#grace sinclair

[gossamerandshadow]

Ruby Grace Sinclair, aka Red Iris

Summary

Granted precognitive abilities as an involuntary subject of medical experimentation, Grace escaped her captors and fought back against the powers of her home world. In time, she will learn that her abilities are far greater than she yet knows.

Attributes - 40 Points

Psyche: 30 Strength: Superior (+10) Endurance: Superior (+10) Finesse: 15 Presence: 15

Powers - 54 Points

Warden of the Grand Stair - 0 points

Unfolding the Infinite Paths - 24 points

Danger Sense - 5 points

Prescience - 5 points

Perceive the Eidolon - 5 points

Mind Reading and Mind Probe - 5 points

Major Unconventional Ability - Precognition - 4 points

Traversing the Infinite Paths - 30 points

Enhanced Fortification - 10 points

Sanctification of the Eidolon - 5 points

Guiding and Editing Reality - 10 points

Forcing Conformity - 5 points

Grace can see the future. She can sense danger before it strikes, she can learn what might happen before it occurs, she can learn what people might say to her in any possible future, and how she might convince them to say it.

What's more, and what she is only just learning, it that she can also decide what path has already been taken. If she wishes that an object be whole, then it has always been so. It wouldn't make sense to ask if she can fix it, because it was never broken to begin with. She can choose that path through time, traversing alternate possibilities until she finds the one that suits. But what she wants is not an alternate possibility; it's what truly happened and it always has been.

Extras - 6 Points

Domain - Ichoris Nightclub (3 points)

Personal Domain (1 point)

Restricted Access (2 points)

Partisan Support - Red Iris (3 points)

Ichoris is the nightclub on the first floor of an old hotel on a small, densely populated tropical island called Sunyi, on Grace's homeworld. The world has about a modern level of technology.

Grace is the leader of a technically-criminal organization known as Red Iris which serves as the de facto government of Sunyi, operating out of the upper floors of the old hotel above Ichoris. She and her people have effectively absolute power across the island. While it is technically not great that Sunyi is so completely controlled by basically a gang, the island's actual government was so corrupt and the previous gang wars over territory so bloody that Red Iris' control has improved life across Sunyi dramatically.

Backstory

Grace doesn't remember much about her life before the lab. Her first memories are of pain and illness while she was used as a subject for various inhumane experiments. She also suffered a lot of pain and physical weakness even when she wasn't being subjected to experimentation. She doesn't know if that's why she was selected for the experiments, or if her physical maladies were a permanent effect of the experimentation she endured.

From what she has been able to learn since then, Grace believes that her captors were trying to turn her into something like a living computer. They intended to improve certain aspects of her neurological functioning and then use her brain in combination with more traditional electronics to create a more powerful and adaptable computer than anything that could have been created with just electronics alone.

To that end, they experimented on her with a series of drugs intended to dramatically increase neuron density and neuroplasticity. For the most part, all they actually managed to do was induce a whole bunch of seizures that nearly killed her.

At some point, her captors somehow managed to get their hands on a pair of substances, one infused with the power of Eidolon and the other with the power of Umbra. Grace knows for a fact that her captors had no idea what they were or how to use them. She knows this because they injected her with both at the same time and clearly didn't know why that was a bad idea.

Through luck or fate or possibly some latent talent with Eidolon, Grace somehow survived this. The clash between the two primal powers in her body ended with only Eidolon remaining, along with a great deal of internal bleeding. Once she recovered physically, her captors believed that they had caused catastrophic brain damage, as Grace was unable to speak and seemed largely unaware of her surroundings.

The primal substances had been injected into Grace's body along with the more expected cocktail of drugs, intended to improve neural density. The presence of Eidolon simply perfected the substances, making them actually function as intended. The resulting neurogenesis was rapid and entirely uncontrolled, causing the new neurons to have almost like a tumor. She nearly died before the Eidolon started perfecting her rather than just the drugs acting upon her, and saved her life.

Grace seemed like she was unaware of her surroundings because she couldn't tell which of her perceptions were of the current moment and which ones hadn't yet happened. It took her a long time to learn how to parse the sudden new ability to perceive things that hadn't happened yet. Once she did, and once her captors were able to understand exactly what had happened, they removed her from the lab entirely and began to investigate how to make use of her new abilities.

The organization keeping her captive had long mastered the art of brainwashing and put Grace through their standard process of psychological programming and direct neurological manipulation. They were unaware that all changes were quickly and neatly reversed by the presence of the Eidolon power. Grace took advantage of this and pretended that the brainwashing process had been a perfect success. As far as any of her captors were aware, she was by far the most stable and obedient example of brainwashing they had yet produced.

Initially, her abilities and skills weren't sufficient to allow her to escape, even with her precognition. It was too limited and she had too little mastery over it. She was forced to remain and pretend to serve her captors for quite some time. Over this period, her captors attempted to find ways to extend her immediate precognition over longer periods of time. No matter what they did, she was never able to clearly see anything more than an hour or two in advance, and it took a great deal of effort and time for her to see that far - short of entering a concentrated trance, she can't normally see clearly more than a few minutes into the future.

Once it became clear to her captors that she would never be capable of the long-term precognition they had hoped to use to inform their strategies as an organization, they began to train her as an operative who could be sent into situations too high-risk for typical agents. Between this training and her own growing mastery over her precognitive abilities, she was eventually able to find an opportunity to escape her captors and flee, taking all the data she could steal with her.

Once she escaped, Grace came to learn that her captors worked for a shadowy cabal of powerful political and financial elites known as the Auctoritas. Most people considered it a conspiracy theory, but this was a small group of powerful men and women who effectively controlled most of the world through their political connections and wealth.

Alone in the world, Grace ended up on Sunyi because the lack of government authority made it a place of weaker influence for the Auctoritas. There, she met the bartender named Sari at a bar called Club Phantom who helped her find her footing. In return, Grace used her abilities to make money by card-sharking at various gambling dens across Sunyi, and eventually earned enough money to buy the building that housed Club Phantom from the landlord trying to extort Sari. Grace gifted the building to Sari and they rebranded the club as Ichoris, turning it into their base of operations for first establishing a base of power in Sunyi, and then to go after the Auctoritas.

Using the data she stole from Auctoritas, she was able to establish herself very quickly as a powerful information broker, trading secrets for money and power, and leaking secrets to damage the politicians and CEOs controlled by Auctoritas. Grace became known as Red Iris, for the large tattoo of three blood-red irises on her chest. As more people joined her and Ichoris became the centre of a true organization rather than just a front for Grace and a few friends, the organization soon adopted the name Red Iris as well.

Over time, Red Iris was able to chip away at the Auctoritas across the world until they were left as a shadow of the power they used to be. With her once-captors no longer a threat and with Sunyi firmly under her control, Grace has turned her attention to learning more about some of the strange new ways the paths of the future seem to be changing in front of her, and to the strange door recently discovered in the basement of Ichoris that she just knows isn't normal...

[fanartsandstuff]

I just love ao3 authors

We live in a beautiful era of people not giving a single fuck

[shadowkira]

Doctor Who Text Posts: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

[chibnalldaily]

ALL OF THIRTEEN'S ERA IN ORDER, 92/?

[middleagedmenyaoi]

I completely forgot I made this TBH.

I know it makes zero sense plot wise but I really wanted to draw this second panel.

[evviejo]

thirteen's era appreciation: 475/?

[doctor-the-13th]

Would you like a forbidden Hershey Kiss?

[arsont-t]

Hear me out, the bioshock cast but they are all working in a corporation (Andrew's) and it's a "the office" like romcom/sitcom.

[melbush]

never let me and oomf have any free time

[derelictheretic]

I picked a hell of a comfort game all those years ago huh

[journey-tothesurface]

The thing about Brigid Tenenbaum and Grace Holloway that I find especially interesting is the ways knowledge fits into both their arcs.

Tenenbaum being at the center of the ADAM project means that she knows all the gory details of how gatherers/protectors are made and what the process does to a person’s body. At the same time though, the horror of what she’s done by allowing her research into the hands of people like Ryan, Fontaine, and Lamb (as well as her own self-loathing for being the source of all that suffering) don’t fully dawn on her until it’s too late to do much besides mitigate the damage already done. And then in Bioshock 2, when she returns to Rapture hoping to develop a cure for ADAM sickness and rescue the little sisters from Lamb, there’s a whole decade of new research she has only limited knowledge of. She needs the thinker’s computational abilities to aid her research because as intelligent as she is, solving this problem (of her own invention) wouldn’t be possible for her to do alone before she died. She knows so much and yet due to the nature of the society she lived in and the miracle she discovered, there will always be something new she doesn’t know.

And then there’s Grace. She had no part to play in creating the Little Sisters or Big Daddies, so she doesn’t fully know why their existence is such a tragedy, but if her misguided hatred of Delta for Eleanor becoming a little sister is anything to go off of, she knows something. She knows on some level how wrong it is, but because of her faith in Lamb she’s still willing to accept that the little sisters wandering around rapture are children of the family. That even if he turns them human again, subject delta is stealing these girls from their rightful family, and she remains ignorant of the truth until it quite literally comes looking for her. If she lives, she survives with the knowledge that Lamb was wrong about this, so what else might she be wrong about? And her last words in canon are her saying she needs answers from Lamb about what the truth really is. Grace doesn’t know the exact science of how ADAM works, but somewhere deep in her heart she knows more of the awful truth than Lamb wants her to know, and that knowledge is what drives a wedge between her and the family

And I just think that’s a really cool parallel. Tenenbaum understands the evil she’s created better than anyone but even she has to make peace with how there will always be so much more she doesn’t know; Grace doesn’t understand the reality of what she’s been enabling all these years and has to come to terms with the fact that she knew all along.

[cc-tinslebee]

descendants parent hc hookling addition 🗣️

ladies and gentlemen, Captain Harriet Hook!

for those ouat fans ;) Harriet’s mother isn’t exactly Emma Swan, but is a lot like her. Hook considers her one of his few true loves in life. She dies in childbirth because we can’t have anything nice on the Isle and Harriet’s gotta practically raise her siblings :(

HARRY 🗣️

okay… so realistically, I think Harry was from a hookup and was kinda just left on Hook’s doorstep. they actually don’t know who his mother is

BUT Harry’s got that manic behaviour that is very AIW! Queen of Hearts. …boy’s got his mama’s mental illness /hj

the underrated baby of the family, CJ Hook 🙏

Lieutenant Helga Katrina Sinclair from Atlantis is CJ’s mother! She and Hook had a bit of a rivals with benefits situation (they cannot stand each other fr 😭), and CJ is also kinda dumped on his doorstep when the whole affair ends

CJ is extremely adventurous by nature, loves swinging in to make a grand entrance, it makes sense to me that both her parents would be adventurers!

the lesson here is that James Hook has a terrible track record with keeping women around ��� shoutout to Morgie for being a really good uncle and practically raising Harriet

[thelillypad]

finally got will so now i have both the endgame party couples!!

[marvelwizardz]

[chibnalldaily]

What are you doing with [the sonic screwdriver]? Mapping the distance this object has traveled. It looks like it started over 5,000 galaxies away.

ALL OF THIRTEEN'S ERA IN ORDER, 88/?

[riversofmars]

The fact Big Finish have not made this joke yet is actually criminal.