Editing Chris Elman (section)

==History==

===Background===
Claimed that he triggered after Gold Morning.<ref>“Yeah,” he said, as if I’d said something very heavy, and he’d felt part of that weight.  “I feel like I’ve been trying to get a handle on things since I got my powers.”<br/><br/>“For a while now, then?  If I can ask?”<br/><br/>“Just under a year ago,” he said.  “I think, along with Chris, I’m the rookie here.”<br/><br/>Post-Gold Morning.  That helped put things in context.<br/><br/>Chris, too.  By process of elimination, he’d be the boy roughly Kenzie’s age. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/23 Excerpt] from [[Flare 2.5]]</ref>

In reality, his earliest memories were about fighting off [[Breed]] spawns and escaping decontamination, since he was created by [[Lab Rat]] as an emergency survival measure at the start of the Gold Morning. Though he did not fully [[shard|align]] himself to his progenitor until later - an uncomfortable process, forced on him by imperatives designed into his body, which he eventually escaped from midway through.<ref name="II10.y">[[Interlude 10.y II]]</ref>

By his own admission, he was once involved in involuntary manslaughter.<ref name="I4cII">Ashley shook her head.  She looked the way Victoria had gone.  “She hasn’t killed anyone before, if I had to guess.”<br/><br/>“Just Victoria and the kids, then.”<br/><br/>“Just Victoria and Kenzie,” Chris said.<br/><br/>Rain looked at Chris.  Chris shrugged.  “Accidental.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/02/22/shade-interlude-4c/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 4c II]]</ref>  This is most likely a reference to the couple that followed Chris into Lab Rat's lair, only to be killed by the security system.

===[[Glow-worm]]===
Strange_Mammal joined a [[Chatroom group|team]] of parahumans.

They successfully enticed [[Heart_Shaped_Pupil]] into revealing that they had been reading Strange_Mammal's chatlogs.<ref name="P.6e4"/> This revelation did not cause Strange_Mammal to leave the group.<ref name="P.7">[[Glow-worm P.7]]</ref>

At some point, he gets confronted by [[Jessica Yamada]] about his lies. Chris claims that it is a matter of survival for him.<ref name="II10.y"/>

===Early-[[Ward]]===
Attending therapy with the rest of the group. He is working his way through study packets provided by the education system instead of actually going to class.<ref name="4.2">[[Shade 4.2]]</ref>

Met the coach, was not impressed.

Was a major factor in the survival of Rain.

===Post-[[Mathers Compound Assault|Fallen Fall]]===
The overuse of his abilities 'damaged' his body.<ref>[[Torch 7.8]]</ref>

Assisted [[Marquis]] with treating a suspect, was competent.<ref>[[Torch 7.9]]</ref>

Cryptid had the gall to play games with the [[Goddess]],<ref>“He came to me with a form prepared to counter me.  And that is, as far as I detected, only one of three levels of deception that boy was putting into practice.  You don’t want to tell me that you’re following his suit.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/09/18/gleaming-9-9/ Excerpt] from [[Gleaming 9.9]]</ref> when she took the lead of [[Breakthrough]].

Tried to attack Goddess with one of his forms but she dealt with the situation and sent him off on an errand.

He would meet up with [[Amy Dallon|Amy]] and they were able to persuade Goddess's wayward clustermate to join them and head to the prison Goddess was in the process of usurping.

He left for [[Earth Shin]] with his [[Red Queen]].<ref>[[Gleaming 9.15]]</ref>

===Post-[[Goddess' Takeover]]===
In the wake of [[The Navigators|Navigators]]-related ambushes, his dossier gets delivered to [[Victoria Dallon]].

Was spotted on New Zealand.[[Shin]] alongside Amy and Marquis revising local parahumans and preparing government transition.<ref>[[Blinding 11.2]]</ref>

===Post-[[Time Bubble Pop]]===
Chris joined Amy, [[Marquis]], and [[Spruce]] in meeting Breakthrough when they visited Shin.<ref>[[Breaking 14.5]]</ref>
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He was clothed, but not in the sash he’d worn when he was on Breakthrough.  A metal collar had a ring of metal-encased syringes primed to plunge into his own throat, and that collar had four broad lengths of  cloth draping back from it.  Shin’s textiles were top notch, which was probably why they wrapped everything from themselves to their guns in it, and he’d decked himself out in plenty of it, all crimson with gold tracery.
[..]
He left stuff around for her to find,” Cryptid told us.  “He doesn’t trust me after the years we spent jockeying for power in the Birdcage, I cured some of his thralls, fucked with him a few too many times.  He wants to pretend he’s objective and rational but he can hold a grudge.  He was fucking with your sis, Victoria, I knew he’d keep doing it until I took that card away from him.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/06/25/breaking-14-12/ Excerpt] from [[Breaking 14.12]]</ref-->

===Post-[[Attack on Teacher]]===
Delivered news about Teacher's end and [[Breakthrough]] being admitted into the upper league.<ref>“Teacher’s out of the running.  His thralls all got their brains back.  According to a very talkative little kid who insists on sending me updates after we’ve parted ways, Breakthrough -that’s ah, my old team, The Red Queen’s sister- are now fully in.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/09/24/from-within-16-y/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 16.y II]]</ref> Was given the go-ahead on his preparations from [[The Red Queen]].<ref name="II16.y">[[Interlude 16.y II]]</ref>
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Chris was all shaggy hair, a vaguely yeti-shape.  All of his forms had long hair now.  Which boded ill, as far as she was concerned.  Either he knew she knew what he was doing, which suggested he was trying to intimidate her, or he didn’t, in which case hew as being overly defensive.  Her power didn’t work past hair, fur, and body hair. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/09/24/from-within-16-y/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 16.y II]]</ref-->

When [[The Ice Breaks]] [[SDI]] labs was destroyed. Albeit, Chris was able to recover some equipment.<ref name="II17.z">[[Sundown 17.z]]</ref>

===[[The Ice Breaks]]===
Chris continued protecting Shin against [[Titan Arachne]] with the remainder of [[SDI]].<ref>Lab Rat was digging his heels in, using the giants my sister had helped create to protect Shin from Arachne.  Hunter. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/12/14/radiation-18-9/ Excerpt] from [[Radiation 18.9]]</ref><!-- looked like bird there--> He rerouted the majority of giants against [[Titan Fortuna]], once she brought her attention to [[Earth Shin]] [[portal]]. Chris met [[Breakthrough]] again.<ref name="II19.4">[[Infrared 19.4]]</ref><ref name="II19.5">[[Infrared 19.5]]</ref>
<!--ref>He leaped from the building, and the light from my gun’s housing briefly illuminated him.  Something between a jackrabbit, a kangaroo, and a humanoid in form, with a fur ruff around his neck, all black, with jagged incisors filling a wide, leering grin. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/01/07/infrared-19-4/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.4]]</ref -->

Chris additionally empowered his Giants to counter newborn Titans, that immediately started slaughtering heroes. He even resorted to empowering [[The Mathers Giant]], with some help with syringe delivery from [[Sveta Karelia]]. Chris also healed [[Victoria Dallon]] from mutations given by an abrupt contact with [[Titan Ophion]] and told her about the clone-skinpatch that [[Amy Dallon]] stole.<ref name="II19.6">[[Infrared 19.6]]</ref>

He followed Sveta and [[Byron Vera]] to [[the Shardrealm]], re-joining [[Breakthrough]] near Contessa's crystal.<ref name="II19.7">[[Infrared 19.7]]</ref> Chris provided some healing for Tristan on their way there.<ref>“Did you get healing?” I asked.<br/>[...]<br/>“From Chris,” he said. “It’s not total, but… I fucked up, because I was too slow, I couldn’t risk doing that again.  I- I’ll get into it later.”  - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/04/infrared-19-8/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.8]]</ref>

Chris was targeted by [[The Simurgh]]'s manipulations.<ref name="II19.z">[[Infrared 19.z]]</ref> He participated in the Wardens' battles with The Simurgh and [[Machine Army]], and brought [[SDI]] with him.<ref name="II20.1">[[Last 20.1]]</ref><!--bulldog form--> He agreed to execute Victoria's plan through collab with [[Bonesaw]].<ref name="II20.2">[[Last 20.2]]</ref><!-- black rat form--> Cryptid eventually arrived to the labs together with wounded Victoria and [[Byron Vera|Byron]]. Faced with the severity of their injuries he begrudgingly shared some of his reserves. Seconds later Chris lost contact with [[The Mathers Giant]]. Victoria volunteered to deal with it and suggested him to switch to his bird form.<ref name="II20.4">[[Last 20.4]]</ref>

Despite the Simurgh being driven out of The Wardens' Complex, Chris walked out of his arrangement with Victoria, and had a short scuffle with her and [[Rain]]. He also started spreading half-truths about the plan to safeguard himself from possible retaliation and sabotage it further.<!-- rat form, then apex-bird, leaves as a boy-->

Following the consultation with [[Jessica Yamada]] and [[Riley Davis]], the Wardens decided to try to capture Chris, before he would have an opportunity to interfere with the [[Victoria]]'s plague deployment further.<ref>“And Chris?”<br/><br/>“They’re going to hunt him down. [...] He was spreading half-truths and they asked Jessica, who asked Riley, who said he was a problem.  They’ll imprison him and take away his stuff if they can.  Jessica said to, I think, as a compromise.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/03/31/last-20-10/ Excerpt] from [[Last 20.10]]</ref> Chris managed to evade the capture until the plague had its effect.<ref name="II20.b">[[Last 20.b]]</ref>

===Ward Epilogue===
Chris was eventually captured, and remained imprisoned at the end of winter of Y3. With [[Kenzie Martin]] visiting him daily.<ref name="II20.e4">[[Last 20.e4]]</ref>