Parahumans Online

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“	The front page had constant updates on recent, international news featuring capes. From there, I could go to the wiki, where there was information on individual capes, groups and events, or to the message boards, which broke down into nearly a hundred sub-boards, for specific cities and capes.	”
{{#if:Taylor| —Taylor{{#if:Insinuation 2.2|, Insinuation 2.2}} }} }}

Parahumans Online, abbreviated to PHO, is the "go-to" website about capes. The main website displays recent international news about parahumans, and it also includes a cape wiki, message boards with private message functionality, a chatroom, and other information on cape groups and events. Its URL was Parahumans.net.<ref name="2.2">Insinuation 2.2</ref>

Cultural impact

Parahumans Online is the premier cape site for gossip and serves as the site of record for parahuman names. If one is not careful a name carelessly chosen or mentioned in passing could be misinterpreted. Long clunky names are simplified for example "Genocide by Scythe" becomes Genoscythe‎. The community will also change or swap out different names until they meet standards.<ref name="R1">Parahumans Online is something of a wiki that establishes names. If you don't pick and declare a name for yourself, someone else will (a la Skitter). If you pick a name that's stupid (superdude785) or offensive, the community will name you or strive to rename you (a la Bitch/Hellhound), depending.

Keep in mind that language is always striving to simplify itself. Long-winded names don't tend to get a lot of traction and will become nicknames, which eventually become the new standard. Someone names themselves Cyber Stealth Death Ninjaman ends up getting referred to as Cyberdeath, and that becomes their name.

Getting huffy and going, "But guyyyys! I'm Cyber Stealth Death Ninjaman, not Cyberdeath!" is a fast way to lose rep and have people move even faster to the short-form.

When a villain dies, their name is up for grabs, but if it's just taken without a second thought, then has a way of maintaining bad reps and picking up old rivalries with few of the benefits. That guy who always wanted to stomp Tailspin's ass might get some cathartic release from beating down Tailspin II. Sometimes very stupid villains take a name that's already taken, causing headaches for everyone involved, and invite beatdowns & contests over the name.

Heroes are far more likely to simply ask for permission to use a name. Unicorn III passed her name on to Unicorn IV, for example. - Wildbow on Reddit</ref>

It is unknown what other sites there are.

Message Boards

The message boards are the most seen section of Parahumans Online in Worm. The most in-depth look at the boards is seen later,<ref>Interlude 19.y</ref> which includes some of Greg Veder's posts, which includes sections of a Parahumans Online message boards thread.<ref>Interlude 24.y</ref>

Other characters seen or referred to using it are Taylor, Charlotte, Lisa, WagTheDog, Sveta, Weld, and Vista. Saint has also been shown to pore over messages from Parahumans Online through Dragon's information feeds.

Members

Known Members

17593Q183H17953R9713E714693  March A_real (Admin) Aku-42  Attempted to fake the "At Ground Zero: Brockton Bay" badge Alathea  Original Brockton Bay board moderator AnonymousEDT103 Answer Key  Reference to commenter Anzer'ke Antigone ArchmageEin Athonic AtoLo AvenG  Avenguard AverageAlexandros (Cape husband) Azavael (PRT Science) Bagrat (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)  Reference to commenter Packbat Ball-Chan boaty5 Boo-chan Boosher bothad (At Ground Zero: Brockton Bay) Brilliger (Moderator: Protectorate Main) Brocktonite03 (At Ground Zero: Brockton Bay) Bruce Lao (Brockton Bay Refugee) Capricorn (Hero) Tristan Vera Byron Vera Casey_F08  Casey (Shortly demised broken trigger) Chaosfaith Char (At Ground Zero: Brockton Bay) Charlotte Chilldrizzle (At Ground Zero: Brockton Bay) Chrome Coyote-C  Reference to commenter Loki-L Dana & Evan (Student) Dawgsmiles (Veteran poster)  Reference to commenter Sadcat Deepwell5 Dgators  Mentioned Only DigaWell Dive Bucket DonJon Doubletime_Collies E.S.Reaver Ekul (Brockton Bay Refugee) Engel Erasmus Ferris (Cape Dad) Feychick  Reference to commenter Faerie FFlash Fishie (Board Admin) Fishmon FlippinMad  Madison Clements Forgotten Creator  Reference to commenter Lost Demiurge General Prancer  Reference to commenter Admiral Skippy Geronimo Glitzglam  Crystal Pelham Good Ship Morpheus GstringGirl/Space_Squid/Kraken_in_a_Jar Sveta Heart_Shaped_Pupil Kenzie Martin Hope_In_Pithos (Admin)  Houndstooth I♥Lethe Jr_Max Judge  Reference to commenter Truthseeker  Original Brockton Bay board moderator K.G. Ray (City: West Point) Khain (Guild Staff) KillDestroyKiss (Library)  Reference to MurderDeathHug Laser Augment (At Ground Zero: Brockton Bay) Lasersmile  Reference to commenter Razorsmile Lex_Dogbell Lo A Quest (At Ground Zero: Brockton Bay) Logs  Reference to commenter notes Lolitup Lucky Luke (Hero) Mac’s Dual Rocket Propelled Grenades (Brockton Bay Refugee)  Reference to commenter mc2rpg Mane Magenta  Reference to commenter Pinkhair Mangled_Wings Ashley Stillons II Miraclemic (Brockton Bay Refugee) Miss Mercury (Protectorate Employee)  Reference to commenter Hydrargentium mlekk (is mlekk) Mock Moniker  Reference to commenter Fake Name Moor (Guild) Morgan Sinister (At Ground Zero: Brockton Bay) Mr. Fabuu (Brockton Bay Refugee) Nakyak (Cape Geek)  Reference to commenter Kyakan Ne  Reference to commenter En New_Ohmstar Nod Nondeceptive (At Ground Zero: Brockton Bay)  Reference to commenter Noliar Noveltry  Reference to commenter Comickry Nutty Of5 Rain Ohearn Point_Me_@_The_Sky  Victoria Dallon Procto the Unfortunate Tinker (Not a tinker) Reave (Verified PRT Agent) (Brockton Bay Refugee)  Reference to commenter Reveen Rightsector Robby Ron_of_Couches Saskatchew SenorEel  Reference to commenter MrMoray Shower (Admin) Slayer of Isaac Sothoth  Reference to commenter Yog Space Zombie  Reference to commenter Undead-Spaceman Strange_Mammal Chris Elman Tdren Team_Lancer Thatdude  Reference to commenter Someguy TheGnat  Reference to commenter TheAnt TRJ Tumbles Valkyr (Wiki Warrior) Venturain Vista (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE) WagTheDog (Brockton Bay Refugee) Cassie Weld (Verified Cape) (Irregulars) Whackograve  Attempted to fake the "At Ground Zero: Brockton Bay" badge WhedonRipperFan Whippersnap Whitecollar (Cape Wife)  Reference to commenter Wage Slave White Fairy (Veteran Member) (At Ground Zero: Brockton Bay) WMD377 (PRT Science Admin) Wytchmlj XxVoid_CowboyxX Greg Veder Attempted to fake the "At Ground Zero: Brockton Bay" badge Xyloloup (Brockton Bay Refugee) Yipper

Chatrooms

The Parahumans Online chatroom #116, 'The Holdout' is shown.<ref>Interlude 24.y</ref> On the refurbished site it was the meeting place of the Chatroom group.<ref>Glow-worm P.3</ref>

Known Chatroom Members

Aloha Reference to commenter Howdy Arcee BadSamurai Breakthrough Chatroom @Deadman@ Reference to commenter Zombie Deimos Changes nick to Absolute Annihilation during the events of the Interlude Divide Reference to commenter Schism Groupies Reference to commenter Fans Iblis Reference to commenter Naeblis Kriketz Reference to commenter Klackerz Loyal Reference to commenter Trusting Poit Reference to commenter Narf QwertyD Reference to commenter DvorakQ Ryus Reference to commenter Kens Spiritskin Reference to commenter Soulpelt Team Reach Chatroom Treefort_Lookout Bots Ultracut Reference to commenter hyperstrike

Wiki

The glorious and noble art of online encyclopedias is followed in regards to capes. Pages are known to have warnings about dangerous parahumans,<ref>Shadow 5.6</ref><ref>The hyperviolent capes I’d come to think of as being the red-tagged, like the old capes on the parahuman online site who’d had the ‘do not approach’ banners across their profile. - Excerpt from Torch 7.8</ref> such as Hellhound<ref>A red box near the bottom of the page read, “Rachel Lindt has a public identity, but is known to be particularly hostile, antisocial and violent. If recognized, do not approach or provoke. Leave the area and notify authorities as to her last known location.” - Excerpt from Insinuation 2.2</ref> and Oni Lee.<ref>Topping it all off, Oni Lee’s wiki page had a similar red warning box to the one that Bitch/Hellhound had on hers, minus the bit about his public identity. From what they knew about him, authorities had seen fit to note him a sociopath. The warning covered the same essential elements: exceedingly violent, dangerous to approach, should not be provoked, and so on. - Excerpt from Insinuation 2.2</ref>

Weaver and the Chicago Wards vandalized Golem's wiki page, and other websites, in an effort to confuse the The Slaughterhouse Nine-Thousand about his power.<ref>Golem was walking on rooftops at the edge of the effect, and he was surrounded by a nimbus of whirling material. By Wanton. We’d already altered all of the data on the group, to imply by news reports and Golem’s powers on the websites that Wanton’s telekinetic storm was Golem’s power. - Excerpt from Sting 26.2</ref> Given the severity of the threat this is excusable.

Trivia

• Wildbow hinted in the comments that Parahumans Online may have been a side project of Dragon.<ref>Comment by Wildbow on Interlude 19.y</ref>
• Several of the usernames seen on the message boards are plays on usernames of posters from the site comments and elsewhere.<ref name="I19.y">Interlude 19.y</ref><ref name="U-SComment">Comment by user Undead-Spaceman on Interlude 19.y</ref><ref name="R-LComment">Comment by user Random Lurker on Interlude 19.y</ref><ref name="20.3c1">All of the people who appear in the (two) Parahumans Online installments are either commenters, forum-posters (in various threads on sites where people are discussing Worm) and people from the chatroom, with slight name changes. - Confirmation by Wildbow on Chrysalis 20.3</ref>
• Capes could have a Parahuman account and a plainclothes sock puppet account from when they were on PHO in their civilian identity.<ref>Their login process notes that her account is a 'cape in civilian clothes' account; they're a cape but has two accounts, and this is the one they switch to when they don't want to broadcast that they're a cape. A kind of legitimate 'sockpuppet' account. - Synopsis by Wildbow</ref>

See Also

• PHO Sunday

References

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