#amelia lavere

[kaoinim]

meeb lineup

[f1rewalk3r]

i think a lot of the problems Amy Dallon has come not from her powers, but rather from being Panacea. this is a statement that could apply to pretty much every parahuman, so let me elaborate.

Amy is Shaper. she’s not Healer, she’s not Fixer, she’s Shaper. to be Panacea, the cure all, i think goes against the fundamental nature of her shard. it’s theorized in wormfic (not sure if canon or WOG) but i wonder if the horrific burnout she experiences is in part, due to being The Cure All rather than The Shaper. i mean, leet’s shard fucks with him, right? is it possible there’s something similar going on? at least by late-ward with Hunter we see that she’s Very Obviously failing to be The Cure All.

but she wants, so desperately, to be The Cure All. this is due to the structure of The Dallon-Pelham Torment Nexus being that perfect american aryan (yuck.) nuclear family. (obviously it’s fucking not. and only Carol wants it to be. but work with me here.) thing is, The Shaper doesn’t fit in with this perfect family image. The Cure All does. so all told, most of Amy’s problems originate from being Panacea, rather than being a Lavere.

Where am I going with this? Simple, of course. Observe:

amelia lavere riley davis swap au is this anything

[victoriadallonfan]

Amy never washes her hands.

She claims it's because her power constantly acts like a sterilizer.

But it's really because she enjoys seeing the looks on their faces when she tells them that mid-handshake.

[rainof5]

Alright, might as well. Amy Dallon for red.

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

amy: we're out of bacon

riley: i'll make more

amy: wait no

riley: wait just one sec

amy: riley please just-

riley: just need the stem cells, i think i left them in-

amy: RILEY PLEASE JUST LET ME GO TO THE STORE LIKE A NORMAL PERSON

[mjlol52]

amelia claire lavere

[meowmeow1meow]

when ur annoying sister tryna take u places

[kaftan]

I also think it’s pretty narratively Neato how all these parts of her identity converge in the birdcage; she’s a healer (but not really panacea), glory girl’s sister (but not really a dallon), amelia (but not really lavere). give it up for multitudesss

this may or may not make a lick of sense but my approach and the one that makes most sense to me when it comes to analyzing amy is to start at panacea, double back to amelia lavere, and then proceed to amy dallon, instead of going for the obvious route and starting at the last point. panacea is huge. panacea, not ‘amy dallon,’ is the identity where she’s forced to rest all the weight of herself (up until she sheds it). i don’t think it’s possible to understand what it means to “be” amy without first getting incredibly familiar with the expectation that goes into her cape identity (and other people on here, I think, have talked about the nightmare of civilian/cape identity blurring under new wave). it’s a level of moral responsibility above and beyond what anyone else in her life has to handle. there is no existing equivalent to it. to stop being panacea is to let the pooling blood accumulate until it fills you up to your lungs or you transform into something monstrous and gilled. like.

and when you peel that away, get a look at the girl underneath the healer, yes, you see amy dallon, but amy dallon very simply wouldn’t exist without amelia lavere — it’s not just chronology, it’s not just her first identity or the name she used to have, it’s the ghost rattling around in her bones and Fucking It All Up. it fills every silence in her adopted home, hangs behind every unspoken accusation, marks every subtle and unsubtle ostracism. it’s the second obligation of blood after what she does as panacea. that’s what sets the stage for amy dallon, and that’s what creates the end result that people come face to face with: the unwanted, underloved girl clawing like a kitten up the leg of the only person who’s never swatted her away, molded into an irritable, unpersonable teenager whose bottled-and-shaken romantic longing explodes into a gory mess of heartbreak, confusion, and disgust. that’s how you get from point A to point B with her. to me.

[skitter-queen]

so ive been getting a lot of "flak" about this lately, and i'd just like to clarify: YES, i am a member of the Dallon family. but NO, this does NOT mean i support my family's actions, especially not the actions of one Amelia "Bedelia" Claire Lavere Dallon, and ESPECIALLY not the actions of my bitch mom, and ESPECIALLY!!!! not the actions of my loser dad Mark who spends all day playing world of warcraft and not even winning the raid. and not vicky, either, shes like a cop or something? idk. what im saying is, for the LAST time, me and my sister Trincy are staying OUT of all this family drama!!!

[kyliafanfiction]

As I may have mentioned before, I have seen a number of fanfics where the author describes Carol as Amy's 'Stepmom' which is... not how words work. I can only hope that it's an issue of an author not having English as a First Language and screwing up that phrasing, because otherwise, it makes no goddamn sense for anyone to make that mistake.

But I ran into another fic that did it today, and that gave me an idea. A cursed idea, but then, all the best ones that involve Vicky and Amy in any form are cursed, aren't they?

In an AU where New Wave isn't an unmasked team (Maybe they're still called the Brockton Bay Brigade, but I like the name New Wave more, so let's stick with that), as far as the public knows, Carol Dallon is just a really good lawyer, known for being aggressive in the courtroom. She has a daughter, Victoria, and a husband, Mark.

No one knows that she's Brandish, that her husband is Flashbang, that her sister is Lady Photon, etc. But one day, when Vicky is... let's say 12 or 13, Flashbang dies. Maybe it's an Endbringer, maybe it's a battle against some group like the Teeth or some other villain that doesn't care about the general custom of not killing other capes in fights, who knows.

Carol mourns, but after a year, maybe two, she meets a man. Handsome, charming, rich, invested in making the community better. Patrick Lavere. Good man. Has a daughter, Amelia, that he absolutely dotes on. Despite herself, she starts falling for him, they start dating, Amelia and Vicky seem to be okay with it and get along well and then they remarry and Carol and Vicky move into Patrick's very nice house near Captain's Hill or wherever.

And now, Carol really is Amelia's stepmom.

But of course, somehow, through the dating, Carol never finds out that Patrick is actually the crime lord supervillain Marquis, or that his daughter Amelia is the cape Duchesse (to borrow a name from @mechakingghidorah100-blog's fic The Problem with Shipping).

And to make it more fun, Amelia and Patrick don't know that Carol is Brandish or that Victoria is Glory Girl.

(Don't examine too closely how no one figures it out, it's a cursed fic idea :P )

Amelia, being gay, and Victoria, being, you know, Victoria *gestures at her* develops a crush on Victoria, which is less of an issue for her psychologically because it's not the same level of 'I'm a freak' to crush on a stepsister you never even knew until you were 14/15/16, (still not necessarily 'super normal', obviously, and Amelia would presumably not intend to act on it all things being equal) and she doesn't have most of the same baggage that she'd have from being raised from Carol in canon about her moral standing (not that she'd be either perfectly well adjusted or unrecognizable, she's still Amy and Marquis, actually loving parent aside, is still Marquis). Maybe throw in some Glory Girl and Duchesse rivalry for fun, or maybe they strike up an unusual caped friendship... even while Brandish and Marquis fight. There's a lot of places it could go.

More of a premise than a full fic plot concept but the idea of a fic where Carol really is Amy's stepmom just burrowed into my brain and I at least had to spit it out here for the rest of you all to see :P

[f1rewalk3r]

finishing up ward arc 16 interludes and nah. no way. i have Thoughts on amy. idk how anyone can stand her dude. she’s pathetic and not in a fun way. zero self awareness. “oh im a good person” while she sexually assaults victoria AGAIN. she can’t even be bothered to be evil. like i would have loved to see s9!amy because duh. her and bonesaw would be kino siblings. but no. she doesn’t want to go crazy. and unleash one of the most ridiculous powers in all of the parahumansverse. like if she was actually evil or self aware like skitter i could root for her but instead she’s just lame. especially the whole “i didnt do anything to victoria that wasn’t me it was somebody else” LIKE CMON GIRL AT LEAST OWN IT. or her interaction with jessica. grrrrrr the unbridled narcissism makes me FUME

[lakesbian]

alec vasil's intense and extremely embarrassing onesided rivalry with amelia lavere

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

i was thinking about amy and rileys relationship and them helping each other cope with their trauma for kink and like. its very amusing bc for amy it would be the body modification and incest rp stuff whereas for riley like. the very normal act of being called a good girl reminds her of the most traumatic night of her life

[mjlol52]

i like amy dallon