Victoria Dallon is the daughter of Mark and Carol Dallon, the adopted sister of Amy Dallon, and a member of New Wave.
Personality
Victoria is a hot-tempered and prideful cape. Her strength and protective force-field have made her particularly cocky and arrogant in combat. She enjoys fighting and is prone to using excessive force on her enemies.
Appearance
Victoria is a tall platinum blonde young woman. As Glory Girl, she wears a white one-piece dress that comes to mid-thigh with shorts underneath, an over-the shoulder cape, high boots and a golden tiara with spikes radiating from it.[4]
Abilities and Powers
Victoria has the classic Alexandria package of flight, invincibility, and superhuman strength.[2] She also radiates an aura that makes her allies more inclined to respect and look up to her, while making her terrifying and intimidating to her enemies.[5][6]
Victoria's invincibility and strength is the result of an invisible forcefield that extends a few millimeters over her skin and clothes.[4][7] She could take a direct hit from Scion.[8] It does, however, need to recharge for 1 to 2 seconds[6] after it receives a heavy impact, or after a few seconds of sustained fire (such as a beam or jet of water.) Even a strong punch can be enough to trigger this effect, and it takes longer to recharge after holding off a sustained hit. Her own super-strong punches and kicks cause it to flicker off and revive.[9] She or her passenger unconsciously control whether others can make skin-to-skin contact with her.[3] Dealing with sustained fire causes her shield to take longer to regenerate. It doesn't consider machine-gun fire to be a single sustained attack, but rather a series of individual blows.[9]
Her strength is primarily generated through the forcefield, and operates through a similar mechanism to Manpower's. She hadn't tested the limits of her strength.[3]
Her passenger is a bud from Manpower,[10] or possibly from Brandish.[11][12]
The energy Victoria radiates makes anyone within her presence feel an emotional charge of awe and admiration. For those with a reason to be afraid of her, it is a feeling of raw intimidation instead. She has displayed the ability to ramp up this energy to increase its effects or tone it down in order to decrease it. She can dial it up and down, but not fully switch it off. This power is considered a Shaker ability[3], not a Master power.[13] Long term exposure leads to severe consequences.[14] She gained this ability by triggering while she was near Gallant.[15]
History
Background
Prior to gaining powers, Victoria wanted to be a superhero more than anything. This led her to play sports, an area she could finally shine, as well as to begin dating a hero.[16] It was publicly known that she was dating Dean Stansfield. It was something of an open secret among the heroes that Dean was actually the secret identity of the hero Gallant.[17]
Victoria triggered when she was fouled in a basketball game.[18][19] When she jumped to make a shot, another player slammed into her mid-air, and she began flying.[20] Queen 18.y Victoria was taking college courses.[17]
Story Start
After spotting a thug guilty of assault, Glory Girl whooped and landed in a practiced motion before she gave him a head start as he bolted. She caught up to him quickly, told him the name of his victim and said that she would catch him if he tried to run. When he denied doing anything, she used her power to intimidate him, grabbed him by the collar, and lifted him into the air, above a dumpster. She then threatened to break his arms and legs if he didn't tell her everything. He swore at her and she threw him.[4]
Glory Girl worried that she had killed him before she spotted him moving. She asked if he was ready to talk only for him to try limping away. Angry, Glory Girl kicked the dumpster and sent it towards the man. After it hit him and the man didn't get up, she checked his pulse, found the street address, and then called her sister for help.[4]
She participated in the battle against Leviathan.
Post-Leviathan
With her father hurt and her boyfriend Gallant dead, Victoria was left adrift, unable to gain emotional support from her sister who was dealing with her own issues.[19]
When the Slaughterhouse Nine arrived in Brockton Bay, she was horrendously injured by Crawler's venom.
Post-Slaughterhouse Nine
Confronted with an impossible amount of stress, Panacea suffered a breakdown and made Glory Girl reciprocate her love. She forgot how to put Glory Girl back together and, in trying to heal her, warped her into a mass of flesh made of the body parts Panacea found most appealing.[19]
Glory Girl was placed in the Parahuman Asylum, where she was treated by Jessica Yamada and communicated through blinks.[21]
Golden Morning
Glory Girl fought in the final engagements of Golden Morning, and was last seen in Worm reunited with her sister.[22]
Trivia
- Glory Girl was a protagonist in an early draft of Worm titled "Guts and Glory" alongside Panacea.
- Glory Girl and Panacea also appeared in "The Event Leading Up to that Thursday (TELUTT)" as protagonists alongside Faultline and The Triumvirate.
- Glory Girl appeared in an early draft of Worm titled "Myriad" where she assaulted Skitter during Skitter's first outing as a cape on the assumption that she was a villain. Glory Girl paid for this mistake, however.
- Although her forcefield is similar to Manpower's, she does not have a Breaker rating like he does.[23]
References
- ↑ As a superteam that is also an extended family, New Wave has several junior members that gained powers of their own. These individuals are nineteen year old Laserdream and fifteen year old Shielder, the children of Manpower and Lady Photon, and seventeen year old Glory Girl, daughter of Brandish and Flashbang.- Edit by Wildbow on this wiki
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Glory Girl – Member of New Wave, a teenager with blonde hair and a white costume with gold trim. She has super strength, flight, and invulnerability, as well as the ability to generate an aura of awe around her, encouraging allies and intimidating foes. - Cast (spoiler free)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Shaker, not stranger.
She can dial it up and down. See interlude 2 and Yamada's interlude.
Minimum level is B, max level is G. - Comment by Wildbow on Spacebattles - ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Interlude 2
- ↑ Glory Girl, Victoria Dallon (Incarcerated; Asylum) – Possessed of flight, invincibility, and capable of deadlifting over a ton. She radiates an energy that makes her allies more inclined to like, respect and look up to her, while making her terrifying and intimidating to her enemies. Following the conclusion of the Slaughterhouse Nine arc, Glory Girl was altered by her sister, in both mind and body, and was placed in an asylum for parahumans, where she currently remains. - Cast Page (In-Depth)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Victoria Dallon - Glory Girl -Emotion affecting aura focused on awe/intimidation, flight, enhanced strength, and personal forcefield that blocks one hit before taking 1-2 seconds to recharge - New Wave - Wildbow's Parahuman List, bolded edit by Wildbow.
- ↑ Re: Glory Girl, I’ll just say that her super strength and invincibility are linked. Hard to distinguish hitting something and being hit. There’s still that big impact, so Glory Girl’s invincibility does shut down briefly after she whacks something hard enough. Wearing armor that requires super strength to lift could be problematic if her strength comes and goes. - comment by WildBow on Interlude 15x
- ↑ Glory Girl could take a direct hit from one of Scion's lasers.
She would not be able to take a second hit, be it from Scion a handgun or a kitchen knife. - Comment by Wildbow on RPG.net - ↑ 9.0 9.1 Strong enough to tank a shot from Scion. Would hold up to a few seconds of sustained fire (as in, actually sustained; fire hose or beam, but not machine gun patter), but collapse immediately, with recharge suffering considerably for having to take the sustained hit.
A punch/kick probably wouldn't bust it, unless it was delivered well enough to KO, augmented by brass knuckles, etc. But that's about the tier it's at where it starts breaking, and at that point it reacts in almost exactly the same way as it would to a blast from Scion... down for a couple of seconds, then popping right back up.
Delivering a strong punch, kicking a dumpster or landing hard has the same effect, causing it to flicker off, then revive. - Wildbow on Reddit Cite error: Invalid<ref>tag; name "R1" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ 6:05 PM<•Wildbow> Victoria's powers resemble Manpower and Brandish on a level.
6:06 PM<•Wildbow> And because Manpower's shard fissioned off, it was pretty exclusively Photon Mom's power that went to Shielder and Laserdream. - Wildbow archived on SpaceBattles - ↑ Q.Is Glory Girl's shard a bud shard from Brandish, or is she a first generation cape that happened to trigger in the Dallon household? A. Yes. - Wildbow on Spacebattles
- ↑ Brandish was living more of a life, she had her existence as a lawyer. So Glory Girl was more of a 'push' of a second gen. Less 'let's copy this person who isn't as active right now' and more 'let's mix it up'. - Wildbow on Reddit
- ↑ Comment by Wildbow on Interlude 18, Donation Bonus #2
- ↑ Comment by Wildbow on Interlude 21
- ↑ You're thinking along the right lines, re: the source of her aura, Andrew. - Another comment by Wildbow on Spacebattles
- ↑ Wildbow: @ the topic - Glory Girl wanted to be a hero more than anything, she couldn't, she was frustrated, joined a sports team where she could give her all and actually shine, and connected with another hero in a romantic sense, out of that deep-seated need.
Wildbow: Which isn't to say she didn't care about him, mind you.
Wildbow: Took a bad hit, pent up frustration came to the fore, bam - Wildbow on IRC - ↑ 17.0 17.1 *Who's Victoria Dating, Gallant or Dean? I imagine it'd have to be one or the other in public or else his identity would have come out by now.*
Dean, but it's sort of open knowledge among the heroes that Gallant is Dean, and Tattletale succeeded in connecting the dots. The Wards and New Wave don't necessarily cross paths all that much. Jurisdictions. [...] Aegis is 17, very nearly 18, old for his grade level, he's already graduated high school and is taking prelim college courses (not the same courses as Faultline & Glory Girl). He triggered at 15. - Answer by Wildbow - ↑ Shell 4.3
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 Comment by Wildbow regarding story arc
- ↑ Unsportsmanlike conduct between players. She jumped to make a shot, someone else slammed into her in mid-air, and she didn’t fall to the ground until she stopped flying. - Comment by Wildbow on Interlude 18; Donation Bonus #2
- ↑ Interlude 18 (Donation Bonus 3)
- ↑ Speck 30.7
- ↑ Classification: Brute, Mover, Breaker - Edit by Wildbow
I think that was way, way back when the wiki was new, probably a leftover error when I copy/pasted from elsewhere.
I wouldn't take anything on the wiki as being accurate, tbh. - Wildbow admits he made a mistake
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