating mascots for promotional events and making clothes. Until the fight against Leviathan, she hadn't used her powers offensively.
History:
When the people she was offering protection to were surgically altered by Bonesaw to look like the members of the Slaughterhouse 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 by Flechette, who changed her name to Foil and became Parian's lieutenant and lover.
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.
- Parian appeared in earlier drafts of Worm under the name 'Doll'.