Flechette

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<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>

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<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> Lily, also know as Flechette, was a member of the New York Wards. Following Leviathan's attack on Brockton Bay, she was transferred to the Brockton Bay Wards. She eventually left the Brockton Bay Wards and joined the Undersiders under the codename Foil.

Personality

She initially hoped she could become friends with Shadow Stalker, the only other female Ward her age in Brockton Bay. She noted that her work would "drain the life out of her if she had no friends to do it with". However, she was shocked by how comfortable with violence Shadow Stalker was.

She kept to an exercise regimen, and spend four nights a week in the gym.

Lily was a lesbian, and was immediately attracted to Parian when they met. She was willing to risk getting into trouble with the Wards in order to befriend her.<ref name="9.2"/>

Appearance and Costume

Lily is described as a Japanese-American girl, of above average height.<ref>Comment by Wildbow on Spacebattles</ref>

<tabber>As Flechette= As Flechette, she wore a skintight,<ref name="Extermination">Parian was rescued by one of the out-of-town Wards, a girl in a skintight costume with a visor covering her eyes, nose and ears, with a quiver of what looked like giant needles and a massive crossbow.

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"Flechette! I'm getting closer!" Shadow Stalker called out, looking back at her new partner. "Careful!" the crossbow-girl – Flechette, I took it – replied, loading another shot. </ref> deep purple^{[citation needed]} costume with a visor,<ref name="Extermination"/> quiver, and narrow platinum-white armor panels that flared out at the upper edges and tapered at the bottom - mimicking the vague shape of an arrow or darts.^{[citation needed]} Her costume included metal cleats on her shoes, that could dig into the environment under the influence of her power, or help her grasp the chains her arbalest launched.<ref name="9.2"/>

She carried a Tinker-made arbalest to launch needles three feet long – needles that carry the effects of her power, ignore gravity, and benefited from her secondary power of enhanced sense of angles and timing. The arbalest produced an unlimited supply of sturdy chain, and her needles remained fused in place where they hit, allowing her to use it as a grappling hook as well as a weapon. She also carried nine-inch throwing darts, her primary weapon before she acquired the arbalest.<ref name="9.2"/>

|-|As Foil= After Lily became Foil, she donned a black costume with asymmetrical belts, boots, armor and gloves. She also wore a black opaque mask with silver trim at the edges. As a weapon, she used thrown blades augmented with a rapier<ref name="26.b">Interlude 26b</ref>, the same tools she originally used when she first discovered her powers.<ref name="9.2">Sentinel 9.2</ref> </tabber>

Powers and Abilities

Lily has the ability to temporarily imbue nonliving material with the power to ignore select laws of physics. Most notably, they could punch through anything.<ref name="12.6c1">Comment by Wildbow in Plague 12.6</ref> She is not restricted to her hand when she uses this power. If her power wore off while an object was moving through another, it would be stuck in place. She could use her ability on her costume to reduce the effects of friction or make her shoes bite into surfaces.<ref name="9.2"/>

Scion described her power as "charging objects with energy [...] the small pieces of alloyed metal unfolded, taking shape in not just this world, but all realities, at the same space and time, bristling with an effect that would sever their attachment to most physical laws."<ref name="I26">Interlude 26</ref> Although this is widely interpreted to mean that they extend into every Alternate Earth, this may not be the case.<ref>Discussion on Reddit featuring Wildbow</ref>

Her power is effective against intangible abilities.^{[citation needed]}

Lily also has an intuitive understanding of angles, trajectories and an enhanced sense of timing that she uses for aiming and applying her power.<ref name="9.2"/> It also gave her a defensive advantage being able to dodge blows easily and even catch arrows out of the air.<ref name="I21c1">Comment by Wildbow on Interlude 21</ref>

Foil could have potentially destroyed Behemoth's core when it was exposed.<ref>Reply by Wildbow on Reddit</ref> However, once the sheer amount of damage she could do to Endbringers was realized after the Battle against Behemoth, the Endbringers changed their tactics.<ref name="R1"/>

Using her power on Chevalier's sword would have broken it.<ref name="R1">Comment by Wildbow on Reddit</ref> It caused the Siberian to flicker and vanish on contact.<ref name="26.b"/>

The Entities referred to her power as "Sting". It was originally used for fighting other Entities.<ref name="I26">Interlude 26</ref> They hadn't found a way to improve it for aeons, but it was still useful to see how other powers interacted with it.<ref>Wildbow on Spacebattles</ref>

History

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Background

She triggered 3 years prior to the start of Worm, as part of a group trigger in New York. One of her old nemeses, March, was another part of that group trigger.<ref name="Wog1">Wildbow, archived on Spacebattles</ref><ref>Sentinel 9.3</ref>