Editing List of Shards (section)

===Possible powers===
After its crippling, the Administrator specializes in coordinating control over large numbers of smaller lifeforms<ref name="R2">In devising the actual trigger, we actually figure this out in a way like we would a Cauldron vial. We know what the shard does, and the key thing to figure out is how that shard expresses its power and how it manifests.<br><br>The QA shard specializes in coordinating control over large numbers of smaller lifeforms. We see it in Skitter (bugs), we see it in Aiden (birds) and we see it in Chitter (rats).<br>[...]<br>On the flip side, the common elements for Danny in the three triggers noted above are, well, Danny. He's got a lot of repressed anger and anger against the infrastructure, and in every case, his general awareness/the awareness of the shard has picked up on the same setting details. It's going to tie into similar categories and types of creature, fitting to Brockton Bay. Given Danny's personality, natural reticence, and the 'cornered rat' anger, this tends to veer in the direction of rodents. So I'm going with rodents for the options below... - [https://redd.it/4ak6m0 What if Danny Triggered], Reddit.com  15 Mar 2016</ref> and generally would choose hosts and triggers that lend themselves to this specialty.<ref name=":0">Wildbow: Generally QA is going to operate around the fulcrum point of being a 'controls many minions' master trigger and is going to seek out hosts that hit that note. In the most forced context, you'd probably get a 'mass/tower of rats' brute body. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/37436294/ Comment on Discord]</ref> Powers known to be granted or potentially granted by this shard include:
*[[Taylor Hebert]]
**Crude bug control, reminiscent of a bug version of Aiden.<ref>/u/Edello: [SPOILERS FOR WORM] What if Taylor...<br>...hadn’t double-triggered?<br><br>/u/Wildbow: She'd be Aiden, but with bugs. - https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/7ysdpr/spoilers_for_worm_what_if_taylor/duitdjh Comment] by Wildbow on Reddit.</ref>
**([[Trigger event#Double Trigger|double trigger]]) Extremely fine control of all bugs within a rough three block radius, processing of senses and location, enhanced multitasking for bug control.
**(Altered [[Corona pollentia|''Corona pollentia'']]) [[Chitter|Rat control]], can usurp bug control from original Taylor. May be able to control other Rodent species.
**(Altered ''Corona pollentia'') Crude control of bugs within a roughly one-block radius,<ref>I felt the range of my power halve, as though a guillotine blade had dropped down, cutting it off.<br><br>My control began to slip.  It wasn’t so severe as the effect on my range, but I could feel it degrading.  I was aware of my bugs in a general sense, and they were moving in reaction to my subconscious thoughts, but the end result wasn’t precise.  I moved them, but getting them to stop had a fraction of a second’s delay.<br>[...]<br>My range was dwindling with every passing second, and so was my control.<br>[...]<br>I could feel Panacea working to give me that control, changing what she was focusing on.  I felt the swarm moving more in sync with what I was thinking and wanting.  But this… I could sense what was happening, feel my range plummeting yet again, the guillotine coming down.  My range had been cut down further.<br>[...]<br>''Stop'', Panacea, I thought.  ''Stop, stop, stop, stop…''<br><br>My swarm attacked her, and it wasn’t because of any conscious command on my part.  The attack was crude, more the swarming behavior of wasps drunk on attack pheromones than the calculated attack I was used to employing.<br>[...]<br>I looked at Amy, realizing the bugs were still approaching her.  I pulled the swarm away, and I felt how hard it was to move them.<br><br>I was left with the ruins of my power.  My range was maybe a third of what it might otherwise be, the control rough-edged at best.  There were bugs in my swarm that I couldn’t control, too small. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/15 Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.1]]</ref> crude body-control of all humans within 16 feet, extremely crude sense of the emotions of controlled humans through flashes of memory. Reduced range of Bug control.
*[[Danny Hebert]]
**Master with one versatile master minion modeled after his wife, it moves silently and can unravel into its constituent rat swarm.<ref name="R1.2">Losing Annette is a master trigger, one with a singular, focused sense of loss/isolation. Annette completed Danny, and losing her left him incomplete. In expressing the shard, his shard looks to occupy that void. Rats scurry to Danny and they gather into a form. Bodies interlock, hold to one another and work in coordination as they form something vaguely humanoid. In the right light, as a silhouette, it evokes memories of Annette. Perhaps Danny becomes slightly unhinged. He misses her so much, and somehow this thing, which has a way of standing out of the light, or in his peripheral vision (and he doesn't pry) evokes memories of Annette in how it moves or how it responds to his words, as he talks to it incessantly. He withdraws from Taylor and his coworkers, and after he gets screwed over by local government, starts lashing out. He has rough control over rodents in groups, getting them to converge in one area to attack or to build his Annette. Annette moves silently, gliding over floors or up walls and then throwing herself at foes, dissolving into a biting, gnashing swarm when attacking or when being attacked. As he progresses as a cape, the figure becomes more flexible in the forms it can take or what it can do, and his control slowly and steadily approaches Taylor's. - [https://redd.it/4ak6m0 What if Danny Triggered], Reddit.com  15 Mar 2016 </ref>
**Subtle Master/Stranger with an about 3-4 mile range that makes people and animals hate the target using a variety of smaller critters such insects, arachnids, rats, birds, and fish as vectors for his emotions.<ref name="R1.4">Being stepped on by the local government, realizing he'd failed his workers, surrounded by a broader infrastructure and a city that seems hostile to him, he triggers as a generalized stranger/master. The eyes of others are on him, almost accusatory, or he thinks they are. He's angry, and that colors things. Stranger/masters tend to generate as emotion manipulators/controllers. Danny uses the smaller critters - insects, arachnids, rats, birds, fish, whatever - all together, not controlling them explicitly, but using them as vectors. It's an effect like Shatterbird's song, propagating through the critters, and covers an area miles across. Like Taylor, Danny doesn't even need to leave his house. For an area 3-4 miles across, people get irritable, frustrated. When Danny focuses on a person, people and local wildlife get irrationally angry and frustrated with that person. It's subtle, but that person's life becomes a nightmare, as flies and rodents collect inside their houses and in their cars, and everyone they meet seems to act hostile or outright tries to hurt them. The subtlety and 'soft' nature of the attack is a source of frustration to Danny, who is angry and wants to swing a punch, to get some resolution. He could stay largely impossible to detect, but instead anger wins out, and he puts on a costume and goes to confront the people he sees as the biggest problems. Or he just doesn't stop when the people and his host are assaulting the people he's going after. - [https://redd.it/4ak6m0 What if Danny Triggered], Reddit.com  15 Mar 2016 </ref>
**Changer/Thinker that regurgitates rats that act as relays for his generalized control of rodents.<ref name="R1.3">Danny, who hasn't been eating nearly as much (or feeding his daughter) is a hollow shell of a man. Alan approaches him, tries to shake some sense into him, and Danny experiences abject horror at just how badly he failed his daughter. It's like that sensation of missing a step, teetering toward rock bottom. The Danny we know teetered, experienced that moment of horror, and then got pulled back to his feet and gets counseled in what steps to take to rebuild and recover by Alan. This Danny teeters, falls, and triggers. Horrified and distracted by his emerging powers, he doesn't hear what Alan has to say. He says something incoherent, then turns and flees the scene. This Danny suffered a crisis of identity (fatherhood), guilt, and a realization of just how much he had disconnected himself from reality. The loss of Annette still burns. The crisis of identity manifests as a changer element, the guilt as a thinker one. In an ironic twist, his power keeps him distanced from reality. He tries to gather himself up, but the nature of his power makes it hard to reconnect with his daughter, and his efforts to regain normalcy are foiled. When he eats, he regurgitates everything but the bare minimum to keep his body functional, and with that regurgitation, he produces rats. He maintains the rough, very generalized ability to control rodents, but the ones he spawns are smarter and tougher, he maintains more explicit control over them, he can see through their eyes, sense what they sense, and use them to control the other, general swarms. Actually killing his own rats is hard, but the more they are, the smaller his own perspective is, relative to the combined sensory input of all the various rats. He inevitably reaches the point where he can't take care of Taylor anymore, his awareness largely subsumed, so he tries to turn to more productive ends, trying to improve the city for his daughter, going after the corrupt politicians, the teachers who failed his daughter, and the bullies. - [https://redd.it/4ak6m0 What if Danny Triggered], Reddit.com  15 Mar 2016 </ref>
*[[Aidan]]
**Sets rally points to control bird minions can choose to look through their eyes or manipulate them directly.<ref name="WoW">Writebow: Can't control them indviidually<br><br>[...]<br><br>Writebow: Sets invisible flags. Birds get pulled to that point.<br><br>Writebow: Or uses flag to have them all move in a wave, attacking on the way, etc. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/18657938/ Comment by Wildbow archived on Spacebattles]</ref>
*A Brute power is possible but stretches the confines that the shard operates under. A Brute body completely composed of minions is possible for example.<ref name=":7">'''Dwood:''' Wildbow: can the QA shard add brute flavors to its triggers?<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' Generally QA is going to operate around the fulcrum point of being a 'controls many minions' master trigger and is going to seek out hosts that hit that note. In the most forced context, you'd probably get a 'mass/tower of rats' brute body.  - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/18657938/ Discord conversation archived on Spacebattles]</ref>