Cradle

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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>Cradle is a member of Rain's Cluster.

Personality

Described as weird and not applying himself to work or similar.<ref name="4bII"> - Excerpt from Interlude 4b II</ref> May have some form of mental issue or similar.

Relationships

Likes to keep to himself, but keeps in regular contact outside the "Room" dreamscape with Snag and Love Lost.

Snag 

The two were known to cooperate heavily with each other, trading power tokens at the behest of the other after a moment's consideration.

Love Lost

The two cooperate heavily with each other while in the dreamscape, trading power tokens at the behest of the other after a moment's consideration.

Rain

Cradle bears a strong hatred and contempt for Rain, going so far as to hire mercenaries and start a war (with help from Snag and Love Lost) with the Fallen in order to take Rain's life. Feels as if he is "tainted" somehow by Rain's "evil" and "destructive" nature. 

Appearance

Cradle is an older teenager like Rain. He is blond and needs to wear glasses.<ref name="I4aII e7">A young man. Nondescript. Boring. Blond hair, average weight, clothes without labels, a bit older than Rain at eighteen or so. The slabs of concrete and tile made his space look like a hall of mirrors after an earthquake, if the glass was opaque concrete instead. Shattered, dark, claustrophobic, devoid of the human touch. The only thing about him that stood out was that his glasses were scratched up, to the point where it wasn’t possible to see his eyes. He held his head at funny angles to see through the less scratched part, chin high, looking down, or head bent, looking up and out.

Rain had taken to thinking of him as the recluse. The guy had talked before about not spending much time around people. He was quiet, weird, and his dreams weirder still. - Excerpt from Interlude 4a II</ref>

While out in costume he wears a black mask adorned with a claw-like white hand on the side, with a similar black mesh bodysuit festooned with white hands.<ref name="5.12 e1">I recognized the three capes in the no man’s land as Love Lost, Snag, and Cradle. The clients who’d paid for this whole thing, with the aim of getting Rain in the midst of the chaos. If they had an assassin, I couldn’t tell who it was. Nobody seemed especially out of place.

It was my first proper sighting of Cradle. He wore a bodysuit and an elaborate sculpted mask with a hand worked into it, fingers and thumb curled into claws, worked into his face and around his eyes and nose as if seen from the side. His bodysuit had much the same design, white hands against black mesh fabric.

More noticeable was the mech, if it could be called that. He stood on a platform that looked like an outstretched hand. A framework of six mechanical arms and four giant hands extended out and around the platform. - Excerpt from Shadow 5.12</ref>

Abilities and Powers

Cradle is recognized as a full tinker; specializing in making limbs. He has a dedicated workshop that he doesn't venture out of.

His other powers were likely positioning and spatial awareness, a invisible ray, and similar effects.<ref name="6.5"> - Excerpt from Pitch 6.5</ref>

Equipment

He can collaborate with others in his trigger group, designing things with them.

Equipment Features

Hand Mech<ref name="5.12 e1"/> - Pseudo-mech composed of 4 gargantuan hands, supported by a framework of 6 smaller (but still large) limbs. Body suit - Costume decorated with hands, has functional tinker lenses he can use to command his mech.<ref name="5y II">"What?” Cradle asked. He sat on a mechanical hand, one leg dangling. “With the hood, near March. It’s him.” Cradle had goggles as part of the suit that networked with his robot. He adjusted one. - Excerpt from Interlude 5y II</ref>

History

Background

After the group trigger he was part of he withdrew and did not interact with people.<ref name="3.4">“The third one won’t come after you alone?”

“He’s a guy, a little older than me. Glasses. He’s the person with the tinker power. I haven’t picked up much about him, but he doesn’t interact with people much. Less than Snag or the woman, and Snag is an asshole and the woman is mute, so that should tell you something.” - Excerpt from Glare 3.4</ref> It is unknown if this is a breach of behavior for him.

Gold Morning

Survived the event

Glow-worm

Worked together with the rest of the group to collect the money and favors necessary to get people together to kill Rain

Trivia

• His name may have been derived from the term "cradling"; an action usually done by cupping 2 hands together.May also refer to a 'cat's cradle';a children's game played by tangling string between fingers to make patterns.

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