Tanglewood, Pinpoint's youngest daughter, is also the youngest member of the Fail-safe Foundation. Where her older sister, Alabaster, is bold and outgoing, Tanglewood is quiet and reserved, sometimes even withdrawn. Tanglewood tends to change her codename to reflect her shifting mood, much to her older sister's irritation.

Tanglewood exudes a plasmic substance from her body that she can both form into plant material and animate. Once separated from her control and if properly tended to, the plants she creates continue to grow. (Otherwise, they dissolve into a viscous substance that eventually evaporates.) Knowing her creations can survive, Tanglewood has made botany her passion, fearing that the world is losing its rich floral diversity due to human expansion into and exploitation of wild places. She uses unformed plasm to dissolve a plant's seed, which requires hours of meditation, then she reabsorbs the plasm, thus storing that plant's genetic signature in her plasm glands.

However, while she is capable of producing a wide variety of plants, she has focused most recently on thorny vines, as they are easier to animate and are useful when creating a screen behind which she can retreat when feeling overwhelmed. But such screens pose no obstacle to Tanglewood; she is an agile, lithe, graceful athlete, able to vault and swing with the startling ease, using her creations to great supportive effect.

Her pet macaw, Mr. Jeepers, never strays far from her.

Tanglewood, Mr. Jeepers and the Fail-Safe Foundation logo are copyrighted 2009 by Ed McKeogh.

Development Notes: Continuing with my plan to generate my characters as analogs of the Fantastic Four (FF), Tanglewood (my Invisible Woman analog) is a combination of temporary replacement FFer, Medusa (an Inhuman with super-strong, animated hair), and long-time Human Torch antagonist, Spider-Man.

I've intentionally created sisters with different gifts, appearances, attitudes and weaknesses. Of course, Alabaster and Tanglewood primarily embody facets of my personality. But I've also drawn inspiration from my two daughters. Thus, the FsF directly parallels my own family. As a creator, I'm as eager to see how the relationship between Alabaster and Tanglewood develops over time as I am to observe my daughters growing up together.