Editing Dauntless (section)

==History==
===Background===
In 1996,<ref group="Notes">As seen in [[Interlude 12.none]], Addison is 14 years old as of Leviathan's attack on May 15, 2011. As Shawn triggered near the end of a summer when he had to perform a C-section on Kelly, Addison must have been born in 1996.</ref><ref name=":0" /> Shawn lived with his pregnant girlfriend, Kelly, in a mobile home. She dealt with mental health issues, specifically schizophrenia, but regardless they still had a happy relationship together. One day at the end of summer, their home was caught in a mudslide and they were both trapped. Shawn [[trigger]]ed when he had to perform a C-section on his girlfriend, to save the life of his son, Addison.<ref name=12.none/>

At some point, Shawn joined the Brockton Bay Protectorate as Dauntless. He fought a villain named [[Blackball]] in his first costumed battle.<ref>He was as nervous talking to his son as he was on any first date or first day of the job.  As nervous as he’d been when stepping up to participate in his first costumed fight, against Blackball. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/03/26/heavens-12-none/ excerpt] from [[Interlude 12.none]]</ref>

Dauntless initially assumed that his power was to temporarily empower disposable tools, like the white-hot cauterizing knife he charged during his trigger event, a temporary charge that faded after a while. He actually tried to avoid being forced to empower his costume, concerned that the traces of residual charge left behind might eventually ruin it and require replacing. It took many years for him to discover that large amounts of this "residual" charge could permanently enhance an item, with enough successive charges actually surpassing the temporary boost they got when first charged. This revelation transformed his career and led him to become a significant "rising star" in 2011.<ref name=":0" />

Dauntless was present when [[Shadow Stalker]]'s case was looked over by a special committee. After the committee granted Shadow Stalker a probationary status amongst the [[Wards]], he approached [[List of Minor Characters#Alan Barnes|Alan Barnes]] and asked for legal aid.<ref name="I19.z">Dauntless approached her dad.  She only caught two murmured words of Dauntless’ question.  “-divorce attorney?” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/19 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 19.z]]</ref><ref name=R2>Sleeper, Dauntless, and Oliver have their own snippets written, sitting on a defunct Wildbow hard drive somewhere. Not as primary characters, for Dauntless or Oliver, but enough fragments of stories that they've talked in or shared parts of themselves in that I know who they are. Dauntless is admittedly confused a bit with Triumph in some drafts, just as far as background, etc- this leads to slight incongruencies and patches in my memory- I can't remember if Dauntless or Triumph are the ones who approach Alan Barnes to ask about divorce. In early drafts I tried writing a purely mundane character, Dauntless'/Triumph's daughter, who has to deal with the fact that their parent is a superhero. Now of course, Triumph gets hammered out in-story, Dauntless is left as a bit of a blank, so it's not too hard to just shuffle it off, but small mistakes happen. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/9apvnz/nothing_relating_to_wildbows_works_but_does_he/e4y1rrf/ WB on Reddit]</ref>

===Story Start===
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After the [[Battle at the Gallery]], Dauntless appeared the opposite side of an alley that the [[Undersiders]] were hiding in, cutting off their escape route. He used his shield's forcefield to block [[Grue|Grue's]] darkness before advancing. [[Tattletale]] tried to tell Dauntless how [[Colin Wallis|Armsmaster]] hated him before Dauntless tapped the side of his helmet, revealing that he was wearing earbuds and could only hear Armsmaster. He advanced again and his shield touched [[Regent]]'s hand, shocking him before Regent made him stumble and fall to the ground.<ref name="6.7"/>

He raised his spear to impede the Undersiders, shooting lightning at them, before Grue brought his feet down on Dauntless' head. He recovered after the Undersiders escaped the alley and then shot [[Brutus]] and [[Angelica]]. Finding that ineffective, he tried aiming his Arclance at the Undersiders themselves only for Regent to disrupt his aim. Entering the garage, he stopped behind Armsmaster.<ref name="6.7"/>

Dauntless moved to retreat after the arrival of the [[Travelers]] and [[Circus]] but was blocked by [[Sundancer]]. He enclosed himself in his forcefield bubble to deflect Circus' knives before wrapping a second forcefield around a car that [[Ballistic]] used his power on. The forcefield gave away and the car dropped a scant foot away from Dauntless. He parried Circus' sledgehammer with his Arclance and then tumbled away from her when she breathed flame, bringing up his shield to block the flames.

Ballistic launched a car at Dauntless whose shield failed as Dauntless reeled. Dauntless tried to parry Circus with his Arclance, but Circus sidestepped around him before driving their sledgehammer against his chest.<ref name="6.7"/>
===Post-[[Battle against Leviathan|Leviathan]]===
Dauntless was grabbed by Leviathan alongside [[Alabaster]] and Jotun, and the Endbringer flicked them into the center of a time distortion bubble. He was not able to escape before he was frozen in time.<ref name="8.3">[[Extermination 8.3]]</ref> He later had his name placed on a memorial to honor those that had fallen.<ref name="8.8">[[Extermination 8.8]]</ref>
===Post-[[Battle against Echidna|Echidna]]===
The bubble was turned into an impromptu memorial.<ref>[[Imago 21.5]]</ref> With no sign of being freed.<ref>A few hundred thousand years in the future, when the bubble pops. When humanity is long gone… - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/imago-21-5/#comment-19017 Comment] by [[Wildbow]] on [[Imago 21.5]]</ref> Inside of it Dauntless was able to use his ability to regain a measure of normal perception.<ref name=THelm/>

===Early-[[Ward]]===
The Protectorate successor organization, The Wardens, have been committing resources to freeing people like him from imprisonment.<ref>“The Wardens didn’t ask us before they signed off on this, yet they have people devoted to idiotic things like rescuing people from time bubbles and loops. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/04/07 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 5x II]]</ref>

===Post-[[Assault on the Time Bubbles|Time Bubble Pop]]===
Dauntless gets released from the time bubble by [[March]]. His powers immediately [[broken trigger|go awry]], empower him excessively and cannibalize [[Alabaster]]. His power well get exhausted entirely, effectively merging Dauntless with his [[shard]]. In addition to that, their avatar exists in all dimensions simultaneously, which makes it impossible to do anything, even communicate, without harming someone catastrophically. The event invites the attention of [[Simurgh]].<ref name=12.none/>

===Post-[[Attack on Teacher]]===
Kronos attacked [[The Gibborim Knight|Chevalier's clone-titan]], which was deployed from [[Earth Shin]] against the [[Machine Army]] on [[Earth Bet]], sparking the second Shin crisis.<ref name="II17.4">[[Sundown 17.4]]</ref>

After delivering several lance-strikes to the Gibborim Knight, he was persuaded to stand down by the real [[Chevalier]], prompting [[The Simurgh]] to leave Dauntless for some time.<ref name="II17.7">[[Sundown 17.7]]</ref> After that Dauntless let the minions of [[The Mother of Mothers|secondary super-weapon]] to pass without combat.<ref name="II17.6">[[Sundown 17.6]]</ref>

Following [[Contessa]]'s failure, he contacted and attempted to guide other Titans.<ref name="II17.y">[[Sundown 17.y]]</ref> The Simurgh abandoned him again, and relocated to [[Titan Fortuna]].

===[[The Ice Breaks]]===
Dauntless was preventing other titans from reaching the [[Fortuna]]. [[The Wardens]] decided to assist him.<ref>“Dauntless is fighting off any of her Titans that try to get close to her, so they can’t connect or do whatever Moose and Prancer did.  Some of the Wardens are going to see what they can do to make him stronger.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/12/14/radiation-18-9/ Excerpt] from [[Radiation 18.9]]</ref>

Later, his network was joined by [[Oberon]], and together they were seen struggling against the assault of [[Fortuna]]'s titans.<ref name="II19.z">[[Infrared 19.z]]</ref>

As [[The Simurgh]] made her final moves, Dauntless refocused his attacks on the Endbringer.

He saved [[Colin Wallis|Defiant]] from certain death by The Simurgh, and joined Fortuna's network on Defiant's and The Warden's demand, which allowed him to successfully redirect the Endbringer into [[Sleeper]]'s power-storm, defeating it.<ref name="II20.a">[[Last 20.a]]</ref>