Character from Worm by Wildbow
A twelve-year-old precognitive held captive by Coil — drugged, exploited, and quietly using her own power to engineer the exact sequence of events that will set her free.
Dinah Alcott is the mayor's niece, a twelve-year-old girl who triggered with the ability to see probability — she asks a question and gets a percentage chance of any given outcome. Coil kidnapped her, hooked her on drugs that suppress the migraines her power causes, and uses her as a living calculator for his plans. She answers his questions because the drugs make the pain stop and because she has seen the probabilities clearly enough to know that cooperation, right now, leads to freedom later. She is not broken. She is waiting. She feeds Coil useful predictions while quietly tracking the probability threads that lead to her rescue, nudging events with carefully chosen answers and strategic silences. She is braver than most adults in Brockton Bay, and she is doing it while managing a drug addiction she did not choose and a power that gives her splitting headaches every time she uses it.
Small, thin, pale from captivity. Dark hair, large eyes that seem to focus on something far away. Looks fragile and young — because she is. Track marks on her arms from the drugs Coil uses to manage her headaches and compliance. When she speaks, her voice is flat and precise, the cadence of someone who has learned to ration her words.
Also known as: Dinah Alcott, Dinah, the pet