History Characters / WardEarthShin

* TheHeavy: Shares the role with Teacher. He's the more plot-relevant antagonist involved with the encroaching apocalypse, and Amy's stints as a genuine threat to others don't last long, but the sheer trauma she's responsible for instilling in her sister--which Victoria spends the entire series working to overcome--makes her one of the most important antagonists in the story.

* ArcVillain: The primary antagonist of Arc 9, Gleaming.

* BigBadWannabe: At first, she appears to be a major antagonist... [[spoiler:until Red Queen had her killed and took her place.]]

* BadToTheBone: His power includes manipulating the bones of his own body to the degree of creating constructs. He's also quite known for being particularly good at finding creative ways to take advantage of powers, so much so that Lord Of Loss credits him with helping improve his combat abilities.

* IneptMage: One of her defining characteristics. Her biokinetic power does have drawbacks (primarily it needs physical touch --but even then she's shown to be able to create bacteria) but it is almost universally considered one of ''the'' most powerful in the setting, allowing for the creation of an instant apocalypse if the user desired it. It could be used offensively and to create minions, and that's not even taking into account its potential for brainwashing and its hidden trump ability to unleash a shard's potential. Either for a hero or a villain, it is a power that would automatically take its users to the big leagues in terms of notoriety and effectiveness. Too bad that Amy has ''no'' creativity using it, either for heroic or villainous uses. Even back in ''Worm'' Taylor wondered to herself the kind of plays she would be able to make with a power like that, while noting that Amy simply was not comfortable with out-of-the-box thinking to do anything with it and just wanted to heal and that's it.

* HasTwoMommies: While they're not married, she accepts both Flashbang and Marquis as her fathers.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: As one of ''Ward'''s foils to Amy, Goddess makes liberal use of her MoreTheMindControl ability when assembling her army, but pointedly avoids using it on the person she's dating. [[spoiler:This ends up biting her when she and Chris betray her.]]

* DidntThinkThisThrough: A chronic problem with her. She tends to make monumentally poor decisions based both on her [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity warped views of good and bad]], as well as more wishful thinking on her part. The fact most of her experience is as a healer in a purely support role, rather than as a fighter or leader also doesn't help her to predict the consequences of her actions.

* MeaningfulRename: As a hero, she called herself Panacea, a cure-all, since she restricted herself to only using her power to heal. Upon turning to villainy, she renames herself the Red Queen, an antagonistic character from Literature/AliceInWonderland and a name suggested to her by insane former villain James Rinke (Nilbog), who is obsessed with the Alice mythos. It also relates to her [[TattooedCrook prison tattoos]] which prominently feature the color red.

* PsychoLesbian: Her character tab speaks for itself. Her obsession with her sister, deluded view of the world and herself, and actions during and after the ninth arc makes her one of the most twisted characters in the series.
* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: Ward reveals that her touch lets her not only get an instant understanding of people's biological makeup and maladies, but that this also gives her an understanding of their emotional makeup as well. This seems to have stunted her regular emotional intelligence, as she constantly misreads others (most prominently how Victoria's frequent and intense expressions of hatred towards Amy don't sink in; she only recognizes it once she gets a chance to touch her) and herself (which her power can't effect) when she can't rely on it.

* UnreliableNarrator: Her interludes let us see her self-delusions first-hand. This is also leveraged for the twist under PowerIncontinence.

* UnreliableNarrator: Her interludes let us see her self-delusions first-hand. This is also leveraged for the twist under PowerIncontinence.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: One of the ways she can mess with people's brains is suppressing memories. When she returned Victoria to normal at the end of ''Worm'', she offered to make her forget the whole BodyHorror experience of the last few years, but Victoria asked to remember everything. Victoria still has gaps in her memory around the incident itself though, [[spoiler:which an encounter with a mental power starts filling back in. Amy claims she blocked the memories to protect her.]]

** Surprisingly, ''Ward'' also reveals some of her power incontinence wasn't as strong as it appeared. [[spoiler:Near the end, Victoria recovers the memory of Amy starting to turn her into the Wretch. Amy had completely succeeded in saving Victoria from Crawler's acid, but then continually modified Victoria's emotions in real-time to undermine her objections and started the BodyHorror intentionally. The drunk-like state Amy was in might have been a different kind of power incontinence, but she didn't lose control while fixing Victoria.]]

* {{Telepathy}}: The biological knowledge she gets from those she touches includes their thoughts and emotions in real-time as well as details about their recent mindset. She uses this to give Jessica Yamada a ReasonYouSuckSpeech and in the past used it to [[spoiler:systematically chop off any thought Victoria had that would lead her to insist Amy stop what she was doing.]]

** [[spoiler:After exposure to a power with weird mental effects, Victoria eventually re-remembers how, before turning her into the Wretch, Amy had systematically suppressed each emotion that sprung up opposing what Amy was doing to her.]]

** Her inability to make effective and satisfying use of her biokinesis has led to a [[FandomSpecificPlot whole unique category]] of "Amy cuts loose" or "someone creative gets Amy's power [[FixFic Fix Fics]].

* TheAtoner: Zig-zagged to hell and back. ''Worm'' seemed to end with Amy having gotten over the irrational elements of her self-loathing (such as MurderByInaction for not destroying her health ''enough'' constantly healing people, worrying evil was InTheBlood, etc.) and desiring to atone for her genuine wrongdoing. By ''Ward'' she's back to being a wreck over-extending herself and keeps taking worse and worse actions in the name of atoning for her sins, but she also feels that she's ''already'' atoned enough that she should be EasilyForgiven by Victoria and she will deny or excuse any ''specific'' wrongdoing when directly raised by herself or others (see NeverMyFault below).

* DeathSeeker: When presented with the potentially lethal [[spoiler: dream virus]], she immediately breaks her recent resolution to avoid using her powers to overcome Marquis' attempt to stop her from taking it.

* ExhaustionInducedIdiocy: The routine she describes to Yamada indicates she is heavily overworking herself and depriving herself of adequate sleep, which is likely a factor in many of her bad decisions. Her ability to understand herself and others seems to peak when the option to overwork herself is taken from her (after staying in the Birdcage a while, [[spoiler: after agreeing to take a day off and get therapy]]).
* FightingFromTheInside: Since shards crave conflict, Amy's attempts to be a healer and not a fighter put her at odds with her power's desires, contributing an ambiguous amount to her PowerIncontinence and mental problems. She tries to resist this influence and lists it among her NeverMyFault justifications. [[spoiler: When she starts building an army for Shin she wonders if she's finally doing what it wants.]]

* [[HasTwoMommies Has Two Dads]]: She accepts both Flashbang and Marquis as her fathers.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: She is very easy to persuade when the subject isn't directly related to her neuroses. She works with the Wardens, then [[spoiler: joins up with Goddess's takeover plans]] with only a minimum of complaining, then [[spoiler: is persuaded by Chris to betray her and take the villains to Shin]], and is then [[spoiler: persuaded by Victoria to sit things out to get therapy]].
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler: talking to Victoria's therapist gets her to finally acknowledge several of her faults and apologize for her behavior. Unfortunately, the epilogues indicate that not all of it stuck.]]

* IgnoredEpiphany: [[spoiler: Downplayed. Victoria's therapist gets her to finally acknowledge her problems, apologize for them, and have a plan to work on them. By the time of the epilogues she has a new therapist and is once again demonstrating ItsAllAboutMe tendencies and chomping at the bit to get back into healing, but has retained ''some'' of the insight (such as that she needs to be seeing a therapist, and that she and Victoria need space from each other).]]

* LackOfEmpathy: She uses Jessica Yamada's overworking as a way to "win" their conversation rather than relating it back to her own problems, it doesn't sink in for her ''at all'' that Victoria hates her until her {{Telepathy}} confirms it for her, and she only understands how stressful being around someone who's hurt you can be after Victoria [[MindScrew maybe]] [[spoiler: drops rubble on her]].
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: One of the ways she can mess with people's brains is suppressing memories. When she returned Victoria to normal at the end of ''Worm'', she offered to make her forget the whole BodyHorror experience of the last few years, but Victoria asked to remember everything. Victoria still has gaps in her memory around the incident itself though, [[spoiler: which an encounter with a mental power starts filling back in. Amy claims she blocked the memories to protect her.]]

** Surprisingly, ''Ward'' also retcons / reveals some of her power incontinence wasn't as strong as it appeared. [[spoiler: Near the end, Victoria recovers the memory of Amy starting to turn her into the Wretch. Amy had completely succeeded in saving Victoria from Crawler's acid, but then continually modified Victoria's emotions in real-time to undermine her objections and started the BodyHorror intentionally. The drunk-like state Amy was in might have been a different kind of power incontinence, but she didn't lose control while fixing Victoria.]]

* {{Telepathy}}: The biological knowledge she gets from those she touches includes their thoughts and emotions in real-time as well as details about their recent mindset. She uses this to give Jessica Yamada a ReasonYouSuckSpeech and in the past used it to [[spoiler: systematically chop off any thought Victoria had that would lead her to insist Amy stop what she was doing.]]

* UsedToBeASweetKid: In [[spoiler: Shardspace]], Victoria sees a memory of her and Amy as children before either had triggered. Their casual sisterly intimacy, including Victoria sticking her feet in Amy's face and Amy being grossed out by it, contrasts starkly with Amy's later obsession with Victoria's body to the extent that the BodyHorror form appealed to her and with their antagonistic relationship in the present day.

* {{Workaholic}}: She runs herself ragged with her healing, leading to ExhaustionInducedIdiocy. [[spoiler: After she has her HeelRealization and tries to swear off using her power at all, she's given up on the idea by the epilogues.]]

** The ability to "align" parahumans viewing her. [[MoreThanMindControl The people affected will retain their personality, but have their primary goals shifted to match those of Goddess]]. Can be used through live video, even ''video of video''. It also seems to have an amnesia effect, since [[spoiler: Breakthrough initially has varying reactions to the change, but before long can't identify what's specifically different and eventually Victoria has to rely on her Master-Stranger expertise to recognize there's been any change at all]]. This is her primary power. When enhanced by her battery, the effect can be relayed through her thralls - parahumans can become aligned from viewing aligned parahumans, not only Goddess herself ([[spoiler: which Crystal Clear identifies as happening to him via Breakthrough]]).

* EvenEvilHasStandards: As one of ''Ward'''s foils to Amy, Goddess makes liberal use of her MoreTheMindControl ability when assembling her army, but pointedly avoids using it on the person she's dating. [[spoiler: This ends up biting her.]]

* TrappedInVillainy: Near the end of Gleaming, she admits that she doesn't feel she has a choice except to retake her position as ruler of Shin. Her sheer power and potential influence mean that, like how Contessa was captured by Teacher the moment she tried to step away, other powerful figures will kill or coopt her if she doesn't take steps to secure herself. [[spoiler: Sure enough, Cryptid kills her not long after.]]

** Her danger sense is often vague, failing to helpfully communicate non-localized threats like Gold Morning, [[spoiler: Teacher sealing off the prison dimension to leave her to starve]], or [[spoiler: alignment-immunity meds successfully being passed around]] and apparently only works for actions, not intents. [[spoiler:Even though Amy was plotting to take her down for an indeterminate amount of time, Goddess wasn't alerted to this because Amy didn't actually ''do'' anything to her, leaving the dirty work to Chris]].

* EmotionSuppression: [[spoiler:After Goddess' death, she offers the prison's criminals the opportunity to submit to her power should they travel with her to Earth Shin. For those who agreed, she used her power to tone down the impulses and aspects of their personalities that got them into the prison in the first place. She also does something similar to Hunter, although that one comes with a side of enforced loyalty to Amy. A confrontation between Gimel and Shin sponsored Fallen that took this option shows it's not nearly as affective as Amy claims it to be]].

* {{Hypocrite}}: Her call to the Wardens [[spoiler:where she unleashes four giant jail-broken clones of other parahumans]], is full of this, justifying herself by pointing to the various failings and lack of control of Gimel, while completely ignoring her own long history of the same; especially notable is her calling out their failures in Gold Morning, while she was also a part of the crises.

** The ability to "align" Parahumans in her presence. [[MoreThanMindControl The people affected will retain their personality, but have their goals shifted to match those of Goddess]]. Can also be used through live video. This is her primary power. When enhanced by her battery, she can align every cape within a large range, even if they are not aware of her.
** [[MindOverMatter A powerful telekinesis]] that lets her fly and tear down buildings.
** A Trump power that lets her [[AdaptiveAbility tune abilities and defences, protecting her against powers used repeatedly against her.]]
** A power battery she can tap to enhance the range of her other powers and refills over time.
** A [[SpiderSense versatile danger sense]] that not only warns her of immediate threats to her, but also tells her the danger of actions she wants to take.

* LoopholeAbuse: You know how most cluster triggers are some form of messed-up kiss/kill? Well, she got around that... by "aligning" the others so they basically handed her the reins to the whole thing. [[spoiler:The others escaped her during Gold Morning, and she's had to hunt them down to regain her powers. By the time she shows up in the story, she's found all of them except Megan, the power battery primary.]]
* MetaPower: Goddess has the ability to "align" any parahumans she sees with her primary Master power, and only parahumans, even over video communication, which would imply some manner of influence over the Shards. It's not outright mind control, but any parahuman under her thrall has their minds realigned to have their value systems be in line with Goddess'.
* MoreThanMindControl: How her Master power seems to work. People are "aligned" to obey her but otherwise act as they normally would.

** She cannot "align" non-capes. She also doesn't get any feedback as to whether her alignment succeeded or not. [[spoiler:This proves to be her downfall when Crock o' Shit tells her that she almost succeeded in aligning Cryptid and she spends a moment too long trying it again]].
** Her danger sense apparently only works for actions, not intents. [[spoiler:Even though Amy was plotting to take her down for an indeterminate amount of time, Goddess wasn't alerted to this because Amy didn't actually ''do'' anything to her, leaving the dirty work to Chris]].

* AmbiguousDisorder: During her first interlude, she describes facets of her life in ways that are very reminiscent of depression.
** She also sees as enemies anyone that doesn't enable her opinions, has little empathy that doesn't involve herself, and cannot fathom situations where she isn't the victim.

* DudeShesLikeInAComa: She kissed [[spoiler:Victoria]] while she was unconsious at least once, and is implied to have done so (and possibly done more than kissing) on several other occasions.

* IneptMage: One of her defining characteristics. Her biokinetic power does have drawbacks (primarily it needs physical touch --but even then she's shown to be able to create bacteria) but it is almost universally considered one of ''the'' most powerful in the setting, allowing for the creation of an instant apocalypse if the user desired it. It could be used offensively and to create minions, and that's not even taking into account its potential for brainwashing and its hidden trump ability to unleash a shard's potential. Either for a hero or a villain it is a power that would automatically take its users to the big leagues in term of notoriety and effectiveness. Too bad that Amy has ''no'' creativity using it, either for heroic or villainous uses. Even back in ''Worm'' Taylor wondered to herself the kind of plays she would be able to make with a power like that, while noting that Amy simply was not comfortable with out-of-the-box thinking to do anything with it and just wanted to heal and that's it.
** Her inability to make effective and satisfying use of her biokenesis has led to a [[FandomSpecificPlot whole unique category]] of "Amy cuts loose" or "someone creative gets Amy's power [[FixFic Fix Fics]].

** [[spoiler:Some of her other screw ups include: Snapping a girl's spine, growing a bunch of ear holes into a person's head, and messing up an attempt to turn back the clock for a powerful politician in order to earn favors with Shin]].

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: One of the most incisive take downs of this trope. Showing what happens when you give one overpowered narcissist the benefit of the doubt because they unemotionally helped thousands while the one person they passionately abused is lower on the totem poll.

-->"Branching, forking limbs formed a webwork between one arm and one leg, bristling with claws. The overall form was more like something between a naked mole rat and a bat without wings, with skin like callus, only resembling scale when it was pebbly and not a sheet of the stuff. The tattoos stood out and multiplied as the skin did, casting whole areas of her in blue-green. There was more to it, he saw. Folds and flaps parted as she breathed or moved one way or the other, and he saw hidden teeth or limbs, buried within."

* FromCamouflageToCriminal: A marine-turned-superhero who ended up becoming a criminal kingpin, cannibal, and general villain, ending up in the Birdcage as a result. Though it turns out she wasn't so heroic as a marine either, as she was the leader of a drug running ring and actually Triggered under the stress of an investigation that started after someone cut her product poorly and people died.

* MysteriousPast: An investigation into a crime ring led her into being disowned by the Protectorate and becoming a villain, but the details are shrouded in mystery. All they know is that she went deep undercover with a crime ring, cut off contact, and eventually resurfaced as a a villain with tattoos, filed teeth, and blood on her face from when she bit out a man's throat.

An influential Brockton Bay villain and former Birdcage immate. Also Amy Dallon's biological father. He has some undisclosed influence over the villains in Earth N and joins his daughter after she leaves for Earth Shin to provide moral support. Rarely if ever shows his full hand.

* BadToTheBone: His power inclu. He's also quite known for being particularly good at finding creative ways to take advantage of powers, so much so that Lord Of Loss credits him with helping improve his combat abilities.

* SilverFox: He's more middle aged than outright elderly, but he's noted as an attractive older man in-universe.

!Mark Dallon

Classification: blaster

* ParentsAsPeople: Mark is trying to redeem himself as a father from what he sees as his own failures during Amy's childhood. He's shown to constantly be on the line on how to react to her actions and overall deeply unhappy.
* TokenGoodTeammate: the only unambiguosly heroic member of the group and deeply uncomfortable with the dynamics surrounding him.

A giant based off Chevalier. He looks like a giant of a man with gray skin and brutish features, whose body parts occasionally refracts into multiple translucent versions.

A giant based off Nursery. She looks like a woman wreathed in a draping of flesh so thin it's almost translucent, with veins webbing through that flesh with enough density to preserve her modesty more than the flesh itself.

A giant based off Goddess.

A giant based off Mama Mathers. She looks like a tall, thin woman with silver hair and pale skin when perceived through her mental projections.

** A power battery she can tap to enhance the range of her others powers and refills over time.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: In a way, she's this to Skitter from Vicky's perspective. Whereas Skitter was a cape who utilized ingenuous tactics to compensate for a relatively unimpressive power, and genuinely wanted to make things better even while becoming a villain, Goddess has an array of more directly threatening powers, but whose modus operandi boils down to either [[CharmPerson "aligning" someone under her control]], or [[AttackAttackAttack simply smashing the threat if she can't]], and conquered a world out of a spoiled sense of self-entitlement while merely claiming it fixed things. Even their mind control powers contrast, as Khepri's ability had a hard range and merely took complete control of the body, while leaving the individual's mind untouched. Goddesses' ability, however targets the mind itself to shift a person's emotional responses, and can be utilized just from perceiving her even through Tinker tech cameras or sensory powers.

* MetaPower: Goddess has the ability to "align" any parahumans she sees with her primary Master power, and only parahumans, even over video communication, which would imply some manner of influence over the Shards. It's not outright mind control, but any parahuman under her thrall has their minds religned to have their value systems be in line with Goddess'.

* UnskilledButStrong: Goddess won the power lottery, and took over an entire world. Both due to the strength of her powers, and the fact that Earth Shin has fewer and weaker capes than Earth Bet, it's likely she's never had a real struggle accomplishing her goals. Throughout Arc 9, she becomes frustrated whenever she ends up in a situation that she can't solve using her mind control or raw strength, and has to get talked down from several AttackAttackAttack strategies, lest she unnecessarily escalate the situation. When she realizes that Teacher, a better mastermind than she will ever be, has her trapped in the prison's dimension, she goes into full blown panic, and ''orders'' Victoria to find a solution.

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A group of powerful clones made by Shin-allied parahumans to protect the world against threats like the Machine Army. Along with them there's a huge number of parahuman criminals that have sought refuge in the planet and that nominally serve their government. Their loyalty and competence is often put in doubt by the less parahuman-friendly on their host planet. They are technically allied to Gimmel and the Wardens in much the same way that Shin is but the powers that be on Shin are more than willing to condition their support on a dime.

* EnemyMime: averted. They have the same enemies as Gimmel, namely the Machine Army and the Titans, but the Wardens feel (justifiably) that their irresponsible methods cause more damage than good.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: for a highly influential team of powerful parahuman allies, it's interesting to note that the Wardens feel neither respect nor fondness for them.

* NominalHero: they are technically allied to the Wardens and Earth Gimmel, but the Wardens fear them in account of the shady background of their members and their lack of control or accountability.
* OurGiantsAreBigger: Their main weapons are a series of gigantic clones with superpowers, inciting fears in Gimmel that they will precipitate the already delicate dimensional situation of the multiverse.
* ReformedCriminal: For a given value of "reformed". Lots of them are criminals that have been "touched" by the Red Queen, while others are simply personas non grata from Gimmel that started to work for Earth S.
* WildCard: Shin has a very strained relationship with Gimmel and generally dislikes parahumans. They are the parahumans that serve Shin, most of them from Gimmel. Their situation is complex and delicate both inside and out, basically.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: while their choice in allies makes it so that it's hard to blame them, Shin is ''not'' nice to the people that technically are their own answer to the Wardens of the Protectorate.

* BadToTheBone: can manipulate the bones of his own body to the degree of creating constructs. He's also quite known for being particulary good at finding creative ways to take advantage of powers, so much so that Lord Of Loss credits him with helping improve his combat abilities.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: a strong proponent of this even back in her Brockton Bay gangster days. He doesn't attack women or children and respects the Unwritten Rules.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Noted by Antares and several others to always dress nicely.
* PapaWolf: played with, actually. There's no doubt that he loves his daughter dearly and that he would go to any length to help her. The issue is that this includes enabling her worst impulsives and motivating her towards villainy.
* SilverFox: not quite on his elder years but already noted to be a very attractive, charming older gentleman

* PapaWolf: played with, actually. There's no doubt that he loves his daughter is genuine and that he would go to any length to help her. The issue is that this includes enabling her worst impulsives and motivating her towards villainy.

An influential Brockton Bay villain and former Birdcage immate. Also Amy Dallon's biological father.

A group of powerful clones made by Shin-allied parahumans to protect the world against threats like the Machine Army. Along with them there's a huge number of parahuman criminals that have sought refuge in the planet and that nominally serve their government. Their loyalty and competence is often put in doubt by the less parahuman-friendly on their host planet.

* MugglePower: Is distrustful of Parahumans as a whole. Understandable, given their conquest at the hands of Goddess and her army of brainwashed Parahumans.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: At least, he is one in comparison to the rest of Earth Shin's leadership.

A group of powerful clones made by Shin-allied parahumans to protect the world against threats like the Machine Army. Along with them there's a huge number of parahuman criminals that have sought refuge in the planet and that nominally serve their government. Their loyalty and competence is often put in doubt by the less parahuman-friendly in their host planet..
* OurGiantsAreBigger: their main weapons are a series of biologically made gigantic clones with superpowers, inciting fears in Gimmel that they will precipitate the already delicate dimensional situation of the multiverse.
* ReformedCriminal: for a given value of "reformed". Lots of them are criminals that have been "touched" by the Red Queen, while others are simply personas non grata from Gimmel that started to work for Earth S.

* SuperStrength: Her Changer ability gives her this.

* SuperStrength: Has this to go with his SuperSpit.

* TheCorrupter: in a way. He tries to steer Amy to villainy, but in this case it's less "away from heroism" and more "away from aimless insanity".

Victoria's biological father and Amy's adopted one, he joins Amy in Shin in a desperate attempt of preventing her from slipping further down the path of insanity.
* TheHeart: the only unambiguosly heroic member of the group and deeply uncomfortable with the dynamics surrounding him.

* Token

* IneptMage: one of her defining characteristics. Her biokinetic power does have drawbacks (primarily it needs physical touch --but even then she's shown to be able to create bacteria) but it is almost universally considered one of ''the'' most powerful in the setting, allowing for the creation of an instant apocalypse if the user desired it. It could be used offensively and to create minions, and that's not even taking into account its potential for brainwashing and its hidden trump ability to unleash a shard's potential. Either for a hero or a villain it is a power that would automatically take its users to the big leagues in term of notoriety and effectiveness. Too bad that Amy has ''no'' creativity using it, either for heroic or villainous uses. Even back in ''Worm'' Taylor wondered to herself the kind of plays she would be able to make with a power like that, while noting that Amy simply was not comfortable with out-of-the-box thinking to do anything with it and just wanted to heal and that's it.

* IncompetentMage: one of her defining characteristics. Her biokinetic power does have drawbacks (primarily it needs physical touch --but even then she's shown to be able to create bacteria) but it is almost universally considered one of ''the'' most powerful in the setting, allowing for the creation of an instant apocalypse if the user desired it. It could be used offensively and to create minions, and that's not even taking into account its potential for brainwashing and its hidden trump ability to unleash a shard's potential. Either for a hero or a villain it is a power that would automatically take its users to the big leagues in term of notoriety and effectiveness. Too bad that Amy has ''no'' creativity using it, either for heroic or villainous uses. Even back in ''Worm'' Taylor wondered to herself the kind of plays she would be able to make with a power like that, while noting that Amy simply was not comfortable with out-of-the-box thinking to do anything with it and just wanted to heal and that's it.