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@ProPro I believe that your post is not respecting the limitations that you placed on Anonymous, or that I don't understand them properly. You say "Collin is able to focus and project to specific individuals (within earshot)." and yet he's talking to Maxwell, who is not within earshot at all. Is his power limited to Collin's hearing range, instead of his target's?

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The street never seemed to get completely washed. Between the rocks and asphalt, ash still painted grey streams of memory toward the sewers. Or perhaps it was just Mary’s imagination. Mother had always admired how vividly she could imagine things.

They were watching the old tube TV that sat high on the old mixing machines. There had once been an LCD there, but when that got melted away, an older cathode ray tube had just felt right. It went with the blue, red, white tiles, now blackened and greyed by heat, and with the silly little paper hat that the parlorman had insisted on wearing, like some historical relic teleported across the decades from the 30s. The bunny ears were bent and homely-looking, though mostly useless when Dragon didn’t have a metal claw gripped around one, using her shining scales as an extension. As it was, nothing pleasant was broadcast over air anymore. All the better, since Mary and Dragon weren’t in the business of attending pleasant business.

“We interrupt your program to bring you this breaking news alert,” Bill O’Doley said, suddenly sliding in from the right like some default powerpoint transition. “Police forces are cautioning residents to stay clear of West Dorchester and South Palminelo Street, where ‘armed forces’ appear to currently be engaging ‘parahuman thugs.’” Dragon smirked, and the reception faded before buzzing back to life. She loved the dry humor that the BPD showed in such circumstances. “Once again, civilians are being urged to stay clear of the fire zone, and to stay indoors if at all possible.”

The previously-scheduled program resumed, though neither of them cared any more now than they had for the past hour. Mary stared out across the street and Dragon pushed a bit of wallpaper into place, letting it spring up when she removed her finger and pressing it down once more. “Well?” Mary finally asked, turning her attention to the older one.

“Not my kind of scene. We know anybody that way?”

“Carlson’s in Gladius, right? You think he’d be in there?”

“Naw, I don’t think he even knows which side the bullets come from.”

“Hmmm.” Silence lapsed, but for Mary tapping her empty spoon against her empty ice cream glass, one of those classic ones that the sundays came in. They’d never gotten to have a sunday glass, Mother had said there was no point paying extra for a cherry if no one was going to eat it. Mary hated cherries then. “Anything else on the radar?”

“I got nothin’.”

“I’m tired of sitting around.” Mary got up, and Dragon moved to the door, which she politely opened for the little girl. “You think anyone’s gonna come find us?”

“Eventually… though we could go give them a few more hints. I hear there are still a few people alive in Wonderland!”

“Dragon,” Mary sighed, and Dragon smirked again at the way she drew out her name, with a long “a” that rose and then fell as she crumpled into a melodramatic pile on the sidewalk. “Not until we know who Covenant is after! We can’t help anyone if we’re dead!”

“That would put a damper on things, I suppose.”

Dragon kicked away some of the dust, and sat. She placed an arm around Mary as she sat up, and the two stared down the lonely street, an exasperated sigh coming from them both at the same time.

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Or, @Banana, you could come join Maryland in a gleeful underage murderspree after dumping the stuffy suits. You know, always a possibility.

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Maryland has been independent, mostly murderating other unaffiliated capes and Wonderland kooks. Mary was using her ability to suppress news of their interference, but within the past week they've been trying to spread news of their availability.

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Haha, glad you like. Not as stylish as your art, certainly, but it's a start.

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Woooo finished my painting for Mary... guess I'll hit Dragon some other time.

Hider

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Yeah imagine how messed up she could make people if she gets better control over her power. ;)

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Explosive memories, anyone?

@Sickle-cell

"Oh hey, you remember your mom. Now I've replaced every one of your memories of your mom with memories of her being on fire. You're welcome."

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Maryland

Appearance:

Mary

Name: Mary Littlestea, Dragon Littlestea
Alias: MD, Maryland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psZUwK9ldVg

Aspects
High Concept: We’ll Keep Them All Safe
Trouble: Friends in Low Places
Origin: Just Trying to Live
Growth: They Burned; Justice Burns Hotter
Adventure: It’s not Vengeance if it’s Good

Bio
Personality:

Maryland, taken together, is an agent of understandable chaos. Disturbed into action by their trigger, they take the fight to protect normal humans very seriously, even if their actions may have wide-spread negative repercussions.
Mary may appear young, but her will is iron and she’s willing to stand up when her overbearing sense of justice is triggered. She seems to feel a personal responsibility to anyone she meets, dolling out assistance wherever she see a possibility, and prone to pledge protection to anyone she thinks can’t provide it for themselves. This makes it easy for others to think of her as a friend, and she responds in kind, considering most people either friends or enemies; friends are to be protected, enemies are to be destroyed.
Due to her monstrous appearance, Dragon gets less human exposure than Mary, though her personality is no less solid. She, too, takes the side of the weak, using her considerable power to kill and overkill anything that gets in her way. She is the more reckless of the two, but also the more natural; where Mary is calculating, Dragon’s emotions run hot and wild, making her far more transparent. She demands respect and admiration, a hero of the people in her own mind. But beyond normal friendship, which she also shares far and wide, she has a special connection to Mary, willing to obliterate anything, friend or foe, who threatens her charge.

History

Until a week ago, no one knew of Maryland. Now, the knowledge is widespread. They were originally parts of a high-functioning older teen with dissociative identity disorder. They had friends, though not as many as they would have liked, and took care of their mother as they could, when they could wrest control from Douglas.
Mary was Mother’s favorite, and loved their trips to the parks and museums, learning with her young sense of discovery and exploration. Their mother, in return, yearned for the days that Mary would be in control, longing for the little daughter that would only come out to play rarely.
Dragon was a favorite at school, the cool big girl with a miraculous skill in sports and a rebellious attitude that made her an idol to all the counter-cultures on campus. Her sudden, wild tirades against authority; the way she’d pick fights with bullies, even bigger ones, and win; her strong presence gave her a name on the blacktop and on the street, where she preferred to spend the days she had looking for trouble and dance parties.
They each, in their own ways, earned Douglas and his lesser personalities friends and resentment. Mary was spending an evening with her mother and friends at the ice cream parlor when the front window shattered. She saw, as if in slow motion, the stream of burning the air as it poured from a cape into the crowded space, splashing and sticking, burning and melting as it impacted booths and humans alike. She watched her mother conflagrate, the flames eating the oxygen she would have used to scream.
They never found out why that shop was attacked. It may have helped sooth their soul, prevented their rampage after the trigger split their soul into twelve parts, and only two survived. It may have given them a real target after they tore the culprit into shreds and evaporated his existence, but as it was, they were left with nothing but their memories, regrets, and powers.
They vowed that it would not happen again. On their watch, no one would suffer that way again. They cleaned up those streets, the little girl with the red pelt and the being of fire that would follow in her wake, only to be forgotten as they disappeared in the smoke their blitz would leave behind. No one came for them, no one impeded their progress, but it was still not fast enough. With the Covenant disturbing the streets with more organized strikes, it may be time for Maryland to make themselves known. After all, they’ve always done well in groups.

Abilities
Mary – Master/Stranger, Breaker/Brute

Mary’s main power revolves around the memory of those lost: she can use someone else’s memory of a dead person like a seer, recalling the dead to quiz their memory; or she can do the inverse, causing every person with memory of the deceased to forget him/her. This power only affects sentient memories, so it still leaves behind evidence in the form of video or audio recordings, though images and sounds of the forgotten will have no familiarity.
Secondarily, Mary can Break, merging with Dragon to become a wolf-like dragon of vast power.

Dragon – Mover/Blaster/Shaker, Breaker/Brute

Dragon’s ability revolves around the secretion of a high-energy, ignitable gas from portions of her body. She can use these to propel herself at incredible speeds. She can cause incredible destruction by leeching them into the environment and then igniting them for a widespread explosion, or by focusing the gas into a stream toward a target, igniting it for a high-intensity flamethrower effect.
Secondarily, Dragon can Break, merging with Mary to become a wolf-like dragon of vast power.

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@Sickle-cell Yeah that's why I went with MD/Maryland instead of Dragon. I haven't read Worm, but I do my research before throwing my hat into something like this! Do look forward to whatever confusion it might cause :P

I'm cool with you toning down the combined form if need be. It's mostly Dragon + Brute. I know I don't need it for power budget reasons, but it's there as a way to protect the squishy Mary during a fight and cuz I like the idea of the split personalities being able to combine again at least momentarily.