Editing Goddess' Cluster

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'''Goddess' Cluster''', or the '''Smugglers Cluster''' is a group of six people who [[trigger]]ed within a few days of each other due to a boost provided by an inter-dimensional portal, and who share powers as a result.

== Structure ==
The way the powers work in the cluster is based on what is described as a 'carousel'.<ref>[[Interlude 12.z II]]</ref> Every day one member of the cluster would become strong, and the rest would be severely weakened. There is no known explicit personality effects in this cluster, and [[Kiss/Kill]] was expressed mostly as a struggle for power.
{| class="mw-collapsible  wikitable" border="1"
! scope="col" |Name:
! scope="col" |Powers:
|-
|[[Goddess]]/Bianca
|
#Master ability that subjects capes to her will (primary)<ref>He was the monster but she- she had the strongest control power. -[https://www.parahumans.net/2019/02/09/interlude-12-z/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 12.z II]]</ref>
#Powerful telekinesis
#Danger sense
#Trump ability that adjusts defences
#Power Boosting ability
#Unknown sixth ability
|-
|[[Tori Heflin]]
|
#Straight line telekinesis (primary)
#Unknown
#Unknown
#Unknown
#Unknown
#Unknown
|-
|Bill/The Blood Priest
|
#Master ability that makes him appear 'magnificent'
#Telekinetic shield
#Short range teleportation with shaker effects (primary?)
#Trump ability to shake off power effects (primary?)<ref name=bloodybill>A brief and violent struggle.  She was good at timing, but she had to know what her enemy did.<br><br>And the people of this cluster did so very many things.<br><br>A man, heavyset, with a false magnificence that filled her with equally false strength, just to be around him.  False enough that she tested and exceeded her limits, hurt herself in mind and body.  A telekinetic shield that seemed to parry things just as effectively as her own timing power and enhanced baton did.  He teleported short distances, and made the building shake like it was in the midst of an earthquake when he appeared.  Power and force and when she finally cut him, he grabbed the line she’d drawn on him and threw it away, like it was a scrap of cloth. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/02/09 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 12.z II]]</ref>
#Unknown
#Unknown
|-
|Ysmine
|
#Mover power (primary?)
#Trump defensive power (primary?)
#Unknown
#Unknown
#Unknown
#Unknown
|-
|[[Megan]]
|
#Shard connection manipulation, that boosts powers (primary)<ref>[[Heavens 12.all]]</ref>
#A 'tractor beam' form of telekinesis<ref>Megan turned, hand extending out.  She tractor-beamed an ice crystal her way, driving it into the back of a cape that was stampeding toward her.<br><br>“Back three steps!  And five!”<br><br>Megan hurried back three steps as the stampeding cape crashed into the ground.  He coasted on icy ground, stopping just before colliding with her.  Her trust in March was enough that she’d already turned, was grabbing a drone out of the air, pulling it to her-<br><br>The stampeding cape rose to his feet, only to have the drone crash into him. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/02/09/interlude-12-z/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 12.z II]]</ref>
#Unknown
#Unknown
#Unknown
#Unknown
|-
|Jace
|
#Telekinetic shield
#Unknown
#Unknown
#Unknown
#Unknown
#Unknown
|}

==History==
===Background===
Somewhere around 2008-2011 somebody created a portal between [[Earth Bet]] and [[Earth Shin]] at [[Vancouver|White Rock]]. People started using this to smuggle between worlds. Unfortunately, people started getting sick. This resulted in the quarantine, and people got stuck on whichever side they had been on. The vicinity of portal made it possible to cluster several triggers together, despite triggers being within days of each other, instead of minutes.

Newly formed cluster quickly spiraled into conflict due to presence of a strong [[master]] power in a group and at least two members being power-hungry and sadistic enough to use it on their own clustermates.

Megan, Jace and Tori sought help from independent power expert and [[March]], which lead to their capture by Bill. Bill tried to drain all of them, including March, and usurp all of the power.

Situation proved to be dire enough, that [[Cauldron]] got involved<!--referenced in WD Lousanne?--> and [[Bianca]] was exiled on [[Earth Shin]] alongside with surviving members.

Bianca with Shin resources available, managed to usurp powers without killing clustermates.<ref name=12.x /> One of clustermates (presumably Bill), lacking powers, eventually committed suicide.<ref>Alive.  Four of them, anyhow.  A fifth killed themselves because they couldn’t fill the void where the power and feeling powerful once were.  None of them were left with more than whispers of power after.  But they had their lives and their particular dynamic was stopped in its tracks.  Not all clusters have a schtick, but they did, like the mall group does, and Goddess taking all the power brought an end to it.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/05/08/pitch-6-8/ Excerpt] from [[Pitch 6.8]]</ref>

===[[Gold Morning]]===
[[Khepri]] brought cluster into the conflict, stranding them on [[Earth Bet]] again.

===Early-[[Ward]]===
Some members of the cluster sought protection from [[The Wardens]]. Two of them became Warden employees, two other received financial support on a regular basis.<ref name="GMates">Because of the danger Goddess had posed, and because her cluster was paranoid about being targets and about being weak, her cluster had asked for protection.  The Wardens hadn’t been able to provide a safehouse and around-the-clock bodyguard, but they had provided some guidance.  Three members of the cluster were gone, Goddess included.  Two had joined the Wardens, becoming employees.  Two more had slipped through the cracks, maintaining a stipend if they would call in or visit on a regular basis. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/12/25/blinding-11-3/ Excerpt] from [[Blinding 11.3]]</ref>

Tori started hanging out with [[The Order of Four|Cheit mercenaries]].<ref name="11.3">[[Blinding 11.3]]</ref>

===Post-[[Mathers Compound Assault|Fallen fall]]===
During attempt to seize power [[Bianca]] was murdered.

===Post-[[Goddess' Takeover]]===
Tori, Megan, and Jace flock to [[March]]'s [[March's Megacluster|megacluster]].

Jace was captured or, likely, killed by [[The Wardens]] during March's rush to [[Brockton Bay]] time-bubbles.<ref>[[Heavens 12.all]]</ref> 

===Post-[[Assault on the Time Bubbles|Time Bubble Pop]]===
Tori was killed at the dawn of the next day by [[Imp]].<ref name=12.x>[[Heavens 12.x]]</ref>

===Post-[[Attack on Teacher]]===
Megan and Ysmine were present in the Wardens' situation room during the second Shin crisis.<ref name="II17.4">[[Sundown 17.4]]</ref><ref name="II17.10">[[Sundown 17.10]]</ref>
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