Editing Teacher (section)

===Background===
Benjamin Terrell started out as a cape specializing in renting out capes that could shape, limit or refine powers, or using his own power to do the same,<ref name="screen_scan"/> although even early in his career, there was already suspicion of illegal activity.<ref name="influence">“I’m not happy with him, though, and I can tell you what I know about him.”<br><br>“From the beginning,” Defiant said.<br><br>“I was just starting out, tracking and investigating Dragon, when I came across one of Teacher’s subjects. He gave me my in. Gave me the ability to learn the ins and outs of her code, like I was a genius who had a natural knack for it. That got the Dragonslayers started.”<br><br>“What did you pay him?”<br><br>“We didn’t. He started off by asking us for five percent of our earnings for the first five years. Mags, one of the Dragonslayers you’ve got in custody, she wasn’t cool with it. Teacher was shady, clearly doing some illegal stuff. He offered it as a freebie, we considered the issues, then decided to go for it. Just me. When word got out that Teacher actually had a measure of influence over the people he’d given powers to, we set up safeguards. Only me, and I’d teach the other two what they needed to know. Mags would double and triple check every discussion I had with Teacher, to make sure he wasn’t fucking with my head or setting me up to participate in something ugly.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/cockroaches-28-2/ Excerpt] from [[Cockroaches 28.2]]</ref> The number of clients dropped sharply once it became known that Teacher had a measure of influence on them,<ref name="screen_scan"/> but Teacher's true face didn't show itself until he attacked a school, followed with a successful<ref name="describ"/> attempt to assassinate the vice president<ref name="dragon_trigger">“Just brilliant,” Tattletale said. “Hand yourself over to the mind-altering lunatic.”<br><br>“The lunatic bit came later. The attack on the school. Then the hit on the vice president. Once he was implicated, it all changed. Can’t deal with a motherfucker like that in good conscience. We cut contact.”<br><br>“But something changed,” Tattletale said.<br><br>“We were dealing with harder jobs, more capes in general out there, and our gear was getting beaten up. Fine, okay, we can deal. Until Dragon ''changed''. All at once, I couldn’t read her code on the same level. Like gears changing on a bike.”<br><br>“May ninth, 2006,” Defiant spoke. “Her trigger event.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/cockroaches-28-2/ Excerpt] from [[Cockroaches 28.2]]</ref> using his minions.<ref name="describ">Teacher emerged, and I searched the crowd for Saint.<br><br>Absent.<br><br>Teacher was a mundane looking man. If one were to put a argyle sweater and khakis on him and put him in a classroom, he would have looked well at home. He had a receding hairline, with curly hair that had been cut short-ish.<br><br>Crimes: conspiracy to assassinate the Vice President of the United States. Successful. Conspiracy to assassinate the Prime Minister of England. Successful. He picked big targets, took his time and was successful. Setting up his pawns and giving them the low level thinker powers they needed for observation and information gathering, for getting glimpses of the future or intuitively knowing how to hack or decrypt, or for knowing the weaknesses of their enemies and how best to hurt them.<br><br>Followers that remained absolutely loyal as long as they had the granted powers. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/20/extinction-27-3/ Excerpt] from [[Extinction 27.3]]</ref>

By 2006,<ref name="dragon_trigger"/> Teacher had amassed himself a small army of college-aged men and women, but was also one of the most wanted capes in [[America]].<ref name="UK">“She had a trigger event, but she isn’t human?” I asked.<br><br>“Right,” Defiant said. “I don’t think it worked the same way it does in humans, but it did ''something''.”<br><br>“Somehow, I have a hard time swallowing that,” Saint said.<br><br>“Yet you acknowledge there was a sudden, inexplicable shift in how her mind worked,” Defiant retorted.<br><br>Saint frowned. Long seconds passed.<br><br>“Well,” Saint said. “Whatever it was, we couldn’t keep up at that point. She was just getting into the Protectorate, and she had access to the work of other tinkers. She began creating tools, fixing and updating existing work, including the containment foam guns, the grenade launchers and all the other technologies that became PRT fundamentals. I went back to Teacher. Another deal, minimal cost, with a promise for evidence that he’s not going to do anything immoral with the money.”<br><br>“Stupid,” Tattletale said.<br><br>“Necessary. You wanted to hear about Teacher, not me. He was bigger, by that time. Had a small army at his disposal. All brainwashed. College-aged men and women in white uniforms, outfitted with ray guns and more. Shitty stuff, as far as tinker work goes, but a lot of it. Half of America was gunning for him, so he moved to the United Kingdom. I followed.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/cockroaches-28-2/ Excerpt] from [[Cockroaches 28.2]]</ref> As such, Teacher moved to the United Kingdom,<ref name="UK"/> where he successfully plotted to kill the Prime Minister.<ref name="describ"/> Although Teacher claimed the assassinations were the setup for a larger plan, that plan was never set in motion.<ref name="purpose">“Killing a man that prominent sets everything into motion. That motion lets me see things from different angles, filling in the blanks. I needed to do something big to disturb the dynamic enough that I could glimpse the ''real'' big picture and fill in the blanks.”<br><br>“Big picture. You’re talking about significant things, again. On par with killing a vice president and a prime minister.”<br><br>“This is a little more impressive. In any event, I got the information I wanted with my play, first the national death, then the international one, to see the effects and plot things out on the global scale. I was all set to act on it when I got arrested. I was left with years to think, to study and improve myself. I plotted our release to keep myself sane, and to keep things in motion. You ''are'' welcome for that, by the way.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/11/16/teneral-e-5/ Excerpt] from [[Teneral e.5]]</ref> Teacher was arrested on "trumped up charges"<ref>“…and that’s the gist of it,” Amelia said.<br><br>Lung watched Teacher’s expression change as he considered the idea. The man seemed so ordinary, so unassuming. To hear the man talk about it, he’d been one of the foremost criminal masterminds until the heroes trumped up charges against him. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/interlude-22-donation-bonus-1/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 22.y]]</ref> and sentenced to [[the Birdcage]], where he became a cell block leader.<ref name="intro"/>