[brandygang]

I think this might be better coined as "False Corruption", since it focuses more on the awakening of emergent, assertive and independent traits with Powerplay thrown in.

You bring up a good point, and illustrate why Patience is a rather bad pickings here. Patience, has few redeemable traits or much characterization. She's fodder for her Catwoman Transformation. So her abrupt change is Identity Death, so it destroyed her. Pretty much nothing about 'Catwoman' really relates to whoever 'Patience' was, it's not like she cared about jewels or fighting crime beforehand. That's not corruption everybody looks for and it's not nearly as Process related.

A better "Empowerment" would feature a girl with recognizable enough goals, relations, behaviors, ect so a change is meaningful. The struggle is essentially internal, she gives up aspects of herself for this change, and accepts it by her motivations. She'll become what she needs to as the cost to gain her wants, or perhaps the freedom and power offered to her is the reward she seeks in itself.

A benchmark test could be if she still sympathize/identify's her previous self and can state both the reasons to become 'corrupted' and reasons she wouldn't. (Regardless of which she believes in, or follows at the moment) She'd still be 'Corrupted', entering a different darker persona so she's not just some Superhero or Magical Girl gaining power. But she's not necessarily enslaved or possessed either, assuming she can give up her power and rekindle the motives in herself that drove her to this. If she "Snaps" or betrays those original reasons, breaking her flimsy self in the process she'll have lost and it'll be a true corruption. This fetish hinders on the victim edging right near that point, from roughly there back to when she first got her Power. If they've been enslaved/destroyed and consumed by their new identity without regard for their original self it's just another corruption and this specific fetish ends.