Moonsong

Brianna, known publicly as , is a hero still trying to be a hero in a post heroic world.

Personality
Brianna comes from a background of privilege having her father being a congressman. She was instilled with strict, competency-demanding hierarchical mindset from the early age, leading to her becoming status-conscious and unnecessarily judgemental and having a complicated relationships with both non-conforming persons of her old team. However, she was somewhat supportive of them and almost immediately took honest liking to Byron Vera and still is very protective about him.

Faced with the straightforward supremacists in her new team, Brianna was pushed to rethink her values and behavior further. Moonsong herself has admitted that she was homophobic in the past, though it is something she has been working on.

Parents
Her father is a politician who landed on his feet after the end of the World.

The Capricorn Twins
One of her most hated person and one of her more favorite. Her hate of Tristan is enough that people can be tainted in association.

Furcate
Used male pronouns with her during their Reach time and was a source of constant unspecified grievances.

Brianna acted more thoughtful with resurrected Furcate.

Appearance
Brianna is a dark haired brunette, even as a younger teenager she was noticeably attractive. She has a small mole by her eye. She is of mixed heritage, with a Japanese father and an Italian mother.

A recurrent theme of her costume was moons, either in a familiar crescent shape or with crescents etched into disks. The costume itself is repeatedly described as dress-like, with a slit down one side.

Moonsong sometimes applies her power to herself for cosmetic effect.

Abilities and Powers
Moonsong is a gravity manipulator who can create multiple conflicting gravity fields within an area. Seemingly able to manipulate overlapping gravity environments to throw people around.

Brianna has a thinker-aspect, that allows her to perceive gravity wells.

Effects produced by her break if she loses concentration, for example, has to move with care. She can apply the power to herself while moving to make it near-silent, moving purely with her power, however, strains her attention significantly.

She was acknowledged as competent even by people who do not like her.

After The Firmament bombing her power was more rigid.

Background
Brianna triggered from the overwhelming pressure placed on her by her parents, as well as all the activities she took up at high school.

Moonsong was a member of Team Reach before the world ended.

She backed up Tristan's crusade against Paris.

When Tristan 'murdered' his brother, Brianna was distraught. However, she was suspicious of Tristan, and ultimately set him up to reveal that he had been hiding Byron the entire time.

Gold Morning
She says that she held Furcate as "he" died.

Likely participated along with everyone else.

Glow-worm
Got into contact with Capricorn again on a memorial thread for the fallen members of Reach. She was contentious with Tristan but cordial with Byron.Chat: TeamReach private chat TLDR: ''Cap and Moonsong make small talk and catch up before old animosity boil forth. They do not get along. As one example: Moonsong remarks she hoped Cap had died.''
 * It's a chat for members of Team 'Reach'. Things open with days of Moonsong logging in and making minor changes before logging out.
 * Cap joins and Moonsong knows his name: Tristan.
 * Cap makes a curious 'every time' remark and notes the dark sense of humor the universe has.
 * We learn Cap has a brother & family. Cap & his family are in the city. Moonsong is too - her dad is a politician possibly running for mayor or city council.
 * Moonsong suspects Team Reach has no place in the post Gold Morning world. She still considers herself a member of the team from a personal identity standpoint.
 * According to Moonsong, the Wardens are the 'PRT-Like' group from before. They're bringing 'lots of teams' under their general umbrella, but moonsong is skeptical if it's working.
 * Cap's compliment to Moonsong for her phrasing (in reference to both the memorial post & articulation of the points above) is met by a negative response. 'Cap: since when were you so good with words?' / 'Moonsong: Since when did you pay attention to anyone but yourself?' From here, the conversation turns tense and sour.
 * Cap alleges that Moonsong is hiding barbs in her pleasantries.
 * Moonsong asks if she needs to worry about Cap. Cap says she's helped more than enough.
 * Moonsong casually remarks she hoped Cap had died. Cap is surprised by this, commenting on Moonsong's lack of humanity.
 * Cap starts to go on a tirade. Moonsong interjects a few times before giving up and letting him continue. The thrust of it from Cap's PoV: Moonsong was quick to decide she disliked him, her real thoughts on Furcate were badly disguised, she made Furcate more miserable than anyone. She never tried to understand Furcate or him. He suggests she is or was prejudiced, then wraps up by saying 'you wedged yourself into a situation you didn’t understand and you made it so much worse. / what guts me is you think you were right to do it.'
 * Moonsong's reply: she didn't like Furcate but she loved him (readers have drawn attention to the fact that Furcate was prior referred to as 'they/them' and Moonsong uses him here, with theorizing and speculation as to why). She held Furcate at the end. For a long time. I talked to him the entire time.
 * Both hold a dim view of the others' willingness to change their mind. Cap remarks "You're admitting you're wrong? Did the world end or something?" and gets a predictably negative response, for which Cap apologizes. Moonsong echoes him almost immediately after, "You're admitting you're wrong? What happened to you these past few years?" - to which Cap gives a negative response.
 * They agree the conversation isn't good or healthy. Moonsong cuts in to ask if she needs to come after Cap, and he gets frustrated, saying no.
 * Cap tells Moon to be quiet and leaves his own memorial statement for Coiffure and Furcate. He uses a Spanish affectionate term - azúcar - for Furcate and remarks on how Furcate was 'some of the best parts of the best days' - Coiffure is the reason/role model for why Cap wants to continue being a hero. He leaves the message for others to see if they visit chat.
 * Moonsong interjects after he's done, remarking, 'I wonder every day if I should have gone further and killed you.' - Cap gets frustrated that his nice words were spoiled by that and disconnects. [...] Topic: TeamReach private chat, part II
 * A short segment to close the chapter. Cap rejoins chat. Is the mood different?
 * Cap rejoins the chat, same as before. Tribute is back (previously status unknown, as of the forum post above) and alarmed to see Cap ('fuck me')
 * Moonsong tells Tribute to calm down. ('It's fine'. Don't stress)
 * Cap's attitude may be markedly different. He greets Moonsong with 'hey moo - I wish I knew how you did that'.
 * Moonsong replies with 'Hi boo' [Readers have speculated on if this is tender or sarcastic]
 * Cap mentions he was just talking to a kind of professional.
 * Moonsong is happy to hear this, maybe? - she ends the statement with 'I think'. She suggests meeting up and catching up.
 * Cap says he just wanted to 'say hi / maybe bye', ask Moonsong not to come after him.
 * Moonsong is fine with this - so long as the professional has things covered. The closing sentiment of the chapter. - Chapter Summary by Wildbow

Early-Ward
Moonsong was present there when Victoria was interviewing for the Attendant. Moon warned Victoria against engaging with the Fallen evangelists, but was disregarded and chided.

Later Brianna met Victoria again when she was with a friend turned enemy.

Post-Fallen fall
With the attacks and later portal expansion she was able to rise higher in her team.

While guarding the portal The Shepherds apparently got a call to leave and deal with an another attacking group, and the people that they were supposed to be guarding were left open to an attack from a flanking group. This led to them getting the share of the blame for the fatalities and property damage.

Post-Goddess' Takeover
She was, apparently, maimed by Cradle's whip in one of attacks that followed after The Navigators Incident.

Post-Time Bubble Pop
Byron Vera broke up with her.

She was a representative from The Shepherds during banishment of uncontainable parahumans to another Earth.

Post-Attack on Teacher
Moonsong was present during the Second Shin Crisis. She attempted to negotiate with the other side, albeit fruitless. She was more successful during the combat, countering early attacks of Shin capes, and with the help of Capricorn - Amy's worms.

The Ice Breaks
When the ice broke, Moonsong was present with her team near Shin station when Victor triggered into a Titan. She was almost killed by it, but was saved by Scribe alongside the other Shepherds.

Moonsong and Shepherds were successful in removing the Nemean Titan from the battlefield, by forcing him into one of the cracks in reality.

Moonsong was instrumental in recovering her team and civilian saboteurs from The Firmament when Titan Skadi attacked.

Trivia

 * Wildbow has described how people can get gravity powers, it has a flavor of "losing your ground" in both literal and metaphorical sense.