The Flock

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<image source="Image"></image> <image source="image"></image> <header>Information</header> <label>Alignment</label> <label>Leader(s)</label> <label>Leader(s)</label> <label>Allies</label> <label>Allies</label> <label>Status</label> <label>Location</label> <label>First Appearance</label> <header>First Appearance</header> <label>Worm Debut</label> <label>Ward Debut</label> </infobox> The Flock are a group of capes who have been resurrected from death. Previously a part of Valkyrie's hoard of ghosts, they have been brought back by combined powers of Valkyrie, Bonesaw, and Nilbog.

Modus operandi

The team helps Valkyrie fight the giant threats that not many others can handle. Selecting from her pool of capes is based on stringent criteria, usually those with clout, easily influenced and self-controlled.<ref name=Flock/>

A lot of them are not in the best place mentally, suffering either from shard-influences, usually with some form of personality erosion,<ref name=Care/> or the trauma of dying.<ref name=Flock>Her flock was in step behind her, their feet scuffing in the fine sand. Her shadows were likewise in step, but they made no sound, left no tracks. They had their own boons, but some had decided to wear the gas masks regardless. They wore no uniforms, but there was a commonality that tied them together, because their clothes had all come from the same stores at the same stops, or because they’d all come so close to the foot of the mountain that was her power and then they’d come back.

Subdued, but not submissive. Quieter, not quieted.

Each and all of them remembered dying. Many remembered dying at her hands. It was a select few of those that she had brought into her flock.

Nineteen individuals, favoring the young and disciplined, the powerful, and the needy.

Then she’d been forced to stop. The umber horse Disaster had reared her ugly head and made her imminent presence known. - Excerpt from Interlude 9 II</ref>

They are intentionally kept away from their previous contacts.<ref name=Care>Listen, they’re fragile. There’s stuff wrong with them. In their heads, in their bodies. She apparently fixes them or she lets other people fix them. But until she gives the word, we’re supposed to leave them alone, we avoid putting them anywhere near their old loved ones, teammates, whatever. If you see any, try to ignore them or keep interactions light. You’ll hurt yourselves if you don’t. - Excerpt from Dying 15.3</ref>

Warden Response

While they gave their tacit approval and resources, they do not seem to provide any special secrecy beyond general hand-waving of uncomfortable details that comes with a cape lifestyle.^{[citation needed]} Neither have they been shown any attempts to insulate Valkyrie from possible dissenters.

History

Post-Gold Morning

After the events of Gold Morning, Valkyrie joined the Wardens. It was here that she started working on the nuances of her ability, and attempting to resurrect some of her spirits.<ref>Teneral e.1</ref>

There was an early success.<ref name="IEc1"/><ref>Interlude: End</ref>

Ward

They had some unspecified losses<ref name="numbers"/> which caused Valkyrie to curb how many she supported.<ref name=Flock/>

Post-Fallen fall

Valkyrie and her flock take on an enormous, world-ending threat in the form of an enormous tinker tower that could potentially strip the entire earth of its atmosphere.<ref name="9II">Interlude 9 II</ref>

Weeks later they deal with the tyrant kings trying to take what is left of africa.<ref name="9II"/>

Post-Time Bubble Pop

Some of them were dispersed among heroes during The Wardens' assault on the Teacher's Compound.<ref>Dying 15.3</ref> Some stayed by Valkyrie's side, protecting her from Ingenue and her thralls.<ref name="15.yII">Interlude 15.y II</ref>

Members

Valkyrie
- Milk
- Cleo (Naja Haje)
- Voltrage (Third Execution)
- Edgeless (Forward Facing)
- Unnamed birdcage-outcast
- Grue<ref name="15.zII">Interlude 15.z</ref>
- Photon
- Furcate
- Roucouler the Liar
- Clockblocker<ref name="IEc1">A red haired young man that was donning a white bodysuit. - Comment by Wildbow on Interlude: End</ref><ref name="15.zII"/>
- Kid Win<ref>The two boys remained near Swansong for a few more minutes, and then they walked away.
  
  “Kid,” the one in white said. “Can you make heads or tails of this?”
  
  “Looks like a camera with some broadcast tech.” - Excerpt from Interlude 15.z II</ref>

~12-25<ref name=Flock/> in total<ref name="numbers">She started with a dozen, increased to twenty-five. Then a few died [...] She recently made more. Sent them on this mission. - Excerpt from Dying 15.3</ref>

References

Interlude 9