Editing The Trio (section)

==History==
===Background===
The trio first formed while [[Taylor Hebert]] was away at summer camp. When [[Emma Barnes]] was attacked by members of the [[ABB]], [[Sophia Hess]], as Shadow Stalker, rescued her and indoctrinated her into her worldview of survivors and victims.<ref>The other girl’s eyes studied her, and she seemed to come to a decision.  “It’s a philosophy, a way of looking at it all. You can look at the world as a… what’s the word?  One thing and another?”<br><br>“A binary?”<br><br>“A binary thing.  But not black and white.  It’s about the divide of winners and losers.  Strong and weak, predators and prey.  I kind of like that last one, but I’m a hunter.”<br><br>Emma thought back to how readily the girl had taken the thugs apart.  “I can believe that.”<br><br>The girl smiled.  “And what you have to keep in mind, is the biggest question of all is one you’re answering for yourself, right now.  Survivor or victim?”<br><br>“What’s the difference?”<br><br>“On this violent, brutish little planet of ours, it’s the survivors who wind up the strongest ones of all.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/interlude-19/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 19.z]]</ref> It is unclear how [[Madison Clements]] joined the group.

After becoming friends with Sophia, Emma cut ties with Taylor, and in high school, the trio began an incessant bullying campaign against Taylor. Emma made sure that no other students would befriend or help Taylor, isolating her from the school.<ref name=":22">I believe it comes up again towards the end of the arc. Emma pressured others to avoid the situation, not interfere or help or befriend Taylor. What Taylor took to be apathy on the part of the larger student body was actually more orchestrated behind the scenes. - [https://redd.it/4zr928 Wildbow on Reddit]</ref> The three would each bully Taylor in their own individual ways, trying to outdo each other in how creative and cruel they could get.<ref name=":0">“There’s three girls at school that had… have been making my life pretty goddamn miserable.  Doing pretty much everything they could think of to make school suck, humiliate me, hurt me.  Each of the three had their individual approach, and for a good while, it was like they were trying to outdo each other in how creative or mean they could get.”<br />[...]<br />“It went on for almost a year and a half before things quieted down.  Last year, around November, they… I dunno.  It was like they got bored.  The pranks got tamer, then stopped altogether.  The taunts stopped, and so did most of the hate mail.  They ignored me, left me alone.<br />“I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop.  But I made a friend, one of the girls who had sometimes joined in on the taunting came to me and apologized.  Not one of the major bullies, more like a friend of a friend of the bullies, I guess.  She asked me if I wanted to hang out.  I was too gun-shy, told her no, but it got so we were talking before and after classes and eating lunch together.  Her approaching me and befriending me was one of the big reasons I could think the harassment was ending.  I never really let my guard down around her, but she was pretty cool about it.<br />“And for most of November and the two weeks of classes before Christmas break, nothing.  They were leaving me alone.  I was able to relax.”  - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/shell-4-3/ Excerpt] from [[Shell 4.3]]</ref> This peaked in the January of 2011, when they [[Locker Incident|trapped Taylor in a locker]] filled with sanitary pads and tampons gathered from the girls' bathroom. Taylor had a [[trigger event]] and was subsequently hospitalized in a psychiatric ward due to the mental trauma of triggering.<ref name=":5">“Yes. You’re the locker girl. I almost didn’t recognize you without the glasses, but everyone at school knows who you are. You’re with the Merchants now?”<br />“You’re thinking of the wrong person,” I said, with a note of irritation in my voice.<br />“No, I’m almost positive. You were that girl that got shoved in that rank locker with all that stuff they carted away in biohazard bags. The girl who went so mental they had to have a group of cops and paramedics haul you away for the first month of the semester.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/infestation-11-5/ Excerpt] from [[Infestation 11.5]]</ref>

In the aftermath of the locker incident, the trio got off scot-free, as witnesses at the scene as well as Taylor herself refused to name them.<ref name=":7">The second possibility wasn’t much better.  He knew Taylor was being bullied.  Danny had found that out in January, when his little girl had been pulled out of school and taken to the hospital.  Not the emergency room, but the psychiatric ward.  She wouldn’t say by whom, but under the influence of the drugs they had given her to calm down, she had admitted she was being victimized by bullies, using the plural to give him a clue that it was a they and not a he or a she. - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/07/02/interlude-1/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 1.x]]</ref>

===Story Start===
After the locker, the trio continued to bully Taylor, tormenting her with petty pranks and insults and getting other students to join in as well. As time passed, Taylor missed increasing amounts of school in favor of her career with the [[Undersiders]]. She finally broke and identified them as her bullies after punching [[Emma]] while mildly concussed.<ref>[[Hive 5.3]]</ref> However, they were only suspended for two weeks.
===Post-[[Battle against Leviathan|Leviathan]]===
Two of the trio left [[Brockton Bay]] after [[Leviathan]] attacked the city.
===Post-[[Slaughterhouse Nine]]===
Sophia was sent to juvenile detention after violating her probation. By the time the other two returned to school, Taylor was no longer attending or afraid of them.
===Post-[[Battle against Echidna|Echidna]]===
Two members were seen in [[Arcadia High]] when Skitter's secret identity was revealed. 
===[[Gold Morning]]===
Emma was killed early into Gold Morning after refusing to evacuate.<ref name="27.3">''Back to the beginning.''<br><br>“Emma’s dead,” I said.<br><br>Sophia nodded.  “Her dad told me.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/20/extinction-27-3/ Excerpt] from [[Extinction 27.3]]</ref><ref name="27.1">[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/extinction-27-1/ Excerpt] from [[Extinction 27.1]]</ref><ref name="R1">End of the world happened, evacuation order was given, everyone was boarding the train, and Emma refused to leave her room (see her interlude). Suicide in a roundabout way, perhaps, but not as many imagine it. - [https://redd.it/3qhk87 Comment by Wildbow on Reddit]</ref> Sophia was briefly recruited by [[Weaver]].
===[[Glow-worm]]===
Madison survived Gold Morning and contacted [[Victoria Dallon]] for information about Taylor, revealing that she had ultimately come to regret her role in Taylor's descent into villainy. She had plans to become a teacher.<ref>[[Glow-worm P.9]]</ref>