Editing Timeline (section)

===2009===
*Unspecified dates:
**[[String Theory]] birdcaged.<ref name="27.4"/>
**[[Paige Mcabee]] imbibes a Cauldron vial.<ref name="6.x"/>
**Dennis triggers and becomes [[Clockblocker]].<ref>Clockblocker is 17, a high school senior. He triggered at 15, during a bone-marrow transplant for his dad. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/17584328/ Private conversation with Wildbow, archived on Spacebattles]</ref>
**Kayden Anders divorces with Max Anders; Purity leaves Empire Eighty-Eight.<ref name="7.4"/><ref>“Kayden,” he said, when he’d stopped, “You’re already associated with me.  People say our names in the same breath, even when we haven’t worked together in two years.  When my name appears in the newspapers, yours is never far behind.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/10/11 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 3.5 (Bonus)]]</ref>
***[[Night]] and [[Fog]] leave Empire Eighty-Eight and form their own duo in Boston.<ref>The people that had come in with Purity were other members of Empire Eighty Eight.  Krieg, Night, Fog and Hookwolf.   It was interesting to see, because as far as I’d known, while every one of them had been a member of Empire Eighty Eight at some point in time, Purity had gone solo, while Night and Fog had splintered off to form their own duo in Boston not long after.  All reunited, apparently. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/11/05 Excerpt] from [[Hive 5.1]]</ref>
**[[Weld]] joins Boston Wards.<ref>“Good.  The team here is smaller than your old team in Boston.  It currently consists of Clockblocker, Vista, Kid Win and Shadow Stalker.  We had two members die in the attack, and a third left with his family when they evacuated.”<br>[...]<br>“The second half of this phase is getting the public more comfortable with the outliers.  The people with stranger powers, and stranger appearances.  You’re likable, Weld.  You have a clearly unnatural appearance, if you’ll forgive me saying so-”<br><br>Weld shrugged.  He stood out.  There were a hundred things that bothered him more than stares and comments on the subject.<br><br>“-but you have fans, and people are interested in you.  You get higher ratings for your interviews than even the average handsome hero gets.  You’re second most popular for team leaders for number of youtube videos, possibly helped by a briefly lived internet meme featuring your face, and you have a blemish-free record, both academically and in your two years serving as a part of the Wards.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/04/03 Excerpt] from [[Sentinel 9.1]]</ref>
**Sarah Livsey triggers, runs away from her parents and changes her name to [[Lisa Wilbourn]].<ref name="Tattletale"/>
**Hijack runs away from [[Heartbreaker]] and becomes [[Regent]]. He also changes his name from Jean-Paul Vasil to Alec.<ref name="Regent"/>

*April
**[[Blasto]] becomes crime lord of East Alston in [[Boston]].<ref>Blasto, Real Name Unknown<br>Classification:  Tinker 6 (sub: master 5, blaster 2, shifter 2, brute 2); plants.<br>Disposition: Villain (B)<br>Last Known Location:  Boston (Allston area, east).<br><br>Crime lord of East Allston since est. date of April 2009. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/28 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 19.x]]</ref>
**[[Missy Biron]] presumably triggers around this month; she then joins the [[Brockton Bay]] Wards as Vista sometime during or before the end of April. <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%"><div class="mw-collapsible-content"><small>Missy Biron was born on May 15, 1998.<ref name="II10.10 eMissyBirthday" /> Crystal Pelham implies Missy triggered when she was at least ten.<ref name="II15.a eMissyTen">Neither had wanted to move from the family home because that made getting an eventual share of the house in the divorce harder, and neither had wanted to initiate the divorce because they’d believed in their own righteousness enough that a ‘fair’ divide of assets wouldn’t be enough- they had to break down the other.  So they’d stayed together and lived in the same house for a year before even initiating the separation, while having fights loud enough that police had been called.  All with a ten year old girl caught in the midst of it.<br><br>Later, a frustrated judge had found what he thought was a compromise: that the house would remain unsold, with Vista remaining in one place while the parents alternated a paired custody of house and Vista, each parent maintaining a separate residence they would be in when not taking care of Vista and the house.  ''Bad'' fucking idea, when competing renovations, rearrangement of furniture and things, and other passive hostility came into play.  The divorce hadn’t happened until a few years into it. - [[Dying 15.a]]</ref> Vista also believes she joined the Wards a month before she turned eleven.<ref name="9.5" /><ref name="II20.end eJoinTime">“I want you to have a full life.  I had so many doubts, when we agreed to send you to the Wards…”<br>[...]<br>“I feel like you never came back after we left you there.”<br><br>“I know, but I’m here.  Seven years and one month later.”<br>[...]<br>“Everything about you and me doesn’t have to change all of a sudden just because you’re eighteen.” - [[Last 20.end]]</ref> Thus, Missy must have triggered sometime between May 15, 2008 and the end of April 2009. However, Victoria triggers after Vista was a Ward; Vista was barely her senior.<ref name="II19.9 e2">“Thank you,” I told her.  “You’re my senior, technically.”<br><br>“Barely.”<br><br>“You’ve still been at this longer than me.  Already going out on patrols.”<br><br>“It’s a babysitter patrol.  Gallant’s babysitting me, and Challenger is babysitting the both of us.  She’s down in the bar below.  The owner let us up onto the roof so you could… do whatever.”<br>[...]<br>“Right now I want to know if you’re okay.  I was watching when it happened.  I blacked out, I didn’t see what happened, then I had my shift, you weren’t answering your calls… I thought I’d go on patrol, they said it was okay if I needed to leave any time.”<br><br>“Thus the Challenger-Gallant double babysitter for Vista.”<br><br>“I hope she doesn’t come barging up here,” he said, looking to the door, then down at Vista.<br><br>“We went straight from the gym to the hospital.  My mom wanted to make sure I was okay.  My phone’s still in my locker.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/08/infrared-19-9/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.9]]</ref> Thus, the date of Missy's trigger event is presumably very close to when she joined the Wards: Missy would not be barely Victoria's senior if she triggered in 2008 and then waited until April 2009 before joining the Wards.</small></div></div>
*Between April and June <div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%"><div class="mw-collapsible-content"><small>According to Victoria and Carol Dallon, Victoria had her trigger event at high school when she was fourteen.<ref>It was as if someone had taken a want, desire, even a ''need'' equal to what I’d experienced in my childhood and early teens, when I’d wanted to be a hero, when I’d written letters to Santa and wished it during every birthday candle extinguishing and for every shooting star I’d seen from when I was four to when I was fourteen, if someone had gathered all of that feeling and compressed it into a single, concentrated moment of wanting it to be Dean coming into the enclosure to give me a hug.  And then not getting what I wanted. - [[Daybreak 1.6]]</ref><ref>She’d caught the thread I’d wanted to lay out.  It helped.  “And then just under three years as Victoria-slash-Glory-Girl.  And then… hospital.”<br><br>“Which was undeniably horrible.”<br><br>“It felt like my life had ended.  No hope or help.  All I had to cling to were those memories of the three years I was Glory Girl. - [[Daybreak 1.8]]</ref><ref>“I won’t.  Where does the other Earth and the war fit into this?” I asked.  I pulled out a pair of white boots.  Shoes meant for a costume might have worked better, but I tended to prefer boots for the fact that they stayed on better with hard landings, kicks, and rough falls.  Fourteen year old Glory Girl had learned that lesson: it was terminally embarrassing to have a petty criminal watch as you flew over to your lost shoe and put it back on. - [[Flare 2.3]]</ref><ref name="II2.6 ePatrol">“Hold on,” I said.  “I was asked, I’m answering.  I triggered at fourteen, I was patrolling within six months.  I had three years of time as Glory Girl, one Endbringer fight, and-” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/26/flare-2-6/ Excerpt] from [[Flare 2.6]]</ref><ref>“Owww,” I mewled, cradling my arm, and belatedly, I realized that this particular stage had gone quiet, just in time for me to sound like a girl closer to four than to fourteen, my voice overly loud with the acoustics of the space. - [[From Within 16.8]]</ref><ref>“It felt weird to tell my fourteen year old daughter to break a man’s arm, once upon a time,” she said.  “We adapt.  I’ll do it, invite your dad, we’ll swap shifts.” - [[Beacon 8.9]]</ref> However, Victoria triggers after Vista was a Ward; Vista was barely her senior.<ref name="II19.9 e2" /> Vista also believes she joined the Wards in April 2009.<ref name="9.5" /><ref name="II20.end eJoinTime" /> Assuming Vista is correct, Victoria must have triggered sometime between April and June 2009. If Vista incorrectly remembered when she joined the Wards, then Victoria triggered sometime between the latter half of May and June 2008, as Crystal implies Missy triggered when she was at least 10 years old.<ref name="II15.a eMissyTen" /></small></div></div>
** [[Victoria Dallon]] triggers <small>(Speculative, happens in 2008 if Vista incorrectly remembered when she joined the Wards)</small>.
*Summer
**Taylor Hebert goes to summer camp.<ref name="19.z e1">“Emma!”  The voice on the other end was breathy, excited.  There was a babble of other voices in the background.  She could imagine the other youths lined up to use the pay phones.<br>[...]<br>Emma laughed, leaning back against her car seat.<br><br>It was something of a relief, to hear Taylor getting excited about something, to hear her getting excited over ''nothing''.  She’d lost her mother a year ago, and hadn’t bounced back, not entirely.<br>[...]<br>Her mother spoke through the door, “Emma?  Taylor’s on the phone.  She’s still at summer camp.  Do you-“  - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/19 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 19.z]]</ref>
**[[Shadow Stalker]] saves [[Emma]] and [[Alan Barnes]] from an [[Azn Bad Boys]] attack.<ref name="19.z e2">“Emma,” her father said.  He was out of the car, embracing her.  “Are you hurt?  Emma?”<br><br>One hand absently tried to claw her own strands of hair from her mouth, failing to get all of them.  She settled for leaving the hand mashed against her mouth, as incoherent a gesture as anything she might have said if she’d been able to speak.<br><br>Wordless, the girl in the black cloak limped a few steps away from the fallen boy before adopting her shadow form, floating away, untouchable. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/19 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 19.z]]</ref>
*September
**Emma and Sophia begin to bully Taylor.<ref name="19.z e3">Taylor didn’t speak for long seconds.  “Can you blame me?  Since school started, you’ve been… after me.  As if you’re trying to make a point or something.  Except I don’t know what it is.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/19 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 19.z]]</ref><ref name="1.1 eBullyStart" />
*December
**The Simurgh attacks [[Madison]].<ref>Formerly PRT Office 83, Madison was the site of a Simurgh attack, which took place over thirteen hours at the tail end of 2009. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/3ec7eu/what_were_simurgh_quarantine_zones_actually_like/ctes2v2/ Wildbow on Reddit]</ref><ref name="17.7"/>
***The Simurgh first uses [[Tinker]] power, copying [[Professor Haywire]] technology. Portals to Earth Aleph and [[Cauldron Compound]] opened, transferring multiple buildings and everything inside to Earth Bet.<ref>A low rumble shook the city, and the gate began to bulge with a dark shape that stretched out from within the metal, like a soap bubble emerging from an enclosed loop.<br><br>Or a lens, Krouse realized.  It flared bright, rays of light meeting, and things began pouring forth from the point the lines met.   Piles and piles of solid matter flowed down to land at the heart of the city: debris, fragments of architecture, and tiny shapes that were very likely to be people, in a stream as wide across as the Simurgh’s wingspan, lit in high contrast by the light of the halo.<br><br>And there were tiny shapes that most definitely weren’t people, but were alive.<br><br>It’s a portal.  A door.<br><br>“How the fuck is she not a tinker!?” Krouse shouted.<br><br>“She isn’t!” Jess called back.  “She’s never done anything like this before!” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/09 Excerpt] from [[Migration 17.2]]</ref><ref>When the Simurgh had attacked Madison, she’d copied Haywire’s technology to open a gate to a building much like this one.  A research facility.  The portal had dumped the buildings, soil, plant life and all the residents into the city on Earth Bet, costing Cauldron a horrific amount.  Even a stockpile of formulae had been lost. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/27 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 21.x]]</ref>
***[[Francis Krouse]], [[Noelle Meinhardt]], [[Oliver]], [[Luke Brito]], [[Marissa Newland]], [[Jess]] and [[Cody]] imbibe Cauldron vials, becoming [[Travelers]].
***Madison quarantined.<ref name="17.7"/>
*December 23rd
**Travelers leave Madison.<ref name="17.7">Madison was well behind them, now.  Odd, how it felt like he was leaving home, even when it wasn’t really his city.  A bad copy, an ugly copy.  One with more violence, where the criminals could do far, far worse, by virtue of having more power.  Having powers.  That was without even touching on Endbringers, the Simurgh, and the desolate quarantine area.<br>[...]<br>It was the day before Christmas Eve, Krouse remembered.  He’d have to be thankful for their well being, at least.  They were alive.  Things were okay.  Not great, but not as hopeless as they might have seemed before.  And things had settled down, at least.  For the first time since the others had joined him and Noelle at the coffee shop to discuss his inclusion on the team, things were calm.  They’d find a way to put their new powers to work.  They’d get money, get themselves home. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/14 Excerpt] from [[Migration 17.7]]</ref>