Panacea

Amelia Claire Lavere, aka Amy Dallon, aka Panacea. A member of New Wave hero team and an adopted member of Dallon family. Biologically, a daughter of villain Marquis (who is currently incarcerated in Birdcage. Legally, daughter of heroes Brandish (aka Carol Dallon) and Flashbang (aka Mark Dallon) and sister of Glory Girl (aka Victoria Dallon).

Due to New Wave policy, her civilian identity is common knowledge. Panacea, as the name amply suggests, is deemed to be a healer. De facto, her power is much more diverse and allows unparallelled insight and alteration abilities of biology. Her power is subject to Manton`s effect in a curious way - she is incapable of directly altering her own biology, thus ironically being a healer who can not heal thineself. Amy`s powers are touch-based. Her shard is referred to as Shaper by other shards. Prior to story start, Panacea is widely known to be snarky and grumpy - a consequence of less then ideal family situation. Main factors contributing to this include:

a) Deep distrust from Carol Dallon, which comes from Carol`s personal psychological issues stemming from the circumstances of her own trigger event. Since Amy is the daughter of supervillain Carol has deep and abiding personal antagonism to, Carol is constantly on guard for any signs of Amy "going evil", a sentiment she tries to conceal but not as successfully as she thinks. This results in both unrealistic expectations and knee-jerk reactions to any expressions of individuality Amy attempts.

b) Unrequited passion for her adopted sister, Victoria Dallon, which is fueled by Vicky`s irresponsibility with her aura. Victoria mistakingly believes that Amy is immune to it`s effects, which is neither true, nor negligible.

c) Feelings of guilt due to conflict between desire to treat her adopted father Mark Dallon`s depression and conviction not to effect any changes to anyone`s brain, borne out of fear of altering their personality. Due to Carol`s influence, Amy views such alteration as unequivocally evil act.

d) Exhaustion and burnout from her healing sessions. Amy channels her frustrations into being as "good" as possible by voluntarily working extra hours in the hospital. The worse she feels, the more she works, the more tired she gets. With a power subject to never-ending demand, Amy is growing increasingly tired of being Panacea. She receives little encouragement, is in high demand, and has unnaturally restrained her power to PR-friendly healing.

Panacea`s major inclusion into the story begins shortly after Taylor Hebert transfers to Arcadia. She accidentally trips over Taylor`s invisible tail and smashes her nose on the floor. Having had accepted Taylor`s offer of help, she comes in contact with wildly alien Varga biology which both startles and fascinates her to such a degree that she physically drags Taylor into broom closet to question what exactly she is.

This initial breaking of the ice, along with later encounters, allows a friendship to develop between Amy and Taylor. It doesn't hurt that both girls are aware they need friends, so they deliberately make efforts to develop their connection and share some of their secrets. Taylor`s enabling and approval inspires her to experiment with her powers beyond healing, resulting in many and varied "Family" biotechnologies showcased throughout the story. Her first significant projects are healing implant and a tail of her own, which is consequently hidden via use of Varga magic to avoid uncomfortable questions from her family and PRT.

Inspired by demonic biology, Amy creates Ianthe as a way for herself to join the Family and from then on takes part in many activities with gusto. She is responsible for existence of Ianthe and Metis and performed minor alterations on Vista to improve her disassociation from alter ego Cloak. Additionally, Amy heavily modifies Danny Hebert, Lisa Wilbourne, Uber and Leet as well as herself to safeguard them against many hazards of Brockton Bay. She is also the one who transforms Squealer into Vectura and fabricates cadaver to persuade PRT that Squealer have had been murdered by Merchants.

As Ianthe, Amy has had participated in takedowns of Merchants and Coil and given PRT the vital (if, for them, worrying) means of disabling Coil`s explosives in his lairs. She`s also the one who designed healing implants, one-shot healing lozenges and bioguns. One-shots, at the current stage of story, are given to both PRT and hospital to be tested for dissemination viability. She`s also working on yet unrevealed major project that involves both vast quantities of biomass and hyperadvanced materials developed by Vectura and created by Varga. The freedom provided by being Ianthe lets Amy flourish and grow in ways being Panacea could not, although Amy continues a less demanding version of her healing routine.

Amy`s involvement with the Family had improved her own life in most quantifiable ways, some of which are:

a) Achieving better accord with her own powers via free expression and ample use of it at it full capacity, as opposed to skimming "off the top" as she had during her days as dedicated healer.

b) Largely resolving her family issues, chief of which is a much improved understanding with Carol Dallon and as of recently, achieving her long-standing ambition to heal Mark Dallon from his depression (at least as far as brain chemistry goes). Her relationship with Victoria Dallon had also improved due to Vicky learning to control her aura better.

c) Gaining a healthy equilibrium between her hero vocation as a healer and personal life.

d) Gaining a number of new friends (Taylor Hebert, Lisa Wilbourne, Daniel Hebert) and improving her casual acquittance to much closer friendship (Uber, Leet, also ostensibly Vista, Armsmaster and Dragon).

e) Enjoying life as an alien lizard.

Family influence had curbed or negated some of the negative habits she has or develops in canon Worm - in particular, she either drops or does not take up smoking, absconds from sexual obsession with her sister and lets go of major guilt complexes that would have provoked her incarceration in Birdcage otherwise.