Editing Trump

{{quote|S.O.P. for trumps was to get the hell out of dodge, reassess, and step carefully. [...] ''Get away''.  The rule for the powered dealing with trumps – especially the ones that screwed with powers.|[[Victoria]]|[[Gleaming 9.5]]}}
'''Trump''' is one of the twelve [[power classifications]] created by the [[PRT]] still in modern day use.<ref>“I do,” Weld nodded.  He’d memorized it as a rhyme, as suggested by his old boss.  Maybe that had been the intention from the start:<br><br><em>Mover, Shaker,<br>
Brute and Breaker.<br><br>Master, Tinker,<br>Blaster and Thinker,<br><br>Striker, Changer,<br>Trump and Stranger.</em> - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/cell-9-1/ Excerpt] from [[Sentinel 9.1]]</ref> Trumps have powers that can manipulate powers in some capacity; altering, granting, strengthening, weakening or removing them entirely.<ref name=":0">Can manipulate powers in some capacity, altering, granting, strengthening, weakening or removing them entirely, or has powers that interact solely with the powers of others.<br>PRT squads are encouraged, with capes sidelined, barring all but the most threatening situations.  Ranged fire and distance is encouraged, with minimal contact and involvement, to preserve safety of involved capes.<br>Remainder depends on nature of power. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hqJy4YEDqpKLwbatFVBLXnhs7dDTNykSYtDUCiR9ZBo/edit#heading=h.utp19xo7cg1x PRT Master Reference - Classifications - Trump]</ref> It also includes parahumans that can adapt new powers.<ref>“Official classification for capes who can either acquire new powers on the fly,” Tattletale gestured towards Grue, “Have an interaction with other powers that can’t be categorized or they nullify powers.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/imago-21-1/ Excerpt] from [[Imago 21.1]]</ref> Some Trumps have powers that solely interact with the powers of others.<ref name=":0" /> Trump powers are very rare: only about three to five percent of parahumans have a Trump rating.<ref>As such, only about 1 in 24 to 1 in 36 powers are Trump powers in a noticeable, categorizable way. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jvj6T84NB9Uq81y71MIgb9tk9lQ80cORFj9z2o5OB8c/edit#heading=h.4iammk6uzyxv TRUMP], document by Wildbow.</ref>

==Methodology==
A notable characteristic of Trump ratings is that they will always be connected to one of the other eleven classifications, albeit the exact relation can vary.<ref name=":1">Any trump trigger will also match one of the other eleven classifications in terms of what kind of powers it might give. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jvj6T84NB9Uq81y71MIgb9tk9lQ80cORFj9z2o5OB8c/edit#heading=h.4iammk6uzyxv TRUMP], document by Wildbow.</ref> Some powers can have a small Trump note, while others have the Trump aspect as the most noticeable, where the other rating is only a method of expression or even just a complimentary factor.<ref>This can serve as a vector for the trump power to be expressed.  If a power has low trumpness and fits the Mover trigger requisites, then it will be a Mover power with perhaps a note or touch of flavor as a nod to the trump classification, such as the ability to shrug off powers while moving full speed.  If that trigger has a high trump fixation, then the power might well be a trump power with the mover power being a vector or complimentary factor. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jvj6T84NB9Uq81y71MIgb9tk9lQ80cORFj9z2o5OB8c/edit#heading=h.4iammk6uzyxv TRUMP], document by Wildbow.</ref>
===Subtypes===
{{non-canon|section=y}}That said, the Trump rating covers an incredibly wide range of abilities, but can be roughly categorized in eleven<ref>Finally, the relationship to the powers falls into several categories, listed below (to be expanded into fuller descriptions): - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jvj6T84NB9Uq81y71MIgb9tk9lQ80cORFj9z2o5OB8c/edit#heading=h.4iammk6uzyxv TRUMP], document by Wildbow.</ref> or twelve<ref>[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aHyZ7c7TIgt903mPinOakrgli2WZu5IRtiGYPCnCqDE/edit#gid=1776798968 Detail Generator - Trump]</ref> different groups, where individual powers can fall in multiple groups:

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!style="width: 20%;"|Name
!style="width: 40%;"|Focus
!style="width: 40%;"|Trigger event
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|'''Null'''
|Reducing the effectiveness of other powers, sometimes outright nullifying or erasing them.<ref name="Null">'''Null''' - Power nullifies, erases or dampens powers.<br>Trigger:  Adverse, direct, ongoing relationship with power in question.  (Being controlled by a Master, or actively burned by a acetokinetic) - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jvj6T84NB9Uq81y71MIgb9tk9lQ80cORFj9z2o5OB8c/edit#heading=h.4iammk6uzyxv TRUMP], document by Wildbow</ref>
|Involves an adverse, direct, and ongoing relationship with power in question.<ref name="Null"/>
|-
|'''One'''
|Powers with variable aspects, where one part of the power is fixed while other is flexible.<ref name="One">'''One''' - Power varies, has one aspect set in stone, other end of power varies.  Smoke power that varies in how it applies, or always a shotgun blast, but the effect varies, or always a positive aura for allies but effect changes.<br>Trigger:  Concrete, immediate effect at work, prompting trigger.  Resultant power likely won’t directly match the effect, but could be related or a step removed.   (Surrounded by pyrokinetic’s flames, get smoke or magma power, or a something-kinesis) - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jvj6T84NB9Uq81y71MIgb9tk9lQ80cORFj9z2o5OB8c/edit#heading=h.4iammk6uzyxv TRUMP], document by Wildbow.</ref>
|Concrete, immediate effect at work, prompting trigger.<ref name="One"/>
|-
|'''Two'''
|Powers involved with partnering, bonding and gifting.<ref name="Two">'''Two''' - Partner, bond, gift powers.<br>Trigger:  Positive relationship with powers plays into trigger.  (Being protected by a hero, to no use, in agonizing pain while a cape uses power to keep you alive) - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jvj6T84NB9Uq81y71MIgb9tk9lQ80cORFj9z2o5OB8c/edit#heading=h.4iammk6uzyxv TRUMP], document by Wildbow.</ref>
|Involves a positive relationship with the powers involved.<ref name="Two"/>
|-
|'''Three'''
|Allows the parahuman to steal, borrow, or copy other powers.<ref name="Three">'''Three''' - Steal, borrow, copy powers.<br>Trigger:  Mental or emotional relationship to the powers.  More negative, more ‘steal’ than ‘borrow’ or ‘copy’. (Triggering after being captured and emotionally manipulated by a Heartbreaker type, rejected by a cape who led you on with the idea you could be a sidekick) - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jvj6T84NB9Uq81y71MIgb9tk9lQ80cORFj9z2o5OB8c/edit#heading=h.4iammk6uzyxv TRUMP], document by Wildbow.</ref>
|Involves a mental or emotional relationship to the powers.<ref name="Three"/>
|-
|'''Four'''
|Abilities where one can pick between different options, but the powers are often slower, weaker or clunkier.<ref name="Four">'''Four''' - Can select options on the fly, often slower, weaker, or clunkier.<br>Trigger - Powers were a factor or reality over the longer term, not necessarily a long-term trigger. (The moment of realization when you get fired and realize a chronokinetic has literally been stealing your time to get ahead, multiple organ failure after radiation buildup from sleeping/living with your cape spouse) - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jvj6T84NB9Uq81y71MIgb9tk9lQ80cORFj9z2o5OB8c/edit#heading=h.4iammk6uzyxv TRUMP], document by Wildbow.</ref>
|Powers were a factor or reality over a longer period of time. (This is not necessarily a long-term trigger).<ref name="Four"/>
|-
|'''Five'''
|Scrambling, disrupting, or altering powers in some manner.<ref name="Five">'''Five''' - Scramble, disrupt, alter powers.<br>Trigger:  Indirect relationship to powers.  May not be aware of powers/cape, but environment/situation is threatening, with a single source.  (Power-created parasites make a mob of people frenzied and vicious, bank robbery in another part of building leads to rapidly dropping temperature in triggeree’s office, causing hypothermia) - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jvj6T84NB9Uq81y71MIgb9tk9lQ80cORFj9z2o5OB8c/edit#heading=h.4iammk6uzyxv TRUMP], document by Wildbow.</ref>
|Involves an indirect relationship to powers, but the environment or situation is threatening, with a single source.<ref name="Five"/>
|-
|'''Six'''
|Powers that can effect large groups of people.<ref name="Six">'''Six''' - En masse, groups.  Power affects multiple people.<br>Trigger:  The power affecting the individual covers a wide area, environmental or detached enough to be close to such.  (ie. Apartment building is turned into hostile flesh-labyrinth) - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jvj6T84NB9Uq81y71MIgb9tk9lQ80cORFj9z2o5OB8c/edit#heading=h.4iammk6uzyxv TRUMP], document by Wildbow.</ref>
|The power affecting the individual covers a wide area, environmental or detached enough to be close to such.<ref name="Six"/>
|-
|'''Seven'''
|Powers that cycle between different variants, where unpredictability is rewarded with more raw power.<ref name="Seven">'''Seven''' - Chaos, rotation, cycling through variant powers, unpredictability rewarded with power.<br>Trigger: Crazy, chaotic situation, many powers actively in use.<br>(Bystander during an endbringer defense, henchman of a villain with a kill order and a dozen powered manhunters on his heels) - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jvj6T84NB9Uq81y71MIgb9tk9lQ80cORFj9z2o5OB8c/edit#heading=h.4iammk6uzyxv TRUMP], document by Wildbow.</ref>
|Involves a crazy, chaotic situation, with many powers actively in use.<ref name="Seven"/>
|-
|'''Eight'''
|Abilities that can toggle between different modes, often expressed as different [[Breaker]] states.<ref name="Eight">'''Eight''' - Balance, modes, toggle. Breakerish or switching between related or complementary tools.<br>Trigger: - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jvj6T84NB9Uq81y71MIgb9tk9lQ80cORFj9z2o5OB8c/edit#heading=h.4iammk6uzyxv TRUMP], document by Wildbow.</ref>
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|-
|'''Nine'''
|Abilities that create minions or other tangible objects with Trump effects.<ref name="Nine">'''Nine''' - Vector.  Minions or other vehicles for trump effects.<br>Trigger: Powers impinged/altered/distorted interpersonal relationship(s) - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jvj6T84NB9Uq81y71MIgb9tk9lQ80cORFj9z2o5OB8c/edit#heading=h.4iammk6uzyxv TRUMP], document by Wildbow.</ref>
|Powers impinged, altered or distorted interpersonal relationships.<ref name="Nine"/>
|-
|'''Ten'''
|Enhancing, granting, or boosting powers, often with a secondary effect.<ref>'''Ten''' Power.  Enhancing, granting, or boosting powers, often with secondary effect. - [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aHyZ7c7TIgt903mPinOakrgli2WZu5IRtiGYPCnCqDE/edit#gid=1776798968 Detail Generator - Trump], spreadsheet by Wildbow.</ref>
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|-
|'''Infinity (Ten)'''
|Power sets nearly limitless in both option and choice, but where other large drawbacks often apply.<ref name="Infinity">'''Ten''' - No limits on the power, choice allowed, but often big drawbacks.<br>Trigger - Power breaks reality in vicinity, playing into trigger. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jvj6T84NB9Uq81y71MIgb9tk9lQ80cORFj9z2o5OB8c/edit#heading=h.4iammk6uzyxv TRUMP], document by Wildbow.</ref>
|Involves a power breaking reality in the vicinity.<ref name="Infinity"/>
|}

==Trigger events==
[[Trigger events]] that lead to Trump powers are similar to other trigger events, with the key difference being that they involve powers.<ref name=":4">Trump triggers involve powers.  The person triggering need not know this - it matters to the shard. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jvj6T84NB9Uq81y71MIgb9tk9lQ80cORFj9z2o5OB8c/edit#heading=h.4iammk6uzyxv TRUMP], document by Wildbow.</ref> As such, Trump trigger events always match one of the other eleven classifications in terms of what kind of powers it might give.<ref name=":1" /> How the Trump aspect expresses itself depends on two factors.

First of all, the degree powers are involved and the proximity of the parahuman using these powers.<ref name=":5">In terms of ‘trumpness’, take note of how close the relationship is between the triggeree’s shard and the other shards that it ‘pings’.  Proximity and degrees of separation matter here.  Being face to face with a threatening cape would be the most direct relationship in both proximity and separation, while a tinker drone might be a serious degree of separation, with proximity varying.  A fire created by a pyrokinetic that has since left the scene or ceased uffecting said flames would be very low in both categories, to the point that it might have very little ‘trumpness’, even to the point of not being recognizable as a trump classification. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jvj6T84NB9Uq81y71MIgb9tk9lQ80cORFj9z2o5OB8c/edit#heading=h.4iammk6uzyxv TRUMP], document by Wildbow.</ref> As powers become more involved and the parahuman gets closer, the Trump aspect gets stronger, relatively to other classifications.<ref name=":5" />

Secondly, the type of Trump power to manifest depends heavily on the relationship (level of focus, level of abstraction, and feelings) to the powers:<ref>The key points to pay attention to in such a trigger are the degree of ‘trumpness’, the associated elements of the trigger, and finally, the relationship to the powers: how focused, positive, negative, or abstract they might be. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jvj6T84NB9Uq81y71MIgb9tk9lQ80cORFj9z2o5OB8c/edit#heading=h.4iammk6uzyxv TRUMP], document by Wildbow.</ref> For example, if the relationship is a positive one, the ability to gift powers becomes more likely,<ref name="Two" /> while the ability to steal them is indicative of a negative relationship.<ref name="Three" />

The person triggering does not need to know that powers are involved in his trigger event.<ref name=":4" />

==Common combinations with other ratings==
The [[Breaker]] classification, particularly through edge cases, is also frequently combined with Trump.<ref>Super common. Just take all of the Trump edge cases where people wonder "Is this really trump?" - Trumps are rare, so just dump overflow here. The individual attacked by a tinker-empowered drone. The man caught in the storm of shaker-created power energies, where the creator of those energies is either very far away or dead; the door is open, but not so open that the shard is about to work out a trump-esque result. - [https://redd.it/4x21hk reddit comment] by Wildbow.</ref>

Crosses with the Master classification can take several forms, including a the creation of parasitic minions that can temporarily drain parahumans of their powers.<ref>'''Ember summonings''' - Create lesser minions. They steadily drain active power effects of X, and reduce parahuman X in an area around them. Successfully draining without being dealt with will cause them to swell in size and ability.<br><br>Variables: Minion type - some freedom to choose but generally going to be pretty weak, low level minions. Could be equivalent to spider monkeys, terriers, or small raptors (avian) in scale and strength, initially. Capabilities of the scaled-up/fed 'ember' minion could vary quite a bit, might include them having powers of their own, which is a variable unto itself.<br><br>X - could be puissance/raw power, accuracy, awareness of powers, control, passenger relationship/manton protections, range/scale.<br><br>In functionality is a bit of battlefield control, bit of minion control, scaling and debilitating. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Weaverdice/comments/a14pr3/what_does_ember_s_trump_09_mean_and_do/ Comment by Wildbow on Reddit]</ref>

==PRT countermeasures==
When dealing with Trumps, the [[PRT]] encourages the use of PRT-squads, with capes sidelined, barring all but the most threatening situations. Ranged fire and distance is encouraged, with minimal contact and involvement to preserve the safety of involved capes. Other countermeasures depend on the nature of the target's power.<ref name=":0" />

{{KnownRatingList|class = Trump}}

==Trivia==
*Trump powers are often the ones closest to the Entities’ means of operation and to the cycle, and are often assigned to more important, carefully selected individuals.<ref>Trump powers are often the ones closest to the Entities’ means of operation and to the cycle, and are often assigned to more important, carefully selected individuals. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jvj6T84NB9Uq81y71MIgb9tk9lQ80cORFj9z2o5OB8c/edit# TRUMP], document by Wildbow.</ref>

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