Editing Spawner (section)

==Abilities and Powers==
Spawner powers are a combination of Breed and Crawler. While mostly humanoid, he has rapid regeneration, a prehensile tongue, gliding skinfolds, claws, and is completely alien internally.

He houses his bugs inside his body, and his body is completely shaped around this task, effectively turning him into a walking hive of birthing sacks.<ref>His entire body reformed and restructured, more gap than physical mass.  Webbings of skin stretched to cover gaps here and there, but they were so thin the light could shine through them. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/08/10/dying-15-z/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 15.z II]]</ref> He could carry around two hundred of them, and produce hundreds more in some minutes.

His bugs retrieve bits and pieces of his victims as fuel to accelerate Spawner's regeneration and cause him to evolve,<ref>Looking back, she could see the bugs climbing up Spawner’s legs and finding holes to nestle into.  Holes in the thigh, in the very nice but alien buttocks, in sides, back… they brought the food in with them, to deposit it inside and feed their mother-father.  The pieces helped accelerate the man’s regeneration, replacing missing skin and muscle. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/08/06/dying-15-y/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 15.y II]]</ref> which extend to his minions too.<ref>Fluids within his chest and stomach churned.  He could feel protein chains and calcium forming the basic infrastructure that would become full fledged children.  They were stronger now.  He had fed on the flesh from the Black Goat and from two of Valkyrie’s flock.  By feeding he evolved, and by evolving, he improved his children. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/08/10/dying-15-z/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 15.z II]]</ref> The bugs also actively help him to heal, and their biomass can be re-used.<ref>Someone struck him with lightning, and he felt it burn into his side.  His stored children crawled to fill that void, some to be resources, others to dismantle, others to build something to replace.  It was faster than healing on his own. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/08/10/dying-15-z/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 15.z II]]</ref>

Unlike Breed, Spawner is able to design and preprogram his bugs with specific tasks and orders in mind, choosing their evolutions, although he is still unable to control them beyond that.<ref name="15.zII">[[Interlude 15.z II|Interlude 15.z]]</ref>