Editing Leet (section)

===Shard===
Although Leet did not drink a [[Cauldron vial]], his [[Shard]] is from [[Eden]] and is dead:<ref>Some shards are damaged. Or 'dead'. Which isn't saying he's Cauldron.<br><br>But I've digressed/derailed enough. Bob's thread. No more on that subject. - Wildbow on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/32822594 --> the dead Shard attached itself to an unsuitable host.<ref>'''Fen:''' Shards only choose those that will be engaged with conflict, correct?<br><br>'''Lyova:''' Ordinarily, yes. Some shards are broken, or made for some specific purpose, and those might create capes like Leet (who's too cautious) or Nilbog (who just sits somewhere, being gross)<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' It'd be easier to say they steer clear of (or try to jump ship from) those who are adverse to conflict.<br><br>Dead shards will always bend the rules, mind, but I wouldn't lean too heavily on that for a WD game or fic.<br><br>'''Lyova:''' Can I ask in what ways they bend the rules, WB? (And is that the case even if they're otherwise undamaged?)<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' They just care less for usual rules or stipulations and cleave closer to original programming, Lyov<br>They won't adapt to new circumstances or change up to do something more special.<br>A dead shard that hasn't yet found a host could theoretically attach to a suicidal, older, and/or overly stable individual. - Conversation with Wildbow on Discord, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://spacebattles.com/posts/44301909 --> Behind the scenes, Leet is explicitly out of tune with it as he is both too risk-averse and methodical in his approach, with the resulting passivity irking the power granting Shard.<ref name="Reddit Shard">Except he can't really seem to catch a break. He doesn't know it, but he's basically doing the opposite of Jack Slash and Taylor. He's explicitly out of tune with his power, he doesn't nurture it the way others do, even by general conflict - he's a little too cowardly, a little too ''safe,'' in large part, because he's hedging bets as often as not, and it's an unsatisfied shard, more prone to cause chaos for him rather than set him up to pursue it. It's trying to actively disrupt or kill its host so it can move on to greener pastures. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/13876454 Wildbow on Spacebattles]</ref><ref>Keep in mind, also, that the shards aren't inclined to let people sit around and spend months of time working on side projects without getting any dose of conflict. What happens is you get Spheres and Professor Haywires and Leets. - Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://spacebattles.com/posts/34159831 --> His habit of staying in his workspace, maintaining lists of previous projects,<ref name="Reddit Crosscheck"/> and only going on preplanned outings means that the ideas and assistance his Shard should be granting him are consequently restricted, compared with [[tinker]]s that frequently get into fights.<ref>What really drives tinkers, in a lot of cases, is the inspiration aspect. We don't really see this, because we mostly see tinkers who are doing their thing with what they've already built.<br><br>But tinkers vary a great deal in how they get their ideas. How fast, how many, how varied. In many cases, tinkers can find their way to new ideas by studying powers or studying the work of other tinkers.<br>[...]<br>From the shard's perspective, this drives competition and puts one tinker against another. Stealing another tinker's stuff to study both hurts the tinker and is a fast route to upping the quality of your own stuff. On a similar level, a tinker that's getting in fights is going to find ideas coming hard and fast (Bakuda), compared to a tinker that just hangs out in their workshop and actively ''avoids'' confrontation (Leet). - Wildbow [https://spacebattles.com/posts/15849085 on Spacebattles]</ref>

The accumulation of misfire chances is inherent to his power;<ref name="SB CreateTinkers" /> however, his Shard can tweak the actual misfires.<ref>'''Infinitron200:''' What the fuck do you mean by "half your lifespan is all your lifespan". Shards are not that fucking dumb. They are literal organic supercomputers with more processing power than we will ever have, and you are telling me that it can interpret half of something as ALL OF IT? Ok, so in your universe, if I cut a cake in half, and give half to someone else, I actually still have all the cake. If someone would normally live 100 years, taking half their lifespan is 50 years gone. So, your Shards can calculate the ending of the universe and generate numerous possible solutions, but they can't do simple math?<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' If you have 4 minutes left before a theoretical stroke and the shard cuts your time down to 2 minutes, and you die before you can get around to reading Jack Slash's details and writing Jack Slash's terms of death, who's going to argue the point or argue that stroke wasn't going to happen? You're dead and shards can move on. The mechanism is there for shards to use. Your drawbacks, whatever else, can be tweaked or liberally interpreted. Leet's misfires, Rachel's dog-minded thinking, Damsel's dangerously light trigger on her power. Eden as the thinker would have been doing this a lot more, fogging perception and drawing on/manipulating drawbacks. - Conversation with Wildbow on Reddit</ref><!-- https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/n4p5pe/comment/gx2dfyx/   https://redd.it/n4p5pe/ --> Thus, the unsatisfied Shard sabotages Leet;<ref>Some people have very little connection to their shards. Look at Leet - his shard actively sabotages him. - Wildbow [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/13897766 on Spacebattles]</ref> misfires or failures are now more prone to causing chaos for him rather than setting him up to pursue it.<ref name="Reddit Shard" /> By trying to actively disrupt Leet, it aims to either:
* Kill him so it can hopefully move on to another host.<ref name="Reddit Shard" /><ref name="SB shardCase" />
* Make him inventive and creative as he tackles the problems it helped create.<ref name="SB shardCase" /><ref>'''shadowmist321:''' If the person is bad at using the database, doesn't try to use all that they have access to, such as only making spaghetti (the metaphor is breaking down somewhat) then database will force them to do new things (Garrot, echidna, panacea?, leet) even if they don't want to<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' I wouldn't put most of those specific names on the list. Garotte and Echidna are C53s/Deviations and the C53s in this analogy get the database & kitchen setup stuff dropped on them and emerge from the wreckage as a part human, part kitchen hybrid. Panacea wasn't sabotaged to the degree some paint it. Leet is a good example. - Conversation with Wildbow on Reddit</ref><!-- https://redd.it/nt15eg -->
Both outcomes are acceptable to it.<ref name="SB shardCase">Leet's a case of, well, either they kill him, which is fine, or they make him be inventive & creative as he tackles the problems they've helped create.<br>Both are ok - Wildbow on Discord, [https://spacebattles.com/posts/37024231 archived on Spacebattles]</ref>