Editing Unwritten Rules (section)

==History==
===Background===
After [[parahumans]] first emerged, it took some time for the unwritten rules to evolve. [[Gavel]] for example, was initially tolerated for attacking the families of supervillains.<ref>Gavel.  Cell block leader.  A vigilante who had gone after families, particularly spouses and children, all so he could break his enemies before his namesake weapon could.  He'd been notorious in the days before the three strike rule or even the code. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/20 Excerpt] from [[Extinction 27.3]]</ref>
===Story Start===
The [[ABB]] were fought together by both heroes and villains after they began enslaving civilians and bombing the city.<ref name="6.1e1">"It's like I was telling you, Taylor, someone breaks those unspoken rules, the community protects the status quo.  Us villains make truce with the local authorities, we actually work together, in a way, with the cops, capes and military holding the line during the day, and taking down any ABB members who stick their heads up, while us villains do the nitty gritty stuff… In this case, it's probably more blatant an invoking of that than any example I can think of.  Guess we can thank Coil for that." - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/tangle-6-1/ Excerpt] from [[Tangle 6.1]]</ref>

Releasing the identities of the [[Empire Eighty-Eight]] was a violation of the unwritten rules.<ref name="7.4" />
===Post-[[Battle against Leviathan|Leviathan]]===
[[Skitter]] was accused of breaking the unwritten rules by allegedly taking advantage of the [[Battle against Leviathan]] to learn [[Shadow Stalker]]'s secret identity. As a compromise, it was suggested that she could reveal her identity to Shadow Stalker, for which there was precedent.<ref name="8.7">[[Extermination 8.7]]</ref>

Armsmaster was considered to have broken the unwritten rules by steering villains into the path of [[Leviathan]] without telling them. 

With the arrival of the [[Slaughterhouse Nine]] the capes of [[Brockton Bay]] met to convene a strategy.<ref name="12.2">[[Plague 12.2]]</ref> [[Emily Piggot]] violated the truce by calling in an airstrike while heroes and villains were still battling the Nine, risking their lives.<ref name="I13e1" /><!-- Talk about how regent is violating the truce with shatterbird but had the corollary that "anything goes against the Nine" so that he was essentially safe.-->
===Post-[[Slaughterhouse Nine]]===
The [[Undersiders]] were repeatedly warned that making use of the [[Echidna]] situation against the [[Protectorate]] would be considered a violation of the truce, and likely result in a [[kill order]] being placed on them.<ref name="19.4>[[Scourge 19.4]]</ref>

[[Assault]] and [[Clockblocker]] argued that the [[Undersiders]] were violating the unwritten rules, and the heroes should consider escalating in kind.<ref name="18.3e1" /><ref name="I15e1">"They've broken other unspoken rules," Assault said, looking at Triumph and Miss Militia rather than the junior members.  "Shatterbird?  Are we really going to let that one slide?"<br />"Anything goes when fighting the Nine," Miss Militia said.<br />"The Nine are gone.  He's still breaking the rules.  He kidnapped and took control of Shadow Stalker.  He's affected civilians.  Criminals, admittedly, but still civilians." - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/interlude-15/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 15]]</ref>
===Post-[[Battle against Echidna|Echidna]]===
The [[Brockton Bay]] [[Protectorate]] under [[James Tagg]] violated the unwritten rules by unmasking [[Skitter]],<ref name="20.4e1" /> on the advice of [[Dinah Alcott]].<ref name="20.5">[[Chrysalis 20.5]]</ref> Technically, this succeeded.<ref name="22.3">[[Cell 22.3]]</ref>

[[Chevalier]] considered that "the truce was in worse shape than it had been even in the beginning". [[Perdition]], a rogue member of the [[Yàngbǎn]], violated the truce by attacking [[Chevalier]], [[Accord]] and [[Tattletale]] during the [[New Delhi]] battle.<ref name="I24">Brockton Bay, in large part, was sitting this one out.  [[Hannah]] wasn’t a true asset against Behemoth.  Besides, the truce was in worse shape than it had been even in the beginning, and the portal too important. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/22/interlude-24/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 24.x]]</ref>

[[Weaver]] was accused of breaking the truce by cooperating with [[Phir Sē]].<ref name="25.1">“My concern…” a woman said, drawing out the thought, “Is that her actions go against the spirit of the PRT and the groups under the PRT’s umbrella.  Conspiring with a known terrorist, ''betraying the truce'', even, for a subtle advantage in dealing with [[Phir Sē|that terrorist]], returning to her old team against all terms of her probation, rejecting orders, and taking reckless risks with PRT personnel, getting two injured.  A longstanding goal of the PRT has been to reassure the public, and this only paints heroes as something dangerous.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/29/scarab-25-1/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.1]]</ref>
===[[Gold Morning]]===
[[The Elite]] were destroyed for raiding civilians for resources and pushing others out of their claimed territory during the [[Gold Morning]].<ref name="28.5e1"/>
===Post-[[Gold Morning]]===
Two years after the event a general amnesty for all capes, a "second chance" of sorts, became a part of the unwritten rules.<ref>The unwritten rules that govern the fights and outright wars between ‘capes’ have been amended: everyone gets their second chance.  It’s an uneasy thing to come to terms with when notorious supervillains and even monsters are playing at being hero. - [https://www.parahumans.net Ward synopsis]</ref><!--there is talk of this amnesty in teneral, cut these to pad it out. --> It's implementation has had inconsistent success, With some people and groups becoming heroic and welcomed with varying levels of acceptance. While others were shunned and doubled down on their villainy.<ref name="II5.8 e3">When people hadn’t been able to go after the Fallen, the pressures and responses for the Fallen’s actions had come to rest on the heads of the bikers and other allies.  People had been less willing to deal with them, more force had been used against them, and the message had been driven home.<br><br>The problem with the cycle was that being on the outs made them more likely to bend or break the rules.  The wedge between them and everyone else had also made them more inclined to simply fold into the Fallen, especially after Gold Morning.<br><br>The amnesty was a thing, crimes had been pardoned, but feelings were still feelings.  The bikers had backed up some of the shittiest people around, and that was hard to let go of. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/03/22/shadow-5-8/ Excerpt] from [[Shadow 5.8]]</ref>
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