Editing Leviathan (section)

==Personality==
Although less tactical than [[The Simurgh|his sister]], by no means is he stupid: Leviathan is more than capable of catching his opponents off guard with his brute cunning.<ref name="8.2 e3" /><ref>Did he have a ''strategy''?  The Simurgh was supposed to be the tactician, Leviathan had the brute cunning.  Was Behemoth harboring a certain degree of intelligence?<br><br>I didn’t like that idea, but I couldn’t think of a good way to explain just why he was willing to stand there and take abuse. - [[Crushed 24.3]]</ref><ref name="24.x e1">Then he’d taken command of a team, and he’d seen the process of trial and error, as they learned their opponents’ capabilities, saw how Leviathan or the Simurgh could keep tricks up their sleeves for ''years'', before using them at a critical moment.  Even now, they didn’t fully understand the Simurgh’s power, how long it might take someone to recover, if recovery was even possible. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/interlude-24/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 24.x]]</ref> Despite being better than [[Behemoth|his brother]] at fighting humans,<ref name="IRC eLeviathanTactics" /> many capes tend to underestimate him, letting their guard down to often fatal results.<ref name="8.2 e1">There was a quiet murmur through the room at Legend’s words.  One in four dead.  And that didn’t mean the rest of us would get away unscathed.<br><br>“I’m telling you your chances now because you deserve to know, and we so rarely get the chance to inform those individuals brave enough to step up and fight these monsters.  The primary message I want to convey, even more than briefing you on the particulars of his abilities, organizing formations and battle plans, is that I do ''not'' want you to underestimate Leviathan.  I have seen too many good heroes,” he paused for a fraction of a second, “And villains, too, die because they let their guard down.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/extermination-8-2/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.2]]</ref>

In combat, while his opponents race against the clock in an attempt to whittle him down,<ref name="8.2 eStrongerThanLast" /><ref name="17.3 c1" /> Leviathan has a tendency to give them a little hope before crushing their morale<ref name="8.4 eArmsmasterLost" /><ref name="22.y e16" /> such as baiting out fights before relocating,<ref name="IRC eLeviathanTactics">I'd argue he's stronger than Behemoth. In a fight, and in terms of the damage he can do, and against humans, he's stronger. People tend to underestimate the value of enhanced speed. He can use skitter tactics. He doesn't have to, but he can. But honestly, imagine fighting Skitter, right? Except he's nigh invincible, he has super speed, and he has tidal waves instead of bug swarms. He only fights the fights he wants to. Give them a little hope, then crush it. Then, when all is said and done, just keep his distance from anyone and everyone and let the tidal waves finish them off. That fight against Lung, he destroyed Japan. In his damn /introduction/ the heroes warn not to underestimate him. I'll just add that he's sort of a response to the fact that the heroes have banded together, ready to organize to defeat this monster Behemoth. So he's there alternately as a coward and a duellist, to bait out fights and crush morale. - Comment by Wildbow on IRC, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15988245 --> and wearing down his opponents' resources for walling off his waves and interrupting his movements.<ref>“Listen!” the voice that cut through the shouts and the frantic chatter was authoritative, strong.<br><br>Armsmaster.  He had Myrddin, Eidolon and Chevalier just behind him.  People turned to listen, myself included.<br><br>“He’s torn through our front line, he’s taken down some of our best, and he’s deliberately targeted and eliminated most of the capes who were in Bastion’s group.  We have precious few left who can take a hit from this creature and survive it, and we’re running low on those who can wall off another tidal wave or block his path.<br><br>“We’re not going to be able to go on with Plan A.”  The words hung in the air.<br><br>“This brute is hurt, but we don’t have the resources to hold him down while we hurt him any more.  We’re too tightly packed, like this, and it’s too easy for him to take us down in droves.   Two or three more minutes of this, and there won’t be any of us left.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/extermination-8-3/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.3]]</ref><ref>Legend was still organizing the groups.  “-forcefields, telekinesis, whatever your power, if you can interrupt Leviathan’s movements or help reduce the impacts of the waves, you’re the backup defense!  Bastion will direct you!” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/extermination-8-2/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.2]]</ref> When he fights more optimally, he leverages his powerset to fight only the fights he wants to, such as using hit-and-run tactics<ref name="25.6 e2"><b>Flight BA178</b>, November 25th, 2011 // Simurgh<br>Notes: Loss?  Plane destroyed, Eidolon/Pretender drive off Endbringer.  Marks start of guerilla tactics from Simurgh and Leviathan.<br><br>[...]<br><br><b>Lüderitz</b>, April 2nd, 2012 // Leviathan<br>Notes:  Loss?  Driven away by Eidolon.  Secondary targets Swakopmund, Gamba, Port-Gentil and Sulima.<br>Target/Consquence: <u>'''Moord Na'''</u><b>g</b>.  Guerilla tactics continue, losses in notable but not devastating numbers, but his target survives. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/scarab-25-6/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.6]]</ref><ref name="reddit eCore">The issue was that after they discovered the full ramifications of her powers, the Endbringers changed their methodology. Leviathan made hit and run attacks that meant he was gone and attacking another city before Scion/Foil/anyone else reached a location, Simurgh attacked abstract targets, Khonsu teleported, and Tohu/Bohu were difficult to pin down or find easy answers to. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles]</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/18058714 --> and fighting like [[Skitter]].<ref name="IRC eLeviathanTactics" /> He is fully capable of choosing to keep his distance: in the [[Battle against Leviathan]], if he went all out from the start, he would simply stay in the bay to call tidal waves from there.<ref name="SB eSmartLeviathan" /><ref name="redditWWW e2" />

===His Drives===
[[Eidolon]] created [[Endbringers|the Endbringers]] with a fundamental drive to go to war against him.<ref name="II19.z eWarDrive">She had other drives.  To go to war against her creator.  To these ends, she created a nemesis.  She made him better.  He freed people, upset the system, disrupted the process, and in that, he created the chaos that would keep her simulation from being too sterile. - [[Infrared 19.z]]</ref> However, because he unwittingly built Leviathan from structures derived from [[Eden]]'s<ref name="reddEndbringerLite">If people start forming alliances/peace and Eden sees it as too much trouble to sabotage, then she sics an Endbringer Lite on them, and then works with the remains. - Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://spacebattles.com/posts/14727588 --><ref name="SB eNoVials">Assuming that Cauldron's operatives maybe killed Eden but then just sat on their hands/died, the Endbringers don't exist, the cauldron vials aren't spread out, and there's less of the really powerful parahumans here and there who're capable of acting decisively. - Comment by Wildbow on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15024820 --> pool of emergency resources, Leviathan also has a drive to take away resources necessary for survival, and thus force relocating communities into conflict.<ref name="II19.z e4">Her creator was an administrator of the highest order, and she had been selected out of a pool of emergency resources.  All of her kind had.  Behemoth had been created to break stasis, Leviathan to take away resources in space and land, forcing communities into conflict as they were made to relocate. - [[Infrared 19.z]]</ref> As an example, shattering [[Kyushu]] started a refugee crisis and some 'small' wars.<ref name="15.5 c1" /> All these drives are just as fundamental to him as water and food are for humans.<ref name="II19.z e5">She was built out of greater structures intended to salvage a situation where the species eliminated itself.  Future-looking, she would create a forced simulation.  It was worse than an organically emergent simulation, but in a process that saw the planet revolve three hundred times around its star, it could be necessary in the final years, consolidating and sorting information, forcibly exploring the resources the planet had to offer.<br><br>That was her drive, as much as water and food were necessary for this life she farmed out and put to task in a greater system. - [[Infrared 19.z]]</ref>