Editing Titans (section)

== Overview ==
Titans are the result of a host's [[Shard]] taking over their body, and as a result are exponentially more powerful than the original host was.<ref>'''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><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 [[The Shardspace|confronted in its own world]], would be very similar in execution. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15025980 Wildbow of Spacebattles]</ref> Titans are not limited to the original abilities of the host: they appear to have full access to all the powers of the host's [[Shard]], including those it could have given out but chose not to.<ref>Related powers factored into what Titan Eve was doing.  That pink gas, it wasn’t in her normal set of talents.  Was that a power the agent had but hadn’t handed out?  Something for a future host, or a possible evolution of the power?<br><br>Like how my family had lasers and forcefields as redundant things, but some of us kids, like myself, had something pulled from the same agent.  My damn sister had her dad’s master of biology, but a completely different angle.  He controlled one aspect of his, she controlled a thousand different aspects of anyone but herself.<br><br>Tristan and Byron had the same root power but other stuff came and went, like he’d remarked, and it changed with mental state.<br><br>Did the Titans have full access to the full portfolios they’d managed as agents? - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/11/26/radiation-18-4/ Excerpt] from [[Radiation 18.4]]</ref><ref>“There’s more of them.  Each one has the full capabilities of the agent that originally worked with the host.  All of the powers it could have handed out.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/11/26/radiation-18-4/ Excerpt] from [[Radiation 18.4]]</ref> All Titans have massively increased durability, not unlike that of [[Endbringers]], and typically have increased reach.<ref>Above all else, her durability and reach are what have increased, and these are common trends across all titans.  Reach, durability.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/11/19/radiation-18-2/ Excerpt] from [[Radiation 18.2]]</ref> Although some Titans such as [[Arachne]] could ignore the [[Manton limit]],<ref>“She produces razor wire within a quarter-mile of herself, scaling up over time, and seems to ignore the Manton limit.  The second most aggressive titan we’re dealing with, but easily distracted.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/11/19/radiation-18-2/ Excerpt] from [[Radiation 18.2]]</ref> other Titans such as [[the Ashen Titan]] could not;<ref>“The Ashen Titan.  Formerly Warden Cinereal.  Her reach was already extensive, especially when she was in an area for any length of time.  It has increased manifold.  She converts inorganic matter within a certain radius to ash she can telekinetically control and shape.  We sent an expedition out to reach out and try to open communication, she superheated her ash, and the heated air that resulted killed the capes at the cloudline.  We can safely assume she is no longer on our side.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/11/19/radiation-18-2/ Excerpt] from [[Radiation 18.2]]</ref> this implies some [[Shards]] have powers that are naturally [[Manton-limited]].

According to [[Tattletale]], Titans will continue to emerge for at least the next 300 years after their initial appearance. This interval is potentially the point at which the Shards will run out of energy, an event which will in turn cause more damage to reality, either incidentally or due to intentional action by the Titans as they attempt to form a new network among themselves.<ref>“If we retreat and regroup, those two are going to connect up, we’ll die if we aren’t far enough away, and the people who pick up where we left off will have to fight stronger titans with a more cogent network.  When enough of them network, that’s it,” Tattletale told Parian.<br>[...]<br>
“I saw into the cracks.  I saw the connections, the glows, I put it together with what I remembered from last night.  There will be more titans, as sure as water flows downhill.  If we win every fight from here on out, all we’ll do is hold the line, and every week or month for the next three hundred years, there will be more cracks, more titans.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/11/26/radiation-18-4/ Excerpt] from [[Radiation 18.4]]</ref>

[[Titan Fortuna]] implied that she, and by extension every Titan, are more powerful than the [[Endbringers]].<ref>And that silver woman was so much weaker and smaller than the Titan she faced.  Titan Fortuna, named such so that the little girl who had found the forward-looking eye could fulfill her promise to herself, that when all of this was over, she could be Fortuna again. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/12/21/interlude-18-z-radiation/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 18.z II]]</ref>

Psychologically, Titans are primarily controlled by their Shard, and act according to the Shard's own alien goals. In general, they attempt to perpetuate the Entities' life-cycle by forming a network amongst themselves and accumulating enough energy to shatter every version of their host planet across realities, so as to spread across the cosmos in every universe. The original human host is preserved, in the case of some Titans; While [[Titan Oberon|Oberon]] fully assimilated its hosts minds and discarded all personality except that which had tactical utility, Fume Hood still existed within the mind of Titan Eve, who much like [[Taylor Hebert|Khepri]] before her was reduced to an instinctual nagging at the consciousness of the Shards mind. Even in those Titans willing, communication is nearly impossible; Titan Eve could only attempt to warn off the capes combating her by holding back her attacks.