Rime

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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> Rime is a member of the Los Angeles Protectorate. She succeeded Alexandria as team leader there.

Personality

Rime is highly professional, controlled and taciturn, with a rigid, businesslike manner. Weaver speculates that Rime's frosty demeanor might have been linked to her development of ice-based powers.<ref name="23.2">Drone 23.2</ref>

Appearance

Rime has black hair and wears a blue skintight costume with trimmed fur on the collar.<ref name="23.1">Drone 23.1</ref>

Abilities and Powers

Rime creates and throws compressed fractals of ice that can curve midair and expand explosively into glaciers on impact.<ref>Wildbow's Parahuman List</ref> She can predetermine the size and shape of these glaciers, to such ends as forming ice armor or walls.<ref name="23.2"/>

History

Background

She seemed to have her trigger event relatively young.<ref name="24.x"/>

Post-Slaughterhouse Nine

Rime was deployed against Echidna under Chevalier's command, using her powers to contain Echidna and clones in ice.<ref>Scourge 19.6</ref>

Post-Echidna

After Alexandria's incapacitation, Rime took over as team leader of the Los Angeles Protectorate and second-in-command of the new Protectorate, a position she would fill in life for two months and posthumously for almost two years. She also supervised the Wards' fight against the Adepts via earbud.<ref name="23.1"/>

Rime participated in a fight against Bambina's team alongside members of various Protectorate teams, including her own. In the ensuing confrontation, she was shot three times by the Number Man and was forced to encase herself in a column of ice after failing to make headway against her assailants.<ref name="23.2"/>

She died in the battle against Behemoth at New Delhi after attempting to encase his surroundings and body parts in ice.<ref name="24.x">Crushed 24.x</ref>

Trivia

• The word "rime" refers to frost formed on cold objects by the rapid freezing of water vapor; to rime an object is to cover it with such frost.
• Despite speculation, Rime was not part of the inaugural Wards team.<ref>Reddit comment by Wildbow about who was on the original Wards</ref>
• Her shadow as seen by Chevalier was of her younger self, hiding her face.<ref name="24.x"/>
• Rime is considered one of the top heroes in the protectorate.<ref name="SBWoh"> Parahumans IRC said:
  Wildbow: Armsmaster appears in the posters and such of the top Protectorate heroes.
  Wildbow:When they do the image of everyone standing in a 'v' formation
  

Parahumans IRC said:
Wildbow: Nah. Legend in front, Alex and Eidolon to the left and right, respectively. Then Myrddin, Chev, Cinereal, Narwhal, Rime, Exalt, Armsmaster, Dragon suit silhouette in the background, wings echoing the wings of the PRT logo over their heads. - IRC conversation archived on Spacebattles</ref>

References

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