Editing Ash Beast (section)

==Abilities and Powers==
Ash Beast's power is not fully understood, but relies on a conversion between mass and energy to constantly surround himself with some kind of explosion. He seems to possess a regenerative ability and exhibits partially uncontrolled shape-shifting.<ref name="30.5 e4">Bringing him through a doorway was hard. He generated so much heat, and while his shape and form were malleable, they weren’t wholly under his control. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/speck-30-5/ Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.5]]</ref> His explosions are comparable in power to the destructive capabilities of an S-Class threat.

Has a shapeshifting beast form generated through constant matter/energy and energy/matter conversion<ref name="List">Ash Beast	'''Shapeshifting beast form generated through constant matter to energy and energy to matter conversion'''	Independent	Breaker Changer - [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pgn9rgYutpBqJg1lSBP3NHnq9WK4ToLq9K4ys_I4cRc Parahuman List]; bolded edit by [[Wildbow]]</ref> allowing him to replace and rearrange parts of himself. This kept him far healthier then he should have been.<ref name="30.5 e3">I moved a forcefield cape to the Ash Beast’s location, and then created a bubble, putting it in range of the being. I made a portal within the bubble. More forcefields encased the bubble on my side for safety’s sake. My power operated through the forcefield, and the connection formed.<br/><br/>I identified a young man, at the center of it all, and I could now think of the Ash Beast as a ‘he’ instead of an ‘it’. He was surprisingly healthy, but he had a power that kept him in good physical condition, a natural breaker-class adaptation that came with his power. Energy to matter and matter to energy. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/speck-30-5/ Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.5]]</ref> He could absorb fire and presumably other forms of energy to augment his form.<ref name="30.5 e6"/>

Ash Beast was shown to be capable of matching [[Scion]] for an indeterminate period of time. In that fight, he was able to regenerate even as Scion tore into him.<ref name="30.5 e5">Shaping the fire, driving it out to the sides.<br/><br/>Shaping the flesh. From energy to physical form. Wings. Catlike legs to spring into the air.<br/><br/>The Ash Beast lunged into the air, above the water, and he streaked towards Scion like a comet. The forcefield cape followed, to maintain the connection.<br/><br/>I moved [[Alexandria]], [[Legend]], [[Moord Nag]] and the others on the frontline through doorways as the Ash Beast struck the golden man. Golden light tore into flesh that had been forged of fire, and more flesh was created to replace it. The Ash Beast tore into Scion, and the flesh was replaced just as quickly. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/speck-30-5/ Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.5]]</ref>

===Drawbacks===
According to [[Tattletale]], Ash Beast's power is always on at full capacity. He is one of the earlier examples of a [[Shard]] overtaking its host completely where the human experienced a form of ego death.<ref name="II16.8 e1">“What happens if they’re unlucky?” Chicken Little asked.<br><br>“Maybe don’t answer that,” Rain said.<br><br>“Something like Ash Beast,” Tattletale answered it anyway.<br><br>“I don’t know who or what that is,” Chicken Little said.<br><br>“The human essentially gone, the powers at full, reckless capacity, always on. You get the part where you’re repeatedly torn apart, but it’s more of a twenty-four seven, every second of every day thing than it is a once-a-night thing.” - [[From Within 16.8]]</ref> This loss of self gives his Shard more control over his actions, similar to [[Khepri]] or [[Night Hag]]; his Shard takes advantage of this opportunity to rampage.<ref>Many breakers can go permanent breaker. Shadow Stalker, for example, doesn't have any strict forces in play that forces her to conserve the breaker state or balance her living & breaker state.<br><br>But it's still bad times for those who go that route, because they're forced to or because they prefer life in the breaker state to their ordinary life. Breakers have a closer connection to their passenger than any cape, and in the course of diving deeper into their breaker state and not, for lack of a better phrasing, surfacing for air, they begin to lose themselves and the shard gets more of a say. This is, very obviously, not a good thing. We see this sort of mentality in Khepri, and we can assume something like it in Night Hag.<br>[...]<br>The breaker document includes some examples (the Atropos breaker, the consequences for death breakers in general) of ways the passenger might seep in or that life might suddenly get harder, when one lapses fully into a breaker state.<br><br>So just wanted to point out that this is a thing that happens - and ego death often goes hand in hand with it. By the flip side of that same coin, to finally get around to answering your question - ego death, momentary, partial, or permanent, would destroy the Self and insert more Breakerness into the void that's left behind.<br><br>Most of the time they rampage - Ash Beast and Night Hag and the like. But if the shard isn't equipped to take advantage of the opportunity (Cauldron shards, Eden shards in general), maybe the self comes back and you get a Grumman. - Wildbow on Reddit, [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/35365744| archived] on Spacebattles</ref>

[[Jack Slash#Shard|Jack Slash's secondary power]] is better at sabotaging him compared with the typical [[parahuman]].<ref>'''Depression-the-Game:''' Alright so, Jack Slash doesn't lose against parahumans. What about shard controlled Parahumans? Like Ash Beast or Khepri.<br><br>'''Wildbow:'''For an analogy, think of boomers trying to use an app a bizarre sci-fi megacorp designed to kill an executive officer of that megacorp's company. ''And'' that megacorp is monitoring them ''and'' they control their internet, the data they see, and you're tracking them. The boomer, for whatever reason, can't ditch their phone (In setting, it's stuck to their brain).<br><br>Because they're boomers they don't really understand the tech and a lot of it is screened off from them, right?<br><br>Boomer has an app that mail orders feral bears? "I guess we have to deliver, but let's just order some really shitty bears and have the driver honk his horn to alert the CEO, and if our boomer makes any mistakes in the ordering and isn't focused then we'll just empty the truckload of bears right in front of him."<br><br>App to get someone killed? They hook it up to your boomer's pacemaker and reserve the ability to stop his heart when his lifespan (going by compiled insurance data from up to 150 providers) is halfway up, in exchange for giving him data to call in accurate hits. He just made that install and your tracking indicates he's intending to call a hit in on your CEO? Use just the two providers that give the shortest lifespan, cut that in half, (he should be in 4 minutes, according to sketchy companies A and B? hit that button to stop our boomer's pacemaker!) Or lean on your megacorp's subsidiary companies and track what he's doing on the internet to slow him down. Mess with his head.<br><br>Utilizing a shard-controlled parahuman is getting ''deeper'' into the megacorp's control.<br><br>The way it works is that you want to rely on someone who isn't using the megacorp's tech or who isn't tracked and monitored by the megacorp. Anything else is going to see the executive officer getting a courtesy phone call and your tech guys are going to do everything they can to mess with your potential threat.<br><br>Anything else is liable to be a "Gee, why can't I use my app from megacorp to destroy a megacorp executive officer?" - Conversation with Wildbow on Reddit, [https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/worm-quotes-and-wog-repository.294448/page-24?post=91563426#post-91563426| archived] on Spacebattles</ref>