Flechette

Lily, also known as Flechette, was a member of the New York Wards. Following Leviathan's attack on Brockton Bay, she was transferred to the Brockton Bay Wards. She eventually left the Brockton Bay Wards and joined the Undersiders under the codename Foil.

Personality
She initially hoped she could become friends with Shadow Stalker, the only other female Ward her age in Brockton Bay. She noted that her work would "drain the life out of her if she had no friends to do it with". However, she was shocked by how comfortable with violence Shadow Stalker was. Later, she professed that she was never good with the ick-factor of the job.

She kept to an exercise regimen, and spent four nights a week in the gym.

Lily is a lesbian, and was immediately attracted to Parian when they met. She was willing to risk getting into trouble with the Wards in order to befriend her.

Parian
Lily and Sabah have a very strong romantic relationship.

March
Foil and March are a part of the same cluster. March has attacked Foil several times, at one point even attempting to kidnap Parian.

Family
Lily has a complicated relationship with her family, with a lot of drama getting in the way of her ever settling down. Her sister was involved in her trigger event in fact.

Appearance and Costume
Lily is described as a Japanese-American girl, of above average height.

As Flechette= As Flechette, she wore a skintight, deep purple costume with a tinted one-way visor, quiver, and narrow platinum-white armor panels that flared out at the upper edges and tapered at the bottom - mimicking the vague shape of an arrow or darts. Her costume included metal cleats on her shoes, that could dig into the environment under the influence of her power, or help her grasp the chains her arbalest launched.

When she first debuted, her costume was blue-and-white rather than purple-and white, and described as "PRT quality" and "polished but ... boring" by March. She originally carried a sword alongside her other gear, but abandoned it for being too dangerous.

She carried a Tinker-made arbalest to launch needles three feet long – needles that carry the effects of her power, ignore gravity, and benefited from her secondary power of enhanced sense of angles and timing. The arbalest produced an unlimited supply of sturdy chain, and her needles remained fused in place where they hit, allowing her to use it as a grappling hook as well as a weapon. She also carried nine-inch throwing darts, her primary weapon before she acquired the arbalest.

After Lily became Foil, she donned a black costume with asymmetrical belts, boots, armor and gloves. She also wore a black opaque mask with silver trim at the edges. As a weapon, she used thrown blades augmented with a rapier, the same tools she originally used when she first discovered her powers.
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Powers and Abilities
Lily has the ability to temporarily imbue nonliving material with the power to ignore select laws of physics. Most notably, they could punch through virtually anything. She is not restricted to her hand when she uses this power. When imbuing an object with her power, Lily could tune the effect; for example, she could alter the time limit so that her charged ammunition would glue itself to a place (at the molecular level) if she timed the effect to wear off at the right time.Flechette wasn’t a breaker, though her power came close. Technically, she was a striker, a cape with the ability to apply some effect by touch or at point-blank range. The striker classification could include certain breaker effects as they were applied to things other than the cape themselves, but not always. Other strikers included those who used energy weapons, those who had certain kinds of superstrength that weren’t accompanied by durability and those with pyrokinesis or such that didn’t extend more than a foot around them. The way she used her ability, coupled with the intuitive understanding of angles, trajectories and timing she got from her secondary powers, gave her a low rating as a ‘blaster’. A cape with a ranged attack. She infused the three-foot length of sharpened metal that was mounted in her arbalest with her power. The more power there was in it, the less it was affected by the natural laws of the universe. Focusing more power into an object meant gravity, air resistance and general physics held less and less sway over it. She could tune it, make the effect longer lived, shorter lived or bias the effects to allow for more of one element or less of another. She could do other things, but the primary benefit, the easiest thing to do, was making her ammunition punch through anything. It would glue itself in place on impact, if she had the effect wear off at the right time, and she was very good at timing things. [...] She fired the needle through the corner of the roof just in front of her, and it passed through without resistance. It continued on to strike the rooftop below and in front of her, nestling in deep as the effect wore off, bonding on a molecular level to the material around it. The chain stretched down at a fifty degree angle, taut. - Excerpt from Sentinel 9.2 She could use her ability on her costume to reduce the effects of friction or make her shoes bite into surfaces. Another trick she could do was to make her costume frictionless and allow her to slide around.

Scion described her power as "charging objects with energy [...] the small pieces of alloyed metal unfolded, taking shape in not just this world, but all realities, at the same space and time, bristling with an effect that would sever their attachment to most physical laws." Although this is widely interpreted to mean that they extend into every Alternate Earth, this may not be the case.

Her power is ineffective against abilities that redirect her shots before they make contact. An underling of Lord of Loss shattered her shot with their All-or-Nothing crystal, though the crystal shattered as well.

In her final fight against March, Lily's charged weapon conflicted with March's version, where each nullified the other.

Lily also has an intuitive understanding of angles, trajectories and an enhanced sense of timing that she uses for aiming and applying her power. It also gave her a defensive advantage being able to dodge blows easily and even catch arrows out of the air.

Foil can destroy an Endbringer's core if it is exposed. However, once the sheer amount of damage she could do to Endbringers was realized after the Battle against Behemoth, the Endbringers changed their tactics.

Using her power on Chevalier's sword would have broken it. This is due to the fact that Flechette's ability to warp space beat Chevalier's, much like the Endbringer's core was able to withstand Chevalier's ability. It caused the Siberian to flicker and vanish on contact, and Lily would have had a similar effect on Clockblocker's field.

The Entities referred to her power as "Sting". It was originally used for fighting other Entities. They haven't found a way to improve it for aeons, but it was still useful to see how other powers interacted with it.

Background
Lily was put into the foster system at a young age, and had older siblings who weren't.

She triggered 3 years prior to the start of Worm, as part of a group trigger in New York. This trigger event occurred when she was standing at a subway platform. She was attacked from behind by one of her estranged sisters, who was homeless. Her sister tried to push her onto the tracks and in the process, other people fell onto them. Lily triggered as her sister pushed her head down, putting it in the way of oncoming trains, and seeing her sister get hit. One of her old nemeses, March, was another part of that group trigger.

At some point she joined the Wards, debuting with a video that doubled as an ad for Flechette merchandise. She had to stop using a sword with her power after it proved unacceptably dangerous. A year after joining the team she was given an advanced arbalest, rendering the signature darts she had named herself after somewhat obsolete.

Story Start
Deployed to Brockton Bay, Flechette pulled Parian away from Bambina at the cape gathering before the fight with Leviathan started.

She was able to reliably damage the Endbringer.

Post-Leviathan
Was brought onto the Brockton Bay Wards team.

Post-Slaughterhouse Nine
Almost succeeded in capturing Skitter, however, Taylor talked her way out of it and shook Lily's belief in her own righteousness.

She eventually talked about the incident with Ms. Yamada.

Post-Echidna
Defected from the Wards and started a relationship with Sabah.

Participated in the fight at New Delhi, being outfitted with her flechettes by her old teammate Jouster.

Timeskip
Lily was 'visited' twice by March while she lived in Brockton Bay. On this second 'visit' Parian was kidnapped, presumably to lure in Foil.

Post-Timeskip
Has settled into a routine as Parian's lieutenant. while preparing to deal with a hostage situation she caught up with some of her old Ward teammates. She had taken to imbuing a dagger with her effect and letting Parian incorporate it into her creations, like a fluffy scorpion.

Killed several of The Slaughterhouse Nine-Thousand and the Gray Boy clone.

Gold Morning
During her battle against Scion, Khepri noticed that he was dodging shots from Foil. When he gave up hope, Foil was able to wound him, opening a hole to his true body through which he was destroyed.

Early Ward
Stuck with the Tattletale and remaining Undersiders despite tension.

Was present during Mathers Compound Assault.

Post-Goddess' Takeover
She gets targeted by her longtime nemesis again, which forces Undersiders to mobilize and get on the run.

When Undersiders and Breakthrough joined forces, she was in a group that went after Love Lost. Later in the night she joined the combined group that captured Cradle. At the dawn of the next day Lily got leads from Narwhal, and decided to end March and her megacluster once and for all.

The Ice Breaks
Foil was alongside The Undersiders and Breakthrough during the oversight duty of Titan Oberon and Eve. During the battle of titans she stayed with the rear group, initially taking potshots at Oberon, and then enchanted chain-hook, that was delivered by Rachel and was able to seriously gouge titans' back.

Foil saved Chastity from near-lethal fall, when they were forced to retreat.

Later, she was provided with a weapon by Antares and delivered to Eve, where Foil carved out a nice chunk of titan out, and then was evacuated by Antares alongside Damsel of Distress Later in the fight she continued gouging titans, until she was recovered with Parian's glider. Afterwards she was intentionally kept away from Parian by Tattletale and was deeply shocked by the reveal of intended application of Parian's power. She moves out from Undersiders to another settlement with her old NY teammates.

Flechette participated in the initial engagement with The Simurgh alongside Rachel Lindt, unlike the majority of Undersiders, who remained in the Wardens' HQ.

Trivia

 * Her name being Lily might be a reference to Yuri, which can mean both lily and lesbian fiction in Japanese.

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