Editing Case 70 (section)

==History==

===Background===
Twins who trigger normally gain the same power or near-identical powers.<ref name=II.2.6/>

However, if the two are touching at the time of the trigger then the [[Shard|Agent]] conglomerates the two people into one individual.<ref name=II.2.6>“Case seventies in North America included Knot, Tandem, Zigzag was one, I think, there was House of Three in Quebec.  And… you, it seems.”<br><br>“One or two of them might not be seventies, but they get called seventies because they’re close enough.  Blurred lines, like you said.  When twins trigger, the powers are identical or nearly identical.  When twins trigger and they’re touching one another, like you said to Rain, things get blurry, the agent is too stupid or careless to tell where one starts and the other ends, or it wants to fuck with us, and it jams everything in together.  Two minds, two similar powers, and one body to be shared.”<br><br>“Is he asleep?” I asked.<br><br>“No.  He’s in here, he’s watching and listening.  He sleeps when I sleep, or I sleep when he sleeps, if he’s in the driver’s seat.  We trade out for two hour shifts.”<br><br>“Can he communicate?” I asked.  “Talk to you while it’s your turn?”<br><br>“That would be too easy,” Tristan said.  His good humor was gone now.  He just looked sad.  “No.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/26 Excerpt] from [[Flare 2.6]]</ref><ref name="R2">It's not about scale. It's about 'this is something we as an organization need to look into'. - [https://redd.it/2ktxxt Comment by Wildbow on reddit]</ref> It may be due to the agent's makeup.<ref>Lunatic Blue:<br>I have a question, what does the Butcher mean for shards/entities? Is it an aberration?<br><br>Wildbow:<br>keep in mind that the shards are pieces of the entities, they have residual effects & processes from being part of a larger organism, so where stuff isn't skewed intentionally, sometimes you just get quirks running through. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/37024231 Wildbow on Discord, archived on Spacebattles]</ref>

===Post-[[Timeskip]]===
Case seventies reportedly have a low life expectancy, even compared to other [[parahumans]]. The majority of them were already out of the game before [[Gold Morning]].<ref name=II.7.6>“Dealing.  Some days I’m fine, some days it catches up with me and I’m the furthest thing from ‘fine’.  It’s times like that where I think a lot about-”  He lowered his voice.  “-how there’s not a lot of case seventies left.  Even before Gold Morning, most were dead or they had totally gone off the deep end.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/06/09 Excerpt] from [[Torch 7.6]]</ref>