Darlene Vasil

, cape name Syndicate, is a sensitive young member of The Heartbroken.

Personality
As one of Heartbreakers daughters and as such a member of a power influenced hedonistic cult, Darlene did not have a normal childhood and was ill-adjusted to larger society thanks to, among many other things, a dearth of role models.

Darlene has a quieter personality, unlike many of her siblings. She still participates in her siblings' banter, at times even getting aggressive in response to their teasing. She is fiercely loyal to her family and friends.

She has a habit of biting her thumbnail and number of other nervous ticks. She has a strong aversion to being physically restrained. She also suffers frequently from insomnia and nightmares.

Cherie Vasil
As Darlene matured she didn't consider her older sister as someone to look up to.

Candy Vasil
Can-can is her closest 'cousin'.

Chicken Little
Darlene has a crush on Chicken Little, that he was totally oblivious of until Lookout draws his attention to it. They seem to have a started comfortable relationship so far.

Kenzie Martin
Darlene was initially wary of Kenzie, as she thought that she might be getting in the way of her and Aiden. However, they soon became very close friends.

Reputation
It was Juliette who took credit for the kill of Operator Red.

Appearance
Despite her age, Darlene wears lipstick, and later adds red eye shadows as part of her formal costume. She had longer, unruly black hair typical to Heartbroken, later she cut it to chin-length.

Darlene's initial 'costume' consists only of a mask provided by Imp, designed to match Regent's. Her mask has a silver tiara pattern across the nose, forehead, and cheeks, with silver lips and black eyes.

However, her "casual" choice of clothing is very fancy, complex and feminine, if somewhat old-fashioned. She does not consider those to be a costume.

As Syndicate her costume is shiny black, with built in knee-length dress and silver tracery, and her tights have inverted scheme: silver with black tracery.

Abilities and Powers
Darlene can form connections with anybody within her range, these connections need to be anchored on pieces of anatomy her power can immediately recognize. While connected to people, she can feel everything they feel and they can feel everything she does, this allows unfettered communication, coordination, and synchronization. When connected to multiple people, everybody can sense each other, in what is labeled a network. In addition, these people can sense the locations of one another within the network.

It is unknown how far the range of the network extends once somebody is connected, but it has been seen to work over large distances.

This can be used in combat, by forcing her opponent to feel any of the pain they are inflicting on her, or that she is inflicting upon herself. It also greatly enhances her coordination in hand-to-hand fight, but only when tools are not involved.

Equipment
After starting her formal cape-career she begins carrying a knife.

Background
She was raised by Heartbreaker. Her mother was severely malnourished during the pregnancy. When she was five, her older sister Cherie left, leaving her without any immediate family except her father. She begged her father to go to school, and was eventually placed in a homeschooling network, where she was introduced to how insincere people could be.

She triggered as a consequence of her father going on a power-trip on her schooling acquaintances, sometimes after her brother's escape.

Post-Timeskip
Darlene was adopted by Imp along with the rest of her family when her father was killed.

Gold Morning
Survived Gold Morning.

Post-Goddess' Takeover
Darlene accompanied Aiden to visit Lookout in the hospital, where she became jealous of the pair's rapport. However this was also the start of her relationship with Aiden.

When Breakthrough made plans with the Undersiders to take down Love Lost, Cradle, and March, Darlene was placed on 'Yellow' team with Tattletale, Chicken Little, Capricorn, Tress, Juliette, and Amias. She single-handedly took out Operator Red during their encounter with cradles forces. She was later mutilated by Cradle along with the rest of her team. She and Lookout collaborated to help out Chicken Little.

She and Candy helped Lookout jeep and eye on the later hunt for cradle. She was overjoyed when the situation was resolved.

Post-Time Bubble Pop
Darlene started a team with Chicken Little, Candy, and Kenzie Martin.

Darlene and Candy remotely assisted Lookout during her visit to Earth Shin.

Welcomed Lookout back from Earth Shin, and was invited to the Wardens HQ. Helped out Lookout with some tinkering.

The Ice Breaks
Syndicate was alongside The Undersiders and Breakthrough during the oversight duty of Titan Oberon and Eve, but was delivered back to Wardens base once things got hairy. She still provided her coordination for The Undersiders and Breakthrough.

Darlene stayed together with The Chicken Tenders and Lookout at the Wardens' Compound during the following battles with titans, and helped kids to fend off her older siblings.

Darlene infected herself with the Victoria's plague following Aiden and with some help from Juliette.

Trivia

 * Darlene's name comes from the word 'darling,' with the suffix '-lene'. Her sister, Cherie, has a name derived from the French word 'chérie,' which translates in English to 'darling' as well.