Editing Crystalclear (section)

==History==
===Background===
He was kidnapped as a child and raised by the kidnapper, he was also a deliverer of drugs for the kidnapper who presumably needed someone young enough to deliver packages unnoticed. He was raised not to ask questions. When he was finally caught on a delivery, now old enough to attract notice, he couldn't tell to the arresting authorities anything that could have lessened his culpability. Finding out the full scope of what happened to him faced with hostility from everyone including the now revealed kidnapper caused him to trigger.<ref name="I2.II e4">Crystalclear had a confused and fractured memory of his early childhood.  The woman he remembered growing up with was not the woman he’d spent his late childhood and adolescence with.  His aunt had explained the situation for him, saying his mother hadn’t been well, he’d been taken away from her for his safety.<br/><br/>She had said a lot of things over the years.  He had believed most, and because other things had occupied his attention, he hadn’t given the remainder enough focus.<br/><br/>Normally, trigger events emphasizing isolation, loss, cut ties, and betrayal tended to lead to master powers.  Or, rather, master powers tended to go to people who were going to deal with those situations.<br/><br/>Any attachment he had felt to his aunt had faded over the years, long before he had triggered.  She hadn’t cared.  So long as he behaved and didn’t cause a fuss, she had been happy to not have to devote much attention to him.  There was nothing lost, so that aspect of things hadn’t factored in.<br/><br/>So, naturally, he had avoided causing a fuss.<br/><br/>It had only been later that their fragile reality had come crashing down around them.  The police were closing in on him, he was no longer young, and where a young, clean cut white boy had flown under the radar, a teenaged white boy with pimples hadn’t.   It had turned out that his aunt wasn’t his aunt at all.  Her only relation to him was that she had stolen him from his real mother.<br/><br/>The questions had come, hours of interrogation, his lawyer guiding him.  Hadn’t he put the pieces together?  Hadn’t he seen?  Why hadn’t he asked more questions?  He hadn’t looked at what he was delivering to homes even once in the past few years?<br/><br/>No, he’d said.  No, he’d never looked.  He had never really considered.  He had only wanted to exist.<br/><br/>The police had been upset, angry, hostile.  His lawyer had been frustrated, because anything, anything at all could have led to a plea deal or him getting off free.  His ‘aunt’ and her boyfriend were upset, because they blamed him for their being arrested, and they had used a proxy to threaten him.<br/><br/>He had been sufficiently scared and lost to trigger.<br/><br/>Now he stood guard.  He was trying to exist, to do what good he could, and he wanted to pay a little more attention than he once had, even as his power made that very easy on the surface and very difficult when it came to the deeper analysis. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/01/02/flare-interlude-2/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 2 II]]</ref>
===Early [[Ward]]===
Joined a superhero team and had a bad first day.

With his future sight he saw trouble and he alerted [[Tempera]], who made the decision to call for assistance.

After the team fell apart, he received an offer from [[Foresight]],<ref name="II2.1 e2"/> which he accepted.<ref name="I2.II">[[Interlude 2 II]]</ref>

Stood guard over the meeting with [[Earth Cheit]] diplomats and was then debriefed by [[Weld]].

Helped stop a device that weaponizes portals from going off.<ref>[[Pitch 6.9]]</ref>

===Post-[[Mathers Compound Assault|Fallen fall]]===
Got assigned in parahuman prison camp as an undercover agent.<ref>“Crystalclear is in the prison undercover,” Rain said.  “Once I confirmed I knew you, he talked to his superiors, and they reached out to us.  One subset of the Wardens.”<br/><br/>“They’re letting us know, but we’re not supposed to tell the other teams we’re working with,” Tristan said. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/07/28/beacon-8-8/ Excerpt] from [[Beacon 8.8]]</ref>

Assisted [[Breakthrough]] with the [[Goddess]] situation, and was himself mastered by her.

===Post-[[Goddess' Takeover]]===
He and his team accompanied Breakthrough on their investigation of the [[Navigators]]' ambush. At the end of the another ambush he apprehended the enemy teleporter.<ref>[[Polarize 10.13]]</ref>

===[[The Ice Breaks]]===
Crystalclear was present during the battles against [[Simurgh]].<ref name="II20.2">[[Last 20.2]]</ref>

Crystalclear received the parahuman plague from [[Victoria]] and shared it with [[Ratcatcher]] and [[Typhlosis]], intending to participate in transmission of it.<ref name="II20.10">[[Last 20.10]]</ref>