Editing Scion (section)

===Background===
Scion is an extension of the [[Warrior Entity]], created as an avatar in order to interact with and better understand the host species, humans. After Scion's creation, he waited for a year to appear on [[Earth Bet]], as planned, before realizing that something had gone wrong. Stepping into Earth Bet, he saw his shards raining down alongside the [[damaged shards]] of his counterpart, [[the Thinker]]. He destroyed them on sight, and after expanding his perception across the world and other realities, he learned that the Thinker was dead, and realized that he could not complete the cycle. With his simulated human emotions, Scion experienced a deep, profound sadness for the very first time.<ref name="I26" /> 

In his haze of depression, Scion stayed floating above the Atlantic Ocean for an indeterminate amount of time. On May 20th, 1982, Scion noticed an ocean liner approaching him, marking the first sighting of Scion by humans. He saw one of the Thinker's shards taking root in one of the passengers, [[Andrew Hawke]], and noticed that he was dying of cancer. In order to ensure the shard's safe growth, Scion used his powers to kill the cancer cells, also curing Andrew's sister in the process. Then he turned away from the gathered crowd and flew away.<ref name="I1">[[Gestation 1.x]]</ref><ref name="I26">[[Interlude 26]]</ref>

Scion then spent a period of time wandering the world, observing but never doing anything. As he spent time on earth, numerous theories emerged regarding his origins and nature. One day, in York, England, Scion was approached by a man down on his luck named [[Kevin Norton]]. Kevin flew at Scion in a rage, demanding to know what he had to be sad about and telling him to go do something with his power, suggesting that it might help him feel less miserable. Scion considered his words, then decided that it was a role he could fulfill.<ref name="I26" /><ref name="18.x"> [[Interlude 18.x]]</ref>

Scion proceeded to follow Kevin's instructions: traveling from place to place at supersonic speed without pause, helping people, saving orphans in wars, and stopping fires and natural disasters.<ref name="I1" /><ref name="I26" /> After flying past [[Behemoth]] to talk to Kevin, Kevin told Scion to also fight the [[Endbringers]] and any other monsters like them.<ref name="18.x" /> Scion would also intervene in certain crisis events, raiding groups and paramilitary groups in Africa and the Middle East, and intervening in the Cold War, which had the potential to kill large numbers of people and prevent shards from finding hosts.<ref name="SB1">[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15198095/ Comment by Wildbow (archived on Spacebattles)]</ref> However, Scion never prioritized the importance of certain crises, meaning that he could be helping with something relatively unimportant while an Endbringer was attacking a city. The heroes had no way to contact Scion, meaning that they had to simply hope that Scion would notice when they were in a dire situation and intervene.<ref name="8.4e1">We were hoping for Scion.  The first cape, the golden skinned man.  The guy that could go toe to toe with an Endbringer and win, if things hadn't already gone too far south.  [...] The problem with waiting on Scion was that the guy wasn't exactly in touch with the rest of us.  There was speculation he had at least one human contact – someone that had given him clothing and a costume, at least – but he never bothered to stop long enough for anyone to pass on any requests, to tell him to go to X place when we gave him Y signal.  He rescued people twenty-four-seven, three hundred and sixty five days a year, handling crises only as they came to his attention, which meant that sometimes an Endbringer came and Scion was wholly occupied with saving sinking ships, stopping landslides and putting out housefires. - [[Extermination 8.4]]</ref>

By the middle of the 1990s, Scion was traveling from crisis to crisis, flying faster than the speed of sound.<ref name="I1" /> He would regularly return to Kevin and listen to him, who gave instructions on how to better save people and rambled to Scion about different things. He could be overly literal in interpreting Norton's suggestions, and didn't always follow them to the letter.<ref name="18.x" /> In 1999, he was given a white bodysuit by Kevin and was told to keep it clean.<ref name="I1" /><ref name="18.x" /> One day, Scion encountered a woman on a balcony as he was extinguishing widespread fires in Alexandrovsk, Russia. The woman asked what Scion was, to which he replied with his first words: "Zion." The word was remembered from a story Kevin had told him, appealing to Scion because it reminded him of the promised land of a completed cycle. However, after the word was caught on camera and circulated, "Zion" was misinterpreted as "Scion," and soon Scion was the name attributed to him by the public.<ref name="I1" /><ref name="I26">[[Interlude 26]]</ref>