Editing Sveta Karelia (section)

====Instinct====
From the outset Sveta was incapable of fully controlling the strength of her tendrils which leads her to instinctively crush any stressor with them.<ref name="I19c1">The latter. It’s like her entire fight or flight system was overhauled so the response to any stressor is ‘strangle it’. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/16/interlude-19-y/#comment-13288 Comment by Wildbow in ][[Interlude 19.y]]</ref> This also means her power is reactive to any threat against her no matter the source.<ref name="29.7c2">She can’t kill herself, or she would have, it’s obvious enough. Her body would react and destroy external threats, even ones she’s trying to leverage against herself. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/venom-29-7/#comment-45067 Comment by WildBow] on [[Venom 29.7]]</ref><ref>My bugs reached Sveta. She was pulling herself free of rubble.<br/><br/>''“Sveta.”''<br/><br/>She looked around, confused.<br/><br/>''“The bugs.”''<br/><br/>Her tendrils killed maybe sixty bugs as she focused her attention on them.<br/><br/>''“It’s Taylor. Skitter, or Weaver. Whatever you know me as.”''<br/><br/>She killed more before she got herself firmly secured to a large piece of concrete. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/05 Excerpt] from [[Venom 29.8]]</ref>  Her powers' behavior may stem from Sveta having little initial connection with her [[Shard]].<ref name="SB3">Some people have very little connection to their shards. Look at Leet - his shard actively sabotages him. Look at Echidna, or Sveta. You end up with disconnects, and stuff starts to stand out as the shard's behavior becomes more distinct, either in 'episodes' or a pattern of the power not cooperating. - [http://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/12852536 Worm Web Serial Discussion III : After the End] ([[Wildbow]], SpaceBattles.com, 2014-01-15)</ref> Functioning largely independent of her'<!--need to position quotes to sell how powerful and dangerous she actually is --> making computer use hard but not impossible with the right equipment.<ref name="RPG1">Very rugged design, kind of like Weld has his super reinforced chair.<br/><br/>Of course, she's not the only patient who needs a rugged computer, ergo her 'sister' needing to use it.<br/><br/>Drawback being that if you have a computer built for someone with a degree of super strength they can't wholly control, and worked so that the keys can be both pushed & pulled (with screws in each key for the tentacle girl to grip), sensitivity becomes a secondary consideration. - [https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?660599-Worm-The-best-supervillain-web-serial-that-you-aren-t-not-reading-yet&p=16549838#post16549838 Post by Wildbow] on RPG.net</ref>

Her body has its own mind that she could not always override. This included an instinctual hunter behavior that made her body conceal itself before people entered her room in the asylum.<ref name="18.z e93">"Come on out, Sveta," she said. She clenched her teeth and braced herself for the ambush.<br/><br/>Sveta had been waiting above the door. Tendrils snaked around the neck of the protective suit, and cinched tight in a moment.<br/>[...]<br/>"So sorry," Sveta whispered. "Sorry."<br/><br/>Jessica felt her arm jolt as one set of tendrils lashed up the length of her right arm to catch her gloved fingers. Each finger was pulled in a different direction, but the metal reinforcement in the outer glove held, and her hand wasn’t crumpled like tissue paper.<br/><br/>“Relaxation exercises, Sveta. Don’t try to fight the instincts all at once, don’t worry about me…” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/interlude-18-donation-bonus-3/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 18.z]]</ref> This instinct is likely responsible for her high kill count. Similarly her body ensures she is healthy and not close to death and will make her eat food, regardless of quality if it senses her close to starving.<ref name=29.7e2/>