Editing Trigger Event (section)

==Trivia==

*Late teens to mid twenties is the most common age range for first generation triggers. Every generation after the first has an increased likelihood of triggering, even if they're much younger then the original recipient.<ref>Parahumans tend to trigger between 10 and 25. It's possible but less likely to get in the 5-9 or the 26-30 range.<br>Second generation triggers trigger more easily, which shifts the numbers to 5-20 with a theoretical 5 years of leeway that we don't see or hear evidence of (so probably rare).<br>Third generation triggers trigger even more easily, which can (in addition to lowering the bar for a sufficiently traumatic event) shift the age by another 5 years downward. It'd be hard for a fetus to have a distinct experience sufficient to provoke a trigger, but there's a case in canon that's mentioned where a 5 year old triggers and that's considered notable. - [https://old.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/br5l5o/question_about_trigger_requirements/eoaa1rh/ Wildbow on Reddit]</ref>
*Though painful, pregnancy does not usually lead to a trigger event, as it is a normal part of the human life cycle. Events surrounding the pregnancy, however, can lead to a trigger event.<ref name="R3">[https://redd.it/4j65s0 Comment by Wildbow on Reddit]</ref><ref>''Pime Abtiss, mother of the blind.''<br><br>Another shadow appeared as the therapist entered the room.  A blindfolded woman with a small, deformed baby in her arms, umbilical cord stretching into a gap in the robe.<br>[...]<br>“I’m very sorry.  That took longer than I expected,” Ms. Yamada said, as she took her seat.<br><br>“No matter,” [Ciara] ran her hand over the baby’s misshapen head.  It dissipated into shadow, along with Pime Abtiss.  She didn’t replace it with another shadow.  “Forgive me, I overheard.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/11/02 Excerpt] from [[Teneral e.1]]</ref>
*While some powers can detect whether someone has the potential to trigger,<ref>One was [[Missy Biron|the little space-warper]], another was a copy of [[Circus|the firebreathing acrobat]] with [[multitrigger|the rich smell]], and three were copies of the unpowered people she’d absorbed.<br>[...]<br>Regent might work against this girl in white, but his influence would be too minor in the big picture.  His smell was weakest of the three.<br><br>Not that it was really a smell… but she was peculiarly aware of the people with powers, active or otherwise.  Each had a texture and a tone and a ''flavor'', something she felt like she could come to understand.  She might have said it was ''taste'', might have compared it to when she’d tried wine that one time and tried to see what the wine aficionados looked for when they sampled a vintage.  Except the word ‘smell’ worked better, because smell and taste were really very similar and smell worked over distances.<br><br>There was a difference in [[Skitter]], [[Grue#Expansion|Grue’s]] and [[Eidolon|Eidolon’s]] smells, along with a handful of the other visiting capes.  A smell that set them apart from the other parahumans in the same way that the other parahumans were set apart from the people who ''could'' have powers but didn’t.  An ''intensity''. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/16 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 18.z]]</ref> very few can determine the circumstances needed for a trigger or when one is about to occur.<ref>“We’ve heard of incidents where one person became a very large-scale effect.  The kind that would cover this whole colony, and then some,” I said.  “I think the catch is that most precogs and danger sensers can’t see triggers coming, even broken ones.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/10/02 Excerpt] from [[Gleaming 9.12]]</ref>
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