Editing Crawler (section)

===Regeneration===
Crawler has a core somewhere in his body that contains his [[corona pollentia]].<ref name="r1">Brutes (esp. regenerators) and changers often relocate their cores/coronas to the hardest to access part of their body, or adapt to do without. Crawler's wasn't in his brain, for example. - [https://redd.it/6d99gw Reddit comment] by Wildbow</ref> This weak point is where his regeneration stems from; he will die if this core is destroyed.<ref name="Discord eFlechette">'''Nuinui:''' I thought the reason foils power didn't do much to crawler was due to redundant organs / faster regeneration than she could sting.<br>[...]<br>'''Wildbow:''' Crawler has a weak point that his regeneration stems from, and Flechette would have to hit it. - Conversation with Wildbow on Discord, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/17497077 --><ref name="SB1">Crawler = Contessa can avoid harm/evade full grown Crawler until she gets her hands on a weapon/individual that can hurt him, target his core. Not-fully grown Crawler you can best by controlling the damage & resulting evolution to force him into an immobile shape. Bury him in concrete/sand/whatever. - [http://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/13647613 Comment by Wildbow on Spacebattles]</ref> Crawler's core is not located in his brain or the dead center of his chest.<ref name="r1" /><ref name="I12 e3" /> Destroying his brain can slow him down, but not kill him.<ref name="I12 e3" />

He could regenerate hundreds of pounds of flesh in a few heartbeats, extraordinarily fast even compared to fast-regenerating brutes.<ref name="I12 e3">Crawler was one of the two group members who had yet to rejoin the group.  He was engaged with a young man with a glow that suffused his hair and emanated from his eyes and mouth.  White flashes appeared with little accuracy and devastating effect, carving spherical chunks out of the brute.  This only encouraged the monster, and Crawler eagerly paced closer, his wounds closing together with a startling rapidity.  So few things could hurt Crawler these days that Jack rarely got to see the regeneration in full effect.  Crawler’s healing powers appeared to play out in fast-forward when compared to even the regenerators who could heal wounds in seconds.  Hundreds of pounds of flesh were replaced in one or two heartbeats.<br><br>One eruption of light hit Crawler in the dead center of his chest.  It made him pause, no doubt removing one of his hearts and some of his spinal cord.  The boy with the glowing hair pushed his power into overdrive, calling forth a series of flashes that exploded in close succession.  One caught Crawler in the face, revealing only a cross-section of his head, complete with a bisected brain, a skull six inches thick and the interior of Crawler’s mouth.  Crawler collapsed.<br>[...]<br>Crawler’s brain grew back to its full beach-ball size in one or two seconds, followed closely after by the healing of the skull, the reappearance of his facial muscles, then his skin, hair, spines, scale and armor plating, roughly in that order.  He shook his head like a dog with water in its ears and looked around, searching for his quarry. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/07/24 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 12]]</ref> His regeneration was able to reject [[Flechette]]'s bolt after it was timed to bond on the molecular level to his face.<ref name=":0">Flechette fired a bolt straight into Crawler. It penetrated his face and stuck there. Little surprise on that front; I’d seen her stick ''Leviathan'' with one of those giant needles. Crawler’s face bubbled around the wound where it was rejecting the foreign object. Almost imperceptibly, it began to slide out.<br><br>He rumbled with a low, guttural laugh, mocking. Was he enjoying himself? He was a masochist, and it was the rare thing that could hurt him. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/22 Excerpt] from [[Prey 14.6]]</ref>