Editing Withdrawal (section)

==History==
===Background===
Withdrawal grew up with a neglectful and abusive mother. As a result of the abuse, Withdrawal fell into a cycle of alcohol and drugs at a very young age. This ultimately resulted in his trigger one day, as he was suffering hallucinations caused by alcohol withdrawal and came to the realization that he would die before he could escape this cycle. His trigger seems to be somewhat abnormal and prolonged due to delirium's influence, leading to him having visions not only of an [[Entity]], but [[molluscoid]] ghosts talking to him.<ref>Dark shadows danced across his vision.  Glimpses of shadow-people, built like snails, or clams, but with limbs so long there were clouds around their legs.  They turned and they looked at him.  They communicated in whispers that should have been incomprehensible.  They spoke to him in those same whispers. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/11/05/interlude-17-x-sundown/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 17.x II]]</ref>

Withdrawal [[trigger]]ed at 12, the same year as his teammate [[Caryatid]]. He met his teammates online, and dropped out of school to form a team with them.<ref>“We got in touch online.  All of us got our powers young- it was Caryatid and me at first.  Finale a year later.  We had different names then, obviously,” Withdrawal said. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/07/24/beacon-8-7/ Excerpt] from [[Beacon 8.7]]</ref> Though they faced limited success as a hero team, they did manage to stay together over the course of six years.<ref name="8.8 2">A painfully slow search online brought up some images of kid heroes with terrible costumes.  They’d been small timers before Gold Morning, small town ‘heroes’ who’d rotated between three middle-of-nowhere towns in North Dakota looking for villains or criminals.  Four years of activity and they hadn’t found any.<br/><br/>It would have been easy to dismiss them, or to disparage them.  They had dropped out of school to be heroes and had no wins.  The lack of education was clear in the spelling errors.  It worried me a bit that their referral had come from ‘Super Magic Dream Parade’, the loopy team from Boston, who had apparently heard about what we were doing and passed on word.<br/><br/>The Major Malfunctions were teenagers now and they’d been kids when they’d triggered.  They’d stayed heroes across six years, and they’d stayed together. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/07/24/beacon-8-7/ Excerpt] from [[Beacon 8.7]]</ref>

===[[Gold Morning]]===
He survived Gold Morning, but was presumably [[Rise of Khepri|forcibly recruited]] like everyone else.

===Post-[[Mathers Compound Assault|Fallen fall]]===
The Major Malfunctions were stationed near a tent city when [[Breakthrough]] contacted the team and offered them to work within their growing network of hero teams.<ref>My destination was a tent city.  Most in the tent cities had already departed for more secure accommodations, but new people were coming in regularly, and there was a stubborn holdout.  As I flew over, I could see the efforts that were being made to patch the problem.  Rigid black sheets of insulation were being laid against the sides of tents with yellow fabric, tents were being moved together and connected, and equipment was being brought in- truckloads of what might have been heaters or furnaces. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/07/28/beacon-8-8/ Excerpt] from [[Beacon 8.8]]</ref><ref name="8.8 2" /> Withdrawal was present at their subsequent meeting with [[Victoria]].

Stumbled on Teacher's plot.<ref>[[Gleaming 9.3]]</ref>

===Post-[[Goddess' Takeover]]===
Withdrawal was present during [[The Wardens]] attempt to stop [[March]] from reaching [[Brockton Bay]] time-bubbles. He tried to intercept March alongside [[Tempera]], but was mauled and left seriously wounded.<ref>[[Heavens 12.all]]</ref><ref>[[Heavens 12.x]]</ref>

===Post-[[Time Bubble Pop]]===
Fought alongside [[Breakthrough]] during the second Wardens' assault on [[Teacher]]'s Compound.<ref>[[Dying 15.1]]</ref>

Withdrawal was able to apply his concoction to one of the [[Saint]]'s mecha-angels, taking it out of commission.<ref>[[Dying 15.5]]</ref>

===Post-[[Attack on Teacher]]===
Withdrawal alongside his teammates, held the line against civilians rioting near the [[Earth Cheit]] potal,<ref name="II17.x">[[Sundown 17.x]]</ref> and accidentally was caught in the wake of [[Contessa]].<ref name="II17.y">[[Sundown 17.y]]</ref>

===[[The Ice Breaks]]===
Withdrawal was alongside [[the Undersiders]] and [[Breakthrough]] during the oversight duty of [[Titan Oberon]] and [[Fume Hood|Eve]]. Once the battle started, he took on the role of chaperoning [[Lookout]], who had insisted on making her scans during the battle, and then evacuated with her.<ref name="II18.4">[[Radiation 18.4]]</ref>

Withdrawal participated in the battles with [[The Simurgh]] together with his teammates.<ref name="II20.2">[[Last 20.2]]</ref> He had his leg crushed by The Simurgh's ambush inside the Wardens' Complex.<ref name="II20.3">[[Last 20.3]]</ref> During the third encounter he disarmed compromised tinker-cannon and used his liquids to counter the Endbringer's telekinesis.<ref>I could see as he did more, spraying more things, hitting the tinkertech the Simurgh was using, and causing it to fall.  Everything he sprayed came free of her telekinetic grip, and none of it was getting picked up again. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/03/17/last-20-7/ Excerpt] from [[Last 20.7]]</ref>

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