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==Trigger events== Breaker triggers are perhaps the hardest to define.<ref>Breaker triggers are perhaps the hardest to define lay out in clear terms. - [https://redd.it/4x21hk reddit comment] by Wildbow.</ref> On one hand, Breakers emerge from triggers that blur the line between physical and mental.<ref>Other Breakers arise from cases where the lines are so blurred and/or intermingled between the physical and the mental that usual classifications don’t neatly fit. - [https://redd.it/4x21hk reddit comment] by Wildbow.</ref> It's not enough for [[trigger event]] to have a physical and mental element: The two must be indivisibly linked.<ref>Could the elements feeding into one aspect of the trigger be removed, with the trigger event still making some degree of sense? In the above hypothetical, could you remove the parts that make it a changer trigger and leave it as striker only, with a rewrite? If the combination of the two are so interlinked as to be irreconcilable, it could be a breaker trigger. - [https://redd.it/4x21hk reddit comment] by Wildbow.</ref> On the other hand, Breaker powers emerge from abstract stressors<ref>Breakers sometimes come from abstract stressors or those things that are the very odd fits for other classifications. - [https://redd.it/4x21hk reddit comment] by Wildbow.</ref>, or from threats that are hard to define or explain.<ref>Does, for lack of a better way of putting it, the trigger sit on the outside bounds of the usual ‘box’ that the classification fits in? Strikers trigger from in-your-face hostile threats. Is the threat hard to define or explain, either in the character’s perceptions or in reality? Changers trigger from identity issues and cases where the outside world impugns the character’s set identity. Is that identity crisis hard to define or explain, even for the individual in question? Similar questions can be asked for other classifications. Is the damage a Brute takes hard to explain or frame? Is the long-term problem a tinker faces hard to outline in terms of being long-term or a problem? - [https://redd.it/4x21hk reddit comment] by Wildbow.</ref> They often involve self-contradictory feelings.<ref name=":2">For a mover, this might include things like wanting to escape on a physical level while mentally feeling that the situation is safe, the inverse, or something more abstract, like wanting to escape reality on a spiritual level and finding oneself unable, or wanting to escape a concept or wanting to escape something that cannot be avoided on a fundamental level. - [https://redd.it/4x21hk reddit comment] by Wildbow.</ref> For a [[Mover]], this might include things like wanting to escape on a physical level while mentally feeling that the situation is safe, the inverse, or something more abstract, like wanting to escape reality on a spiritual level and finding oneself unable, or wanting to escape a concept or wanting to escape something that cannot be avoided on a fundamental level.<ref name=":2" /> Drugs, poisons, medical conditions and mental illnesses very frequently involved in the unusual scenarios that make Breaker triggers possible.<ref>Drugs, poisons, medical conditions and mental illness very frequently create the unusual scenarios that make Breaker triggers possible. - [https://redd.it/4x21hk reddit comment] by Wildbow.</ref>
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