#carol dallon

[elcuervoborracho]

So, was asked to draw New Wave as they were during their Brockton Bay Brigade Days by Polar Potato and I thought it was a good time to make some of my own designs for them!

[artbyblastweave]

Independent of the rest of the image chain I was asked to post this still from last night's Wormbox session- prompt was "Brandish setting Amy's candy bar on fire"

[ewingstan]

Carol Dallon what the fuck is your problem. There wasn't even anything in the conversation that prompted this. You just started going off about how cool it would be if Amy rewired people's brain to the person Amy rewired the brain of. Like seriously what is this.

Like its already wild enough that Mark and Carol heard about whats going on in Shin and their response was "well its nice to hear she's giving Vicky space!" Like. I mean the realpolitik of it and the chance of lives saved with a treaty are something to talk about yeah but you're her parents I feel like you should have stronger feelings about your daughter becoming a warlord. And then when people bring up the vague idea of something bad happening Carol immediately launches into "well I think criminal psychiatrists should be allowed to sterilize whoever they want" or whatever the fuck like there was no prompting! Carol what's you're deal!

[downadura]

one of those post-GM time travel AUs but Taylor ends up taking Marquis' place. Brandish is chasing her around with a longsword yelling expletives.

Taylor's inner monologue is 13 paragraphs describing how Carol's boobs boob boobily while she runs

[absyyynth]

every other chapter of ward we get a new fun way that carol doomed vicky to eternal torment

[f1rewalk3r]

i feel like. collectively, as a fandom. people are really willing to woobify amy, see her for all her flawed facets, and how her trauma led her to be the extremely damaged person she is in worm (and the entirely different damaged person she is in ward). and forgive her for all that.

but that faith is not extended to victoria. simply because she is a Cop. which is like, yeah fair enough, but like. Dude. no way you’re defending the incestual trauma sister while demonizing the crooked cop trauma sister. Dude, they’re two sides of the same coin. that’s how the Dallon-Pelham Torment Nexus works.

all this to say the real villain was obviously carol and she should have been locked in a pod at the bottom of brockton bay instead of cherish

[victoriadallonfan]

So we’ve all talked about Victoria taking on the name Antares and what that symbolizes. The heart of the scorpion, a binary star system, Anti-Ares, Against War etc etc

But, as I was doing a write up about the symbolism of Gods and Greek Myth in Ward, something about Athena caught my eye:

> Athena's epithet Pallas – her most renowned one – is derived either from πάλλω, meaning "to brandish [as a weapon]", or, more likely, from παλλακίς and related words, meaning "youth, young woman".

And of course, it made me immediately think of Victoria’s mom, Brandish. An armored warrior woman who leads a team with her glowing weapons.

And funny enough, there are a lot of references to Athena killing Pallas (who is sometimes written as a separate person), on accident or on purpose:

> In one version of the myth, Pallas was the daughter of the sea-god Triton, and she and Athena were childhood friends. Zeus one day watched Athena and Pallas have a friendly sparring match. Not wanting his daughter to lose, Zeus flapped his aegis to distract Pallas, whom Athena accidentally impaled. Distraught over what she had done, Athena took the name Pallas for herself as a sign of her grief and tribute to her friend and Zeus gave her the aegis as an apology. In another version of the story, Pallas was a Giant; Athena slew him during the Gigantomachy and flayed off his skin to make her cloak, which she wore as a victory trophy. In an alternative variation of the same myth, Pallas was instead Athena's father, who attempted to assault his own daughter, causing Athena to kill him and take his skin as a trophy.

Which sounds eerily similar to the Fragile One (Victoria’s Aegis) crushing Brandish while she was distracted, and her arcs of grieving for her.

The other stories can be stretched to involve Victoria’s battle against Ophion (Pallas the Giant) and the other (Pallas the father) could be stretched a loooot more to be about Amy and how Victoria uses the “wretch” as a defense and later trophy of her own success.

Anyways, that was a fun little thought exercise I had.

[thepariahcontinuum]

I feel like on a personal level, with Cape Allegiances and history aside.....Carol 'Brandish' Dallon and Kayden 'Purity' Anders would actually probably get on really well.

And to be clear I mean that as a scathingly negative assessment of both of them.

HOA vibes all round.

[blond-jerk-tourney]

Honey Bracket: Round 3, Poll 2

The Carol image is by @cpericardium! tattletale illustration is by u/monkeyjay on reddit!

Propaganda from submitters Under Cut

Brandish/Carol Dallon

Carol tries to juggle being both a superhero and a lawyer and a mom and it is definitely the mom part that suffers... She puts a lot of pressure on her daughter Victoria, but her other, adopted daughter Amy? She never even *wanted* Amy, and Amy could tell. Which contributes to a whole lot of other really bad issues! She also cheated on her husband. When Victoria is sent to a parahuman asylum (as a result of some seriously fucked up shit) she doesn't even go see her at first, and then goes later on when Victoria is able to communicate a little again, but even so not for very long and avoids looking at Victoria (who is a hodge-podge of human and non-human body parts at this point). In Ward, Carol tries to make it up for the way she treated Amy but she does that by trying to get them together as a family again and by trying to get Victoria to reconcile with Amy (who was responsible for the previously mentioned condition). Also, she's just generally kind of bitchy :/

Carol Dallon traumatized both of her children until their trauma-based superpowers both had mind control aspects to handle isolation and abandonment issues. Everything OP said about the other fucked goes double for Carol "racist volunteer supercop" Dallon.

Brandish is a colossal bitch. She's only losing because nobody outside of Brockton Bay knows who she is.

Tattletale/Lisa Wilbourn

The ultimate high school mean girl. Has the super power of ‘cold reads your biggest secrets then hurts your feelings with them’. Grew up rich. Constantly manipulates all of her friends. Is generally manipulative. Is blond. She deserves to win this, 100%

Literal superpower is bullying people. Pissed off a good chunk of the most powerful people in the setting by being targetedly mean.

She's blonde. She's very mean

She is blonde. She is a supervillain. She uses her power to make superhumanly accurate guesses about how to best f*k with people.

TATTLETALE, SUICIDEBAIT HER !

[n0brainjustvibes]

[carol dallon voice] my daughter victoria and her sister amy

[cpericardium]

I love my gay cop daughter

[cairavende]

Worm Arc 15 interludes thoughts

Carol interlude:

Holy shit you really were just a fucking TERRIBLE mother!

Like I get it, you had lots of horrible childhood trauma. And you didn't want to adopt Amy and let yourself get bullied into it by your sister. But that doesn't give you an excuse for how you treated both your kids.

Got to see another trigger event!! Fuck yes. Give me more. I want to see more details on those higher dimensional beings.

Fucking hell seeing Marquis's powers in play is pretty crazy. Dangerous boy.

Carol was just going to full blown stab right through that closet door without even looking inside! She almost killed a child! God damn.

“No.  He’s just my daddy.  Reads me bedtime stories, makes me dinner, and tells me jokes.  I love him more than anything else in the world.  You can’t take him away from me.  You can’t!” Fucking ooof that's a line.

No seriously though this can't be the first time there has been a young child of a cape that needed to be adopted because their parent was arrested or killed. Is there really no system in place for this? Cause Amy should not be going with Carol.

Just the way through most of the present sections of the interlude that Carol thinks about her daughter and Amy. Not her daughters. And this was before she knew anything about what Amy had done. Terrible mother.

HOLY SHIT AMY OH MY GOD YOU MADE IT EVEN WORSE! And I thought flesh coffin Victoria was bad! FUCK!

Vic is going to need lots of therapy.

Fucking Carol basically deciding Amy is her daughter now only because she doesn't want to think about Victoria being her daughter. Damn. Bad mother.

And Amy is in the birdcage (Hellfire playing in my head the entire damn time I'm reading this part). I'd be rather terrified to see what she becomes except no one ever gets out of the birdcage so obviously there is no worries. She is never going to be an issues. (I shouldn't need the /s but just to be safe.)

Brian interlude:

Not much to say here, most of my thoughts on this relationship was said in my last post.

I do always love seeing Taylor from the PoV of someone else. Just shows how fucking badass she is. And kinda terrifying.

"She conveyed an eerie kind of confidence that he knew she didn’t have at her core." This is just incorrect bud. When she isn't thinking about how she is portraying herself she conveys the confidence she does have at her core. The stuff she hides from herself.

Alexandria interlude:

DATES! DATA! LORE! AHHHHHHH!!!!

Date of first Endbringer attack!!!!! Strong estimation of the number of capes in August 1986! Knowledge that Cauldron was working in 1986! Their "success" rate at the time that I can compare to now! (Success in quotes cause I don't personally think tentacles is a failure. I want to meet tentacle lady.)

Obviously I'm not a big fan of any of the Cauldron people on the surface. But I think I like Contessa within those boundaries. I technically have no idea what she can do but I'm almost positive she is some type of precog. And I kind of ship her and Alexandria.

Behemoth is fucking scary. Just light people on fire from the inside, shoot lightning. Full energy manipulation. Damn.

Alexandria is the head of the PRT! Damn! (I assume at least.)

I want to know more about the Terminus project!

And Coil is a product of Cauldron! But he doesn't know it (supposedly). Damn. They list him as an alternate to the Protectorate which is very interesting. I'm super curious what Cauldron's goal with the Protectorate was and how Coil can do the same.

Fucking Alexandria just going and grabbing people to be experimented on and it's "ok" cause they were dying. Holy shit! She even manages to make the comparison to her chemo treatment and still does it! Fuck lady. You can justify anything.

Triumph interlude:

See? Triumph is fine! So Skitter didn't do anything wrong.

Triumph is Cauldron created too. Cause he was only good enough at baseball for the minor league but not the majors. God damn fucking privileged ass rich white boy. And he describes it as a traumatic thing! God. At least later he does kinda call out that he got stuff from having a rich dad with connections.

Assault seems to be doing great! Sure was a good idea to let him join the Protectorate just cause he wanted to be a creep to this one girl. Turns out when that girl is gone he doesn't have any motivations to be a "good guy". Great decision Legend.

Robot daughter! Good to see you again! And you built yourself a bio body! Or a head at least. Still, fun!

AAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Defiant.

Definitely isn't Polearm McGee! Nope! Absolutely a different person. That also likes really long pointy sticks.

I am glad Frank Miller's Armsmaster was able to remove the restrictions on robot daughters code. She deserves freedom. Pretty much served his purpose now and she basically just keeps him around to humor him. "Oh yes I need Defiant to help me, even though I built his suit and could just control it directly myself."

Seven Dragon suits in Brockton Bay huh? I'm sure that won't result in anything next arc. What with Dragon specifically on the lookout for Taylor and Taylor planning on going with her dad to the town hall on the election.

Triumph gives in to the weight of not speaking up about Defiant being Armsmaster but then he gets mad at Prism for not speaking up! My dude! You didn't speak up, you can't be mad at her for the same thing!

Fucking LOVED the ending of this interlude, and thus this arc, though. Absolutely perfect. Just with the inherent comparison of Defiant to Mannequin, especially considering Colin called Mannequin a "monster" in his interlude and said "I'm nothing like you!" And then Triumph thinking how he could see the reason for every step Colin made and could see himself justifying each one. And the previous chapter had Taylor dealing with how far she had let herself go. All that and then ending this chapter with Triumph staring at the bodies of Crawler and Mannequin (finally confirmed dead) and the line "Maybe it was to find some clue, some sign he could watch out for, that would let him identify the monsters from the men."

Just fucking. So good. I think it's my favorite quotable arc ending so far. I might like Arc 11's ending more (it's close) but not in quotable way. "All lies" at the end of Arc 14 is a close second, but I like this one more.

[tugmydaisychain]

Sorry not sorry

[tipsytuntun]

A romantic evening at the Dallon household

[henghost]

carol dallon tiktok account:

[victoria holding a raw tuna steak and a packet of instant ramen:] yo carol! let me get a laser-seared tuna steak sandwich . . . the carol way

[carol dallon in a vaguely offensive dreadlock wig:] SHHHHOOOOOAAAAAAAA

[acertainrandomguy]

I know this was already done but I couldnt find the version I had seen before so I made my own