Glaistig Uaine
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Ciara, known as Glaistig Uaine, The Faerie Queen and later Valkyrie is a former Birdcage cell block leader.
Personality
Glaistig Uaine sees herself as a fairy queen, and believes parahumans and powers to be the result of the Fey.
Appearance
Glaistig Uaine chooses to remain a child. She speaks with a chorus of dozens of broken voices.<ref name="I16">Interlude 16</ref>
Abilities and Powers
She can draw in the essence of recently dead parahumans she has come in contact with and store it within herself. At any one time, she can have two to four of the parahumans she has ‘claimed’ manifest as ghostly specters, complete with the ability to physically affect the world and use their powers.<ref name="cast">Cast Page (In-Depth)</ref><ref name="I27">Interlude 27</ref><ref name="I16">Interlude 16</ref><ref name="27.3">[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/22/extinction-27-4/
Extinction 27.4]</ref><ref name="30.2">[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/speck-30-2/ Speck 30.2]</ref> She had to banish one of her active spirits in order to claim another.<ref name="I27">Interlude 27</ref>
Capes she manifests are under her complete control, and appear as ghostly duplicates of their former selves, often with exaggerated features. Their powers, however, are undiminished. They can't talk, but she claims to be able to communicate with them.<ref name="27.4"> Extinction 27.4</ref> She was able to escape Khepri's control by forcing her to control one of her spirits instead of herself.<ref name ="30.6">Speck 30.6</ref><ref name="30.7"> Speck 30.7</ref> They slowly regenerated when injured in a fight.<ref name="E.1">Teneral e.1</ref> She feeds her active projections with power from dormant ones.<ref name="I16"/>
She believed that she could pass on her power to another person.<ref name="27.5">Extinction 27.5</ref>
She possess a secondary power, much like Chevalier's, that allows her to recognize the carriers of other important shards, like the 'Queen Administrator' shard which is attached to Taylor. She could see phantom images surrounding the empowered if she allowed herself too, much like Chevalier's power or her own distorted phantoms.<ref name="E.1">Teneral e.1</ref>
By the end of Worm, she has absorbed countless capes, including Eidolon. Even before his death, Eidolon speculated that she had grown to surpass him in power.<ref name="I27">Interlude 27</ref>
History
Background
When Glaistig Uaine's ability to harvest and use the powers of any recently deceased parahuman she had come in contact with became known, it evoked panic among the cape community. Multiple teams went after her, and failed. This resulted in thirty two capes being killed and their powers being claimed by Glaistig Uaine. An even greater force of fifty parahumans were sent after her. The entire force ended up retreating, thirteen of them being killed and their powers added to Glaistig Uaine's growing collection.<ref name="27.3">Extinction 27.3</ref>
Glaistig Uaine's most notable accomplishment at the time was permanently killing Gray Boy, something which was thought to be impossible due to his power resurrecting him whenever he died. Glaistig's ability to steal the powers of the recently deceased stopped Gray Boy from resurrecting. After this she attacked the King's Men and killed Athrwys, before turning herself in to the authorities. She made a "deal" with the PRT, agreeing to stay in the Birdcage for three hundred years in exchange for the powers of any of her fellow inmates that ended up dying during her stay.<ref name="I27">Interlude 27</ref> The entire sequence of events, from her killing of Gray Boy to her agreeing to stay in the Birdcage, was orchestrated by Contessa to allow Cauldron to eliminate Gray Boy while still keeping his power in play for use against their true enemy.
Post-Slaughterhouse Nine
Glaistig Uaine welcomed Amelia to the bird-cage. She was later shown having conversations with Eidolon about parahuman shards and Scion. She spoke cryptically and indicated that she intended for Scion to win the coming conflict. She referred to Eidolon as the "High Priest".
Golden Morning
Glastaig Uaine ended up helping in the fight against Scion. Liberal use of Gray Boy's power allowed her to effectively stall him, as every time Scion was trapped in a time loop he had to expend effort to break free. A major contribution to the battle was her showing Eidolon that he could drain the energy of other parahuman's shards to re-charge his own powers, allowing him to use powers whose "dead" shards had long since run out of energy. Most notably, it allowed him to use the Matter Eraser, a power that had been unavailable to him since before the emergence of Behemoth, and was so effective against Scion that he determined that using his own version of the Path to Victory was a more energy-efficient way to defeat Eidolon than overpowering him, even though the energy requirements of his version of Path to Victory was apparently so staggering that this single use of it would cost Scion a thousand years of his lifespan.
Eidolon's death at Scion's hands allowed her to harvest his High Priest shard, making her the most powerful parahuman in history. She was shown to be able to resist being mastered by Khepri, whose brain at the time was in the process of melding with the Queen Administrator shard, making Khepri something more akin to a nascent Entity than a parahuman. She accomplished this by shunting Khepri's control from herself to one of her conjured parahuman ghosts. After Khepri's defeat of Scion, Glaistig Uaine was able to convince her to leave the dimension without incident, giving Contessa the opportunity to separate the connection between Khepri's brain and the Queen Administrator shard and preventing any possibility of it forming a new Entity out of Scion's and Eden's shards.
Following the Golden Morning, Glaistig Uaine spoke with Dr. Jessica Yamada. She assumed that she wasn't doing herself any favors by remaining silent, that Dr. Yamada was to judge her, and that silence was damning. She mentioned how she had heard a man speak to refugees and alluded that it was what the man didn't say that mattered. Dr. Yamada said that it was an interesting subject before saying that she thought Glaistig Uaine was dodging the real subject.
Glaistig Uaine expressed indignation over that and, after hearing Dr. Yamada tell her she was still human, told her that she would have once killed her for saying that. Dr. Yamada told her that she was acting as if she expected her to read something in her silence - telling her that they needed words to punctuate it. Reluctantly, Glaistig Uaine conceded the point. Dr. Yamada told her that what they did was up to her before mentioning how some of her patients enjoyed verbal jousting and how the debate gave them their power back. Glaistig Uaine agreed, saying that parahumans tended towards conflict, before stating that she wasn't prone to conflict.
Glaistig Uaine said that her Shard's duty was towards the end of the Cycle and then explained a little bit about it when Dr. Yamada asked. Then, when Dr. Yamada didn't speak, she thought how it was an invitation for her to speak. She reached for her drink and summoned Põletama to heat it. Dr. Yamada spoke up, saying that Glaistig Uaine had been tempted to say that she instinctively knew who she was. She listened as Dr. Yamada told her that she seemed to know who or what she was and that she had changed her mind. Dr. Yamada asked if she considered herself a person and then asked how she saw herself.
Glaistig Uaine told her that she was one of the strongest people on the planet and a murderer. When Dr. Yamada asked for clarification, asking her is she was one who has murdered, or one who murders, she said that it was the same thing and that people didn't let people leave it behind them. She then told Dr. Yamada that they would not forgive a lunatic murderer and said that she had once been Scion's greatest ally.
When Dr. Yamada asked why she hadn't continued helping Scion, Glaistig Uaine asked her if she knew she could kill anyone if she chose to do so. After hearing Dr. Yamada's response, she told her that she was pretending indifference before Dr. Yamada told her that she wasn't. She then went on to say that she was avoiding a subject that she had raised. Glaistig Uaine stood and said that she was irritated before summoning two new ghosts. Still, Dr. Yamada continued - mentioning how she hadn't answered her when she asked for her name and that something seemed to have changed.
Glaistig Uaine asked Dr. Yamada if she had any preference in how she would like to die and how, if she begged for mercy, she would spare others. Dr. Yamada told her that it was okay for her to say she didn't know the answer and that they could find it together, calling her civilian name. Glaistig Uaine stilled, imagining various ways to kill Dr. Yamada, before saying that no one had called her that for a long time. Dr. Yamada said that it was in her records and that she needed to hear her response before she spoke and how she didn't want her to 'anchor' on anything she said. Glaistig Uaine asked Dr. Yamada is she presumed to know her better than she did before Dr. Yamada told her that they could discuss that later, after she gave her thoughts on what happened.
Dr. Yamada interrupted Glaistig Uaine when she went to speak, asking her to sit down, and how they both knew that she could kill her at any moment. When Dr. Yamada trailed off, Glaistig Uaine admitted that it was vulgar for her current shadows to be present and then replaced them with ones less intimidating. She then told Dr. Yamada how Scion had broke and how she could have stepped in, but she didn't and she didn't know why. Dr. Yamada suggested that she had seen Scion's flaws and that, in that moment, she had decided to rebel against him.
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