#headcanon. harvey tinkle.

[godblooded]

harvey tinkle/the human cheat code notes (with a side of cassie kennedy):

harvey discovered she was incapable of dying when she got hit by a train (passively leaning forward until she careened off the edge) and then woke up two weeks later in a hospital not splatter all over the tracks.

yes, it was definitely sort of passive suicidal ideation. she’s been clinically depressed since childhood and she feels she’s purposeless.

new york is overrun with low key supers who no one can do anything about because suddenly, like, dude robbed a bank by stopping time and then from there it just got worse.

her best friend (harvey uses the term ‘friend’ loosely. she’s a little rough. and by that i mean a lot rough) is Cassie Kennedy, a super strength user of titanium heights who was adopted by a powerful business owner as a power move to make him more approachable.

he’s actually a fantastic dad who tries to keep cassie out of the spotlight. this ceases to be possible when her dad’s spotlight makes it impossible for her to just be a teenager. her powers activate at 16, when a boy she liked declined a date for the second time because he didn’t want to deal with how erratic it was seeing someone constantly watched and have to forgo having fun because of her restrictions.

her response is the frustrated teenage cell phone throw— except it leaves several large holes and collapses the structure of a building. this was cassie’s first experience with her powers, and from there for years it would be a coverup to be sure it never came out that she had abilities.

okay now that we’ve talked about cass— harvey is basically useless in all forms besides being a human shield. she’s like 5’4” and little and her vision is like in the 700s. she literally can only take hits. and she knows how to throw knives. kind of. it’s not even very impressive.

before this incident, harvey was living in a basic boring apartment as a receptionist at a modeling agency. she hated it. her boss seemed nice enough, and he cared hugely about her. or seemed to.

sucks to suck, her boss is a super and he’s a complete fuckhead from canada whose power is the ability to draw anything and create it physically. he was kicked out of the country and run out of his small town when a bunch of parents found out he’d been planning to utilize his abilities to experiment on their children (his cover job had been teaching). he’s evaded arrest and is extremely dangerous. the skin he is wearing is drawn on as well, and acts as a falsity so no one knows he’s a crackpot from canada who tried to splice shit together with notebook paper.

harvey’s parents, john and joanne tinkle, have both suffered gambling addictions throughout harvey’s life. when she got her first paid internship, they stole her paychecks. she never said anything. she didn’t see the point. they’d already done it when she worked for pocket change at burger king. she’s currently estranged from them. her childhood was a strange blur of casinos and living much too close to atlantic city .

harvey was so named because they’d never thought up a name for a girl, and seemed convinced that harvey could be a unisex name. harv’s somehow grown into it.

harvey feels pain from whatever wounds or injuries she’s sustained, but there’s a specific chemical in her brain that dulls it, and a specific part of her brain that works overtime to allow the invincibility. blow her head off and hit that spot in her brain, it’s the only way to kill her. otherwise she’s known to stab herself through the hand, shoot herself in the chest, etc.

she and cassie founded a private school for supers, since the growing population did not take kindly to them and gave them no solace. harvey has shit-all to do with it. it’s cassie’s vision. harvs is the person who teaches a class where kids learn to use their powers by wailing on her. frequently, it’s less difficult for harvey and more terrifying that she can’t die for the student body. that’s a little traumatizing.

cassie actively participates in supporting supers as being seen the same as all others, even if they had to stop a scheme to blow up the president because of harvey’s ex boss.

during that bout, harvey sustained serious injury to her eyes. maxime, one who’d turned on them as they enlisted his help as a new super, threw an energized brick right at her face in the dark. harvey’s reaction was to throw a knife at it and, unfortunately, this time she hit her mark. the brick dust and damage, plus her increased healing factor, sealed the debris in and essentially gave her a sped-up corneal abrasion. most of the time she has to wear sunglasses, as she’s intensely sensitive to light and develops double vision as the day goes on.

harvey is the most apathetic fuck you’ve ever met. what she does, as a super, she does solely for the purpose of belief that cassie has the potential to make something of herself and of this repulsive world she can barely stand. she just knows without her cassie won’t operate— they’ve seen some real shit together, and up until those moments in time cass was extremely sheltered.

harvey qualifies as a hipster but only because her shit’s all old stuff found in thrift shops. she’s spent her life in new york. she doesn’t give a fuck about couture and if she can get it for four bucks, she will.

she reads a lot of nonfiction and autobiographies. her favorites are the ones where she goes ‘well that’s some bullshit’ out loud. she has a low key interest in conspiracy theories. talk the jfk assassination to her.

pretty much asexual as hell, though not sex repulsed. just not interested on a personal level. as for romantic interest— this is kind of a building on in it thing because harvey’s emotionally blank but extremely sarcastic.

her ‘costume’ is a denim jacket, a domino mask, a pair of black leggings, black boots, and a t-shirt with the symbol for pi on it. why? well, pi goes on forever. so. what? it’s a pun. it’s a math pun. fuck off, i can’t die.

cassie prefers to go without a secret identity and a costume, the more outspoken one whose public identity stands out as a voice. harvey’s is because it means no one can recognize her on the street. if she had to sign an autograph or take a selfie she’d gag.

harv’s in her late 20s and cassie is in her mid 20s. cassie is absolutely the kindest, happiest, most excitable, diplomatic person and harvey is her gloomy shadow inputting useful suggestions while paying more or less no attention to anyone but cassie. and it took her months to tolerate cassie to begin with.

harvey’s interested in women and by that i mean ‘’’’’interested’’’’’ it’s such a liberal way to put it.

are you picking up what i’m putting down: tl;dr harvey annemarie tinkle cannot die, works at a school for supers, and has never given a shit about... anything in her life. she just lets others give shits for her.