Colette Demsky

Chesterfield Act Registry of the Expressive Database

File #11 Feb 2018 06:16

Summary

Name Colette Elizabeth Demsky Aliases Colette Elizabeth Nichols Status Registered Expressive (Class C Kinetic) (LE) Ability Photokinesis Gender Female Birthdate October 31, 1991 Age 29 Height 5' 6" Build Athletic Eyes Green Hair Black Residence 64 S. 4th Street, Williamsburg Employment NYPD-SCOUT Parents Judah Demsky (Adoptive Father, Deceased) Richard Nichols (Father, Deceased; Disowned) Evangeline Nichols (Mother, Deceased; Disowned) Siblings Nicole Varlane (sister) Marital Status Tamara Brooks (partner) Tasha Renard-Lazzaro (partner) Children None First Scene Leave the Past Behind Last Scene Profile Colette Demsky has retired from Wolfhound and now protects the Safe Zone as an NYPD-SCOUT Detective.

portrayed by Wallis Day

Background

In December 2011 Pollepel Island fell to the US military, and with it the dreams of the Ferrymen were crushed under the boot of a violent authoritatian regieme. Colette was moved with the remainder of the Ferrymen survivors to Canada, and over the weeks that followed was forced to watch in horror as the early tragedies of the Second American Civil War began to play out. All around her, though, the Ferrymen were buzzing like bees whose hive had been struck. Some wanted revenge, others were unable to let go and resettle. She knew something was coming.

The severe injuries Tasha sustained in the escape from Pollepel left Colette with few options. She'd promised to stay by her partner's side through thick and thin, and when the first wave of Ferrymen went off to join the fight back in the US, she stayed to care for one of the most important people in her life. For a time, it was just her, Tamara, Tasha, and Nicole in an unconventional family unit. During this time, Nicole has her child and Colette — for a while — seems like she might be able to settle in and live a normal life at great distance from the conflict beyond.

In July of 2012, Avi Epstein returns to the Ferrymen safe house in Canada where Colette is living. Though Avi is there to talk to the safehouse operator about requisitioning aid, Colette overhears his empassioned stories about massacres, cities on fire, and the absolute mayhem happening in the US and the lives that have been lost.

Colette makes the decision to leave and join the conflict, but doesn't abandon Tasha and Tamara to the fight. She discusses the situation with them, explains her need to help, and how her ability could save others. Finally, she approaches Epstein and is brought with him to the theater of war. It's here Colette is introduced to Avi's comrades in arms, one of whom is none other than Colette's infrequent self-defense instructor and Ferry founder Hana Gitelman.

At the onset of her involvement in the war, Colette serve as battlefield triage for three months, assisting field medics in getting people in and out of dangerous situations unnoticed while maintaining an essential training regimen under Hana's tutelage. In time, Colette's role transitions to that of a strike team member working in conjunction with Epstein and Gitelman. Their operations take them far afield, linking up with other freedom fighters and striking at critical military infrastructure.

By May 2013 Colette has fully moved into a combat-oriented role in the resistance, and on a trip back to Canada to visit Tasha and Tamara, is followed back to the front lines by Nicole who leaves her daughter in Ferry care. Colette and Nicole fight side by side for a time, sisters on the front lines of battle, with Epstein and Hana's fledgling paramilitary force. After several close calls on particularly perilous assignments, Colette urges Nicole to step back from direct field work and move into an advisory role where strategy — Nicole's personal acumen — comes more into play. Remarkably, Nicole agrees, but Colette refuses to join her and remains on the battlefield.

From July 2013 to November 2013 Colette trains extensively with Hana and her rotating team of freedom fighters, honing a style of opportunistic combat that incorporates her ability and its potential to deprive others of their visual senses. By December, Colette is participating in strikes into territory occupied by supporters of Mitchell's regime.

On November 24th, Colette and her strike team are caught in the EMP while on operations in Utah and cut off from all communications. During their attempt to escape the EMP zone, Colette's strike team leader, a former US army Lieutenant named Casey Smith, is killed in am ambush. Colette manages to pull herself together and lead the survivors of Smith's team out of Utah and as far as Colorado where they are able to get back in touch with Hana.

Colette spends the final weeks of the war holding down in Colorado with local resistance fighters attempting to ensure military installations there aren't reclaimed by Mitchell's forces. By February 2014 the war is ostensibly over, but fighting continues across the country. Colette takes a leave of absence to return to Canada for a month, reconnecting with Tasha and Tamara and reminding herself of the people she's fighting to protect. Around this time, Colette also offers testimony to investigators beginning inquisitions into what would become the Albany Trials.

In March of 2014 Colette is informed that Hana has uncovered leads on the locations of several former Humanis First and Institute operatives, and is given an opportunity to return to the fighting. Reluctantly, she separates herself from Tasha and Tamara's lives and returns to the forefront of the conflict, fighting alongside what would become Wolfhound.

Colette spends the next nine months moving between operations with Wolfhound and brief respites back to spend time with Tasha and Tamara and — at Tasha's inststence — registers her ability after the instatement of the Chesterfield Act.

Through early 2015, Colette is once again off on assignment with Wolfhound as it is formally recognized by the nascent Praeger administration. When the formation of the Safe Zone is announced, Colette uses the time between Wolfhound missions to reconnect with Tasha and Tamara, though her relations with the latter are strained as Tamara tries to advocate for Colette to take herself on a less violent path, to let the fighting end. Colette, still not having found closure for the loss of Judah or her time with the Institute, says some hurtful things she almost immediately rergrets. Their relationship frays, and Colette becomes distant, returning to Wolfhound when regular operations resume. Colette cuts herself off from people, misses her opportunity to speak at the Albany Trials, but submits an absentee testimony with Tasha's assistance months after the fact.

From 2015 to 2016, Colette throws herself back into the fight with full force. She is given command of Strike Team Wendigo and during this time Wolfhound captures a half-dozen high ranking former DoEA and Mitchell Administration operatives and summarily executes nearly as many Humanis First cell commanders, bringing a handful in for trial — those with the heaviest material evidence against them.

As 2017 begins, Colette has earned a reputation as a reliable and dedicated member of Wolfhound, seeing the team's members as extended family. Much of this connection, Colette feels she owes to Hana, who took in an inexperienced and emotionally unstable young woman and molded her into someone responsible, someone who held to her word, someone who could be an inspiration to others.

Through most of 2017, Colette bounces back and forth between her Wolfhound responsibilities and time with Tasha, growing more distant with Tamara over that intervening year. In June, she is a part of Wolfhound's team that apprehends longtime fugitive Howard LeMay — seen as a feather in Wolfhound's cap — but sets up the loss of everything she's worked so hard to achieve.

In July, Avi Epstein is apprehended by the FBI while on a trip to the Safe Zone under the charge of murdering a SESA agent. Colette immediately sees this as a return to the "old school" of the US Government and proposes a rescue mission, but the delicate nature of Wolfhound's activities and what appears to be a legitimate case being build against Epstein makes authorizing an action like that difficult.

Four months pass with Epstein in captivity, and while Hana monitors the government's construction of a case, Colette is thrown back to early 2011 and Judah's capture. As Hana attempts to dissect the how's and why's of Avi's actions, Colette goes rogue in November and leads a one-person attack on the Liberty Island Detention Center to rescue Epstein. There, she discovers Epstein about to be executed by government agents, and carves a bloody path out of the facility with Avi in tow.

When they return to Wolfhound command, Hana is understandable incensed and strips Colette of her command of Strike Team Wendigo. Colette leaves Rochester, furious at herself and the situation, and spends two weeks backpacking through upstate New York on her way back to the Safe Zone. During that time, she's forced to come to terms with her own psychological trauma and the parts of herself that never recovered from what the Institute did to her.

Colette returns to the New York Safe Zone in late December, looking to make amends to both her family, and to Wolfhound.

Psych Profile

Colette has come out of her shell in the intervening years since 2011. She is a more confident and self-assured woman who believes both in herself and in those around her. Thanks to the strong support network of the Ferrymen and the love of both Tamara and Tasha, Colette has overcome much of her childhood traumas.

Though the world has hardened her, Colette is not a jaded person. While is slow to trust strangers, and especially slow with government-adjacent officials, Colette prefers to find the good in the people around her. She's live most of her adult life moving from one conflict to another, and has rarely known peace. When she finds it, when she has time for it, she embraces it.

In life, Colette celebrates whenever possible. Be it a victory with Wolfhound celebrated by the strike team getting a matching tattoo, or celebrating love by spending time with the two women most important to her. Colette is about living in extremes, and enjoying the world she was able to help save.

But against those who hurt her, especially people who threaten or harm those she cares about, Colette regresses. There's a decidedly dark, violent streak deep down in Colette like a wild animal that's been tamed, but is still spooked by loud noises. Against her enemies, Colette is ruthless and relentless, going out of her way, making mistakes, barging like a bull in a china shop headlong into a problem. When it gets personal, she lets it get extremely personal.

Evolved Ability

Colette's Photokinesis
Talent	Taught By	Details	First Seen
Illumination Control	Conrad Wozniak	Without much concentration, Colette can raise or lower the levels of ambient light in her immediate surroundings. She has not focused on an area of illumination larger than fifteen feet yet, but it was postulated by Conrad that her powers have an exceptionally high potential threshold. Colette is able to brighten an area by concentrating the available light, or darken an area by displacing the light to another location nearby, effectively allowing her to make an area of shadow surrounded by an area of brighter illumination by pushing the light to the "edges". A new facet to this ability prevents Colette from being impacted by sudden changes in light level. Bright lights and the like have no negative impact on her ability to perceive, as she is capable of changing her perceptions of light around her reflexively and faster than a biological eye can.	In Darkness
Light Concentration	Self-Taught	Colette can further concentrate light into more focused effects. She cannot generate it, but may collect and focus the light that is around her. The focused output, typically directed from one or both hands, is a two-inch-diameter beam with a maximum range of ten feet in optimal conditions. The quality of the beam, obviously, depends upon her environment. Under 'normal' levels of illumination — indoors, early morning, sunset, full moon — she can create a beam of sufficient intensity to temporarily blind a person, rather like shining a flashlight into their eyes at midnight. This momentary blindness may last for as much as five or ten minutes; the ensuing disorientation, likely a slight bit longer. Weaker lighting — a clear night, twilight, dimly lit indoors — lets Colette gather enough light to see well by, but no more. Stronger illumination, the sun at high noon or equivalent artificial lighting, can be focused to a point that (with a bit of time) ignites paper. This level of output can also be used to blind someone's sight for a period of hours to days upon exposure. Focusing light is not difficult in and of itself; the effect can be maintained for several hours, but requires some degree of /mental/ focus throughout in order for that to happen.	Light on Water, Part II
Color Manipulation	Conrad Wozniak	By manipulating how light reflects off of a surface, Colette is able to change the color of objects she touches or whole areas around her. A fifteen foot area of effect is her greatest achievement so far without causing herself physical trauma. On the outside of her ability range, she was able to manipulate color over sixty feet around her, but it took a severe physical toll on her body. The color manipulation only lasts while she is within the area, and only while she concentrates directly on the effect.	In Darkness
Invisibility	Conrad Wozniak	By bending light around herself, Colette can plunge herself into total darkness, effectively shunting out all visible light from her location, rendering her invisible. She is still physically present in the area, and she is unable to see due to no visible light reaching her at all. However, Colette is unable to bend spectrum of light that cannot be seen by the human eye. As such, infra-red goggles and heat sensing equipment can still detect her while invisible.	In Darkness
Photokinetic Illusions	Conrad Wozniak	By applying the above three abilities together, Colette is able to create silent figment images that at current look like crude and finger painted three-dimensional imagery. She has fine detail control down to the level of her artistic capability, which is limited to very obviously unreal images. Colette has yet to learn how to render photo-realistic images, and may be incapable of such feats.	Paint Me Strength
Laser Generation	Tavisha	A further enhancement of her light concentration talent, with little effort Colette is able to concentrate the ambient light around her into laser light that is the approximate strength of a surgical laser. With concentration she can amplify the laser's strength to sear straight through flesh and scar bone, out to a range of 60 feet, by creating whip-like tendrils of bent light. Prolonged exposure to the laser can cut through bone. With direct and dedicated concentration, Colette can change the intensity of her lasers to act like a cutting torch, allowing her to cut through materials like metal and stone at the same speed as an industrial laser torch. This function has a 1 foot range and Colette cannot maintain other abilities while using the amplified laser abilities.	The Spiral's Completion, Part II
Light Sense	Self-Taught	After having lost her eyesight in an attempt to utilize her laser generation, Colette soon discovered that she has the ability to feel visible spectrum of light more than just with tactile sensations. Colette no longer needs functional eyes to see, and has been legally blind since November 2011. Colette uses her entire body as a light-sensing organ, and can see with normal 20/20 acuity in any direction around herself at all times, but not all directions simultaneously. She is still limited to a normal human's field of vision, though she is working on expanding that range.	Is It Dark For You?
Flickering	Hana Gitelman	After joining Wolfhound, Colette underwent considerable combat training at the direction of Hana Gitelman. Colette's first newly developed talent allows her to emulate the effects of one half of a flash-bang. By concentrating, Colette can rapidly alter the levels of light and darkness out to a 100 foot radius, creating a blinding, irregular rhythm of strobing light that overstimulates eyes and causes nausea, headaches, and confusion as long as it persists.	Fly Blind
Light Bending	Self-Taught	Based off of Conrad's original postulations on her capability, Colette has taught herself how to see around corners. This ability first manifested as her being able to create flat panes of bent light that "reflects" back light like a mirror, related to the way her invisibility ability functions. Colette can now also bend visible light coming to her eyes, allowing her to snake her vision around corners and to more distant vantage points out to a range of 200 feet. However, she must remain stationary in order to use this ability (though she can use it while invisible, but not while maintaining other aspects of her photokinesis).	Fly Blind
Physical Limitations	Colette has a specific physical limitation to her power. Over-exertion of abilities she is not familiar with, and pushing herself beyond limits already established causes undue physical harm in the form of blood vessels rupturing in her eyes. This started as blindness, which she adapted to overcome, but further pushing of her limitations can result in cerebral bleeding, hemorrhaging, and death.

Appendices

Partners

Colette's adult romantic life is dedicated to two women with whom she shares a mutual partnership. Tasha and Tamara are enduring beacons of hope and adoration in Colette's life. She lives for them and the life they've built together in the aftermath. Though they are not legally married, Colette considers both of them life-long partners.
	Words alone can't explain their relationship. Colette is inexorably tied to Tamara in the way planets are to the sun. But she is also forever in the seer's orbit simply because she chooses to be, thereby predestining her relationship. The unconditional love that Tamara has for Colette is reciprocated through the intensity of their relationship and the deeply woven history they share. The two have been together for just shy of a decade, since Colette was a teenager, and they have survived tumult both personal and societal, saved one-another's lives, and always returned to each other no matter the distance. Colette trusts Tamara in the way other people profess faith in a higher power, and loves her deeply.
	Colette met Tasha through their work with the Ferrymen in 2010 during the height of the H5N10 crisis. She was immediately drawn to Tasha and after saving her life in a raid for medicine gone awry, fell madly in love with the young artist. Tasha and Colette connect in a way that is symbiotic and effortless. They share emotions easily, intensely, and intimately. They are remarkably in-synch with one-another's feelings and have dedicated themselves to each other time and again. Tasha is Colette's overflowing capacity to love. She is reciprocal, complimentary, and enduring. Colette loves Tasha ferociously and with a fiery intensity that has not faded over the years.

Family

Family isn't blood. Colette's view on family is that someone is family by the way they treat others, not by who they're related to by blood. Her blood family — all either dead or disowned, save for her sister — might as well have never existed from her point of view. The family Colette has now are people she'd go to the ends of the earth for.
	Father. Judah Demsky is in all respects Colette's only parent. After having disavowed her birth surname of Nichols and her biological parents, Colette has taken her adoptive father's name and molded her life around the ideal of becoming a woman Judah would be proud of. Colette will never be able to forgive herself for the role she played in Judah's death, and carries that guilt with her like chains. Judah is one of a handful of paternal figures in her life whom she trusted and loved, and the adoration she has for her deceased father is beyond compare. She hopes, one day, to make herself worthy of his memory and sacrifice and will forever be living in his long shadow.
	Nicole and Colette's relationship is thoroughly complicated. Nicole is the only anchor Colette has left to her childhood, a period of serial abuse from both of her biological parents in their own uniquely horrible ways. While Nicole is a window into her painful past, she's also an expression of how Colette saved herself and how she became the woman she is today. Colette loves Nicole, intensely, and is protective of her in the same way she is Tamara and Tasha, though often times less overtly. It's Nicole who saved Colette from her abusive biological parents, Nicole who helped her overcome her own trauma — in emotionally unhealthy but necessary ways — and Nicole who ultimately prevented their horrible father from ever being able to hurt either of them again. Since the war, Colette has become more the sister to Nicole that she's wanted to be, a loving and reliable family member who always has Nicole's back and will support her with unconditional love and admiration.
	Nicole's daughter Pippa is the first new member of their biological family. Colette sees in her young niece the potential for Colette and Nicole to both live an ordinary life vicariously through her. Colette sees Pippa as a representation of her own childhood and innocence and is extremely protective of her and the people who Nicole allows around the child. Though she trusts Nicole's parenting implicitly, she does not trust the world not to be full to the brim with cruelty. Colette strives to be the best woman she can be for Pippa, and never misses a birthday, comes to visit as much as she can, and hopes to ensure that her niece has the life she never could.
	Adel Lane isn't related to Colette by any blood-ties, but in a future that never was, Colette was a mentor and guide to her. In the here and now, Colette sees Adel somewhere between daughter and sister. Though Colette would prefer the two be peers, Adel's deferential treatment and adoration of Colette makes their dynamic inherently more maternal. This, furthered by Colette's growing maternal instincts and regret over her own desires to have a child all her own, have allowed Adel to foster a very complicated but deeply personal connection. As a family member, Colette sees Adel as someone who she raised right and often leans on Adel to "remind" her of the way she was in Adel's time, so as to take those lessons of nurturing and apply them to her relationship with Pippa as her niece grows older. Adel is treated like family and is welcomed into Colette's home for holidays and other special occasions.
	She may never tell her to her face, but Colette sees Hana Gitelman as a maternal figure and an ideal of who she wants to be in the future. In Colette's eyes Hana is a powerful and collected woman who has deep emotional reserves and a capacity to be beautiful, compassionate, and nurturing but often conceals that behind a professional detachment and distance. Whether what Colette sees in Hana is projection or not, she sometimes subtly angles their interactions into maternal directions. Colette is remarkably open with Hana about personal issues, when appropriate, and trusts Hana's judgment in all matters. If nothing else, Colette seeks Hana's approval and recognition in lieu of ever having a real maternal figure in her life. In the years they have had a mentor-pupil role Colette has come to love her like family, even if she has never openly admitted it. Though Colette worries that her desire to affect a parental relationship with Hana draws additional and undesired frustrations from Hana's biological daughter…
	Noa Gitelman is the sister Colette wishes she had. Someone her age, someone with similar interests and outlooks. But Noa is more of a cipher to Colette than even Hana. Their relationship is further complicated by the power dynamic of their work roles in Wolfhound, and Colette's relationship with Hana. It's been challenging for Colette to express herself openly around Noa, even if she feels a familial connection with her, especially through their shared friendship with Adel.
	No one understands Colette's relationship with John Logan, least of all Colette. By all rights he's the kind of person she should be hunting down to dump in a prison for somewhere between a decade and eternity. But for whatever inscrutable reasons, Colette has only ever come out of interactions with Logan for the better. She somehow trusts him and sees his (not)relationship with Hana as a healthy and admirable step. Colette is always finding ways to get the two together, and make Logan something like an unspoken uncle much to Nicole's eternal chagrin.

Wolfhound

Wolfhound is a second family, blood by a different means. In Hana's organization, Colette found an outlet for the rage she'd been accumulating her entire life. Rage at biological parents that catastrophically failed her, rage at a system that abandoned her, rage at a world that hated everything she was. The outlet, the knife-point for that, came in her training with Hana Gitelman and the development of Strike-Team Wendigo. In the Hounds, Colette finds both camaraderie and a second life lived apart from the one she shares with Tamara and Tasha.
The Major
	As the leader of Wolfhound, Hana's dual relationship to Colette is cemented as mentor and superior officer. Balancing that equilibrium is challenging, for all that Colette projects (and in some respects receives) a paternal connection to Hana, her position as the Major means there is a line that cannot be crossed. Colette has the utmost respect for Hana, often times misguided in a form of hero worship, but never enough that she is unquestioning of Hana's orders. But she trusts Hana's judgment implicitly, and the two have saved each other's lives on more than one occasion during the war. That she failed Hana so spectacularly in her brazen attack on Liberty Island is perhaps the single greatest regret of her adult life.
Epstein
	Avi has been in Colette's life longer than most men tend to hang around. In many respects, Epstein should be a paternal figure to Colette, but his inability to connect with her on anything more than a professional level, and the extent to which she saw him disintegrate during his time with the Ferrymen means there is always a tarnish on his presence. But Epstein remained a constant balancing force in Colette's life, a voice of reason when she flew off the handle, or that one last pat on the back she needed to get her going. He doesn't represent the same discipline that Hana does, but something similar.
Strike-Team Wendigo
	For all that Colette treats Adel like family, she tries to keep the same professional objectivity with Adel in the field as Hana does to her. Adel is Colette's student, in spite of Colette being the junior in this arrangement. But because of their temporally asynchronous relationship, their dynamic is by design unusual. Colette sees Adel as a talented soldier, one with great potential and someone who would benefit from the same regimented guidance Hana gave to her, though Colette sometimes doubts that she has Hana's level of certainty and control to refine Adel in the same way. Regardless, Colette trust Adel with her life and — in spite of the circumstances leading to it — is proud that she has become Wendigo's second lieutenant.
	Though it has never outwardly been stated, Colette recognizes a competitive nature undercutting her relationship with Noa. The two both vie for Hana's approval in similar ways, but it has never driven a true wedge between them. Colette recognizes Noa as an extremely talented peer, and at times feels guilty that she was initially given leadership of Wendigo instead of Noa. Part of Colette wonders if she was given command of Wendigo not because she was the most talented, but because Hana did not want to seem to unfairly favor Noa. In many ways, Colette unfairly compares herself to Noa's accomplishments, and sees her as a metric to live up to, which muddies the waters of their relationship.
	Huruma is older, wiser, deadlier. The two don't share much in common with regards to their personal lives, but Huruma is a consummate professional and the most seasoned soldier on Wendigo. Colette sees her as both a mentor figure and a source of wisdom, though she fears leaning on Huruma as a resource too much out of worry that she will seem too inexperienced and lose the empath's loyalty — an entirely unreasonable fear, but one of many she possesses. The one tie that binds them is, ironically, Colette's Niece Pippa whom Huruma acts as both den mother to and protector. They share a warm relationship and Colette is strangely comfortable around Huruma, but Colette keeps her just at arm's length.
	Berlin Beckett is one of the few people Colette considers a friend, and only a friend. There's a wiser-than-her-years quality to Berlin that made it easy for the two to become close, and Colette sees Berlin as a peer first and subordinate second. In training Berlin to join Wendigo, Colette helped the younger woman understand some of the limitations of her ability and how it would work in conjunction with her own, and has continued a subtly mentor-like relationship that is ham-strung by Colette's desire to not alienate Berlin in a commander/subordinate manner. Maintaining their friendship requires diminishing what she could offer Berlin, and Colette consciously makes that decision for largely selfish reasons.
Amarok
	Fracnois is, and may always be, something of a mystery to Colette. He is an enigmatic and — by all accounts — impossibly old soldier who has fought in wars for most of his life. Colette doesn't talk to Francois much on a personal level, though as a professional she sees him as potentially the most cunning soldier and tactician in Wolfhound's arsenal, though she realizes his gift is tempered by the kind of traumatic emotional baggage that fighting for so many decades can create. She respects and trusts Francois, but is awkward and tries to remain professional around him at all times.
	Curtis represents every meat-headed soldier Colette had to endure during the war. Every jack-booted Marine who second-guessed her ability to defend herself or contribute in a meaningful way to the war effort. But that unconscious bias is something Colette is struggling to overcome. Curtis makes Colette nervous, in that he's a strong masculine figure, and that his intentions are often a cipher to her. He rarely seems to let his hair down, and is guarded in ways that makes it hard for Colette to get to know him as hard as she might try sometimes.
	Years after the fact, Colette learned that it was Lucille who carried her out of Mount Natazhat and to safety. The two spent considerable time together during the war, including an overly long and perilous escape from Utah to Colorado in the wake of the nuclear EMP. Lucille and Colette bonded considerably in that time, and Colette has regularly worked with the biokinetic to help her understand and control her power in the wake of the nerve damage she received during the fall of Pollepel Island. Lucille and Berlin represent Colette's two closest friends in Wolfhound (that aren't also family to her) and she confides in Lucille in ways she might never with others. Colette also has not quite been able to pin down the tangled web of familial relationships between herself and Lucille, but she thinks they're somehow related thanks to Pippa. Third cousins? Who knows?
	Amarok's second-in-command is too distant to be someone Colette has been able to get to know. For all that Claire is a by-the-books soldier, she's also an isolated one much as Ash is. Colette sees the thinner bond that Amarok has among its members, and she sees Claire as something of a mystery. She knows that Claire and Hana have a past, but have never spoken at length about it. On the field, Claire is a trusted and valuable asset, but off the field she's like an assault rifle; Hard to hold a conversation with.
	Devon Clendaniel joined Wolfhound not long after Colette did, though the two have never been particularly close. Devon's kind heart and good nature earns Colette's respect, but they've never connected personally in the ways she's been able to with the members of Wendigo. In spite of this, Colette sees Devon as trustworthy and capable and thinks that one day he'll become Claire's replacement as Amarok's lieutenant when Francois eventually retires and Claire assumes command.
Keelut
	Rue is an unpredictable giraffe. While Colette is pleased with her training and her appointment as Lieutenant of Strike-Team Keelut, Rue's personal antics can sometimes grate on Colette. The two share a decent camaraderie, but it never became quite the friendship she has with Lucille and Berlin. Though on a professional level she trusts Rue's ability to take orders and execute them to the letter, she sees Rue as sometimes reckless and wonders if this is what Hana feels like when she looks at Colette. It's unusually sobering.
	Dearing doesn't like Colette, and he's made that much subtly clear to the former lieutenant on multiple occasions. While not outright undercutting Colette's authority, Dearing sees her as young, inexperienced, and unfit for leadership roles. Though, Dearing may not be wrong about that, depending on who you ask. But Colette sees him as constantly challenging her when off the field, and Dearing has made zero effort to socialize with Colette under any circumstances. She prefers to keep him at arm's length, outside of required professional operations.
Facilities
	Scott Harkness will always and forever call Colette kid, and she'll never catch up to the old goat in age. Scott was one of the first Ferrymen Colette ever met in her time with them, and she views Scott with the same deferential respect now that she did then, even if he's only a manager of Wolfhound's physical assets rather than a soldier.

Friends

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Students

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Tattoos
Name	Location	Description
Helix	Left bicep	A red and blue watercolor DNA double helix that represents Colette's photikinesis ability and her pride at being Evolved.
Paused Pulse	Neck, left side	A stylized EKG pulse line interrupted by a semicolon. This tattoo symbolizes Colette's time as a prisoner of the Institute and covers up a scar over her carotid artery where amphodynamine was directly introduced into her blood stream. This tattoo represents her brush with death and battle with depression as well as the new direction her life took afterward.
Three	Left hand	Three stylized and interlinked triangles representing herself, Tamara, and Tasha and the bond she strives to maintain in their lives.
Blue Butterfly	Upper left chest	Representing the symbolism of the butterfly effect and her own photokinetic power, she shares this tattoo (in inverted colors) with Tamara. It represents their close bond and Colette's life-long commitment to her.
Watercolor Fox	Right shoulder	This tattoo covers a bullet wound received when Colette took a bullet protecting Tasha's life. It represents her lifelong commitment to Tasha and her family name of "Renard"
Forest of Birds	Left forearm	This tattoo represents Eileen and her death defending Pollepel Island and the rest of the Ferrymen.
Manhattan Skyline	Right forearm	A single line silhouette of the Manhattan skyline as it was prior to the civil war. Below the skyline is a line of text that reads, "103008 whatever happens is from now on." The date represents the official date she was adopted by her father Judah and the phrase represents that she feels her life truly began on that day.
Watercolor Fish	Inside Right Forearm	A blue watercolor fish tattoo that pairs with one Tasha possesses. The color blue represents Tasha to Colette and the fish is in memory of the time they painted part of the Ferrymen mural together.
Wendigo Skull	Right Shoulder Blade	A black stag skull with full antlers. Colette got this tattoo when she was granted leadership of Wolfhound's Strike Team Wendigo.