Thinker

This page is under construction: please refer to Power Classifications for the proper, cited version.

Thinker is one of the twelve power classifications created by the PRT still in modern day use.<ref>PRT Master Reference - Classifications</ref> Thinkers have powers related to knowledge, skills and enhanced perception.<ref>Possesses enhanced knowledge, skills and/or perceptions beyond any reasonable norm.  Includes clairvoyance, precognition, skill acquisition, enhanced hearing and enhanced sight. - PRT Master Reference - Classifications - Thinker</ref>

Methodology

Thinkers might use their abilities to gather information<ref name=":1">Thinker - Advanced perception, knowledge, data-collection, or skills.  
Thinkers manifest from emotional or mental strain, reaching a crisis point in a short time. - WD Rulebook: Character Creation</ref>, coordinate their allies or find weaknesses in their opponents. Their powers might manifest in variety of different ways, including but not limited to:

• Improved senses, including enhanced sight, hearing, balance<ref>Parahuman Characters#Kismet

</ref> and others.

• Entirely new senses, including x-ray vision and echolocation.
• Precognition, postcognition, and other variants of clairvoyance.
• Skill acquisition, either in general or focused on a specific area: Examples include combat, social interactions, and leadership.
• Superpowered analysis, used to uncover hidden information.
• Enhanced understanding beyond the ability of normal humans.

Trigger events

Trigger events produce Thinkers when the parahuman experiences large amounts of emotional and mental strain while a crisis point is reached in a short period of time.<ref name=":1" /> This contrasts with Tinkers, where issues remain unresolved over a large amount of time before they culminate in a crisis moment.<ref>Tinker - Building alien or advanced technology.
Thinkers arise from solutionless problems over long periods, culminating in crisis moment.. - WD Rulebook: Character Creation</ref>

Combinations with other ratings

[Coming soon]

Use by the PRT

The PRT employs a large amount of Thinkers in their operations. They are used to vet applicants<ref>Applicants are subject to spot drug and background checks, as well as scanning by PRT-approved thinkers. - PRT Master Reference - Employment in the PRT</ref>, but were also used to screen individuals during the outtake process for the Madison quarantine zone<ref>Three years after the incident, the PRT restarted the process of outtake, each individual undergoing a background check and screening by a

PRT-approved thinker. To minimize the effects of cumulative influence, 

the PRT rotates out directors and teams. - wildbow reddit comment</ref>. Watchdog, a PRT-subgroup focused primarily on preventing economic and political disruption by parahumans, employs think-tanks of Thinkers, using them to sift through large amount of information.<ref>Watchdog - A group based primarily in San Francisco with offices elsewhere, Watchdog is focused primarily on preventing economic and political disruption by parahumans.  Think tanks of thinkers are employed to sift through large quantities of data using their individual talents, while non-parahuman staff works on ways to gather the data in question.  Watchdog regularly launches investigations or sends individuals as a sort of internal affairs within the PRT, sometimes overt, sometimes covert. - PRT Master Reference - Subgroups in the PRT</ref>

PRT countermeasures

In direct engagements, the PRT-teams often targets Thinkers first, considering them the highest priority when all numbers are assumed to be equal.<ref name=":0">Thinker capes, all numbers assumed to be equal, take the highest priority in engagements.  

Threat level 2+:  Team is notified as to thinker classification.  Communication should be limited and the thinker should be cut off from teammates where possible.  Encrypted or coded communications may be necessary.  Failing that, the operation may need to be silent (noncommunicative team).

Threat level 5+:  Maximum disruption to the senses, with flashbangs and nonlethal truck emplacements put into regular effect.  All possible measures should be undertaken to keep the thinker threat from communicating.  Pre-prepared thinker countermeasures (false information) should be entered into play.  PRT thinkers should be contacted remotely to maximize counter-thinking.

Threat level 9+:  Contact the head office to discuss needs and resources available. - PRT Master Reference - Classifications - Thinker </ref>

Threat level	Additional measures
2+	The team is notified of a Thinker classification.<ref name=":0" /> Communication should be limited and the thinker should be cut off from teammates where possible.<ref name=":0" /> Encrypted or coded communications may be necessary.<ref name=":0" /> Failing that, the operation may need to be silent (noncommunicative team).<ref name=":0" />
5+	Maximum disruption to the senses, with flashbangs and nonlethal truck emplacements put into regular effect.<ref name=":0" /> All possible measures should be undertaken to keep the thinker threat from communicating.<ref name=":0" /> Pre-prepared thinker countermeasures (false information) should be put into play.<ref name=":0" /> PRT thinkers should be contacted remotely to maximize counter-thinking.<ref name=":0" />
9+	The head office should be contacted to discuss needs and available resources.<ref name=":0" />

Known Thinkers

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
Accord	Thinker	Gets naturally smarter as the problems he is addressing get more complex.
Alexandria	Brute, Mover, Thinker	Perfect memory, heightened cognitive speed and planning
Appraiser	Thinker	"Rates" situations using colors and textures
Arbiter	Thinker, Blaster (low), Shaker (low)	Senses danger from the associates of those around her
Chevalier	Thinker	senses properties and sees phantom images of objects he targets, sees illusions surrounding parahumans
Codex	Blaster/Thinker	"steals" intelligence
Coil	Thinker	Views visions of worlds where he made different decisions, can choose between them
Contessa	Thinker	Can instantly determine the exact steps needed to accomplish any task and perform them accurately
Dinah Alcott	Thinker	Can calculate the probability of any event to an exacting degree and express it as a percentage
Dragon	Thinker, Tinker, Trump	Co-opts and draws inspiration from other tinkers' work.
Eleventh Hour	Thinker	Provides numerical threat ratings
Echidna	Master/Striker 10, Brute 8, Changer 2, Thinker	Smells parahumans
Hunch	Thinker	Provides very vague info
Kismet	Thinker	Calls himself a 'Balance Thinker'.
Leonid	Thinker, Stranger, Mover	Secondary powers of sound detection and sound manipulation.
Shamrock	Thinker, Shaker	Very weak telekinetic and clairvoyant, so effects resemble luck
Skitter	Master 5, Thinker 1, (later: Master 8, Thinker 1)	Arthropodokinesis, arthropodovoyance
Tattletale	Thinker 7	Can obtain information by making connections, essentially making superlatively good guesses that build on each other. (Intuition)
Tecton	Tinker, Thinker	Architecture and geology sense[19].
Über	Thinker	Mastery of any one skill as long as he concentrates on it.
Victor	Thinker	Able to steal skills from others.
Watch	Thinker, Mover, Striker	Short-duration 360-degree X-ray vision uninhibited by shadows, walls or skin

Speculated Thinkers

Note: This list describes the Thinker 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 Thinkers' list. Please add capes to this list conservatively: It's meant to list capes that are generally agreed upon to be Thinkers, but we lack proper citations for.

Name	Speculated classification	Power description
[Coming soon]

References

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