Editing Broken Trigger (section)

==Features==
Just as no power is the same<ref>There are no copies of the same power, barring a circumstance where it’s powers recurring within a second/third generation cape. Even then, debatable. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/interlude-20/#comment-17006 Comment by Wildbow] on [[Interlude 20.y]]</ref><!--other WOG about families goes here-->, no two broken triggers are the same, but they do share commonalities. 
===Trigger Visions===
The visions from broken triggers are often disjointed and come in waves. Some will replay the last memories of Zion, while others are so quick that no one sees anything. When near a broken trigger, [[Rachel Lindt]] appeared to see Zion's memories of the mockeries of [[Eden]]<ref name="e.4 1">''Faces.  Mockeries.  Variations on a theme.  Reaching hands, supplicating.''<br><br>-The image was brief, but acutely familiar.  Rachel felt mentally disoriented in the same way she might be physically disoriented if she stepped forward and found the ground wasn’t there.  Others in the area had staggered.  Miss Militia had dropped the hose for the foam gun.<br><br>[...]<br><br>The cape who’d shot him hurried to run-<br><br>''A moment of uncertainty.  The population of this world wasn’t reacting any further.  He attacked, they moved.  Again and again, they created the images.  They weren’t afraid, and he was.''<br><br>-but stumbled as the mental image shook him.  He managed to get his footing, but the ooze moved faster with each passing second, and the delay had cost him.  It slopped around his ankles on its way past him. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/teneral-e-4/ Excerpts] from [[Teneral e.4]]</ref>, or of killing [[Eidolon]]<ref name="e.4 2">The visions, they’d been broken up, too recent.  She wasn’t forgetting them.  The power, too… he’d been strong.<br><br>He’d been-<br><br>''A man in a white hood and cape stood there, the tension in his body swiftly stopping.  He had no expression, only a green and blue glow beneath his hood, but his body language was clear.  Shock, defeat.<br><br>A flash of golden light wiped him out of existence.''<br><br>-too strong. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/teneral-e-4/ Excerpt] from [[Teneral e.4]]</ref>. At another broken trigger incident, [[Victoria Dallon]] saw similar visions of either these mockeries or Eden herself.<ref>The fragment of a trigger vision hit me.  The latest wave.<br><br>I saw only a flash of faces, and in seeing those faces, I saw the phantom self that clung to me.  The impression lingered for only a moment before I realized the faces didn’t resemble mine. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/19/flare-2-4/ Excerpt] from [[Flare 2.4]]</ref> Unlike typical trigger visions, those who saw visions from broken triggers were able to remember what they saw.<ref name="e.4 2" />

At least one victim of a broken trigger seemed to have gained awareness of the nature of shards, sensing the presence of the shard and expressing concerns about being incorporated into the shard's memory.<ref>“I can feel it,” the man said.  He wasn’t paying much attention to Rocketround.  “All the way down to this vast well, partially filled with potential energy.  Like I’m on the lip of a volcano and it’s an impossibly long fall with only magma at the bottom.  I don’t know if I’m better off throwing myself down into that or leaving it alone.”<br><br>“Leave it alone,” I said, my voice joining more than one other person’s.<br><br>“What if my thoughts and brain get made into a part of that?  One piece in that thing’s construction.  What if it makes me immortal, forever a part of this thing?  A recording of me in there, how I think, how I do things.”<br><br>“We’ve studied parahumans, powers and power sources a lot,” Roadblock said.  “We’re pretty sure that’s not a thing.”<br><br>“Yeah,” the guy in the clearing’s center said.  “But…”<br><br>He trailed off.<br><br>“It’s not a thing,” Rocketround’s voice joined Roadblock’s.<br><br>“But I’m standing closer to it than you are,” the man said.  “And from where I stand, I feel like it might be.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/19/flare-2-4/ Excerpt] from [[Flare 2.4]]</ref>
===Manifestation===
Broken triggers appear to display an almost [[shaker]] effect,<ref name="2.4 z"/> allowing the shard to jump from person to person, affecting multiple people. This was possibly due to the now-unrestricted shards registering people as a triggeree, where before they would only connect to more then one person if that person was [[Grab-Bag Cape|also having a trigger event]].<ref>'''Stephen M (Ethesis):''' I keep thinking that nine clones tapped into one passenger should each get just 1/9 of the power each.<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' Nope. See the Echidna clones for a similar situation where powers aren’t divided. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/interlude-25/#comment-32871 conversation] on [[Interlude 25]]</ref> The position within the 'area of effect' of a broken trigger seems to affect its manifestation; in one incident, those farther from the center of the trigger event were less mobile, to the point that those on the perimeter were fixed in place by their shards.<ref name="2.4 z">“They tend to cover a lot of ground.  Shaker stuff.”<br><br>“Yeah,” Rocketround said.  “That’s come up in briefings.”<br><br>“Location, environment, and position matters a lot,” I said.  “The capes closest to the perimeter were least mobile.  I think the further they got from the center, the less flex there was.  Until their agents wouldn’t let them move at all.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/19/flare-2-4/ Excerpt] from [[Flare 2.4]]</ref>

Whereas typical [[parahumans]] were protected from the effects of their own powers,<ref name="SB1">
:'''Peanuckle:''' What I'd like to know is what sorts of abilities the shards can perform without limiters. Judging by QA and Khepri, shards are pretty much bullshit. But what about shards like Grue's, or Tattletale's, or Grey Boy's, acting outside a host to defend their Entity-body? Is there any comparison, or are "unshackled" powers so far beyond what we see that it's laughable?<br>
'''Wildbow:''' Look at Noelle or the Bitch epilogue chapter for what a shard does when it's really unleashed - depending on the host, the nature of the unleashed power can vary, specializing as it develops toward a task/specific implementation.<br><br>Grue's power would just spew darkness out in very direction to pretty much blanket and isolate an entire city, his body would become a vehicle for the power, and he'd mutate, quite possibly turning the 'tap into other passengers' ability into a link to just absorb power. Broken/dead shard, he'd continue doing so until those passengers lashed out, creating isolated, power-based effects/chunks of Grue in the midst of the city.<br><br>Tattletale's power would just scale up constantly in power, reach, and intensity of detail. The shard might not have broken 100% clean - Scion might have given it some tools somewhere in there, so I can imagine a Tattletale-sub-entity scaling up to a breaker state or tapping into a tinker ability to network/develop more hardware/brainware to process it all. Scale up to processing multiple dimensions at once, and develop/manifest/obtain a weapon. Going back to the tools Scion gave, a simple blaster power with a clean, possibly invisble terrain-penetrating laser, with Full-bore-tattletale focus at work to discern the best possible weak point? Or even just a Tattletale in the middle of it, holding a gun? Picture her systematically picking off threats one after another, from highest priority to lowest, from the center of the incident sites, maximum range.<br><br>Basically, you unshackle, the power scales up, the mind/body start to break down, and if the host is lucky, the shard can provide some means of housing the new data and form.<br><br>Standalone, without a host, the manifestation for the shard itself confronted in its own world, would be very similar in execution. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15025980/ Comment by] [[Wildbow]] in Spacebattles</ref> via the [[Manton Effect]], those affected by broken triggers almost invariably died as a result of their powers or the trigger event. One incident involving a broken trigger fixed a victim's [[Corona Pollentia]] in place, leaving her unable to move without intense pain until her death; multiple others also died from the same condition.<ref>Her brain.  The Corona Pollentia, the means by which powers were operated by the parahuman.  Hers had been established, but not as a fluid, functional thing.  It was a nail, taking her brain and fixing it to a specific position in reality. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/19/flare-2-4/ Excerpt] from [[Flare 2.4]]</ref> The same incident, centered around a matter manipulation power, also generated capes whose powers killed themselves; one vomited a fractal-like tree which tore away his body,<ref>I saw eyes widen, and turned to look.  A man had opened his mouth, and had something that looked almost as tall and thick as a telephone pole spearing skyward from his mouth.  Blood streamed from the sides of his mouth, his jaw clearly dislocated, and more fluids painted the length of the pole as it continued to rise.  It reached its maximum height, and then forked, the upper half splitting out into two equally thick portions, a giant ‘Y’ shape.  Each branch then forked into two, and forked into two again.<br><br>[...]<br><br>I flew to the man who’d grown the tree.  Even before I reached his side, I could see the damage that had been done.  Jaw, throat, chest, and stomach had been torn away.  Traces of the same material that had formed the tree had collected in his insides and pelvis, breaking into jagged pieces at some point before or during the tree’s fall. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/19/flare-2-4/ Excerpt] from [[Flare 2.4]]</ref> while others were buried by their powers.<ref>There was small talk, people remarking on what they’d seen.  Horrible things.  People buried alive by their own powers.  A few cases like what I’d observed. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/19/flare-2-4/ Excerpt] from [[Flare 2.4]]</ref>

===Titans===
When a parahuman undergoes a broken second trigger event, they merge with their shard and become a [[Titan]]. As part of this process, the shard becomes the primary conscious actor of the resultant titan, acting according to its goals. The requisite loss of personality varies depending on the parahumans psychological state. Those that were able to scrounge some consciousness during the trigger and decided to seize the power, stay in control to some degree, or at least are able to influence their Shards decision making in a manner similar to how shards can influence the host normally.<ref>She could feel that well of power.<br>[...]<br>She made the decision.  She reached out and seized it. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/19/flare-2-4/ Excerpt] from [[Flare 2.4]]</ref> Those that choose to surrender to the power, appear to experience a loss in their original personality, attacking seemingly indescriminately.