The Dubious Dallon

in general, Faultline looked into hiring Dinah after the Khonsu meeting to get an edge over Cauldron's precog while Dinah looked into hiring the Crew for general protection and missions to get things ready for the end of the world. they end up in a mutual partnership, playing client for each other whenever they need something done. some of these missions include going to quarantined areas to throw off the Simurgh's vision for those still inside or using her power while the Crew discusses plans for Cauldron with the Irregulars in the hopes it would mess with Contessa being able to see what they talked about. part of the reason they keep working with each other is how half of Palanquin don't have secret identities and Dinah isn't a masked cape either, also how some of them have drawbacks or difficult to control powers not unlike Dinah. so there's some familiarity between them in those regards

individually...

- Secretly very much enjoys not being the youngest in the group for once, this is great for her

- In canon shes shown as very indulgent in the latest pop culture and gadgets, I see this as her finally getting the opportunity to be a proper kid (because you don't end up triggering and working for mercenaries as a teenager without something fucked up happening to get you there. My personal hc is that her homelife was genuinely atrocious, and she triggered the only time she tried to stand up for herself, then ran away not long after)

-sveta would still be an awesome philosophically minded trans woman, just as kind and heroic and open and artistic and creative and just generally just exceptional of a person. she'd still carry a lot of the same flavour of trauma too, just less exaggerated by her parahuman status

-but weld? weld, if you take away the parahuman part, is on a very fundamental level just an uninteresting normal guy. a boring, average, cishet white guy. well-meaning, kind of a workaholic, not a bad guy. but average. average in tastes, in preferences, in behaviour. in everything. he's a very heterosexual guy whose most defining characteristic outside the cape aspects is that he likes music

...and it's noticeable how much they just. don't actually work. like they got together only because they trauma-bonded as case-53s, with sveta literally clinging to him because she couldn't come close to anyone else without literally tearing them apart! and they definitely matter to eachother, they care!

but take away the case-53 aspect and there's quite literally nothing they have in common or that binds them

Hey hey In support of little tiny kittens we all are changing our pfp to this, so like if your not a kitten hater… yknow

And by that I mean she drew herself shooting me with a bow

Inspired by "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan"

Yeah, I'm finally living up to my user flair😎

Also, a funny detail I noticed:

I swallowed past a lump in my throat. It always caught me off guard, just how frigging much I missed her, when I thought about her. I’d give anything for a thirty minute conversation with her, right this moment. I didn’t have the slightest doubt in my mind that she could have made sense of everything, put things into terms so simple that working it out looked easy.

- Tangle 6.9

day 107

Here's a bunch of OC's from some really kind folk on Discord.

@arcadianwinters 's Amanda "Firewall", Wards' team leader. Her power in AmazonPG's own words "A breaker state that, when active, replaces Firewall’s body with an identical volume of all-or-nothing indestructible, immovable, and opaque hardlight". Mandy firewall last name is very cool, you should become a fan of hers.

VozTheOrc's Valerie “Val” Starlight Love Maria-Jose Valencia aka "Loba". Her power in Voz's own words :Can manifest the natural weapons and hunting/defensive adaptations of animals. May induct others into a pack that enhances her Changer power, shares the changes with her pack, and enhances their own powers, at the cost of subjecting them to a Master effect that slowly causes them to lose touch with their individuality and defer to her as leader. (Please ignore that last part of her power, she's not happy about it)

Wards' leader after Mandy joins the Protectorate

@qwasey's Jennifer Malloy aka Hole-in-one. Her power in qwaser's own words:  Gives HIO the power to "mark" objects in her mind, being able to keep track of their position in comparison to each other perfectly within a wide radius. She gains an instinctive knowledge on angles as they relate to her objects, as well as  how best to make two marked objects collide. Don't know much about her yet (following qwasers' steps and doing a massive lore back-read), but she's a jaded veteran hero that does what's right even if she lacks any enthusiasm

etherealDesign's Juniper Summers aka Impact, Protecorate leader, worries about fucking up constantly.(Not happy with how her costume looks, will try drawing her for a third time) Ether's description of her power:

a) Generates a field in the microscopic area immediately surrounding the host's body (and body suit, in a similar fashion to FO’s forcefield) that generates friction. All incoming kinetic energy over a threshhold that would be harmful to the host's body (i.e. a runaway train) experiences instantaneous friction until all harmful kinetic energy is lost and transferred instantaneously into heat. This field (and therefore the host's body) can never be warmer than 98.6 degrees F. 

b) All heat over this cap is banked in an internal 'battery' managed by the shard, which can be accessed by the host to turn it back into kinetic energy as a striker power, projecting kinetic energy at the space just outside of this heat shield so that the kinetic energy isn't immediately re-absorbed.

c) power’s battery is drained by the cold, as it attempts to keep the host’s body exactly at human body temperature Shes' very cool and a trans woman, which ups her coolness factors by a lot. Punched the shit out of Behemoth once, and staggered him, but freaked out and left the fight to do SnR

@the-anemia's Elizabeth 'Liz' Holden aka Sibyl. A stranger with the ability to read others body language and social cues, allowing her to predict their movements, and the ability to disrupt others' ability to do the same. Her mom's a literal zizbomb, or was, rather. She's afraid of black cats. I really like her; strangers are my favorite type of cape.

@lemurlord's Kayleigh Ernst aka The Villain Never Known As Avante G-rd aka TVNKAAG (La Tunca, pa' los amiguis).

Lemur's description of her power: TVNKAAG continuously produces a rainbow-colored paint-like liquid from her fingertips. Any object or creature covered by it will be imbued with a Stranger effect - any person observing it either directly or through a digital recording will perceive it as having any properties they can imagine, except the ones actually belonging to the object. The effect is cumulative - if an observer first thinks the object was a toaster and then a monkey, the effect will force both ideas into the observer’s sensorium. Due to this, and the fact that there appears no particular limit on what properties can be “projected”, even short term exposure to affected objects threatens nausea, migraines and loss of consciousness.

After some time of being observed, the effect “settles”, now projecting a set of illusionary properties consistent across all observers. The properties are usually numbered 3-5 per object and are currently assumed to be selected among the most popular across previous observers, but a priority seems to be given to beliefs of sapience and autonomy on objects that lack it. The liquid dries up in this state, and can be scraped off bare handed. NOTE: the requirement for active observers permits storing the liquid in the “active” state inside sealed containers. See Modus Operandi below.

TPS can modulate the amount of liquid produced by her power but she is unable to fully turn it off.

Stranger, so I automatically like her, Annoying post-modernist art student with a Birdcage order. Thinks of her crimes as performance art. Love her.

My girl Ariane Vasil aka Arrhythmia. Quick drawing because I lover her and wanted a bnw drawing of her :)) She's cute! Her power lets her sync the heart of someone she can see with hers and then force both organs to do whatever she wants. So she can give you a heart attack as long as she gives herself one too! She's also trans and a teenage mom!

Blake and Green Eyes. She giggled, causing a froth of bubbles as she clutched the side of a pipe from halfway underwater. She wanted to doodle in a notebook, surround their names with glittery hearts.

Comic based on 29.1