Phoebe Frady

Phoebe Frady
Portrayed by	Aislinn Paul
First appearance	Dark Matters, Part 1
In-story stats
Known ability	Umbrakinesis
Alias	The Shadow
Gender
Age	23
Date of birth	May 21, 1992
Residences	Dormitory at South Western College, formerly a shared apartment
Occupation	Student at South Western College
Parents	Phoebe's mother, Unknown father
Sibling	Quentin Frady (half-brother)

Phoebe Frady is an evolved human with the ability of umbrakinesis. Her disappearance on June 13, 2014, kickstarted her brother Quentin's crusade for the truth and his search for Noah Bennet.

Character History

Webisode:Dark Matters, Part 1

In 2013, After watching Hero Truther tell the evos of the world to stand up and declare themselves, Phoebe decides to reveal her ability to her half-brother, Quentin, by manipulating her shadow on a wall. As he films her, he exclaims how cool it is that his sister is an evo, causing her to laugh in relief. Later, he asks her why she didn't tell him sooner, to which she replies that she didn't know how to explain it since she discovered her ability two years ago. She also tells him that he is the only other person that knows.

Webisode:Dark Matters, Part 2

On her first day of college, Phoebe brings Quentin with her to help her unpack. When they enter her dorm room, she finds a new video camera as a gift. Quentin admits that he bought her the camera so that she could keep making videos where she demonstrates her abilities and feels more comfortable with her evo side. She introduces him to her new roommate Aly after thanking him, telling him that she also knows about her ability. Once she has settled in, she makes another video, this time causing her shadow to walk across the room independently of her. She also extinguishes the light in a lecture hall as a dare.

Some time later, Phoebe has a nightmare which is somehow influenced by her power. A shadow on the wall creeps towards her as she begins to hyperventilate in fear, but it retreats when she is calmed down by Aly.

When she returns home, Quentin is concerned, saying that Aly showed him the videos and asking her why she didn't tell him she was having the nightmares again. She says that the nightmares are more than just that; that they are real, and that she can feel the darkness "watching, waiting". At Quentin's suggestion, she agrees to take a break from using her powers for a while, but makes a third demonstration video anyway. In it, she claims that she is growing stronger, and forms a sphere of darkness with her hands. When she opens her eyes, her irises have turned purple.

Webisode:Dark Matters, Part 3

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Approximately a year later, Phoebe and Aly organize a pro-evo protest outside the college, because the college is trying to deny scholarships to evos. When a counter-protest emerges and tensions rise, Phoebe uses her power to deactivate the streetlights in the area, shouting at them to stop. After being outed as an evo, she is subsequently tackled to the ground and handcuffed by a riot officer.

Webisode:Dark Matters, Part 4

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Webisode:Dark Matters, Part 5

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Webisode:Dark Matters, Part 6

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Odessa

Noah Bennet pins Quentin up against the wall and asks him why he is so interested in bringing down Renautas. Quentin tells Noah that it is because of his sister. Renautus took her and he wants to get her back.

The Needs of the Many

Erica Kravid advises Harris to mount a new team and bring "The Shadow". Phoebe, dressed in dark hooded clothes, sits in a bedroom with a sphere of darkness in her hands and her eyes shining purple.

The Lion's Den

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Game Over

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June 13th, Part One

On June 13, 2014, Phoebe is seen being held in a house in Odessa, Texas and pushed to create as much darkness as possible though it causes her pain. Eventually, Phoebe unleashes a massive cloud of darkness, feeling no more pain, that covers the Odessa sky and drains the powers of all the evos in the vicinity, including everyone at the Odessa Peace Summit. The effects of her unleashed power also causes an eclipse. Moments after Phoebe unleashes her power, Harris bombs the peace summit.

Heroes Evolutions

The Odessa Report

Phoebe's first "attempt video" is shown to have been uploaded to YouTube with the title "Control Shadows - Attempt #12". It has 124,552 views. Phoebe is also seen demonstrating her ability in footage taken by Quentin Frady.

Evolved Human Abilities

Phoebe has the ability to manipulate shadows. She first began experimenting with her ability by playing with her shadows and making them move independently of her (Dark Matters, Part 1). She also plays harmless tricks on others, like when she turned off the lights on a South Western College professor. As she grew stronger, her ability sometimes worked without her active concentration, like when shadows crept along a wall as she experienced a nightmare (Dark Matters, Part 3). Her powers seem to be at least partially affected by her emotions, as seen when she accidentally blew out a light when she was angry with her brother (Dark Matters, Part 3).

Phoebe's abilities are able to affect the abilities of other evos, nullifying their effects and affecting their use. She has so far made a levitating guitarist fall, extinguished a pyrokinetic's fire, prevented Malina from using her powers, and stopped Miko from entering Evernow. Most notably, she generated enough shadows on June 13, 2014 to nullify the powers of every evo present in the city, including both Mohinder's and Hiro's abilities, along with those of every evo at the summit. When stopping abilities from working, she actively projects darkness, generating tendrils of shadow from her hands to negate the power she wishes to disrupt, or producing a large field of darkness in the sky. The latter causes an eclipse to appear (The Lion's Den, June 13th, Part 1). This use of her powers does require concentration; when Quentin tackles her in the Renautas facility, the other evo in the room is able to use her own ability normally (Game Over). It appears that she has developed this aspect of her power mostly under Renautas's employment.

The shadows she produces also seem capable of making physical contact with objects, being able to hold down her brother's gun hand and also causing bleeding and fatal injuries when forced into his mouth (Game Over). Her ability also seems to disrupt electrical systems, as seen when she shuts down the lights in a lecture theater, blows out a light when arguing with her brother, and causes multiple computer screens and fluorescent lights to flicker when entering a room. (Game Over)

When using her powers actively, Phoebe's eyes change color. Initially, they glowed purple; when working for Renautas under the alias "The Shadow", rings of glowing iridescence would form around her irises (Dark Matters, Part 3, Game Over). It is noted that generating large amounts of shadow was "painful" to her as of June 13th, but it appears that it is no longer as strenuous to her as it was then (Game Over, June 13th, Part One).

Notes

• In 2013, Phoebe tells Quentin that she has known about her abilities for two or three years, meaning since 2010 or 2011 (Dark Matters, Part 1). However, she tells Agent Wilson that she first discovered her abilities at age 16 (Dark Matters, Part 3). According to her evo card, Phoebe would have been 16 in 2008. This discrepancy is either a mathematical error, or Phoebe is lying to either Agent Wilson or Quentin.
• In an interview, Dark Matters writer Zach Craley shed some light on Phoebe's parentage. Zach said that Phoebe and Quentin share a mother, but have different fathers. Phoebe's mother kept her last name of Frady so Quentin and Phoebe would have the same last name. Phoebe was raised by her single mom and hasn't spoken with him since he left. Zach guessed that Phoebe's father probably has an ability because Phoebe inherited an ability, but Quentin did not.

See Also

• For other uses of Phoebe, see Phoebe (disambig).