Tabitha Pang (Cataclysmic Gerosha)

Tabitha Mahalia Steel (neé Pang) is an outlaw, freedom fighter, and Sodality of Gerosha member in Dozerfleet Comics, being one of three members of a gang of Frontliners called the Twirlflame Trio the feature in Swappernetters.

Powers

 * Super speed: When accessing her Marlquaan bonds taken from Marge, Tabby can run fast enough to keep up with most highway traffic going normal speeds, and can maintain this speed for about a minute before she has to slow down.


 * Enhanced thermal generation and tolerance: Tabby generates a lot of heat when doing this, but is able to take it. This also improves her resistance to heat sources that are not caused by her ability, though she is not immune to extreme heat - especially not from non-Marlquaan supernatural causes, such as Frotchimar's demonic whips.


 * Neural disruption wave: Unique to her, Tabby can send an energy beam from her fingertips that confuses the nervous systems of her enemies, leading to temporary paralysis of certain muscles or even painful cramping. She primarily uses this to disarm opponents and keep them from chasing her, but can also use it to calm victims of a panic attack.


 * Air-stepping: Much like with Mapacha before her, Tabby can generate heated air constructs as "stairs" and walk on them, allowing her to run on air, temporarily.

Skills

 * Parkour: All Swappernetters are expected to train in gymanastics and parkour. Tabby knew some before being arrested, but made sure to learn it in prison whenever she had an opportunity.  The guards were impressed that she refused to use it to escape, noting how easily she could have.


 * Espionage: Whenever there was a breakdown in security coverage at Mansfield, Sarah would teach Tabby how to spy on others and avoid detection. Sarah always had more of a flare for burglary than Tabby did, and the girls compared their differences in opinion on it to that of Emeraldon and the Sapphire King - albeit, with fewer hard feelings.  The girls - and Tobias - realized harnessing these skills would be critical to developing a game plan for SCALLOP and the Texan government to successfully infiltrate the Chrome Kite-controlled Arkonia and take back Arkansas.


 * Fisticuffs: While less fancy, Tabby did learn basic street brawl techniques due to belligerent and combative inmates at Mansfield running into her from time to time.


 * Some karate: Hea allowed Tabby to learn this at home, and she learned more on the streets. She never made it to a black belt degree, however.


 * Highly intuitive learning: Tabby is able to absorb new Swappernetter program lessons very quickly, acquiring new skills as the situation demands and become adept at them rather quickly.


 * Weapons knowledge: She was taught on the streets as well as at home about a variety of weapons-related disciplines. However, she has never never desired to own a large arsenal of any of the guns that she knows so much about.  Yet, she can fire any of them in a heartbeat if forced to.


 * Marlquaan knowledge: Exposure to her mother and to the Ramirez family left Tabby very attuned to the nature of Marlquaanite types, rubies, levels of power, types of abilities, etc. She knew all too well what would happen if she took Marge's power; hence her hesitation to do so.  She also has a sixth sense for members of the Microwave Mouth Corps.


 * Acute theology knowledge: Tabby's homeschooling under Hea and John left her able to go toe-to-toe with many theologians, and also able to frustrate many atheists whom she would encounter. This, unfortunately, backfired when her lack of compassion for Erica Johann after a debate turned violent drove Erica insane.


 * Acute history knowledge: Hea and John both taught Tabby a huge appreciation for knowing history, and understanding Biblical concepts to destiny, and how this should be used to put the entire world in context.


 * Debate skills: Whatever she didn't learn at home, she was taught in prison.


 * Gymnastics: The Ramirez family insisted she learn this early on. It would prove useful toward her application of it later on, when she was taught parkour under supervision while in prison.


 * Teaching: Her family never wasted an opportunity to teach her things, neither did Sarah. As such, Tabby became adept at teaching as well as learning.  She uses this to help the other Swappernetters, especially the orphans, understand what they can do to better subvert the Chrome Kite.


 * Tactical analysis: She can rapidly take Trista's mission control inputs, and translate those to action. She is also skilled enough to know how to manipulate SCALLOP politics to her advantage when mobilizing allies, once her gang's street-level work is no longer good enough to get the job done.


 * Social engineering: Over time, she's learned how to sway others into seeing her as an insightful leader, making it easier for her to get what she wants. However, she knows to be careful not to misuse this gift, and is even afraid of being corrupted by it.  She employs this to convince Sarah and Tobias that they are the real heirs of Swappernetter society, not herself, and to let her stay behind in Texas and serve their sentences in addition to her own, so she can be part of the Sodality again.


 * Urban adaptation: Tabby is able to use the structure of Little Rock's architecture to out-wit her adversaries.


 * Others: Per her highly intuitive capacity for learning, Tabby has acquired a plethora of skills in many other disciplines, making her a "Jill-of-all-trades."

Weaknesses

 * Tug generators: Fairly high-energy generators are required, since Tabby is such a low-tier Red Spectral. However, it is possible to trap her in suspended animation with less wattage than what was required to capture her back when she was a normal 8-year-old child.  Because of this, Tabby and her Twirlflame Trio friends have to limit their reliance on their Marlquaan abilities, and employ their mundane skills as often as possible.


 * Delayed healing factor: While she can heal from almost any injury, it's not near-instantaneous like that of Candi McArthur, her childhood idol. While Tabby has some resistance to bullets, she can still be killed by one much more easily.  As such, Tabby has to rely on her speed and strategy to avoid being shot.  Candi can take some bullets, and then keep on going in a fight.  A single bullet may potentially be enough to at least incapacitate Tabby.


 * Overstimulation: Too many things happening at once during a mission can cause her to become confused and get distracted rather easily.  She relies on her friends in these instances to remain focused.


 * Impatience: Tabby has become very adept at getting things done in a hurry.  She also expects the same courtesy of most others that she shows them.  When Erica Johann loses a debate about God with Tabby, Tabby assumes Erica to slink away, if not civilly admit defeat.  Instead, Erica lashes out and becomes violent, then falls to the ground and breaks her own wrist.  Instead of calling for help, a disgusted Tabby leaves her assailant behind, humiliated and at risk of being arrested by the Chrome Kite.  Tabby later thinks about this, and begins to regret leaving Erica behind.  Erica becomes increasingly unstable, and then acquires Marlquaan powers by stealing the Basher's Ruby - after some Chrome Kite officials recover it from raiding Hea's house.  Erica becomes Bliksemhek though this, healing her wrist and setting out on a campaign of spite and bloodshed to punish Tabby with guilt.


 * Internal moral conflict: Tabby knows that since the Chrome Kite are brutal and violent oppressors and usurpers, restoring legitimate control and overthrowing them is critical. This requires her also to engage in a number of activities that would be outright wrong and criminal under other circumstances, but which she must perform anyway.  This weighs heavily on her conscience, as it also runs contrary to the law-abiding way she was taught to behave growing up.  She also fears being corrupted by her necessary association with criminals.
 * Lust: Much like how Candi was with Danny, Tyrone, and Donte; and also how her own mother Hea was with Kyle, Tabby longs for a deep and intimate personal relationship with Jordan. However, their young ages combined with their outlaw status mean that cultivating any sort of romance is dangerous.  As much as she would love to give herself to him sexually, she knows that the risks are too great.  This becomes the grounds upon which Frotchimar attempts to seduce her, requiring Maurice and Cherinob's intervention to keep Tabby from making the same mistakes as the older women in her life.

Equipment

 * Retractable blades (X-Acto knives): She uses these more for cutting boxes open than for self-defense, but has become adept at using these for defense too. Nearly getting shanked in prison once taught Tabby the value of having a knife like this around.


 * Remotach pills: Acquired from Candi, Tabby has a handful of these. However, she is not fond of using them.  To her luck, most Icy Finger members are not head-hunters like the Hebbleskins were.  However, she does wind up needing one to re-attach her right arm one time.


 * USB drives: As a Swappernetter, Tabby relies on these to swap lessons back and forth with other Swappernetters. They use virtual textbooks as a form of currency in that community.


 * Gloves: She protects the palms and backs of her hands with a set of black fingerless gloves. Sarah prefers gloves with fingers, hence another reason why Tabby does more espionage and diversion - while Sarah is the group's top burglar.


 * Disguises: Tabby sometimes works odd jobs for clients that don't involve espionage or burglary. When she needs to avoid being identified, she has various disguises and fake IDs, including her "Vanessa Chartreuse" persona.


 * Comms: Trista gives all of the Twirlflame Trio earpieces to communicate to them from their makeshift mission control. This sometimes includes 2-way radio.


 * Zeran wardrobes


 * Other / improv: Given her training to see everything in her environment as a tool, Tabby will utilize whatever is in front of her. Some of her enemies have noted that this makes her even more terrifying an adversary than Ciem or Gray, as those two's fighting styles are more predictable.

Character bio
Tabitha has made a variety of appearances in The Gerosha Chronicles long before her joining the Twirlflame Trio in Swappernetters. She used to be a part of the Sodality of Gerosha, and winds up rejoining its Team Caged Dove division later on to save her new friends.

Before birth
See also: The Gray Champion: Freedom's Apparition

Hea Pang was born the daughter of Joo-Chin and Dae Pang, Korean-Americans running a history museum in Boston. This instilled in Hea a great love for history, as well as theology and eschatology. Hea's father died protecting his family from Fistgate activists, leading to Dae becoming very bitter and even verbally abusive toward Hea. This inspired some rebellion in Hea's heart. Hea also became the girlfriend of Kyle Medsor, a junior SCALLOP combat agent in training. Through this, she learned more of Lord Zeras and the Marlquaan. She yearned to become a SCALLOP agent herself, but in the non-combat field work division. She was even further inspired on by Kyle's parents, Gordon and Bella Medsor.

When Dereck Johnson of Marl-Q Industries lost control of a Marlquaan storm that he was generating, it led to the Great Marlquaan Storm of 2012. This storm actually traveled back in time, bringing John Domeck into the year 2012, to late August. Around the same time, Dereck transformed into the monster "Eqquibus." With help from the militant LGBTQPIZON groups collectively known as the Crooked Rainbow, he began terrorizing the city. Amidst this, Hea took John in with his newfound Marlquaanite phantomimic abilities. Hea trained Johan in everything she knew, and educated him on who the then-present-day tyrannical forces were - including some dirty cops. John was able to use Hea's knowledge and resources to reinvent himself as the modern-day incarnation of Hawthorne's symbol of resistance to tyranny: the Gray Champion.

The Gray Champion spent the entire month of September of 2012 protecting Boston's populace - particularly its more conservative communities - from an onslaught of various existential and terrorist threats. Yet, he was unable to do much about Eqquibus right away. These activities, however, resulted in the Society of the Icy Finger's new leader, Warren "Rappaccini" Buntine, connecting the dots and realizing that their ancient organization's top enemy was alive and well in the present day - somehow. They backed off from considering Eqquibus a threat to their own operations, and instead allowed for the rivalry between Gray and Eqquibus to play out while watching from a distance. Eqquibus was able to secure a primitive design for an MPF generator from one of his labs - which he sold to the Icy Finger front "Cold Digit."

On October 4th, an argument between Dae and Hea led to a hurt Hea running to Kyle's house for comfort. They consummated their relationship, with plans to elope as soon as Eqquibus was defeated. However, Eqquibus began to figure out who the Gray Champion's allies were. Dereck captured John in an MPF chamber, taunting his new adversary about all the mayhem he'd get to cause while John was reduced to a helpless spectator. Hea and Kyle strategized a way to free their friends, but also discussed their plans to run away together, due to Dae's continued mistreatment of them.

The plan to save their friends mostly proved successful, except that Eqquibus murdered Kyle out of revenge for Kyle's interference in affairs. This bought John time to escape his MPF chamber, however. With Kyle dead, John realized how serious the stakes had become. John and Eqquibus battled each other in a brutal conflict spanning much of the city, with John eventually declaring victory over his nemesis. However, it didn't take long to deduce that the Icy Finger was also still around. John prepared himself for the fact that his ancient enemies weren't done destroying the things he cared most about - and that they were now much more powerful!

On October 6th of 2012, Hea's womb implanted the child from her tryst with Kyle. That resulting child would eventually become Tabitha. Discovering herself pregnant a month and a half later changed Hea's life dramatically.

Early life with the Medsors
See also: The Gray Champion: Chillingworth's Revenge

Tabitha was born June 27th of 2013 at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Due to the strain on Hea and Dae's familial relationship caused by Hea conceiving a child out of wedlock, Dae asked Hea to move out. Ashamed of her own actions, Hea complied. She moved in with the Medsors, who agreed to take care of her in order to honor their son's sacrifice. They also provided housing for John, and the early Team Gray Champion was born. Much to their displeasure, their predictions came true that the Icy Finger had returned. Cold Digit sent its spy, Miles Charleston, to manipulate Dae so that they could get close to Hea, and set a trap for John. However, Dae began to feel ashamed of how her mistreatment of Hea drove Hea to rebel in the first place; leading to Dae wanting to reconcile with Hea. Dae's non-compliance irritated Miles, who murdered her to draw John and Hea out. He took advantage of the cold weather, and became "Chillingworth II" with his Marlquaan bonds.

Team Gray learned of the Ramirez family in Miami, the current bearers of Hester's Locket - who wanted someone worthy to pass on the legacy to. The Medsors believed that Hea was qualified to be the new Hester, and attempted to flee with Hea to Miami in order to discuss with the Ramirezes on giving Hea this new job. They also learned of Marge "Mapacha del Feugo" Ramirez, the adopted daughter of Cuban-born immigrants Pablo and Anna Ramirez, and deduced that Marge was possibly the biological daughter of John and his late wife Orenda. Tabitha, at around 7 months old, stayed with the Medsors and Ramirezes; while Hea assisted John and Marge in defeating Chilingworth to save Miami - and Boston.

Tabitha becomes inspired by Ciem
See also: Ciem: Inferno

It took not quite a full year after Chillingworth's defeat before the Icy Finger began pulling out all the stops to do something about the growing problem of the Gray Champion in Boston, Extirpon globally, Extirwraith in Japan and China, MSS Team Black Rat in China, Emeraldon and Ciem in Indiana, Pilltar in Iowa, the Purge-Flare across the US, Sniperbadger online, Cocklebur in Italy, SCALLOP across North America, Anarteq in Canada, and other existential threats that were rising up across the globe. The only threat they decided it best to ignore for the time being, was the threat of Krampus.

The Icy Finger joined forces with Halal Affadidah and his brutal band of Islamic terrorists, as well as Duke Arfaas and the dreaded Hebbleskin Gang, and their recently-acquired sex trafficking ring Gleeful-N'-Young. Through this sharing of resources, they began a savage campaign to tear the United States apart through an expensive invasion and intense war. This included putting some of Affadidah's plants in the already liberal-and-compromised city government in Boston, planting the seeds for that city to fall. In 2013, John's need to save several children from Blackviel prevented him from doing anything about the Boston Marathon bombers, creating public doubt in the Gray Champion as a reliable hero. The Icy Finger continued well into 2015 with finding ways to keep John busy.

One method of appeasing the Hebbleskins for their cooperation included giving them the means to create massive Marlquaan-backed energy dome and wall fields, the first of which was used in an effort to reclaim Gerosha - to erase what little remained of the legacy of Stan and Shalia Flippo. The Hebbleskins obliged that by lending aid to the Icy Finger. Since Emeraldon had become a burden to both parties, they sought revenge by nuking his mother's house in Evansville with a 10-ton-output dirty bomb. The Icy Finger also took over a convention center in Evansville outside the nuclear zone, holding various city officials hostage. However, SCALLOP and the National Guard were able to reclaim the city due to Ciem's interference with the Icy Finger's security teams. Emeraldon was assisting Anarteq at the time in Canada, and was caught off guard.

When the Hebbleskins attacked Gerosha, they used a gang of teenage delinquents called the Pyro Panthers to start fires and wreak havoc across town. Ciem was assisting police in keeping them at bay, but Gleeful-N'-Young's Frank Morvel hired the Panthers to help him also kidnap young girls for Clyde Spendelworth's brothels, with proceeds going to the Hebbleskin cause. This attracted the Purge-Flare to Gerosha, still looking to get revenge on Clyde for manipulating him into murdering Mark Stefflin, as well as tricking him into endangering his crush, Ashley Phillips.Blood Over Water Since the Purge-Flare assassinated Mike "the Pencil" Javelin at the Cincinnati Airport, forcing the Hebbleskins to use Frank Morvel for their "Gerosha Job,"  Lava Tigre was sent to fight back and defend the Pyro Panthers - from both superheroes and police.

At one point, a young Candi Flippo was caught off guard while at her boyfriend Danny Loffin's house, having sex with him. The Pyro Panthers began torching the house, forcing the couple to flee. Danny met up with his brother Roger, and they fled in one direction to the Motel Manor. Roger was convinced that the Panthers had a special price on his head, for humiliating them in a grocery store earlier. Candi went another way, promising to catch up later. She attempted to put on her Ciem costume and help the police fight back against Lava Tigre and the Panthers, but she wasn't quick enough about finding a hiding place to change her clothes. Police mistook her for a member of the Pyro Panther gang when they found her in the parking lot of the Posey's Market, and she was promptly arrested.

A search through Candi's backpack revealed the existence of Zeran wardrobes, which local police were not supposed to know about under the Kirby Act. This placed Candi in the position of being automatically a felon per SCALLOP protocol, so she agreed to plead guilty to that before a judge. When being escorted to jail, the car she was in was attacked by a mysterious villain known only as Drop-In. The police distracted Drop-In long enough for Candi to put on a Ciem suit and battle him to the point of forcing him to retreat, though she failed to identify who he was under the mask. She was taken to the Vanderburgh County Jail, and was later adjudicated for a week to the Madison Juvenile Correctional Facility. She had to negotiate her way out long enough to return to Gerosha. In that time, Sniperbadger and the Purge-Flare got creative on ways to save the city without Ciem, SCALLOP, the National Guard, nor the police to help them. Candi arrived back in the city via Brandel's Path just in time to stop Frank Morvel and save his captives, while the Purge-Flare battled Lava Tigre to the death.

Candi's heroics were not enough to get her out of trouble. She was sentenced to approximately 2 years at Madison Juvenile. Her sister Miriam was later indicted for aiding the Purge-Flare in escaping Gerosha, in spite knowing he was the wanted murder suspect Chris Kennal. Miriam was sentenced to 2 years at SCALLOP Juvenile Containment Center near Houston. In spite the Flippo girls' small victories, they were unable to stop the Icy Finger's greater war; which intensified as they got the Phaletori to do business with Rappaccini as well. Candi didn't know it, but had become a lifelong hero and legend in the eyes of young toddler Tabitha Pang - who watched the news with her mother Hea and learned of Candi's adventures.

Moving to Jonesboro
See also: The Gray Champion: Shaken Dust

It was only a short time after Candi was sent to prison in which the political instability of the ongoing war all over the US saw Affadidah and his men completely topple Boston. Brackett and Hibbins were sent to hunt down the Gray Champion, and the power grid was disabled to weaken his teleportation abilities. Gordon, Bella, Pablo, Anna, and Marge headed with young Tabitha to their planned escape route to Jonesboro as soon as possible, leaving John and Hea behind to wrap things up and prepare to move west as well. Tabitha found herself being primarily cared for by Marge, who was also mentoring a furloughed SJCC inmate named Amira "Flintirah" Rose - who happened to also know Candi rather well from their shared days at Madison Juvenile. Amirah recounting to Tabitha how the "bug girl" had helped her to not give up on life.

While this was happening, John and Hea were unable to move all their remaining possessions due to the battles happening in Boston. Hea was captured by the enemy, and placed in Suffolk County Jail - along with other prisoners of war. Some quick thinking allowed her and a few others to escape, as well as rejoin John. A lucky bolt of lightning in the sky allowed her and John just enough energy for John to use his abilities to teleport them out of the city. They made their way to Jonesboro from there, but soon had to team up with Mapacha and Flintirah to prevent Brackett and Hibbins from destroying Jonesboro. All the chaos resulted in John going into hiding, Hea being fired from SCALLOP and incarcerated briefly, Marge being briefly incarcerated along with her, and Flintirah being sent back to SJCC - where she would become a bodyguard for Miriam while the latter helped the Pentagon stop DeathDachshund from further compromising national cyber-security.

Boston, meanwhile, was allowed to fall. Affadidah mades it a major military outpost for his new Ameristani empire. Intrigued by the tale of a mental patient named Hadley Mint, he resolved to one day hide a 1-gigaton nuclear bomb in Hadley's old dorm room in North Bond Hall at Ferris State University.

Influenced by the Battle for Cincinnati
See also: Ciem: Ash Cloud

Going on 3 years old, Tabby was bothered when "Grandpa John" and "Auntie Marge" went to Cincinnati to aid Ciem, Emeraldon, Extirpon, Flintirah, and any other heroes SCALLOP could muster, to save that city from "the assault from Hell." Tabitha feared that her two unofficial relatives wouldn't make it back alive. Ciem in particular found herself having to save her own warden, Madison Juvenile's superintendent Bruce Almin, from the psychotic Eric Korsicht - as well as prevent Korsicht from generating a 48-megaton volcanic eruption to destroy Cincinnati the way he did to Louisville. The news footage proved dark and menacing, as a 200-mile radius of the blast of Louisville's destruction covered that region in an ash cloud producing perpetual nightfall. Candi was unfortunately forced to return to prison afterward, but the warden being incredibly grateful for her willingness to put her life on the line for him.

Hea and John returned with stories of Candi's bravery, and Tabitha soon wanted the Medsors to tell her everything about Ciem that was on SCALLOP file. Candi became the unusually highly-intelligent Tabby's idol, to the point that she asked for Halloween of 2016 to go trick-or-treating in a Ciem costume. Marge helped sew a crude Ciem Toddler suit together for this very purpose.

Impressed by Pilltar and Strawberry
See also: Pilltar 2

A year later, Hea received word that Lambrelli Labs founder Seth Lambrelli had helped Des Moines recuperate from yet another Screwworm attack, this one led by Lady Screwworm herself! Seth's Pilltar droid didn't act alone; being backed up by a "Strawberry" version piloted by the brave Stephanie Barrin. Stephanie's tech prowess and rising through the ranks at Lambrelli Labs to become a favorite of more than just Seth himself led to her getting put on a SCALLOP watchlist. Gordon and Bella's connections in SCALLOP furthermore ensured that Marge caught wind of this information about Stephanie, who shared insight into it with Tabby. This inspired Tabby to want to learn as much about technology as possible, in the hopes she could one day be an inventor like Stephanie. She hoped to invent technology to aid in scene profiling, which would make Candi's future career prospects more likely. However, Tabby also developed an interest in nursing. She decided not to ever be a fashion model, as Marge warned her about the pitfalls of that job.

America falls
See also: Sodality: Instigation

Once the nation had fallen, Tabitha learned in 2019 that she was now a citizen of Toklisana, not America, as the United States had ceased to exist. The six-year-old Tabby was homeschooled by Hea, who had taken a job at a museum, having a good working relationship with the owner. Hea's new job involved a team that had a deep vested interest in preserving the knowledge and life values which Hea also guarded as the Keeper of Hester's Locket. In addition, the museum became a go-to for information about everything that had happened as a consequence of the Great Marlquaan Storm of 2012. Tabby was often allowed free tours of the museum, and began to follow in her mother's footsteps. She even got brave enough to attempt to send Candi a letter in the mail, but realized that the mail was unlikely to deliver, due to Affadidah's regime being untrustworthy.

During much of this time of quiet, Team Gray attempted to maintain a low profile. Even so, the Icy Finger looked for every possible way to infiltrate the Arkansas government, and that of Toklisana in general, in an effort to avenge Brackett and Hibbins. Rappaccini tried not to deplete his resources too quickly, even as he waited patiently to collect more. Meanwhile, Arfaas took a large portion of America's northwest for himself, and created "Netheel." He quickly began squandering Netheeli resources to conquer Toklisana with, in the hopse of wiping out SCALLOP and the Phexo resistance. Chimerica, the west coast states colonized by a fearful China, assisted Toklisana however possible in preventing this. Tabby paid very close attention to any news the Medsors could give her about the growing Sodality of Gerosha movement, and the heroes within it. She paid especially close attention to what happened in Candi's life, and learned that personal sacrifice - even of one's freedom - was sometimes necessary to do the right thing.

Interest in Swappernetter culture grows
See also: Sodality: Adaptation, Sodality: Determination

The Sodality's exploits continued to inspire Tabby, who wa convinced that growing resistance to them from Judge Terry Beliah meant that Team Gray might have to join the Sodality one day. She also became interested in the "Sneakernet Underground," also called the "Swappernetter Society." The idea of trading lessons on flash drives and by-passing the Prussian model of education entirely became appealing to her. The fact that her one grandfather Joo-Chin helped start the Swappernetters, as well as hearing that Sodality support staff woman Celia Winehart had been a Swappernetter for a while, made Tabby that much more interested in the lifestyle. The Navyrope Society also became a topic of interest to her, as did the Sodality Church, given that these entities were also connected to the roots of Swappernetter culture. She found that Arkansas politicians' increasing hostility toward private education posed a credible threat to liberty, and she vowed to resist that. The young Tabby also heard wind of how Candi used Remotach pills to survive being captured and beheaded, and put herself back together and escape the death camp in Denison. Tabby hoped she would never have to face a similar near-death experience.

Convinced that the war the Icy Finger started under Rappaccini was only gearing up for its second wind, Tabby asked to be taught how to fight. Her family obliged; and enrolled her in gymnastics, karate, and parkour via private Swappernetter teachers they trusted. The Globalist Scamdemic of 2020 complicated some of Tabby's meetings; due to lockdown enforcement being so extreme in Arkansas. However, she was as determined as a six-year-old could be to prepare for whatever the future held.

As the Sodality teamed up with Task Force Black Rat to stop Capp Aard and recover the Ming-Yo for China, Rob and Hannah Marrington set out with Jake Asawa on their own quest to keep the Hebbleskins and Icy Finger from getting their hands on the Ming-Cho.Path of the Ming-Cho. Tabby and her family were involved in other activities to keep the Icy Finger and Halal Affadidah's Ameristani troops at bay. However, the Navyrope Society warned them of infiltration in Arkansas state government. Tabby became an outspoken critic - even at the tender age of 7 - against Judge Beliah.

Team Gray became one of many targets for Beliah's supporters, who began rounding up on their own those they deemed to be in violation of the Kirby Act via the Beliah Amendments to it. They eventually planned to fill their storage basements full of MPF-captured heroes and Sodality sympathizers, then deliver all of them to the Icy Finger for execution. At some point, Hea and Tabitha were both captured with high-end MPF devices.

Joining the Sodality
See also: Sodality: Augmentation Learning of Beliah's sinister plans, as well as how he sold his own daughter to a brothel in southeast Asia, the Sodality lobbied with SCALLOP to have the crooked judge removed from power. This only forced SCALLOP into a corner politically, requiring the Sodality to act slightly outside the law to rescue as many of the Beliah Pact's victims as possible. The Beliah Pact, however, was foolish enough to not search for Hester's Locket, meaning they captured the Pangs without evidence of them having it, much to the annoyance of both Rappaccini and the Phaletori with whom Beliah had formed an alliance. The Sodality was able to free all the prisoners in one basement sector, with Hea and Tabitha being among them. They used Hester's Locket to enable other prisoners to escape, and secured an escape for themselves.

Hea and Tabitha met up with the Sodality Elites in Houston to discuss what to do next. It was there in which Tabitha met Jordan Sterlie for the first time, as he was with his mother Tiffany - along with others rescued from the Beliah Pact's minions. Tabitha at this time also got to meet her heroes Candi and Stephanie for the first time, learning from them how to avoid making the same mistakes in life that they made. Over time, she began bonding with the entire Sodality of Gerosha, considering all of them her "church family." Around this time, she also began noting the hostilities that the budding Swappernetter society was facing. She grew sympathetic to their cause, yet was hesitant to fully join them officially. A few of them didn't trust her, since Hea and Marge's jobs allowed Tabitha to live more comfortably than they did. However, sharing her story while exposing a communist infiltrator in their midst convinced some skeptics of the movement to trust her a bit more.

After getting more Swappernetters to warm up to her, Tabitha was able to make inroads into the main Navyrope Society. She and Jordan attended a doomsday prepper boot camp, along with other youths. It was in this camp that the two youth truly formed a romantic bond. Their peers, as well as their overseers at the camp, dismissed it as puppy love, and thought nothing of the lovebirds. However, both Tabitha and Jordan were committed to staying in touch.

The Battle for Metheel
Main article: Sodality: Battle for Metheel

With the Hebbleskin Gang on Earth all but completely destroyed, King Morzhuk of Metheel decided he owed it to his kinsmen to be the one to reclaim the Grand Ultimates' Ruby and become an Ultraviolet Spectral Marlquaanite. He believed that with this sort of power, he could reset the lock on his own universe and activate it for the Percolation Wave. From there, he'd work with other versions of himself to fuse every version of Gerosha into a united universe - then invade other Abdygalian splits across Outer Reality until he could reconfigure the Abdygalis itself and fuse the entire multiverse into a single, coherent universe, with himself in charge as its new god.

Morzhuk realized this would involve a race against time, as the Society of the Icy Finger wanted to achieve these same goals for Rappaccini. He sent forces to Earth to search for the ruby, but also to perform a show of force to Earth by kidnapping the Sodality of Gerosha - particularly, the Legends. He was unable to capture all of them, however, and forgot about the Sodality of Florence entirely. A desperate SCALLOP lost communication with the Sodality after Morzhuk's forces wiped out comms, forcing many in the Sodality to converge on hit targets in Oklahoma and Louisiana in spite not having permission to do so. Ciem, in particular, was warned that she would be violating her probation by going to Louisiana. That Lex couldn't override the wishes of Congress on this. Yet, Lex allowed Candi to go to Louisiana in spite the potential consequences, realizing that what she was doing was necessary. Lex instead ensured that she was issued minimal punishment for leaving Texas.

Morzhuk next moved to capture Team Gray, and was successful. However, some quick thinking on the part of the Earwig and other heroes prevented him from abducting Extirpon. SCALLOP sent a distress call to allies on Phaleel, who responded by getting their own army involved in the conflict. A Meethlite resistance leader opposing the Hebbleskin Dynasty, Shabika Kribbenswik, took in Team Pilltar under her wing. Phaelite Captain Hophily Yemodan and his crew infiltrated one of Morzhuk's transport ships, and freed Navyrope and Team Gray from their MPF containers. A fight ensued, and Yemodan was just barely able to get the hostages to another ship in time. The ship continued onward toward Metheel, and the crew was forced to crash-land it without the prisoners promised to Morzhuk.

Navyrope, Gray, Hea, and Tabitha were taken to Yemodan's base of operations, which Morzhuk's forces quickly attacked. The Sodalists traveled by foot to the given coordinates for Desulon's lab nearby, with Gray and Navyrope protecting the crew from any additional hostiles they encountered. Once inside, Tabitha offered to be of assistance to Desulon however possible. Hea was sent back in time to recruit Hester Prynne and Kicked Deer to the Sodality, and to destroy the Grand Ultimates' Ruby in the past so that Morzhuk could never hope to use it. They also had to do so without the Icy Finger learning of its whereabouts, or that it had been destroyed.

The plan was almost foiled when Hea ran into the original Roger Chillingworth, who attacked her with his own power set. She used her acquired martial arts skills and knowledge to get the jump on Chillingworth, defeating him and even taunting him that his future successor would be an equal disappointment. Kicked Deer, Hea, and Hester finally achieved their goals, but required Pilltar's intervention when an Icy Finger raid followed a tip Chillingworth provided them. Navyrope and Gray meanwhile protected Desulon and Tabitha from additional hostiles that would have had reason to attack the lab - including Bosom-Serpent.

With all of Team Gray except for Kicked Deer and Hester having returned to the then-present, Desulon deactivated the time machine. Tabitha was kept safe with Hea on Phaleel, while John headed to Metheel with Marge to help the Sodality put an end to Morzhuk's tyrannical rule once and for all. Morzhuk was eventually overthrown, once SCALLOP agreed with Desulon to send Extirpon to Metheel. The Sodality toppled what remained of Morzhuk's loyalists, and a free Metheel took control - with the Hebbleskin Dynasty finally defeated. They mourned Shabika, who gave her life for the cause.

Tabby did her best to resume her ordinary life afterward, able to further humiliate the street bullies that doubted her value by pointing out that they never had to survive being abducted by aliens. She quickly became one of the most revered and envied members of the Blue Knot Homeschool League (a front for Swappernetters and Navyropes.) By the age of 11, Tabby decided that she and Jordan were truly meant for one another. She promised to wait for him, and he asked her if they could know that either of them was worth waiting for. She assured him that if God were in it, they both would be.

First arrest
Main article: Sodality: Vindication

After years of planting infiltrators in Toklisana's government, Rappaccini finally decided to act on his plans to take over Arkansas and create the Icy Finger Conglomerate of Arkonia. He began ousting legitimate leaders in Arkansas, and placing his Chrome Kite leadership in charge in their stead. He also used his forces in the Toklisana federal level to enforce the Beliah Amendments to the Kirby Act, requiring that court hearings be held to determine the future of the entire legislation. In order to comply, SCALLOP had to stop arguing that the Sodality of Gerosha and Sodality Church were anything other than "criminal" organizations.

However, it also discovered that a large deposit of Marlquaanite rubies existed in a cave hidden somewhere in Mozambique. Rappaccini allowed the Screwworms and Chrome Kite to take over his plans for Toklisana, and instead focused most of his Icy Finger forces' main concentrations on conquering Italy and then claiming the rubies in Mozambique. Unable to handle stopping them alone, the Sodality of Florence sent its Gerosha sibling organization a distress call. The Sodalities merge into a single organization, but were confronted with the fact that SCALLOP agents were now under orders to arrest all of them. Jack Mercreek sent out a distress video to all members, informing them that they must choose for themselves which of two strike teams they would join, to combat which of the two existential threats they faced: Team Spaghetti Liberation was to become fugitives, and continue fighting across the globe. Team Caged Dove, to comply with SCALLOP's arrest warrants and fight their organization's legal battles in court, needed to stay behind in Texas.

After Chris Kennal and John Domeck were equipped with new suits courtesy of a donation by Dolly Malestrom, John made his intentions very clear to head to Italy. Hea helped him do so, and then met with the other members of Team Gray to discuss their plans. Anna and Pablo elected to go with John, and also to ensure that they found another keeper for Hester's Locket - so that Hea wouldn't be compromised. Hea, Marge, and Tabitha elected to stay behind and hand themselves over to SCALLOP. Hea and Marge explained their plans to Tabby on how to get caught loitering, and then get SCALLOP to retrieve her from the police. Hea headed out in the morning of June 15th of 2026 to gas up her car and then drive to Houston, where she intended to turn herself in to SCALLOP for internment. However, she was arrested by Shaniqua right away. A surprised Shaniqua was startled that Tabby wasn't with Hea, and then both of them became troubled when they saw evidence of Screwworms in the distance. They both raced to Tabitha's last known location in order to ensure her safety; but both were too late. When they arrived, Marge had an unpleasant story to share with them.

While Tabby was outside of a bar trying to get noticed for loitering, Marge went inside to get drunk. However, the Screwworms attacked the area upon recognizing Tabby. Tabby fled from them, and Marge did her best to provide a distraction. However, being drunk resulted in Marge being fairly ineffectual at fighting. Police finally shot a few of the Screwworms dead, and arrested Marge for public intoxication. Hea and Shaniqua arrived right as Marge was being put into a police car.

Tabby secretly stashed away the Pusher's Ruby, terrified of being killed. However, she struggled with her conscience, and decided that she didn't want to become a Marlquaanite for personal gain. She used some of the ruby's features to destroy a small stretch of road, delaying her pursuers. However, they proved persistent. She next ran through traffic in a busy stretch, and headed toward a shopping mall. The chaos she caused for traffic further slowed her pursuers down. She noticed some drunks at the mall, and tricked them into fighting each other, resulting in a massive brawl. She used this calamity to further create an obstacle for her pursuers. They got caught up in the brawl, and were forced to give up their search for Tabby.

Seizing the moment to get away, Tabby realized that she was now a fugitive - with no family left to turn to! Fearing that the Screwworms would find her again - or that she would be tempted to use the Pusher's Ruby again - Tabby made for the nearest pawn shop, and tried in desperation to sell the ruby. However, the shop owner quickly identified that she had a Marlquaanite ruby. Given it was illegal under the Kirby Act to sell one to a pawn shop, the owner reached for a shotgun, and then ordered Tabby behind the counter. A terrified Tabby complied. The shop owner called police, and Tabby encouraged him to inform the police to contact SCALLOP. She admitted that she was wanted under the Beliah Amendments Enforcement Drive, and only tried to sell the ruby because the Screwworms were after her.

Sandra Thriggin of the Jonesboro PD arrived at the shop, and arrested Tabby immediately. She was soon handed over to a SCALLOP agent to be sent to SCALLOP Juvenile Containment Center, and was informed that she would be there for a time - regardless of her pending court date! She was devastated by the news, but complied. News outlets commented on the story, with much of Tabby's homeschool association friends astonished that she, out of all of them, would be the one to get in so much trouble with the law.

Sent to SCALLOP containment
Tabby's initial court hearing informed her that she could face anywhere from 6 months to 5 years for her public stunts, served concurrently with the time she was already to serve as a target of the Beliah Amendments, which she would've served even if she'd done nothing wrong, solely because of her blood relation to an associate of the Gray Champion! She could use her time in juvie to help the Sodality of Gerosha plead before Congress on repealing the entire Kirby Act. Initially terrified of being killed by superpowered gang members, Tabby's nerves were put at ease when she met Sarah Ruben - in for aiding and abetting her Swappernetter professor. The two quickly became friends, and Sarah noticed that Tabby had a tendency toward quick thinking and sharp strategy - but also a sensitive heart. Sarah decided to mentor Tabby in becoming a Swappernetter in full, given that Sarah feared that Hea would be gone too long for Tabitha to have a home outside the Swappernetters. Tabby taught what she knew to Sarah in return, and they began evangelizing the cause across SJCC whenever and wherever possible. Tabitha, while locked up, also met Tobias Reno, in for having inactive Phexo DNA primarily. He further instructed Tabby in how to think like a Swappernetter, even warning her that she would have to join the cause officially if the Sodality of Gerosha lost its legal battles and had to flee into exile.

As much as the facility would allow, Sarah and Tabby trained for their eventual return to life on the streets in Arkansas - as well as cooperated with SCALLOP officials on how to find weaknesses in the Chrome Kit puppet rulers that Rappaccini was beginning to install all over Arkansas in a bid to take it over. Tobias contributed where he could, but seemed somewhat distant from the two girls for reasons he wasn't ready to share. Hea was eventually allowed to visit Tabby once. She met Sarah and Tobias as well. She informed them that if the Sodality were unable to defeat the Kirby Act right away and get reinstated, the two of them would have to become a family for Tabby in her stead. Sarah considered it a great honor to be serving Team Gray in such a capacity. Tabby also got a visit from Candi. However, Candi informed her and Sarah that Mingmei sacrificed her freedom specifically to prevent Miriam from needing to also be captured. As such, Sarah wouldn't get to meet Miriam so soon. She also informed the girls that Marina was interested in helping both girls out any way possible, as were the Last Legs. Andy Baret, around the same age as Tobias, sympathized with him and his prior life goals, while trying to stay off SCALLOP's radar.

SJCC attacked
Tabby also spent a lot of her time, perks pending, checking the news for updates about Spaghetti Liberation. However, her ability to get comfortable in her new life quickly came to an end when the Screwworm Network made a desperate attempt to draw out SCALLOP and the Sodality, as well as discredit SCALLOP, by launching a spontaneous full-scale raid on SJCC on July 20th. Guards were shot, and pandemonium broke out. Tabby, Tobias, Wilfredo, and Jordan wanted to help the guards fight off the onslaught of Screwworms, but Sarah and Frank convinced them to barricade themselves in the laundromat, as the Screwworms brought bazookas to the fight. Sarah also informed everyone that Frank was the real target. The McArthurs were being hunted with the most aggression! Therefore, the gang had to protect Frank, at whatever the cost! Antoine Medeaux, another inmate, barricaded in with them. One Screwworm broke through the barricade, but was attacked with a shank by Antoine. The two wrestled each other to the death, while the other children seized his crowbar and broke the laundromat windows with it to find a way out.

While fleeing, a lone Screwworm at the outer gate intercepted them. The Screwworm agent attempted to shoot Frank, but was stopped by another child inmate. The child inmate was fatally shot, but distracted the Screwworm agent long enough to buy Wilfredo, Jordan, and Tobias time to wrestle the gun away from him. The Screwworm fought back viciously, resulting in the gun flying until it landed next to Tabby. As the agent threatened to kill Frank if it were the last thing he ever did, and appeared like he was ready to strangle Wilfredo to death, Tabby fired off a shot to spook the agent. This further led to her letting off another panicked shot when he turned to notice her, and she inadvertently shot him in the right forearm.

Tabby used the situation to threaten the man into submission, furious at his incorrigible lust for killing Frank. Wilfredo, Jordan and Tobias snatched the keys to a nearby car away from the Screwworm agent, while Sarah helped Frank run to the car. Tabby finally kicked the Screwworm in his jaw for continuing to spew evil threats at the kids, before hearing backup arriving from inside the facility. The kids broke into the agent's car, and Sarah quickly hotwired it. The gang of Tabby and her friends drove off in a mad dash. The Screwworms, meanwhile, gassed the facility to kill as many children as possible.

Recapture
Tabitha and her friends traveled as far as they felt would be reasonable to travel in the stolen car, then abandoned it, to throw any pursuers off their trail. The nearest house they found that seemed safe resulted in them knocking on the door of one elderly Greg Yorner, who took the gang in and gave them fresh clothes. Jordan and Tobias discussed what must be done to ready the Navyrope Society and the Swappernetters for the changes happening rapidly to Arkansas during the Chrome Kite's takeover.

Tabby argued that Frank would not be able to last on the run with them; and wanted to ensure that she could bargain for Donte's release so that Frank could at least have a father. She realized that this meant that she'd be sent back to prison; but was insistent that this was the right course of action. She was also bothered by the realization that saving lives required her to resort to using a gun. Jordan assured her that he loved her, and would still wait for her. After a long kiss, the two parted ways.

Jordan left with Tobias. Sarah and Wilfredo agreed to stay with Tabby, so she didn't have to face her time alone. Greg prayed with the girls. On July 21st, Greg called SCALLOP to inform them that he had four of the missing survivors of SJCC in his house. Candi was relieved to learn that Frank was among the survivors. SCALLOP personnel constructed a cage in Yorner's basement, so that the McArthurs could be relocated there until further notice.

Sarah and Tabby were arrested once more, and were soon transferred to Craighead County Juvenile Detention Center near Jonesboro. Wilfredo remained in Yorner's basement, along with the McArthurs, until further notice. The two girls were later transferred to the Mansfield Juvenile Treatment Center, to serve 3-year sentences. Tabby was allowed one more tearful visit with her mother, before the two were forced to part ways. Hea warned Tabby to consider the Swappernetters her "family" until Team Gray could be a family again, and Tabby promised to try.

Mansfield Juvenile Treatment Center
Due to Tabby and Sarah's sacrifice to protect their loved ones, the two of them were sent initially to Craighead County, and later to Mansfield. An unruly Jessica Softstone was also sent there around that time, and attempted to have Tabby and Sarah killed due to their unwillingness to join her gang. She assumed that acts of her gang being exposed were the two Swappernetters' faults somehow, and played on paranoia to inspire an assassination. Chrome Kite top general Will Clamdor caught wind of this, and began putting his own in positions inside Mansfield in order to orchestrate perfect conditions for Jess to get her way. Tabby was informed that she needed to be moved to solitary for her own protection, as there would be an attempt on her life. While she was sleeping, Michelle Grean of Jess' gang headed toward Tabby's door with two of Clamdor's men, carrying a shank. However, Michelle and one of the two fake guards were immediately impaled with a sword before they could open the door.

Numerous white-armored troops surrounded the inside and out of the facility. Jess was dragged out of her cell by one of these officials, and executed in front of several other inmates. Security's attempts to suppress the invading army proved fruitless, as they were unable to reach out and touch them. They also attempted to activate MPF generators, yet the intruders were immune to them. It was initially assumed that John Domeck killed Michelle and the first of Clamdor's men; yet the real killer revealed himself to be Maurice the Ferryman.

After the reveal, Maurice prophesied that "all will be lain bare" in regards to plots on Tabitha or Sarah's lives. While they will not be invincible, nor protected from all dangers, Sarah and Tabby were to have heightened protection "from the beyond." Attempts on their lives inside Mansfield would always fail, even if Maurice had to personally play executioner each time! Maurice also proceeded to threaten Arbini and Rappaccini, making sure that even Chrome Kite central broadcasts caught wind of it. Hasam Arbini was forced to report to Rappaccini that this mysterious "Maurice" being, claiming to be an "Angel of Death," had made such a threat. Rappaccini and Arbini doubled down on their overall defiance, but agreed to wait until Tabitha's release date before orchestrating any more attempts on her life. The terrified staff and inmates realized what a fraud Jess was, and agreed not to bother Tabitha again. Tabby awoke in her cell, confused as to why everyone was behaving differently. Sarah informed Tabitha that they were under the protection of Maurice himself - a divinely-ordained protection they should not take for granted! For a week afterward, the entire facility was on heavy lockdown.

Arbini instead decided that if he couldn't kill the "Granddaughter of Domeck" through traditional means, he'd attempt to drive her to suicide. He had a juvenile court judge deliberately issue contradictory release requirements, ensuring Tabby would either lose hope, and kill herself, or else would invariably run afoul of the law after release and have to go right back to juvie - or be killed. However, the reading of terms only caused Tabby and Sarah to become more defiant, more determined than ever before to take Arkansas back from the Chrome Kite!

Through his latest professor, Tobias was able to find an indirect way to re-establish contact with Tabby and Sarah. He kept them posted on what all had been happening in the time they'd been away, yet he was careful to not reveal details of his present whereabouts. The girls continued to train in parkour as much as the facility woul allow them to, and they learned other skills sporadically, spreading Swappernetter culture to other inmates. The girls also began formulating plans on what to do to find any possible weaknesses on the Chrome Kite, that they may relay that information to SCALLOP. Their hopes were also that they could find out what became of John. And if possible, they wanted to reestablish contact with him and Hea.

Escape from Ameristan
It took some time, but news made its way back to the girls that Hea was out on parole, at a specially-designated home. John had vanished into Wyoming, to join the newly-formed Sodality Western Militia full time. More interestingly than that, he now had a similarly-powered protege in the form of Roy Bernald! The McArthurs were in Texas, unable to leave until further notice. The Malestroms had all but retired from superhero activity. Jeral and his wife were not to leave Mexico without permission. The Mercreeks had retired. The Frenetis were too pinned down battling Affadidah to have time to leave Louisiana. However, an act of treachery by a Rappaccini plant in Congress resulted in Lex orchestrating an "accident" that allowed Extirpon to get free from SCALLOP Men's Containment Center. Eric immediately rescued his son, Wilfredo, from being executed by corrupt officials. The two tracked down Pam, and fled to Wyoming. The Marcones-Domeck-Opendi clan made up a majority of the top names in the new western militia, with Tiffany Sterlie stepping down briefly from being the new Grand Mistress Navyrope in order to join the western militia. Vince was dead; but there was much work to be done.

Arbini's intense hatred led to him finally hatching a plan to circumvent Maurice. He knew that if he or his men were to kill or even just maim Tabitha and / or Sarah, even if not inside the walls of Mansfield, that Maurice would undo all damage done to the girls, and then inflict horrific revenge on the offender. Arbini reasoned that if he could get the girls out through illegitimate means, then even if the girls found a way of fulfilling their contradictory parole terms, it would all be for nought, as they were "escaped fugitives" per his branding of them getting out a day early! Worse: if he could then have them abducted from prison, then smuggled into Ameristan, then left for the Krokodil Zombie patrols, then the "zombies" would be blamed for killing the girls, and Maurice wouldn't be able to do anything to Chrome Kite personnel! After all: the girls at that point would no longer be technically in Chrome Kite custody, so their deaths wouldn't "count"! Arbini reasoned that since Penditula were a rare commodity, and he didn't wish to squander one of the few he had on him, and since the Tug didn't work on Apthalans, this was the only real way to show up Maurice.

In response to this, God sent the angel Hishazera to warn Arbini that trying to create loopholes in the plan was a fool's errand. Arbini defiantly dismissed the concern, then had his one Penditulum handy be used to trap Hishazera inside. However, Cassidy "Atroce" Verner was able to spy on the conversation, then escaped the area with a recording - undetected. The Swappernetter Frontliner boss Pete Hassler then made arrangements for Atroce to flee in secret across the border into Texas, where she contacted SCALLOP. She tried to inform agent Shaniqua Tamery of the situation, and the dates when it was all going down. This news angered Shaniqua, who was riddled with regret over having arrested the wrong Pang girl years earlier, and blamed herself for Tabitha's fate. The two deliberated on what they could do, but the angel Noviden appeared to Shaniqua after Atroce left, advising her on details of what to do. Shaniqua made contact with the Navyropes immediately, so she'd have a place to go afterward. She contacted Lex, to inform him of what was happening. Lex reminded Shaniqua that Congress would not approve of any SCALLOP intervention involving invasion of Ameristan, and that Shaniqua would lose her job and become a fugitive immediately if she saved the girls' lives. SCALLOP could not, at the time, while the Beliah Amendments were still being negotiated for keeping or repealing, risk being seen authorizing invasions. Shaniqua informed Lex that it was necessary, and Lex agreed to keep quiet as long as possible. Lex was forced to announce that Agent Shaniqua Tamery had gone rogue.

Noviden then appeared to Amado and Zize Marcones, convincing them to follow him into battle in Ameristan "to ensure three women made it out alive." Cavalore further accompanied their troupe, to make it clear to them that no MPF trickery would undo their plans. Extirpon, however, was advised to stay behind and guard the Wyoming frontlines, along with the two Gray Champions.

On August 1st, of 2029, Tabby and Sarah's 3-year sentences were declared over. However, they were placed under heavy restrictions. Their release was interrupted, however, when Chrome Kite officials arrived and abducted them. The drivers, Ted Yusef and Horace Rantiba, drugged the girls with Bezeetol and then stripped them naked. They were loaded into the back of a delivery truck, and then escorted to a farm near Dexter, Missouri.

Upon arrival at the farm, Yusef and Rantiba quickly manhandled Tabitha and Sarah. Yusef had Sarah escorted to inside the house. Rantiba saw a log and an axe left behind by the family that used to live on said farm, near a barn, and attempted to have Tabitha beheaded. However, with seconds to spare, Yusef stopped him - reminding him that the zombies had to be the ones to actually kill the girls. If Rantiba beheaded Tabitha, especially in keeping with Hebbleskin ritual like what was used on Candi and Dolly in Denison a decade earlier, Maurice would simply resurrect her. Worse: he'd then avenge her by inflicting unspeakable levels of pain on them! Finally, Tabitha was escorted inside the house, and tied up on the floor.

The goons attempted to taunt Tabitha and Sarah a few more times, before then proceeding to drive away and leave the girls for the zombies to find. However, Sarah's inability to keep quiet angered the goons, resulting Rantiba attempting to rape her - while Yusef forced Tabitha to watch. It was in that moment that Shaniqua caught up with everyone at the farm. Before Rantiba could successfully penetrate Sarah, Shaniqua shot him in the head. Yusef rand outside, in order to face Shaniqua in a one-on-one gunfight. Shaniqua was able to get the drop on Yusef, his corpse lying on the ground.

Shaniqua found the girls, untied them, then helped them get dressed again immediately. However, the smell of Yusef and Rantiba's blood in the air triggered the zombies. Shaniqua proceeded to steal Yusef and Rantiba's truck, escorting the girls out of Ameristan the same way that Yusef and Rantiba initially smuggled the girls inside. Tabby reflected back to her time in Mansfield, and to times she was threatened with an X-acto knife. Finding one on the guard truck, she took it for her own use.

Krokodil zombies saw the truck fleeing, then gave hot pursuit. However, the pursuit was disrupted by the arrival of Amado Marcones and Plum Bixie, who made quick work of the zombies before being instructed by to vanish. As Cavalore and Noviden sent the couple back home, Shaniqua continued driving the girls back into Arkonia. Amado and Zize were comforted, though Noviden told them not to anticipate another angelic visitation right away. They had the Word, they had God, and they had each other. They were given a care package of ammo, food, and other supplies; but warned not to rely solely on it. They'd still have to do their own hunting, foraging, fishing, etc., if they wanted to last beyond a year. Noviden was never seen again in Wyoming.

Shaniqua and the girls abandoned their truck not far from a railway just north of Piggot. The girls walked alongside the rails the rest of the way into town. The sheriff was a Navyrope sympathizer, and agreed to hide the girls in the Clay County Jail for a few days, while arranging for Frontliners to meet up with Sarah and Tabitha even as further arrangements were made to help Shaniqua disappear. Tabby reminded Sarah that their adventure mirrored the perils of Candi and Dolly's journey to Toklisana a decade earlier, arguing that it couldn't be a coincidence. While in the jail, Shaniqua was able to contact Tiffany Sterlie, securing her escape route into the Navyrope lifestyle. Tiffany also relayed to Atroce that Tabby and Sarah were with her. Atroce located Tobias, informing him to look for the girls up north. Tobias and Atroce headed toward Piggot, to meet up with Tabitha and Sarah on their way down to Little Rock. The four were able to meet up and then find hiding places, just in time to prevent Chrome Kite-loyal police forces from locating and arresting them all. Tobias and Atroce then helped Tabitha and Sarah get to a safehouse in Little Rock, run by a kind Swappernetter family.

Jobs and adventures
Atroce later led the reunited trio of Tabitha, Sarah, and Tobias to a meeting in an improvised Swappernetter catacomb, a tunnel carved out of the side of a subway tunnel. The catacomb worship leader was one Reverend Renald Reginald Beauregard. He was touched by Tabby's extra-special insights, which allowed the Swappernetters to see just how much they truly mattered given the Sodality's fall. She informed them that not only must they be willing to do the small work that the Navyropes couldn't, but that it would be the Swappernetters that convinced SCALLOP and the Toklisanan Congress to let the Sodality rise again.

However, after only two successful missions with her new friends, Tabby came to the realization that they would need an edge over other Swappernetters if they were to perform missions against the Chrome Kite with the Microwave Mouth Corps. around. Other than "the Tug" able to pull at them almost as much as at John and Roy, these fiends seemed to have no fear. The two Gray Champions were able to rescue several Swappernetters on Tabby's third mission, after some chaos outside of Arkonia, but there were several casualties. A troubled Erica Johann witnessed several Swappernetters being slaughtered by Microwave Mouths, including a boy she liked, and then decided that she would have her own revenge on the Chrome Kite - while the Swappernetters served as a diversion! The Grays and Extirpon fled almost as soon as they arrived, fearing the Tug being too strong, and that they'll be pulled into the MPF generators any second that Clamdor built all around the Arkonian border.

Beauregard and Trista Clarion, the latter of whom housed Tabby and her immediate friends in a run-down wooden house for a hideout; explained to the remaining Frontliners that it would take an orchestrated effort on the part of the Sodality of Gerosha, Navyrope Society, Swappernetters, SCALLOP, and the Toklisanan military to disarm those generators. Without the generators disabled, the Gray Champions and Extirpon were unable to make much of a difference in Arkonia. It would be one of the Frontliners' missions to intercept locations of generators - and of regime plans to install newer and better ones - and relay this to sabotage crews. In the mean time, the Gray Champions focused on containing the Icy Finger to Arkonia. They were to make sure that the Icy Finger and Chrome Kite didn't spread elsewhere. Extirpon's focus became to protect Montana and Wyoming primarily from the Icy Finger. Rumors were that Anarteq had returned to Canada, and would relay with Extirpon about how to protect Canada. Meanwhile, Eric reestablished contact with Jeral regarding how best to protect Mexico. While the Navyropes in general fought the Chrome Kite in small towns and countrysides away from major MPF generator installations, it would be the Swappernetters' Frontliners that would dominate the battles in Little Rock. Making matters worse, the Twirler's Ruby was exposed to be in Arbini's possession. It was slowly growing in size inexplicably, and Arbini suspected it was going to become a new manifestation of the Grand Ultimates' Ruby. Getting it to SCALLOP would be an imperative - if its location could be detected.

Tabby and Sarah start trying to get various odd jobs to blend in, and also to oversee what they could. Sarah discovered that the only job that would sufficiently hide her identity was working as a trash collector. Tabby adopted the alias of "Vanessa Chartreuse," posing as a bodyguard for hire. This allowed her to get close enough to Hatori Ikomara to photograph a multitude of his blueprints while he was in surgery. Hiding the backup phone, she used her main phone to get past other security. She also later found herself, under the alias of "Vanessa Chartreuse," working as a bodyguard for Steve Trussel, a wealthy businessman who proved to be secretly a Swappernetter Society sympathizer and top financier. Steve needed his gallbladder removed, and was scheduled for surgery at the CHI St. Vincent Infirmary. In spite this role, Tabitha still received occasional job offers from Trista.

Battle with Lady Chillingworth
Trista grew concerned when Tobias didn't follow the girls' lead right away. This led to Tabby taking a job from Trista to spy on Tobias, to discover why he had been so distracted from the team. She discovered that he had been seeing Francine Smith behind the team's back. To Tabitha's convenience, Francine was staying at Park Avenue Lofts, not far from the hospital where Trussel was. Rumors of an attempt on Trussel's life being underway forced Tabby to choose between learning more about Tobi and Fran's relationship, or heading back to the hospital to protect Trussel. She contacted Sarah, informing her to head to Tobias and Fran's location, as more Chrome Kite tanks appeared to be headed in that direction.

Sarah escaped the police, then attempted to rescue Tobias and Francine. However, Clamdor's tanks opened fire on the building. Sarah arrived too late, as Tobias jumped into a tree from off Francine's balcony, then negotiated his way to the ground. He believed that he was the target. Hgs arrived instead, and shot Francine dead with extreme prejudice while a distraught Tobias was forced to flee with Sarah. The apartment was blown up just as soon as the Hgs reached the ground, unsure of where Sarah and Tobias were.

Rogue Swappernetter Jill Hook, who'd done missions with Tobias and knew about Francine already, suddenly appeared to the fleeing duo from behind a bush, as they were fleeing into the nearest large parking ramp. Jill revealed that she'd tipped off officials to Fran's location. Tobias cursed Jill for her treachery, reminding her that Francine was pregnant with his child, but this only got Jill more excited. Jill chased after Tobias and Sarah, revealing herself to have been the new "Lady Chillingworth" the entire time.

Tabitha arrived back to the hospital in time; and she foiled an attempt on Trussel's life by a Stagtar droid. She kept its comms together just long enough to threaten to expose Clamdor if he made any more attempts on Trussel. Trussel deduced, however, that Vanessa was Tabitha. Tabby tricked the Stagtar drone into shooting several other Stagtar drones that arrived as backup. Tabby then attempted to escape the hospital with Trussel, but the place was surrounded by Stagtar drones. Trista contacted Ron Barrin, who sent Jonathan Tannuli and Roger Homink's Pilltar and Ponicatar droids in from a satellite to even the odds against the numerous-yet-cheaply-made Stagtars. Meanwhile, news media frantically tried to fabricate a narrative about some "rebel-made virus" causing the Stagtars to "malfunction," leading to them attacking the hospital. Atroce, meanwhile, confirmed to Tabby over comms that the droids were functioning normally. They were attacking the hospital because Clamdor instructed them to.

Sarah and Tobias rendezvoused with Tabby, with Jill still in pursuit. Jonathan grabbed Trussel with his Pilltar, and flew away. Tabby and her friends took on Lady Chillingworth. However, the attention she drew to the scene lead to confused Mercury Troopers opening fire. A brave Atroce showed up to help Tabitha, as along with her "little sister" Selina "Triflow" Travin. Mercury Troopers were called to the scene, to neutralize the Stagtars before Pilltar and Ponicatar could take all the credit. Instead, they began targeting Frontliners.

Lady Chillingworth intercepted Tabby, Atroce, and Triflow attempting to escape, and broke Atroce's body into a mess of ice crystals and meat chunks, before Pilltar stopped her from harming the other two girls. The battle between Pilltar and Lady Chillingworth arrived on teh same rooftop as the other fighting. While aiming for Sarah, Mercury Officer Cilian Rotzky accidentally hit Jill by mistake. An unprepared Jill fell to the ground and died, and the Frontliners fled the scene. Officers in question feared for their jobs, realizing they shot a Chillingworth and knowing that their overseers would not look kindly upon it. Jordan and some other Frontliners contacted Triflow, and arranged for Kamhold to find a safe route to lead the battered Frontliners to his safehouse in North Little Rock.

Inheriting Marge's powers
A desperate trio concluded that they needed to consult Hea Pang on the matter, and on whether or not this warranted them becoming Marlquaanites. They knew they would have to visit at night, in secret, as Hea and Tabitha were forbidden from contacting one another. Hea and Tabby got caught up on what was going on, yet Hea warned them they had to leave immediately. Hea handed them a ruby, but told them that Hester's Locket is now in Mallorie's possession - and must not be found. She informed them that she and Audra Bennington from the museum both came under attack, and SCALLOP seized the museum. Audra was in witness protection, and Hea could be arrested soon if it were discovered that she used a ruby to defend Audra.

She told them to visit Marge, who wanted to retire from being Mapacha. The Trio agreed to these terms, then vanished just minutes before Chrome Kite-loyal police barged in to arrest Hea - for no reason! Details of her arrest made their way to the news on Marge's TV a day later, when Tabby arrived. Marge informed the Trio that there could be side effects to dividing her power among the three of them. They proceeded, but the bright red light produced from the windows nearby caused some MPF generators to start reacting. Chrome Kite troops headed toward the house, but find Marge was the only party there when they arrived. She was promptly arrested, though she was considered a low-level threat given her lack of any Marlquaan bond.

Tabby and her friends were soon labeled the "Twirlflame Trio," given their abilities to run on air, and generate a flame tail. They set out on dozens of missions to aid the Swappernetter cause. Tabby usually found herself playing the role of decoy, while Tobias used his increased strength and durability to battle tougher enemies. Sarah became the chief burglar. Tabby also became the trio's de-facto leader and tactician. Trista began running the mission control comms for the team. Tabby learned that to avoid the Tug, she and her friends had to use their new abilities sparingly. It was to keep them from getting shot or arrested; but they owed it to themselves not to over-rely on powers if they wish to avoid being trapped in an MPF chamber. Over time, the Trio became more and more focused on learning the whereabouts of the Twirler's Ruby - as well as on ways to disable the Tug. They were sometimes aided by a freelancer who used dance moves and scavenging talent to compensate for an inability to run: Charlie "Chanticleer" Cleems. One of Chanticleer's proudest achievements was finding and repairing Drop-In's jetpack, though he regretted he couldn't recover Eric Korsicht's.

Battle with Erica
Erica at one point resurfaced, this time making an attempt on the lives of several low-level officers while searching for a rumored Marlquaanite ruby shipment in the area. Tabby interrupted her and saved two officers' lives. The officers were grateful, but threatened to arrest her if she didn't get out of the area quickly. Erica got away, but then tracked Tabby down to get revenge. The two fought in a parking lot, and Erica used her nihilistic and atheistic attitudes to justify why she was an adversary to both Swappernetters and Chrome Kite. Tabby had an answer for every single moral or science point Erica could address, which only infuriated her. The two girls stopped exchanging knife swings, and Erica pulled out a gun.

Tabby used her abilities to knock the gun from Erica's hand, then sent her flying an extra level down the parking ramp. Erica broke her wrist, but her screams activated the ruby as the delivery was being made. She bound to the Marlquaan shortly after Tabby left the scene to retrieve the ruby and have it delivered to SCALLOP. The officers from earlier immediately arrested Erica, and Tabby assumed that was the end of the matter. Erica vowed revenge. Annoyed by Erica's spiteful attitude, Tabby didn't bother to save her from the cops - nor seek additional help. However, she felt guilty about this later on.

Reclaiming Missouri
A short time later, Trista embarks on an underground railroad toward the recently-reclaimed Ameristani territory of Missouri. Chanticleer has been leading Swappernetters on an exodus there, particularly younger orphans. Tabby is sent by Trista to retrieve a package in Oklahoma that the Navyropes claim was delivered to them by Donte McArthur, with the Twirlflame Trio being the intended recipients. Realizing that Donte risked his and Candi's futures to make that donation, Tabby heads that direction anyway. This leaves Sarah and a still-mourning Tobias to deliver more orphans to Chanticleer in Joplin, revisiting the birthplace of Centipede Charlie. Their party comes under attack from both invading Ameristani troops and Microwave Mouth Corps., but the attack is thwarted by Roy. Sarah later rescues Chanticleer from some Screwworms, while Tobias sets out with Roy to aid a rancher in the Netheeli territory of Wyoming who is also being harassed by Screwworms.

Tabby discovers that the package is one of Remotach pills, in case she ever has to face an enemy capable of mutilating or decapitating an opponent. She heads out with Jordan to spend some time with a batch of Swappernetters in Russleville, AK, that are in hiding from an assassin gong by "Sicklesaw." Tiffany is unable to follow, due to her trying to save a fellow Navyrope associate named Warren Steel from the Screwworms. They learn that Sicklesaw was once a man named Lawrence Scothington, who now acts like a mixture between Cocklebur and Rockpapsci. Tabby and Jordan take some Remotach pills, and these prove handy when he slices off Tabby's right arm. Jordan is able to hotwire a car and ram the monster, while Tabby re-attaches her arm and then runs to safety. Her allies take her in, and Jordan also retreats. Jordan and Tabby assist the Swappernetters into uploading footage past a firewall showing Sicklesaw attacking indiscriminately at a library, when he was supposed to only target Swappernetters. Sicklesaw is apprehended by Russleville police, who return him to the Chrome Kite leadership to have him lectured about his lack of discretion.

Trials and temptations
A mysterious Fred arrives, and lures Tabitha and Jordan off to Conway. They intercept a plot by some locals to rebuild Gleeful-N'-Young with kindergarteners in the area. Gina Swinton's Essential Values curriculum reeks of being the worst of Common Core on steroids, and a stolen textbook is revealed to be filled with obscenity and corruption poorly masquerading as "education." Insisting that the residents not take this, Jordan and Tabby encourage Swappernetters across town to enlighten "the orthonoid" - including giving them counter-literature published by Beauregard's associates. However, they are attacked by one man who has already sold his children to Gina's new trafficking front. Jordan is captured, but Tabby breaks into his home with Fred's help. She is unable at first to understand why being around Fred causes her to suddenly feel distracted by an overwhelming amount of lustful thoughts for Jordan; yet she convinces herself she doesn't want to make the same mistakes as Candi - or her mother.

Fred helps the couple get back together, but they are overcome with romantic urges and make out. Fred drives Wallace Brenston to suicide, then helps the two get back to Little Rock. He blinds them to the realization that Jordan needs to return to Oklahoma instead. While they are sleeping in a run-down motel, Fred teleports back to Conway and begins locating hard drives containing the Swappernetters' counter-literature. He heads back to the motel before Jordan and Tabby wake up, pretending nothing happened. Pressing a button, an associate of his begins attacking those PCs and infecting them with viruses to punish those who subscribed to Swappernetter literature.

Tabby and Jordan meet up at Trista's house, along with Fred. Sarah and Tobi are immediately suspicious of why Jordan is there, confronting Tabby over how unwise it is to have him there. Fred suggests that they're being too hard on Tabby, and that she did what was necessary to protect Jordan. He then asks them why they walked in so close behind each other. This causes Tabby to question her teammates over their hypocrisy. As Sarah and Tobi begin discussing upstairs what that means, they begin to learn that they do have feelings for each other. Yet, they are still bothered by Fred's presence. Trista returns from the bathroom to find Fred, Tabby, and Jordan missing. Her comms are found on the fridge, along with a note from Fred that he's "swept them away to greater happiness." He informs the team that he's put Tabby and Jordan in a trance, so they'd have little choice but to follow him. He insists that the team not attempt to track their friends down, if they want them alive. Cherinob arrives and scolds the team, warning them that Fred is really her enemy Frotchimar. She'll attempt to track Frotchimar down. She also warns Tobi not to let his past tempt him regarding his future with Sarah, lest Frotchimar gain power over them the way he did over Tabby and Jordan. Sarah begins asking Tobi what he would want from life when their quest is finally over.

Frotchimar meanwhile takes the young captive couple back to the previous motel, and continues to fill their heads with romantic and lustful fantasies involving one another.


 * Sarah arrested during burglary gone wrong, Tabby must save her from guillotine.


 * Botan vs. Birch


 * Crew saving Hea with help from John and Extirpon.


 * Return of Erica hinted at.


 * Chanticleer and Richard Swean killed by Bliksemhek, Tabby narrowly escapes.
 * Bliksemhek goes on rampage, killing Swappernetters.
 * Bliksemhek tries to blackmail Tobias in order to get to Tabitha, but Tobias refuses to completely abandon his allegiance to the cause. Threatens Sarah as bait.
 * Bliksemhek murders Gina Swinton, blackmails rest of Chrome Kite.
 * Tabby turns herself in to police chief Geoff Throba, in effort to warn him and Hasam about Bliksemhek. Bliksemhek kills chief.  Tabby goes to Clamdor to warn Hasam instead.  Clamdor tries to have her killed by Sicklesaw, but Maurice intervenes.
 * Warns John via encrypted message that Bliksemhek has all of Arkonia in danger. Roy attempts to help out, but becomes distracted by need to save children from government crackdown on Swappernetters.
 * Twirlflame Trio aid Roy to frustrate Bliksemhek. Clamdor attempts to kill them all, sending Sicklesaw for revenge.
 * Extirwraith defeats Bliksemhek and Sicklesaw, who've forged a shaky alliance to take down the Trio.
 * In daring mission, Tabby and friends recover Twirler's Ruby, give it to Shaniqua.
 * Shaniqua and Trio flee to Texas, deliver Twirler's Ruby. Shaniqua turns herself in, to allow Trio to escape.
 * Loss of ruby irritates Rappaccini, who threatens Hasam's job.
 * Tabby and friends must stop Christmas from being disrupted by Sicklesaw 2.0 and the Microwave Mouth Corps.
 * SCALLOP, winning major legal battles, allows Trio and other Swappernetters to hide inside recommissioned SWCC and SMCC, but they are unable to get Candi, Dolly, and Hea transferred back to SCALLOP justice. SJCC bulldozed, remains decommissioned.  Swappernetter orphans under 17 put in foster homes instead.
 * Trio turn themselves in while in Texas, and deliver plans to Texas.
 * While hiding the Trio in prison, SCALLOP head Lex Philippine plots to get Toklisana government to use the Trio's information to cooperate with Navyrope Society and to reconvene the Sodality of Gerosha to retake Arkansas. Tabby to remain in prison until cleared for mission to overthrow Chrome Kite.
 * Tabby informs Sarah that if Sarah and Tobias flee to start their lives over, Tabby will return to SWCC without them and serve their time for them. Sarah is uneasy about this, but agrees that it is the best overall strategy.

Counter-revolution

 * Overthrow of Chrome Kite
 * 2 years after Swappernetters began
 * Tabby now 18, 2031
 * Yet, Candi remains behind bars until end of year
 * Returned to SWCC afterward, in early July of 2031.
 * Served a term from July 2031-January 2033, released to Jordan.

Learning about Samantha

 * 2032: Jordan abducted, half-cloned, by Phaletori looking to help rebuild Icy Finger.
 * Clone rescued by Jordan, becomes Samantha "Dollschief" Sterlie.

Marriage
Shortly after escaping the Phaletori with Samantha, Jordan discovered that his mother Tiffany had met one Warren Steel. Warren and Jordan got along really well, and Warren became as if part of the family in short order - even accompanying Jordan to visit Tabitha in prison. In 2033, shortly before Tabby was released, Tiffany married Warren. Jordan elected to also change his last name to Steel, so that his family could finally be truly united again. Tabby decided she liked the idea of changing her last name to Steel one day even more than her previous plan of changing it to Sterlie.

In January of 2036, Jordan and Tabitha were finally able to marry. Tabitha legally adopted Samantha, thus allowing the Steel family to legally be a single unit. It was a short time later that year that Tabitha discovered she was pregnant with her and Jordan's son Trevar. As normalcy returned to Arkansas, and to Tabitha's life, she finally acquired the nursing qualifications she'd previously sought. She was able to semi-retire from Swappernetter activity, and pursue part-time nursing.

Reconstruction of Gerosha
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While Dana and her siblings and cousins headed to Gerosha to rebuild it in the wake of the defeat of Affadidah's remaining regime, Tabitha and Jordan stayed behind in Arkansas to take care of Trevar. Alas, a grown-up Samantha headed to Gerosha to help Dana and her friends out whenever and wherever possible.

Personality
Tabitha had a very sweet and humble childhood. However, repeated trauma caused her to grow more cautious, and to doubt herself at times. She was timid for much of her youth as well, but this only gave her a dires to learn new things quickly. She was a scared child, but held her own whenever and however necessary, all through her adventures up to and including the attack on SJCC. Alas, the regime's mistreatment of anyone who had ever knowingly been kind to her gave her some hint of anger in her soul by the time she got out of Mansfield. This anger grew, but as replaced with a spirit of guilt after witnessing Erica's rampage, and feeling responsible for pushing Erica toward it.

All throughout the invasion of Arkonia, she showed remarkable tactics and leadership. In spite this, she believed that Sarah had more legitimacy to lead Swappernetter society moving forward. She and her teammates were able to team up with Candi and Jonathan, to disable the Tug, and her newfound resolve allowed her to keep the veteran Sodality heroes informed on where to go, and what to do once there, to assist in bringing the Tug down. Once set free from SWCC, Tabitha became a very nurturing spirit toward her loved ones - especially her and Jordan's adopted daughter Samantha. Raising children took away much of Tabitha's prior spirit of adventure; though she did try to remain in shape, in case she ever had to return to the Swappernetter lifestyle.

Trivia

 * Tabitha was first inspired by the fact that her mother was intended to be a modern Korean analog of Hester Prynne. Therefore, Tabitha was a modernized Pearl.
 * Tabitha's world in Swappernetters was originally going to take inspiration from the "SatAM" Sonic the Hedgehog TV series, until the Dozerfleet founder discovered the Mirror's Edge franchise. The latter then became a major inspiration behind the Chrome Kite's futurist aesthetic for remaking Little Rock, providing the backdrop for Tabby's adventures.
 * As such, Tabitha's appearance began to take style cues from Faith Connors.
 * In spite being first drafted in 2015, before the Dozerfleet founder had ever played a Far Cry game, Tabitha's sense of fashion would be seemingly validated by the very similar Ubisoft character of Carmina Rye in Far Cry New Dawn in 2019.
 * Curiously, Carmina would also prove, just like Tabby, to be a rugged-dressed, athletic freedom fighter with a beanie cap on - who had a white father and an Asian mother.
 * Tabitha was first rendered in The Sims 3, though a Sims 4 version of her soon followed in 2015. She has also been rendered in MakeHuman, Character Creator 3, and AI programs such as Wonder.  Her Wonder renders even featured in the 2022 video The Gerosha Chronicles, According to an AI on YouTube.
 * Tabitha has also been portrayed on this site and on DeviantArt by model Ja Young Kim, an associate of stock artist Michelle Dae.

Appearances in other media
Just as the Sims games contain her Earth-G7.2.0 variant, artwork with them has attempted to show concept art of standard Literary Cataclysmic Tabitha. She has featured in YouTube videos such as The Gerosha Chronicles, According to an AI in 2022, as well as 2023's Disney, Fox, Dreamworks, Nest, and Dozerfleet Princesses in the World of Mad Max in March of 2023. The latter video attempts to show what would happen if Tabitha had to cosplay for a Mad Max-style convention.

Outfit gallery
The following is a list of proposed outfits for Tabitha, throughout her history. This is not an exhaustive list of all possible outfits, only a partial list of some of her most iconic outfits.


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 * -|Vindication civilian=
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Left: SCALLOP Juvenile Containment Center uniform.

Right: Mansfield Juvenile Treatment Center uniform.
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