Is it that cold/flu going around?





I stopped using near copies as well around the time I started reading Adam Warren's Empowered, and how easy it was to make up and integrate multiple new throwaway characters.





Well, he's been dead, and then brought back multiple times, he might just want to be left dead for a while.








He'd probably get along with Lara, then. She tends to let know-it-alls be know-it-alls without arguing about it. Specifically because it's less stressful. If he can bring himself to talk to her, that is.





Making Lara short and slim enough to occasionally mistaken for a kid was inspired directly by a good friend of mine. She is often asked at stores and cons, "Where are your parents?" It's a running joke by now. Lara's issues are not nearly as extreme, but it makes it so she has difficulty being taken seriously.





It does if one of those jerks tried to have her arrested once.





It can manifest in other ways that are interesting, like certain Legionnaires might become suspicious or distrusting of her because of that new-found power. Because she gets herself in real trouble so often, and because in her past she lost her temper and set fire to a man. They might not believe she can control herself.





I'm sure if worms could see, they would have gone after the lighthouse by now.