Editing Crock o’Shit (section)

==History==
===Background===
She triggered while serving in the marine corps, where she ran drug smuggling operation. When some of the drugs she had smuggled ended up killing people, the accumulated stress from the ensuing investigation was the reason for her trigger. Her case was swept under the rug and she left service to join the Louisiana Protectorate, as Fidelis.<ref name="smuggler">“I was them.  I was one of the ones in charge.  I shipped drugs and people back home cut it wrong and killed friends of friends of mine,” she said.  “There was an investigation.  I worried every second of every day that my life was ruined, until I got powers from how it tore me up inside.  I was the one they would finger as the boss, the top dog.  And it was all for nothing.”<br/><br/>“Nothing?” he asked.  Top dog… is that a component to why she grows?<br/><br/>“They swept it under the rug.  I turned over a new leaf,” she said, and she sneered in a way that made him unsure if she was joking or if her face was just transforming that much.  Her words were less intelligible now.  “But others didn’t forget or sweep it away.  They blamed me for us getting caught, want money.  So I dealt with ‘m.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/06/29 Excerpt] from [[Breaking 14.z]]</ref>

Her powers were sought after by several departments, including [[Watchdog]].<ref>You had status as a Protectorate hero.  People fought to have you on their teams.  Watchdog wanted you. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/06/29  Excerpt] from [[Breaking 14.z]]</ref> But she had chosen to work as a semi-independent investigator in regions not covered by other departments. After two years of work, the PRT decided to move her out of the public eye, something that happens with more problematic heroes. Fidelis continued with her investigation as a vigilante.<ref name="bg">“Crock.  She was Fidelis, once.  Ex-marine who left the service to be a Protectorate heroine.  Louisiana PRT.”<br/>[...]<br/>“Before your time,” I said.  “Took on a position where she’d spend six months of the year with the Lousiana team, six months going from town to town in one of the dead zones without any nearby departments.  Helping police with weird and tough cases.  She’d work as a lie detector, then if there was trouble she’d mutate into an eerie, beautiful, ten foot tall woman.”<br/><br/>“I’ve seen hints of what she becomes and she isn’t beautiful and she’s barely [...] a woman,” Ashley said.<br/>[...]<br/>“Her lie detection’s a thinker power, technically, but in actual application it’s changer.  She feels it in her gut because her gut morphs and mutates in response.  About a year or two into the routine I was talking about, she gets dropped from official PRT stuff.  Gets the same treatment as capes who are too vicious, ugly, or problematic to market.  Essentially becomes nameless, the only reports of her are her turning into a ten foot tall woman that’s more unsettling than eerily beautiful.”<br/>[...]<br/>“When she detects lies she absorbs them, or some… some of the ugliness and intent, makes them part of the changer form she carries with her.  She went from being a heroine who turned into a beautiful giantess to being nameless and disfigured.  She got pretty into her investigation of something big that she’d uncovered, a conspiracy, taking down a crime ring.  I don’t know because I don’t think she was communicating much with her bosses then, so the paperwork is a big question mark.”<br/>[...]<br/>“She took a leave of absence and dove into her investigation, and she… never surfaced, I guess.  What came out the other side was a dark version of her, mean, tattooed, filed teeth, and blood on her face because she’d torn into some crime lord’s neck and the blood was still there after the mutations receded.”<br/><br/>“That’s what I saw,” Ashley said.  “It wasn’t very crocodile.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/06/25 Excerpt] from [[Breaking 14.12]]</ref>

She resurfaced as the villainous cannibal by chewing through the crime lord and taking over their operations.<ref>She had gone after a crime boss as a hero, lost her heroism along the way.  By the end of that particular journey, she found him, ate a third of him, starting at the genitals and ending at the throat, and then left the mangled body on the floor for the first twenty-four hours she conducted business thereafter, taking over his position. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/06/29 Excerpt] from [[Breaking 14.z]]</ref> Protectorate stint was, allegedly, a cover for seeking payback on her greedy criminal buddies.<ref name="smuggler"/>

Crock o’Shit was arrested some years later, and send directly to the [[Birdcage]]. She lived in [[Black Kaze]]'s block.<ref name=bc>She had been arrested a few years after, then went to the Birdcage, which was probably the worst place for her.  Placed under Black Kaze, if he remembered right.<br/><br/>The worst place for her.  Any prisoner picked up bad traits and habits, defensiveness and a loss of faith in the system from their time inside.  She was particularly vulnerable, with the way she absorbed dishonesty and ugliness, making it manifest in the form she wore. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/06/29 Excerpt] from [[Breaking 14.z]]</ref>
===[[Gold Morning]]===
As she was not part of the original Birdcage release she was likely taken from the prison when [[Rise of Khepri|the goddess collected the damned.]]

===Post-[[Mathers Compound Assault|Fallen fall]]===
Years later Crock o'Shit was incarcerated in another parahuman prison when [[Goddess]] attacked it, like others she was mastered to the dictator's side.<ref name=Lie/> Shortly though she was given drugged food that broke her from the effect and she provided an opening for [[Cryptid]] to kill Goddess.<ref>I felt it again.  This time, he dropped to all fours.<br/><br/>“Harder!” Crock o’ Shit shouted, from the sidelines.  “You almost had him!”<br/><br/>The Lady in Blue used her power again, more forcefully than before.<br/>[...]<br/>Crock o’ Shit hadn’t been telling the truth.  Goddess’ power hadn’t almost worked.  Crock had been among the people I’d given candy to, just before I’d reunited with the group. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/10/13 Excerpt] from [[Gleaming 9.15]]</ref>

She accepted the rule of the [[Red Queen]] and went to [[Earth Shin]].<ref name=reign>“Everyone!  You have a choice!  We ''are'' going to Earth Shin!  We ''are'' going to be an authority [...] There will be rules!  This means submitting to my power!  It will ''not'' be as Goddess’ was!  You’ll follow a code of laws, you’ll maintain control and peace, and you’ll protect populations.  You’ll be reasonably ''good''!  Or you can stay here.  You’ll be freer, but you’ll also be a target for heroes!” <br/>[...]<br/>Some prisoners were fairly quick to leave to follow.  Ones who knew her from the Birdcage?  With them went followers, and once a critical amount had left, a majority followed.  Only the heroes really stayed. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/10/13 Excerpt] from [[Gleaming 9.15]]</ref>

===Post-[[Time Bubble Pop]]===
Crock o'Shit reappeared in the Shin prison alongside [[Coalbelcher]] and [[Cryptid]].<ref>[[Breaking 14.11]]</ref> Where she was ordered to execute visiting [[Kamil Armstrong]] to frame [[Antares]] from [[Breakthrough]]. She was eventually stopped by [[Sveta]].<ref>[[Breaking 14.z]]</ref>

===Post-[[Attack on Teacher]]===
She was present during [[The Second Shin Crisis]].<ref name="II17.8">At Shin Station, Capricorn, Sveta, and Rain were part of a greater assembly of heroes, forming the group at the station entrance and the loose perimeter around the Mother Giant.<br/><br/>The Shepherds who’d been stationed at the entrance had backed off, as a crowd of capes emerged.  Half-and-half.  Half had clothing in the Shin style, [...]<br/><br/>The other half were ours.  Our most problematic.  Coalbelcher, Gambol, Crock o’ Shit, La Llorona.  More. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/26 Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.8]]</ref>