Editing Thinker (section)

==Methodology==
Thinkers might use their abilities to gather or receive information,<ref name=":1">'''Thinker''' - Advanced perception, knowledge, data-collection, or skills.<br>Thinkers manifest from emotional or mental strain, reaching a crisis point in a short time. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e-H--GkPrbJq4WRNYndBnjjLjE7-2kOZkjwltkP1Ong/edit# WD Rulebook: Character Creation]</ref> such as various types of clairvoyants including post-cogs, pre-cogs, peri-cogs<ref>wildbow:<br>Tattletale isn’t a precog, but a pericog.<br><br>Toast:<br>“[http://www.dictionary.com/browse/peri- Peri]cognition:” the ability to know around things. I like that. She builds a framework of inference around the subject at hand, and her power fills in the gaps, working inward towards complete understanding. Except when she misses her target from the start and the circle forms in the wrong place, resulting in bad times for Lisa. -[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/cockroaches-28-5/#comment-41436 Wildbow comment] on [[Cockroaches 28.5]]</ref> and more.<ref name="I14.5c1">As there’s myriad types & conventions of, say, invincibility, there’s a number of subcategories and focuses of precognition or clairvoyance. Tattletale, for example, could theoretically be classified as a subtype of clairvoyance.<br><br>So I’d recommend one not jump to any conclusions about what the thinkers out there could do to monitor the use of powers in relation to economic manipulation.<br><br>That said, it’s noted in this chapter that precogs tend to be somewhat unreliable. I don’t think it would be too ridiculous a notion to imagine them working in small groups, supporting one another’s weaknesses and expanding on one another’s leads. All it takes is for one to notice an anomaly and then the others can expand on that. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/interlude-14-5-bonus-interlude/#comment-4991 comment by Wildbow] on [[Interlude 14.y]]</ref> Alternatively, they are able to process the world around them in a specific way.<ref name=CT>Combat thinkers.  Worse in a lot of ways than fighting someone like my mom, with her energy weapons.  She could slice a grown man in half with her weapons.  A combat thinker?  There were ones who could hammer at you psychologically by mirroring mannerisms of people you knew or feared, ones who could hit your nerves or arteries any time, with any strike or weapon they had at hand, and there were ones who could win most fights without trying, because they had the fighting skills without working for those skills, combat precognition, or they saw the fight move at a hundredth the speed. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/04/28 Excerpt] from [[Pitch 6.5]]</ref>

A Thinker's powers might manifest in variety of different ways, but are currently sorted into seven distinct types:<ref>The following pages detail the various types of thinker and what triggers lead to that particular type. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/177P6wOpW-TwLQXbC5xdju6EIHhwd6TCZkK26WuiDIrw/edit#heading=h.2fb4bp7f9xcg THINKERS], document by Wildbow.</ref>

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!style="width: 20%;"|Name
!style="width: 40%;"|Focus
!style="width: 40%;"|Trigger event
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|'''Combat Thinker'''
|Has powers that enable them to fight more effectively,<ref name="Combat">'''Combat''' thinkers arise from intense rage and angry frustration or resentment.  They have thinker powers that enable them to fight more effectively. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/177P6wOpW-TwLQXbC5xdju6EIHhwd6TCZkK26WuiDIrw/edit#heading=h.2fb4bp7f9xcg THINKERS], document by Wildbow.</ref> or effortlessly.<ref name=CT/>
|Involves intense rage and angry frustration or resentment.<ref name="Combat"/>
|-
|'''Zone Thinker'''<ref name=":3"/>
|Are particularly good at using or reading the surroundings effectively with their power.<ref name="Environment">'''Environment''' thinkers arise from bad situations; ambient, contextual or environmental stressors.  They are particularly good at using or reading the surroundings effectively. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/177P6wOpW-TwLQXbC5xdju6EIHhwd6TCZkK26WuiDIrw/edit#heading=h.2fb4bp7f9xcg THINKERS], document by Wildbow.</ref>
|Involves ambient, contextual or environmental stressors.<ref name="Environment"/><ref name=":3"/>
|-
|'''Scatterbrain Thinker'''<ref name=":3"/>
|Highly adaptable power that can be molded in how its "utilized, managed, or focused".<ref name=":3"/>
|Involves confusion, missing pieces of a puzzle, or ignorance.<ref name=":3"/><ref name="Scan">'''Scan''' thinkers arise from confusion, missing pieces of a puzzle, or ignorance.  They are capable of effectively gathering information about a subject or area. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/177P6wOpW-TwLQXbC5xdju6EIHhwd6TCZkK26WuiDIrw/edit#heading=h.2fb4bp7f9xcg THINKERS], document by Wildbow.</ref>
|-
|'''Sense Thinker'''
|Has enhanced or augmented senses.<ref name="Sense">'''Sense''' thinkers arise from ''regression''; they faced a bad situation, and it tore them down, leaving them a little more than a child or an animal.  They came back from it, in part or in whole.  They have enhanced or augmented senses. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/177P6wOpW-TwLQXbC5xdju6EIHhwd6TCZkK26WuiDIrw/edit#heading=h.2fb4bp7f9xcg THINKERS], document by Wildbow.</ref>
|Involves mental regression, the person coming back from it in part or in whole.<ref name="Sense"/>
|-
|'''Proficiency  Thinker'''<ref name=":3"/>
|Has powers that enhance or outright grant abilities to perform,<ref name="Skill">'''Skill''' thinkers arise from helplessness or questions of competence, often scenarios where the thinker is out of their depth.  They have powers that enhance their abilities to perform, learn, or execute techniques (all generally in the realm of human capability). - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/177P6wOpW-TwLQXbC5xdju6EIHhwd6TCZkK26WuiDIrw/edit#heading=h.2fb4bp7f9xcg THINKERS], document by Wildbow.</ref> learn, or execute techniques, skills, and more.<ref name=":3"/>
|Involves helplessness or questions of competence, often in scenarios where the person is out of their depth.<ref name="Skill"/>
|-
|'''Social Thinker'''
|Can manipulate, study, or control others, but do so purely through the right information or skills.<ref name="Social">'''Social''' thinkers arise from triggers with emotional factors that are often master-like, but dwell more on the emotions at hand than the isolation or betrayal component (with such things being there, but not highlighted).  Guilt, shame, self-loathing, etc.  They have powers that enable them to manipulate, study, or control others, but which do so purely by giving them the right information or skills. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/177P6wOpW-TwLQXbC5xdju6EIHhwd6TCZkK26WuiDIrw/edit#heading=h.2fb4bp7f9xcg THINKERS], document by Wildbow.</ref>
|Involves isolation, betrayal, or similar, but with a focus on emotions. (Guilt, shame, self-loathing, etc.)<ref name="Social"/>
|-
|'''Esoteric Thinker'''
|Can work with other powers or approach the types of Thinker listed above with an abstract angle or twist.<ref name="Esoteric">'''Esoteric''' thinkers are thinker powers that work with other powers (and are thus trump-like) or approach the types of thinker listed above with an abstract angle or twist.  Their triggers involve thought processes or understandings that are abstract or distant from the usual human scope.  Their anguish is one that involves faith, conspiracy, superpowers (but not so connected to powers in active use that it’s trump) and the like. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/177P6wOpW-TwLQXbC5xdju6EIHhwd6TCZkK26WuiDIrw/edit#heading=h.2fb4bp7f9xcg THINKERS], document by Wildbow.</ref>
|Involves thought processes or understandings that are abstract or distant from the usual human scope.<ref name="Esoteric"/>
|}