Asian-Americans, by the US Census Bureau definition, are from the Far East, southeastern Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. People originating from North Asia (Russia, Siberia), Central Asia (Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Turkmens etc.), the Caucasus or the Middle East are not considered Asian-American by this definition.
She could have been in an area where it was predominately "Asian" since you know, they're so close together, East Asia and the rest of Asia, that includes the Middle East.
About bullying:
Bullying again, this time about reactions:
Brian/Grue has a talent for fighting:wildbow on November 18, 2013 at 3:26 PM said:
(I’m going to assume you came from EY’s recommendation on ‘Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality’)
I did a post on this on reddit, a while back, where I got into depth on this subject.
The core to this is that, yes, you can theoretically apply rationalist thinking to everything, but people aren’t rationalists by default. A preteen loses her mother and finds themselves on unsteady emotional footing, then has her best friend turn on her. Again and again, she goes into a situation where she’s emotionally and mentally drained. By the time she’s finished reeling from the betrayal, she’s partially adapted to the situation.
An individual can take two paths in dealing with bullying. You can confront it, try to deal with it, make it a problem solving exercise, plot revenge, whatever. The problem with this is that it tends to pull you into a skewed mindset. Teenagers already have trouble framing high school in context with the rest of the world, blowing up minor problems to be earth-shattering. For someone who’s bullied, who takes this tack and obsesses on the subject, it gets even worse.
Sometimes going this route works out, and maybe you fix the problem if the bullies aren’t particularly persistent or if you find the right opportunity. Sometimes it doesn’t work out, and the obsession becomes something scary, and no matter how intelligent you are, your view on reality gets skewed and the situation escalates. Or you start seeing things in stark black and white or good and bad, or you spiral down into a ‘the whole world goes blind’ situation. Tragedy happens, and very often it’s the bullied victim.
There’s another route that isn’t explored much, because it’s generally not dramatic enough for TV and Movies. This is the route Taylor walks; she turns her mind from the subject, very deliberately drawing lines in the sand for herself. She’s trying to hold on to the perspective that might get skewed if she dwelled on school more than she already was, and we see her teetering on that very brink at the story’s outset. She compartmentalizes, and we see this in how she deals with her dad, how she won’t talk to him about the subject. School life is school life and she’s just trying to weather it and get past it, keeping her eye on a distant goal. Out-of-school life is completely and totally separate, and she won’t spend that time buying supplies or coding viruses.
On vague names:
School and Wards:
Some dates:
When Taylor triggered:
Small bit about Taylor’s bug sense:
On villainy:
on sympathetic nazis:
Brutus tail:
A bit about territory:
About the dogs Bitch rescued:
On using Bitch's power:wildbow on November 7, 2011 at 11:36 PM said:
Sorry if it wasn’t clear. Brutus isn’t the clearest of narrators.
She took the living dogs out to a truck and lashed the cages together there. Then she went back inside to mourn the ones who had died. When she was driving off at the end, she had the rescued dogs in the back of the truck.
GED & courses:
On what to put in text (also, a bit about bullying):
On Manton effect, Vista and Faultline’s powers:
The (in)famous "can Taylor affect bug capes"?:
Bug sense in 6.1:
I'll just leave these here.
On foam sprayers:
On Miss Militia and ammunition:wildbow on December 27, 2011 at 4:14 PM said:
Ah, but it’s tinker designed, so be sure to cast aside all assumptions as to operating mechanisms and whatnot.
In this case, I’m not spoiling anything by saying (and it’s not necessarily something Taylor would know), but the nozzle itself maintains a specific electromagnetic current along the interior of the ‘nozzle’ for lack of a better word, to keep the containment foam from adhering to it. (“If that glue sticks to everything, why isn’t it sticking to the container?” In this case: “Electricity!”)
As for cutting the tube open, while I’m not 100% sure what you mean, I’m assuming you’re referring to how she might cut the tube below the nozzle she’s holding, and try to get some on Armsmaster?
Probably would get more foam on herself than him, and once that happened, she’d -really- be in trouble.
Short on Skitter's armor:
On cleaning Skitter's armor:
On Rogues:
Bit more on Rogues:
On Paige's trial:
On the Birdcage:
People doesn't know how powers work:
Bitch or Rachel? Taylor is unsure:
Dogs can smell through the darkness:
On taking Purity's child:
On creation process of Bakuda:
The introduction of capes:
Grue's power wipes out smell:wildbow on February 9, 2012 at 12:26 PM said:
Thanks for commenting, awjs!
Got quite a few readers when someone linked me on the Whateley Academy forums, giving me record viewership for a few days. I know a couple more of you Whateley readers are probably lurking.
Yes, the justice system is messed up where capes are concerned (Brockton Bay is in the United States, the prison isn’t). My interpretation is that the introduction of capes to the setting is something like the introduction of the internet and/or the events of 9/11, as far as the law is concerned. Capes are an unknown quantity that develop and evolve too fast to be anticipated, the law can’t keep up (like the internet – the judge mentions this), people get scared, and thus injustices & violations of rights occur in the name of safety (as with the time after 9/11). Canary is a victim of such (For the record, though – there’s nothing necessarily saying either the jury or the judge thought it was accidental).
I find it telling that the Birdcage gets mentioned, Glory Girl actually describes it, threatens Taylor with it, it gets brought up a few times elsewhere, but when it comes down to it, none of Worm’s readers really commented on the injustice of it until they were faced with it directly.
On creating superpowers:
wildbow on May 15, 2012 at 10:35 AM said:
Oh, hey. This happens to be the 100th chapter of Worm. Woohoo.
Let’s see:
100 chapters.
1,689 comments.
125 tags (I tag recurring characters so their names appear at the bottom of the posts, so ~125 characters)
Somewhere between 375,000-400,000 words written.
Amusing search terms people have used that led them to Worm:
(AKA, people don’t know how to search, or they do and they’re looking for porn)
“had the toe rings”
wear we can find wildbaw meet in dandenong
rock staddy grue
“full body pantyhose” “performed ” -porn -sexy
wall worm physique file missing
faultline – describe the movement of dance cigarette
weight stability mouse leviathan
the undersiders book flake (hope that’s not someone implying I’m a flake.
“muscles began to” “teenager” superheroine
grue stomach growls
grue moon cartoon
giantess shrink machine beat father pantyhose (I don’t even know)
menja shat.nl
man makes howling sound after concussion
lifts superheroine over his head crotch
a folded ink blot. rigid transformation? yes no if yes, which type of
i think a worm fell from my ceiling vent
long white spear shaped worm in cats poo
dreams stainless mesh and worms in wrist
he believed he had a different type of world and couldn’t understand why god put him in grue
who was the leader of tattletales in seven spiders spinning
tied lisa arms and legs to her body with metal wirs, pointed her from head to feet
parasites on face a worm climbed out of my mouth (There’s a lot of these)
wildbow on May 22, 2012 at 10:34 AM said:Pahan on May 22, 2012 at 10:17 AM said:
Good update, and I like where this is going. The adventure hook is interesting. It could be a quest to acquire a minion (Sierra and/or her brother), but unless Sierra activates during the rescue (despite not activating when her brother was taken) or her brother is already a parahuman (which could explain why the Merchants grabbed him in particular), it’s unlikely she’d be more effective at any particular task than a minion requisitioned from Coil. Or, it could be another trap or skin-of-her-teeth rescue. Might be good PR, though.
Some details do seem a little off. For example, while Skitter can control a huge number of bugs, wouldn’t she need to focus her attention on each individual bug-based diagram? Just how many diagrams did she have to make, and how long would it have had to take her? She said that she had started early, but would that really be enough?
The other thing is her speech, especially considering that she’d cleared it with Coil… There is a reason Battery was suspicious of her agenda. Like estocasticom asks, if she is promising to not ask for money or anything else, why bother? I’d go as far as to suggest that Skitter rephrase “I demand no money from you” as “I demand no money from you, not until you get back on your feet”, to at least leave the possibility of protection money open. Also, since she is now pretending to have an insect form, maybe add a “no killing insects, I don’t like how that feels” rule for her territory, just to solidify her image. (Evil Overlord List, Item 220: Whatever my one vulnerability is, I will fake a different one.)
On a completely unrelated note, I am getting this mental image of Skitter telling Sierra as Vito Corleone told Bonasera, “Some day, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me.”
Another small comment:
“The Wards’ building? It was valuable intel. And that kind of money buys a lot of things.” — This is a little bit of a nonsequitur, since it jumps from something being abstractly valuable to “that [specific] kind of money buying a lot of things”. Suggest rewriting as “The Wards’ building? It was intel worth a lot of money. And that kind of money buys a lot of things.”
Rewrote that line you mention in your last paragraph. How’s that?
Re: Skitter’s power, she’s yet to demonstrate the inability to control some bugs because she was focusing on others or focusing on something else. Well, there was the bank robbery, but that was Panacea’s interference at work. It’s unstated, but multitasking abilities come part and parcel with her power, as far as her facility with her power is concerned.
Re: the money thing. More on that later.
wildbow on May 26, 2012 at 5:30 PM said:
Watch out, PG. One of these days I’m going to say, “This is now canon” in response to one of your comments and you’ll be forever hated as the person who ruined Worm.
Finished as far out as 12.1, where I might pick up later. Sadly, not a whole lot of real gems here, though there are some interesting bits. Didn't give them those nifty titles, either, but that's because I couldn't think of good ones beyond a few.
wildbow on October 17, 2012 at 1:08 AM said:
It’s been stated in the comments, but Taylor’s power doesn’t let her control bugs below a certain size. It’s why she can’t sense skin mites.
wildbow on October 9, 2012 at 8:53 PM said:
Might as well share: Siberian’s real body was being kept in a specialized case created by Bonesaw with some Mannequin components. Left in there for an hour to regenerate/weather the venoms. Relatively easy process to get him out, put Cherish in, do the surgery on her corona aurora, change some settings and seal her inside.
wildbow on September 16, 2012 at 10:08 AM said:
I know. I read that article (or one like it) a while before starting the story.
Look at it this way:
What they’re doing is extracting silk by force. Get the spider, hook it up to the machine, extract the silk by force. No control over the spinnerets, so it’s basically standard goop with none of the spider’s technique behind it. They then wove 96 strands at a time into threads, and wove those threads into the cloth.
The silk extraction machine doesn’t remove every drop of silk. That’s fine to them because they’ll be using the same spiders a bit later to produce more, so it works out. Here, she can afford to/compel the spiders to, and she’s got a hell of a lot more spiders. Taylor’s producing finer cords (both through spinnerets and more, finer threads, and instead of making them into fabric, she’s making them into a net. Crawler isn’t -covered-, but it’s enough to prevent his range of movement. If he pulls, the strands stretch – between the flexibility and the strength of the material, they remain pretty durable. Anything that snaps gets connected back to the net or to Crawler. If he gives any slack at all, then more strands are connected so he can’t return to the position he was holding before and he loses ground.
In terms of effectiveness, think in terms of layers of chicken wire that are being pulled tight, with every snapped segment being reconnected/tied to the existing structure.
Big as he is, one needs leverage to exert the full extent of their strength.
That’s my interpretation, anyways. If you don’t buy it you might have to just dismiss this as comic book science, yeah.
wildbow on September 11, 2012 at 9:49 AM said:
Narwhal was one of the named examples. Despite people’s impressions, she didn’t demonstrate this against Leviathan.
She creates crystalline forcefields and can move them at high velocities. She can also, if you’re within fifty feet of her, create a forcefield that bisects part of your body. Bling, you’re missing an arm. Bling, you’re missing an upper body.
wildbow on September 8, 2012 at 4:50 PM said:
She’s immune to Trickster and Panacea both.
Sktitter using her bugs' sight:
2) She can, but it distracts/bothers her, and it’s inefficient, giving her blotchy images (or no image if it’s nighttime). As of late, she’s started using it more for practice, but it hasn’t offered her anything. (It just doesn’t translate, so there’s nothing valuable in terms of intel or info, so it doesn’t get mentioned.)
Trickster:
wildbow on September 13, 2013 at 2:07 PM said:
Trickster’s power has difficulty working with targets that are moving faster and targets that are different in mass. I think this gets detailed at a later point. With Shatterbird speeding along, trying to compensate for the speed and for the difference in her mass while trying to find/manipulate a piece of rubble that’s the right size is problematic.
wildbow on July 3, 2012 at 9:45 PM said:
Trickster’s powers are sight dependent, and his speed/ease of being able to swap is dependent on distance (not as much as one might suspect) and difference in mass – too much of one or the other and it’s not doable in any reasonable amount of time. The problem here is both awareness (he doesn’t necessarily know what’s happening) and sight: He can’t see Noelle (who is at Coil’s base with Oliver & Genesis) or the Slaughterhouse Nine (who are upstairs, while he’s downstairs talking with Noelle via. webcam).
Probably not canon WoG, but maybe Wildbow goofed:
wildbow on August 9, 2012 at 6:12 PM said:
Keep in mind that Dragon isn’t a tinker, or if you want to be liberal about the definition, she isn’t a tinker in the parahuman sense.
wildbow on July 12, 2012 at 9:39 PM said:
Grue hasn’t explicitly displayed an upward limit as far as how much darkness he can produce at once, but it has been said that the darkness only lasts for about twenty minutes to half an hour if he doesn’t replenish it (I think this came up in the last chapter of the Agitation arc).
wildbow on July 13, 2012 at 9:49 AM said:
It’s not regeneration, exactly. She can use glass to shore up her injuries and create detailed constructs that will, say, help her retain or redistribute blood in the event of massive blood loss, but the body parts won’t function.
Lung vs Skitter:
Why Skitter's venom worked on Lung:
wildbow on July 27, 2012 at 9:49 PM said:
The thing with Lung involved overdosing Lung with tranquilizers, overwhelming Lung’s healing abiltiies by forcing them to focus entirely on fighting off the drug. This is why Skitter’s venoms did the damage they did.
Brockton Bay Map:
wildbow on August 26, 2012 at 10:51 PM said:
Legend:
1. The Docks/North End
2. The Bay
3. Downtown
4. Boat Graveyard
5. The Market
6. Trainyard, Bitch’s Territory
7. Boardwalk/Eastern Docks, Taylor’s Territory
8. Boardwalk/Ferry station north
9. Tattletale’s Territory, Docks Central
10. Taylor’s House (In Grue’s territory)
11. Captain’s Hill. Everything west of there is mountains.
12. Grue’s Territory
13. The College, Regent’s Territory
14. Leviathan’s Crater
15. Upper Downtown, Ballistic’s Territory
16. Coil’s base
17. Ferry station south
18. The Towers, Trickster’s Territory, Purity’s place of residence
19. Downtown Coast, Genesis’ Territory
20. Shopping District, Sundancer’s Territory
PRT using Bakuda bombs:
On why she’s Skitter:
Heroic bug-cape names are hard. Villainous, not so much:
Nano-halberd was created just before Leviathan came to BB:
Wildbow doesn't want to be sensationalist (also, what Endbringers do):
Taylor is a telepath:wildbow on March 13, 2012 at 9:37 AM said:
Is it really? Geez, crap.
Now I feel bad.Like I’m taking advantage of/being sensationalist with something terrible that’s happened. I mean, there’ve been cases where, to show respect, movies changed or delayed in regards to, say, 9/11. To show respect or avoid upsetting people.
I think I mentioned before that I had this arc in mind for a while. Even a year ago today, I was pondering Worm’s storyline – I don’t like to plot things out, because I get bored with it, but I was excited about doing this one. When the Tsunami happened, I seriously reconsidered using a different Endbringer, but in test writes there was no way for it to come together. As I remarked to an online buddy; the Behemoth is the herokiller, the Leviathan levels, and the Simurgh derails storylines (This isn’t how they refer to her in-universe, but it’s true as far as how the story goes).
And I just wasn’t prepared to kill off more than this in the way of pre-existing cast, nor do I want to throw the storyline to the wind. So I stuck with Leviathan – I just didn’t realize it’d be coming up at the same date.
Panacea is limited against Leviathan (and Brute limits are difficult to test to the limit):
Villains outnumbers heroes:
On cape designations:
Scale goes over 10:
Leviathan's gender, why:
9/11 didn't happen:
Leviathan can't be teleported:
Sophia is a member of the track team:
Taylor worries about Panacea-trap:
Why Skitter seeing Shadow Stalker's face is bad:
No all Wards go to Arcadia:
Taylor didn't look at the whole monument:
Taylor controlling Leviathan:
Time between first Lung fight and Leviathan:
Where Weld was found:
Weld using his food money:
Time between Arc 8 and 9:
Rape is a serious issue:
BB has a mild weather:
Flechette knows only little techno-babble:
Wards patrols because there's so few that does:
Beiber? (not sure what to say here):
And then Pact was born:
Clockblocker, the leader:
Shadow Stalker not recognizing Skitter's voice:
Regent's power:
http://parahumans.wordpress.com/category/stories-arcs-11/arc-11-infestation-stories-arcs-11/11-05/
http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/30/plague-12-2/
http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/09/queen-18-7/
http://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-spoiler-free/
http://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-spoiler-free/cast/
Slaughterhouse nicknames:
Lung needs brain (and not the opposite):
Organized bugs not needed:
Compromize with minion masks:
Short on how Coil's power influence the story:
Imp is easy to miss and Fog didn't die to BB's Leviathan attack:
On Trickster's power:
Siberian vs Triumvirate:
Eidolon might not be an unimaginative person (hint, hint, nudge):
No cellphone for the Heberts:
Laser’ing villains and freezing Leviathan's wave. Sounds like a bad idea:
Grue's darkness:
Shatterbird is no Panacea:
Plague 12.5, not the first time Taylor 'cussed' (is this really useful?
):The Manton Effect strikes again!:wildbow on July 14, 2012 at 12:42 AM said:Mr. Walaa on July 14, 2012 at 12:41 AM said:
Damm is this the 1st time Taylor cussed? I hope she does make the fucker pay
Definitely not the first time she’s cussed.
The Manton Effect, troublesome to test and with several theories:
Brockton Bay’s Protectorate/Wards affected by the Manton effect (and more about ME):
Mannequin’s ceramic armor is pretty durable:wildbow on July 15, 2012 at 3:49 PM said:
Thirty might be too generous. Look at Brockton Bay’s Protectorate/Wards, living or dead. Who is explicitly affected by the (conventional interpretation of the) Manton effect?
Miss Militia? No.
Battery? No.
Velocity? No.
Assault? Maybe. This could be argued.
Triumph? No.
Armsmaster? No.
Dauntless? Maybe, probably.
Weld? No/maybe (he just confuses the fuck out of it)
Clockblocker? No.
Flechette? Yes.
Kid Win? No.
Shadow Stalker? No.
Vista? Yes.
Chariot? No.
Aegis? No.
Browbeat? Maybe. See Assault, above.
Gallant? No.
2, with 4 maybes, out of 17. That’s 8-15 test subjects out of the entire Protectorate/Wards teams. How many of those will concede to the testing process? (Remember, Wormverse.
Re: Vista, realize that fatigue will complicate the test & necessitate repeat experiments (re: linear/complex effect from organisms that are present), as will the fact that her abilities are unsteadily developing & she may well be stronger on one week than she was the last.
As Faultline’s testing on the subject might have indicated – awareness or lack thereof regarding the presence of living material isn’t an apparent factor. I figure it’s not a huge spoiler to say that it doesn’t matter if Vista knows/doesn’t know/thinks there are people in the target area.
BUT, there are many cases of minor & subtle additional powers (Bonesaw talks about how these develop in her interlude with Panacea) that can complicate things. Taylor’s multitasking, for example. With your smallish sample size and the sheer variety of powers & how they’re affected, can you really pin down whether Vista has some subtle clairvoyance that goes with her ability or if that’s something that comes with powers as a rule?
(Edit: out to dinner, won’t be responding for the next 4-5 hours, so no need to spam refresh to look for my reply).
Why Mannequin attacked Skitter & co:
The Number Man was originally foreshadowing:
Be careful about enemy tinker tech!:
Who?:
http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/interlude-12/#comment-3151
Siberian is not very chatty:
Energy requirements of powers. Not ignored:
What to say about this?:
Why Dragon < Bugs (and he will never live it down):
Everyone are
(Very) short about Assault & Battery:
wildbow on July 26, 2012 at 10:56 PM said:
Pshhht. This isn’t half of everything given away about Cauldron.
Shoes are easy enough to fix.
Thoughts on A&B are interesting. Though in Assault’s defense, she was effectively the ‘stalker’ up until he joined the team. Wondering if anyone else saw it as verbal abuse vs. playful banter (or at least, concluded that it became playful banter by the last scene?).
This chapter was something of an experiment for me, because there are two things I have very little experience writing – humor and romance. Trying to stretch my wings and test the waters with these other genres (if only a little). Any feedback on the effectiveness of either is appreciated.
What SBers tend to forget to factor in about Nilbog, specifically, and perhaps the truly dangerous capes, in general.
edit (2nd wave):
Attached:
Regarding an Unchained Dragon vs Zion:
Government control of parahumans, with and without Cauldron actions:
Wildbow on his stance on society:
Clarifying earlier points on government and capes:
edit(3rd wave):
Except that this ^ is a Star Wars joke. Oops.
More budding info:
Entity-wielded or otherwise unlimited shard capabilities:
A tiny bit on Endbringers, and shard's effects on the mind:
Are the hosts really adding anything to the cycle?
edit: The latest updates were generating some gibberish, so I moved a few of the quotes down one post. If you can't find something you remembered being here, look down
A teaser on the Three Blasphemies (with a minor warning about what not to bring up in these discussion with Wildbow):
Wildbow's stance on fanfiction
Nemesis Program:
Cauldron branding the Case 53s:
A bit more on fanfiction and publishing"
Clarification on how others don't get Taylor down correctly:Yes.
To elaborate - when I do peruse fanfiction, I prefer original fiction over fanfiction that paves its own paths over fanfiction that doesn't. I've yet to see a Taylor-centric fanfic that gets her right, which is puzzling, given how much source material there is.
I'm not all that interested in working with a traditional publisher, short of a huge offer.
Yes.
No.And are you going to promote SB when you go big?
How to worldbuild
Tinkertech vetting process:
Various short answers:
Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/2ef347/community_readthrough_discussion_thread_week_6/cjyvfju
It's right above you ^ starting from post 66
Epoch operates by the ten second rule. Rewind, push forward, or pause by ten seconds. Moves things to where they were ten seconds ago, moves things to where they're slated to be ten seconds from now, or pauses for up to ten seconds, releasing at a whim. Bought a Cauldron vial, paying a premium, and got his money's worth - he's leader of a gang in one of the most competitive areas for capes and gangs in America, and is incidentally the reason Grue comments about how much he hates time travel.
Rune is a tertiary member of Othala's family - the which is part of a group that's informally known as 'the clan', or the Herren Clan. Second cousin to Othala, really. Her parents weren't so into the ideas that the family was pushing, and broke away, but Rune's childhood rebellion dragged her back, and she ultimately connected with an uncle after her parents hit some financial difficulty at the same time that Rune hit some snags with the law. Her uncle spoiled her quite a bit, encouraged her more reckless behavior, and brought her along on some stuff that ultimately got her sent to juvie. Lacking the ability to adjust or hold back in the midst of a diverse juvie population, she got segregated and ultimately triggered and broke out. Her uncle connected her to Kaiser, who brought her and her family to Brockton Bay and helped them financially (putting her in the Towers.)
Shamrock is one of the only individuals to escape Cauldron. Cauldron's habit was to take all of the human experiments that turned out well, brainwash them, and then place them in larger organizations to support said organizations, fighting the natural tendency for parahumans to seek conflict (and thus making forming large committed groups hard). Shamrock could well have been slated for the Protectorate, Red Gauntlet, the Suits, or even the Nemesis program (being brainwashed with an auto-lose trigger against one client who paid a good sum, so that client could get a better position and climb faster in rep). Beyond that, there's not a lot to say - she remembers who she is, and knows she belongs in another Earth, where there are no superheroes, and there are a lot more kings and queens than in our Earth. Her power looks like luck manipulation but is actually microtelekinesis and precognition/butterfly effects at work.
The Merchants are a group that never took off. They don't have high aspirations, they just use their powers to make a risky business less risky, selling drugs. They're economically depressed types in an economically depressed area, making what money they can off people with very little money to spare. Bit-rate dealers (Skidmark), white trash (Squealer), and people down on their luck, trying to fix their situation in life and failing (Mush).
Similar to the Herren Clan, they're a group of families with some members having powers, largely based around the southern states. They figured out that people with powers tend to have kids with powers, and are making the most of it. This leads to families with strong threads of a particular power type running through them.
Damsel [of Distress]'s power warps reality in a chaotic way. Rip, tear, punch through, twist, melt, whatever, everything in a cone-shaped blast, capable of punching through walls. Super high recoil, to the point that she has a minor mover power. She has power incontinence and can't control the minor flare-ups of her power 100%, leading to her destroying utensils and food - due to her twisted mentality and emotions, she generally responds by not eating to avoid the embarrassment of such failures. Her passenger drives her to be ambitious, fighting to be on top, and sabotages her more when she fails to be, perpetuating (along with the malnutrition) the strings of near-misses. She's pretty much driven to do the evil villain monologues, because it's a drug-like relief from the constant pressure the passenger puts on her to establish her superiority. Bonesaw gave her the ability to control the power, at the cost of her becoming even more of a monster.
