Shaker

Shaker is one of the twelve power classifications created by the PRT still in modern day use.<ref>PRT Master Reference - Classifications</ref> Shakers are parahumans that can affect a broader area, asserting some degree of control over the battlefield.<ref name=":0">Can affect

a broader area, asserting some degree of control over the battlefield. 

 May include gas, explosions, forcefields, and ambient or radiated effects. - PRT Master Reference - Classifications - Shaker</ref>

Methodology

Shakers use their abilities to control the battlefield.<ref name=":0" /> They use several methods to accomplish this, including, but not limited to:

• The creation and manipulation of forcefields in a variety of shapes and sizes.<ref name=":0" />
• Blasts with area of effect, combining Shaker powers with a Blaster rating, similar to the old Nuker classification.<ref>Detail Generator - Vials, spreadsheet by wildbow.</ref>
• The manipulation of terrain, hampering the mobility of enemy forces.<ref>Detail Generator - LIST, spreadsheet by wildbow.</ref>
• The use of auras, either aiding allies or deliberating enemies.<ref>Question by WyldCard4: Aura: What exactly is her aura classified as? Personally I have

classified it as a low level Stranger power, as I believe you once told me it is not a Master power. Stranger seems to fit best, as it alters the perceptions of her enemies.

Answer by wildbow: Shaker, not stranger. - Spacebattles post by wildbow. </ref>

• The use of different forms of telekinesis.<ref>Rune#Abilities_and_Powers</ref><ref>Stormtiger#Abilities_and_Powers</ref>
• The creation of environmental hazards, such as gasses and explosions.<ref name=":0" />

Trigger events

Trigger events producing Shakers often involve some sort of environmental or ambient danger, often non-human or only abstractly human.<ref>Shaker (Wide area effects) - Environmental danger, ambient danger, often nonhuman or only abstractly human. - Weaver Dice: Rulebook (Old Version)</ref>

Combinations with other ratings

[Coming soon]

PRT countermeasures

The PRT's general response is to spread out, minimizing the Shaker’s ability to affect multiple individuals at once.<ref name=":1">Can affect a broader area, asserting some degree of control over the battlefield.  May include gas, explosions, forcefields, and ambient or radiated effects.

General response is to spread out, minimizing the shaker’s ability to affect multiple individuals at once.  

Threat level 2+:  Communicate shaker nature.  Where possible, move or stagger fight locations with some regularity, to slow their ability to seize total command over a battlefield.  Shaker-class threats take high priority, and can or should be baited out and taken out of action.

Threat level 5+:  All individuals should remain as mobile as possible, operating alone or in pairs.  Evacuate the area, and personnel are warned not to rely too much on cover, environmental advantages, or situational advantages.  Stagger confrontations, leaving an area when identified.

Threat level 9+:  Evacuation takes utmost priority. - PRT Master Reference - Classifications - Shaker </ref>

Threat level	Additional measures
2+	The team is notified of a Shaker classification.<ref name=":1" /> Where possible, the fight's location should be changed with some regularity, to slow the enemy's ability to control the a battlefield.<ref name=":1" /> The Shaker should be considered a high priority threat, and should be baited out and taken out of action.<ref name=":1" />
5+	All individuals should remain as mobile as possible, operating alone or in pairs.<ref name=":1" /> The area should be evacuated, personnel are warned not to rely too much on cover, environmental advantages, or situational advantages.<ref name=":1" /> Confrontations should be drawn out, leaving an area when identified.<ref name=":1" />
9+	Evacuation takes utmost priority.<ref name=":1" />

Known Shakers

Note: This list describes the Thinker ratings of different capes. For a full overview of their abilities, please check their individual pages.

Name	Known ratings	Power description
Annex	Breaker, Shaker<ref name=":2">“I’m a breaker and shaker,” Annex told me, “Merge into nonliving material, warp space.” “Warp it how?” I asked. “Reshape it,” he said.  He was still half-walking, half-jogging, but he stretched a white-gloved hand out four feet, touching a sign.  His hand smeared against it as though it were more liquid than solid, coloring it the same white as his glove.  The sign oozed back into the wall, virtually disappearing, and Annex removed his hand, slowly reeling in the extended flesh.  The sign remained where it was, compressed against the wall, the surface flat. - Crushed 24.1</ref>	Can merge into nonliving material and reshape it.<ref name=":2" />
Arbiter	Thinker, Blaster, Shaker<ref>Rime explained.  “She’s a social thinker, in addition to her minor blaster and shaker powers.  Her danger sense is mild at best, not something she can react to immediately, but it makes her aware of associated individuals and the threat they pose.  She wouldn’t be able to see much from Pretender alone, but she knows that there’s a moderate to high danger posed by those closest to him-” - Drone 23.2</ref>
Auroch	Brute 2, Shaker 3, Striker 2, Mover 2<ref>◈ AUROCH; Charley nCothra Classification: Brute 2, Shaker 3, Striker 2, Mover 2. Inertial alteration effect in an area, somewhat selective, inverse effect for self. Disrupts energy. - PRT Quest (Anchorage)</ref>	Generates an effect around her that controls inertia.<ref>Powers: Auroch generates an effect around her that either dampens inertia, protecting and slowing things in the area, or accelerating them to prompt faster, less controlled movement. Can affect herself independently of the general effect, with some benefits of a dampening effect alongside the benefits of acceleration, justifying her Brute, Striker and Mover classifications. Machinery tends to fail or work intermittently within the field. - PRT Quest (Anchorage) </ref>
Bambina	Mover/Shaker 6<ref name="23.2">“Focus,” Prefab said.  “We know who these three are.  We’ve got a Mover-shaker six, a blaster-shaker four, and a master-stranger three.” - Drone 23.2</ref>	Ricochets off hard surfaces at will, creating explosions at each point of contact. Can protect teammates from her own power.
Barrow	Shaker<ref name="21.7">I put the folder away carefully, picked out another.  Lost Garden. High threat level, low crime rate, low engagement level and moderate activity level.  Leader, Barrow.  A powerful shaker, similar to Labyrinth, only rather more single-minded in what he did.  He couldn’t leave the altered area he created around him, only extending it slowly to an area while letting it fade behind him, an effect described as ‘a depression’ with overgrowth extending into the surrounding neighborhood.  Tattletale’s own notes in the file suggested he was making slow but steady progress towards Brockton Bay, and that he had been since the portal appeared. - Imago 21.7</ref>	Creates an effect described as ‘a depression’ with overgrowth around him. Cannot leave effected area.<ref name="21.7" />
Burnscar	Shaker<ref name=":8">Shaker. All capes ‘break’ physics to some extent. Breakers break the rules as the rules pertain to them (and maybe their immediate surroundings/possessions). Grue, Labyrinth, Shatterbird, Lady Photon/Laserdream/Shaker, Fog, Stormtiger, Cricket, Rune, Burnscar, Narwhal and Skidmark are shakers. You might be able to divine the common theme, there. - Queen 18.5, comment by wildbow. </ref>
Cricket	Shaker<ref name=":8" />
Damsel of Distress	Mover, Shaker<ref name=":6">“Three.  Nothing notable.  Edict and Licit, a low-rated master and a low-rated striker.  We also have one villainess who occasionally tries to make it in one of the big cities and then retreats back home when she can’t cut it.  Calls herself Damsel of Distress.” He reconnected his spear as they passed through the door.  “I know her.  Mover and shaker.  Storms of unevenly altered gravity, time and space.  Edict and Licit keep her in check?” - Interlude 16 (Donation Bonus #2) </ref>	Creates poorly controlled storms of unevenly altered gravity, time and space.<ref name=":6" />
Fog	Breaker 9<ref name=":4">“Yeah, there’s a Breaker 9, a Shifter 8 with Stranger 3 and a Master 6 in that group? I buy that they’re powerful.” - Sentinel 9.1</ref> (Shaker, Stranger)<ref>Fog is (like many breakers) a sub-class shaker, in that his breaker power has a shaker (and stranger) side effect (the broad cloud of semisolid fog he generates). Much like Shadow Stalker. You can see 9.1 for brief mention of these breaker sub-classes, I think. - Queen 18.5, wildbow comment.</ref>	Transforms into mist with the ability to erode living matter.<ref>Fog, Geoff Schmidt – Has the ability to partially or wholly become a living mist, with solidity varying depending on his wishes and the ability to erode living matter. - Cast (In Depth)</ref>
Glory Girl	Brute, Breaker, Mover<ref>Worm Wiki edit by wildbow.</ref>, Shaker<ref>Question by WyldCard4: Aura: What exactly is her aura classified as? Personally I have classified it as a low level Stranger power, as I believe you once told me it is not a Master power. Stranger seems to fit best, as it alters the perceptions of her enemies. Answer by wildbow: Shaker, not stranger. - Spacebattles post by wildbow. </ref>	Radiates an energy that makes her allies more inclined to like, respect and look up to her, while making her terrifying to her enemies.<ref>Glory Girl, Victoria Dallon (Incarcerated; Asylum) – Possessed of flight, invincibility, and capable of deadlifting over a ton. She radiates an energy that makes her allies more inclined to like, respect and look up to her, while making her terrifying and intimidating to her enemies. Following the conclusion of the Slaughterhouse Nine arc, Glory Girl was altered by her sister, in both mind and body, and was placed in an asylum for parahumans, where she currently remains. - Cast (In Depth)</ref>
Grue	Shaker<ref name=":8" />, Trump<ref>I can say that it matches up with the trend that people who trigger in circumstances where powered individuals are present or involved get powers that often relate to powers; trump powers (see Grue) - reddit comment by wildbow.</ref>	Generates darkness that blinds and nearly deafens those within, confuses the sense of touch, and weakens the powers of those within.<ref>Grue, Brian Laborn – Controls the West side of the city. His powers allow him to generate a darkness that consumes or dampens visual and most auditory information, as well as some specific signals. This serves to blind and nearly deafen those within, confuses the sense of touch, dampens the effects of radiation and weakens the powers of those within (to varying ends). Since his second trigger event, Grue has the ability to use a single, weaker, less informed version of a power anyone within his darkness possesses. This second trigger event proved traumatic enough that he’s stepped down from his position as group leader. - Cast (In Depth)</ref>
Labyrinth	Shaker 12<ref name="9.1">“Faultline’s Crew.  Mercenaries, low rating, mediocre rating, low rating…  A Shaker 12?  Seriously?” “The girl has cognitive deficiencies that reduce the effective threat she poses, but yes.  Again, that group is not an imminent threat.  In the current situation, I might suggest you leave them be if you cross paths, conserve your group’s strength for the priority opponents.  The Merchants and Hookwolf’s group.” - Sentinel 9.1 </ref>	Has the ability to manipulate her immediate environment almost completely.<ref>Labyrinth – Retains the ability to manipulate her immediate environment almost completely.  While this only extends a relatively short distance around her, her influence gradually radiates outward as she remains in one place for a time.  One of the more extreme examples of how powers can affect one mentally, she veers between lucidity and a dissociative fugue state. - Cast (In Depth)</ref>
Lady Photon	Blaster 4, Mover 3, Shaker 3<ref name=":9">Edit by wildbow</ref>	Can raise forcefield bubbles around herself.<ref name=":10">Lady Photon’s daughter and niece were in the air with her.  Laserdream and Glory Girl.  Mother and daughter shared the same general powers; flight, the ability to raise forcefield bubbles around themselves, and the ability to project lasers from their hands.  As a consequence, their fight with Purity was something of a light show. - Buzz 7.9</ref>
Laserdream	Blaster, Mover, Shaker<ref name=":10" /><ref name=":9" />	Has the same powers as her mother, with less facility with forcefields.<ref>Laserdream – Eldest child of Lady Photon and Manpower.  Has the same powers as her mother, with less facility with forcefields and stronger flight/laser blasts.   Wore a white bodysuit with a comet motif in a gradient of ruby red and magenta, with a red hairband and a coquettish sweep of blond hair over one side of her face. - Cast (In Depth)</ref>
Marquis	Shaker, Changer<ref name=":11">Marquis – Amy Dallon’s father, an osteokinetic, capable of manipulating bones, including his and any exposed bone of his enemy.  A powerful Shaker and Shifter, once leader of a villain group in Brockton Bay’s ‘bad old days’, Marquis heads a cell block in the men’s wing. - Cast (In Depth)</ref>	Capable of manipulating bones, including his and any exposed bone of his enemies.<ref name=":11" />
Mockshow	Master/Shaker 6<ref>“Be advised,” I reported, my hand to my ear, “They’re attempting retreat in vehicles.  Original plan may hit a snag.  Topsy’s got a newbie supervillain working for him.  Mockshow.  If I’m remembering right, she’s a master-slash-shaker six.” - Scarab 25.3</ref>	Animates inanimate objects into rhino-like constructs under her control.
Narwhal	Shaker<ref name=":8" />	An unparalleled wielder of forcefields.<ref>Narwhal – Leader of both ‘The Guild’ and of the Protectorate station in Toronto, Ontario.  Narwhal is an unparalleled wielder of forcefields. - Cast (In Depth)</ref>
Romp	See: Mockshow.
Rune	Shaker<ref name=":8" />
Shatterbird	Shaker<ref name=":8" />	Large scale manipulation of silicon, allowing her to telekinetically control every piece of glass in a city.
Shielder	Blaster <=3, Mover <=2, Shaker >=4<ref>Edit by wildbow</ref>	Can create forcefields stronger than Lady Photon.<ref>Shielder (Deceased) – Youngest child of Lady Photon and Manpower.  The inverse of his sister, was a very strong forcefield user, with little to no flight and weak laser blasts.  Wore a white costume with a blue shield motif, with blue dyed hair.  Slain by Leviathan. - Cast (In Depth)</ref>
Skidmark	Shaker 2<ref>Weld took the folders and opened the one for the Wards, glanced through it to memorize the faces of his new team.  Then he went to the next file, “Then the top priority as far as opposition goes is… the Archer’s Bridge Merchants?  Superpowered drug dealers.  A Shaker 2, Tinker 2/Mover 3 and a Shifter 4.  These aren’t big numbers.  Am I missing something?” - Sentinel 9.1</ref>	Capable of creating an effect that coats an area and pushes things in one direction.<ref>Skidmark (Deceased) – Leader of the Merchants, Skidmark was a meth addict in a serious state of physical decline and ill health.  Capable of creating an effect that coated an area and pushed things in one direction.  Killed by the Nine. - Cast (In Depth)</ref>
Sploosh	Shaker 6/Blaster 4/Brute 6/Mover 5/Stranger 2<ref name=":3">➥ SPLOOSH; Real name unknown Disposition: Villain (B) Classification: Shaker 6/Blaster 4/Brute 6/Mover 5/Stranger 2 Last known location: Anchorage Sploosh is a subordinate in the Anchorage faction of Tuurngait. Apparent crimes include assault and murder. Sploosh takes the form of a living being of condensation, drawing all available, airborne or liquid moisture to him and reshaping himself as he wills. Solidity (so to speak; he varies between mist and a gel-like liquid form) varies from moment to moment. - PRT Quest (Anchorage) </ref>	Takes the form of a living being of condensation, drawing all available, airborne or liquid moisture to him and reshaping himself as he wills.<ref name=":3" />
Starlet	Blaster/Shaker 4<ref name="23.2"/>	"Darts" of light which explode, then implode.
Stormtiger	Shaker<ref name=":8" />	Has the ability to manipulate the air around him.<ref>Stormtiger – A contestant in the same underground fighting tournaments as Hookwolf, Stormtiger has aerokinesis, the ability to manipulate the air around him.  He has two known special techniques: the ability to compress air into claw shaped forms around his hands and detonate it explosively, and the ability to use his aerokinesis to carry scents to his nose, giving him the ability to sniff out opponents.  Goes shirtless, with loose fitting pants and chains, and a white tiger mask. - Cast (In Depth)</ref>
Tecton	Tinker (Shaker)<ref>The Wards, their powers, how to use them? I thought. If I went by the PRT classifications, Tecton was a tinker with shaker capabilities. - Crushed 24.1</ref>, Thinker<ref name=":12">“Tinker and thinker both. Architecture and geology sense. Armor lets me ‘ground’ kinetic energy like you might do with electricity. These are piledriver gauntlets,” he patted one gauntlet, “For creating fissures, generating localized earthquakes and other controlled demolition.” - Queen 18.5</ref>
Virago	Mover 5, Shaker 4, Brute 1<ref name=":5">➥ VIRAGO; Real name unknown Disposition: Villain (B) Classification: Mover 5, Shaker 4, Brute 1 Last known location: Anchorage Subordinate within the Saltykovkoya Bratva. Has established criminal history in Yekaterinburg, has three murders in her file. Virago has short distance teleportation (roughly 30’) and produces disorienting shockwaves in a radius around herself, causing electromagnetic disturbance, shorting out or destroying electronics. Her shockwaves render her more or less immune to conventional ammunition. Is known to wear a cloak tipped with razor blades, utilized with her short distance teleports to slash at her surroundings. - PRT Quest (Anchorage) </ref>	Produces disorienting shockwaves in a radius around herself.<ref name=":5" />
Vista	Shaker 9<ref>“Clockblocker and Vista are your best assets.  Clockblocker is a Striker 7 with touch-based time-stopping.  Vista is a Shaker 9.  Large scale spatial distortion.” - Sentinel 9.1</ref>	Can bend, stretch, compress and distort non-living matter, effectively warping space.<ref>Vista, Missy – The youngest member of the local team at thirteen years of age, Vista can bend, stretch, compress and distort non-living matter, effectively warping space.  Missy has been heavily affected by the recent, intense and tragic events to strike the city and the local superhero teams, feeling the loss of her first crush and teammate Gallant in particular.  Vista wears a teal and green costume with a short dress, leggings and panels of body armor, including a breastplate.  Has a green visor across her eyes. - Cast (In Depth)</ref>
Wanton	Shaker, Breaker, Stranger<ref name=":7">“Wanton,” Tecton said, stressing the pronounciation, “Is a breaker-stranger class cape. He can turn into a localized telekinetic storm. - Queen 18.5</ref><ref>Wanton was a breaker, someone who altered themselves or their relation to the world by some characteristic of his power, becoming a shaker effect, a telekinetic storm. - Crushed 24.1</ref>	Transforms into a localized telekinetic storm.

Speculated Shakers

Note: This list describes the Shaker ratings of different capes. For a full overview of their abilities, please check their individual pages.

Note: This list deals with speculation. If you have a relevant and reliable citation, please add that cape to the 'Known Shakers' list. Please add capes to this list conservatively: It's meant to list capes that are generally agreed upon to be Shakers, but we lack proper citations for.

Name	Speculated ratings	Power description
Golem	Shaker, Striker	Can insert appendages into surfaces of a given material, corresponding replicas emerging from other surfaces of the same material.
Topsy	Shaker	Alters the direction but not magnitude of gravitational pull over a wide area.
Winter	Shaker	Wide area effect that saps heat, kinetic energy and volition (from biological life forms).

References

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