Lisa Wilbourn
<infobox> <title source="name"><default>Lisa Wilbourn</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> Lisa Wilbourn (born Sarah Livsey), also known as Tattletale, is a member of the Undersiders.
Personality
Lisa can be perceived as being annoyingly knowledgeable and arrogant by those around her. She values her intelligence and perceives any threat to that as a challenge. She draws a large amount of entertainment from "messing" with people. She also uses this aspect of her personality to mess with people to get the target to reveal more about themselves through disrespectful actions and similar. At the heart she's a warm person, related to her guilt over her brother's suicide. This is also what led her to reaching out to Taylor when initially meeting her.
She explicitly describes her role in the Undersiders as "Ops" (although she does a lot of intelligence work as well). She goes in the field rather than simply acting as mission control because, first, Bitch insisted that everyone fight when she originally joined the team, and second, firsthand observation enhances what she can do with her power.
Lisa would normally have been heterosexual, but her power supplies turn-offs so fast that she can't be attracted to anyone for more than five minutes.<ref>If you stripped away Lisa's powers, she'd be straight. With them, she's basically like someone in Seinfeld, only she finds out that turn-off quirk in the first 30 seconds to five minutes [...] the stuff keeps piling on, and it comes in fast enough that it cancels out the good. -Wildbow on Spacebattles</ref>
After seeing Lisa use her power to break someone, Taylor thinks that Lisa could have been a cult leader that would make Heartbreaker look amateurish. The fact that she did not try to do this is a testament to her moral character.
Relationships
Grue
Lisa and Grue had a recurring argument over the fact that he lived separately to the team, leaving him nowhere to go when he was injured.<ref name="2.7">Insinuation 2.7</ref>
Taylor
Lisa was aware that Taylor was a hero even before she met her, but pushed to recruit her regardless. Taylor reminded her of the brother she failed to save.
Appearance
Lisa
In civilian guise Lisa is described as a pretty seventeen year-old girl with dark blonde hair, freckles, and "bottle-glass green" eyes.<ref name="2.8" /><ref>The girl beside him smiled, and brilliant green eyes settled on Cody, stark contrasts to her pale purple costume. ---Excerpt from interlude 23</ref> She favors a more subdued or traditional style of dress, and makes a habit of having her hair tied back, knotted or hidden in a bun.<ref name="Cast1">Cast (spoiler free)</ref>
Tattletale
As Tattletale, she wears a skintight black-and-lavender outfit, with the emblem of a stylized eye on her chest,<ref name="1.5">Gestation 1.5</ref> a mask that hides her freckles and disguises the lines of her face, she usually wears her hair down. Sports a belt with a holstered gun later on, eventually using a laser pistol.
After being attacked by Jack Slash she had major scarring ala a Glasgow Grin, severing facial muscles and damaging salivary glands. However, after Grue went through a second trigger event he used power copying to use Othala's ability to heal his teammates from the effects of Bonesaw's poisons. This also dealt with Tattletales scar, she was left with much fainter scars and no damage to the interior of he mouth.<ref>"Crushed 24.3</ref>
Abilities and Powers
Lisa is best described as a short ranged clairvoyant<ref name="I14.5c1">comment by Wildbow on Interlude 14.y</ref> or better yet as a pericog<ref>Wildbow comment on Cockroaches 28.5</ref><ref>http://www.dictionary.com/browse/peri- what does peri mean?</ref> having the ability to extrapolate an incredible wealth of inference from the smallest trace of data. She needs to have some information about the target to begin with, and her power fills in the gaps in her knowledge, allowing her to crack computer passwords, profile and cold read people around her, and make predictions about the most likely outcome of a given situation, among other things. She's very accurate, although not infallible. In the few instances where she makes mistakes, she messes up pretty big. Also, she can become mentally overloaded if she tries to take in and analyze too much information all at once. Further overuse of her power leads to severe migraines, a common issue for many thinkers.
It should be noted that although Lisa's ability allows her to extrapolate information, she finds extrapolating information about people very difficult. At one point she tells Skitter: "Reading people with my power is hard, reading into their motivations or emotions is harder"<ref>Tangle 6.2</ref> although she seems to make up for this limitation eventually.
History
Background
Near the time that Sarah started high school, she noticed her older brother only spent time with her because it was his duty. She stopped accepting his attempts and they drifted apart. She began to resent him for acting like a brother than not being a real brother, being the popular kid, and being the favorite child.
Eventually, Sarah started noticing something going on with Reggie. He got increasingly distant until he committed suicide. She mentioned that she had noticed something going on to her parents and they started blaming her for his death. To Sarah, it seemed like she was in a pressure cooker and that everyone knew that she had known something and hadn’t spoken up. She triggered in her sleep, dreaming about it.
Her father caught on and started to use her power for the family's benefit. It became too much for Sarah and, eventually, she stole some of their money, ran away from home, and changed her name to "Lisa Wilbourn".<ref>Scourge 19.7</ref>
Later, Lisa traveled to Brockton Bay. She used her power to drain the accounts of several rich men while making sure she covered her tracks. She then went to a clothes store and inspected some clothing. She sent an employee running after telling her that her boyfriend could be cheating on her. She was then apprehended by a Boardwalk "Enforcer" who took her to a nearby alley where Coil called her and said that he would like to "buy" her services.<ref name="8.y">Interlude 8 (Bonus)</ref>
Lisa met with Grue, Bitch, and Regent at the Train-yards. She was told to get a costume by Grue after revealing she didn't have one before offering to serve as their contact. Bitch refused and told her that she would have to 'get her hands dirty' if she wanted an equal share. She agreed.<ref name="8.y" />
Story Start
Lisa arrived with the other Undersiders and got off Bitch's dog. When Grue asked what happened to Lung, she told him what insects Skitter had bit Lung and said that he wouldn't feel so good tomorrow. She then told them that Skitter was shy before alerting her teammates to the fact that someone was coming. She got back onto one of Bitch's dogs, asked Skitter her name, and then told her that she should get out of there before they left.<ref name="1.5" />
Later, a 'Tt' left a message in the Connections section of the PHO message board for Skitter saying that she owed her a favor and would like to meet.<ref>Insinuation 2.3</ref> When Skitter replied back, asking for proof of her identity, Lisa sent a reply a few minutes later and offered to meet with her.<ref>Insinuation 2.5</ref>
Lisa later went with Brian and Alec to meet Skitter. She made a bet with Alec on if Skitter would come in costume or not and won. Then, after Brian introduced himself, she did so as well before giving Skitter a lunchbox containing two thousand dollars. She said that Skitter could take it as a gift for saving them or the first installment in the monthly allowance as a member of the Undersiders. She then told Skitter what she had done to Lung before Brian stopped her.<ref name="2.8">Insinuation 2.6</ref>
Once Skitter agreed to join the Undersiders, Lisa asked Brian what they were going to do. She suggested that they go to their place and, if Rachel was there, fill her in. She asked Skitter if she wanted to change in a normal alley before descending the fire escape. After Skitter came down and introduced herself as Taylor, Lisa pulled her into a one-armed hug before they left.
When Taylor expressed that she was jealous of their place, she told her that it was her space too and then showed her the rooms. She suggested cleaning out the storage closet and turning it into a room for Taylor and groused about how Brian had ruined their nine hundred dollar couch by bleeding all over it. When Brian joked about her 'knowing everything', she said that she did and told Taylor about her power.<ref>Insinuation 2.7 </ref>
Post-Leviathan
Like all the Undersiders, Lisa took over a territory, and helped plot against Coil. She setup her territory in a shelter. Essentially hidden in plain sight this allowed for better information gathering and a place for her mercenaries to operate.
Tattletale assisted Skitter in locating a runaway that was part of the merchants.
Post-Echidna
With the removal of Coil she was effectively the power behind the throne that Skitter sat on. With the abdication of Skitter to join the Protectorate she would take her orders from Grue at least nominally.
Sent a letter to her former boss and current friend while they were in prison.
Survived being targeted by the Simurgh.
Post-Timeskip
Took care of Brockton bay. Welcomed Weaver when she came to visit.
Provided ops support when fighting the The Slaughterhouse Nine-Thousand
Tattletale aided the heroes as a "voice in their ear" during the Slaughterhouse Nine-Thousand. She realized the source of superpowers just before Golden Morning.
Quotes
- (To Glory Girl): “Oh honey, now who’s being stupid? I’ve got the most powerful weapon of all... Information.”
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