Editing Alabaster (section)

==History==
===Background===
Alabaster joined the [[Empire Eighty-Eight]] in [[Brockton Bay]], likely drawn by their ideals.<ref name="playtest" />

===Story Start===
As a member of [[Empire Eighty-Eight]], Alabaster's secret identity was leaked to the press by [[Coil]].<ref name="7.6">The images displayed on the screen were the same as the ones I had seen in the email, earlier.  Max Anders and Kaiser.  Kayden Anders and Purity.  The blondes as Fenja and Menja.  The broadcast flickered through all of them: Hookwolf, Krieg, Night, Fog, Stormtiger, Othala, Cricket, Rune, Victor, Alabaster, the Crusader… the list went on.  The screen shifted to two news broadcasters.  In the top right corner of the screen, there was the usual story of the moment image, showing Max Anders sitting at a table at some event, with a swastika followed by a question mark hovering above him.<br><br>“Word’s out,” Brian spoke to me, quiet.  “If they didn’t know about this already, they do now.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/buzz-7-6/ Excerpt] from [[Buzz 7.6]]</ref> [[Tattletale]] believed he would fight alongside [[Purity]]'s faction in the [[Collapse of the Empire Eighty-Eight|clashes that followed this outing]].<ref name="7.7">“According to the news and my, um, inside source,”  Lisa spoke, referring to her power, “Purity hasn’t stopped.  She’s doing strafing runs across the Docks.  She moves too fast for anyone but Dauntless or Velocity to catch, and she hits harder than both of them combined.  She’s knocked down four more buildings while we’ve talked, I’m pretty sure. How long before she happens to knock over our hideout?”<br><br>Brian pursed his lips.<br><br>“And she leads her own sub-group within Empire Eighty Eight, so I’m betting that Fog, Night, Alabaster and Crusader are on the streets, doing their own thing.  I dunno about you guys, but I have friends in our neighborhood.  I’m very not cool with that.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/buzz-7-7/ Buzz 7.7]</ref> Indeed, he later fought alongside the factions of [[Krieg]], Purity, and the [[Herren Clan|Clans]].<ref>Below, it seemed, there was an all-out war.<br><br>As she targeted Glory Girl, one of Purity’s blasts of light slammed into the edge of a rooftop.  Debris showered down, but was deflected by a bright blue forcefield.  That would be Shielder’s power at work.  He fought alongside Flashbang and Brandish, and I could identify Krieg, Victor, Othala and Alabaster in their immediate vicinity.  Further away were Night, Fog, Panacea, Vista and Clockblocker. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/buzz-7-9/ Buzz 7.9]</ref><ref name="7.10" />

===[[Battle against Leviathan]]===
Participated in the effort to defend [[Brockton Bay]] against the [[Endbringer]] [[Leviathan]]. Alongside [[Jotun]] and [[Dauntless]], Alabaster was thrown into the center of a time-distortion bubble by Leviathan, where he was caught, unable to make his exit fast enough to avoid being frozen in time.<ref name="8.3">[[Extermination 8.3]]</ref>

===Post-[[Battle against Echidna|Echidna]]===
The bubble was turned into an impromptu memorial,<ref name="21.5 e1">My detour brought me around to what had become a makeshift memorial.  There were flowers and the like forming a ring where a fence had been erected.  In the center of the ring, an oval shape sat embedded in the ground.  This was the area where we’d fought Leviathan.  A time-distortion grenade had gone off, and three heroes had been trapped inside.  Brockton Bay’s own Dauntless among them.<br><br>The center of the bubble was as impenetrable as Clockblocker’s power, while the effects were more nebulous around the edges.  Dust and moisture were caught in the sphere, obscuring the contents, all moving a fraction of a glacial pace.  There was a hand print at one point where someone had tried to touch it, shifting the dust and moisture, losing some skin in the process.  In other spots, less respectful people had thrown things at the sphere.  Pennies, sticks.  That had stopped when others had tidied up the area and the flowers had started appearing here and there.<br><br>There had been talk of blanketing the entire thing in flower petals, so it wasn’t a gray-brown egg with a neat pattern, but others wanted to leave it be, protecting it with a bubble or shelter so the rain and dust could clear away, and people who visited could see the three heroes as they were when they were caught within, in the midst of being thrown through the air, the very moment they effectively gave their lives for the sake of the city and the world. - [[Imago 21.5]]</ref> with no sign of him being freed anytime soon.<ref>A few hundred thousand years in the future, when the bubble pops. When humanity is long gone… - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/imago-21-5/#comment-19017 Comment] by [[Wildbow]] on [[Imago 21.5]]</ref> [[Taylor]] refers to the trapped Alabaster as a hero.<ref name="21.5 e1" />

===Early-[[Ward]]===
[[The Wardens]], the successor organization to [[the Protectorate]], committed some resources into investigating how to rescue victims trapped inside time effects.<ref>“The Wardens didn’t ask us before they signed off on this, yet they have people devoted to idiotic things like rescuing people from time bubbles and loops. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/04/07/shadow-interlude-5-x/  Excerpt] from [[Interlude 5x II]]</ref> After much research, they initially believed it was too risky to free them.<ref>“The Wardens were looking into those effects, as well as the ongoing Gray Boy loops,” Jeanne said.  “They researched it and decided no.  The same people who petitioned the Wardens then petitioned the government.  It crossed my desk, but I already had some faint knowledge of what it was about.  I considered, researched, and came to the decision that ''yes'', I know a way to undo the effect.  ''No'', I won’t actually do it.”<br><br>''Using her power'', I thought.  ''She could free people from perpetual torment and she says no''.<br><br>“Why no?” I asked. - [[Blinding 11.4]]</ref><ref>“And you don’t know why?  The thinkers can’t shed any light on this?” I asked.<br><br>“Little.”<br><br>“You’re saying you checked, you’re saying no, risky for reasons you can’t disclose.  The Wardens checked, and ''they’re'' saying no, the thinkers think it’s volatile somehow…”<br><br>“Yes,” Cinereal said.  “Volatile is a good way to put it.  It might not explode.  It might be devastating.” - [[Blinding 11.4]]</ref>

When [[Victoria]] asked [[Jeanne Wynn]] for information on all [[Brockton Bay]] victims trapped in time stasis effects and Alabaster was referenced, she immediately states Alabaster was not a hero, which Jeanne then keeps in mind.<ref name="II11.4 eNotHero" />

===[[Assault on the Time Bubbles]]===
He was released from the time bubble by [[March]], and as his power caused him to [[broken trigger|fold into himself]], he was cannibalized by [[Dauntless]]'s [[shard]].<ref>[[Heavens 12.all]]</ref><ref>[[Heavens 12.none]]</ref>